At the sa ti, Su Bai felt that he had stepped into another world.
The mont he crossed the portal, ancient Qi swallowed his body.
His vision blurred for a breath, then the world opened.
The Ancestral Sanctum was vast.
There was no ordinary horizon. In the far distance, towering monolithic cliffs rose like walls supporting heaven. They were made of pure white jade, smooth in so places and violently scarred in others.
Above them, there was no sun or moon. The sky was a vast interlocking do of golden gears and rotating arrays.
Golden mist floated everywhere.
It was not ordinary mist. It was ancient Qi so dense that it had taken physical form. Each wisp glowed softly, drifting through the air like countless fireflies caught inside a sacred dream.
The five disciples stood in silence.
The pressure here was different from the outside world.
Every breath felt as if the body was drinking cold, pure spring water.
The Qi entered their lungs, passed into their ridians, and spread through their limbs before they even circulated their techniques.
Liu ng’s face flushed slightly.
"This Qi..."
Before she finished speaking, Han Yuelin had already sat down.
He crossed his legs and began circulating his cultivation thod.
Qin Baoshan followed soon after.
Then Liu ng.
Then Ji Ruyue.
No one needed to tell them what to do.
In a place like this, the first instinct of every normal cultivator was to cultivate.
Su Bai watched them sit down, then he inhaled.
The ancient Qi entered his body.
His expression changed.
His chest tightened.
The dense, beneficial, pure Qi that made the others feel refreshed entered his lungs and imdiately beca uncomfortable.
It was like soone had poured an entire bowl of perfectly nourishing dicine down his throat without asking whether his body accepted kindness.
Su Bai inhaled again.
His breathing beca heavier.
The ancient Qi pressed into him from all directions.
His Reversal Body stirred faintly.
The more beneficial the Qi was to normal cultivators, the more awkward it felt to him.
Su Bai’s face beca strange.
’This was unreasonable.’
Su Bai silently looked at the golden mist.
This place was a blessed land to others.
To him, it was almost too healthy.
After a mont, Su Bai reached into his system inventory.
He took his Glacier-Lung Bone Mask.
To ordinary people, this thing was an execution device. The mont the wearer exhaled, it would crystallize moisture in the breath and force razor-sharp ice shards back down the windpipe.
Su Bai looked at it for a breath, then he put it on.
Su Bai exhaled.
The device activated. Then his Reversal Body moved.
His breathing opened.
The ancient Qi that had been too pure and suffocating was filtered through the mask’s reversed effect, becoming sothing his body could accept.
Su Bai inhaled again.
This ti, the golden mist entered smoothly.
His lungs cooled. His ridians stirred. The nine Gateway Qi Reservoirs slowly opened like nine deep wells receiving rain.
Su Bai’s eyes relaxed.
Around him, the other four disciples were still cultivating.
No one noticed his brief struggle.
After stabilizing himself, Su Bai looked around again.
The Ancestral Sanctum stretched before him.
Su Bai’s gaze slowly beca focused.
Before choosing a direction, Su Bai decided to sign in first.
[Ding! Signed in at Ancestral Sanctum.]
[Reward: Dao-Shattering Jade.]
Su Bai’s eyes moved slightly. The na sounded overbearing.
He imdiately checked the description.
[Description: A forbidden trial jade used to test a disciple’s Dao Heart by forcefully injecting pure ntal tornt, illusions of absolute failure, and killing intent directly into the mind. 99% of people who touch it suffer permanent spiritual damage, Qi deviation, and madness.]
Su Bai stared at the description, then he beca quiet.
’The first reward from the Ancestral Sanctum was already this good?’
Su Bai felt deeply moved.
He had signed in at Clear Cloud Peak too many tis recently. Although Obscuring Mind-Fog Tea Leaves and Slumbering-Lotus Fog Talismans were useful, receiving them too often made even useful things feel familiar.
Su Bai observed the jade from his system inventory.
The Dao-Shattering Jade was roughly the size of a human palm.
The jade itself was deep obsidian black, but thin spiderweb-like veins of sickly purple light pulsed across its surface. It did not emit pleasant Qi. Instead, it seed to pull the nearby light inward.
Su Bai looked at it carefully.
Then he finally took it out.
The mont his skin t the cold surface, the purple veins flashed violently.
Su Bai’s expression changed.
His fingers tightened. No. It was not that his fingers tightened. He could not let go.
The Dao-Shattering Jade lted.
Its solid surface collapsed into thick black smoke that poured into his palm, rushed up his arm, and entered his head before he could react.
The smoke gathered behind his forehead.
At the center between his brows, a faint pressure appeared.
Su Bai’s body stiffened.
A small mark erged between his eyebrows.
It was shaped like a thin vertical crack, dark purple and almost invisible unless one looked closely.
Then the mark faded.
Su Bai stood silently.
The Dao-Shattering Jade had integrated with his body.
This was unexpected.
He carefully sensed it.
The jade had not disappeared. It had beco sothing like a hidden seal lodged near his upper spiritual aperture.
He could control it.
At least, he felt that he could.
Su Bai hesitated for a mont, then he activated it slightly.
The mark between his eyebrows appeared again.
A dim purple glow pulsed. In the next instant, a large amount of his Qi was devoured.
Su Bai’s eyelids twitched.
Before he could think further, the Dao-Shattering Jade erupted.
A torrent of ntal tornt surged toward his consciousness.
It was as if a thousand years of accumulated collapse had been condensed into one breath and forced directly into his soul.
For an ordinary disciple, this would have been a disaster.
But Su Bai’s Reversal Body moved faster.
The mont the tornt touched his consciousness, the effect changed.
The ntal attack that should have shattered his mind instead beca absolute clarity.
The illusion of failure beca comprehension.
The pressure of killing intent beca focus.
The fragnts of chaos arranged themselves into perfect mory.
Su Bai’s eyes widened slightly.
The golden mist around him seed to slow.
The rotating gears above seed clearer.
Even his own breathing through the Glacier-Lung Bone Mask beca more distinct.
In that brief mont, Su Bai felt as if his mind had been washed clean with ice water and sharpened with a blade.
Then the effect slowly faded.
The purple mark disappeared again.
Su Bai stood there for a long ti.
This thing...
Was very useful.
The Qi consumption was large, but inside the Ancestral Sanctum, where ancient Qi filled the air and founder inheritances covered the walls, this ability was almost perfect.
If his Reversal Body could turn the Dao-Shattering Jade’s ntal tornt into clarity, then he could use it to study techniques, comprehend carvings, and analyze dangerous environnts with far greater efficiency.
Su Bai slowly looked toward the distant jade cliffs.
The founder marks were there.
A faint excitent rose in his chest.
He silently turned toward the nearest white jade cliff.
Since he did not know where to go yet, he might as well start with the thing in front of him.
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