Chapter 1680: Chapter 1680

Chapter 1680: Chapter 1680: One of a Kind

“Qingluan, you’ve emerged from secluded meditation?”

Seeing the woman in green appear, Chenyu sat up straight, a slight smile appearing on her lips as she said, “I was feeling bored in the courtyard, so I came out to sit for a while.”

“Yes! I’ve been in secluded cultivation for ten days straight, almost suffocating from it!”

The woman named “Qingluan” sighed, with an expression of despair as she grumbled, “Since I was three years old, my father has been forcing me into secluded cultivation once a month, for twenty years without interruption. Doing this every day is so annoying!”

Chenyu smiled with understanding, “Uncle Wei only does it for your own good! Without Uncle Di’s strict supervision, you wouldn’t have reached the realm of Soul Severing Perfection at such a young age!”

Qingluan pouted her lips like a red lotus petal and said, “But Sister Chenyu, you don’t need anyone to supervise you, nor do you work as hard as I do, yet your cultivation level progresses just as quickly!”

After a pause, she added, “That’s right, my father said you have an Innate Fire Spirit Root, and your cultivation techniques and martial arts are even more wonderful than our family’s heritage… By the way, Sister Chenyu, you said your martial arts techniques were passed on by a friend, who exactly is this friend of yours?”

The smile on Chenyu’s face faded when she heard Qingluan’s question, her expression dimmed as she fell into a trance.

“Sister Chenyu, did I say something wrong?”

Seeing Chenyu’s expression was off, Qingluan asked cautiously.

Chenyu gave a bitter smile and sighed softly, “It’s not your fault. I just… just suddenly miss him a bit…”

Qingluan seemed to have an understanding and said, “Is he the friend who taught you the cultivation techniques?”

Chenyu nodded, “Yes.”

Qingluan looked at her expression and softly asked, “Then… is he your loved one?”

Chenyu’s cheeks flushed slightly before she frankly admitted, “Yes. He is my man.”

Qingluan exclaimed in surprise, then smiled playfully, “I always thought someone as heavenly as Sister Chenyu would look down on the mundane men of this world! I didn’t expect… didn’t expect…”

Stopping here, she followed Chenyu’s gaze to the stone statue and said thoughtfully, “Sister Chenyu sits here every day looking at that stone statue, could it be that your loved one resembles that stone statue?”

Chenyu nodded, “Strangely enough, I don’t know who carved this stone statue, but it bears a seven or eight-part resemblance to Fang Bai.”

Qingluan’s eyes lit up as she said, “So Sister Chenyu’s loved one is also a very handsome man?”

Chenyu chuckled softly, seemingly reminiscing, her eyes a bit distant as she gently said, “Actually, whether he’s handsome or not doesn’t matter to me. I only know that in my heart, he is incomparable!”

Seeing the happiness in her eyes as she spoke these words, Qingluan couldn’t help but feel a bit envious and said, “Listening to Sister Chenyu, I really want to meet him and see what kind of man could captivate Sister Chenyu so much.”

Chenyu said, “Since I came to the Three Thousand Great Worlds, I have been thinking of him every moment, wanting to see him. But this vast world is limitless, and I don’t know where he is now, or if he is safe and sound…”

As she spoke, she paused for a moment before continuing, “However, I can feel that he has been looking for me all along, and it seems like he is getting closer to me… I truly hope we can reunite soon.”

Qingluan rested her chin in her hands, tilting her head as she asked, “Sister Chenyu, what’s your loved one’s name? Maybe the martial artists in my family can help you find him.”

Chenyu said, “His name is Fang Bai.” This text is hosted at novel·fiɾe·net

As soon as she mentioned “Fang Bai”, Qingluan was stunned, exclaiming, “What did you say?”

Chenyu didn’t notice the odd expression on her face and said, “Fang Bai.”

“How could it be such a coincidence…”

Qingluan muttered to herself, then turned to point at the stone statue in front of them, saying to Chenyu, “Sister Chenyu, do you know that the stone statue was carved in the image of an immortal from tens of thousands of years ago, and that immortal’s name was also Fang Bai.”

Now it was Chenyu’s turn to be stunned. It took her a long moment to regain her composure, and she gave a bitter smile, “Indeed, what a coincidence…”

Her gaze fell back onto the stone statue, and the more she looked, the more it resembled Fang Bai. She grew more puzzled, thinking it was one thing if they just looked alike, but even sharing the same name made her wonder if there was some connection between the stone statue and Fang Bai.

But she quickly dismissed the idea, thinking it was unlikely, as the statue was carved and placed there tens of thousands of years ago, while Fang Bai was born in the secular world and was much younger.

At that moment, the Great Bell hanging on the gate of Immortal Stone City facing the Black Sea was suddenly struck.

The bell’s sound was melodious yet urgent, its sound waves rapidly spreading in all directions, so that within a short period, all the hundreds of thousands of residents of Immortal Stone City could hear it.

Instantly, the originally peaceful and harmonious small city became tumultuous. Countless strong individuals flew into the sky from their courtyards, looking toward the Black Sea.

Qingluan’s expression also changed slightly as she swiftly stood up, her figure soaring into the sky to a height of a hundred feet.

At the same time, in Qingluan’s family courtyard, two green figures also flew up—Qingluan’s parents, Wei Zhengtian and Shi Hongye.

“Qingluan, what’s happening?”

Chenyu felt puzzled by the actions of all the strong individuals in Immortal Stone City upon hearing the bell and flew next to Qingluan to ask.

Qingluan looked straight toward the Black Sea, solemnly saying, “Sea Beasts are about to invade Immortal Stone City.”

Chenyu recalled some of the past stories of Immortal Stone City that Qingluan had told her before, and she couldn’t help but feel a chill in her heart.

The Black Sea was vast, tens of thousands of miles in circumference, teeming with Sea Beasts. Some Sea Beasts absorbed the spiritual energy from the heavens and the sea, becoming powerful, comparable to human strong individuals.

Sea Beasts reproduced quickly, but the resources of the Black Sea were limited. As a result, some powerful Sea Beasts, capable of transforming into human shapes, would come ashore, searching for cultivation resources on land and even preying on human martial artists.

Back when Immortal Stone City was still a small fishing village, countless cultivation resources that belonged to humans were plundered by Sea Beasts, and countless human martial artists ended up as the food for Sea Beasts.

However, those incidents mostly happened tens of thousands of years ago. Since the small fishing village developed into Immortal Stone City and the stone statue was placed at the city’s center, the frequency of Sea Beasts invading Immortal Stone City had greatly decreased.

In particular, over the recent millennia, due to the rapid growth of Qingluan’s family, they not only guarded the stone statue but also protected Immortal Stone City. Every time Sea Beasts launched a large-scale invasion, Qingluan’s family would join forces with the city’s strong individuals to repel them.

In the past few hundred years, the Sea Beasts in the Black Sea and Immortal Stone City had lived in peace, and many residents of Immortal Stone City believed that peace would continue indefinitely.

But to everyone’s surprise, the Great Bell, which hadn’t rung against a Sea Beast attack for centuries, was suddenly struck.

The bell’s sound broke the peace that Immortal Stone City had enjoyed for hundreds of years, heralding the imminent assault of the Sea Beasts.