Under Hun Zang’s request and trust, Jian Chen left the Martial Soul Mountain and found the closest interplanar teleportation formation, speeding off to the Delight Plane.
Along the way, Jian Chen was filled with worry, afraid that the Rain Abbess had also been affected and thus reduced to an ice sculpture by the Snow Goddess.
After all, the Delight Plane was a different kind of place. The situation there was complicated, with many organisations entwined together. The only reason why the Cloudsurge Empire managed to dominate everyone else was because of the Rain Abbess’s existence.
Once they lost the Rain Abbess, no one knew what kind of developments would have unfolded for the Cloudsurge Empire.
The Cloudsurge Empire had nothing to do with him, but all of this occurred because of him.
“I hope the Rain Abbess is fine,” Jian Chen thought. During the battle on the Ice Pole Plane back then, the Rain Abbess had played a pivotal role. If she had not stood forward, then the Martial Soul lineage and the Heavenly Crane clan would have been completely powerless against the Snow sect.
With the Icepeer Founding Ancestor of the Snow sect’s evil motives, she obviously would not reveal her deeds to the public either.
Under his full speed, Jian Chen arrived on the Delight Plane before making his way straight for the Cloudsurge Empire.
In the depths of the imperial palace, Jian Chen finally saw the Rain Abbess. She was in the forbidden grounds where even the emperor could not set foot without permission.
The Rain Abbess wore a familiar violet dress, sitting quietly alone on the side of a pool. She seemed to be completely unscathed. Nothing as horrendous as they imagined had occurred.
The Rain Abbess was well, so Jian Chen immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
“You seem to be very nervous,” the Rain Abbess said without looking back. Her tone was flat, without any special emotion.
Jian Chen remained silent as if he was rather uncertain about what to say. Only after a moment of thought did he say sternly, “The Martial Soul Mountain has been sealed in ice.”
“I’m aware!” the Rain Abbess said. Her voice was just as calm as before. She had found out about this a long time ago.
Instead, Jian Chen was surprised. He stared at the Rain Abbess in a daze. “Abbess, y-you already knew about this?”
“Did you come here to tell me this?” There was a clear hint of impatience in the Rain Abbess’s voice.
Jian Chen sucked in a deep breath and said, “I just visited the Martial Soul Mountain. First senior brother Hun Zang is trapped there. He’s extremely worried about you, senior, which was why he specially sent me to inform you so that you could prepare yourself.”
“Hmph, to think he still cares.” The Rain Abbess snorted gently. Her voice was cold, but Jian Chen could clearly sense a hint of joy.
The Rain Abbess stood there without budging like a stone statue. Her gaze was fixed on the fish that swam freely in the pool. She said slowly, “Before the Snow Goddess sealed the Martial Soul Mountain in ice, she visited me first, wanting to suppress me for ten thousand years.”
When he heard that, Jian Chen lost his breath. His heart suddenly tightened as well. The Snow Goddess had actually visited the Rain Abbess first? Yet the Rain Abbess was sitting here fine, which left him extremely shocked.
He knew the Rain Abbess was very powerful and was also aware that the Rain Abbess had made progress with her cultivation in the Xuanhuang Microcosm, reaching a higher realm.
However, he never thought the Rain Abbess was the Snow Goddess’s opponent!
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After all, the Snow Goddess was a well-renowned Ninth Heavenly Layer Grand Prime!
The Rain Abbess continued, “I must admit that the Snow Goddess is extremely powerful. Her Laws of Ice and Laws of Snow have reached the same level. With the two laws complementing one another, there truly are very few people that can serve as her opponent among Ninth Heavenly Layer Grand Primes. However, I’m not without methods to repel her either.”
“She doesn’t have the courage to force me to use them, so she retreated.”
Jian Chen was very shocked. What the Rain Abbess said was without a doubt a bombshell to him. He always thought he already had a high enough opinion of the Rain Abbess, yet never did he think that the Rain Abbess was actually hiding a trump card that even Ninth Heavenly Layer Grand Primes were wary about.
And, that was not a regular Ninth Heavenly Layer Grand Prime, but the Snow Goddess who had comprehended the Laws of Ice and the Laws of Snow, virtually invincible in her own realm of cultivation.
The Rain Abbess’s strength had completely exceeded his imaginations.
At this moment, a great rumble that seemed to originate from the depths of the cosmos rang out. The terrifying sound wave directly shook up the laws of the world, spreading through the entire Saints’ World at an unbelievable speed.
Boom!
Immediately, all the cultivators throughout the entirety of the Saints’s World heard a great rumble, like the world was collapsing and the universe had exploded.
The laws of the entire Saints’ World shook violently. The flow of the three thousand ways was disrupted as large areas of space in vast outer space collapsed.
In the next moment, a colossal book appeared in the Saints’ World, shining brightly.
The book was not tangible, but an intangible projection. However, even when it was only a projection, it was completely condensed from the laws.
The projection seemed to be able to spread through the interwoven laws, such that the projection of the book enveloped the entire Saints’ World as soon as it appeared.
It felt like the book was the embodiment of the ways. Wherever the ways reached, it reached.
The ways were omnipresent, so the projection of the book was also omnipresent.
All the cultivators of the forty-nine great planes and eighty-one great planets raised their heads and looked at the sky. Regardless of where they were in the Saints’ World, they could clearly see the book that enveloped the entire sky.
In the Cloudsurge Empire on the Delight Plane, Jian Chen and the Rain Abbess gazed at the sky at the same time. They were both extremely stern.
“It’s the people from the Immortals’ World. They’ve come again,” the Rain Abbess murmured solemnly.
Jian Chen’s gaze was fixed on the two simple, large words on the book. The words were extremely ancient, not a language from this current era. However, they gave off a peculiar aura, such that anyone who saw the book would naturally realise the meaning of the two words.
“The meaning of the book is the populace,” Jian Chen murmured. He was in shock.
That was because the feeling that the Book of the Populace gave him was even greater than sovereign god artifacts. It could actually envelope the entirety of the Saints’ World with its projection. That was simply astounding.
He had come into contact with a few sovereign god artifacts before, but he had never witnessed this ability from any of them.
In the Ice Goddess Hall, the Ice Goddess sat in the air as the thick Laws of Ice permeated her surroundings. It seemed like mist, obscuring her appearance.
She also raised her head towards the heavens at this moment. Her cold eyes shone with a dazzling light.
“Younger sister, do you remember how I mentioned an extremely great power brought a pair of souls to the world where you reincarnated?” the Ice Goddess said suddenly and sternly.
The Snow Goddess appeared silently. “Of course I do, elder sister. Why have you suddenly mentioned that?”
“I finally know where the power was from. It’s that book’s power. Ninety thousand years ago, it was that book’s power that brought the two souls to the Tian Yuan Continent. Even though the presence back then was far stronger than right now, they still come from the same source.”
On a certain planet, Fang Jing sat at the top of a mountain. Wielding the Dominion’s Brush, she obscured all traces and presences of herself, completely removing herself from the world.
She also gazed up at the sky, at the Book of the Populace manifested by the ways. Her gaze was cold. “You might have obtained the Book of the Populace, but you are unable to utilize its true power. The Book of the Populace has never recognised you.”
At this moment, a crack appeared in the boundary of the Saints’ World. A book was caught in the crack, shining with dazzling light and interfering with the ways of the world.
Behind the Book of the Populace were several figures. They gave off the presence of ways, shining with hazy light. They radiated with the presence of sovereigns.
They were sovereigns from the Immortals’ World and the Demons’ World. They had worked together to kill their way into the Saints’ World.
“Found Ancient Paths’ location. Sure enough, he’s forging that item,” a stern voice rang out from the Immortals’ World’s side.
At this moment, a tower suddenly appeared in the Saints’ World, directly hurling towards the Book of the Populace with a destructive presence.
Soon afterwards, the Laws of Creation, Destruction, and Fire all appeared, turning into a shining spear that pierced space. It arrived in an instant, shooting straight past the Book of the Populace towards the sovereigns behind it.
