Chapter 1000: Chapter 997: Mount Buzhou
"... Our Earth Human Clan may have already experienced a catastrophic disaster between heaven and earth. If you are fated with this old man, you can comprehend the runes left by me, escape from this place, and obtain an opportunity. After going out, treat the people of my clan well. If you are not fated, then you will slumber here forever."
Lu Chen read to the end and twitched the corner of his mouth.
Damn it.
Fate means you get an opportunity, no fate means you die, right?
Luckily, I have studied runes and formations thoroughly. If it were any other brothers who came here, they would probably end up slumbering here.
However, the other brothers do not have much interest or obsession with Rune Tao, so they were not drawn here by the rune aura.
Looking at it this way, this opportunity or calamity seems most suitable for me among the Lingxiao Sect members.
The very bottom of the text on this wall consisted of forty-nine rune characters.
Lu Chen could tell at a glance that these were ancient runes from ancient times. As a talisman master who loves to study Rune Tao, Lu Chen could feel the familiar rune aura from each rune, and even faintly sense the power of Rune Tao contained in each one wanting to manifest beyond the words.
His expression changed dramatically, unable to hold back an exclamation: "Such powerful and precise runes, it seems as if each one can communicate a power of Rune Tao."
However, when he took a closer look at these runes, he found that he didn’t recognize any of them.
Yes.
Even in the Central Great World, he considered himself very interested in Rune Tao and was confident in having mastered the basic conventional runes long ago, keeping them in mind.
But he could confirm he had never seen these forty-nine runes before.
From the aura emitted by these runes, he could sense that these were more archaic ancient runes, even Pre-Ancient Runes, each containing strong power of talisman rhythm.
Lu Chen was both surprised and delighted, and couldn’t help but truly admire this powerful Pre-Qin period cultivator from Earth.
Previously, when he read that this person could create three arrays to completely isolate the Earth space from the Outer Realm and come up with a so-called ’Absolute Heaven’ technique, he felt the person was competent but didn’t have a strong sense of it.
But at this moment, feeling the power of the forty-nine runes left behind by the person, he genuinely felt their true strength.
Such a strong person, even the most proficient Nascent Soul Stage elder of Lingxiao Sect in rune formations might not compare.
He stared at the forty-nine runes as if possessed, thinking he would soon comprehend them, but after a long time, he was shocked to find he couldn’t comprehend even one of them.
He worked hard to calm himself, removing distractions, and carefully studied one of the runes.
In this closed small cave, unaware of the passage of time outside, time flew by, and he didn’t know how long it had been when Lu Chen merely felt a hunger.
He was startled.
As a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, he had already reached the Grain Avoidance Realm.
Though he couldn’t truly do without food or drink, it should be no problem going two or three months without a drop of water.
Yet now he felt hungry.
Not counting the time to enter the cave, Lu Chen estimated he had been here for about two months.
After two months, he had still not comprehended even one of the runes.
This discovery shocked him and made him anxious.
At this rate, before he could truly comprehend these forty-nine runes, he might end up passing away here.
Lu Chen felt a chill in his heart, silently took out his Qiankun Bag, and opened it. Inside it were a few Spirit Stones and several bottles of elixirs.
One bottle contained Qi Blood Pills, which could nourish Qi and blood, and not only could they satiate hunger, they could also enhance a cultivator’s Qi and blood.
Each pill could keep him from eating or drinking for three months.
There were five pills left.
Besides Qi Blood Pills, there were other elixirs in the storage bag for restoring True Qi and Divine Thought, but those two types of elixirs were not of much help for the recovery of the body and blood.
There was basically no food.
As a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, except for those extremely gluttonous ones, they wouldn’t typically carry food in their storage bags.
"Senior, please bless me to comprehend the profound meanings of these runes. I swear to heaven, once I obtain your inheritance opportunity and leave this place, I will do my utmost to protect the safety of the Earth Human Clan. If I break this vow, Heaven shall not tolerate it." Lu Chen clasped his hands, murmuring his oath in the cave.
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The years passed quickly, and since Yang Fei left the Yunwu Mountain’s Base to find his family that day, two months had passed.
He was now only fifty miles from Wawa Mountain.
Here, he saw a spectacle unlike anything he had ever seen.
Originally, Wawa Mountain was only a few thousand meters in altitude, but now, from afar, the mountain body connected by enormous water pillars seemed to have grown countless times, straight into the clouds, and the mountainside was shrouded in thick mist, obscuring higher views.
The entire mountain was connected with the descending enormous water pillar. Whether it was due to the pillar’s reflection or its actual appearance, from outside, the whole mountain seemed encapsulated within the gigantic water pillar. Yet the flow from above didn’t affect the mountain, inside lush with trees, birds, and beasts around the mountainside.
The entire mountain seemed like a world of its own.
The towering mountain range resembled a giant pillar connecting heaven and earth.
A legendary ancient mountain name resurfaced in Yang Fei’s mind.
Buzhou Mountain.
Looking at this scene, anyone who had heard of ancient myths would instinctively think of this as the mythical mount struck by the Water God Gonggong, linking heaven and earth.
It seemed if this mountain before him were destroyed, the descending enormous water pillar would lose control of some magnetic field and would scatter upon the earth, creating terrifying floods.
From afar, staring at that towering peak, Yang Fei was utterly bewildered.
Since the heaven and earth changes, he felt his worldview was shattered.
The worldview he had established in his mind completely collapsed.
Heaven and earth changed, heaven and earth reversed.
The ancient mountains and seas reappeared on Earth, and the laws of power and magnetic field tracks between heaven and earth underwent unprecedented changes.
He could clearly feel this world becoming ever more favorable for cultivators.
However, such favor came at the cost of over seventy percent of the world’s living beings.
Even if one were not innately compassionate, what he had witnessed along his journey filled Yang Fei with a profound sense of tragedy, oppressive and distressing.
Faced with the ’Buzhou Mountain’ ahead, Yang Fei did not continue approaching.
He faintly felt that this mountain was a forbidden place for him at present, not to be approached lightly.
An unexplained danger warned him, keeping him from daring to advance past this distance.
After a long time, he turned and left.
This world had completely transformed. He needed to bring his family back to Yunwu Mountain’s Base, rebuild the Cloud Mist Mountain Array, unite with Qin Yanyang and Tong Yunshu, and then take them to explore the gigantic mountain range that had emerged from the seabed in the Arctic.
He needed to reacquaint himself with this entirely new world.