“As the saying goes, when the nest is overturned, how can there be any intact eggs? When the Xuanhuang Realm is no longer the Xuanhuang Realm, existences like you, Fellow Daoist, who rely on the Xuanhuang Realm today will likely face retribution as well.”
“Even Longevity is not a true escape..” The Faceless Holy Emperor delivered his conclusion.
The mont Li Ping finished speaking, a sense of crisis naturally arose in the heart of Stone Tablet. It was as if his spiritual intuition was echoing Li Ping’s conclusion.
“I had never considered this point before. I wonder what the other Longevity Immortal ones think. We have had no contact for many years.”
After pondering for a long ti, Stone Tablet replied in this manner.
Li Ping gave a cold laugh: “Those few still plan to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.”
“But it does not matter. Staying neutral is fine as well. They were never within the scope of my plans anyway.”
Stone Tablet skipped over the topic: “So, Fellow Daoist, you say the key point is that Xuanhuang is the orthodoxy.”
“How can this be achieved? Moreover, if it is truly as you say, if we make any unusual moves, the Immortal Ancestor will surely detect and stop us.”
Li Ping remained silent for a long while without responding.
Instead, he suddenly said: “Let first help Fellow Daoist resolve the trouble brought by the Stone Tablet on your back.”
Stone Tablet knew very well that in the eyes of the Holy Emperor before him, he was not yet soone to whom all plans could be fully disclosed. Thus, he did not press the matter and simply cupped his hands: “In that case, I shall thank Fellow Daoist in advance. If it does not succeed, it is also fine.”
“Since I have taken action, there is no reason for failure.”
The Holy Emperor’s single sentence left the Stone Tablet speechless.
Snap!
The Book of Du'e was thrown by Li Ping onto the floor of the great hall.
The book pages flipped rapidly without any wind.
Gilded paper figures surged out from the book one after another, lining up neatly like soldiers in formation.
Leading them was naturally the thick-browed little golden figure from before.
No one knew what thod the Holy Emperor had used, but after being suppressed for less than half a day, the paper figures seed to have undergone an earth-shaking change compared to when they had just left the Du'e Sect.
The Stone Tablet’s gaze focused on the Du'e Sect paper figures.
Li Ping, however, sensed an unusual movent from Cat Treasure inside the Holy Dynasty’s treasury.
As if it had discovered sothing of great interest, it flashed to Li Ping’s side. Standing on Li Ping’s shoulder, it affectionately rubbed against his head, yet its eyes stared fixedly at the paper figures below.
An inexplicable atmosphere instantly enveloped the Holy Emperor’s hall.
The paper figures, which had been shaking their heads and making occasional small movents, suddenly froze like ice sculptures.
They did not dare move at all.
The leading little golden figure even began circulating the [Eternal Aeon of Tribulation] technique.
However, the golden light on its body flickered like a candle in the wind, appearing extrely precarious.
Even when they had just faced the Holy Emperor’s threat to refine the entire Du'e Sect, the whole sect had not been this terrified.
Yet at this mont, they acted as if they had encountered their true natural enemy.
Stone Tablet, who had been continuously watching the Du'e Sect paper figures, naturally noticed the abnormality in the hall. he looked toward the Faceless Holy Emperor seated high above with so uncertainty.
From the Stone Tablet’s expression, Li Ping judged that the other party had not discovered Cat Treasure on his shoulder.
With an almost imperceptible glance at the restless Cat Treasure, countless thoughts flashed through the Holy Emperor’s mind.
“It is not that it saw [food] and wanted to hunt, but pure curiosity.”
“The entire Du'e Sect, although also unable to see Cat Treasure, instinctively sensed a fatal calamity crisis due to their cultivation technique. To be frightened to this extent is interesting.”
“Cat Treasure… and what lies beyond the High Wall…”
Li Ping separated a strand of golden source power to calm the restless Cat Treasure.
After observing the paper figures below for a round, Cat Treasure seed to suddenly lose interest. It only licked so source power from Li Ping before flashing back to the Holy Dynasty’s treasury below to rest.
The eerie atmosphere in the hall gradually returned to normal.
No one brought up the strangeness that had just occurred in the hall. The Du'e Sect mbers simply transford from scattered rural soldiers into a battle-hardened army, moving according to the Holy Emperor’s will.
With Li Ping’s permission, the thick-browed little golden figure glanced at the stone slab and explained: “The Genesis Stone Tablet connects to the foundational laws of the Xuanhuang World. It is like the growth rings of a tree, automatically recording everything that happens in the Xuanhuang Realm at every mont.”
“With the scale of a world, it is nothing even if it contains all major and minor events over tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands or millions of years. However, when all of this must be borne by a human…”
“It naturally becos extrely painful.”
The little golden figure cupped his hands toward Li Ping: “In fact, if Venerable One wishes to resolve this matter, it is actually quite simple. One way is to increase this person’s carrying capacity. The second is to create a buffer.”
The leader of the Du'e Sect acted as if he did not recognize the Stone Tablet at all. He beckoned toward the Book of Du'e not far away.
As the pages flipped, countless scenes recorded by the [Clear World-Observing Divine Eye] flashed across them.
“Our Du'e Sect has also supervised the Xuanhuang Realm to a certain extent over the years, much like the Genesis Stone Tablet. The difference is that none of us directly contacted this vast amount of information. Instead, we first recorded and stored it, then divided the labor to review it. One person’s power is naturally insufficient to handle it, but the power of an entire sect makes it effortless.”
The little golden figure looked at the Stone Tablet again: “If you are alone and wish to alleviate or even get rid of the burden of the Stone Tablet, you will need to rely on external objects. In the past, being rejected by the Heavenly Dao made it sowhat difficult. But now, with Venerable’s assistance, it should not be a big problem.”
From the little golden figure’s tone and expression, the Stone Tablet beca even more certain that the other party was the forr acting sect master of the Du'e Sect, the Daoist Yi Jue. However, since the other party refused to acknowledge it, he could only pretend not to recognize him.
Li Ping waited until Yi Jue finished speaking before addressing Stone Tablet: “Fellow Daoist, please wait for a mont.”
With that, the Holy Emperor’s figure disappeared from the Holy Emperor’s hall.
Even the entire Great Qi small world could no longer sense his presence.
In the hall, only a group of Du'e Sect paper figures and the standing Stone Tablet remained.
The Stone Tablet looked at Yi Jue and opened his mouth to speak, but hesitated.
“Since we have already pledged ourselves to the Venerable One, everything from the past is like clouds and smoke, not to be ntioned again.” Yi Jue stared straight ahead and said so.
“Of course, if you beco like us and we serve as colleagues, it would not hurt to grow closer.”
This way of handling matters greatly resembled Yi Jue’s attitude from back then.
The Stone Tablet nodded slightly, indicating that he understood the aning behind the other party’s words.
“In the Immortal Ancestor’s sealing space, even when facing the golden fla refinent, our Du'e Sect actually did not feel much fear. Because we did not sense any true, unavoidable calamity.”
“But just now, inside this hall…”
“An unprecedented terrifying disaster. Be careful. That person is not simple…”
A faint voice from Yi Jue reached the Stone Tablet’s ears. The Stone Tablet’s heart tightened.
He wanted to chat a bit more with the other party, but the little golden man refused to respond any further.
anwhile, the Faceless Holy Emperor Li Ping returned to the hall shortly after.
“This Dao Deviation Stone should be of sufficient quality.”
He threw a blue crystal toward the stone slab.
“Venerable One is wise. A high-grade Dao Deviation Stone is more than adequate for use as a recording buffer.” Before Stone Tablet could reply, Du'e Sect’s Yi Jue spoke up first.
“Actually, a dium-grade one would already be enough. high-grade is sowhat wasteful.” The little golden man’s tone even carried a hint of flattery.
Seeing this, Stone Tablet shook his head slightly and directly reached out to grasp the Dao Deviation Stone in front of him.
After testing it, although the repulsion from the Heavenly Dao laws had weakened sowhat compared to before, it still did not allow foreign objects to enter.
Stone Tablet looked toward Li Ping.
“It is rely a high-grade Dao Deviation Stone. If Fellow Daoist does not mind, that is fine.” The Holy Emperor spoke very graciously.
“Follow .”
At Li Ping’s instruction, the Stone Tablet and all the paper figures of the Du'e Sect followed him to the sky above the Great Qi small world.
At the intersection point where the unknown formation power enveloping the entire small world converged, golden threads could occasionally be seen spiraling and circling, forming a hollow.
Above the hollow, the color of the sky was no longer azure but pitch black.
It seed to connect to so unknown existence.
Upon arriving here, an inexplicable sense of crisis rose once more in the Stone Tablet’s heart.
“What formation is this again?”
Stone Tablet had already grown sowhat numb, but out of instinct he still observed the traces of the formation here.
The paper figures of the Du'e Sect, however, all maintained calm expressions, as if they did not realize the danger of this place.
Li Ping stepped forward, arrived at the center of the hollow, and sat cross-legged in the void.
An inexplicable aura surged from the Holy Emperor. Soon after, a straight beam of golden light shot out from the top of his head and flew into the unknown blackness.
It was as if a certain passage had been opened. The black was stirred, and its color gradually shifted toward the normal sky around it.
Stone Tablet raised his head and sensed from the end of the hollow a very familiar aura belonging to the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao.
“Fellow Daoist, co here.” Li Ping spoke at this mont.
Stone Tablet’s figure floated over and sat in the air opposite the Holy Emperor.
The Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao aura poured down from the crown of his head like a waterfall. Stone Tablet felt a long-lost comfort.
The pain from being tornted by countless scenes was also eased at this mont.
At the sa ti, infused by this Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao aura, Stone Tablet keenly sensed subtle changes occurring within his body.
“This is…”
“The thousand-year change of Xuanhuang?”
After comprehending for a while, Stone Tablet fell into thought.
The Stone Tablet he carried only recorded events that had occurred in the Xuanhuang Realm itself over the years. Changes caused by fusion with fragnts of other immortal worlds outside the original Xuanhuang Realm were originally imperceptible to him.
But now, with the infusion of Heavenly Dao aura, he was able to personally experience the dramatic changes of the world.
Stone Tablet vaguely felt that not only was the repulsion of the Xuanhuang laws within his body toward external forces weakening, but even the stone tablet itself was undergoing inexplicable changes.
So blurry scenes from the implanted prefectures also began to appear on the Stone Tablet’s records.
However, because the fusion was not yet complete, the writing that appeared on the stone tablet was very blurry.
It seed as though it could be casually wiped away with a light rub.
“If the Xuanhuang Realm were given tens of millions of years to slowly devour other worlds on its own, it might still preserve the so-called Xuanhuang orthodoxy. The stone tablet on my back would also record everything that happened in the absorbed prefectures. But unfortunately, reality will not give it that much ti…”
While Stone Tablet was pondering, the voice of the Faceless Holy Emperor suddenly sounded in his ear.
“Dao Transformation Divine Unity.”
Stone Tablet imdiately ca back to his senses and pressed the high-grade Dao Deviation Stone against the center of his brows.
He attempted to integrate it into his body.
Sure enough, it was completely different from before.
The repulsive force of the Heavenly Dao within his body had weakened trendously. Moreover, with the continuous injection of Heavenly Dao aura from above, the repulsion was becoming increasingly faint.
“Touch with the divine, fuse with calculation.”
“rge object and self, Dao Transformation Divine Unity…”
Stone Tablet silently recited the secret technique of the Taiyan Sect in his heart. The blue crystal lted like ice into water and was gradually pushed into his sea of consciousness.
The entire process went very smoothly.
Just when only the final tip of the Dao Deviation Stone remained exposed, an anomaly in the hollow above caught Stone Tablet’s attention.
“What is that…”
Streams of withered yellow light flew out from the end of the pitch-black passage.
At first only dozens flew together, but gradually the yellow light in the passage increased more and more.
Thousands upon thousands, dense like a swarm of flying bees.
The yellow light also carried an aura that made Stone Tablet feel no real threat yet extrely uncomfortable.
The sky full of yellow light continuously flew toward the Holy Emperor.
Li Ping reached out and caught them one by one.
Only then did Stone Tablet realize that these lights were actually sheets of paper figures with eerie expressions.
Unlike the vivid and lifelike ones from the Du'e Sect, these were pure paper figures.
They emanated a decaying aura. Even without facing them directly, the paper figures seed to stare fixedly at the stone slab, causing irritation.
“World-Observing Divine Eye?” After a mont of daze, Stone Tablet suddenly understood.
“These things are harmful and useless to the world, so they naturally need to be recovered.” Li Ping said indifferently.
“Didn’t the Du'e Sect say that once implanted, they cannot be recovered? Back then we…”
Stone Tablet seed to recall sothing and looked toward Daoist Yi Jue in astonishnt.
Daoist Yi Jue acted as if he had not seen the Stone Tablet ’s gaze at all and only spoke respectfully to the Holy Emperor: “Although the World-Observing Divine Eyes are sowhat damaged, after re-refining them, they can still be reused.”
“The raw materials for these items ca from beyond the heavens. Our Du'e Sect does not have much left. Such precious and rare objects, we originally planned to recover after surviving the calamity. Now we are simply doing it ahead of schedule.”
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Looking at Yi Jue’s calm and composed expression, Stone Tablet forcefully suppressed the urge to teach him a lesson.
“Occasionally using them to scout enemy intelligence is not bad. But having them all over the world is unnecessary.”
Feeling the greatly increased affinity toward Xuanhuang after the removal of the World-Observing Divine Eyes, Li Ping said calmly.
“The Venerable One’s teaching is correct.” Du'e Sect’s Daoist Yi Jue responded with a smile.
Stone Tablet simply stopped looking at the two of them and focused on fusing with the Dao Deviation Stone.
When the Dao Deviation Stone completely disappeared from view, a brilliant crystal appeared in his sea of consciousness.
The countless suppressed scenes seed to freeze for a mont.
Then they surged madly into the Dao Deviation Stone. At the sa ti, Daoist Yi Jue’s voice continued to echo.
It was the Du'e Sect’s exclusive thod for storing and recording information about heaven and earth.
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