Chapter 2187: The Disaster of Lingyuan City

Feng Jiuge could not sense that gray airflow and did not know that the person before him had completely resolved the隐患. He was skeptical but eventually sat down cross-legged and, following his usual cultivation method, circulated the true qi within his body.

Soon, he sensed something amiss.

Previously, the true qi in his body would disappear after circulating for less than one full cycle; the more he circulated, the more it vanished. Now, however, it had become increasingly abundant, especially his originally withered dantian, which now seemed like a massive volcano ready to erupt at any moment.

The true qi he had painstakingly cultivated for two years had not disappeared but had been hidden by that special airflow.

Now released, it was like a river bursting its banks, impossible to control.

Boom!

With a roar, the power within his body exploded instantly. His lower-grade deity realm, which had been on the verge of falling, soared straight up, reaching the perfection realm in an instant, followed by middle-grade deity and upper-grade deity!

In less than a quarter of an hour, not only had his previous cultivation been restored, but he had also broken through the shackles and surged back to the peak of upper-grade deity.

I...

Feeling the surging power within his body, Feng Jiuge's eyes reddened.

He understood... at this moment, he had been reborn.

And this rebirth was selflessly given by the person before him.

Master!

He knelt straight down on the ground.

Previously, taking him as a master had felt like a last resort, but now he realized it was the wisest decision he had ever made.

"Rise!"

Waving his hand, Zhang Xuan turned to look at the library.

It seemed that the person before him was genuinely grateful, just like Zhuo Yan before, and had also generated a Book of Heaven.

Two golden books stood side by side on the bookshelf, emitting a golden radiance.

"Has Feng Jiuge's cultivation been restored?"

"Not just restored, but advanced even further!"

"This physician's medical skills are too remarkable..."

Everyone in the inn was in disbelief.

The elderly scholar from earlier gaped wide: "I, I, I... don't know if there's an MMP I should say or not..."

After all that fuss, the other party really was treating an illness, and he had gone over to advise... and had acted arrogantly, spouting so much nonsense!

Just thinking about it made him feel like vomiting blood!

"What happened two years ago that caused your strength to plummet?" Ignoring the astonished crowd, Zhang Xuan asked.

"I went to... the deep pit beneath the imperial city!" Feng Jiuge paused, then said: "I inadvertently entered a secret realm, and somehow fell unconscious. When I woke up, I was like this. No one knows what happened..."

Zhang Xuan frowned: "The deep pit beneath the imperial city?"

Lingyuan Imperial City was suspended above a massive deep pit. Why would he go there for the trial?

Could it be that this pit is tied to some secret?

"This pit suddenly appeared decades ago, and the entire Lingyuan City collapsed into it! The current city was rebuilt by the Firefeather God-King and several other god-kings, expending immense divine power, and they used the feathers of the Undying Emperor to hold it aloft..."

Seeing that he seemed unclear about this, Feng Jiuge explained.

As a member of the clan, although these matters were confidential, she still knew something about them.

"The entire Lingyuan City... collapsed into it?" Zhang Xuan was shaken.

He had never heard anyone mention this before.

When he first arrived at Lingyuan Imperial City, he had found it strange why such a large city had to be built over a deep pit and suspended in the air. Now it turned out that the original city had already fallen into the pit!

Every imperial city in the Nine Heavens occupied the most central position of its realm, gathering the realm's willpower and fortune. For this reason, capitals were usually not relocated.

Decades ago, the imperial city collapsed. To better stabilize the regime, they had to rebuild the capital on the site of the collapse.

Thus came into being the floating city beneath them.

"The city collapsed overnight. What about the lives within?" Zhang Xuan asked.

The city had collapsed and vanished. Where had the deities living there gone? And where did the many lives in the current city come from?

"I wasn't born then, so I don't know the details. But I've heard from the elders of the clan that although the ground collapsed very suddenly, the Undying Emperor fought desperately to protect many, and quite a few escaped. Basically, all who had reached the deity realm managed to flee!"

After thinking for a moment, Feng Jiuge said, "But Teacher should know that in the Divine Realm, those who haven't reached the deity realm are the most numerous. That means... in this disaster, the entire Lingyuan Imperial City lost nearly ninety percent of its lives. Whether they died or still live at the bottom of the deep pit, no one knows... because this pit is so deep that even an ancestor like the God-King cannot penetrate it!"

The hierarchy of life in the Divine Realm is pyramid-shaped.

The most numerous are always ordinary people, the so-called pseudo-deities, accounting for about ninety percent. Only about ten percent are qualified to cultivate and gradually advance to higher realms, growing stronger.

"A deep pit suddenly appears, and ninety percent of a city's people vanish..." Zhang Xuan's whole body trembled, and the name "Sunken Sky City" suddenly popped into his mind.

There was a Sunken Sky City in the Upper Firmament. Legend had it that it fell from the sky thousands of years ago, and its lives and countless buildings, corroded by the spiritual energy of the Upper Firmament, transformed into decaying aura, making it difficult for ordinary people to enter.

Could it be... related to this Lingyuan City?

This thought did not come out of nowhere, because Zhang Xuan had seen the tomb of the Undying Emperor in Sunken Sky City!

If he extended this line of thought... the Alien Spirit Clan and the people of the Star Chasing Palace in the Upper Firmament shared the same roots, and the people of the Star Chasing Palace possessed the altar of Sunken Sky City, the two being deeply connected...

Could it be that this Lingyuan City fell from the sky, and part of its lives interbred with the people of the Star Chasing Palace, producing new offspring... while another part broke through space, entered the Master Teacher Continent, and became the Alien Spirit Clan?

In other words... the ancestors of both the Alien Spirit Clan and the lives of the Star Chasing Palace were actually deities of Lingyuan Heaven!

If this speculation were true, it would be terrifying!

What kind of power could not only kill the Undying Emperor, who was called immortal, but also tear countless lives across the boundaries of realms and cast them into the lower world?

He knew from personal experience how difficult it was to cross the barrier between realms. Even a strong person like Luo Ruoxin had nearly perished. To have so many who weren't even deities cross at the same time...

It was simply unimaginable!

Of course, these were all his guesses. Perhaps only by seeing Luo Ruoxin or Teacher Kong could he fully understand.

"By the way, Little Cruel, is it possible that your ancestors have the bloodline of the deities of Lingyuan Heaven?"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help asking inwardly.

The Cruel One, sealed within the Book of Heaven's Path, had also followed him to the Divine Realm. During this time, he had been cultivating with the divine origin pills bestowed by Zhang Xuan, and his cultivation had long broken through the deity realm, even reaching the lower-grade celestial deity realm.