0p0 Chapter 600 The Ten Thousand Year Ice Age After the Emperor's Passing
Chapter 600 The Ten Thousand Year Ice Age After the Emperor's Passing
Lin Hanzhou stepped into the Tianji Pavilion.
The interior space is much larger than it appears from the outside, clearly indicating the use of a spatial array similar to the Sumeru Mustard Seed.
The hall has hundreds of crystal reception desks, behind which sits a skilled maid with a professional smile.
Lin Hanzhou walked straight to an empty counter.
The maid behind the counter glanced at Lin Hanzhou's feigned unremarkable appearance. Although she didn't show any disdain in her eyes, her attitude was somewhat formulaic and indifferent.
"Sir, what kind of information do you need to purchase?"
"Our Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's intelligence is divided into four levels: Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow. Yellow-level intelligence starts at 10,000 low-grade spirit stones, while Heaven-level intelligence requires top-grade spirit stones or equally valuable rare and precious materials to trade."
"That's what the maid said, as if it were a routine matter."
Without wasting any words, Lin Hanzhou took out a spatial storage bag from his sleeve and casually tossed it onto the crystal cabinet.
"I need the latest power distribution map of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths of the current universe, detailed information on the emerging geniuses of the major holy lands, ancient families, and primordial royal families. Also, top-secret information about the Imperial Pass Great Wall and the changes in the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth after the passing of the last emperor."
Lin Hanzhou spoke in a calm tone.
Upon hearing this, the maid was taken aback for a moment, then frowned slightly.
This seemingly ordinary rogue cultivator in front of me immediately asked to buy top-secret information involving major powers and the Imperial Pass Great Wall.
This is information that even ordinary saints might not be able to afford!
"Sir, most of what you've described falls into the category of Earth-level or even Heaven-level intelligence. This fee..."
Before the maid could finish speaking, she subconsciously opened the storage bag that Lin Hanzhou had thrown on the counter.
The next moment, the formulaic smile on her face froze, replaced by an incredulous shock and stunned expression.
Her eyes widened as she stared intently at the mountain of stones inside the storage bag, stones that emitted a dazzling light and a rich spiritual energy.
Top-grade spirit stones!
Millions of perfectly cut, incredibly pure, top-grade spirit stones!
In this universe, spirit stones are hard currency, and top-grade spirit stones are strategic resources.
Even after hundreds of years of mining, a large spiritual vein might not produce more than a few hundred top-grade spirit stones.
And this unassuming young man in front of us casually tossed out millions of dollars!
This wealth is enough to buy a medium-sized city on Qingyu Star!
"Is that enough?"
Lin Hanzhou asked calmly.
What he has in abundance right now is spirit stones for trading.
To him, spirit stones were just a string of meaningless numbers. As long as he could exchange them for valuable information, he wouldn't mind spending as much as he wanted.
"Enough...enough! Please wait a moment, sir! The information you requested is of a very high level; I need to ask the steward to retrieve it for you personally!"
The maid stammered, her eyes filled with awe and fervor as she looked at Lin Hanzhou.
She knew that she had definitely encountered a hidden master today, or a super young master from a reclusive family who had come out to train.
A moment later, a manager of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion with the cultivation level of the Dao Severing Realm personally handed a jade slip emitting a purple halo to Lin Hanzhou with a beaming smile.
"Distinguished guest, this amethyst jade slip contains all the information you desire, the latest and most authoritative intelligence collected by our Heavenly Secrets Pavilion over the past fifty years. To thank you for your generosity, our Heavenly Secrets Pavilion is also including a list of recent prominent figures in the Azure Feather Star Region, which we hope will be of assistance to you."
The steward said respectfully.
Lin Hanzhou accepted the jade slip, nodded slightly, and without lingering, turned and walked out of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.
Subsequently, he found a top-tier restaurant called "Drunken Immortal Abode" in the most bustling central area of Falling Star City.
He spent a fortune to book the most luxurious and heavily fortified suite on the top floor of the restaurant.
After entering the room, Lin Hanzhou did not rush to rest.
He immediately locked the door, his hands moving swiftly like butterflies flitting among flowers, unleashing dozens of hidden array patterns to completely seal off the entire room.
It not only isolated all external sounds and sights, but also completely blocked the probing of divine sense.
After making all these thorough preparations, Lin Hanzhou sat cross-legged on the cloud bed carved from ten-thousand-year-old warm jade, placed the amethyst jade slip between his eyebrows, and slowly sent out a wisp of his divine sense to probe into it.
"Buzz—"
With a soft buzzing sound, an enormous and suffocating flow of information surged into Lin Hanzhou's sea of consciousness like a flood bursting its banks.
Fortunately, his spirit was incredibly resilient, and he easily sorted out and digested this complex information.
Time slipped away little by little in the quiet room.
Lin Hanzhou sat there like an old monk in meditation, his brows sometimes relaxing and sometimes furrowing.
As he read on, a magnificent yet bloody and cruel historical panorama gradually unfolded clearly in his mind.
He finally got all the information he wanted.
The most crucial piece of information, and the one that truly shocked him, was about the timeline of this era!
"It will be less than fifty years since the last emperor passed away, and then it will be ten thousand years!"
Lin Hanzhou suddenly opened his eyes, and an inexplicable sense of urgency instantly enveloped his heart.
According to the unchanging iron law of the universe, the Imperial Pass Great Wall will be opened again after ten thousand years since the death of the previous emperor!
This was a signal that could drive countless geniuses across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths into a frenzy.
The opening of the Imperial Pass Great Wall signifies that the final battle on the Imperial Road is about to begin, and it also means that the supreme throne, which has been vacant for ten thousand years, has finally come to be contested!
However, for Lin Hanzhou at present, fifty years seems too short a time.
Under normal circumstances, given his understanding of the laws from his previous life as an emperor, coupled with the Heaven-Burning Sacred Body he awakened in this life, given fifty years, he has an absolute certainty that he can reach the peak of the Quasi-Emperor level and be qualified to compete for the throne at the Imperial Pass Great Wall.
However, while ideals are lofty, reality is cruel enough to drive people to despair.
Because the era he is currently living in is a very special and oppressive period, a ten-thousand-year period of ice age following the death of the Great Emperor!
Lin Hanzhou himself was once an emperor, and he knew better than anyone how profound the impact of an emperor's fall would be on this world.
The Great Emperor is an unparalleled being who has imprinted his own Great Dao on the Heavenly Mark of the Universe.
Their path transcends all other paths.
When a great emperor passes away, his invincible Dao principles do not immediately dissipate, but instead transform into a terrifying and indescribable "residual Dao pressure," which firmly suppresses the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
The lingering pressure from the emperor was like the enormous shadow left by a dead giant tree, completely blocking out the sunlight and preventing all the saplings around it from growing tall.
Under the suppression of this imperial might, the laws of the universe become incredibly sluggish, and the cultivation environment becomes exceptionally harsh.
For lower-level cultivators, the effect might not be noticeable, but for those who have reached the Saint Realm or above, this suppression is simply fatal!
Over the course of these ten thousand years, any breakthrough involving the Saint Realm or higher has become incredibly difficult.
In such circumstances, being able to barely cultivate to the level of a sage is already a miracle, a sign of one's ancestors' extraordinary abilities.
Want to withstand the pressure of the Great Emperor and continue to climb higher, breaking through to Saint King, Great Saint, or even Quasi-Emperor?
This is undoubtedly an extremely difficult task.
Even those peerless geniuses who possess unparalleled holy bodies and are supported by countless resources from various holy lands would feel powerless when faced with the suppression of this imperial might that covers the entire universe, as if they were stuck in a quagmire and unable to make any progress.
The Great Emperor's residual pressure, devoid of any consciousness, was directed at the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Earths; it was simply too domineering.