Therefore, no one really knew what happened to the things that they consumed….
“I can’t believe that freakish thing even exists….” Bai Xiaochun said with a frown.
Trying to sound comforting, Zhao Tianjiao said, “With our command medallions… we should be mostly safe as long as we’re careful. As long as we don’t go beyond the Great Wall….”
Chen Yueshan was a bit ashen, but she nodded. The only thing they could do in this sparsely populated land was hope that the power of the command medallions truly would keep them safe. That was what they were designed to do, considering that they were disciples of the Starry Sky Dao Polarity Sect.
“You sure about that…?” Bai Xiaochun said, scowling on the verge of tears as he pulled out the command medallion. He already regretted coming along with Zhao Tianjiao to this place. It would have been a much better idea to say holed up in East Sea City for ten years. Better and safer!
Evening was falling. Unfortunately, draining the spirit stones to gain a burst of speed had damaged the power slots on the skiff, and they couldn’t use it anymore.
However, Zhao Tianjiao and his group had begun the journey well prepared. After a bit of rest, Chen Yueshan produced another flying skiff, which they set up with new spirit stones and then resumed their journey.
Along the way, they were even more cautious than before. They had wasted a lot of their own cultivation base power, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was very weak. Therefore, they had to use spirit stones to recover, a process which was long and difficult.
Two more months went by. During that time, they faced some dangerous situations, but passed through them all safely. Even still, the mental strain was growing.
Thankfully, the slow and steady recovering process of their cultivation bases had pushed them close to their peak level. As a result, Bai Xiaochun felt a lot safer than before.
At one point, Zhao Tianjiao shook his head and said, “Even I still can’t believe that things are so dangerous inside the Great Wall…. I wonder what it’s like on the other side.
“Xiaochun, our main goal still hasn’t changed. After we get to the Great Wall, we’re going outside to get some experience. Are you going to join us?”
Bai Xiaochun looked out wistfully at the lands around them, and then shook his head.
“I don’t think so,” he replied. “Um… I think I’ll explore Great Wall City a bit. The better I get to know the city, the less trouble I’ll have later on.”
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Chapter
466: The Incredible Great Wall!
“Xiaochun,” Zhao Tianjiao said, his tone serious, “as you know, everyone participating in this ten-year-long trial has to go out on at least three missions beyond the wall. You can choose when to do that, but there is no way to get out of the responsibility. In other words… you have to go out of the Great Wall at some point!”
Zhao Tianjiao clasped his shoulder. “When the time comes, you’ll have to go, even if you don’t want to…. Otherwise, you’ll fail the final test, and won’t be able to go back to the sect.”
Bai Xiaochun’s heart trembled. The thought of going out three times on missions made the world seem like a much darker place. Although he had heard of that arrangement, he hadn’t give it much thought before, and had assumed it wouldn’t be anything worth worrying about. But after seeing the dangers on the journey so far, he realized that the slightest misstep could lead to him losing his poor little life. Then he contemplated going outside of the Great Wall on three different occasions, and couldn’t help but think that it was nothing less than a deadly trap….
However, he didn’t let any of his fear show on his face. In fact, he even stuck his chin up, as if he didn’t care at all about the subject. “It’s only three times, right? Not a big deal at all. You don’t need to remind me, Elder Brother Zhao, when the time comes, of course I’ll do what needs to be done.”
Zhao Tianjiao laughed loudly and smacked Bai Xiaochun’s shoulder. “Good! That’s how Zhao Tianjiao’s Junior Brother Bai should act!
“Very well, I won’t go on and on about it. Based on our current speed, we should catch sight of the Great Wall itself within about half a month. That’s where we will part ways…. I hope that by the time we meet again, whether its inside the Great Wall or out, that both of us will have made names for ourselves!” With that, he took out a flagon of alcohol, took a long drink, and then handed it to Bai Xiaochun. As of this moment, Zhao Tianjiao seemed tall and mighty, and absolutely impressive. Behind him, Chen Yueshan looked on with sparkling eyes.
Bai Xiaochun slapped his chest, took the flagon, and drank a big mouthful. Despite how grand he was trying to look, it was to his disappointment that he realized that Chen Yueshan and the others in the group all had eyes fixed on Zhao Tianjiao.
“Ahem,” he thought to himself. “Low profile. I’m the type who keeps a low profile….”
Half a month flew by. One morning, when the first rays of dawn were peeking out from the east, Bai Xiaochun opened his eyes and looked over at the horizon to see… something that looked almost like a mountain range. It was… the Great Wall!
The sight left Bai Xiaochun completely shaken, and was almost impossible to describe with words. The Great Wall was like a hulking dragon lying on the horizon, snaking back and forth for as far as the eye could see.
It was fully 6,000 meters tall, a barrier that completely separated the lands on either side, and completely prevented anything on the outside from getting in.
In addition to the physical structure of the wall, there was a black, shimmering shield of light that rose from the top of the wall into the heavens. With that shield in place, everything on the other side was completely sealed out!
The wall and the shield together created what seemed like an impassable barrier!
As for the wall itself, it wasn’t black, but violet…. Bai Xiaochun was even able to detect the reek of blood coming from it…. It was possible to imagine that, years in the past, the wall had actually been black, but over time, had been stained by the endless flow of blood which ran down it!
The lands leading up to the wall were completely barren and devoid of life. There was a bleakness to the area that even seemed to affect the clouds above, staining them violent and spinning them into a wild vortex that emitted occasional rumbling sounds.
Red lightning danced in that vortex, almost like red dragons flitting about and roaring.
The wall was violet, and the shield was black. Each tile and brick that formed the wall emanated incredible pressure, and all of that together… created the ultimate division between the lands of Heavenspan and the Wildlands!
Currently visible atop the wall itself were over a hundred magical cannons, ferocious weapons that seemed mighty enough to destroy the heavens and extinguish the earth.
Right in the middle of the Great Wall was a city that was fully ten times larger than either East Sea City or World City. That city formed the gate which led into and out of the Great Wall!
Countless auras could be detected within that city, each and every one of which seemed to pulse with the blood of countless battles, and were suffused with complete and utter determination. Based on what Bai Xiaochun could sense, there were millions upon millions of such auras.
Furthermore, in addition to the numerous Nascent Soul auras, there was something else, something… that could shake heaven and earth, something powerful that it seemed to be a part of creation itself.
It was… a deva!!
Deva were rare, but there was one here. Furthermore, it was a deva that neither Bai Xiaochun nor Zhao Tianjiao were unfamiliar with. It was Chen Yueshan’s father, three-eyed Chen Hetian, who had arrived in the city much earlier than them.