by <unknown>
A few days later, Zhong Yue arrived at the Pale Bone Mountain again and entered the palace once again where the skeleton hare was located. Throughout this period of time, the skeleton hare was still dwelling in his cultivation and he did not show himself even once at.
Zhong Yue stared at the calculation tables he corrected as the calculations continued to operate. It had been ten years but the calculations were not completed yet.
But he was not disappointed as he already understood that the calculations would perhaps take more time to be completed.
“It has been seven years outside. I wonder how Jin’er, Senior Martial Sister Jun and Brother Bai are….” Zhong Yue murmured.
He was worried about them; Jun Sixie and Bai Canghai were weaker than the average Qi Practitioner in the Prison Realm and while Qiu Jin’er may have awoken her true spirit, her strength was still below average in the Prison Realm.
And since he was trapped here for such a long time, he was completely oblivious to the trio’s situation; he didn’t even know whether or not they were still alive.
All he could do was just pray that they were still well alive and try his best to get out from the world to look for them.
Time slowly passed and after another seven years, Zhong Yue returned to this place.
In these years, Zhong Yue would often return to check on the calculations, but it was not completed yet and he would return to make sure that the calculations would not sway from the right path.
But this time when he arrived at the palace, he heard some strange sounds, sounds that were so beautiful as if it came from the heaven, from the space or even the galaxy that sang and praised about the beauty of nature, the elegance and gracefulness of the rules of heaven and earth.
Right away, his heart thumped and he quickly entered the palace only to see a Six Path Wheel rotating in the air slowly. Within the wheel, Zhong Yue saw an endless flow of totem carvings that formed into a path made of totem carvings that revealed the secrets of the Dao Yi Secret Realm and the combination of the power of Six Path and Reincarnation!
Along this path, the totem patterns of the Bloodline, Wu Xing, Wan Xiang, Shen Cai, Yin Yang and some other marvellous totem patterns had formed together into a unity that contained the abstrusities of the Six Paths Reincarnation.
It could freely transpose between Wu Xing, Wan Xiang, Yin Yang, Bloodline and even the heaven and earth that contained the secrets of the Six Path and Reincarnation.
While he was awestruck by this scene, he did not forget his main purpose here; he quickly sat with his legs crossed and the light wheels appeared behind his head with the Pan Gu Celestial Being sitting in one of the secret realms. His hands then spread out and lifted the Six Path up highly.
Countless totem carvings flew out from Zhong Yue’s body as he tried to comprehend and learn about the secrets of the Six Path Reincarnation.
The calculations were merely calculations after all, he would still have to turn the calculations into his own knowledge. Only after broadening his horizons would he be able to obtain enough power to break free from the bindings of the Bone Realm!
Chapter 663: The Evil God Breaks Free |
Six years... Zhong Yue had taken six years to learn about the Six Path Reincarnation and this was his sole focus during all that time.
But the Dao that merged the power of Six Path and Reincarnation was so complicated that it was beyond the Zhong Yue’s comprehension. Thus, even after trying his best, he was still unable to completely understand it.
In the end of the calculations, the path of Dao was already on the emperor-level. After all, the calculations were built up by the Realm Lord singlehandedly using everything he knew; it was already very impressive that Zhong Yue could pull off what he did to such an extent.
Suddenly, Zhong Yue stopped his cultivation and the fire in his eyes wavered, “This was prepared for an emperor-level Qi Practitioner like the Realm Lord for him to get out. My strength is far weaker than his so with all I’ve learnt so far, it should be enough for me to get out already.”
He then realized that the skeleton hare had also stopped his cultivation and was now standing not far away from him.
By now, the power of the skeleton hare experienced a massive growth; he is now on the level of True Spirit and is a few times stronger than those on the same level as him.
This was all because of the heritage of the Realm Lord that the skeleton hare received which gave him a head start over others
Zhong Yue suddenly thought of something and summoned the skeleton hare to his side and said, “I am leaving this world soon and I will not return anymore, yet I still don’t know your name.”
The hare hopped to his side and replied, “The living beings of the Bone Realms have only names without surnames. Those with a lower position than me will refer me as Master Hare and those higher than me would call me as Three Cleft because of my cleft lips.”
Zhong Yue was left speechless and he said, “How can the future king of the Bone Realm have such a silly name? After my departure from this realm, you will become the king for sure and you can’t possibly be called as King Hare, right? Hmmm, how about Jun? If you become king some day, you will be called King Jun.”
The hare didn’t know what to say at first, but it soon hopped around in joy and shouted, “Jun? King Jun? I like this name! Alright then, from now on, my name will be Jun! Oh, what is your surname?”
“My surname is Zhong.” Zhong Yue replied with a smile.
“Then my surname will be Zhong as well!” shouted the hare happily.
After a moment of happiness, the hare looked at Zhong Yue with sadness and he asked, “Can I leave this realm with you?”
“Do you not want to be the king of this world?” asked the surprised Zhong Yue.
“Not really, it’s kind of boring being a king, I’m more eager to see the world outside,” said the hare, “I want to see what it is in the outside world that would make even the likes of you desperately try to return there.”
Zhong Yue shook his head and he said, “But I can’t take you with you since your body and soul is bound to this world. And with my capabilities, I can’t bring you with me either. But someday in the future, if you manage learn as much as possible of the calculations here, you might gain a chance to leave this realm too.”
The wildfire in the eyes of Jun sparkled and he said in disbelief, “You mean to say that I can get out from this world with my own strength if I study this?”
Zhong Yue turned around, walked out the palace and he said with a nod, “Perhaps one day, you and I will cross paths again.”
“Definitely!” shouted the hare as he sent Zhong Yue off with his eyes.
With a happy laugh, Zhong Yue left the Pale Bone Palace and in an instant, he was already miles away.
Little did he know that in the future, the hare would truly escape from the Bone Realm and make a name for himself well known throughout the world under the name of Zhong Jun, creating a whole new race and becoming the king of the skeleton race before taking the title of King Jun.
Zhong Yue soon arrived at the Pale Bone Palace. He then summoned the skeletons forward and held a ceremony to declare that he would step down from the throne.
He sat on this throne and accepted the worship of the skeletons for one last time as the ghostly fire within the eyes of the skeletons swarmed towards him.
At that moment, he suddenly felt that he didn’t want to leave! After all these years, the skeletons that used to be scary in his eyes had somehow become very cute to him as he developed a sense of attachment to this little world.
Thank god that I am a skeleton or I would have shed tears in front of them.
Zhong Yue chased away his sadness and stood up from the throne, taking the cape off his back and placing the jade bone scepter back against the throne. The two items might be emperor-level divine weapons but he did not feel right claiming them as his own.
The two emperor-level divine weapons were the symbo
l of a skeleton king and if he stepped down, he was no longer their king so no matter how powerful and precious the emperor-level divine weapons were, it felt it was inappropriate to take them.
“It is time for me to leave! Farewell, my skeleton warriors!” Zhong Yue said as he waved his hand and left.
“Skeleton King Zhong!”
The countless skeletons shouted for Zhong Yue, their voice shook the heaven and earth; the skeleton gods chased after him but they hopelessly realized that the more they chased, the further away Zhong Yue got before he finally disappeared from their vision.
Zhong Yue came back to the place where the cracked dimension appeared and when he looked to the skies, the dimension was already gone and that bridge was no longer there.
He walked towards the location where the bridge was once located and sat down in the sky as the light wheels appeared behind his head. Then, the Pan Gu Celestial Being started channeling the Six Path Wheel and the power of the secret realms rotated and merged together to change into the power of Six Paths.
Then the power of Six Path condensed in the Dao Yi Secret Realm and turned into the Dao
that bore the appearance of a rose that carried the infinite mysteries of Six Paths within it.
And the power of this Dao could turn back into the power of Six Paths or the power of bloodline at anytime!
All powers in the world could be broken down into the power of Yin Yang, Shen Cai, Wan Xiang, Wu Xing, Bloodline, heaven and earth, divine, and finally the Dao.
For example, the visualization of dragons and phoenixes used the power of Wan Xiang, the sun and moon used the power of Yin Yang, the avatar used the power of heaven and earth, the Yuan Shen with the power of divine, the five elements used the power of Wu Xing and the Fuxi True Form was the power of bloodline.
The totem carvings cultivated by the gods were the power of Dao.
In this world, every art and technique found their roots in these sex power, but due to how various powers gathered within the body of a Qi Practitioner, one would require great effort to concentrate all the powers at once.
The Six Paths Reincarnation, however, united these powers together. For instance, if he wanted to use the power of Yin and Yang, the other powers would temporarily morph into the power of Yin and Yang and greatly amplify it!
And that was how the power of Six Paths and Reincarnation was so heaven-defying!
Among the many powers, the power of bloodline was the hardest to master as this power was also the exact power that dictated the life, death, and rebirth of those in the Six Path Worlds!
This power was also what Zhong Yue relied on to find back his “past life’s” body!
He did not buy the fact that his body had long been dead; he firmly believed that it was merely being hidden by the power of Reincarnation or that his body had been transferred somewhere that was deprived of the power of Six Paths, thus, preventing him from retrieving his body.
Now, all he need to do was to master the Six Paths Reincarnation as soon as possible so that he could retrieve his body!
With his cultivation level now, it was still very hard to completely condense a Dao, his own Dao was still very much imperfect.
Zhong Yue patiently sensed for presence of the Dao in the air and suddenly, he realized some abnormality and he felt happy right away. His body then suddenly began to continuously shift between blurry and tangible; his previous body kept on appearing before turning back into the skeleton body.
“Without fully learning the Dao, my body is still not stable enough for me to shake off this skeleton body and recover my proper body,” murmured Zhong Yue.
He sighed and then commanded the Pan Gu Celestial to charge right into the skies.
Zhong Yue unsheathed his saber as the celestial being flew and pulled out his Solar Divine Saber, using it to rip open a hole in the sky before leaping right into it!
On the other hand, in the ancient gigantic palace where the waterfall was located, another four Qi Practitioners ran in. They were from the same group and there were about ten of them but now, only four of them survived. They all had injuries all over their bodies and after getting some rest and treating their wounds, they finally stood up and looked at each other.
“Skill Master, thank god you baited some Qi Practitioners and sacrificed them at needed time or we would have been killed long ago.” said a pretty lady among the four solo survivors.
The young man who was called Skill Master however, replied calmly. “Within those realms sealed away by the ancient one, some of these realms had cultivated terrifying beings or spirits. If we want to push further in, we would either fight to death with them or feed them after the Blood Ritual and only by that will we be able to get out alive. Too bad that the sacrificial offerings we prepared are not enough to get us out unharmed.”
The other Qi Practitioner looked at the waterfall and whispered to another one, “They said that there is the bloodied skeleton god in this realm and the masters such like the Sword Master were killed by that skeleton god. Are we really going to enter this realm?”
Skill Master sneered and said, “You call them strong Qi Practitioners but I call them fools! All they know is to bullishly charge in on matters beyond their capabilities without a proper plan because they think they are strong! Lately, I’ve entered a realm, trained myself for ten years in there and now, my strength has surpassed them! Perhaps, I’m not even weaker than the bloodied skeleton god. Besides, I can guarantee that this skeleton god is also one of those sinister spirits and if we can’t win against him, I am sure that we can safely retreat from the realm. He couldn't even get out from there! Absolute safety will also be secured if we offer a blood ritual to him.”
The pretty lady and the other two Qi Practitioners looked at each other with a worried expressions as they all thought, Blood ritual? Which one of us will be sacrificed by then?
Skill Master then got ready to enter the Bone Realm through the waterfall, but all of a sudden, darkness engulfed the surrounding and the water stopped flowing as a huge face that looked like a skeleton surfaced from the water.
The waterfall then trembled greatly as a jade skeleton walked out from the waterfall.
At that moment, the expression of the Skill Master and the others froze on their faces as the next thing they saw was that skeleton seemed to be celebrating happily as it made a laughing gesture.
While the skeleton laughed with extreme joy, cold shivered down the spine of Skill Master and the others as they immediately realized one horrifying fact, the bloodied skeleton good had break himself free from the bindings of the Bone Realm!
“Don’t panic, he might not be the monster skeleton everyone spoke off!” said the Skill Master suddenly, “Rumours had it that the terrifying skeleton is red!”
A saber flashed across their vision and the next thing they knew was that the head of the Skill Master was severed from his body. Then, the skeleton sheathed his saber and the remaining three Qi Practitioners shrieked and ran away in fear, “This is bad! The bloodied skeleton god has escaped from his realm!”
Chapter 664: Shocking |
“Strange, why are they running?”
A puzzled Zhong Yue murmured in front of the waterfall, “I know I look very weird right now but I am not an evil person. I merely tried to gain the upperhand by killing the strongest one among them so that there would be not much of a problem when I try to ask them some questions. Now, things won’t look good to others when I chased you guys who ran away so fast.”
Then a scene where a skeleton chased after three Qi Practitioners that were shrinking as they ran appeared in Zhong Yue’s mind and he was incredibly speechless at it.
Now, he was still in the form of a skeleton and he could tell that he still lacked something if he wanted to return to his original form. Besides, his current appearance was bound to be unacceptable by others.
I still need more power of bloodline for me to find out where my flesh body is to retrieve it back.
/> Zhong Yue then headed towards the outside of the palace and this was when Xin Huo said, “Kiddo Yue, there is a potential threat to you right now, you must hurry up and find your body back and cultivate to the next level!”
“Threat? What threat?” asked Zhong Yue immediately after he recollected his thoughts.
Xin Huo then said, “There is not much time left in your fleshly body. The sealing ritual back in the Ancestral Star had left you with only two to three hundred years remaining. And ever since the sealing ritual, you’ve already experienced over a hundred years.”
Xin Huo continued, “Which means, your mortal body is now aging, wait no, correction to that, dying!”
Zhong Yue suddenly shivered in cold, it wasn’t just a joke. He had ten thousand years of life but was now left with only a hundred or two to live. Just like an old man who could live for a hundred years and is living his ninety-nine! His body was dying, his spirit fading and his Yuan Shen was dispersing. His soul might disappear anytime!
This was the biggest threat of all!
If Zhong Yue couldn't get back to his original body and break through to the next level, he would probably end up dying!
“But if you find your body again, there is still a chance for you, a chance to recover all the life that you lost in the ritual.”
Xin Huo said again with a smile, “From what I saw in the Six Path Reincarnation, I suppose you could merge this skeleton body of yours with your original body together.”
“You are suggesting that...” said Zhong Yue as he seemed to have realized something.
“Yes, with the two bodies fused together, the lifespan of the skeleton body would be added onto the lifespan of the original body!” Xin Huo said, “With that, whatever you lose in that ritual will come back to you!”
But because of the curse applied to him as a cost to execute the ritual, part of the lost lifespan of his would never return to him no matter what, not even if he cultivated to the level of the Human Sovereign.
“It doesn't matter! I would’ve lived long enough by then and there is enough time for me to do a lot of things!” Zhong Yue said happily.
