Chapter 50: Fate and Destiny (Part 2)

  Gently landed at the bottom of the valley, the surroundings immediately became clear in Lu Yun's mind. He took a glance at the dark mountain stream and slowly approached it. At the same time, a brilliant light flashed on Lu Yun's body, a dazzling red glow enveloped his entire being, protecting him while also illuminating the dark stone walls around him.

  The terrain here is low and humid, with a heavy misty atmosphere. Water droplets on the stone walls on both sides occasionally fall, making a crisp sound. The mountain stream is not wide, but rather narrow, with some poisonous creatures slowly moving on both sides, making strange noises, matching the darkness around, looking very gloomy.

  Lu Yun gazed around cautiously as he advanced slowly, soon crossing the hundred-zhang distance to arrive at a dark and deep abyss. Looking around, ten zhang above his head, the dark-colored stone wall slanted outward, blocking out the night sky. Both sides were pitch-black stone walls, with no path forward, a ten-zhang-wide mountain valley seemed like an enclosed space, appearing mysterious and unpredictable.

  Mind afloat, Lu Yun was searching the surroundings with all his might, trying to find that strange aura from daytime. However, after carefully searching once, he didn't discover anything, which made Lu Yun feel somewhat strange! His eyebrows furrowed, Lu Yun's entire body shone brightly with red light, and the dazzling radiance made everything around him clearly visible before his eyes.

  Lù Yún walked around the area slowly and said in confusion, "Why is it so quiet? It shouldn't be wrong, could it be that the aura only appears during the day? That's impossible, right?"

  In a trance, Lu Yun looked around, his eyes revealing a hint of confusion. After a brief moment of contemplation, he saw his right hand move slightly, and the Wishful Heart Soul Sword on his head suddenly burst out with dazzling red light. The red light rotated rapidly, and the Wishful Heart Soul Sword, accompanied by a powerful force, quickly flew around in a circle. Suddenly, a series of explosions sounded, and countless rocks shot out in all directions.

  Not long after everything calmed down, Lu Yun once again used his mind's divine wave to search for everything at the bottom of the valley. Soon, a hint of a smile appeared on Lu Yun's mouth, and with a flicker of his body, he appeared in front of a stone wall. Looking at the stone wall in front of him, Lu Yun began to ponder.

  On this stone wall, there is a strange pattern of about one zhang in size. In the lower left corner, a double-headed monster bird is painted. The two heads of the monster bird have a pair of deer horns and a snake crown respectively, looking serious and staring at the sky with one on the left and one on the right. In the upper right corner of the stone wall, a giant tiger with wings on its back is painted, roaring to the sky with its mouth open, and two different lights, blue and yellow, are shot out from the tiger's eyes, mysterious and strange.

  Lu Yun stared blankly at the stone wall, his heart extremely shocked. What did the two strange beasts depicted on this mural mean? Were there really such monsters in the world? Or did these two strange beasts represent something, and what did they imply?

  While pondering, Lu Yun rapidly rotated his mental waves to carefully analyze the painting for any hidden secrets. Soon, his mental waves sent back some information that made Lu Yun understand this was indeed the place he sensed during the day. However, this place was very strange, as if something had been interfering with Lu Yun's mental waves all along, preventing him from finding any useful information.

  Taking a glance at the two strange creatures, Lu Yun slowly stretched out his right hand. On the palm of Lu Yun's hand, a ball of light that shone with a mysterious blue-green glow slowly moved towards the stone wall.

  At this moment, Lu Yun displayed the Yitian key of Yiyuan, intending to force a breakthrough. When Lu Yun's palm touched the stone wall, the powerful force caused the entire mountain peak to tremble. Countless rocks fell around, and a huge sound echoed in the night sky, which was obviously very piercing.

  Lu Yun's body shook, and red light burst from his eyes. His right hand added three layers of force. At the same time as Lu Yun's right hand increased in power, a brilliant white light suddenly appeared on the stone wall, accompanied by an overwhelming force that instantly sent Lu Yun flying out. After the white light appeared, the two strange beasts on the pattern seemed to be hiding and revealing themselves in the light, extremely mysterious and eerie.

  Lu Yun stumbled back a zhang, his face instantly pale. The white light's powerful force was completely beyond Lu Yun's expectations, and with one move, it had shaken him. This was an extremely frightening matter. From afar, looking at the stone wall flashing with white light and that strange pattern, Lu Yun employed the "Wan Yuan Gui Yi" mental technique of the fifth layer of the "Tian Di Wu Ji" realm, causing the countless spiritual energies hidden in the air around him to begin gathering towards him.

  The air was filled with a heavy, dark energy, and it being nighttime only added to the chill. The spiritual energy in the air seemed to carry a hint of coldness. Lu Yun hovered in mid-air, surrounded by countless blue, green, and faintly glowing green spiritual energies that swarmed towards him like moths to a flame. His meridians were fully open as he absorbed these energies at top speed, seeking to recover his original state in the shortest time possible.

  In just a moment, the spiritual energy that flickered with various colors in the air was completely absorbed by Lu Yun. At the same time, Lu Yun's whole body shone brightly, and the colorful lights formed a dazzling light shield around him, which was both beautiful and eye-catching in the night sky. Unfortunately, it only lasted for a moment before disappearing into the night.

  A figure flashed, and Lu Yun reappeared in front of the stone wall, carefully guarding against the white light. His mind flashed, and Lu Yun carefully analyzed the strange white glow in front of him, soon discovering that it contained four different auras of magical techniques. Lu Yun's face changed, this was the first time he had encountered such a strange phenomenon since his cultivation began.

  Lu Yun quickly adjusted the frequency of his mental wave to match that of the white light, and at the same time, he also adjusted the frequency of his true energy fluctuations to match that of the white light. As a result, the strong repulsive force of the white light instantly disappeared.

  Only a flash of light was seen, and Lu Yun's entire body transformed into a cluster of five-colored light, shooting into the white light shield. As Lu Yun disappeared, the dazzling white light also disappeared. On the stone wall, only that strange pattern remained, quietly presented in the dark valley! All around, everything returned to calmness, except for the countless broken stones on the ground, as if nothing had ever happened.

  In a ancient cave, with a flash of light, Lu Yun's figure suddenly appeared in mid-air. His body rotated once in the air, and Lu Yun roughly looked around, finding that the cave was not large, only about five zhangs in diameter and three zhangs high. However, although the cave was small, Lu Yun discovered something extremely astonishing.

  Originally, Lu Yun's mental wave exploration found that the surrounding area of this cave, except for the entrance he came in, every other place was sealed by a layer of extremely mysterious prohibition. In other words, there is a boundary within this ancient cave, and only the entrance can be entered, while all other places cannot be entered.

  After calming down, Lu Yun carefully examined the ancient cave and discovered a very mysterious and shocking place. On one wall, on the left side was carved a double-headed strange bird, while on the right side was carved a double-winged flying giant tiger. Every move and gesture was exactly the same as outside, only much larger, making it even more vivid.

  However, it was not these mysterious things that shocked Lu Yun. What really shocked him was the middle of the two patterns, where there was a mirror with a diameter of three feet, and the surface of the mirror was flowing with light, occasionally flashing five-colored lights. Because this mirror was between the two strange beasts, it looked as if the two strange beasts were fighting for this mirror, very vivid.

  Lu Yun stood still, quietly staring at the strange mirror. His mental waves were probing everything about the mirror with different frequencies. However, what surprised Lu Yun was that his mental waves, regardless of their frequency, would be deflected to one side as soon as they approached the mirror surface, and he couldn't detect anything.

  Withdraw the mind's divine wave, Lu Yun shifted his gaze to the surroundings, carefully examining this mysterious ancient cave. The cave was very spacious, with a faint white glow emanating from all sides, adding a hint of mystery to the ancient cave. Lu Yun did not rush to examine the mysterious mirror, but instead walked around the cave and stopped one zhang away from the stone wall with patterns, his eyes fixed on the ground.

  On the ground, under a thick layer of dust, a faint line of words appeared and disappeared, making it difficult to discern. Fixing his eyes on it, Lu Yun only discovered that the ground was actually carved with an ancient rhyme. After carefully identifying it for a while, Lu Yun finally understood that what was carved on the ground was: "On Mount Tai Xuan, in the Cave of Wonders, the Mirror of Heaven reveals all. Fate and destiny are intertwined, each with its own cause and effect, in the divine mirror, life and death are equally divided!"

  Quietly gazing at those few lines of writing, Lu Yun carefully pondered. The meaning of the first part was still easy to understand, but the latter part seemed somewhat obscure. "Life and death are half each in the divine mirror", what does this refer to? Is it saying that besides the strange fate, there is also a strange danger within the Xuan Tian Treasure Mirror? Or perhaps hiding some other mysterious mechanism?

  Looking at the brilliant and flowing treasure mirror, Lu Yun fell into deep thought. What was hidden in this mirror? Was it auspicious or ominous, a strange fate or a strange disaster, Lu Yun couldn't guess. After thinking for a long time, Lu Yun raised his head to look at the treasure mirror again, and with a flash of light in his eyes, he took the first step. At this moment, Lu Yun still chose to try his luck, wanting to understand what was hidden inside the treasure mirror.