Chapter 53

**Update Time: April 24, 2013**

Yun Mo stood at the entrance of the classroom, took a deep breath, and firmly held the letter containing the secret that his mother had given him.

Suddenly, Yun Mo sensed a flash of light out of the corner of his eye. His heart stirred, as if he had discovered something, and he instantly looked up!

Just then, Yun Mo suddenly felt a strange silver light, as bright as snow, extremely dazzling. "Huh?" He looked up but found no abnormalities in the surroundings, which left him utterly astonished.

"My feeling is absolutely right; I must have seen something!" Yun Mo thought, repeating his previous actions but at an extremely slow pace! His back gradually bent, but his head did not lower as before; instead, it lifted forward, his eyes constantly observing any unusual phenomena around him as his body angle changed.

Boom! As if struck by a thunderbolt in his mind, when Yun Mo bent nearly ninety degrees, a silver light suddenly appeared, carrying a force that seemed capable of collapsing the earth, and it struck directly into Yun Mo's spirit sea!

The deafening explosion instantly filled Yun Mo's spirit sea. This force was so powerful, like a surging ocean, causing the soul power in Yun Mo's spirit sea to form a massive vortex, a terrifying scene of the end of the world!

Yun Mo stumbled back several steps, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. He quickly shifted his gaze, feeling the pressure ease, and his legs went weak, almost making him sit on the ground. In that brief moment, his soul had been greatly shaken and injured!

Yun Mo was extremely shocked, his face pale as a ghost!

What is this? He had doubts in his eyes. A mere thread of silver light could attack a person's spirit sea, which was too shocking and unbelievable!

His head buzzed, and Yun Mo struggled to stand straight, his heart chilled as he looked at the lower left corner of the wall about two hundred meters away! That thread of silver light had definitely leaked from there, and Yun Mo was willing to stake his head on it!

Thinking of how Gongsun had sealed this place entirely, invited mages to strengthen it, and prohibited others from entering, Yun Mo felt he had grasped a clue, and he became inexplicably excited!

Forcing down his eerie emotions, Yun Mo carefully approached the spot.

This was where Gongsun practiced, and logically, he would not set up any traps here, as that would limit his own movements. However, after suffering a significant loss at Lin Meier's hands, Yun Mo did not dare to be so certain. It was always better to be cautious.

Fortunately, his judgment was correct this time. He arrived at the wall without any incidents and began to observe it carefully!

This was a place where several blue stone slabs were stacked. At first glance, there was nothing unusual. Yun Mo reached out to touch it, and a look of understanding appeared on his face. There must be a mechanism here, as the area he touched was too smooth, different from the surrounding blue stones. Thus, he focused his attention even more!

He quickly discovered the secret.

This blue stone was three meters long and one and a half meters high, close to the ground. Yun Mo, not tall enough, could just reach the top of the stone. At the seam where it met the stone above, his fingers felt a metallic, circular protrusion.

He realized this was the button to open the mechanism!

Without rushing to press it, he examined it more carefully. Finally, he figured out the source of the silver light. On the lower left side of the blue stone, there was a very fine crack for some reason! Given his previous experience, Yun Mo did not dare to face this crack directly, fearing he might be injured by the silver light!

He carefully touched every part of the blue stone, tapping and listening to the echoes behind it. Finally, Yun Mo was certain that there were no hidden traps here! This time, he was absolutely sure.

Then he reached out to touch the mechanism button and pressed it down!

Click! A very subtle sound echoed, and with it, the blue stone slowly retreated into the wall by a meter, then disappeared into a hidden compartment on the right.

Yun Mo felt a tremor in the air, and his eyes were filled with silver light, but miraculously, he did not feel the soul attack. He understood that the attack was only triggered when the silver light was viewed from a specific angle!

Thus, he relaxed, adapting to the silver glow and focusing his gaze inside!

What is this? Yun Mo was instantly stunned by the scene before him!

A rectangular cavity appeared after the stone retreated, revealing a picture with flowing silver light!

It was an incredibly mysterious feeling. The picture showed a woman's face, but you could not see her clearly. All you could see were a pair of purely silver, hollow eyes, without pupils, just eyes!

Her large eyes were directly facing Yun Mo, and within them seemed to be a strange world, feeling so ethereal and unfathomable.

The moment Yun Mo saw these eyes, he heard a heavenly whisper in his ears, and the brilliant silver light completely enveloped him!

In that instant, Yun Mo felt as if he had lost his soul, and a massive divine statue suddenly appeared before his eyes!

This was a divine statue over ten thousand miles tall, shining with silver light. Layers of immense power swirled around him like a tornado, exuding a grand and solemn aura that could awe and intimidate the heavens and the earth!

Yun Mo saw clearly that the divine statue had three heads and six arms! Each face had a different expression and gender, some male and some female, with rapidly changing expressions.

Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, sourness, sweetness, bitterness, and spiciness—various expressions alternated, making the divine statue extremely bizarre. The six arms held six weapons: a knife, a spear, a sword, a staff, an axe, and a fork. The weapons were covered with countless intricate spirit patterns, making it impossible to determine their level!

Yun Mo felt dizzy, thinking he must be dreaming!

At that moment, the divine statue moved, and its six arms formed various seals. As the seals changed, different types of energy appeared around it!

The five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, yin and yang, lightning and thunder, extreme cold and mystic ice, life and death, space and time, light and darkness, extinction and revival, and many other types of energy that Yun Mo could not recognize, continuously appeared and vanished!

Subconsciously, Yun Mo began to form seals with his hands, following the energy circulation routes on the divine statue, and started to try to circulate his own energy in the same way. Gradually, he became engrossed, and time passed!

One day, two days… one month, two months… until a year!

The divine statue formed 108 million seals and over six hundred cultivation techniques! Yun Mo followed and memorized them. He could only perform the first ten thousand seals and two cultivation techniques; the rest were impossible to learn! No matter how he tried, he could not replicate the remaining movements and techniques. Yun Mo understood that haste makes waste, so he focused on deeply imprinting all the images in his memory, knowing he would have plenty of time to study them later!

"I am the Three Emperors of the Mystic Heaven. I have waited for three thousand years to finally see a life from the home plane. I specially transmit to you 666 supreme arts. You must study them carefully. One day, we will meet again. All this is due to fate. Your arrival in this plane is arranged by the heavens. Do not辜负 the heavens' favor. Achieve the great Dao as soon as possible, and I will personally explain everything to you. Take care, I am leaving."

A divine consciousness containing this information entered Yun Mo's mind, and he instantly understood.

As the message conveyed, the divine statue vanished with a loud boom!

Yun Mo's eyes were filled with silver light, and the world seemed to invert. He felt as if he had entered an ever-changing, kaleidoscopic tunnel, and then he regained consciousness!

Yun Mo opened his eyes and looked at the same beautiful woman's face, her silver eyes seemingly missing something, and he fell into deep thought.

At that moment, he realized that although he had spent a year in that world, only a quarter of an hour had passed in reality!

The flow of time was different, and the laws of the universe had changed! Yun Mo had a profound realization.

He now understood the origin of the picture and could see the cultivation route marked on the woman's face!

It was the first cultivation technique he had comprehended!

"Originally, Gongsun built this sealed training ground for this reason! Indeed, just this first body-cultivation technique would likely attract the covetous eyes of heavenly experts. No wonder he was so cautious!"

Yun Mo tried to store the object in his storage space, but it was impossible. Gongsun must have had no choice but to do this!

But where did Gongsun get this object?

However, this was not important. What was important was that Yun Mo realized that everything he had experienced was arranged by a powerful being!

He was extremely unhappy. The divine statue had been waiting for him, and he clearly understood that he was just a pawn in someone else's game!

He did not know what he was supposed to do in this world.

Yun Mo only knew that he was unwilling to be a pawn! But it was not up to him now.

"Hmph, one day, I will find out what all this is for!"

Yun Mo thought to himself.

Then he restored the area to its original state, pushing all his surprise and dissatisfaction out of his mind, and began to lay the mines!

"Thirty should be enough to kill Gongsun!" Yun Mo thought, carefully digging the ground, calculating various data, and predicting Gongsun's reactions. He placed the mines in the most suitable locations and connected all the landmines with fine threads. Once one was triggered, all the mines would explode, and the power would likely be too much for the reinforced training ground to withstand!

He thought smugly. He took one last look at the restored mechanism, his eyes flashing with complex emotions.

He erased all traces, carefully repositioned the stone slabs, and returned to the tunnel. He quickly crawled along the original path, retracting all the steel bars used for support. In less than ten minutes, Yun Mo had crawled out of the entrance in the artificial hill! He quickly covered the entrance, restoring it to its original state. From a distance, it looked no different, and Yun Mo finally relaxed.

It felt like a lifetime had passed in just a few hours!

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