BXBX NOVEL Chapter 65 - 65: Stele
Jiang Li had once stood on other stars to observe the continent, and finally understood the full picture.
The entire continent is a corpse of an Immortal, more precisely, the corpse of the Daoist Ancestor.
The corpse of the Daoist Ancestor was enormous, stretching across two provinces, the size of dozens of planets. The sun, moon and stars all revolved around it, forming the universe seen by the humans of this world. Monsters roamed between the Daoist Ancestor’s thigh and head, and humans were active between the calves and feet.
Jiang Li had never seen such a thing before. He let Immortal Truesun take a look, and Immortal Truesun wept uncontrollably. With great sorrow in his heart, he bowed nine times to the body of the Daoist Ancestor, saying someone had transformed his body into such a massive form, but he couldn’t understand the purpose.
Jiang Li thought it was the work of a Heavenly Demon from another realm, but he also couldn’t understand the purpose. If someone had the ability and time to refine the Daoist Ancestor’s body into a continent, why not just kill everyone here? Instead, they were contaminating monsters and letting the monsters kill humans.
Considering that Tian Yin’s intelligence was not mature enough to accept this reality, Jiang Li intended to send it back to Jiuzhou and wait until it had matured a little more to tell it about this.
Who would have thought that this young thing would bring the entire continent back to life!
“No! That’s impossible!”
Tian Yin knew that he could only animate the dead objects, but how could his master be dead? He was a self-proclaimed Daoist Ancestor! He was destined to carry this title! He might even be the incarnation of the Daoist Ancestor from the Immortal Realm!
How could such a person possibly die!
Regardless of whether Tian Yin believed it or not, the corpse of the Daoist Ancestor was right before him, with a consciousness that he had just bestowed.
“Tian Yin you bastard! Quickly erase the consciousness of the Daoist Ancestor’s corpse!”
“I-I can’t control him anymore!”
If it was just a continent, Tian Yin could easily give or erase consciousness. But this was the body of a Daoist Ancestor, an immortal corpse stronger than ordinary Immortals by who knows how much. Once it gained consciousness, it would, out of instinct for self-preservation, block the influence of Tian Yin.
“You should have stayed in Dao Sect and refined more cycles!” Jiang Li cursed loudly, “Small in size but causing more trouble than anyone else!”
Fortunately, after the Daoist Ancestor’s corpse gained consciousness, the awareness was weak and couldn’t control such a large body. Currently, only the head could move, the arms were stiff, providing little disturbance to humans. But if the whole body becomes active, stretching out its arms and legs, none of the humans living on the legs would survive!
“Just because the size is big doesn’t mean that everyone can grow tall!” Jiang Li roared, demonstrating the Dharma Manifestation in the World, which was also unimaginably huge.
He pressed onto the Daoist Ancestor’s hands, resisted the head, took out his Divine Sense, and entered through the Daoist Ancestor’s brow.
The Taoist Ancestor’s Spiritual Platform was a scene of decay, with only a white-robed shadow standing in it, frowning slightly, unable to understand the current situation. He was bored inside and wanted to destroy something. He knew he had the power, but he couldn’t control it very well.
He wanted to control his body.
His intuition told him that once he could control his own body, he could do whatever he wanted.
This was the newly formed consciousness of the Daoist Ancestor, and the shadow was gradually condensing.
“Although you may not know, you shouldn’t have appeared, but sorry.” Jiang Li’s Divine Sense was blazing hot, having a strong restraining effect on the Daoist Ancestor’s shadow which couldn’t even be considered a soul.
The Daoist Ancestor was unrivaled in his Daoist skills during his lifetime, but his shadow was like a Red Dust Immortal, knowing nothing of his past life and unable to perform any Daoist techniques. He could only strike blindly according to his instincts.
But such a clumsy version of him had no chance of defeating Jiang Li and was quickly destroyed by Jiang Li.
With the return of his Divine Sense, Jiang Li pushed the Daoist Ancestor’s raised head back down again.
This was not a battle, only a clean-up for Tian Yin, so Jiang Li caught Tian Yin in his hand and hit him until his seal body cracked open.
This time, however, Tian Yin did not cry, only silently enduring the pain.
It also knew that it had made a big mistake.
The matter was over, but there were still many mysteries, which made Jiang Li frown.
He suddenly remembered that he had once asked the system store if there were any nuclear bombs for sale, and the system’s reply was “Please go to the other world first”.
He opened the store interface and found that the content had indeed been updated. There were now items from this world, such as light brains, sun-like projectiles, etc., and the prices were not high.
He didn’t need these things for now, as he wanted to buy something else.
Among a host of high-tech goods, he found an out-of-place antique. It was a Stele that would cost several hundred thousand source points.
The store’s description of the stele was: Information left by the Daoist Ancestor at the time of his demise.
Jiang Li knew he had guessed correctly. The Daoist Ancestor, being such a
significant figure, couldn’t have left nothing behind.
To find the Daoist Ancestor’s things here would likely take several years, using Divine Sense to search bit by bit, it would be a waste of time.
Jiang Li decided to buy it directly.
It was worth it even if it was only worth tens of Body Integration Realm cultivation techniques.
“There was a great chaos in Immortal Realm… Out of helplessness, I brought your ancestors to this world… The enemy pursued closely… There was a big battle… The opponent was too powerful… I lost… I turned myself into a continent… I provided a place of refuge for you, they dare not… But they contaminated my Ah Qing… I had no power to stop… I’m sorry…”
It’s unclear where this stele is located; it’s seriously damaged, and only a part of the inscription is legible.
Jiuzhou was using the same language as the Immortal Realm, and when Jiang Li saw that the inscription on the stele was in Jiuzhou’s language, he thought it was written for people in Jiuzhou to see. But after reading the content of the inscription, he felt that it was written for Ming Zhong and the other Immortal Realm survivors.
After coming to this place, Jiang Li learned the language of this world. It seems that Ming Zhong and the others had forgotten their own language in the long course of history.
Jiang Li knew that not everyone in the Immortal Realm was an Immortal.
Immortals had descendants, and they needed people to serve them. In the
Immortal Realm, there were also cultivators who were not yet Immortal. The Immortal Realm survivors brought along by the Daoist Ancestor were probably these people.
Only after the Daoist Ancestor’s death there occurred some unknown changes, causing Ming Zhong and the others to forget their origins, and chose to tread the path of technology instead.
“Would it be possible to use source points to complete the stele?”
[This product does not support completion with source points]
Seeing that it was useful this time, Jiang Li didn’t complain about the system’s inability.
The stele answered some questions, but it still didn’t make Jiang Li understand why the Heavenly Demons didn’t kill Ming Zhong and the others.
In the Daoist Ancestor’s words, it was “daring not”.
Jiang Li showed the stele to Tian Yin and Ming Zhong, saying that he found it in the Daoist Ancestor’s brow.
“So we come from the Immortal Realm.” Ming Zhong was silent for a moment before quickly accepting their identity.
Knowing that Ming Zhong and the others were the people the Daoist Ancestor wanted to protect, Tian Yin developed a liking for this world, apart from feeling sad.
“Since this is something left by the Daoist Ancestor for you, this stele belongs to you.” Jiang Li handed the stele to Ming Zhong, preparing to leave.
“Will we see each other again in the future?
Jiang Li replied with a smile, “That will depend on whether we can find the sentient Fantian Tower.”
With the power of the Fantian Tower, it should be no problem to create a channel connecting Jiuzhou and Ming Zhong’s world.
Ming Zhong did not understand his meaning, but instead, it was Tian Yin who said firmly, “We WILL find it!”
After the man and the seal left, Ming Zhong took out a button.
The light-brain appeared and emotionlessly asked, “President no.506, the peak of accumulation era has not yet been reached, do you want to prematurely initiate the hair-thin opportunity era?”
The light-brain had asked the question thrice, and Ming Zhong confirmed it thrice without annoyance, finally pressing the button.
Now the mainland was only inhabited by monsters at the Nascent Soul Stage, destroyed by Jiang Li. With human technology, they could easily defeat them and retake their lost territory.
It was time for humans to have emotions again..