Chapter 324 – Protector of the Dao
Chapter 324 – Protector of the Dao
Xu Chuniang followed her memories and went to a few other places near the stone pillars.
With the aura, she easily pinned those exposed stone pillars back into the soil.
As the second and third stone pillars went in without soil, more aura wafted out from the stone pillars.
Without stopping her steps, she continued to walk towards the other stone pillars.
The vision of aura revival was gradually perceived by other cultivators.
The aura was very thin, yet it shook their spirits.
“It’s aura, coming from above the destroyed altar.”
“Go over and take a look!”
They climbed up the mountain following the aura and found a pit at the narrow cave entrance.
“Hehe, there seems to be a stone tablet in here, and the aura is drifting out from it.”
“I’ve seen quite a few of these stone tablets before, more than three feet tall, with the characters on them worn down so much that I don’t know what was written on them. How did this one get buried in the earth?”
The speaker had no intention of listening.
These Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators were not stupid, and right away, there were several of them, linking the abnormality of the stone tablet with the recovery of aura.
“The runes on this stone tablet are somewhat like some sort of incantation, but the mutilation is so bad that nothing can be seen.”
“Could it be that striking this stone tablet into the valley could induce the aura?”
“We’ll know once we try!”
The aura they had absorbed wasn’t too much, it was already enough to open the storage ring.
After taking out the pills and taking them, the group scattered and headed towards the location where they had previously encountered the stone monument.
Originally, they thought that after restoring their cultivation, nailing the stone monument into the earth would be nothing more than a casual act.
But in fact, that stone monument did not know what kind of material to make, as if welded in the soil, they used a lot of means and strength, just barely pressed it down.
The effect was obvious, as the monolith plunged deeper into the earth, more spiritual qi escaped from it.
They were finally certain that it was the stone monument’s unusual movement that had triggered the aura.
As the last stele plunged deeper into the earth, the entire valley suddenly shook gently, and then fell completely silent.
That feeling of discomfort since stepping into the valley completely subsided.
Right after all the stone monuments were returned to their original positions, a strong sense of rejection fell on all the foreign cultivators, pushing them away from this heaven and earth.
Xu Chuniang opened her eyes again and realized that she was already in the middle of the Heavenly Dao Palace’s main hall.
She was still standing on top of the stone pillar from earlier, only that the star-like complex formation above her head had quietly dimmed at some point.
She didn’t move and looked around the room, and sure enough, she realized that most of the cultivators in the stone pillar had been reduced.
The original three hundred and sixty-one cultivators, now only remaining sixty or seventy, of which there are twenty or thirty people unconscious, a look of unconsciousness.
Chu Youtian remained on her left, looking at Xu Chuniang with great admiration.
“Fellow Daoist Yan is really deep in hiding, fortunately, when she fought with that Gong granny earlier, she fought Fellow Daoist Yan over, haha.”
Seeing Xu Chuniang glance at him warningly, as if implying that he should not say too much, Chu Youtian immediately understood, revealing an “I understand” expression.
That fire was bound to be Daoist Yan’s killer mace, so naturally, the fewer people knew about it, the better.
He looked around the room and let out a light “eek”.
“According to the rules, at this point, we should directly enter the new trial level, how come we’re back in the main hall? Could it be that there was some kind of accident?”
A few cultivators who knew quite a bit about the Heavenly Dao Palace also discovered this situation and frowned.
“What’s going on, is there something wrong with this Heavenly Dao Palace’s trial, it clearly wasn’t like this before.” “Coming up here and sending us to the Land of Extinct Spirits, almost all of us were accounted for there, is it a deliberate attempt to trap us?”
“It can’t be that the Dao Protector has done something, right?”
“Where is the Taoist protector, hurry up and come out! We must give an explanation!”
Xu Chuniang’s heart stirred at these words, and before she had time to ask a question, she saw a figure appear in front of the main hall.
The figure was not tall, wrapped in a cloud of white light, it was impossible to see what it really looked like.
Since that figure appeared, it will rise up a faint pressure, the hall suddenly quiet for a moment, and then appeared a few questioning voices.
“Is it you who did the maneuvering and threw us into that land of extinct spirits?”
“Damn it, disregarding the rules on the basis of being a Dao Protector?”
The Dao Protector coughed lightly, his voice sounding distinctly young, revealing a few moments of weakness.
“I’m sorry, there’s been some accident, and you guys have been pulled into the forbidden land of the Sorcerer Clan by the Sorcerer Ancestor.”
The Witch Ancestor had utilized the bloodline secret method to break the first layer of seals and conceal it from him, secretly tampering with the formation and teleporting all the cultivators to the Witch Clan’s forbidden land.
After he realized it, it was already too late.
Originally, he thought that after this group of cultivators were dragged into the forbidden land of the Sorcerer Clan, they would never be able to survive, and would be imprisoned for generations, falling into the Sorcerer Clan’s fodder.
After all, there is no spiritual qi in the forbidden land of the Witch Clan, and the cultivators are just mere mortals with strong hands.
I didn’t expect them to not only survive, but also re-enforce the seal.
Perhaps because the witch ancestor was suppressed for countless years, too weak.
“What? It’s actually the forbidden land of the Witch Clan! The Witch God those people are talking about, could it be the Witch Ancestor?”
“Legend has it that the Heavenly Dao Palace exists to suppress certain things, and the legend is surprisingly true.”
“We actually crossed paths with the Witch Ancestor? And survived?”
The cultivators couldn’t help but be in a trance, the Witch Ancestor was the ancestor of the Witch Race, a great power in the ancient times, a legendary figure who had fought against the Heavenly Dao.
It was unthinkable that such a great figure had been so close to them.
Xu Chuniang was similarly a bit surprised, and then a sense of fluke rose in her heart.
That Witch Ancestor had been so intent on breaking free of the seal that he hadn’t even put them, cultivators with no aura, in his eyes.
This was what allowed her to take advantage of the loophole, utilizing the Heavenly Flame to cauterize the stone pillars and reinforce the seal.
What Xu Chuniang didn’t know was that the Sorcerer Ancestor was heavily sealed, and being able to separate a trace of his will was already not easy, and there was no way for him to do anything at all.
The power from those sacrifices could only be used to break through the seal.
Unfortunately, the Witch Ancestor’s intentions were ultimately in vain.
“Originally, there were a total of nine levels in the trial, progressing gradually from easy to difficult to select the inheritors of my Heavenly Dao Palace, but right now, since an accident has occurred, this trial will end here. I will distribute rewards according to your performance in the forbidden land of the Witch Race.”
The voice of the Dao Protector rang out, finally causing the great hall to regain its calm.
The crowd of cultivators then stopped making a scene, they naturally had no problem with having benefits to take.
The Dao Protector raised his hand, and saw the unconscious twenty to thirty people waking up from the stone pillars, only to be teleported out of the Heavenly Dao Palace in the next second.
Obviously, these cultivators who were easily put down by the Witch Clan were not qualified to receive the rewards that the Protector of the Dao was talking about.
After doing so, the Dao Protector took out a bright mirror and was slightly stunned when he looked at the top line of numbers recording contribution points.
However, his complexion quickly returned to normal as he distributed the rewards from the bottom up, and for every reward distributed, one person disappeared into the hall.
(End of chapter)