Light Fortress
Chapter 424 - 88: The Other Side of the Fog (Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 424: Chapter 88: The Other Side of the Fog (Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Qingzhong, inside the tomb.

High above the Four Seasons Wilderness, clouds flowed smoothly across the sky.

Ancient trees rustled with the movement of their leaves.

A black robe dangled upside down, its large sleeves fluttering tempestuously in the wind.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle—"

The Tomb Guardian, wearing a floral cat mask, slowly opened her eyes, beholding a figure approaching through the distant fog.

Gu Shen bowed respectfully.

"You have grasped the essence quite quickly," Master Qianye said with a hint of a smile. "I thought you would need a few more days before coming to Qingzhong."

Gu Shen also smiled, "Mostly, the trivial matters outside have been quite draining. Master Qianye, about the ’ancient language’ of the Array Patterns we discussed last time, I am still somewhat perplexed..."

He pulled out a set of drawings.

Learning ancient script was different from normal knowledge infusion.

Logically speaking... it was a form of "spirit" that could be intuitively understood, not verbally taught. The presence of a teacher couldn’t fundamentally aid a student in achieving a breakthrough, but consulting the Tomb Guardian proved fruitful nonetheless.

Each visualization Gu Shen performed consumed his spiritual power.

Master Qianye, who controlled the Array Patterns directly, guided through dreams using spiritual power... this method was much faster.

Moreover, these Array Patterns required dismantling and reassembling; pondering alone and observing the process of disassembly represented two different levels of efficiency.

Divination Skill demanded enormous computational power.

So did breaking down Array Patterns.

The "computational power" of the Tomb Guardian was immense; she sat alone in Qingzhong, and it was said that her Divination Skill had weaved a massive web enmeshing the entire Five Continents... And such tremendous computational power, when applied to dismantling Array Patterns, was exceptionally fast.

It might be said, she was the best teacher on the path of Ancient Language Cultivation, bar none.

From Gu Shen’s brow sprang a glimmer of Chi Huo.

The Chi Huo outlined the symbols on the drawings, displaying his thoughts on dismantling and reassembling the Array Patterns.

On the other side, the Tomb Guardian observed intently.

She then provided an answer.

"Perhaps... you could try combining them like this..."

...

...

Time passed swiftly.

During his last stay in Qingzhong, lasting two days and one night, Gu Shen barely rested, having dismantled a total of ten Array Patterns. This pace wasn’t slow...But Gu Shen was not satisfied.

As his understanding of the ancient script deepened, so would the speed at which he dismantled the Qingzhong Array Patterns.

He hoped to master all the Array Patterns in Qingzhong as soon as possible.

After thoroughly digesting the thought processes behind dismantling these ten Array Patterns, Gu Shen breathed out slowly, "Master... I’m actually puzzled about something."

"Concerning the Tomb Ghost," Gu Shen said seriously. "Why can he directly read the ’passive texts’?"

"The existence of ancient script is the greatest enigma in this world."

Master Qianye shook her head, "Even I can only comprehend a limited part... specifically, a part of the Qingzhong Array Patterns."

Even the Tomb Guardian doesn’t know the reason?

"The Tomb Ghost is an anomaly, a... true anomaly," Master Qianye pondered for a moment before speaking. "My Divination Skill cannot calculate the fate of entities in the forbidden realm like Divine Throness or Fire Seeds, because their power is too great. Oddly, my Divination Skill can’t calculate the Tomb Ghost’s fate either."

The first half, Gu Shen could understand.

Both Divination Skill and Prayer Technique are "arts of equivalent exchange."

The former exchanges the body for spirit, the latter, life span for karma.

And Divine Seats, transcending the mundane sphere, would not be subject to divination or forcibly pulled into karma... That made sense!

But the latter half was truly shocking.

The Tomb Ghost’s fate could not be predicted through ’Divination Skill’?

If word of this spread, it would likely cause quite an uproar... This unfortunate soul had always been under the watch of important figures, whether in Changye or Da Du, and both the Gu family and the Floral Standard had conducted many experiments. Yet, these were aimed merely at trying to comprehend that persistent ’omina’."

A huge step backwards.

Neither the Gu family nor the Floral Standard had considered how profound a secret the Tomb Ghost’s omina might unravel.

But now it seemed...

The true nature behind Xing Yun’s omina might not be something that could be described merely as ’minor disaster.’

"You must have heard of the ’Old World’..."

Master Qianye suddenly thought of something, her tone becoming earnest.

"I have heard of it," Gu Shen nodded.

Indeed, this time, he had truly heard of it.

"Across the Five Continents, no one knows if the ’Old World’ actually exists... but over the years, those who choose to believe in its existence also believe in another entity— the ’Eighth Divine Seat.’

"The Eighth... Divine Seat?"

This term was not new to Gu Shen.

"Yes. The Central Federation holds seven Fire Seeds... these seven Fire Seeds created the greatest reliance of the Five Continents, the current seven Divine Seats. Rumor has it that the Fire Seeds possessed by the Central Federation are not complete, there remains a fragment," Master Qianye spoke slowly. "And the residue of the Fire Seed lies in the ’Old World’... The ’Eighth Divine Seat’, is the god of the Old World. Perhaps one day we might trek thousands of miles to find the so-called Old World, see the lost Fire Seed, but if there truly is such an existence as the ’Eighth Divine Seat,’ it’s just as likely that he will find us first."

Master Qianye and Tie Wu said exactly the same thing.

Only, due to the arrival of the Golden Divine Domain and the miracle of resurrection in the Four Seasons Wilderness, Tie Wu mistakenly believed he was the so-called ’Eighth Divine Seat’!

Gu Shen vaguely understood the Tomb Guardian’s implication. "You mean to say..."