How come the celestial technique I stole is so powerful?!-Chapter 177: Void Ruins

Unfortunately, he didn’t recognize any of them.

Only by using Human Tao Orchid Heart to replicate in full.

Such replication, probably only Human Tao Orchid Heart could achieve.

Ordinary people would choke on trying to memorize a page of text, let alone a screen full of enigmatic symbols. You try?

In ten minutes, Lin Xiaosu had memorized this stele.

Continuing on.

There were no living creatures around, not even plants, just dead silence.

Beneath his feet seemed to be ruins even more ancient than the temple.

As Lin Xiaosu moved forward, he felt increasingly that this ruin was a large complex of buildings.

Over ten miles further, he was completely certain that this was a complex, because the ground flooring and scattered bluestones all had traces of human work.

Climbing the hill ahead, a huge temple appeared before him.

The temple was in ruins.

But unlike the usual ruins, because there were no living creatures inside, no rats, no weeds.

Weeds would indicate desolation, but was it not desolate without them?

No, on the contrary, it was even more desolate without weeds.

Even the grass wouldn’t join the bustle here, just imagine how desolate that must be?

There was no dust in the air.

But there were array patterns.

These incomplete array patterns were the dust that floated above the ruins.

Floating for who knows how many years, they still refuse to settle down...

Lin Xiaosu felt an inexplicable sadness as he trod carefully on the ruins, avoiding the completely irregular array patterns.

Finally, he arrived at the highest hall, a huge stele stood before him.

On the stele, countless strange symbols...

Lin Xiaosu sat down beneath this stele, Human Tao Orchid Heart fully activated, capturing every symbol.

These symbols might be the secret of these ruins.

Even though he didn’t recognize them at the moment, perhaps someone from Kun Cang would.

Decrypting this might unveil a secret buried for untold years.

He had a premonition that the secret wasn’t a small one.

And he was almost certain that this place, even for Kun Cang’s people, was seldom visited, because these array patterns were too terrifying, too bizarre, without Heavenly Tao Wisdom Eye, you couldn’t see them at all, and no matter how high your cultivation, if you can’t see the array patterns, coming here meant death.

His ability to arrive wasn’t related to his cultivation level.

It relied on the special nature of Heavenly Tao Wisdom Eye to observe array patterns.

That night, Lin Xiaosu completed the full "replication" of this stele.

Dawn broke.

The ruins were even more desolate.

Lin Xiaosu took out a piece of roasted wolf meat from his space, although the last of his cold rations from his previous adventures, he gobbled it down.

After replenishing his strength, he continued on.

There was a huge network of array patterns in front, dense and almost without gaps.

But only almost.

There was a gap in the northwest corner, measuring five by five.

Lin Xiaosu stepped through this gap, one step, two steps, three steps...

After more than ten steps, water flowed gently in front of him.

Lin Xiaosu leaped, landing on a rock, and looked back, his expression subtly changing.

The place he came from was visible to Heavenly Tao Wisdom Eye.

But to ordinary sight, it was clearly emptiness.

The ruins, through ordinary vision, appeared as nothing at the entrance, and emptiness at the exit too.

He began to doubt if anyone in this world, aside from himself, could find this void...

His gaze returned to the front, skepticism in his eyes.

A river of clear water flowed, with green trees and red flowers on both banks, countless pavilions and terraces brought out a different charm.

Is this Kunlun?

Kunlun Mountain, a place of magic, a grand mountain, he could comprehend the thousand miles of glaciers, yet beneath his feet was a resort village like Jiangnan, breathing in, also warm air.

Suddenly, on the cliff ahead, a slender figure rose, a woman in ancient attire.

Lin Xiaosu’s eyes suddenly widened.

From the moment she appeared, he locked onto her.

With a movement of her feet, she leapt up seven or eight meters from thin air, landing on the ridge, shocking him greatly.

Ancient Martial Cultivator!

With a swish, the woman crossed the ten-meter void between two platforms and landed before him.

Raising her hand, a long sword pointed straight at his nose: "You’re not from Shenghua Valley, who are you?"

Her voice was crisp but also carried an ancient charm.

So this place was called Shenghua Valley.

Indeed, it was very much like a painted Jiangnan paradise.

Lin Xiaosu said: "I’m a tourist, who entered by accident, miss, I mean no harm."

"Tourist? Entered by accident? Who are you trying to fool? Do you think I, a young girl, am naive? You’re wrong, I’m the smartest disciple of this generation in Shenghua Valley, I can see right through your filthy heart! You’re from Tianyan Palace!"

The girl spoke like a machine gun, starting off fast and only getting faster.

Lin Xiaosu said: "What makes you so sure I’m from Tianyan Palace?"

"Because you’re very handsome! You fit the Tianyan Palace’s standard of choosing scholars for their looks! Also because you Tianyan Palace people sneak into Shenghua Valley to harm our female disciples, not just once or twice... You rotten rascal, die!"

Hiss!

A sword thrust at him!

To the naked eye, this strike appeared to have four shadows, but Lin Xiaosu clearly knew, three feints and one real.

He fiercely dodged to the side, avoiding the real sword.

The girl’s sword circled back, this time seven feints to one real. Sadly for her, Lin Xiaosu saw the real strike again and avoided it, now standing at the edge of a cliff.

In his heart, he cursed.

He was almost certain that the ground beneath his feet was the mysterious Kun Cang.

But no one told me that entering Kun Cang meant fighting?

This woman looks polite and reasonable at first glance.

Her words actually sound quite pleasant, too, such as when she said, on her third sentence, that he is handsome...

But then, the tail end of her third sentence is "stinking hooligan, go die," followed by a flurry of stabbing...

Do you make any sense at all?

Is being handsome a reason for you to stab with your sword?

Swoosh!

Sword shadows proliferated, creating countless feints.

Missing twice, the woman flew into a real rage...

Lin Xiaosu had nowhere to retreat, suddenly shifted his body to avoid the only real sword thrust, and with a quick motion, smashed a fist towards her chest.

"Showing your true colors now, huh? You unchangeable stinking hooligan, still trying to grope me?" The woman leapt into the air, sword pointing down, feet pointing up, sending three sword shadows falling in three directions.

Lin Xiaosu’s heart skipped a beat.

He actually couldn’t distinguish which of the three swords was real and which was fake, or rather, all three swords seemed to be both real and fake, capable of switching at any moment.

He abruptly retreated, falling straight off the cliff during his retreat.

"Trying to run? No way!" The woman’s shout came from the air.

She, too, leaped down.

With a splash, Lin Xiaosu fell into the waters below, and the woman, refusing to let go, thrust her sword into the water heading straight for his chest.

Lin Xiaosu leapt out of the water...

And so did the woman...

However, Lin Xiaosu suddenly changed his tactics, his fist carrying a spray of water struck from the left side.

Boom!

This punch landed squarely on the woman’s face, flinging her out, sword knocked from her grasp...

Touching her face, she exploded into anger like an inflated ball shooting out of the water: "You dare hit my face!"

By now, Lin Xiaosu had steadied himself on the water’s edge, facing the woman’s frantic, unmethodical advance... and especially since she was swordless, he had many ways to deal with her.

Clang!

A kick flew out, the woman clutching her buttocks, landing by the water’s edge, stunned.

"Ah!" Suddenly, she screamed, her voice echoing through the valley...

"Stinking hooligan, bastard... I’m not done with you..." With a tap of her foot on the hilt, she scooped it up in a very cool posture, and thrust the sword again...

Lin Xiaosu sighed softly, it seems he would have to beat her down for real.

This woman was like a hornet’s nest.

Absolutely furious.

Although her Ancient Martial Cultivation had reached a high level, in Lin Xiaosu’s view, it was all show and flash without the real power seen in his past adversaries, like number 37 Qianlong Gold Medal, Chu Tiankuo.

Chu Tiankuo, he had beaten to the point of life-questioning.

This woman’s relentless attacks, it was necessary to show her what’s called simple and practical killing techniques!

But at that moment, a sudden sensation struck his heart.

A figure appeared before him out of thin air.

A finger lightly lifted, accurately colliding with the tip of the sword the previous woman had thrust.

The fierce assault came to a standstill.

Lin Xiaosu looked up to witness an unimaginable scene.

The person who appeared out of nowhere was also a woman.

But she was skeletal thin.

Dressed in a purple ancient-style long dress, her waist tied with a purple belt, with a waistline literally as thin as a rope, her fingers almost mere bones.

The half of her face she presented to him was truly skin and bones.

Such leanness, he had never seen before in his life.

Yet this woman, thin enough to be blown away by a breeze, lightly tapped her finger on the previous woman’s sword tip, stopping the attacking sword in its tracks.

What shocked Lin Xiaosu even more was that he couldn’t see any trace of the thin woman’s actions.

"Senior Sister!" said the previous woman: "Why did you stop me? This is the stinking hooligan from Tianyan Palace..."

"He’s not!" The thin woman replied with three words.

Her voice echoed hollowly, indeed, like a lonely wind blowing through an ancient vacant temple.

Perhaps this was related to her thinness, making the resonance chamber within her body different.

"How could he not be? He touched my boobs when we met, just now he even touched my butt, what normal person does that..."

Oh dear...

Lin Xiaosu felt he must defend himself at this point; was I touching your boobs? That was me punching your chest!

Did I touch your butt?

That’s called kicking!

You’re adding your own drama!

And you’re adding some racy drama at that.

"The Lord has spoken," the Senior Sister said.

"The Lord said that? Impossible, Senior Sister, you think he’s handsome..."

Now, even the Senior Sister was speechless.

Suddenly, a voice erupted from the sky: "Gu Yu, stop making trouble, Feng Ji, bring this lad up the mountain!"

Lin Xiaosu abruptly turned around, his heart pounding...

He pinpointed the direction of the voice, and it was utterly unbelievable.

If his keen senses hadn’t deceived him, if there were no weird devices for voice projection in this world, then this voice must have come from at least five miles away on that high mountain!

A voice that spans five miles, as if right by the ear.

Is this not the work of Immortal Law?

The one called Feng Ji, the Senior Sister, once she landed, Lin Xiaosu instinctively wanted to dodge, but failed to do so.

The next moment, the wind blew, and a sudden gust faced him.

Lin Xiaosu had ascended the mountain.

He was completely befuddled.

Ordinary people wouldn’t know how he got up the mountain, but he knew full well.

The Senior Sister carried him up the mountain.

Not by directly flying over five miles, but not too dissimilar; she tapped the ground with her toes seventeen times, touched the trees thrice, and the water surface once, then traversed the five-mile distance, ascending a 500-meter peak.

He mentally calculated using a mathematical formula and the result was...

All physical laws and worldviews crumbled to bits!

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