Chapter 5627 Ninth Barrier
Long Chen didn’t know what was happening. His first reaction was to grab the startled Long Tianrui’s hand.
Long Chen and Long Tianrui were sucked away into the barrier. Both Long Chen and Long Tianrui were startled.
The disturbance ended up waking up Long Zimo. He watched as Long Chen and Long Tianrui entered.
“Bastard!”
Long Zimo clenched his teeth. He was shocked that Long Chen broke through this barrier so quickly. He currently didn’t have the slightest lead. This feeling of a setback was a huge embarrassment to a peak heavenly genius like him.
“Damn this!”
As for Long Zaiye, he had only just passed the sixth barrier. He was fuming.
“I still haven’t taught you the mnemonic to break through. How did you open the barrier?” On the other side of the barrier, Long Tianrui stared at Long Chen with wide eyes. She couldn’t believe it.
In order to help Long Chen, she had exhausted a great deal of her precious bloodline power. That affected her own efficiency. As for Long Chen, he had just fought an immense battle and had to be exhausted mentally. He should have needed to rest.
At the time, both of them had consumed pills. Long Tianrui had assumed that Long Chen would rest as well, and was planning on teaching him the mnemonic once they were recuperated.
However, before she was even done recovering, she was dragged through by Long Chen. Long Tianrui stared at Long hen in astonishment. She suddenly turned red because Long Chen was holding her hand, and pulled her hand back.
“There’s a mnemonic?”
Long Chen was surprised. He had no idea about anything like that. He thought the point was to use the mind to commune and comprehend the barrier, perhaps obtaining its approval or reaching some kind of set target.
The redness on Long Tianrui’s face slowly faded. She solemnly said, “How did you do it?”
“I don’t know?” Long Chen told her about what he had seen.
Long Tianrui sighed in amazement. “I don’t know if you’re just lucky or if your comprehension is just that high. But you deciphered an inner secret of the divine clans just like that.”
This technique was something only core disciples knew of. Furthermore, essentially all of them had been spelled to secrecy. If any one of them spoke of this secret, they would instantly die.
Only the likes of Long Tianrui, Long Zaiye, and Long Zimo did not face such restrictions. But Long Chen somehow managed to figure it out on his own.
After hesitating for a while, Long Tianrui asked, “Can I ask what character you comprehended?”
“Defend.”
Long Chen pressed a finger on her forehead, transmitting the scene of him comprehending that character to her.
“You…”
Long Tianrui was even more shocked. Long Chen was passing such a thing to her. Such a thing could shake the heavens if it was revealed.
In theory, such a thing was something she shouldn’t have even asked, but she couldn’t resist the temptation. The moment she said it she wanted to take it back. If Long Chen refused to tell her, wouldn’t that be awkward?
Long Chen smiled. “I can still pass it down to you while it’s just an embryonic form. Otherwise, it would probably be just like you said, and I’d be unable to pass it to anyone through written form or spiritually.”
Long Chen didn’t know how to use the Jiuli immortal character that he had comprehended, but he did owe Long Tianrui a favor. A child was out of the question, so this could be considered a replacement.
Long Tianrui bit her lip and looked at Long Chen. “Even so, you still owe me a child.”
Long Chen was speechless. She really was attached to this idea.
“Let’s go.”
Long Chen continued onwards with Long Tianrui. On this level, the surrounding space became misty, and their figures vanished within it.
“You’re quite smart. The entire Long clan should have viewed you as a mortal enemy, but you managed to make all of them stay away from you other than Long Zaiye,” said Long Tianrui. She was in an excellent mood now, and even chatted with Long Chen.
According to what she knew, breaking through the eighth barrier was incredibly difficult. The fastest recorded time was two hours. Based on those records, getting through the eighth barrier normally took six to ten hours.
Now that Long Chen had broken through the eighth barrier, it instantly applied a large amount of pressure to Long Zaiye, Long Zimo, and the others. That would affect their speed as well.
With Long Chen’s power, recovering in these few hours should be more than enough time. Now no one could threaten him.
“From top to bottom, the Long clan is filled with trash. I don’t like them.” Long Chen shook his head.
“I also don’t like them, but I need their resources. They also need me. We are each getting what we need. In this world, there is nothing that belongs to me. That’s why I need something that does.” Long Tianrui sighed. There was a rare helpless sadness in her voice.
Long Chen’s heart shook. Long Tianrui was an expert sealed away in ancient times. Now that she had been awoken, her family had long since vanished. She was alone.
She didn’t have that many desires. She didn’t have wild ambitions. In fact, it seemed that she only had one goal left in life.
Long Chen couldn’t help sighing inside. Even a peak heavenly genius like Long Tianrui, someone who was envied and admired by countless people, also lived such a bitter life. Sometimes being alone was the most frightening thing.
Compared to Long Tianrui, he was truly blessed. He had so many people he cared about, and who cared about him. With their company, Long Chen’s world was bright and colorful.
The barrier was right up ahead of them. Its immense force was suffocating, so strong that Long Chen actually took a few steps back.
He saw one rune after another shuttling across it. This immense pressure was coming from those runes. Even Long Chen felt his soul shudder as he looked at those runes.
“It’s just a rune, but it possesses the power to transform heaven and earth. It can become a divine ability that can reverse the ten thousand Daos.”
Long Chen was shaken. Suddenly, Long Chen thought of the runes on the Earth Cauldron’s body. He had never managed to understand them. Now he realized that those runes were most likely original Jiuli immortal characters.
Long Chen had never understood them before, and the Earth Cauldron did not permit him to study them, saying that he was wasting his time. Now he suddenly realized that this was a necessary process to learning original Jiuli immortal characters.
“The ninth barrier’s runes are the foundation of Jiuli immortal characters. In truth, all formations, magical arts, talismans, and everything else come from them. It can be said that the entire cultivation civilization evolved from them. Even the divine clans can’t say anything for sure about the ninth barrier. Some say that merging dozens of runes into one complete rune and saying its name will allow one to pass through and face the Jiuli Divine Stele. Some say that by focusing on one rune and becoming one with it, treating it as a box of treasures that is opened and excavated, it is also possible to pass the barrier. There are also many who forget how they broke through the ninth barrier. Thus, there isn’t much valuable information about the ninth barrier,” said Long Tianrui.
“Ignore that information. There are a thousand paths to the gate of the Grand Dao. What suits others might not suit us,” said Long Chen.
“I’ll start first.” Long Chen sat down on the ground and formed hand seals. Seven-colored divine light lit up around him, forming a hand that slowly stretched towards the ninth barrier.