sjar Chapter 550 The Holy Temple Descends
Chapter 550 The Holy Temple Descends
"Sister Guan, where is Brother Shen? I want to go see him," Qingyun asked.
"I don't know where he is. According to them, Shen Xu is seriously injured and needs to recuperate in a special place."
"What does it matter to us whether he lives or dies? Now that things are over here, we should go back to the Sword Alliance," Bai Lu said coldly.
“Miss, I saw that the winner of the Hundred Flowers competition this time is Miss Li. Could there be some hidden story behind her relationship with Shen Xu?” Guan Bi asked with a frown.
"What other secret could there be? The Daughter of a Hundred Flowers was chosen by the goddess, not by him."
Don't have any illusions about that kind of jerk. The best option is to completely kick him out of your life.
"What are you talking about? I don't understand. And who is Miss Li?" Qingyun asked, puzzled.
"Your good brother abandoned us all for a woman he'd only known for a few days, do you understand?!" Bai Lu couldn't help but take a deep breath; the thought of it made her feel choked up.
"Impossible! Even if it were true, Brother Shen must have some unspeakable reason." Qingyun immediately retorted.
"Seeing is believing. Since you insist on suffering, I won't stop you. Maybe he was injured while saving that woman." Bai Lu sneered.
"If you want to wait here, then go ahead! Guanbi and I won't keep you company. Guanbi, let's go!" Bai Lu grabbed Guanbi's shoulder, but found that Guanbi had no intention of moving at all.
“Miss, there are indeed many suspicious points in this matter. Even if he really wants to be with Miss Li, I need to hear his refusal with my own ears,” Guan Bi replied earnestly.
"Guanbi, didn't you learn your lesson from what happened last time? Why do you want him to hurt you again?"
"Because he still owes me a lot."
Why are you so stubborn? What's so great about that guy anyway?
"Don't you know, Miss?"
"Because he's a womanizer, all his good points are worthless!" Bai Lu retorted stubbornly.
"It's precisely because he's such a womanizer that I don't believe he'd be with a woman he's only known for a few days."
He won't say he likes anyone unless you put a sword to his neck.
Upon hearing this, Bai Lu's expression changed slightly. Although Guan Bi didn't know what had happened, she had already guessed the truth.
“I think Sister Guan is right,” Qingyun agreed.
"If you... if you don't leave, I will!" Bai Lu took a deep breath.
Compared to the two of them, she felt that she was the bad guy, and she couldn't stay here any longer.
"Miss, I didn't say I wasn't leaving."
According to the temple, Shen Xu's injuries will not heal in a day or two; it will probably take a long time. We cannot stay here to watch over him.
Qingyun, you have far more to do than we do, and it's all Sword Alliance business. You can't waste your time here.
"What about Brother Shen here?"
“Shen Xu helped the goddess, and helping him recover is the temple’s top priority. I think we don’t need to worry too much.”
"How can we not worry? That woman is in the temple now. Who knows how long she'll be staying with Shen Xu!" Bai Lu thought to herself.
She learned about the existence of the Love Flower from Li Linghui and realized that their relationship was definitely not so easy to sever.
But in the end, she didn't say anything.
……
Just as the group was about to leave, the scene before them suddenly darkened.
An incredibly oppressive aura continuously poured down from the sky.
The blazing sun in the sky seemed to be suddenly covered and swallowed up by a vast, deep, and boundless black carpet.
The clear blue sky suddenly turned into darkness, daylight abruptly transformed into eternal night, and the sun and moon fell together.
Against the deep, inky blue sky, the stars were forcibly awakened, densely packed, sparkling like flowing silver sand, spreading out a magnificent galaxy across the vast plains.
This was not a sight unique to the temple; everyone in Ningzhou could see this apocalyptic scene.
"What exactly happened?" Qingyun looked at the unusual sky in front of her, her heart filled with solemnity.
Bai Lu frowned, took out the Star Network Instrument, and pointed it at the Milky Way in the sky.
The twinkling starlight reflected on the glass beads on the star chart, and the entire chessboard gradually blossomed with a dazzling brilliance.
Just as Bai Lu was about to activate her Star Awakening, a skull suddenly appeared and blocked the starlight on the Star Network Instrument.
"Little girl, didn't your parents tell you what you can and can't see?" The skull's tone was unusually serious.
"Senior Lei, do you know what happened?" Guan Bi asked immediately.
"Someone has attracted the Temple, and it's not the original form of the Human Temple!"
The skull gazed at the distant sky, its eyes filled with solemnity and envy.
Upon hearing this, Bai Lu and Guan Bi exchanged a glance. They knew that in the current Xingchuan Domain, only one person could do such a thing—Li Xiaoyi.
Down the mountain, Shang Xueyi felt a constant tremor in her soul and couldn't help but look towards Tianjian Mountain, murmuring, "My dear sister, you've really surpassed me this time!"
If one were to observe from the void at this moment, one would find that countless pure Daoist auras are intertwining, entwining, and resonating with each other above Ningzhou.
They are spontaneously coalescing and manifesting.
Golden traces of time, silver spatial origins, gray chaotic primordial energy, and cyan life-giving veins...
Countless fundamental laws that constitute the origin of the world flowed out from every corner of the void, like the waters of a galaxy flowing backwards to their source, converging and weaving towards the center of the sky.
In an instant, a "Map of the Great Dao" spanning most of Ningzhou's territory slowly unfolded!
It is vast and boundless, its boundaries merging into emptiness, stretching to the horizon.
It has no fixed form, but is constantly changing, producing billions of variations in every moment that beings look up at it.
Sometimes it resembles a perfectly round jade disc composed of countless mysterious runes; sometimes it transforms into layers upon layers of dazzling light wheels without beginning or end; and sometimes it seems to be an invisible blazing sun formed from endless Dao fire...
All beings witness it not by seeing its form, but by feeling its essence!
In the instant that this magnificent "Taoist diagram" stabilized, a moment so great that it eclipsed the beauty of mountains and rivers.
An invisible voice echoed throughout Ningzhou.
That wasn't a specific sound; it was completely beyond the realm of hearing.
That was the resonance of the laws, the "Dao Ming" that resonated from the depths of the human soul, from the blood and marrow, and from the depths of the earth beneath their feet!
The mountains of Ningzhou seemed to chant in unison, all spirits fell silent, and the pulse of the rivers abruptly changed its rhythm.
Countless Daoist rhythms washed over the land of Ningzhou like invisible tides. The cultivation techniques practiced by everyone spontaneously circulated and roared within their bodies, echoing this sound that transcended the soul and bloodline, and resonating with the "Dao Diagram" above their heads.
As time passed, the core of the "Tao Diagram" suddenly brightened, not because of a burst of light, but more like "nothingness" itself giving birth to "somethingness".
A pure and true ray of light flowed out from that void node, transforming into a seven-tiered heavenly staircase that supported the sky and the earth!
The Heavenly Path is neither real nor illusory, disregarding space, piercing through the Nine Netherworlds and the Azure Sky, and reaching the mysterious place that only the most outstanding geniuses of the human race can sense—the Human Race Holy Temple!
The moment the Heavenly Steps pierced through nothingness and reality, countless chains of laws beneath the Dao Diagram surged, converged, and condensed wildly.
Endless radiance intertwined above the celestial steps, creating a massive palace projection whose form was indescribable, filled only with an overwhelming will that permeated heaven and earth.
Within it, it seemed as if a sea of stars was spinning, a world was being created, and time was flowing...
No pressure was needed; the mere existence of the palace itself caused the billions of beings who looked up to it to instinctively kneel in submission.
Only then did the creatures of Ningzhou realize with shock that there was a female phantom figure walking along the Heavenly Stairs.
Although the distance was vast, each step the woman took seemed to traverse endless space, and with each blink of an eye, she would be one step closer to the temple.
In everyone's perception, it felt like an instant, yet also like eternity, as the woman crossed the seven heavenly steps and disappeared from their sight.
"Om-!"
It was that earth-shaking Daoist chant once again!
It started to "rain" in Ningzhou.
But this "rain" is not water droplets.
They are countless points of light, the visible power of life's origin!
A colorful rain of light poured down from the vast Dao diagram that supported the celestial steps, splashing across the vast land.
Where the rain fell, the depleted spiritual veins began to pulsate anew, and the barren wasteland instantly sprouted wondrous flowers and herbs brimming with spiritual energy...
The spiritual energy of the earth veins in Xingchuan Region is like an earth dragon that has been sleeping for hundreds of millions of years, which has been completely awakened and stirred up a huge tide of primordial energy that sweeps across the entire Ningzhou!
The mountains shimmered with spiritual light like lamps, the rivers rippled with blue waves, and the ancient trees exhaled the rosy glow like mist...
I don't know how much time passed; it felt like a moment, yet also like an eternity.
The seven heavenly staircases that supported the heavens and earth suddenly collapsed inward, converging into a single point, and finally disappeared into the sky as if they had never existed.
The vast Dao diagram began to dim, like a thread caught in a vortex, collapsing and disintegrating from the edges, returning to the formless fragments of laws in the void.
The light, shrouded in night, seeped back from the depths of the void.
Daylight returned, and a gentle breeze swept across the mountains, making everything that had just happened seem like a dream that had enveloped the entire Ningzhou.
Only the ever-growing earth veins and the intangible enhancement of the Ningzhou people's constitution silently tell the story.
How did that human holy temple, which stretched across the sky and governed all paths, ever truly exist?