Su Fang also couldn't tell what was the demon he was talking about.
As he continued to approach the ice giant, he finally saw a few ancient characters engraved with Devil Qi and divine might on the altar that the ice giant was standing on.
The Vermillion Emperor muttered, "Great Ape Devil."
"There are more words below." He continued to read, "Zhuo Tian Realm Lord, Great Ape Devil's Tomb."
Su Fang felt like he was struck by lightning as he trembled. He stared at the words in disbelief, "Zhuo Tian Realm Lord."
"Great Ape Devil, Zhuo Tian Realm Lord. My goodness, so it's the tomb of a Realm Lord. No wonder it's suppressed by the huge Extreme Yin Ice Vein and gathered all the Spirit Qi in the Forbidden Snow Forest. Even the Blizzard Continent might be affected by this tomb and be covered in snow all year round."
"This is really unexpected. I thought it was an Immortal."
"Immortal. This King saw that the Great Ape Devil has reached the Immortal Realm. A Realm Lord's strength is at least at the Immortal Realm. Hehe."
"Even Realm Lords can fall."
He stared at the ice giant again and saw the Thunder God's face and Scarlet Astral Spirit Eyes. He really didn't expect it to be a Realm Lord.
The Vermillion Emperor disagreed, "The Great Ape Devil is also a cultivator. He is different from ordinary cultivators. He has fused with the Zhuo Tian Realm's origin and is only a Realm Lord. Realm Lords can also fall and cannot escape the cycle of reincarnation. A small world has a Realm Lord, a large world has a Realm Lord. Any Realm Lord is an existence that stands at the peak."
"The tomb of a Realm Lord must be a treasure vault. Let's go take a look at the main tomb."
He impatiently circulated the power of the Xuanhuang Six Paths Pagoda and controlled the Cold Qi Domain. He started to walk past the Great Ape Devil with the Vermillion Emperor and gradually arrived at the main chamber of the tomb.
There were a few ice sculptures in the main chamber. They were all sculptures of the Great Ape Devil.
There was an ice altar that was thirty meters tall. Below it was a shocking amount of ice. Once their feet touched it, they would be instantly swallowed by the ice.
With each step, the Vermillion Emperor's eyes were filled with excitement. "This Great Tomb Ice Altar isn't simple. Did you see that? Didn't you say you were looking for an Extreme Yin Stone? This giant tomb is actually a complete Extreme Yin Stone. No wonder the frigid qi here is so terrifying. When combined with Underworld Yin energy and the Extreme Yin Ice Vein, it can produce such terrifying Underworld Yin energy."
Extreme Yin Stone
That was indeed the reason Su Fang had come. Su Fang blushed with shame. This huge tomb was actually an Extreme Yin Stone.
Wasn't the legendary Extreme Yin Stone only a tiny bit?
Finally, they arrived at the top of the ice altar. An ice coffin nearly a hundred feet long was quietly embedded in the ice altar. Around the ice coffin were many ice sculptures of ordinary people. Most of them were sculptures of demons.
Inside the ice coffin, the Vermillion Emperor and Su Fang simultaneously looked over and saw a mummified corpse.
The corpse was covered in dark golden armor. It was actually a Dao Artifact!
How extravagant!
A Realm Lord was indeed extraordinary, to be able to wear a Dao Artifact even after death.
The mummy that was wrapped in the Dao artifact had black and red hair that was as long as fingers, especially its arms and head.
Buzz!
When Su Fang saw the mummy's head, he was dazzled and felt attacked.
He immediately used the Demonic Disintegration Imprint. Just by looking at the Great Ape Devil's gaze, he was intimidated by its divine might. If it wasn't for the Demonic Disintegration Imprint and his Yang Soul's transformation, he would have been scared out of his wits.
Su Fang exclaimed, cold sweat drenching his body: "He has been dead for so many years, but he still has such divine might!"
The Vermillion Emperor also seemed to be affected.
He said with a dispirited expression: "His cultivation had reached the pinnacle. After death, his body would naturally contain a portion of his divine might. Fortunately, many years have passed. Otherwise, you and I would have been crushed by his divine might!"
Looking at the Great Ape Devil's corpse, other than the Dao Artifact armor, the entire corpse was lying on top of countless skulls. One could see how terrifying the Great Ape Devil was as a Realm Lord.
His right hand held a large halberd, while his left hand held an oval-shaped hammer. These two treasures were also Dao Artifacts, but their quality was ordinary. Even the Xuanhuang Six Paths Pagoda and Rakshasa Jade Bottle did not have any special reaction. If they were truly extraordinary treasures, the Purple Qi Law Spirit would have immediately sensed them.
It was the same as when it sensed Yunxiao's Lightning Sword.
"Hehe, don't even think about those three Dao Artifacts!"
The Vermillion Emperor saw Su Fang staring at the halberd and hammer. "They truly are Dao Artifacts. If you take them out, they would all be priceless treasures. But since they were buried with the Great Ape Devil, they must have fused together with the corpse. Who knows, they might even be connected to the tomb. Entering the coffin would be blasphemous to the Great Ape Devil. If there were any mechanisms that would explode, that would be the power of an Immortal.
They really couldn't touch them. Just looking at the Great Ape Devil's gaze had nearly caused them to be killed.
If they touched the corpse, wouldn't something big happen?
"True Devil, the Great Ape Devil really was a Big Goblin that had fallen to become a True Devil." Su Fang's gaze finally moved away from the Dao Artifacts. His attention was drawn to the Great Ape Devil's overall appearance.
The Great Ape Devil's body truly was that of a Big Goblin. Its demonic qi was powerful, and its head was completely that of a True Devil. Its ears were raised high, as well as the devil horns on its head. It was definitely a True Devil.
"There should be quite a few offerings behind the tomb. Hehe, those are priceless treasures." The Vermillion Emperor frowned.
They walked.
The two of them walked past the coffin. Just as the Vermillion Emperor had said, there was an altar behind the coffin. There were quite a few treasures on the altar.
Buzz buzz.
Su Fang was just about to step onto the altar when he heard movement from the coffin behind him.
The Vermillion Emperor hadn't heard it. But when he was reminded, he hastily turned around in fright.
Had he turned into a corpse, or had he accidentally stepped on some mechanism?
"Buzz!"
After a while, a green light suddenly came out of the coffin.
"We can't be that unlucky, right?" Su Fang's teeth were chattering.
"Oh." The Vermillion Emperor suddenly clenched his fists. "Haha, didn't you want the Ancient Spirit Fireflies?"
"You're saying that green light is the Ancient Spirit Fireflies?"
"Yes. This King can guarantee it."
The Vermillion Emperor swaggered over to the coffin.
Su Fang followed over to take a look. He saw that on the great ape demon's face, from its two dark but mighty eyes and mouth, three streaks of green fluorescent light emerged.
That made the Great Ape Devil's demonic qi even more terrifying.
"Hehe." Blood Qi surged out of the Vermillion Emperor's palm.
Buzz buzz buzz.
The buzzing sound in the Great Ape Devil's head became even more intense.
Then its head also began to move. The buzzing sound became more and more ear-piercing. It was as if something was crawling inside. Su Fang felt nauseous. His intestines seemed to be twisted together.
It was indescribable.
The Vermillion Emperor also took a step back. It seemed he also couldn't bear such a frightening scene.
Crack.
Suddenly, something came out. The two of them looked over. A yellow bean-sized fluorescent beetle flew out of each of the Great Ape Devil's eyes and mouth.
Ancient Spirit Fireflies.
They really were Ancient Spirit Fireflies.
But because these three little fellows had crawled out of the Great Ape Devil's head, they had clearly absorbed the Great Ape Devil's corpse's essence and even its brain. Seeing them was the same as seeing a rotten corpse with countless maggots inside.
"The Ancient Spirit Fireflies are born from absorbing the essence of corpses. They mutated from a few intelligent insects. They also have to adapt to their environment to survive by absorbing the essence of corpses," explained the Vermillion Emperor. "Release your Blood Qi and absorb them into your treasures. We still have to search for treasures."
Su Fang was startled. The Ancient Spirit Fireflies were different from what he had imagined. They didn't have that kind of spirit. He slowly absorbed the three Ancient Spirit Fireflies into the Flamecloud Spirit Gourd, using its core energy to temporarily protect them.
Then he looked at the Great Ape Devil's corpse. Its eyes and tongue were gone, and its eye sockets and mouth were torn apart.
Only when they arrived at the altar did the two of them notice the large amount of treasures. That shock in their hearts was swept away.
The altar was oval-shaped. It was just a few meters behind the Great Ape Devil's head. There were many blood basins carved from ice around the altar. They were like the mouths of fiends. And at the center of the altar was a blood pool.
The blood pool looked very similar to the blood pools Su Fang had seen in the past. For example, the blood pool where Gui Gui had been shackled.
The difference was that there were many human heads in the blood pool, as well as the heads of giant demons. There were at least a hundred of them.
They hadn't even rotted yet.
Su Fang looked at those countless heads with sinister eyes. Their backs were all frozen.
"Wow!"
Gui Gui flew over, excitedly shouting at the blood pool. Without waiting for Su Fang's order, it jumped into the blood pool and greedily absorbed that disgusting blood. It even tore apart the heads and directly ate them.
"Blood Devil really got lucky this time. This altar hasn't melted for countless years, and the heads haven't rotted yet. That means that blood is a peerless treasure. I'm not joking. Although it's disgusting, it really is a peerless treasure. I also have to take some. I can't let Blood Devil monopolize it all." The Vermilion Emperor also took out a bottle.
He reminded Su Fang and also took out a bottle to absorb the blood.
"This is a bit of a true devil's blood." When the blood entered the bottle, Su Fang used his peak power to smell it. He sensed the familiar aura of the true devil's blood.
The Vermilion Emperor absorbed a portion and didn't take any more.
The majority was absorbed into Su Fang's bottle, while the rest was given to Blood Devil to devour and eat.
"Oh?"
The majority of the blood in the blood pool had disappeared.
Suddenly, a white gem appeared at the bottom. It was at least ten meters long.
The reason Su Fang had cried out was because that gem contained the Zhuotian World's core energy that was even stronger than the Stone Flower.
"This is an Origin Primal Stone formed from core energy!"
Only now did the Vermilion Emperor notice that there was a huge treasure at the bottom of the blood pool. He rubbed his belly. "No wonder the blood pool could be preserved. So there was such a huge Origin Primal Stone at the bottom."
"What is an Origin Primal Stone?" Su Fang was both excited and puzzled.
"A minor world's true core energy. Origin Primal Stones are one of them. This is the Zhuotian World's true core energy treasure. It takes at least a million years to condense such a large piece. The Ape Devil should have merged with this Origin Primal Stone and other core treasures to control such a large amount of core energy and become the Zhuotian World's World Master."
"So this is the Zhuotian World's true core energy!"
"The majority of minor worlds' cores are Origin Primal Stones, but some have different appearances. For example, the Heavenly Gourd Spirit Tree is also a core energy. It is a lifeform that accidentally absorbed core energy. After countless years of growth, it became a living core energy treasure. In short, this Origin Primal Stone is the true body of the majority of minor worlds' cores."
"If I take it, it won't affect the Forbidden Snow Forest too much, right?"
He began to rub his palms together.
"It won't. This Origin Primal Stone is the Ape Devil's most precious treasure, but it's only connected to his coffin. The reason why the Snow Wind Continent is covered in snow all year round is because of the Extreme Yin Ice Vein and Underworld Yin Qi, as well as the various divine abilities the Ape Devil left behind in this tomb. As for this Origin Primal Stone, it's only used to deal with this altar. I reckon that leaving the Origin Primal Stone on the altar represents the Ape Devil's unwillingness."
"Unwillingness!"
"The Ape Devil has cultivated for countless years. From this, he should be a World Master before the current Zhuotian World's World Master. His strength was unrivalled, but for some reason, he died. And the strange thing is that he seemed to know he was going to die, which was why he built this tomb. The Origin Primal Stone symbolizes a world that will never fall. Leaving it on the altar symbolizes eternal life, indestructible. In other words, the Ape Devil still wishes he could live forever."
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