Refining the Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 1599: Grandeur Stone and Millet Tree

In the Demon Sect, strange incidents had been happening recently. It stirred a huge commotion that alerted even the top figures of the sect.

Firstly, it was said that a little nameless disciple from the sect had suddenly fainted for no reason. After he woke up two days later, his cultivation had increased greatly, and no one knew how he had learned a Divine Way known as powerful as Overturning Sea. This Divine Way truly had the power to topple the mountains and overturn the seas, cause rivers to flow in the opposite direction and flood lands until half a mountain was submerged. This caused quite a ruckus when this nameless disciple directly killed a few of his fellow disciples who had been bullying and humiliating him for many years.

Secondly, in a certain city, the oldest legitimate son of a wealthy man had been born as a fool. However, overnight, it was like he was suddenly enlightened. He was instantly gifted with profound knowledge and spoke cleverly like a scholar, causing all the relatives in the family to become extremely shocked. They spent a huge amount of money to invite an immortal teacher to conduct an investigation. In the end, it was confirmed that this oldest legitimate son did not experience any terrifying encounters at all. He had truly been enlightened and gained the ‘heavenly gift’ of knowledge.

If it were only these two incidents, then it would not really be worth the Demon Sect’s attention. After all, countless miracles happened in this world. There had been a few cases in the Demon Sect’s history where someone had suddenly undergone a change in their fate.

However, the third incident was too shocking. A guardian of the Demon Sect who had sealed himself in closed-door meditation was originally reaching the end of the line. From the very beginning, there was no hope of breaking through at all. He could only be like a withered tree that waited for death. However, for some unknown reason, it was like multicolored light had shone through the clouds and onto the nine lands. Countless rules were manifested and he broke through to the Ruler realm in just one step, becoming a new elder of the Demon Sect. The only thing was that after this elder broke through, there was a huge change in his personality. When interrogated by the sect, he kept quiet throughout, and at the end, he suddenly lost his temper and started to attack others. Then, he escaped and disappeared, and no one knew where he had gone.

In light of these continuous incidents that captured the Demon Sect’s attention, they conducted a thorough investigation. Through this, they realized that many similar incidents had occurred. There was even another incident that happened in a faraway village in the mountains where everyone had been eaten by a demonic creature.

This demonic creature had been captured, and its origins were extremely bizarre. It was actually originally a dog that was owned by a butcher. In the past, there were many cases where people tried to eat beasts that transformed into demonic creatures which ended up eating these people in return. However, this dog was clearly a normal, domesticated animal, Yet, overnight, it had transformed into an enlightened demonic creature. It was truly unimaginable that something like this would happen.

New and strange incidents were constantly being reported. As the master of the Demon Sect, the Night Demon Sect Master had investigated all these cases personally. His eyes became brighter and brighter and he became increasingly agitated.

“Give my orders: regarding the recent incidents, suppress them temporarily and don’t let news of it leak out.” With this directive, the Night Demon Sect Master turned to leave.

Marquis Chongwu left the Imperial Capital and returned to the West Border Army. The route that he took required him to pass by Qinghe where he gathered the troops that a great general was meant to have. All these events that transpired were not a secret. The young miss was following Marquis Chongwu, and according to the timeline they should have reached a place that was not too far from the Demon Sect by now.

In the secret chamber, the Night Demon Sect Master held a jade slip in his hands. After imprinting the message, he wrapped his fingers around the jade slip tightly and shattered it. However, the message within the jade slip had been passed out through a unique sect method.

……

On the airship, in a cabin that Rourou occupied alone, she had finally gotten news from the Demon Sect that she had waited a very long time for. At a glance, the news was close to what she expected. She got up and approached Qin Yu, who had found some precious free time and was cultivating. She said, “There is an opportunity that just appeared right in front of us, do you want to take it?”

Even though she spoke casually like she did not regard this opportunity to be important at all, from Qin Yu’s understanding of Rourou, the fact that she had come personally to mention this to him meant that it was definitely an extraordinary opportunity.

It only meant nothing to Rourou because she was too powerful and her cultivation level was too high. Even to this day, Qin Yu was unable to truly understand how powerful she was.

But of course, he also did not have the qualification and confidence to even try and understand.

“Yes!” he said cleanly.

He felt the constant pressure of the World’s Net weighing down on him. Even though he became more powerful, this pressure kept on increasing. But he could not ‘stop eating due to the fear of choking’, and not move forward?

Perhaps this pressure would keep increasing as his abilities increased, and one day, it would be broken. Even if it did not break, if he became stronger, it was possible that he could one day reach the peak and find out the reason for this pressure, and then rid himself of it.

Rourou turned to leave.

Qin Yu hurriedly followed behind her.

After a few moments, an order was spread throughout the airships that made many generals’ faces become strange. They were thinking, ‘Marquis Chongwu, you’re highly regarded by His Majesty, but are you sure it’s okay to do something like this?’

“I am going to bring my wife to visit her relatives at the Demon Sect and I will return in a few days. All of you, continue to adhere to the plan and move forward.”

Of course, Hundred Saint could not even get a word in. He could only smile bitterly, without any power to stop Qin Yu. He had to just deal with the inquiries that came from the numerous airships to the best of his ability.

On the other hand, at this moment, Qin Yu and Rourou were rushing to the Demon Sect.

“Cough, we left just like that, but I still don’t know what the opportunity really is?” Qin Yu’s brows creased with puzzlement.

He wanted to leave quietly and stealthily so that no one knew they were gone. He did not know what the point was of announcing to everyone that they were returning to the Demon Sect to visit relatives.

Rourou’s expression was calm, “On the airship, there are the four Old Four Claws that were gifted by His Majesty. It’s possible to hide from them for a while, but after a while, they would notice that we were gone. Isn’t it better for both of us to leave openly?”

Qin Yu frowned, “That’s it?”

Rourou replied, “Of course…no, we are also leaving openly because the opportunity that arose from the Demon Sect was created by the alliance between the West Desolate King and the Li Family. Since they are being so sincere and have gone through so much trouble, of course you should take the opportunity and let them know that you are taking it as well.”

Qin Yu’s expression became serious as he started to comprehend what was going on. After a while, he said, “You haven’t told me what this opportunity really is yet.”

Rourou thought for a while before she said, “If I say it as it is, it will be a very complicated and troublesome matter. Let me explain it to you through storytelling, you just need to listen carefully.”

After seeing that Qin Yu nodded, she continued, “In the ancient times, long, long ago, there was a strange stone that existed in this world. It contained a Divine Way that had the power to interfere with the passing of time. If this was all the power it had, it would at most be a remarkable treasure that would be passed down through generations. However, coincidentally, not long after this stone appeared, a seed landed on this stone before anyone managed to find it. This seed sprouted very successfully and grew to become a huge tree.”

As Rourou mentioned this tree, Qin Yu thought about her two mysterious and powerful big trees that had shocking cooking skills, which had now disappeared without a trace.

“This huge tree cannot be compared to those two trees that I have. Even though the two trees have somewhat extraordinary origins, even if ten thousand years or a hundred thousand years passed, they still could not be compared to this huge tree. In short, the huge tree had grown on top of the stone, and it was almost like a marriage between two treasures…uh, of course, something like this could have been done by the gods, but it still gave birth to something miraculous. A real, mysterious, and powerful treasure was born because of this.”

The stone was known as ‘Grandeur’.

The huge tree was known as ‘Millet’.

Putting these two together, where the Millet tree grew on top of the Grandeur stone, a paradise had been born. Any living creature in the world that stepped into this new world could gain an extra life out of thin air, and these benefits could be transferred to their original body.

Therefore, there was the incident of ‘reaching the heavens in one step’, the incident of ‘the spring breeze that arrived at night which awakened a myriad of pear blossoms’, and also the incident of ‘a dog that ascended to the heavens after being enlightened by the Great Dao’. Miracles like these happened frequently, and there were many reasons that could be attributed to these occurrences.

After pondering over this for a long time, Qin Yu’s eyes brightened and were filled with anticipation. However, he suddenly thought about something and his expression changed slightly, “You’ve told me so much, about this paradise land born from the Grandeur stone and Millet tree coming together, but it is not a place that anyone can enter…”

Rourou looked at him and snorted heavily, “Since I have offered this opportunity to you, it means I naturally have the means to help you enter. You just have to wait.”

Qin Yu nodded his head, but just as he was about to execute this movement, he felt a sudden tiredness that attacked his body. His eyelids suddenly became unbearably sore and heavy, and before his brain had time to react, his body softened and he entered a state of deep sleep.

Rourou turned around and extended her arm, holding Qin Yu against her as an expression of unwillingness formed on her face. It seemed that she had already expected something like this to happen.

Right at this moment, Rourou frowned and a coldness appeared in her eyes, “You shameless thing, you’d better hurry back!”

As her voice fell, the space suddenly started to distort even though she had not done anything yet. A powerful repulsive force was produced from within and with a muffled ‘bang’, it seemed as if something had been forced to retreat.

Whoosh –

Rourou stepped forward and her silhouette instantly disappeared. In the next moment, she arrived straight at one of the courtyards in the Demon Sect.

The Night Demon Sect Master seemed to have detected this and he smiled as he bowed, “This servant greets Young Miss.”

Rourou nodded and said blandly, “I need to borrow this courtyard for a period of time; stand guard outside and do not allow anyone to come in.”

Her tone was very rude, but the Night Demon Sect Master, who was the leader of the Demon Sect and a peak Ruler, did not seem to be annoyed at all. He respectfully bowed and obeyed her orders. He did not even ask any questions, and merely turned to leave. He activated all the defensive formations around the courtyard and blocked even his own divine sense from entering as he stood outside.

Rourou turned around and walked, as if she was very familiar with this place. She activated a few mechanisms and passed through a few trap formations and killing formations before she reached an underground secret chamber.

She put Qin Yu on the futon that was on the ground before walking to a corner of the chamber. She glanced at the space in front of her and smiled coldly, “Since you know that I’m already here, why don’t you just show yourself? Or, do you want me to come and grab you myself?”

Buzz –

There was a slight tremble, and among the space fluctuations, a tablet appeared. Following that, a tiny person was condensed amongst the mist. This tiny person looked shocked and frightened as she bowed to Rourou continuously.

“Hmph! Rest assured, a small thing like you is not even enough to get stuck between my teeth, and you are stained by bad luck. I’m too lazy to even open my mouth to eat you,” Rourou said as she raised her hand to touch the tablet. “However, this tablet that you are staying in temporarily is pretty good. Lend it to me for a while.”

The tiny person was about to cry as she knelt and kowtowed repeatedly.

Rourou’s gaze turned ice-cold as she asked, “Why? You aren’t willing to lend it to me?”

The tiny person stiffened, and could only unwillingly nod her head.

“Come out, then.”

The tiny person was extremely unwilling. This tablet was the foundation to her life. If it was taken away from her, she would dissipate.

However, looking at Rourou’s impatient face in front of her, she did not dare to hesitate. Otherwise, she was going to shatter into powder if Rourou slapped her.

Do you really think Rourou was just poking around for fun earlier? No, she was issuing a blatant threat!

The mist began to roll fiercely. The tiny person who emerged just now was directly pinched by two fingers.

She did not even manage to let out a scream as her vision turned black and she fell into a state of unconsciousness.

Rourou licked the corner of her mouth, thinking to herself, ‘This tiny little thing is indeed really stupid. I may seem like I did not care about this tiny thing just now, but in reality, my mouth is indeed itching for a snack. I shall eat her to fulfill my desires.’

However, right at this time, Rourou frowned as dissatisfaction could be seen in her eyes. She looked at the tiny person that had fainted in her fingers, who was now gone.

She raised her hand and touched the spot between her eyebrows, “Don’t you forget what I said today, otherwise, I’m going to be really angry.”

Turning around to look at Qin Yu, Rourou took a step forward. Her body instantly vanished as it blended into the tablet that was suspended in the mist.