Chapter 223 - 221: Foreseeing the Future
"If there’s a chance..." Song Changming didn’t agree readily.
It’s too early to talk about this now; with his current strength, trying to traverse the Outer Realm is indeed quite challenging.
Unless he’s extremely lucky, there are very few people in the present Da Han Martial Realm who can rely on their personal strength to cross the Outer Realm.
Song Changming doesn’t want to gamble on luck, so he can only wait until his strength is sufficient before preparing to go.
"This matter is not urgent," Li Jinyu said with a faint smile, his gaze still lingering on the distant battle.
It seemed they talked quite a bit, but in reality, only a few minutes had passed.
Song Changming withdrew his gaze and turned to leave the mountain.
The battle of Fairy Yuehan was something he couldn’t intervene in, so he could only choose to watch from afar.
He hadn’t forgotten that his main goal on this trip was to ensure Liu Yan’er was safe at the foot of the mountain, not to keep his eyes glued on the battle of the strong on the mountain.
"Eh..." Li Jinyu watched Song Changming leave and after casting one last glance at Fairy Yuehan, also retreated.
This great mountain is indeed not a place where ordinary people can tread.
If one is not careful and gets engulfed by the shockwaves of a strong fighter like Fairy Yuehan, they wouldn’t even know how they died.
Song Changming returned to the foot of the mountain and, seeing Liu Yan’er safe and sound, felt relieved.
However, as time passed, the current situation seemed increasingly unfavorable for the Wangyue Pavilion.
Besides more Corpse Refining Sect members coming to aid, the rotten corpses and corpse puppets seemed endless, emerging continuously from the depths of the mist.
There were also numerous other strongmen from the Outer Realm visiting this place, getting involved in the battle.
And bizarre Fog Beasts appearing one after another, flying in the sky and crawling on the ground, kept crashing into the defensive lines of the Wangyue Pavilion disciples and stewards, putting them increasingly on the defensive.
"If this continues, won’t the Wangyue Pavilion be defeated?" Song Changming observed the situation from the foot of the mountain and couldn’t help but ask.
If the battle at the foot of the mountain is lost, the Wangyue Pavilion is bound to suffer considerable losses. After all, each inner disciple has been supported and nurtured with a lot of resources.
If they’re all dead, it’s not something that can be fixed in just a few years, and there might even be gaps in succession, possibly leading to no heirs left.
And if the battle among the strong on the mountain is also lost, it would be an unquantifiable loss, enough to be considered a grave blow to their core and vitality.
Moreover, if the Outer Realm Evil Cult finally breaches Wangyue Mountain,
would the high and mighty Wangyue Pavilion still be able to protect its thousand-year heritage as a Hidden Sect? That’s another question.
"It won’t be defeated, rest assured. The fortune of the Wangyue Pavilion can at least endure for another five hundred years!" Li Jinyu said with a confident smile.
He seemed genuinely like an outsider here to watch the show, not worried about any unexpected events at all.
"Is this also the result of your nocturnal stargazing?" Song Changming couldn’t help but ask.
"More or less, the concept of fortune is utterly mysterious and needs to be viewed in conjunction with various techniques. It’s hard to put it all into simple words..." Li Jinyu said with a profound air.
"Aren’t you afraid of revealing heavenly secrets by telling me the results of your predictions?" Song Changming suddenly asked.
According to his past understanding, those mystics usually spoke in riddles, saying only half of what they mean, shrouding it in mystery.
Their most common phrase was that heavenly secrets cannot be divulged.
Encountering Li Jinyu, a true sage, he was surprisingly forthcoming in answering questions, speaking freely without the usual cautious restraints, perhaps even too casually...
"Revealing heavenly secrets?" Li Jinyu looked at him with a peculiar expression.
"They say it’s a heavenly secret, but in my view, it’s just a result of glimpsing the natural laws of worldly operation through my means. If the Heavenly Dao truly exists and doesn’t wish the secrets to be revealed, why allow them to be discovered?"
"So, is there no such thing as undisclosed heavenly secrets?" Song Changming asked.
"Not in my case," Li Jinyu shook his head.
The outcomes he predicted were shared as he wished, with no mysterious constraints.
"If I humbly ask to be taught these techniques, would you be willing to teach me?" Song Changming probed.
To foresee future events, trace the life paths, and understand all things, without many restrictions, is a wondrous ability. Song Changming, now aware of such power, couldn’t resist the urge to learn it.
If, in the future, he encounters a troubling matter and can solve it with a mere calculation, wouldn’t that be wonderful!
"Sure, but you’re likely not going to learn it," Li Jinyu surprisingly agreed without hesitation.
"Why?" Song Changming asked, puzzled.
"It should be a talent you’re born with. Without that special gift, you won’t learn beyond glimpses—imperfect and unreliable.
I’ve taught not a thousand, but hundreds, all of them are like this," Li Jinyu said frankly.
"A special talent..." This basically extinguished Song Changming’s thoughts.
If he had any related special talent, it would have already appeared on his personal panel.
The lack of records on the panel indicates that, like others, he does not possess Li Jinyu’s kind of talent or aptitude.
Thus, even if he wanted to learn, he couldn’t.
As the two conversed, the situation at the foot of the mountain changed again.
The thick fog billowed, and finally, reinforcements from the Wangyue Pavilion’s side arrived.
Teams sent by various Hidden Sects entered the scene one after another, participating in this great battle, resisting the current Outer Domain enemies.
Among them, Li Pu, Nan Chen Guang, and the monk from Earth Store Palace they had met earlier, all arrived one after the other.
He even saw Liu Xiangnan and Zhao Dongming entangled in battle with the Corpse Puppets.
The situation at the foot of the mountain turned around, and naturally, the strong from Wangyue Pavilion on the mountain received assistance from the other Hidden Sects.
The combat noise that erupted here was unprecedentedly massive.
The thick fog in the area of the mountain was also fiercely scattered and disrupted by the energy impact from all battlefields.
At this moment, in the sky above, a large shadow suddenly appeared, enveloping the land at the foot of the mountain!
It drew everyone’s attention.
"Hmm?!"
Song Changming and Li Jinyu both raised their heads to look.
It seemed as if a gigantic monster was descending from above, its shadow growing larger in the mist, spanning almost a mile!
"It’s a Cloud Mist Whale!" someone among the Outer Domain people exclaimed.
"Damn it, why did a Cloud Mist Whale suddenly come here?!"
"It’s very likely attracted by the blood qi here!"
"Everyone, don’t panic. This Cloud Mist Whale belongs to me and has come specifically to help you defeat the enemy!" Suddenly, an elderly voice came down from the shadow above the mist.
As soon as the voice fell, the clouds above roiled violently, scattering in all directions.
The next moment, a massive Cloud Whale descended from the sky, and its colossal presence created an enormous visual impact at the moment it appeared, extremely shocking.
It felt as though the sky had collapsed, as if the giant beast suddenly filled the entire field of vision.
"So this is a Cloud Mist Whale, huh? To be honest, it’s my first time seeing one," Li Jinyu said, looking up.
"Legend has it that this whale possesses the power to swallow the sky and devour the earth, with one gulp everything returns to stillness!"
"Is it really that powerful?" Song Changming could feel the intense pressure from above.
"Well, it’s not really that bad; the legends are usually exaggerated, but it certainly is difficult to deal with..." Li Jinyu explained offhandedly.
Song Changming focused his gaze and saw, atop the giant whale, an elder with a hunched back, standing with his hands behind his back.
In comparison to the colossal whale, the elder’s figure was as small as a grain of dust.
Yet, he possessed the ability to control the entire Cloud Mist Whale.
Controlling such a massive Cloud Mist Whale would likely exhaust the Scorching Mist Energy within an individual Mist gold.
"It’s actually a Cloud Mist Whale, this is trouble..." Zhao Dongming said, slicing through a decayed corpse.
Beside him, Liu Xiangnan also wore a serious expression.
The two of them had ventured in the Outer Realm for years and were familiar with many powerful Extraterritorial Fog Beasts.
Even Li Jinyu, who had never seen a Cloud Mist Whale, they had encountered more than once, and naturally knew how troublesome the Cloud Mist Whale could be.
"Everyone, be careful. When it comes to swallowing, make sure to escape immediately and don’t end up inside its stomach!" Liu Xiangnan warned loudly.
The next moment, the giant whale slowly lowered its head, opening its enormous mouth, pitch-black like an abyss.
The whale’s swallowing began!
The enormous suction engulfed the surrounding mist, sand, rocks, and vegetation into its mouth!
On the side of the Da Han Martial Artists’ camp, many people, along with the ground beneath them, were sucked into the air, heading toward the giant whale’s mouth.
"Help, help!"
"No!"
Those martial artists caught in the wave of the whale’s gulp found it almost impossible to escape.
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