Reborn as a Hatrack in the Mystical Land-Chapter 774 - 24: Limit of the Earth, Heaven’s Beginning

The ring glowed and emitted a scorching sensation, as if it were an iron branding tool heated to redness.

"The ring is moving," Long Rui was startled; she frantically tried to remove the ring. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t take off the competition ring stuck on her finger.

Yue Minzhi was calmer than Long Rui. While soothing her not to panic, he explained, "Don’t worry for now; every distributed ring has been marked with a spiritual imprint. It must be indicating the location of the competition."

Yue Minzhi’s conjecture was very accurate.

The ring shone brightly, and a majestic mountain city appeared before Yue Minzhi and Long Rui. The city seemed to float in a cloud-like empty realm, surrounded by vast clouds and mist, like waves, with celestial cranes flying above the city in the sky.

Looking again at the city walls, they seemed bottomless, each brick crafted out of Sun Stone, basking in nature’s spiritual energy, resplendent with gold and glimmering like the legendary Sun Palace.

Outside the city gate stood a square stele with five big characters inscribed upon it: "Four Symbols Chess Middle City."

As the city’s illusion appeared, an imposing voice, like spring thunder, descended from the sky. The rumbling voice echoed incessantly beside Yue Minzhi’s and Long Rui’s ears.

"The Xuyang Trial will be held in Four Symbols Chess Middle City. Participants must arrive at Four Symbols Chess Middle City and enter the main city within a month. Those who are overdue will have their qualifications for the competition revoked. Additionally, this Xuyang Trial imposes no restrictions on the use of Spiritual Treasures, Dark Beasts, or Forbidden Techniques. The location of Four Symbols Chess Middle City is only known by the eight-character mottos, ’Limit of the Earth, Heaven’s Beginning.’"

After those succinct sentences, the ring’s glow faded, and the Sun City also vanished. The appearance and disappearance all happened swiftly.

It is like the rainbow after a heavy rain, leaving people in a trance, then vanishing without a trace.

When Yue Minzhi and Long Rui looked again at the competition ring on their fingers, they discovered the words "Four Symbols" were branded onto the ring.

"It’s actually Four Symbols Chess Middle City, the same one where my grandfather is?" Beyond her surprise, Long Rui’s face lit up with excitement.

Although Long Ao was one of the Ten Strongest on the continent, after he went to Four Symbols Chess Middle City, there had been no news, and Long Rui was very concerned about his safety. Now knowing that the venue for the Xuyang Trial was Four Symbols Chess Middle City, she was naturally overjoyed.

"Ruru, have you ever heard from your grandfather about where exactly Four Symbols City is? Is it located to the south or north of the continent? Or is it situated on a high mountain or at sea?" Merely from the residual image of the ring, Yue Minzhi was unable to ascertain the location of Four Symbols City.

As for the Eight-character Mottos, ’Limit of the Earth, Heaven’s Beginning,’ they were even more perplexing.

"Well... Grandfather has never mentioned that," Long Rui thought and added, "I must go to this Xuyang Trial; there’s no need to persuade me otherwise. You also heard just now that the trial allows for external assistance, I will bring enough Spiritual Treasures and the Lake King Dragon."

Seeing her stubbornness, Yue Minzhi knew it was pointless to say more. He shook his head helplessly, "Now that the competition location has been announced, the other powers must have received the message as well. The priority now is to gather our forces. We need to find the whereabouts of Four Symbols Chess Middle City within a month."

Not long after Yue Minzhi and Long Rui saw the phantom within the ring, in a certain part of Geyue Town, Yue Jinghua, and the members of the July Mercenary Team also saw the same illusion together.

After overcoming the obstruction by Yang An, Yue Jinghua and her mercenary companions smoothly achieved victory in the competition and subsequently obtained the "Geyue Eagle" ring from Geyue Town.

However, just as they were preparing to board the "Titan" and return to the Shang Kingdom, everyone on the ship, except Aunt Chi Xi who did not have a ring, witnessed the scene of Four Symbols Chess Middle City.

The reactions of the crowd were not much stronger than Long Rui’s; upon learning that the competition venue was the legendary Four Symbols Chess Middle City, they excitedly discussed the last phrase in the ring’s residual image, revealing the location of Four Symbols City: "Limit of the Earth, Heaven’s Beginning."

"What an impressive Mirror Soul Technique, those images just now were not illusions but were created by the ring’s creator using the Mirror Soul Technique on the ring, allowing each contestant to feel the mirroring, and experiencing a sense of true immersion," Yue Jinghua was pondering the ring on her hand, and Chen Jiangyin approached and muttered.

"Another Mirror Soul Technique, how did you recognize it? No, how do you know about the scenes in the residual image? Wasn’t it said that only the contestants could see them? Even Aunt Chi Xi saw nothing," Yue Jinghua wondered.

She had asked Chi Xi earlier, and Chi Xi saw nothing; it seemed that only those wearing the ring could see that particular scene.

"Hehe, because I also happen to possess a ring, and this ring has been on me even before the Xuyang Trial," Chen Jiangyin said, pulling out a chain from around his neck, and at the bottom of the chain hung a ring.

Since Chen Jiangyin had no Dark Energy, of course, he could not participate in the Xuyang Trial, yet he had a ring from Four Symbols City; there was a story behind it. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

By a stroke of fate, Chen Jiangyin had made the acquaintance of the City Lord of Four Symbols City, and the City Lord gave him a ring.

Just when the ring showed the illusion, Chen Jiangyin also received an additional message - an invitation from the City Lord for him to visit Four Symbols City.

"So, you wouldn’t mind taking this Pill Master with you on a detour to Four Symbols City, would you?" Chen Jiangyin’s face was full of expectation.

Upon hearing this, Yue Jinghua’s eyes lit up: "Since you were invited, then you must know where Four Symbols City is located, right?"

With only one month’s time, she no longer had the opportunity to return to Wo Hua Imperial City.

Now, all she could do was to hastily write a letter to inform her brother, and then lead the people of the July Mercenary Team to find the whereabouts of Four Symbols City.

"Well, to be frank, I also don’t know where it is," said Chen Jiangyin with a shrug, "but it’s not hard to guess — there aren’t many places on the continent that can be called the Limit of the Earth, Heaven’s Beginning."

"Could it be on a high mountain? Isn’t the continent’s highest mountain the Limit of the Earth, Heaven’s Beginning?" After some discussion among the July Mercenary Team, they all thought that Four Symbols Chess Middle City was likely hidden among the high peaks of the continent.

"It’s just that there are neither too many nor too few high peaks on the continent, how can we traverse these peaks within just a short month?" Feng Buhui shook his head.

As everyone was discussing animatedly, Qian Luo, who had remained silent, suddenly said, "I think that there’s no such thing as the Limit of the Earth, Heaven’s Beginning in the world; that phrase is just a decoy."