Eternal Saber-Chapter 281 - 5: Enlightenment from the Vast Sea

Coming down from the ’volcano’, Chen Tang hadn’t gone far when he saw something resembling a scroll not far away, half of which was exposed outside the rubble.

Out of curiosity, Chen Tang approached.

After inspecting the area for a while and finding no danger, he grasped one end of the ’scroll’ and pulled it out of the rubble.

In this undersea abyss, there was hardly anything intact, looking like a dilapidated ruin.

As Chen Tang journeyed along, he detected no traces of life, everything was silent and dark.

It was rare to see this scroll, perhaps it held some clues about this undersea ruin.

Chen Tang dusted off the scroll and slowly unrolled it.

What came into view was actually a painting.

In the picture was a vast ocean,

and on the seaside was a towering cliff that seemed to reach the clouds.

At the top of the cliff, amidst the clouds and mist, sat a black-clad man in a meditative posture, his back straight.

Only a side profile of the black-clad man’s face was visible in the painting, with clear angular features, his gaze seemingly fixed on the sea before him.

Apart from that, there was nothing else in the picture.

This was a rather simple ink wash painting full of ancient charm.

Chen Tang glanced at the annotation in the corner, which read four characters—Sea of Wisdom Enlightenment.

Sea of Wisdom Enlightenment?

Enlightenment of what?

This painting seemed somewhat similar to Qingzhou’s Jieshi Mountain and the East Sea.

However, the cliff in the painting was much taller than Jieshi Mountain.

Even just looking at the sea in the painting, Chen Tang seemed to feel a grand and magnificent aura!

This Sea of Wisdom Enlightenment Map seemed to possess a kind of magic.

Staring at the scroll for a while, Chen Tang felt as if the seawater inside was right in front of him, the surrounding mist encircling him.

He could even smell the slight, unique salty scent of the seawater as the breeze swept over the sea surface.

The artistry had reached such heights that it surpassed life-like realism, a true masterpiece of divine skill!

Just as Chen Tang was about to put away the scroll, he realized his hands were empty.

Something was wrong!

Chen Tang found himself seemingly entering the scroll!

To be precise, he seemed to have assumed the body of the black-clad man within the scroll, viewing everything before him from the man’s perspective.

A forest of trees and lush greenery surrounded him.

Chen Tang’s body and consciousness were completely beyond his control.

In his vision, what was originally a clear sky quickly turned into a dense cover of clouds, with lightning and thunder.

Initially, it was a light, fine rain.

In the blink of an eye, it turned into a downpour, pouring down in torrents!

The black-clad man sat on the cliff, unmoving amidst the storm, letting the torrential rain pelt his body.

Throughout the whole process, Chen Tang could feel everything clearly, almost as if he were the one being drenched in the rain.

Soon, large hailstones began to fall from the sky!

The black-clad man remained immobile, as if he couldn’t feel the sting of hail hitting his body.

No one knew how much time had passed, but after the storm, the sky cleared.

With the setting sun, the surrounding clouds appeared as if aflame under the evening glow, a fiery red.

A splendid rainbow spanned the sky, like a bridge connecting heaven and earth.

Suddenly!

A gust of wind whipped up.

The sea, calm moments ago, suddenly turned tumultuous and stormy, waves crashing layers upon layers against the shore, roaring thunderously, deafening!

"Buzz!"

Chen Tang’s mind jolted.

He suddenly heard a familiar sound.

It was the cry of the East Sea Giant Demon.

Yet, it was even louder than the cry of the East Sea Giant Demon, seeming to possess a powerful might that captured the soul!

The next moment, the sea parted, revealing a ginormous being, so large that even the East Sea Giant Demon seemed as small as an ant in front of it!

From a glance, its back stretched for thousands of miles, floating on the sea as if it were a continent.

This must be the mythical Kun!

Before Chen Tang’s thought could even finish, the enormous Kun in the sea suddenly slapped the surface, its massive body leaping out of the water, transforming mid-air into a Roc Bird!

Its wings spread wide, cloud-like, stretching for thousands of miles.

In the glow of the evening light, the Roc shimmered with dazzling golden light, speeding towards the setting sun.

The speed of this Roc Bird was astonishing.

Such a huge body, in the blink of an eye, was reduced to a single golden dot, chasing after the setting sun.

As the sun slowly set beyond the sea, the sky gradually darkened.

The black-clad man remained seated on the cliff, gazing at the vast sea before him.

Gradually, a bright moon rose from the sea’s horizon.

The sky, with its starry spread and the milky way spanning afar, was brilliantly splendid.

In this way, the black-clad man watched everything before him.

Throughout this whole process, Chen Tang seemed to see through the eyes of the black-clad man, witnessing everything before him—the flora and fauna, the wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, the transformation of the Kunpeng, the journeys of the sun and moon, the splendor of the starlit sky...

In just one day and night, what he saw and heard seemed to encompass the ultimate truths of heaven and earth, the mysteries of the universe!

At dawn, a ray of sunlight fell on the black-clad man.

Chen Tang shuddered, suddenly emerging from the scroll’s grasp, returning to the undersea ruins.

Though just a day and a night in the scroll had passed, it seemed like a hundred years!

In the scroll, Chen Tang felt as if he had lived a lifetime!

Using Entering the Divine State, he checked his body but found nothing amiss.

His cultivation was still at the Sixth Grade Extreme Realm.

Yet, through the eyes of the black-clad man, with a day and night’s enlightenment, Chen Tang felt as if he had gained much in his mind.

However, when trying to grasp it, nothing seemed to be captured.

Before Chen Tang could regain his composure, he noticed the Sea of Wisdom Enlightenment Map in his hand was swiftly burning.

In no time, it turned into ashes before him, dissipating into the air.

"This..."

Chen Tang stood there dumbfounded.

He stood still, lost in thought.

Though the Sea of Wisdom Enlightenment Map had disappeared, each scene from that day and night seemed indelibly etched in his mind, ready to surface at any moment.

This feeling was indeed wondrous.

After a moment of contemplation, Chen Tang continued to explore the undersea ruins, hoping to find something similar to the Sea of Wisdom Enlightenment Map.

After some time, he found nothing.

However, he did manage to get a general grasp of the undersea ruin.

It seemed that this ruin was formed around the ’volcano’ from earlier, covering a not-so-large area.

The invisible barrier might be due to the mist erupting from the ’volcano’, isolating the surrounding seawater.

Apart from that, Chen Tang found no other information or clues.

"Buzz!"

At this moment, the call of the East Sea Giant Demon rang out once again.

After hearing the call of the Kunpeng in the Sea of Wisdom Enlightenment Map, hearing the call of the East Sea Giant Demon now made it seem somewhat weaker, perhaps not as frightening.

Of course, Chen Tang knew this was just an illusion.