Chapter 1527: The Whole Story (Part One)
In a side hall, both Elder Hao and Elder Tang were present this time. Besides Great Master Lan and Tang Feng, there were four additional Void Refining Realm elders whom Li Yan did not recognize.
When Li Yan and Tang Feng arrived, so many people were already there. It was clear they were faster and had rushed over immediately upon receiving the news.
The moment Li Yan and Tang Feng’s figures appeared at the hall’s entrance, everyone’s gaze shifted over at once. Li Yan instantly felt as if several great mountains had been placed upon him.
It made even his breathing difficult.
Although these powerful experts did not deliberately release their spiritual pressure, their gazes alone made Li Yan feel as if he were wading through a swamp as he walked forward.
“Li Yan, come over here to me!”
Just as everyone’s eyes fell on him, Elder Tang’s voice rang out. He had also noticed that Li Yan’s movements had become difficult the moment he entered the hall.
As Elder Tang spoke, Li Yan felt his entire body lighten. All the pressure vanished, and he returned to normal.
Walking to the center of the hall, Li Yan first bowed to the crowd before walking over to Elder Tang as instructed.
“Unleash the Power of the Cold Moon with all your might!”
Within the hall, only Elder Tang’s voice echoed. Everyone else remained silent, but their eyes were still fixed on Li Yan.
Li Yan took a deep breath. As his cultivation method circulated, two faint crescent moons suddenly appeared in his eyes, and his entire aura immediately turned cold and clear.
Under just these circumstances, a look of pleasant surprise instantly appeared on Elder Tang’s face. He then extended a finger and pointed it at Li Yan from a distance.
The next moment, a silvery, moon-like radiance immediately appeared on the surface of Li Yan’s body.
“It has indeed accumulated to over fifty percent of the Power of the Cold Moon. In less than a hundred years… could it be that you truly possess the Heavenly Dao Constitution for cultivating the ‘Saintly Soul Transformation Art’?”
The joy on Elder Tang’s face deepened. Although he had already received Tang Feng’s voice transmission, a look of disbelief still flickered in his eyes.
The “Heavenly Dao Constitution” he mentioned was actually just a broad, vague term that could be applied to any cultivator. One could say that any person had a “Heavenly Dao Constitution.”
The creation of cultivation methods all followed the laws of the Heavenly Dao. Every cultivation method would be practiced by countless people, but the speed at which each person cultivated would be completely different.
For example, if a water-attribute cultivation method was practiced by two cultivators who both possessed a water-attribute Saint Spirit Root, their cultivation speeds would definitely vary.
There were too many factors that contributed to the success of cultivating a method. Some might take a hundred years to succeed in one layer, while others might only need ten years, or even less.
If someone, while cultivating a certain method, displayed a cultivation speed that was incomparable to others, that person could be said to have a “Heavenly Dao Constitution,” but only in relation to that specific cultivation method.
Therefore, all cultivators in the world could also be called “Heavenly Dao Constitution,” provided they encountered the one cultivation method that was perfectly suited for them.
For instance, in the case of the True Scripture of Gui Water, Li Yan was a true “Heavenly Dao Constitution”!
Although Elder Tang said this, he was even more suspicious in his heart. No one here knew better than him the difficulty of cultivating the Saintly Soul Transformation Art.
And just as he finished speaking, the eyes of the others in the hall immediately lit up. They didn’t care about the ethereal “Heavenly Dao Constitution.”
They were simply happy that this young man, Li Yan, had truly cultivated over fifty percent of the Power of the Cold Moon.
“Could this be the will of the heavens above!”
At this moment, Great Master Lan also whispered softly.
Only Li Yan was bewildered upon hearing her words, but the others knew what she meant and what she was referring to.
Over the years, for the sake of that spatial formation, not only had the entire sect dispatched more manpower to search for the Yueyang Grass and the Cloudless Mud…
Even the two Supreme Elders had braved great dangers to search in other Perilous Lands.
In the end, they actually managed to find the Yueyang Grass. And although the Cloudless Mud was not found, Great Master Lan provided a substitute raw material.
Later, Elder Hao also found that substitute refining material in a Perilous Land.
As for the restriction-breaking formation that had been in preparation all this time, eight years ago, after much effort, Great Master Lan finally succeeded in refining it.
They had no idea whether Li Yan would succeed in his cultivation, so in the past eight years, they had actually been constantly trying to proceed with the next step of the plan.
It was just that after several attempts, there was still no progress. But no one had expected that today, Li Yan would bring good news.
“In that case, we can initiate the plan immediately!” Elder Hao nodded.
Elder Tang San, after calming his emotions, looked at Li Yan again.
“Li Yan, today we will begin the subsequent plan! And now, you can also know the entire plan. Please sit down first, and we will explain it to you in detail!”
As he spoke, he had Li Yan sit beside him and Elder Tang. This made Li Yan feel immense pressure. He would rather go down and sit with Tang Feng than sit so close to these two old monsters.
After Li Yan sat down, this time it was Sect Master Xue Tieyi who began to narrate the entire plan.
Thus, the greatest secret of the Soul-Suppression Palace was soon unveiled before Li Yan. The more he listened, the more shocked he became, but at the same time, his heart was in turmoil.
He had finally heard real news about the exit to the outside world.
Back then, after the first-generation old Sect Master discovered that he could not break through to the Body Integration Realm here, and that the cultivation resources in the Earth-True Domain could not support too many Body Integration Realm cultivators cultivating at the same time…
From then on, he began to search everywhere for a passage to the outside world. As long as he could find this exit, all the problems here could be solved.
And the Earth-True Domain would truly become the main base of the Soul-Suppression Palace, capable of both offense and defense.
For this matter, the old Sect Master searched everywhere, visiting one Perilous Land after another. At that time, the Perilous Land behind the Soul-Suppression Palace had not been explored much.
This was because the danger here was the greatest and most difficult to resolve among all the Perilous Lands the old Sect Master had encountered.
Year after year, he explored one place after another, but he did not find any exit to the outside world.
This included the passages that would automatically pull in foreign cultivators every few decades or centuries; he couldn’t find any clue about them either.
It wasn’t until later, after he returned to the sect and continued to risk exploring the area behind the sect, that he made some discoveries.
In his first few explorations, the old Sect Master discovered a place where the power of the outside world was seeping in. However, that place was filled with incomparably chaotic laws of heaven and earth, making it impossible for anyone to enter for a detailed investigation.
Even after the old Sect Master suppressed them with his powerful cultivation, he could only enter a short distance before he could no longer suppress them and was almost severely injured by those powers.
In the end, with great difficulty, he finally managed to retreat.
But it was this discovery that greatly excited the old Sect Master. He was a Body Integration Realm expert. The reason he couldn’t suppress those chaotic laws of heaven and earth…
…was because more external powers were continuously seeping in from behind that place. And it was those powers that acted like an endless source of a river.
No matter how profound his magical power was, he was ultimately just a cultivator. Under the intense consumption of magical power, it would soon be depleted. He certainly couldn’t contend against endless laws.
So, after retreating from that place, the old Sect Master recorded everything he had detected and constantly pondered how to solve this problem.
And the location of that place was behind the mountain Li Yan had visited last time, and it was located at an extreme depth.
Last time, Great Master Lan had told him that the area behind the mountain might be the throat of the Dream Return Ant, but that wasn’t entirely true.
The area behind the mountain crevice, the one filled with yellow dense fog, should be part of the Dream Return Ant’s chest and lungs. This was the area where even Body Integration Realm Supreme Elders would lose their way.
And if one went further up from this area, one would eventually reach a circular cave. In that cave was the kind of chaotic power that could even kill Body Integration Realm cultivators.
And that location, the old Sect Master guessed, was the true location of the throat. It was also there that the situation of external powers continuously seeping in occurred.
According to the old Sect Master’s speculation, as long as one passed through the throat, one could pass through the Dream Return Ant’s mouth, and perhaps open a passage to the outside world.
And those passages that would appear for no reason every few decades or centuries were caused by those continuously seeping powers.
After these chaotic powers entered, they would also disperse into the body.
Although the Dream Return Ant had perished, its physical body had transformed into a unique law of heaven and earth, which included the power of its Divine Sense scattered throughout its body.
The power of its Divine Sense formed a kind of suppression, preventing everyone’s Divine Sense from being released normally.
Moreover, when this Divine Sense encountered those seeping powers, and those powers condensed to a certain extent, it would trigger a force that attracted and communicated with the outside world.
But perhaps because the Heavenly Demon Dream Return Ant’s main instinct in life was to devour, even after its death, the laws formed by the power of its Divine Sense still retained some of its consciousness from when it was alive.
It would subconsciously only pull things inward and would not allow anything that had been devoured to escape its body again. This was also why the Divine Sense attraction was only one-way, in but not out.
After the old Sect Master had investigated these matters, he knew that there was no other way but to open up the location of the throat.
Moreover, once the throat was opened, it could be firmly controlled through formation restrictions. Then, in the future, no more of those strange powers could seep in.
And there would no longer be the possibility of those foreign cultivators being pulled in at any time.
But the old Sect Master went in several more times later, and in the end, he failed each time, and even got injured in the process.
So he came back and thought hard, and came up with an idea. With his Body Integration Realm cultivation, he could barely stay in the throat for a period of time.
If he could lay a grand formation outside the cave that resembled a throat, the formation could be driven by Spirit Stones and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
This would solve the problem of him being alone and outnumbered. Then, by advancing cautiously step by step, he could have the formation extend into the cave little by little, opening it up inch by inch.
Until finally, he could complete the plan of opening up the entire throat.