The Path Beneath
The Path Beneath
"Xin Huo, how to activate it?", Zhong Yue then asked.
Xin Huo pondered deeply and answered a few seconds later, "In the Celestial Fire Star, there is an activation point to the array formation, I don't know if it's still here. When the activation point is triggered, the whole Celestial Fire Star will turn into the teleportation array formation."
"Where is this activation point?", Zhong Yue asked.
Xin Huo thought and said, "The topography of the Celestial Fire Star now is looking different from before, open your divine third eye and let me have a look around."
Zhong Yue opened his divine third eye and scanned around.
Shi Tuo was laughing, he said, "Brat, your divine eye is good but no matter how big you stare your eye out even until you are blinded, you won't be able to stare a teleportation array formation out from that. I have searched all around so many times and I couldn't even find a single chicken feather, let alone a huge array formation!"
"That mountain.", Xin Huo glanced around through Zhong Yue's vision and pointed out the tallest mountain on the Celestial Fire Star, he smiled and said, "That mountain is the core of the teleportation array formation. Just press it into the Celestial Fire Star and the array formation will be activated already. Seems like although I have slumbered for such a long time, the Celestial Fire Star isn't destroyed yet. This teleportation array formation is most probably still functional."
Zhong Yue looked over at the thirty thousand feet tall mountain, it took up a land of over a thousand miles in radius. It wouldn't be easy to press it into the Celestial Fire Star.
Zhong Yue strode toward the mountain while Feng Xiaozhong followed behind. Shi Tuo was still laughing at him, "Brat, you want to go to that mountain? It is truly an amazing mountain but there is nothing there. I've searched all around, even within the mountain itself."
Zhong Yue moved to the foot of the mountain, he raised his head and stared at the tip of the mountain, praising the magnificence of the ancient gods.
Shi Tuo have searched the place before, and the other gods in the olden days would have been here scanning all over the Celestial Fire Star as well. It could be said that there weren't any secrets that weren't discovered here in the Celestial Fire Star.
That being said, would the Celestial Fire Star really a planet-sized teleportation array formation?
"Shi Tuo, press the mountain into the Celestial Fire Star.", Zhong Yue suddenly said.
"You ask me to do it, and I will do it? I'm an honorable god, do you think a petty human like you can order me…", Shi Tuo startled for a second and smirked back in reply.
"Shi tuo, do as he says.", Feng Xiaozhong abruptly said from the side.
Shi Tuo inhaled deeply, he forcibly pressed the anger down and raised his hand up into the sky. He pressed on the tip of the mountain and in a surge of strength, the mountain was being pressed into the ground. He said while laughing, "This is just an ordinary mountain, how can it ever stop a great god like me? If my amazing strength has crushed it, don't blame me for it!"
Zhong Yue shook his head, he said, "No, you won't crush it."
Shi Tuo smirked coldly, he roared and gave all of his strength down on the mountain. The mountain shuddered violently and slowly sank into the ground.
All of a sudden, Shi Tuo exclaimed in shock, he noticed the oddness as well.
With him surging all of his strength out, not even the godly mountains could withstand and not crumble within his palm.
Yet, this mountain remained to be wholly intact, there wasn't even a single crack on it!
The mountain looked perfectly normal, it wasn't made of the divine golds nor was it shrouded with totem patterns; but why was it so hard and durable?
Thirty thousand feet in height, a thousand miles in radius, it was truly a huge mountain. But when pressured by Shi Tuo's immense strength, it was really pressed into the ground.
The demon god swung his hand, he was unsatisfied that he couldn't crumble the mountain. He said frigidly, "Now the mountain is pressed, where is the teleportation array formation you speak of? Where is it…"
Before he finished talking, the whole Celestial Fire Star quaked violently and pillars of hundred feet huge rose from the underground.
The two humans and one demon flew up into the sky. The whole Celestial Fire Star was covered with dusts, there were loud noises coming within the planet core, as if there were gear wheels moving within it.
The pillars shaped differently and were aligned randomly ordered manner. Some of them have joined together and some were standing on their own, rising high above the others. Some of them were engraved with various totem patterns, some were sculpted with beasts or shaped like beasts.
It was truly an amazing view, even the ancient demon god Shi Tuo was dazed, he didn't what to comment at all.
The quaking lasted for nearly an hour before it stopped. The surface of the Celestial Fire Star has completely changed, there were millions of huge pillars rising above the ground, and the totem patterns glimmering in rays.
From far, it looked as though the Celestial Fire Star was a spiked hedgehog!
The teleportation array formation of the Celestial Fire Star has finally resurface!
The ancient Fire Order Era has finally showed part of its glorious civilization.
"Oh my … there is really a teleportation portal here…", Shi Tuo mumbled.
Feng Xiaozhong was dazed as well. Even a god like him couldn't imagine what it would need to take to complete such a marvelous teleportation array formation. It was way too complex, too grand that it was beyond his imagination!
The Sui Sovereign's era has finally resurfaced after countless years…, Zhong Yue was also dazed, he thought, I wonder what would the world look out outside of the Imperial Road, how grand would it be…
For a moment there, Zhong Yue nearly lost control of his urge to step into the teleportation array formation and travel the universe, to explore the secrets and mysteries of the world.
Shame, Feng Xiaozhong can leave but I cannot. We humans are still weak, I am still needed, I still need to fight for our people's future!, Zhong Yue thought in his heart.
Suddenly, Shi Tuo glanced at Zhong Yue, his eyes were filled with questions and also a slight surge of fear. Even the ancient demon god like him didn't know the truth of the Celestial Fire Star and yet Zhong Yue knew of it. This couldn't help but to make him suspect Zhong Yue's origin as an ancient figure older than him, an existence even stronger than him!
Feng Xiaozhong was also having the same suspect. Long before in the days, he has already suspected Zhong Yue and was incredibly anxious of Zhong Yue's Fuxi True Form. He even deemed that the Fuxi True Form was more valuable than Shi Tuo.
While now, Zhong Yue has activated such a magnificent teleportation array formation, a planet-sized array formation. One who could know of such thing would be at least fifty thousand years ago, that was a time frame where even the gods couldn't live that long.
Furthermore, there was still a huge piece missing from the cultivation heritage of the Ancestral Star.
Even when the Bi Xie Celestial Emperor has revived, he has used a teleportation array formation he left behind in the past life instead of this grand and amazing planet-sized teleportation array formation.
"Junior Martial Brother Zhong, you seemed to have a lot of secrets in you.", Feng Xiaozhong looked at Zhong Yue, he said curiously, "For you to even know of such a teleportation array formation, you must come from an appalling origin. I'm really regretting my decision of not changing you with Shi Tuo."
Shi Tuo rolled his eyes, he hated Zhong Yue for passing him to Feng Xiaozhong and thus, he said, "It's not too late now. This brat knows a lot, we might as well dissect him here and now. Reap all of his secrets for our own!"
Feng Xiaozhong shook his head, "I keep on my words. I promised him I won't do it, then I won't. Furthermore, Junior Martial Brother Zhong has helped me found this teleportation array formation, I'm in debt to him. It's not my way to harm those who helped me."
Although Feng Xiaozhong doesn't separate evils from the good, he has his own rules that he live by.
"This is the Imperial Road, the path where the Heavenly Monarch travels on.", Zhong Yue forcibly recollected his thoughts and said, "Back in the ancient days, the Heavenly Monarchs travel back and forth the Ancestral Star through this Imperial Road."
"Imperial Road? Path of the Heavenly Monarch?", Shi Tuo gulped, his eyes were filled with fear and admiration. This was the path where the Heavenly Monarchs of two eras traveled on, just by thinking about it, he was already feeling a little fear of walking into it.
"Senior Martial Brother Feng, are you leaving now?", Zhong Yue asked. To his surprise, he could sense the slight surge of unwillingness in him. Zhong Yue have hoped Feng Xiaozhong to leave the Ancestral Star for as far and as long as possible. But when the time comes where Feng Xiaozhong was really going to leave, Zhong Yue was feeling a little unwilling.
It was such a bizarre emotion to describe.
"You … aren't planning to go back and have a last look at things again?", Zhong Yue was silent for a few moments, his voice was bitter as he said, "Come home to Swords Gate, come and say goodbye to the old man."
"Home…"
Feng Xiaozhong mumbled, there has always been a voice shouting in his heart, a sound which he has selectively muted all these while. The voice has been calling him to return and have a last look on his people, the voice asked him to say goodbye to his father in front of the old headmaster's tomb.
But if he had, when he has really returned and knelt before his father's tomb, he didn't know if he could still stay sober and sane anymore.
The road, was laid in front of him.
The pillars on the Celestial Fire Star were shining in rays, the totem patterns formed together into a huge teleportation array formation.
The lights connected together and shot out a grandiose light beam into the space, blasting through the dimensions and shortening the travel time.
The path, was beneath him.
Feng Xiaozhong lowered his head down, a few moments later, he suddenly raised his head up. Feng Xiaozhong swung his sleeves, slowly but solemnly, he knelt on the ground facing toward Zhong Yue.
Zhong Yue was shocked, he was just going to stop Feng Xiaozhong but before his muscles could receive the orders from the nerves, an immense pressure came from Feng Xiaozhong that has stopped him from moving even an inch.
Dong——
Dong——
Dong——
Feng Xiaozhong bowed down and kowtowed at Zhong Yue for three times, then stood up. Immediately, the pressure was lifted off from Zhong Yue and the young man was puzzled. All of a sudden, Feng Xiaozhong smiled brightly, he said, "Junior Martial Brother Zhong, I'm not going back anymore. These three kowtows, help me deliver them to the old man."
Zhong Yue was lost of words, slowly, he nodded.
"Xing Tian, Shi Tuo, let's go."
Feng Xiaozhong placed his hands on the back, he laughed out loud and strode into the grand-looking light beam, "Let's go and explore the views of the Zi Wei Divine Court!"