Chapter 1671: Saint Monk Xumi’s Relic
Zhang Ruochen raised his head. He looked at the saint tree covered in red flowers and found it incredible.
“How is it compared to your Way of Space and Time?” The Thousand Star Maiden stood under the tree with her hands behind her back. Her slender frame sketched a beautiful curve.
She was prettier than the flowers.
“Not bad,” Zhang Ruochen said.
The Thousand Star Maiden wanted to compete with him, but seeing Zhang Ruochen was so calm, she didn’t continue wasting time. Instead, she revealed her true intention. “You know what happened in the Wind Atrium of the Inner South Yard, right?”
“Yes.”
“Are you interested in going with me to the palace cluster and searching for extreme opportunity?” the Thousand Star Maiden asked.
“It’s too dangerous,” Zhang Ruochen rejected directly. “I won’t go.”
If a palace cluster suddenly appeared in the Wind Atrium and was connected with the cluster deep in the forbidden zone, then one should never venture there.
Even Supreme Saint monsters appeared there. These cultivators going there was no different than suicide.
The Thousand Star Maiden furrowed her slender brows. “From the information I received, Zhang Ruochen shouldn’t be a cowardly person. These rumors are false!”
“This has nothing to do with how brave I am,” Zhang Ruochen said. “I just don’t want to go die.”
“I have the Way of Origin and you have time and space. If we work together, we’ll be able to come and go as we please no matter how dangerous that palace cluster is.”
“Come and go as we please?”
An image appeared in Zhang Ruochen’s mind. A huge divine hand hovered in that icy and pitch-black void. Its aura hung in the air like a waterfall.
It was that hand that made it impossible to use spatial transfers in the palace cluster. Even if he insisted on using it, it would be extremely dangerous.
Come and go as they pleased? It wasn’t that easy.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes grew determined and he waved his hand. “This isn’t up for discussion. Your Highness, please go back.”
The Thousand Star Maiden didn’t give up. “What if I know where Saint Monk Xumi died?”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes gleamed and he asked, “Where?”
The Thousand Star Maiden smiled. “I’ll naturally tell you if you go to the Wind Atrium with me. From what I know, Saint Monk Xumi left an unprecedented inheritance where he died. For 100,000 years, the Time and Space Godly Palaces put in so much effort and money to find that place, but they only found some traces. They can’t pinpoint the exact location.”
Zhang Ruochen gradually recovered. He wondered how truthful the Thousand Star Maiden’s words were. “Why should I believe that you know where Saint Monk Xumi died?”
The Thousand Star Maiden seemed to expect that he would ask that. “One hundred thousand years ago, Saint Monk Xumi had a deep relationship with a god ancestor of the Thousand Star Civilization. They exchanged a strand of hair with each other.
“When that extreme change happened to Kunlun’s Field, a divine intent came out of Saint Monk Xumi’s hair that the god ancestor had. The god knew that something happened to Saint Monk Xumi and hurried over to help, but…he was too late. The tragedy had already occurred.”
As she spoke, she took out a glittery metal box and handed it to Zhang Ruochen.
The box was square, ancient, and heavy. Starry lights kept flying out. One could see immediately that it wasn’t made out of regular metal.
Zhang Ruochen opened the box slowly. Suddenly, extremely pure Buddhist light spread out, accompanied by loud Sanskrit chanting.
If one looked through the Buddhist light, one would see a long strand of white hair in the bottom of the box.
This mere strand contained such massive Buddhist power. It kept purifying the darkness and extreme Yin Qi of the forbidden zone and was very miraculous.
The next moment, the Time and Space Secret Guide on Zhang Ruochen’s body shone with faint silver light and resonated with the white hair.
Whoosh!
Strange patterns emerged on the silver paper. Each page was like a dazzling starry sky and seemed to be able to become limitless.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t notice the strangeness of the Time and Space Secret Guide. His attention was focused on the white hair.
“That is…”
Zhang Ruochen opened his Heavenly Eye and stared at the white whisker. He realized that it was all white inside. He couldn’t see it clearly, but it seemed to…have a vast space.
Saint Monk Xumi’s cultivation couldn’t be comprehended by regular cultivators. Even if one whisker could be turned into a world, it wasn’t anything strange.
Zhang Ruochen sensed a strange aura in the hair. A voice deep down seemed to be telling him that Saint Monk Xumi left something for him in the hair.
The Thousand Star Maiden’s eyes were very bright and she found it miraculous. As expected of the Time and Space Descendant. Before him, the whisker has a commotion that’s never been had before. Could it be like what the ancestor said and Saint Monk Xumi left a world in the whisker?
Zhang Ruochen extended a finger to pick up the whisker and check the space behind the white fog.
Snap!
The Thousand Star Maiden closed the lid and took the box back. “This is a strand of hair that Saint Monk Xumi left to my ancestor. It belongs to the Thousand Star Civilization.”
Zhang Ruochen stared at the box. Instead of snatching it back, he said calmly, “Even if you have a strand of hair from Saint Monk Xumi, it doesn’t mean that you know where he died.”
“I am the fairy of the Thousand Star Civilization and will become the leader one day,” Thousand Star Maiden said with disdain. “Why would I lie to you?”
Zhang Ruochen had been lied to multiple times. Even a god would lie, let alone a fairy.
“The Wind Atrium is an extremely dangerous place in that palace,” Zhang Ruochen said. “I heard that many cultivators died there. Going with you would be a great risk and I might even die in there. I would never take the risk just because of your words, unless…”
“Unless what?” the Thousand Star Maiden asked quickly.
“Unless you give me that hair,” Zhang Ruochen said. “Then I can go with you.”
Unexpectedly, the Thousand Star Maiden agreed quickly.
Zhang Ruochen furrowed his brows, finding it unusual. Even if the Thousand Star Maiden couldn’t see what was strange with the hair, there were so many strong figures in the civilization. Could they not see it either?
Didn’t she agree too quickly?
What Zhang Ruochen didn’t know was that the god ancestor of the Thousand Star Civilization had told the maiden that if she ever met the Time and Space Descendant, she had to give him the whisker.
“I have another condition,” Zhang Ruochen said. “Before entering the Wind Atrium, I must reach the third step Saint King Realm and 57th level for Spiritual Power. You have to supply the saint fruits and medicine for that.”
“Okay, I agree.”
The Thousand Star Maiden didn’t think this was too much. After all, the Wind Atrium was very dangerous. You had to risk your life. If not for the fact that an elder of her clan was dying soon and needed the divine spring to replenish his longevity, she wouldn’t take the risk either.
As for fruit and medicine that improved cultivation and Spiritual Power, it was even easier for her.
There were many strong figures in the civilization. They picked many fruits and medicine from the inner and outer four yards. The Thousand Star Maiden didn’t have to pick anything herself after entering the God-Naming Platform. She could just take the fruit and medicine given by other cultivators to improve.
This was why she could walk before Zhang Ruochen and reach the third step Saint King Realm first.
After the Thousand Star Maiden left, Xiang Chunan walked out of the darkness with a strange expression. “Brother Ruochen, are the Mysteries of Truth really as precious as you said?”
“Do you trust me?” Zhang Ruochen asked in return.
“Yes, of course.”
“No matter how precious they are, I will never take a single bit from you,” Zhang Ruochen said.
“I, Xiang Chunan, would never either. Plus, no matter how precious the Mysteries of Truth are, could they be more precious than brotherhood? Brother Ruochen, how about I give all of them to you now?” Xiang Chunan said emotionally. He was afraid that the Mysteries of Truth would get between them.
“No, don’t. If you do that, we won’t be able to be brothers anymore!”
After a pause, Zhang Ruochen grew much more serious. “I have to go to the Wind Atrium. I’m afraid we’ll have to separate for a period.”
“I’m going with you. We’ll go through thick and thin together.” Xiang Chunan patted his broad chest.
Zhang Ruochen shook his head. “My rivalry with the Heaven Field clique has already affected you. This time, I can’t let you take risks, no matter what.”
Xiang Chunan was about to speak, but Zhang Ruochen immediately said, “I’m not letting you go, because I have something more important that I need your help with.”
After handing Mu Lingxi over to Xiang Chunan, Zhang Ruochen entered the Free Trade Yard again.
Of course, he’d turned back into that appearance. He looked to be around 20 years old and wore a cloth robe. He looked very ordinary.
The Free Trade Yard had recovered its peace, but along the way, Zhang Ruochen heard many people discussing the battle that had just happened. They said that he and Xiang Chunan were mysterious monsters with extremely terrifying abilities.
Some guessed that they were the rising stars of Pangu Field, leader of the east.
Others guessed that they were godly disciples secretly trained by the Truth Godly Palace.
Their guesses weren’t entirely without proof.
Up until now, none of the ten major godly disciples in the God-Naming Platform Conference had issued an order to arrest them, so it was clear that some extremely powerful figure had pushed this down.
If the Heaven Field clique suffered a loss but didn’t go after them, then their backgrounds were truly terrifying. It was normal that they guessed Pangu Field and the Truth Godly Palace.
After a while, Zhang Ruochen finally reached the majestic Weapon-Refining Pavilion. He looked up but couldn’t see the top of the pavilion. He could only feel the strong auras coming from inside.
Such a large and tall Weapon-Refining Pavilion was rare and stood up in the Free Trade Yard.
Kaboom!
At the same time, a carriage wrapped in white saint light came from the distance. Eight white peacocks pulled the carriage.
There were many small and intricate treasures on the carriage, including Ten-thousand-pattern Saint Weapon windchimes, natural green-patterned gourds, snow grass, saint jade marrow etc.
As the carriage flew forward, the windchimes swayed, the gourd tapped softly, jade marrow flowed… It was actually interwoven into a moving melody.
There was a beautiful woman inside the carriage. She stood on the head of one white peacock and shone with brilliant light. This was the disciple of Fairy Tianchu, Li Hanmiao, once number 19 on the Saints Merits Rank.