Chapter 292: Chapter 290: Eerie Stone Coffin
Not a corpse;
Not a pile of withered bones;
Not a Divine Treasure.
...
But a stretch of... Darkness!
Boundless and infinite, it could devour all light.
Soundless and still, a place of eternal solitude and cold.
The moment Jiang Jichen pushed open the Stone Coffin, his Divine Sense was completely devoured.
Then, he found himself lying within the Stone Coffin, drifting through the endless, freezing Darkness.
Everything was in a state of Annihilation. Everything was cold. Everything was Darkness...
’What should I do now?’
Sink into eternal oblivion?
Or... unyieldingly seek the light and pursue transcendence?
Neither!
But... to guard one’s original heart.
’The destruction and rebirth of planets, the darkness and light of the cosmos, the cold and warmth of the world... none of it could shake my original heart.’
In that moment, Jiang Jichen did not sink into the Darkness, nor did he search for the Great Dao of light. He only guarded his original heart and followed his own will.
And so, Destruction and rebirth coexisted, Darkness and light alternated, cold and warmth were both present... but still, none of it could shake his original heart!
Only after these Anomalies completely vanished did Jiang Jichen see a scene that existed within this space.
This was exactly what he wanted to see!
Jiang Jichen didn’t know what was inside the Stone Coffin; not even Grandma Turtle knew.
She had only told Jiang Jichen that this nameless Stone Coffin was very strange, seemingly existing since antiquity and not belonging to the Six Paths World.
Even a Divine Artifact couldn’t damage it in the slightest!
But the Stone Coffin had one function: if you could lift a corner of it, guard your original heart, and resist its bewitchment, you could see one specific thing you wanted to know!
For instance, Jiang Jichen saw a Holy Mountain standing beneath the firmament. An Immortal Stele was erected at the Peak of Holy Mountain, engraved with densely packed names shimmering with Immortal Light.
Looking at each name was like gazing upon a sun, its brilliance immeasurable.
Moreover, the higher a name was on the Immortal Stele, the more resplendent its light. The light from the name at the very top seemed ready to pierce the heavens and illuminate the All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds.
But Jiang Jichen didn’t look at any of these names. Instead, he watched as the Immortal Stele slowly turned transparent under a mysterious power.
Then, Jiang Jichen saw, inside the Immortal Stele, that small half-piece of... the Mysterious Ancient Jade!
In that instant, Jiang Jichen’s body trembled, and the scene before his eyes vanished.
Jiang Jichen found his Divine Sense had returned, and he was standing before the Stone Coffin.
But... he had clearly pushed open a corner of the Stone Coffin just a moment ago, yet now... the Stone Coffin was still sealed shut.
And he... seemed not to have moved at all, standing in the same spot the entire time.
He clearly remembered pushing open a corner of the Stone Coffin and seeing a stretch of Darkness.
But it was all like a dream!
Bizarre and unnerving. Thinking back on it now, Jiang Jichen broke out in a cold sweat.
If he had failed to guard his original heart just now, he would have been eternally lost, sinking into the endless cold and Darkness forever.
A perilous moment, a terrifying experience!
But... it was all worth it.
Because that small half-piece of the Mysterious Ancient Jade would hold the subsequent Cultivation Technique for the Ancient Source Character Scripture.
Jiang Jichen just needed to find that Holy Mountain, and he would be able to retrieve that small half-piece of the Mysterious Ancient Jade.
As for the Holy Mountain with the Immortal Stele, such an obvious landmark would be incredibly easy to find.
So, Jiang Jichen finally felt relieved, while also silently celebrating that he hadn’t missed this chance.
Before, if he had slacked off even slightly, not pushed himself to the limit, he would have failed to enter the Supreme Realm.
He might have gone his entire life without ever finding this next piece of the Mysterious Ancient Jade.
The path of cultivation was like this: one wrong step meant every subsequent step would be wrong, and there would never be another chance.
Now that Jiang Jichen had achieved Perfect Dao Platform Foundation Establishment, his next step was to... refine the Undying Pill!
Of course, to perform Alchemy, he had to gather all the Spirit Medicines required by the Undying Pill Formulas.
However, he had gained so much here that he already possessed many of the medicines required by the Undying Pill Formulas.
Jiang Jichen sat cross-legged beside the altar, next to the Stone Coffin, silently contemplating the path ahead.
In truth, although the Stone Coffin was bizarre and unsettling, Jiang Jichen had considered taking it with him.
After all, if not even a Divine Artifact could harm it, it was definitely a Supreme treasure!
But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t move the Stone Coffin even an inch.
One had to know that his current Physical Strength was immense, truly terrifying.
Moreover, he had even brazenly tried to open the Stone Coffin a second time. He was greedy, wanting to find clues to the location of the second small piece of the Mysterious Jade.
However, no matter how hard he tried, he could no longer push open the lid of the Stone Coffin. Even using all his strength, it wouldn’t budge.
In the end, he could only give up!
As for teleporting away, that was simple. After a certain amount of time, the Teleportation Array on this altar would automatically activate.
However, the Light of Teleportation was only effective for those who possessed the mark of the Seven-Colored Spiritual Pattern.
All other living beings would be directly excluded by the rules here. Otherwise, Grandma Turtle wouldn’t have needed to enter a state of dormant Annihilation and be carried out by Jiang Jichen in a Storage Bag.
Jiang Jichen calculated the time. The deadline was fast approaching!
Sure enough, after Jiang Jichen sat meditating on the Teleportation Altar for a day, the altar finally began to change.
"BUZZ!"
The ancient patterns on the altar suddenly lit up, and the Teleportation Array Light enveloped Jiang Jichen.
But in that instant, Jiang Jichen witnessed an incredibly shocking scene!
He saw the Stone Coffin also ignite with a Light of Teleportation of its own accord.
And it... it lit its own Light of Teleportation, which emanated from the body of the coffin, shining as brightly as a star.
’This bizarre Stone Coffin... is too damn awesome!’
’It can initiate its own teleportation? Doesn’t that mean it can go wherever it wants?’
SWISH!
The next moment, Jiang Jichen saw the Stone Coffin vanish from the altar.
At the same time, he was dragged into the void of teleportation by the Light of Teleportation.
For an instant, Jiang Jichen felt as if time had stopped. At the same moment, within the teleportation void...
He actually saw the Stone Coffin again. It was drifting through the endless void, its destination unknown.
The scene flashed by in an instant. The next moment, Jiang Jichen found himself in an unfamiliar land.
Of course, this time he was very lucky not to be met with a mysterious attack.
But... he witnessed an incredibly bloody and cruel scene!
On the Great Dao ahead, a group of bandits was slaughtering a group of Cultivators with low Cultivation.
These Cultivators included the old, weak, sick, and disabled, as well as women and children. There were also some able-bodied and relatively strong Cultivators among them, but they were no match for this group of fierce bandits and were easily massacred.
Then, these Fierce Bandits showed no mercy, continuing to slaughter the old, weak, sick, disabled, women, and children!
This was the scene Jiang Jichen happened to see the moment he teleported in.
He saw the heads of women and children flying high into the air, the bodies of old men split in two, and young children smashed directly into pulp...
He had no time to intervene before these weak Cultivators were completely massacred. The scene was bloody and horrific.
The last one, a little boy of seven or eight, was about to be cleaved in two by a great-saber.
The seven- or eight-year-old boy’s eyes held no fear, only grief and indignation, unwillingness, helplessness... and the blazing fire of hatred.
He didn’t want to accept his fate, but destiny had decreed that he was too young and too weak. He could only be slaughtered, with no power to resist.
"BOOM!"
However, the great-saber did not land on his body. Instead, it struck the ground, carving out a huge crater and kicking up endless dust.
Amidst the swirling dust, a handsome youth stood among the bandits, holding the little boy’s hand, his eyes flashing with killing intent.
