Chapter 304: Nanxiang City’s Twelve Grotto Heavens
The night was like ink, the stars brilliant, like shattered pieces of glazed tile rubbed by deities, scattered in all directions, weaving the Zhou Tian Star Chart into a flowing, magnificent scroll.
Hua Changxi, who had been feeling heavy-hearted because the Zhou Tian Star Chart had absorbed some energy from her, was also stunned by this magnificent and spectacular sight.
Looking at the stars that were ‘within reach,’ Hua Changxi, who had fallen to the ground, involuntarily reached out her hand.
Her hand could pluck the stars!
It seemed that if she continued to reach out, she could touch the stars in the sky.
Of course, this was just Hua Changxi’s illusion.
Hua Changxi quickly snapped out of her shock and then noticed that the entire sky seemed to be pulled by some invisible force, and the stars began to rotate and move in reverse.
Soon, celestial phenomena began to appear.
Above the firmament, the star formations were like a curtain.
In the east, the stars emitted a faint green glow, and within the flying star radiance, a giant green dragon seemed to be dormant, the entire starry expanse exuding vibrant life.
In the south, the stars were as brilliant as blood jade, forming the shape of a fire bird, with flames and flowing light, as if burning with an inextinguishable flame, even the darkness was burned into a warm red, and even the star trails bore scorch marks.
In the west, a white tiger seemed to tread upon the stars, the star winds howling like knives, and even the stars carried a solemn and killing metallic aura.
In the north, a fierce beast with a snake’s body coiled around a turtle’s shell lay curled in the star abyss, drawing the star energy to flow, forming small star vortices, all the stars revolving around the fierce beast, time seemed to freeze, and even the speed of falling stars slowed by three parts. 『😊』
Hua Changxi felt her divine soul being drawn into the celestial phenomena, and in a daze, she heard the low hum of the Four Spirits: “Azure Dragon governs life, Vermilion Bird governs burning, White Tiger governs killing, Black Tortoise governs silence. The Four Symbols rotate, the stars do not fall.”
Hua Changxi’s mind went blank. When her eyes regained clarity, the conspicuous Four Symbols celestial phenomena in the night sky had vanished. Only a patch of green could be seen in the eastern sky, a ball of red light in the southern sky, golden radiance in the western sky, and a cold silence in the northern sky.
Thinking of what she had just seen, Hua Changxi swallowed and pushed herself up with her hands.
It was then that she noticed that the Qintian Tower beneath her had changed drastically.
The ‘ground’ beneath her, whose material was indistinguishable, faintly flowed with starlight. Whenever she moved, spiderweb-like patterns of starlight would light up on the ‘ground,’ as if ancient array formations were awakening in the dark night.
Hua Changxi shivered, suddenly realizing that she seemed to have done something ‘big’ again.
“Could I really be the child of destiny?”
Otherwise, why would such major events always happen to her?
However, Hua Changxi held an attitude of respect and distance towards the so-called child of destiny.
People fear fame as pigs fear getting fat; she just wanted to cultivate her own path in peace and didn’t want to be too noticed.
“I hope today’s events don’t bring me any trouble!”
Hua Changxi quickly stood up, preparing to flee.
But as soon as she stood up, she froze.
Standing on high and looking far, at this moment, the entire Capital City was spread out before her eyes.
Hua Changxi’s heart suddenly began to pound. Compared to the shock brought by the Four Symbols celestial phenomena just now, the myriad of lights she saw now seemed to touch her heart more.
“Little Friend Hua, drip a few drops of essence blood into the Zhou Tian Star Chart, and you might have unexpected gains.”
Just as Hua Changxi was immersed in the warmth of human affection within the myriad of lights, a male voice entered her ears.
Hua Changxi immediately came back to her senses. Who was it? Who was speaking to her?
“That voice just now sounded like Sound Transmission Technique?”
Who was transmitting to her?
Hua Changxi looked around, and finally looked down, only to discover two figures on the tall building of the Heavenly Department, and one person on the Guangyin Tower in the distance.
Among the three, she recognized Wei Zhenjie, but she had never seen the other two.
She had interacted with Wei Zhenjie, and she recognized his voice, so the transmission just now must have come from one of the other two.
Hua Changxi noticed a turtle shell in front of the person with Wei Zhenjie, and immediately had a guess: that person was likely the Lord of Qintian Tower. As for the person on Guangyin Tower, they should be the Lord of Guangyin Tower.
The Lord of Guangyin Tower should not be able to transmit messages to Qintian Tower, so the person who transmitted to her could only be the Lord of Qintian Tower.
“Drip blood into the Zhou Tian Star Chart?”
As soon as Hua Changxi thought of the Zhou Tian Star Chart absorbing some energy from her body before, she felt a sense of rejection.
However, Wei Zhenjie had helped her and harbored no ill will towards her, so the possibility of the Lord of Qintian Tower, who was with Wei Zhenjie, plotting against her should not be too high.
“Should I try it?”
The Lord of Qintian Tower had specifically transmitted a message, and Hua Changxi was somewhat tempted. While hesitating, her gaze swept over the snake demon’s body, and her eyes lit up. She took out a gourd and scooped up a ladleful of snake demon essence blood.
“Let’s try it with the snake demon’s essence blood first.”
After collecting the snake demon essence blood, Hua Changxi walked to the Zhou Tian Star Chart and found that it had also changed.
Before, the Zhou Tian Star Chart looked like a flat white jade table, but now, although its appearance hadn’t changed, it had become ‘three-dimensional.’ It clearly had boundaries, yet it gave a sense of boundless vastness.
Hua Changxi controlled her Spiritual Power and dripped the snake demon essence blood into the Zhou Tian Star Chart.
One drop, two drops, three drops…
As soon as the snake demon essence blood fell into the Zhou Tian Star Chart, it disappeared, as if it had been absorbed?
Unfortunately, after Hua Changxi dripped more than ten drops of snake demon essence blood, the Zhou Tian Star Chart showed no reaction.
Seeing this, Hua Changxi, who still remembered that she needed to flee quickly, was too lazy to drip it in one by one and directly poured all the collected snake demon essence blood into it.
At this moment, the Zhou Tian Star Chart finally showed some reaction.
White light surged from the Zhou Tian Star Chart, and a continent appeared in the central area. In the northwest of the continent, dozens of crisscrossing mountain ranges appeared, and then, spiritual light gathered above the mountain ranges.
The spiritual light twisted and transformed into four characters: Hundred Thousand Mountains.
Almost the moment the characters formed, the four characters “Hundred Thousand Mountains” scattered with a bang. The next moment, the mountain ranges also disappeared, followed by the continent.
“Hundred Thousand Mountains?”
Hua Changxi guessed that the continent was likely the Central Continent, but she didn’t know what kind of place the Hundred Thousand Mountains was. She noted it down, planning to ask Tong Yao, Jing Le, and Yan Zhenzhen later.
Seeing that the snake demon essence blood could make the Zhou Tian Star Chart display continental landforms, Hua Changxi gritted her teeth, used her Spiritual Power to cut her finger, and carefully dripped a drop into the Zhou Tian Star Chart.
With one drop, the Zhou Tian Star Chart lit up with white light.
The Central Continent reappeared, and in the southern position, a magnificent red palace appeared—Lingguang Hall.
Seeing Lingguang Hall, Hua Changxi was stunned. Could it be that the Zhou Tian Star Chart was displaying territories related to her?
Seeing the white light in the Zhou Tian Star Chart begin to flicker, Hua Changxi thought it was due to insufficient energy and quickly dripped another drop of essence blood into it.
After the essence blood dripped, nothing appeared this time, but the white light became even brighter.
Hua Changxi hesitated for a moment and then continued to drip essence blood into the Zhou Tian Star Chart. This time, she didn’t hold back and dripped several drops at once.
The benefit of more blood drops was obvious.
In the Zhou Tian Star Chart, below Lingguang Hall, a patch of fire appeared.
Immediately after, other things began to appear within the firelight.
First, a Phoenix Tree forest appeared, followed by Sui Ren Valley, Yehuo Platform, Fire Cloud Cave, Nine Heavens Fire Spring, Scarlet Flame Mountain, Fire Rock Cave, Zhu Rong Tomb, Li Huo Cliff, and Ghost Fire Well.
Starting from Lingguang Hall, these places were connected, forming the pattern of a fire bird.
Hua Changxi was stunned: “This is… the Vermilion Bird Totem!”
At the heart of the Vermilion Bird Totem stood a magnificent city—Nanxiang City.
Behind Nanxiang City, there was a fire pool that flickered on and off—Nirvana Pool.
Hua Changxi recalled the locations with obvious spatial fluctuations that she had noted down, and they perfectly matched the territories displayed in the Zhou Tian Star Chart.
These territories should be the Cave Heaven Blessed Lands that Tong Yao had mentioned.
