Chapter 134: The Giant Stone Palace

Chapter 134: The Giant Stone Palace

A Cloud Sail, loaded with people and goods, left a nameless fragmented land and flew toward the Three Immortal Islands.

Cloud Sails were much simpler than Formless Sailboats or Fire Cloud Ships and lacked private rooms or multiple decks.

Its slow speed and fragile structure meant Cloud Sails could not travel between worlds.

All the passengers were on deck with their belongings, with some finding a random spot to sit.

Pang Jian leaned over the bow of the Cloud Sail and looked down at the fragmented land below where the black turtle was hidden.

Black turtle. Earth Spirit.

Pang Jian was filled with anticipation as he quietly activated the Qi Nurturing Divine Cauldron Art, closing his eyes as he tried to connect to the small black turtle.

Surprisingly, his vision was not limited to the depths of the fragmented land where the black turtle resided!

He could also see parts of the fragmented land!

His vision encompassed the volcanoes and streams of flowing lava.

And it was still expanding!

The black turtle seemed to be merging with the nameless fragmented land. Its aura was slowly spreading and would soon cover the entire fragmented land!

Earth Spirit!

Pang Jian's heart stirred as he opened his eyes. He now realized the significance of the name.

The black turtle, known as the Earth Spirit, lived up to its name. It had an unimaginable influence over the land it resided.

That nameless fragmented land would undoubtedly undergo a wonderful transformation due to the black turtle's presence!

A spiritual land. It could even form a blessed land, nurturing mineral veins and growing rare herbs.

Pang Jian's eyes lit up.

"Ahem, esteemed guests..." The manager of the Cloud Sail approached with a fawning smile, stopping a few meters away.

"What's the matter?" Luo Hongyan asked, eyeing the manager suspiciously.

She sat next to Pang Jian on an exquisitely embroidered carpet with a white veil concealing the bottom half of her beautiful face.

Pang Jian snapped out of his thoughts as he turned and looked at the manager in puzzlement.

Roughly a dozen rogue cultivators were ogling Luo Hongyan from behind the goateed manager.

A few of them gulped audibly as if swallowing their saliva with great difficulty.

Even though her face was veiled, the top half was still exposed, revealing her smooth forehead and bright eyes. Combined with her perfect figure, this was enough for those men to drool with desire.

The rogue cultivators were distracted from their cultivation. Although they blatantly gaped at Luo Hongyan, they did not dare to act on their improper thoughts.

"I have some news to share with our two esteemed guests. Free of charge." The manager, Gao Yuan, glanced at the spatial bracelets on their wrists and said ingratiatingly, "It's about the lower worlds."

Pang Jian squinted his eyes for a better look at the three fragmented lands. If the edges of the lands were brought closer together, they could almost form a complete island.

"The Three Immortal Islands consist of Ice Rock Island, Gold Stone Island, and Cloud Island. Even though they're collectively called the Three Immortal Islands, they're actually three different fragmented lands. It's said that these fragmented lands were originally one piece but were split into three during a battle," Gao Yuan loudly explained to the passengers on deck.

"Gold Stone Island and Ice Rock Island are barren and are made up entirely of rocks. Gold Stone Island has rich mineral veins, which attract many miners. Meanwhile, Ice Rock Island is perpetually cold.

"Cloud Island, on the other hand, is humid and covered with forests, making it ideal for growing spirit materials and rare plants. Some rogue cultivators cultivate rare herbs and plants on Cloud Island in exchange for spirit materials.

"Our destination is the Giant Stone Palace on Ice Rock Island where Maverick Ling Yun's trade fair will be held in three days. Once the trade fair ends, I'll steer the Cloud Sail to the next fragmented land.

"If you wish to continue traveling, it'll cost fifty spirit stones per person. Of course, there are many other Cloud Sails near the Giant Stone Palace, so you can always choose to board another Cloud Sail as well."

The Cloud Sail descended as he spoke.

The Giant Stone Palace...

Pang Jian glanced down and saw a ruined city on Ice Rock Island.

The city was made up of giant rocks, and all its buildings had collapsed, with no intact structures in sight.

However, even the collapsed buildings stood tens of zhangs high!

The broken windows and doors were absurdly large, seemingly not built for humans. Humans would appear like dwarves in a land of giants in this large and imposing city.

Suddenly, an image flashed through Pang Jian's mind.

He once saw a towering one-eyed giant in the Fifth World. It had shot a crimson beam from its single eye, and within that vast beam was the image of majestic mountains, flowing rivers, and a magnificent kingdom built from giant stones.

That giant stone kingdom bore a striking resemblance to the ruined Giant Stone Palace below.

Could this have once been the city of the one-eyed giants?

Pang Jian was startled by his own speculation.

One-eyed giants existed in the perpetually dark Fifth World and could never ascend to the upper worlds due to the Heaven Ascension Tribulation Pillars. Despite that, a giant stone kingdom had fallen into ruins here on Ice Rock Island in the Third World.

Boom!

Gao Yuan's Cloud Sail came to a stop and its passengers disembarked.

Pang Jian left the Cloud Sail with Luo Hongyan and stood before the collapsed buildings of the Giant Stone Palace. He saw many other Cloud Sails anchored nearby, seemingly not allowed to fly into the city.

Some rogue cultivators headed straight toward the Giant Stone Palace after disembarking.

Luo Hongyan was staring intently at something over Pang Jian's shoulder. Her beautiful eyes swirling with coldness. "Perhaps I should've left them on a fragmented land in the lower world instead of bringing them to the Third World..."

Puzzled by her strange words, Pang Jian followed her gaze to a pile of rubble outside the Giant Stone Palace.

The rubble seemed to serve as a dumping ground for corpses. Many rogue cultivators were thrown into the pile like trash.

Zhao Ling, Meng Qiulan, Bai Wei, Bai Zhi, Wu Yi, and the commanders of the Shadow Specter Sect were all there.

The members of the Shadow Specter Sect had arrived at the Three Immortal Islands before Pang Jian and Luo Hongyan.

They had fulfilled their wish of escaping the lower world and had the opportunity to set eyes on the bright moon, twinkling stars, and scorching sun, only to end up as nothing more than another corpse in the rubble.