Chapter 697 -697: Reserved for the Destined
Ji Yang walked further inside and gradually noticed that the walls around him were inexplicably bright under the flashlight’s beam.
It was almost as if Ji Yang’s flashlight was a key that ignited the area.
At this time, the stone door behind him also slowly closed.
Ji Yang was not worried about the outside world and continued to walk in.
After a while, Ji Yang came upon a gigantic underground space, and within it stood rows upon rows of steles, their surface polished and gleaming, inscribed with characters.
At this point, Ji Yang too was somewhat at a loss.
When he approached the first stele, he found it was inscribed with a script he couldn’t understand at all.
Despite staring at it for a while without comprehension, Ji Yang still felt a twinge of regret.
The material of these steles was unlike anything Ji Yang had ever seen before; he reached out to touch one.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he touched it, a flash of light passed by, and then information started pouring into his mind from the stele.
Ji Yang was shocked, and before he could make sense of the situation, his mind was flooded with a vast array of information.
After a while, when Ji Yang opened his eyes, they shone with hesitation; shockingly, it was about the content of the script. Now that he had the information, it was as if he no longer needed to learn it; he understood the script naturally and it was no longer alien to him. It was as if he had always known this script.
It was actually a method of transmitting knowledge.
Once again, Ji Yang turned his attention to the stele and read through it line by line.
There had always been Qi Refining Practitioners on Earth, but they did not share the temporal space with mortal folk; they naturally existed in another, parallel dimension. Those Blessed Lands and Caves were some of the node points that led into the equal temporal space. Without reaching a certain level, one could only live within the Blessed Lands and Caves, but once a certain level was achieved, one could naturally enter the parallel dimension through them. That parallel dimension was known as the realm of cultivators.
So it was such a situation!
Ji Yang was somewhat surprised now.
Then, from the stele, Ji Yang saw more information— with the increase of human virtues in The Mortal World, the Mortal Dust’s Qi became denser and denser. This made it so that the Qi Refining Practitioners could no longer cultivate in the Mortal Dust Realm. Eventually, even survival became problematic and everyone had to live within the Blessed Lands and Caves. Over time, the class of Qi Refining Practitioners naturally detached from the mortals.
The master of this place was called Lingxiaozi, a Qi Refining Practitioner who had laid out a vast Mortal Dust Heart Tempering Formation, channeling the Mortal Dust Qi to aid in cultivation. At first, he thought he could develop his spiritual power in the Mortal Dust Realm, but he underestimated the erosive effects of the Mortal Dust Qi. By the time he noticed something was wrong, his True Yuan had been exhausted, and he was severely injured by the Mortal Dust Qi, making a return to the Blessed Lands and Caves impossible. In order not to let his legacy end, he made some arrangements here.
He didn’t know when someone would come across this place, nor if the people of The Mortal World could cultivate, so what he did was leave his legacy for those with destiny.
After reading through the content on the stele, Ji Yang stood there, speechless for a long time.
In Ji Yang’s opinion, there probably wasn’t a single Qi Refining Practitioner left in the Mortal Dust Realm by now, which was probably why this place had remained undiscovered. Moreover, the things he left behind would likely not allow anyone to cultivate much; after all, even Lingxiaozi himself couldn’t withstand the erosion of Mortal Dust’s Qi, so how could ordinary Qi Refining Practitioners avoid it?
However, what Lingxiaozi probably didn’t know was that an anomaly like him had appeared.
The steles that Lingxiaozi had made were crafted using unique methods; even after a long time, they wouldn’t degrade.
Having looked over the steles in general, Ji Yang found that they contained much content, encapsulating the most fundamental of pills, talismans, tools, and Formations amongst the Qi Refining Practitioners.
Before today, Ji Yang knew nothing about cultivators, but his discovery here had enlightened him to some of their circumstances.
Lingxiaozi had also considered the situation of the visitors— not expecting the newcomers to be able to cultivate, so each legacy only required a simple touch.
Following that, Ji Yang touched each stele one by one.
As soon as Ji Yang touched the second stele, the first one he had touched suddenly turned into fine ash.
Ji Yang understood now: the legacy content resided in the steles, and as soon as someone received the legacy, the stele would naturally disintegrate.
After Ji Yang had touched all the steles and acquired all the legacies, the steles turned into dust.
Simultaneously, the light inside also gradually dimmed.
Ji Yang naturally understood all of this; everything here was simply a legacy left for those with fate.
As the cave darkened, the flashlight’s beam became effective again.
He shone the flashlight around the place and found some stone furniture, as well as the cave itself.
Ji Yang thought to himself about leading Feng Xiaozhi and the others to discover this place and then marketing it as a Qi Refining Practitioner’s blessed cave site— it might attract another wave of visitors.
When Ji Yang got to the cave entrance, he saw Dimanxi lying on the ground, picked him up, and headed towards the cave door.
He pressed a spot, and the stone door opened again. The rightful source is noᴠelfire.net
After exiting, he pressed another spot, and the door closed once again.
Such a Formation is intriguing!
Now looking at the stone door mechanism, Ji Yang had a clear understanding.
Having thrown Dimanxi into a pit, Ji Yang left the place.