This bizarre phenomenon also caught Ye Yuanyuan's attention.
Digging a path ten meters long was not a difficult task for the three of them.
"Alright!"
Only then did Qin Ning call a halt, walking straight along the path to the spot ten meters away.
Standing in the swamp, Qin Ning looked around, seemingly searching for something.
"Miss, this wicked brat..."
Ye Liang whispered, "Since you already have the Heavenly Fire Spirit Crystal, Miss, why don't we..."
"Let's watch a bit longer!"
Only then did Ye Yuanyuan speak, "This guy is not simple. Even if the four of us were to strike together, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to kill him."
What?
Hearing this, Ye Liang was stunned.
Did this Qin Ning really possess such terrifying strength?
Their young lady was a martial artist who had already reached the Heaven Gate realm. As long as she broke through to the Spirit Ocean realm, she would immediately become an inner court disciple of the Tianshen Academy.
Even she wasn't sure she could deal with Qin Ning?
"I really can't figure out what on earth he is trying to do!" Ye Yuanyuan's beautiful eyes flashed with a hint of curiosity.
"Yuanyuan, come over here!"
Qin Ning suddenly gestured, calling out to Ye Yuanyuan.
Yuanyuan...
Hearing this form of address, Ye Liang felt a fire of rage erupt in his heart.
If Qin Ning dared to call her "Yuanyuan" so intimately back in the Imperial Capital, who knew how many young masters across the entire capital would tear his mouth apart.
Ye Yuanyuan paid it no mind and walked straight forward.
Qin Ning did not say much either. Standing in the swamp, he slowly waved his hand.
Strands of spiritual qi seemed to condense into large tentacles, eight in total, spreading out in all directions.
Boom...
Suddenly, the entire swamp shook violently for an instant.
The foul-smelling swamp completely exploded, sending mud flying all over the sky.
It was as if a bolt of lightning had just struck the swamp.
However, Qin Ning and Ye Yuanyuan were completely unaffected.
Meanwhile, Ye Liang and his two companions were in a miserable state.
Their entire bodies were drenched in the swamp mud, and a foul stench immediately wafted from them.
Qin Ning looked at the three of them indifferently.
"If you still want to kill me, the next thing splashed on you won't be mud!"
As he spoke, the killing intent between Qin Ning's brows gradually faded.
At this moment, Ye Liang and the other two were completely dumbfounded.
This guy seemed so familiar with this place, as if he had designed it himself.
And in fact, that was exactly the case.
Back then, in order to train his grand-disciple, Qin Ning had spared no effort to design this place.
He had even reopened it this time with the intention of allowing all future descendants of the Qin family to come here to cultivate.
There were many secrets hidden here.
As the mud in the swamp exploded, the ground began to rise.
The mud vanished, replaced by a massive, solid stone platform rising up.
The stone platform clearly bore an ancient blue hue, with cracks running across it. The colossal platform was hundreds of meters long, and their figures rose along with the ground.
"Come up with me!"
Once the stone platform stabilized, Qin Ning took a step forward.
Even though Ye Yuanyuan was well-informed, she was thoroughly astonished at this moment.
This place was indeed extremely bizarre; no wonder Elder Ku had been drawn to it.
The two figures walked to the very center of the stone platform.
"This place is called the Spirit Nurturing Platform!"
Qin Ning suddenly said this without any hesitation.
"Spirit Nurturing Platform?"
Ye Yuanyuan's expression shifted.
"I heard that back then, the Jiuyou Great Emperor took in a disciple here. Furthermore, to urge his disciple's cultivation, he designed this place as a training stone platform—the Yunling Platform—which can absorb the spiritual qi of the world to assist his disciple's cultivation!"
"You certainly know a lot!"
Seeing Ye Yuanyuan speak without pause, Qin Ning smiled and said, "However, what you said isn't entirely correct."
"This place is indeed called the Yunling Platform, and it can indeed absorb the spiritual qi of heaven and earth. However, the Jiuyou Great Emperor did not use it to train his disciple, but rather his grand-disciple. Furthermore, this place has another purpose."
"What purpose?"
"Testing spiritual bodies!"
As soon as Qin Ning said this, Ye Yuanyuan understood immediately.
"The world of martial artists is boundlessly vast. Legend has it that the Jiuyou Grand Continent is merely a fraction of the martial world."
Ye Yuanyuan said with deep conviction, "It is said that in ancient times, heaven and earth were divided into ten thousand stacked realms, and humans were divided into nine classes. But later, an earth-shattering figure appeared."
"This great figure opened up heaven and earth, reshaped the world, and unified it. All worlds became part of a single grand continent, and everyone existed within the same time and space."
"It's just that afterward, this great figure vanished without a trace, and there was no more news of him under the heavens."
"Later, the grand continent fell into chaos, and the Jiuyou Grand Continent was born."
"Posterity revered this man as the Supreme God Emperor. It is precisely because the Supreme God Emperor unified heaven and earth that legend after legend was born on the grand continent, including the legend of spiritual bodies!"
"The spiritual qi of heaven and earth is constantly circulating, and only those with extraordinary innate talent and special constitutions are more compatible with this spiritual qi!"
As Ye Yuanyuan spoke, her excitement became increasingly evident.
Seeing Qin Ning standing still and staring at her, Ye Yuanyuan suddenly felt she had spoken too much. She quickly explained, "Of course, I only read about these things in unofficial histories. I'm afraid most of it is just false rumors..."
"It is all true!"
"What?"
"Everything you said is true!" Qin Ning said decisively. "Such a great figure indeed appeared. The Supreme God Emperor made ten thousand realms submit and ten thousand races pay homage. With him above, no one dared to call themselves god or emperor!"
As Qin Ning said this, he felt a surge of emotion for the first time.
No one dared to call themselves god, no one dared to call themselves emperor!
How magnificent and heroic must that man have been?
"If that is true, why are there no records of him in the world?"
"Because he can no longer be met..."
Qin Ning said indifferently, "Too many things happened there. Most records were destroyed; only a few unofficial histories have been preserved."
Hearing this, Ye Yuanyuan said nothing more.
"How do you know all this so clearly?" after a moment, Ye Yuanyuan asked again.
Qin Ning unconsciously clenched his fists at this moment and did not answer.
He did not want to answer Ye Yuanyuan, because that man was his father.
The Supreme God Emperor, who surpassed heavenly gods and great emperors, was his father.
Back then, as the son of the God Emperor, he faced the disappearance of his father, the chaos of the Jiutian Cloud Alliance, the resurgence of the ten thousand races, and an impending massive upheaval.
His mother had no choice but to have him begin undergoing tribulations on his own, experiencing nine lives and nine tribulations.
After tens of thousands of years, he believed he had completed his ninth tribulation, standing at the position of an emperor so he could return to that place and shoulder everything.
However, in the end, he was plotted against by others and had to undergo his tenth reincarnation.
The Son of Heaven with nine lives, sharing the same destiny as his father!
Tens of thousands of years had passed. Throughout his nine lives and nine reincarnations, he had always become an illustrious figure, coming close to reaching that place countless times.
Yet, he had never been able to return.
What had become of the Jiutian Yunming now?
How were his mother, his Third Mother, and his Fourth Mother doing?
In this lifetime, he would personally step into the Jiutian Yunming and declare to the entire world that even though his father was not there, he, Qin Ning, would shoulder everything!