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Chapter 246: Supreme Venerable of Vast Heaven (Part 2) (Part 1)
Chapter 246: Supreme Venerable of Vast Heaven (Part 2) (Part 1)
In the turbulent, blood-filled lake, Li Hao's clothes had completely dissolved, leaving him naked.
The Cosmic Jade Belt, which was about to slip off his body, was grabbed by Li Hao and wrapped around his arm, held high.
However, the material of the Cosmic Jade Belt was clearly inferior to Li Hao's body. It had already started to show signs of decay and damage from being splashed with the Blood Demon Sage's blood.
A corner of the Heavenly Earth Space was exposed, like a gap, with blood water seeping into it.
"Where, where are we?"
Crimson Vine Demon King extended a blood-colored tentacle from inside, shocked as it probed the surroundings. It was splashed by a wave of blood and immediately let out a scream of pain.
"It hurts!"
"My power seems to be sealed; I can't fly."
Crimson Vine Demon King tried to fly out of the Heavenly Earth Space but panicked when it realized it couldn't mobilize its internal energy.
Seeing Li Hao with his arm raised high above the lake, his arm already torn and exposing blood and bone, it froze, seemingly understanding the situation.
"Are we... going to die?"
It asked softly, its voice trembling.
Li Hao, hearing its words, was unexpectedly accompanied by a demon in his final moments. He felt a pang of bitterness and looked around, but saw only endless darkness, with no sign of the rock walls.
Falling flesh and blood splashed into the lake, causing the water to ripple violently, pushing his body back and forth, making it impossible to tell how far he was from the walls.
"I'll try to find the wall."
Li Hao said, kicking his legs and using his one good arm to swim in a straight direction.
However, large chunks of flesh and limbs kept falling, creating waves that pushed him back.
The Blood Demon Sage's body, which had been held together by a powerful force, now disintegrated rapidly, crumbling into rotted pieces that sank into the foul, blood-filled lake.
"Be careful."
Crimson Vine Demon King warned urgently.
Li Hao saw a large piece of flesh falling from above and swam as fast as he could to the side, but it still grazed his shoulder, pulling him deeper into the blood lake.
A suffocating sensation overwhelmed him, and he clutched the Cosmic Jade Belt, struggling to swim back to the surface.
When he finally emerged, most of his flesh had been shaken loose and corroded away, leaving only a few strips hanging from his bones, a terrifying sight.
Li Hao raised his skeletal arm, seeing the Cosmic Jade Belt held by five bony fingers, the gaps between them too large to stop the blood from seeping through. The belt was thoroughly soaked and severely corroded.
"I never thought I'd bring you to such a dead end."
In the face of imminent death, Li Hao slowly calmed down, looking up at the distant sky, where the massive Heavenly Prison Island now appeared as small as a sesame seed, occupying only a tiny part of his field of vision.
His gaze fixed on the empty, cloudless sky of the secret realm, he spoke to himself:
"The world outside is actually beautiful, but I won't have the chance to show you."
"Ouch... it hurts so much."
Crimson Vine Demon King's tentacle emerged from the Cosmic Jade Belt's space again. Despite its pain, it wrapped around Li Hao's arm.
"Eat me. We're going to die anyway. If you eat me, you might last a bit longer."
Li Hao was taken aback: "You want me to eat you?"
"Aren't you hungry? You were afraid of forcing me to self-destruct, right?"
Crimson Vine Demon King's tentacle wrapped around Li Hao's skull and face, like gentle hands, carefully holding his bony cheeks:
"Since we're both going to die, if my fate is to be eaten, I'd rather it be by you..."
"Why?"
Crimson Vine Demon King didn't answer, but its tentacle glowed with blood light, pouring into Li Hao's skeletal mouth.
"Because we made a promise earlier..."
"I won't abandon you. If I die before you, it means you abandoned me, so I won't be breaking the promise..."
It spoke softly, its voice growing weaker as its body emerged from the Cosmic Jade Belt's space, transforming into a blood-colored glow resembling a dragon snake, and entering Li Hao's body through his head.
This wasn't Li Hao eating it; it was voluntarily entering his body, offering itself as a blood sacrifice.
When it saw the young man, his body corroded and broken but still holding the Cosmic Jade Belt high, it knew it had chosen the right person to follow.
Li Hao was stunned, floating motionless on the blood lake.
He had promised to take it out of the Great Wasteland, to bite it once a day, and collect interest.
Back then, it cherished its body as a precious treasure, guarding it with utmost care.
Now, the young man has yet to fulfill his promise, but it has already given everything to him.
It was just a demon that Li Hao had never taken to heart.
Li Hao thought of the tentacle that had quietly wrapped around his pinky finger, and his eyes instantly reddened.
His head was enveloped in a blood glow, and a vast surge of blood qi rushed into his body, nourishing his bones.
The physical body, which had been condensed to a level comparable to a Nine-Cast Divine Weapon, seemed to have broken through some kind of bottleneck under the nourishment of this vast blood qi.
At this moment, the rate at which the blood lake corroded his bones suddenly slowed down, and Li Hao could sense a profound power emanating from the blood water.
He was taken aback for a moment and quickly activated the Spirit Sacrifice True Demon Art, absorbing the profound blood power from the water.
Previously, he had been unable to absorb it, but now, it seemed he had crossed some threshold and could barely use his cultivation to gradually erode the Sage Realm's blood power!
However, the process was extremely slow, like pulling silk.
But Li Hao endured his grief and focused all his efforts on the Spirit Sacrifice True Demon Art, knowing that only by doing so could he have a glimmer of hope and not betray its sacrifice.
A severed limb fell, slamming Li Hao into the blood lake. He didn't struggle but instead sat cross-legged in the blood, fully concentrating on refining and absorbing the power.
However, his absorption rate seemed to lag behind the erosion rate, and his bones began to peel off and shatter into fragments.
His body gradually wore down, shrinking smaller and smaller.
But the blood glow coiling around his head gradually became more concentrated...
...
...
On the Wasteland Sea, a figure appeared as if by teleportation and then vanished abruptly.
In the next instant, he was hovering above the desolate abyss.
The no-flight rule of the abyss seemed to have no effect on him.
His long, white hair fluttered, and he wore a very simple ancient robe, his face grave.
His eyes fixed on the black abyss below, his gaze seemed to penetrate to the bottom, where the turbulent blood water churned, and the physical body of Wenren Ji had already disintegrated.
"Has that obsession actually dissipated?"
The old man's eyes narrowed. Wenren Ji had once attacked the Holy Ancestor, but the Holy Ancestor, recalling the time she had spent by his side, had defeated her consciousness without completely erasing her residual will and sealed it within her physical body.
If not sealed, it might have been absorbed by the Mourning River, merging into the most terrifying part of it.
This would have been a threat to all life and an eternal torment for Wenren Ji.
But he hadn't expected the residual will to dissipate now.
Was it the perfection of her obsession, leading to its own dissipation, or did Transcendence leave?
He carefully examined the blood lake, sensing that it was a pool of toxic blood, highly dangerous and corrosive, with the residual and collapsing laws of Wenren Ji's physical body.
These laws, as they collapsed, became chaotic. The laws originally condensed by the Dao now only retained the fundamental Dao, causing indiscriminate damage.
Although he hadn't touched it, he could already tell that Wenren Ji's cultivation of the Dao was focused on aging.
Anyone who approached, even above the blood lake, would rapidly age and wither.
Precisely because her laws were so terrifying, when the great battle ended, Wenren Ji had completely exhausted her power, thoroughly depleting herself and causing her physical body to rot to this extent.
For other Sage Realms, their physical bodies could remain unbreakable for ten thousand years, let alone rot.
"Who awakened it?"
The old man frowned, feeling a bit puzzled. The Holy Ancestor was his grandfather, and he remembered that his grandfather had sealed this thing here. For countless years, it had been peaceful, so why was it causing such a commotion now?
His gaze shifted to a chain hanging from the abyss's rock wall, and he raised his hand.
A black shadow flew toward him from the chain, an old woman with white hair, barely alive.
But as she left the abyss, her aura gradually recovered, and she exclaimed in surprise, "Third, Three Ancestors!"
This figure was Ji Yunyue, who hadn't died. She had let go of Li Hao's hand earlier, not wanting to burden the child, but the Demon Sage's tentacle hadn't attacked her; instead, it had pursued Li Hao directly.
Clearly, the Demon Sage was attracted by the Sage aura on Li Hao's body.
This allowed her to cling to the chain and save her life.
"What happened? Did you awaken it?"
The old man frowned, not recognizing the old woman but knowing she must be a descendant of his lineage.
Hearing Three Ancestors ask, the grief in Ji Yunyue's heart welled up. She had seen the Abyssal Heaven Stele being toppled and smashed, which had made her eyes bloodshot.
That was the Ji Family's Dao Seed, and it had been abandoned by those despicable criminals!
She wanted to kill them all.
"Three Ancestors, please save our Ji Family's Dao Seed! He was swallowed by the Demon Sage, and I don't know what will happen to him..."
Ji Yunyue quickly said.
"Dao Seed?"
The old man was slightly taken aback, his expression changing slightly. His thoughts raced, and he immediately deduced the reason—fearing that the Dao Seed had awoken Wenren Ji.
The Ji Family Dao Seeds mostly had Sacred Bones, and only with Sacred Bones could they possibly affect Wenren Ji. However, no one had ever thought such an event would occur.
Moreover, the Ji Family Dao Seeds were of noble status and would not come to such a dangerous place. It was akin to a favored Crown Prince not easily visiting a prison.
"That Demon Sage is already dead."
The old man, seeing Ji Yunyue's anxious expression, said, "Apart from you, there are no other survivors. Unless he is in the blood lake, but the Great Dao aura in the blood water conceals everything, making it impossible to detect. However..."
"However what?"
Ji Yunyue asked tensely.
"But if he were truly in the blood lake, even an Enlightened Realm cultivator would be severely injured and would have struggled to escape by now. Otherwise, being immersed for so long, he would surely be dead."
The old man glanced at the Abyss, his brow furrowed, and said:
"The remnant of Wenren Ji must have obtained the Holy Power from the Sacred Bone within him. He has either Transcended and disappeared, abandoning his Physical Body, or his obsession reached Perfection and he dissipated on his own."
"Three Ancestors, that child doesn't have a Sacred Bone."
Ji Yunyue hurriedly said, "He only has a Sage Mark."
"Sage Mark?"
The old man was slightly taken aback, his eyes flickering. "A few days ago, I faintly sensed a trace of Holy Power. Could it have been when he received the Sage Mark?"
"Most likely."
"Then it's even more impossible for him to survive. Without a Sacred Bone, what is his Realm?"
The old man asked.
"Three Eternities Realm."
Ji Yunyue said, then quickly added, "But he created a legend, defeating Ji Xuanshen, who had a Sacred Bone, and breaking through his Dao Domain at the Three Eternities Realm. If this child reaches the Fourth Establishment Realm, I can't even imagine how strong he will be in the future!"
"Three Immortalities breaking through a Dao Domain?"
The old man's eyes narrowed sharply. "Are you sure? Did he have some Holy Heart Treasure?"
"No, just his own fists."
Ji Yunyue said quickly. "He has opened four Ultimate Realms, one of which is the Land Immortal Realm, allowing him to burst with unimaginable power for short periods."
"Land Immortal..."
The old man was stunned, suddenly understanding the reason.
Because he too had reached this Ultimate Realm.
"So that's it..."
He was deeply moved, looking down at the blood lake rippling in the Abyss. His eyes showed a hint of regret and anger:
"So, he was truly a world-defying genius, perhaps even one with the potential to reach the Sainthood Immersion Realm. But why did you let him come here?!"
"He is a Mixed Blood. His mother was imprisoned here for privately marrying someone from another clan. He came to rescue his mother..."
Ji Yunyue said, pleading, "Three Ancestors, please save him. Maybe he is still alive."
Mixed Blood... The old man was slightly taken aback. He had initially thought that the lack of a Sacred Bone was enough, but now he realized the child was also a Mixed Blood.
Looking at Ji Yunyue's tear-streaked, aged face, his brow furrowed. He had just realized that Wenren Ji would be drawn to Holy Power, and blaming these people would be futile.
He sighed, saying, "Stop crying. He couldn't have survived. Although Wenren Ji only had his Physical Body and was not at his peak, a Dao Seed couldn't have withstood him."
He looked up at Heavenly Prison Island, noting the situation there, his expression dark. He then disappeared with Ji Yunyue as if by teleportation, reappearing above Heavenly Prison Island in the next moment.
"Three Ancestors!"
Seeing the old man suddenly appear with Ji Yunyue, the people on the island, who were about to erupt into conflict, were stunned, then turned pale with shock, falling to their knees.
Ji Yunqing, upon seeing Ji Yunyue, was so angry that his face was red. He was momentarily taken aback, even forgetting to greet the Three Ancestors, and urgently asked:
"Fourth Sister, where is Le Ping?!"
"Le Ping fell into the Abyss!"
Ji Yunyue wailed.
The joy and excitement that had just risen in Ji Yunqing's heart plummeted like a drumbeat in his chest, leaving him dazed and confused.
Ji Yunyue and Li Hao came together, bound by the same chain, yet Ji Yunyue survived while the child did not?
"Three Ancestors, please save Le Ping! He is the Ji Family's Dao Seed, a prodigy of unparalleled talent; he cannot die!"
Ji Yunqing suddenly regained his composure and kneeled, pleading urgently.
"Three Ancestors, please save my son!"
Ji Qingqing also knelt almost simultaneously, her emotions running high.
Li Tiangang realized that this old man possessed terrifying power, evident from his ability to hover above the Abyss.
He quickly kneeled and bowed his head forcefully to the ground, "Please, Elder, save my son. I, Li Tiangang, am willing to serve the Ji Family as a beast of burden..."
"There's no saving him."
The old man cut him off, his gaze sweeping over the group before settling on the Abyssal Heaven Stele.
With just one look, he quickly pieced together what had happened here, his eyes turning cold.
"Hmph!"
With a cold snort, the old man said nothing more, merely waving his hand to draw them all into his sleeve world.
Then, he raised his hand, and the two Abyssal Chains hanging into the Abyss responded, flying upward.
With a wave of his palm, he straightened the tilted Heavenly Prison Island, pushing it above the Abyss. The two Abyssal Heaven Steles shot up, the chains clinking as they reinserted into the island.
Once the Heavenly Prison Island was restored to its original state, the old man glanced at the Abyss, a hint of solemnity in his eyes.
He didn't linger, pulling Ji Yunyue into another sleeve before vanishing in an instant.
Three breaths later, his body reappeared on the Saint Mountain Peak, having crossed hundreds of thousands of miles in a mere moment.
With a wave of his sleeve, he released the people from the Heavenly Prison Island, letting them fall to the ground.
He then freed Ji Yunyue from the other sleeve.
Ji Daosin's figure flashed rapidly, appearing before the old man and bowing deeply.
"Three Ancestors."
"An incident has occurred at Heavenly Prison Island. The Wenren Ji, sealed by the Holy Ancestor, has awakened and consumed the Dao Seed."
The old man's voice was cold, "The Ji Family's Dao Seed, why did you send him to such a place? Couldn't you have brought his mother to the Holy Mountain instead?!"
Feeling the anger in Three Ancestors' words, Ji Daosin was momentarily stunned, the information too overwhelming.
An incident at Heavenly Prison Island?
(End of Chapter)
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