Qin Si spoke, his hand raking through the boundless darkness. Li Tingyun didn't even see what happened before the scenery before his eyes changed. He had been moved from the Nine Revolutions Spirit Gathering Array to another location.
"The Heavenly Dao Gorge?" Li Tingyun was incredibly shocked, even envious. "How could you possibly find the location of the Heavenly Dao Gorge? How long have you been cultivating?"
Since entering the Mahayana stage, he had entered the Mustard Seed Layer countless times to find the Heavenly Dao Gorge, all in vain. In the end, he had no choice but to use the Nine Revolutions Fortune Seizing Array to nurture his ascension.
It was a pity that he had not anticipated that the Divine Revelation Academy would not only produce Qin Si but also Bai Shengyi.
These two alone had destroyed his pawns Qing Buli and Bai Murong, whom he had placed on the Continent of the Forsaken Gods, and then destroyed his Nine Revolutions Fortune Seizing Array, ruining his millennia of planning.
Thinking of this, Li Tingyun's face became even more ferocious, and he barked viciously, "So what if you found the Heavenly Dao Gorge? Without the Immortal Ladder, the Upper Realm will not acknowledge your status as an ascender, and you will not be able to ascend. With your low cultivation, when people from the Upper Realm arrive, you will only be at their mercy!"
"I said, today I will show you how the Immortal Ladder is repaired."
Qin Si said only this.
Li Tingyun felt he was talking nonsense.
For three thousand years, the Ascension Immortal Ladder of the Divine Revelation Minor World had been broken for three thousand years. How could it be repaired by a mere youngster?
Li Tingyun didn't believe it at all, but he was suddenly hit by a powerful force that snapped his head straight.
"Qin Si! How dare you—"
His furious roar was cut off by the sight that suddenly met his eyes.
Within the Heavenly Dao Gorge, spiritual flowers and herbs vied to bloom, exuding ethereal immortal energy. A giant snow-white Boundary Wall Solitary Flower and a vibrant red Boundary Wall Solitary Flower were close together, and the red flower would occasionally nudge the white flower with its tendril.
The white flower did not get angry when nudged, remaining gentle and pure, as if sculpted from untainted snow. It patted the petals of the red flower.
But this was not the scene that left Li Tingyun speechless. What stunned him was the incredibly distant sky, where thunder rolled, exuding a terrifying and ancient majestic aura. A snow-white long ladder flickered in and out of existence between the blue-purple lightning.
The white ladder was only three or four steps high at this moment, but as the thunderclouds churned, streams of chaotic energy gathered from the Heavenly Dao Gorge and ascended, increasing in steps, forming a curved arch that descended from the sky.
Li Tingyun didn't even need to calculate carefully to know that this seemingly ordinary white ladder would be repaired in a short time.
"How is this possible... Impossible... Impossible! The Ascension Immortal Ladder was destroyed by the Chongyuan Middle World long ago. How could you possibly repair it?"
Qin Si knew this old man had many secrets.
He had no intention of asking Li Tingyun. Given Li Tingyun's cunning nature, he would never tell him the truth.
"Not only did we repair the Immortal Ladder, but we also allowed the Divine Revelation Continent to nurture a new Heavenly Dao."
He said with a smile, "Speaking of which, we have to thank you, Sect Master Li. If you hadn't set up that Nine Revolutions Fortune Seizing Array, how would we have known that the reason the Divine Revelation Continent formed its own world was because of a different Heavenly Dao consciousness? We also wouldn't have known that as long as the Heavenly Dao consciousness of the Divine Revelation World was complete, the Immortal Ladder would naturally be repaired."
"Pfft!"
Li Tingyun was so angered by Qin Si's words that he spat out a mouthful of vital blood and fainted.
He had lost his physical body, and the black mist he had condensed, though seemingly insignificant, had consumed a large amount of his vital energy. As a result, when he fainted, he did not wake up immediately.
"You think everything is over just because you fainted?" Qin Si's narrow phoenix eyes flashed with a cold light, and he raised his hand to cover Li Tingyun's forehead.
However, just as he was about to act, a gentle but unyielding breeze blew and brushed his hand away.
"Heavenly Dao, what are you doing?"
Qin Si looked up, his expressionless gaze directed at the nearly black sea of thunder, at the completely unnoticeable giant white cocoon.
This cocoon had grown larger than what Bai Shengyi had seen before, but the lightning around it still treated it with the same gentleness.
The giant cocoon did not react. Qin Si's eyes darkened, and he tried to act again, only to be brushed away by the Heavenly Dao once more.
"...Wait... wait..."
A ethereal voice, seeming real yet illusory, neither human nor not, echoed through the entire Heavenly Dao Gorge.
All living beings within the Heavenly Dao Gorge seemed to have seen something they deeply cherished, writhing and twisting frantically as they chased it. Countless flowers and leaves floated from the ground, transforming into pure chaotic energy and surging towards the sky.
"If Li Tingyun wakes up later and wants to search his soul, it won't be so easy," it explained in a deep, cold tone.
If it weren't for the need to ensure that as much useful information as possible was extracted from Li Tingyun's mind, he wouldn't have gone out of his way to anger Li Tingyun.
He could have searched Li Tingyun's soul in the outside world, but at that time, Qing Lan had said that Li Tingyun carried an aura that did not belong to the Divine Revelation World. To avoid alarming the enemy, Qin Si had brought him to the Heavenly Dao Gorge when he sensed something was amiss.
The Heavenly Dao Gorge was an independent space attached to the Heavenly Dao consciousness, the origin of the entire world. Here, the Heavenly Dao consciousness was the absolute deity, and nothing could escape its eyes. Of course, the Heavenly Dao Gorge of fifty-odd years ago was an exception.
This was because at that time, the Heavenly Dao consciousness had been split into two parts and was incomplete. The entire Heavenly Dao Gorge was barren, and it lacked its proper control.
The Heavenly Dao consciousness did not make another sound. Qin Si frowned slightly and restrained himself from acting.
The red Boundary Wall Solitary Flower seemed to sense its master's inner turmoil and nudged the white one several more times.
The white flower rubbed against the red one good-naturedly, as if to comfort it.
Time ticked by. There was no sun or moon in the Heavenly Dao Gorge, so Qin Si had no way of knowing how long he had been inside.
Perhaps it was an instant, perhaps it was decades.
A clear, resonant clang rang out, and an Immortal Ladder spanned the entire sky.
At the same time, all the cultivators in the Mahayana stage of the Divine Revelation World felt something and looked up at the sky.
"The sky has changed."
The prayer beads in Master Ku Liao's hands suddenly scattered in all directions. He stood up from under the bodhi tree, his aged eyes blazing with divine light.
"Grandmaster, what happened?" The young Buddhist disciple walked in from outside and, seeing the scattered prayer beads, said anxiously, "Your prayer beads..."
"It's nothing. Little Fish, I have something to attend to outside. If demonic cultivators attack, please have Uncle Tian Shu handle all matters."
Master Ku Liao waved his hand, and his figure vanished from the spot.
At the same time, two voices echoed from the summit of Qunyu Mountain.
"Junior Sister, I think I've sensed the opportunity for ascension?"
"The speed at which the vast secret realm is descending has increased!"