I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 580 The River of Mortal Dust (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Jiang Yi lay directly on her back on the ground, panting heavily.

Hongli collapsed as well. Although Huagu and Duanjin were exhausted, they still mustered their strength to explore the surroundings and see if there were any other dangers.

Zhaoming Yaoling loyally guarded Jiang Yi's side, never leaving her side.

Hongli raised her head and glanced at them, her tail wagging guiltily twice, and then... continued to lie down, not bothering to be diligent at all.

Qingxiao ran to examine the corpses of the two demons. The turtle's primordial spirit was completely destroyed, leaving only a relatively intact body. It was a demon body at the Nascent Soul level, and every part of it was a treasure.

Qingxiao recalled the precious light that had been swallowed by the two demons. He stretched out a vine and reached into the turtle's mouth. After pondering for a while, he actually pulled out a ball of precious light from the turtle's belly.

Qingxiao disgustedly shook off the sticky sap from the vine, rubbed it on the ground, and then dragged the gleaming axe toward Jiang Yi.

Hongli raised her head again and saw Qingxiao find the treasure and go to claim credit. She quickly got up, ran to the giant snake stone sculpture, circled around it, and stretched out her claws.

As soon as the claw touched the stone carving, the surface of the stone carving suddenly cracked, and the crack spread rapidly. Hong Li thought that the entire stone carving would be shattered into pieces, but unexpectedly only the surface was petrified.

After the outer stone shell broke open, the well-preserved green-scaled snake body inside collapsed to the ground with a thud.

Hongli was overjoyed and, imitating Qingxiao, ran to the head of the Azure Scale Snake. She pried open the snake's mouth with her claws and probed inside. She was so focused that she stuffed her entire fox head into the snake's mouth.

"Hongli!"

Hua Gu suddenly called out from behind. Hong Li was startled and lost her grip on the snake's mouth, which snapped shut and bit Hong Li's head inside, leaving only her body and tail outside, kicking and struggling.

“Hahahahaha——”

Jiang Yi saw this scene as soon as she sat up. She usually doesn't laugh unless she doesn't want to hold it in anymore.

Zhenshan and Duanjin laughed as well, but Huagu didn't laugh. She immediately ran over to help save Hongli's head.

The two demons didn't hide the items in their stomachs, but rather in a separate space within their bodies—a skill possessed by most beast-like demon races.

Hongli didn't receive any tribal guidance when she was young, so she doesn't know how.

Qingxiao is a bit special; he can only use the vine to reach inside and retrieve things, but he only has one chance. He can't take out other things.

After Hua Gu rescued Hong Li's head, Hong Li angrily swung her claw at the snake's head. However, the scales on the snake's head were of the Nascent Soul level, and Hong Li couldn't break them. She even scratched her own fingernail and jumped up with a howl.

Seeing this, Hua Gu sighed, "Idiot Hong Li!"

The tense atmosphere eased because of Hong Li's antics.

Duan Jin came to Jiang Yi's side, squatted down and said, "Master, this space is not big. There is only a Water Cauldron in the central area. The runes on the ground are extremely complex and all connect to the Water Cauldron. Apart from that, there are no other living beings. It is very safe."

Jiang Yi nodded. The upper level was separated by the Netherworld Ghost Fire Pool, so even Nascent Soul cultivators dared not come down, otherwise they would suffer the same fate as Ao Ji. It was indeed very safe.

Duan Jin pulled Jiang Yi to stand up. Jiang Yi turned her head and looked around. She saw that the little boy Zhu Xin was already resting his chin on his hand, observing the rune patterns on the ground.

Seeing that Jiang Yi was alright, Yao Ling ran to the dome above her head and curiously poked at it, making a hole. Seawater poured over her, and Yao Ling angrily slashed at it, but was repelled by the divine power erupting from the dome.

Zhaoming remained rooted to the spot, drawing upon the earth's energy to recover from his previous depletion.

Qingxiao was caught by Huagu and brought to the snake's body, whereupon she was made to retrieve the precious light that Bilin had swallowed.

Jiang Yi said loudly to everyone, "You've all worked hard, please rest first, we're not in a hurry to leave."

After saying that, Jiang Yi walked to Zhu Xin's side and asked, "Have you made any progress? How do we activate the great formation?"

Zhu Xin looked up, annoyed. "So you don't want to use your brain at all anymore? You ask me everything? You were the one who took the mission to activate the formation, not me!"

Jiang Yi laughed, "We're family, why distinguish between yours and mine? You take a look first, and let me know when you have any leads. I'll go check on the cauldron." Zhu Xin rolled his eyes so hard they almost reached the sky. If he weren't naturally thirsty for all kinds of knowledge, he really would have quit!

Jiang Yi walked up to the central water-element cauldron and looked up to observe it.

This cauldron is extremely magnificent, far exceeding the scale of ordinary magical treasures. It seems to have been formed from a section of an ancient, flowing river, condensed from its source water.

Although the body of the cauldron is clearly made of flowing water, it maintains a clear and stable shape under the influence of some supreme power, making it look exceptionally sturdy.

Its surface has ripples like flowing water flowing slowly, reflecting the brilliance of the runes flowing inside the cauldron. The cauldron wall is covered with traces of water naturally condensing, like some kind of ancient runes, containing the ultimate truth of heaven and earth.

Jiang Yi focused her attention and recognized that it was the cloud seal script used during the Kunlun Ancient Immortal Palace period. She carefully touched the cauldron wall with her divine sense, and the Kunlun Dao seal resonated slightly in her sea of ​​consciousness, allowing her to decipher part of the contents.

The text recounts that in the primordial era, the earth's veins were in turmoil and the water element was out of balance. In order to stabilize the four seas and eight wastelands, the Kunlun Immortal Palace sorted out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, collected nine kinds of primordial divine objects, and forged nine boundary-fixing divine cauldrons with different attributes, which were then used to guard the nine directions.

The water cauldron here is one of them, in charge of the water element cycle and suppressing the sea eye.

The cauldron contains boundless power of 'Boundary-Stabilizing Divine Light'. Those who are not true inheritors of Kunlun or possess tokens will be repelled and suppressed if they approach it, or even petrified and annihilated like jade scales if they are not.

"The River of Mortal Dust?"

Jiang Yi's spirits lifted when he saw these four characters in the inscription on the cauldron. The inscription described the water as one of the purest and cleanest spiritual waters in the world, containing the meaning of reincarnation and evolution, and was a derivative of the Water Cauldron.

Jiang Yi immediately approached the huge cauldron and found that it was indeed more than half full of clear, transparent liquid. It did not reflect the light of ordinary water, but rather resembled a mirror that could reflect eternity.

Jiang Yi separated a wisp of her divine consciousness and carefully probed into the strange 'water' inside the cauldron.

hum!
Jiang's consciousness surged, and he felt the scene before him suddenly change, as if he had been thrown into a surging river of time that runs through the past and present!
Countless fragmented yet incredibly real images flooded into her senses like a torrent.

There are the transformations of vast oceans into towering mountains, the evolution of life born from chaos, and the myriad aspects of human life including birth, aging, sickness, and death...

The grand and ancient atmosphere, imbued with the profound sense of birth, death, and reincarnation, deeply moved Jiang Yi, almost causing him to lose himself within it.

She abruptly withdrew her consciousness, fine beads of sweat already forming on her forehead.

"Slay my heart! Come here quickly!"

Zhu Xin was getting impatient studying the ground runes when he heard the noise and flew over, asking irritably, "What is it now?"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw the liquid in the cauldron, and his eyes instantly flashed with an unprecedented brilliance.

"The River of Mortal Dust!"

Jiang Yi nodded, "With this mortal river water, you can break the remaining seals and enter the Nascent Soul stage, right? In that case, Hua Gu and the others can also successfully form their Nascent Souls."

Zhu Xin, unusually youthful, circled the water cauldron once, growing more and more excited as he looked at it.

"Not only will it be enough for me to break the seal and advance, but there will also be a lot left over to store. Jiang Yi, how about we form our Nascent Soul right here?"

Jiang Yi's pupils contracted slightly. "Right here? It's still a mess up upstairs. Aren't you afraid those Nascent Soul cultivators will break through here?"

Zhu Xin said with certainty, "They can't get here. I just studied it. Once you activate the node of the great array here according to the instructions, this secret realm will likely be completely sealed until the power of the great array node is exhausted and needs to be activated again."

“The five of us must form our Nascent Souls together. When that happens, it will be a grand spectacle. It’s too difficult to find a safe place for us to form our Nascent Souls in this outer sea. The spiritual energy here is abundant. Because of you, we are protected by the Divine Light of Boundary Fixation, which is the safest place.”

Jiang Yi nodded. Zhu Xin's words made sense. Moreover, the demons had long been prepared for the formation of the Nascent Soul, but they had been suppressing it because of Zhu Xin.

"Alright, let's form the Nascent Soul right here!"

　see you tomorrow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)