novelraw Chapter 1319 - 1318 - Backstage
Chapter 1319 - 1318 - Backstage
Lind had experienced many Ruins, a few Inheritances, and studied the vast wealth of historical documents he could get his hands on both. He had made a relatively simple one compared to most when he first became an Immortal but that had been more about education than leaving behind a legacy.
Special realms that allowed cultivators to grasp rewards were also not alien to him, but all of those seemed relatively straightforward aside from one.
Lord Skinwalker's Inheritance. The dragon trials had been focused on eliminating unworthy candidates from True Lords so he did not count them entirely. Lord Skinwalker's Inheritance had been a world unlike any other.
The descriptions of the Inheritance of Death were much like his current experience in the Inheritance of Creation. A set of trials, legacies, and other chances to become an Inheritor, yet it left a few questions.
Where were the rewards kept? Where were the support formations or weavings for the entire thing as he never felt a single one. He saw their effects but never felt them like he did in other similar areas.
The only time he had been so blind was in Skinwalker's Inheritance but he had attributed it to being just a World Realm back then.
He had seen something, thought, at the very end. A very advanced facility and powerful formations humming away with power when Tal and Kora were reconstituted into physical bodies from the Inheritance.
Immortal Inheritances were more straightforward from what he had gathered but still had the same mystery.
Where were things kept? Even if they were storage treasures and vaults as many would expect, that would not explain things like the maze. To create an environment that could test someone's ability far beyond what they currently knew was not easy.
It would require massive resources that no vault could ever produce for the time even Immortals would need.
Lind had used the solution of creating weavings that would gather Qi from the world as well as the crystals he had created. It would not last forever but it would be able to maintain itself for a very long time.
In essence, his Inheritance was not truly closed off like the ones he was used to knowing about. Now, he saw the truth.
He was outside the Inheritance proper. It was not a constructed space but an actual slice of the world! He could feel the difference from the Dao room he had experienced. He had only felt something like it once before.
When he had stepped outside of the main Inheritance area of Lord Skinwalker! He had felt the subtle shift but assumed it was because it was a facility, not because it was an actual piece of the world!
He carefully picked himself up and brushed the dirt off. He felt even a grain of that was more solid than anything he had ever encountered. The trees towered into a sky he suspected was the only false part left.
He felt the flow of Qi was far more powerful as well but the shimmering lines in the sky were familiar to him. Weaving and formations! They were working together!
The plants around him were bursting with power but he noted none of them were sentient. He tried to guess their realm but it was difficult.
Plants cultivated by pure absorption until they crossed the threshold of the Heaven Realm.
After that, they gained sentience generally and could begin to transform like beasts. He had more than a few friends among them. Still, they were much more rare compared to other races.
The main issue was the vast majority of plants infused with Qi were precious to alchemists and elixir masters. Thus, those that could cultivate to that high realm were usually beyond the reach of people.
The oddity before him was that the plants were easily far beyond the Heaven Realm yet there was not a single sign of intelligence.
"Maybe they were forcibly grown and suppressed? Why? None of them are necessary to any profession or support for a formation I know of." He recognized a few of them but some were completely beyond his knowledge.
There was a fern with fronds as big as he was. It had a mix of red and gold in its roots but the major leaf was violet!
He had no idea which variety that was at all but it felt like it was near to bursting with fire, light, and some kind of Law he did not recognize at all.
He carefully touched it and had to snatch his hand back as it burned! It was not a fire burn, but chemical!
"I wondered who was in the garden but did not expect to find a dragon. I would not try that again with Searing Crush Fern. That was a friendly warning as the plants seem to like you." Lind whipped his head around at the voice.
He had felt no one come near him at all!
There was a woman that was easily 4 meters tall! She had on earthy colored robes that blended in well to the forest. His eyes narrowed as he took in her features. Her skin seemed dark but it was not skin at all.
It was bark! It was smooth as skin but he could still recognize the pattern the striation patterns that tree bark would have. He also noticed a knot on her neck.
Her hair was also not hair at all but very fine vines! Her eyes were pale orbs but he knew she was not blind at all.
Her smile was warm but he felt his instincts flare just looking at her! She was not a simple being!
"My, my, you are a skittish one. Nothing for it but to get you back to where you came from. That brat will be sulking soon if he finds out you are here." She vanished but his harmony flared instantly.
Space shifted at his command. It was one of the few gifts unaffected by the change in his elements.
If anything, it became easier, but he had not done more than test it out. Now, he was having to move at a critical moment. He shifted 100 kilometers without trying.
He narrowed his eyes as he did it again. He kept moving but his instincts kept screaming at him. He sensed nothing but trusted his instincts.
Whoever the woman was, she was far beyond him!
After moving what seemed over a million kilometers, Lind was finally reaching the limit of strength. Tearing through space was a strain on his mind and Qi but suddenly he felt something calling to him far away.
It was far beyond his previous jumps but he was quickly running out of options.
If he waited until he was exhausted, she would catch him. He could only take a gamble!
He put all he had left into his effort and tore through space towards the strange call feeling.
He tumbled out the other side and found it was the peak of a mountain! He slammed into the slope like a comet but smashed his fingers now covered in scales to stop from falling down it!
He was very far up!
He could see more clearly the artificial sky was created by weavings and formations but he had no time as his instincts were still screaming at him!
"Well, this is somewhat interesting. A little Immortal was able to evade me for so long and you come here of all places. You have piqued my interest but I have–" She was about to grasp him somehow when her hand was stopped.
She frowned as she looked past him.
"You are not supposed to interfere. This one somehow escaped a trial. He has to be–" She stopped but Lind did not know why. She looked quite put out but sighed before nodding.
"It seems I have been overruled for a good reason. You have intrigued someone higher than me. I will return to the garden. Do not cross me again, little dragon." He blinked and she was gone.
What was that? What was she? He had encountered Divine Realm beings but she was on a level he had never seen.
He turned back to the mountain he was on but nothing made itself known. He was about to stand up when the world shifted.
He was dropped into a study. There were shelves lining the walls with a moderately kept fire blazed away in a hearth exposed on all 4 sides at the center of the room. The dark wood was well lacquered and the smell of old books filled his nose.
He saw word leather padded couches around the hearth and tables set up with them as well of pale wood. It was all well cared for but the more disturbing thing was he had felt nothing before the shift.
He was in one place and then another without warning. Just like the woman's movements!
"Ah, that is how you do it. I had forgotten after so long. Of course, I am just a bit absent minded at this point." Lind was getting tired of being surprised but instead of a person, he saw a soul!
It was barely there and still distinct but it was a soul without question. Unlike any Immortal soul he had encountered, it was far more solid.
He also instinctively knew who it had to be.
"You are the creator of this Inheritance, a part of him?" The soul smiled and nodded.
"Indeed! Oh, but my name is gone. It means I died somewhere far away and I don't have long left. No worries, the Inheritance is running smoothly! Now, I am very interested in you! You should not exist but you do. I have to learn how you came to be." Lind swallowed his saliva as he realized he may have been saved from the frying pan only to be put into the fire!