Chapter 1693: Chapter 908: Gravitational Tides Rise, Meteorite Swarm Suddenly Appears

Time flies, unaware that black hair turns to snow; the rain clears and clouds disperse, and suddenly the world has changed.

Decades have passed, and business at the Heavenly Will Square remains quite desolate. People hurriedly pass by, yet no one notices this treasure shop hidden in the bustling market.

On this day, Gu Hong, the Palace Master of the Four Seas Palace, once again came to the Heavenly Will Square.

"Zhen’er sister, are you not lonely guarding this Heavenly Will Square for so long?" Gu Hong looked at the charming Zhao Zhongzhen and kindly advised once more.

Zhao Zhongzhen was not the least bit enticed by her, and couldn’t help but smile lightly, "Sister Hong, you jest. I made a mistake before, so it’s already a great blessing to guard this shop now, I dare not ask for more."

Gu Hong’s gaze flickered, and she suddenly lowered her voice, "Why not persuade Manager Mu? I know Manager Mu is highly regarded by your employer. If he is moved, he might change your employer’s mind."

Zhao Zhongzhen’s eyes shifted, carefully observing this Divinity Transformation female cultivator before her, daring not to continue the conversation.

Seeing this, Gu Hong couldn’t help but feel a sense of defeat.

Over the past twenty-plus years, she had tried several times, but all attempts ended in failure.

With the apocalypse imminent, the Human Clan urgently needs peak-level combat power to face the impending catastrophe.

There are actually three "experts" in the Heavenly Will Square whose depth even she cannot fathom, making Gu Hong both shocked and intrigued.

Seeing Zhao refusing to take the bait, Gu Hong quickly tried another tactic, probing, "I wish to meet with the workshop owner, please inform him for me, Zhen’er sister."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Zhongzhen first glanced at Mu Zha behind the counter furtively, then shook her head gently and said softly, "I dare not disturb the ancestor. Sister Gu, rather than asking me, you might as well ask Manager Mu directly."

As she spoke, Zhao Zhongzhen secretly sneered inwardly; how could she not know the other’s intentions?

At this moment, several gazes from various places intentionally or unintentionally fell upon the two of them.

Although Gu Hong lowered her voice, how could it escape the ears and eyes of others?

What’s more, she did it deliberately; otherwise, she should have used Divine Thought transmission.

Zhao Hualin stood at a distance, looking over emotionlessly.

Zhao Changyong and Zhao Yue Ru both pretended to be occupied, appearing to arrange treasures on the shelves, their ears perked up high.

Behind the counter, Mu Zha sat cross-legged on a chair, his head almost drooping to his chest, seemingly fast asleep.

Gu Hong observed everyone’s behavior, her smile gradually dissipating.

After hesitating for a while, she suddenly walked toward the counter.

Arriving at the counter in a few steps, she tentatively called out, "Manager Mu, wake up, I have something to ask."

Mu Zha woke up "startled" and looked at the annoying woman in front of him. He shouted impatiently, "Annoying spirit, what do you want now?"

Gu Hong felt extremely aggrieved. In her nearly two thousand years of life, no one had ever dared to call her "troublesome spirit" to her face.

For the sake of the bigger picture, Gu Hong suppressed her inner dissatisfaction and said very sincerely, "Manager Mu, I would like to meet the workshop owner, I hope you can pass on my request."

"The old man is not here, come again next time!" Mu Zha waved his hand, decisively rejecting her request.

Gu Hong wanted to plead a few more words, but when she met Mu Zha’s indifferent gaze, she suddenly couldn’t speak.

It wasn’t until she walked out of Heavenly Will Square that Gu Hong suddenly became clear-headed, only to be terrified to find herself outside.

She abruptly turned around and saw the doors of Heavenly Will Square tightly shut, clearly having shut her out.

Gu Hong was unwilling, but she no longer had the courage to knock on the door.

After pacing back and forth in front of the door for a long time, the only other Divinity Transformation female practitioner in this realm finally left in disappointment, transforming into light.

...

Half a day later, a streamlined, completely black, super floating fortress ten thousand feet long in length was hovering at an altitude of eighty thousand miles above Fuping Continent.

Gu Hong hurried through the passage and arrived at a huge and empty hall.

At this moment there were already seven or eight Divinity Transformation True Monarchs waiting in the hall.

As soon as everyone saw Gu Hong return alone, they immediately got up to greet her.

After Gu Hong took her seat, an old man with a bald head, bare feet, and a weather-beaten face, dressed in a raincoat, asked with concern, "Senior Gu, did it succeed?"

The old man in the raincoat looked like an old fisherman who had fished for most of his life, but his real identity was the Lord of Ten Thousand Islands, who governed more than nine thousand spirit islands in the South Sea.

In the Cultivation World, he was respectfully called the "South Sea Old Immortal," with strength around the Divinity Transformation Third Level, standing alone in the world with his Dragon Fishing Divine Power.

Gu Hong shook her head and said in a deep voice, "The owner of the Heavenly Will Square avoided meeting me. I tested three times in a row, but all returned with no success, disappointing all fellow Daoists."

Upon hearing this, a burly man carrying bronze double maces suddenly snorted coldly, "Humph, I’ve walked back and forth on Sea Treasure Road countless times, but I’ve never seen the so-called Heavenly Will Square. Palace Master Gu, does this Heavenly Will Square really exist? Or is it something you’ve fabricated?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Hong’s eyebrows shot up, her voice cold as she said, "Yao Chong, are you questioning me?"

The burly man had advanced to Divinity Transformation for less than a hundred years, with cultivation the shallowest among the practitioners and dared not offend the Four Seas Palace Palace Master Gu Hong, who was mid-stage Divinity Transformation.

Yao Chong immediately clasped his hands and repeatedly apologized.

Gu Hong’s expression slightly eased, and the heaviness in her heart lifted a bit.

At this moment, Lu Haichao, the Supreme Sect Leader of the World Crossing Sect, opened his mouth with an expression of surprise, "Decades ago, I once encountered a strange event, that day..."

In front of the other Divinity Transformation True Monarchs, Lu Haichao recounted the bizarre experience in detail.

"Back then, when I woke up again, I was shocked to find the tea still warm, but there was no one in sight. Who could have visited earlier? My mind was a complete blank, and I couldn’t recall anything."

Gu Hong listened intently and immediately blurted out, "It must be the Heavenly Intent Workshop Master without a doubt."

Lu Haichao nodded, smiling bitterly, "I guessed the same. The Heavenly Intent Workshop is located within Gaoya City. I happened to be living in seclusion in the city back then. Other than this elusive Heavenly Intent Workshop Master, there couldn’t be any other highly skilled person."

Among the Divinity Transformation True Monarchs present, Nongri Divine Monarch, the eldest, spoke thoughtfully, "So it seems this person could very possibly not be from this realm. Could they be from the Upper Realm?"

Gu Hong slightly nodded, saying loudly, "Senior Nongri makes a valid point. I have seen many treasures in the Heavenly Intent Workshop that don’t belong to this realm. This suggests that this person should be from the Otherworld outside."

Just as the words fell, a Divinity Transformation True Monarch of handsome appearance and gentle demeanor suddenly struck their palm, as if realizing something, "Exactly, the Mount-bearing Dragon Turtle’s return is imminent, and the Sea God will awaken from slumber. Seeing the apocalyptic catastrophe rise again after millennia, it makes perfect sense for an outsider to suddenly descend upon the Red Sea Realm."

The doomsday catastrophe is not only a cataclysm affecting all life but also a great opportunity that occurs once every ten thousand years.

Almost every time a catastrophe arrives, alien cultivators occasionally descend upon this realm.

They not only engage in exchanges with the returning Star Sky Human Clan but also take the opportunity to ride the Divine Ship, the Mount-bearing Dragon Turtle, which can "traverse star domains."

Upon hearing this, Nongri Divine Monarch questioned with confusion, "According to Nidao You’s statements, the Heavenly Intent Workshop Master shouldn’t be avoiding us. After all, we are Divinity Transformation Realm Practitioners. The benefits of cooperation surely this person understands?

Unless the cultivation of this Heavenly Intent Workshop Master is far beyond what we imagine, possibly being a Demi Immortal in the Returning to Void Realm."

Lu Haichao, Gu Hong, the South Sea Old Immortal, and others voiced their agreement in unison.

They all unanimously regarded the Heavenly Intent Workshop Master as a Demi Immortal from the Upper Realm, naturally feeling a sense of awe.

However, they still vastly underestimated the true power of the Heavenly Intent Workshop.

There was no need for Zhao Sheng and Mu Zha to take action; just Zhao Hualin alone could easily kill all the Divinity Transformation True Monarchs present.

While Gu Hong and the others were discussing how to entice the Heavenly Intent Workshop Master, they had no idea that the master had already left the Red Sea Realm.

...

Rumble, rumble...

The surface of the Sun is an immense, boundlessly vast flowing Fire Sea that surpasses the imagination of mortals.

It continuously burns and erupts, with countless fiery tongues rocketing skyward from the Sun’s surface, stretching millions of miles, spewing out dazzling light and flame equivalent to tens of trillions of stars.

Flare-like vortices scattered across the Great Sun’s surface flicker with bright and dark flashes, as if the Great Sun were breathing.

This is a place where destruction and rebirth intersect, older than the galaxy itself, even heavier than time, representing the ultimate evolution of the Fire Dao in reality.

At this time, within the solar prominence layer tens of thousands of miles from the Great Sun’s surface, there floated a massive bronze mirror, with a diameter of ten thousand miles, incredibly smooth surfaces.

The back of the bronze mirror resembled undulating mountain ranges, and surprisingly, a majestic, towering Ancient Bronze Tree grew surrounded by these mountains.

The Ancient Tree emitted a dazzling Divine Light, with terrifying Law Fluctuations rippling through the surrounding void.

At this moment, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged atop the tree crown, remaining still for a long time.

Though he seemed motionless like a statue, his consciousness was already merged with the Kong Sang Treasure Mirror, using the mirror’s power to amplify his Divine Thought tenfold, enveloping the billion-mile Fire Sea below.

Suddenly, the mirror surface brightened sharply, followed by streaks of Flowing Light shooting up from the Fire Sea below.

Within the Flowing Light were numerous "Mu Zha" entities.

The Flowing Light soared skyward, quickly traversing tens of thousands of miles of void, swiftly entering the mirror surface, vanishing from sight.

A moment later, Mu Zha emerged holding a large number of treasures from the highest bronze branches.

"Master, look! I’ve found a whole bunch more treasures. Look... this huge piece is pure Sun Gold Essence... and this cluster of Golden Crow Divine Fire has already begun transforming into Eternal Divine Flame, so rare... Also, see this Star Core, which contains nine different Destruction Law Fluctuations..."

Mu Zha flew gleefully to Zhao Sheng, flaunting the treasures collected while gesturing exaggeratedly.

Zhao Sheng opened his eyes, his gaze sweeping across the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures born from the depths of the Great Sun, causing subtle ripples to emerge in his previously still Heart Lake.

His eyes suddenly paused on a piece of mysterious black carapace. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

The carapace was seven or eight zhang in size, with an average thickness exceeding three feet, its edges uneven, clearly a fragment fallen from some carapace.

Amazingly, this carapace possessed some high-capacity force field, needing no external force to support it, floating quietly in the air on its own.

The fact that the carapace had no life, and no one knew how many years its predecessor had been dead, made this stability all the more remarkable.

To this day, this carapace still maintained an extremely stable high-capacity force field, indicating its owner had been an exceedingly formidable entity in life.

Zhao Sheng’s heart stirred, drawing the carapace before him and effortlessly breaching its high-capacity force field, his Divine Thought infiltrating the carapace like mercury.

Upon meticulous scanning, he was shocked to discover the interior teeming with countless intricate patterns, strikingly similar to Tao True Texts.

Perhaps these complex intertwined patterns were simply a variation of certain Tao True Texts!

Zhao Sheng closed his eyes, his thoughts surging like tides, countless Tao True Texts surfacing one after another in his mind.

Several breaths later, he suddenly opened his eyes, a trace of astonishment in his gaze.

Upon comparison, he found seven Tao True Texts over ninety-nine percent similar to the interior patterns.

Among the seven Tao True Texts, three belonged to the Earth Dao, two leaned towards the Fire Dao, one belonged to the Water Element, and the last was an exceedingly rare True Text of Power.

Gazing at the black carapace floating in mid-air, Zhao Sheng had a flash of inspiration, suddenly thinking of who its owner might have been.