Chapter 840 Taibai Earth Immortal Scripture

Sun Zhe said dig, so they dug. With just one order from him, a huge project was launched in full swing!

On the first day, under the command of foreman Sun Zhe, everyone dug thirty meters down around the Dao Transformation Mother Tree. During this, Sun Batian performed outstandingly, earning the title “War God of Digging” and a prize: a stalk of “Po Lan Nether Grass.”

Those sharp claws of Sun Batian’s—when he grabbed a person, it was one grab and you’re gutted; when he dug earth, he was just as ruthless.

Meanwhile, as they dug, Sun Zhe didn’t idle around either. He stored all the dug-up soil into the Ring Space, and at the same time asked the Thunder Spirit for help, having it choose a plot of land in the Ring Space and dig a huge pit there, so he could plant the Dao Transformation Mother Tree later.

On the second day, Sun Zhe started wandering nearby, finding those Martial Artists and Cultivators being hunted by Dao Transformation Vines. In exchange for protecting their safety, he demanded they work for him, and if they performed well, they’d even get rewards.

By the third day, Sun Zhe had gathered more than fifty people, including two Spirit Gathering Realm Cultivators with earth attributes. With some earth-type Daoist Skills, they directly dug down to two hundred meters!

On the fourth day, Sun Zhe had gathered over seventy people and they dug down to three hundred meters!

On the morning of the fifth day, watching that towering giant tree over two hundred meters tall crash to the ground, a gratified smile appeared on Sun Zhe’s face. He took out supplies from the Ring Space, put on a grand banquet, and treated all the Martial Artists and Cultivators who’d worked for him.

After resting for a day, on the morning of the sixth day, Sun Zhe, under everyone’s watchful eyes, burned through a huge amount of Divine Sense and spent nearly half an hour to finally store the entire Dao Transformation Mother Tree into the Ring Space.

The Thunder Spirit had long since helped Sun Zhe dig a huge pit in the Ring Space with a diameter of four hundred meters and a depth of three hundred meters. After planting the Dao Transformation Mother Tree, it then filled in the pit with the soil they had dug from the Dao Transformation Forest.

“Thunder Spirit, thanks. If it weren’t for your help, even if I managed to store such a big tree, I’d have no way to plant it.”

The Thunder Spirit burst out laughing. “Thanks my ass, I’m not working for free. That ‘Spirit Crystal Divine Dew Ganoderma’ in your herb field now belongs to me!”

“You fucker…”

Sun Zhe felt a stab of pain in his flesh, as if his heart were bleeding.

That Spirit Crystal Divine Dew Ganoderma had been found for him by Little Hebao. He’d never had the heart to use it, and now it had become the Thunder Spirit’s wages.

“Can you act like a human being for once?”

“I was never human to begin with. I am a supreme Heaven Dao spirit!”

“…”

After Sun Zhe took away the Dao Transformation Mother Tree, the other Dao Transformation trees in the forest weren’t affected in the slightest; instead, they became even crazier and more ferocious than before.

But no matter how crazy they got, the Dao Transformation Vines did not dare get close to Sun Zhe’s Pure Yang Sacred Flames.

After a brief bit of packing up, Sun Zhe had Huang Liang find the way, then spent a whole day leading the group of Martial Artists and Cultivators out of the Dao Transformation Forest.

Outside the Dao Transformation Forest was a river, and on the opposite bank lay a vast grassland stretching beyond the eye could see.

Floating in the sky above that great grassland was an island!

Probably afraid the island would drift away, there were several gigantic iron chains as thick as water vats extending down from around it, plunging deep into the ground and fastening the sky island firmly in place.

Huang Liang said excitedly, “That is the Earth Immortal Martial Arena, Master, we finally made it!”

Sun Zhe quietly spread out his Divine Sense and discovered that at this moment a good number of Cultivators had gathered in the arena on that island; a rough count put it at no fewer than three to four hundred.

“Let’s go take a look.”

Not long after.

Sun Zhe and his group flew straight up to the Earth Immortal Martial Arena and saw many Cultivators sitting cross-legged in quiet cultivation, while quite a few others wandered around aimlessly.

At the very center of the martial arena, there was an enormous circular stone platform.

That circular stone platform was set upright, carved all over with mysterious runes; at a glance it looked like an ancient sundial used by the ancients to tell time.

The moment they landed, several Earth Martial Artists hastily squeezed through the crowd to find them.

“Miss, we finally found you! We thought you had already…”

Sun Zhe looked at those Earth Martial Artists, seeing their eyes brimming with tears and their anxious expressions. Following their line of sight, he noticed that all their gazes were locked onto Yuan Xinyi.

“Miss Yuan, they’re here for you?”

Yuan Xinyi nodded lightly, a few traces of reluctance flickering in her eyes.

After these few days together, she had already come to see Sun Zhe as a friend—a somewhat ambiguous friend she’d had a fling with.

She stepped toward those Earth Martial Artists and said, “I came to this Immortal Cave Mansion this time just to find Dao Transformation Fruit to solve my constitution problem. Now that my goal’s been achieved… I should go back and report in.”

Sun Zhe knew there’s no such thing as a feast that never ends. He nodded and smiled. “Then until we meet again. We’re all on Earth anyway, so we’ll still get to see each other in the future.”

“Mm… until we meet again.”

After a short while.

Watching Yuan Xinyi leave the island with that group of Earth Martial Artists, Sun Zhe took Huang Liang and Lin Feiyan and started wandering around.

He found that the closer he got to that stone platform in the center of the martial arena, the stronger the pressure he had to bear.

It wasn’t just physical pressure; he could also feel pressure on the spiritual level.

Huang Liang said, “This Earth Immortal Martial Arena is where the Earth Immortal used to cultivate and practice Daoist Skills. There are still traces of Dao Rhyme lingering here. If us mortals can glimpse even a little of the mysteries here, it would benefit us immensely.”

Hearing this, Sun Zhe looked around, scanning those cross-legged, meditating Cultivators, and asked, “So they come here hoping to comprehend something?”

Huang Liang nodded and said, “But that’s only part of it. I’m guessing their real goal is to wait for the legendary Taibai Earth Immortal Scripture to appear.”

He sighed as he spoke. “When it really does emerge, I’m afraid there’ll be a bloody storm.”

Sun Zhe asked, “What is the Taibai Earth Immortal Scripture?”

At this moment Lin Feiyan spoke up. “It’s a scripture left to later generations by the Earth Immortal. Rumor has it that if someone can thoroughly see through and understand it, they can comprehend the Earth Immortal Divine Skill—Taibai Finger.”

Sun Zhe chuckled and said, “He’s clearly one of our Earth Cultivators, so how come you people from the Outer Domain know so much about him?”

Huang Liang explained, “Because more than thirteen hundred years ago, that Earth Immortal once came to the Outer Domain. He roamed the world with no one able to match him, his words alone could stir heaven and earth into strange phenomena, and with a single finger he could break rivers and collapse mountains at any time. People all said he had already attained that wondrous realm where his words literally became law.”

Sun Zhe was stunned. “That strong, so what’s his background?”

Huang Liang thought for a bit and said, “He claimed his name was Li Taibai, a Banished Immortal from the heavens, wearing a sword at his waist and a wine gourd on his belt, dressed all in white and wearing a bamboo hat. His two greatest hobbies in life were drinking and composing poetry, and wherever he went, he would leave behind a poem.”

“Besides that, his Sword Dao was also godlike, unmatched by anyone. When he went to the Outer Domain thirteen hundred years ago, he basically steamrolled an entire era.”

“No way, could it be the Poetry Immortal Li Bai?!” Upon hearing this, Sun Zhe’s eyes widened involuntarily as he suddenly remembered that Li Bai was precisely a figure from more than thirteen hundred years ago!

Huang Liang asked curiously, “What, Master, you know Earth Immortal Li Taibai too?”

Sun Zhe’s expression turned a bit strange. “Back home, even kids a few years old recite his poems.”