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Chapter 391: Chapter 388 Aries Star Lord
"Dao Marks, almost, but not just anyone is eligible to become a Dao Mark,"
the woman said indifferently.
It seemed she hadn’t spoken to anyone in a long time, so she responded to Gu Jinlai’s words, "Often their existence merely serves to guide the Star Lord, allowing his majesty to send down his True Spirit to briefly touch the real world, lest he completely forgets the scent of reality. I hope you are truly capable of bearing his majesty’s True Body from the Spirit Realm."
Gu Jinlai’s face changed.
True Body!?
A True Body from the Spirit Realm that had transformed its True Spirit Form into a Spirit Realm Life!?
Without thinking, one knew that it must be an existence far more terrifying than a Crystalized True Spirit!
Gu Jinlai’s figure moved, ready to leave this place that was both a plaza and equally a sacrificial altar.
But when he planned to leave, he felt a powerful binding force sweeping over him. Suddenly, it was as if he had stepped into an area with hundreds, thousands times normal gravity, making even the slightest movement of his body extremely difficult.
"No! What’s binding me isn’t gravity, it’s my True Spirit! This is a domain-based Soul Secret Technique! It’s like drawing a prison on the ground, stirring my True Spirit to interfere with my perception, making me believe I cannot move!"
Gu Jinlai quickly realized something, his True Spirit was ignited, and a radiant Great Sun emerged, exuding endless brilliance and heat, even pressing down the splendor of this altar-like plaza.
Indeed, as he activated his True Spirit, that feeling of being bound by hundreds to thousands times the force of gravity largely dissipated.
His movement was no longer restricted.
"Such pure spirituality, no wonder Zi Yang said that you surpass the nineteen inheritors he has encountered over the years, and proclaimed that you would surely be able to accommodate the True Body’s power of the Star Lord, allowing his majesty to completely return to the mortal world,"
the woman said, her face showing surprise: "I am very much looking forward to your performance next."
In the midst of speaking, a beam of light separated from the high tower, which previously shot out a kilometer-long column of light, and headed straight towards Gu Jinlai’s position.
Gu Jinlai was about to dodge, but realized that this beam was not aimed at him, but rather...
The altar beneath his feet.
With the energy from this column of light, the altar that had been suppressed by Gu Jinlai’s Great Sun Core shone again, and the omnipresent gravitational bindings once again appeared on Gu Jinlai.
"Expectation..."
Gu Jinlai muttered these two words.
Zi Yang had also mentioned more than once before, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the master of the Aries Star Palace.
He had thought that this new master of the Aries Star Palace referred to him, but it turned out...
"So, the inheritance of the Aries Star Palace has always been a conspiracy. The Heavenly Dragon Wood roaming the world day after day, bearing the Aries Star Palace, is to select suitable people to become the Dao Marks of the Aries Star Palace, to avoid him getting completely lost in the Star Realm? And over the years, the three challenges of the Aries Star Palace were not without success, there were actually nineteen who succeeded, and they..."
Gu Jinlai understood.
He finally knew where the unease he’d felt in his heart originated from.
Millennium!
No matter how outstanding the Aries Star Palace inheritance was, it shouldn’t be that for a whole millennium, no one could pass the challenges set by it.
And Zi Yang and Heavenly Dragon Wood, no matter how diligent, should not be carrying the burden of searching for an inheritor for the Aries Star Palace for a millennium!
The reason for everything was actually the Aries Star Lord.
The ultimate meaning of this so-called inheritance turned out to be to find Dao Marks capable of bearing the Aries Star Lord’s True Spirit power, allowing him to occasionally navigate the real world, to ensure he wouldn’t get lost in the Spirit Realm.
Unfortunately, although he had suspicions, he had to believe it due to the power of the Heavenly Dragon Wood.
He had no choice but to step through the Star Gate.
Moreover, with the millennium-old reputation of the Aries Star Palace, he harbored a sliver of hope.
But as it turned out...
The millennium-old reputation was carefully woven into a lie over a thousand years.
He remembered Zi Yang’s last words to him as he stepped through the Star Gate.
"I will wait here for your return."
This was to...
Just in case.
To prevent any message unfavorable to the Aries Star Palace from leaking out.
Silence.
"Buzz buzz!"
At that moment, the True Spirit Realm stirred as if some colossal entity was about to return, and the ripples it created as it moved were so clear that even the "naked eye" could "see" them.
"The Star Lord has sensed our call and will soon descend,"
the woman’s emotions became somewhat excited: "Rejoice, for you are about to welcome your most glorious moment."
"You think you can subdue me with Soul Secret Technique!"
Gu Jinlai’s expression was frosty.
The next moment, a dazzling radiance burst forth from the core of the Great Sun, the light carrying the searing heat that could dissolve all spirituality, once again suppressing the glow of the altar.
"You want to use your own power to fight against the power of Qingyang Valley,"
the woman looked amused as she watched Gu Jinlai continue to struggle: "At its peak, Qingyang Valley even suppressed the spirituality of the creator; even now, after a thousand years of decay, its power is not something a mere Heavenly Monarch like you can contend with."
As soon as she finished speaking, the towering, prong-like high tower shot out another column of light, instantly escalating the binding power of the altar.
Gu Jinlai even felt he could no longer stand upright, almost wanting to lie flat on the ground.
But, that was not the most dangerous part.
The most dangerous was that, as the ripples of spirituality in the True Spirit Realm continued to surge, one...
Demon Spirit!
A creature that looked extremely like a Demon Spirit, but more transparent and with a clearer, purer radiance, appeared in Gu Jinlai’s "perception."
This creature’s "perception" spanned nearly a kilometer, and it vaguely resembled the Innate Divine Beast, Bai Ze, from myths and legends.
At that moment, bathed in starlight from head to toe, he tread upon countless beams of light constructed of spiritual essence, aimlessly and unconsciously "drawn" here.
Drawn!
Just like using bait to attract prey.
On this demon spirit that resembled the innate divine beast Bai Ze in form... On this spirit realm life, he did not sense much in the way of thoughts, rationality, or conscious fluctuations.
As such, he could only be "drawn" here from somewhere in the spirit realm by this method.
Is this the Aries Star Lord!?
Fully transformed into a spirit realm life, even about to get lost in the spirit realm, about to become part of the spirit realm, the Aries Star Lord!?
Gu Jinlai’s divine sense was somewhat shaken.
At this time, the Aries Star Lord seemed to "smell" his presence...
That kind of presence...
Was the activeness of spirituality.
Or the spirit light that flashes when ideas and concepts collide.
Just like the Shenglong Pass and the True Dragon Gate...
These two gates assessed the theories and inspirations of a Heavenly Master.
Only that kind of Heavenly Master with rich theories, imagination that soared as wildly as a horse, and unparalleled inspiration could continuously burst forth spirit light, attracting the lost spirit realm Aries Star Lord, drawing him in.
Just as the bait must be delicious.
And as the Aries Star Lord was drawn closer, waves of starlight cascaded down.
In the instant he came into contact with this starlight, Gu Jinlai felt an incredible wealth of information wash over him, like a landslide or a tsunami, threatening to shatter his true spirit into pieces.
This was the energy inherent in a powerful spirit realm life.
This impact was very similar to the assessment at Hidden Dragon Pass.
"The three challenges of the Aries Star Lord..."
Gu Jinlai looked at the Aries Star Lord within his "perception," enormous, almost a thousand kilometers in size, and at that moment, he deeply felt his own insignificance.
Standing in front of such an ancient creator, his true spirit as a Heavenly Monarch, he was so weak that he had to exert all his strength just to resist the spiritual essence emanating from him.
If he were to directly confront the true body of such a terrifying existence...
He would be easily ground into dust.
"Good!"
At this time, the lady’s eyes were filled with surprise, "Your Majesty will soon confirm your presence, and he will remember his true identity, his origins..."
As she spoke, she activated a formation once again.
Instantly, the spirit realm around Gu Jinlai began to change, as countless spiritual fluctuations containing myriad scenes emerged.
Gu Jinlai felt them briefly...
It seemed that they contained memory fragments from the growth of a human Heavenly Master at different times?
This human Heavenly Master...
Gu Jinlai’s gaze shifted, falling upon the enormous spirit realm life.
The Aries Star Lord.
And it was upon "seeing" the scenes contained within these spiritual fluctuations that the Aries Star Lord, who initially had no thought or conscious waves, began to exhibit ripples of something called "thought."
He quietly "watched" these spiritual fluctuations, as if pondering over them.
During the process of thought, the conscious and thought fluctuations emanating from him also gradually rose.
"I can’t sit idly by!"
Gu Jinlai’s thoughts surged.
He could not withstand the power of Qingyang Valley.
He couldn’t even make it back to the Star Realm Gate.
Moreover, even if he truly retreated to the Star Realm Gate, Zi Yang and Heavenly Dragon Wood outside would definitely not sit by and watch.
They had already taken his Qiankun Ring in advance, suppressing all variables to the lowest level; he could never resist Heavenly Dragon Wood, that peak existence that could be called a Great Divine Ability User.
The only way to break the impasse...
Gu Jinlai’s gaze fell on the scenes recorded by the spiritual fluctuations.
"These spiritual fluctuations are the complete memories of the Aries Star Lord. This woman is using these memories to help the lost spirit realm Aries Star Lord find himself. This Inheritance Land can also be said to be the complete inheritance of the Aries Star Lord."
Gu Jinlai’s thoughts moved swiftly to an extreme: "As long as I can observe these memories, it will be akin to experiencing the life of the Aries Star Lord. Then, everything related to him will be clear to me. Moreover, I might even find out how he established Qingyang Valley, and from there, figure out a way to break through this predicament."
Immediately, his gaze rushed towards perceiving the various spiritual fluctuations.
At this time, the Aries Star Lord seemed to finally "remember" something.
"I... the foremost among the twelve Holy Lands... the Aries Star Lord."
A series of spiritual fluctuations like the "resounding of a grand bell" emanated from the Aries Star Lord.
That kind of vibration and impact on spirituality was countless times stronger than a Spirit Venerable’s roar.
If there were any Heavenly Monarchs around at this time, even those who had undergone True Spirit Crystalization, they would be shattered by such spiritual shockwaves.
Even those at the Third Step of Heavenly Monarch would not be spared.
Even though Gu Jinlai had more than once clashed with the Spirit Venerable, and his true spirit was far stronger than that of an ordinary three-step Heavenly Monarch, his True Spirit Crystal still showed numerous visible cracks.
But at this moment, no one cared about his life or death.
The lady, with an excited face, paid her respects to the Aries Star Lord: "Great Star Lord, your servant Yu Xin, the twelfth generation Palace Master of Bai Ze Palace, salutes you. We welcome your return and wish your spirit light to shine forever brightly, and your will to remain forever magnificent."
