Chapter 1422 Entering the Vast Heaven Star
Zhang Han would try his best to find Mengmeng and Zi Yan, no matter how far away they were from him and how much he had to go through.
Now that he had received the news of them, Zhang Han felt at ease.
“You will stay here and rest for the next few days.”
Zhang Han said to the crowd, “I guess more people will be found later.”
“Brother, what are you going to do?” Zhang Li’s face changed slightly.
“I’m going to pick up your sister-in-law and the others,” Zhang Han replied.
“Do you need our help?” Grand Master Chu said, “Don’t worry, Big Brother. Just let us know if we can help.”
“Yeah. Where are you going, Big Brother?” the Taoist Lord of Azurepeak asked.
Hearing this, Zhang Han raised his hand and said, “You guys will stay here. Take this place as a base and try to find as many people as you can.”
While speaking, Zhang Han looked away.
“Lili, you and Liang Hao can travel on the Heavenly Double Star. This planet is not too small…”
Zhang Han looked at the crowd and gave them some instructions.
He was the most serious with Liang Mengqi.
He said in a deep voice to her, “Mengqi, you had a miscarriage, so your body is a bit injured. I’ve left you twenty-one medicinal pellets. Take them according to my instructions. Once you’ve recovered, you’ll be fine as long as Xiaofeng is with you.”
“Got it.” There was disappointment in Liang Mengqi’s eyes.
She had thought that she would give birth to a son for Zhao Feng, but she did not expect such a thing to happen.
She felt very helpless.
“Master, I can go with you,” Chu Qingyi said.
She wanted to follow Zhang Han’s lead.
“Yeah. Big Brother, the three of us can go with you. The two of them will stay behind. I can be your a.s.sistant or something,” Grand Master Chu said.
As soon as he spoke, Chu Qingyi stopped talking.
“I may go to the Vast Heaven Star first,” Zhang Han said.
“The Vast Heaven Star?” Old Taoist Honghu’s face froze for a moment. “Outsiders can’t enter that place. Even if they can, they can only enter a few trading cities. They can’t go anywhere else at all.”
“The key is how long one stays there. If it’s just one or two days, one can make a trip to several trade cities,” Grand Master Chu said. “I knew Elder Jonaf of the Ling Sea Sword Sect back then, but it’s said that he was killed by a sneak attack of the Heavenly Evil Sect during a mission. Now, I don’t know any people there.”
“The Four Great Sects of the Vast Heaven Star aren’t that easy to enter.” The Taoist Lord of Azurepeak laughed bitterly. “They don’t even care about the powers outside. The rules of the Vast Heaven Star are very strict, and it’s not easy to enter. However, I do know of a way. If you can pa.s.s the trials of the Mysterious Towers, you’ll be brought to the sect and tested with the outer disciples. This is the fastest way to get inside the Vast Heaven Star.”
Zhang Han frowned slightly when he heard that.
He began to ponder.
“The Astral Domain of Vast Heaven is huge, which is 30,000 times larger than the Heavenly Double Star. Many cultivators can only circle the planet once in decades by flying. There are a lot of opportunities on the Astral Domain of Vast Heaven, as well as several battlefields and horrible mountain ranges full of Exotic Beasts.”
Grand Master Chu said, “Looking for someone on the Vast Heaven Star is like finding a needle in a haystack. The key is to know where they are. The Four Great Sects are heavily guarded. Once we get discovered while entering, we will definitely be in trouble.”
When it came to the Vast Heaven Star, the Taoist Lord of Azurepeak and the others were powerless, even if they wanted to go there.
They didn’t have an idea to deal with the problem.
Although their individual strength was relatively high, the Vast Heaven Star on the Vast Heaven Star did not care.
Zhang Han asked after a while, “Where are the Mysterious Towers?”
He had a way to force his way in, but if he wanted to enter in a safer way, he needed to pa.s.s the trials and enter a sect with a normal ident.i.ty to look for the people on his team.
“There are only two Mysterious Towers. One is in the Authentic Martial Arts Sect, and the other is in the Ling Sea Sword Sect.”
Grand Master Chu said, “The number of inner-door disciples in the Authentic Martial Arts Sect is the least, even smaller than that of the outer-door disciples. That’s because they attach more importance to Body Cultivation. They are the number one Body Cultivation sect in the Astral Domain of Vast Heaven. The Ling Sea Sword Sect majors in swordsmans.h.i.+p and has many people, but it fights against the Heavenly Evil Sect all year round. Many talented disciples of the two sects have been targeted by the other sect. I heard that if people can kill any one of them, they can get a lot of spiritual treasures.”
“Little Zheng, take me to the Mysterious Tower of the Ling Sea Sword Sect,” Zhang Han said.
It was in line with his wishes that the place was filled with constant battles and chaos.
“Okay.” Grand Master Chu nodded with a smile, “Big Brother, when do we set off?”
“Now,” Zhang Han said without hesitation.
Grand Master Chu was speechless.
“We are setting off now?
“He decided it so quickly.”
Grand Master Chu said, “We’ll go to the s.p.a.ce station. The Radiant Inst.i.tute has a king vessel called the Torrent, which is at the level of S102 and very fast. If we take that s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p, we’ll probably be able to reach the destination in about ten days.”
“Alright.”
Zhang Han nodded slightly. With a pale face, he glanced around the crowd again.
“You guys will have a good rest here. With Honghu and Azurepeak around, you will be safe. If you need anything, you can ask them for help.”
“Yes. If you need anything, just let me know.” The Taoist Lord of Azurepeak thumped his chest. “Don’t worry, Big Brother. We’ll be waiting for you here.
Honghu also said, “The cultivation method you gave me is too profound. I reckon I will cultivate it in Old Chu’s place for several years.”
Without a doubt, he was going to guard this place, not even returning to his own residence.
In the crowd’s reluctant farewells, Grand Master Chu wheeled the wheelchair and entered the aircraft with Zhang Han. The aircraft rose into the air and disappeared into the horizon.
Liang Mengqi, Zhang Li, Chu Qingyi, and the others also knew that as long as Zhang Han couldn’t find Zi Yan and Mengmeng, he would not be at peace.
As for the others who were missing, because of what the crowd had experienced, they were a bit more at ease. The places they were teleported to were not that terrible.
Those people were stronger and their means were also more powerful. They had been taught by Zhang Han personally.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Zhang Li patted Liang Mengqi on the shoulder and said, “Don’t worry, Mengqi. Zhao Feng may be having a good time out there.”
“Yeah,” Liang Mengqi responded.
However, inside the Ancient Mine.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
“Hurry up and dig!”
Some of the guards shouted with cold faces. From time to time, they would swing their whips to whip the miners.
“Alas. I don’t deserve this…” Chen Changqing sighed deeply and sadly.
“Eh? Brother Qing?”
A familiar voice rang out from the side.
“Xiaofeng?”
Chen Changqing was a little pleasantly surprised.
He felt a little better upon seeing his family.
“You’re here too?”
“Yeah. What a coincidence that you’re also here.”
“I’ve been here for ten months.”
“In that case, I was teleported to the mine a month earlier than you. I’ve been here for eleven months.”
“Xiaofeng, you are more miserable.”
“…”
Zhang Han and Zhang Li were indeed siblings. They had been too confident about the others’ situations, but they had jinxed it.
Zhao Feng and Chen Changqing, the two miserable brothers, met in the Ancient Mine. However, their chances of escaping were slim.
Grand Master Chu had personally requested borrowing the highest-end king vessel in the Radiant Inst.i.tute.
“Let’s go to the Vast Wood Star.”
It would be a long journey.
Grand Master Chu introduced, “Big Brother, the Vast Heaven Star is different from the past. There are only five planets in its surroundings, and they are renamed Vast Gold Star, Vast Wood Star, Vast Water Star, Vast Fire Star, and Vast Earth Star. They’re equivalent to the offices of the Four Great Sects. Vast Gold Star belongs to the Authentic Martial Arts Sect, Vast Wood Star belongs to the Ling Sea Sword Sect, Vast Fire Star belongs to the Heavenly Evil Sect, and the other two planets are the Crimson Sunglow Sect’s.
“The conflicts between the Four Great Sects never end.
“However, the fights between the Ling Sea Sword Sect and the Heavenly Evil Sect are the most serious. There are often big battles between the two sects. The Authentic Martial Arts Sect would occasionally partic.i.p.ate in the battles. They would train their disciples in different periods and fight against the Ling Sea Sword Sect or the Heavenly Evil Sect. It seems reckless. Only the Red Glow Sect has fewer battles. They seem to be adopting a low profile to gain more. They have the largest number of disciples, and they would fight against other sects occasionally, but they would keep those fights to small sizes.
“If we go to the Ling Sea Sword Sect and want to enter the sect at a non-examination time, we’ll have to pa.s.s the trials of the Mysterious Tower. It’s said that it has 20 floors. If we pa.s.s 10 floors, we can enter the outer court. If we pa.s.s 15 floors, we can enter the inner court. If we pa.s.s 18 floors, we can become the chief disciples and the talents fought over by various peaks. No one has ever pa.s.sed all 20 floors yet.
“Big Brother, you can clear all the 20 floors easily, and you will get to shock the other party. You can choose any peak you want.”
Zhang Han, however, shook his head without saying anything.
It would be too high-profile to pa.s.s all the 20 floors.
Zhang Han only wanted to find his family now.
“When I went out to travel last time, I pa.s.sed by the Vast Gold Star and saw the Mysterious Tower. It was so high that it reached the clouds. Those who went in there to experience had to line up. More than 10,000 people went there and took the trials every day. It is said that only one in ten thousand people can succeed. On average, there will be one person who pa.s.ses the trials in 10 days.
“It’ll probably take us a few days to wait in line.
“AH!”
Grand Master Chu suddenly let out a cry of alarm.
“Hmm?” Zhang Han glanced at him.
“I forgot that one should be at least under 100 years old to take the trials. Big Brother, I don’t even know how old you are. I suppose that you don’t meet the requirements! Why don’t we go back and discuss it later?”
Zhang Han closed his eyes again and said softly, “My body is very young.”
Grand Master Chu’s mouth quivered.
“Could it be that Big Brother has reforged his body, or has he been possessed by someone?”
Since he couldn’t figure it out, Grand Master Chu didn’t ask any more questions. He told Zhang Han everything he knew about the Astral Domain of Vast Heaven and then began to cultivate.
When he was with Zhang Han, he could ask him anything he didn’t understand, and he enjoyed it.
A dozen days pa.s.sed in the blink of an eye.
Grand Master Chu was still lost in his learning from Zhang Han. “We’re almost there.”
After pa.s.sing through a few patrol posts at the s.p.a.ce station, they finally came to the surface.
The tall towering Mysterious Tower was right in front of them.
As Grand Master Chu had said, there were a lot of people queuing.
In the past ten days, Zhang Han had taken seven medicinal pellets and his soul had recovered.
As long as his injury of the Great Domain was stabilized, there would be no problem.
At this point, Zhang Han subconsciously didn’t want to take the wheelchair.
“Big Brother, why are you up? Sit down now. I’ll wheel you,” Grand Master Chu said quite enthusiastically.
Zhang Han’s face darkened when he heard that.
“I took the wheelchair to rest. It’s not that I’m disabled.”
“Huh?”
Grand Master Chu had nothing to say in response.
He followed Zhang Han obediently and walked to the street where people lined up to enter the Mysterious Tower.
The scene was extremely lively. It was as if those people had come to the capital to take the exam.
Many people came with companions. They stood on both sides of the street, where there were more people. The line was in the middle of the continent.
One could hear the discussion of the surrounding crowd.
“About 4600 people failed today. The best one only managed to pa.s.s the fifth floor.”
“The trials of Mysterious Tower on the Golden Wood Planet are especially difficult.”
“But those who are able to pa.s.s will enter the outer court of the Ling Sea Sword Sect, and they will have a different status.”