Chapter 144: Xuanying Treasure Pagoda [1]

In the end, the most she was willing to share was the name of her enemy. Atlas didn't need to worry about the happenings of the Immortal World, but she didn't want someone like him to stray on a path similar to theirs."It was the Allfather. That man is greed incarnate. He is an evil person who should have never been given power. I understand that your path is your own, but at the very least, please promise me that you will not associate yourself with him or his people."

It was a poor attempt to segue out of the sentence she refused to finish, but she was not speaking lightly. This was a promise she genuinely wanted Atlas to make, which was telling about just what kind of person the Allfather who ruled Heaven's Gate was in her eyes.

"I promise," Atlas responded with the same tone.

"I am already at odds with them as they keep provoking me needlessly. There isn't a chance that I will join them. Not now and not in a million years."

Aeon smiled slightly.

"Good."

They fell into another lull of silence.

'I wish she would share more.'

As she said, her story was a common one, but it was uncommon at the same time. The hidden undercurrents she alluded to suggested that something very concerning was taking place at the highest points of the Tower.

Atlas knew that he wouldn't make it there for a very long time, but he still wanted to know what to expect.

'I'm sure I will learn in the future.'

He couldn't get in over his head, especially not when he already had so much on his plate.

"Do you want revenge?"

"Of course I want revenge."

Aeon grinned, putting her hand on his head and messing up his hair.

"But that's also a matter for later, isn't it? For now, I just want to enjoy being free."

Atlas pushed her hand away awkwardly. He wasn't used to being treated like he was an actual child, but he didn't know if he could say anything about it. He was afraid to ask how old she was, but he had to assume that she would have treated the Heavenly Emperor the exact same way.

Aeon stood up slowly, stretching her legs. Though her muscles deteriorated, her base strength was still enough to support her.

"Come with me for a second."

As Atlas followed, she walked deeper into the cave.

"As I said, I have no idea how I arrived here, nor do I know how they trapped me, but they were not the ones who brought me to this place," she said.

They arrived in front of a natural wall that signified the end of the cave, but Aeon didn't treat it that way.

"When I found myself here, I had a few moments before they caught me. I used those few moments to ensure that they would not receive what they worked so hard to take from me." Your next read is at M V L

She placed her hand on the wall and held the other one out to Atlas. He took it curiously, and in the next moment, the two of them were shifting through the world.

Everything turned a strange shade of grey and twisted into a mess of chaos. Atlas' mind struggled to cope with the changing environment, so he was forced to close his eyes and wait until the sensation of standing on air left his body.

When he opened them again, they seemed to be in a place on the other side of that wall.

"This is a technique I personally developed to hide dimensions within dimensions. Through it, I was able to properly hide it so that only I could ever find it again."

That was why they called her the Voidwalker. She had a proficiency in the Daos of Space and Time that no other could ever match.

But what she'd brought Atlas here for…

"And this very thing is the reason why I was persecuted."

There was only one thing in this cave. Levitating in its absolute center was a miniature pagoda that was around half the size of Atlas' body.

"This is…?"

Atlas had no idea what it was, but he wasn't questioning its status as a treasure. This pagoda was exactly the source of the world-encompassing feeling that brought him back to the secret realm.

"This is the Xuanying Treasure Pagoda," Aeon answered.

"It cannot be mine. As I have learned about it, I have realized that I am already too powerful to gain anything from it, but you are different. You are a person who I believe can take control over it, so I brought you here to see if that is true."

"The Xuanying Treasure Pagoda… I have never heard of it," Atlas muttered.

"It is only natural that you haven't," Aeon responded.

"The Xuanying Treasure Pagoda is one of the 10 Supreme Heavenly Treasures of this world. One of the greatest natural treasures to ever be born. How could news of its existence ever reach a mortal?"

"…!"

Wasn't that too big of a bomb to drop so casually?

"I'm sorry, did you perhaps say Supreme Heavenly Treasures?"

Aeon smiled slightly.

"Well, don't worry about it, yeah? If you can tame that pagoda, I will tell you more. If you cannot, then you will have to learn it on your own as you continue your journey."

Atlas looked at her strangely.

Was she toying with him? She wasn't, but she couldn't say she didn't enjoy seeing him be awkward.

The person she saw when she awakened was a brutal and cruel person. That was a person more terrifying than the Allfather. Sёarᴄh the NôvelFire(.)net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

It was nice to see him act like a young cultivator and show these kinds of emotions, because they showed her that what she saw was not absolute.

His future did not have to be entrenched in blood and gore. If he was given the proper guidance, he could become something more than a star of vengeance.

'The Xuanying Treasure Pagoda's entire purpose is to create heroes. If it accepts him, then no matter what path he takes, I can be sure that he will find his way to the light.'

If it didn't accept him…

Well, Aeon didn't want to see a future where she was forced to kill her own savior for the sake of the world.

As she had these complicated thoughts that Atlas was unaware of, he approached the pagoda.

'Ten Supreme Heavenly Treasures.'

It was a term of infinite glory and splendor. It was a term that told of treasures beyond anything else in existence, treasures that even the Gods above would envy.

One of such treasures was in front of his eyes now, and he was being given a chance to take it for himself.

No matter what else was happening, he had to take that chance.

He got close enough to feel its aura and extended his hand. He drenched the pagoda in his blood and qi, and suddenly, he was no longer in the Tower.

A Supreme Heavenly Treasure was not something created by man. It was something birthed with the First Light of Existence at the beginning of everything.

And in accordance to its stature, claiming it was not easy in the slightest.