Chapter 529: Chapter 47: Miracle - Mirage Gate (Part 2)
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The young man who just brushed past him had a clear, handsome face, and an aura that unconsciously made others give way.
Unfortunately, both had their own schedules, otherwise they could have made acquaintances.
The whistle sounded long, and the train behind him had already set off.
"According to Grandpa’s message, the Mirage Gate should be right here," John steadied himself and took out a pocket watch from his coat. The case of the watch was gilded, making it look just like a gold watch.
With a click, after he flipped open the case, there wasn’t a watch face inside but a needle similar to a Chinese compass. The color of the needle was very special, not like it was made from ordinary metal, but rather like ice, transparent. In this hot season, touching it gave a chill.
But it wasn’t ice; this was a needle made from the incredibly precious Meteor Crystal, crafted by Old John with the ability to locate Spiritual Origin.
The John Xixili family, one of Europe’s oldest Cultivation Families, unlike China’s Mei and Xu families, has since the Renaissance Era ceased to obsess over cultivation. Members of the John family have devoted a great deal of energy into science, economics, and politics.
In Little John’s generation, they have become a typical hybrid Cultivation Family, using scientific methods to enhance cultivation, somewhat similar to strengthening superpower, but with a longer historical lineage.
The Mirage Gate, said to open every sixty years by Cangqiong Palace on Earth to select cultivators and Superpower Users.
After the messengers from Cangqiong Palace left, the Mirage Gate didn’t disappear but hid in a corner. Under the right circumstances, those with Spiritual Power or superpower could open the Mirage Gate, and as long as their will was strong enough, they could reach the place they most desired to go, which might be heaven or hell. Those who passed the Mirage Gate test could enter Cangqiong Palace without waiting for sixty years.
The previous head of the Mei Family, the oldest Cultivation Family in China, Mei Xiang, was the first person through the Mirage Gate to reach Cangqiong Palace.
Though after entering the Mirage Gate, Mei Xiang and the hundred-plus Mei family cultivators who followed her never returned.
"No reaction from the needle?" After arriving in Urumqi, Little John found the unknown town of Uluqosa in Xinjiang through the intensely trembling direction of the needle.
How many Mirage Gates there are in the world is as uncertain as how many cultivators and superpower users there are.
No one knows when Cangqiong Palace started selecting individuals on Earth, nor how many messengers come through the Mirage Gate each selection.
The Mirage Gate, like a mischievous child, its presence at times active and at times dormant, plays hide and seek with seekers anytime and anywhere.
If not for Old John’s specially crafted Meteor Needle, Little John, like others on Earth, wouldn’t bother looking for the Mirage Gate.
"How can this be? Has the Mirage Gate already entered its dormant period?" John couldn’t believe it; holding the pocket watch, he walked around in Uluqosa Town. He continued until he neared the Zhou Family home, where the needle trembled faintly.
A boy and a girl, two kids, were outside the house playing hopscotch. Those two kids were Pali Dan and her brother. Zhou Qizheng had gone with his wife to town for a medical check-up, and the siblings were instructed not to run around everywhere, especially not to play near the cotton fields to avoid damaging them.
Pali Dan, seeing a strange foreigner coming, quickly stopped the game, "May I ask who you are looking for?"
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The little girl entered, and the hands of Little John’s pocket watch twitched again. There must be a connection between the Mirage Gate and the little girl in front of him.
The world is such a peculiar place, the Mirage Gate that Cultivators and Superpower Users have desperately searched for, turned out to be where a Uighur girl from Uluqosa, Pali Dan, inadvertently planted a cotton tree.
The Mirage Gate is a place where Spiritual Power is reversed, and it also has the function of absorbing all essences.
The cotton tree that Pali Dan planted grew on the Mirage Gate. All nutrients needed for its growth were continuously condensed through the Mirage Gate, thereby depleting the nutrients from the soil in nearby fields and slopes.
It was indeed destined in Zhou Qizheng’s fortune to have such an astonishing and delightful opportunity. Even without the unexpected arrival of Zhou Ziang, followed closely by Little John, Zhou Qizheng’s fields, referred to as "basket fields", would regain fertility. Once the cotton tree grown on the Mirage Gate was removed, the accumulated fertilizer would be returned to the original soil in double, benefiting the crops above it.
It was Zhou Qizheng’s persistent efforts that led to the Zhou family being quite famous as the "Cotton King" in Xinjiang for decades afterward.
Little John gazed at the little girl, noticing that her eyes and aura were no different from ordinary people; she must have only been imbued with some Spiritual Energy from the Mirage Gate. "Hello, I’m here on a vacation. Little girl, is there anything interesting around here?"
"There isn’t, mister. You must have taken a wrong turn; you should go to Kashgar. My dad said that place is really fun," Pali Dan replied, seeing that the visitor spoke kindly and wasn’t a bad person.
"Mister?" Little John touched his face, he was only twenty-nine years old; did he really look that old? "Has anyone else come here like you before, looking for fun places?"
"No, behind the house is our cotton field, not much fun to be had, and it’s usually quiet." Pali Dan thought for a moment, then added as if unwilling to let it go, "Actually, there used to be a big cotton tree back there, but now, there’s nothing left."
Little John’s eyes lit up, and he immediately asked Pali Dan to take him to the back of the house.
The Mirage Gate had already been opened. Once a Mirage Gate is opened, it will disappear within a few minutes. It’s unknown if the person who opened the Mirage Gate has already entered it or hesitantly missed the chance to enter?
"Little girl, can you tell me who was the last person you took to see the cotton tree?" The Mirage Gate had been around locally for decades; if it were someone from Uluqosa, they should have discovered it a long time ago.
"It was Uncle Zhou." Even though her father repeatedly instructed her never to talk about Uncle Zhou, the cotton field, or the cotton tree with people in town, this uncle wasn’t from Uluqosa so it should be okay.
"Uncle Zhou? Where is he now?" Little John was anxious.
"He has already returned to Beijing," Pali Dan was a bit unhappy; Uncle Zhou didn’t even say a word before he left.
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