Infinite Save: I Cultivate Immortality Through Reincarnation - Chapter 223: Mr. You's Divine Calculation
The straight-line distance from the capital of the Great Yi Dynasty to the desert at the dynasty’s border is eight thousand li.
If one were to travel across this distance by flying through the air, with Chen Yan’s cultivation at the Peak Qi Sea Realm and his speed, it would take approximately six hours.
As for walking there on foot…
The scorching sun beat down on the yellow sand beneath his feet. Chen Yan was certain that if you buried an egg in the sand at his feet, it would be steamed into a hard-boiled egg in less than half the time it takes an incense stick to burn.
As far as the eye could see, heat waves shimmered.
It was as if the entire sky and earth had been distorted.
Every inhalation and exhalation made one’s throat feel dry, because the moisture in the air had long since been evaporated to almost nothing.
It seemed that every step Chen Yan took landed on the sand’s surface, but in reality, each step landed on solidified true qi.
The fact that no footprints were left in the desert was the best proof.
Walking about three zhang ahead of Chen Yan was the young man wearing a forged Star Heaven Sect token at his waist.
Mr. You.
Departing from the capital of the Great Yi Dynasty all the way to this desert at the dynasty’s border, Mr. You and Chen Yan had relied solely on walking on foot, without flying.
This was Mr. You’s requirement.
Two months had already passed since they left the capital and walked to this desert.
Although for Chen Yan at the Peak Qi Sea Realm, even if he didn’t eat, drink, sleep, or rest, continuing to walk like this for another year or two would be completely fine, he still inevitably felt a sense of monotony.
Where were they going?
At the very beginning, Chen Yan had asked Mr. You this question more than once, but Mr. You had never given him an answer.
However, Chen Yan ended up drawing his own conclusion.
That was, Mr. You himself didn’t actually know where they were going either.
They were just wandering aimlessly in this desert.
Before entering this desert, Chen Yan and Mr. You had passed by a village located at the desert’s edge. That village seemed to have only four or five households, and only elderly people lived there.
In a few years’ time, this village would likely be completely swallowed by the desert.
The elderly people in that village told Chen Yan that this vast desert located at the border of the Great Yi Dynasty was called the Tomb of the Star-Paying Respects.
Star-Paying Respects.
These two words sounded very familiar to Chen Yan;
he knew whose Daoist title this referred to.
It referred to one of only two Immortal Ascension Realm great powers in Star Heaven Sect’s history, Realman Star-Paying Respects.
This Immortal Ascension Realm great power was active in the era dating back twenty thousand years ago and presided over the Star Heaven Sect for seven thousand years in the capacity of an immortal.
Among the Five Great Sects, the Star Heaven Sect was the sect that had the fewest Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators.
But solely in terms of a sect’s accumulated heritage, the Star Heaven Sect still ranked slightly higher than the Wind Ravine Valley and the Kongshan Sect, and even compared to the Mirage Palace, it wasn’t far behind.
The reason was because the Star Heaven Sect’s other Immortal Ascension great power, Realman Sun and Moon, presided over the Star Heaven Sect for thirty-five thousand years. In the final two thousand years of Realman Sun and Moon’s tenure, the Star Heaven Sect could be said to be, without dispute, the second greatest immortal cultivation sect on the Chenping Continent, aside from the Heavenly Summit Mountain.
Although in that era, even if all the immortal cultivation sects on the Chenping Continent were combined, they would still be completely insufficient for the Heavenly Summit Mountain to take action against.
As for the desert before them, since it was called the Tomb of the Star-Paying Respects, there was over a ninety percent probability it was related to Realman Star-Paying Respects.
And this desert was also called a tomb…
It easily made people connect this desert to the mountain range where Su Hongzhen fell all those years ago.
“Hmm…”
Mr. You suddenly stopped walking, raised his hand, and formed a few more hand seals. After a moment of contemplation, he said:
“I feel like we’re about there.”
“About where?”
Chen Yan asked.
After this period of travel, Chen Yan had actually discovered that this suspected Dao Union Realm great power who had “kidnapped” him seemed quite easy to get along with.
Even so, although he didn’t show it, Chen Yan still maintained a certain degree of vigilance towards Mr. You.
“The location of Star-Paying Respects’s legacy.”
Upon hearing this, Chen Yan was suddenly stunned, greatly shocked in his heart:
“Sir, you can even calculate something like that?”
The location of an Immortal Ascension Realm realman’s legacy—how many people yearn for it, dream of it.
For example, Su Hongzhen’s legacy and inheritance. For the opportunity presented by this Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator, countless cultivators rushed forward one after another, pouring into the Fallen Sword Mountain Range. But even now, seven thousand years later, no one has gained anything from it.
Chen Yan had always felt that if Li Haoran could perceive where Su Hongzhen’s legacy and inheritance were, this Peak Dao Union Realm cultivator standing at the pinnacle of the contemporary Chenping Continent would definitely strive to secure this opportunity for the Kongshan Sect.
But he didn’t do that.
Therefore, Chen Yan believed that the location of an Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator’s legacy was heavenly mystery that could not be perceived.
And now, Mr. You actually…
“I didn’t calculate it.”
Mr. You shook his head very decisively to deny it:
“It’s just intuition. Intuition says that Star-Paying Respects’s legacy should be right here.”
“……”
Chen Yan was momentarily speechless.
But it was precisely because of this that Chen Yan felt Mr. You was easy to get along with.
“What’s with that expression of yours.”
Mr. You put away the fingers he had just been using for calculation, looked in Chen Yan’s direction, and then raised an eyebrow slightly:
“Don’t you believe my intuition?”
“No, of course this junior believes.”
Even Chen Yan himself felt his words were quite perfunctory.
“Hmph.”
The young man snorted coldly, placing his hands behind his back:
“A few months ago, the reason I was able to find you on that mountain was precisely by relying on my intuition!”
“Mr. You’s divine calculation is indeed profound.”
Chen Yan said, clasping his hands in a respectful salute.
“Utterly like playing the lute to a cow!”
Mr. You was very dissatisfied with Chen Yan’s perfunctory attitude and said this, then turned around and continued walking deeper into the desert.
Chen Yan didn’t respond further either, merely following behind Mr. You and stepping forward.
And at the very moment the sole of his shoe pressed downward, a burning sensation suddenly shot up from the center of his foot, causing Chen Yan to frown slightly.
The true qi that should have solidified beneath his feet suddenly dissipated.
He tried to solidify his true qi again, but the moment it took shape beneath his feet, it dissipated once more.
Chen Yan raised his head and looked inexplicably at Mr. You walking not far ahead.
Of course he knew this was Mr. You’s doing.
Such a childish temper…
Chen Yan couldn’t help but complain inwardly.
This wasn’t the first time Mr. You had acted on a childish whim.
Although the scorching sand beneath his feet couldn’t injure the soles of a Peak Qi Sea Realm cultivator like him, without the true qi acting as a barrier, that searing, burning pain was transmitted to Chen Yan in full force.
There was no other way;
he could only grit his teeth and keep walking.
Just as he had taken only a few steps following Mr. You, the burning sensation beneath his feet was suddenly replaced by an inexplicably cool metallic touch. Moreover, the true qi that had been flowing steadily within his meridians suddenly stagnated for a moment.
Chen Yan lifted his foot in surprise, then looked down at the object that had appeared beneath his foot, previously submerged by the sea of sand.
It was a black metal box, about nine inches long.
