Chapter 108: Teacher Qingqiu!

Tianxing Civilization, Tianxing Life Realm.

At the very center of this world stood an ancient tree, its canopy covering the sky and blocking out the sun. Upon it grew red fruits, among which were some purple ones, though fewer in number.

The Tianxing Life Tree!

The civilization’s supreme treasure of Tianxing Civilization. After being enhanced by that Spirit Ancestor back then, this Tianxing Life Tree had now surpassed the level of a supreme civilization ancestral artifact.

Beneath the Tianxing Life Tree, a woman sat cross-legged on the ground. She wore a light cyan long dress, her long hair draped over her shoulders down to her hips, her appearance absolutely beautiful.

At this moment, her hands held an ancient book that she was reading with rapt attention.

Just then, a beautiful woman suddenly appeared before her. Seeing that she was reading, the beautiful woman immediately stepped aside, not daring to disturb her.

The surroundings were quiet, with only the sound of wind and turning pages.

After an unknown amount of time, the woman suddenly closed the book and said softly, “Seek everything within, no need for self-proof, no need for external seeking… Teacher Qingqiu spoke so well. I finally understand now.”

As her words fell.

Boom!

Her aura suddenly surged wildly. In just an instant, the entire Tianxing Life Realm erupted into turmoil. Between heaven and earth, the Great Dao manifested, with thousands of rays of radiant light.

Seeing this scene, the beautiful woman was immediately overjoyed, saying in a trembling voice, “Breaking through the circle…”

Her gaze was fervent.

The woman before her was none other than the current Chief Executive Officer of Tianxing Civilization: Qingshu.

Qingshu suddenly waved her hand gently, and all the aura instantly disappeared.

The beautiful woman said excitedly, “Congratulations, Chief Executive Officer Qingshu. From this moment on, you are the most prodigious executive officer in the history of our Tianxing Civilization…”

But Qingshu shook her head, “Don’t think that way.”

The beautiful woman looked puzzled.

Qingshu’s voice was very gentle, “Whether it was Chief Executive Officer Fuwu or Chief Executive Officer Jingchu back then, or Executive Officer Yinian later, they were all far more excellent than me. The reason my realm can advance so quickly now is simply because I’m standing on Teacher Qingqiu’s shoulders. If they had someone like Teacher Qingqiu to guide them back then, they would only be even more excellent than me.”

The beautiful woman bowed slightly and said nothing.

Qingshu said, “Is there something?”

The beautiful woman hurriedly said, “We just received orders from the Cabinet… In this universe competition, there may be foreign forces plotting against the Young Master. Therefore, the Cabinet has ordered that you, Executive Officer, must go to Guanxuan Universe to protect the Young Master.”

After pondering briefly, Qingshu shook her head, “The Academy shouldn’t do this.”

The beautiful woman looked somewhat puzzled.

Qingshu said, “I’ve also learned about the Wanzhou Competition. This matter was the Academy’s fault to begin with. That Young Master was already unjust in the Xiao family matter, then lost to that young master called Ye Tianming. The Academy’s universe-wide manhunt for that Young Master Ye was even more wrong upon wrong. Logically speaking, after he regained consciousness, he should have immediately admitted his mistake, but he…”

Speaking thus, she shook her head slightly, “He really shouldn’t have done this.”

The beautiful woman said in a deep voice, “He doesn’t truly control the Academy, so he needs to balance…”

“Wrong.”

Qingshu said seriously, “He is the Young Master. He shouldn’t be close to power schemes and distant from the righteous path. The matters of aristocratic families and sects are accumulated problems from several generations. If he cannot solve them for a time, no one will blame him, but he shouldn’t fail to distinguish right from wrong… Initially, if he had protected the Ye family, given them justice, bowed his head to that Ye Tianming, and apologized, then Guanxuan Universe wouldn’t have gained a future enemy, and he would have gained a super capable assistant…”

The beautiful woman sighed softly, “He was born with an invincible aura. How could he admit mistakes? He won’t.”

This kind of person, how high was his pride?

Qingshu shook her head slightly, “Reply to the Cabinet that Tianxing Civilization will not comply with the order.”

The beautiful woman was shocked, “Executive Officer…”

Qingshu said softly, “Power seems to flow from top to bottom, but actually flows from bottom to top… If the Yang family doesn’t understand how to restrain its own power and doesn’t treat all beings well, then all beings will eventually abandon them.”

The beautiful woman said in a deep voice, “Executive Officer, not respecting the Cabinet’s order like this, I’m afraid…”

Qingshu turned to look at the beautiful woman and smiled, “Afraid they’ll destroy us?”

The beautiful woman didn’t dare to speak.

Qingshu slowly stood up and said softly, “If our Tianxing Civilization acts perversely, that’s when we’ll truly be close to destruction. Earlier I was in seclusion reading and didn’t know about the Wanzhou Competition. If I had known…”

Speaking thus, she paused, then continued, “You deliver a letter for me to that Young Master Ye. If he’s willing, he can come to our Tianxing Civilization. As long as he comes, tell him to rest assured that our Tianxing Civilization will do everything possible to protect his safety…”

The beautiful woman said in a deep voice, “What about the Young Master’s side…”

Qingshu walked toward the distance, “Right is right, wrong is wrong. Whoever is right, I’ll help them. Not to mention him, even if Guanxuan Sword Master is wrong, I’ll stand opposite him.”

Tianlu.

The next day, as dawn broke, Ye Tianming in the great hall opened his eyes. Around him, a powerful aura immediately spread out, and the space around him rippled like water, extremely strange.

Supreme Immortal Realm!

Upon reaching the Supreme Immortal Realm, one could traverse space at will, arriving a thousand miles away in an instant. At the same time, the dharma form could transform again, becoming a thousand zhang tall. Not only that, one could also master various spatial techniques, such as shattering space within ten thousand zhang with a single thought, or directly devouring spatial power to strengthen oneself.

Spatial power!

Ye Tianming extended his right hand, which directly entered the space before him. When that hand reappeared, it was already several zhang away.

He slowly closed his eyes. At this moment, he sensed the spatial power contained in the surrounding space.

After reaching the Immortal Realm, one could devour spatial power to strengthen the physical body, but for him, this spatial power actually had very little effect, because his physical body had already been tempered by dragon blood, and the power of dragon blood far exceeded this spatial power.

As if thinking of something, he suddenly arrived in a starry sky. With a thought, he directly manifested the Star Dharma Form, Dark Dharma Form, and Sword Dao Dharma Form.

The three dharma forms had now reached two thousand zhang!

An increase of a full five hundred zhang!

A smile appeared on Ye Tianming’s face. After his realm advanced, his spiritual power and all aspects had greatly improved, so naturally his dharma forms would also improve. He manifested the Earth Dharma Form again. At this moment, the Earth Dharma Form had grown from three thousand zhang to three thousand five hundred zhang!

“Congratulations.”

At this moment, a voice came from the side.

Ye Tianming turned to look. The newcomers were Nantian Qing and Nantian Si. The speaker was Nantian Qing, and at this moment the siblings were looking at him with smiles.

Ye Tianming waved his sleeve, and the four dharma forms quietly disappeared. He smiled and said, “Are we going to Xuzhen Realm now?”

Nantian Qing nodded, “Yes. By the way…”

Speaking thus, she took out a letter and handed it to Ye Tianming, “This was sent by Tianxing Civilization, for you.”

Ye Tianming was somewhat puzzled, “For me?”

Nantian Qing nodded, “Yes.”

Ye Tianming took the letter. He opened it and looked, and soon his brow furrowed, then he handed it to Nantian Qing.

After Nantian Qing and Nantian Si finished reading, Nantian Qing looked at Ye Tianming, “What do you think?”

Ye Tianming shook his head, “I’ll rely on myself.”

Nantian Qing smiled, “Then let’s go to the secret realm.”

Speaking thus, she handed the letter back to Ye Tianming. Ye Tianming glanced at the name on the letter, ‘Qingshu’, then put the letter away.

The three set off.

Nantian Si suddenly said, “I just found out that the one leading Guanxuan Universe this time is Ye Jinghong.”

Ye Jinghong!

Ye Tianming’s brow furrowed. He naturally had an impression of this person. Back then, that genius from the Ye family of Nanzhou had already become a Sword Emperor at a young age.

Soon, the three arrived at the entrance to that Tianlu. At this time, Zong Lin and the others were already waiting there, over three hundred people in total.

Seeing Ye Tianming and Nantian Si, Zong Lin at the front smiled and said, “Let’s go!”

Everyone walked toward the entrance. After entering the Tianlu entrance, the spacetime before them quickly changed, and before long, everyone appeared in a gray and hazy world. This world was extremely desolate and dilapidated, with pitch-black spacetime abysses of unfathomable depth everywhere.

Beside Ye Tianming, Nantian Si looked at those spacetime abysses with a grave expression and said, “A thousand years ago, Guanxuan Sword Master and others fought a great battle here with the strong ones from the True World. After that battle, this world was almost completely shattered and has not recovered its vitality to this day. You must be careful. If you’re drawn into those spacetime abysses, even a Circle-Breaking Realm expert might not survive.”

Ye Tianming glanced at those spacetime abysses. They were so black that the bottom couldn’t be seen, involuntarily giving rise to fear. He was somewhat curious, “Back then, did Guanxuan Sword Master and the others fight with the strong ones from the True World?”

Nantian Si nodded, “Yes.”

Ye Tianming looked up at the sky, “Is the True World up there?”

Nantian Si said, “Yes. Since that battle, no one has been able to go up.”

Ye Tianming asked, “Has anyone come down?”

Nantian Si smiled, “I don’t know, but some mysterious objects often fall down, and this time it’s even more exaggerated—an entire mysterious ruin fell down…”

Ye Tianming said, “Do you know what ruin it is?”

Nantian Si shook his head, “I don’t know. I only know that when that ruin fell, extremely terrifying roaring sounds appeared in the sky above…”

Ye Tianming asked, “Can’t the people above come down?”

Nantian Si nodded, “They can’t. I don’t know if it’s because of Guanxuan Sword Master or some other reason, but for a thousand years, although divine consciousness from above often peers down here, not a single person has come down…”

Zong Lin at the side suddenly said, “Be careful.”

Everyone immediately stopped. They looked into the distance. Not far away was a spacetime abyss crack nearly ten thousand zhang long, and at this moment, that spacetime abyss crack was actually expanding and enlarging.

Ye Tianming was somewhat puzzled, “What is this?”

Zong Lin shook his head, “I don’t know. This place is very strange. Everyone must be careful.”

Nantian Si said, “Take a detour.”

Everyone nodded. Facing this place, they didn’t dare be careless.

But just as everyone was about to change routes, suddenly, that expanding spacetime abyss in the distance trembled violently. Immediately after, a black light suddenly shot out from that spacetime abyss. Everyone was greatly alarmed and retreated one after another. In the blink of an eye, that black light rushed toward the edge of the sky, finally falling at the horizon’s end under everyone’s gaze. In just an instant, a black light curtain covering the sky and blocking out the sun appeared at that horizon’s end, standing there like a wall.

Everyone was shocked.

Zong Lin at the front suddenly said in a deep voice, “That place is in the direction of the ruin.”

Everyone’s expressions grew somber.

Ye Tianming looked at that spacetime abyss crack. At this moment, the spacetime abyss crack had returned to normal, but inside it contained a terrifying power that made one’s heart palpitate.

“Let’s go!”

Zong Lin at the front suddenly said.

Everyone rushed toward that black light curtain. Although they were somewhat wary of what had just happened, this wouldn’t scare them.

Everyone quickened their pace. About an hour later, everyone arrived before that black light curtain. Behind the black light curtain, white jade stone pillars could be vaguely seen, densely packed, with no end in sight.

Nantian Si said, “That’s that mysterious ruin…”

Speaking thus, his gaze fell on that black light curtain. Within the black light curtain, densely packed mysterious runes were contained. Those mysterious runes were like living things, constantly changing, extremely strange.

Zong Lin said in a deep voice, “What are these things?”

Ye Tianming said in his heart, “Tower Ancestor, do you recognize this?”

Little Tower said, “I don’t recognize it.”

Ye Tianming: “…”

Just then, a sudden change occurred. That black light curtain suddenly condensed. In the blink of an eye, the tens of thousands of zhang of black light curtain merged into a single point, then flew into the depths of that mysterious ruin.

Boom!In the deepest part of that mysterious ruin, a black light shot up into the sky, directly breaking through the firmament… but it quickly disappeared again.

Seeing this scene, everyone was somewhat dazed.

Zong Lin suddenly said, “Don’t worry about it, let’s go.”

With that, he took the lead and rushed forward.

The rest of the group hurriedly followed. A mysterious ruin from the True World held far too great a temptation for them. After all, if they could obtain a few Civilization Ancestral Artifacts inside, those could enhance the overall strength of an entire civilization.

After entering the ruins, everyone curiously looked around. Ye Tianming was also surveying his surroundings. He discovered that those towering stone pillars were densely carved with mysterious ancient characters, not the script of this universe.

Ye Tianming wondered to himself, “Tower Ancestor, do you recognize these characters?”

The small tower said, “Unimportant things.”

Ye Tianming: “…….”

Although everyone was curious about those stone pillars, no one stopped. Instead, they quickened their pace and ran toward the depths of the ruins.

Before long, everyone arrived before a great mountain. When they saw that mountain, everyone present was stunned.

At the end of those stone pillars stood a mountain of boundless width. Before that mountain, people were like ants. Everyone discovered that at the base of the mountain, a black ancient character floated.

It was this black ancient character that supported the entire boundlessly wide mountain!

Seeing this scene, everyone’s eyes became fervent. With just one glance, everyone could sense that this black ancient character was definitely at least at the level of a Civilization Ancestral Artifact.

But no one moved.

The leader, Zong Lin, suddenly raised his head to look at the mountain peak. “There must be something even better up there.”

Everyone looked up, and Zong Lin continued, “The people from Guanxuan Universe have already gone up. We can’t waste time, everyone let’s go.”

With that, everyone shot up into the sky together, heading straight for the peak. At this moment, everyone pushed their speed to the extreme. But just as they reached halfway up the mountain, they were forcibly suppressed by an invisible force and fell from the sky one after another like dumplings dropped into a pot.

After tumbling down, everyone was dazed.

Zong Lin’s expression was somewhat unpleasant. “There’s a restriction above.”

Someone suddenly pointed to the distance. “There’s a mountain path over there.”

Everyone looked and saw a mountain path not far away, winding up from the foot of the mountain, leading straight to the peak.

Everyone immediately got up and walked toward the mountain. As they stepped onto the mountain path, they saw a stone tablet standing to the side with five large characters on it: Know Thyself.

Seeing these characters, everyone was somewhat surprised because they could understand these five characters.

Ye Tianming looked at those characters, lost in thought.

Soon, everyone continued forward. After walking for a while, they encountered a withered, thin old man halfway up the mountain. The old man was bent over with a severely hunched back, looking extremely aged and eerie.

Everyone looked at the withered old man before them, all on guard.

The withered old man swept his gaze over everyone and said hoarsely, “Those who haven’t reached the Great Emperor realm by age sixteen, and those without invincible backing, need not go up.”

A man immediately questioned, “On what grounds?”

The withered old man glanced at him indifferently. “If you haven’t reached Great Emperor by sixteen, what’s the difference between you and trash? Living is just a waste of spiritual energy, and you still want to obtain the inheritance of ancient sages and philosophers? Go eat shit!”

Everyone: “……”