Chapter 1147: Chapter 763: Entering the City
To go or not to go; that is the question.
Without saying, we know this matter is far from simple. The Dao Palace suddenly opening Common Valley cannot possibly be a generous wish for everyone to receive inheritance; they must be plotting something.
However, Common Valley is the place Xiang Beifei has always wanted to uncover. His grandfather met with an accident there, and his parents went missing while searching for answers. This place is not one he can go to just because he wants to.
Although it’s unclear what the Dao Palace is scheming, this might be an opportunity for Xiang Beifei to find out about his family.
Should he take this risk?
Xiang Beifei is still pondering.
Aside from him, the other races are unaware of these details. They are extremely eager about entering Common Valley and even quite excited!
One hundred thousand years ago, Common Valley was a great battlefield. Masters of the Ancestral Dao Realm battled there, and many ancestors from various races never returned. If they could retrieve their ancestors’ inheritance, it would greatly aid in strengthening their race.
"This time, I am determined to conquer the Heaven and Earth Ranking!"
"Our Qishe Race ancestors once had an Ancestral Dao Realm ancestor who was said to have fallen in Common Valley. The elder took an ancestral weapon of ours with him back then; I must bring it back!"
"The ancestor’s inheritance! Everyone on the Heaven and Earth Ranking can go in. Erdan, you must bring glory to our Elixir Dao Race!"
With the Heaven and Earth Ranking competition starting in twelve hours and "Common Valley" as the target, all races began scheming. They needed to start selecting opponents, exchanging information, and assessing which soft targets could be displaced for a higher rank!
Outside Sheyin City, the atmosphere became subtle. Regarding racial inheritance, everyone took it seriously. Previously friendly and allied races were now consciously or unconsciously separating, regarding each other as potential competitors.
Xiang Beifei wandered outside the city for three hours, observing both the Dao Palace’s situation and the various races.
For him, getting on the ranking is not difficult. Almost all geniuses on the Heaven and Earth Ranking have been to the City of No Pretense to comprehend his Dao embryo. These so-called geniuses are effortlessly crushed before him.
Even without relying on Dao embryos, his late-stage Inquiring Dao power is more than enough to overwhelm a bunch of geniuses.
However, the Heaven and Earth Ranking is clearly not his primary goal.
He was studying a map, a map given to him by Ge Hengzi. It was a detailed layout of Sheyin City and Sheyang City, meticulously drawing every post and street line.
Ge Hengzi marked all the formation defenses he knew of, but there were places even he had no access to. Those were domain-level areas only accessible to Dao Palace elders, centered around the litian spear, which ordinary Dao Palace elders could not approach.
He memorized these routes while gazing at the center of the litian spear, contemplating.
At this moment, Xiang Beifei suddenly sensed something and immediately flew to another corner of the void, where Li Qianluo was peeking around. Seeing Xiang Beifei, she immediately flew over.
"How’s it going?" Xiang Beifei asked.
"I just entered Sheyin City and took a little tour with Ge Hengzi, getting close to the ancestral weapon litian spear and wandered around there." Li Qianluo lowered her voice.
"Any discoveries?"
"Indeed, I felt the presence of blood soil. That blood soil is buried beneath the ancestral weapon. It’s a strange feeling; hard to describe, but you were right not to enter because the blood soil under the ancestral weapon can indeed recognize you." Li Qianluo said with a serious face.
"Sister Li, how are you sure?" Xiaohei asked incredulously.
"The ancestral weapon constantly protects the entire Sheyin City. It doesn’t rely on aura recognition, meaning even disguising your aura doesn’t work because it uses heavenly Dao perception!" Li Qianluo said.
"Heavenly Dao perception? You mean it recognizes through the heavenly Dao that others practice?" Xiang Beifei asked.
"Yes, whatever heavenly Dao you practice, the moment you enter the formation, the ancestral weapon perceives it. Almost all races have their own Dao embryo, but the Human Race doesn’t have a Dao embryo!"
Xiaohei interjected, "Doesn’t the Human Race practice Human Dao?"
"It’s not understood like that. Let me put it another way. If it’s a person from Jiuzhou, isn’t there a system? That system is their Dao embryo. But the Human Race from Edge Corner Airspace chooses to sever the Dao, so they practically have no Dao embryo!"
Li Qianluo, resting her chin on her hand, continued to explain: "Although the Human Race practices Human Dao, how to put it? Human Dao is more like an invisible Dao embryo."
Xiang Beifei nodded thoughtfully.
Indeed, he couldn’t see the system interface of humans from Edge Corner Airspace, only snowflakes.
Xiaohei suddenly realized, "So if it’s someone from Jiuzhou, they won’t be detected, but the native Human Race from Edge Corner Airspace who has severed the Dao will definitely be discovered?"
"Yes, that’s basically it. An ancestral weapon is equivalent to mastering a heavenly Dao. The litian spear has possibly devoured countless other ancestral weapons, but I cannot be sure how many heavenly Daos it ultimately controls. However, it can definitely distinguish those without a heavenly Dao." Li Qianluo said.
Xiang Beifei said, "So as long as I ensure I have a definite Dao embryo, I can infiltrate Sheyin City?"
"Yes, I think that’s about right." Li Qianluo nodded.