Chapter 401: “Impossible! Absolutely impossible!”
“What’s this?”
Bai Feng paused, and in front of him no longer stretched the unchanging starry sky. Instead, a structure had appeared—made from bamboo and wood.
He tiptoed cautiously toward the building, only to realize—these buildings were just illusions.
“Fairy Tian Yan, can you make anything out of this?” he side-eyed Tian Yan and asked.
“Can’t,” Tian Yan shook her head. “Obviously the handiwork of an immortal. With my current level, I can’t decipher a thing.”
Bai Feng wasn’t disappointed. Since Tian Yan couldn’t figure it out either, he figured he might as well go in first…
Wait, oh no! System helper, don’t overlook us!
He suddenly remembered something and quickly called out to his system helper: “Little Helper, do you know what these buildings are?”
【Searching…】
【Search complete. Memory retrieved from Tian Yan Fairy’s residual divine consciousness and the remnants of the unknown finger immortal’s residual soul. The illusionary buildings here are remnants of an old corner of the Immortal Realm, a place where immortals once discussed dao.】
“Really knows?!” Bai Feng was a bit surprised. He thought this little helper was more like a useless gadget, but it actually managed to access residual divine consciousness of Tian Yan Fairy and the leftover soul of the finger immortal.
“Can you tell if this place is safe?”
【I am just a little helper.】
“…”
Guess expecting too much from a helper isn’t wise.
Bai Feng shook his head. He decided to go ahead and explore. Besides, what else was there to do but check out these buildings?
“Brother, why don’t I go in and explore first?”
Suddenly, Bai Yu Mo reached out and tugged at him.
“Solo action is a big taboo,” Bai Feng tapped her head. “Let’s go in together. If anything feels off, we pull out immediately.”
“Oh…”
Bai Yu Mo covered her head and nodded, not objecting further. She drew closer to Bai Feng—almost pressed up against him.
Fortunately, inside the structure there didn’t seem to be any danger. It looked like the secret realm’s master had hastily built it as a kind of nostalgic homage. Even the tea left on the stone table had been duplicated—half-finished and all.
Wait, why is this teacup floating?
In Bai Feng’s view, that half-full tea cup suddenly floated into the air, as if someone had just been sipping from it. In this place—no one around, illusions everywhere—that scene felt downright eerie.
Next to them, Bai Yu Mo and Yun Yue Yao also noticed the floating teacup. The two immediately drew their swords. Under their watchful gazes, the teacup settled back down. After a few minutes, it floated up again, as if glitching in a game—tea-drinker vanished, but the cup kept following the script.
“Could it be the secret realm’s owner recording their stuff and someone was just drinking tea?” Bai Feng muttered to himself.
He didn’t get too curious and chose to go around the floating tea cup to keep moving forward.
But a few steps later, he saw the floating cup again.
He looked back—it was gone from the stone table but suddenly appeared out front, resting on a wooden table.
“Looks like we’ve been watched.”
Without hesitation, Bai Feng threw out a formation disk. In an instant, the Extermination Sword Array wrapped around this place.
“Extermination Sword Array? Where’d you get that? Wait—don’t move! That’s… impossible!”
The teacup suddenly froze in place with a confused sound. What was this little guy doing? Blasting out the array at once? And setting it up so quickly? Even the top geniuses of the Immortal Realm couldn’t do that!
“Who are you?”
Three long swords hovered in front of Bai Feng. He also shot a glance at Yun Yue Yao.
“Huh? This Extermination Sword Array…” The teacup floated upwards, seemingly inspecting the three swords. Then it looked at Yun Yue Yao, who was standing beside Bai Feng. “Ah, so that’s the case? You little thing are pretty careful.”
Bai Feng frowned slightly. Just as he was about to ask again, the teacup didn’t switch the topic but spoke up: “I am… no, I was a remnant of the past. If it weren’t for you guys, I probably wouldn’t be here.”
“What do you mean?”
“It means the remnants of a past existence in you has awakened me,” the teacup explained further. “I initially wanted to observe a bit longer, but when I saw your proficient use of the Extermination Sword Array, I guessed I was not mistaken about who you are.”
As soon as it finished, Bai Feng and the others showed different expressions. Bai Yu Mo thought of the immortality methods they’d learned; Yun Yue Yao instinctively tightened her grip on her sword. Tian Yan’s gaze shifted to the ring in Bai Feng’s hand. Zuo Qiu thought of her master’s immortal fire, and Bai Feng—well, he thought about everything else: immortal fire, Tian Yan Sword, ring, the system that provided these items.
He had so many immortal-related objects on him he had no idea which the teacup was talking about.
Bai Feng remained composed and asked, “Are you here for something?”
“Of course,” the teacup gently swayed the tea inside. “Normally, entering the Star Road involves a trial, and after passing, you get rewards. But your trial is different.”
“Because we have remnants of the past on us?”
“Ha ha ha…” The teacup chuckled but didn’t answer directly. Instead, it continued: “This secret realm seals the remains of an immortal. Your trial is to deal with it. Don’t worry — the leftover power of the immortal has been absorbed by the realm to keep it running. It’s probably been drained quite a bit by now. Its current strength is around that of a Transforming God.”
Bai Feng looked at it with a strange expression. “That kind of remnant of an immortal, could it be a finger?”
“Eh? You saw it?” The teacup looked surprised. “That’s easy then. I suspect some greedy cultivators might be tempted to fuse with it under its enchantment. If you can defeat them and cut off their fingers, you pass.”
“Ok, where do I find those cultivators fused with fingers?” Bai Feng pretended not to know.
“Very simple. I can connect your Star Roads together, then…” The teacup suddenly paused. “Wait—what’s going on? Why are there no cultivators fused with fingers in the Star Road? Surely they wouldn’t abandon this place…”
At this point, Bai Feng yawned lazily. “You think maybe… they’ve already cleared them out beforehand?”
“No way! Impossible!” The teacup spun as if shaking its head. “That would be the Six-Fingered Zither Immortal! No, now he’s probably called Six-Fingered Zither Demon. His fingers are sealed around the secret realm—it even left a remnant soul, not even Cloud Immortal managed to wipe him out completely…”
It gradually weakened in tone, finally questioning with some disbelief: “You really took them all out?”
