Chapter 2619: The Number One Restaurant in the World

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In the Hongmeng space, Zhao Wu Yan slowly walked, carefully observing the street with its bustling pedestrians. If she ended up becoming a member of the Taixu Pavilion, this was a preliminary investigation. If Zhong Xuan returned safely, then it was just a leisurely stroll.

Tall buildings stood like a forest, with mechanical flying birds shuttling among them. Humans and Water Race members brushed past each other on the street, each going about their business undisturbed.

On the horizon was a rainbow bridge, connecting different Hongmeng spaces. For example, the current one was Jia Zi Wu Xu. As the number of Taixu walkers increased, more Hongmeng spaces were continuously opened.

Each Hongmeng space started with the "Initial Land." The "Initial Land" was the area developed within the Taixu Illusory Realm for all walkers to exchange. Regions outside the "Initial Land" needed to be developed using Hongmeng Qi.

Just like the street underfoot, it belonged to this Hongmeng space. The largest city on the "Initial Land," Feng Yuan City, seemed to be managed by Si Kong Jing Xiao of Jian Ge.

The competition and management of these different cities, and even the residence, migration, and competition within different Hongmeng spaces, was quite a complex system that Zhao Wu Yan had not specifically studied and didn't fully understand. She only knew it was a proposal jointly promoted by Ju Kui and Zhong Xuan, discussed many times in the Taixu Pavilion, and finally allowed Taixu walkers to spend significantly more time in the Taixu Illusory Realm.

The Taixu Illusory Realm was developing incredibly fast, with something new almost every day. The moment the Virtual Abyss became the Taixu Dao Lord, this boat of the era tore off all shackles and surged through the waves of the era.

These people, originally only in supervisory roles, unknowingly became the ones driving the boat. Breaking history one after another, creating legends, continuously opening up new possibilities, they had already pushed the Taixu Illusory Realm towards becoming a second world!

The second world was a term she had heard in the Sea of Learning some time ago, said to have been spoken by Dean Zuo Qiu Wu. This great master had expectations for the future of the Taixu Illusory Realm that reached the present world.

In this world, there were countless small worlds, various cave heaven worlds, vast and boundless ones, as well as various god countries, pure lands, and secret realms.

But never had any "world" been able to connect so many people, provide such abundant harvests, and accommodate the entire present world with nearly infinite potential.

Zhao Wu Yan would never underestimate herself. She had studied various schools of thought and had the heart to benefit the world, but even now, she couldn't say she had the qualification to truly stand in this position and push the era.

A letter from Shidi Jiang arrived at this time. She read a bit, and knew the answer upon exiting the Taixu Pavilion. In the end, she did nothing but continue walking on the street.

"Hurry, hurry! Today, the Taixu Arena has two Tian Zi Hao showdowns!" Beside a tavern, someone excitedly rushed out, "Huang Liang against Long Xiang, Zhu Bu Shu against Wang Tian Fu!"

Zhao Wu Yan's heart stirred, and she immediately turned.

In the Taixu Public School, the "Xu Sheng" were concentrating on listening to lectures, sensing the mysteries of cultivation. Mu Fu Yao, teaching on the stage, casually and absent-mindedly glanced into the distance before retracting his gaze.

This was truly an unprecedented event... what task required all members of the Taixu Pavilion to mobilize?

As a great sect in the present world, the current "world's first academy," Qin Ku Academy, was actually a quite significant force. It just didn't show too much external threat because its focus was on scholarship.

The affiliated academies and various secret realms under its name were too numerous to list. The talents pushed by the academy to various countries in the world were even more countless.

Even if these people focused solely on state affairs and were absolutely loyal to the state, it was impossible to say they had no feelings for the academy. Thus intertwined, their influence was immeasurable. Even in the Central Domain, where the Dao Gate controlled the strongest power, and the God Enveloping Grassland, Qin Ku Academy had long enjoyed fame.

That is, until Sima Heng Straight Pen Describe God caused the matter of God Fire Burn Book, and Qin Ku Academy was driven out of the Grassland.

When Li Yi said "entire Qin Ku Academy" was in a sealed state, he of course didn't mean to encompass all the forces of Qin Ku Academy. He specifically referred to the location of Qin Ku Academy's main institute, which carried the volume of Han Qing Jian called "Sun Shu Tai."

"Sun Shu Tai" was a mountain name, a plain and direct name, meaning "cut a mountain into a platform to sun books."

Looking down on this mountain platform, it was like a book opened from the middle, placed on the vast earth for the world's seekers to appreciate.

Originally just an ordinary mountain, just as Qin Ku Academy was also just an ordinary academy at its earliest. The initial mountain chief was a Confucian scholar named "Song Qiu Shi," who believed that "diligence can make up for clumsiness." He set up a hut here to seek learning, but worked hard for a lifetime and never cultivated any fame.

As the inscription on his grave reads— "a lifetime not more than half a scripture."

But the words "diligence and hardship" were passed down.

The half scripture he cultivated, which he thought was half, was actually only one percent complete. Its name was... "Various Saints Lectures."

After he died, his students succeeded... disciples and grandsons, through nineteen generations, completed the merit, finally completing this magnificent scripture.

Now, many scriptures from the Various Saints era could be preserved, all relying on this scripture.

Then, in such spirit of inheritance, the Confucian scholars of Qin Ku Academy, generation after generation, used diligence and hardship, aspiring to scholarship, finally becoming the world's first academy.

Those ordinary paper books initially opened on "Sun Shu Tai" also turned into the later world-famous Han Qing Jian.

And now, this volume, always open on the platform, allowing people to enter and exit, known as "air dry the books in belly" Han Qing Jian, had already rolled into a long scroll. It was like a peak isolated in the world and pushed down.

Thus, Qin Ku Academy closed its big door, forbidding entry.

The vigorous grass color to the north and the prosperous human world's red dust qi to the south surrounded a rugged mountainous area.

Sun Shu Tai was the beautiful scenery of this rugged landscape.

Millions of years of whistling mountains and rivers' literary qi had already carved this mountain into an entity. Benevolent people saw benevolent books on this mountain, and wise people saw classics.

In the era when books were not widely available, it was a holy land for many readers.

Today, the sky suddenly darkened. In an instant, thick clouds pressed down, lightning flashed and thunder roared!

That lightning, tearing through ten thousand miles in a twisting path, was like a gap in the heavens, a door of light, connecting endless mysteries and communicating with the ancient human world.

An ancient and colorful pavilion then descended from this dazzling lightning...

Descending!

The sudden roar of heaven and earth stopped, and the endless light and color surrounded a single wine banner outside the building.

Chaotic clouds then became the support for this building, and virtual and real changes re-divided yin and yang.

The world order precipitated on "Sun Shu Tai" over millions of years changed due to the descent of the Taixu Pavilion, in a situation where it lost its supporters.

The light and color inside the building were unclear, but on the ridge, there were eight figures, solid and ethereal, wearing black clothes, yellow robes, green shirts, red-bottomed gold-edged military uniforms... each with a different temperament, like eight banners fluttering on the horizon.

Divine thoughts roared like a turbulent sea, shaking all heavenly rules and earthly measures.

However, "Sun Shu Tai" did not speak, and Han Qing Jian did not move.

When the Taixu Pavilion crossed ten thousand miles and instantly descended here, what it felt was a silent yet firm... resistance between heaven and earth.

Han Qing Jian, representing Qin Ku Academy, refused visits, refused exchange, and refused any external force's interference.

That is why the Taixu Pavilion members, despite knocking on the door ten thousand times in their thoughts, received no response.

Thus, the figures on the ridge moved.

The one in the green shirt stepped forward, and a thread of white rainbow flew down.

The world's first building, already facing... the world's first academy!

Jiang Wang stood on the flying eaves in the sky.

Li Yi of the world... sword pushes the door!

Jiang Wang took it upon himself to prevent others, directly confronting Han Qing Jian, ready to face any sudden accidents from the start.

And Li Yi had the fastest sword in the world.

The extremely brilliant sword light swept over the rolled-up Han Qing Jian. It was like a startled swan suddenly looking back, sweeping away snow in a long life.

Nothing could not be divided by it. Sealing was good, resistance was good, or so-called rules.

In the darkness, a hemp rope entangled for years broke, followed by the rustling sound of bamboo slips flipping.

The world-famous Han Qing Jian unfolded just like that in front of everyone. With everyone's eyes, it air-dried the words on the slips, the books in its belly—

But one saw literary qi gathering into a deep courtyard, pens as bamboo, paper turning into pine, and the sound of reading resounding like heavenly music.

Qin Ku Academy did appear in the air above Han Qing Jian, but the light and shadow illusions constantly flew and turned, sometimes piled snow in front of the door, sometimes flying leaves fell on the tiles. In an instant, black tiles and white walls, in an instant, a broken hedge... clearly the same academy, but embodying different times.

What Han Qing Jian unfolded was a segment of years belonging to Qin Ku Academy!

In the distance, the yellow robe unfolded, rolling up a surging heavenly wind. Huang She Li already flew down, standing beside Li Yi, who was in white clothes pressing his sword.

That pair of her dark and bright eyes held the whistling of time, the rolling of waves, and a demon subduing pestle, like an isolated boat floating and sinking.

"This is a branch of the long river of history intercepted here. The entire Qin Ku Academy has already sunk into it, no wonder inside and outside are isolated." She narrated her observation of time: "At the beginning, no one felt they were in disordered time and space, just like Mister Zhong was still replying to letters normally in the academy. Until... the mountain gate sank."

Did Qin Ku Academy rolling up and sealing the mountain signify their response, or their encounter? This was a very important question. If the former, they should not disturb them; if the latter, they must send out the voice of the Taixu Pavilion.

In a version where everyone looked correct!

Now, Huang She Li gave the conclusion.

"Could even Dean Zuo not perceive the change in the academy's time?" Qin Zhi Zhen asked.

At the moment of descent, he had originally planned to refine the virtual first, going in ahead to see the situation, but was stopped by everyone. This was why Tai Yu Zhen Jun had to break the door with a sword. Now that he thought about it, climbing over the wall to enter was indeed not very polite—and there was the risk of time and space confusion.

"The first change was individual time. This is closing the door and boiling the frog in warm water. With Dean Zuo's strength, it's impossible not to grasp the change in time, but it's very likely he just took a nap, and the change had already occurred... time could be normal for him." Huang She Li said, "Mister Ju's deduction was verified. The final change occurred suddenly. It's also like Cabinet member Chong Xuan said, everyone here can be an ant nest."

Many existences in Qin Ku Academy, like Zhong Xuan, encountered the same situation, jointly causing the entire Qin Ku Academy's time and space to sink!

"History branch stream? This segment of history still exists, indicating that Qin Ku Academy still exists." Chong Xuan Zun Pian lightly ran forward: "I'll go in and take a look first, and then notify you after I find the way."

He had no confusion and possessed the star wheel to substitute for fate. He was indeed the most skilled at finding the way in time and space's confusing journey.

"Even Dean Zuo Qiu Wu is lost in it, with no message sent out. It's better to be careful." Cang Ming, wrapped entirely in a black robe, raised his hand, and boundless darkness unexpectedly seeped out from his somewhat pale palm, rolling in front of Han Qing Jian.

Ka ka ka—

In the darkness, a head and four limbs extended. But in reality, except for a pair of blood-colored divine eyes, nothing was clear.

Various outer gods, representing destruction and terror, just like this, walked in the front.

"My gods are immortal and indestructible, born from self-destruction. They are more suitable for probing the path," Cang Ming said.

Jiang Wang patted his shoulder: "That's how it's said, but the outer gods have been damaged too many times in a short period. It will still harm their origin to some extent. Once lost in time, it's an even greater loss for you..."

He lightly pointed with his raised hand: "I'll call a truly immortal one."

"Yan! Yan! Yan!"

Suddenly, sharp voices rose from all directions.

The echoing roar of heaven and earth was strange and evil.

And from madness, it was dyed with divinity!

From the darkness condensed by the outer gods, a black tailless swallow flew out.

In an instant, its body materialized— a human body with a bird's head, wearing a black crown and clothes, a pair of evil divine pupils mixed with majesty and cruelty.

Netherworld Yang God, controller of Ming Chen Palace, Bian Cheng Yan Jun!

Qin Zhi Zhen's eyelid twitched.

He always had some guesses about the other several neighbors in the Yan Luo Bao Dian. Today, he got confirmation.

How to say... he didn't really want to attend this class in the Netherworld. Being on equal footing with colleagues' pets, what was that supposed to mean?

This feeling of being inferior to others really enriched his life experience.

Yan Xiao had just walked out of the darkness and then stepped into Qin Ku Academy without looking back. That majestic and dignified figure was covered by divine light, slowly sinking into the time and space turbulence.

Although this body was ten thousand zhang, a single page of history could accommodate it.

"Cabinet member Qin!" Jiang Wang suddenly called out.

Qin Zhi Zhen, who was just thinking about some things in a mess, was startled. His face showed no change in color. After thinking for a moment, he said, "What is it?"

"Invite Yan Luo Tian Zi to come," Jiang Wang suggested. "If an accident occurs, we can, through the Netherworld divine position, slightly sense by borrowing the path of Di Zang Wang Bo Sa."

Who said one couldn't pluck the wool of transcendents? Qin Zhi Zhen's eyes lit up: "You still have ideas."

Jiang Wang smiled: "Just used to it, that's all."

The time Bian Cheng Yan Jun arrived at Qin Ku Academy was exactly spring with long grass and orioles flying. The academy's big door was open, and people came and went inside.

One could clearly hear the sound of reading in the courtyard, approximately some sentences like "wind high autumn moon white, rain clear late霞 red. Cow girl two stars river left right, Shen Shang two luminaries fight west east," and so on.

The fresh red eyes with golden evil pupils glanced into the courtyard, and then saw a person with an ordinary appearance, simple clothing, and a long sword with a bamboo sheath hanging at his waist.

The Master's instruction had already been transmitted through the divine seal. It slightly adjusted its tone, pushed the door open, and entered: "Brother Cui—"

The door leaf was deeply shut, and outside the courtyard, snow was already flying.

Outside "Sun Shu Tai," Jiang Wang's eyes went black and then bright. Without surprise, his divine seal was rebuilt.

The link with Yan Xiao's divine seal had been cut off. Even the mark of his main body left there had been destroyed.

Jiang Wang looked at Qin Zhi Zhen. Behind Qin Zhi Zhen, the figure of Yan Luo Tian Zi had already risen, obviously more divine and seemingly more powerful than Bian Cheng Yan Jun—even with the same resources, position, and path, the Yan Xiao raised could not compare to a figure like Qin Zhi Zhen.

This honored Yan Luo Tian Zi had a pair of eyes with gold edges and dragon whiskers at the corners, which suddenly opened—virtual shadows were vague in between, and countless ghosts and gods were seated.

The pupils were none other than the Yan Luo Hall.

"Do you feel anything?" Jiang Wang asked.

"Chaotic, confused, perplexed..." Qin Zhi Zhen felt repeatedly several times, and finally said, "No more information."

"Looks like it's also lost its way," Jiang Wang shook his head, but still walked forward: "But the change inside isn't able to immediately kill it."

As he spoke, he had already walked to the air above Han Qing Jian, his manner relaxed as if returning home. He lightly pushed with his hand—

Pushing open this fan of time-disordered door.

Thunderstorms, scorching sun on dead trees, scholars' swords, nourishing hearts and crowns, rulers and tombstones... After the door, there was layer upon layer of light and shadow, constantly shifting illusions. Hundreds and thousands of forces, like a storm, howled. There were also heavy waves of time, as if to decay everything, and finally bury everything.

The green shirt carried snow, stepping into its midst.

Something that couldn't kill the immortal Yan Xiao was not enough to be called danger!