hotmtlnovel Chapter 4191 Eternal Bone Stele
Chapter 4191 Eternal Bone Stele
chapter 4191 eternal bone stele
within the palace, hundreds of white stone steles graced the surroundings. these stone steles, reminiscent of jade, were the source of the immense pressure long chen sensed.
when long chen examined those stone steles, his heart skipped a beat. they were actually not stone steles but the bones of lifeforms that had reached the eternal realm.
the bone steles were inscribed with densely packed characters, and a divine radiance enveloped them, lending an air of holiness and sanctity to their presence.
“this is... the sword dao’s inscription?”
mu qingyun let out a startled cry and immediately flew toward one of the bone steles. she looked as if she had been bewitched, as if her soul had been drawn out by the bone stele. she just stood there motionlessly.
upon looking at the surrounding bone steles, long chen and the others saw hundreds of other disciples in the same state. most likely, their minds were fully immersed in the bone steles as they comprehended what was on them.
“these are secret arts recorded with original jiuli immortal characters, which can contain all things and manifestations. they are, in essence, the most ancient of characters, from which runes as we know them today were derived. these words or runes serve as vectors of power and as characters themselves, each carrying a portion of the jiuli immortal characters’ power. but when they are merged, they are not jiuli immortal characters,” said bai shishi’s mother.
“now you’ve lost me. if one was split into two, once they’re merged back together, are they not the original one? senior, can you please explain it some more?” asked xia chen curiously.
bai shishi’s mother smiled. “one is split into two? it’s not so simple. what if it was ten split into two, or a hundred split into two, or a thousand split into two?”
“then...?” xia chen was at a loss for words.
“original jiuli immortal characters are said to contain the greatest secrets of the nine heavens and ten lands. no one can truly understand them. if you wish, you can view jiuli immortal characters as an enormous measuring instrument capable of appraising everything within the nine heavens and ten lands. it is also capable of appraising the ten thousand laws and daos of the universe. our human race was at the bottom of the food chain back in the primal chaos era, merely slaves to the ten thousand races and livestock for slaughter. but the appearance of jiuli immortal characters was what changed the fate of our human race, allowing us to rise to the peak of the ten thousand races.
“however, good things don’t last forever. after the great battle of primal chaos, the human race plummeted from their peak. it was this battle that caused the inheritance of jiuli immortal characters to be severed. currently, we can only decipher up to third-generation jiuli immortal characters. as for second-generation characters, even the calligraphy sect of the four immemorial sects can only recognize sixty to seventy percent of them. when it comes to first-generation jiuli immortal characters, their comprehension is limited to a mere ten to twenty percent. if we have to talk about the original jiuli immortal characters, they cannot be understood by anyone,” bai shishi's mother lamented, her voice tinged with regret and helplessness.
bai shishi’s mother shook her head with a bitter smile. “how could i possibly know that? when i was younger, i asked the sweeping elder, but he only told me not to ask anyone that question.”
“the sweeping elder?”
long chen’s heart shook. that elder sweeping the academy was too mysterious. just who was he?
“this is all i can say about jiuli immortal characters. in truth, i only know this much. what you are seeing are original jiuli immortal characters, the most primitive immortal characters. but don’t vainly try to understand them. you would be wasting your time. furthermore, once the martial stage activates, these bone steles will vanish. you should just try to understand as much as you can. also, just as a warning, if you try to forcibly comprehend something you have no destiny with, your soul might crumble and become bedeviled. don’t force things here. i will teach you a simple method. these bone steles have different things recorded on them. use your heart to sense them. you will then feel a resonance with some immortal rune or stroke. if you can understand the realm of a single stroke here, that will be enough to benefit you for a lifetime. don’t be too greedy and end up losing everything. just look at qingyun. she is staring at a sword-shaped stroke. she has already entered a meditative state. once she comprehends it, her potential will be limitless.”
after bai shishi’s mother finished saying that, everyone didn’t tarry. they closed their eyes, focusing their minds. as expected, they began to sense different things calling them. thus, they started to go separate ways and walk to their own destinies.
“boss, i sense too many things summoning me! am i just too outstanding or what?” guo ran cried out excitedly. he felt like every bone stele was calling him.
“outstanding my ass. you have too many distracting thoughts. stop being greedy and sense it calmly,” scolded long chen. this fellow’s heart was so unsteady that even his blood qi fluctuations were still active. he clearly was too excited to sense any summons.
“oh.”
after that scolding, guo ran calmed down a great deal and started focusing.
“long chen, i feel a summon from above. what about you?” bai shishi opened her eyes.
“i’m feeling something from above too.” long chen smiled. he already sensed it when he reached this place.
bai shishi’s mother said, “then let’s go up!” she then led long chen and bai shishi up the palace.
[1] the term 梵天 (literally brahmanism heaven) means both nirvana and lord brahma, so i called the scripture the nirvana scripture (梵天经) and the character lord brahma( 大梵天), but they are the same words in chinese.