Above the Great Dao
Chapter 237 - 127 Heaven Listeners_2

Chapter 237: Chapter 127 Heaven Listeners_2

Li Xiaozheng was nonchalant, retracting his gaze, and whispered softly, "It’s a Heaven Listener. Exploring the Stone Ship is also a big deal for the Heaven Listeners, so it makes sense for them to send someone to record."

Chen Shi heard the name Heaven Listener for the second time and asked for advice, "What exactly does a Heaven Listener do?"

"Heaven Listeners are those who reach up to listen to heaven, they are Apostles of the True God."

Li Xiaozheng didn’t answer, Li Tianqing said, "This person is the lowest tier of Heaven Listener, responsible for listening to the people’s hearts, examining their lives, and scrutinizing their conditions. It is said that they can communicate with the True God, ordered by the True God to patrol the mortal world, to prevent any chaos."

Chen Shi looked up at the sun and moon in the sky, clearly there were observers for the mortal world already, why then were Heaven Listeners needed?

He realized!

The True God can see all beings, but cannot hear the voices of the beings!

Thus, the True God needed a group of people to act as his ears, to listen to the voices of the mortal world!

"What then is an ’Independent’?" Chen Shi asked.

The ears of the Heaven Listener by the riverbed seemed to perk up, swishing towards Chen Shi!

Li Xiaozheng’s expression shifted slightly, he shook his head and said, "We cannot mention that! Mentioning it would draw the surveillance of Heaven Listeners, with the slightest carelessness, Apostles might deem you one of those blasphemers and come to cleanse you!"

Chen Shi’s heart tightened, "What does ’cleanse’ mean?"

Li Tianqing said, "Heaven Listeners believe that erasing you from existence in every sense means cleansing. For instance, your family records and registries, your parents, your children, and your friends and neighbors—erasing all their memories of you, every trace of your existence, and burning any objects you used. They even go to the underworld to extract your heavenly and earthly souls, find your Yuan Chen Palace, and kill you once again."

Chen Shi became solemn and looked toward the Heaven Listener.

No matter where he went, the Heaven Listener’s ears would follow him, clearly deeming him extremely suspicious!

According to what Madame Hua Li had said, he had also joined the Independents, becoming one of them!

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"For the time being, you cannot mention that term again."

Li Xiaozheng continued, "Not until the Heaven Listeners dismiss their suspicions of you. Being watched by them is surely no good, but you need not worry too much; if you are innocent, they will not touch you. In the Western Capital, many Heaven Listeners frequently monitor the Great Families. Our families wield worldly power, while they wield divine power."

Chen Shi withdrew his gaze, looking toward the Stone Ship, quite puzzled.

The Independents were a loose organization; why then were they under such scrutiny by the Heaven Listeners?

"What if we killed this Heaven Listener?" he asked quietly.

Li Xiaozheng’s expression greatly changed, he said sternly, "Stop talking!"

The Heaven Listener also heard this, becoming nervous. He quickly wrote on the paper, folded it into a paper crane, gently blew a breath, and the paper crane flapped its wings and disappeared into the forest.

Li Xiaozheng sighed, "This Heaven Listener now considers you as more dangerous, and that paper crane is a call for other Apostles. These days, there will be many such Apostles around you; anything you do, they will monitor!"

He shook his head; if not for Chen Shi being useful to him, he definitely would not choose to collaborate with such a troublemaker.

With the Heaven Listeners focusing on Chen Shi, he too would be watched!

Only, he didn’t know that Chen Shi was also an Independent; if he knew this, he would definitely never collaborate with Chen Shi!

The three men and one dog continued forward, only to see a Stone Person standing on the riverbed, with a petrified shrine behind its head, containing a Divine Embryo!

It was posed as though running.

"Somebody triggered the Stone Ship!"

The three tensed; this person clearly hadn’t outrun the expanding domain of the Ghost God of the Stone Ship, resulting in becoming petrified!

Chen Shi stopped, set down his case, took out an Armored Horse Talisman, and tied them to his legs, feeling it not quite safe enough, he then tied on two more Godspeed Talismans.

He called over Black Pot, tying Armored Horse Talismans on all four of Black Pot’s legs.

Li Tianqing also stopped to fix his talisman.

Li Xiaozheng did not rush them, and only continued forward when they were ready. His cultivation was profound and unmatched; he did not need an Armored Horse Talisman.

On the riverbed, groups of Stone People gradually appeared, all running outward but overtaken by the Ghost God Domain, unable to escape.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing also spotted Stone People missing arms and legs and couldn’t help but look up at the sky.

Stone People are tough, and even if they fell, their arms and legs wouldn’t easily break; these people were missing limbs or had broken necks because they had fallen from the sky!

"Even experts of the Nascent Soul Realm couldn’t escape the expansion speed of the Ghost God Domain?"

Chen Shi slightly furrowed his brows.

Suddenly, a cry from Black Pot came from ahead, and Chen Shi hurried over, only to see a corpse lying on the ground.

They had seen many stone statues on the riverbed, but this was the first time they saw a corpse preserved in its flesh state.

Chen Shi stopped and carefully examined the corpse, and Li Tianqing ran over. Together, they examined the corpse while taking notes on paper.

Li Xiaozheng urged, "You two, stop dawdling. What’s so interesting about a corpse? Let’s move on, the experts from various families have almost all arrived!"

Chen Shi, without lifting his head, said, "All the other corpses are stone statues, but this one is flesh. Aren’t you curious, Lord Li?"

Li Xiaozheng, puzzled, said, "Many families have come to explore the Treasure Ship, and it’s common for them to kill a few enemies on the river. What’s curious about that?"

Li Tianqing, also without looking up as he cooperated with Chen Shi, said as they removed the corpse’s clothes, "Even if it’s a corpse, it couldn’t escape the petrification of the Treasure Ship. There are many petrified corpses in the river, but this one isn’t. What does that tell us?"

Li Xiaozheng paused, asking, "What does it tell us?"

Chen Shi looked up towards the distant Treasure Ship, which loomed high, perched over the dried-up river like it was atop a cliff, seven or eight zhang above the riverbed.

Li Tianqing kept silent, continuing to search the corpse for items that could confirm its identity.

Chen Shi, with a strange expression, said, "It tells us this corpse is from the True King Era, at least six thousand years old. Tianqing..."

His expression grew even stranger as he quickly said, "This person fell from the ship and then drowned in this dried-up riverbed!"

Li Tianqing pulled out an ancient token from the clothing, his eyes lighting up with a smile, "I’ve seen this type of token in the Li Family’s records—it’s a token from the True King’s navy! He was a sailor on the ship!"

The two exchanged a look, their eyes extremely bright.

"A sailor from a six-thousand-year-old Treasure Ship, why would he appear on this dried-up riverbed?" Chen Shi’s eyes widened.

Li Tianqing’s eyes were also round, "Why would he drown on the riverbed? Why is his corpse still in the flesh and not petrified?"

Black Pot squeezed between them with a solemn face, "Woof, woof, woof!"

"Black Pot is right!"

Both said in unison, "The Treasure Ship sealed a segment of time and space, sealing the sailors and the river together!"

Li Xiaozheng hesitated a moment, what did the dog say?

Chen Shi clapped his hands together, quickly saying, "Black Pot is right! Entering the Treasure Ship won’t lift the Ghost God Domain! Only by activating the Ghost God Domain and bringing the river back will the Ghost God Domain be lifted!"

Li Tianqing excitedly said, "Right! Without activating the Ghost God Domain, no number of deaths will suffice!"

Black Pot wagged his tail enthusiastically, "Woof, woof!"

"Black Pot speaks wisely!" both praised.

Li Xiaozheng looked at the two boys and the dog, hesitated a moment, and felt that his role as the Divine Descent Realm governor of Xinxiang was somewhat redundant.

Even without him, these two boys might be able to unlock the Ghost God Domain of the Treasure Ship, and his role seemed less significant than that of the big black dog beside them.

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