Chapter 762: Chapter Fifty-One: Sudden Enlightenment Chapter 762: Chapter Fifty-One: Sudden Enlightenment This post was partially paid for, but it had a high purchase volume.

The content of the post was quite lengthy. Wang Sheng began by saying that he believed the ultimate event related to this fruit was most likely associated with the phenomenon of the “Heavenly Mother Crossing the Sea,” so he had focused his main energy on exploring it during his multiple entries into the fruit.

In fact, this was not his personal judgment alone. Almost every traveler who had experienced this fruit realized that the Heavenly Mother Crossing the Sea, which had given birth to many miracles and hidden treasures, must contain great secrets.

Wang Sheng went into detail about his experiences with Heavenly Mother Crossing the Sea. He noted that when this event occurred, the thick fog and drifts at sea were just the tip of the iceberg. In most cases, they posed no significant threat to him already being a Proxy Traveler, but if one stayed too long in the fog created by the Heavenly Mother Crossing the Sea, or encountered a black ship, one must immediately leave. Otherwise, one might become engulfed in tremendous terror.

He described it as the “fruit within the fruit,” a boundless ocean with no land and unfathomably deep waters, teeming with huge sea monsters, and he posted several immersive projections.

Li Yan casually clicked on one of them and saw a pale giant whale with enormous coral antlers on its head facing her, with a piece of a seaweed-covered glorious palace beneath its feet.

The Fuyue Giant Whale, one of the seventeen great demons she had subjugated.

This Wang Sheng had indeed been to the Heavenly Mother Ashram!

Wang Sheng’s description of this mysterious sea area had the vibe of the early online cultivation novels, mentioning that here, Proxy Travelers are no better than dogs, and the Six Ministries roam everywhere. He described in detail his observations, stating that the monsters here had their territories, refrained from invading each other, and that the great monsters possessed considerable intelligence. Having entered the Heavenly Mother Ashram seven times, he faced life-threatening situations every time and resolved never to return after each visit. Yet, after some time, he couldn’t resist the temptation and came back to explore.

Moreover, he posted some of his spoils of war following this paragraph, drawing gasps of astonishment from many travelers.

Upon careful review, Li Yan realized that Wang Sheng had encountered more than forty different creatures, including the Omniscient Thousand-Foot Bodhisattva, which she had subdued, and the Water Bear Lord, who had been killed by the Nine-Colored Marshal, and even some monsters that Li Yan had not encountered during a month-long stay in the Heavenly Mother Ashram.

But in the last paragraph, Wang Sheng stated that during his seventh exploration, he encountered an unknown monstrosity that not even Earth Endurance could recognize. It was an almost suppressive presence that sapped one’s will to resist. Terrified, he swore never to return here again.

His description in this part was vague, releasing only a five-second projection. The content was just a momentary vision filled with yellow, followed by pitch darkness.

However, Li Yan still managed to discern that Wang Sheng must have provoked the Ma Ling.

What surprised Li Yan was that, as a being second only to Li Jiang in the Heavenly Mother Ashram, if Ma Ling targeted someone, an ordinary Proxy Traveler would hardly survive. Unlike Li Jiang, who was rich in emotions and might spare one’s life for entertainment, Li Yan estimated that her chances of escaping Ma Ling’s pursuit without harm were no more than thirty percent, even with the support of the seventeen great demons. Yet, Wang Sheng managed to escape intact–clearly, he was no easy opponent.

Such a character, and she had never heard of him before. Li Yan carefully recalled the list of the Yan Zhao Club. Wang Sheng’s name was not on it. Using the privileges of the second seat, she looked up brief information on Wang Sheng and discovered that he had joined the Yan Zhao Club within the past six months. He wasn’t even qualified as a Proxy Traveler when she attended the Yan Zhao Club election.

“Interesting,”
Li Yan of course knew that after the reshuffling of the Yan Zhao Club, a large number of newcomers were selected for Yan Fu, but he hadn’t expected anyone to distinguish themselves so quickly.

Returning to the content of this post, Wang Sheng had originally determined not to enter the Heavenly Mother Ashram again, but later, he learned that Li Yan, the second-seat leader of the Five Dragon Sect, claimed to have entered the Heavenly Mother Ashram and obtained the inheritance. Wang Sheng was not convinced and didn’t believe that someone could actually succeed in such a horrifying environment and obtain the Heavenly Mother’s inheritance.

However, the final result left Wang Sheng disheartened and shocked, as he found that the Heavenly Mother Ashram was now much emptier, with many palaces destroyed and the traces of many monsters gone. He even ventured to the areas where he had previously encountered inexplicable monsters, only to come out completely unharmed, without any attacks.

All signs indicated that someone had indeed explored this place, and it was likely that the Heavenly Mother’s inheritance had been taken.

Li Yan, as the second seat in Yan Fu, was a figure of some renown. In just over a year after joining the Yan Zhao Club, he had been promoted to the second seat, just one step away from the pinnacle of Yan Fu’s roamers. What made him more extraordinary was that he had no Proxy Traveler, which amazed many who were unaware of the existence of the Divine Court. There were also those who propagated that the well-known Tianbao Dragon Head from the South Seas was none other than Li Yan, the second seat.

Wang Sheng admitted that at first, he was not too impressed with Li Yan; he thought that leading an army of tens of thousands was commendable, but he, who had delved deeper into the exploration of Heavenly Mother Crossing the Sea, was the true elite roamer of Yan Fu. That was, until he saw the decrepit Heavenly Mother Ashram for himself, and he found himself defeated by the heretofore unseen “Tianbao Dragon Head.”

Thus, Wang Sheng judged that Li Yan was very close to the ultimate event of Yan Fu.

Wang Sheng had heard that Su Ling, the Ghost Master who once plucked a fruit, had wandered through nations as a top-tier scientist in a world set against the backdrop of the Cold War, stirring world affairs with many other roamers, ultimately leading to the outbreak of a third world war, steering the world in a different direction. Su Ling successfully harvested that fruit, and all the roamers involved made a fortune.

This coincided with the current ethos of the Five Dragon Sect Church.

In the final part of the post, Wang Sheng suggested that all Yan Fu roamers managing this fruit should actively undertake tasks related to the Five Dragon Sect Church. If, in the end, Li Yan managed to pluck the fruit, according to the mechanisms of Yan Fu, the returns from joining the Five Dragon Sect Church would certainly far outweigh those from standing with the officials and trading companies. This idea received an enthusiastic response from many Yan Fu roamers as well.

Having read the entire post, Li Yan put aside the misconceptions and wild guesses Wang Sheng had made about him. Clearly, even the roamers of Yan Fu believed the Five Dragon Sect Church to be his organization, which meant that the Sect Leader of the Five Dragon Sect was no simple character, and the church was not merely rising by misleading the masses with monster talk. Considering its timing and the familiar organizational structure of the church, Li Yan was eighty percent certain that the Sect Leader of the Five Dragon Sect was none other than the Mountain River Borers, the great monster that once deceived the Heavenly Mother.

At that moment, everything became crystal clear.

The thought of a monster impersonating him and tricking a bunch of Yan Fu roamers into working for it made Li Yan’s skin crawl.

Outside, suddenly there was the rapid sound of horse hooves and loud voices.

Li Yan and Saint Watson had taken lodging in a fisherman’s house nearby, having been in peace until then, unaware of the commotion outside.