Chapter 344 — Little Jade Capital's Hidden Mystery
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Shen Mu followed him to an immortal mountain. Looking around, he found the scenery here magnificent and beautiful, with a flavor all its own. The immortal mountains floating in the sky were linked by rope bridges, one after another, seemingly forming a wondrous formation that was precisely what allowed the mountains to float.
"Borrowing the law of heaven and earth. This art of borrowing is no mortal technique!" He was deeply shaken.
This formation belonged to the art of borrowing, and its refinement had reached an inconceivable degree!
Shen Mu was no master of formations, but all formations under heaven must obey certain laws; they need a source of energy to keep them running. He himself had once thought of refining Fire Heaven Rings into a Nine Heavens True Essence Cannon Grand Formation to guard Sacred Advent Mountain, but the medicinal stones needed to sustain the formation were so vast in quantity that he had given up the idea.
Yet the formation formed by Little Jade Capital's immortal mountains and rope bridges borrowed from heaven and earth, drawing its energy from heaven and earth, with no need for medicinal stones or alchemical furnaces to supply power.
In the art of formations, one could well say Little Jade Capital had left Jingping Kingdom a hundred thousand li behind!
He wanted to study Little Jade Capital's formations too, but he had just stolen a bottle of the Water Mirror Sky's water and already incurred the old immortals' displeasure; it was not a good moment to make a move.
"This Little Jade Capital is somewhat like my Heavenly Sacred Cult. The Heavenly Sacred Cult and Little Jade Capital use the same formations. Is there some connection between them?"
Shen Mu's eyes flickered. The Heavenly Sacred Cult's Sacred Advent Mountain also floated in the sky, was likewise guarded by formations, and likewise borrowed the law of heaven and earth. The Heavenly Sacred Cult's Great Nurturing Nether Demon Sutra was extraordinary, but it still could not surpass Jingping Kingdom in Daoist arts and divine powers; yet its teleportation art was like a mythic divine power, leaving Jingping Kingdom's spells and divine powers far behind!
And Little Jade Capital's Water Mirror Sky, the refinement of its treasure had reached a terrifying degree of excellence, sharing a subtle kinship with the Silent Craftsman's Formless Treasure.
Clearly, Little Jade Capital must hold many arts and secret teachings far beyond the mundane world. It deserved its name as the foremost holy land in the world today!
Qingyou the Hermit offered tea to Li Zheng and said, "Brother Dao, you retired to the Desolate Ruins and vanished for several hundred years. Many thought you were dead and the world at peace. Why did you come out again? The moment you come out, there will be bloodshed and suffering among the living once more! If you did not wish to come out, how could the Human Emperor have brought you out?"
Li Zheng said calmly, "Many of our generation have already died of old age. Some, though brilliant and possessed of world-shaking cultivation and strength, willingly buried themselves, content to grow old and die quietly in this false immortal realm. But I do not wish to die that way. Even before death, I want to be like a Human Emperor, magnificent and blazing."
Qingyou the Hermit drank his tea and said with a smile, "Brother Dao, what use is brilliance? In those years you were first under heaven; a single sword of yours lit up how many mountains and rivers? In brilliance, how could any of us compare with you? And yet, what did you accomplish?"
Li Zheng's gaze turned sharp.
Qingyou the Hermit showed no fear at all. He set down his teacup and said, "Old Tathagata, old Daoist Master, myself, Ling Jing, and all these immortals on the mountain, back then we all submitted to you! We admired you deeply, all of us believed you could accomplish some world-shaking great work. And yet, brilliant as you were, what did you come to in the end?"