“This is the heavenly book?”
Ye Qiu found it somewhat unbelievable.
He stared at the white bones for a while, but they looked utterly ordinary, with nothing remarkable about them at all.
“Are you sure you didn’t make a mistake?” Ye Qiu asked.
Lin Da-niao replied, “At first I also thought it was just a skeleton, but Tianji insisted these bones were the heavenly book. Right after that, Wei Wuji and the others showed up to seize it.”
Wei Wuji and his group all had extraordinary backgrounds. The mere fact that they had fought over it proved the bones were far from ordinary.
As for whether they truly constituted a heavenly book, Ye Qiu genuinely couldn’t tell.
“Tianji, are these bones really the heavenly book?” Ye Qiu asked.
“They are.” Mo Tianji stepped forward, bit his middle finger, and let a drop of blood fall.
Drip.
The instant the blood touched the bones, they absorbed it completely. In the next second, the skeleton crumbled into powder with a loud crack.
Strangely, the powder did not scatter. Instead, it flowed rapidly across the ground and formed several dazzling golden characters.
“Hengduan Mountain Range: Supreme Opportunity Beyond Measure. Those fated shall obtain it!”
The glowing words lingered on the ground for less than ten seconds before they dispersed with the wind.
Immortal Longbrow grew excited. “We’re wasting time standing here. Let’s hurry and search for that supreme opportunity!”
He started to leave at once.
“Do you even know where the Hengduan Mountain Range is?” Ye Qiu asked.
Immortal Longbrow froze mid-step. “Right… where exactly is the Hengduan Mountain Range? Junior Brother, do you know?”
Mo Tianji shook his head.
“Da-niao, do you know?” Immortal Longbrow turned to Lin Da-niao.
Lin Da-niao answered, “This is my first time entering Immortality Mountain. I know absolutely nothing about this place.”
Instantly, Immortal Longbrow deflated like a punctured balloon and sighed. “So many of us, yet none of us knows the way. Looks like that supreme opportunity has no fate with us…”
Before he could finish, Yun Xi’s voice rang out. “I know where the Hengduan Mountain Range is.”
What?
In that instant, every gaze turned to her.
“Fairy, you’re not joking, are you?” Immortal Longbrow asked.
“I would never joke about something like this,” Yun Xi said. “Qingyun Sword Sect is the foremost great sect of the Eastern Wilderness and has existed for countless ages. Every time Immortality Mountain appears, our sect sends disciples inside to seek opportunities.”
“After those disciples return, they report everything they experienced to the elders, who record it all in detail and compile it into manuals.”
“Before coming here, I studied those manuals. According to the records, far to the east of Immortality Mountain lies an immense mountain range that stretches for hundreds of thousands of li, like a divine dragon lying across the land, majestic and imposing.”
“For reasons unknown, a massive cliff split the range in two. That place is called the Hengduan Mountain Range.”
Immortal Longbrow’s eyes lit up. “Fairy, does that mean we only need to head east to find it?”
Yun Xi nodded. “Exactly.”
“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go!” Immortal Longbrow grinned widely. “This poor Taoist has just broken through to mid Grotto-Heaven stage and gained an indestructible body. Clearly the heavens favour me greatly. The supreme opportunity in the Hengduan Mountain Range is surely meant for me!”
“I only wonder what this supreme opportunity actually is.”
Ye Qiu had come to Immortality Mountain precisely to seek opportunities. He decided at once. “Let’s set off!”
Yun Xi said, “Immortality Mountain is vast beyond measure. We have no idea how far the Hengduan Range is from here. It would be faster if you all travelled with me on my sword.”
With that, she summoned her Seven-Coloured Blazing Sun Sword. Her hands crossed before her chest, forming seals while she silently recited an incantation.
Hum!
The Seven-Coloured Blazing Sun Sword trembled in the void, then instantly expanded. The blade, originally only three chi long, grew to dozens of zhang in length and became broad enough to resemble a ship.
“Ye-lang, let’s go.”
Yun Xi took Ye Qiu’s arm, and the two rose gracefully into the air, landing steadily on the sword like a pair of celestial lovers.
Immortal Longbrow, Mo Tianji, Lin Da-niao, and the Qingyun Sword Sect disciples followed, all stepping onto the sword.
“Depart!”
Yun Xi gave a delicate shout. In that instant, the Seven-Coloured Blazing Sun Sword shot eastward like a long rainbow streaking across the sky.
Standing atop the sword, Ye Qiu discovered an invisible barrier surrounding them, shielding everyone shielded within. Not a whisper of wind reached his ears; everything was perfectly still and wondrously calm.
At the same time, he noticed the sword’s astonishing speed, no slower than his own single-step-hundred-li movement technique.
Ye Qiu remarked, “Back in the mortal world I heard tales of immortals riding swords, covering a thousand li in a single day. I always thought the ancients exaggerated. Now I see they were far too modest. With this holy sword, one could travel tens of millions of li in a day.”
Yun Xi smiled. “That is because the Seven-Coloured Blazing Sun Sword is a holy sword. An ordinary sword would never be this fast.”
“Moreover, my father inscribed acceleration arrays upon it. Otherwise, with my current cultivation, I could never ride the wind upon it like this.”
“Changsheng, I really wish we could become immortal lovers roaming the world forever, carefree between heaven and earth.”
Ye Qiu sighed. “I wish for that too, but worldly ties still bind me.”
At these words, he suddenly recalled the first time he saw the Wine Sword Immortal in the Saint’s tomb, standing atop the ice plains wielding this very Seven-Coloured Blazing Sun Sword. He also remembered a television drama from the mortal world that featured a Wine Sword Immortal, and he unconsciously recited aloud:
“Riding the wind on my sword I come, slaying demons across heaven and earth. With wine I rejoice in freedom, without wine I still run mad. One drink swallows rivers, another swallows sun and moon. A thousand cups cannot make me fall; only I am the Wine Sword Immortal.”
Yun Xi laughed sweetly. “Changsheng, that poem is wonderful! If the Wine Sword Immortal heard it, he would surely get gloriously drunk.”
“Especially the lines ‘One drink swallows rivers, another swallows sun and moon’, so domineering!”
“Changsheng, you are simply too talented.”
Ye Qiu replied, “I didn’t write that poem. Someone else did.”
Yun Xi clearly didn’t believe him. “Stop trying to fool me. Besides you, who could be this talented?”
Ye Qiu’s face flushed slightly. He thought to himself that the mortal world was full of literary geniuses, such as…
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Yun Xi continued, “When we return to Qingyun Sword Sect, I’ll recite this poem to the Wine Sword Immortal. I’m certain he’ll drink himself into a stupor once he hears it.”
Ye Qiu smiled, wrapped his arm around Yun Xi’s waist, and she nestled sweetly against him. The picture was one of perfect bliss.
“That little brat actually used a poem from the mortal world to flirt. I despise you.”
Immortal Longbrow grumbled inwardly. “Next time you want to woo a girl with poetry, use mine! My poems aren’t bad either, and they’re copyright-free.”
…
Not long after Ye Qiu and the others departed, a solitary figure appeared beside the dying campfire.
