Chapter 355: Chapter 260: Earth Spirit Stele’s Revival! Fu Ming

Mastering the Earth Spirit Stele meant he no longer needed to search for new Techniques. The Earth Spirit Stele had everything he could possibly need.

He passed through the barrier, heading toward the outer layers. Now, he could finally explore it properly.

First layer... third layer... seventh layer...

Yang An passed through layer after layer of barriers. Whenever he drew near, specks of light on the barriers would automatically surface, revealing all that was recorded within. However, there were also vast blank areas.

These blank areas likely corresponded to the various Cultivation Methods that had escaped.

He pressed onward without stopping.

Tenth layer... Thirteenth layer... Sixteenth layer...

As the specks of light condensed into text, the Cultivation Technique portion of the Mystic Path Decoded for the Insect Dao Realm manifested.

": [Partially Missing] [Reaches the Sixteenth Understanding of the Insect Dao] Sourced from the Earth Spirit Stele..."

": [Partially Missing] [Reaches the Seventeenth Understanding of the Insect Dao]..."

By the time he passed the eighteenth layer, Yang An had obtained the complete Cultivation Technique for the Insect Dao Realm.

But he still didn’t pause, continuing on through the next barrier.

...

": [Partially Missing] [Reaches the Twenty-first Understanding of the Immortal Platform]..."

After obtaining the complete Cultivation Technique for the Immortal Platform Realm, he continued through to the next layer.

As he ventured further outward, the blank areas on the barriers—aside from the text of the Mystic Path Decoded—grew more and more numerous.

When he reached the next layer—the twenty-second—the content of the Mystic Path Decoded had unexpectedly become blurry, leaving only specks of light. The rest of the barrier was completely blank.

’What does this mean?’ Yang An froze in place.

’The presence of the light specks means there’s more to the Mystic Path Decoded, but why can’t I see it?’

He tried using the Lighting Fire. Dark red flames blazed across his body, illuminating the barrier, yet the specks of light remained unresponsive, unaffected by the Lighting Technique.

’Haven’t I already mastered the Earth Spirit Stele? Why can’t I see the Cultivation Techniques for the realms beyond the Immortal Platform?’

Filled with doubt, Yang An decided to press on through the subsequent barriers to see what lay beyond.

Yang An walked on until he reached the twenty-eighth layer, where he finally stopped.

On the barrier of the twenty-eighth layer, even the specks of light for the Mystic Path Decoded were gone. Moreover, this barrier seemed much weaker than the previous ones, like a bubble that could be popped with a single touch.

’I know that the Mystic Path Decoded follows the principle of One Realm, Three Understandings, with each understanding corresponding to a layer.’

’The highest cultivation realm I know of is Immortal Platform. The Late-stage of Immortal Platform corresponds exactly to the twenty-first understanding, which is the twenty-first layer on the Earth Spirit Stele.’

’That means the twenty-second layer must represent the realm above the Immortal Platform, with the text stopping at the twenty-seventh layer.’

’The Mystic Path Decoded is gone from the twenty-eighth layer onward. Does that mean there are two—and only two—Great Realms beyond the Immortal Platform?’ 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

’I have the Cultivation Technique for the Immortal Platform Realm now, but I can’t see the techniques for the realms beyond it.’

’Does this mean the Mystic Path Decoded only goes up to Immortal Platform Perfection?’

’Or am I unable to see the techniques beyond the Immortal Platform for some reason I don’t yet understand?’

Filled with confusion, Yang An stared at the twenty-eighth barrier before him.

’If the Cultivation Technique ends at the twenty-seventh layer, then what is the purpose of this twenty-eighth layer?’

He slowly reached out and touched the barrier. His fingers passed through it with ease, sending faint, concentric ripples spreading out from his palm.

’I can still pass through!’

Driven by curiosity, Yang An slowly passed through the barrier.

But as his head emerged from the other side, with the lower half of his body still within the barrier, the sight that met his eyes made him freeze.

Beyond the barrier lay a vast world. In the distance, mountain ranges rolled on and on, their peaks stretching toward an unseen, boundless horizon.

Closer by was a stretch of flat jungle, nestled at the foot of a mountain.

But everything he saw—from the distant mountain ranges and mists to the flowers and trees right before him—was utterly gray. The entire world was gray!

The sensation was like watching a black-and-white television from his past life. There were no brilliant colors; everything was muted and pale, yet perfectly clear.

At the same time, a line from a game he played in his past life flashed through Yang An’s mind:

"The world is neither black nor white, but a delicate shade of gray!"

He looked down at his hands, at his clothes.

He alone possessed color, an accidental intruder in this world of pure gray.

He stepped fully through the barrier, curiously surveying his surroundings, and recalled the term mentioned in the information box: the Xian Origin Land.

’Could this be the Xian Origin Land nurtured within the Earth Spirit Stele?’

The grass beneath his feet felt incredibly real. Yang An could clearly perceive the auras of everything around him. Every object in this world had its own aura, proving that what he was seeing was real.

Aside from the pervasive gray, this place was no different from the Real World.

Yet, as he stood here, Yang An had a very strange feeling.

This place was utterly desolate; there was nothing else here.

He could sense the presence of the grass and trees, but there were no other living creatures.

In this vast world, he felt as if he had become the sole occupant—a lone ship on a boundless ocean.

Having entered this place, he too began to feel lonely, as if the colors on his own body would slowly fade away until he blended in completely, losing all definition.

Fortunately, when he turned around, the barrier of the Earth Spirit Stele was still there. All he had to do was pass back through it to return.