Chapter 19 : Seventeen Stones

The distant backwoods.

"Eh?" Zhou Cang suddenly opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the clan hide.

He sensed that in the direction of the clan collection, a strange fluctuation was coming from him, Zhou Cang frowned and muttered, "Could it be ..."

Zhou Cang closed his eyes and released his Yuan Power to perceive the Clan Collection, when Zhou Cang's Divine Sense swept over the stone platform, he found that the location of the seventeenth stone platform was empty!

"The seventeenth stone platform has unexpectedly disappeared! Could it be ..." Zhou Cang's face showed a hint of excitement, and he hurriedly got up and leapt to the outside of the clan collection.

"What? The seventeenth stone platform has opened? Could it be Tong'er ... "Zhou Yan exclaimed to, then followed Zhou Cang's form.

"It should be, the last time this happened was more than three hundred years ago, I don't know what the result will be this time, let's hope it will work this time ..."

Zhou Cang's figure landed in front of the clan collection door, raised his right hand and prepared to enter the clan collection, but no matter how Zhou Cang pushed, the clan collection did not react.

"Could it be ..." Zhou Cang guessed in his heart, he violently raised his left arm and slapped it down at the Clan Collection, at that moment, Zhou Cang only felt a repulsive force coming, shaking him back several steps.

"Looks like we can only rely on Tong'er himself." Zhou Cang shook his head and sighed.

...

Zhou Tong cried out in his heart, "What's going on, is this the organ of the clan's hide?"

Zhou Tong turned around and looked at the stone door behind him, frowning and pondering, "According to grandpa, there is a layer of defence boundary in the clan's hideout, but I didn't feel it ah, is it because my cultivation is too low?" Zhou Tong thought hard to no avail and continued to walk forwards.

When walking to the end of the corridor, Zhou Tong's vision suddenly opened up, Zhou Tong looked inside the room, his pupils suddenly narrowed, the entire room only had a stone platform placed in the middle, on top of the platform was only a mirror with three words written underneath: Heavenly Abyss Mirror.

"This mirror is called the Heavenly Abyss Mirror? So no other information?" Zhou Tong was puzzled in his mind as he picked up the jade token to open the stone platform's restriction and picked up the Heavenly Abyss Mirror to inspect it, noticing that the lower right corner of the mirror was missing a corner.

"A broken Spiritual Treasure? Why would Grandpa let me try this?" Zhou Tong examined this Spiritual Treasure carefully, and his doubts deepened in his heart.

"Try it." Saying that, Zhou Tong injected Yuan Power into the Heavenly Abyss Mirror.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, the Heavenly Abyss Mirror exploded with brilliant light, shining in all directions, at the same time, an extremely strong spatial fluctuation was transmitted out, enveloping Zhou Tong, and the Yuan Power in Zhou Tong's body continuously surged into the Heavenly Abyss Mirror.

Zhou Tong was shocked in his heart, "What happened? Why is my Yuan Power out of control?" Zhou Tong wanted to break free from this bond, but he was appalled to find that the more he tried to get rid of the control, the faster the Heavenly Abyss Mirror absorbed it!

"Ka-ching!"

Zhou Tong felt as if the dantian within him was about to explode, his face instantly distorted, bean-sized beads of sweat rolled down his forehead as he gritted his teeth and roared, "Damn it, stop it for me!"

"Boom!"

Zhou Tong's body surface blossomed with a brilliant and dazzling golden light, this beam of golden light shot up into the sky, rendering everything around him a golden yellow colour.

Zhou Tong crazily transported and absorbed the Yang Gang Qi, the Yuan Power within his dantian surged, just like a monstrous river flowing unceasingly, continuously instilling it into the Heavenly Abyss Mirror, but the Heavenly Abyss Mirror Image was never filled, no matter how much it was instilled with Yuan Power, it was to no avail.

Finally, it was unknown how long it took to instil Yuan Power, the Heavenly Abyss Mirror finally returned to normal.

"Absorbing so much of my Yuan Power, what exactly does this do, Grandpa won't lie to me, right?" Zhou Tong was puzzled.

After a few more moments, Zhou Tong finally detected an abnormality, his body unexpectedly produced a slight sense of dryness and heat, and this sense of dryness and heat became more and more intense, as if it was going to burn his flesh, causing him extreme pain.

"What's going on?" Zhou Tong was horrified, he hurriedly put the Heavenly Abyss Mirror back on the stone platform and sat down on his knees, trying to suppress it with his Yuan Power, but this time, no matter how much he mobilised his Yuan Power, there was no way to calm it down, instead, it became more and more intense!

Suddenly, Zhou Tong felt a force tugging at him, forcing him to move closer to the stone platform, and at the same time, the Heavenly Abyss Mirror once again blossomed with a radiant light.

Zhou Tong was shocked in his heart and hastily used his energy to resist, but unfortunately, he still could not stop his body from involuntarily moving towards the stone table, but in the blink of an eye, Zhou Tong's legs had already left the stone table and arrived next to the Heavenly Abyss Mirror.

"Buzz!"

The Heavenly Abyss Mirror trembled, and immediately, a strange energy wrapped around Zhou Tong's entire body.

"Bang--"

Only to see Zhou Tong's figure transform into a point of light, which was directly ingested within the Heavenly Abyss Mirror!

"Boom!"

In the next instant, Zhou Tong found that he had appeared in a strange space, a grey space, there was no sound, no life existed in the space, except for an ancient copper mirror floating in mid-air.

"Copper mirror?"

Zhou Tong's eyes stared at the copper mirror and slowly walked over to it, coming in front of it, Zhou Tong raised his hand and grabbed it.

"Snap!" Zhou Tong grabbed the copper mirror.

"Buzz!" Suddenly, a silver curtain of light rose out of thin air, enveloping the bronze mirror and Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong just wanted to leave, but he suddenly found that his body couldn't move, his eyes widened as he exclaimed, "Sealed space, how could this happen?"

Zhou Tong struggled desperately, but he was never able to move halfway, so he could only stand in place and watch anxiously.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Tong suddenly realised that the silver curtain of light had disappeared, while the Heavenly Abyssal Mirror in front of him was still suspended there, emitting a brilliant luster.

"Buzz--!"

At this moment, after the Heavenly Abyss Mirror absorbed Zhou Tong's Yuan Power, it seemed to have changed its appearance, with a circle of light silver-coloured halo circulating on its surface, looking divine and extraordinary.

"What's going on?" Zhou Tong stood up and walked towards the Heavenly Abyss Mirror in surprise.

"Whoosh!"

Just as he had taken two steps, the Heavenly Abyss Mirror abruptly shot out a silver light that directly injected itself into his forehead.

"Boom!"

In an instant, a text appeared in Zhou Tong's mind: the Heavenly Abyss Mirror Trial is open, Trialist Number, Nineteen.

After Zhou Tong read the text, a blank look appeared on his face, "Trial, what is a trial?" Immediately, Zhou Tong shook his head and paid no more attention as his sight was attracted by the Heavenly Abyssal Mirror.

"Swish-"

Suddenly, the Heavenly Abyss Mirror blossomed with a brilliant light, "The trial will now begin." An ice-cold voice resounded within the Heavenly Abyss Mirror.

In the next moment, Zhou Tong's eyes changed as the bronze mirror disappeared and a vast space came into his eyes.

"Huh, why is there no one here?" Zhou Tong was surprised, there was nothing but Zhou Tong in this vast space that was empty.

"Is this an illusion? Or am I entering a space left behind by some powerful person?" Zhou Tong was puzzled, not understanding why an empty world suddenly appeared, there was nothing within this space, only boundless darkness.