Chapter 526 - 524: Bell Court Ruins

Chapter 526: Chapter 524: Bell Court Ruins

’Just what was it that allowed two practitioners of a rare Dao Path to appear on a tiny Star?’

This was an incredible thing.

And on a Star in a backward region, no less.

Su Qing’s eyes pierced through the entire Star.

But he didn’t find what he was looking for.

’Strange.’

’With my level of power, how could I possibly not find what awakens the Soul-Hooking Path?’

’I even saw through the Soul-Hooking Path Cultivator, and there was nothing.’ Su Qing was utterly baffled.

This was something hard to imagine.

’Why was there no strange object that could awaken the Soul-Hooking Path?’

Yet two of them had been born in succession.

’If one appeared, it could be luck. But a second one? That’s a different story.’

’Could it be that the treasure is blocking all forms of scrying?’

Su Qing thought to himself.

Then, he fell silent again. He still had to process the poison in his body. ℯℓ.

If he couldn’t find the treasure capable of awakening the Soul-Hooking Path, so be it.

Su Qing didn’t particularly care for it.

For someone already in his lofty position, obtaining such an item would be nothing more than adding to his collection.

...

「Nightfall.」

Su Qing closed the clinic, and his clone was preparing to rest.

But then, he heard a very captivating sound.

That kind of sound.

It was accompanied by the chiming of bells.

DING-A-LING~ DING-A-LING~ DIIING~~~

This music.

It reminded Su Qing of the Bell Court Overture.

Su Qing listened closely and felt someone trying to draw out his soul through the music.

"Oh?"

’Little mouse. Of all the people you could have targeted, you chose me.’

Su Qing smiled.

On the second floor, his main body’s eyes snapped open, and he cast his gaze out.

The Soul-Hooking Path fellow’s soul was instantly scattered to the winds.

At the same time, Su Qing performed Soul Stealing to search his memories.

’This kid, couldn’t he just focus on his Cultivation?’

’He had already achieved Longevity, yet he was obsessed with cultivating even faster.’

Su Qing himself hadn’t been that arrogant back in the day.

He had been taught a lesson for his arrogance, so the current Su Qing would never be so brazen.

There was always a heaven beyond the heavens, and someone stronger than the strong.

Even now, Su Qing wasn’t that conceited.

Even holding a Tier Thirteen, Standardized Dao Artifact, Su Qing was still incredibly respectful toward the Thirteenth Realm.

This was Su Qing’s current attitude.

’He might not even be invincible among those of the same tier.’

’If not in this world, then maybe in a world beyond?’

Su Qing had even used his Dimensionalization Talent to synthesize the Great Saint’s Seventy-Two Transformations from Journey to the West.

He knew that besides this world, there were likely many others.

He wondered how the world of the Primordial Chaos would compare to this one.

If he had to say, Su Qing still felt the world of the Primordial Chaos was probably stronger.

But in terms of the Law Power System, Su Qing was now close to achieving Perfection in one of them.

The Time Dao Fruit and his other Dao Fruits were all reaching Perfection at nearly the same time.

This was all thanks to Su Qing’s Great Dao Cultivation Method, as well as his Synthesizer.

’This kid awakened the Soul-Hooking Path...’

’...in a cave out in the wilderness?’

Su Qing grew puzzled.

Because Upper Immortal City wasn’t far from that cave.

No wonder the Soul-Hooking Path could appear in this area.

If this had been somewhere else, a place without Su Qing, it wouldn’t have taken long for their slaughter to wipe out the entire Star.

’In that cave?’

In the memories from the Soul Search, it seemed that cave was where the Bell Court Overture he had just heard was coming from.

’It can’t be such a coincidence, can it?’

Su Qing felt something wasn’t right.

He fell silent for a moment, then resumed his Cultivation.

He would have his ordinary clone go investigate tomorrow.

Su Qing suspected it was the ruins of a Bell Court.

His main body once again sank into Cultivation.

「The next day.」

Su Qing’s clone awoke.

He picked up an Iron Sword and was about to leave the clinic.

"Su Qing, where are you going?"

Li Renren was very happy today because he had received news in the middle of the night that the Daoist Cultivator had actually died.

What could be happier news than that?

But seeing Su Qing going out today was a rare sight, especially since he was carrying an Iron Sword.

Hearing this, Su Qing smiled. "I’m heading out into the wilderness for a bit."

"Su Qing, can I go with you?"

"You?"

Su Qing was puzzled.

"Aren’t you staying at the clinic to see patients?"

"..." Li Renren hesitated for a moment.

"Alright then, I’ll stay at the clinic. The little rabbit is almost healed anyway."

"Okay. I’ll wait for you to finish treating it," Su Qing said with a small smile.

He walked toward the city gates.

It wouldn’t have mattered if Li Renren had come along.

Su Qing just wanted to investigate the situation over there.

Soon, Su Qing was out of the city gates.

He set off toward the cave.

Gradually, Su Qing arrived at the cave.

He walked inside.

There was nothing here.

The scattered pebbles on the ground and the rough, dry stone of the walls made Su Qing want to reach out and touch them.

’The Bell Court’s overture isn’t playing?’

’No, that’s not right. I clearly heard it too, so why didn’t I awaken the Soul-Hooking Path?’

’Could it be that the Bell Court Overture here is the original version?’

Su Qing sat down where he was, took out a few crackers, and ate them.

He settled in to wait.

And he waited until night fell.

As evening deepened, Su Qing faintly heard the Bell Court Overture.

’It’s underground.’

That was Su Qing’s first thought.

But after listening to the Bell Court Overture for a long time, a peculiar power was born within his body.

The Soul-Hooking Path.

It had been born in this small clone of his.

’How bizarre!’

Su Qing hadn’t expected that simply listening to the Bell Court Overture could make him awaken the Soul-Hooking Path.

Although this overture sounded similar, the power it contained was completely different.

Su Qing held a sword in his hand.

He wanted to get to the bottom of it.

His main body didn’t need to go.

But if his clone wanted power, it could obtain it as well.

Su Qing didn’t care whether his luck was good or bad.

He burrowed into the earth.

He wanted to see what was underneath.

’What? It’s several dozen meters underground.’

Su Qing entered a large grotto.

It was pitch-black.

But inside, there was an entrance to a Secret Realm.

The Bell Court Overture was coming from within.

After listening to the Bell Court Music for a long time, Su Qing couldn’t help but marvel, ’What kind of existence could have created the Bell Court’s music?’

Su Qing calmed his mind.

He walked into the Secret Realm.

The moment he entered the Secret Realm...

...the dark environment of the grotto instantly opened up.

Su Qing found himself in a place surrounded by Stars, but this place was an immense hall.

In the hall, hundreds of different bells hung high above. There were long, slender bells and short, stout ones, but every single one was enormous.

The Bell Court Music was the harmony played by the swaying of these bells.

Here,

Su Qing could clearly feel the Soul-Hooking Path within his body growing rapidly.

’Why does the Soul-Hooking Path pair with the Bell Court Music?’

’Could it be that the ultimate purpose is to hook souls?’

Su Qing silently observed the incomparably magnificent palace around him.

Yet there wasn’t the shadow of a single living creature.

The great hall was solemn and sacred, yet deathly silent.

’This Secret Realm is certainly beautiful. Is it a ruin?’

Su Qing did not use Flying Escape.

He walked through the solemn hall like an ordinary person.

Su Qing’s soft footsteps echoed loudly in the hall.

TAP~

TAP~

Combined with the chiming of the bells around him, Su Qing couldn’t help but feel the sorrow within the music.

Su Qing gradually walked toward the center of the hall.

He suddenly saw a wizened old man sitting on an enormous chair before him.

It was a soul body.

Yet it seemed to be dead.

A dead soul.

And yet it still existed here.

Faced with such a miraculous scene, Su Qing couldn’t help but be surprised.

’A soul can be dead but not disperse? Isn’t that the same as not being dead?’

But when he looked at this soul, he saw no trace of life force.

’For a soul with no life force, there seemed to be no difference between being dead and being alive.’

’Could it be that its heart had died?’

Filled with doubt,

Su Qing silently reached out to touch the figure.

He used his own soul to make contact.

But to his surprise, he passed right through it.

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