Chapter 771: Divine Sealing Technique, Divine Sealing Scroll

Chapter 771 -329: Divine Sealing Technique, Divine Sealing Scroll

It was as if he could see black and white armies clashing on a compass.

That chessboard was the Realm Compass.

The game pieces were like the Five Elements Spiritual Power of heaven and earth, gathering and merging, grinding against one another in repulsion, then canceling each other out upon fusion.

An unknown amount of time passed.

CLANG!

As the last piece was placed, Chu Lingguang’s entire body jolted.

His surroundings changed.

He found himself in the Stone Forest. The investigation and the two old men playing chess were nowhere to be seen.

To his astonishment, he realized he was just outside the Immortal King’s Tomb, within the very Stone Forest covered by the Restriction Array. He clearly remembered waiting outside the Stone Forest for three days. After receiving no response from the Nascent Soul Ghosts, he had left that place, intending to return to the Profound Celestial Sect.

He had encountered a tea stall on the way.

Seeing many other Cultivators seated there, he had stopped for a cup of tea. He then became captivated by two old men playing chess, not realizing he would become so completely engrossed.

Only when the last piece was placed did he snap back to reality, realizing he was somehow in the Stone Forest outside the Immortal King’s Tomb.

‘Could it be that I was trapped in an Illusion Realm from the very beginning?’

‘Or maybe I’m still in the Illusion Realm right now.’

Chu Lingguang was bewildered.

He tried to walk out of the Stone Forest. The so-called Restriction Array never appeared, and he encountered no danger, leaving the forest with ease.

HUM!

The instant he stepped out, the Restriction Array within the Stone Forest reappeared before him, visible to the naked eye. It was like dense layers of runes covering the area, and markings also materialized on the ground.

It was as if anyone who dared to enter, no matter how high their cultivation, would be devoured by the Restriction Array, leaving not even bones behind.

‘What’s going on?’

‘Did Yan help me, or was it the senior ghosts inside?’

Chu Lingguang couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

For an expert of his caliber—one who had achieved Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment—to become trapped so deeply in an Illusion Realm within an Ancient Perilous Land that he couldn’t escape… it was something he had never imagined possible. And yet, it had truly happened to him.

“Hm?”

Suddenly, Chu Lingguang, now outside the Stone Forest, discovered he was clutching a cowhide scroll.

He looked around, bewildered.

He hurriedly opened it to inspect it.

Inside the cowhide scroll was a depiction of a chessboard. The pieces on it seemed to move, forming torrents of text that would be incomprehensible to others, but which appeared as a clear storm of words to Chu Lingguang.

“The Profound Celestial Sect and the Cyan Cloud Sect share the same roots. He who holds the Divine Sealing Scroll and masters the Divine Sealing Technique can command the people of both sects.”

The words echoed in Chu Lingguang’s mind like the beating of a drum.

Chu Lingguang was dumbfounded.

He had only been in Great Qin for about a decade.

His knowledge of the history between the Profound Celestial Sect and the Cyan Cloud Sect was superficial at best. When he first joined the Profound Celestial Sect, he had known they had many conflicts with the Cyan Cloud Sect.

After the recent incident at the Immortal King’s Tomb, the two sects had become as incompatible as fire and water, frequently clashing and killing each other in secret.

The words of Yun Hong and Yun Shu had not been baseless. Chu Lingguang had even prepared for the Profound Celestial Sect and Cyan Cloud Sect to go to war, but he never expected they shared such a deep-seated history.

But this cowhide scroll in his hand…

The Divine Sealing Scroll, the Divine Sealing Technique?

Chu Lingguang examined it again. Although the text was formed by the images of game pieces, for some unknown reason, he could read the contents with perfect clarity.

He was immensely curious as to how he had obtained this item in such a bewildering manner.

And how he had ended up inside the Stone Forest.

Filled with questions, Chu Lingguang scouted the area for a while before returning to the Profound Celestial Sect.

Along the way, Chu Lingguang tried to find the tea stall again. His Spiritual Sense extended out to a range of thirty-five li, but despite searching for several days, he couldn’t find any trace of it.

‘Could this be the second strand of Immortal Fate I’ve obtained from the Immortal King’s Tomb?’

Chu Lingguang muttered to himself.

‘Master is worldly and experienced, and she’s been cultivating in Great Qin all this time. She’s sure to know what’s going on.’

Chu Lingguang decided to ask Yang Rong.

“She’s in seclusion?”

But upon returning to the Profound Celestial Sect, he learned from Zhou Changqing that Yang Rong was in seclusion. She was attempting to refine an Extraordinary Foundation Establishment Pill to help those at the Qi Refining stage successfully achieve Foundation Establishment.

It might even allow those with weaker foundations to achieve Immortal Dao Foundation Establishment, or even Divine Dao Foundation Establishment.

Chu Lingguang was deeply shaken when he heard this.

For a Cultivator to successfully establish their foundation was already an act of defying the heavens. Immortal Dao and Divine Dao Foundation Establishment were even greater hurdles that very few could ever hope to overcome.

And yet, Yang Rong was attempting to refine an Elixir Pill that could allow an ordinary Qi Refining disciple to achieve Immortal Dao Foundation Establishment, or perhaps even Divine Dao Foundation Establishment.

This was truly an act of defying the heavens.

It was even more incredible than his own achievement of Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

With no other choice, Chu Lingguang could only search for the answers himself.

Fortunately, the Profound Celestial Sect’s collection of books and treasured texts contained a wealth of historical records he could consult.

As an Elder of the Profound Celestial Sect and the Direct Disciple of Yang Rong, Chu Lingguang had a great deal of authority within the sect. He sequestered himself in the Scripture Pavilion, where he remained for several months.

At first, he had no leads.

But slowly, he finally began to understand the history between the Profound Celestial Sect and the Cyan Cloud Sect.

It turned out that the founder of the Cyan Cloud Sect had originally been a disciple of the Profound Celestial Sect’s own founder. During an expedition, he happened to form a small group, which slowly grew larger until it eventually became a sect in its own right.

Initially, the Cyan Cloud Sect was subordinate to the Profound Celestial Sect.

Later, after their founder passed away, friction began to develop between the Profound Celestial Sect and the Cyan Cloud Sect. The two sects eventually split, leading to frequent conflicts and even bloodshed.

Over time, the situation devolved into its current state.

But because this history was so ancient, very few people knew about it.

However, the Profound Celestial Sect disciple who founded the Cyan Cloud Sect, along with the Profound Celestial Sect’s own founder, had left behind a contingency. The Cultivation Technique passed down in the Cyan Cloud Sect had been split off from the Profound Celestial Sect’s own technique.

That original Cultivation Technique was called the Divine Sealing Technique.

The Profound Celestial Sect’s Cultivation Technique was the Profound Celestial Technique, while the Cyan Cloud Sect’s was the Cyan Cloud Technique. The Divine Sealing Technique could cause these two other techniques to resonate with each other.

A person who cultivated the Divine Sealing Technique could use the fluctuations of their own Spiritual Power to influence the Spiritual Power of those who practiced the Profound Celestial and Cyan Cloud Techniques. Driven by the power of this resonance, all hostility between them would be eliminated.

This was the contingency left behind by the founder of the Profound Celestial Sect.

However, the threshold for cultivating the Divine Sealing Technique was incredibly high; one had to have achieved Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment just to begin.

Through the sect’s ancient records, Chu Lingguang also found information about the Immortal King’s Tomb. The texts recorded that the Tomb and the founder of the Profound Celestial Sect had a shared history.

The two of them had lived in the same era.

‘This Divine Sealing Technique… could the founder have entrusted it to the master of the Immortal King’s Tomb?’

‘But why did it end up in my hands?’

‘Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment!’

‘Was it all fated to be?’

‘Or was this a hidden measure left by the master of the Immortal King’s Tomb, delivered into my hands?’

Chu Lingguang was utterly baffled.

The first time he entered the Immortal King’s Tomb, he was only at the Qi Refining realm. The second time, he had already achieved Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

Yet he hadn’t received the Divine Sealing Technique or the Divine Sealing Scroll on either occasion.

Instead, he obtained the Divine Sealing Scroll and the Divine Sealing Technique only when the Restriction Array of the Immortal King’s Tomb had flared to life.

‘The portrait of the Profound Celestial Sect’s founder!’

Just then, Chu Lingguang came to a stop before a particular wall.

A scroll painting hung upon it.

The scroll depicted two old men playing chess at a tea stall.

A white-robed old man held a black game piece, and a black-robed old man held a white one.

“This is…”

Chu Lingguang felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

This was the very scene he had experienced in the Illusion Realm.

But as an Elder of the Profound Celestial Sect who had been there for a decade, this was not his first time entering the Scripture Pavilion, nor was it his first time seeing this painting.

Yet for some reason, only upon seeing it again now did he feel he could truly see its contents clearly.

‘Could it be that the sudden surge in the Restriction Array’s power allowed the contingency left by those two seniors to sense my presence, causing me to obtain the Divine Sealing Technique and the Divine Sealing Scroll in such a bewildering fashion?’

Chu Lingguang murmured to himself.

After careful consideration, he decided this was the most likely possibility.

The Restriction Array of the Immortal King’s Tomb had previously been in a state of decay. If the Divine Sealing Technique and Divine Sealing Scroll were indeed left behind by the founder of the Profound Celestial Sect for a future successor, then perhaps the array had sensed his presence. This would explain why he encountered the Illusion Realm and received approval within it.

That was how he had obtained the Divine Sealing Scroll and the Divine Sealing Technique.

And yet, even as a Cultivator, Chu Lingguang found the matter too bizarre to fully accept. What kind of Restriction Array could allow him to communicate with his predecessors across the void of time and even receive their legacy?