The tiger received the treasure pearl, his face beaming with joy. He held the True Water Pearl in his hand and felt an incomparable coolness wash over him.
A gentle stream of water swept over his body, irrigating his scorching skin.
"爽啊! (Shuǎng a!)" the tiger shouted loudly. "Brother Jiang really cares about this old tiger!"
"Hmph! Shameless old tiger!" the ginseng spirit mocked. Having been with Jiang Wen for only a short time, it had already started to pick up his glib tongue.
"This old tiger's skills aren't as good as Brother Jiang's, and I admit it." The tiger said, not caring in the slightest. Being able to make himself comfortable, what need did he have for face?
Jiang Wen gave the True Water Pearl to the tiger, while he himself took out the Fire Pearl.
Just as he had expected, when the Fire Pearl floated around him, the scorching air began to cool down.
Viewing the Eight Dragons Heavenly Fire Formation from this perspective, Jiang Wen realized that the formation seemed to be directly facing the Heavenly Fire Palace. If there were cultivators guarding this place, they only needed to apply changes to the formation to make it impossible for those who broke into the formation to understand the changes in the formation.
Fortunately, this immortal palace was unguarded, allowing Jiang Wen to break the formation with the True Water Pearl.
"I wonder why the Pure Yang True Man built this kind of cave immortal palace?" Jiang Wen was very curious. After all, this was only the outer periphery of the cave, and there were already the True Water Pearl and the Fire Pearl. Both of these are rare treasures in the world, and even the major immortal sects would be envious.
And now they are placed everywhere for no reason, allowing people to easily obtain them. It's really a bit strange. Jiang Wen thought to himself, but he didn't know how angry others would be if they knew his thoughts.
What do you mean by placing them everywhere for no reason, and easily obtaining them? Just relying on the two stone lions at the stone gate, ordinary cultivators would find it difficult to cross, let alone open the cave door.
Then there was the long river full of Yellow Spring water, a single turbulent wave was enough to devour all cultivators below the Dao Palace. Once swept into the Yellow Spring water, even their bones would not remain.
Furthermore, regarding the True Water Pearl, if it weren't for the ginseng spirit's help in seeing it, ordinary people would probably go blind trying to find a treasure pearl in that spring. Even Jiang Wen was only able to obtain the True Water Pearl after being reminded by the ginseng spirit.
Not to mention the later Eight Dragons Heavenly Fire Formation, which was truly equal to all living beings below the Saint. If he hadn't obtained the True Water Pearl, Jiang Wen would probably have found it difficult to escape from the formation, let alone obtain the Fire Pearl.
It can only be said that Jiang Wen's luck was really good, that he could encounter such coincidences.
Jiang Wen didn't realize it, and the tiger and ginseng spirit didn't feel anything was wrong either. After admiring the scenery of the square for a while, the three walked towards the Heavenly Fire Palace.
Stepping into the gate, they saw that the gate was truly tall.
This palace was one thousand two hundred zhang high, and the gate was six hundred zhang high.
Jiang Wen visually estimated that the gate was roughly two thousand meters high.
A two-thousand-meter-high gate! The edge of the gate was wide enough to drive a car on.
Such a big place, it's probably not for ordinary people to live in, right?
Jiang Wen had to jump over the threshold, feeling like a little person entering a land of giants.
"What a big palace! This old tiger has finally seen the world!" the tiger exclaimed strangely.
"Have you never been in here before?" Jiang Wen asked curiously.
"How could this old tiger come in? Did I not want to live!" The tiger said, pointing to the large formation outside. "The immortal master told me that there were many dangers in the palace. He told me to guard the outside properly. When the destined person arrives one day, this old tiger will come to this palace."
"The Pure Yang True Man knew that someone would come here?" Jiang Wen was quite surprised to hear this.
"Of course. Otherwise, this old tiger wouldn't have followed you here, I would have slipped away long ago." The tiger smiled, revealing his tiger teeth. "The immortal master said that someone would enter this palace in the future. At that time, this old tiger can safely leave with him. Now that I've met you, the immortal master's words can be considered fulfilled."
"I didn't expect the Pure Yang True Man to be able to calculate these things." Jiang Wen became more and more curious about the founder of the Pure Yang Palace. After all, being able to calculate things tens of thousands of years later, this True Man's skills were extraordinary.
If the Pure Yang True Man was the Saint of the Pure Yang Palace, then what kind of strength was the Saint Realm? Jiang Wen couldn't fathom it.
After all, he had only fought against a demon whose physical body had just become a Saint. That was only after he used all his magic weapons and finally squandered his merit points that he was able to subdue it.
But the strength of a Saint should not lie in the physical body, but in the soul.
He had heard that the Saint of the Langhuan Academy sat alone at the edge of the world, his life fire and divine soul burning for ten thousand years without extinguishing. He isolated the great mist for ten thousand years, contributing to the prosperity of humanity.
If the strength of a Saint was only like that of a demon whose physical body had become a Saint, I'm afraid it would have turned to ashes after being burned as firewood for a few years.
Therefore, the strength of a Saint is not in the external, but in the internal. I'm afraid that only when one truly reaches the Saint Realm can one understand what it is like.
For now, let's not dwell on the Saints of Sendai. After Jiang Wen crossed the gate, he looked at everything in the Heavenly Fire Palace.
He saw that the palace was truly magnificent, with a huge statue sitting in the center of the distance.
The statue was as tall as the Heavenly Fire Palace, its body as huge as the peaks of the Five Mountains.
The statue's left hand pinched the Heavenly Dipper, and its right hand held a pagoda. It wore a cassock and Buddhist beads, and its eyes shone brightly like the sun and moon.
The pagoda in its right hand emitted seven colors, and was as bright as glass, so dazzling.
Its divine might and dharma appearance were quiet and solemn. Just looking at it made one feel peaceful inside.
Behind the statue was a mural of the Heavenly Palace Daoist Mansion. Jiang Wen looked closely and found that the mural depicted the entire Pure Yang.
In this way, this statue wearing a cassock and Buddhist beads, holding a pagoda, should be the Pure Yang True Man.
Looking at both sides of the statue, there were three thousand small statues on each side.
They clustered around the main statue, with different expressions.
In this scene, Jiang Wen had the feeling of watching the gods worship the Heavenly Emperor. The statue of the Pure Yang True Man was the Heavenly Emperor, and the six thousand disciples next to him were the gods.
Looking left and right, there were two more huge statues sitting. However, unlike the central statue, the other two statues were wearing robes, one holding a treasure sword and the other holding a measuring ruler.
Although their faces were similar, they were three divine positions. The dharma appearance in this Heavenly Fire Hall was majestic, weighing heavily on people's hearts.
Jiang Wen was about to ask the tiger some questions, but then he remembered the stone tablet under the palace that warned him not to make a sound.
He was about to warn the tiger not to talk nonsense when he heard the tiger's loud voice ringing out: "Brother Jiang, look, this statue is the Pure Yang True Man!"
"...You blockhead!" Jiang Wen gritted his teeth and cursed in a low voice.
The tiger's voice echoed in the hall, constantly circling in his ears.
Jiang Wen only felt the temperature in the hall gradually rising. From among the many small statues, clusters of fire suddenly appeared.
Those flames all turned into human figures, holding weapons and aiming at Jiang Wen.
"Who dares to offend the Venerable!"
After speaking, eighteen thousand flame figures appeared. Like heavenly soldiers and generals, they surrounded Jiang Wen and the tiger.
