Chapter 114: Chong Ming Restarts the Path to Heaven

Chapter 114: Chapter 114: Chong Ming Restarts the Path to Heaven

"King of Ten Thousand Beasts, since you asked me to help you save a Profound Beast, there’s no time to lose. Why don’t we get down to business?"

Yan Jiuxuan waved her hand and said, "There’s no rush. The Profound Beast I need you to save is an elder who has been in a coma for a very, very long time. To awaken it, the Scroll alone is not enough. I also need to gather 6,666 Five Elements Profound Beasts to lay the Perpetual Life Array of Awakening Clarity. Only then can it be roused."

Upon hearing this, Chu Fan’s gaze deepened, and he grew wary.

’If this Profound Beast has been in a coma for so long, why didn’t the King of Ten Thousand Beasts ask me to use the Scroll to treat it when I first came to Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain?’

’It takes an array of over six thousand Five Elements Profound Beasts to save this creature that’s been unconscious for who knows how long. Just what kind of being is it?’

’What if it awakens and no one can control it? What if it brings disaster to the world? Wouldn’t I be an accomplice to evil?’

Perhaps sensing Chu Fan’s worry, Yan Jiuxuan smiled and said, "You don’t need to worry about bringing disaster to the world by waking that elder, because once awake, it will leave this world. Besides, think about it. The Scroll was left in the Divine Statue by my grandmaster. If my lineage held any hostility toward this world, would we have left the Scroll behind?"

Chu Fan thought about it and had to agree.

For the next few days, Yan Jiuxuan personally went to set up the great array. She left early and returned late, gone for the entire day. However, she would greet Chu Fan and Yun Xi every morning before leaving and would chat with Yun Xi for a while upon her return.

As for Chu Fan and Yun Xi, they stayed in the east wing of a bamboo house, where fresh fruit, wild chickens, and wild ducks were delivered daily.

When asked why Profound Beasts ate such animals, Yan Jiuxuan’s explanation was that natural selection—the strong preying on the weak—was itself the Celestial Dao.

She wouldn’t even stop fights between Profound Beasts, so why would she prevent them from eating small animals that hadn’t even formed an Inner Core, let alone achieved Opening Spiritual Wisdom?

After exploring Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain for two days, Chu Fan and Yun Xi seized the opportunity to focus on their Cultivation. After all, the Spiritual Qi here was far denser than in the outside world. How could they miss such a perfect chance?

「On the ninth day of their stay on Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.」

Yan Jiuxuan informed Chu Fan that everything was ready and led him and Yun Xi over towering mountains and steep ridges to the highest peak in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range.

The peak was extraordinarily high, several thousand zhang tall. It was a straight, sheer pillar of rock about a hundred zhang thick, like a stone column propping up the sky, with a perfectly smooth surface.

The summit was a perfectly flat platform, as smooth as a mirror. From any other vantage point, nothing on this peak was visible.

But standing on the summit, one could see a bird-shaped ice sculpture in the very center, less than a zhang high. Looking closely, a bird with resplendent, multicolored feathers was encased within the translucent ice.

Surrounding the ice sculpture were the more than six thousand Profound Beasts of all shapes and sizes that Yan Jiuxuan had gathered for the array.

Gazing at the countless species of Profound Beasts, Chu Fan found it all quite novel. The strangest part was seeing several types of Profound Beasts that should have been natural enemies standing together in perfect harmony.

"Wait here. When I call for you, just do as I say. Yun Xi should stay here as well; she will also receive considerable benefits," Yan Jiuxuan instructed before leaping into the air.

Hovering in the sky, Yan Jiuxuan looked down upon the horde of beasts below and called out in a clear voice, "Warriors of my Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, are you ready?"

"ROAR!"

The Profound Beasts were all incredibly excited.

"Remember your positions! When this King says ’Activate the array,’ you need only channel your Magical Power. Do you understand?"

"ROAR!" the Profound Beasts roared in unison.

"Good!" Yan Jiuxuan circled once in the sky, a small, walnut-sized brown sphere with strange patterns on its surface appearing in her hand.

If not for Chu Fan’s powerful Spiritual Power, he wouldn’t have even been able to see the small sphere in her hand.

"Activate the array!" Yan Jiuxuan cried out.

Thousands of multicolored streams of Mystic Power shot toward the small sphere in Yan Jiuxuan’s hand.

The instant the streams of Mystic Power converged on the small sphere, it began to spin with flowing light, emitting a golden radiance like a blazing sun. As the thousands of streams of Mystic Power continued to pour into it, the light grew ever more brilliant and intense.

Just as Chu Fan felt he could no longer keep his eyes open against the dazzling glare, Yan Jiuxuan shouted to him, "Chu Fan, take out the Scroll and come to me!"

Without hesitation, Chu Fan took out the Scroll, flew up, and, at the moment he stood beside Yan Jiuxuan, unfurled it.

Chu Fan was then left dumbfounded as he watched the golden light from the sphere shine upon the Scroll. From beneath the Scroll, the massive, golden light of a Yin Yang Diagram descended, spinning rapidly.

With every foot it descended, the image of light doubled in size, and its rotational speed also doubled.

The moment it reached the ground where Yun Xi and the others stood, the light encompassed the entire cross-section of the mountain peak.

But the light did not stop its descent; it continued to spin rapidly and expand.

Just as Chu Fan saw the light expand to seemingly encompass the entire Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, it slammed into the ground far below, and a golden ripple spread out rapidly in all directions.

Even from his great height, Chu Fan could not see how far it would spread.

"SCREEE!"

His attention captivated by the light, Chu Fan didn’t notice that the ice sculpture below had melted. With a clear cry, the bird shot into the heavens.

That clear cry seemed to echo across the firmament.

The bird’s wingspan was no more than five feet across. Its vibrant, multicolored feathers shone even more brilliantly under the golden light. Only the two white, eyebrow-like feathers above its eyes, each over two feet long, were startlingly white and conspicuous.

Chu Fan also noticed that the bird had double pupils in each eye.

After flying to a certain height, the bird hovered in the sky. It looked down upon all living things and declared in a clear, cold female voice, "Chong Ming, Chong Ming... to rebuild the light of the Great Dao, I use my eons of Magical Power to reopen the Heaven-Reaching Dao for this world."

Yan Jiuxuan knelt in mid-air and bowed her head in worship. "The Demon Beast race will never forget the elder’s grace for all eternity. I, Yan Jiuxuan, bid farewell to the Venerable One."

"Good!"

The bird responded, and with a beat of its wings, its countless colorful feathers detached from its body, transforming into specks of starlight that scattered between heaven and earth.

Its very body also dissolved into ten thousand points of starlight, vanishing into the world with a final flash.

At that moment, Yan Jiuxuan, clutching the small brown sphere, flew up to the spot where the bird had been hovering.

After a short while, she clenched her fist around the small sphere.

"Disperse the array!"

"ROAR!" The horde of beasts cheered and withdrew their Mystic Power.

And at that very moment, Chu Fan felt his Cultivation Realm begin to climb rapidly.

It wasn’t just his Realm, but his Spiritual Power as well.

"Wait for me here," Yan Jiuxuan said to the beasts, as well as to Chu Fan and Yun Xi, before flying away.

Chu Fan watched in the direction Yan Jiuxuan had departed until her figure vanished from his sight, only then descending to land beside Yun Xi.

At that moment, Chu Fan’s heart was filled with both immense shock and endless questions.

The Profound Beasts, on the other hand, were completely silent. They stood with their eyes closed, as if they were in a state of deep comprehension.

"How are you?"

"Chu Fan, my Spiritual Power seems to have increased by a lot, and my Cultivation has risen by several stages."