The Prodigies War-Chapter 2813 Five Years
This shocking and bizarre scene lasted for merely three breaths before fading. The Gate of Exile disappeared.
Peace was returned, but including Wenren Ruoxue, Pu Yun, and Gongye Hui, only seven divine juniors remained. Their hair was disheveled and their clothes were messy. All of them panted for breath with unconcealable shock on their faces as their inner spirits spiraled.
The other divine sons and maidens who had accompanied them here had all but vanished, devoured by the Gate of Exile with not a trace left. That horrifying scene drove them out of their minds, causing them to shiver all over.
The horizon was aIso in disarray. The crowd of spectators who had fled earlier kept a great distance. Each had a terrified look and a palpitating heart. What they had witnessed was simply a nightmare that left a deep, long-lasting impact.
No one had expected that right at the start of the battle, Lin Xun would unleash a taboo power that would wipe out over fifty divine sons and maidens! To think that they had felt bad for him. They had been sure that he was done for this time, with the only question being at whose hands.
However...he had turned everything around in just three breaths!
“Go!” Pu Yun swiftly teleported, wanting to flee. As if there was a telepathic connection, Wenren Ruoxue, Gongye Hui, and the few remaining divine juniors also chose to retreat in unison.
The power displayed by Lin Xun earlier had completely shattered their confidence and fighting spirit while hammering panic and chills into them. Since they had only managed to escape with great difficulty, how could they dare to linger?
Just then, Lin Xun shook his head and sighed softly, “You came here to seek death, so how could I possibly let you leave empty-handed?”
He cast Time Stopping, and then, the fleeing opponents one by one acted like bugs caught in a spider's web, their figures freezing mid teleportation for a split second. It was in this split second that countless qi swords blanketed them like a waterfall.
Poof poof poof!
In a series of muffled sounds, Pu Yun, Wenren Ruoxue, Gongye Hui, and the other three were chopped to bits and met their ends. Their blood dyed the void with an appalling scarlet layer!
In a blink, Lin Xun had exterminated a big group of enemies, crisply and efficiently. Once again, he became the sole presence underneath the Fortune Starry Firmament. His elegant figure resembled that of a heavenly god peering down on the world.
Were his enemies too weak? No. One could only say that the mysteries of time were too criminally strong!
The most fatal thing lay in the fact that in Fortune Divine City, one could only utilize the cultivation of the Emperor Stage at most. If unrestricted, Lin Xun would have to go through a lot of effort to kill these Immortal divine-level characters.
Then again, though, with his Eternal Supremacy depths and power in the outside world, why would he fear these opponents?
“Too terrifying...” The people who had been watching from a great distance were in a daze.
“That's the power of spacetime, unstoppable in the Emperor Stage!” exclaimed somebody in shock.
"With that kind of forbidden technique under his belt, who can be his opponent in Fortune Divine City? No wonder he was so fearless..." Many were emotional as they understood why Lin Xun had been so undaunted.
It wasn't arrogance, but instead absolute confidence!
“The rumors are true, the Eternity Coffin really hides a divine ability related to time. Just, who would have dreamed that this power would be so scary?” The gazes on Lin Xun had apprehension and awe written all over them.
Rumor had it that there were three taboo powers within the Eternity Coffin, namely karma, fate, and time, and whoever obtained them would become the ruler of fortune and command the respect of all clans.
Without a doubt, Lin Xun really possessed the Eternity Coffin and had comprehended the amazing power of time from it. Only that could explain why he was able to deploy the terrifying art just now!
“Let's hope that there are still people who dares to come here to seek death...”
Lin Xun's sigh drifted beneath the Fortune Starry Firmament.
As soon as these words came out, the hearts of the distant crowd tumbled. Who couldn't hear the implication in them? Lin Xun clearly had ascertained that after the news of today's battle spread, no one would have the nerve to come to provoke him again! Still, he was yet to be satisfied, judging from his tone....
Once again, Lin Xun sat down cross-legged and entered meditation. Seeing that, the onlookers came to their senses and hurriedly dispersed. On the same day, the news spread and sent a shock through the whole city.
“Fortunately, we were slow enough and heard about it before we could get there, or else...we probably wouldn't have been able to return.”
The rest of the divine juniors in the city, upon learning of the massacre befalling their peers, all gasped and then were thankful for their good luck.
Meanwhile, outside the city...
“Reporting to Ancestor, the young master...the young master has fallen!” The first one to rush out and report the news was an expert of the Wenren Clan, sobbing as he knelt before the clan's relic with fear and anxiety.
From the depths of the starry void, an enraged voice reverberated, “How?!”
These days, everywhere around this starry void lurked an unknown number of Eternal lords. Many of them gloated at the Wenren Clan's misfortune, but it didn't take long for their furious shouts to bombard the space as well.
These Eternal experts were utterly discomfited, unable to calm down when they learned how many divine sons and maidens had fallen, and that their juniors were among this number. At this point, no one had the heart to gloat or laugh at anyone. All sounds had been replaced by angry voices.
“That damned sinner!”
“I must grind his bones to dust!”
“The power of time? It was one of the most powerful talents of the Eternal Night Divine Emperor back in the day. If she hadn't fallen under a great calamity, the entire Fortune Dominion would have been subjugated, falling under her feet.”
“No matter what, Lin Xun cannot leave this place alive!!!”
The stars quivered in the shrieks and roars from the old monsters of the big divine clans. Countless cultivators in Fortune Divine City who heard the din were frightened.
There was turmoil inside and outside the city, but none of it affected Lin Xun, who was researching the hundreds of cultivation systems while waiting for the ‘turnaround.’ The only difference was that for a long time from today onward, not a single person came to beef with him.
One year, two years, three years... Time moved like a shuttle, and five years had passed.
No one had expected Lin Xun to have such patience. He seemed to have become obsessed with the Fortune Starry Firmament, sitting underneath day and night to explore it. He would occasionally get up and take a stroll around the city, but would then soon go back and continue meditating.
Gradually, the cultivators in Fortune Divine City had adapted to his presence. In the past five years, it had been serene and undisturbed with no more turbulent and bloody events.
It was said that five years ago, the divine juniors of the Three Great Divine Clans in the World of the Divine had arrived at Fortune Divine City. However, after hearing about Lin Xun's deeds, they had all chosen to lie dormant and hadn't made a single move since, appearing exceptionally patient.
In the deep darkness surrounding Fortune Divine City, the old relics from the big divine clans hadn't given up either. They had remained waiting here for the last five years.
To mortals, five years was not short, but to cultivators, it was nothing at all. This was especially true for cultivators above the Emperor Stage whose closed-door sessions were measured in hundreds of years.
However, the idea that those old relics willingly spent five years of their time waiting for the same goal still surprised people a great deal. This undoubtedly showed that they were determined to get Lin Xun!
A person could lie low for a while, but how could he hide for the rest of his life? Everyone had something to do, whether it was for the sake of cultivation, things concerning their friends and family, revenge, or something else. It was destined to be impossible for Lin Xun to hide in Fortune Divine City for the remainder of his life and not come out!
During these five years of no killing and turbulence, Fortune Divine City had reclaimed its usual bustle and prosperity.
However, whenever people passed by the Fortune Starry Firmament and saw Lin Xun sitting cross-legged below it, they knew very well this city was bound to experience more turmoil in the years to come so long as he was here!
“It's been five years...”
On this day, Lin Xun quietly opened his eyes, and there was a flash of realization in them. It had been over five years since he had left the Eternal True Realm. Before coming here, he had set up two goals.
One was to rescue his parents from the Flowing Light Forbidden Realm. The other was to investigate Xia Zhi's identity. The first goal had long been accomplished, but the second was still shrouded in confusion.
He only knew that Xia Zhi's true form had once been called the Eternal Night Divine Emperor, had faced a great calamity, and her misfortune had been exploited by a group of old relics from the World of the Divine. Other than that, her origin and background was still a mystery.
Besides his goals, Lin Xun was currently facing two more problems: One was how to leave Fortune Divine City, and the other was to decipher the final mystery hidden in this Fortune Starry Firmament.
Regarding the former, he could only wait for the turnaround that Taixuan had said would come. Luckily, he was not in a hurry to leave, and was just as patient as those old relics in the depths of the universe outside the city.
As for the second problem... During the past five years, apart from using a dao body for protection and keeping an eye out, Lin Xun's true form and the other four dao bodies had been perceiving and studying.
By now, he had grasped all of the hundred or so cultivation systems in this place, but none of them were complete because he was only at the peak of the Heavenly Longevity Realm. The principles of the realms beyond were out of his current reach.
Even so, the benefits gained so far had been tremendous and could even be described as immeasurable! Lin Xun was sure that if his cultivation hadn't been limited in Fortune Divine City, he would have been able to certify the Nirvana Spirit Realm and conduct a brand new breakthrough.
The only thing that put a frown on his face was that up until now, he hadn't been able to figure out the ultimate mystery hidden in the Fortune Starry Firmament.
In fact, he had no idea where to even begin to find a clue. In these five years, he had performed various calculations, attempting to deduce anything at all from the positions of the scattered stars above, but every effort had ended in failure.
“No wonder that countless years have passed, but no one has been able to penetrate the mystery in them. This is indeed too difficult...” Lin Xun couldn't hold back a long sigh.
He simply retracted his spirit sense and lay down on the black ground. Resting his head on his arms, he looked straight at the sky and, with no other action and zero thought in his mind, began appreciating this mysterious dome in the purest way.
The numerous stars that dotted it all stood still, just like in a quiet and profound painting. Without using one's spirit sense, it was impossible to detect the breath of the almighty dao lingering around them, impossible to peek into the mysteries of those different cultivation systems embedded therein.
However, gradually, as Lin Xun gazed at the stars, a talisman pattern inexplicably surfaced in mind. It was the Infinite Divine Talisman combined from the Nine Great Divine Talismans. Like a cosmos that was constantly changing, the trajectory of the pattern kept shifting, presenting an infinite and magical enigma...
The Infinite Divine Talisman came from the Infinite Divine Scroll, which was the highest legacy of Mister Lu's sect. Right now, the profound mystery of this legacy was crossing his mind like a flash of enlightenment, and it rattled him like a bolt of lightning.
Could it be...?!
