Chapter 843: Divine Mountain Sea

Chapter 843: Chapter 832: Divine Mountain Sea

The little girl seems quite annoyed.

Ding Ling is puzzled:

“My cultivation and techniques have strengthened, so hearing you speak is normal, right? Why do you look so troubled?”

“Not normal at all.”

The little girl said crisply:

“My mother said that ordinary immortals can’t hear me speak. But you can hear. How strange!”

“Immortals?”

Ding Ling was surprised: “Who is your mother?”

“You’ve seen her.”

“I’ve seen her?!”

Ding Ling was confused.

“The Celestial Maiden that was reflected from the stone monument image a few years ago is my mother!”

The girl’s voice is soft and crisp, like a cute two or three-year-old’s talking, even with a nasal tone!

When she mentioned her mother, the girl’s voice was full of longing and attachment, almost tangible.

“A few years ago?”

Ding Ling remembered:

“Is she the remarkable beauty buried with the Celestial Ladder, who planted the Immortal Tree seedling and erected the stone monument?!”

“That’s her.”

The girl’s voice had a hint of joy:

“You indeed remember my mother.”

“Who is your mother?”

Ding Ling asked.

“Her name is Divine Mountain Sea.”

“Divine Mountain Sea?”

Ding Ling had never heard such a name, searching through ancient texts and novels would hardly find it. Unsurprisingly, this Divine Mountain Sea is certainly not a native figure of the Wuxia or Xianxia world.

Otherwise, he didn’t know either, or someone beyond his imagination.

“What is your name then?”

“I don’t have a name.”

The girl’s voice was somewhat disheartened:

“But when my mother buried me, she seemed to call me Little Mountain Sea, though I can’t clearly remember. But I’ve decided to use this name.”

“Little Mountain Sea. Do you remember any other things about your mother? Do you know where she went?”

“I don’t know.”

Little Mountain Sea seemed very bewildered:

“Mother has not appeared in many, many years. I’ve been alone here for so long. In all these years, I’ve met only about a dozen people. But they weren’t very friendly to me; they often peeled off my skin and carved words on me.”

“…”

Ding Ling was speechless and awkward.

He had also peeled off the bark!

But as the Martial Dao True Understanding constantly infused, the scars and carved words on Little Mountain Sea’s body started to fade.

“It feels so good, so comfortable.”

Little Mountain Sea’s tree body shivered, shaking her yellow-spotted leaves at Ding Ling:

“Thank you, big brother.”

“Do you know what’s going on with the water of the abyss?”

“Yes, I know.”

Little Mountain Sea said crisply:

“Mother told me. She said it was Void Nether Soul Zombie. She tasked me to guard here, preventing Void Nether Soul Zombie from escaping this realm.”

Speaking of this.

She paused, seemingly a little gloomy and self-reproaching:

“But my powers have reached a bottleneck, unable to progress, while Void Nether Soul Zombie continues to advance day and night. At this rate, I can’t hold on. Luckily, big brother, you came.”

Little Mountain Sea’s voice was full of excitement:

“Your True Qi is so powerful! Among the dozen people I’ve seen, you are the most formidable and exceptional. That Duan Siping and Murong Longcheng are far inferior. Not only couldn’t they hear me speak, but they were also captured by Void Nether Soul Zombie, becoming its puppets.”

“Puppets? Captured?”

“Yes, indeed.”

Little Mountain Sea said crisply:

“They wanted immortality, wanting to further ascend, so they climbed the Celestial Ladder to the Celestial Court. But little did they know that all the immortals in that Celestial Court were long dead. Their venture turned out to be a sheep entering the tiger’s den, resulting in being devoured by Void Nether Soul Zombie.”

Upon hearing this, Ding Ling broke out into a cold sweat:

“I also went to the Celestial Court.”

“I know.”

Little Mountain Sea ‘shook’ her leafy head, seemingly responding to Ding Ling:

“I exerted all my strength to hold back the abyss flood, preventing them from spreading, so you weren’t killed.”

Ding Ling turned, puzzled: “Then why is it that Duan Siping and the others…?”

He didn’t continue to speak.

But the meaning was clear.

Little Mountain Sea seemed a bit ashamed, her leafy head all drooped down:

“I was inexperienced at first. Therefore, the Void Nether Soul Zombie exploited the loophole, capturing and controlling Duan Siping and others. Later, when you all arrived, I already had the experience.”

Ding Ling was speechless and also secretly fortunate, thankful that Duan Siping and the others went to explore first; had it not been so, falling into the abyss would have definitely been him and Li Canghai.

“But fortunate that big brother, you didn’t venture deep into the Hongyuan under the Broken Bridge of the Celestial Court. Otherwise, even I couldn’t save you.”

“That Hongyuan?”

“It is the branch linking the abyss ahead, the Void Nether Soul Zombie.”

“Is Void Nether Soul Zombie human or ghost? Or is it a god?”

“None of them.”

Little Mountain Sea’s leaves collectively pointed to the void directly in front of Ding Ling:

“It is the Forbidden Realm, the Void Nether, the Empty Realm. In short, it is a world!”

“A world?”

Ding Ling looked forward, it was outside the valley mountains, a Forbidden Realm territory, a gray area, boundless.

This Forbidden Realm could corrode and decay all substances.

Years ago, Ding Ling tested it by throwing a bowl out; within two breaths, it turned to ashes!

But back then, he had just reached the Initial Tier of Grandmaster.

His cultivation, compared to now, is vastly different.

Originally he couldn’t withstand Forbidden Realm’s corrosion and erosion.

It doesn’t mean he can’t now.

Thinking so.

Ding Ling waved his hand, the Sword Pill was thrown out, then exhaled a breath, swoosh! The Sword Pill instantly became the Divine Sword, like a stream of light flashing across the void, the next moment, it had already reached the sky above the gray region.

Clang clang!

The Divine Sword was vibrating.

It seemed full of hostility towards this Forbidden Realm.

This was the Divine Sword’s own spirit issuing warnings and fury, clang clang! Sharp streams of Sword Qi swept the Forbidden Realm in all directions.

Once this Divine Sword made contact with the Forbidden Realm, it began to unleash unparalleled power.

This was the Divine Sword’s innate ability, it seemed born to counter the Forbidden Realm, not only did it not decay, but its sword radiance became even brighter, showing a tendency to fight more valiantly within the decaying ambiance.

Ding Ling turned to look at Little Mountain Sea:

“This sword?”

“It is Lü Dongbin’s sword!”

“Lü Dongbin?!”

“Yes.”

Little Mountain Sea said crisply:

“One of the ancient Eight Immortals refined a sword, using the Eight Trigrams Demon-Slaying Sword Array to suppress the abyss flood. Now, the swords they refined were forced out by the flood, hence the flood became increasingly rampant, even I’m about to be decayed. Luckily, big brother appeared in time. Otherwise, I’d be doomed.”

Little Mountain Sea seemed very grateful to Ding Ling, constantly shaking her leaves, even inclining the leafy head to brush against Ding Ling’s cheek:

“Thank you, big brother.”

“The swords of the Eight Immortals?”

Ding Ling was puzzled why it was eight Sword Pills.

Now he understood.

It’s evidently referring to the Eight Immortals, these eight individuals.

That puzzled him. Previously, the green Sword Pill he obtained, whose was it then?!