novelraw Chapter 1278 679: Filling the Mortal World (Part 2)
Chapter 1278 679: Filling the Mortal World (Part 2)
The precise time was before he left the Western Regions and entered Qi Country. He had detoured to the north by himself and came out alive!"
This news caused a stir throughout the Capital City.
It should be known that since the Disaster Star arrived, a hundred years had passed, and no one could set foot in it.
Unfortunately, the manuscripts left by the Moya Practitioner were not clearly detailed. Nevertheless, it still sparked the imagination of many powerful individuals at that time. Some speculated that the Moya Practitioner disappeared because he went north again."
Zhao Douan couldn't help but say:
"What exactly did the Moya Practitioner see in Mubei Forest when he was young?"
The Empress and Zhang Yan Yi also looked over expectantly for an answer.
Ancestor Xu paused for a moment and said:
"A hole."
A hole?!
This answer left them looking at each other in disbelief.
And what Ancestor Xu said next left them even more stunned:
"To be precise, deep in the forest, a space had shattered, creating a hole that could not heal for a long time. Through that hole, one could glimpse another bizarre world, frozen in time."
At this moment, Zhao Douan and Xu Zhenguan felt a shock in their hearts at the same time!
Ancestor Xu smiled:
"That's right, it's the world you have seen."
The city in the Human World scroll! The night Zhao Douan crossed to, frozen in time!
Zhao Douan's heart was pounding wildly as he swallowed hard:
"Where is that hole... now?"
Ancestor Xu said calmly, "It's sealed."
"Sealed?" Zhang Yan Yi couldn't sit still either. Although he hadn't seen that city, he could roughly understand what was happening:
"Do you mean, elder, that a thousand years ago, the Disaster Star hit this forest, tearing open a spatial rift? Behind the rift is another world?!"
Ancestor Xu shook his head: "No."
Then, under their puzzled gazes, he explained:
"Initially, the Moya Practitioner assumed the same, but later, he determined that what lay beyond the hole wasn't a real world but an imprint, a shadow.
And the Disaster Star did not truly 'crash' here, but another world grazed past the world we live in."
As if fearing they wouldn't understand, Ancestor Xu suddenly raised his hand, and two banyan leaves floated down from the fiery red banyan tree.
"Here are two leaves, each representing a world."
Speaking, he held a leaf in each hand, bringing them together briefly:
"When the wind sweeps through the yard, the two leaves have a very small chance of crossing, even overlapping, but this is brief. Soon they separate again. However, if they rub fast enough..."
He exerted force with his hands, and a spark briefly flashed between the two banyan leaves.
When he opened his hands again, one leaf had a charred mark left on it.
"Just like this, two worlds intersected, forming a rift, and the charred area is the imprint left on the veins of the other leaf." Ancestor Xu said calmly.
Zhang Yan Yi and the Empress showed expressions of shock. They understood, and that was the most incredible thing.
As for Zhao Douan...
He stared blankly at the leaf, his mind inexplicably conjuring images of Earth's famous "Halley's Comet"!
According to legend, Halley's Comet also brushes past Earth every few years... so could the Disaster Star streaking across the sky similarly be understood as the crossing of two planets?
It's... beyond belief...
Instinctively, Zhao Douan felt it was unscientific. If two planets crossed paths, the gravitational pull would have already caused cosmic catastrophes...
But turning around, he wanted to slap himself:
Here were Divine beings, cultivation was possible, yet he was still clinging to a worldview bound by physics—how inappropriate.
Xu seemed to see through his thoughts, discarding the leaf in his hand to the ground, speaking lightly:
"Of course, the intersection of these two worlds is not like two stones colliding.
According to the Moya Practitioner's speculation back then, these two worlds are essentially two sides of the same coin, like the front and back of a single leaf.
And what is called 'brushing past' is in fact the temporary convergence of the inner and outer worlds."
Goodness... even more abstract...
Zhao Douan opened his mouth, but this example was very illustrative, and he understood.
Xu Zhenguan couldn't help but say:
"So, the appearance of the Disaster Star was a collision of the inner and outer worlds?"
"Indeed," Ancestor Xu sighed:
"After observing, the Moya Practitioner believed the entirety of Mubei Forest became forbidden because of this hole, akin to a lake with a hole in the middle, drawing surrounding water, disturbing the entire surface.
Therefore, the spiritual energy in Mubei Forest became extraordinarily dense, making the beasts formidably strong without needing intelligence.
This phenomenon further warped the whole forest's natural forces, resulting in suppression for the cultivators, preventing even the Divine from approaching."
Zhao Douan frowned: "Then those 'natural disasters' outside..."
Ancestor Xu nodded:
"Yes, in the ten years after the Disaster Star, the earthquakes, floods, and droughts were all disturbances affecting the whole world, and the upheaval of the Evil God was part of that."
So... this is the truth behind the 'Disaster Star'!
And Ancestor Xu's next sentence truly stunned everyone:
"The Moya Practitioner stayed here for a long time back then, and then he discovered something dire, that this hole was slowly expanding.
Although very slow, it kept on growing, and if the Disaster Star appeared again, the hole would likely grow much larger...
And at that time, it would not just be this forest becoming a forbidden zone, but the entire mortal world would be affected, leading to a true catastrophe."
This... Xu Zhenguan couldn't help but ask:
"Since the Moya Practitioner discovered this, why didn't he tell anyone after leaving?"
Ancestor Xu glanced at his many-great-granddaughter with a resigned expression:
"No one else could enter, only the Moya Practitioner could. Do you think anyone would believe him if he spoke? The first to fall victim would be himself."
Indeed!
Given Qi Country's conduct at that time, they would likely imprison Moya for research... Xu Zhenguan realized she lost her composure.
Zhao Douan frowned: "So he kept it to himself and left?"
He felt that Xu's words hid some crucial information.
Like:
How did the Moya Practitioner avoid the powerful beasts in the forest and reach the center?
And how did he manage to get out alive?
Was it just luck? Did he find the warm river?
If so, why didn't he share the 'safe path' with others? To solve this major issue together?
It seemed Xu was deliberately avoiding these details.
Ancestor Xu nodded:
"Yes, the Moya Practitioner left because he realized that to seal the hole, God-level power was necessary since even Heavenly Humans would be suppressed here.
Thus, only the mythical 'Human Immortal' could possibly seal the hole.
So he left here and went to Qi Country, spreading teachings and cultivating, hoping to reach the desired realm within his lifespan and then resolve the matter."
Zhang Yan Yi said:
"But the Moya Practitioner didn't seem to attain that level, did he?"
Ancestor Xu nodded:
"He indeed did not reach it, and so, upon reaching old age, realizing that attaining Human Immortal status was almost impossible, he turned to finding other methods.
At that time, his fascination with the Stargazing Skill was partly to further study the hole while also trying to calculate the next potential arrival of the 'Disaster Star'."
Xu Zhenguan asked:
"Did he find a way? You said earlier that the hole has been sealed."
Ancestor Xu nodded:
"He indeed found a special method."
Zhao Douan followed up: "What is it?"
Ancestor Xu looked at him and said:
"Using the pinnacle realm of Heavenly Human as the Array Eye, with Mubei Forest as the array base, using the Divine Soul to suppress the spatial rift. Though it cannot truly seal it, it can prevent it from expanding.
Ah, and due to the uniqueness of this forest, distorting nature, he can persist here, significantly prolonging his life.
Simultaneously, the whole mortal world is interconnected. As the external world's spiritual energy order strengthens, it can gradually feed back to allow the void to heal on its own."
"Therefore, in his later years, the Moya Practitioner indeed left the Capital City to come here, using his Divine Soul to block that part of the mortal world."
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