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Translator: Silavin & PewPewLaserGun
Editor and Proofreader: Leo of Zion Mountain & Dhael Ligerkeys
After a moment, Yang Kai took a deep breath and stepped into the maze, Bi Luo following without a word.
This kind of maze-like terrain often contained numerous barriers and Spirit Arrays, and now that the Emperor Garden had officially opened, the degree of internal danger had greatly increased, so Yang Kai didn’t dare act carelessly and continuously used his Demon Eye of Annihilation to check the surrounding environment to avoid accidentally triggering any kind of trap.
Two days later, Yang Kai brought Bi Luo out from the other side of the labyrinth, the two of them showing exhausted and somewhat anxious expressions.
Being able to navigate the maze successfully was largely thanks to Yang Kai’s memory and a little bit of good luck.
Unlike the Spirit Array traps which had filled the maze previously, Yang Kai and Bi Luo had encountered many ancient puppets this time. These ancient puppets all had different shapes and strengths, but none were weaker than ordinary Origin Returning Realm Masters, the strongest even rivalling peak Third-Order Origin Realm powerhouses and able to cause Yang Kai a lot of trouble.
Fortunately, Yang Kai was not an ordinary Origin Realm cultivator and managed to smash his way through with the help of his Dragon Bone Sword, Firebird Artifact Spirit and Stone Puppet.
The Stone Puppet, in particular, was able to suppress these ancient puppets.
After passing the labyrinth, two arched gates appeared in front of the pair, one black, one white, both looking very strange. The white gate seemed to be refined from the finest of white jade while the black one gave off a dark, ominous feel.
Beyond the two gates was a chaotic void, one that Divine Sense could not perceive anything from. The surfaces of these gates looked like the calm surface of a lake, completely impossible to read.
Bi Luo stared in shock for a moment before calling out in alarm, “A Space Array Gate!”
Yang Kai shot her a surprised look and nodded, “Yup. It’s good that you actually recognize this.”
“En, I’ve seen one before,” Bi Luo’s expression became dignified, “Which one should we enter?”
“I’ll tell you a bit later, we should restore ourselves first,” Yang Kai smiled lightly. When Yang Kai came here last time, he, Fei Zhi Tu and the others had a long debate over which of these two Space Array Gates to enter. It was a difficult problem, to say the least; after all, most people would be inclined to choose the white gate because black often meant danger and death.
However, facts showed that no matter which Space Array Gate was chosen, there was not any immediate danger, only the destination was different.
Fei Zhi Tu and several others had entered the white Space Array Gate that day and had followed a path that led them to a jade coffin where they accidentally triggered one of the Emperor Garden’s Spirit Arrays. Inside that jade coffin, however, there was the figure of a person lying quietly.
The Starry Sky Great Emperor!
Ten thousand years ago, the Great Emperor had fallen into a deep sleep, and this Emperor Garden was her resting place. Yang Kai had heard all this information from Yang Yan; after all, Yang Yan was the Great Emperor’s Soul Clone, so she had some understanding of these secrets.
Yang Kai, Cai He and Du Si Si, on the other hand, entered the black Space Array Gate together with the Origin Returning Realm old lady. It was from there that Yang Kai acquired the Heaven Shaking Pillar.
After half an hour, Yang Kai and Bi Luo finished restoring themselves and stepped towards the black Space Array Gate. Looking at the vague nothingness contained within this gate, Bi Luo could not help feeling nervous and frightened, stretching out her hand and grabbing hold of Yang Kai’s clothes.
Yang Kai could not have been calmer as he stepped through the black gate. An indescribable sense of falling while floating enveloped the pair before the sight in front of them blurred. When they recovered, they had arrived at a completely different place.
Looking around, Yang Kai smiled happily.
They had been transported to the same place he and the old woman had come to after being pulled into the black Space Array Gate that day.
“Come with me!” Yang Kai called out to Bi Luo before lightly strolling forward, seemingly searching for something.
Bi Luo was bewildered but did not ask anything.
This was a garden-like area that was filled with flowers, streams, small bridges, and decorative rockeries; a rather unique scenery. Yang Kai paid special attention to the rockeries, shaking his head after examining each one.
After searching for some time though, Yang Kai’s eyes suddenly lit up and he rushed towards the location of a certain rockery. There was a faint smell wafting from the direction he ran, one that made anyone who sniffed it feel relaxed and refreshed. Even the heavily injured Bi Luo seemed more energetic after inhaling some of this scent.
Soon, Yang Kai reached the rockery, looked down, and saw a familiar-looking shallow pool. Grinning, Yang Kai could not help muttering to himself, “Found it.”
Bi Luo was now quite curious. A quick glance was all she needed to see that this pool was almost completely dry, with only a few drops of milky white liquid settled at its bottom.
The pleasant fragrance from before, however, was coming from this milky white liquid.
“What is this?” Bi Luo asked curiously.
Yang Kai did not reply directly and instead reached down and dipped his finger into the milky white liquid before calling out to Bi Luo, “Open your mouth!”
Bi Luo opened her mouth subconsciously, just long enough for Yang Kai to poke his finger into it.
In the next instant, Bi Luo’s eyes went wide, and she couldn’t help using her little tongue to wrap around Yang Kai’s finger and lick off all of the strange liquid.
At a rate visible to the naked eye, Bi Luo’s complexion became rosier, and not due to shyness. At this moment, she felt the strength of her vital essence increased dramatically and the vitality which she had lost due to her injuries quickly being supplemented.
“Sit down, meditate, and start refining it, don’t waste any of it,” Yang Kai ordered her with a strange smile on his face.
“En,” Bi Luo nodded obediently as she looked for a spot to sit down, shooting Yang Kai a rather angry look before she walked off.
Both of them were obviously remembering the incident brought on by the impetuousness of their youth which transpired back in Fragrance City inside Shan Qing Luo’s palace.
Although it had been almost thirty years since then, that experience was so vivid and unique, how could they forget it? Especially Bi Luo’s delicate little mouth, her thin tender lips, and her pearl white teeth she revealed when she smiled. A lethal combination to those who saw it.
After Bi Luo sat down cross-legged and began refining the Life Revitalizing Jade Cream, Yang Kai excitedly turned his eyes back to the rockery.
When he came here that day, Yang Kai vaguely guessed that pure Life Revitalizing Jade Cream should be hidden somewhere inside this rockery and what he and the other obtained was just a diluted bi-product. Now, it seemed that his guess that day was indeed correct.
After all, between Yang Kai, the two Array Masters, and the old woman, they had completely cleaned out the shallow pool here, leaving nothing behind, but when he arrived here today, a few drops of Life Revitalizing Jade Cream appeared, which was enough to explain everything.
If Yang Kai alone wanted to find where the pure Life Revitalizing Jade Cream was hidden in this place, it may be a little difficult to do, but fortunately, he had come fully prepared.
With a thought, Yang Kai released the Stone Puppet from his Black Book Space, took out a container specially used to hold liquid, and handed it to him before pointing to the rockery.
The Stone Puppet immediately understood Yang Kai’s instructions and in the next instant it ran over to the rockery.
A strange scene happened next. When the Stone Puppet’s body touched the rockery, it seemed to become intangible and directly integrated into it, disappearing in an instant.
However, Yang Kai was still able to vaguely perceive the location of the Stone Puppet and could feel it burrowing deeper and deeper into the rockery, soon advancing more than a thousand metres away from him. Sensing this, Yang Kai simply stood in place, waiting in anticipation.
The Stone Puppet could even tunnel a hole through Coloured Glass Sect’s Thousand Illusion Coloured Glass Mountain, so it had no trouble with this rockery.
After the time it took a stick of incense to burn, the figure of the Stone Puppet suddenly emerged from the rockery and happily jumped in front of Yang Kai before opening its big mouth and spitting out the container.
Yang Kai stretched out his hand and took the container before sweeping it with his Divine Sense, a grin forming on his face a moment later.
There was a small amount of milky white liquid inside the container, about enough to fill a washbasin. Although it was a liquid, it was extremely thick, at least ten times more viscous than the Life Revitalizing Jade Cream Yang Kai had obtained from the shallow pool.
This was no doubt the purest Life Revitalizing Jade Cream, not some half-diluted existence. One of the Star Field’s Three Great Divine Waters!
Yang Kai’s mood was incredibly good at this moment.
He had not expected this trip to go so smoothly.
For this excursion to the Emperor Garden, Yang Kai had two goals: one was the World Spirit, while the other was this Life Revitalizing Jade Cream. Although obtaining the former took a little bit of effort, he had ultimately obtained it. As for the latter, Yang Kai was able to collect it without encountering any trouble.
This was mainly due to the innate abilities of the Stone Puppet. Without its help, Yang Kai estimated that it would have taken him quite some time to find and then retrieve the pure Life Revitalizing Jade Cream.
But everything was good now. With so much pure Life Revitalizing Jade Cream, Yang Kai did not have to worry about having enough pure Golden Blood anymore, even replacing all of his blood with pure Golden Blood wouldn’t be impossible.
After celebrating for a while, Yang Kai carefully put away the container of Life Revitalizing Jade Cream.
Bi Luo opened her eyes at that moment and showed a joyful look on her face.
“How do you feel?” Yang Kai asked casually.
“A lot better, I should be able to fight somewhat now,” Bi Luo exhaled softly. She had been together with Yang Kai for a few days now but she was being protected by him the whole time, causing her to feel quite anxious. Although Yang Kai had displayed astonishing strength, this was still the Emperor Garden after all, where crisis lay at every turn; one more person’s strength was always welcome.
Although Bi Luo did not dare say she had fully recovered, at least she would no longer just be a burden.
“Where do we go now?” Bi Luo got up and asked.
“Follow me. There is something good over there,” Yang Kai grinned and said calmly.
The good thing he was referring to was naturally the Stone Monument in the place where Qian Tong had been trapped previously. The reason why Qian Tong had brought a young Artifact Refiner to this place to begin with was to allow that man to study the Stone Monument which contained an incredibly profound Artifact Refining technique.
After being ejected from the Emperor Garden that day, that Artifact Refiner had entered secluded retreat and not long ago, news spread out that he had become an Origin Grade Artifact Refiner, which in turn showed just how valuable the Stone Monument was.
Since he had arrived at this place, Yang Kai was certainly not willing to just ignore this treasure; if possible, he wanted to take away this Stone Monument.
Moreover, if Yang Kai was going to find Yang Yan, he needed to leave this place, so he had to pass by the Stone Monument anyway. Since it was on his way, it should not take him much time to collect it.
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Yang Kai
Age: 42 +/-1
Cultivation level: origin returning realm 1st order, origin grade high rank alchemist
Daos: space
Factions: sect master of high heaven sect, 9 heavens holy land Holy Master, soaring heaven sect disciple, Tong Xuan alchemist guild member, leader of the ancient demon clan
Special characteristics: 5 element indestructible sword body, spiritual star chart, true demon eye of annihilation, demon god golden blood, conflagrated knowledge sea, 7 colour soul warming lotus, heavenly yang wind and thunder wings, golden dragon spirit tattoo, yin-yang joyous unification dual cultivation, golden skeleton
Attack skills: poison dragon spirit, blossoming lotus, golden blood threads, space blade, demonic flame, Scarlet Heavenly Arrow, Punishing Heaven Spear, Heaven Covering Hand, profound heavenly sword, evil spirit soul skill, 10,000 swords technique, white tiger and divine ox seal, star mark, burning sun triple blast
Movement skills: space tear, Flickering Heavenly Shadow, self taught movement
Defensive skills: Grand Heavenly Shield, imprisoning heavenly chain, soul palace, unyielding will
Other skills: Shi, yuan control mastery, golden dragon transformation, soul clone, Capturing Heaven Net, great heavenly attraction, demon god transformation 2nd form, true alchemic way, divine sense, beast slave seal, origin of Yang
Items: life revitalising jade cream, blood essence stone, alchemist’s bone, Verdant dragon bone sword, emperor jade x2, profound gold, spectral cloud array plate, Su Yan ice soul bead, sun’s true essence, 10000 year ice jade, origin level soul devouring insects, Xiao Xiao the stone puppet with the heaven shaking pillar, Firebird artifact spirit, nether shadow soul string, scorpion shield, thunder bird wood, profound yin sunflower water, 7 colour spirit gathering flags, saint king star shuttle, star emperor token 3/10, ice phoenix inheritance spirit, flying heavens shuttle, soul battle hall, mask of disguise, primordial shackles, stone race egg, myriad drug liquid/milk/cream, demon mystic tome
Bi Luo should give him another BJ mmmm ..a reunion gift hahaha
📜”Ten thousand years ago, the Great Emperor had fallen into a deep sleep, and this Emperor Garden was her resting place.”
😐Yup, retcon confirmed. It went from ten_s_ of thousands of years (Chapters 1358, 1389, 1390) to just ten thousand years.🤷♂️
📜”Ten thousand years ago, the Great Emperor had fallen into a deep sleep, and this Emperor Garden was her resting place.”
😐Yup, retcon confirmed. It went from ten*s* of thousands of years (Chapters 1358, 1389, 1390) to just ten thousand years.🤷♂️
Well according to the wiki it’s still 30,000 years ago, I think its just a way of phrasing things, don’t know if the author phrased it like that or if the translators chose to translate it like that, but it’s not a retcon. Like in that medicine garden he found the ages of all the herbs was described as tens of thousands of years old right? Unless I’m remembering wrong, but I’m sure it was at least more than ten thousand. That alone should prove that whatever happened to the star emperor happened more than ten thousand years ago.
Bro he should double check whether there’s still more liquid in those rocks, he just got one jar full and left without searching if there’s more
So then he will be able to learn artifact refinement most likely…
I guess he won’t do it for another 1k chapters though
The question is, will he find another boss in the next room like last time he went to the emperor garden? Another powerful puppet perhaps?
I am feeling excited after reading this chapter for him acquiring that cream because we seen the power of diluted one so what will be displayed after he consume this like he obtained myriyand cream which is a saint king grade high rank when he is only in too many minor realms below and now he obtained it when he was in origin return realm does that mean there will be this many realms above his present one as we know the great demon god is saint king and we get the myriyand cream which is of his cultivation level one and does that means starry sky great emperor is also not only above origin king but also even above that. It’s getting exciting chapter after chapter anyways thanks for the translation. Have a good day
Thanks for the chapter Silavin, PewPewLaserGun, Leo of Zion Mountain, and Dhael Ligerkeys! Wonder if Yang Yan’s already in the other room where the Starry Sky Great Emperor is sleeping. Hoping it won’t take a crazy amount of effort to revive her.
Haha. The bl*w job scene is also still vivid in my mind. XD
Nostalgic, isn’t it?
Looool, same bro same
Lmao there was a scene like that? What chapter was that
323 to 324 ᕦ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕤ
How could you miss it? The girl gave him a blowjob after all, that is the kind of thing we men of culture pay extra attention to
Some people read the manhua then went to book
There must be some reason the stone puppet couldn’t just bust a way through the maze, but much like the details of the battles they encountered there, we’re not privy to any of that.
well its a maze so the exact location of the exit may not be clear