Wizard's Journey

Chapter 1923 Immortal Realm (Part 7)

His azure right hand rested before the sarcophagus, while his other hand held a painted scroll. Green stood motionless, seemingly frozen in place.

A first-ring True Spirit Wizard stood beside Green, while the old witch exchanged a glance with Little Eight. The two understood each other perfectly, and Little Eight tentatively said, "Hehe, open it now, open it now! The ancestral spirit talisman on this painted skin is clearly a calamity-averting object for the thing inside, and you are the calamity set by Heaven. Following Heaven's will makes us so carefree!"

Green could naturally tell that this was such an obvious attempt to provoke him.

Green snapped out of his meditation, his three-colored eyes fixed on the figure, and said in a low voice, "So, you know what this ancestral master's talisman is?"

The first-ring True Spirit Wizard shook his head, explaining to Green's astonishment, "I've never heard of the Ancestral Master Talisman, but I have heard of the Ancestral Masters of the Immortal Realm. You could say that the so-called Ancestral Master is a mysterious power created by the great immortal sects using their supreme resources and a vast amount of time and effort to worship with incense and offerings, based on their founding sect leader. It's also the final, most fundamental aspect of the great immortal sects' conventional methods. According to some jade slips, after summoning the Ancestral Master to descend and bless them, those top-tier Immortal Venerables will possess unfathomable and terrifying power, which is why the top immortal realm sects are able to maintain a delicate balance."

Green looked surprised after hearing this explanation.

"Fearless of heaven and disrespectful of earth, akin to a wizard who scorns the mysteries of truth, yet worships his ancestors and uses them to develop supreme immortal arts—that's rather interesting. So, this so-called ancestral master talisman must simply be the talismanic form of the incense offerings of some sect's ancestral master?"

The first-ring True Spirit Wizard did not continue to answer the question about the Ancestral Master's Talisman, but instead followed Green's lead, saying, "If it is truly a talisman that summons the Ancestral Master, then its significance is almost equivalent to an enhanced version of the Page of Destiny in the wizarding world! Of course, how one perceives it depends on the holder."

"kindness."

Green nodded, while Xiao Lian and Nie Yun remained silent on either side of the first-ring True Spirit Wizard.

Finally making up his mind, Green let out a cold laugh and withdrew the azure light spot that was reaching towards the sarcophagus. At the same time, the painted scroll held in his other hand slowly returned to the painting, transforming back into the image of a girl.

"Alright, let's go find this Ancestral Master's Talisman. Judging from how cunning this thing in the stone coffin is, what the painted skin is referring to is probably not just a simple Ancestral Master's Talisman."

With a cold laugh, Green reopened the scroll with a "whoosh," and as the scroll went from being flat and unfurled to full full again, the pink-clad girl gracefully appeared.

"You said before that if I promised not to open this stone coffin, you would agree to anything I asked for?"

"I asked with a dignified air," Green asked.

Aside from some special abilities, the girl was merely a Level 1 life form in the true sense of life. Surrounded by Green and the others, especially with Green's three eyes staring intently at her, she was terrified and could only nod stiffly out of instinct.

A satisfied smile appeared on Green's lips as he said matter-of-factly in a commanding tone, "In that case, fine, I grant your request! Lead the way to the place you most desire to go; what I need is there."

Since this ancestral master's talisman is marked on the back of the painted skin, there is no doubt that this painted skin is the key to the ancestral master's talisman!

"Where do you most want to go?"

The Painted Skin was reborn through the power of the immortal's longing, so it naturally possesses a trace of the memories of the person it longed for.

……

Three months later.

Following their memories, the Painted Skin team searched for their way. They used towering trees to build a giant boat and sailed down the river. The rushing water brought a sense of relaxation to the previously eerie and tranquil atmosphere of the Immortal Realm fragments, which had been quiet and somewhat oppressive.

Of course, the reason for making such a giant ship was also because of the needs of the Painted Skin. It seems that the thing in the stone coffin specially arranged it this way. The small mountain village deep in the Painted Skin's heart was also part of the plan of the thing in the stone coffin. In the Painted Skin's memory, that village was a very vague abstraction.

"How beautiful! If there were those immortals flying on swords, dressed in flowing white robes, what a beautiful sight that would be."

Xiao Lian sighed with longing, lamenting that she had once been among the immortals, just one step away from becoming one, but was now deprived of that opportunity due to changes in the immortal realm.

The river water rippled and surged.

Green floated in front of the canoe, gazing at the flowing blue waves. His vertical pupil was gray, his left pupil was red, and his right pupil was blue. His three eyes blinked as he stared ahead. Suddenly, he said, "Stop."

As Green's spacetime fluctuated, the space where the canoe was located was frozen by Green's supreme true power, and it finally came to rest on the river.

"First Generation, what's wrong?"

Sylvanas, who was studying the magical herb in her hand whose roots were wriggling like a baby, looked at Green with a puzzled expression. The old witch looked left and right but found nothing unusual. The Painted Skin also looked at a loss. Xiao Lian and Nie Yun were also waiting for Green's answer.

"Gah! Did you discover something?"

Xiao Ba, however, knew Green's nature and instinctively asked.

"There is a sect's ruins below."

As he spoke, Green slightly shook the Truth Balance Magic Staff in his hand. As the milky white light writhed, it spread towards the water beneath them. With the penetration of this milky white, invisible thing, the river water beneath the canoe, which was frozen in time and space, gradually formed a whirlpool as it was stirred.

The whirlpool grew wider and wider, and some underwater scenery should have gradually appeared. However, this place was significantly deeper than other places. The diameter of the whirlpool beneath them grew larger and larger, reaching nearly two hundred meters. Finally, they saw buildings made of white jade thousands of meters deep, shining brightly under the protective shield.

"Wow!"

Witnessing this scene, Xiao Lian and Nie Yun couldn't help but sigh.

"Heh heh, while the Holy Towers of the Wizarding World also rely on various terrains and are built with different cultures, there has never been an underwater Holy Tower like this before. It must be due to the different cultural tendencies of the two worlds. Compared to the land-based culture of the Wizards, these immortals rely more on nature, so it is possible to build sects in any location. It is not surprising that an underwater sect would emerge."

With that, Green said, "The matter of the Ancestral Master's talisman isn't urgent. Let's go down and take a look at this sect first!"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Only a lone canoe remained floating in the air above the vortex's eye. Grin, along with Sylvanas, Nieyun, Xiaolian, Huapi, and Xiaoba, after some research into breaking the formation and with the help of Grin's all-pervasive weakness-spotting technique, finally managed to reach the inner part of the sect's protective formation several months later.

"The Azure Wave Sect?"

After translating the immortal text in the sect's main hall, the first-ring True Spirit Wizard murmured, "It seems to be a sect that mainly cultivates water-attribute techniques. No wonder the sect's protective array was so adept at utilizing the water of this great river that we had to temporarily stop trying to break through it and set up a water-elemental magic barrier outside the sect's array to surround it before we could barely squeeze in."

Unlike the previous sects, this sect, hidden beneath a thousand-meter-deep river, has no steps. Instead, various aquatic plants blend into the sect's grand formation, creating a layout where half is inside and half outside the formation. These plants seem to have adapted well to this environment, continuing to live according to the immortals' design even after the immortals disappeared for countless ages.

In addition, the white jade building complex is somewhat dense and much smaller in area, probably to make the sect's grand formation more effective when facing external enemies.

What's even more striking is that, in the air above the main hall, a giant tree that should have been on the ground is now growing lushly in mid-air, about a hundred meters tall. Although it has withered and died, and is somewhat broken and twisted, the aura of time emanating from its broken trunk makes it easy to imagine that this giant tree must have withered after an extremely long period of time.

The giant tree seemed to have been cultivated by immortals for a long time, or it possessed the ability to shape itself from behind, with its branches transforming into arms that protected a chessboard in the middle.

(End of this chapter)