Chapter 420: Sea of Enlightenment
At the same time, the characters on the stone monument turned golden.
Soon after, the characters extricated themselves from the monument and flew into the sky.
"What’s happening?" Jiang Yue couldn’t help but wonder.
"Stay close." Yu Nianzhen said and held his lover’s hand.
"Look." Jiang Yue said and squeezed Yu Nianzhen’s hand.
However, Yu Nianzhen didn’t need to be reminded.
As the two watched, the characters flew around and formed the frames of a golden door.
A moment later, golden light issued from within the door and night returned to day.
"A door." Jiang Yue muttered in surprise.
While speaking, he looked at the monument and found it had become an ordinary rock.
"XioaYue, do you feel something?" Yu Nianzhen asked with a frown on his face.
Hearing that, Jiang Yue also frowned.
"I feel a pull from the door." He answered and Yu Nianzhen nodded.
Standing there, both felt a strong urge to enter the door.
However, they didn’t dare to be careless.
Although the mystery was left by old man Cang, caution was still necessary.
"Senior Niu..." Jiang Yue suddenly remembered the bullock.
He turned around, planning to question the bullock.
However, without their notice, the bullock had already left and the two couldn’t find it anywhere.
"What is this about?" Jiang Yue couldn’t help but feel a little irritated.
"I don’t know. For now, let’s..." Yu Nianzhen started but then stopped.
Without another word, he turned to the sky only to see that the gate was radiating an extremely brilliant golden light.
Most importantly, the light was spreading quickly and had already covered the sky as far as the eye could see.
"Azhen." Jiang Yue called and tightened his hand around his husband’s.
"Let’s observe the situation first." Yu Nianzhen said with a solemn look on his face.
"Azhen, I have a feeling this is related to Treasure Island." Jiang Yue suddenly said.
"I also have the same feeling."
From the beginning, the Celestial Sky sect did not predict a specific date of when the Treasure Island would appear.
In that case, it was not strange for the Island to appear decades earlier than predicted.
"Our preparations are not ready." Jiang Yue said, feeling a little anxious.
After advancing to the mid-stage of the nascent soul realm, the two rushed to Han town and didn’t prepare the things needed to enter a secret place.
"I will message master and mistress." Yu Nianzhen said and Jiang Yue understood.
"I will also message Li Futian and Xuan Ke. If possible, they can help us buy some things."
Unfortunately, the two didn’t get a chance to message their friends.
Before they could take out their communication tokens, the golden light turned into a golden net and fell towards the ground.
Soon after, the net covered them and the two were pulled towards the door.
At the same time, other nascent soul realm cultivators were also covered by the net and pulled towards the door.
"Who dares to provoke this ancestor?" A nascent soul realm shouted in anger.
"Who has eaten tiger guts and dares to trap this ancestor?"
"Flame divine fist, break for me."
"What kind of net can trap a nascent soul realm cultivator, is it a divine net?"
"Old man, have you also been caught?"
"This kind of net can only be made by people from the Great Artisan city. Is the Great Artisan City trying to rebel?"
"Damn fool, do you dare to slander my Great Artisan city? See how I deal with you when I break out."
"Someone save me, I don’t want to die."
"Does this have anything to do with the sealed battlefield?"
Different voices echoed around the Cangxing world.
However, they were only heard for a moment before all the nascent soul realm cultivators were dragged into the golden gate.
After the last person passed through, the gate shattered and golden fragments rained all over the Cangxing world.
.....
Inside the golden gate was a boundless ocean.
The ocean was a beautiful blue but when one looked inside, there seemed to be stars shining in the depths.
When all the nascent soul realm cultivators appeared in the gate world, they were in the sky above the ocean.
"Let’s look for Master and the others." Yu Nianzhen whispered to Jiang Yue.
"Good." Jiang Yue said and released his divine sense.
Unfortunately, his divine sense only spread to a diameter of one metre before it was bounced back.
"What the hell?" He couldn’t help but mutter before he tried again.
However, the result was the same and he turned a questioning look to Yu Nianzhen.
"My divine sense can’t be used."
Hearing that, Jiang Yue nodded and began to look around.
A moment later, he saw Li Futian and excitedly tugged Yu Nianzhen’s left sleeve.
"Brother Li is there." He said and tipped his head to where Li Futian was standing.
"Let’s go."
"Good."
Soon after, the two flew over and stopped in front of Li Futian.
"Brother Yu, Brother Jiang, how have you been?" Li Futian asked.
"We are okay. What about Brother Li?"
"I am doing fine." He said and then looked at the two with a serious look on his face.
"Brothers, what about your merit points?" He asked.
"Fortunately, we managed to earn ten thousand points." Jiang Yue said and Li Futian heaved a sigh of relief.
"Brother Li, do you know something?" Yu Nianzhen narrowed his eyes and asked.
At first, Li Futian knew that ten thousand merit points were important.
However, it was not until he entered the gate world that he realised why they were important.
"Brothers, the ocean below us is called the Sea of Enlightenment." He started.
"Sea of enlightenment?" Jiang Yue asked.
"Do you see the stars in the depths of the ocean?"
"We see them." Jiang Yue said and Yu Nianzhne nodded.
"Those stars are specks of the dao. If you enlighten them, you can connect to the great way. Without a connection to the great way, there is no way to break through to the immortal realm."
When Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen heard that, their hearts skipped a beat.
They expected a great opportunity when they passed through the gate but didn’t expect such an extraordinary chance.
"Brother Li, is this the Treasure Island?" Yu Nianzhen suddenly asked.
He and Jiang Yue grabbed several pieces of the treasure map and collected a few more in the past one hundred years.
However, no matter how he looked at it, the current world had nothing to do with the treasure map.
"It’s indeed the Treasure Island. However, to enter the places noted on the map, we must first pass through the sea of enlightenment."
"Is that so?" Jiang Yue couldn’t help but feel a little excited.
"What about the merit points, why are they important?" Yu Nianzhen questioned.
"The number of merit points dictates the time one can stay in the Sea of Enlightenment." Li Futian said and sighed.
’Fortunately, we worked hard to earn merit points.’ He thought.
From his newest foresight, he knew that one hundred merit points could guarantee one year in the Sea of Enlightenment.
With ten thousand merit points, they could stay in the sea of enlightenment for one hundred years.
"If we knew, we would have earned more." Jiang Yue lamented.
"One hundred years is the limit. It’s impossible to stay longer in the Sea of Enlightenment." Li Futian reassured.
"Why?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"I don’t know." Li Futian shook his head.
"What about those without merit points?"
"As far as I know, the next part of the Treasure Island won’t appear until everyone comes out of the Sea of Enlightenment. Don’t worry, those without merit points won’t have a head start to the next area."
"That’s good." Jiang Yue nodded in approval.
Although he was more interested in the sea of enlightenment, he didn’t want to miss other treasures.
Since he could have both chances, Jiang Yu was naturally satisfied.
"I am going in." Someone suddenly shouted, interrupting the conversation between the two.
A moment later, a middle-aged man rushed towards the ocean but a barrier suddenly appeared in mid-air.
The barrier was light golden and looked flimsy.
However, when the man touched it, he was immediately bounced back.
"See if I don’t break it." The man shouted and began to attack the barrier.
"His mental state is too unstable." Jiang Yue said and sighed.
After refining the resentment in Bai Xing’s corridor, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen’s mental state became extremely calm.
Things that would have flustered them in the past no longer bothered them.
However, this did not mean they were impervious to emotions or detached from the world.
It only meant that they could better discern the world and avoid being swayed by too many unnecessary things.
"Brother Li, how to pass through the light barrier?" Jiang Yue questioned.
Rather than answer, Li Futian flew towards the barrier.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen followed.
Soon after, Li Futian touched the light barrier with his nascent soul and he was immediately pulled into the sea of enlightenment.
When others saw this, they followed Li Futian’s example and the sky was soon clear of people.
