【Divine Authority: Cloud Sea Resplendence (Incomplete)】
The core of this inheritance was how to mask and counter heavenly secrets.
This inheritance was divided into three layers:
First, 【Shrouding Heaven】: This can perfectly mask one's own heavenly secrets and destiny, isolating all divination and spying.
Second, 【Obscuring the Sun】: This allows the user to distribute divine power to bestow the effects of 【Shrouding Heaven】 upon their followers, veiling their destinies to prevent them from being coveted by evil entities.
Third, 【Heavenly Calculation Backlash】: If a powerful enemy disregards everything to forcefully calculate the destiny of Chen Zhou or his core believers, this divine technique will automatically lash back. The stronger the diviner, the heavier the backlash, ranging from a damaged Dao base to instantaneous death.
"Good stuff."
Chen Zhou slowly opened his eyes; this inheritance had come just in time.
"Who would have thought you truly possess such overwhelming fortune... to actually fish this thing up."
The figure of the lady in court attire appeared beside him at some point.
She stared fixedly at the silk ribbon in Chen Zhou's hand, forcefully suppressing the shock in her eyes and forcing a smile.
Chen Zhou held the ribbon in his palm. "Senior recognizes this object?"
"Recognize it?" A trace of nostalgia appeared in her smile. "This was once my divine artifact when I was alive, known as the 【Cloud-Hiding Silk】.
"Though it is completely damaged and has lost its divinity, its material remains. It can still be considered somewhat useful."
The woman looked at Chen Zhou with a complex expression. "The inheritance you just received was Cloud Sea Resplendence, wasn't it?
"That is a divine technique bestowed by my master, and it was my famous skill. This Cloud-Hiding Silk was the companion artifact I used to channel that divine technique back then."
"It can greatly enhance the effects of Cloud Sea Resplendence. With it, even an existence two great realms higher than yours could forget about calculating a single trace of your origins."
Hearing this, Chen Zhou looked down at the ribbon in his hand.
It was like cloud and mist, light and elegant, carrying a faint five-colored shimmer...
He fell into thought.
'How am I supposed to use this streamer?'
A picture formed in Chen Zhou's mind:
He would be wearing the Eternal Calamity Karma-Fire black robe, his face shrouded in shadow, overflowing with majesty.
And then on his shoulder... would be a colorful fairy streamer?
The aesthetic didn't seem quite right.
He couldn't help but shiver.
It was too strange.
"Pfft."
The woman seemed to see his inner conflict and actually let out a chuckle while covering her mouth.
"You young lad, what kind of rude things are you thinking about in that head of yours?"
She looked at Chen Zhou with a smile. "You were able to fish it out from the Abyssal Underworld Pool and wash away the death qi and resentment it accumulated for ten thousand years. You are fated with it."
"This object can also change its appearance according to your will."
As soon as she finished speaking, the Cloud-Hiding Silk in Chen Zhou's hand flashed with light and trembled slightly in his palm.
A moment later, the clouds and mist converged, and the flowing light compressed.
A simple, bone-style ring was automatically placed on Chen Zhou's finger.
The ring was pale white all over, as if polished from the finger bone of some giant beast, and it naturally bore patterns that looked like churning mist.
The face of the ring was shaped like a hideous skull, with black mist faintly drifting from the eye sockets.
The woman looked at him with a grin. "How about it? This version of the Cloud-Hiding Silk should fit your aesthetic, right?"
Chen Zhou: "..."
He felt the woman might have misunderstood something.
Although his true form was a skeleton, he didn't necessarily love bones...
However, this ring was indeed much better than the streamer.
Chen Zhou moved his finger; the bone ring fit perfectly, and it even transmitted a hint of icy comfort.
He bowed sincerely toward the woman. "Thank you, Senior."
"No need for thanks."
The woman withdrew her smile and looked at the bone ring, a flash of lingering attachment in her eyes.
She sighed softly. "In the future... treat it well."
"After all, it's an old partner that fought beside me for countless years.
"A precious sword is gifted to a hero, and divine artifacts also choose their masters.
"Since it chose you, it can be considered its fortune. I hope you do not fail it.
"Weapons have spirits, and divine artifacts even more so. It is better for it to see the light of day again in your hands than to be buried under resentment for ten thousand years in that Abyssal Underworld Pool."
Chen Zhou nodded in agreement. "I will not dishonor this item."
"Good." The woman gave a slight nod, appearing to have set aside a concern.
After a long while, her gaze fell back on Chen Zhou, and her expression became solemn.
"Since you have completed the inheritance, I will give you one more piece of advice."
Chen Zhou's heart tightened as he said respectfully, "Please instruct me, Senior."
"I cannot call it instruction," the woman shook her head.
"The three of us are merely divine messengers who survived as part of this dreamscape after our master fell. We have been dead for ten thousand years and know little of the outside world."
"Although I do not know the current state of the outside world, I presume you have realized that there is a major problem with the world you inhabit."
"In this world, the Way of Humanity is waning, and the divine path is severed. Demons run rampant; it is a sign of an end-of-law era."
She paused and said word for word, "Although you have the help of an Auspicious God and have obtained two divine path inheritances...
"In such a world, you are like a bright lamp in the dark night. You are both hope and food.
"Right now, you have just stepped onto the divine path and your foundation is shallow. I hope that before your wings are full, you will be cautious in all things and hide yourself well.
"The Cloud Sea Resplendence you just obtained is your best protective talisman. Use it to hide yourself and your believers; do not expose them.
"You are the most talented and fortunate descendant of the divine path I have seen in nearly ten thousand years. I hope... to see your figure in this Immortal-Slaying Shrine again in the future."
The woman finished speaking and performed a refined bow toward Chen Zhou, a gesture following an ancient divine path etiquette.
"As a divine messenger of my master, I will take the liberty of offering these words on his behalf..."
"May your martial fortune be prosperous."
As her voice fell, the young man and the middle-aged man also stood up at the same time and bowed toward Chen Zhou from across the blood pond.
"May your martial fortune be prosperous."
The three voices merged together, carrying a desolation that spanned across the ages.
The woman's figure began to blur, and the space of the Immortal-Slaying Shrine began to shake violently.
The Immortal-Slaying Shrine, the blood pond, the court lady, the middle-aged man, the young man...
Everything rapidly became blurred, receding like a tide.
Chen Zhou felt a gentle force push him away, and then, amidst a spinning sensation, he was pulled out of the dream.
"Whew..."
Chen Zhou snapped his eyes open.
Before him was still the familiar Bone Altar.
"Hmph?"
At his feet, the pink nightmare was biting the Dream-Weaving Shuttle, tilting its head curiously as it looked at him, seemingly not understanding why he had woken up so quickly.
In its perception, Chen Zhou's consciousness had only sunk into the dream interlayer for a mere instant.
Chen Zhou looked down at his finger.
The bone ring transformed from the Cloud-Hiding Silk was truly on his hand, still retaining the icy sensation from the dream.
He looked inside his sea of consciousness, where the two divine authorities of 【Faith Conferment】 and 【Cloud Sea Heavenly Secrets】 shone like two stars deep within his soul.
None of it was a dream.
A sense of absurdity, as if a lifetime had passed, arose in Chen Zhou's heart.
By the side of the Abyssal Underworld Pool in the Immortal-Slaying Shrine, he had sat in dry meditation and fished for nearly a hundred years...
Yet, in the outside world, only an instant had passed.
A fleeting dream of a century, creations formed by nature.
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