I Will Seize Eternal Beauty from Heaven for You

Among the Nine Secrets, the Fighting Character Secret was the greatest in offense in the Covering the Heavens world. Very few arts could stand shoulder to shoulder with it.

It was not limited to fists, fingers, or leg techniques. Every part of the body could attack, and every inch of skin could unleash terrifying power.

The Fighting Character Secret could turn complexity into simplicity, condensing thousands of moves into one. It could also turn simplicity into complexity, evolving countless techniques and transforming into all manner of deadly arts. Its changes were endless.

Even with the same Nine Secrets, different cultivators would ultimately produce different results.

Lu Zhou did not immediately begin comprehending the Fighting Character Secret. The art the God King had passed on to him was already deeply imprinted in his mind. Once he left Purple Mountain, he would have plenty of time to comprehend it.

Now that he had rescued the God King, Lu Zhou naturally had to hurry and find the Origin Scripture.

He told Jiang Taixu directly that he had entered Purple Mountain in search of the Origin Scripture.

Jiang Taixu recalled Zhang Jiye, who had entered Purple Mountain a thousand years ago.

He led the way, guiding Lu Zhou onward in a certain direction.

After traveling several li, Lu Zhou saw an incomparably beautiful woman sealed within a massive chunk of source.

She was pure and ethereal, flawless and untainted, like a lotus blooming from the water. Even phrases such as eclipsing the moon and shaming the flowers, or sinking fish and falling geese, were insufficient to describe her peerless beauty.

Before her lay the corpse of a humanoid Primordial creature that had been dead for many years.

Lu Zhou knew that this woman was Yang Yi, the Jade Pool Saintess from ten thousand years ago.

Lu Zhou was certain that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life.

He could not help but wonder, How would this generation's Jade Pool Saintess compare to Yang Yi?

This suddenly made Lu Zhou even more interested in the Jade Pool Saintess.

After a while, Lu Zhou sighed.

He thought of Zhang Lin, the fifth-generation Origin Master.

One sentence echoed in his mind.

'Zhang Lin, beneath Wushi's throne, respectfully obeys the Great Emperor's decree to suppress and kill Divine Spirit Valley!'

There were simply too many people in the Covering the Heavens world worthy of admiration, and too many stirring tragedies and lingering regrets that made people sigh in frustration!

"Why do you sigh, young friend?"

The God King was the one who asked.

Lu Zhou shook his head and said,

"It is nothing. Seeing Yang Yi merely reminded me of the story between her and Zhang Lin, the fifth-generation Origin Master!"

"Oh? I never expected that not only could you recognize at a glance that this was Yang Yi from ten thousand years ago, but that you also knew of what happened between her and Zhang Lin."

As he spoke, a trace of loneliness appeared on Jiang Taixu's face.

Seeing this, Lu Zhou knew that he must have thought of Fairy Caiyun.

Come to think of it, the God King and Fairy Caiyun's situation was nearly a replica of Zhang Lin and Yang Yi's.

"God King, have you thought of Fairy Caiyun?"

"You know about that too?"

"I know a little."

Lu Zhou nodded.

"Then do you know, she..."

Before Jiang Taixu could finish asking, Lu Zhou smiled at him.

"As far as I know, although Fairy Caiyun does not have much lifespan left, she is still alive."

"Once the God King leaves Purple Mountain, as long as you bring some great medicines that prolong life to Myriad Beginning and extend Fairy Caiyun's life, I believe that you and Fairy Caiyun will both have your wishes fulfilled!"

"After the God King disappeared, Fairy Caiyun once searched everywhere for you as though she had gone mad. All these years, she has also been waiting for you!"

"I have always believed that life is short, so one should act as one pleases. One should not be bound by rules and restraints, lest one leave behind lifelong regrets."

After hearing this, Jiang Taixu remained silent for a long time. He raised his head, and Lu Zhou clearly saw a glimmer of tears in the God King's eyes.

Presumably, he was moved by Lu Zhou saying that after his disappearance, Fairy Caiyun had searched for him like a madwoman. When she could not find him, she had lived alone by a lonely lamp, bitterly waiting for him for a full four thousand years.

That was why the God King felt sorrowful, his heart filled with countless emotions.

Lu Zhou himself was deeply moved as well. He still remembered that in the original story, Fairy Caiyun had dragged her withered body as she desperately protected the God King, buying him time to recover.

He remembered how Fairy Caiyun disregarded her own life, consuming the little lifespan she had left to pour streams of her divine essence into Jiang Taixu's body.

Lu Zhou also remembered the words Fairy Caiyun had spoken while holding the God King.

'I cannot go on anymore. Hurry and let Taixu come back to life.'

'I truly wanted to walk with you beneath the setting sun, but alas... there is no time left. You will never... hear my voice again.'

'I want to return to four thousand five hundred years ago. If time could be turned back, Brother Taixu... I would go with you rather than remain in the sacred land.'

'After I die, cover my body with white cloth and tell Taixu not to uncover it. I do not want him to see... me like this. I want his memories... to forever hold the me from four thousand years ago.'

Whenever Lu Zhou thought of those words, he could never find peace.

Lu Zhou also remembered that day when the God King wept. He threw back his head and roared in grief, and that pain seeped from the very words.

Four thousand years apart, boundless grief and sorrow, a hero in his twilight years, a beauty fading away—none who heard it could avoid being struck by sorrow!

Lu Zhou recalled the words the God King had roared toward the heavens while holding Fairy Caiyun's corpse.

"I will seize eternal beauty from Heaven for you!"

Those words had once deeply moved Lu Zhou.

Lu Zhou hoped that he could prevent all these tragedies from happening again.

At last, after a long silence, Jiang Taixu nodded without saying much.

Trapped in Purple Mountain for four thousand years, he had long seen through too many things. What Lu Zhou had said was precisely what he had wanted to do first after escaping.

Lu Zhou also took out the jade token engraved with the words Jade Pool, which he had picked up at the Yin Yang Eye earlier, and hung it around his neck.

He was worried that he might encounter Zhang Lin, whose mind was unclear, after going deeper into Purple Mountain.

Given the God King's current state, he truly was no match for Zhang Lin.

Using an imperial weapon in Purple Mountain would be no different from courting death.

The two continued deeper into Purple Mountain. Before long, they encountered a group of Yin persons and Yin horses.

Lu Zhou did not need to act. With a mere sweep of his sleeve, the God King turned those Yin persons and Yin horses into wisps of green smoke that dispersed instantly.

Afterward, they encountered Primordial creatures that had already broken out of their source.

The God King dispatched them just as easily.

Not long after, they entered an empty great hall.

Jiang Taixu had once come here before being trapped.

However, compared to when he had come here four thousand years ago, there was now an additional human skeleton in the hall.

Beside the skeleton, Lu Zhou found a silver book.

It was precisely the Origin Scripture he had been searching for.

He stored both the Origin Scripture and Zhang Jiye's remains in the Qiankun Pearl, intending to take his bones out and give them to Fifth Master Zhang for burial.

That way, he could return to his homeland in spirit and be laid to rest in the earth.

Then, still led by the God King, Lu Zhou said that he wanted to take a look at the Wushi Scripture.

Before long, Lu Zhou saw an enormous stone book standing on the ground, over ten meters long and one or two meters thick.

It was none other than the Wushi Scripture.

As Lu Zhou approached, the two pieces of Wushi Emperor Jade around his neck and the stone book both emitted a soft glow.

The God King witnessed this scene. One of his regrets was that he could not behold the Wushi Emperor Scripture.

Lu Zhou said,

"This is Wushi Emperor Jade. Unfortunately, the Emperor Jade is incomplete, so we will most likely still be unable to obtain the Wushi Emperor Scripture this time!"

As he spoke, Lu Zhou had already stepped onto the imperial scripture.

Filled with anticipation, he silently recited in his heart, Check in.

He could not obtain the Wushi Emperor Scripture through ordinary means. Lu Zhou hoped the system would give him a surprise.