A carefree soldier king in the city

Chapter 535 disappeared

Chao Bufan nodded and then said, "Pangu creating the world and Nuwa patching up the sky and creating humans are timeless tales that have been passed down to this day, and are also unchanging myths and legends. What I never expected was that such myths and legends were not just baseless rumors, but actually existed."

The King of Hell laughed and said, "Actually, many things are just legends if you don't experience them yourself."

Chao Bufan smiled and said, "Let's go in!"

King Yama chuckled awkwardly and said, "Immortal Venerable, I won't go in. You go in alone! I'll wait for you here."

Upon hearing this, Chao Bufan pondered for a moment, then walked in with his hands behind his back.

Stepping into the cave, Chao Bufan looked around and saw that the surrounding rock walls were covered with strange, pitch-black stones that looked as hard as iron and extremely cold. He thought to himself that only such iron-like stones could withstand the cleansing of malevolent energy.

The passage was pitch black and stretched downwards. The slope wasn't too steep, and because he dared not use his divine sense, he could only estimate by sight. However, even with visual estimation, he couldn't see the bottom, so he didn't know how long the passage was. Fortunately, Yama told him the secret method to enter the Heavenly Wave Pool. With a single incantation, a white protective aura appeared around him, illuminating a two-meter radius around him.

After walking for a while, he finally reached a flat passage, but it was still pitch black ahead, except for a faint, flickering light. He hesitated for a moment, then stepped towards the light. After walking for a while longer, he finally reached the end of the passage, and what appeared before him was a cave. The cave was neither large nor small, and in the center of the cave was a pool about the size of a room. However, the water in the pool was murky and looked more like some kind of gas. Directly above the pool, about a meter above the water's surface, a strange lamp hissed, and cries of malevolence occasionally drifted out, carrying far and wide. This lamp was none other than the Nine-Wicked Lamp. It was easy to see that the Nine-Wicked Lamp originally had nine wicks, but now, eight of the wicks had burned out, leaving only ashes, and the remaining single wick flickered, seemingly on the verge of going out.

"Could this be the Nine-Core Lamp?" Chao Bufan wondered to himself. "Aside from its strange appearance, the Nine-Core Lamp doesn't seem to have anything special about it! I heard from Yama that the chaotic energy in the Heavenly Wave Pool is suppressed and sealed by the Nine-Core Lamp. So, the 'water' in the Heavenly Wave Pool must be the chaotic energy."

After looking at it for a while without figuring it out, he turned his gaze away from the nine-wick lamp and began to examine the entire cave. To his surprise, the surrounding cave walls were covered with densely packed characters, which were crooked and illegible to him.

"What is this?" Chao Bufan asked, puzzled.

He looked around and saw nothing but the "pool," the nine-wick lamp, and some incomprehensible things on the stone wall. He began to wonder, what was going on? There was nothing special about this Heavenly Wave Pool!

He felt a slight sense of disappointment; there was nothing he wanted here. Disappointed, he looked at the writing on the stone wall once more. This time, however, once his gaze fell upon the writing, he couldn't look away.

A bizarre scene, just like in Sun Village, reappeared. Suddenly, all the characters on the stone wall glowed with golden light, and then flew out of the stone wall, one after another entering the extraordinary spiritual platform.

After an unknown amount of time, when the last golden character entered Chao Bufan's body, Chao Bufan trembled all over, then scratched his ears and cheeks, and said in astonishment, "What happened? I feel like I was asleep just now? And—I think I had a strange dream."

He tried to recall what kind of dream he had just had, but he couldn't remember it at all. It was like when an ordinary person dreams, suddenly turns over, and then can't remember what they had dreamt about. Chao Bufan was in that situation now; he clearly knew he had just had a dream, but he couldn't remember it in the blink of an eye.

Helpless, he shook his head and smiled, then looked back at the stone wall in front of him, only to let out a surprised exclamation.

"Huh? Where did those words go? They've all disappeared!"

He quickly looked around and found that the surrounding stone walls were completely empty, with no words left. He frowned and thought to himself, "Strange, these stone walls were clearly covered with words, how come they've all disappeared? Could it be because I fell asleep just now?"

Suddenly, he remembered the scene at the Sword Pavilion in Sun Village. Back then, he had fallen asleep because he couldn't understand those witchcraft techniques, only to wake up and find out what had happened. Could it be this time—

He was overjoyed and quickly closed his eyes to carefully examine his body, but found nothing there, and his cultivation level had not changed at all. He couldn't help but sigh in disappointment, "Alas! It was all for nothing."

Next, he carefully examined the Tianbo Pool, looking for the so-called "surprise," but ultimately found nothing and had no choice but to leave.

Upon seeing the Immortal Venerable finally emerge, King Yama hurriedly asked, "I wonder if the Immortal Venerable has seen the Nine-Wicked Lamp?"

“I saw it,” Super Extraordinary Dora said, head down, with a disappointed tone, “It’s just an ordinary lamp, nothing special.”

King Yama then asked, "Did the Immortal Venerable see the writing on the stone wall in the Heavenly Wave Pool?"

“I did see it,” Chao Bufan replied disappointedly once again, “but in the blink of an eye, the words disappeared.”

"Has it disappeared?" King Yama exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes, I don't know what happened. I fell asleep while looking at it, and when I woke up, the words were gone."

Upon hearing this, King Yama chuckled and said, "Disappearing is the right thing to do."

"What do you mean?" Chao Bufan asked, puzzled.

King Yama smiled again and said, "Immortal Venerable, you may not know, but what is carved on that stone wall is actually a supreme secret technique."

"What? A secret technique? And a supreme one at that?" Chao Bufan exclaimed in surprise.

“That’s right,” King Yama nodded and smiled. “This supreme secret technique is called the ‘Pure Spirit and Clear Mind Technique,’ which was specially engraved by the Empress back then.”

"Uh!!" Chao Bufan exclaimed in surprise, then realized what was happening and almost cursed, "King Yama, why didn't you say earlier that the contents of those words were the 'Qingling Kongming Jue'? If you had told me, I would have remembered them no matter what. Now, they've all disappeared."