As the black stone landed on the base of the monolith, it turned into a black Heavenly Tome Monolith. A distant and ancient Qi emitted from the monolith, and it gradually merged with the Qi emitted by the other ten monoliths. The formation that was hidden in the relative positions seemed to undergo some kind of subtle but absolutely important change with the arrival of this Qi.
The surroundings of the mausoleum became slightly quieter. The rock on the surface of the stone pillars no longer continued to peel off. The surface of the black monoliths that had already been exposed was suffused with a faint cold light. At least several hundred spatial cracks that were as thin as threads floated between the stone pillars.
The spatial cracks that floated between the stone pillars that were like threads were actually very terrifying. They were as gloomy as an abyss, and anything that came into contact with those cracks would be sliced apart. Once it was swallowed up by those cracks, it would be sent into a different space, enduring an eternity of lonely drifting. Fortunately, it was currently bound by some kind of power, and did not continue to drift.
The clear cry of the young peng resounded in the whistling gale. This cry was so happy, and it was filled with the delight of succeeding in its revenge. In its previous life, it was Zhou Dufu's mount. It had once personally seen its powerful master suppress those arrogant monoliths. Now, it seemed as if it had just happened again, so how could it not be proud?
Chen Changsheng withdrew his gaze from the spatial cracks, and looked towards the eleven stone pillars surrounding the mausoleum. He made another verification according to the deduction method that Xu Yourong had mentioned before, and confirmed that the formation had controlled the explosion of energy brought about by the appearance of the Heavenly Tome Monoliths. At the same time, he confirmed that his memories and that seemingly miraculous idea were not wrong.
Back then, when he was observing the Heavenly Tome Monoliths at night in the Mausoleum of Books, the seventeen monoliths of the front mausoleum formed a star chart. However, it was always incomplete, so he was unable to break through that threshold. Only at the very end, when the black stone he had obtained from the Pavilion of Ascending Mist shone brightly and completed the star chart, did he truly comprehend the true meaning of the Heavenly Tome Monoliths, and thus broke through to the upper level of Ethereal Opening.
Countless starlight washed the mausoleum. At that time, he was in a state of mind wandering, and did not know what had happened in his own spiritual world. Afterwards, he even forgot about the use of the black stone, and only had an extremely vague and blurry impression. Fortunately, he still remembered it in the end, and was able to verify it.
The black stone behind Wang Zhice's portrait in the Lingyan Pavilion … was a Heavenly Tome Monolith.
At this point, the greatest secret of the Mausoleum of Books, as well as the greatest secret of the Garden of Zhou, could even be said to be the greatest secret of the continent in the past thousand years. Finally, the majority of its true appearance was revealed before his eyes. Although the stories that had happened between those peerless experts had already been destroyed and forgotten, he had already seen some truths.
Many years ago, Zhou Dufu had taken away twelve Heavenly Tome Monoliths from the Mausoleum of Books. This matter in itself was extremely shocking, and no one could understand how he had done it. However, at the same time, the fact that he was able to preserve these Heavenly Tome Monoliths outside the Mausoleum of Books was also an extremely unimaginable matter.
The Heavenly Tome Monoliths were sacred objects of the Heavenly Dao. Contained within the monoliths was a berserk energy that did not belong to this world. That Qi and energy came from another world. To this world, they were like countless sparks, while the mountains, rivers, seas, trees, and beastmen of this world were all just a pile of dry firewood.
Once dry firewood and intense fire met, countless flames would inevitably be born. Fortunately, countless years ago, when the Heavenly Tomes descended into the world, it naturally formed some sort of restriction. The Heavenly Tome Monoliths and the earth became one, borrowing the power of the thick earth to rest. As a result, in the Mausoleum of Books, this energy could very calmly be stored within the monoliths. Once they left the Mausoleum of Books, those Qi that were incompatible with this world would naturally leave the monoliths and ignite everything in this world. Those distant and ancient Qi seemed calm, but to this world, it represented destruction.
Therefore, the Heavenly Tome Monoliths could not leave the Mausoleum of Books.
Yet Zhou Dufu just had to do this, and he had even succeeded. One of the Heavenly Tome Monoliths had been lost outside for some reason, so he brought the other eleven monoliths into the Garden of Zhou. Even though the Garden of Zhou was cut off from the world, even though his abilities were close to miracles, he still had no way of hiding the Qi of these eleven monoliths, preventing them from coming into contact with the real world. As a result, he used his shocking methods and genius wisdom to think of an extremely wondrous method — he had these eleven monoliths form a formation.
This formation was a kind of ingenious imitation of the restrictions of the Mausoleum of Books, or it could even be said to be a miniature version of the Mausoleum of Books — Xu Yourong was able to see the connection between these stone pillars in such a short amount of time, and see through Zhou Dufu's wondrous methods, precisely because she had always been studying the Mausoleum of Books and the Heavenly Tome Monoliths since she was young.
Relying on this formation, Zhou Dufu made the Qi of the eleven monoliths that had left the Mausoleum of Books suppress each other. They came in an endless stream, forming an independent world of their own. Relying on this seemingly fragile balance, he prevented destruction from happening. In order to prevent people from destroying this balance, he left behind countless terrifying monsters in the Plains of the Unsetting Sun.
If things continued to develop like this, perhaps after Zhou Dufu died, with the passage of time, the laws of the Garden of Zhou would gradually collapse, and the mausoleum would collapse. However, the eleven monoliths that were hidden in the stone pillars would still remain undiscovered, silently enduring the wind and rain for eternity.
However, there was no such thing as eternity in this world. In reality, not many years after Zhou Dufu entered the Mausoleum of Books to seize the monoliths, a man had secretly entered the Garden of Zhou, and had designs on these stone pillars. Purely in terms of cultivation and battle prowess, that man was obviously inferior to Zhou Dufu, but in terms of other aspects, in the hearts of the people, he was even more outstanding than Zhou Dufu.
That man was Wang Zhice.
Perhaps it was because he was ordered by Emperor Taizong to search for the whereabouts of the Heavenly Tome Monoliths, or perhaps it was just to confirm some of his conjectures. Wang Zhice entered the Garden of Zhou, and then, using some unknown method, he took out a Heavenly Tome Monolith from one of the stone pillars. At the same time, he miraculously turned that Heavenly Tome Monolith into a piece of black stone.
Zhou Dufu naturally discovered this, and then a problem appeared.
One of the eleven Heavenly Tome Monoliths was gone. This meant that the formation that he had spent so much effort on had been destroyed.
The Garden of Zhou in the past was probably the same as it was now, filled with storms of energy and whistling hurricanes of destruction.
Of course, Zhou Dufu could use his peerless strength to forcefully suppress the eruption of these Heavenly Tome Monoliths, but just like at the very beginning, he could not stay between these Heavenly Tome Monoliths forever, so he had to repair the formation. In other words, he had to find another Heavenly Tome Monolith.
It was very obvious that the imperial family of the Great Zhou and the Orthodoxy, who had already experienced it once, would not give him another chance. Perhaps when he was sitting between the mausoleum and pondering, he saw a sword in the sea of grass that was still unwilling to yield. It could be Chen Xuanba's Dragoncry Sword, or it could be the Holy Maiden Sword from South Stream Temple. This made him think of a method.
Since it was very difficult to find another Heavenly Tome Monolith, then he would find a substitute.
Of course, the substitute had to be strong enough, and had to have the same power as the Heavenly Tome Monolith.
The substitute that Zhou Dufu chose was sword intent.
He used the ten thousand sword intents to replace that Heavenly Tome Monolith.
Thus, the Garden of Zhou gradually regained its peace.
The Plains of the Unsetting Sun became peaceful once more.
No one found that mausoleum again, and no one was able to discover the secret within those stone pillars.
Until some year later, the soul of a sword separated, and the body of the sword flowed out of the plains along a pool of water. It passed through a small lake, and went to the world on the other side of the Garden of Zhou. It then floated up along the cold pool, and was washed into the forest by the river, where it was picked up by Su Li. As a result, an umbrella appeared in Wenshui, and that umbrella was now in Chen Changsheng's hands.
Chen Changsheng took the Yellow Paper Umbrella and returned to the Garden of Zhou. To the ten thousand sword intents in the plains, this was a return. Without the suppression of the ten thousand sword intents, the formation was destroyed, and the Heavenly Tome Monolith appeared, beginning to destroy the world. However, no one could have imagined that he would also bring back the Heavenly Tome Monolith that had been left outside. To the Garden of Zhou, this was a true return.
This could very well be the story from back then. Of course, this was only Chen Changsheng's guess. At the moment, he did not know the true secret of the Yellow Paper Umbrella. In this story that he had imagined, there were still many details that were not clear enough. For example, why did Wang Zhice only take away one Heavenly Tome Monolith? Taking away one Heavenly Tome Monolith was the limit of his abilities, or was it to say that the original intention of taking away the Heavenly Tome Monolith was not to find it, but to destroy the formation and thus destroy the Garden of Zhou, or even to use this method to deal with Zhou Dufu?
No one knew what Wang Zhice was thinking back then, and no one knew if a world-shaking battle had taken place in the Garden of Zhou. According to the records of history, Wang Zhice and Zhou Dufu had never fought. According to the legends of the people, they were sworn brothers, but who knew? Those experts that had once moved unhindered across the continent, the virtuous predecessors of the Star Brilliance Capital, the way they interacted with each other and even the way they fought was not something that the current Chen Changsheng could understand. It was not even something that he could imagine.
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The young peng passed through those terrifying cracks in space and flew back to the front of the mausoleum.
Chen Changsheng looked into its eyes, but did not say anything. It understood, and its eyes became gloomy. It thought to itself, this is a transaction. Since I have already completed it, why should I continue helping you? Also, you can tell from her appearance that she's dead. What if I can't fly out in time?
Yes, it was still somewhat too late.
The stone pillars no longer peeled off, and the Heavenly Tome Monoliths no longer emitted clear light. The distant and ancient Qi once again retreated into the depths of the black stone. However, the world of the Garden of Zhou was already riddled with holes. Countless storms of energy were still tearing at the sea of grass and the mountain range. The most terrifying thing was that the sky was still constantly collapsing. The monsters on the grassland seemed to have felt a sliver of life, and were madly running away from the mausoleum with all their might. However, the mountain range in the distance was also collapsing. Who knew if they could escape before the world was destroyed?
Chen Changsheng turned his head to look at Xu Yourong.
Xu Yourong had already felt the changes outside, and her eyes were filled with shock as she looked at him.
She understood the formation that Zhou Dufu used the eleven Heavenly Tome Monoliths to form, and she was also the one who told Chen Changsheng how to solve the problem. However, she did not think that Chen Changsheng would actually be able to solve the problem. This made her very shocked, and even somewhat at a loss — why did he have a Heavenly Tome Monolith?
However, she did not have time to say these things, so she did not say anything.
The Heavenly Tome Monoliths quieted down. They had to leave quickly, and leave together.
However, Chen Changsheng did not think this way. He looked at the Garden of Zhou that was about to be destroyed, and said, "You go first."
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(Today is the worst day since the beginning of the book "Choosing the Heavens". I've been sitting there since noon. I want to curse, but I don't have any today. Actually, I understand the reason. It's because the next part of the plot is my favorite, so I don't dare to continue. That kind of fear often appears. Tomorrow, I'll just finish writing this part of the plot. That scene will be very beautiful. See you tomorrow.)
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