Land of Beyond Heaven (1)

"Where is Junior Brother Yun?" Yun Jiajia asked when she didn't see Yun Lintian appear on the transmission formation.

Yun Li's expression became solemn. When she noticed Yun Lintian's anxious expression, she knew that something was wrong. The fact that he didn't follow back was evidence of this.

She said to Yun Jiajia, "Bring our sisters to rest first. I'll go report."

"What's going on?" Yun Li was about to move. Yun Ruanyu had appeared before her and inquired.

Yun Li hurriedly bowed and said, "Report to First Hall Master, I think something happens to Junior Brother Yun before we transmitting back."

Yun Ruanyu's expression changed, and she quickly set up an isolated barrier. "Tell me the detail."

Yun Li didn't understand why Yun Ruanyu had to set the barrier. She began narrating everything from the beginning of the exploration to the time when they returned.

After listening to her, Yun Ruanyu's brows furrowed with concern. She took out a transmission jade to contact Yun Huanxin. "Sister Huanxin, there is something wrong with Lintian. You have to find him. I suspect he is being chased by the enemy right now."

Putting the transmission jade away, Yun Ruanyu said to Yun Li and the rest. "Remember, don't speak about this, and all of you have to stay in my chamber first. Do not contact anyone."

Yun Li and the others looked at each other in confusion but still complied.

On the other side, Yun Huanxin received Yun Ruanyu's message and became anxious. According to the plan, she had to go to Yun Meilan and Yun Lingwei's location to retrieve them. That's why she didn't follow Yun Lintian's group after leaving the entrance to the mythical realm.

She swiftly manipulated the spatial element and vanished from the spot, making her way towards the cave with all her strength. Ten minutes later, she arrived at the cave and noticed that the transmission formation was nowhere to be found, causing her heart to sink even more.

Yun Huanxin emerged from the cave and extended her spiritual sense to survey the surroundings. Upon seeing several trees destroyed by something, she hurriedly followed the trail without hesitation.

A minute later, she arrived at the cliff and found a trace of Yun Lintian's footprints at the edge. Her face turned unsightly and immediately flew down with a heavy heart… God, I beg you, please keep him safe. She prayed in her heart.

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"Ugh…" Yun Lintian slowly opened his eyes in drowsiness.

What came into his sight was a clear sky with a small group of clouds floating slowly. A ray of sunlight shone brightly, reflecting on his face and clearing his muddled mind.

Yun Lintian moved his body and found himself immersed in a crystal-clear lake. He was confused and tried to recollect the memory before he fell unconscious. He remembered when he hit the river, several bones on his body were broken directly, but currently, except for the soreness, all of his bones were still intact, as if nothing happened before.

While he was grappling with this strange phenomenon, his gaze unconsciously fell upon the lake, causing his eyes to widen in shock. "T-This... Profound Spirit Lake!?"

Yun Lintian couldn't be mistaken even though he never saw Profound Spirit Lake before because the density of profound energy within the lake could not lie to him. Combining with a hazy spiritual mist floating on the surface, Yun Lintian remembered this characteristic very well, as it was written on the [Remnant Record of Life].

Back then, when he read about this, Yun Lintian had dreamed of using it to cultivate everyone in the sect, building the number one sect in the Azure World. Now, what he had yearned for all this time had appeared before him. How could he stay calm?

Yun Lintian scooped up the water with his hands to examine it carefully. The water was crystal clear and gave him a feeling as if he was holding buttermilk. It was silky-smooth, and he could feel a richness of profound energy within it.

Without hesitation, Yun Lintian drank a mouthful of the Profound Spirit Water. The taste was sweet and refreshing, better than any drink he had ever had on Earth. In the next moment, he could feel a large portion of profound energy quickly spread through every part of his body, causing him to have an urge to moan in comfortable.

"Good stuff!" Yun Lintian exclaimed excitedly. Comparing to the Celestial Buddha Lotus that he had obtained before, the Profound Spirit Lake was even more precious to him. Unlike the former, he could use it directly instead of having to wait for another hundred years.

"Right, where is this place?" Yun Lintian calmed down after a while and looked around, feeling puzzled. He didn't believe that he would have the protagonist's unreasonable luck just by jumping off the cliff and stumbling upon this place.

He peered through the hazy mist and spotted the shore not far from him. Just as he was about to swim toward the shore, he felt something unusual around his neck and quickly reached out to touch it.

"Where is my necklace!?" Yun Lintian panicked. When he jumped off the cliff, he didn't panic in the slightest, but this time it was different. The silver necklace had accompanied him for two lifetimes. Even though he didn't know its purpose, it could be regarded as his good friend. Not to mention, it was a memento left behind by his father. No matter what, he could not bear to lose it.

Yun Lintian channeled his profound energy and dove into the lake, attempting to locate the silver necklace. The lake was around six meters deep and extremely vast, estimating around thirty square kilometers. Within a few breath times, Yun Lintian arrived at the lake's floor and the scenery immediately stunned him again.

Countless high-grade Profound Stones lying on the lake's floor, they were too many for Yun Lintian to estimate the number by his eyes. He swore he had never seen this much wealth in his entire life. He thought the small mountain of middle-grade Profound Stone he exchanged from Little Flame was already an enormous wealth that he could find in the Heavenly Fortune Nation. However, the massive amount of the high-grade Profound Stones in front of him had blown his mind away directly. It was as if a beggar suddenly won the jackpot, becoming a billionaire overnight.

"Where the hell is this place? No! Where is this paradise?" Yun Lintian said to himself with a silly smile and even forgot to control his profound energy.

"Right, this is not the time to appreciate the wealth." Yun Lintian took his eyes off the glittered Profound Stones and searched for the silver necklace.

Ten minutes later, he was disappointed by the result and thought it was wishful thinking to find the necklace in this environment. He closed his eyes with grief and prepared to accept the fact that he lost the necklace forever.

However, when his eyes were tightly shut, he suddenly saw a small silver gate appeared in his mind. The silver gate had a shape that resembled the rectangular piece on the silver necklace, but it looked more imposing, exuding an ancient aura.

"What is this?" Yun Lintian was confused, and his mind shifted towards the silver gate. Suddenly the silver gate expanded its size before it flew out of his body, appearing in front of him.

Yun Lintian opened his eyes and saw the silver gate standing tall, just a step away from him. On the gate, there was an intertwined pattern of a dragon and a phoenix. Below them there was an imposing white tiger, posting a roaring stance and there was a black turtle beside it.

As an avid reader of novels, he recognized them almost instantly. The four of them were the mythological beasts in Chinese mythology. He didn't know if they were real, but he eagerly anticipated the day he would see them firsthand.

On the border of the gate, there were complicated ancient runes that Yun Lintian didn't recognize engraved from the top to bottom. Yun Lintian put his excitement aside and tried to open the gate with his hands, but the gate didn't move an inch, no matter how hard he tried.

"Maybe I can use my mind to open it?" Yun Lintian retracted his hands and changed the method. He stared at the gate and ordered it with his mind. Surprisingly, the gate opened immediately in the next second.

Yun Lintian became cautious and walked into the gate. A moment later, he found himself in a raging river as he channeled profound energy to stabilize himself firmly in the position.

"This is the river I fell in earlier?" Yun Lintian looked around and recognized this place.

"Then this gate…" Yun Lintian looked at the silver gate and his eyes lit up in excitement as he quickly stepped into the gate and appeared in the Profound Spiritual Lake once again.

"Private space!? So, the silver necklace is a space treasure!" Yun Lintian came to a conclusion immediately. He had read a ton of novels with the protagonist having this kind of treasure before. He was certain that this place was similar to the legendary space treasure.

Yun Lintian did not immediately go up and check the surroundings. He went back to the river once again to catch several fish before bringing them back to his private space. Upon seeing the fishes happily swimming in the lake with no problem, he couldn't help but become ecstatic. With this, he could lead everyone in his sect to escape with him!

While Yun Lintian was overjoyed, Yun Huanxin's spiritual sense suddenly detected an abnormality beneath the river and quickly dove into that location. Unfortunately, when she arrived, Yun Lintian had already retracted the silver gate away.