The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 140 - 125 The Forgotten Box_1

Chapter 140: Chapter 125 The Forgotten Box_1

Third Realm.

Yin Spirit Temple.

Han Zhiyuan, who was as thin as kindling, visited Dong Tianze’s cultivation dwelling and asked, "Did you trade with that boy using the Ghost Altar?"

Dong Tianze nodded and took out a new list of Spiritual Materials, "He plans to trade a second time, here is a list of the new materials."

Han Zhiyuan, with his chicken-claw-like left hand, took the list and looked it over. Finding no issues, he handed it back to Dong Tianze.

After thinking for a moment, Han Zhiyuan said, "There’s been quite a commotion in the Fragment Land of Sky Fortune. The Blood Moon, Star River Alliance, and Raging Sun Sect are already questioning our sect leader, asking if we are harboring Dark Ghosts."

Dong Tianze’s eyes showed surprise, waiting for him to explain the situation.

"They attacked Blood Moon’s Beast-Catching Ship again, causing the death of three Marrow Cleaning Realm cultivators, and let..."

Han Zhiyuan gave a brief recount and frowned, "Some of the Blood Moon saw many Spirit Evils appear. You know, most of the cultivators who can refine Spirit Evil are from our Yin Spirit Temple."

At these words, Dong Tianze said coldly, "I was also attacked by Spirit Evil on Lake Heart Island in the Solitude Mountain Range!"

Thinking back to that unbearable past event, Dong Tianze subconsciously went to touch his rear.

He still felt as if there was a Long Spear stuck in his buttocks.

"Those within the Solitude Mountain Range and in the Fragment Land of Sky Fortune who can refine Spirit Evil, it is unknown if they are the same person. We also have some disciples who were expelled and then vanished without a trace, possibly having fallen into the Lower Realm."

Han Zhiyuan felt a headache coming on and said, "The sect leader told them that the Spirit Evil in the Fragment Land of Sky Fortune has nothing to do with us. So, when you trade next time, ask them if they know anything about the other party’s background."

"I have not yet purchased the Spiritual Materials on the list, unsure if there will be a next time," Dong Tianze hesitated and said, "I heard that in the Fragment Land of Sky Fortune, all sides are starting to burn that great marsh, and the Filth Alien Power will soon spread."

"Indeed, you’ll have to figure it out," Han Zhiyuan nodded and reassured him, "Don’t worry, we have our reasons for existing. No matter what we’ve done, as long as the higher-ups need us to communicate with the Fifth Realm, we will stand firm."

"The Blood Moon, Raging Sun Sect, and Star River Alliance don’t dare to join forces against us precisely because they know the importance of our existence."

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Fourth Realm.

Thousand Miles of Cloud Land, Pang Jian suddenly woke up from his cultivation and immediately felt his chest.

Beneath his skin and bones, he felt a sudden presence of a green, glowing leaf in his heart.

When he said goodbye to the Sapling, a tender green, jade-like divine light had shot into his heart, containing magical Life Vitality.

Now, that tender green divine light had turned into a leaf in his heart.

Without having advanced to Hollow Profound Realm and unable to produce a Divine Sense, he couldn’t clearly see the shape of the leaf.

Yet, he could feel the mysterious green leaf quietly diffusing Life Vitality, nurturing his limbs and bones.

His body’s healing ability seemed to have greatly improved because of the leaf’s presence.

He tried to establish a connection with the Sapling.

Soon, he saw that all the plants nearby where the Sapling took root had withered.

Through the Sapling’s perspective, he discovered that a large area around it was also dead.

It was as if the Sapling had drained the vitality from them in a short time.

His consciousness started to rise, and from the highest branch of the Sapling, so he saw the fire burning in the distance and the billowing smoke.

He felt an urgency.

The urgency came from the Sapling rooted in the Thousand Miles of Cloud Land.

It knew the fire was spreading wildly, so it eagerly drew Plant Spirit Energy from the nearby fauna and flora.

It knew that even if it didn’t do so, those trees and plants would still be burnt clean.

Because it had absorbed too much Plant Spirit Energy in a short time and had a surplus, it was able to refine a green leaf in his heart with the previous tender green divine light.

Pang Jian instantly understood the situation.

"In at most one day, Cloud Land will be completely turned to scorched earth."

Seeing him wake up from cultivation, Luo Hongyan’s captivating eyes looked over and she leisurely said, "It won’t be long before the Filth Alien Power contaminates the Fragment Land of Sky Fortune."

Pang Jian nodded his head.

At that moment.

Using the Sapling’s vision, he saw the Raging Sun Sect’s Fire Cloud Ship capturing a group of people who had fled the fire area.

Among them was Dark Ghost Yang Yuansen.

Yang Yuansen, who could not find an underground cavern to hide in and was clueless about the approaching fire, was forced to show himself and was easily apprehended by the Raging Sun Sect.

Indifferent to this person, Pang Jian calmly closed his eyes and continued his cultivation.

He soon discovered that with the Life Vitality diffused by the green leaf in his heart, his efficiency in Blood Refinement skyrocketed.

Another day passed, and when he communicated with the Sapling again, he found it had sunk deep underground.

This meant that Cloud Land had been completely overwhelmed by the fire.

The spreading Filth Alien Power would probably appear in the Fragment Land of Sky Fortune soon.

On that day.

While eating and drinking, Pang Jian looked at the White Jade Porcelain Bottle floating on the blood water and suddenly remembered something.

—The old Copper Box.

Yuan Shishan, City Lord of Bagua City, had resurrected from within the box by drawing blood from his descendant Yuan Lengshan.

Like the White Jade Porcelain Bottle, the Copper Box also came from the pool at the City Lord Mansion.

Could it, like the White Jade Porcelain Bottle, isolate the Filth Alien Power?

With a thought, Pang Jian pulled out the large box from the bottom of his storage bag.

The ancient Copper Box, still entwined with golden and copper wires that had all snapped before Yuan Shishan came out, no longer had a lock on the top.

Touching the box, Pang Jian heaved a sigh of relief.

The terrifying negative emotions that once filled the box had dissipated without him noticing it, and he did not sense anything unusual this time.

"This box!"

Luo Hongyan was startled and exclaimed, "This box, you actually brought it out from Bagua City?"

At the City Lord Mansion, she stood by the pond, attempting to retrieve the White Jade Porcelain Bottle, the Astonishing Spear, and that piece of clothing.

She could move each of these three items, more or less, and in the end, she chose the White Jade Porcelain Bottle adorned with the "Crystal-clear Snow Lotus."

However, the strange ancient box that lay sunk at the bottom of the pond remained utterly immovable under her power.

It was later proven that this box was the most enigmatic of all; Yuan Shishan, the City Lord of Bagua City, was resurrected successfully through it.

"After the City Lord died, I casually fished it out and didn’t bother with it due to its odd nature."

Pang Jian first explained, then pondered, "Now I want to see if this thing can block the infiltration of the Filth Alien Power. It came from the City Lord Mansion just like the White Jade Porcelain Bottle; if that bottle could do it, perhaps this can too."

As he spoke, he lifted the lid of the box.

"Be careful!"

Luo Hongyan cried out in alarm, hastily drifting out from the White Jade Porcelain Bottle and flying over the open box.

The box that Pang Jian had opened was empty, with only a yellow cloth laid at the bottom, which released a yellow glow similar to the light emitted by the box itself.

Pang Jian leaned over to sniff it and injected Spiritual Power into it but did not detect anything abnormal.

It seemed to be just an ordinary large box.

Above him, Luo Hongyan released a strand of Divine Sense, which traveled around inside and outside the box for a while; she also felt nothing extraordinary.

"Strange..."

She frowned and murmured, the more the box showed no anomalies, the weirder she found it.

"I’ll give it a try inside."

Pang Jian jumped in and closed the lid from the inside, lying flat within the box.

Just as the lid shut.

Atop the pitch-black box, a bright full moon and dazzling stars suddenly emerged!

A pure and luminous Bright Moon, alongside numerous tiny stars, cast a radiant shine, filling Pang Jian’s entire field of vision!

Suddenly, Pang Jian had the sensation that he was lying in a place closest to the sky.

The Bright Moon and stars seemed so close to him, close enough to almost touch!

"This..."

Before he could investigate further, the lid was abruptly opened from the outside.

Worried for his safety, Luo Hongyan, with a face full of anxious concern, asked, "Are you alright?"

"I’m fine, after the lid was closed, I saw stars and the moon," Pang Jian said in a daze as he sat inside.

"Ah!"

Luo Hongyan was greatly surprised.

She had Pang Jian come out from the box, and she, with her body that had not yet been successfully forged, crawled into the box.

She, too, closed the lid from the inside.

Within the pitch-black box, she saw none of the supposed stars and moon, nor did she experience the mystical event Pang Jian went through.

—It was as if she were sealed in an endlessly dark and alien land!

In her panic, she groped desperately with her hands, but she couldn’t reach the lid to push it open at all.

All she touched was emptiness!

As soon as she closed the lid, she could no longer feel the existence of the box, as if she had been transported to another time and space.

She screamed out loud inside, calling Pang Jian’s name, but her voice couldn’t get out.

Until...

After a long while when she didn’t emerge, Pang Jian, from the outside, opened the lid, and she suddenly returned to the real world, only to see the familiar surroundings.

She immediately flew out in terror!

Floating in mid-air, she looked down at the box below as if it were a fearsome demon, her voice trembling lightly, "My feeling was like being back in Bagua City again, the Bagua City that’s drenched in darkness! Only, there was no dense Filth Alien Power in the darkness, just endless void and deathly silence!"

Pang Jian shook his head in confusion, "That’s not right, what I felt was completely different."

Luo Hongyan said nothing right away.

She remembered when they entered Lake Heart Island, the moment Pang Jian landed on the island, the concealed restriction suddenly activated, causing the Heavenly Spirit Tower to crash down and the island to sink abruptly.

She also thought of the Mirror Tunnel she had always been unable to find, which suddenly appeared due to Pang Jian stepping out of the Heavenly Spirit Tower.

Hesitating, she softly suggested, "Why don’t you try taking off that bronze medal amulet on your chest and re-enter the box to see?"

Pang Jian gave her a peculiar look, then did exactly as she suggested, placing the pendant shaped like a copper gate onto the ground.

"You trust me that much?"

Luo Hongyan pursed her lips and chuckled lightly, her beautiful eyes shimmering with the joy of being trusted.

"I didn’t before, but I won’t make that mistake now."

Pang Jian answered softly and re-entered the box.

When he closed the lid again, he experienced the same as Luo Hongyan had before!

No longer was he lying beneath a resplendent array of stars and the Bright Moon; instead, he found himself amidst endless darkness, unable to feel the lid or even the bottom of the box.

His limbs couldn’t touch anything substantial!

All he felt was deathly silence and nothingness.

Instantly, he was convinced that it was the presence of that bronze medal that had granted him a different experience inside the box!

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