Capítulo 1267: Chapter 11: The Bitter Sea Knows No Bounds—Is Turning Back the Shore?
The temporary team of fifty people now only has eight survivors left.
Moreover, this is the result after a series of explosive efforts by soone in the team. Without further advancent and responsibility, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Whether it was Fang Zhongze’s leadership, Yi Xueyao’s guardianship, or Zhou Yan’s ergency response, all significantly increased the team’s survival chances. Yet, even so, the fifty-mber team was nearly wiped out.
Comparing with the encounters of other Heavenly Heart mbers, one can deduce so insights.
Not all teams have the sa number of mbers as this one, nor can all Heavenly Heart mbers find a temporary team.
Even if found, in such a brutal environnt, how many Heavenly Heart mbers can genuinely face the dangers ahead?
Based on these considerations, even without seeing the fate of other Heavenly Heart mbers or knowing the growth outcos of others, Zhou Yan is very certain that the surviving Heavenly Heart mbers are likely less than one in ten.
The damage ratio is shockingly high.
“Surviving isn’t easy, so don’t easily give up fighting, especially before the results are out.”
Zhou Yan said in a deep voice.
His voice carried a unique charm, sending shivers down the spirit.
Amidst the shiver of spirit, whether it was Yi Xueyao or the other six Heavenly Heart mbers, all instinctively abandoned thoughts of grief and fear, silently recovering from their injuries, and trained rapidly as if racing against ti.
After experiencing the impact of death, every mont beca extraordinarily precious.
Zhou Yan stood up, his sensing power spreading around, and detected no unknown dangerous aura, nor any anomalies.
Even the pool water beneath, Zhou Yan’s sensing power couldn’t penetrate, sensing nothing unusual.
Zhou Yan guarded for nearly an hour, during which no abnormalities appeared, nor did any danger occur.
After this half-hour of recovery, whether it was Yi Xueyao or Qi Wanman and others, all have fully returned to peak condition.
In the prior battles and life-and-death tempering, the six had also slain many fierce creatures, with Heavenly Heart mbers and Demon Heart mbers dying in succession, the essence energy dispersed into their bodies, now fully absorbed and refined, approaching the Second Level of the Sea of Suffering Realm.
The first nine layers of the Sea of Suffering Realm pose little difficulty, mostly requiring a certain number of Demon Heart mbers slain for advancent, but beyond the Ninth Layer, it becos challenging.
“Zhou Yan, should you also recover to reach your best state, so we can move forward together? After all, the world beyond the Nine Origin Reincarnation has beco extrely dangerous and terrifying.”
Yi Xueyao glanced at Zhou Yan, her eyes tinged with unease.
The rest of Qi Wanman’s group also nodded in agreent, having lost much initiative as their strength was the lowest, making them most likely the next unexpected casualties.
Thus, if Zhou Yan were in his best state, at least with Zhou Yan’s nature, he wouldn’t let them die without aid, provided Zhou Yan could make a move.
This would be an added assurance, a guarantee for survival.
“I’m always in my best state, no need to worry. But you all should prepare for the worst. This place, even the high-level dangerous entities of the Demon Heart don’t dare set foot, suggesting a massive terror exists. Although everything is fine now, stay alert.”
Zhou Yan reminded them.
He knew that even if he didn’t ntion it, everyone would remain cautious. However, saying it would enhance their vigilance.
“Zhou Yan, we will definitely keep this in mind. Seeing comrades fall one after another with our own eyes, we’ve been prepared for the worst.”
Ye Xinlu sighed, speaking with a hint of sorrow.
Ye Xinlu’s words also brought a hint of sadness to Guo Xinling, Qi Wanman, and others.
However, none of them gave in to despair, instead growing more resolute, holding onto a spirit ready to face death directly.
“Oh? Zhou Yan, look over there…”
Just then, Yi Xueyao suddenly extended her fair hand, pointing forward.
All around stood huge stone pillars, but beyond them, faintly visible were massive mountain ridges.
These ridges resembled another world, standing independently within this Big Rift’s world.
As Yi Xueyao spoke, Zhou Yan had already sensed the existence there. When he focused his Soul Power onto his eyes, he distinctly saw a woman in a white gauze dress standing against the wind atop the snowy peak.
But she wasn’t a woman from the Human Clan, instead, an exceptionally unique being.
A human head on a serpent’s body.
It seed she had stood there for eons, awaiting the arrival of this mont.
When Zhou Yan focused his gaze, he briefly saw the scene clearly, but then it beca muddled.
After a careful look, Zhou Yan found nothing visible anymore.
Between heaven and earth, there is a ghostly shadow like a shattered wind, it cos when ntioned, and disappears when said to disappear.
No trace, no sign.
Zhou Yan was stunned for a mont, seeing the human-headed snake-bodied phantom, Zhou Yan recalled the scenes of the giant axe man and human-headed snake-bodied woman he encountered in countless tis of life and death, illusion and even true void, Zhou Yan felt a chill in his heart.
Perhaps, behind the Ancestor Dragon Warship, there lies a deeper secret, one that may no longer be the secret of Emperor Lei Yan or the Soul Burying Star Lord, but of a higher level.
Emperor Lei Yan launched the Nine Origin Reincarnation, creating a world almost like ‘Great Unity’, at the sa ti, this allowed Yanyan, Lee Ran, Zhou Ying, Bai Ying, and even Lee Ling, those who were originally immortal, to step into the new Nine Origin Reincarnation, altering the trajectory of cultivation.
Yet, so people have always been very mysterious.
Such as the third life of Hou Yi and Chang’e, Zhou Lingyao and Lee Xinyu, from beginning to end, Zhou Yan had no mory of either.
Even at Emperor Lei Yan’s place, the situation of the two was unknown.
And Hua Qiudao.
On the right path, according to the existence of the Heavenly Destiny plan, Hua Qiudao was supposed to be the most important person but he similarly disappeared.
Besides that, those most talented cultivators in the Earth Ancestral Land, after being taken away, where did they end up?
Also about the situation of Zhou Wangchen, what specific changes will occur, Zhou Yan was not clear.
If after the Nine Origin Reincarnation they are similar to other Heavenly Hearts, and beco summoned, there will definitely be a chance to et. But if they did not beco Heavenly Hearts…
“It’s really amazing, this place seems like another world… a very strange feeling.”
Yi Xueyao murmured to herself, her words interrupted Zhou Yan’s thoughts.
In fact, after she spoke the first sentence, she imdiately followed up with the second, with almost no interval ti in between.
Zhou Yan yet in this interval thought of many things.
“Indeed, this place seems like a vast Ice Glacier World, detached from this world, like another world independent of this world, but… now we are within this heaven and earth.”
Zhou Yan nodded, very much agreeing with Yi Xueyao’s view.
“By the way, Yi Xueyao, when you previously saw that snow peak in the distance, did you see anything else? Like any cultivator, demon beast, or sothing?”
Zhou Yan then inquired.
“Hmm? Now that you ntion it, I do indeed have so feeling, I feel there seems to be a woman standing on the summit — but purely a feeling, and indeed saw nothing. How to say? Just like with such a snow peak, such a divine mountain, if there wasn’t a peerless woman standing on the summit, it seems as if it would be lacking sothing.”
“A very strange feeling indeed.”
Yi Xueyao said, she herself couldn’t help but smile lightly, then let out a soft sigh.
In the face of such a harsh environnt, sotis joy and sorrow coexist, entangled with an irresistible force.
“Your insight is actually very right, that was supposed to be a remarkable and treacherous snowy mountain, there indeed should have been a woman on that snowy mountain. This pool of water has imnse rule power, warding off intrusive forces, which shows that the rules here we have yet to comprehend, have not entered, so we cannot understand, cannot grasp.
As for your feeling, this should be an instinctive judgnt, actually I think the sa. Though, these don’t align with our current direction, so there’s no need to delve deeply.”
Zhou Yan slightly smiled, letting go of such explorations.
At this mont, Zhou Yan even felt that the woman with the human-headed snake-bodied eyes was watching him in so space, seemingly paying attention to his every move.
Zhou Yan did not turn around, nor did he look back at that snow mountain, but began to focus on his brow’s soul sea.
Soul sea is the Bitter Sea.
Buddhism says, the Bitter Sea has no bounds, turning back is the shore.
This sentence originally ans to encourage people to nd their ways.
Yet at this ti, as Zhou Yan paid attention to his Bitter Sea state, sensing the changes in the Heavenly Crystal, he seed to vaguely comprehend a new aning.
The Bitter Sea has no bounds, ans the soul sea is endless.
Turning back is the shore, ans the path of the soul sea is single-minded and there is no other side, no end, and how much does this resemble the endlessness of cultivation?
“Could it be, ‘turning back’, is instead transcendence? Instead can achieve the other side, can accomplish eternal life?”
Zhou Yan could not help but be moved, suddenly thinking of this possibility.
Just at this mont, Zhou Yan had a brainwave, his mind heated up, almost imdiately his gaze trembled, in that instant, Zhou Yan as if opened supre Spiritual Wisdom, suddenly thought of a terrifying conjecture — Ten Thousand Immortals’ annihilation, Ten Thousand Buddhas’ tribulation, could it be because they knew of the Eternal Life Skill, Transcendence Dao and could inherit the complete rules, thus using this way to transcend above the Eternal All Spirit Race, and hence be destroyed?
The Soul Burying Starfield, was it therefore suppressed and destroyed?
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