Among the crowd, the golden-haired, youthful-faced Jade Dragon appeared serene, his dimples slightly sunken, as he gently stroked the jade bell, utterly content.
Her status in this realm is special. As a Divine Medicine maid, she has no shortage of ancient scriptures and immortal techniques, so she doesn't need to compete for them at all.
Beside the blonde girl stood a graceful fairy in a white dress. Her long black hair cascaded down her shoulders, and her flawless, peerless face was veiled by a silver veil. Her figure was slender and ethereal, exuding an aura of tranquility.
Recalling what Jue Youqing had told her, An Miaoyi's brows relaxed slightly. The Star Blue Mother Gold earrings on her delicate ears shone brightly, shimmering with a beautiful luster. Her heart fluttered slightly as she looked at the young Xia Jiuyou, wondering to herself, "Which Quasi-Emperor could it be?"
Having been separated from the outside world at a young age, she was not familiar with Xia Jiuyou. Otherwise, with her intelligence and discernment, it would not have been difficult for her to guess that the person entering the garden was Gai Jiuyou.
Suppressing the chaos in her mind, An Miaoyi gently touched the ring on her right hand with her slender hand. Her expression was calm, her beautiful eyes held a hint of warmth, and her smile was elegant. Through the silk gauze, she looked tenderly at Su Yu.
She paused, her aura ethereal, like a traditional Chinese ink painting, seemingly about to ride the wind and leave this world at any moment.
In this Lifetime, she didn't experience some of the pain from the original timeline, nor did she have any unforgettable experiences with Su Yu, but she was very happy.
Aside from not loving only her, the person she loved was almost Perfect World, giving her everything, including freedom. Some time ago, the Jade Token flew to the Big Dipper, bringing with it the Lord's longing, along with ancient scriptures, immortal jade, and a flawless Saint Weapon.
Sometimes, she also has indescribable dreams!
In her dream, she forgot everything from before and returned to Wonderful Jade Convent in the Holy City of the Northern Region. One day, the sound of a phoenix flute stirred and the light of a jade pot turned, and a handsome young man walked in.
In that Lifetime, he had no illustrious identity or status, nor did he possess Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon for protection. His Ruthless One Lineage was exposed, making him an enemy of the entire world. However, the other person's sincerity moved her, and she made her own choice.
Afterwards, the two parted ways. She traveled to the Western Desert, accompanied by ancient Buddhist lamps and Buddha statues, and perished in a great calamity. The other person found the place where she died, looking haggard, and used great supernatural powers to awaken a wisp of her remnant soul.
In reluctance and silence, a Buddhist chant ended it all!
In the next life, if you believe, it exists; if you don't, it doesn't. As time goes by, two identical flowers will eventually appear in the world. Looking back over thousands of years, one flower withers, and the other blooms.
But that one didn't believe it!
Ultimately, the rebuilt Spirit Mountain collapsed once more, the Western Desert fell into oblivion, and the Buddhist disciples who came from other star regions were all annihilated.
That person went mad and became a demon, traversing countless star fields. In that Lifetime, he slaughtered the entire lineage of Amitabha Buddha, slaying the ancient Buddha's Demon Shell with a single sword strike. He inherited the ancient ancestor's name of " Ruthless One," silencing the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, and ushering in the era of the Demon Lord...
After waking from the dream, she was lost in thought for many days, but in the end she came to terms with it. Compared to the bitterness of that Lifetime, she would rather be a flower, swaying beside him.
Just like in the folk tales, the Crimson Pearl Fairy harbored endless feelings for the Divine Luminescent Attendant. However, there was a difference: if it were to repay a debt of gratitude, she was willing to give up everything for Su Yu...
In the Ziwei Star Domain, Su Yu, who was playing with the Dragon Palace Ancestral Artifact, felt a tremor in his heart. Two beams of Chaos light shot out from his eyes. Then, he clutched his chest, almost suffocating, and couldn't help but look outside!
What was causing this sudden, overwhelming palpitation? It made him almost breathless, like a sigh from Lifetime ago, causing him a pang of heartache and a urge to destroy everything, to kill every living being before him...
Chapter 423 Calamity, Taiyin Immortal Scripture
The fog was thick, and the black-haired youth's eyes were bloodshot, with blood-red light flashing in them. Strands of Immortal Tribulation energy emanated from his body, eerie and ominous. In an instant, his aura changed drastically, transforming from an immortal venerable into a Tribulation Lord, sending chills down everyone's spine.
A murderous aura swept across the sky, and the misty rain of flowers that had been drifting in the hall just moments before withered away, replaced by a deathly silence of dark ashes.
"What is going on!"
Su Yu trembled all over, his Immortal Platform spirit constantly chanting profound teachings. The crystal-clear heartwood of the Enlightenment Tea Tree he carried radiated wisps of light, supporting a Xiao Kong amidst the calamity, allowing him to temporarily calm his mind.
However, this was only in his mind; his physical body and primordial spirit were still trembling, as if he were about to suffocate.
He wanted to kill someone!
With a flicker of sword light, Su Yu endured the pain, his eyes blazing with brilliant sword light. The Chaos mark between his brows emitted celestial light, and one after another, five-colored Immortal Phoenix flew out, entwined with celestial light and auspicious colors, peaceful and sacred.
However, the next moment, the five-colored Immortal Phoenix was stained with blood, and its feathers, which were originally as red as Phoenix Blood Red Gold, instantly turned black and red. The Immortal Spirit aura surrounding it also dissipated. The nine Immortal Phoenix of Calamity cried out, their blood-red eyes filled with madness, wanting to go on a killing spree and destroy everything in front of them.
"Bite!"
A Chaos Immortal Sword pierced through the clouds, surrounded by Taisu immortal light. The Phoenix Blood Red Gold divine patterns on the sword body shone brightly, as if it had drunk Immortal Blood, reflecting a boundless blood light.
The two Dragon Maiden maidens below the golden steps paled in shock, feeling an indescribable loneliness. The high priest with pale blue eyes quickly shielded Ao Xin behind him, then looked at Su Yu in horror.
Light and shadow danced wildly, stars shattered and reformed, space and time flipped, Dao patterns, like silk threads, surged within the ancient hall, red immortal runes emerged, outlining a blurry figure, accompanied by a chilling wail, its body covered in blood, a horrifying sight...
"I..." Su Yu's soul trembled slightly, unable to understand the pain in his body, and he murmured, "This is the heartache brought about by the death of my blood relatives, and there is more than one."
"But I am clearly all alone, with no close relatives in this world. Even if Yu'er have my true blood in their veins, they still can't do this. Who is it?"
A crimson light shone brightly, and countless strands of calamity light descended, like crimson ribbons, draped over Su Yu, making his aura even more sinister. From afar, he looked like a ferocious god who had slaughtered countless great worlds.
As the mist swirled, countless phantoms of gods, demons, and wronged spirits flew out, instantly turning the once sacred temple into Ghost Domain realm of Fengdu. A surge of dark energy caused even the Dragon Palace Master to lose his composure.
Such deathly aura, such surging malevolent energy, could never be imitated. Even slaughtering all living beings in the four continents and four seas of the Ziwei Star Domain wouldn't produce it. What on earth did this Ancient Emperor's son do...?
Thinking of this, a hint of fear flashed in Ao Xin's eyes, and her nearly two-meter-tall figure bent over, her heroic spirit gone. She clung to the High Priest, swaying precariously in the blood mist.
As time passed, the intense sorrow dissipated, but the aura of calamity and death still lingered in this ghost city.
The Ghost Emperor, sitting upright on the steps, had an unpredictable glint in his eyes. He raised his hand and plucked the Chaos Killing Sword, which was wreathed in blood in mid-air, and placed it across his knees. His expression was worried and he seemed at a loss for what to do.
During his time in the Ziwei Star Domain, he studied the Blood Path and the Death Path in detail, and knew the reason for this soul tremor. But it was precisely because he knew that he could not understand it.
Since he reshaped his physical body with his true spirit in the Big Dipper, he severed all ties with his predecessor and could not be affected by the original owner. Since it was not the original owner, the problem must lie with him. However, he had no close relatives or descendants in this world, so how could he be affected by such a thing?
Setting aside the principles of cause and effect, he had already used the Chaos Dharma Eye to carefully examine his physical body and primordial spirit, but everything was normal, and he had not obtained any definite results...
In an instant, Su Yu focused his divine sense, and a ray of immortal light emanated from his forehead. A jade pendant, imbued with a purple aura, landed in his hand.
In this Lifetime, the only thing that can truly affect him is this ancient jade!
The purple jade is simple and unadorned, with mottled and blurred ghost face patterns on it, but it has a special charm, as if an unnamed being dwells in it, emitting wisps of light.
The surface of this divine jade looks no different from before, but once you probe it with your divine Power of Thought, you can clearly see wisps of blood-red light floating within it.
This strange change did indeed originate from this object!
"Is it that skeleton?"
Gazing at the immortal jade, Su Yu's expression was deep and thoughtful, his mind racing, and in an instant, he thought of a certain being.
When he first arrived in this world, he descended to Earth from the Big Dipper and saw a pale, skeletal hand phantom in the purple jade. That skeletal hand manipulated spatial runes and directly took him to the summit of Mount Tai.
Back then, he was only at the Four Extremes and didn't know how such a time-traveling method worked. But now, Su Yu has stepped into the Eighth Heaven of Severing the Dao, wields multiple Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon and Ancient Emperor Token, and just now he personally witnessed a Quasi-Emperor make a move. He is very familiar with the laws of the imperial path and has even personally mastered immortal artifacts.
The skeletal hand that once wielded did not control the Ultimate Dao Laws, but rather possessed some resemblance to the rules of Xian Dao. Moreover, it was more complex and profound than the Bronze Immortal Sword in Ye Fan's hand, though the laws of heaven and earth were the same as those of this realm.
What this means is obvious—his cheat ability includes a Xian Dao being from this realm, not some Great Power from Otherworld.
Su Yu didn't care before, after all, these were just his guesses, and the white skeleton only appeared briefly before never coming out again.
However, this time, the heart-wrenching grief that nearly shattered his soul and the sorrow that threatened to destroy everything gave rise to a certain suspicion in his mind.
Is it Lunhui? Or just Similar Flowers? Did that being ever experience such suffering?
The black-haired youth looked melancholy, and a strange fluctuation flickered in his eyes as he opened and closed them, giving him a very weathered appearance.
This incident left him with mixed feelings, and the joy he had felt at becoming the Supreme Disciple's son-in-law vanished.
However, Su Yu was not worried that the person in the jade would harm him, after all, everything he had was given to him by the Lord of the Jade Ring.
With his current level of divine sense, he guessed several possibilities in an instant.
Starting with the owner of the jade pendant, that Quasi-Immortal Emperor was most likely an ancient being.
As for why that Quasi-Immortal Emperor wasn't his future or past self!
The reason is that this jade pendant did not originally fly towards him, but due to some unforeseen event, it ended up in his hands.
Su Yu had three guesses about the white skeleton: one was the creator of the jade pendant; another was the former owner of the jade pendant; and the third was his past or future self.
If it's the first two scenarios, then it's not a big deal. It's similar to Luo Feng in " Swallowed Star," who accepted the blood feud of his master and sought revenge.
The third possibility, however, troubled Su Yu. The pain he had just experienced was undoubtedly the result of the successive deaths of his blood relatives, accumulating immense resentment. It was most likely something he had experienced in his past life or previous existence...
"If there's anything in this realm that could make the Xian Dao weep, it would only be the bloody battles of the Immortal Ancient Era, the lingering resentment of the Chaotic Ancient Era, or even more distant times. Only those chaotic eras could make the Xian Dao weep and yearn to destroy everything."
At this moment, the bloodstains scattered and the ghosts dispersed. Su Yu's eyes were filled with sorrow. He sighed and stared at the purple jade pendant with a complicated expression.
Neither Lunhui, nor Similar Flowers, nor the Xian Dao realm he harbors resentment towards, are things he can currently reach...
"If I attain enlightenment one day and reach the realm of Immortal Emperor, I will be able to roam the River of Time and settle all karmic debts here!" With this great vow, Su Yu waved his sleeve and put away the jade pendant.
However, we still need to clarify our stance on this matter; sticking to the same front is never wrong...
Then he clasped his hands together, his body like divine glass, radiating wisps of immortal light. Three hundred and sixty-five Chaos vortexes flew out, devouring the divine network imprinted in the Void. The halo flowed, and the Order Divine Chains danced, carrying with them clanging sounds, taking away all the calamity energy, death energy, and wandering souls within the temple.
After finishing everything, looking at the two still-shaken Dragon Maiden below, Su Yu looked languid and somewhat dejected. He had lost all interest and found it very boring.
He reached out and took out a golden jade staff wreathed in crimson light. Then, he waved the staff, and in an instant, crystal-clear, dazzling crimson-gold chains flew out, binding the two women's hands and feet.
"Ah!"
The woman in golden robes tensed up, then began to struggle violently, trying to break free of the blood-red chains.
However, even with her divine power intact, she was powerless against a supreme King Divine Prohibition control. What could she do now? She could only watch in utter humiliation as the Order Divine Chains approached and bound her body.
Adais, clad in a priestess robe, did not struggle, remaining bound by the crimson gold chains. Her expression was serene, her pale blue eyes as calm as the Eastern Sea Ocean, ethereal and otherworldly, as she gazed at Su Yu and softly said, "Your Highness of the Imperial Clan, I have something to say!"
Her temperament was very different from Ao Xin's; she resembled Winged Clan cultivator, which was indeed the case. Adais's mother came from beyond the heavens; she was a Winged Clan princess who had lost her way in the starry sky, possessing noble blood and being the daughter of the Winged Clan Saint.
Earth also has a Winged Clan, whose alias Su Yu is very familiar with— Angels!
However, even the Angels saint could hardly sway him now!
"Sorry, I'm having some troubles today and don't want to listen right now!" Su Yu's eyes were cold, and the Phoenix Blood Red Gold eye at the top of his golden jade staff emitted a divine light, peeling away from the Void and creating a rosy glow that swallowed and suppressed the two Dragon Maiden.
Looking at the empty hall, Su Yu's expression turned somber, and he fell into a long silence. Then, he summoned the Immortal Tribulation Sword, tempering Immortal Sword with boundless blood energy and deathly aura...
Inside another ancient hall, Duanmu Rong Taiyin Divine Son, knelt on the lapis lazuli stone slab with a look of fear on his face, not daring to look up at the Saint on the steps.
In the center of the hall, a purple jade table was placed, upon which were placed the imperial seal, a map of mountains and rivers, and ancient sacred scriptures.
Behind the jade table sat a goddess with ethereal beauty and jade-like bones. She wore a silver dress, her face was exquisitely flawless, and she was breathtakingly beautiful. She was serene and tranquil, like a Silver Moon, her whole body shrouded in Yue Hua, making her appear incredibly hazy.
The goddess Yi Qingwu of the Guanghan Palace held the Silver Moon Pagoda in her hands and stood respectfully to one side. Her current identity was that of Saint's maid.
On the other side was Jiang Tingting, who was holding a sacred object. Unlike her usual lively self, the Goddess in purple had a cold expression and exuded a chilling aura.
The sacred object in her hand swirled with dark light; it was a black skull, alluring and gleaming, shimmering in the darkness. It exhaled auspicious clouds and breathed forth, its seven orifices swirling with a misty vapor, trembling as if Life, and flowing with a ray of light that enveloped Jiang Tingting.
This is a divine object, like a Perfect World work of art, belonging to the Taiyin Saint of the Desolate Ancient Era.
During her time in Ziwei, Jiang Tingting learned the whole story of the Taiyin Divine Sect. She felt sad for the Taiyin Clan members and hated the Duanmu Clan who enslaved their masters.
The discovery of the Taiyin Saint's skull on Duanmu Ming's body further grieved her, revealing the blood and tears shed during the destruction of the Taiyin Divine Sect.
Yang Yi flipped through the ancient book, her expression calm, and said indifferently, "Still unwilling to hand over the Taiyin Ancient Scripture?"
" Saint Majesty, I am deeply terrified! There is a restriction placed upon my mind by my elders, preventing me from revealing the immortal scriptures!" Duanmu Ming, the Taiyin Divine Son, was filled with fear and kowtowed repeatedly, filled with trepidation.
What he said was not untrue. Unlike the Big Dipper, the Imperial Dao Scripture in the Ziwei Star Domain are rare. There is only one complete Emperor Scripture, which is controlled by the Taiyin Divine Sect.