My Sexy CEO Wife

Chapter 455 - 452: Eighteen Steles

In the following time, Gao Fei visited all of the remaining seventeen peaks.

Just as the old man in the bronze coffin had guessed, there was a stele erected at the top of each peak, and each stele was inscribed with a character.

On the first mountain peak, the stele had the character "Immortal," on the second peak was the character "Ten," on the third was the character "Stone," on the fourth was the character "Eight," on the fifth was the character "From," on the sixth was the character "Not," on the seventh was the character "Melancholy," on the eighth was the character "Number," on the ninth was the character "Three," on the tenth peak, the stele had the character "Stele," on the eleventh had the character "Suppress," on the twelfth had the character "Demon," on the thirteenth had the character "Order," on the fourteenth had the character "Realm," on the fifteenth had the character "Slaughter," on the sixteenth had the character "Qi," and on the seventeenth had the character "Dare," the eighteenth peak's stele had the character "Gather."

"Immortal, Ten, Stone, Eight, From, Not, Melancholy, Number, Three, Stele, Suppress, Demon, Order, Realm, Slaughter, Qi, Dare, Gather."

Frowning, Gao Fei recited the eighteen characters on the steles, "What do these characters mean? They're not coherent at all!"

"Perhaps the order is wrong," suggested the old man in the bronze coffin.

"Order?" Gao Fei raised an eyebrow.

"Try arranging them in a sequence and see..."

"With so many characters, how should I arrange them?"

"Start by pairing them up into words, then gradually arrange them."

"The character 'Ten' can pair with 'Three' and 'Eight,' 'Stone' can pair with 'Stele,' 'Number' can pair with 'Order'..."

After spending most of the day researching with the old man in the bronze coffin, Gao Fei finally assembled the eighteen characters into a coherent sentence.

The sentence was: When the eighteen steles gather, they suppress immortals and slaughter demons, commanding the Three Realms, with none who dare not obey.

"It should be arranged like this," said the old man in the bronze coffin. "It reads most coherently this way."

"That's quite a bold claim," Gao Fei smacked his lips. "Eighteen steles gather together, supposedly able to suppress immortals and slaughter the Demon Clan, commanding the Three Realms, with none who dare not obey! Sounds a bit boastful, doesn't it?"

"I just remembered something."

"What is it?"

"In the Primordial Era, Cultivators were most fond of studying formations, almost to the point of obsession. It can be said without exaggeration that the Primordial Era was the most splendid period for formations, during which many Defying Heavenly Level formations emerged. According to legend, some Defying Heavenly Level formations truly had the power to slaughter immortals."

"Are you suggesting..." Gao Fei blinked. "That these eighteen steles are part of some formation?"

"I can't rule out that possibility," said the old man in the bronze coffin. "You could try bringing the eighteen steles together and observe their reaction."

"Alright, I'll go now." Gao Fei darted and danced between the eighteen mountain peaks. In no time at all, he had moved the eighteen steles over. "Ugh, I'm exhausted!" Gao Fei landed on the ground, wiping sweat while he gasped for breath: "These steles are too heavy, it took a lot of effort to move them."

After resting briefly, Gao Fei started arranging the steles in order.

"The stele inscribed with 'Ten' goes first, followed by the one with 'Eight,' then the one with 'Stone'..."

"Phew!"

Gao Fei wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Just the last stele left." As he spoke, Gao Fei placed the stele with the character 'From' onto the ground: "No reaction?" Gao Fei slowly furrowed his brows: "Not even the slightest reaction."

"Are they all correctly placed?" asked the old man in the bronze coffin.

"Yes, they are," replied Gao Fei, after a careful check. "There's nothing wrong with the visiting sequence."

"How could there be no response? Could it be... that it's too old and has lost its effectiveness?"

"So frustrating! All that time wasted for nothing."

"I guess something went wrong somewhere."

"Uh..." Gao Fei suddenly widened his eyes, "Senior, did you hear that?"

"Hear what?" the old man in the Bronze Coffin asked, puzzled.

"A very strange sound..." Gao Fei leaned in to listen for a moment, then looked down at the rugged ground, "The sound is coming from below."

"Boom..."

"Crack crack crack..."

The eighteen steles suddenly started to shake, dazzling rays of light emitted from them, converging to form a huge vortex... The spiritual energy around it surged crazily into the vortex... As the spiritual energy continued to flow in, the vortex grew larger and larger...

As the steles started to act up, Gao Fei leapt into the air, "What's happening?"

"We did it right." The old man in the Bronze Coffin laughed, "The eighteen steles are arranged in order, and then they reacted."

"It looks quite intimidating... Huh? Why has it stopped?"

"Yeah, why did it stop?"

The vortex formed by the rays of light suddenly collapsed, then turned into specks of light and vanished into the air, followed by the eighteen steles also stopping their shaking, and everything returned to calm.

"What's going on here?" Gao Fei frowned, "It had started up, so why did it stop? Where did the problem occur?"

"Did you notice?"

"What?"

"The spiritual energy around us has become very thin."

"Huh? It really is."

"Just now when the eighteen steles were activated, the spiritual energy around rushed towards the steles like crazy..." the old man in the Bronze Coffin said, "I have a guess, but I don't know if it's correct."

"What guess?" Gao Fei asked eagerly.

"All the spiritual energy around was sucked away, so the eighteen steles stopped activating, to put it another way: The eighteen steles need to absorb a large amount of spiritual energy to serve as activation energy, and only after the spiritual energy has accumulated to a certain level will the steles truly activate." Here the old man in the Bronze Coffin paused, "Let me give you an analogy, the eighteen steles are like eighteen strong men, if you want them to work, you have to feed them well. The trouble is their appetite is just too big, they require a lot of food before they can be satisfied..."

"I understand." Gao Fei nodded, "The spiritual energy here isn't enough to satisfy the eighteen steles, so they stopped halfway through their activation."

"Exactly, that's what I mean." The old man in the Bronze Coffin said.

Gao Fei smacked his lips, "The spiritual energy here is already quite dense, yet it's still not enough for the eighteen steles to absorb..."

"The more it is so, the more it goes to show the extraordinariness of the eighteen steles." The old man in the Bronze Coffin said, "Kid, take good care of them, you might need them someday."

Gao Fei nodded, "I'll put them away for now and study them more when I have the time later." Gao Fei descended from the air and used a spell to collect the eighteen steles.