Imperial Cultivation

Chapter 1535: Chapter 1531: Solution

The Elephant Beast squatted on his left shoulder, its tail trembling slightly, pupils round and wide.

Chu Zhiyuan’s expression was grave.

One man and one beast fell silent for a time, at a loss for words.

After a while, Chu Zhiyuan shook his head. "Looks like we can’t get in."

"We almost died! ...That little bird is too terrifying." The Elephant Beast’s voice carried lingering fright. "I saw it kill a giant beast as easily as drinking water, just one peck and it was dead."

"That giant beast was about the same size as the dragon above your head, its hide tough as hell. Nothing else could do anything to it, yet it couldn’t withstand a single peck and died on the spot."

"Its beak is that sharp and fierce?"

"Its beak is very strange—once it touches you, you collapse apart. A giant beast a hundred meters long turned into powder in an instant."

"So we almost got wiped out?"

"Just a hair’s breadth! Just a tiny bit! No, we can’t go again!"

"Dragon Mountain has this kind of giant beast? How come I never saw it?"

Whether he used Super Sense or Divine Eye, he hadn’t seen such a massive giant beast.

"Hmph, we’re only in one Dragon Mountain right now. Dragon Mountain is vast; how could we possibly see everything?"

"Giant beasts from other Dragon Mountains?"

"This Dragon Mountain has very few giant beasts; occasionally ones from other Dragon Mountains run over."

"Giant beasts are more dangerous?"

"You can’t judge by size. That little bird is too dangerous, far scarier than those giant beasts."

"Big ones are dangerous, small ones are even more dangerous—best not to run into either."

"Exactly!"

"There’ll be a way..." Chu Zhiyuan mused.

Even if there was no way, he had to force one out.

The Taiqing Primordial Sect’s valley was something he absolutely had to enter and take a look at.

"Does that little bird have any weaknesses? Anything it likes?"

"How could I possibly know that!"

"Let me rest a bit, I’ll take a look later."

"Your eyes are weird too. Don’t tell me they’re stronger than mine?"

Chu Zhiyuan smiled. "I can see the past and the future."

"You saying you can see the past—that’s no big deal. But the future? That’s only one kind of future, right?"

"You can see the future too?"

Chu Zhiyuan smiled.

When outsiders hear someone can see the future, they feel it’s mysterious and lofty, instinctively awed.

Only those who know what the future is truly like understand that the future one sees in the moment is only one version of the future.

The future has many paths, like a surging great river that often forks into numerous tributaries.

Though these tributaries ultimately flow toward the same place: death.

There are countless roads that lead to death; the Donghuan Saint Technique and Divine Eye each only see one or some of them.

At the beginning, one can only see a single path—the greatest probability.

As cultivation increases, one can see more paths, and see further.

"Heh heh, just a little bit."

The Elephant Beast’s tail swayed lightly, its movements rhythmic.

Chu Zhiyuan laughed. "No wonder."

Its pupils could see the future, so it could react in time, dodging danger a step ahead.

That was the backing that gave it the courage to take risks with him.

The future it could see probably didn’t stretch very far; otherwise it wouldn’t be this bedraggled.

However, his Donghuan Saint Technique was distorted in Dragon Mountain, so he didn’t dare use it.

Its Divine Skills presumably weren’t interfered with.

The Elephant Beast asked, "Things are already like this, and you still won’t give up?"

"Now even less so."

"The Taiqing Primordial Sect is that important to you?"

"What I’ve been cultivating all along is the Taiqing Primordial Sect’s inheritance." Chu Zhiyuan said solemnly, "That Taiqing Primordial Sect valley might very well be the most crucial step for me to climb higher."

"Since you can see the future, then just see whether you can get in or not."

"Seeing myself isn’t accurate."

"Then I’ll help you see."

It leaped off his shoulder, landing on a blade of grass opposite, its pupils once again turning into a golden line, blazing as it stared at Chu Zhiyuan.

Chu Zhiyuan solemnly met its gaze.

The golden line that its pupils had become seemed to expand and contract, lengthening and shortening in turn.

A moment later, its pupils relaxed and rounded once more.

It flickered down onto Chu Zhiyuan’s left shoulder, its voice echoing in his mind. "You’re dead."

Chu Zhiyuan chuckled. "Dead?"

"Not under that bird’s beak—you die on a flower."

"What kind of flower?"

"A small flower very common in that valley, looks like a wildflower. It suddenly bumps into you, then suddenly collapses apart with you."

"Small flower..."

Chu Zhiyuan called up memories of the Taiqing Primordial Sect’s valley in his mind.

Within the Taiqing Primordial Sect’s valley, the ruins were shattered and broken, yet flowers and grasses thrived.

Wildflowers and weeds everywhere.

The Elephant Beast said, "Those little yellow flowers, the kind that’s everywhere."

"Those?" Chu Zhiyuan frowned. "They’re actually that deadly?"

The Elephant Beast said, "Anyway, you’re wiped out by one of those little flowers."

Chu Zhiyuan closed his eyes, beginning to conceive how, after entering the valley, he could avoid alarming those flowers, how to isolate himself from them.

In the end, he opened his eyes.

Those small flowers were everywhere—by the roadside, in the corners of walls, beside thresholds, inside crevices of stone.

Chu Zhiyuan looked at the Elephant Beast. "Can they attack from a distance?"

"You deliver yourself right to its side; it just lightly brushes you in passing. As for how far it can attack—that I don’t know."

Chu Zhiyuan said, "That means I can enter the valley safely, right?"

"Mm, you do enter." The Elephant Beast snorted. "By using my Array!"

Chu Zhiyuan laughed. "The Flying Knives can’t get in there, so how can... oh, I don’t need to enter after all?"

He suddenly realized that since the round beads couldn’t get in, the Flying Knives couldn’t possibly send them inside.

Then why insist on going in?

Why not directly set up an Array outside the valley and shroud the valley within it?

Chu Zhiyuan stared blazing-eyed at the Elephant Beast. "These eight Miracle Pearls can cover that valley, right?"

"Shouldn’t be a problem."

"Excellent!" Chu Zhiyuan said. "What kind of Array can suppress the power of that valley?"

"No idea." The Elephant Beast said, "But in the end you still found it... should be the Three Elements Formation... Taiqing Primordial Sect, Three Elements Formation, interesting."

Chu Zhiyuan said, "How is the Three Elements Formation arranged?"

After listening to what the Elephant Beast said, Chu Zhiyuan grew thoughtful. "This Three Elements Formation is indeed marvelous... I’ve got an idea now; I’ll first set up a Mystic Concealment Array."

"Not using the Three Elements Formation?"

"I’ll try the Mystic Concealment Array first," Chu Zhiyuan said.

He flickered, appearing once more at the foot of Dragon Mountain, and eight Flying Knives slid out from his sleeve, entering the domain of Dragon Mountain.

The aura of Heavenly Dragon Introduction on the blades surged wildly, completely undisguised, like eight little Sky Dragons drilling into Dragon Mountain’s territory.

This time, however, nothing blocked them. They flew beneath the round beads, scooped them up, and quickly rose, arriving at a stretch of forest in front of the valley.

Within a hundred meters around, mist soon formed in the woods, making this patch of forest hazy and indistinct.

The insects and Strange Beasts hidden in the woods and grass within this range felt uncomfortable and all left.

An hour later, Chu Zhiyuan brought back the Elephant Beast and stood at the foot of the mountain.

The Elephant Beast’s vertical pupils became golden lines.

Chu Zhiyuan then flickered into that stretch of forest, his heartstrings taut, ready to withdraw at any moment.

The forest was extremely quiet, and this forest was only a single step from that valley.

If one stood atop a tree and leapt, one could descend straight into the valley below.

Standing in this forest, Chu Zhiyuan had already opened Super Sense, yet the valley became blurred, even hazier than when viewed from afar.

He ignored that, reaching out to feel a twisted, spiraling Dragon Tree.

One tree vanished, then another vanished...

In the blink of an eye, over a dozen trees appeared within Jade Sea and Sky.

These few trees were the closest to the valley, even tainted by some of the valley’s strange aura.

The moment these trees entered Jade Sea and Sky, Jade Sea and Sky changed at once.

The mountain ranges started to faintly tremble, and the Jade Sea gently surged.

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