novelraw Chapter 57 – Office?
Chapter 57 – Office?
A breeze swept by.
You heard a series of Buddhist chants in your ears, as if a Buddha was solemnly reciting scriptures.
Without thinking much, you quickly took out the wordless bronze book from your bosom and found it scorching hot, with black mist continuously emanating from it.
At this moment, large sections of Sanskrit appeared faintly on the bronze book.
You couldn't understand it.
However, the large characters at the top caught your attention.
"Disaster Dispelling Auspicious Mantra."
You instantly realized this was a treasure, a treasure that could help you resist the Death Qi.
Because you had already ventured over a hundred miles into the Cursed Land, and even inhaled a breath of black mist from a mushroom, your body showed no discomfort, and your reflection in the bronze mirror showed no signs of aging. This was clearly abnormal. In your perception, the concentration of Death Qi here was no longer light gray but veering towards dark gray. You had a premonition that without the aid of a Longevity Pill, you might not last two months before dying of old age in these deep mountains.
You put away the bronze book page, hesitated for a moment, and chose to continue deeper.
One hundred and thirty miles...
One hundred and forty miles...
One hundred and sixty miles...
As you ventured further, you noticed the frequency of mushrooms increased.
You picked a gray mushroom...
You picked a gray mushroom...
You picked a gray mushroom...
Under a large tree, you discovered a corpse covered in moss.
You were very surprised.
Along the way, you had seen many skeletons, likely due to the erosion of Death Qi, those bones had turned to dust, crumbling at a touch. This corpse, however, was an exception. Judging by the thick moss covering it, it had been preserved for a long time and was extremely intact.
You cautiously approached.
Removed the moss.
A dazzling golden light flashed before your eyes.
You were astonished to find that the corpse before you was the remains of a Golden Bone Prodigy.
And judging by its luster, it was no different from 24k pure gold from your previous life, almost blinding you in the sunlight. With this quality, you felt the grade of the golden bones was certainly not low, possibly the legendary Supreme Golden Bones that remain uncorrupted for ten thousand years after death.
You couldn't understand why such a peerless prodigy would ruin their future by entering this Cursed Land.
You began to loot...
You found nothing...
There was nothing valuable on this golden bone, not even a storage ring, which seemed too impoverished and completely unworthy of the prodigy's status. However, out of humanitarianism, you casually blasted a pit and buried the golden bones.
After moving the golden bones.
You found a thin object half-buried in the soil under its buttocks...
You pinched and pulled it out...
Revealing a severely corroded bronze metal piece...
You felt it looked familiar.
After a while.
You took out the scorching bronze book from your bosom.
Compared them.
They matched.
The size was identical.
You felt an inexplicable unease.
This Supreme Golden Bone Prodigy likely held a similar bronze book that could resist Death Qi, like you. Perhaps the book failed midway, leading to their untimely demise here, or maybe they encountered other accidents, though it shouldn't be human-caused, because a Supreme Golden Bone, in a Cursed Land only dared to be entered by lower five realm warriors, was nearly invincible, unless there were other dangers here...
You pondered for a while.
Finally, gritting your teeth, you decided to continue deeper.
One hundred and eighty miles...
Two hundred and ten miles...
Two hundred and fifty miles...
Three hundred miles...
The further you went, the more shocked you became.
Because after delving three hundred miles, you discovered several Supreme Golden Bones, all without exception, had those bronze metal pieces on them. What made you even more horrified was finding a familiar technique on one of the Supreme Golden Bones — the Five Gates of Heaven.
This made you increasingly uneasy.
Intuition told you that these Supreme Golden Bone Prodigies were likely created by the Five Gates of Heaven.
There are so many smart people in the world, it couldn't be just you who thought that the Death Qi in the Cursed Land might be mutated Spirit Qi. If there was some secret treasure that could isolate Death Qi, perhaps someone really would risk it all to enter this Cursed Land to cultivate the Five Gates of Heaven.
After all, the Death Qi here could accelerate a cultivator's breakthrough of the Five Gates.
And at your current depth of three hundred miles, the concentration of Death Qi had turned gray-black. Even without absorbing the black mist from the gray mushrooms, the cultivation efficiency was more than twenty times faster than consuming Profound Grade spirit liquid.
Here, the Death Gate, which takes a hundred years to open.
Would take less than five years.
Perhaps in this world, only the Cursed Land could truly allow someone to cultivate the Five Gates of Heaven.
This technique.
Seems to be specifically crafted for this place.
It's all too coincidental. After being targeted by the Mastermind for so long, you've become extremely sensitive to such conspiracies, instinctively feeling something is off. You begin to suspect the intentions of Lingweizi, who created the Five Gates of Heaven...
And question the purpose of the Middle-aged Man who gave you the bronze book...
Looking at the simulation of yourself questioning life.
Chen Shi frowned deeply.
He had been puzzled ever since entering the Song family's Scripture Repository.
Lingweizi, after all, was just a Heaven-Human Powerhouse. Did he really have the ability to create the Five Gates of Heaven?
Don't be fooled by how mediocre this technique seems.
But it truly allows one to steadily cultivate to Jade Bones.
What are Jade Bones?
Crystal clear like jade, uncorrupted for eternity after death!
Over time, they are nourished by heaven and earth, gaining intelligence, transforming into some kind of celestial treasure!
This sounds so fantastical, is it really something a mere human could create?
And just a Heaven and Human cultivator?
Chen Shi found it unrealistic. The Heaven-Human Ancestor was indeed powerful, but not to such an absurd extent.
Moreover, it was all too coincidental.
The Five Gates of Heaven.
Seemed to be born for the Cursed Land.
If that's the case, it's a bit terrifying. To create such a technique tailored to the unique conditions of the Cursed Land, calling it turning decay into a miracle wouldn't be an exaggeration. Perhaps even the legendary immortals are no more than this?
Who is the divine being behind this grand scheme?
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