Chapter 31: Chan’s Realization! Third Update
2016-02-28
Author: Floating Tower (诸生浮屠)
A group of monks watched the Cloud Climbing Monk leave.
The other monks had respectful expressions, as if looking up to a mountain, while the young girl Chan looked somewhat strange.
She had seen some of the top combat power in the Material Plane.
Her ‘master’ Soren was a True God! The aura of the Cloud Climbing Monk in front of her, while undeniably powerful, felt like a stone. Chan couldn’t perceive any emotional fluctuations from him; it was as if his spirit had become indistinguishable from a rock. It was clear that he had lived for an unfathomable amount of time, his physical body had become immortal, but spiritually, he was almost a stone.
Yes.
Just like a stone.
Chan suddenly understood why she felt this way.
The departing Cloud Climbing Monk had to be one of the most powerful mortals in the Material Plane. One could say that a person of such strength was beyond estimation; against ordinary deities, he posed no challenge, and it was likely he could even confront a weaker god’s divine kingdom directly. This being had achieved physical immortality, but he was still not a true deity. Chan sensed that his mind was full of dust, as if his spirit was the stone he had transformed into. Years of life had dulled his spirit’s purity.
And this point was the greatest difference between the Cloud Climbing Monk and a deity!
Unless he breaks through to another realm and achieves an unimaginable state of “Unity of Heaven and Man,” otherwise, such a person became little more than a stone.
However, if he truly reaches the “Unity of Heaven and Man,” he might be on a similar path as Father Oak, right?
True gods are immortal.
This is true both physically and spiritually; true deities are indeed immortal!
But the Cloud Climbing Monk was different; he was immortal in body, yet his spirit had not attained immortality. If his spirit could also reach a state of immortality, then it would indeed be “Unity of Heaven and Man,” revealing the truest secret of the “Path of Nature.”
Such monks had not appeared so far.
If one really reached this realm, then such a monk would probably be comparable to the ancient gods?
They wouldn’t need faith.
Yet they would possess abilities rivaling any god of “Strong Divine Power!”
Witnessing such a powerful monk’s emergence, everyone present felt deeply moved, each having a different realization.
This was also the arrangement of the monastery.
Everyone who welcomed the Cloud Climbing Monk from seclusion were the most promising seeds of the monastery.
Among them, since Chan had a contractual relationship with Soren and was connected to deities, she was likely the one whose realization ran deepest. Her understanding and insights probably far surpassed those of the leading legendary monk.
“We should go down too.”
Xu, who had stood there in a daze for quite some time, finally came back to his senses. Everything that had occurred today was just too shocking.
Noticing many people still seemed lost in thought, he said, “Now that the Master Ancestor has exited seclusion, breaking the seal of the ancient evil artifact should pose no problem.”
“After all, the Master Ancestor was someone who once charged through a hundred levels of the Bottomless Abyss!”
“Back in the day.”
“The Master Ancestor ventured deep into the Bottomless Abyss with a team of legendary figures, even having confronted the Demon Prince of those times. If he personally intervenes, even the legendary Hundred-Armed Giant could face him directly!”
Upon hearing Xu’s words, the others were left speechless.
One person suddenly spoke, “Master Xu! May I ask how old the Master Ancestor is now? When was he born?”
Xu was taken aback by the question.
After pondering for a long time, he slowly replied, “I’m not sure about the Master Ancestor’s specific details. The records in the monastery are very sparse.”
“I can only confirm that the Master Ancestor lived during the time of the Arcane Empire.”
“When the Arcane Empire fell, the Master Ancestor was one of the Saints responsible for sealing away the ancient evil artifacts in the Eastern Kingdom!…”
Saint.
This title was not just used for deities; for the Cloud Climbing Monk they had just witnessed, calling him a Saint was not an exaggeration at all.
“Is that so?” Chan murmured, “Then what about the other Saints?”
Xu turned to glance at her, hesitated for a moment, and then said, “Most of them have already died of old age. After all, deities are the real immortals!…”
“One went to the City of Imprints and has not been heard from since.”
“And another Archmage went to the ‘Mechanical Mirror of Clockwork Rebirth,’ perhaps he is still alive…”
“This piece of history is still preserved among the ancient inscriptions of the monastery. Once you reach the legendary realm, you’ll be qualified to see it.”
Chan fell silent upon hearing this.
She felt that after reaching the legendary realm, it was absolutely necessary for her to visit the monastery and see the legends of the past.
That was a glorious and tragic era.
It was also an era of direct confrontation between mortals and deities; the reasons behind the fall of the Arcane Empire remain unknown, yet many of the surviving tales feature the presence of deities.
The Druids’ hatred of the Arcane Empire’s alchemical technology must be related to the fall of Father Oak.
It had previously been mentioned that Druids deeply despised the Arcane alchemical technology. Because it was precisely these things that polluted the entire natural world, leading Father Oak to sacrifice himself to save it.
The group silently headed down the mountain.
Chan felt that today was indeed worth it because after witnessing all of this, she suddenly had the feeling that the legendary realm was right within her reach, almost touchable.
Pseudo-Legendary Domain.
This wonderful sense urged her to immediately return and begin her new cultivation, as she felt “Transcendence” was beckoning her.
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The Saint’s Cataclysm had arrived.
Soren had changed some things, but some things had not changed.
Some lower plane demons and devils suffered heavy losses, but others had reaped huge rewards. Their greed would undoubtedly lead them to launch another attack, but next time they would avoid some tough opponents.
For these lower plane evil spirits, the Material Plane was a rich treasure.
They just needed to enter and plunder.
The gods did not intervene much in the second wave of attacks, as their divine powers had been stripped away when they fell to the mortal realm. At their weakest, they were reluctant to expose themselves.
However.
As time passed, the gods began to silently regain some divine power; they had moved beyond the most vulnerable stage, and at this point, they gradually started to take the stage in the Saint’s Cataclysm.
This also meant that future assaults would become increasingly terrifying!
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