Super Combat Soldier

Chapter 711: Chapter 710 [Seven-colored Divine Soil]

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”The medicine field, the medicine field...”

Suddenly, Tianshuang’s face showed a hint of joy, and she happily ran toward the thatched hut. Ye Tianchen and Dongfang Meng were both stunned, not knowing what had gotten into Tianshuang, afraid that something unexpected and dangerous might happen, they quickly followed suit.

In the heart of Sun Never Sets Mountain, it was actually such a scene that Ye Tianchen, Dongfang Meng, and Tianshuang had not anticipated. Those fallen warriors who had entered Sun Never Sets Mountain, regardless of what they were searching for, would likely be shocked to know of such a spectacle.

”How could this be? How could this be?” Tianshuang ran to the medicine field and frantically searched, looking over the seven differently colored patches, but found nothing.

Tianshuang sat down on the ground, her expression somewhat forlorn, not believing as she looked at the medicine field outside the thatched hut, seemingly helpless at not finding something.

Ye Tianchen and Dongfang Meng walked over and looked at the medicine field with its seven small patches, finding traces of the Immortal Elixir having been harvested and a faint Divine Power flickering. However, in these seven patches, the Immortal Elixirs were long gone, having vanished who knows how long ago, leaving behind only soil that still held a hint of spiritual essence.

”It seems that the Immortal Elixirs here have all been picked by someone!” Dongfang Meng said with some regret.

”Who could be so powerful? To be able to harvest seven life-extending Immortal Elixirs all at once, who built this thatched hut in the first place, and how long have they lived here?” Ye Tianchen couldn’t help but ask.

Tianshuang glanced at Dongfang Meng and Ye Tianchen, knowing that it was impossible for any Immortal Elixirs to remain inside Sun Never Sets Mountain. Grandmaster’s half guess was right; Earth was no longer suitable for cultivation. Even Martial Arts Experts had to leave, let alone life-extending Immortal Elixirs, which all possessed extremely strong spiritual nature, capable of flying and escaping, surely not remaining here. However, if that were so, then Grandmaster would no longer have the hope of extending his life, and he would pass away very soon...

At this thought, Tianshuang felt some sorrow. She was an orphan in her early years and was discovered by the Grandmaster of the Heavenly Number Mysterious Sect, who commanded her master to come to Tianshuang’s aid, bringing her into the Heavenly Number Mysterious Sect. That was how Tianshuang arrived at her current circumstance. Thus, she held deep affection for the Heavenly Number Mysterious Sect and the Grandmaster. She was prepared to pay any price to break into Sun Never Sets Mountain and find the life-extending Immortal Elixir to extend the Grandmaster’s lifespan by one more generation, but all was in vain... Apart from the seven differently colored soils where the Immortal Elixirs had been harvested, not a single Elixir was to be seen, as if they had long left Earth.

”This place must have been the dwelling of an Emperor. If I’m not mistaken, it must have been the first person of Emperor Level in this Martial Arts Great World, said to be the Emperor!”

”The Emperor? The first Emperor?” Dongfang Meng couldn’t help but ask in surprise.

”The Emperor?” Ye Tianchen also frowned.

”These matters, even the experts of today’s Martial Arts Great World might not know. Only the Grandmaster, who could calculate the ancient and modern, would know some secrets, but unfortunately, he...” Tianshuang said, choked up with emotion.

”It’s not necessarily the end. Maybe there’s still a chance to go beyond this realm. We need to find the second piece of the Ancient Transmission Array as quickly as possible,” Ye Tianchen said after looking at Tianshuang.

”Then I’ll take you to find the second piece of the Ancient Transmission Array!” Tianshuang nodded and said.

”Tell us about the Emperor along the way? I’m very curious about such a powerful being who could harvest seven life-extending Immortal Elixirs at once. Even for an Emperor, that’s probably no small feat...” Ye Tianchen asked.

Tianshuang nodded her head, stood up, and took one last look at the thatched hut in front of her, then at the seven patches in the medicine field, and couldn’t help but say, ”Grandmaster’s guess was not wrong; Sun Never Sets Mountain was indeed brought back from beyond the realm by ’The Emperor,’ and it was also where ’The Emperor’ chose to spend his retirement!”

”Who exactly is ’The Emperor’?” Ye Tianchen asked.

”The Emperor was the first Great Emperor to appear in this Martial Arts Great World. He is known as the Emperor because his power is even above that of Great Emperors...” Tianshuang said with furrowed brows.

”What? Above Great Emperors? You mean there are beings even more powerful than Great Emperors? How is that possible?” Dongfang Meng was clearly disbelieving.

Indeed, in the eyes of all cultivators, the title of Emperor represents the symbol of the highest peak existence. To become a Great Emperor who is invincible in the world, one could dominate the rise and fall of this Martial Arts Great World. No one could be more powerful than an Emperor, whose strength was unimaginable. Destroying a Star Domain with a single finger was absolutely not an exaggeration.

Now, Tianshuang claimed there was someone known as the ”Emperor” whose combat power was even above that of a Great Emperor, which was simply too mind-boggling. Even for Dongfang Meng and Ye Tianchen, who were both Martial Artists, it was difficult to accept such a concept. Above a Great Emperor, there existed beings even stronger, so what kind of shocking secrets did this Martial Arts Great World hold?

”The Emperors are the rulers of this Martial Arts Great World. You said before that, for hundreds of millions of years, there have been only five Great Emperors within the Human Clan’s records. How could there possibly be beings more formidable than the Great Emperors? Just how strong could such beings be?” Ye Tianchen couldn’t help asking in astonishment.

Tianshuang looked at Ye Tianchen and Dongfang Meng, then crouched down to look at the seven differently colored soils in the medicine field and said, ”You both crouch down and take a look as well. See if you can find anything different about this colored soil?”

Ye Tianchen and Dongfang Meng, not knowing what Tianshuang intended to do, glanced at each other and then crouched down to examine the soil in the medicine field.

”Apart from having seven different colors, is there something wrong with the soil?” Dongfang Meng asked.

”Touch it,” said Tianshuang.

Dongfang Meng looked at Ye Tianchen, then reached out her right hand and touched the soil in the medicine field, furrowing her brows in disbelief. Afterward, she knocked on it with her fist, and to Ye Tianchen’s astonishment, there was no response at all—was this really soil? It was hundreds of times harder than steel.

”How come this soil...” Dongfang Meng frowned and said.

”This is not ordinary soil; it’s the Seven-colored Divine Soil,” said Tianshuang earnestly.

”Seven-colored Divine Soil?” Ye Tianchen asked, puzzled.

”Let me tell you about the prophecy of the Grandmaster. It includes something about the Seven-colored Divine Soil, though these things also need confirmation...”

At this moment, Tianshuang completely treated Ye Tianchen and Dongfang Meng as friends, feeling the sincerity they held towards her. Finding the Immortal Elixir for extending life was impossible; the Grandmaster’s passing was imminent. The only method left was to quickly reassemble the Ancient Transmission Array and search for the Immortal Elixir in the outer realms. However, the Immortal Elixir could drive any cultivator insane with desire, even a Great Emperor would be tempted to act, and it was certainly not easy to acquire.

According to the Divine Calculation, who lived for seven thousand years with the art of the Heavenly Number Mysterious Sect, it was through his prophecies and conjectures that the Sun Never Sets Mountain was formerly a part of another domain, cut off and brought to Earth by the ”Emperor.” The Sun Never Sets Mountain itself was not originally of Earth, and after the Emperor returned to Earth, he planted the Immortal Elixir of life extension within it, using the exceedingly rare Seven-colored Divine Soil essential for growing the Immortal Elixir. Without the Seven-colored Divine Soil, even if one had the Immortal Elixir, it wouldn’t be possible for it to survive. It was said that the Seven-colored Divine Soil fell from the Immortal World and scattered within this Martial Arts Great World, making it extremely difficult to obtain, a divine feat not possible without the power of a Great Emperor.

The Seven-colored Divine Soil is not just any soil but a Divine Artifact that enables the Immortal Elixir to survive and grow within it. To destroy this Divine Soil, one requires the battle strength of an Emperor Level; it is indestructible—that is the special property of the Seven-colored Divine Soil.

”The Seven-colored Divine Soil is so miraculous, it truly doesn’t seem like something that could appear in this Martial Arts Great World. So, who exactly is the Emperor?” asked Ye Tianchen.

”The Emperor is the first Great Emperor of the Martial Arts Great World and the one who has lived the longest and walked the furthest on the Immortal Road of Eternal Life. Perhaps you find this hard to understand, so let me put it this way: many believe that after becoming an Emperor, one has reached the peak realm of a Martial Artist’s cultivation. But that’s not the case; there are realms above a Great Emperor that one needs to break through. Only by reaching the pinnacle can one become a person of the Emperor Level,” Tianshuang revealed.

Tianshuang shared crucial information beyond the peak of what Ye Tianchen and Dongfang Meng knew about. Becoming a Great Emperor wasn’t the end of the strongest existence’s dominion; there were still higher realms to be achieved. Were there even more steps in the ladder of cultivation? This was the first time they had heard of such things, hard to believe, but by the look on Tianshuang’s face, she seemed to be genuinely sharing the truth.

”There are realms above a Great Emperor that one needs to break through? This...” Ye Tianchen asked, finding it difficult to believe.

”The Human Clan has records of five Great Emperors, but what about those that haven’t been recorded? Over the countless years, too many secrets have been buried in the passage of time, secrets that can’t be known without reaching a stature akin to that of an Emperor. Moreover, there are other beings of the same rank as Great Emperors, known as Heavenly Kings and Supreme Beings,” Tianshuang explained.

Ye Tianchen nodded, understanding the reason in Tianshuang’s words. In terms of the number of Great Emperors, there have only been five recorded in the long river of human history, but over billions of years, could humanity have truly only produced five Great Emperors? Or could it be that some Great Emperors went unrecorded since the whereabouts of beings akin to Emperors are not something ordinary cultivators can know?

Tianshuang glanced at Ye Tianchen and continued, ”Heavenly Kings and Supreme Beings are the titles that the Demon Beasts and the Ancient Alien Race use to refer to the supreme beings of their Species, just as the highest beings of the Human Clan are called Great Emperors. It’s just different names for similar statuses.” (To be continued. If you like this work, we welcome you to vote for it on Qidian (qidian.com), or send monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)