Chapter 951: Pocket Realm
The purple starlight transformed into words, “Sever it.”
At the same time, True Lord Ziguang provided an image of a blurry figure wielding a sword and slashing straight down.
Qi Xuansu was somewhat doubtful. “That simple?”
Though it was a rhetorical question, True Lord Ziguang still gave a reply. “Zaohua stage.”
In True Lord Ziguang’s era, there had been no such divisions of cultivation stages. Yet True Lord Ziguang kept pace with the times.
Qi Xuansu understood. Though it seemed simple, the requirement for one’s cultivation was high. It was like breaking down a door. Everyone knew the fastest and simplest method was to just barge right through, but the problem was that breaking down a door required great strength. Not just anyone could do it.
The purple starlight shifted again into words, “Pocket Realm.”
A seal was always paired with a pocket realm. The pocket realm was like a house, and the seal was its door; together, they formed a prison.
The strength of seals and pocket realms always declined with time, requiring constant reinforcement and repair. For example, the Zhengyi Sect’s Demon-Vanquishing Cave, the Quanzhen Sect’s Demon Suppression Tower, and the Taiping Sect’s Dragon Cave were all periodically reinforced. Only the Demon-Vanquishing Cave had a mystical self-healing ability. The other two demanded vast costs. Before the unification of the Daoist Order, the Dragon Cave was nearly abandoned, and the Demon Suppression Tower was left dilapidated, with only the top few levels still functional. Only after the Daoist sects were unified were both places restored to proper use due to pooled resources.
The seal before them might originally have required a Pseudo-Immortal or even a true Immortal to force open. But after a series of upheavals, Ise-jingu could no longer maintain it. Thus, the seal had weakened to the point where even a Zaohua-stage Heavenly Being could breach it. This seal leaked on all sides, allowing the aura of the pocket realm to seep out, which was how Little Yin had sensed it.
The best example was the Ghost Kingdom. Before the unification of the Daoist sects, the Ghost Kingdom also leaked on all sides, its yin energy constantly spilling out, turning Beimang Mountain—one of the 72 Blessed Lands—into a ghostly domain. Only after unification was the pocket realm repaired. The Three Yin Beings were then assigned to handle its yin energy, and Beimang Mountain gradually regained its original form.
From this perspective, Ise Province’s current state might well have been linked to this seal. All seals in this region had fallen into disrepair, like Shuten-Doji’s seal. But that space in which Shuten-Doji’s head was kept hardly qualified as a pocket realm. It was merely a tiny magical receptacle.