Chapter 498 - 204: Desolate Cloud Celestial Venerable, 3 Great Holy Lands! Form of the Star Sea
Chapter 498: Chapter 204: Desolate Cloud Celestial Venerable, 3 Great Holy Lands! Form of the Star Sea
BANG!
The words had barely faded when, in an instant, a dull thud like muffled thunder—the sound of bodies colliding—resounded by the lakeside.
Lin San and Lin Si were sent flying more than a hundred feet into the air without so much as a grunt, crashing through dozens of trees before finally landing in the dirt.
Both of them coughed up mouthfuls of blood.
"A crime worthy of death! Your servants have committed a crime worthy of death!"
Even as they coughed up blood, they immediately dropped to their knees and kowtowed repeatedly in terror.
Not far away, Mu Shan’s face was white as a sheet. Cold sweat dripped down his brow as a bone-deep chill washed over him.
’Lin Longbai is losing his mind again!’
"Disturbing my fish... you do indeed deserve to die."
Lin Longbai set down his fishing rod and stood up. He was tall and statuesque, and a chilling smile played across his sharp, chiseled profile.
"Shopkeeper Zhang, I’ve really troubled you to make this trip. If not for you, I would have been completely fooled by these dogs."
His voice was calm, neither loud nor soft.
But Mu Shan was sweating bullets, wiping his face nonstop, not daring to make a peep.
’He couldn’t understand. He had clearly come to deliver the map.’
’Although the price he’d quoted was a little on the high side.’
’But that shouldn’t have provoked such thunderous rage!’
"Not at all, not at all..."
Mu Shan’s pudgy hand, clutching the scroll, was turning white at the knuckles. He ventured cautiously,
"If Second Master needs it, this Celestial Dragon True Form Map... I-I’ll gift it to you."
"There’s no need."
Lin Longbai suddenly laughed. "An item worth one hundred thousand Spiritual Image Pills? How could someone like me, Lin Longbai, possibly be worthy?"
After he spoke, his gaze fell upon the pale, mud-caked bodies of Lin San and Lin Si.
Then, he said calmly, "Tell me. How exactly were you two played for fools?"
Flames of fury were boiling in his heart. How could he not know by now? He had been played by that Ye Yangfeng!
He just never imagined that Ye Yangfeng would have such gall. Offending him wasn’t enough; he even dared to provoke the Prison Suppression Pavilion!
Of course, what he couldn’t possibly imagine was that, including Chiyun Immortal, Ye Yangfeng had sold the Celestial Dragon True Form Map to ten different buyers!
"Second Master, we deserve to die! We were tricked by that little bastard!"
Lin Si recounted the events, his voice hoarse with desperation.
Before long, Mu Shan’s face was twitching as he listened, and a fiery rage erupted in his heart.
He wanted nothing more than to storm right back and beat that little bastard to death.
Meanwhile, Lin Longbai’s expression grew increasingly colder, causing the hearts of Lin San and Lin Si, who were watching him, to turn to ice.
"Very good. Very good!"
After a moment of silence, Lin Longbai lifted his gaze and stared toward the edge of the night sky.
It was as if he could see Chishui City on the riverbank.
"Ye Yangfeng... you’ve done very well..."
...
Nine Qiankun Bags were laid out on the table, one by one. They all seemed to look the same.
In truth, these were the lowest quality of Qiankun Bags, with cramped internal space and a risk of collapsing.
Their maximum lifespan was no more than twenty years.
WHOOSH!
Su Bai’s gaze shifted, and with a casual wave of his hand, several square wooden boxes appeared in the room.
Unlike the shoddy Qiankun Bags, these wooden boxes were exquisitely crafted.
They were covered in patterns—a special type of Array Pattern designed to seal in Pill Qi and prevent it from leaking.
"These Patterns."
Su Bai’s eyes lit up as he traced the Patterns on the wooden box.
Every world has its own unique features, from something as small as its written language to something as vast as its Cultivation System.
They are all precious legacies, polished and perfected over countless ages.
In a way, it is the gradual accumulation of these seemingly insignificant things that gives rise to one brilliant civilization after another.
"This is the Sealing Pill Forbidden Technique. It’s said to have been passed down from the Holy Lands."
"Others speculate that it was left behind by a certain Prince, or perhaps even the legendary Dragon Celestial Venerable."
Seeing his curiosity, Ye Yangfeng offered a brief explanation.
"Desolate Cloud Heavenly Venerable was the Heaven and Earth Lord a million years ago. His Imperial Court stood above the Cloud Sea, its influence reaching across the boundless Star Sea, its might reigning over all of heaven and earth!"
"To this day, the world is filled with countless miracles and legends about him."
Su Bai nodded.
The information he had gathered also contained legends about this.
The Immortal Martial Heaven Realm was the most ancient of all the great worlds he had encountered so far.
Its recorded history of cultivation alone spanned more than ninety million years!
Ninety million years... in such a vast expanse of time, how many peerless geniuses and heroes must have been born?
It was simply impossible to estimate.
"Celestial Venerable," however, was not a Cultivation Realm, but an honorific title.
Other such titles included Great Emperor, Celestial Emperor, Saint Emperor, Celestial Emperor, Celestial Venerable, and so on.
There was no hierarchy among these titles.
They represented the peerless overlords—the Heaven and Earth Lords, revered by all living beings—who had dominated the boundless Star Sea for at least a million years!
According to legend, Desolate Cloud Heavenly Venerable was the most recent of these overlords.
Unfortunately, there were few truly knowledgeable people in Chishui City, so he had no way of knowing what Realm these overlords had actually reached.
Perhaps it was the Divine Venerable Realm, or perhaps the Immortal Realm.
But the Immortal Martial Heaven Realm was a vast territory. A Spiritual Image Realm Cultivator who could travel a hundred li in the blink of an eye might not be able to cross the Eastern Continent even if they spent a hundred years trying.
And the Eastern Continent was but one of the Nine Provinces of the Desolate Realm.
And the Desolate Realm was only one of the hundred realms within the Immortal Martial Heaven Realm.
To be able to dominate such a vast world, and even reign over the Star Sea... the tyrannical power of these overlords was far beyond his current imagination.
CLICK!
With a flick of his fingers, Ye Yangfeng opened the wooden box.
WHOOSH!
An overwhelmingly dense wave of Pill Qi rushed out. Ye Yangfeng had never smelled Pill Qi so potent.