After Becoming the Hero’s Ex-fiancée - Chapter 120
After Becoming the Hero’s Ex-fiancée Chapter 120
The Scripture Depository (3)
“Back in the day, when the ‘Non-Emptiness Sutra’ at the Grand Magnificence stage was cast, it could create the skies, all manner of flora and fauna, alter winds and clouds. With a single thought from the practitioner, no one can distinguish between illusion and reality, and the illusion of an entire world could be brought to life. How can these low-level charm arts compare?”
As Zheng Wan began yearning for it, she saw the five peak masters throwing the object in their hands upward at the same time. There were still five pieces of broken darksteel a moment ago quickly merged together, and in a short while, it became a key.
Rumble——
The door of the Scripture Depository opened.
“Enter!”
The disciples filed in.
Soon it was Zheng Wan’s turn.
She also lifted her foot and stepped inside. As soon as she stepped through the door, she felt heaven and earth spinning, as if she had stepped into a void.
Zheng Wan looked down and saw that there was a nebula under her feet, and the entire space was darkness. All the young cultivators who were squeezed together just now had disappeared, and there were only bookshelves suspended in mid-air, emitting a faint light.
She went down the bookshelves and looked at each of them one by one.
Reaching out to touch it, she found that the bookshelves were all coated with a layer of film. Her hand passed through it without any hindrance, and small booklets leapt out and flew towards her: Charmed Heart Sutra, Dark Lady Sutra, Jade Maiden Sutra…
“The greedy will err.”
Zheng Wan withdrew her hand hastily.
The light film trembled, then returned to its original state.
“Granny Jin? Granny Jin?”
Zheng Wan shouted for Granny Jin, but she had disappeared.
No matter how much she called, she did not appear. Zheng Wan suddenly became uneasy. She wanted that ‘Non-Emptiness Sutra’ too much, but the Granny Jin who had given her absolute assurance had disappeared.
Just then, one of the bookshelves suddenly floated backwards, farther and farther away from her.
Zheng Wan stretched out her hand reflexively, but the bookshelf went further away instead.
“A disorientated heart is lost.”
The horsetail whisk-wielding female cultivator’s warning from just now suddenly appeared in her mind. Zheng Wan took a deep breath, calmed herself, closed her eyes, and tried to let herself feel the nebula, the vast emptiness, and the dots of light that gradually lit up in her sea of consciousness.
Gradually, the darkness was melted away by the light.
Bound volumes spun in circles and flew towards her.
Zheng Wan walked by intently without looking at them and did not stop.
Countless books and scrolls rushed towards her, but Zheng Wan only felt as if she seemed to have become a new bud in the spring, constantly absorbing the fragrance of the volumes, lengthening out and growing bigger. Gradually, these volumes became shocked at her massive size and no longer came close.
Her roots plunged and settled into the nebula, and ice crystals condensed on them. Her branches reached overhead, piercing through the thin layer of clouds——
“Got it.”
Zheng Wan opened her eyes; she spread out her hands and found that she had become an iceman. Her palms were transparent ice crystals, and on the ice crystals, there was a thin volume that was like a transparent, half-torn leaf. On the leaf, it was written:
‘Non-Emptiness Sutra, Volume 1’.
A tremendous force pushed her out.
Outside the Scripture Depository, the sun was already setting in the west. Countless disciples were looking at the depository, waiting to see what kind of scripture this innate Dao core that invoked twelve chimes of the bell would get.
“It’s been so long, could it be that she has failed?”
“There’s already been three mid-grade scriptures today, and one top-grade scripture. This is already extremely rare by Yuqing Sect’s standards. The one who obtained the top-grade scripture only took half a day, and now, it’s already been almost an entire day…”
“It can’t be an immortal-grade one, right? I’ve not heard of there being any immortal-grade scriptures in Yuqing Sect…”
“Let’s go, let’s go, maybe she got a low-grade one and slinked away while no one was paying attention.”
All five peak masters wore grave expressions, but no one left.
Since they didn’t leave, the disciples did not either.
When one obtained a scripture from the Scripture Depository, a light would be emitted from it.
A low-grade scripture resulted in earth-coloured light, mid-grade was cyan, and top-grade, red. As for the immortal grade— no one has ever seen it.
Of course, none of the disciples present thought that someone would really obtain a legendary immortal-grade scripture.
Just then, an intense golden light burst forth——
Zheng Wan came out.
The five peak masters closed their eyes in unison, then opened them again in an instant; even all the young disciples did the same. Then, they heard a burst of laughter from Zi Xiu Daojun as he clapped loudly, “Good, good, good, as expected of one with an innate Dao core!”
“Is that the ‘Non-Emptiness Sutra’?” The female cultivator with the horsetail whisk asked.
Only to see that in the brilliant golden light, the ice and snow blanketing the white-clothed female cultivator melted away, and she nodded and said, “Yes.”
