Si Chen Qiu Tian took out a teleportation jade token and inspired it, a light identical to the surrounding seawater swept him and Ning Cheng up and instantly teleported them away.
Ning Cheng sighed in his heart, the path of formation dao was the same as cultivation, there was no end to it. This teleportation formation was much more sophisticated than the one that had entered the Secret City, and he could not see it, let alone set it up. The higher one’s strength, the more one knows that one is weak.
A few moments later, he and Si Chen Qiu Tian landed on a circular stone platform.
Si Chuan Qiu Tian raised the teleportation jade token that had lost its dao rhyme in his hand and smiled to himself, “This teleportation token can only teleport three times, it’s useless.”
“Where did the two of you come from?” An abrupt voice came, and then Ning Cheng saw a man with a black rim on his head appear next to the stone platform.
Si Chen Qiu Tian handed the teleportation jade token in his hand to this man and said, “Dan Sect Si Chen Qiu Tian has come all the way to visit the Du Xuan Ancient Clan.”
The man nodded, “The two of you please follow me.”
Ning Cheng and Si Chuan Qiu Tian followed behind this man, and his divine sense did not sweep out. With Ning Cheng’s experience, he didn’t even need to sweep out, there were formations and prohibitions all around this area, so he couldn’t sweep out anything even if he swept out his divine sense.
At this time, Ning Cheng was not even sure if he was still in the Tai Su Sea.
It was only after walking for a full incense stick that the man stopped in front of a stone door, bowed to it and said, “Dan Gate Si Chen Qiu Tian has come to visit with my Du Xuan Ancient Clan’s transmission token.”
It was only after a long time that a voice came from within the stone door, “The Dan Sect actually has an heir present? Let them in.”
“Yes.” The man returned the jade tag in his hand to Si Chen Qiu Tian, “The two of you please enter.”
Just as Si Chuan Qiu Tian received the jade token, the stone door suddenly opened. Ning Cheng followed Si Chuan Qiu Tian and walked into the door. He was a little dazed. This was not a room. Instead, it was a huge, empty square. The square was so large that Ning Cheng’s gaze could not even see the end of it.
Ning Cheng secretly muttered in his heart that this was most likely a magic treasure, otherwise it would not have had this effect.
In the middle of the square, battled a black-haired man. This black-haired man’s bare half of his chest looked somewhat like a Shaolin martial monk. Apart from that, what attracted Ning Cheng the most was that this black-haired man had a golden border on his forehead. The man who had led the way before also had a border on his forehead, but the border on that man’s forehead was not a gold border. Instead, it was a black border. It looked like the identity of the Du Xuan Ancient Clan was likely to be distinguished based on the colour of this forehead edge.
As for the man’s cultivation level, Ning Cheng found that he could not tell, he only knew that it would definitely not be lower than that of Si Chuan Qiu Tian.
“You are a disciple of Chang Chen Xing?” This man with a golden border on his forehead landed his gaze on Si Chuan Qiu Tian, and as for Ning Cheng who was next to Si Chuan Qiu Tian, he was directly ignored.
Si Chen Qiu Tian bowed and saluted, “Yes, my master is none other than Chang Chen Xing.”
The man ignored the silence for a while before asking, “I heard that your master died. Is that not the case?”
Ning Cheng secretly said, “This guy is really direct in his words.
“My master pursued the ultimate in the Great Dao. He has left Tai Su for a long time, so I do not know the details. When my family master was leaving, he once told me that if I had a difficult problem to solve in the future, I could carry this jade token to the Du Xuan Ancient Clan to look for Senior Jin Moltaki.” Si Chen Qiu Tian put himself in a very low posture and finished handing over the jade token in his hand once again.
The man nodded and took the jade token and looked at it for a while before saying, “I am Jin Moltaki, your cultivation level is not inferior to mine, so there is no need to call me senior. What is the matter you have come here to request?”
Si Chen Qiu Tian was at least the head of the Dan Association, and the reason he respected Jin Moltaki was not because of Jin Moltaki’s status or identity, but because Jin Moltaki and his master were close friends, so he naturally had to respectfully address him as senior. Now that Jin Moltaki had said that he didn’t need to respect senior, Sichun Qiu Tian naturally wouldn’t be pretentious and said directly, “Thank you, Fellow Daoist Jin, I’m here today to request to cultivate on the Yearly Wheel for three months.”
“You want to be on the Wheel of the Year?” After Jin Moltaki heard what Si Chen Qiu Tian said, his eyes flashed with a brilliant light and he stared at Si Chen Qiu Tian with a somewhat icy tone.
Sizhen Qiu Tian’s expression did not even fluctuate halfway as he pointed at Ning Cheng and said indifferently, “It is not that I want to be on the Yearly Wheel, but he wants to be on the Yearly Wheel for three months to cultivate.”
Only then did Jin Moltaki drop his gaze on Ning Cheng for a moment before frowning and saying, “He is only at Dao-shaping cultivation and he has to go on the Yearly Wheel? Do you know the consequences of going on the Yearly Wheel and not being able to control the flow of Dao rhymes?”
“Yes, please ask fellow Daoist Jin if he can go on the Wheel of the Year, if not, we will leave immediately and will not make things difficult for fellow Daoist.” Si Chen Qiu Tian said without being condescending.
This sign was sent out by the Du Xuan Ancient Clan, if Si Chuan Qiu Tian could not do anything even if he came with the sign, then the Du Xuan Ancient Clan’s reputation would be completely stinky.
Jin Moltaki obviously understood what Si Chuan Qiu Tian meant, he smiled lightly, “The matter of going on the annual wheel is not something that I alone can decide, you wait for a moment, I will have to ask before giving you an answer.”
After saying that, Jin Moltaki turned around and left. Ning Cheng saw that just as he turned around, his entire figure disappeared without a trace.
Knowing full well that he was pretending to be a god, unfortunately, Ning Cheng could only look on in envy, as he could not set up such an array.
“Guild Master, what is the Wheel of the Year?” Ning Cheng asked.
Si Chen Qiu Tian looked at the direction where Jin Mo Tui had disappeared and said, “The Wheel of the Year is the number one treasure of the Du Xuan Ancient Clan, it is just a tree. The tree is made up of one yearly wheel after another, and for every yearly wheel that advances, the passage of time doubles compared to the passage of time outside ……”
Ning Cheng asked in amazement, “Doesn’t that mean that if I can enter the tenth year wheel and cultivate in it for ten years, only one year has passed outside?”
Si Chen Qiu Tian replied gruffly, “That’s right, if you want to advance to the Yuk Dao in a few months’ time, I can’t think of a better place other than the Du Xuan Ancient Clan’s Year Wheel.”
Ning Cheng suddenly remembered what Cang Wei had said about the Law Worlds in the Void and asked suspiciously, “I once heard that there are many Law Worlds in the Void, and among them is the Law World of Time. Once a clan obtains this kind of time law world, they will build it into a cultivation sanctuary. That means that while many years of cultivation are spent in it, only one year of time passes outside. The exact time difference is calculated based on this time law world. Could it be that this yearly cycle is also the same as this time law world?”
Si Chen Qiu Tian shook his head, “This time law cultivation world you are talking about is actually also found in the Tai Su Realm. The Nine Turning Sacred Dao Pond and the River Luo Sacred Sect have this kind of time difference law world, where ten years pass inside and only the equivalent of one year passes outside. However, this kind of time law world is completely different from the Wheel of the Year, as this kind of time law lacks the rules of the Heaven and Earth Dao Rhythm. When one has not attained enlightenment, this kind of law world can save cultivation time. Once one has attained enlightenment, the effect of cultivation in this kind of time law world will be very much weakened, as it lacks the sense of dao rhythm.
The Wheel of the Year is different; the Wheel of the Year is an ancient treasure. Even if a Dao-accredited Saint Emperor cultivated in it, his sense of Dao rhythm would not be weakened, but would be even stronger than outside. It was precisely for this reason that the Du Xuan Ancient Clan was the topmost great clan. Of course, there are also time law cultivation worlds that possess the Dao rhythm of heaven and earth, and such are no longer considered time law cultivation worlds, but supreme treasures that are not far from the Wheel of the Year.”
“The Wheel of the Year is so powerful? Then why didn’t the Du Xuan Ancient Clan come out of the world?” It suddenly occurred to Ning Cheng that if there was a Year Wheel in his Xuanhuang Pearl, wouldn’t he be invincible in his cultivation?
Si Chuan Qiu Tian sighed, “Everything has advantages and disadvantages, the Year Wheel is strong, but once a person with a weak sense of the Dao enters the Year Wheel and crosses the Year Wheel line that he cannot control, he will soon die of old age as the Dao rhyme flows away and turn into a shovelful of yellow earth to nourish the Year Wheel tree. I’ve heard that the Du Xuan Ancient Clan accounts for a large portion of the genius cultivators who die from the Year Wheel every year.”
Ning Cheng finally understood the consequence of Jin Moltaki’s comment earlier about not being able to control the Dao Rhyme of the Year Wheel, so the consequence was death.
Speaking of this, Si Chen Qiu Tian looked at Ning Cheng even more intensely and said, “Ning Cheng, the fact that you are able to refine the Dao Origin Dao Pill shows that your control and understanding of your own Dao is far stronger than that of an ordinary Dao Shaping Saint Emperor. Moreover, I have felt your Dao, and your Dao is much more than mine.
It is because of this that I have brought you here. I believe that you can make it to the eighth year round. Three months have passed outside, so you have exactly two years to cultivate in the eighth year round. In two years’ time, I believe you should be able to advance to the Yuk Dao. If you can’t advance to the Yuk Dao, then that’s how we’ll go over.”
“Many thanks, Guild Master.” Ning Cheng thanked once again, he was sure that Si Chen Qiu Tian was not trying to harm him, but was genuinely trying to help him. Because when he was refining pills, the Dao of Dan was integrated into the Way of Return, his Dao aura would definitely be pounced upon by Si Dan Qiu Tian. It was because of this that Si Chuan Qiu Tian thought he would be able to enter the eighth round.
Si Chuan Qiu Tian smiled, “After you reach the eighth year round, no matter what, you cannot go any further. Remember, even if you are sure you can advance, do not advance. Everyone who has fallen under the Yearly Wheel was certain that nothing would go wrong, and it all went wrong. A cultivator who cannot control his greed will stop short of his achievement.”
Ning Cheng smiled as he did not reply. There was nothing wrong with the truth of Si Chuan Qiu Tian’s words, if he couldn’t control his greed, he might die of it. However, the step he could take was not set for him by Si Chuan Qiu Tian, but by himself. If he thought he could go as far as the ninth year round, he would naturally not stay in the eighth year round. If he thought he could only go as far as the seventh year round, he would not have gone to the eighth year round either, as Si Chuan Qiu Tian had said.
Luckily, at that moment, Jin Moltaki reappeared, and he said to Si Chuan Qiu Tian, “You can just wait here, and this fellow Daoist who wants to go to the last year round to cultivate will come with me.”
“Ning Cheng, you must remember my words, your footsteps must stop at the heart of the Dao.” Si Chen Qiu Tian once again admonished Ning Cheng once more.
Ning Cheng bowed and said, “Please rest assured, Guild Master, my footsteps are on my heart.”
When Jin Moltaki heard Ning Cheng’s words, he revealed a hint of appreciation, and then turned around once again.
Ning Cheng followed Jin Moltaki’s turn and took a step, and his entire body disappeared from the Grand Plaza.