by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“Where are the ancestral lands?” asked Mo Nian.
“The Central Plains.”
Mo Nian was startled. He hadn’t expected the Mo family’s ancestral lands to be located in the land where heavenly geniuses were everywhere. If that was the case, then the Mo family’s inheritance was many times greater than he had thought.
“Child, this world is so large that you can’t even imagine it. The Central Plains is the stage of the real experts. Right now, you are only at the Meridian Opening realm. In the Central Plains’ cultivation world, you aren’t even an ant. But our time is pressing, so we don’t have that much time to let you grow. That’s why we have no choice but to gamble. If we win the gamble, we’ll be able to restore our former glory. If we lose, the Mo family will never be able to extricate itself from its current predicament.” An unprecedented graveness appeared on Mo Yi’s face.
“Grandpa…”
BANG!
Suddenly, the Mo Mountain Seal shook intensely. Mo Nian staggered.
“Be careful. We’ve already reached one of the Martial Heaven Continent’s seven great danger zones - the Martial Heaven Sea-Ring. Everyone, get down into the underground space!” ordered Mo Yi.
The Mo Mountain Seal flew for three months, and they ran into quite a few dangers. When going through transportation formations, they had to endure countless rude interrogations.
Fortunately, the Mo Mountain Seal looked like a spatial Treasure item and didn’t draw too much attention. However, Mo Nian was still irritated.
The great and supreme grandpa of his was actually being ordered around by other experts. Those people’s cultivation bases were so high that the Mo Family was powerless to resist.
This was Mo Nian’s first time feeling just how important power was. Without power, wanting to live a life of dignity was a pipe dream.
After layers of obstructions, after carefully traveling for months, after detouring around several dangerous regions, they finally arrived at a certain place.
However, upon arriving here, Mo Nian couldn’t believe his eyes. This place was actually a pile of ruins. It was the kind of ruins that could not be ruined any more. There was not a single brick or tile that was still intact. It was filled with a desolate and gloomy air.
“This is our Mo family’s ancestral land. It’s already been flipped over by countless experts as they search for our treasures. Hmph, too bad they all returned empty-handed. Do they think my Mo family’s inheritance would be open to outsiders?” sneered Mo Yi. An invisible surge of energy came from the Mo Mountain Seal. “Alright, Nian-er, I have used the Mo Mountain Seal to open the inheritance. Go into the ancestral space.”
Ripples came from below the ruins. The space around Mo Nian twisted and he vanished.
“Haha, dregs of the Mo family, you’ve finally appeared. Now let’s see where you can run to.”
Mo Nian had just been sent through when countless figures appeared, surrounding the Mo Mountain Seal. Mo Yi’s expression completely changed.
Mo Nian Side Story Chapter 2
Mo Nian’s vision darkened. With the space around him twisting, he felt like he had been devoured by a monster. He was within endless darkness.
After a long moment, Mo Nian felt his feet step onto solid ground again. He saw that he was in a dark world.
There wasn’t the slightest light here, and the air was filled with the aura of decay. After that, Mo Nian spread his divine sense to take a look around and couldn’t help but jump in shock.
This place was actually an underground tomb, and there were thousands of stone coffins around him. He was in the middle of those coffins.
This ancient tomb was hundreds of miles long. Mo Nian took out a light stone and gasped at what he saw.
“This is my Mo family’s ancestral land?”
There were countless statues against the walls, and they were filled with a sacred and noble air.
Two statues were particularly large. They were almost lifelike, and it was like light was flowing within their eyes. An immortal charm danced within them.
Buzz.
When Mo Nian looked at the two giant statues, a sea of runes appeared behind him. His Heavenly Dao manifestation activated all by itself.
There were also two figures in his manifestation. They were remarkably similar to the two statues.
“These two should be the originators of my Mo family. These statues, they’re so magnificent and powerful. Could it be that I…”
Buzz.
Just at this moment, the dust on the two statues began to fall. Divine runes began to appear around them.
Those runes were very faint at the start, but they grew brighter and brighter until they were like stars. At the same time, a gentle energy enveloped Mo Nian.
Mo Nian involuntarily fell to his knees. He kowtowed to the two statues and felt a resonance deep within his soul, as well as a kind of bloodline summoning. He knew that they had to be the ancestors of the Mo family.
“Disciple Mo Nian greets the ancestors!” Mo Nian kowtowed nine times. Everyone entombed here had been a big figure of the Mo family.
Although they had already died, the fact that they could be buried here in the Mo family’s ancestral lands meant that they had been outstanding and remarkable figures in the Mo family’s history.
Unfortunately, no one replied to him. When he finally rose, he saw that the two figures in his Heavenly Dao manifestation had formed a connection with the two statues. It seemed that they were in the midst of communicating.
The runes on the statues grew brighter and brighter. Following that, they began to float off the statues and fly toward Mo Nian. They merged into his manifestation.
BOOM!
When the first rune merged into his manifestation, it was like a meteorite had fallen into a calm lake. A powerful explosion drove Mo Nian to his knees. He coughed up blood, and cracks appeared all over his body. He had almost died from the huge amount of energy that rune had brought.
He couldn’t help being horrified. It seemed that he had come too early. With his current cultivation base, merging with such terrifying runes was too much. He should have cultivated to a higher level before attempting it.
Just merging with one rune had almost shattered his bones. When he looked at the hundreds and thousands of runes currently floating off the two statues, he immediately felt despair.
The second rune would definitely kill him. However, his body was locked in place by some invisible energy. He couldn’t even run.
Just at this moment, the tomb began to shake. The thousands of coffins had blood-colored runes light up.
At the same time, web-like runes appeared on the ground. They connected to all the coffins, while Mo Nian was at the very center of the web.
Mo Nian Side Story Chapter 3
Mo Nian was standing at the center of thousands of coffins, and the ground was covered in a web of runes connected to all the coffins. Energy was coming from each strand of the web and surging toward Mo Nian.
Mo Nian’s body shook. What shocked him was that the energy coming from the coffins was actually very gentle. It was nourishing his body endlessly.
His body was like a dry riverbed finally being nourished by water. It was greedily absorbing this energy.
BOOM!
Suddenly, Mo Nian’s aura surged. He had directly leaped from the Meridian Opening realm to the Xiantian realm.
Furthermore, his aura was still continuing to rise.
“First Heavenstage of Xiantian.”
“Second Heavenstage of Xiantian.”
“Third Heavenstage of Xiantian.”
With each breath, his cultivation base increased by a minor level. Even Mo Nian was stunned. He didn’t dare to move. He had never imagined a person could undergo such a crazy advancement.
BOOM!
At this time, over ten of the two statues’ runes merged into Mo Nian’s body. He once more coughed up blood, his body almost exploding.
However, as the ene
rgy of the coffins entered him as well, his body was constantly nourished and growing stronger. His cultivation base crazily advanced.
“Sixth Heavenstage of Xiantian.”
“Seventh Heavenstage of Xiantian.”
“Eighth Heavenstage of Xiantian.”
Endless energy came from the coffins. At the same time, the statues’ runes continued to merge with him.
There were two kinds of energy within his body, one constantly causing destruction, while one was constantly upgrading and restoring his body so it could handle the destruction. They had reached an equilibrium.
BOOM!
A crazy aura surged out of Mo Nian’s body as he entered the Sea Expansion realm.
Without him doing anything, a huge amount of the statues’ runes surged into his Dantian. His qi sea grew explosively.
“One hundred miles!”
“Two hundred miles!”
“Three hundred miles!”
Mo Nian felt like he had gone crazy. He had never heard of someone entering Sea Expansion this quickly. Fortunately, he still knew the theory behind Sea Expansion.
For other people, increasing the size of their qi sea required medicinal pills. A qi sea of three hundred miles marked someone as an elite, however, he had reached that level in just a single breath.
“Four hundred miles!”
“Five hundred miles!”
Mo Nian’s qi sea quickly grew to ten thousand miles. His heart was pounding wildly. Ten thousand miles was known as a limit, but based on how things were going, he was going to break right past it.
Bang!
His qi sea broke that limit instantly. It was like something had exploded, and it grew explosively.
“Three thousand miles…”
“Ten thousand miles…”
“Thirty thousand miles…”
Mo Nian couldn’t believe his eyes. With the help of his ancestors’ runes, his qi sea had been expanded to thirty thousand miles. He had never even heard of a qi sea this large.
After his qi sea had reached its limit, more energy surged into his Dantian, instantly filling it.
“First Heavenstage of Sea Expansion!”
“Second Heavenstage of Sea Expansion!”
Even after entering the Sea Expansion realm, the energy of the coffins and the runes of the ancestral statues continued to pour into his body.
Mo Nian was completely dumbstruck now, as none of this was within his control. His cultivation base was just crazily growing. Even he was starting to get afraid. This advancement was too fast.
At the same time as he felt his cultivation base explosively grow, something new had appeared in the depths of his soul. He was about to check what it was when…
BOOM!
He directly entered the Foundation Forging realm. Upon reaching the Foundation Forging realm, a rune on the forehead of each of the ancestral statues flew off and into Mo Nian’s head.
Two runes slowly appeared on Mo Nian’s forehead. They got closer and closer until they finally merged into one new rune.
When the new rune appeared, this entire underground world began to shudder. Those runes were also trembling.
However, that new rune quickly faded, and the process of Foundation Forging started. His original rune appeared.
Following the appearance of the first original rune, his cultivation base began rising once more.
“First Heavenstage of Foundation Forging!”
“Second Heavenstage of Foundation Forging!”
Mo Nian’s cultivation base rose all the way to the ninth Heavenstage of Foundation Forging before it stopped.
The web of runes on the ground faded, and the coffins also became calm. It was like nothing had happened, but Mo Nian was staring at his own hands blankly. Feeling the unprecedented power in his body, he couldn’t believe what had just happened.
Suddenly, the wall behind Mo Nian shattered, revealing a stone gate. It slowly opened, and five-colored light flooded the underground space.
“The Five Element Sun Hunting Bow!” Mo Nian let out a startled but ecstatic cry.
Mo Nian Side Story Chapter 4
Mo Nian’s heart pounded wildly. It was a beautiful five-colored bow. It was long and simple. There were runes outside it, and within it, there seemed to be five-colored blood flowing.
He felt five different kinds of energy inside the bowstring. Each type of energy, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth was extremely pure.
His own blood began to surge when he saw this bow. He felt close to the bow.
“It’s the first generation’s Five Element Sun Hunting Bow….” Mo Nian’s voice was quivering. This was his Mo family’s most priceless treasure. It actually hadn’t been lost. It had been hidden here.
That was the number one divine bow of the Mo family. Due to how much time had passed, the Five Element Sun Hunting Bow had become a legend.
He reached out to touch the Five Element Sun Hunting Bow when light suddenly exploded out of it. A vast surge of energy poured into his body.
The void rumbled as this underground world shook. Mo Nian’s Cry of the Heavenly Daos once more appeared automatically, along with the two figures within it.
However, at this time, the two figures slowly dissolved. Replacing them was a five-colored bow.
Within the sea of runes behind Mo Nian was now a beautiful scene. There was a bow hanging in the air, while below it was a world of mountains and rivers that it dominated.
Information poured into Mo Nian’s mind. There was so much that he almost fainted.
Eventually, the light faded. The Five Element Sun Hunting Bow had vanished, and his manifestation was gone as well.
Mo Nian slowly opened his eyes, and a rune was flowing within each of them. That rune was an image of the five-colored bow in his manifestation.
Upon extending his arm, the Five Element Sun Hunting Bow appeared in his hand. Mo Nian was shocked as well as excited. The Five Element Sun Hunting Bow had actually merged with his body, and he could summon it freely.
“Hahaha, I, Mo Nian, am no longer the old Mo Nian! My name will definitely resound throughout the Central Plains!” Mo Nian laughed grandly.
BOOM!
Suddenly, all the statues and coffins within this underground world exploded. Mo Nian was shocked. Before he understood what was going on, runes wrapped around him, and the space around him twisted. He reappeared aboveground.
It was currently noon. The sun was hanging high in the sky. He saw that this was the place he had entered from.
“Where is the Mo Mountain Seal?” Mo Nian suddenly noticed that his surroundings were empty. The Mo Mountain Seal and the people of Mo Gate had all vanished.
Buzz.
Just as he was stunned, countless runes filled the sky. They formed a giant barrier that trapped him.
“Hahaha, bastard of the Mo family, you’ve finally appeared. We had to wait three years for you.”
Suddenly, dozens of figures appeared in the sky. Their auras were very powerful, and they were all Kings at the Jade Core realm.
Their leader was a large man with a thick beard. He was smiling upon seeing Mo Nian.
Mo Nian had a bad feeling, but he was still calm. “Who are you? Where is my family?”
“Who I am isn’t something you need to know. As for your family, hehe, you’ll know very quickly.”
That large man laughed and waved his hand. The formation of runes transformed into dozens of chains that bound Mo Nian.
Laughing, the large man arrived in front of Mo Nian. He reached out for Mo Nian’s neck.
Suddenly, one of Mo Nian’s fingers pressed against that large man’s head. Then, an invisible surge of energy obliterated his head.
This sudden change caught those Kings off-guard. Their leader had actually been slain.
Most shocking of all, those runic chains that had been binding Mo Nian had shattered like mud.
“Your guts aren’t small.” Mo Nian had conducted a soulsearch and learned e
verything that had happened. His killing intent surged. His family had been captured.
“This brat’s strange! Attack together!” shouted another King, attacking with his fellows.
“Die!” Mo Nian extended a single finger. A single rune appeared at the tip of his finger and was launched.
That rune shot out and exploded halfway there, transforming into multiple arrows that instantly annihilated those Kings before they could even dodge.
Without even glancing at these people, Mo Nian vanished from his original location.
Two mountains away from the Mo family’s ancestral lands, there was a giant prison. Mo Gate’s people were currently imprisoned here.
“Fuck, it’s been three years. Guarding these pigs all day is so boring.”
Bang!
A disciple wearing white robes who looked to be in his twenties tossed a talisman into the prison. The talisman exploded, and cursing voices came from within. Only then did that disciple smile as if this was the only way to alleviate his boredom.
“Really, why did we get sent to do such a boring mission? Did that little fellow even manage to enter their so-called ancestral land? What if he died inside or can’t get out? Will they keep us guarding here forever?” Another disciple tossed a similar exploding rune inside. This time, screams came from within as someone had clearly been injured.
The prison had been built inside a cave, so they couldn’t see what was happening inside. There were hundreds of disciples guarding this place, and some of them were bored enough to use this method to pass the time.
“Hehe, what do you think would happen if we tossed in ten low grade exploding talismans at once?” The screams seemed to have provoked them. One disciple took out a handful of exploding runes.
“You can’t. We’re ordered not to cause too many casualties before that Mo Nian returns,” countered one disciple.
“It’s fine, ten low grade exploding talismans won’t kill that many. Hehe, I’ll try it.” That disciple smiled and threw in ten exploding talismans.
