547: Earthly Sovereign

Earthly Sovereign

However, he has experienced it on his own, cultivating the soul into True Spirit doesn't work. Even with the help of Long Yue, Bo Xun, over dozens of divine herbs, Nine Revolving Inner Core, the reflection of the scale mirror and his divine eyes, he still failed. For the first time, Zhong Yue started doubting on the cultivation path he has walked on.

If it was truly impossible to cultivate the soul into True Spirit, wouldn't he be stuck in the Heavenly Dharma level for the rest of his life?

If this was really unachievable, could he really let go of his thoughts and turn back to cultivate the conventional way like everyone else?

If there was already a wide thruway proven to be right and absolutely feasible, why would he torture himself and keep trudging over a precipice devoid of livings?

Zhong Yue's frame of mind was shook, his thoughts were clouded and his inner self was torn. A voice told him to persist on the path he has chosen while the other was persuading him to give up and turn back to the rightful and genuine road.

All of a sudden, essences gushed out from his mortal body, even Long Yue and Bo Xun were undergoing the same phenomenon as well.

"What is going on?", Husan Weng and the others were shocked.

While Cusia answered them in a quivering tone, "His thoughts are clouded, his frame of mind is affected by his own thoughts. He is doubting himself and as a result, his cultivation base is shook and his essences are dissipating away from him!"

"Will he die?", Black Nightshade asked anxiously.

This time, Cusia answered in assuring confidence, "Most probably not, there are so many divine herbs here, even if he is really dying, we will be able to save him as well! His cultivation base was built on his indomitable confidence, but when such confidence is shaken, when his frame of mind is affected, his cultivation base will turn unstable as well."

The frame of mind of a cultivator was like the cornerstone and the cultivation base was the high-rise buildings built above it. While if the cornerstone was moved, the cultivation base would shudder as well. That's why certain some cultivators that have doubted themselves and lost of total confidence could lose all the cultivation base they have worked on in their whole lives.

Exactly what was happening on Zhong Yue now. He doubted his choice to cultivate the soul into the True Spirit, and as a result, his cultivation base was waning now. But as he was busy hesitating to make a choice between in his mind, he did not realize that he was already on the edge of the precipice. One wrong step, and he could fall into the endless abyss of no return!

When the cornerstone was destroyed, whatever building it was built on, grand or shabby, high-rise or flat house, everything would be torn to the ground!

"Brat Yue, it's not that hard to solve this problem. Follow me, I will bring you to the imperial tomb.", Xin Huo's voice suddenly brought Zhong Yue's mind back to sanity.

Zhong Yue startled, he asked, "To the imperial tomb? What imperial tomb? Huh? Why did my cultivation base decreased by five percent?"

Only now that he has noticed the loss on his cultivation base, he was in utter shock. Immediately, he has calmed himself down and stopped overthinking too much so as to not lose too much cultivation base.

"To the Fuxi's imperial tomb, of course.", Xin Huo said while smiling, "The imperial tomb I will bring you to belongs to the fifth Fuxi Earthly Sovereign, Haoyi! You don't have the Fuxi spirit in you, but if fate has decided so, he might be able to grant you one and allows you to breakthrough!"

Zhong Yue hesitated for a second, then he nodded quietly.

All of a sudden, he was dawned and he asked, "Can we really go to the fifth Earthly Sovereign's imperial tomb?"

The little flame was in great proudness, "Hahaha, of course! Who am I? Although I may look small in size, my reputation and name is bigger than you can imagine! If I said I want to enter Haoyi's imperial tomb, no one will dare to stop me! That little brat that guards over the imperial tomb will surely open the doors wide and happily welcome their great Xin Huo!"

Zhong Yue, however, greatly doubted the little flame's statements. From the Shao Hao Bell, one could clearly infer that most of the imperial tombs weren't too happy to see Xin Huo. This couldn't help but to made him wonder, Can Xin Huo really bring him into the fifth Earthly Sovereign, Haoyi's imperial tomb?

"Brat Yue, I need your mortal body to pick up where the guardian of that imperial tomb, Haoyi Zither is at!", Xin Huo seemed oblivious of the hate from the imperial tombs as he said happily, "I am real close to that little girl. Don't worry, she will surely let us in!"

Zhong Yue let go of his thoughts, he went into a vacant state while Xin Huo seized the chance and took control over his mortal body.

At that instant Xin Huo entered Zhong Yue's mortal body, the aura around him changed. Before this, Zhong Yue gave a warm feeling, like a sword sheathed away. But now, he was filled with a sharp and powerful aura, like an overbearing dictator, like a wild scholar who gave no concerns over the others' opinions.

It was as if Xin Huo didn't even wanted to stay a low profile at all. In fact, if he could, he might even tattooed a sentence that says, "I am strong and powerful, all of you are rubbishes!" on his face.

The little flame took over Zhong Yue's mortal body and billowed out his psyche, he focused his senses in the surrounding and soon, he had a glimpse of a familiar frequency that fleeted inside of the Ancestral Star.

Immediately, he has controlled Zhong Yue's mortal body and chanted softly. Suddenly, an undefeatable surge of power has burst through the dimensions and opened a space rift in front of them.

Zhong Yue's mortal body walked into the space rift and laughed as Xin Huo said through Zhong Yue's mouth, "Little Sister Zither, I am here to visit you!"

The zither voice that opened the space rift repleted the surrounding, it was just sounds but it gave a feeling of anger and unwillingness. Then, a little girl's voice said, "The Fuxi Clan member can enter, but you little flame have to get out!"

Xin Huo strode through the dimensional space tunnel and suddenly, he let go of the control over Zhong Yue's mortal body and leaped out. He asked while smiling, "Little flame? Who made you angry again?"

Zhong Yue has regained control over his mortal body, he glanced around and found them inside of a grand palace. Golden pillars have supported the pillars and the whole place was also mostly golden in color. Other than that, there were purplish rays that filled the palace hall, adding a mysterious air to the surroundings.

He raised his head up and saw no roof, instead, it was a starry sky with a huge blue sun shrouded in the clouds and a bright moon opposite of the sun.

Half of the sky was day and the other was night. It seemed like as if there was a galaxy that has been used to decorate the palace.

But Zhong Yue wasn't sure if it was truly a galaxy or just some pretty decorations.

While on the golden pillars, they were sculpted with golden dragons coiling around them and were suffused with godly auras. While at the corner of his eyes, he vaguely saw the dragon on one of the pillars moved around, but when he looked over again, nothing seemed to have changed at all.

He might have mistaken or it might have really moved, he wasn't sure which was it.

Earthly Sovereign Haoyi has passed away for so many years already, and these dragons seemed just like sculptings. But even if they are real, they couldn't still be alive after so long, right?, Zhong Yue thought to himself.

The floor was also paved an ocean of clouds, it feels as if he was stepping on the fluffy clouds but it actually felt so real. It was truly bizarre, the whole seemed to be contradictingly harmonious.

The imperial tomb.

The fifth Fuxi's imperial tomb.

Xin Huo has flying around the golden pillars and was laughing happily, "Little Sister Zither, where are you~? Why are you not out here to welcome your guests?"

Suddenly, the sky trembled and an ancient looking zither descended from the sky, it was played even though there wasn't anyone playing it. The ancient zither hovered around Zhong Yue for rounds and rounds.

Then, the little girl's voice asked, "Young man of the Fuxi Clan, why are you together with this little flame? He will only do you bad, don't get influenced by him. Young man of the Fuxi Clan, you are still too young too naive to know how bad this little flame's reputation is in the past…"

Xin Huo rushed toward them and chased on the back of the ancient zither while shouting angrily, "Whose reputation is bad? My name is really good in the past and even until now, don't try and mock me!"

The ancient zither ignored Xin Huo and flew past the top of Zhong Yue. Zhong Yue looked up and was horrified as he found out how huge was the zither. By primitive estimation, it was at least over a few hundred miles long, there were many marvelous marks and patterns that filled the zither surface. These marks and patterns were so complex that he couldn't even read them!

The zither flew past him and suddenly, it looked just like the size of a normal zither. At that moment, a thought flashed past Zhong Yue's mind and he was again shocked. It wasn't the zither that shrunk smaller, it was that the zither has flew far enough for it to appear in the normal size!

For such a gigantic zither to appear at the size like the normal ones, it would take countless miles of distance between the zither and him!

This palace in the imperial tomb wasn't as simple as it looked like, it was huge and incredibly spacious!

Zhong Yue mustered all of his arcane energy and in a burst of strength, he dashed forward. In the Ancestral Star, this would take him over a dozen miles of distance away but in this palace, he found himself standing on the same ground. The distance between him and the golden pillars and also the ancient zither was still the same, as if he has never moved at all.

I see…, Zhong Yue thought.

While the ancient zither chortled and asked, "Bad little flame, you are the fire of a universe's soul, but the time has passed long enough for even a whole universe to burn out. Your lamp oil is going seeing depletion already, am I right? Since you have found an inheritor, why don't you stay in his soul and extend your time?"

Xin Huo couldn't chase up to her speed, he was panting for breath and shouted back angrily at her, "None of your business! I have brought him here today all for your dying Fuxi Clan. You Fuxi Clan members doesn't have not much left anymore, only one and a half. He is the half. So, are you going to help us or not?"

The ancient zither chuckled back, "I will surely help the Fuxi Clan, but not you! Young man, if you are the Xin Huo inheritor, then I will not be helping you."

Zhong Yue reclaimed his thoughts. He ignored the two arguing ancient figures who acted no different than children and bowed, he said straight to the point, "I am here in hope that I can visit the Earthly Sovereign Hao Yu, I hope that he can answer some of my doubts."

"You are here for the Earthly Sovereign Haoyi's atman?", the ancient zither stopped. A little girl with two ponytails suddenly appeared to be sitting on the zither strings. She was swinging her short legs in the air as she said, "You want to see the Earthly Sovereign's spirit? Sure, why not? But where are your offerings? You need to offer something for the Earthly Sovereign's spirit first before his spirit can descend from the Void World."

Zhong Yue was stunned, he shook his head, "I don't have any…"

"With my reputation, do we still have to offer things for him?", Xin Huo said back angrily, "Little Sister Zither, you know me. I have come personally on my own and yet, you are asking for offerings?"

The little girl gave a cold hum on her cute face, she refuted, "No offerings, then are you hoping that the Earthly Sovereign to burn his spirit to descend from the Void World to meet with a mind lost descendant? There aren't any worshippers to the Fuxi Clan anymore. If the Earthly Sovereign has burned his own spirit, that will inflict irreversible damage to his atman, making his life even shorter in the Void World! Bad little flame, if you want to reap something out from nothing from my place, then you better get lost! Without the offerings, you can all turn and leave now!"

Xin Huo was going to continue talking back but Zhong Yue has abruptly said, "Sister Zither, I am a Fuxi as well, can I humbly ask a favor from you? Please just pass the words to the Earthly Sovereign Haoyi, I have questions about my cultivation path and I want to know, how can one cultivate the Fuxi True Spirit without the Fuxi spirit?"

Rendered no choice, Xin Huo quickly added after Zhong Yue, "Also, tell him that I want to have a look at his mortal body and his Yuan Shen. It'd be better if he can split out part of his spirit and give it to Brat Yue!"

"I will pass the words.", the little girl nodded at Zhong Yue, she then gave a cold hum and continued, "But this little flame's words will never reach the Earthly Sovereign!"1

Xin Huo was let down, he felt so innocent all of a sudden.

The zither voice resounded the palace hall, then fading into the void. Moments later, the imperial tomb started quaking violently and Zhong Yue was shocked.

Billowing golden rays were emanated deep within the palace and an imperial coffin was raised into the sky.

The imperial coffin looked near to him but it was actually countless miles far away.

The imperial coffin was slowly opened, it was a Fuxi Heavenly Monarch that lies in it. Then, a deep and yet powerful voice trembled the whole imperial tomb, he said, "Young child, you want the Fuxi's spirit, or you want your question answered?"

The little girl sitting on the zither hopped up into the air, her eyes were wide opened and she mumbled in disbelief, "The Earthly Sovereign's atman has really descend from the Void World? For a half Fuxi, he is burning his spirit to descend just to see a mere half Fuxi…?"

Zhong Yue bowed down, he said, "Senior, I…"

All of a sudden, Xin Huo interrupted and said, "The Fuxi's spirit! He is the Heavenly Monarch and even a slight surge of his spirit is still stronger than you cultivating for thousands of years! It's not much use for you to visualize and study his mortal body!"

"I…", Zhong Yue hesitated. Suddenly, he gritted his teeth and raised his head up in unwavering determination, he said, "Senior, I ask of the answer to my question!"

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