Chapter 1044: Secrets of the Feather Realm (Part 1)

Chapter 1044: Chapter 1044: Secrets of the Feather Realm (Part 1)

The Xianyu World and the Taichu World are alike, both hanging as leaves on the Universe Tree. However, this world has a deeper foundation, allowing cultivation into the Formless Realm directly in the lower world!

Throughout countless years, there have been many cultivators in the Xianyu World who have reached the Divine Bridge Realm and ascended to the Immortal Realm, producing even several True Immortals; the most distinguished among them is none other than the Xianyu Ancestor, the first True Immortal born in this world after the commencement of the Divinity Era, who further cultivated to reach the Divine Immortal Realm, which is where the name "Xianyu" originates from.

Under the leadership of the Xianyu Ancestor, the great cultivators and True Immortals emerging from the Xianyu World came together to establish the Celestial Feather Sect, which then integrated all cultivation forces in the lower world.

Strictly speaking, the Celestial Feather Sect in the Immortal Realm is the true Celestial Feather Sect, while the one in the lower world is merely a subsidiary courtyard!

In the Universal Realm, True Immortal powers are also ranked in tiers. At its peak, the Upper Celestial Feather Sect had five True Immortals presiding, comparable to the Xuanyuan Clan, making it one of the top forces besides the Heavenly Immortal Ashram.

The relationship between the upper and lower sects is extremely close. While gathering intelligence, Shen Mo discovered that the "evil aborigines" hold certain knowledge of many secrets about the Immortal Realm, the Universe Tree, the Withering Realm, the leftover evils of the old era, among others. They also have a foundation in cultivation methods and magic, pills, talismans, artifacts, and array far surpassing the Red Flame Sect, evidently passed down from the Immortal Realm.

However, what these evil aborigines know are old histories. Shen Mo had never heard of most major events involving True Immortal powers and the Immortal Realm.

It could be said that the vastness of the Immortal Realm renders the Xianyu Upper Sect’s immortal continent very far from the Phoenix Continent’s Five Dragon Mountain, which might be acceptable, but its mountain gate is actually located within today’s Delayed Spirit Zone!

Back then, Shen Mo, alongside the Silver-haired Child, Kang Haoxiu, and Qin Zhen, passed through the Delayed Spirit Zone on their way to the Immortal Mansion Dungeon.

This place seems to be shrouded by a mysterious force, making everything—be it escaping light, cultivation, or spellcasting—abnormally slow. A thousand-mile journey should only take Shen Mo and others with their cultivation level three to four days, but they ended up taking over a year to traverse this area!

It should have been caused by later changes since during the existence of the Xianyu Upper Sect, this area was among the notable Cultivation Blessed Lands in the Phoenix Continent.

Based on this, Shen Mo speculated that this sect was an ancient Immortal Sect, long submerged in the river of time, a conclusion later confirmed by the information he gathered from Jade Spring Fairy and Guan Ling.

Returning to the Demonic Realm...

Approximately five thousand years ago, one day the Xianyu World experienced upheaval: spiritual energy thinned, earth veins and spiritual veins dried up, numerous creatures from the Outer Realm, forbidden lands, and strange evil spirits descended upon this world, and many places were contaminated by the Death Ghost Realm.

The cultivators of the Lower Celestial Feather Sect immediately realized that the Xianyu World had fallen from the Universe Tree, approaching decay, and would eventually be devoured by the Death Ghost Realm!

Thus, disciples of the lower sect chanted the names of the Xianyu Ancestor and other True Immortals, intending to report this matter to the upper sect.

However, they were horrified to discover that it was impossible to contact the True Immortal Patriarchs in the Immortal Realm at that time!

Meanwhile, the Xianyu World still hosted a No Phase State person and more than a dozen Divine Bridge Realm Immortal Masters...

That No Phase State person was the Spirit Feather Master, acting as the lower sect Sect Master. Originating from the Immortal Realm instead of Xianyu World, due to sustaining injuries during a magic duel, he was assigned to the Xianyu World to recover, spending years healing in the main star’s terrestrial chakras and had not left seclusion during the upheaval in the Xianyu World.

After discussion, the lower sect’s Divine Bridge Realm decided to send one among them to craft a forbidden land using the Ascension method and head to the Immortal Realm for an investigation.

The crafting of a forbidden land and its descent to the Immortal Realm is beneficial to the Universal Realm, like integrating a damaged Dungeon into a cave paradise, further elevating the height of the Immortal Realm’s firmament and the depth of its land, bolstering the realm’s foundation.

However, this method entails carving out a small world, which greatly damages the lower world’s foundation. Over endless years, many Divine Bridge Realm and above cultivators crafted forbidden lands to enter the Immortal Realm, thus the Xianyu World’s foundation grew notably weaker, its spiritual energy thinning... The Divine Bridge Immortal Master tasked with this only carved out a mountain peak, and the crafted forbidden land was extremely narrow, only allowing the transport of a few sect disciples to the Immortal Realm.

Yet, after crafting the forbidden land, he found something was amiss.

During spellcasting, he could only sense other withering worlds, unable to perceive the Universal Realm, and naturally couldn’t propel the forbidden land’s descent to the Immortal Realm!

With no other choice, the Xianyu Lower Sect’s Divine Bridge Realm had to awaken the Spirit Feather Master healing in the terrestrial chakra.

In reality, without their notification, the Spirit Feather Master had already sensed the changes in the Xianyu World, especially the massive depletion of earth veins and spiritual veins that severely impacted his injury recovery, compelling his imminent emergence from seclusion!

The Spirit Feather Master, a No Phase State grandmaster, theoretically could use the "clairvoyant consciousness, manifesting upon perception" method to project himself to the Immortal Realm.

Yet, the Xianyu World is too distant from the Immortal Realm; not even usual True Immortals can accomplish this, just like Lingxiao Zi, also in the No Phase State, who was sent to the Outer Zone by the Void Gate, remaining untraceable till now, unable to manifest on Luofu Mountain.

Fortunately, the Spirit Feather Master possessed cultivation level high enough to traverse all realms without needing a forbidden land.

But when he tried to sense the Immortal Realm remotely, he too discovered an inability to perceive the starlight representing the Immortal Realm and could only sense other withering worlds; thus, intending to reach the Universal Realm, he could no longer rely on the Ascension method, obliged to travel forcefully through the Outer Void.

But even as a No Phase State, attempting to traverse the void from the Xianyu World to the Universal Realm would take tens or hundreds of thousands of years, inevitably depleting his lifespan, leading to death within the vast void!

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Outside the evil realm, Shen Mo consulted Jade Spring Fairy and Guan Ling, gleaning some information about the Xianyu Upper Sect in the Immortal Realm from them.

Nine million years ago, the Celestial Feather Sect seemingly was a massive force in the Phoenix Continent, but inexplicably perished at some later point, leaving behind only fragmented impressions of it in the Outer Realm, with almost no relic remnants like sect disciples, Immortal Sect sites, or cultivation methods and magic.

Discovering the Xianyu Upper Sect’s mountain gate, situated within the Delayed Spirit Zone, Shen Mo again requested Guan Ling to employ her corporeal power of time and space’s law to look back, to see what occurred in the sect nine million years ago, and what kind of calamity obliterated the Immortal Sect guarded by five True Immortals!

However, as when Guan Ling’s master, the Empyrean Fairy Yang Jingmu, fell, that segment of time was sealed with Great Divine Power, preventing Guan Ling from tracing back that period of time, thus unable to uncover why the Xianyu Upper Sect was wiped out.

The only way to uncover the truth is by finding a True Immortal surviving from that era, where possibly useful information can be gleaned from such an ancient existence!