"Crocodile Ancestor's corpse is good stuff too!"
Li Yu stepped forward, flicked his sleeve, and activated the resource collection function, storing Crocodile Ancestor's corpse in the Resource Library.
"S-Sleeve Universe?"
Zhou Yi's mouth fell open, his face full of envy.
He truly deserved to be called the Dao Ancestor! He wielded such a great divine power so effortlessly. I have to cling tightly to this thigh. Zhou Yi's gaze toward Li Yu grew exceedingly fervent.
"At least nothing went wrong!"
Li Yu strolled back to the Five-Colored Altar, secretly letting out a sigh of relief.
If not for the Bronze Coffin, and if not for the energy support from the Lesser Immortal Realm within it, he would have been in serious trouble this time.
Li Yu became even more vigilant.
With the system, Li Yu had become somewhat carried away. This incident had sounded an alarm for him. It was not yet time for him to run rampant without restraint; he had to remain cautious and alert.
"The Dao Ancestor of this world should, by all accounts, possess the strength of a Celestial Venerable. Although Crocodile Ancestor had the cultivation of a Demon Saint, in the original story, he was beaten into a dead dog by the Human Demon with just a few staff strikes. Naturally, he couldn't withstand a Celestial Venerable Strike."
Li Yu glanced at the Bronze Coffin, feeling both fortunate and uneasy.
Exchanging the Lesser Immortal Realm's energy for a Celestial Venerable Strike shouldn't have consumed too much energy, right? As long as the Lesser Immortal Realm was not damaged, there should not be any problem.
This world ran far too deep. Better to be careful.
"Bzzz..."
Above the Five-Colored Altar, the Eight Trigram runes had completely lit up. A massive Taiji Diagram manifested in midair, and the Yin Yang Fish began to tremble, as though a gateway was about to open.
Previously, the Five-Colored Altar had failed to activate due to insufficient energy. After Li Yu wounded Crocodile Ancestor, the Demon Saint's blood fell and was absorbed by the altar. It now had enough energy to activate.
"The Starry Sky Ancient Road is about to open. Everyone, how about this humble daoist hitching a ride?"
Li Yu smiled at the crowd and walked toward the Bronze Coffin. "You are all Fated Ones. Step onto the path of cultivation, transcend the mundane, and your opportunities will lie upon this road."
"Cultivation?"
"Transcend the mundane?"
"Opportunities?"
Everyone's eyes lit up, and they hurriedly followed Li Yu into the Bronze Coffin.
"Bzzz! Bzzz!"
Once everyone had entered the Bronze Coffin, the Taiji Diagram in the sky began to open.
Clang!
The Bronze Coffin's lid shut, plunging its interior into darkness. Violent tremors arose as nine black dragons pulled the Bronze Coffin slowly into the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
"Immortal, where does this road lead?"
"Immortal, what opportunities were you talking about?"
"Immortal, can all of us cultivate?"
After entering the coffin, although darkness filled their vision, everyone's enthusiasm remained undiminished. They bombarded Li Yu with questions.
"This road leads to the Big Dipper Starfield. The Big Dipper Starfield is a world of cultivation, with sects, aristocratic families, Blessed Lands, and sacred grounds emerging one after another. Once you arrive in the Big Dipper Starfield, if you have a chance to enter a sect, you will be able to cultivate."
Li Yu smiled and answered casually, but his mind was occupied with other matters.
"In the original story, Li Xiaoman was possessed by Crocodile Ancestor's Divine Soul. Now that Crocodile Ancestor is dead, Divine Soul Possession naturally will not occur. But that Divine Spirit Remnant... did it enter the Bronze Coffin as well?"
Li Yu frowned, exchanged for an illumination spell through the system, and flicked out a spark of light, illuminating the entire Bronze Coffin.
Moonlike radiance filled the Bronze Coffin. Yet Li Yu discovered nothing.
"Wow? Is that a spell? How amazing."
"There are even spells for lighting. That's so convenient!"
Seeing the silvery glow inside the coffin, as though moonlight had been scattered everywhere, everyone began marveling again.
"Hehe, just a Minor Dao."
Li Yu smiled kindly and replied offhandedly, but inwardly, he did not relax.
"System, scan the coffin for the presence of a Divine Spirit Remnant!"
Li Yu issued the command silently to the system, while his peripheral vision continuously swept over the coffin's interior.
In the original story, a Divine Spirit Remnant from a Great Completion Saintly Body had crossed the starry sky with everyone and arrived in the Big Dipper Starfield. It had caused Ye Hei no small amount of trouble.
This Divine Spirit Remnant had its Dao foundation severed by Shakya, leaving it extremely weak. With the system in hand, Li Yu was not afraid of it.
But a Divine Spirit Remnant was fundamentally a being of consciousness, naturally capable of appearing and vanishing like a ghost. If he could not find it, it would still be troublesome.
"Consciousness entity detected."
An invisible wave from the system swept through the coffin, revealing a blurry silhouette in Li Yu's mind. That silhouette was astonishingly following behind Ye Fan.
"So this is the Divine Spirit Remnant?"
Li Yu looked at the thing resembling a cloud of black smoke and smiled as he shook his head. "You're following Ye Fan because of the Sacred Body, aren't you? In my hands, you can still be of some value. Don't even think about harming people everywhere."
Smiling, Li Yu waved his hand. An invisible ripple burst from his fingertips and swept over the black smoke formed by the Divine Spirit Remnant like a black hole.
"Ah..."
A shrill scream shook everyone's souls. In an instant, the Divine Spirit Remnant was collected by the system and stored in the Resource Library.
"Ah? What happened?"
"I think I just heard a scream?"
"Yes, I heard it too."
"Immortal, what was that just now..."
The soul-shaking scream left everyone pale with fright.
"Nothing to worry about."
Li Yu smiled and reassured them. "There is no need to be concerned. It was merely a little ghost that slipped out. This humble daoist has already captured it."
"A little ghost? How could there be a ghost here?"
Zhou Yi froze for a moment, then asked Li Yu, "Patriarch, how could there be a ghost here? Could it be related to this Bronze Coffin?"
"No! This Bronze Coffin is not for holding corpses."
Li Yu smiled and shook his head. "That little ghost merely escaped from beneath Da Lei Yin Temple."
"Da Lei Yin Temple?"
Hearing Li Yu's words, everyone cried out in alarm.
Everyone was familiar with the name Da Lei Yin Temple!
At this moment, they all thought of the ancient temple and withered tree on Mars.
"Could that have been Da Lei Yin Temple? Could that tree have been the Bodhi Tree?"
At this thought, the way everyone looked at Zhou Yi became somewhat indescribable. The Buddha's sacred site! No wonder Zhou Yi could release that golden-light spell. So he had gained such an enormous advantage!
"Beneath Da Lei Yin Temple?"
Zhou Yi focused on another point instead. He recalled tales of the Buddha suppressing demons and devils, and the eighteen levels of hell.
That ghost just now was probably not some little ghost as the Patriarch had claimed, was it? If the Patriarch had not been present...
At the thought, Zhou Yi shuddered all over. He silently rejoiced, and his gaze toward Li Yu gained more gratitude and reverence.
"It will probably take another day to reach the Big Dipper Starfield. You must all be hungry, right?"
Li Yu smiled at the group and gently waved his sleeve. A pile of food instantly appeared inside the Bronze Coffin.
"Ken-de-ji?"
Looking at the fried chicken, fries, hamburgers, and cola, everyone suddenly found the situation absurd, their expressions turning strange.
Well, the Dao Ancestor and Ken-de-ji were simply too far apart. They did not match at all. Even if he had produced peaches of immortality or Ginseng Fruit, it would not have been this shocking!
"This humble daoist traveled through the mortal world and happened to hear that these barbarian foods had their merits, so I took some. What, are these things not edible?"
Li Yu deliberately put on a surprised expression, while inwardly laughing wickedly.
"They're edible! They're edible!"
Everyone nodded repeatedly and began taking food, though they were all secretly thinking the same thing.
"I wonder which Ken-de-ji the Dao Ancestor visited. Judging by this, the Dao Ancestor probably never intended to pay."
"Should we congratulate him for encountering an immortal, or pity him for losing so much stuff?"