sbdcsierra Chapter 298 Primordial Aura
Chapter 298 Primordial Aura
As everyone stepped onto the platform, before Chao Bufan could even examine the enormous stone statue closely, He Jingde began to introduce it. As he spoke, the members of the eight major families all felt a sense of awe, their expressions solemn, and they bowed deeply to the statue.
Chao Bufan didn't pay much attention and just nodded.
"The other four stone statues are the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise divine beasts."
"kindness?"
Chao Bufan was slightly startled, thinking to himself: The stone statues of the four guardian deities? They're all in such a state of disrepair. If they knew that the statues worshipped by the world had become like this, I wonder what they would think.
After bowing, the members of the eight families took a step back in unison, then turned around. The eight family heads walked to the center of the platform and each took out a trapezoidal token from their robes. The eight tokens were identical in shape, but the patterns and texts on them were different. Anyone with eyes could tell that the eight tokens together formed a Bagua diagram.
The eight major cultivation families are located in eight directions, which correspond to the tokens in their hands: "South Qian 1, North Kun 8, Northeast Zhen 4, Southwest Xun 5, West Kan 6, East Li 3, Northwest Gen 7, Southeast Dui 2", which also symbolize "Heaven, Earth, Thunder, Wind, Water, Fire, Mountain, and Lake".
It's unclear what incantation He Jingde chanted, but a flash of white light appeared on the platform in front of the eight people, and a Bagua diagram with a diameter of ten feet suddenly materialized. The Bagua diagram shone brightly, shooting straight into the sky. Almost simultaneously, the eight people leaped into the air, stopping three feet above the ground, precisely at the eight eye points of the Bagua diagram. Above the white light, the eight family heads appeared to have ascended to immortality, truly like celestial beings, instantly inspiring awe in all who beheld them.
The eight people in the sky looked down and saw more than a dozen elders looking up at the sky, their faces all showing respect and longing. Chao Bufan stood in front of the elders. He was not unfamiliar with the eight people floating in the sky. However, after his gaze swept over the eight family heads, it finally stopped on the face of the stone statue at the highest point. At that moment, a strange feeling that was hard to describe flashed through his heart.
As soon as the Bagua diagram appeared, a thunderous sound resounded over Tulong Mountain, and even the solid mountain peaks beneath our feet seemed to tremble slightly in response to the sound.
Around the spacious platform, in the Bagua direction, eight white jade pillars slowly rose under everyone's gaze. At a glance, their diameter was almost greater than two people could hug, majestic and piercing the sky.
The eight people in mid-air moved and slowly descended from the sky, landing precisely on the eight white jade pillars. At the same time, the eight people, expressionless, made hand seals and pointed their fingers like swords, quickly carving a rune on the top of the white jade pillars.
A beam of white light simultaneously shot from the tops of the eight stone pillars, converging above the statue's head and then forming an even thicker beam that descended straight down, striking the statue's head. A crisp cracking sound rang out, revealing a large hole beneath the statue's feet. A large, shimmering, rainbow-colored glass bead, resembling a cloud of accumulated light, slowly rose into the air. This strange bead rested on black jade and gold pillars, with a base of deep green jadeite. It contained colorful light within and emitted a wondrous glow without. Nine large stars were carved into the bead's surface, the lowest one now lit up, shining brightly. Furthermore, flashes of white lightning occasionally illuminated the bead, cleaving through the colorful light to reveal a corner of the concealed inner scroll—a scene of primordial chaos, a primitive landscape, emanating an aura of ancient savagery.
"Primordial aura, this... this is primordial aura."
The old man's excited words suddenly rang in Chao Bufan's mind, startling him. He asked, "Senior, is this the aura of the primordial era?"
"Indeed, it is the aura of the primordial era."
At this moment, everyone present was dazzled and mesmerized. Such a treasure was clearly an extremely precious magical artifact. Even the eight family heads were extremely cautious and focused, working together to control this strange magical artifact that almost no one had ever seen before.
After the eight family heads applied their hand seals to the Rainbow Pearl, which shimmered with seven-colored light, a ray of clear light flashed across their faces. In just a moment, the Rainbow Pearl changed. As if stimulated by something, the rainbow inside the pearl suddenly churned violently. Then, an extremely powerful force burst forth from the Bagua diagram on the ground, condensing into a seven-colored rainbow light that shot out in the blink of an eye, connecting the eight stone pillars together to form a huge Bagua diagram.
Then, the seven-colored rainbow light slowly descended, and right before everyone's eyes, the colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet changed in turn, finally stopping three feet above the ground. At that moment, everyone had the illusion that their breath had stopped. A powerful force flashed out from within the seven-colored rainbow light, appearing in the void like a pair of invisible giant hands, forcefully and irresistibly pulling it apart to both sides.
A fissure, emanating a deep, dark light, appeared out of nowhere at the foot of the stone statue.
Chao Bufan gritted his teeth, looking at this magical, magnificent, and legendary scene, and couldn't help but feel a little excited.
The gate to the Black Spirit Realm finally opened slowly before everyone's eyes.
The eight family heads descended gracefully and landed in front of the stone statue.
"Young Master Chao, this is the entrance to the Black Spirit Realm, please!"
With that, He Jingde took the lead and stepped into the Black Spirit Domain, followed by the other seven elders.
Looking at the dark slit that resembled more of a crack than a door, Chao Bufan took a deep breath and, without hesitation, plunged in. There was no weightlessness as he had imagined; only endless darkness. Moving from one darkness to another should normally be uneventful, but the deathly stillness and eerie silence here gave him a strange feeling.
"Hey kid, look!"
The old man's exclamation was followed by the appearance of an endless void before Chao Bufan's eyes. The void was pitch black, cold, harsh, and eerie, without any obstructions, like space without stars. Chao Bufan quickly extended his divine sense, but couldn't even perceive its boundaries. This was a tremendous shock. It should be noted that with Chao Bufan's current cultivation level, he could clearly see a tiny speck of dust nearly ten thousand meters away with a deep probe. If he couldn't even reach the edge of this place, how vast was this pitch-black space?
This place is even more mysterious than the demon realm he entered before, to an unimaginable degree.
He thought about it again and realized that since this was the Black Spirit Domain, it must be some external space world.