Ultimate Scheming System
chapter-1422

Xu Que arrived on the Earth Continent 20 days later.

It hadn’t been possible to get there from the Heaven Continent because a shackle had been set that made it impossible to reach there directly with a Space-Breaking Spell.

Although the Earth Continent and the Xuanhuang Continent constituted a portion of the Heaven Continent, they were only a very small fragment. Their shackles were not firm and hence the Space-Breaking Spell was able to bypass them.

If one wanted to return to the Heaven Continent, one had to start off from the Xuanyi Celestial Realm on the Earth Continent, then pass through the Mirror Lake toward the Heaven Continent.

However, Xu Que’s first stop was not the Mirror Lake in the Xuanyi Celestial Realm. He first descended to the Zhen Yuan Celestial Realm. This was the Celestial Realm where Xu Que had first stepped onto the Earth Continent.

Practically all of the Zhen Yuan Celestial Realm was the Exploding Heavens Faction’s territory.

Even though it had really only been in name, the Litian Academy and other forces had all announced that they were joining the Exploding Heavens Faction. In town, Lord Zeng took the place of Xu Que as a spokesman.

Everyone knew that the relationship between Lord Zeng and Xu Que was extraordinary, and so his power was extremely large, and the influence of the Exploding Heavens Faction was also very strong.

On this day when Xu Que arrived, he attracted the attention of many important people. Lord Zeng, the Dean of the Litian Academy, and other influential leaders all rushed to welcome him.

Xu Que pretended to be excited, but he was actually in low spirits. He wanted to hurry back to the Heaven Continent, but he had business to accomplish in the Zhen Yuan Celestial Realm. Mainly, he wanted to check on Lin Yuxi’s current situation.

She had left without saying good-bye to seek her Master’s protected inheritance of skill. Xu Que didn’t follow her, but sent people fro the Litian Academy to secretly protect her.

But now, returning here, he’d come to see how she was carrying on.

However, the people from the Litian Academy came immediately to seek forgiveness from Xu Que.

Lin Yuxi was lost!

“What happened? When everything was all right, how could you lose her? Is she purposely hiding from you?” Xu Que immediately frowned and looked at the people from the Litian Academy.

At his side, Zixia Fairy also frowned and glanced with a suspicious look at Xu Que. “Who’s this Lin Yuxi?”

A person from the Litian Academy said in an alarmed voice, “Reporting back to Faction Leader, that was not the case. During the past few years, Miss Lin has been always searching for the inheritance of skills. Whenever there were dubious people disturbing her, we secretly dealt with them so she wouldn’t be in any danger. Then, two years ago, she entered Heaven Fire Ice Lake and since then she’s vanished without leaving any message.”

“Heaven Fire Ice Lake?” Xu Que was seized with terror.

Back when he was living aimlessly in the Zhen Yuan Celestial Realm, he’d heard of Heaven Fire Ice Lake. The first time he heard about it, he’d assumed that it was Xue Fu from Mars Intelligence Agency who’d made it up, but later he’d realized that it was an actual place.

Heaven Fire Ice Lake was a lake that was sealed by ice all year round, but, in the middle of the lake, there was a fire with white flames, burning throughout the year. This was extremely unusual: ice and fire, how could they exist together?

Many people wanted to visit the Heaven Fire Ice Lake to see the white flames, but everyone who walked to the center of the lake never saw anything and left disappointed.

The people standing at the side of the lake, however, said that the white flames never once disappeared. They had personally watched the people walking to the middle of the lake pass through the white flames. Initially, no one believed this, but, after being tried and tested by many people, it became a legend.

Some people thought that there was nothing special about this, that it was just a normal ice lake, and that the white flames in the center were only an illusion that had been caused by the reflection of the sunlight, and that the flames didn’t really exist.

But other people theorized that the white flames had minds of their own, and purposely didn’t want the people who came to the lake to discover the truth about them, so they hid. Along the many opinions, the white flames were named Heaven Fire, so the lake was called Heaven Fire Ice Lake.

Afterward, there were many Supreme Existences who personally went there to see and analyze this for a very long time, but to no avail. Eventually, this place gradually became forgotten by cultivators and just became part of the scenery.

And now the people from the Litian Academy said that Lin Yuxi had disappeared in the Heaven Fire Ice Lake. Xu Que couldn’t understand what was going on.

He’d gone to that place and hadn’t seen anything. Even the System couldn’t identify what was so special about the place. The Heaven Fire Ice Lake wasn’t big, only about the size of a football field. How could a person disappear inside it?

“We saw her go in, but very quickly she disappeared in a white flurry. No matter how we searched, we couldn’t find any trace of her. She just vanished into thin air,” the person from the Litian Academy looked pained as he spoke and was terrified, fearing punishment from Xu Que

“Xu Faction Leader, you can’t blame them. When we heard the news, we also hurried over with Dean Qin and many others and couldn’t find any trace. However, I suspect, and I’m afraid, that the Heaven Fire Ice Lake is the place of the inheritance of skill that Ms. Lin had been talking about,” Lord Zeng said.

The people standing around the Qin Academy nodded their heads.

Xu Que became quiet. He may not have trusted the rest of the people, but Lord Zeng was trustworthy.

When Lin Yuxi left, she had left behind a letter saying that she’d gone to search for her master’s inheritance of skill.

“Who knew that the result would be her disappearing in the Heaven Fire Ice Lake?”

If this was the case, and there was really an inheritance of skill in the Heaven Fire Ice Lake, then this would definitely be an abnormal occurrence. Previously, the System couldn’t identify any clues, perhaps because the version of it that he’d used was too low level.

“Okay. On this journey we’re coincidentally going to the Xuanyi Celestial Realm. We’ll just stop at the Heaven Fire Ice Lake on the way to take a look,” Xu Que said.

The location of the Heaven Fire Ice Lake was right at the boundary between the Xuanyi Celestial Realm and the Zhen Yuan Celestial Realm. He decided to take a look in honor of his relationship with Lin Yuxi.

After all, she was from the Earth Continent and had once been his crush.

Every man’s crush, no matter whether or not it ended well, would always have a special place in their hearts, one which wouldn’t be destroyed easily.

Xu Que was an exception. He didn’t think Lin Yuxi should try to walk on the path of cultivation, but once Lin Yuxi had made a decision, he didn’t want to interfere.

After all, he didn’t really wish to have any more dealings with Lin Yuxi.

Some things should just remain in the past.

“Lord Zeng, why don’t you come with us?. Whether or not we find anything, we’re preparing to return to the Heaven Continent,” Xu Que looked at Lord Zeng and said.

He already had the skill to possess a foothold in the Heaven Continent, and he’d decided to bring along Lord Zeng.

However, Lord Zeng smiled and shook his head, “I understand very clearly what Faction Leader’s idea is, but I’m afraid I’ll have to reject your good intentions with thanks.”

“Oh, why is that?” Xu Que froze.

Back in the day, he’d wanted to bring Lord Zeng to the Heaven Continent, and Lord Zeng had rejected him, saying he wanted to wait for his strength to increase to go back.

Now Xu Que didn’t understand why if Lord Zeng’s strength had already increased, he still rejected him.

“I’ve gotten to know a Buddhist master and plan to learn from him,” Lord Zeng smiled and seemed to be much more peaceful than he was before, having had a significant change in temperament.

He continued, “This senior has said that before long the Earth Continent will return to the Heaven Continent, so in the future we’ll be able to reunite.”

“That’s good,” Xu Que muttered, then nodded with a serious expression, “but you need to take note, the Earth Continent returning to the Heaven Continent won’t be smooth, and there may be heavy casualties.”

“I know, but if I can’t even endure this hardship, what can I do?” Lord Zeng smiled and nodded with a rather dignified appearance.

“Ha, ha, Lord Zeng is awesome,” Xu Que smiled widely and gave Lord Zeng a huge thumbs-up.

“Lord Zeng is great,” Buttface shouted.

The group of people talked and laughed as they walked forward on the road.

After many days, at the Zhen Yuan Celestial Realm boundary, a group of silhouettes appeared. They had reached the Heaven Fire Ice Lake.

The entire lake was covered with snow. The snowflakes floated down like catkins flying in the wind, and from afar it seemed like a snow city isolated from the rest of the world.

In the middle of the lake, there was a small patch of white flames, burning brightly.

The group only felt the cold from the ice and couldn’t feel the warmth from the fire. At first glance, the fire seemed to be an illusion that didn’t really exist.

“Eh, wait a minute. I seem to have been to this place before. I remember it!” At this moment, Buttface gasped in shock and rushed forward.