ninety thousand miles

Chapter 485 Shadow
Wen Guying once again pointed out the loopholes in the old turtle's words and said, "Prince Su only came up with those random ideas under your deliberate guidance. Someone had tampered with him, so he couldn't get any useful words out of him. Otherwise, he might have been able to linger on for a few more days. It was you who did it, right? So, are you following him, or are you controlling him?"

The old turtle looked confused for a moment, then denied it and said, "It wasn't me."

"Who is that?" Wen Guying asked.

The old turtle said, "It's a shadow."

He mentioned the shadow for the second time.

"Shadow? What is that?" Wen Guying asked.

The old turtle said: "They are the remnants of the demon clan you mentioned."

"Tell me how much you know about the demons," Wen Guying said.

"It's a long story," the old turtle paused, his eyes passed Wen Guying, and for the first time he glanced at Li Chuan and Yao Shuang, and he said, "Let's sit down and talk."

Then the rockery beside him disappeared and several tables and chairs appeared.

After sitting down, Aqi served tea.

Li Chuan sat with Wu Kong. While tea was being served, he asked softly, "How are you? Are you not hurt?"

Wukong also answered him softly: "No, did you receive my message?"

"Got it. Where did you go later?" Li Chuan asked.

Wukong looked at the old turtle and said, "I'll tell you when we get out."

Li Chuan nodded.

The old turtle took a sip of tea and said, "This story started three thousand years ago. Three thousand years ago, my dream of ascending to heaven was shattered, my cultivation was gone, and I couldn't even maintain my human body. I could only randomly find a water source, sink into it, and slowly heal my wounds. It was probably a hundred years later. When I woke up for the first time, I found that I had grasped a black stone in my hand, and my injuries seemed to be slowly getting better. At that time, I didn't know what I should do, and I didn't know what else I could do. That black stone was like a life-saving straw, so I started looking for those stones."

Black stone?
"Why, you have seen it too?" the old turtle asked Li Chuan.

"Yes, I have." Li Chuan admitted.

The old turtle did not continue to ask, but said: "About a hundred years later, I found a second similar stone, and then a third, and a fourth. I understood the meaning of the Tao, and then walked here."

"Is this the origin of Black Stone?" Li Chuan asked.

"Yes." said the old turtle.

"What exactly is the black stone?" Li Chuan couldn't help but ask.

The old turtle said: "Eight thousand years ago, the secret realm of Huai'an Mountain collapsed. A piece of the secret realm was in Qinling Mountains, and the black stone was scattered somewhere in the world along with the collapse of the secret realm."

"You said that the black stone is something from the secret realm of Huaian Mountain?" Wen Guying's voice interrupted.

The old turtle said, “That’s right.”

"Have you been hiding in the secret place of Qinling Mountains?" Wen Guying asked.

The old turtle said, "Not really. Just listen to me."

"Okay." Wen Guying said.

The old turtle said: "I stayed in the secret realm for a long time, about five or six hundred years. Although my cultivation had recovered 10% or 20% by then, my state of mind could not be restored. So I thought I might as well end my life here." "After staying there for more than a hundred years, I noticed many strange and disharmonious aspects of the secret realm." The old turtle lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and said: "There is another power in the secret realm. And the black stones I collected are related to that power. I thought at the time that I might still have a chance."

"I hesitated for a while. Finally, I decided to explore the depths of the secret realm. After about another hundred years, I finally reached the depths of the secret realm. There was a road paved with black gravel. I stepped on it. With every step I took, I could feel my mind becoming more solid and my realm began to improve."

"It has been improved to the strength before my ascension, or maybe even stronger than that. I seemed to have returned to that day again. In the calamity cloud, thunderbolts fell one after another. All the magic weapons were destroyed and all the means were exhausted. Everything was exactly the same as that day. All nine hundred and ninety-nine thunderbolts fell. The difference from that day was that I felt a force repairing my body. Suddenly, I thought I succeeded this time."

"Then I saw all the black gravel move, gradually forming a pattern. Blue light flowed through it, penetrating my body and soul. At that moment, countless pieces of information poured into my mind. I saw a future, and only in that future could I possibly ascend to become an immortal."

"It takes advantage of your inner demons and controls you," Wen Guying said.

The old turtle said, "Yes, after that I became a puppet of a shadow."

Wen Guying said: "When you start looking for black gravel, you have already fallen into the calamity of inner demons."

The old turtle said: "I thought I had let go of my obsession."

Wen Gu should say: "Who among those who practice Taoism can let go?"

The old turtle said: "After that, I left Qinling Mountains and met the stone dragon and the spirit fish respectively. I found a home with the spirit fish." said the old turtle.

"What's going on with them?" Li Chuan asked.

The old turtle looked at Li Chuan and Wukong, and then said: "I don't know. At that time, I just thought that we met someone who knew the future trend and had the same ambition as us. For this reason, we gathered many little monsters. Later, the Gunlong King Su Han came to his fiefdom, and we started our plan."

Li Chuan felt something was wrong, so he asked, "When did you wake up?"

The old turtle replied: "After the prince died."

"How did you wake up?" Li Chuan asked.

The old turtle said, "Because it was only then that I realized the existence of shadows and what they really are."

The old turtle explained, "I almost ascended to become an immortal. When I was at my peak, there was no place in Xuanmen that I couldn't go. Even the old palace master was polite to me. But I am a demon cultivator, and also a casual cultivator. I may not know anything about things that the disciples of the famous sects know."

"I believe that the blue light that penetrated my soul was a revelation from the heavens. As long as I can do this, I will be able to overcome this hurdle and achieve immortality. I never imagined that it was the remnants of the demon clan who were manipulating me."

Wen Gu Ying asked: "What about the stone platform beside the stream?"

The old turtle said: "It was imitated by the stone dragon after it came to the secret realm."

"The one that imitates Heyuan Town?" Wen Guying asked.

The old turtle nodded and said, "Yes, the stone dragon taught me how to drive it, so we were able to pass through the stone platform and move here."

"Does Shadow know?" Wen Guying asked.

"I don't know." The old turtle said. He glanced at Master Wukong and said, "After he found the stone platform, I noticed him. Before he found the entrance to the secret realm, I brought him here. Then I asked Aqi to wait nearby and wait for you."

"Did you make this rain?" Wen Guying asked.

The old turtle replied: "That's right."

(End of this chapter)