An Exotic Treasure? A Deal with the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, with No Way Back!

As for Ye Mingyuan's actions...

Not a single Supreme emerged to stop him. After all... Ye Mingyuan could be shameless, but they could not lower themselves.

It was only a mountain peak. If it was gone, so be it...

At the Feng Clan.

Ku Mu stood there, ready to rush into the forbidden zone to lend aid at any moment, his face full of wry smiles.

Watching his master huff and puff as he hauled a mountain peak back, he felt a pang of sorrow.

"What are you standing there for?"

"Hurry up and give me a hand!"

Ye Mingyuan barked at Ku Mu, then immediately activated the Feng Clan's supreme formation with an air of secrecy.

The way he acted, it was as though what he had carried back was not an ordinary mountain peak.

But an exceedingly rare exotic treasure, enough to tempt even those who had attained the Dao!

Seeing this, Ku Mu could no longer spare any thought for his sorrow.

He immediately stood before the Feng Clan, his golden blood Qi spreading like a vast ocean, his gaze steady and divine light flickering.

He blocked the way there, making the gazes directed at this place withdraw of their own accord.

After all, Ku Mu had already reached the peak of the Eighth Heaven Quasi-Emperor realm!

He was adjusting his condition and deepening his foundations, and could begin undergoing his great accomplishment lightning tribulation at any moment, becoming another Great Accomplishment Sacred Body!

No one dared take him lightly.

Besides...

There was nothing much to see about an ordinary mountain peak.

In their eyes, at most it possessed some of Chaotic God Mountain's special Dao laws and could be refined into a secret artifact to bolster the Feng Clan's foundations.

As for any greater value...

If it truly had any, there was no way all those Supremes of Chaotic God Mountain would have failed to notice it over such long ages.

Only for Ye Mingyuan, a half-crippled man, to spot something the moment he went there.

Wasn't that nonsense!

Ku Mu felt the same way.

Right now, it felt as though an elder in the family had gone outside to pick up a few bottles, then carried them home as though they were treasures.

All so he could sell the bottles for money to buy the children at home some snacks.

He couldn't take it. The more he thought about it, the worse he felt...

Seeing that no one was paying attention to the Feng Clan anymore, he too entered its grounds.

Within the ancestral grounds.

Ye Mingyuan was staring with utter seriousness at the tallest, straightest mountain peak he had brought back.

His demeanor gradually made Ku Mu put aside his casual attitude as well.

Imitating Ye Mingyuan, he stared intently at the mountain peak, examining it over and over.

Golden light flashed repeatedly in his eyes, and he had almost grown accustomed to the laws of Chaotic God Mountain permeating it, yet he still could not see anything special about this mountain peak!

It left him feeling as though a kitten were scratching at his heart, and he could not help asking:

"Master, just what earth-shattering secret does this contain?"

Hearing this, Ye Mingyuan's gaze grew profound, as though piercing through the ages, giving him an unfathomable air.

Ku Mu immediately pricked up his ears, ready to listen to a secret that might have been buried in ancient history.

But Ye Mingyuan opened his mouth and said with utter bluntness:

"You're asking me? How would I know?"

Ku Mu: "..."

All at once, he regretted all his earlier reactions.

They really had been rather unnecessary.

However, Ye Mingyuan continued, "All I know is that, when I was undergoing the tribulation to attain the Dao, the presence I sensed from that corner of a heavenly palace and that heavenly saber..."

"I sensed it on this mountain peak as well."

"They seem... to have quite a connection."

A trace of reminiscence appeared in Ye Mingyuan's eyes.

The events of that day were still almost perfectly vivid to him.

Naturally, there was absolutely no way he could have sensed it wrong.

And that was why he had done something that left everyone unsure whether to laugh or cry-carrying a mountain peak back to the Feng Clan!

This thing was definitely extraordinary!

Ku Mu grew excited and said, "Could there be a Divine Medicine of Immortality undergoing nirvana hidden inside? Then there's hope for your recovery, Master!"

"What are you thinking?"

Ye Mingyuan shook his head, directly rejecting Ku Mu's guess. "Though a Divine Medicine of Immortality is incomparably wondrous, it couldn't possibly undergo nirvana right under the noses of that whole crowd of Supremes at Chaotic God Mountain. Besides... over such long ages, it couldn't possibly have failed to reveal the slightest sign."

"So whatever is inside definitely cannot be a living thing. It can only be... an inanimate object."

"As for what's hidden inside..."

Ku Mu immediately spoke up, finishing his thought. "Just cut it open and look!"

"I know this stuff! Though I lose money nine times out of ten when gambling on stones, my stone-cutting skills are absolutely top-notch!"

Smack-!

A palm landed squarely on Ku Mu's head.

It did not hurt, but Ku Mu still instinctively ducked his head, clutching it as he looked at Ye Mingyuan with a grimace.

He had absolutely no idea why his master had hit him.

"We can't cut it."

Ye Mingyuan shook his head, his expression grave. "Whatever is inside... it has nothing to do with us."

He looked in a certain direction and said softly, "The other forbidden zones have existed for too long, and they have many Supremes. Obtaining a Divine Medicine of Immortality from them is essentially impossible."

"But among the forbidden zones... there is one exception."

Ku Mu realized whom his master was talking about.

"You mean to use this thing... to trade with that Chaos Heavenly Emperor for a Divine Medicine of Immortality?"

Ye Mingyuan fell silent for a while.

In the end, he still nodded. He had no confidence himself.

He did not know whether the Immortal Court possessed a Divine Medicine of Immortality, nor whether this thing he had carried out of Chaotic God Mountain qualified to be exchanged for a legendary Divine Medicine of Immortality.

But he already had no way back.

Only this one path remained. Whether it succeeded or not, he had to try!

"Master, let me go!"

Ku Mu stepped forward, looking at Ye Mingyuan with concern. "The last few times, things never turned out well for you. You nearly died each time."

"Not to mention that your cultivation is gone now."

"If he attacks you again, I'm afraid..."

"Silly child."

Ye Mingyuan looked at Ku Mu with a complicated expression.

He actually wanted very much to explain that, whether he had his cultivation or not, it really made no difference to that Chaos Heavenly Emperor.

If that man truly got serious, he would not survive.

But for the sake of his pride, he merely sighed.

"It's fine."

"At least... I have experience."

"Besides, given my current predicament, that man probably... won't bear me too much ill will."

Ye Mingyuan recalled his own experiences as an unlucky wretch.

He reckoned Lu Qingyun ought to lend him a hand on account of having gone through the same thing... perhaps?

He wasn't certain. He truly wasn't certain.

Because that fellow... had never been someone who could be judged by common sense.