novellk Chapter 1558 The Shameless Trio
Chapter 1558 The Shameless Trio
Chapter 1558 The Shameless Trio
"Where am I? This can't be the outside world!"
As soon as Su Qingyan's jade-like feet touched the soft green grass, she couldn't help but let out a soft gasp.
She looked down at the shimmering grass at her feet, her fingertips gently brushing against a strange flower with seven-colored petals. The moment the petals touched her fingertips, they transformed into a string of tiny light particles that merged into her body, instantly replenishing her depleted spiritual energy.
It's no wonder she asked that question; everything in Wang Xian's inner world was completely different from the cultivation world she knew.
The sky above was not the usual azure, but a void flowing with seven-colored clouds, within which countless stars could be vaguely seen moving slowly like fireflies; the distant mountains were not made of earth and stone, but of translucent crystals of laws, with visible Dao patterns flowing across their surfaces; the air was filled with a dense, almost liquefied spiritual energy, and with each breath, her immortal abode emitted a comfortable hum.
Especially when she used her divine sense to explore the surrounding laws, her expression suddenly changed slightly.
The rules system in this world is completely different from those in the Heavenly Realm; it lacks the cold, code-like "data-driven rules."
It was precisely by relying on data-driven rules that she was able to break through to the peak of 'Nine Revolutions Immortal Emperor' in just a few thousand years.
Here, however, the laws flowed naturally like living things, impossible to quantify with data. This sense of both strangeness and familiarity made her subconsciously tighten her grip on the jade flute in her hand.
Yan Yangjun's gaze swept over the surroundings with scrutiny. The flame totem on the fire armor became active the moment it came into contact with the spiritual energy of the inner world, and the originally dull armor plates shone with a warm luster.
He could sense that although the laws of heaven and earth here were different from those of the outside world, they contained a more primordial and purer power, as if he had returned to the chaotic era at the beginning of the universe.
When he noticed Su Qingyan's unusual behavior, he also turned his questioning gaze to Wang Xian.
As for the big fat Taoist and the little fat Taoist, the two were already sitting on the grass with familiar expressions. The big fat Taoist was breaking off a mushroom that could glow on its own and studying it, while the little fat Taoist was waving the Ten Thousand Souls Crying Flute around on the grass. The soul blood that overflowed from the flute's hole fell onto the grass leaves, causing the grass to grow several feet faster.
This wasn't their first time here, and they showed no surprise.
“This is naturally not outside the Heavenly Realm,” Wang Xian said, a smile playing on his lips as he looked at Su Qingyan’s slightly nervous expression. “This is my inner world.”
He paused, his gaze sweeping across their faces. "You should already have some guesses, shouldn't you?"
Su Qingyan suddenly realized why she couldn't sense the existence of data-driven rules—the inner world is a small world evolved by cultivators from their own origins, and its laws naturally operate differently from those of the outside world.
Yan Yangjun nodded, but his heart was filled with turbulent waves. He had cultivated for tens of thousands of years and had seen the inner worlds of many cultivators, but none of them contained such a vast amount of primordial power as Wang Xian's inner world.
The concentration of spiritual energy in the air alone is a hundred times higher than that in the core area of the forbidden zone outside.
“You two must be very curious about my inner world, so feel free to take a look around.” Wang Xian patted the two Taoists on the shoulder, signaling them to follow. “I have some things to take care of, I’ll talk to you later.”
He planned to take these two clowns to see the Thief King, wanting to see what magical changes would occur when three equally "shameless" guys got together.
"it is good."
Su Qingyan readily agreed, her gaze already drawn to the distant mountain peak composed of law crystals. She gently twirled the jade flute in her hand, clearly wanting to go up and explore it.
Yan Yangjun did not refuse. He wanted to study the laws governing the inner world, hoping to find a way to repair the Fire Armor's origin.
Both of them could tell that Wang Xian was indeed busy, so they wisely refrained from asking further questions.
Just as Su Qingyan and Yan Yangjun turned to leave, Wang Xian suddenly remembered something and quickly said, "By the way, my inner world is divided into three areas. You can explore the inner area for now, and don't go to the central or outer areas."
Wang Xian recalled the situation in his inner world and hurriedly reminded Su Qingyan and Yan Yangjun as they were about to leave.
"it is good."
"Ah."
Su Qingyan and Yan Yangjun naturally had no objection to such a request; guests should act like guests.
Watching the two figures disappear in the direction of the crystal mountains, Wang Xiancai turned around with the two Taoists, and in a flash, they appeared above a planet exuding a strange aura.
This planet has no official name; the beings of the inner world privately call it the "Demon Star." It is a universally recognized forbidden place in the entire inner world, and its danger level even exceeds that of the Celestial King Star, where the King Immortal's palace is located.
Although Celestial King Star is heavily guarded, as long as you follow the rules, you can always leave safely; but Demon Star is different. Here, you can see all sorts of bizarre creations made by demons—flowers that can devour souls, mechanical puppets that can assemble themselves, unknown skeletons retrieved from the chaotic void... Even Thief Venerable, one of the Ten Venerables of the Heavenly Realm, once sneaked in here to steal a treasure, but was chased by an insect for three days and three nights, and was finally rescued by Wang Xian.
"Tsk tsk, this place is really eerie."
The fat Taoist priest had just landed when he was startled by a wriggling patch of black soil beneath his feet and quickly jumped away.
The chubby Taoist priest stared at a metal palace floating in mid-air in the distance. The palace's surface was covered with silver vines, and the fruits on the vines had human faces, winking and making faces at them. "Brother, look at those fruits, they seem to be cursing us."
Wang Xian ignored the two clowns and focused his gaze on a large, solitary tomb standing in the valley not far away.
The tomb was entirely black, made of an unknown material, and covered with a thick layer of moss. Intricate runes could be faintly seen beneath the moss. There was no tombstone in front of the tomb, only two stone pillars carved with skulls. Chain-like black energy was wrapped around the pillars, and ghostly wails could be heard from within the black energy.
In fact, as soon as they entered the planet, the big fat Taoist and the little fat Taoist stared intently at the large tomb as if drawn by a magnet, their eyes gleaming with greed.
The fat Taoist priest even subconsciously licked his lips: "Good heavens, the feng shui of this tomb... no, the aura of this tomb is definitely the resting place of a supreme expert!"
The chubby Taoist priest nodded repeatedly, took out the Ten Thousand Souls Crying Flute, and gestured towards the tomb: "The spirits inside the flute are excited; there must be something good down there!"
When Wang Xian saw this scene, the corner of her mouth twitched involuntarily.
These two guys just can't shake their habit of tomb raiding no matter where they go.
He cleared his throat and warned in a serious tone, "If you two don't want to die, you'd better not get your hands on that big tomb."
The excitement on the two Taoist priests' faces froze instantly, and they looked at Wang Xian with suspicion. The fat Taoist priest scratched his head: "Old Wang, is there something wrong with this tomb? It doesn't look dangerous to me."
"It's a big problem."
Wang Xian gazed at the large tomb, his expression turning solemn. "This tomb was brought back by Yao Yao from the chaotic void storm. It took her three days and three nights to drag it out of the storm and place it here. She then set up forty-nine layers of restrictions around it."
He paused, recalling Yao Yao's unusual behavior at the time, and added, "Moreover, after Yao Yao placed it, she stood in front of the grave for a whole day, and then never came near it again."
Although the two Taoist priests were immoral, they were not stupid. They instantly understood the danger involved, and the greed on their faces was gradually replaced by fear. They reluctantly withdrew their gazes.
Wang Xian didn't say anything more and led them towards the depths of the planet.
The deeper you go, the more bizarre the surrounding scenery becomes: mechanical parts float in rivers flowing with lava, flying vines entwine skulls as wind chimes, and what falls from the sky is not rain, but colorful runes... After a while, a palace assembled from all sorts of strange parts appears before your eyes.
The palace gate was a huge bronze mirror, its surface covered with cracks; the palace walls were made of alternating pieces of animal bones and metal plates; a black flag was planted at the top of the palace, on which was drawn a crooked smiling face.
Wang Xian simply didn't know how to describe Yao Yao's aesthetic sense.
For this reason, Wang Xian mocked Yao Yao more than once.
Of course, doing so would result in a severe beating.
"arrive."
Wang Xian landed in front of the palace, and the bronze mirror door slid open automatically to both sides, revealing an even more chaotic scene inside—the ground was piled with various experimental equipment, bottles filled with colored liquids floated in the air, and several three-eyed cats with wings were squatting in the corner.
On the sofa in the center of the palace, Yao Yao was holding a magnifying glass and studying a frog with eight legs.
Hearing the noise, Yao Yao raised her head, revealing a face so exquisite it defied description—it was Yao Yao.
Sitting on the chair next to Yao Yao was a fat Taoist priest, none other than Dao Zun.
He was playing with a copper coin that was spinning on its own when he heard the noise. He looked up and his gaze lingered on the two Taoist priests for a moment, a slight smile appearing on his lips.
Almost simultaneously, the gazes of the fat Taoist priest and the little fat Taoist priest also fell on the Thief Lord. Their eyes lit up, and they said in unison, "Fellow Daoists!"
Upon hearing this, the Thief Lord raised an eyebrow, slowly stood up, and dusted himself off.
"interesting……"
Yao Yao put down the magnifying glass in her hand, jumped off the sofa, walked barefoot to the middle of the three, and scanned the three wicked Taoist priests back and forth with her eyes. The smile on her lips grew brighter and brighter. "This is really too interesting."
Wang Xian walked to the sofa and sat down. She picked up a glass of bubbling green liquid from the table, stared at it for a while, but still didn't dare to take a sip.
Setting down his cup, Wang Xian looked at Yao Yao and asked, "What's interesting about it? I don't see it."
He knew that the three unscrupulous Taoists were one being, one of the ten Venerables who gave headaches to the will of the 'Heavenly Realm' and 'Dao Lord-level' powerhouses, but now, looking at the three unscrupulous Taoists, he really couldn't see what was so interesting about them.
However, Wang Xian also knew that his level of understanding and insight were far inferior to Yao Yao's. It was perfectly normal that he couldn't see what Yao Yao could see.
Yao Yao turned around, put her hands behind her back, circled Wang Xian once, and slowly said, "Do you know what all living beings, or rather all beings with self-awareness, are pursuing throughout their entire lives?"
"Power? Realm?"
Wang Xian casually replied that this was the goal of most cultivators.
“Superficial.” Yao Yao shook her finger. “It’s a qualitative change of the self. Cultivation, enlightenment, and even defying fate are all essentially about breaking through one’s own limitations and completing the transformation from the ‘current form’ to the ‘higher form’. And cultivation is just the most effective and simplest method among them.”
Wang Xian seemed to be deep in thought. A cultivator's self-cultivation is indeed about constantly breaking through their own limits.
"So, the Thief Lord splitting into three was also to break through his own limitations and achieve a qualitative change?"
His gaze fell once again on the three "immoral" Taoist priests, and a vague guess formed in his mind.
“That’s right!” Yao Yao snapped her fingers, her eyes gleaming with excitement. “I wasn’t quite sure before, but seeing the three of them standing together, I’m certain now. The Thief Lord must have obtained a fragment of the Dao Lord’s secret technique back then, and that technique happens to be related to ‘proving the Dao with one’s own body.’ However, the Thief Lord only obtained a fragment, so he must have combined his own understanding and used himself as a test subject to create this method of ‘split body cultivation’.”
Yao Yao circled around the three unscrupulous Taoist priests a few times: "The three of them seem independent, but in fact their origins are connected. When they reach their limits, they may be able to merge into one, break through their current realm, and break through to the 'Dao Lord level' or higher."
Wang Xian looked at the three Taoist priests huddled together, seemingly plotting some wicked scheme, and a sudden twitch appeared between his brows, giving him a strange sense of unease.
After all, the immoral deeds of a single unscrupulous Taoist priest can attract the pursuit of countless powerful beings across the myriad realms. The things that three unscrupulous Taoist priests could do together are enough to make one tremble with fear just by thinking about them.
As Yao Yao watched them whispering, her smile grew even more sinister. She quietly said to Wang Xian, "Do you believe that in less than three days, they can turn your inner world upside down?"
Wang Xian glanced at the three unscrupulous Taoist priests, then saw a bird carrying a skull flying past the window, and nodded in agreement.
Therefore, Wang Xian decided that for the sake of the stability of his inner world, it would be better to throw the three unscrupulous Taoists out of his inner world and let them wreak havoc on the various forces of the 'Eternal Universe'!
Thinking this to himself, Wang Xian did just that. Without giving the three wicked Taoists any chance, a black hole immediately appeared beneath their feet and swallowed them whole before they could react.
Seeing this, Yao Yao was slightly taken aback, and then burst into laughter.
indeed!
To ensure that Wang Xian's inner world is not harmed by the three unscrupulous Taoists, throwing them out of the inner world is indeed the most effective and fastest method.
outside world.
The three unscrupulous Taoist priests looked at each other, and then burst into laughter.