Chapter 385: Chapter 166: “They are from the Chao Tian Sect?!
Li Shiyi, who was standing on the deck of the “Tao Sword Sect” Flying Boat, let out a long sigh, “Now there are two pieces of news.”
Good news, “The heavenly prides from the Central Region have all gone into hiding, and Chen Qiu has also broken through to the Nascent Soul Stage, meaning Chen Qiu can no longer travel the Heavenly Pride’s path, significantly reducing his competition pressure.”
Bad news, “He himself has gone into hiding.”
There’s only half a year left for the Heavenly Pride’s path, and he had deliberately suppressed his Cultivation at the Golden Core Peak Great Perfection for so long precisely to achieve a good ranking on the path of the Heavenly Prides.
As a result, he is now in hiding, which means that all his efforts during this period have been in vain.
Above the Nine Hevens, within the Heavenly Palace.
Chen Qiu was standing alone inside the “Heavenly Palace,” with a red carpet of indeterminate material acting as the central axis, dividing the magnificent palace in half.
Twelve round plinths were neatly arranged on both sides of the carpet.
At this moment, more than ten zhang tall statues had already been erected on two of the plinths.
It was indeed a depiction of him standing on the sea in a blue robe just now.
Standing alone on the sea surface, his body as straight as a pine tree, holding a jade paper fan in his hand, his whole demeanor filled with merciful compassion for the people of the world, and a reluctance to witness slaughter.
The entire statue was permeated with a sense of benevolence and concern for the world.
It sharply contrasted with the statue opposite it that was filled with a murderous aura.
Chen Qiu, leaning on the Heavenly Mechanism Umbrella, looked up at this towering statue with a rather satisfied smile on his face, “The snap taken by the Heavenly Dao this time isn’t bad, and it even seems to have been… beautified a bit.”
The air around the statue seemed particularly penetrating.
Beneath the round plinth of this statue, there were also several lines of small characters.
“One of the twelve milestone tasks”
“Possessing at the same time a twelve-grade Golden Core and a twelve-grade Nascent Soul.”
“Completion by: Chen Qiu.”
For now, he couldn’t see any special effects from this statue; aside from its commemorative value, it seemed to have no practical effect. However, this Heavenly Palace was quite interesting. If faced with a crisis, one could instantly come to the Heavenly Palace, which was akin to having an extra lifesaving method.
It’s a little faster than returning to the small world.
To go back to the small world, one’s Divine Sense and the Sect Leader Token in the Storage Ring needed to establish a connection. Although the speed of Divine Sense was very fast, it still required this additional process to enter the small world.
Coming to the Heavenly Palace, on the other hand, required no contact between Divine Sense and anything else. By skipping that step, a mere thought could bring one directly to the Heavenly Palace.
Chen Qiu, sitting in place, gave his two statues a satisfied look, then smiled again.
Just as he was preparing to leave.
He suddenly heard the sound of footsteps approaching from behind.
He frowned slightly, smoothly turning around with the Heavenly Mechanism Umbrella in his hand, staring intently at the main gate of the Heavenly Palace. The footsteps were coming from outside the gate; were there others here?
His Divine Sense couldn’t penetrate the gate of the Heavenly Palace.
Nor could it detect what was inside the Heavenly Palace, let alone the identity of the newcomer. He had peeked through the door crack last time but had seen nothing but void. Nothing else was of use.
Chen Qiu’s eyes narrowed slightly, his body gradually tensing. He didn’t immediately leave the Heavenly Palace because he wanted to see who the person coming through the gate was.
The long-unmaintained doors of the Heavenly Palace were slowly pushed open. As the grating noise was heard, clouds of dust also fell from the door frame.
All he managed to see was a silhouette stepping in amid blinding light, the person’s face or even gender impossible to discern, and their clothes invisible.
A strong force of heaven and earth surged towards him, forcibly ejecting him from the Heavenly Palace.
But just before leaving, he caught a glimpse of the silhouette, seemingly frozen at the doorway, then turning around and fleeing outside, as if more terrified than he was.
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There were people outside the Heavenly Palace?
This implied many things.
He had originally thought that the Heavenly Palace was an independent hidden map, with nothingness outside much like a secret realm; there was nothing outside the secret realm.
It was somewhat akin to bubbles in boiling water, each bubble an independent entity, unconnected to any other bubble.
And what separated bubble from bubble was the void.
Yet someone had pushed open the door from outside the Heavenly Palace, suggesting that the Heavenly Palace was not an isolated map but one of the palaces within a larger map. However… those twelve milestone tasks of the Heavenly Palace had remained uncompleted by anyone on the Xuantian Continent for so many years.
The “Heavenly Palace” map was considered high-status on the Xuantian Continent, and yet it’s just one palace within a larger map.
Chen Qiu shook his head and put aside these thoughts. Instead, he looked at the Heavenly Dao Spiritual Treasure Tea Set in his arms. This was a Spiritual Treasure made up of several parts.
There was a tea tray, a teapot, six cups, and a Justice Cup.
There were even the Six Gentlemen of the Tea Ceremony!
A tea scoop, tea needle, tea clip, tea scraper, tea strainer, and tea tube.
Each had its purpose, ranging from holding tea leaves and unclogging the spout to picking up cups and clearing residues inside the teapot.
There was even a tea pet. A tea pet is basically useless and served only as a decorative item for aesthetic appeal.