Chapter 143: The Immortals' Past
"Then what about the other camps? Are we just going to ignore them?" Yin Hu frowned slightly, his tone anxious.
This time, the training camp involves widespread participation. It's not just one place in the North Sea that can enter the Immortal Ruins; the training camps from surrounding areas are also entering this site.
According to their original plan, the weak would accumulate, the strong would battle, and the stronger would continue to exploit, vying for resources.
In such a repetitive cycle, it would take at least half a month for someone to accumulate 300,000 points.
However, the current situation is that Su Tu swept through the A-level trainees alone, reaping their points.
Other trainees, in order not to have their points collected by Huang Dao and others, chose to pay protection fees to Su Tu.
This led to Su Tu gathering half of the trainees' CDF-level points in his hands within a single day.
In just five short days, he had accumulated the points.
Meanwhile, the martial artists of the other camps were still in the stages of doing tasks, accumulating points, and probing each other.
"There's no need to worry about them. If their trainees lack ambition, what does that have to do with us!"
In the end, Zi Shu waved his large sleeve, settling everything...
.....
After exchanging for early entry qualifications, Su Tu looked at the points page with only ten thousand points remaining and felt somewhat uneasy.
It's like when you're playing a game and save up a heap of coins to buy an item, but once the item is in hand, looking at the empty wallet leaves you with a sense of loss.
"How do I use this thing?"
In Su Tu's hand was a piece of paper resembling the corner of a scroll, with peculiar patterns on it.
After exchanging for early entry qualifications, a dedicated person delivered this strange piece of paper to Su Tu.
The material of this thing was peculiar. It was said to be a scroll, but the tactile sensation was somewhat soft and slippery.
This texture was unlike sheepskin, rather...
"Human skin!"
Su Tu's brows lowered as he looked at the corner of the scroll, feeling that something secret lay hidden behind it.
The Power of the Heart and Spirit surged slowly, his eyes tinted with a layer of golden light.
As he looked at the parchment corner again,
Su Tu's expression suddenly changed!!
At this moment, in his eyes, a woman entirely constructed of black hair was standing before him, watching him intently.
Her face was woven from strands of hair, with the positions of her eyes being two empty holes.
But for some reason, Su Tu felt that through those two voids, he could tangibly feel the woman gazing at him.
Moreover, an unspeakable sense of sorrow continuously emanated from her.
Even Su Tu was affected by this emotion, with an indescribable sadness welling up from deep within him, moistening his eyes as a tear traced down his cheek.
All this came quickly and left just as fast.
The woman made of hair appeared only for an instant before dispersing and vanishing as though she never existed.
Even when looking through his Heart and Spirit again, he could only see the lonely parchment corner swaying at his fingertips.
"What was that thing?"
Su Tu wiped the tear mark from his face, the sadness still rippling in his heart.
This feeling wasn't a cognitive distortion but a direct rendering of emotion.
More importantly, on that woman made of hair, Su Tu saw something...
"More refined than Qi, grander than True Qi, purer than Heart and Spirit Qi..."
Indeed, at the moment the hair woman appeared, Su Tu felt a special power, a power that had once manifested within him.
But now he couldn't find it no matter how he searched, only a tiny bit away.
"Immortal Power!!"
"That woman possessed Immortal Power!!"
A gleam flashed in Su Tu's eyes; he realized it was through this parchment corner that he saw the woman.
In other words, the woman made of hair was related to the Immortal Ruins.
At this moment, Su Tu had a premonition that he might find the key to harnessing Immortal Power in the Immortal Ruins.
Thinking of this, Su Tu couldn't help but feel excited.
He currently mastered two Ancient Skills, the Eight-Nine Profound Skill and the Heaven-Flipping Seal.
He had grasped some of their intricacies, and if he could wield them with Immortal Power, his combat strength would surge once more.
These legendary Immortal techniques would once again unfold their original grandeur before the world.
Thinking about this, Su Tu couldn't help but feel a surge of heat in his heart.
"I wonder what the situation inside the ruins is. I should prepare some supplies."
Su Tu quickly calmed down. This was his first time entering the Immortal Ruins, and he wasn't sure what to expect inside.
He needed to prepare all kinds of supplies to deal with any unforeseen situations.
Therefore, he exchanged all of his remaining ten thousand points.
He converted them into various supplies, elixirs, medical resources, and so on.
Su Tu was filled with anticipation for this trip to the Immortal Ruins.
However, it was already very late now, so he planned to find the chief instructor first thing tomorrow and ask how to use this thing to enter the Immortal Ruins.
After washing up, he prepared to enjoy his deep sleep pod one last time.
This thing was indeed quite good, not only effectively inducing sleep but also continuously emitting infrasound waves to relax the cerebral cortex and enhance the vitality of the Heart and Spirit.
Su Tu even considered the idea of buying one of these things in the future.
However, after looking at the price, to be honest, he still preferred sleeping in his big bed at home.
That night, something unusual happened—Su Tu had a dream.
Ever since he constructed his Self Universe and could harvest Dao while sleeping, he hadn't dreamed again.
This dream was very strange.
In the dream, Su Tu lived in a village, surrounded by peculiar mountains and rocks, with red ropes and copper coins interwoven everywhere at the village's entrance.
The women in the village wore hats to conceal their hair, while the men consecrated the family's cattle.
Su Tu's perspective was chaotic, occasionally seeing women weeping loudly, men kneeling in worship to their household oxen, and people whispering furtively by the village's red string.
Until the end of the dream, Su Tu saw the village's oldest ox stand upright, devouring its master before it, with blood and entrails spilling everywhere.
The surrounding men screamed in terror, while the women burst into hysterical laughter, tearing their clothes off madly, revealing their rotten, foul-smelling skin.
The men, upon seeing this, were even more horrified. They knelt on the ground, seemingly apologizing to the women, but the women continued their deranged laughter, removing their hats.
Afterwards... Su Tu saw all the women had bald heads, replaced by what seemed like chunks of dismembered flesh growing on their scalps...
Behind those women, a woman formed of hair raised her head and looked at Su Tu with hollow eyes...
A wave of immense sorrow swept over like a tsunami.
In the very end, through the strands of hair, Su Tu saw a pale-faced female corpse...
[You glimpsed the fragmented past of the Immortals, Spiritual Wisdom +100]
[Spiritual Wisdom (High Tier): 2560/5000]
"The past of the Immortals..."
Su Tu looked at the system notification before him, recalling that strange dream, sensing that these Immortal Ruins might be far from straightforward.
Originally thought to be mere cultivation grounds for the Immortals, but now it seems to be much more...
"It's getting more interesting."
Su Tu rose from the sleep pod, washed up, completed his morning exercises, and after tidying up, went out to find several chief instructors.
The chief instructors were mostly on the fifth floor of the fortress.
It seemed that they had been expecting Su Tu, waiting for him in advance.
"You have exchanged for an entrance permit and can enter the North Sea Ruins at any time."
Zi Shu spoke to Su Tu.
"Excuse me, Instructor, how do I enter the ruins?"
Su Tu took out the paper scrap.
Zi Shu glanced at the scrap, speaking softly.
"This is a fragment of the Star Map, which can open the entrance to the Immortal Ruins, but you need to reach the correct location."
"I must remind you of something, the Immortal Ruins do not exist in the present world, nor in any dimension we understand."
"Even if these ruins have been explored before, unexpected changes may occur. If any danger arises, tearing this token will return you to the present world."
Su Tu listened attentively.
According to Zi Shu, although these ruins have been explored, many unknown opportunities, or Immortal Fates, may still exist within.
The Immortals are too grand and mysterious, and everything related to them could be hiding 'immortal' secrets.
Finally, several chief instructors led Su Tu to the sixth floor of the fortress.
This sixth floor does not exist in the present world and can only be reached through some special transfer device.
This is the resonance point of the Immortal Ruins, where the entrance can be opened through resonance with the Star Map.
Upon arrival,
Buzz~
The nondescript paper scrap began to emit a glow.
With a summoning power, it directly tore open a gap in front of Su Tu.
From within emanated an indescribable aura.
The next moment!
The gap burst out with an incomparable brilliance, enveloping Su Tu and the paper scrap instantly.
In the final moment of Su Tu's disappearance,
A voice transmitted urgently into Su Tu's ear.
It was the voice of Wei Yang, Su Tu's future academy teacher, and he only transmitted two words to Su Tu.
"Profound Lady!!"
Then, Su Tu's figure vanished from everyone's sight.
"I wonder what kind of opportunity he'll have inside. This is one of the Federation's earliest discovered ruins."
Yin Hu sighed.
"Everything depends on his fortune. Well, the chosen ones from those families should arrive today, prepare to receive them."
Zi Shu spoke calmly.
Today is the sixth day of the Training Camp, and also the day those candidates directly designated with S-level identities arrive.
At the outskirts of the Training Camp.
Rumble!!
A massive spaceship tore through space and descended.
Chen Daowen emerged from the airship, with features like a jade crown and eyes like stars.
With a light step, his figure moved like flowing light and instantly appeared in the center of the Training Camp's plaza.
Radiant light burst forth from him, and he seemed like a blazing sun, making those who looked directly at him feel as though their eyes were burned by the scorching sun.
"What a terrifying aura!!"
"The contemporary genius of the Chen Family, Chen Daowen!!"
"Celestial Pride List candidate!!"
Recognizing Chen Daowen's identity, some students exclaimed in awe.
"Immortal Ruins, here I come!"
Disregarding the gazes around him, Chen Daowen smirked, an unspeakable arrogance between his brows.
"I, Chen Daowen, shall be the first to enter the Immortal Ruins!"
"All opportunities will be mine, and the Chen Family's Daoist Canon shall be in my hands!"
"My rise begins today!!"
Chen Daowen's eyes flashed with brilliance.