[END] Will Eternal

Chapter 141: The Falling Sword Gorge

A Will Eternal – Chapter 141

Chapter 141: The Falling Sword Gorge

Bai Xiaochun's arrival attracted quite a bit of attention. Everyone stared at him, including Shangguan Tianyou, Zhou Xinqi, Lu Tianlei, Beihan Lie, Xu Song, Gongsun Wan’er, Gongsun Yun, Hou Yunfei!

An encouraging expression slowly appeared in Li Qinghou's eyes.

Bai Xiaochun rushed over to Li Qinghou, then clasped his hands and bowed deeply.

Li Qinghou could see how red his eyes were, and knew it must have been a struggle enough to convince himself to come.

"Stand behind me" he said.

Bai Xiaochun stood up straight and rushed to stand behind Li Qinghou. Looking around, he looked at Hou Yunfei, who he had not seen since being transferred to the northern edge. During their parting, Hou Yunfei participated in the trial of the Inner Sect with fire. After becoming an Inner Sect disciple, he benefited from the help of his clan, soaring all the way to the tenth level of Qi Condensation.

Their eyes met, and Hou Yunfei nodded excitedly. Bai Xiaochun nodded back. There was no time to chat, as the main door of the large hall was already open.

As they did so, Zheng Yuandong's voice echoed from within.

"The origin of the Primordial Spirit Hollow is unknown. A long time ago, before the existence of the Lone Hell Pocket Realm, it was the only location in the eastern Lower Reaches where earthstring energy gathered. Countless wars occurred outside the spirit cavity, until the three powerful sects controlled it. When the Spirit Stream Sect rose to power, it became under the control of the Four Great Sects!

"The Hell Lone Pocket Realm suddenly appeared 10,000 years ago in the Hellwood Continent. It is a barren desert with no living creatures inside other than the banebeast earthstring. Many wars were also fought at that location, until the Four Great Sects occupied and chose to share as the second of the Foundation Establishment Holy Land.

"The Fallen Sword Abyss traces its origins back to 5,000 years ago, when an indescribable greatsword fell from beyond the heavens. It was massive, larger than a hundred Spirit Stream Sects put together, and contained terrifying strength. It pierced through the canopy above, falling down to stab into the ground near the Flamecrane Mountain, sending sword qi all the way to the underworld. As for the sword body itself, it permeated with earthstring energy. [1]

"Therefore, the inside of the sword was like two other Holy Land Establishment Platforms; it was filled with countless earthstring banebeasts. Kill them to gather the earthstring energy, and when you have enough, you can form them into earthstring capturing crystals, to summon the latent earthstring energy present within the Abyss Sword Cliff!

"According to the investigation and analysis of the Four Great Sects, when the sword fell from outside the sky, it absorbed a bit of Heaven-Dao aura, meaning that there might be a bit of heavenly energy within it!

"Of course, the Establishment of the Heaven-Dao Foundation is also called the Establishment of the Heaven-Dao Foundation!" At this point, Zheng Yuandong paused for a moment, and looked at the crowd, his eyes twinkling as if with lightning.

“The path of cultivation is narrow and narrow; the only way to walk is to step on countless corpses. Only then can you have the chance to make contact with the great majestic ... Dao!

“During this Foundation Establishment experiment with fire.you all should do your best to kill the disciples of the other three sects. After all, this was a trial with fire, but also a war between the four sects, and even more importantly, directly related to the fate of the Spirit Stream Sect. I'll reveal more to you about it upon your return!

“I have no doubt in my mind that the disciples of the other three sects will do their best to kill you. In the Foundation Establishment of the Holy Land, the opportunity to achieve Foundation Establishment was not given to everyone! Resources are limited; this is a competition for the great Dao! ” Zheng Yuandong swung her sleeves as her echoing voice echoed in all directions. All of the over 200 Inner Sect disciples present responded with confident cheers.

"The Court of Establishment of this Foundation by fire will be led by the peak ruler of the Irispetal Peak, the top leader of the Violet Cauldron Peak, and Ouyang Jie of the Hall of Justice. They had made all the necessary arrangements. 100 disciples would enter the Fallen Sword Abyss, while two groups of 75 would go to the Lone Hell Pocket Realm and the Primordial Spirit Hollow. And now, activate the grand spell formation that leads to the Foundation of the Establishment of the Holy Land! "

Immediately, a powerful rumbling sound could be heard as the huge spell formation opened, and the group of over 200 disciples slowly faded away. Outside of the spell formation, Li Qinghou stood there with an expression of anticipation and anxiety on his face. He felt like he was looking at a young eagle spreading its wings. Below was a bottomless pit, and in the distance, the sun had just begun to rise.

The Flamecrane Mountain was located on the Righteouscraft Continent, and a long time ago, it had risen as high as the sky. Back then, it was higher than the mountain peak in the Spirit Stream Sect, and in fact, larger than the entire Spirit Stream Sect in general.

But now, everything is different. More than half the mountain had been destroyed, and the land that stretched far and wide around it had been reduced to a barren land that filled nearly half of the Righteouscraft Continent.

Neither living beings nor animals could survive in such conditions, and even cultivators who spent too much time there would eventually suffer a shocking death. They would spontaneously explode, where scattered streams of sword qi would billow out from their shattered corpses.

The reason for all of that was the huge sword that fell from the sky. It was an ancient sword, its surface was carved with countless magical symbols, which were in varying degrees of erosion. The sword was stabbed half into the ground directly in front of the Flamecrane Mountain. Cracks spread from the sword in all directions, the narrowest being several meters wide, the largest being thirty or more in width. The crack itself was pitch-black, and pulsed cold.

The entire surface of the ground around the sword was covered by a shimmering shield, which prevented anyone from entering.

The sword was extremely large; even the blade part in sight, along with the hilt, rose much higher than the Flamecrane Mountain. If the sword was compared to the size of a hand, then the mountain would be like an ant.

Of course, when you compare the farmers to the mountain, the mountain is like a hand and the farmers who stand at its peak are like ants.

The two sects had already gathered at the peak of Flamecrane Mountain. One group contained 80 disciples, and the other, 100. Both of them were led by the Founding Foundation cultivators, who were currently engaged in empty chatter. The two groups of disciples, on the other hand, looked at each other with open hostility.

On the left side was a group of 80 disciples. They were all wearing white robes, whose arms were embroidered with images of medicinal pills. Furthermore, the entire group exuded a medicinal fragrance.

They were none other than the Pill Stream Sect!

Across them was a group of 100 disciples. They wore dark blue robes, and exuded fluctuations of profound cultivation bases. If you pay close attention to a few disciples, it is possible to see that certain parts of their body are rustling and blurring in a strange way.

Even as the two sides measured each other, the clouds above started to light up, and countless magical symbols appeared. At first, they flickered between the cauldron shape and the sword form, but in the end, they resembled an enormous ink dragon, roaring at the top of his lungs.

The group leader of the Pill Stream Sect was a middle-aged woman. Gazing with glittering eyes, he muttered, "The Spirit Stream Sect is here."

The cultivator leading the Great Flow Sect was an old man with many strange bumps on his face which gave him an extremely sinister appearance. His pupils were vertical like cats, and every time he blinked, anyone who saw him would be filled with an extremely strange sensation. Right now, he was looking at the Spirit Stream Sect's spell formation forming above.

Before long, a beam of light shot down and landed on another area of Flamecrane Mountain. Over a hundred people slowly appeared, with Ouyang Jie in front. When the woman from the Pill Stream Sect and the old man from the Profound Stream Sect saw her, their faces flickered in shock.

"Daoist Jackals!"

Ouyang Jie chuckled in a grating voice and then said, “Rekan Daoist Hai. Fellow Daoist Lin. Long time no see."

After all the disciples appeared, he waved his hand, removing the protective shield created by the spell formation. With that, he stepped forward.

As the cultivators of the Foundation Establishment began to negotiate, Bai Xiaochun rubbed his eyes and looked around, feeling a little confused. Looking at the huge sword made him gasp for breath. Looking up, he realized that he could not even see the end of the hilt; it disappeared into the clouds above. What a shocking sight.

Gasps of light could be heard around him as the other Spirit Stream Sect disciples also stared in shock at the greatsword.

It was at this point that Bai Xiaochun noticed that there were far fewer people around him. Two hundred people had been gathered by the time they left, but now there were only a hundred people with him.

Zhou Xinqi was nowhere to be seen, nor was Lu Tianlei. However, Shangguan Tianyou, Ghostfang, Beihan Lie, Gongsun Wan’er, and Hou Yunfei were all present in the crowd, all of whom were studying the shocking sword in front of them.

It didn't take long, before they all started to sit cross-legged and produce jade slips. After pouring some spiritual power into the slip, they then began to study the disciples of the Pill Stream Sect and the Deep Stream Sect.

Likewise, the disciples from the other sects turned to look at the newcomers. Some disciples were looking at Bai Xiaochun. The expressions on the faces of the disciples differed from group to group when they saw Bai Xiaochun. The people from the Pill Stream Sect looked skeptical, as if they did not quite believe what they had heard about him. As for the Profound Flow Sect, they looked ridiculed.

Bai Xiaochun was a little surprised by all this. A while later, Hou Yunfei approached and handed the jade slip to him.

"You're late" he said slowly. "Before you come, the peak lords and Ouyang Jie explained the bitter struggle we will face in more detail. They said that the best way to stay safe was to kill as many disciples from other sects as possible. They also gave us a jade slip with information about the Fallen Sword Gorge, as well as the disciples from other sects. Presumably, the other sects have information about us as well. "

Bai Xiaochun took out a jade slip and poured spiritual power into it. The first thing he saw was a detailed introduction to the Fallen Sword Abyss.

The Falling Sword Abyss was also called the World Falling Sword, and had descended from above several thousand years in the past. More than half of the sword was buried in the earth. The sword itself formed a tilted world, whose depths were filled with increasingly powerful earthstring beasts, whose bodies contained a large amount of earthstring energy.

The entrance to the Fallen Sword World was the many underground holes that had been pierced into the sword body during its fall.

Within the world of swords, not only were the earthstring banbeast formed from earthstring energy, there were also banesouls. Many people believed that they were the souls of the dead killed by the sword, which materialized due to the presence of earth energy. Although they did not possess the same battle prowess they had before death, they were still dangerous. Fortunately, they are not intelligent, and will not take the initiative to attack.

When Bai Xiaochun read about it, he took a deep breath and decided to pay attention to the banesouls. As far as he was concerned, they were basically the same as evil ghosts.

The jade slip also provided detailed information about the earthstring energy. Basically, there are two types of earthstring energy. One of them is the type in banebeasts. When the banebeast was killed, it would release some faint groundstring energy, which could be collected into Dao bottles and converted into earthstring capture crystals. The crystal was like a key that could unlock a method to collect a second type of earthstring energy. The truth is that ninety-nine percent of the earth's energy is fused with the world itself, and cannot be collected directly. It must be called!

The amount of earthstring energy in the world is limited. Upon reaching Foundation Establishment, a number of spiritual sea Tide waves would occur depending on the latent talents possessed by a particular individual. Therefore, the earlier one reached Foundation Establishment, the better. Any person who actually achieved Foundation Establishment would reduce the total amount of earth energy within the Fallen Sword World. In general, unless some outstanding disciples came who reached eight Tideflows, there would be enough earth energy for thirty people to reach Foundation Establishment.

Those who reached Foundation Establishment sooner rather than later had a huge advantage. If one was too slow, then it would be difficult to absorb enough earthstring energy to cause Tideflow, thus making it impossible to achieve Foundation Establishment.

"Flamecrane" is a bird from Chinese mythology. I can't find a good article in English. According to the Baidu article I found, it represents a harbinger of imminent destruction. The name of the bird in Chinese “bi fang” is said to come from the sound of wood or bamboo burning. The bird is somewhat like a red-crowned stork, except that it has one leg, blue feathers, red spots, and a white beak. Whenever it appeared, it meant fiery destruction was imminent.

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