"Lingguang Realm..." Bai Shengyi savored the three words.
The Divine启 World had once produced Ascended cultivators, so Bai Shengyi had already learned from Senior Sister Qian Ying that the Mahayana stage was not the end of a cultivator's journey.
Qi Gathering, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Mahayana. Three thousand years ago, cultivators in the Divine启 World, upon reaching the late Mahayana stage, would undergo a great heavenly tribulation and ascend the immortal ladder, meaning they would become immortals and travel to the Immortal Realm.
Of course, in reality, the so-called Immortal Realm was merely a higher-level world than the Divine启 World, such as the Chong Yuan Middle World.
And after the Mahayana stage, after becoming an immortal, there were still the Lingguang Realm, Kongming Realm, Po Xu Realm, and Sage Realm.
The ancestor who left behind fragments of information in the Divine启 World might have written in haste, only saying, "Lingguang is like grass, and Saints are hard to find," and nothing more.
Yet now, in the Lingguang Realm, which was considered as insignificant as grass in the so-called Immortal Realm, Bai Shengyi felt her vital energy surge.
It was as if countless hands were pressing down on her back, determined to make her bend, to make her kneel, to make her bow!
But she still stood her ground, composed and calm, as if she had not been attacked at all.
"Stop chopping its body," Bai Shengyi said gravely.
With each strike Moon Jun landed on the Earth Dragon, the Earth Dragon split into two. In a short while, the entire mine was filled with severed parts of Earth Dragons. Those severed bodies did not die but grew again, and after a moment, another complete Earth Dragon emerged.
"Bang!"
Moon Jun was suddenly struck by the Earth Dragon's tail and sent flying!
"Damn it, ugh!"
Foul-smelling slime splattered onto his face from the Earth Dragon's tail, making him so nauseated that he almost passed out on the spot.
Because his own cultivation was at the late Lingguang Realm, and he had only suppressed his cultivation to the peak of Mahayana using restrictions to come to the Green Glory Minor World to obtain the Heart of the Divine Wood, the Earth Dragon's pressure did not restrain him much. However, even so, if he did not remove the restrictions on his cultivation, dealing with the Earth Dragon now would be very troublesome.
Moon Jun carefully calculated all possibilities, not expecting Bai Shengyi to help at all. In his opinion, ever since he mentioned the Earth Dragon's realm, Bai Shengyi had been frozen in place, perhaps scared witless.
The Earth Dragons wriggled rustlingly in the cave. All around were Wood God Stones cut from the mine by Moon Jun's saber, their faint greenish-blue light illuminating the surroundings, like a netherworld mansion.
The Earth Dragon thrashed and attacked Moon Jun again. In a daze, Moon Jun heard a faint voice.
"Ice and snow."
It was as if a chilly wind swept past, carrying a myriad of snow and ice that covered the sky.
In the blink of an eye, Moon Jun saw the Earth Dragons on the ground frozen in place, some even retaining their hunched postures.
"You... have ice spirit roots?" he looked at the white-clothed woman not far away, his eyes filled with disbelief.
But wasn't she an alchemist?
Could she have wood, fire, and ice spirit roots?
Bai Shengyi remained silent, turning the Samsara Brush.
Her cultivation was a whole major realm lower than the Earth Dragon's, and this Speech Truth Art could not control the Earth Dragon for too long.
"How did you encounter this thing?" the Samsara Brush chattered irritably. "No wonder you wanted to call me back. But I'm telling you, Brush Brush discovered a big secret in the Chong Ming Pavilion—"
"Stop with the nonsense," Bai Shengyi interrupted its nagging. "I'm asking you, if you can come in from the outside, does that mean the Myriad Wood Forest we're in is actually still within the Central Domain Divine Temple?"
The Samsara Brush was displeased at being interrupted, but it still told Bai Shengyi, "Not only that, but you are also inside the Divine Invitation Pavilion. In fact, none of you have left the Divine Invitation Pavilion. The Divine Invitation Pavilion has a massive spatial formation that can fold space. You are currently in a folded space."
The Samsara Brush spoke rapidly, "But just like everything you saw in the True Eye Talisman before, everything in this space is real. If you want to break the formation and leave, you still need to find the formation eye first."
Bai Shengyi did not know much about formations.
At this moment, she regretted it a little, "If I had known, I should have studied the 'Heavenly Talisman Eye Yang Record' earlier."
The Samsara Brush's body flashed with a light, and it comforted her, "Your cultivation years are still short, and it is not wrong to focus on one thing first and achieve mastery."
When Bai Shengyi first obtained the 'Heavenly Talisman Eye Yang Record,' the Samsara Brush had advised her to seize the opportunity to study it. However, Bai Shengyi had already entered the Dao through alchemy and was also practicing swordsmanship, neither of which she had mastered. Bai Shengyi was worried about trying to do too much and not succeeding at anything, so she merely memorized the 'Heavenly Talisman Eye Yang Record' word for word before lending the original copy to the peak master of the Talisman Peak.
"It seems the thickest Earth Dragon is about to break free," the Samsara Brush whispered to remind Bai Shengyi. "Why don't you try burning it with fire?"
Bai Shengyi had a hunch that burning it with fire would be useless, but the moment the Earth Dragon broke through the ice, Bai Shengyi still formed a seal and struck with a blazing crimson sun.
The Earth Dragon's movements only paused for a moment before it charged forward again with its body arched!
Bai Shengyi frowned. Just as a wisp of Ten Directions Netherfire appeared in her hand, she sensed Moon Jun's scrutinizing gaze. Her eyes turned cold, she abruptly extinguished the Ten Directions Netherfire, and drew her sword, stabbing at the Earth Dragon.
"Divine Maiden Bai! Didn't you say to stop chopping it?" Moon Jun couldn't help but exclaim loudly. What was this woman thinking? Knowing that chopping the Earth Dragon would only lead to more of them, why was she still doing this?
Bai Shengyi said coldly, ""
There were so many already, what was two more? As soon as the words left her mouth, the Heavenly Mechanism Sword followed her movement and severed the Earth Dragon's head. However, this time, the Earth Dragon did not revive.
"What did you do?" Moon Jun clutched his chest and walked unsteadily to Bai Shengyi's side to ask.
Bai Shengyi turned the Samsara Brush, and a surge of spiritual power flowed from her palm, enveloping the Earth Dragon. In a moment, the Earth Dragon turned into a pile of white bones.
Moon Jun was shocked, "You used poison?"
If that were the case, it made sense.
Moon Jun silently put away the poison he had taken out to sneak attack with. His poison was not as potent as Bai Shengyi's. It would be bad if he didn't eliminate Bai Shengyi and instead forced her hand.
"Why doesn't he even know about the power of rules?" the Samsara Brush asked Bai Shengyi. "Didn't you say he should be from the Immortal Realm?"
"How would I know? Also, I didn't say he was from the Immortal Realm. I guessed that he came from a world higher than Green Glory."
Only those who felt their status was more noble and their identity more superior would always regard everyone with a scrutinizing and disdainful gaze.
Bai Shengyi discovered that the time rule was effective against the Earth Dragons, and she used this method to kill several more Earth Dragons. However, her spiritual power was limited, and there was no way to replenish her spiritual energy here, so before long, her face had turned pale.
"Crack—"
"The ice is melting!" Moon Jun urged Bai Shengyi anxiously, "Hurry up!"
Bai Shengyi sneered, sat down on the ground hugging her sword, and stopped moving.
"Divine Maiden Bai, what are you doing?" Moon Jun said angrily. "Now is not the time for your wilfulness. If these Earth Dragons get out, we will all die."
The sound of ice cracking continued to ring out, but Bai Shengyi seemed to have truly resigned herself to fate and remained completely still.
"Very good! You are the first woman to make me hate you so much!" Moon Jun gritted his teeth, picked up his saber, and charged towards the Earth Dragons about to break free from the ice, saying as he went, "You'd better not let me find an opportunity—"
His long saber suddenly transformed its blade into a long spear. Moon Jun suddenly turned his head, ignoring the Earth Dragons breaking through the ice, and hurled his spear at Bai Shengyi!