233: Illusory mirror door

After leaving the plantation, he flew southwest for a while.

Suddenly thinking of something, Yang Dian entered the Unity of Man and Nature state again, activating his 'radar'.

Feeling the increasingly clear guidance coming from the ethereal unknown, Yang Dian re-“wished” and then turned his body, flying towards the sea.

The sea was indeed a Treasure Trove.

Three kilometers offshore, Yang Dian dived to the seabed, arriving at the edge of a Coral Reef crevice that emitted a faint blue light.

He extended a finger and tapped the edge of the crevice.

Then, a sea slug, entirely dark blue with dazzling colorful light occasionally flashing across its body, suddenly appeared and embraced Yang Dian's finger.

The moment his finger was embraced by the sea slug, the Qi and blood covering Yang Dian's finger began to sizzle.

Noticing that the Qi and blood protecting his finger were being consumed at a rather fast rate, Yang Dian looked down at the sea slug on his finger, deep in thought.

“The total amount of Qi and blood has increased; it can now soar over ten thousand zhang.”

“But whether it's my Qi and blood, or Uncle Yue's and Daoist Qingfeng's Qi and blood, the increase seems to be only in 'quantity'.”

“Although the 'quality' has also improved compared to the beginning, it's not by much.”

“So, is it possible to start from the aspect of quality to increase the destructive power of Qi and blood?”

“Daoist Qingfeng's Zhan Tian Ba Jian Shu (Sky Severing Sword Drawing Technique) cultivates Sword Intent through will, drawing the Sky Severing Sword at a crucial moment.”

“Then can I use spirit to cultivate Qi and blood, or even change the essence of Qi and blood, so that any strand of Qi and blood is a severing...”

Thinking that he was currently obtaining rare treasures under the guidance of the mother earth, Yang Dian changed his wording.

“Can I sublimate Qi and blood, so that any Qi and blood sword can unleash ten times, a hundred times the critical strike?”

After shaking his finger rapidly for a while to daze the sea slug, Yang Dian threw it directly into his mouth without adding any seasoning.

“Salty~ and a bit chewy, like jelly.”

“Hmm, with careful chewing, I can still feel the freshness of the sea~”

“It tastes good.”

Nodding to acknowledge the sea slug, Yang Dian then pushed off the Coral Reef with his foot, rising out of the sea with a string of bubbles.

Then, his body moved, creating a whistling sound as he landed in the sea three li away.

rare treasure golden pearls hidden in golden butterfly shells... rare treasure coral polyps that possess hypnotic abilities, making anyone who approaches within a hundred meters feel drowsy... rare treasure squids whose ink has a potent anesthetic effect, with just a tiny drop capable of anesthetizing a hundred-meter radius of sea... By the time Yang Dian surfaced again, his stomach already contained 5 types of rare treasures.

Another 7 types of rare treasures were carefully put away by him, waiting to be consumed.

Standing on the surface of the sea, feeling the guidance from the ethereal unknown leading him deeper into the ocean, Yang Dian slowly exhaled.

“The ocean truly is a Treasure Trove that no one has ever developed before~”

Of course, while the ocean is a Treasure Trove, developing the rare treasures within it is not easy.

After all, rare treasures with little strength have long ended up in the bellies of marine creatures.

The remaining rare treasures are either extremely well hidden or are already minor overlords of the ocean.

“It's a pity the remaining rare treasures are too far away~”

Sighing again, Yang Dian turned and flew towards the valley where a portal was suspected to have appeared.

Primary and secondary tasks must be distinguished.

His main mission in Indonesia this time was to resolve the lingering troubles of his clan members here, figure out what that rhomboid portal in the valley was, and avenge the older generation.

Collecting heaven and earth treasures along the way was just something he did incidentally.

“Speaking of which.”

“Although the mother earth's favor has been consumed quite a bit, it seems there's still a lot...”

“How come I feel like she can still let me pick up tens of thousands of heaven and earth treasures?”

“Are there really that many rare treasures on Earth?”

“Forget it, if there are no rare treasures, strange objects aren't out of the question.”

“I wonder if strange objects can provide energy. I'll find two soft strange objects to chew on then...”

The journey was uneventful.

By the time he flew over the valley, it was already the middle of the night.

He landed on the cliff edge in the drizzling rain.

Yang Dian discovered there were people on the cliff edge.

There were three of them.

All three were Ancient Cultivators, their life aura much stronger than ordinary people, and their foreheads were all branded with K-shaped symbols.

‘People from the Western Europe Royal Power Cult?’

‘This Royal Power Cult also seems to be an underground sect started by a fellow countryman named Wang Fugui, right?’

‘It's really a cult leader team-building event, isn't it?’

Lost in thought, Yang Dian squatted on the edge of the cliff.

As for the three Ancient Cultivators of the Royal Power Cult?

For ordinary Awakened and Ancient Cultivators, their strength was indeed good.

But compared to Yang Dian, they were simply too weak.

They couldn't even detect Yang Dian, who had entered the Unity of Man and Nature state.

Ignoring the three minor figures, Yang Dian focused his gaze on the rhomboid mirror-like portal between the two cliffs.

Then Yang Dian noticed the difference between the photo and reality.

The portal was illusory.

Although it was right in front of him, it gave off a feeling of a flower in a mirror, the moon in the water—visible but unattainable.

Soon after, a dragonfly flying through the mirror confirmed Yang Dian's thought.

It was currently a mirage.

However, what it was now might not be what it would be in the future.

Staring intently at the rhomboid mirror portal, Yang Dian could feel it slowly becoming real at an imperceptible speed.

It was like turning illusion into reality.

It also seemed to be 'squeezing' its way from an unknown, vast, unknowable place towards Earth.

“A portal opened from another world?”

“How did they pinpoint Earth, and how did they open the portal?”

“To be able to pinpoint Earth from another world and open a portal, how powerful are they?”

In silent murmurs, Yang Dian began to carefully recall the Divine Dao Inheritance left by Lin Mo.

Then he confirmed that the Divine Dao Inheritance also did not contain 'portals' or methods for creating similar portals.

“Stronger than Shinto Civilization?”

Suppressing the tremor in his heart, Yang Dian took two deep breaths and then began to wait quietly.

He waited until the wind stopped and the rain ceased, at the break of dawn.

The great sun was still below the sea, about to rise but not yet.

The slanting moon hung on the western mountain peak, seemingly about to set but not yet.

The morning light of the rising sun, the faint glow of the slanting moon, and the imperceptible dim starlight, at this moment, jointly illuminated the rhomboid mirror portal between the cliffs.

Cultists and believers wearing various sectarian garments, led by their respective Popes, Saints, and Saintesses, emerged from the forest in single file and came before the altar by the water.

Yu Baiwei, dressed in a blue Saintess robe with a blue crescent moon rune imprinted on her brow, ascended the altar, knelt down, and, holding the sun and moon scepter offered on the altar, began to chant softly.

Everyone else, even the guards stationed on the cliff, followed suit, kneeling towards the rhomboid mirror portal and praying in low voices.

From the incense burner in front of the altar, a continuous wisp of smoke curled upwards amidst their prayers.

The smoke circled the mirror portal a few times, seemingly gathering the light of the sun, moon, and stars, becoming sparkling, and finally merging into the mirror portal.

The speed at which the mirror portal solidified increased by more than a thousandfold.

‘If it continues at this rate, in just about two months, the mirror portal will completely solidify from illusion into reality, turning the fake into real...’