You've Really Piqued My Interest—Why Seek Far and Wide for What Lies Close at Hand
You’ve Really Piqued My Interest—Why Seek Far and Wide for What Lies Close at Hand
Extremely fine yet unmistakable cracks appeared on the Reincarnation Platform, crystal clear to all.
Then those cracks grew larger and larger, rapidly spreading across the entire platform.
Golden light burst forth from within, and with a thunderous boom, it exploded, shattering into pieces.
“What?!”
This scene left everyone of the Eternal Overcast Kingdom frozen in shock.
The joy on their faces vanished in an instant.
“It shattered...”
Jia Nan’s eyes went wide as she stared at the cracks in disbelief, wondering if she was seeing things.
How was this possible?
The perfectly fine embryonic Reincarnation Platform—how had it suddenly shattered, exploding into ash that filled the sky?
At this moment, it wasn’t just her heart that was filled with disbelief.
Even the Six Great Ancestors watching all of this from within the Homeland could no longer maintain their composure.
Their emotions surged violently.
If not for their many reservations, they would likely have appeared in person to investigate exactly how the Reincarnation Platform had shattered.
Or rather—was this Gu Changge’s deliberate doing?
If he had played some trick within it...
One Great Ancestor’s expression turned ugly, dark to the extreme.
The other five Great Ancestors’ faces were equally unpleasant as they glared balefully at Gu Changge.
“Where exactly did things go wrong? Why did it suddenly shatter? It seems these Life Stones and Death Stones have all been wasted—we’ll have to start over.”
At this moment, Gu Changge also wore an expression of complete ignorance, shaking his head gently with great regret.
From his demeanor, the crowd had no way of knowing whether he was saying this deliberately.
Or whether the platform’s shattering truly had nothing to do with him.
“Then we can only trouble Young Master Changge to labor once more.”
Though Jia Nan very much wanted to ask Gu Changge why the Reincarnation Platform had shattered, at this moment she took a deep breath, calmed herself, and kept her tone as even as possible.
In truth, she also suspected that Gu Changge had done this deliberately.
But why would he do such a thing for no reason?
“It’s no trouble. It’s just a pity about these Life Stones and Death Stones,” Gu Changge said softly, shaking his head, still appearing deeply regretful.
Jia Nan gave him a long, deep look, nodded, and said no more.
The Six Great Ancestors had not spoken—she dared not make decisions on her own.
The other Yin Spirits dared not say anything either, though the looks in their eyes spoke volumes.
Over the following days, this place was once again enveloped in vast swathes of black and white.
Gu Changge’s gaze was utterly calm, his whole being seemingly sunk into some kind of meditative trance.
Following the same method as the first time, he once again refined the Life Stones and Death Stones, constructing a new Reincarnation Platform.
The reason the previous platform had shattered was, of course, because he had tampered with it.
He had merely wanted to test the attitude of those six old monsters, but he hadn’t expected them to be so patient.
From this, Gu Changge could also tell that the Reincarnation Platform must be extremely important to them.
This seemed to be merely a coordinate, lacking the profound meaning of communicating with the Nine Nether Reincarnation.
Could it be that they wanted to guide someone here?
Gu Changge was somewhat surprised inwardly.
The murky waters hidden within the Absolute Yin Heaven were definitely deeper than what he had seen so far.
“In that case, I won’t stand on ceremony.”
Having figured this out, he glanced toward the deepest part of the Absolute Yin Heaven’s Homeland and smiled faintly.
Around this plaza, wisps of reincarnation intent interwove.
Spring, summer, autumn, and winter cycled through; the four seasons turned; the mortal world rolled on; all the myriad facets of human life emerged.
Compared to when he first forged the Reincarnation Platform, the aura this time was even denser.
Many of the beings around him felt as though they were about to undergo Dao Immolation and enter reincarnation.
Later on, the entire Absolute Yin Heaven was affected by this aura.
Hazy radiance surged into the sky, illuminating the originally gloomy firmament until it shone bright.
Even the depths of the Homeland, shrouded in grey fog, were affected by this aura.
Everyone saw it clearly—six terrifying, blurry figures stood towering there.
As if they had existed since the very creation of heaven and earth, exuding a majestic and boundless presence, enough to crush all rules.
“It’s the Six Great Ancestors—they really have all revived!”
Countless Yin Spirits, seeing this scene, couldn’t help but prostrate themselves in that direction.
The Six Great Ancestors had never expected that Gu Changge would use the Reincarnation Platform to project their figures for all to see.
But at this point...
There was nothing left for them to hide.
They simply stood there quietly, their cold gazes descending, radiating a suffocating pressure.
As the origin Ancestors of the Absolute Yin Heaven, it was because of them that the Yin Spirits were born, that all of this was built and created.
Without question, they were the supreme deities in the hearts of all Yin Spirits.
At this moment, under the illumination of the reincarnation aura, the surrounding space and rules grew blurred.
As if unable to bear the aura of their revival, about to collapse and shatter.
“Junior surnamed Gu, did you deliberately project our figures?”
One Great Ancestor stepped out from within the Homeland.
His entire body was wrapped in grey mist, his gaze falling upon Gu Changge, his voice cold and merciless, vast as a great bell, sweeping out and shaking the heavens.
From beginning to end, they had never intended to appear.
Even that night when Gu Changge went to spy on the deepest part of the Homeland and they noticed him, they had not pursued him.
Yet today, Gu Changge had projected them before the eyes of all Yin Spirits.
It made them feel humiliated.
At this point, if they didn’t make some kind of statement, they would likely be looked down upon by Gu Changge.
And before the assembled Yin Spirit clans, they would lose all face.
Terrifying pressure poured down like the bursting of a heavenly river, flooding and submerging everything.
Around it, rules and order collapsed, the void was annihilated, and all light and energy dissipated.
“The Great Ancestor is enraged!”
All the Yin Spirits grew restless and uneasy, utterly terrified, kneeling prostrate on the ground.
A majestic, heaven-suppressing aura pressed down over everyone’s heads.
The Great Ancestors were truly furious—the situation was spiraling toward something unmanageable.
Jia Nan and the others’ expressions changed, their scalps tightening, feeling as though their hearts were being gripped in a death grip, nearly suffocating.
Since ancient times, the depths of the Absolute Yin Heaven had been deathly silent.
Rarely had a Great Ancestor ever emerged, let alone flown into a rage.
For all the beings of the Absolute Yin Heaven, this was nothing short of a fantasy—the first time since records began.
“Losing your patience so quickly?”
Yet at this moment, facing the fury of one of the Absolute Yin Heaven’s Great Ancestors, Gu Changge’s expression remained calm and breezy. He slowly lifted his palm from the embryonic Reincarnation Platform, as if none of this surprised him in the slightest.
At this point, he had indeed deliberately projected all of them.
Intending to do so before the faces of every Yin Spirit.
Didn’t the Six Great Ancestors like spying on everything from the shadows?
Then Gu Changge would deliberately deny them that satisfaction.
And moreover, he would make them understand that the initiative now lay in his hands.
When he first arrived at the Absolute Yin Heaven, he hadn’t understood the depths of this place, nor the intentions of these six old monsters, so he had chosen not to alert them prematurely.
But now, he already knew the importance of the Reincarnation Platform to the Absolute Yin Heaven.
As well as the true strength of these six old monsters.
Naturally, Gu Changge no longer needed to hold back.
“Enough. As long as you finish forging the Reincarnation Platform, we swear upon the Great Dao that we will not make things difficult for you.”
At this moment, one among the other five Great Ancestors, seemingly having seen through Gu Changge’s intentions, spoke in a voice devoid of emotion.
Hearing this, the Great Ancestor who had already stepped out of the Homeland’s depths also halted his steps.
Before the Reincarnation Platform was successfully forged, they did not want excessive conflict with Gu Changge.
That move just now had only been meant to intimidate him, to warn him against playing tricks and schemes.
If they truly intended to act, it would never have been just one Great Ancestor stepping out of the Homeland’s depths.
Four Great Ancestors still stood cold and unmoving as Devil Mountains at the end of the Homeland, not uttering a word, exuding a terrifying pressure that made it hard to even breathe.
“Make things difficult for me?”
“But... do you lot even have the ability?” Hearing this, Gu Changge remained utterly indifferent, his tone casual to the extreme.
The moment these words left his mouth, not only did Jia Nan and the others’ expressions change—
All the surrounding Yin Spirits were horrified to the extreme, scalps tingling, unable to believe their ears.
The Great Ancestors were the Absolute Beings who created the Absolute Yin Heaven, nearly godlike existences.
Who in this world would dare defy and talk back to them?
Such an act, in their eyes, could only be described as madness and sheer inconceivability.
“Junior surnamed Gu, are you provoking us?”
Hearing this, the Great Ancestor who had stepped out of the Absolute Yin Heaven’s Homeland turned ice-cold.
He truly hadn’t expected Gu Changge to humiliate and provoke them like this before all the Yin Spirits.
This was no longer as simple as not taking them seriously.
The next moment, terrifying grey mist surged like a tidal wave from the depths of the Homeland, blotting out the sky, raging and boundless, threatening to drown everything in this world.
It had to be said—Gu Changge’s words had genuinely enraged them.
In their long, undying lives, this was the first time anyone had dared provoke them to their faces.
Especially since Gu Changge was a mere young junior.
Terrifying aura spread down; the earth split, the void collapsed, and the depths of the Absolute Yin Heaven seemed to sink into eternal silence.
All the Yin Spirits trembled, their souls seized with terror, forced to their knees.
“Today, you shall learn what reverence means.”
This Great Ancestor’s gaze was ice-cold as he extended a large hand covered in long grey fur, reaching toward Gu Changge.
The other Great Ancestor who had spoken earlier also struck at this moment.
Chains of order, thick as mountain ranges, emerged from behind him.
Then they pierced through heaven and earth, tearing apart all Dao techniques, shooting like arrows to impale Gu Changge.
They did not strike to kill.
This was merely a show of force, meant to teach Gu Changge who truly ruled this Absolute Yin Heaven.
After all, they still needed Gu Changge alive to forge the Reincarnation Platform—they wouldn’t erase him at this juncture.
In the deepest part of the Absolute Yin Heaven’s Homeland, silent for countless ages, the Six Great Ancestors all appeared.
Two of them even spoke, declaring their intent to teach Gu Changge a lesson.
This scene left all the Yin Spirits trembling in awe—after all, these were the Absolute Beings who had created and birthed the entire Absolute Yin Heaven race, immortal and indestructible.
“Those words are rather what I should be saying to you. After all, the Absolute Yin Heaven is already at the edge of withering away. I imagine you old fossils don’t have much longer to live either.”
Seeing this, Gu Changge paid it no mind whatsoever. He smiled faintly and directly exposed the fact the Six Great Ancestors wished to conceal.
His words were not baseless.
Over these past days, he had also traced the source of the Yin Qi within the Absolute Yin Heaven—it was precisely that mysterious Homeland.
The reason these six old fossils had awakened from their long slumber was absolutely because this matter now threatened their very lives.
That was why they took it so seriously.
As Gu Changge spoke, a hazy phantom of an ancient world emerged behind him, containing boundless might that pressed down, directly extinguishing all the attacks before him.
“What?!”
Hearing Gu Changge’s words, many Yin Spirits were stunned, eyes wide, not daring to believe it.
The Great Ancestors... didn’t have long to live?
“Junior, cease your nonsense! We have existed since ancient times—heaven and earth cannot bury us. We exist alongside the River of Time itself. How could we grow old?”
The other Great Ancestors who had not moved from within the Homeland now turned cold as well.
They had no idea how Gu Changge had deduced all of this.
But they would not permit the secrets of the Homeland’s depths to become known to others.
As long as the water in the Ancestral Wells did not run dry, they would never perish or age.
No matter how grievously wounded they were, whether their lifespans ran dry, or even if their bodies and souls were utterly destroyed—
They need only be doused in the wells’ water to be remade, restored to their prime.
This was the foundation of their immortality.
“So it seems I hit the mark. Within that Homeland, there truly is hidden the origin of the Absolute Yin Heaven—the very thing that made you. How interesting.”
Gu Changge’s smile carried a meaningful depth.
At this point, he no longer concealed his intentions.
From the moment he came to the Absolute Yin Heaven, he had never intended to help them forge the Reincarnation Platform.
Since the origin of the Absolute Yin Heaven was right here, why would he seek far and wide for what lay close at hand?
“What do you mean?”
The Great Ancestor who had stepped out of the Homeland furrowed his brow, a sudden sense of wrongness rising in his heart.
It seemed they had underestimated Gu Changge’s audacity and ambitions.
“You’ve really piqued my interest. I truly want to know now—just what is hidden in the depths of that Homeland.”
Gu Changge spoke indifferently, the smile fading from his face.
He strode straight forward, terrifying aura spreading out. The entire universe where the Absolute Yin Heaven resided rumbled, and the surrounding starry skies cracked apart.
All the experts of the Eternal Overcast Kingdom in the vicinity could not withstand this aura—one after another, they coughed up blood, their bodies collapsing and bursting apart.
“Is he... is he actually going to attack the Great Ancestors?”
Watching this scene, Jia Nan was utterly horrified, unable to believe it.
Though she was not old, she understood the Six Great Ancestors deeply—she knew they were truly undying and indestructible, eternal as the world itself.
Though Gu Changge’s strength was unfathomable, beyond imagination,
Even if he could match the Six Great Ancestors, he would ultimately die of exhaustion.
That was an unchangeable fact.
“Junior, what do you think you’re doing?!” The Six Great Ancestors’ expressions all changed drastically—they had never imagined Gu Changge would truly dare to strike at them.
Boom—
In the deepest Homeland of the Absolute Yin Heaven, as Gu Changge strode forward, he extended a hand, intending to tear apart the grey fog before him.
That place instantly collapsed.
At this moment, Gu Changge did not conceal his aura in the slightest. His palm stretched across the sky and chopped down.
The surrounding Principles of Dao crumbled, the rules were ground to nothing, and even the earth split apart on all sides. The grey fog dissipated into nothingness, leaving every Yin Spirit chilled to the bone, terrified to the extreme.