Chapter 1894 - 1461: Old Zhu Knew Everything! (Extra - for Monthly Tickets)

Through an object on the ground shaped like a compass, the Fire Qilin surprisingly detected the aura belonging to its own reverse scale.

This aura seemed to be at a very far distance, puzzling the intelligent Fire Qilin, yet it still chose to immediately pick up the compass on the ground.

Instantly, the summoning feeling from the reverse scale became even more intense, the sensing power seemed to transform into waves spreading into the surrounding darkness, radiating through the complex and winding branch passages of the Lingyun Cave.

"Thump thump—"

"Thump thump—"

The heartbeat of the Fire Qilin accelerated, it let out a wild screech, its strong and powerful four hooves lifted, flames burst forth all over its body, instantly turning into a large fireball racing through the dark passage, speeding along the sensing power enhanced by the compass.

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Heart!

The heart is beating!

A strong and powerful heart is calmly beating in the darkness; it is the heart of a robust man like a Demon God, a heart filled with constant battle intent, never admitting defeat, never giving up—it is Jiang Dali’s heart!

In a vast, deserted underground cave, a thin mist hung, lighter than the black mist inside the realm of Tianyuan.

He floated whole in the cold water, closed his eyes, letting a mouthful of Essence Qi flow through his body, concentrating slightly on his skin, each change in the current did not escape his notice.

Thus floating and sinking, with a calm demeanor, the cold water couldn’t cool his fiery heart, fiery body, and will.

His eyes closed, quietly sensing the rapid restoration of power realm and martial arts skills after consuming a large amount of cultivation points.

Now, through frequent interaction with the Heaven and Earth’s intent, he was vaguely clear about the precise function of cultivation points and potential points, those miraculous things that can directly enhance power realm and martial arts skills.

Cultivation points and potential points are very likely the power separated from the Dao Fruit after the Earth Intent devoured the Dao Fruits of the Twisted inside Twisted Land.

The Dao Fruit is the lifetime power, martial arts experience, and martial arts spirit condensed by each former peak expert Twisted, the cultivation points and potential points born from its separation can naturally help any players quickly master or enhance a martial art in a short time, and after accumulating to a certain degree, can also easily elevate power realm.

This is why the families are so concerned with Twisted Land, and must strive for Twisted Land.

In theory, as long as the Earth Intent controlled by the family can compete over the Heavenly Will, every martial arts expert who dies and transforms into a Twisted can become the nurturing substance for the family to cultivate a batch of experts.

This is also the reason why players experience death penalties after dying; it’s not because death inherently incurs punishment.

Instead, because the martial arts realm raised using cultivation points and potential points was not personally comprehended, after death, naturally, parts of relevant experiences are forgotten, causing a drop in martial arts proficiency.

Jiang Dali confirmed the principles of cultivation points and potential points now because his losses from this death were far less than he imagined.

This death was supposed to be the second death in the month, and all martial arts proficiency was to drop by twenty percent...

But in the end, apart from the martial arts elevated using cultivation points and potential points, like the Undying Seal Technique, Absorption Skill, Return Flying Skill, which dropped twenty percent proficiency.

Other self-created martial arts like Mighty God Fist, Great Strength Divine Skill, Divine Demon Golden Body, including War God Chronicles elevated to perfect via Dao Fruit, only mildly dropped between three to five percent in proficiency, sometimes even no change at all.

In this way, his entry into the realm of Tianyuan this time did not suffer any loss and even gained substantial rewards.

After all, the main loss from this time in the realm of Tianyuan was merely the great damage to bodily Essence Qi and the realm drop due to excessive exploitation of bodily potential through Power Level Mahavira during the two deaths.

However, such a dropped power realm can be easily restored by consuming a large amount of cultivation points and potential points.

Comparatively, the various information about the Heaven and Earth’s intent obtained this time in the realm of Tianyuan, as well as directly enhancing the War God Chronicles to a level that shocks the ancient and modern with the Dao Fruit from Chuan Ying, are more precious than the lost over sixty million cultivation points and potential points.

It’s important to know that originally the 8-realm War God Chronicles needs 120 million cultivation points and potential points to elevate to the 9-realm Returning to Nature level.

To elevate to the 10-realm Shocking the Ancient and Modern level is something that has always been a distant, almost unattainable dream...

"Fortune hides within misfortune, misfortune leans on fortune.

This consecutive death experience is my first time experiencing it...were it not for my existing player template, it would have been impossible to endure till the end, but conversely, because I knew I had a chance of resurrection, all along, I acted fearlessly and decisively, otherwise, if I advanced step by step cautiously, I wouldn’t have had this kind of consecutive death opportunity..."

Jiang Dali lay in the cold water of an unknown-flowing cave, quietly waiting for the recovery of his body and Primordial Spirit, repeatedly reflecting in his heart, while observing the increasingly thinning black mist in the realm of Tianyuan, secretly amazed.

Though he died again, he didn’t recklessly look down on himself.

Reflecting on the powerful enemies faced during these two deaths, whether it’s the Eternal Emperor Qin Shi Huang or the Earth Intent controlled by families, or even Dugu Qiubai who stays guarding and cannot leave the Tianyuan Guardian Guang Chengzi, each one is an extremely formidable opponent...

When these top-tier enemies of the world join forces, it’s safe to say anyone in the world standing against them, except the Holy Dynasty Regent King, is on a path leading only to death.

Especially the second time, originally after defeating Dugu Qiubai, he didn’t have to die, but was suppressed by the Four Great Families, abandoned by teammate Guang Chengzi, and ultimately died at the hands of Zhu Wushi...

But now resurrected and appearing in this area suspected to be the edge of the Sky, he gradually understood Zhu Wushi’s intention in attacking him, feeling somewhat complex inside.

Clearly, Zhu Wushi must have long known the secret of his resurrection.

And this secret, perhaps wasn’t discovered when he resurrected after dying at Heaven Mountain, because he perished among the collapsed mountains, unseen by anyone, and Zhu Wushi wouldn’t merely rely on speculation to firmly believe he could definitely resurrect.

The certainty likely still came from him... the families, using Earth Intent and the main system, enabled players to resurrect, clearly knowing each player’s death and resurrection information, but unaware of his resurrection. The main reason could very well be because he had already escaped the main system’s records due to his accidental rebirth, beyond the control of its data, though Earth Intent might still know of his existence.

Hence, while he can resurrect, the families might not know, but Earth Intent certainly does.

He once considered that if the families completely controlled Earth Intent, it would certainly be the day he was thoroughly exposed, and potentially subjected to the control of the families. Therefore, he had long decided to prevent the families from controlling Earth Intent (see Chapter 1437)...

Helping Zhu Wushi devour Earth Intent, on one hand, was because Zhu Wushi desired it;

On the other hand, it was also his intention to cultivate someone who can prevent the families from controlling Earth Intent. This person would inevitably be his closest brother, Zhu Wushi was naturally suited.

Yet he had not expected that Zhu Wushi, having only devoured perhaps a little more than one thousandth of Earth Intent, seemed to have already learned his resurrection secret through it.

If this speculation holds true.

Then Zhu Wushi must know more of his secret information.

Thinking of this, Jiang Dali sighed inwardly, his emotions more complex, slowly opening his eyes, a thread of brilliance flashed through the darkness.

"Old Zhu clearly knows my resurrection secret, so he seized the opportunity before the Four Great Family Heads to kill me, firstly to conceal my identity and secret from being detected by the Four Great Family Heads, and secondly to prevent my capture by the families to be dragged into the Twisted Land to become a Twisted, and thirdly... to send me here..."

He gazed around at the increasingly thin, almost imperceptible Heavenly Pool Black Mist, his heart enlightened.

"This area contains the black mist grievances of the Heavenly Pool, but having drifted along for three hours just now, I have gradually moved out of the range of the black mist grievances. I suppose... this must be another secret outlet of the Heavenly Pool, who knows where it leads?"

"Old Zhu surely knew of this outlet through the devoured Earth Intent long ago, yet he kept it secret, clearly intending to reserve it as his own retreat, without telling anyone.

Yet due to my crisis, he had no choice but to use Earth Intent to have me resurrect here... not only escaping the notice of the Four Great Families but also smoothly leaving the Heavenly Pool. However, it’s likely that this secret retreat will soon be discovered by the Four Great Families."

Since the first time he died within the Heavenly Pool and didn’t leave it, but resurrected randomly elsewhere within its bounds, Jiang Dali realized the Heavenly Pool might be influenced by the Fallen Heaven and Earth’s Intent, making it difficult for him to conveniently leave this Land of Fallen to appear in the outside world.

Thus, once he dies in front of the Four Great Family Heads and resurrects in the location they know within the Heavenly Pool, his secret would surely no longer be able to be kept from them.

Using Earth Intent, Zhu Wushi transferred him to a region unknown to the Four Great Family Heads to resurrect, perfectly concealing him... this friendship, he keeps in his heart, without harboring resentment for Zhu Wushi not immediately revealing this Heavenly Pool outlet.

Everyone has their secrets, everyone holds something back from others.

Zhu Wushi wanting to reserve a retreat for himself is perfectly understandable.

For him to rescue him by yielding this retreat proves their deep friendship.

But this also inevitably caused Jiang Dali to worry more about the dangers Zhu Wushi faced alone within the Heavenly Pool...

At this moment, the flow of water ahead changed direction, Jiang Dali felt through his skin that there appeared a stone wall ahead, immediately exerting his strength and sinking swiftly to the bottom. The deeper he sank, the colder the water became, the heavier the water pressure, but none of it mattered to him.

Gripping the Great Strength Fire Qilin Saber in one hand, and slightly trembling with his legs and another hand, moving powerfully like a paddle through water, his whole body shot forward, swiftly surpassing the stone wall ahead, bursting upwards.

Suddenly—

The Great Strength Fire Qilin Saber released scorching heat in the icy water, causing the surrounding water to frequently boil, and the Fire Qilin Reverse Scale near the blade handle shone with an eerie red glow, dazzling bright like a blaze within the water.

"Hm? Fire Qilin!?"

Jiang Dali looked surprised, his legs kicked in the water, his whole body surged out like a big fish, and he immediately saw, not far away, a dark entrance half submerged by water waves.

The aura from the Fire Qilin transmitted from the direction of that entrance.

Jiang Dali’s tiger-like body trembled, landing on the water surface with a thud, his feet stepping on the wave created a huge recoil, his body rushed like the wind straight for the entrance, astonished.

"Lingyun Cave? I’ve actually reached Lingyun Cave?"

"Indeed! The Lingyun Cave passage is incredibly deep and extensive, with countless branches extending underground, each branch splits into over ten branches, altogether there are thousands of them, extending in all directions across the land... but who would have thought that one of the branches actually extends directly into the Heavenly Pool? Who on earth built this Lingyun Cave!"

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