Xie Dao Ling held the jade tag in her hand and carefully read it.
A few minutes later.
She told Gu Qing Shan: "This is the Temple of Burning Incense. According to the ancient customs, all cultivators who want to climb the Heaven-supporting Pillar must burn incense here for a day before they can climb the Heaven-supporting Pillar and head to Mount Sumeru"
Gu Qing Shan asked: "The Heaven-supporting Pillar has already been broken, and the Heaven-supporting Pillar world has become completely desolate, Shifu still wants to follow the ancient customs?"
"Hm, I'm going to silently cultivate here for a night, tomorrow I'll begin climbing the Heaven-supporting Pillar"
Saying so, Xie Dao Ling summoned the Spirit Tortoise.
She gave the jade tag to the Spirit Tortoise and said: "Same as before, return it"
Gu Qing Shan asked: "Shifu, you've memorized everything?"
Xie Dao Ling nodded: "There are 94 problems with the scriptures in here, 1089 can be improved, and 61 have different meanings. I've marked them all out and made the corresponding improvements, consider it my thanks for using their scriptures"
Gu Qing Shan asked again: "Did Shifu do the same thing for every cultivator's scriptures from before?"
"Yes, after all, there's no grudge between us, so I used their scriptures and gave them some pointers to help them avoid going astray. This way, we don't owe each other anything, that's the best"
Gu Qing Shan sighed in admiration, but then recalled how those people scolded her just now and held herself back.
The Spirit Tortoise received the jade tag and disappeared somewhere.
Only the master and disciple were left in the temple.
Gu Qing Shan thought for a bit and asked: "Shifu, you really don't need to face a Tribulation to continue breaking through?"
Xie Dao Ling nodded.
"I don't know why it's like this either" she slowly said, "but ever since I refined the golden lotus, my understanding of cultivation has far surpassed the past, I can understand the meaning of many things at a glance, and occasionally, a few images would appear in my mind"
"What images?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
Xie Dao Ling appeared a bit confused and answered in a low voice: "I can't explain it clearly, sometimes it's creatures I've never seen before, sometimes it's the scene of a world being destroyed, as well as a lot of unfamiliar faces and languages"
"Or maybe it's a dream? Can you see cultivators from the Age of Old? "Gu Qing Shan asked.
The reason why she asked this was because when Gu Qing Shan was searching for the Heaven sword, she once entered Xie Dao Ling's dreamscape.
To prevent the Temporal Oasis where the Heaven sword was being forged from being discovered, the Immortal King hid the final jade disk inside Xie Dao Ling's dreamscape.
Xie Dao Ling thought for a bit and replied: "No, if it was a cultivator, I would definitely be able to investigate a bit, but the things and scenes I saw in my dream are things I've never seen before in my entire life"
The two of them looked at each other.
Xie Dao Ling waved her hand to arrange several barrier formations, then asked in a low voice: "I once taught you all of my techniques, have you learned [Unbreakable Mountain Range]?"
"Yes," Gu Qing Shan admitted. "That skill allows me to create a phantom image."
"Yes, it's that figure, I've seen it in a flash before" Xie Dao Ling replied.
Gu Qing Shan was startled.
She recalled that entity.
It was a gigantic humanoid monster, its face was faintly recognizable as a human face, but its body was a long snake's — – or perhaps it wasn't a snake's body, but rather — — a dragon's?
Xie Dao Ling continued: "After I discovered this, I went to look at the jade tag that I used to practice this technique in the past, wanting to find out where this entity came from. Unfortunately, the martial arts jade tag didn't contain this Divine Skill, not even a single word about it"
For some reason, Gu Qing Shan felt a chill down her spine and couldn't help but ask: "Could it be that you remembered wrongly and it wasn't that jade tag, but another jade tag?"
"I couldn't be"
Xie Dao Ling lowered her gaze and muttered: "It wasn't until I looked through that jade tag again that I remembered that this [Unbreakable Mountain Range] was something I derived and deduced myself"
Gu Qing Shan froze.
Xie Dao Ling continued: "At the time, I was 19 years old. My sect had just been destroyed not too long ago, so I was wandering around by myself. One day, I killed a martial cultivator with ill intentions and obtained a martial scripture from him. As I looked through it, I deduced this Divine Skill — — – at the time, I was also scared and knew that something was wrong, so I sealed this part of my memories — — – it wasn't until I actively went to look for this part of my memories that I found the truth"
Gu Qing Shan tried his best to remain calm and asked: "Shifu, what about the Forgetting River?"
"It was also something that I deduced myself, or rather, it was a Skill that I 'comprehended'" Xie Dao Ling admitted.
"When?"
"21 years old"
Gu Qing Shan gasped.
He had seen too many things in his life, but he had never even heard of someone like Xie Dao Ling.
Xie Dao Ling continued: "Compared to the projection of [Unbreakable Mountain Range], the ferryman of the Forgetting River was an entity that I could communicate with. Every time I fought, she would always ask me how much vitality I had to expend, so I eventually asked her what exactly was going on with me"
Gu Qing Shan immediately asked: "What did she say?"
"She never told me anything, but there was one time when I couldn't keep pestering her, so she sighed and said that I was pitiful"
Gu Qing Shan felt like his heart was about to jump out of his chest.
This sentence had always been stuck in his mind, never forgotten.
Back in the giant corpse world, the monster that I had to use everything I had to kill with the Earth sword also said the same thing to me.
It said that I was pitiful.
Pitiful?
Why is it pitiful?
A deep sense of fear gripped Gu Qing Shan's heart.
He suddenly stood up and paced back and forth in the hall.
"Disciple, what's the matter?" Xie Dao Ling asked.
Gu Qing Shan forced a smile: "It's nothing, I'm just thinking about what kind of deity that ferryman of the Forgetting River was"
— — the Huang Quan fragment world that was ruled by the Wraith realm most likely didn't have such a Deity.
She was too powerful, the Wraith realm might not be able to deal with her.
Which means, she must belong to an unknown Huang Quan fragment world.
Why did she say that Xie Dao Ling was pitiful?
What does she know?
Is there a connection between Shifu's matter and my encounter with that monster?
Gu Qing Shan felt like his head was about to explode from thinking so much.
Xie Dao Ling scowled: "I've performed a few Divinations to see if there's a way to come into contact with these things in the dream"
"What were the results?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"The results all pointed to this Sumeru Lord realm Tribulation — — as you know, I originally didn't need to face this Tribulation, but since I can obtain some information during the Tribulation, as well as help our world accumulate Dao scriptures, I decided to come"
Gu Qing Shan stopped.
Seems like I'll have to do everything I can this time.
This might be Xie Dao Ling's matter, but it might also be my matter.
Xie Dao Ling continued: "Ever since the Heaven-supporting Pillar broke, both the {Mahesvara King} realm Tribulation and the Sumeru Lord realm Tribulation have become even more dangerous, so I'm actually not too confident, Qing Shan, you can't be careless either"
"Hm, I'll go take a look around later" Gu Qing Shan replied.
"Very well, this isn't a place that can be easily reached, only those who have faced their Tribulations can come here. Take a look around, maybe you'll find something"
Xie Dao Ling's tone suddenly became light and said: "When will you be able to return to the sect? Xiu Xiu and the others are all missing you "
Gu Qing Shan replied: "I've been a bit busy lately, I'll go back to see them after I'm done"
He suddenly recalled something and asked: "Shifu, are you currently at {Mahesvara King} realm?"
"I am" Xie Dao Ling replied.
Gu Qing Shan carefully asked: "The legends say that the {Mahesvara King} has 48 Dependents, what's with these 48 Dependents?"
Xie Dao Ling replied with an "ah", got down from her chair, clasped her hands behind her back, and walked in front of Gu Qing Shan.
She reached her hand out — — -
But Gu Qing Shan was too tall, with her current height, she couldn't even reach Gu Qing Shan's forehead.
Xie Dao Ling glared at him and said: "Lower your head"
Gu Qing Shan lowered his head.
Xie Dao Ling tapped his forehead with her finger, then turned around and sat down on her chair.
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