Chapter 67: The Future?
Mingyan was overjoyed upon hearing this. “Please speak, Great Empress!”
Great Empress Qingzi continued, “I have a Dao field on the edge of the Southern Continent. There, I have left behind a teleportation array that I built when I was studying the Western Continent. That transporter was constructed by me through other means, so even if the spatial laws are damaged now, you can still reach the central area of the Western Continent through that teleportation array. But there may be some differences from the target point I initially set, but the impact is not great. And there, I have also left a Dao field. You can leave in the same way.”
Mingyan quickly asked for the location of Great Empress Qingzi’s Dao field. After the Great Empress had told Mingyan the address, she soon fell silent, and Feng Shiyi once again fell into a deep sleep.
Before, Mingyan had been a little surprised. Because this place in the Western Continent was so mysterious, for the Great Empress to just let him go there, did she really think he would not get lost in the dream? It turned out that she hadn’t finished her words before. She had actually left some guarantees that would allow Mingyan to enter the central area of the Western Continent.
Thinking back to that time, the Great Empress had indeed not finished speaking before she had lost her voice. The situation she had encountered at that time should have been quite urgent. And from now on, it seemed she still couldn’t get away. Mingyan let out a long breath.
And, from this tone, the place associated with the three white jade small swords should also be in the central area of the Western Continent.
Mingyan thought for a moment and first told Wang Qingchu about this matter. And after Wang Qingchu heard about it, she told Mingyan that the place where his mother had walked out should also be the central area of the Western Continent.
This made Mingyan can’t help but suspect, were these three white jade keys related to his mother?
Thinking of this, Mingyan immediately chased after Gu Hanshuang with Yue Ningshuang and Ning Feixuan.
Gu Hanshuang had not gone far, so the three of them did not spend much effort and caught up with her near the first small teleportation array.
Mingyan directly told Gu Hanshuang what Great Empress Qingzi had told him. Gu Hanshuang’s brow twitched slightly, and she looked at Mingyan with a subtle expression. “Really?”
“Do you think I would lie to you?” seeing that Gu Hanshuang actually didn’t believe him, Mingyan was also a little speechless.
“It’s just that it’s too much of a coincidence… don’t you think?” Gu Hanshuang looked at Mingyan. He had no way before, but just as she had left, he had found a way. This made Gu Hanshuang have to suspect that Mingyan was… deceiving her.
Mingyan said seriously, “I would not lie in the name of Great Empress Qingzi. You have also seen Feng Shiyi and know that I can contact the Great Empress at certain times.”
After hearing this, Gu Hanshuang looked at Mingyan for a while, and only then did she let out a long sigh. “Forget it, forget it. Then I will go to the Western Continent with you…”
Seeing Gu Hanshuang agree, Mingyan finally sighed in relief. Because he had a feeling that once he found the origin of his mother, perhaps he could save her faster!
…
In the Southern Continent, the group of four came to a remote mountain forest.
The spiritual energy here was quite scarce. Only mortals and wild beasts lived here. No one knew that there was actually a Dao field of Great Empress Qingzi hidden here. Of course, the Great Empress had already become an Emperor. This Dao field was not a place for cultivation, but was simply used to study the secrets of the Western Continent.
It could be seen that even a Great Emperor seemed to be very interested in the Western Continent.
After all, the Western Continent was indeed completely different from the other three continents. This place was surrounded by a mysterious substance. If one was not careful, one would be dragged into a dream…
Soon, the four of them found a residence. The house was made of wood and looked very ordinary, like one built by an ordinary person living in seclusion in the mountains. It did not look like the residence of a Great Empress.
Mingyan stood outside the door, reached out, and pushed the door. He found that there was some kind of restriction on it. But not long after Mingyan’s hand touched it, the restriction was automatically removed. Mingyan’s hand touched the wooden door, and he pushed it open.
The room was very empty, and a complex formation was carved on the ground. This should be the teleportation array Great Empress Qingzi had mentioned.
Mingyan took a rough look and found that its shape was very similar to the teleportation arrays he knew, but the details were completely different. He wanted to remember it in his mind, but he was surprised to find that no matter how he wanted to remember, he would forget it completely after a single thought…
The reason for this situation was very simple. It was generally because he had come into contact with something that he could not originally touch and was far above his current cultivation level.
But this was not the key. Mingyan began to inject spiritual energy into the teleportation array. But as soon as he started, his vast Qi Sea was directly drawn out of half its capacity. This made Mingyan’s face change slightly. Was it so consuming of spiritual energy?
Mingyan’s Qi Sea was much wider than an ordinary Divine Gate’s Qi Sea and should be comparable to a Tai Yi or Divine Seal’s Qi Sea. But even so, it had directly drawn half of his Qi Sea’s spiritual energy…
Not only that, the teleportation array did not stop and was still continuously drawing Mingyan’s spiritual energy. But his ability to create spiritual energy with his Taiyin and Taiyang was about the same as the subsequent drawing speed, so the consumption was maintained.
“Mingyan?” Yue Ningshuang’s cultivation was much higher than his. Feeling the change in Mingyan’s spiritual energy, she couldn’t help but say with some worry.
Mingyan shook his head at Yue Ningshuang, indicating that he was fine.
Yue Ningshuang bit her lip, endured it, and did not continue to speak.
Her spiritual energy capacity was countless times higher than Mingyan’s, but she did not dare to show it. After all, she couldn’t expose the fact that she was a Saint, right?
Then Mingyan would probably have to think of her as Ning Mengru.
Fortunately, Mingyan’s spiritual power was already enough. The teleportation array was quickly activated. The four of them did not hesitate and directly stepped into it.
After the teleportation array lit up, in almost the blink of an eye, Mingyan felt that he had been teleported to another place. He blinked, looked around. So fast?!
This was obviously no longer the previous Dao field. Was this the Western Continent?
Mingyan looked around. This was under a certain mountain. A gurgling spring flowed down the mountain. The scenery was beautiful, and the spiritual energy was quite rich. But the problem was… where were Yue Ningshuang, Ning Feixuan, and Gu Hanshuang who were with him?
How come he was alone?
It had to be said that the teleportation array left by the Great Empress was indeed easy to use. And from the Great Empress’s meaning, it seemed to be operated by other laws, not by spatial laws. So was it different from the previous large teleportation gates and small teleportation arrays?
But now was not the time to think about these things. Mingyan wandered around the vicinity, completely released his divine sense, and searched for others. Finally, he found a person, Ning Feixuan!
Mingyan quickly rushed over and found that it was really just Ning Feixuan. She seemed to be also looking for others, so she was also coming towards Mingyan. The two of them met.
“Feixuan? Where are the others?” Mingyan quickly asked.
Ning Feixuan shook her head. “I just closed my eyes, and when I opened them again, I was already teleported here. I didn’t see anyone else…”
Hearing this, Mingyan frowned and suddenly remembered that Great Empress Qingzi seemed to have said that the current teleportation array was slightly different from the target point she had initially set. So that was why everyone had landed in different places, right?
Thinking of this, Mingyan was slightly relieved. Even if they were scattered, they should all be nearby. There was no need to worry too much.
Speaking of which, Mingyan suddenly looked at Ning Feixuan and couldn’t help but ask, “Feixuan, before, when I was at Yaochi, there was a period of time when I couldn’t feel your existence. I could clearly see you, but in my divine sense, you seemed to not exist at all… but now it seems that my divine sense can feel your existence again…”
“This…” Ning Feixuan said with some embarrassment, “Before, ancestor Wang Qingchu had called me over and gave me a secret treasure, which was why it had that effect before. But I am not using that secret treasure now.”
A gift from my sister? Mingyan’s heart stirred… he couldn’t help but think of the matter of cause and effect his sister had mentioned before…
Could it be that my sister still hopes that Ning Feixuan and I will get together?
But since we have already missed each other, why bother?
Mingyan looked at Ning Feixuan, which made Ning Feixuan blush. She shyly observed Mingyan’s expression, her heart beating very fast…
But Mingyan quickly looked away. Seeing this, Ning Feixuan’s heart couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed. But she thought again, at least Mingyan had stared at her for a period of time, right?
The two of them did not stay here for long. Soon, Yue Ningshuang and Gu Hanshuang appeared in their divine sense at the same time. Ning Feixuan bit her lip. This time of being alone was so short. It made her very regretful. But she also understood that now, business was important. It was not the time to talk about love.
A while later, Yue Ningshuang and Gu Hanshuang returned together. Yue Ningshuang had a smile on her face, calling Mingyan husband one after another, and soon she was holding him. And Gu Hanshuang’s gaze at Yue Ningshuang was a little strange…
Just now, Gu Hanshuang and Mingyan’s group were the same. They were teleported to the vicinity. There was no one in her divine sense range. But not long after, Yue Ningshuang had come over. After the two of them had met, Yue Ningshuang had said to just walk in a random direction and see if they could meet Mingyan’s group.
But it didn’t take long for Mingyan’s group to really appear in their divine sense range…
Was this a coincidence?
According to the time, it shouldn’t have taken Yue Ningshuang much time to find her. Because after the teleportation was completed, Gu Hanshuang had not yet made a decision when Yue Ningshuang had appeared. And after that, Yue Ningshuang had found Mingyan in a straight line…
This made Gu Hanshuang a little strange. Could it be that this woman’s actual cultivation was much higher than she looked?
After the four of them had gathered, they decided to first find the other Dao field the Great Empress had mentioned, to first ensure that they could go home.
…
The four of them left the previous area and came to a nearby town. There were also cultivators here, but their strength was very ordinary. The four of them, four Divine Gates, were already top-tier existences.
Although the Western Continent had a thick veil of mystery, at least in this central part of the Western Continent, the ordinary people and cultivators here were no different from the Eastern Continent.
But the news here was very poor. They seemed to know very little about the other three continents, and even didn’t know that this was the Western Continent… they only knew that the outside was very unsafe and had been invaded by invaders from the outer realms… that’s right. Their memory was still stuck in the era of the last Dark Era…
But the Western Continent was originally very closed. Plus, the special reason of the Great Dream of the Western Continent, many people did not dare to come to the Western Continent. Even if they came to the Western Continent, they might be trapped in the dream and completely become a different person. So it was normal for the news to be blocked.
Thinking about it carefully, the Western Continent was indeed an extremely strange place on the Yao Guang star. Even a Great Emperor seemed to be helpless against the mysterious substance that currently enveloped most of the Western Continent. Even Great Empress Qingzi, wasn’t she also studying the mysterious substance?
No matter what, the four of them asked for the general direction of the two addresses the Great Empress had mentioned and first found her Dao field before heading to the place related to the white jade small sword.
When the four of them arrived nearby and searched for a while, they made a discovery.
There was an abandoned village here. And seeing this village, Mingyan’s face changed.
Because this abandoned village was too familiar?!
Wasn’t this Sun Moon Village?
Yue Ningshuang’s and Ning Feixuan’s faces also changed. Both of them had been to Sun Moon Village. Yue Ningshuang had gone with Mingyan, and Ning Feixuan had saved Mingyan in Sun Moon Village. So they were both deeply impressed by it.
“What’s going on?!” Mingyan was very surprised. He jumped up and looked down at this village, and found that it was exactly the same as Sun Moon Village!
Whether it was the river that ran through the village! Or the two wells that were like the Shao Yin and Shao Yang in a Tai Chi diagram… and even the tombstones of those villagers!
Mingyan descended from the sky and came to the front of those few tombstones. His face changed again and again!
Because he found that these tombstones were all erected by his own hands! How was this possible?!
Had he returned to the Eastern Continent?!
Thinking about it carefully, the path he had just come from seemed a bit like Dragon Ridge?!
But how could he have returned to the Eastern Continent?!
Mingyan looked up at the sky and found that the sky was black… his sister had said that the Western Continent was in eternal night, with no daytime… they had also been on the road for more than a day, and the sky had not changed… this was the Western Continent, right?
Or was it… that he had unknowingly entered a dream?!
“Mingyan? What’s going on?” Yue Ningshuang, Ning Feixuan, and Gu Hanshuang stood by Mingyan’s side. Gu Hanshuang did not feel anything unusual, but Yue Ningshuang and Ning Feixuan already felt very strange.
So Yue Ningshuang couldn’t help but ask.
Mingyan shook his head and told the other three his discovery. Now, even Gu Hanshuang’s eyes became serious. “Are you telling the truth? Is this really exactly the same as your birthplace?”
“That’s right!” Mingyan nodded seriously. He looked at the river in the village. In the Eastern Continent, upstream of this river was the cave where his mother was trapped…
And here, was what Great Empress Qingzi had said… the place associated with the three white jade small swords…
“Do you remember when we were in the town, someone said that there were invaders from the outer realms invading outside?” Ning Feixuan looked at Mingyan and couldn’t help but say, “If it’s really as you said, and these tombs were all erected by you… here… could it be…?”
