Chapter 1352: Ye Qiudao (II)
Chapter 1352: Ye Qiudao (II)
"Why are you not doing anything? Kill her!" The jade skeleton roared angrily at Old Devil Ye, asking for help for the first time.
Old Devil Ye had been watching the show with great interest. What drew his gaze the most was not his ally, the jade skeleton, but Qingjun.
Although he did not know the origin of the heart devil puppet seal, he could still guess that Qingjun had tampered with things in the blood pool. A chill rose in his heart, and lingering fear swept through him.
He had always prided himself on being crafty and unparalleled in intelligence, yet he had unknowingly fallen into this girl’s scheme. During that period, the jade skeleton’s brocade skin had been kept by his side the entire time, which was equivalent to him burying a ticking bomb beside himself.
Fortunately, his schemes had not conflicted with Qingjun’s, and he had hidden in Sin God Palace for twenty years. Otherwise, he truly might have stumbled at the final hurdle.
Hearing the jade skeleton’s questioning, Old Devil Ye looked at Bai, who stood as if facing a great enemy, then laughed casually and said leisurely, "Think carefully about the oath we made. If our current positions were reversed, would you stand by and watch, or would you act to save me? You should know what the scene on the other side of the reception platform is like. You deliberately blurred the conditions and left a loophole in the oath. In truth, you never intended to leave me alive at all, did you? Back then, did you ever consider that one day you would be bound by the cocoon of your own making?"
Old Devil Ye looked at the jade skeleton, and a mocking smile appeared on his face.
"You!" The jade skeleton’s face was filled with shock. He shouted sharply, "You’ve gone mad! Without my protection, you absolutely cannot pass through the spatial turbulence alive!"
Old Devil Ye remained completely unmoved in the face of the threat and said mildly, "I remember you once said that when leaving this realm, most of the most terrifying spatial storm would be blocked by Ziwei Palace. By borrowing the opportunity to leave this realm through Ziwei Palace, even a late-stage Spiritual Infant cultivator would have a slight chance of surviving in the spatial turbulence. Compared to constantly guarding against an ancient devil of unknown origin, I feel that venturing alone into the spatial turbulence gives me a slightly greater chance of survival. Your only use was merely to open the barrier on the reception platform. Since someone is willing to help me eliminate a grave threat, I am naturally happy to see it happen..."
As he spoke, Old Devil Ye raised his head, his gaze seeming to pierce through the firmament and look toward the unknown. His eyes was filled with passion.
For countless years, the dream that unknown numbers of peerlessly talented immortal cultivators had yearned for was only one step away from him.
He would step out of Beichen Realm, break free from the cage, and go to a broader world!
As soon as these words came out, All the Spiritual Infant cultivators were in an uproar. This speech had revealed far too much information. Every single piece struck like a bolt from the blue, shocking the world.
"Ziwei Palace isn’t emerging into the world, but breaking through the void and flying away?"
"What does leaving this realm mean?"
"What is the reception platform?"
"Could it be ascension? That’s not right! According to legend, only mighty beings at the Mahayana Realm can transcend the tribulation and ascend. The gap between the Spiritual Infant Realm and the Mahayana Realm is like heaven and earth. Where could he ascend to?"
Everyone fell into confusion. They suspected that something was wrong with their ears, or that Old Devil Ye had gone mad. Just how many secrets did this world still hold that they did not know?
However, these doubts did not affect their judgment. Since they had rushed here, they naturally would not stand at the side and watch the show. One after another, they joined the battlefield.
Some rushed to help Qin Sang and Qingjun. Others charged toward Old Devil Ye. New grudges and old hatred would be settled together!
The information Old Devil Ye had just revealed shook everyone’s hearts even more. They absolutely could not allow Old Devil Ye to leave. They had to question him clearly about everything.
Yet Old Devil Ye seemed to have something to rely on and ignored all of it. He stood with his hands behind his back and looked up at the sky.
The sky had completely collapsed, as if a huge hole had opened in it. A terrifying spatial storm surged wildly out from within the hole. In the depths of the void, a shadowy mass could be vaguely seen. It was the projection of Ziwei Palace’s inner palace.
Below the blood-colored altar, a figure silently appeared. It was actually the tall, thin cultivator who had recited the Rebirth Mantra for the Blood Infant not long ago.
He had also taken the Withered Origin Pill, and he was now deeply tormented by its hidden danger. He knew that his future was bleak.
After personally seeing Yu Zhen’s miserable fate of being refined into a Blood Infant, his hatred for Old Devil Ye had burrowed deep into his bones.
A resolute look flashed through the tall, thin cultivator’s eyes, and he opened his mouth to spit out a spiritual saber.
The spiritual saber was no longer than a finger. Its entire body was transparent, as if forged from mystic ice.
The Daoist robe on his body stirred quietly. As he activated the spiritual saber, wrinkles gradually crawled over the corners of his eyes, growing deeper and deeper. The spiritual saber was actually able to absorb his essence.
In the end, he closed both eyes, and man and saber became one!
Whoosh! The saber light shocked the heavens!
It was like a startling rainbow, faster than everyone else’s astra, slashing straight at Old Devil Ye!
In the blink of an eye, the spiritual saber entered the storm and arrived within inches of Old Devil Ye, pointing straight at Old Devil Ye’s back.
Old Devil Ye floated in place, seemingly deeply drawn by the phenomenon high in the sky, completely unaware that danger was approaching.
Just as Old Devil Ye was about to die beneath the saber. A trace of hesitation flashed deep in Bai’s eyes, and he hesitated over whether to act.
However, a faint layer of blood mist suddenly appeared around Old Devil Ye. Then a blood shadow stepped out from his body. It was shockingly a blood devil incarnation.
What shocked everyone was that the aura of this blood devil incarnation was on par with Old Devil Ye’s true body, and it even faintly showed signs of surpassing him!
"Another peak middle-stage Spiritual Infant blood devil incarnation!" someone cried out involuntarily.
Old Devil Ye had lost a blood devil incarnation at Blood Lake, yet in only twenty years, he had refined another one.
However, Qin Sang, Canghong, and the others could tell that the matter was probably not so simple.
This was especially true for Qin Sang. When he saw this scene, he immediately realized something.
During the battle in Abyssal Ruin, he and the Snake King had been pursued by Old Devil Ye and had no strength to fight back. At that time, Qin Sang had vaguely sensed that this was not Old Devil Ye’s true body, but a blood devil incarnation.
Back then, the pressure brought by the blood devil incarnation had been extremely strong, and he still remembered it vividly even now.
By the time of the battle at the blood pool, he had gained the eighteen devilish banners, and the blood devil incarnation had no longer seemed so formidable. Qin Sang had even forced the blood devil incarnation to self-destruct in return.
Now that he thought about it, the opponents he had faced in those two battles might very likely not have been the same one.
Old Devil Ye had possessed two blood devil incarnations from beginning to end! What was his purpose in hiding this blood devil incarnation?
Qin Sang noticed that Bai’s entire body was tense, as if he were facing a great enemy. Qin Sang suddenly realized a possibility, and shock appeared on his face. Perhaps Beichen Realm had great cultivators!
The blood devil incarnation stood side by side with Old Devil Ye. The true body and the incarnation looked at each other, then nodded to one another.
The incarnation suddenly transformed into a beam of blood light and flashed into Old Devil Ye’s brow.
Old Devil Ye’s eyes were immediately dyed blood-red. His brows locked tightly, and pain appeared on his face. A long howl came from his mouth, shooting straight into the clouds!
His aura erupted with a boom. He spread both hands, as if he wanted to embrace the heavens. His long hair danced wildly, and his devilish might shook the sky.
Under the shocked and reverent gazes of everyone present, his cultivation rose step by step. In an instant, he broke through the bottleneck and reached the late stage of the Spiritual Infant Realm!
Whoosh! The spiritual saber arrived.
The Yin-Yang Dagger-Axes silently appeared, flashing with yin-yang light as they blocked the spiritual saber. With a single collision, they shattered the spiritual saber’s main body, then stabbed toward the tall, thin cultivator at astonishing speed.
Splurt! The Yin-Yang Dagger-Axes pierced straight through his chest. Blood scattered down.
The tall, thin cultivator flew backward, his body stiff, with a bloody hole now in his chest. The rest of his body seemed undamaged, but in truth, both his Spiritual Infant and primordial spirit had already been shattered by the Yin-Yang Dagger-Axes.
The light in his eyes rapidly faded, and he took one final, lingering look at this mortal world. There was no resentment in his eyes, nor any anger, only faint regret.
Old Devil Ye had endured silently for hundreds of years and reached this step. He deserved to be called a formidable hero. Even though they were enemies, the tall, thin cultivator had no choice but to admit that Old Devil Ye was one of the foremost figures of the age.
His skill was inferior, so he died without resentment!
Thud! The tall, thin cultivator closed his eyes forever, was torn apart by the storm, and vanished from the world.
The attacks of Canghong and the others followed closely behind. The Yin-Yang Dagger-Axes unleashed their divine might, and yin-yang qi transformed into a twin-fish pattern of yin and yang. With the Yin-Yang Dagger-Axes as its core, it protected Old Devil Ye.
Soon, Old Devil Ye’s cultivation stabilized. Shockingly, he had already taken his place among the ranks of great cultivators!
In the present Beichen Realm, he was the only great cultivator! The title of Beichen Realm’s number one expert truly belonged to him!
Everyone was shocked! Even Qingjun, who was focused on activating the heart devil puppet seal, could not help casting her gaze toward him.
The jade skeleton was also stunned. He had still underestimated this man and looked down on the cultivators of this age.
Qin Sang sighed inwardly. Outsiders all said that he would replace Old Devil Ye and become the number one figure of Beichen Realm, but he knew very well that he was still far from the top experts.
Peerless figures emerged in endless succession throughout the world. His senior sister, Old Devil Ye... If Senior Qingzhu had not fallen, his achievements would not have been inferior to theirs either. Their minds, wills, methods, and talents were all first-rate.
Old Devil Ye had long since seen through the bottleneck of the late stage of the Spiritual Infant Realm.
After he learned that there was an opportunity to leave this realm, he agreed to cooperate with the jade skeleton. However, the wariness in his heart toward the devilish monster had never diminished in the slightest. He knew that neither a solemn heart-devil oath nor a karmic oath was truly reliable. Only by possessing a life-saving trump card of his own could he feel at ease.
For this reason, he had not hesitated to use a secret technique to seal part of his cultivation.
When he detonated another blood devil incarnation in the blood pool, it was not only to block Tianzheng’s path of escape. It also served another purpose, to show weakness before the jade skeleton.
If he had announced to the world early on that he had broken through to the late stage of the Spiritual Infant Realm, many things would have been much easier no matter what he did.
But he would rather accept a little more trouble, scheming against everyone, while also plotting against the jade skeleton!
"Ye Qiudao, you dare!" The jade skeleton sensed a threat to his life and screamed wildly, looking utterly deranged.
Old Devil Ye stood proudly in the void. From beginning to end, he had not looked down even once.
His gaze shifted, and from above, he looked down at Bai with an appraising gaze. "I will not ask about your origins. Kill him, and I will leave you a place on the reception platform. However, whether you can pass through the spatial turbulence will depend on your own ability."
Bai gave a dry laugh and said, "Daoist Ye, there is no need for you to trouble yourself. We have our own methods."
Bai secretly rejoiced that he had not taken the initiative to attack Old Devil Ye.
If Old Devil Ye had only been at the peak of the middle stage of the Spiritual Infant Realm, Bai would still have had the strength to fight him. Who could have imagined that Old Devil Ye had hidden himself so deeply!