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Chapter 304: 267: Luring the Beast Tide_2
Chapter 304: 267: Luring the Beast Tide_2
Chapter 304: Chapter 267: Luring the Beast Tide_2
Soon.
They delved deeper and deeper.
“Something’s not right; the land ahead gives me a feeling… a terrifying feeling!”
At that moment, Elder Qi suddenly spoke up!
Her aged eyes filled with a hint of wariness!
Hearing this, Su Bairu also frowned.
Their Treasure Medicine Sect was affiliated with one of the first-rate powers in the Northern Border today—the Lingdan Sect!
In this period, a new order and system had long been established in the Immortal Domain.
Only those with a Saint Induction Level Strongman could be called a first-rate power!
However, their Treasure Medicine Sect only had two Hongmeng-level Cultivators, and they had both been bestowed by the grace of Lingdan Sect; in fact, the Treasure Medicine Sect barely counted as a notable force!
Elder Qi was one of the two Hongmeng Cultivators!
Hongmeng-level Cultivators, after all, did possess a degree of alertness!
Meanwhile, Su Baiqian, with a slight frown on her face, said:
“Inside here… there might possibly be Mysterious-level Spiritual Medicines!”
She sensed that the deeper they went, the more intense the Saintly Aura seemed to become.
“You little bitch, are you trying to kill us?!”
Elder Qi grabbed hold of her, raging, “Don’t think I can’t see the underhanded tricks you’re planning!”
“Heh, Elder Qi, there’s no need for anger.”
But Su Bairu sneered and said:
“Su Baiqian, since you say there might be Spiritual Medicines inside, then you go pick them!”
“We’ll wait for you here.”
“If you can’t pick any, your mother’s lifeblood, I’ll take it for sure!”
Malice shone in her eyes!
Hearing this, Su Baiqian’s face turned pale.
This place, where even the Hongmeng Cultivator Elder Qi did not dare to enter…
But they were asking her to…
Yet, she had no choice!
Tears flickered through her eyes.
Then, she turned and walked towards the depths!
…
The mountains undulated.
“This Immortal Domain, it’s somewhat more magnificent than the Heavenly Realm.”
Li Fan smiled.
The Northern Desolation was filled with a rugged aura and presented a different kind of scenery.
Moving inwards, it wasn’t long before they climbed a tall peak.
Looking ahead, the mountain ranges rose and fell like a congregation of dragons, their forms myriad and varied.
Zi Ling and Nan Feng were instantly shocked by the view.
Gazing out over the Great Wilderness from here, it felt like beholding a terrifying world!
“The Great Wilderness of the Immortal Domain… likely conceals many things!” Zi Ling murmured.
“I have this illusion that when I gaze upon the Great Wilderness, I clearly feel the passage of time…” Nan Feng was struck with realization!
“What a unique view, this rarely trodden place hides another world!” Li Fan exclaimed in admiration!
Hearing Li Fan’s praise, Zi Ling and Nan Feng became even more thoughtful!
“So it turns out, this Great Wilderness conceals different hidden realms, all within master’s grasp!” Zi Ling’s eyes lit up in an instant!
“No wonder, no wonder master let the Heavenly Realm fall into this part of the Great Wilderness; his actions, however small, truly hide deeper meanings!” Nan Feng felt even more moved!
“Come now, I haven’t painted for quite some time. Today, let’s try to paint the great landscapes of this Immortal Domain!”
Fascinated by the beautiful view, Li Fan was in high spirits.
At his word, Zi Ling became more excited, having another chance to watch her teacher paint!
She got the brush, ink, paper, and inkstone ready.
Li Fan picked up the brush, looking towards the endless Great Wilderness ahead.
“What a vast wasteland; though rich in vegetation, it does nothing to diminish its true desolate nature, resembling a battlefield…” Li Fan’s brush danced like a flying dragon and a slithering snake!
Instantly, it was as if the whole world was transforming!
Time became chaotic, years rushed past, and in this moment, Zi Ling and Nan Feng both sensed something!
They seemed to witness, within the flow of time, an astonishing great war unfold!
The ground cracked, the heavens shattered, bones buried the wilderness, living beings wailed mournfully…
Between the changing seas and fields, all was smoothed over with time, vegetation lush, thriving grass and trees, multiplying birds and beasts… The events of the past were all buried!
Li Fan painted quickly!
In his painting, he mainly depicted the Great Wilderness.
Yet, with one or two strokes, he subtly revealed something different!
Under his brush, somewhere in the Great Wilderness lay an expanse of white bones!
His brush touched down!
In an instant, the terrifying Dao of Years and the River of Time calmed down!
The surrounding was swept only by a gentle breeze!
Zi Ling and Nan Feng, however, were staring intently at that painting!
“Master, has a painting revealed to us an ancient battle?”
Zi Ling murmured, her expression filled with disbelief!
“It was just a moment ago… my understanding of the Emperor’s Breakthrough Melody has deepened by a fraction…”
Nan Feng was even more surprised; the more she was exposed to scenes of war, the more she could appreciate the Emperor’s Breakthrough Melody.
Because, it was a melody of warfare and killing!
She was certain that this expanse of Great Wilderness must have been the site of a terrifying battle in some ancient era!
“Teacher…”
Zi Ling looked at Li Fan.
Li Fan, however, smiled and said,
“A painting not only represents the present but also the past and the future!”
Li Fan spoke calmly, saying,
“What kind of past do the things we see in our daily lives, which exist in the same spacetime as us, have? And what kind of future will they have? These are the questions that a painter should pursue!”
“Only then can a painting come to life; for a painting to have life, it must not only be given its present but also its future.”
He pointed at the painting and said,
“For instance, who knows whether this Great Wilderness was once an ancient battlefield?”
He was instructing Zi Ling.
In actuality, as far as Li Fan was concerned, whatever past this Great Wilderness had, only ghosts knew.
But painting is art, after all!
If it looks like a battlefield, then just paint it as a battlefield.
“I seem to understand something…”
Zi Ling murmured!
At that moment, she entered the state of Enlightenment Realm!
Feeling time, imagining the past, and the future!
She had never thought about infusing her paintings with the dimension of history before.
“This path… is almost Saintly!”
In that moment, she subconsciously started to paint!
She was depicting this expanse of land!
And while pondering, she watched with intent, looking beyond the present to observe its past and guessing its future!
Around her, a wonderful aura of the Dao emerged naturally.
Nan Feng was taken aback; she sensed that Zi Ling was achieving enlightenment.
That feeling of the battlefield, the passage of time, unfolded naturally!
She instinctively began to play the zither!
At that moment, the Breakthrough Melody was inspiring Zi Ling’s observation of this land.
And her painting was, in turn, enlightening Nan Feng.
The two complemented each other!
Li Fan also smiled, picked up a pot of wine, and began to drink leisurely on his own, the epitome of relaxation!
But he didn’t know!
At the very moment he depicted on the painting a few patches of skeletal remains on that piece of land,
part of the mountain range of the vast wilderness suddenly collapsed, with layers of earth that had been stable for millions of years crumbling away.
White bones were exposed!
As if a mysterious force had cleaved them open with a sword!
Ominous Yin Qi kept appearing!
Instantly, deep in the Great Wilderness, countless ferocious beasts and the like went berserk, fleeing rapidly in terror from the aura!
…
Somewhere.
“Roar!”
Su Baiqian, who was walking forward, suddenly heard a terrifying beast roar from ahead!
Her body trembled as she sensed danger!
She quickly turned and fled!
Running for her life, she finally saw Elder Qi, Su Bairu, and others ahead.
“Save me!”
She shouted loudly!
But at this moment, Elder Qi and the others also had dramatically changed expressions!
“Not good, the beasts are frenzied… The aura of these beasts is terrifying!”
“Run!”
Elder Qi hurriedly led Su Bairu and the others, turning to run immediately!
They didn’t bother about Su Baiqian at all.
The ferocious beasts were getting closer from behind.
Su Baiqian could only flee desperately.
She almost lost her sense of direction.
Suddenly, she saw that under a mountain peak ahead, three people were walking very leisurely!
One man and two women!
Delaying even a moment could cost her the chance to escape!
But she hesitated for a moment in her eyes, and still chose to run over, shouting,
“Run, run, there’s a beast tide in the mountains!”