Chapter 2213: Disaster in Lingyuan City

Feng Jiuge couldn't feel the gray airflow and didn't realize that the person in front of him had completely resolved the hidden danger. Skeptical, he eventually sat down cross-legged and circulated the true qi within his body according to his usual cultivation method.

Soon, he noticed something was wrong.

Previously, the true qi in his body would disappear before completing even one cycle, and the more he circulated it, the more it vanished. But now, it was becoming increasingly robust, especially his previously shriveled dantian, which now felt like a huge volcano ready to erupt at any moment.

For two years, the true qi he had painstakingly cultivated hadn't disappeared; instead, it had been hidden by that special airflow.

Now unleashed, it was like a river bursting its banks, completely uncontrollable.

With a roar, the power within his body instantly erupted. His cultivation, which was on the verge of dropping from the Low-tier Celestial God realm, surged directly, reaching the Consummate stage in an instant, followed by Mid-tier Celestial God and High-tier Celestial God!

In less than fifteen minutes, his previous cultivation not only recovered but also broke through its limitations, surging back to the peak of High-tier Celestial God.

"I..."

Feeling the surging power within him, Feng Jiuge's eyes reddened.

He understood... at this moment, he had been reborn!

And this new life was selflessly bestowed by the person before him.

"Teacher!"

He knelt straight down to the ground.

Previously, he had taken him as a teacher because he felt he had no other choice, but now he realized it was the wisest decision he had ever made.

"Get up!"

Waving his hand, Zhang Xuan looked towards the Library.

It seemed the person before him was truly grateful, and just like Zhuo Yan before, a Divine Path of Heaven scroll had been generated.

Two golden books lay side by side on the bookshelf, emitting a golden glow.

"Feng Jiuge's cultivation has recovered?"

"Not just recovered, but advanced further!"

"This person's medical skills are too profound..."

Everyone in the hotel was in disbelief.

The scholarly elder from before gaped, "This old man... this old man... this old man... doesn't know whether to say something rude or not..."

After all that fuss, the other party was really treating an illness, and he had gone over to offer advice... even showing off his age and spouting so much nonsense!

Just thinking about it made him feel like he wanted to vomit blood!

"What exactly happened two years ago that caused your power to plummet?" Ignoring the astonished crowd, Zhang Xuan asked.

"I went to... the deep pit beneath the Imperial City!" Feng Jiuge paused, then said, "I accidentally entered a secret realm and somehow fell unconscious. When I woke up, I was like this, and no one knew what happened..."

Zhang Xuan frowned, "The deep pit beneath the Imperial City?"

The Lingyuan Imperial City floated above a huge deep pit. What was he doing there, when he was supposed to be participating in a trial?

Could it be that this pit was connected to some secret?

"This pit suddenly appeared decades ago, and the entire Lingyuan City collapsed into it! The city we are in now was rebuilt by Fire Feather Conferred God King and several other God Kings, who spent countless divine powers, and it's suspended by the Undying Emperor's feather..."

Seeing that he seemed unclear, Feng Jiuge explained.

As a family disciple, although these matters were confidential, he still knew a few things.

"The entire Lingyuan City... collapsed into it?" Zhang Xuan was startled.

He had never heard anyone else mention this.

When he first arrived at Lingyuan Imperial City, he found it strange why such a large city would be built above a deep pit and suspended in the air. It turned out that the original city had fallen into the pit!

The imperial cities of the Nine Heavens each occupied the most central position of their respective territories, capable of gathering the aspirations and fortunes of that land. For this reason, capitals generally did not relocate.

Decades ago, the Imperial City collapsed. To better stabilize the regime, they could only continue to build the capital city in the collapsed area.

And thus, the suspended city beneath them came to be.

"The city collapsed overnight, what about the lives within it?" Zhang Xuan asked.

The city collapsed and disappeared; where did the divine beings living within it go? And where did the numerous lives now in the city come from?

"I wasn't born then, so I don't know the details. However, I've heard from the elders in my clan that although the ground collapsed very suddenly, many people managed to escape due to the Undying Emperor's desperate protection. Only those who had basically reached the divine realm managed to get out!"

After thinking for a moment, Feng Jiuge said, "However, Teacher should know that in the God Realm, the majority of people haven't reached the divine realm. That means... in this disaster, the entire Lingyuan Imperial City lost nearly ninety percent of its lives. As for whether they died or are still living at the bottom of the deep pit, no one knows... because this pit is simply too deep; even a Conferred God King like our ancestor cannot delve deep into it!"

The hierarchy of life in the God Realm is pyramidal.

The vast majority are always ordinary people, the so-called pseudo-gods, making up about ninety percent. Only about ten percent are qualified to cultivate and gradually advance to higher realms, becoming stronger and stronger.

"A deep pit suddenly appeared, and ninety percent of a city's population vanished..." Zhang Xuan's body trembled, and the name "Sunken City" suddenly popped into his mind.

There was a Sunken City in the Firmament, which, according to legend, fell from the sky thousands of years ago. The lives and countless buildings within it transformed into decay qi under the corrosion of the Firmament's spiritual energy, making it difficult for ordinary people to enter.

Could it be... related to this Lingyuan City?

The reason this idea came to him wasn't unfounded, because Zhang Xuan had once seen the Undying Emperor's tomb in the Sunken City!

If he were to extend this line of thought... the Otherworldly Demons and the Stargazing Palace members in the Firmament shared the same origin, and the Stargazing Palace members possessed an altar in the Sunken City, indicating a deep connection between the two...

Could it be that this Lingyuan City fell from the sky, and some of its inhabitants, along with the Stargazing Palace members, produced new descendants... while other inhabitants broke through space, entered the Master Teacher Continent, and became Otherworldly Demons?

In other words... the ancestors of the Otherworldly Demons and the Stargazing Palace members were actually divine beings from the Lingyuan Heaven!

If it truly was as he speculated, it would be terrifying!

What kind of power could not only kill the Undying Emperor, who was said to be immortal, but also tear through realm barriers and throw countless lives down to the lower realm simultaneously?

The difficulty of traversing realm barriers, he knew very well from personal experience; even a powerful expert like Luo Ruoxi had almost perished. To allow people who weren't even divine beings to cross at the same time...

It was simply unimaginable!

Of course, these were all his speculations; perhaps only by meeting Luo Ruoxi or Master Kong could he fully understand.

"By the way, Little Fierce, is it possible that your ancestors possessed the bloodline of divine beings from Lingyuan Heaven?"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ask in his mind.

Fierce Man, sealed within the Divine Path of Heaven scroll, had also come to the God Realm with him. During this time, he had been cultivating with the Divine Origin Pills bestowed by Zhang Xuan, and his cultivation had long since broken through the limitations of a divine being, even reaching the Low-tier Celestial God realm.