The stone fox that had been silent for a hundred years suddenly shouted like this, causing Chu Feng to directly stagger. With a smack sound, he threw it to the ground and decisively retreated.
Meanwhile, the little Vermillion Bird's entire body was the size of a palm. It was originally standing there, feeling sentimental, its large ruby-like eyes glistening with tears.
Now, it was frightened and shrieking. It flapped its fiery red wings and flipped over, stopping in the distance. It was timid and frightened, and it wasn't light at all.
"Little brat, do you want to throw me to my death?!" The stone fox was incomparably angry. It sensed that Chu Feng had lifted it up just now. Was he really going to throw it into the depths of the forbidden land?
The most infuriating thing was that in the end, he actually directly threw it to the ground.
Chu Feng had a serious expression on his face. "Senior, do you know that I saved you once again? You owe me tremendous karma!"
This was a typical case of the villain complaining first and doing everything he could to take credit.
Chu Feng told the lame heavenly deity that if he hadn't woken it up, the stone fox would have remained silent for the rest of its life, never to wake up again. It could already be considered an ice-cold death.
If the stone fox hadn't become a statue, it really wanted to look at him from the corner of its eyes and give him a fox claw to let him understand why flowers were so red.
The little Vermillion Bird's large eyes were filled with tears. It was crying and laughing at the same time. "Senior, fortunately, Chu Feng woke you up. You had already been silent for a hundred years. We all thought you had passed away in meditation."
If the stone fox had flesh and blood, its skin would definitely twitch. Fortunately, that brat? It was all because of his anger that she woke up, okay!
It really wanted to say that it hadn't died at all and had always been alive. It just didn't want to pay attention to Chu Feng and save its essence energy in hibernation.
"I didn't think that you little bastard would be so black-hearted and merciless. You actually wanted to deal a vicious blow to me, wanting to throw me into the depths of the forbidden land!" It berated Chu Feng.
Chu Feng immediately laughed. He had always suspected that this old fellow hadn't died. After all, it was an empyrean from the Yang-Realm, so how could it have died so easily?
Moreover, even if it died, it would probably cause a huge commotion.
Based on this stone fox's personality, it was unlikely that it would die out of frustration. Looking at its usual appearance, it was always very unwilling, so how could it quietly pass away?
All in all, the lame Celestial Venerable seemed kind and honest, but there was definitely a lot of evil water hidden deep in his bones that had yet to come out.
"Senior, please lend us a hand. Help us obtain some natural luck from the forbidden land!" Chu Feng spoke, asking for its help.
"If I could help, would I still be crippled and petrified? Who would be willing to stay in this hopeless world?" The lame Empyrean shook his head and sighed. He couldn't help at all.
"There's no need for you to take action. I've meticulously researched domains, and now that I've stepped into the peak of the Saint Expert realm, I'm about to touch upon the domain of the Divine Expert. After a hundred years of solitary contemplation, I've finally researched a method, but it requires the cooperation of others. Now, it seems like your immortal Heavenly Sovereign body is the most suitable. You can block a certain key node in the forbidden area and help us block this calamity …"
"Stop it!" The stone fox's expression was gloomy. Was he using it as a gunny sack to block the gap in the energy dam and face the impact of the torrent of order?
"Does this mean you agree?" Chu Feng put on a fawning expression.
"Move to the side, your eyes are turning black!" The lame Empyrean refused no matter what and directly spoke of some terrifying things. It wasn't as if no Empyreans had died in the forbidden land of the Yang Realm, and he had seen it with his own eyes.
"You're so capable. You just need to be my shield and block a dozen or so calamities. I guarantee you'll be fine!"
Although the lame Empyrean was petrified, it was obvious that his face was dark. Blocking a dozen times wasn't enough. He really wanted to spit on Chu Feng's face.
Seeing his dark expression, Chu Feng tried to persuade him one step further. "I've done some experiments. I picked up half a divine-grade dagger and slashed your body forty to fifty times. You didn't react at all and didn't even wake up. There wasn't even a scratch on your body."
"I'll slap you to death!" The stone fox swayed violently. Hei Bufeng flew up and gave him a slap. This bastard was actually using a dagger on his body?
"I have no evil intentions. I'm just testing how tough your body is. The facts have proven that nothing happened even after I slashed your face twenty-eight times. This proves that your constitution is peerless and you're definitely up to the task. You've helped us block several calamities in the forbidden land."
Chu Feng dawdled and told the stone fox that he had used his domain methods to calculate that he would be able to obtain some good items from the forbidden land after blocking several calamities. These were all great fortunes!
"This old man will destroy you!" The stone fox's body emitted a faint light as he rolled over and collided with Chu Feng.
At the same time, his face was covered in black stone stripes. "You want to use me as a meat shield and yet you say my skin is tough? Are you mocking this Empyrean?"
In the end, Chu Feng's request failed. Under his repeated clarifications, the stone fox gave him some pointers indifferently and gave him some advice. There was still hope if he could enter the divine realm. Otherwise, he couldn't even think about entering the forbidden land, the Nine Heavens.
Chu Feng sighed and silently turned around to cultivate. There were still eight months before the hundred-year deadline. There really wasn't enough time to make up for it. The most effective shortcut to becoming a god was to obtain the divine core in the forbidden land!
Unfortunately, this path couldn't be taken. He still had to rely on himself.
He had been stuck at the peak of the illuminator realm for some years. It was just like when he charged into the great circle of the saint realm back then. He was only a thin layer away from breaking through, but he still couldn't break through.
These years, he had killed many illuminators in the forbidden land and absorbed enough Divinity Granules.
"You're too impatient for success. More haste, less speed. The more you want to break through, the more the mysterious order suppresses your body. You can't move and can't comprehend the last step to becoming a god," the stone fox pointed out.
This time, Chu Feng was quiet. He listened attentively and looked like he was humbly asking for guidance.
After that … there was no after that. The stone fox didn't talk about the method to become a god. It didn't have the desire to preach at all.
"Senior, you're making fun of me." Chu Feng looked down on it.
The stone fox said solemnly, "The past Celestial Venerables and the almighty from ancient times have never heard of needing pointers when breaking through realms. They would rather be stuck at a certain level for a long time than give up the opportunity to comprehend the dao. That's a fated chance. That's fighting against the heavens and seizing the creation shards in the world. Are you willing to give it up?"
Chu Feng sighed. He only wanted to become a god now. His body had accumulated a lot of gray mist. Moreover, he had come from an unorthodox background. He simply didn't want to rely on this body to look down on the world. There was no need for perfection at this stage.
"I only want to become a god now and increase my combat power. I really don't have much time left."
"Being so eager for instant benefits isn't good. Don't let hatred blind your eyes and destroy your own future." The lame heavenly deity advised seriously.
Chu Feng sighed softly and said, "I did it for revenge, but I was also cultivating. I prepared a path of retreat for myself and found a method. It was recorded in the personal letter you gave me that mentioned how to raise the most powerful geniuses."
The stone fox thought for a bit, and then it was moved. "You are talking about the path of ruin, a wither and flourish with each passing year, ultimately going from decline to prosperity?!"
It was truly shocked. It naturally understood how difficult this path was. That was simply a path of death. It was extremely bumpy and rugged.
"Reaching this step wasn't easy, but I still missed out on the golden path of evolution. That was a stage that I've already lost. Moreover, I have a strange substance on me. No matter what, if I want to become the most powerful, there are too many flaws at the current stage. Only the path of ruin can allow me to rise up."
This path was prepared precisely for those who had regrets in the earlier stages, those who missed out on the golden evolutionary period. They would reconstruct their true self from ruin and struggle for a new life.
This was on the premise that one could endure it. This path was too difficult, and one could easily decline at every turn, forever remaining silent.
Even the personal letter warned that from ancient times until now, those who could succeed were few and far between. Those who didn't have great determination should just give up, or else they would just be courting death.
The stone fox sighed and said, "This is actually a damaged method my master recorded. It isn't complete. Of course, with your current cultivation realm, you can still use it. After all, you are still far from the heavenly deity level."
"Damaged method?" Chu Feng was stupefied.
After thinking about it carefully, this seemed to be a type of flawed method. It had the boldness to rise again after being ruined, but he had a vague feeling that it was lacking something.
"Have you studied it carefully? Have you truly comprehended it?" The stone fox looked at him and said, "This method treats one's own body as strange soil, burying a seed in the core of one's flesh and soul light. The original self will continuously be ruined, waiting for the new self to be born. Just how cruel of a process is this?"
At the same time, it even more seriously informed him that the separation between the old and new self, that type of opposition, that type of abandonment and nurturing, was too contradictory and painful.
The growth of the new self was joyous, but the passing of the old self was filled with great sorrow and despair. It was the original soul that was withering away, just like the strange soil that was offering itself as a living sacrifice.
This was a cruel path, and it definitely wasn't smooth sailing. Some people were torn into two, becoming a deity with one thought, while the other became a demon. They were natural opposites, resisting each other.
There were also people who died during the process of separation, burned to ashes by the endless karmic flames drawn over by this type of heaven-defying action.
There were even people whose 'old self' occupied the advantage and killed the new self, as if to prove that this path was wrong. They were defeated and died, and in the end, their old self also died, completely disappearing from heaven and earth, never to be seen again in reincarnation.
"In the end, a nascent core was nurtured. Flesh and soul light were both present, but it struggled out from the withered and decaying old self. It could only watch helplessly as its past self withered away and died, turning into old skin and ruined bones. How cruel is this?"
The lame Empyrean sighed. Even he felt that this path wasn't something a normal person could walk. Since ancient times, there had been so many heaven-warping and exceptional individuals, but only a few were able to walk this path.
Chu Feng also felt a bit of a headache after hearing this. He didn't understand that much from the most powerful letter, so he was indeed a bit shaken now.
"There aren't many paths that I can choose, and I didn't feel that it was too frightening back then, so this naturally became an important path. Moreover, I saw that this method was clearly recorded. It can get rid of all strange matter, and from then on, there will be no need to fear the gray fog!" Chu Feng said.
It could get rid of strange matter. This was one of the important reasons why he chose this path back then.
At the same time, once this path was successful, it would truly be incomparably powerful. From the few words in the letter, one could see that even the lame Empyrean's master — that almighty being — was sighing in admiration. His words were full of praise for this dao fruit, as if he wished he could walk it once.
The letter was written by Shi Hu's master, and it was filled with methods that almighty being had collected from all over the Yang-Realm to cultivate the strongest geniuses.
"You have to be careful!" The lame Empyrean warned Chu Feng again and again. This path was too difficult, no different from suicide.
At the same time, he also mentioned that this method wasn't complete at all. It was suspected that it lacked a corresponding supreme breathing technique, because the creator of this path was too heaven-defying. Without this breathing technique, it would likely produce half the results with twice the effort.
"What kind of ruined path is this? Just who was the first to walk it?" Chu Feng earnestly asked for guidance.
"It's suspected to be the old path of the Celestial Emperor," Shi Hu slowly said.
"What? This was created by that person in your Yang-Realm Celestial Emperor Calendar?" Chu Feng was shocked.
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