Chapter 442 – Meeting the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master, the One She Has Waited Ten Million Years For!
by spirapiraChapter 442 – Meeting the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master, the One She Has Waited Ten Million Years For!
In the Real World, Su Xing nodded slightly upon seeing this.
“As expected… a man’s reputation precedes him like a tree’s shadow. After becoming first on the Earth Ranking, my prestige across the Three Thousand Worlds has risen dramatically.”
“Even the Celestial Secrets Pavilion now places far greater importance on the intelligence I provide…”
The first-ranked cultivator on the Earth Ranking—this was the undisputed number one beneath Supreme Unity!
Among the countless Golden Immortals in the world, Su Xing’s current strength was unquestionably the greatest!
A cultivator of this caliber could establish a sect anywhere in the Three Thousand Worlds and be regarded as a pinnacle powerhouse.
“Then what comes next is simply waiting quietly for the Celestial Secrets Pavilion to arrive at the White Cloud Realm…”
After so many simulations, Su Xing had long since figured out the most efficient method for raising his cultivation.
His gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【Year 300: The Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s Celestial Vessel arrived at the White Cloud Realm.】
【Year 320: The Celestial Vessel Defense Battle erupted!】
【In this battle, you deliberately displayed your cultivation strength. You were quickly recognized as the Spirit Dragon Golden Immortal ranked first on the Earth Ranking!】
【This news soon invigorated every cultivator aboard the Celestial Vessel.】
【The favorability of numerous powerhouses, including the White Emperor, toward you increased.】
【Afterward, the White Emperor invited you to join the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, while simultaneously promising you the position of Heaven-tier Elder!】
【One must know, only Supreme Unity Golden Immortals were qualified to serve as Heaven-tier Elders, enjoying extremely high resources and treatment…】
【Yet you were personally granted this position by the White Emperor while still at the Golden Immortal realm, naturally because your fame resounded throughout the Three Thousand Worlds.】
【Over the following decades, the White Emperor looked after you considerably. You were regarded as the foremost prodigy of the new generation among righteous cultivators.】
【However, you knew that all of this was merely an illusion. The only thing you could do was work even harder to raise your cultivation.】
【After arriving at the Celestial Secrets Realm, centuries passed in the blink of an eye!】
【During this period, you waited quietly for the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master to contact you, but received no word…】
【Year 600: The Primordial Energy Tree within your body grew to three zhang (9.99 m) and six chi (2 m).】
【Year 650: Your cultivation finally broke through to Golden Immortal sixth layer!】
【Year 700: Your Spirit Realm range expanded to thirty-three thousand li (16,500 km).】
【Year 800: The first great war between the Heavenly Secrets Domain and the foreign races erupted…】
【Year 810: The great war ended. You prepared to seek the White Emperor’s guidance in swordsmanship!】
In the Real World, Su Xing murmured upon seeing this:
“Use immersive simulation…”
【Ding… remaining origin energy: 22,966,967 points…】
…
Within the simulation, over ninety years passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Su Xing bid farewell to the White Emperor and prepared to leave.
“Whew… under the White Emperor’s guidance… I’ve finally brought my Sword Dao close to the fifth realm Peak!”
“Next, I only need to visit the Mirror of The Void, and I should be able to smoothly advance my Sword Dao to the fifth realm Peak!”
Su Xing nodded with satisfaction.
As one of the foremost Great Daos in terms of offensive power, once his Sword Dao entered the sixth realm, it would undoubtedly elevate Su Xing’s overall strength even further!
But at the same time, a question arose in Su Xing’s mind.
“Clearly, in this simulation, I’ve already secured first place on the Earth Ranking…”
“Yet why, after waiting for hundreds of years… has the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master still not contacted me?”
“It seems… my only hope lies within the Mirror of The Void!”
Su Xing fell into contemplation.
The Mirror of The Void was clearly a contingency left behind by the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master.
Perhaps Su Xing could find a way to contact the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master within the Mirror of The Void!
With this thought, Su Xing headed toward the Celestial Secrets Pavilion headquarters.
Moments later, Su Xing stepped into the Mirror of The Void.
The process was the same as before. After submitting contribution points and rare treasures, Su Xing earned one opportunity to capture the power of time.
This time, Su Xing chose to enhance his Sword Dao comprehension.
This brought his Sword Dao directly to the fifth realm Peak!
At most by the next simulation, Su Xing would truly be able to step into the sixth realm of Sword Dao!
Just when Su Xing thought this immersive simulation was about to end, the situation changed!
…
When Su Xing awakened again, he had not left the Mirror of The Void. He was still within that mysterious space.
A flicker of confusion passed through his eyes, but then a somewhat weathered female voice reached Su Xing’s ears.
This voice was completely different from the Mirror of The Void’s Artifact Spirit!
Its owner was self-evident—the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master!
“Child… you have finally come. But I wonder, are you the one I have been waiting for?”
This emotionless voice entered Su Xing’s ears, sending a jolt through his heart.
Taking a deep breath, Su Xing asked:
“May I ask—are you the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master, Senior?”
Su Xing’s voice echoed through the space, but there was no response.
After a moment, that voice came again:
“Child, my true body has encountered certain matters at present… If you wish to find the answers you seek… come find me in the Primordial Void Realm!”
After her words fell, Su Xing was teleported out of the Mirror of The Void.
…
In a deserted alley of Celestial Secrets City, Su Xing gazed up at the sky, lost in thought.
“Go to the Primordial Void Realm, then…”
“So that’s how it is—I was thinking about it wrong!”
“The Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master’s true body is in the Nine Heavens Domain… unable to appear in person.”
“But the Primordial Void Realm connects to all realms. No matter where a cultivator may be, they can make contact through the Primordial Void Realm!”
“With the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master’s divine sense and her Dao of Divination… as long as I enter the Primordial Void Realm, she may well be able to contact me!”
Su Xing closed his eyes slightly. After entering the Mirror of The Void just now, he had clearly sensed that a “mark” had been planted on his soul.
The mark was harmless—merely serving as coordinates.
It was likely what the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master needed in order to contact him within the Primordial Void Realm.
“Whew… when all is said and done, all the answers will only become clear after I meet the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master!”
With this thought, Su Xing hesitated no longer.
He first returned to his cave dwelling, and then Su Xing’s soul gradually rose upward, entering the Primordial Void Realm…
Before long, Su Xing arrived in a vast, empty expanse.
The vastness here far exceeded even the Three Thousand Worlds!
His divine sense surged outward like a tidal wave, and soon Su Xing perceived the scene within tens of millions of li around him.
Many cultivators’ divine senses were communicating within the Primordial Void Realm, or hunting spirits of the Primordial Void to strengthen their divine sense…
“Come to think of it, ever since I advanced to Golden Immortal, it’s been a long time since I last came here!”
Su Xing murmured.
When his cultivation had been lower, Su Xing had placed great emphasis on improving his divine sense.
But ever since condensing the Three Flowers Above the Crown and achieving Celestial Immortal… Su Xing’s divine sense had surged dramatically.
Afterward, Su Xing had focused on advancing his realm and strength, and it had been a very long time since he’d entered the Primordial Void Realm.
“So… how exactly is the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master going to contact me?”
Su Xing’s divine sense drifted through the Primordial Void Realm.
Just then, a gentle wisp of divine sense connected to his own.
“It’s the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master!”
Joy surged in Su Xing’s heart. Following that thread of divine sense, he quickly left behind the ordinary divine senses in the Primordial Void Realm.
After an indeterminate amount of time, Su Xing arrived at a new region.
This appeared to be a far deeper area within the Primordial Void Realm.
Everything visible around him consisted of Heaven-tier or higher spirits of the Primordial Void, and very few cultivators’ divine senses could reach this place.
The next moment, a white orb of light appeared before Su Xing’s eyes.
The orb quickly transformed into the silhouette of a woman. Her features were indiscernible—only the rough shape of the luminous form could be made out.
It was the back view of a woman wearing long robes, with flowing long hair…
The voice of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master reached his ears.
“In ten million years… you are the one thousand and first child to stand before me… I wonder, are you the one I have been waiting for?”
As this voice reached Su Xing’s ears, his earlier tension gradually eased, replaced by an inexplicable sense of warmth.
“Ten million years… the one thousand and first person to arrive here?”
Su Xing was momentarily stunned, but quickly understood.
What the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master meant was probably that over the course of ten million years, Su Xing was the one thousand and first person to have reached the top of one of the three rankings and gained an audience with the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master.
Though it was merely a phantom projection of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master’s divine sense…
Instinctively, Su Xing asked:
“Senior… you say that you established the Prodigy List ten million years ago?”
“You still haven’t found the person you’ve been waiting for? So… who exactly are you waiting for?”
Before him, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master’s phantom let out a sigh and said:
“Child… these things you cannot know for the time being.”
“I established the Prodigy List… to seize that one thread of hope.”
“And now that you have come before me… you may ask me one question… regardless of what it concerns—cultivation… the future… or anything else. So long as it is something I can answer, something I know, I will tell you!”
Su Xing fell silent for a moment. He had already sensed that the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master before him was not her true divine sense.
It was more like a thought-fragment of her soul… Though still powerful, far exceeding Su Xing, it had not reached the might of a half-saint!
“So… I can only ask one question?”
Su Xing’s mind raced as he quickly adapted to his situation.
He understood now that in this visit to the Mirror of The Void, he could only ask a single question.
“So, what exactly should I ask?”
“The future of the Three Thousand Worlds… or a way to save Qingyunzi?”
“Or something else entirely…”
Long ago, Su Xing had wanted to meet the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master. His original purpose had been… to seek a way to free Qingyunzi from demonic corruption!
But now, Su Xing had no intention of asking about that.
“There will be other opportunities to ask about how to save Qingyunzi…”
“But right now, what I most want to know isn’t that!”
Su Xing deliberated internally, and finally took a deep breath before addressing the phantom before him:
“Senior, I wish to know… why did you establish the Prodigy List, and what exactly is the thread of hope you seek to seize?”
Upon hearing Su Xing’s words, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master before him fell silent for a moment. Then, with a rare hint of surprise in her tone, she said:
“Child, are you certain this is your question?”
“You could ask me anything… whether it be doubts about your cultivation path, or the hidden location of some supreme treasure… so long as it lies within the Three Thousand Worlds, there should be nothing I do not know!”
Hearing this, Su Xing was once again shocked by the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master’s power.
A half-saint, personally declaring that there was nothing within the Three Thousand Worlds beyond her knowledge.
This made Su Xing fully believe… the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master could truly divine the fate of all things in existence!
But right now, this was precisely what Su Xing wanted to know!
Understanding the reason behind the Prodigy List’s creation and the nature of that thread of hope would likely reveal a great many things.
And so, Su Xing affirmed:
“Yes, Senior. This is the question whose answer I seek!”
The phantom before him nodded slightly and said:
“Ten million years ago, after I achieved the Great Firmament realm… I inherited the position of Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master from my master.”
“The karmic secrets lineage… our lifelong pursuit is to shelter the human race!”
“After my master perished… I had a dream…”
Su Xing was startled upon hearing this.
Cultivators very rarely dreamed, especially immortals, who had complete mastery over their own dreamscapes.
But if an immortal were to dream… especially a Great Firmament Golden Immortal, it would absolutely carry profound meaning and be a portent!
Yet even the ancient demonic powerhouse “Nightmare” from ages past—how could it possibly intrude upon the dreams of a Great Firmament Golden Immortal?
Su Xing’s mind churned with thoughts as the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master continued:
“After I achieved the Great Firmament realm… there was little in this world beyond my knowledge.”
“But that dream… I could not divine even the slightest result from it…”
“Thirteen consecutive hexagrams… all came up as Weiji—the hexagram of the Incomplete…”
Su Xing was stunned, disbelief flashing through his eyes.
The Weiji hexagram? Thirteen consecutive hexagrams, all Weiji?
Su Xing had considerable knowledge of the Dao of Divination.
The Weiji hexagram was the final of the sixty-four hexagrams of heaven and earth, and also the most unpredictable and mercurial of all hexagrams.
Obtaining the Weiji hexagram had only two possible explanations.
The first was that a powerful being had obscured the karmic secrets… making it completely impossible for the diviner to obtain any result!
The second was that no such thing existed in heaven and earth—everything was in a state of chaotic flux…
The Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master was a magnificent Great Firmament Golden Immortal!
Moreover, she was an existence who had walked the Dao of Divination to its very end. Su Xing simply could not believe… that any powerful cultivator could cloud her perception and alter her divination results.
Therefore… it could only mean that everything was chaotic and unknown!
Yet all things in the world had cause and effect, fate and traceable signs… For thirteen consecutive hexagrams to all come up as Weiji was simply too absurd!
It was roughly equivalent to… a person flipping a coin ten thousand times, and getting the same side every single time!
And not just heads or tails… but the coin landing on its edge all ten thousand times!
Something that was fundamentally impossible!
Su Xing listened quietly for what the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master would say next.
She continued:
“This hexagram reading… was so inconceivable… that even I had no choice but to believe it!”
“And within that dream… I heard a voice.”
“That voice told me… a great calamity would befall heaven and earth… The catastrophe of ages past would return within ten million years, in an even more powerful form!”
“Until… it destroys the entire cultivation world!”
“I asked that voice… whether there was a way to avert it!”
“The answer I ultimately received… was that one thread of hope—to wait for a person who exists outside of fate, outside the Five Elements and six realms…”
“After I awoke from that dream, many of the details had already faded from memory.”
After a pause, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master continued:
“The only thing I could still remember was… that I needed to create the Prodigy List!”
“To use it to attract the arrival of that person!”
“Since they exist outside the bounds of fate… someone capable of standing against the great calamity… they would naturally be a prodigy unprecedented in all of history!”
“For this… I waited a full ten million years… but the previous one thousand individuals… none of them were the one.”
“This is also the reason I created the Prodigy List…”
“As for what that thread of hope actually is? I do not know either… That, too, is what I have been searching for all this time!”
As the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master’s words fell, Su Xing, who had been listening in silence, felt a tremendous storm erupt within his heart…