The spatial formations around the Phoenix Nest had already been broken by Zhang Ruochen, so the space wasn’t as fragile as it used to be, but instead, because there had once been Great Saint level beings cultivating here, it made the space here extraordinarily solid.
The Phoenix Nest claimed to be the most stable place in the entire Ancestral Spirit Realm’s space.
Young Lord Ling Quan and the nine First Grade Marquises fled in such a hurry that not only did they not collect the Purple Divine Mountain, they didn’t even bother to save the Giant Green Marquise that had sunk into the millennia-old Underwinter Water, leaving it to fend for itself.
After they stood on top of the Xuanwu Shell and entered the area of seven-coloured haze, Zhang Ruochen, who was following behind, had his sight obstructed and could no longer see them.
The seven-coloured haze emanating from the Phoenix Nest was three miles thick and vast, making it exceptionally beautiful from afar.
Zhang Ruochen arrived three miles away from the Phoenix Nest and looked up, only to see that this nest, towering higher than a mountain, emitted seven-coloured haze light that gathered but did not dissipate, and there was even a hint of Great Sage’s greatness emanating from the haze light.
“The nest of the Ice and Fire Phoenix is definitely quite extraordinary, and I’m afraid that within its interior, there are also great perils.”Zhang Ruochen secretly said.
How powerful a character was Princess Rakshasa, to have broken in for such a long period of time and still not come out, just based on this alone, it also showed that both the inheritance of the Ice and Fire Phoenix and the Star Soul of the God were definitely extremely difficult to find, and it was said that one might not necessarily encounter a death-defying calamity as well.
Zhang Ruochen took out the Kaiyuan Deer Cauldron and filled it with a pot of Thousand-Year Stygian Winter Water from the sea, then, rushed into the seven-coloured haze.
A small amount of Thousand Year Underwinter Water could freeze the flesh of a First Class Marquis stiff, and the Evil Shakti Qi would run slowly, so if a tripod of Thousand Year Underwinter Water was dumped down unexpectedly, I’m afraid that even if it was as strong as Young Sovereign Spirit Quan, within a short period of time, their battle power would be greatly reduced.
Using the Kaiyuan Deer Cauldron to contain the Thousand Year Stygian Winter Water was indeed a bit of an overkill, but, it couldn’t be helped.
Qing Mo’s one Divine Remnant Ancient Artifact had caused the Saints of the Blade Prison Realm and the Violet Mansion Realm to be quite red-eyed, causing a mad rush. From this, it could be seen that treasures such as Divine Remnant Ancient Artifacts must be quite precious in other great worlds.
The Kaiyuan Deer Cauldron was even more precious than Qing Mo’s silver-coloured chopper, and once it was exposed, it would definitely attract more enemies to Zhang Ruochen.
One must know that the cultivators in the Heavenly Court Realm were able to see the battles in the Ancestral Spirit Realm through the battlefield scenery. Anything that was tainted with God, in the Heavenly Court Realm, even Great Saints would be moved.
Furthermore, with Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation level, the battle power that erupted from using the Buddha Emperor’s Relic was not much weaker than using the Kaiyuan Deer Cauldron.
Therefore, it was best not to expose this one card if you could.
Entering the area of seven-coloured haze, Zhang Ruochen wanted to include the wall of books of merit under his feet into the spatial ring, but found that the divine light emanating from the surface of the wall was repelling the spatial ring, and he could not include it at all.
Subsequently, Zhang Ruochen used the Mercury Gourd and the Space-Time Crystal Stone respectively to collect them, all of which ended in failure.
“The means of the gods are truly powerful. It seems that even if you tear open space, you can’t destroy the Wall of Merit Book. In the future, when you go anywhere, you’ll have to bring it with you.”
Zhang Ruochen shrugged, somewhat helpless.
The Book of Merits Wall was thirty-three feet tall and massive, like a small stone mountain, and bringing it along on the road would not even make it possible to hide one’s tracks if one wanted to.
Devil Voice’s eyes looked at the Phoenix Nest in front of him.
The huge nest, which was over ten thousand metres long, was made of a single seven-coloured vine intertwined. Those vines didn’t look like wood, instead, they were flowing with colours, as if they were forged using metal.
Some of those vines were as thin as a hair, floating on the surface of the water; some were frighteningly thick, with a diameter of over ten metres.
Zhang Ruochen was also attracted and detected that there was a rich wood spirit holy qi emanating from those vines, and it was clear that these seven-coloured vines were by no means mortal.
“Rainbow Transformation Vines.”Devil Voice said.
Knowing far less about the plant world than Devil Voice, Zhang Ruochen was slightly curious in his heart and said, “What is a Rainbow Transformation Vine?”
Devil Voice said, “Legend has it that after a Buddhist Sacred Monk with a high level of cultivation passes away, a mysterious vision of rainbow transformation will occur. In that place of the rounded silence, the earth would turn into seven-coloured rainbow earth. There was once a being who saw a seven-coloured vine on top of a rainbow earth star. The branches of that vine spread throughout the star, emitting seven-coloured holy light. Ever since then, the legend of the Rainbow Transformation Vine has been passed down.”
Zhang Ruochen stared at the Phoenix Nest in front of him and said, “When the Holy Monk passed away, the Rainbow Transformation Vine was born. Death and life appearing on top of a rainbow soil at the same time, is this a continuation of life?”
Devil Voice shook his head and said, “This is unknown……. However, the Rainbow Transformation Vine is a treasure, a finger-thick three-foot vine would cost at least ten holy stones before it could be bought. As for what the price is in the Celestial Court Realm, it is unknown, I think it should also be a rare item, the price cannot be low.”
“Oh?”
Zhang Ruochen was slightly surprised and asked, “What exactly is the purpose of the Rainbow Transformation Vine that it can sell for such a high price?”
The Devil Voice said, “When it is set on fire, the fragrance that emanates from it can help cultivators to comprehend the rules of the Sacred Dao.”
“The nest of a Great Saint level phoenix is indeed filled with treasures everywhere. There’s a large number of Rainbow Transformation Vines here, be sure to take some away.”?A pair of golden dragon wings rushed out from Zhang Ruochen’s back and took off, wanting to collect the Rainbow Transformation Vines in the Phoenix’s nest. His finger, which was still three or four metres away from the Rainbow Transformation Vine, a mysterious formation inscription actually surfaced on top of the vines of the Rainbow Transformation Vine.
“Boom.”?Zhang Ruochen was like suffering from a lightning strike and had to fly back, landing back on top of the Book of Merits wall.
Even with the gloves wrapped around them, the five fingers were still slightly sore, however, Zhang Ruochen did not feel frustrated and said to himself, “It really isn’t that simple.”
Devil Voice asked, “The formation inscription inscribed on top of the Rainbow Transformation Vine is very powerful?”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “The handiwork of a Great Sage, how could it not be powerful?”
Zhang Ruochen’s attainments above formations were far inferior to Princess Rakshasa’s, so naturally, he didn’t dare to talk big. Even if the Ice and Fire Phoenix’s attainments above formations were even lower, it could still easily crush a Saint level being.
After some observation, Zhang Ruochen found that there were a total of nine entrances to the Phoenix Nest, spread out in different directions.
All nine entrances were completely open and could be entered and exited at will.
Zhang Ruochen and Devil Voice chose the largest entrance to enter the Phoenix Nest for no other reason because, only that entrance could carry the Book of Merits wall in.
Zhang Ruochen walked ahead to scout the way, while Devil Voice followed behind, using vines to drag the Wall of Merit Book forward.
In the Phoenix Nest, it was a seven-coloured world where the Heaven and Earth Holy Qi was extremely dense, far more massive than the volume seen outside. Zhang Ruochen and Devil Voice walked forwards for more than ten miles, but they encountered nothing and saw nothing, making it seem particularly bizarre.
“Is the Phoenix Nest really only over 10,000 metres long?”Devil Voice couldn’t help but ask.
Zhang Ruochen appeared calm and said, “The Ice and Fire Phoenix has profound attainments above both the Way of Time and the Way of Space, and its nest, itself, is a spatial formation. Using the formation, it created a space, comic relief, another such tactic.”
Zhang Ruochen had seen this kind of tactic when he was breaking into the outermost thirty-three holy mountains. The Ice and Fire Phoenix had used a piece of jade to create a white and a black space, and both he and the Rakshasa Princess were almost trapped to death inside.
This space in the Phoenix Nest was even more superior and stable than the black and white space, and as it continued to diffuse, it was entirely possible that it would turn into a true small world.
Of course, at this stage, this seven-coloured space in the Phoenix Nest was still crippled, with many loopholes that prevented the birth of life.
After roughly walking for more than 500 miles, suddenly, Zhang Ruochen stopped and from the ground, picked up a one-foot-three-inch long Rainbow Transformation Vine. The formation inscription on the vine had been erased.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes condensed as he looked around and said, “This section of Rainbow Transformation Vine should have been left here by the Rakshasa Princess.”
“Why?”Devil Voice asked.
“Only her array attainments can cause damage to the array inscriptions in the Phoenix Nest. If I’m not wrong, she should have taken quite a few Rainbow Vines.”
Zhang Ruochen put away the Rainbow Transformation Vine, and then, took out the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and cupped it in his hand as he moved forward cautiously.
After roughly another hundred miles or so, the sound of water flowing came to his ears.
How could there be the sound of water in the Phoenix Nest?
Could it be the sound of water coming from the Stygian Ice Cold Sea outside the Phoenix Nest?
Zhang Ruochen felt that it didn’t sound like seawater, but more like the sound of a stream, so he quickened his pace and travelled ahead.
When he found the source of the water sound, Zhang Ruochen revealed a look of disbelief and laughed out, “How is it possible?”
A round rough stone, like a huge grinding disc, stood diagonally on top of a ten feet high platform.
In the centre of the “millstone”, a rough stone stick was inserted, as if it was a primitive stone tool, very much as if it had been passed down from an incomparably long time ago.
The sound of the stream was coming from the stone stick and the “grinding disc”, which seemed particularly weird.
Devil Voice chased up from the back, and seeing this scene, she also opened her rosy lips wide, feeling unbelievable, saying, “The sound of a stream coming out from inside a stone, and the sound is still so clear, this is simply impossible.”
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze revealed a wise light as he said meaningfully, “It may not be the sound of a stream, it could also be the sound of time.”
“Time has a sound too?”
Devil Voice felt that Zhang Ruochen was mostly crazy, how could time have a sound.
“Time is like water, flowing all the time, and we are in the water and can only follow the waves, flowing from the past to the future. We stay in the present all the time without realising that the present is the future of the past.”
Zhang Ruochen pointed to that “millstone” and asked, “Know about the sundial?”?Devil Voice said, “Of course I know, sundials are instruments used by some civilised countries of mankind to keep time, using the direction of the sun’s projection to determine time and divide moments. You think this is a sundial …… is really something like it, just too rough.”
Magic Voice gazed carefully and found that on the surface of that round “mill disc”, there were actually some ancient words and scale intervals. Only, because the inheritance had been passed down for too long, those lines had become quite blurry and were almost impossible to spot without careful observation.
Zhang Ruochen’s fingers rested on his chin as he muttered, “I think that it should be a time treasure.”
Zhang Ruochen had seen quite a few spatial treasures, and he had also seen so many temporal treasures. However, even if it was a temporal treasure that contained the power of time, it only made the flow of time inside the temporal treasure different from the outside world.
It was the first time that a mere temporal treasure had been seen.
