"It's just that because of the fragmentation of the world, the practice has declined rapidly, and it has experienced the rapid end of the Dharma, and the inheritance of practice has almost been cut off."
"When we first came here thirty years ago, the people of the whole world, in order to fight against the evil disaster of time, embarked on a rather strange and heretical way of integrating the soul into the body."
"Although this path is not very good, it still has some advantages, so I just sorted out the world and studied it."
"Who knew that thirty years later, it would become the situation it is today."
"······"
A few people chatted very quickly.
However, the destination seemed quite far away from the canyon. After everyone traveled across an entire continent, crossed a sea area, and came to another continent, Wang Zijia understood why it was called the Broken World.
In the sky, countless huge abyss-like cracks can be seen everywhere.
The continent below is also ravaged by various storms, and from time to time you can see the huge Earth Fissure Grand Canyon.
Miraculously, under such circumstances, this continent is not deserted.
On the contrary, like a wound covered with maggots, there are all kinds of strange mutant plants growing, and there are all kinds of monsters mixed inside.
Among them are void creatures that have the ability to survive in the void because they have been ravaged by void energy for a long time.
Here, to some extent, it is already bordering on the chaotic void outside.
The completely irrational monsters were completely unafraid of Wang Zijia and his party. Once they sensed their presence, they rushed towards them crazily, trying to devour them.
Fortunately, it was obvious that after a long period of cleaning by seven people, there were no powerful void monsters, so they were easily dealt with by Zhang Junyong and others along the way.
As Wang Zijia walked forward, his expression gradually became serious and he said, "Is this area gradually disintegrating and melting into the void?"
Zhang Junyong nodded and said: "The entire world should have collapsed by only one-tenth, but it also completely broke the balance of the world."
"Without being able to repair itself, it was gradually eroded by the void. After countless years, only the continent we came from is still intact. It is already an irreversible situation, and the only choice is to move people away."
"That's why we're so popular, they almost worship us as saints."
"Because their world is almost over. Their practice system does not produce a strong person who can cross the void, so they regard us as the final savior."
In other words, the world was hit hard at the beginning, has been festering over the years, and is now on the verge of collapse.
At this time, the movements of Zhang Junyong and others suddenly slowed down, as if they had arrived at their destination!
Wang Zijia looked along the direction, and just below, on the broken land filled with cracks and abyss, and among the weird plants scattered all over, he saw a group of broken buildings that looked like white jade.
The overall style looks somewhat similar to the Daoting Immortal Palace in the core area of Taiqing, but it is not as fairy-like, but it can still be seen at a glance that it has the same style elements.
The building complex was very large. Zhang Junyong led Wang Zijia and the others down a little, flying one or two feet above the ruins.
The overall appearance does not look like an ancient city or a sect, but rather like the clan of an ancient cultivating family.
The closer you get to the middle, you can see large white jade squares from time to time. In the square, there was originally a huge white jade sculpture erected, but now it is all broken, and not a single sculpture is still intact.
It seems that this place once held some strange beliefs, or is it simply the territory of the Fourth Age, a period when the gods were not forbidden?
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In the ruins, some broken words can be vaguely seen on the jade.
Most of the remaining traces are in Shenhong's current writing, but some places that resemble sacrifices can clearly be seen in Chinese.
It is precisely because of this that Zhang Junyong and his team guessed that this was a relic from the Fourth Age.
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When Wang Zijia and the others arrived at the core area, they finally stopped in a place similar to a family ancestral hall.
This is a very large courtyard with jade tiles and a one-story high structure.
The gate is quite majestic, with two jade dragons entwining it like living creatures. The ancestral hall decorated in this way made Wang Zijia a little stunned.
Dragons are not common in ancestral hall decorations.
Entering the gate, there is a large courtyard, or square.
In the center of the square, there is also a huge broken sculpture. Now only two jade legs are left standing, and the upper half is missing.
Judging from the remaining traces, there should have been many tribesmen here, who often worshiped their ancestors here.
It is obviously the main temple of this family!
At the bottom of the square is the rather magnificent ancestral hall building.
Probably out of respect and awe, the group landed in the square in the courtyard and walked towards the interior of the ancestral hall, instead of just flying in directly.
"What 'Chang's Ancestral Hall'... Hmm? Zhang's Ancestral Hall?" Wang Zijia looked up at the plaque at the door of the ancestral hall and read it out as he spoke.
Zhang Junyong and his party, who were originally leading Wang Zijia and the others to the ancestral hall, were all stunned.
"What did you say, Fellow Daoist Wang?" Immediately afterwards, someone suddenly turned around and asked.
Wang Zijia pointed to the missing plaque on the ancestral hall and said, "If I guessed correctly, it should have read Zhang's Ancestral Hall."
"Seriously?" Zhang Junyong said in surprise.
It wasn't because his surname was Zhang. In fact, all seven of them showed expressions of surprise. Even Qin Xianyu looked at the plaque in surprise.
There is no other, because the surname Zhang represented too many things in the third and fourth eras, in that era when the Taoist court was constantly suppressing the heavens!
Any place related to the high-level officials of Daoting will inevitably avoid people with the surname "Zhang".
But on the other hand, those with the surname Zhang are not necessarily high-level officials.
Even so, if this place really belongs to the Zhang family, plus all the traces from before...
Several people thought of this and couldn't help but look forward to the harvest of Mi Di.
Wang Zijia shrugged and did not answer Zhang Junyong's subconscious words.
I walked into the ancestral hall, and the entrance was the main hall of the ancestral hall. But it looked dilapidated and abandoned, with all the white jade decorations and desks broken and scattered on the ground.
Not even a complete jade tablet can be seen.
Zhang Junyong led everyone to the back of the ancestral hall, a place similar to a forbidden area.
The restriction here actually still has some broken runes running, and a huge, tattered spherical light curtain envelopes the entire backyard.
Through the tattered light shield, one could vaguely see what seemed to be a huge building in the backyard.
After passing through the energy barrier that was extremely dilapidated and full of holes, Wang Zijia discovered that the backyard was somewhere, it was obviously a palace.
In a medium-sized white jade square, a huge triangular building with a strange shape stands.
The roof part of the building is unusually tall. Although the main room below is also very large, it is very strange compared to the tip above.
Wang Zijia always felt something strange, but for a moment he didn't know what was strange.
Until Zhang Junyong led them to a square in front of the building, opened an entrance to the underground, and stepped into the underground.
The bottom is actually hollow, with a suspended jade staircase, as if standing in the void, circling a jade building downwards.
This building is the lower part of the triangular building.
Only then did Wang Zijia understand what was strange.
What kind of palace is this? This is an unusually tall nine-story white jade pagoda!
It's just that the pagoda was originally supposed to have nine floors, but only the top floor and the top of the pagoda were exposed on the Jade Square, so it looked so weird from the square.
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While thinking, everyone has passed the suspended jade stairs and reached the bottom.
The huge underground space was originally supposed to be a hemispherical jade underground space.
A nine-story giant tower stands like a pillar in the center of the hemispherical space. Because the ninth floor and the spire protrude, the entire pagoda building looks like a strange jade pillar building, supporting the entire dome.
Apart from this, there is only a circle of suspended jade stairs in the entire hemispherical space, winding down around it.
The jade sky dome on the dome should be part of the jade square above.
I don't know if it is too transparent or if the jade is very thin, so the light scattered in the square penetrates weakly through the jade, making the whole space a little hazy.
Under the dome is a huge square covered with runes, which still shine with a rich light.
There is also a faint spiritual light flowing around the pagoda, which is not ordinary at first glance.
No wonder a few people take it so seriously.
This is obviously the treasure house of the Zhang family!
Zhang Junyong and others led Wang Zijia and others to the center of the dome space, in front of the gate at the bottom of the pagoda, and said: "This is it!"
The gate is a bit strange, or the word gate is inappropriate to describe it.
Because the pagoda has no door at all, only a rectangular area with more than twenty square pieces missing, which should have been covered with things.
There are also pieces of jade squares stacked in one corner, which seem to be able to be attached.
Apart from this, there are no other decorations, not even a plaque.
Wang Zijia raised his hand and waved, and the pile of jade pieces next to him flew up. There were Chinese characters on the square jade pieces.
'Wei', 'Tian', 'Ji', 'Ping'······
Obviously, these square jade pieces are the keys to the pagoda, and they need to be pressed in the correct order.
What surprised Wang Zijia was that these were actually simplified Chinese characters!
Over the years, he has seen a lot of Chinese in the ruins and various databases. But most of them are small seal characters, and occasionally you can see a little traditional Chinese characters!
As for simplified Chinese characters, this was the first time he had seen them!
This familiar thing made Wang Zijia's pupils dilate slightly, and he felt a little absent-minded.
"This thing should be the key to open the door. If we guessed correctly, it should be an ancient formula or something. There are twenty-two pieces in total."
"But we don't know anything about ancient knowledge, and we only have nine chances to try. We have already tried six times. We don't dare to experiment anymore without knowing what will happen if we fail."
"I called Uncle Li Xun before. After my uncle confirmed it, there was almost no hope of forcing it to be opened, so I had no choice but to crack it."
"But the ancient Dao Wen was deliberately erased in the Third Age. Today, not many people are barely proficient in it. Moreover, this is obviously a variant of Dao Wen, not the popular one, so I have to ask you to help."
While Zhang Junyong was explaining, Wang Zijia had already picked up all twenty-two jade pieces and floated them in the air.
On each jade piece, there is a Chinese character, a simplified Chinese character!
This made Wang Zijia fascinated for a while!
Qin Xianyu and others also looked at the text, frowned subconsciously, and said, "This Taoist text... seems to be quite different from the traditional Taoist text?"
"Indeed, we tried to summon you and asked many monks from your ancient tribe. Most of them said it was a Taoist variant. It needs on-site research. So after we returned to the sect, we found you all."
The words of Qin Xianyu and Zhang Junyong brought Wang Zijia back to her senses.
With a slight wave of his hand, the jade piece moved quickly. Among the twenty-two words, several of them were repeated.
'for'X4,'for'X2.
Seeing this, Wang Zijia was stunned again!
Without it, once these conditions came out, Wang Zijia didn't need to use his spiritual thoughts to perform calculations or arrange and combine. He already knew what was written on it, because it was so famous!
Wang Zijia subconsciously moved the jade piece.
It is composed into one sentence: establish a heart for the heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the living and the people, carry forward the unique knowledge for the saints, and create peace for all generations.
As a modern person, you shouldn’t be too familiar with these four lines of Hengqu!
Besides, they are still in simplified Chinese!
Zhang Junyong and Qin Xianyu hadn't finished their exchange when they saw Wang Zijia suddenly flipping the jade pieces casually, and then inlaying the jade pieces into the rectangular door frame grid.
"No, once you press one, you must press all twenty-two pieces in the next thirty breaths, otherwise it will also fail..." Zhang Junyong subconsciously wanted to stop it.
"Click, click..."
However, what greeted Zhang Junyong was the rapid inlaying of pieces of jade.
Wang Zijia didn't hesitate at all and mounted it almost backwards.
The next moment, in the astonished eyes of everyone.
All twenty-two pieces of jade were embedded in it, and then a dazzling aura erupted.
At this moment, the words changed.
[Please test with blood! 】
'Um? Apart from password locks, are there also bloodline locks? '
Wang Zijia frowned and tentatively stretched out his hand. A drop of blood flew out from Wang Zijia's fingertips and blended into the words.
In an instant, it was as if the last piece of the puzzle had been assembled.
Wang Zijia, who was originally just experimenting, saw the jade pieces slowly melting and disappearing, and a vortex light gate emerged in its original position.
The passage is just opened!
"This..." Zhang Junyong and the others froze in place for a while before saying, "How did you do it, fellow Daoist Wang?"
You must know that this text is a variant genre, and it is a twenty-two-word incantation. From the back, it seems that there is a second layer of bloodline restrictions.
But Wang Zijia actually figured it out just by looking at it.
Wang Zijia ignored them. For some reason, he suddenly had a little expectation for this place.
A kind of expectation of meeting old friends in hometown after wandering in a foreign place for many years.
"Let's go in and take a look!" Wang Zijia frowned, and as he spoke, he walked in at the lead.
Seeing this, Zhang Junyong and others also decisively stepped into the light door.
However, what Wang Zijia didn't expect at all was that as he stepped into the light door, the balance of equivalence in his mind shook violently.
Not just what triggered it, it seemed like it was still trembling with excitement?
If it had emotions, it would be excited!
Then, a familiar feeling enveloped him.
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When Wang Zijia came to his senses, he came to a familiar yet strange place.
The silver-white world seems to be infinite all around, and it seems to be in a small silver-white room.
Wang Zijia was suspended in the center of the space. Apart from him, there was a page floating in front of him, and nothing else.
When Wang Zijia looked at the page clearly, he realized that it should be a piece of... letter paper?
And as Wang Zijia's eyes fell on it, the familiar information in his mind reappeared, there were still two choices.
[Lord of the Savior]: Su Hui gained reincarnation and traveled through time to save the world.
[The evil that destroys the world]: Evil causes evil consequences, and resentment causes the destruction of an entire world.
The inexplicable information that appeared in my mind was the same two choices, but it was completely different from the previous three time travel choices. No, it was two different places.
One difference is: this time the shuttle is not started by time evil, it is obviously a place prepared by humans!
The second difference is: this time the page in front of me is not a medium, or more than just a medium, it is a serious letter!
Before, no matter it was the original book page selection by the little monk of Sanjie Temple;
Or the long sword selection when riding the Turtle Sword Immortal in Changbao Prefecture;
It was still the choice of black and white chess pieces in Donghuang Taiqing Palace.
It is just a medium, a rather illusory thing.
But this time, Wang Zijia was sure that there was a letter in front of him, a letter with a pattern on the back.
[You have always said that you have never had the right to choose freely. 】
[You said, you are not a good person. 】
[You said that the world gave you evil causes, and you repaid them with evil. You said that you are lucky to be a brother. 】
[You said, you blame God the Father. 】
[You said, having a stepfather like this is the most fucked up thing in the world. 】
[So, brother, I will give you a new choice now, and let you feel the kindness of the whole world. Where you go, it all depends on you. 】
[In addition, because Father God has forbidden time and space, there is a limit to the number of times I can open the nursery for you. 】
[Also, I will eventually die, and I can only break the ban at a certain time point. Therefore, from the time you are born again, you only have a hundred anchor years. 】
[This includes the years when you did not awaken your memory. If you don’t wake up until you are ninety-nine, then continue to blame your brother and God the Father! 】
【If you haven’t awakened...then you haven’t awakened! 】
[Brother, Zhang Deming stays! 】
The letter was not long, and as the letter appeared on the paper, Wang Zijia heard a strong yet slightly soft male voice.
Moreover, this is not the first time Wang Zijia has heard this sound!
(End of chapter)
