Chapter 2713 — The Heaven Dao Golden Pill
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"Oh? The Palace Master of the Ice Palace? And the Valley Master of Snow Valley?" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide. He had no idea who the Valley Master of Snow Valley might be, but the Palace Master of the Ice Palace—was that not Bingtang's own founding ancestor?
"That is so. They were the founders of the Ice Palace and Snow Valley. Because one bore the surname Bing and the other the surname Xue, the world called them the Ice Fairy and the Snow Fairy, and ever after, whoever inherited the seat of master in the Ice Palace or Snow Valley, no matter what name they once had, would take up that surname," Thunder Pig explained.
"This Zhang Lifeng… truly was extraordinary!" Wei Zhao could not help but voice his admiration. "Thunder Pig, so did they really die? Since there is a dwelling here, and a transmission stair as well, that means they lived here for some time?"
"The master and both mistresses were all experts at the peak of the late Heaven Tier, having already reached the limit of life extension. Even Zhang Lifeng, with all the heavenly treasures and earthly rarities at his command, could not have sustained life for all three. So the three made a pact and built a tomb, resolved to succeed or perish, and came here to enter a life-and-death seclusion, seeking a way to break through the peak of the late Heaven Tier and set foot upon the Heaven Dao. If they succeeded, they would become Heaven Dao experts and could pursue that legendary immortality; if they failed, the three would slumber together in this tomb, and this place would be their eternal resting home," Thunder Pig recounted.
"Then—did Zhang Lifeng die or not?" Wei Zhao asked.
"He should not have died," Thunder Pig wrote after a moment's hesitation.
"Should not have died? What do you mean, should not have died? What sort of answer is that?" Wei Zhao asked, puzzled. "Dead is dead, and not dead is not dead!"
"One day, they vanished together. I surmise they succeeded. Once one becomes a Heaven Dao expert, one goes to a place called Cloud Terrace Island. The master had many friends and wide connections—he should have had a way to get there…" Thunder Pig wrote.
"So that is how it is…" Wei Zhao nodded. If so, then Zhang Lifeng most likely had not died, nor had his two confidantes. Yet something puzzled Wei Zhao: "Then have you never come back here to look?"
"I cannot look…" Here Thunder Pig pointed at the stone door above the farthest room and wrote: "That stone door can only be opened by an expert above the Heaven Tier. I cannot open it. They disappeared from that room."
"Oh?" Wei Zhao was somewhat surprised. He had not expected such a mechanism to exist within the tomb, and now he rather wanted to see it. "Shall we go have a look at that door first?"
Thunder Pig nodded and scampered ahead to lead the way.
Yu Xiaoke was utterly lost in the clouds. White Leader was a little better off—after all, this was his own sect's affair, and he understood some of it—but Yu Xiaoke had no idea at all what Thunder Pig was writing about.
The three came to the stone door at the farthest end, and sure enough, beside the stone door Wei Zhao found a line of text.
"The simplified pill formula of the Heaven Dao Golden Pill. An expert at the peak of the late Heaven Tier who is also a first-rank Mystic Tier alchemist may open this door—Zhang Lifeng."
"The Heaven Dao Golden Pill?" Wei Zhao stared at the text on the wall in astonishment, then turned to Thunder Pig. "What is this Heaven Dao Golden Pill? If an expert at the peak of the late Heaven Tier takes it, can they ascend to the Heaven Dao?"
"It seems so. The master was always researching the refinement of the Heaven Dao Golden Pill, while both mistresses sparred daily in the martial arena, groping for a way to break through to the Heaven Dao by natural means," Thunder Pig explained.