novelraw Chapter 44 – Spirit Clan Paradise
Chapter 44 – Spirit Clan Paradise
The sudden ancient voice from the stone tablet startled you. Hearing the speaker's standard Mandarin, you immediately became alert. Although you didn't know what Bluestar was, the name suggested it was a planet similar to Earth.
The other party might also be a transmigrator.
However, given the negative impression of transmigrators betraying each other, you didn't admit to being a Bluestar person. Instead, you claimed you had accidentally been transported here by crushing a Jade Talisman.
Hearing this, the voice from the stone tablet seemed to sigh in relief and asked where you learned the language.
You replied that it was the official language of the Great Wei Dynasty.
The voice from the stone tablet was quite surprised.
It asked you many questions about Great Wei, seeming very unfamiliar with the dynasty.
...
After some small talk.
You proactively asked, "Why is Senior hiding in the stone tablet?"
"Hehe, to be honest, young friend, I am the Tomb Keeper here."
You were greatly surprised.
You quickly asked whose tomb it was.
The voice from the stone tablet said that this was the Spirit Clan Paradise. When the Spirit Clan faced a catastrophic extermination, he was entrusted by a Spirit Clan Powerhouse who had been kind to him to lead the Spirit Clan descendants into exile with the paradise. Unfortunately, they were eventually found by their enemies. He fought with all his might but was ultimately defeated. The Spirit Clan descendants were slaughtered, and he perished, leaving only a wisp of his soul attached to the world, surviving in the stone tablet until now, becoming the Tomb Keeper here...
After recounting his experiences, the voice from the stone tablet asked what your plans were.
You expressed a desire to settle here for a while.
And inquired about the corpses along the way.
The voice from the stone tablet said that the bodies you saw were all Bluestar people. The Spirit Clan Paradise was unique, and hundreds of thousands of years ago, it would often randomly produce people claiming to be transmigrators from Bluestar. At that time, he was lonely and bored, so he learned to speak the Bluestar language. However, in recent hundreds of thousands of years, he hadn't seen Bluestar people for a long time.
Finally, he seriously warned you not to stay here long-term because it was very dangerous. The enemies who slaughtered the Spirit Clan descendants hated Bluestar people. They had specifically set this place as a monitoring point to keep track of everything here. If they discovered an unknown person at the monitoring point, they might kill you thinking you were a Bluestar person.
You were greatly shocked upon hearing this.
You never expected this place could randomly refresh transmigrators.
At the same time, you were astonished by the identity of the voice from the stone tablet, realizing he wasn't the transmigrator you thought he was. And from his tone, he seemed like an old monster who had survived for hundreds of thousands of years. You must know that the lifespan of a Heaven-Human Powerhouse is only about five hundred years.
However, the mention of the monitoring point reminded you of the scrap of paper with "Abandoned Monitoring Point" written on it found in the cave's ash pile.
Your intuition told you that the voice from the stone tablet might not have been truthful. Moreover, the cowboy man's corpse in the cave seemed to have transmigrated not long ago, contrary to what the voice said about no one coming for hundreds of thousands of years.
But you chose not to expose him and instead asked how to leave.
The other party said that the Spirit Clan Paradise was suspended in mid-air on all sides, concealed by a formation. The stone tablet was the formation core, and you only needed to drip blood on the stone tablet to be immediately transported away.
Considering this was a fantasy world, you cautiously refrained from doing so.
However, thinking of the Mastermind's transmigrator compatriot.
After pondering for a while.
You explained the situation of the cowboy man in the cave to the stone tablet, asking if the Spirit Clan Paradise had recently started randomly producing transmigrators again.
The stone tablet trembled slightly.
It fell into a long silence.
Then, the stone tablet's voice, hoarse, said, "If young friend wishes to leave, you can do as I said. I must go into slumber."
After that, no matter how you called, the stone tablet remained unresponsive.
In the following months, you explored the Spirit Clan Paradise, confirming there was truly no one around. You set up a shelter on a hidden mountain peak, a spot from which you could monitor the stone tablet from several kilometers away.
Then, you began cultivating the Five Gates of Heaven.
Four years later, you successfully opened the Life Gate, refining Supreme Iron Bones.
Twenty years later, you successfully opened the Heart Gate, refining Supreme Bronze Bones.
Fifty years later, you successfully opened the Vitality Gate, refining Supreme Silver Bones.
Sixty years later, as you sat on the mountain peak attempting to break through the Death Gate, you suddenly saw a young man in sportswear and glasses standing in front of the stone tablet, speaking excitedly in a language you couldn't understand.
Your whole body shook, realizing that this young man was likely a transmigrator like the cowboy man. Just as you were about to get up, you saw the youth with glasses take out a fruit knife, cut his finger, and let the blood drip onto the stone tablet...
Immediately, his shoulders began to tremble violently. Having refined Supreme Silver Bones, your senses were extremely sharp, and even from several kilometers away, you could hear his almost maniacal laughter... After laughing for a while, the youth with glasses turned and quickly left.
Seeing this, you gritted your teeth, took out a Profound Grade Sword from the Ten Directions Ring, and followed him.
You suspected the young man might have been controlled by the stone tablet.
Or even possessed.
You had to find out because if the old monster in the stone tablet had indeed possessed the young man and harbored hostility towards you, it might only take him some time to gain the power to crush you. You couldn't sit idly by. If necessary, you wouldn't hesitate to kill to eliminate the threat in advance.
In just three minutes.
You caught up with the youth with glasses, using echolocation to follow him from a thousand meters away.
You didn't act recklessly.
Five days later, you confirmed one thing: the other party was just an ordinary flesh and blood being, needing rest, sleep, and the necessities of life.
You didn't rush to make a move.
Instead, you quietly followed, wanting to know where he was headed.
Three months later, the youth with glasses arrived at the western edge, the very cliff you had climbed for five days, still bottomless.
You took a deep breath, gathered your energy, and suddenly burst forth. With the strength of ninety thousand pounds from your Supreme Silver Bones, you turned into a shadow, swiftly approaching the youth with glasses. Almost as you got close, the youth with glasses suddenly turned his head, giving you a cold look.
Instantly, your body froze, feeling as if your head had been struck hard.
You fell on the spot, collapsing to the ground.
The youth with glasses, having used that attack, also looked exhausted. He staggered towards you, a sinister smile on his lips, saying, "There is a way to heaven, but you choose not to take it; there is no door to hell, yet you rush in..."
Chen Shi frowned.
Is it going to end here again?