Starting My Cultivation With Time Management-Chapter 783 - 20 The Hundred Lifetime Chart of the Mortal World
Chapter 783: Chapter 20 The Hundred Lifetime Chart of the Mortal World
“Hey, don’t act rashly!” Hearing his inner shout, the Kunlun Mirror quickly spoke up.
At this stage, Luo Yan absolutely couldn’t defeat someone of the Immortal Rank, even with the help of Mirror Flower Water Moon.
The only possibility was to burn his essence and once again summon the Tai Yin Sword Master.
But not to mention the issue of whether Shi Liuli beside him might expose the deception, the key point was that burning essence was too much of an energy drain—it was enough for the Kunlun Mirror to save and load a few tens of thousands of times.
Mama doesn’t have that much spiritual energy for you to show off!
“Hmph, useless mirror.” Luo Yan said with a tone of disdain, “Alas, fine, fine, for the sake of our many years of partnership, I won’t take the risk.”
Kunlun Mirror: ???
So, if I hadn’t spoken up, you’d have really considered challenging an immortal, huh?
“Don’t fall for his trick.” The Summoning Sword suddenly spoke to her, “He never intended to risk it all. Although he said that, he was just looking to see if there was a chance.”
The Kunlun Mirror was taken aback, then swiftly came to a realization.
Idiot.
Such an idiot, why did I take his words seriously? Ah, I shouldn’t have changed my opinion of him…
While the Kunlun Mirror was self-criticizing, Shi Liuli remained clueless.
Obviously, her art calculation couldn’t compare to the scanning of the Kunlun Mirror, so she could only roughly deduce that the other had stopped, but didn’t know why.
Seeing Luo Yan stop, she obediently stood by the side and kept silent.
It wasn’t until the three from the Dragon Clan had left the hall that Luo Yan sighed and continued onward with Shi Liuli.
Following the corridor to the hall where the others had been, they finally stood agape.
Although he had already seen it in the scan, being physically present in the hall, Luo Yan came to understand just how shameless the others were.
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Picked clean!
The entire hall had been ransacked, not to mention the chests that held the treasure, even the nails for the hanging scrolls had been pulled out and taken away. As a result, the two looked around to see an entirely empty hall, as if nothing had ever been there.
Shi Liuli also fell silent, thinking, if we continue at this pace, even if we safely follow their entire journey, maintaining an undetected status, what would be the point?
No gain at all, just practicing bravery?
Luo Yan was still not giving up; he turned the scanning process to maximum, sweeping every crevice, every gap in the floor.
Damn it, you really didn’t plan on leaving anything behind, huh… Huh?
Indeed, nothing remained, the Jiaolong ancestor’s divine sense sweep wouldn’t miss anything.
However, on a certain wall, there was a slight spatial fluctuation.
Under normal circumstances, space is stable and continuous, there shouldn’t be any fluctuations. If there were, it would indicate there must be traces left by some kind of operation on the space.
It could be a spell, a magical treasure, or perhaps…
“A formation.” Luo Yan suddenly said, “There are residual traces of a formation here.”
“Was it set up by those people from before?” Shi Liuli asked.
“No,” Luo Yan saw it clearly before, the opponent hadn’t set up anything in this hall.
Which meant that it must be traces left from an earlier time.
“Liuli, help me calculate this,” Luo Yan instructed.
Shi Liuli tossed out the copper coin to start the divination and then fell into a silent contemplation.
“What’s the matter?” Luo Yan asked.
“The result is incomplete,” Shi Liuli responded, “The formation was set up a very long time ago, and much later on, it encountered a problem, and that’s what led to its current incomplete state.”
“If that weren’t the case, it wouldn’t be possible for this hall to be without any mechanisms remaining,” Luo Yan nodded in agreement, “That would be like leaving the door open for thieves, right? There must have been a problem with the formation.”
“Due to the lengthy interval, I’m unable to deduce the details,” Shi Liuli continued, “but I know the issue didn’t come from the outside; it came from within.”
“Inside?” Luo Yan began to ponder.
If it was from the outside, one could understand it as someone having intruded upon this secret realm to break down the formation.
But from within… was there something with intelligence in this hall that attempted to break this formation?
Luo Yan thought silently, his fingers tracing along the remnants of the formation, drawing the corresponding patterns in the air.
A normal array master would take months to restore a formation based on an incomplete diagram, but Luo Yan, with his talent for learning at a glance, had handled formations millions of times more complicated than this before (such as the multidimensional compression array in the Gui Xu Secret Realm of the past). Now, with just a few sketches, he had memorized the situation of the formation.
It indeed had been breached from the inside, but only halfway.
The one who attempted to destroy the formation… was hiding in a nearby space crack; that explained the spatial fluctuations.
Luo Yan smiled faintly and took out the Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle, casting it towards the location of the fluctuations.
The Divine Shuttle passed through the ripples and vanished, then reappeared, and with a snap, something was knocked out of the void by the Divine Shuttle and fell to the ground.
It was an unfurled scroll.
By its mounting and decoration, it was identical to the ‘Mortal World Hundred Lives Painting’ that the old dragon had taken, but the content of the scroll was different.
The ‘Mortal World Hundred Lives Painting’ the old dragon took depicted an extremely crowded market with countless citizens bustling, trading, hawking—showing a prosperous and lively city.
But the scroll on the ground still showed that market, only without any living people; instead, corpses were everywhere on the street.
The surrounding buildings were either ruins or ablaze, evidently having suffered a severe military disaster.
Just as Luo Yan was about to go pick it up, he suddenly heard Shi Liuli shout, “Be careful!” The scroll sprang up from the ground and pounced towards Luo Yan and Shi Liuli.
In a whirl of vertigo, the two found themselves in the middle of the marketplace.
This was a brick path paved with bluestone, now covered with large swaths of blood. The buildings on both sides either had their doors tightly shut or had been violently broken into from the outside, and after being plundered, they were set on fire, engulfed in raging flames.
Suddenly, a chilling wind blew through, sweeping over the strewn corpses. From the cold wind emerged a host of evil spirits brandishing weapons, rushing toward them ferociously.
Before Luo Yan could make a move, Shi Liuli had already started a Daoist formula, activating the Southern Dipper Galaxy Secret Technique.
A torrential flood surged from the void, instantly washing over and submerging the entire street.
The evil spirits were swept away and the corpses too were carried off; the burning buildings fell to the riverbed, reduced to desolate ruins.
Suddenly, from the river, a huge ice Jiaolong surged forth, raising its upper body upright, its fierce dragon eyes fixed on Luo Yan and Shi Liuli. As it opened its maw, a great blast of white breath was expelled forward, turning everything in its path to ice, as if it were the cold hell!
