Da Xuan Martial Saint - Chapter 1491 - 716: A Fragment of Shattered Time and Space

Chapter 1491: Chapter 716: A Fragment of Shattered Time and Space

Outside Wuxiang City.

Chen Yue and Chen Yao followed Chen Mu as they left Wuxiang City, enveloped by the light Chen Mu controlled as it soared into the Heavens Vault.

“This City Lord of Wuxiang City, comparable to a Venerable, yet heavily bound and without freedom. The path of cultivation is originally to seek freedom. He has come to this point, caught in a dilemma, and has strayed from the most essential pursuit of cultivation.”

Chen Yue glanced back at Wuxiang City and, after a brief contemplation, spoke softly.

Chen Mu looked at her and smiled, saying, “If it were you, what would you choose?”

“I would certainly choose to start over in a new life.”

Chen Yue’s response was without hesitation and decisively firm.

Reincarnating over and over, losing everything from the previous life; in her eyes, this fundamentally didn’t constitute a form of immortality, merely a lingering existence. She would rather fight for a lifetime than be stuck in a gap, with no way forward and no retreat.

Chen Mu, observing Chen Yue’s answer, sighed and said, “For someone like you who has cultivated all the way to now, making such a choice is naturally not difficult. But if you were born as the City Lord of Wuxiang City, without memories or any causality from the past, born standing at the pinnacle of the universe, would you make such a choice, giving up that position infinitely close to supreme, to reenter reincarnation?”

“This…”

Upon hearing Chen Mu’s words, Chen Yue hesitated this time.

She followed Chen Mu, rising from obscurity step by step, having also been tempered. During her time in Da Xuan World, she wasn’t always under Chen Mu’s protective wing and experienced many life-and-death trials. Thus, her will was firm. But if she were born at the peak, overlooking the multitude, without going through the grinding journey from obscurity to the apex, she might not decisively give up everything to start over relying on her abilities.

“If there were no memories of past lives, no causality, what choices one makes would depend on one’s inner self.” Chen Yao stood to the side, pondering aloud.

“Indeed.”

Chen Mu nodded approvingly, saying, “Everything lies in the inner self, the true self, the instinct… Two beings born without any memories of causality, yet they make entirely different choices. One is willing to give up everything to strive for the title of Venerable for a lifetime, while the other is unwilling to lose everything they have, guarding their sole path to cultivation. What determines everything is the purest instinct.”

Saying this,

Chen Mu paused slightly, casting his gaze into the distance, at the Wuxiang Mountain that loomed into the clouds, and said, “Speaking of which, there is indeed a place here that can temper your inner self and true self.”

“Hmm?”

Hearing this, Chen Yue and Chen Yao were somewhat surprised, their eyes flickering as they looked in the direction Chen Mu indicated.

Chen Mu didn’t say much more. With a flicker of light, he vanished from where he stood. When he reappeared, he had brought Chen Yue and Chen Yao across the vast nihility, deep into Wuxiang Mountain.

In the realm of Wuxiang City, Wuxiang Mountain, as infamous as the Wuxiang River, is also a dangerous place. The river waters of the Wuxiang River connect to the Creation River, capable of washing away all of a living being, while deep within Wuxiang Mountain lies the Time Mist, linked to the River of Time, which similarly may engulf all of a living being, causing them to lose everything!

Wuxiang City contains a large portion of the Void Dao Power, the Wuxiang River contains a large portion of the Creation Dao Power, and Wuxiang Mountain contains a large portion of the Time Dao Power. It is not only a suitable place for Chen Yue and Chen Yao to train but also a place worth visiting for Chen Mu, attempting to use it as a boundary to observe the operations of time.

“What is this? Mirage mist?”

Chen Yue and Chen Yao only felt their vision blur as they were brought by Chen Mu into the mountain forest, and at the end of their sight was a fantastical mist reminiscent of the illusory mist found in the Floating Dream Realm of the Fan Gu Ancient Domain.

Chen Mu, with a peaceful expression, said, “No, this is the Time Mist.”

“Here, the flow of time will be disrupted. Should a Divine Monarch inadvertently enter, they might never return, sinking in the history of time. However, with my protection, you can go in and experience it.”

Upon hearing Chen Mu’s words, Chen Yue and Chen Yao exchanged glances. With Chen Mu present, there was naturally no fear in their hearts. They immediately stepped forward into the Time Mist.

At the same time,

Chen Mu also walked forward with his hands behind his back, disappearing into the Time Mist with a single step.

After Chen Mu and the two disappeared into the Time Mist, nearby figures approached. One of them, somewhat uncertain, looked towards the Time Mist ahead and said, “Just now… did someone go in?”

The Time Mist is a great danger within Wuxiang Mountain, once stepped into, there is little chance of coming back. Very few Divine Monarchs have emerged from it, so everyone who hunts and explores in Wuxiang Mountain immediately retreats upon seeing the Time Mist.

Yet just now,

those few characters of unknown origin seemed to have entered the Time Mist voluntarily.

“Could they be newcomers to Wuxiang City, unaware of the dangers of the Time Mist?”

“Probably, what a pity.”

“Recently, there have been many newcomers to Wuxiang City.”

“Yes, it seems the universe outside is reaching an end. We too need to hasten our progress. Whether we can comprehend the complete Great Dao before that endpoint and achieve the position of Venerable lies between life and death.”

…

In the pitch-black night,

The wind tore through the crevices of the tiles with a sharp whistle, fine needles of rain sifting through the rotten window lattices, weaving silver threads on the damp moldy walls. The dilapidated grass hut’s roof creaked and groaned, sometimes with raindrops trickling down from the tattered beams.

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