Chapter 1838: Chapter 99: Beyond the Heavens, Beyond the Self (Part 4)
Jiang Wang said calmly, “Even the Chaos that gave us the Withered Tower doesn’t seem able to remain clear-headed for long. So, it’s quite uncertain how long the usefulness of this Withered Tower can last…”
“The inscription on the Sea God Wall reminded of sothing,” Zuo Guangshu said at this mont.
“What is it?” Jiang Wang asked casually.
“Brother Jiang, familiar as you are with history books, you should know it,” Zuo Guangshu said. “The Jing Dynasty, at its peak, was the sa… The whole world was conquered, except for the South which did not submit.”
He emphasized, “Only Chu did not submit.”
Jiang Wang glanced at him, “Are you saying… the Withered South Abyss is to Zhu Jiuyin as Chu was to Jing in the past?”
“There’s a considerable similarity, isn’t there?”
“I suppose most Chu people would make this association,” Jiang Wang said. “I just don’t know if that writing was left by Huang Weizhen or Chaos itself.”
“Huang Weizhen?” Zuo Guangshu asked in confusion. “Wasn’t it Chaos that showed us? How could it be Huang Weizhen? Did you recognize it from the handwriting?”
Jiang Wang thought, the Mountain and Sea Realm walls are where the will of Huang Weizhen is most evident; the transmission of the Bi Fang Seal and Disaster Fighting Seal from the Mountain God Wall is proof enough.
It wouldn’t be so easy for Chaos to leave writing on it.
But he only said, “I don’t have the ability to distinguish. It’s just that since the Mountain and Sea Realm is closely tied to Huang Weizhen, him leaving such a line, expressing feelings for Chuguo, is reasonable. Chaos showed us that line to indicate its aspirations, without saying it was he himself who engraved those words.”
“That makes sense…” Zuo Guangshu said. “Brother Jiang, should we help Chaos?”
“It’s hard for the Chu people not to be moved by such a spirit,” Jiang Wang smiled and said, “Let’s first et Jia Xuan and find the Nine Phoenix Chapters before deciding.”
Chaos only told them to keep walking in the direction the Sea God Wall was facing, without ntioning how long to walk.
To it, ti probably isn’t an important thing. Or perhaps its conflicting thoughts have lost the concept of ti entirely.
In the Withered South Abyss, where day and night are indistinguishable, the three travelers could only keep ti in their minds.
They spoke less and less, growing ever more silent. Even with the help of the Withered Tower, they had to focus increasingly more effort on combating the environnt of the Withered South Abyss.
Not only due to the extrely chaotic Chongxuan environnt, nor solely because of the oppressive emotional desolation.
But also the ghostly winds that occasionally blew past, cutting like blades.
Most of the ti, the sea was silent, but at tis it would suddenly “collapse,” creating sinkholes like quicksand in the desert.
Zuo Guangshu could only sense a terrifying presence on the other side of the “sinkhole,” but couldn’t examine it closely.
After that, they stopped treading water, walking directly on air, which undoubtedly consud more Pri Stones in their battle against the extre Chongxuan environnt—
For Zuo Guangshu, this was the least of his concerns.
But he also dared not fly too high, as the sky was very dark, and the low-hanging clouds clearly concealed things filled with malice.
And so they kept moving forward.
Until a certain mont—Zuo Guangshu rembered it to be a full thirty-five hours later.
They indeed saw a Phoenix.
At that ti, the sky was without light, the sea without clarity.
They were all feeling weary, yet none complained, simply moving forward in silence.
Then, as they looked up, their vision was already occupied.
It was a black Phoenix, a hundred zhang long.
It had the front of a Qilin, the back of a deer, the head of a snake, the tail of a fish, the patterns of a dragon, the back of a turtle, the cheeks of a swallow, and the beak of a chicken.
Its body bore five patterns, revealing themselves like characters.
The forehead bore the character ‘Virtue,’ the wings ‘Obedience,’ the back ‘Righteousness,’ the abdon ‘Faith,’ and the chest ‘Benevolence.’
Noble, mysterious, magnificent…
Yet it had been dead for a long ti.
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Ps: Regarding Zhu Jiuyin, the original text in the Classic of Mountains and Seas records two places. The North ridian of Overseas ntions Zhong Mountain, Zhu Yin; the North ridian of the Great Wilderness ntions Zhangwei Mountain, Zhu Jiuyin, and the Candle Dragon. Descriptions of its appearance and abilities elsewhere are consistent, likely erroneous. Summarized here.
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