Chapter 1317: Chapter 1303: Scenes from the Past
Baiyu quietly raised the danger rating of this Seeking Dao Palace by a whole level in his heart.
After all.
He’d only just entered the first main hall and had already run into something this dangerous; who knew if there would be even more deadly situations later on.
Attacks on the Enlightenment Realm level.
For Baiyu at his current stage, they were still highly dangerous.
Better to stay cautious and careful.
There was nothing particularly strange about the first-layer main hall. You could collect some items, but only to a limited extent—it wasn’t much. So the people lingering on the first floor were basically clinging to the idea of scraping off even the floorboards and stayed here. Anyway, as long as they didn’t speak, they wouldn’t be struck by that terrifying lightning, so the safety of the first floor was extremely high.
However.
Baiyu’s main purpose in coming in this time was to obtain a method to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm and the Enlightenment Realm.
Those things.
Wouldn’t be so precious as to be unattainable, but they also definitely wouldn’t be placed on the first floor. Most likely, they would be in the Sword Monarch’s study, so the first place Baiyu intended to go within the Seeking Dao Palace was the study.
He quickly walked out.
The first floor’s "mask" wasn’t large; after leaving the main hall, Baiyu arrived at a plaza full of statues.
Stepping into the plaza.
He immediately heard the conversation of two cultivators nearby: "This used to be the battlefield of that Enlightenment Realm powerhouse’s war exploits. Look at all these statues around us—they’re all enemies that Enlightenment Realm powerhouse once defeated, and among them were even Peak Enlightenment Realm experts. I heard that this Enlightenment Realm expert was a master of the sword.
He only needed a single thought to behead someone from a thousand miles away.
This kind of method.
Is already no different from a true Immortal."
It seemed that after leaving the main hall, the rule against speaking no longer applied.
He just didn’t know yet.
Whether there were other taboos on this plaza.
Baiyu moved forward slowly. He hadn’t gone very far when he suddenly noticed that the person ahead vanished in a bizarre way.
There wasn’t the slightest fluctuation of power.
He simply disappeared without a trace, as if erased from existence.
Baiyu grew wary, carefully avoided the area where that man had vanished, and walked over to another statue. But although he dodged like that, it actually backfired.
As he approached the statue.
Baiyu suddenly discovered a faint, simple energy fluctuation on the statue, and then he was instantly enveloped in a flash of white light and vanished from the plaza.
When Baiyu appeared again.
He was already in a valley. Ahead of him, a man in white robes holding a longsword was standing there quietly, looking at the burly hulk opposite him, whose body was all muscle and covered with strange Rune markings.
"Sword Monarch, are you really going to drive us to extinction today?"
The burly man said in a low voice. His voice boomed like a great bell, echoing endlessly in the valley, and it was obvious his vital energy was incredibly robust.
However.
The man called the Sword Monarch opposite him didn’t give an inch, simply standing there quietly in the wind.
Baiyu figured out their identities in an instant.
That Sword Monarch was clearly the very Sword Monarch who had left behind this ruin, and the man facing him looked exactly like the statue that had just sucked Baiyu in.
Obviously.
This was a replay of their battle back then!
This statue must have been crafted by the Sword Monarch with some special method; as long as someone got close, the statue would pull them in.
Baiyu watched the whole duel from beginning to end.
How to put it.
Compared to the Sword Monarch, that burly hulk was far inferior in the end; he was directly insta-killed by the Sword Monarch, and he didn’t even manage to force the Sword Monarch to draw his personal sword.
This clearly.
Meant the gap between the two wasn’t even in the same league.
And judging from the fact that the Sword Monarch’s opponent was also an Enlightenment Realm powerhouse, the Sword Monarch’s strength was very likely beyond the Enlightenment Realm.
Baiyu took a deep breath.
After he finished watching this replay, the scene around him began to blur.
A short moment later.
Baiyu was back on the plaza again.
So the Sword Monarch’s intention was to have everyone admire the heroic bearing of his glorious past? That’s some serious twisted taste, you jerk.
Baiyu grumbled inwardly and continued walking forward.
All along the way.
He no longer deliberately avoided those statues when he saw them, because he wanted to learn more about the Sword Monarch from them, and thereby make the subsequent ruin exploration smoother.
The others had clearly noticed it too.
These statues weren’t offensive at all; they could even go inside and comprehend the battles of Enlightenment Realm powerhouses without facing any danger. You could basically call this a heaven-sent treasure!
If this were happening now in reality.
When Enlightenment Realm powerhouses fought, everyone else would probably run as far as they could, afraid of being accidentally killed by those terrifying monsters.
But watching inside the statues’ Illusion Realms caused no harm at all; they could observe these former powerhouses up close.
They could even.
Learn about the Sword Monarch’s past with these Enlightenment Realm experts—maybe even gain more opportunities.
So once they discovered this.
Everyone started diving into the statues one after another.
Baiyu naturally didn’t let go of a single statue either. The Sword Monarch might have been invincible across the world, but that didn’t mean all his enemies were completely incapable of threatening him.
Several of them had even stormed right up to his door.
After repeatedly studying several of these "recordings," Baiyu successfully pieced together the general layout of this ruin from them and even pinpointed the location of the study.
That was very important.
The study was his target, so of course Baiyu didn’t hesitate any longer and headed straight toward it inside the ruin.
Meanwhile, the others.
Seemed to have also discovered those statues whose battle backdrop was the entire Seeking Dao Palace, realizing they were essentially serving as maps. They swarmed over to inspect them.
Baiyu left them all in the dust.
He quickly arrived outside the study, only to find its doors tightly shut, with a powerful Spirituality seal upon them.
Baiyu approached the door.
He pounded heavily on it twice, but the door didn’t budge in the slightest, and even bounced a bit of force back at him.
Baiyu was about to hit the door again.
When a protective membrane suddenly popped up over the door, and a voice sounded: "Easy, a little gentler. I’m old, I can’t take that kind of brute force."
Baiyu stared ahead in surprise.
And then he saw that there was actually a human face on the door.
Well damn.
Do all Enlightenment Realm powerhouses’ doors have to be this special, able to open and close by themselves?
"Open up."
Baiyu said bluntly to it, not bothering with courtesy.
The door put on an extremely human expression and said, troubled, "Honored Immortal, it’s not that I don’t want to open, it’s that I truly can’t. Unless you can show me a Sword Technique.
This was the rule set by Lord Sword Monarch back then.
I can’t change it."
The door spoke with great difficulty.
Baiyu frowned. If it was about Sword Techniques, then all he had was the Calm Wind Sword.
That was the most basic Sword Technique...
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