Chapter 156 : Chapter 156

Chapter 156: Searching for the Heavenly Dao’s Whereabouts!

[The third year!]

[You return to the Sword Pavilion in Youzhou. After returning to the Sword Pavilion, you decisively go into seclusion.]

[After absorbing the Taixu Ancient Dragon Blood Essence, you faintly feel that a breakthrough is imminent.]

[That feeling only grows stronger after you return to the Sword Pavilion.]

[Two months later!]

[You successfully break through to the Middle Stage of the Mahayana Realm.]

[At the same time, you also receive a message from your External Incarnation.]

[You learn that your External Incarnation is also about to go into seclusion, preparing to break through to the Mahayana Realm.]

[This news catches you somewhat by surprise. Your External Incarnation has been stuck at the Great Perfection of the Integration Realm for a long time, and you know that this is related in part to the cultivation technique it practices.]

[Your External Incarnation has not refined Blood Qi for a long time, so its cultivation speed naturally slows considerably.]

[After coming out of seclusion, you inform Lin Tian to gather everyone together. You have something important to announce.]

[Seven days later!]

[The people of the Sword Pavilion return one after another from the Blood Demon Secret Realm. Even Xuanyuan Tianji comes along with them.]

[After everyone gathers, you bring them all into the main hall of the Sword Pavilion.]

[Senior Sister Zi You is the first to speak.]

["Junior Brother, what important matter are you announcing?"]

[At her words, you tell everyone about the Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth that will descend in about twenty years, and you also tell them that this calamity will target only mighty experts at the Tribulation Stage.]

[As for the plan mentioned in your previous simulations, you do not explain it this time, because you know that plan cannot possibly succeed.]

[After hearing about the Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth, everyone wears a different expression.]

[Gu Xinyue and Lin Tian are filled with shock, while Fang Jingchun calmly begins to analyze the situation.]

["In other words, after the Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth, there will no longer be any mighty experts at the Tribulation Stage in the Canglan Realm. That will be a chance for humanity to strike back!"]

[After hearing that, Zi You also agrees very much with Fang Jingchun’s view.]

[In the end, the decision everyone reaches is to launch a counterattack against the Bizarre Insect Clan after the Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth.]

[Zi You turns her gaze toward you and asks for your thoughts.]

[You do not refuse. Instead, you simply nod calmly.]

[You do not tell them that there are some undying old monsters hidden within the various Holy Lands, because that would only crush everyone’s confidence.]

[Besides, you also feel that it is not as though there is no chance at all.]

[Now, your cultivation has already reached the Middle Stage of the Mahayana Realm. Once your cultivation rises higher, there may yet be a chance.]

[In your view, although those undying old monsters are mighty experts at the Tribulation Stage, once one has grasped a certain amount of the Power of Laws, it is not necessarily impossible to deal with them.]

["The Power of Laws..."]

["Bai He..."]

[You suddenly think of Bai He in Xuanzhou. Her physique is very special. Even while in the Mahayana Realm, she can grasp a certain amount of the Power of Laws.]

[If she joins you, your chances of victory will become even greater.]

[However, after going to the Canglan Realm of the Upper Realm, your thoughts regarding the Canglan Realm in the Dead Land undergo a subtle change this time.]

[Because you have learned of something even more important, and that is the matter of the Heavenly Dao.]

[From your experiences in the Canglan Realm of the Upper Realm, you infer that the Heavenly Dao in the Dead Land is currently in an extremely delicate state.]

[If the Heavenly Dao defeats the Progenitor of the Bizarre Insects, then the Canglan Realm in the Dead Land will leap into becoming a true Immortal World, with more complete Laws, and in the Dead Land one will be able to break through to the Immortal Realm.]

[But if the Progenitor of the Bizarre Insects is victorious, then the Canglan Realm in the Dead Land will never have a chance to rise again. This Dead Land will become completely the territory of the bizarre insects.]

[So, in your view, your previous plan merely treated the symptoms rather than the root cause, not to mention that it could not succeed in the first place.]

[After the matter of the Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth is finished, everyone departs one after another and returns to the Blood Demon Secret Realm to continue cultivating.]

[At this moment, Zi You suddenly comes to find you and asks about your plans going forward.]

[After a moment of silence, you tell Zi You that you plan to head to the Central Continent to meet up with Zhuge Qing, and that together you intend to deduce the Heavenly Dao’s location.]

[After hearing this, Zi You is slightly stunned.]

[Zi You never expected that you would go searching for traces of the Heavenly Dao. She thought you would go to the Central Continent to cultivate and strengthen your power.]

["Over all these years, it is not as though no humans have gone to search for the Heavenly Dao, but in the end, none of them found any trace of It."]

[You look into Zi You’s eyes and reveal a reassuring smile.]

["It’s all right, Senior Sister. Zhuge Qing and I have the complete Heavenly Secrets Art. Maybe we really can find It."]

["But..."]

[The words reach Zi You’s lips, but in the end, she still does not speak them.]

[As a descendant of the Zi Clan, how could she possibly not know of the existence of the Heavenly Secrets Art?]

[But she knows even better how severe the backlash from using the Heavenly Secrets Art can be. And after hearing that you intend to search for the Heavenly Dao, she becomes even more worried that the two of you will be unable to withstand that backlash.]

[Yet when she thinks of what you must do twenty years from now, Zi You ultimately still cannot bring herself to say it.]

[Zi You knows that she cannot persuade you.]

[What you are doing now is for the sake of the entire Human Race. You must become the forerunners who walk this path.]

[Three days later!]

[You bid everyone farewell, leave the Sword Pavilion, and set out for the Central Continent.]

[Three months later!]

[You arrive within a Secret Realm in the Southern Region of the Central Continent, where you find Zhuge Qing.]

[At the same time, your External Incarnation and Qin Yang are also in this Secret Realm.]

[When Qin Yang sees that you have come, a trace of surprise flashes through his eyes.]

["Junior Brother, why have you come?"]

[After meeting your External Incarnation, Qin Yang learns the current situation in the Sword Pavilion and also gains a basic understanding of your circumstances.]

[After learning that you fully support what he has done and did not treat him as an aberration, his opinion of you becomes even friendlier.]

[You look at Qin Yang and tell him that you have come this time to find Zhuge Qing.]

[When Zhuge Qing hears that you have come to find him, surprise also appears on his face.]

["You came to find me?"]

[You look at Zhuge Qing and nod.]

[Afterward, you ask Zhuge Qing how far he has cultivated the Heavenly Secrets Art, and whether he can deduce the whereabouts of the Heavenly Dao.]

["Search for the Heavenly Dao?"]

[Zhuge Qing looks at you with a face full of shock. He never expected that you had come to find him in order to deduce the Heavenly Dao’s existence.]

[Seeing your grave expression and that you do not look like you are joking at all, Zhuge Qing then shakes his head.]

["It can’t be done!"]

["At present, I have only cultivated the Heavenly Secrets Art to the seventh layer!"]

["To deduce the Heavenly Dao’s whereabouts, the Heavenly Secrets Art must be cultivated to at least the ninth layer!"]

["The ninth layer?"]

[After hearing that the Heavenly Secrets Art must be cultivated to the ninth layer, you feel somewhat disappointed inside.]

[You originally thought there would be hope once the Heavenly Secrets Art reached the eighth layer, but unexpectedly, it has to be the ninth. One must remember that the Heavenly Secrets Art has only nine layers in total. This means it must be cultivated to its absolute pinnacle.]

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