Within the immortal pond, the water was sparkling and a sweet fragrance wafted through the air. Mists curled about, multicolored light shone brilliantly, and auspicious splendor surged.
The immortal peach tree took root at the side of the immortal pond. It was forty-nine meters tall, and it was unknown just how many tens of thousands of years it had lived for. The old tree bark was cracked and rough like dragon scales. However, it was full of vitality. Its branches and leaves were luxuriant and flowing with green light. There were a few sparkling peach blossoms blossoming on it, and the fragrance seeped into one's bones.
Ye Fan arrived. All of the pores on his body opened up, taking in and sending out spiritual essence, reaching a balance with this place. A layer of translucent luster appeared on the surface of his body.
The spiritual essence of this place was so dense that it couldn't be dispersed. It could be considered an immortal land. Even if an immortal realm truly existed, it wouldn't be more than this.
The ancient race experts didn't leave. They gave him a few looks without saying anything, but it was difficult to sense any good intentions. There was a vague type of awe-inspiring feeling that only dao severing experts could sense.
"My family's prince truly wishes to exchange for this stone core. A divine ancient scripture can be considered heaven defying. If the Jade Pool is willing, we can establish another mountain gate and turn it into another holy land." A male with deer antlers on his head spoke. He had a head of long gray hair.
"This matter will end here. The Jade Pool has its own inheritance, so there is no need to cultivate another person's inheritance." Western Queen Mother spoke. She was graceful and noble with a nine phoenix hairpin in her hair and a golden ornament hanging from it. Her feather clothes flickered with multicolored light. Her expression was calm, but it was extremely divine and inviolable.
This ancient race expert wasn't willing to give up. He said seriously, "It isn't a handwritten copy, but the original scripture cast from phoenix blood and scarlet gold of the Undying Heavenly Emperor!"
On the side, Ye Fan was shaken. It seemed like the Heavenly Prince didn't want to swindle the Jade Pool and truly wanted to carry out an exchange. This divine core really did have a heaven defying price.
He thought about it inwardly. If the Heavenly Prince personally brought the ancient scripture over, he would have the urge to kill him along the way. The first reason was to eliminate a great enemy, and the second was to see what was so special about the scripture written by an existence that surpassed deities.
"Don't mention this matter again. This Stone King has already developed intelligence and is treated as a child by the past saints. How can it be exchanged with someone else?" Western Queen Mother refused.
The ancient race experts glanced at each other, and one of them handed a jade artifact to the Western Queen Mother. Within it was the Heavenly Prince's five-colored divine blood, and they left with unsightly expressions.
They glanced at Ye Fan, and their killing intent disappeared in a flash. They left the celestial pool. An Elder of the Jade Lake said some polite words to him to see him off.
Xi Wangmu smiled faintly. Aside from Ye Fan, she left behind the Holy Daughter and had everyone else leave.
Ye Fan's true identity could not be hidden from her. The saintess had already reported it to her. Otherwise, how could a random person's blood be sprinkled on the Stone King?
"Dao friend Ye, congratulations on your great increase in strength. Crossing the sky dome is a miracle that cultivators of my generation yearn for even in our dreams." Western Queen Mother said, extremely polite, treating him like an equal.
It was because now, Ye Fan's cultivation was deep and immeasurable. Even great completion kings couldn't be too arrogant when they saw him. As long as they understood his strength, all holy lands would feel restraining fear.
In reality, she was deeply moved inside. Back then, Ye Fan was nothing more than a small cultivator. After arriving at the Jade Lake, he still needed her protection. She never expected that after all these years, he already towered above the nine heavens.
Ye Fan naturally wouldn't act carelessly. She was the glorious lord of the Great Sage Land. Forget about her cultivation, just her status alone was enough for her to speak with archaic ancestral kings.
Now, he already knew how terrifying the undying inheritances were. Not a single one of them could be looked down on. The so-called 'backing' was extremely impressive!
Ye Fan thought to himself. If a great battle truly erupted, the inheritances of great emperors would most likely have a 'trump card' that could reverse the heaven and earth.
Western Queen Mother held a jade artifact in her hand. The five-colored blood inside was brilliant and dazzling, releasing strand after strand of powerful and terrifying fluctuations that made others feel intimidated.
The Jade Lake was extremely cautious. Any divine blood that sprinkled onto the Stone King would be secretly purified by the Western Emperor Tower's emperor energy. When the blood scattered down, others couldn't see anything, but Ye Fan could sense that the tower in the sky was trembling slightly.
Below the immortal peach tree, this strange stone was sparkling and glistening. It had nine apertures and eight holes that were exquisitely carved. At every moment, it would absorb the essence of the sun and moon on its own.
After the Heavenly Prince's blood was completely absorbed, it continuously trembled and released a cheerful cry. The radiance became even more resplendent, and the life within seemed like it could break out at any time.
During these past few days, Ye Fan stayed in this place. Only Western Queen Mother and Jade Lake's saintess accompanied him. Outsiders weren't allowed to approach.
He had already opened his Heavenly Eye, which was glistening with divine light. He stared at the strange stone without blinking. Back then, he couldn't see through it because it was too mysterious. The ancient sages had placed Dao runes on it.
But now, things were different. His Genesis Technique had reached the advanced stage, and he could clearly see everything inside the stone. There was a person with flesh and blood sitting cross-legged, and her entire body was glowing brightly.
"It's a woman."
This divine fetus looked to be eighteen or nineteen years old. She was sitting with her eyes closed, and her body was flowing with immortal light. Although she was extremely beautiful, she was also intimidating.
Her nine apertures and eight holes were connected to the surface of the strange stone, as if she was wearing a thick layer of stone clothing. Various scriptures flickered on her body; they were left behind by the ancient sages when they preached and chanted scriptures for her.
The Western Queen Mother and the saintess invited Ye Fan here for two reasons. One, they needed his divine blood, and two, they wanted to use her heaven-defying Genesis Technique to see how the divine fetus inside the stone was doing.
"The heaven and earth intersected, and such a spirit fetus was born. It's really shocking. I can feel traces of immortal aura," Ye Fan muttered to himself.
Then, he closed his eyes and carved in the air, imprinting the appearance and temperament of the divine fetus. The Western Queen Mother and the Jade Lake saintess were amazed.
The woman in the stone was extraordinary, and there was no doubt that her beauty didn't belong to the mortal world. Her body had already turned into flesh and blood, and her internal organs and bones had an indescribable immortal aura.
"The potential in her body is unimaginable. Every inch of her body contains the power of the vast ocean. If she really comes into being, she will be able to pluck the stars and capture the moon!" Ye Fan said in a low voice.
This female spirit didn't have any flaws. If such a divine fetus came into being in the future, no one in the world would be able to suppress it, so he couldn't help but take a closer look.
Ye Fan was a little hesitant. The trembling of the stone seemed to be the instinct of the spirit fetus, and her sea of consciousness was very calm. The fluctuation wasn't strong, and it didn't match her powerful and beautiful body.
"This is the result of the purification by the ancient sages," the Western Queen Mother said.
The Jade Lake predecessors were also afraid that something unexpected would happen, so they used their supreme ability to preach scriptures and thoroughly purified the divine fetus' sea of consciousness. According to them, the current divine fetus had a pure heart, just like a child of the Jade Lake.
"When she really comes into being, her spiritual will will catch up."
Although the divine fetus had been "purified", its potential was still there. Once awakened, it would be as vast as the sea.
In the following days, Ye Fan sat under the immortal peach tree and nourished the strange stone with his blood. Every time, he would open his Heavenly Eye to observe.
"She's extracting the original power from the blood!" Ye Fan observed seriously for a few days. His eyes flickered with divine light, and his heart palpitated.
Was all of this instinctive? This intimidating and beautiful divine fetus extracted strands of light from the sage blood and turned them into almost invisible symbols that were branded into the body.
"Eh? The symbols extracted from the Heavenly Prince's five-colored divine blood are especially bright." Ye Fan had the unique Heavenly Eye. To him, there were no secrets within the stone, so he observed this phenomenon.
"There is original power within the blood, and there are memory fragments of ancient ancestors. Are these symbols the same thing?" He was astonished.
If he thought about it more deeply, it would be very complicated. The Heavenly Prince's blood definitely contained the power of the Undying Heavenly Emperor. That was a supreme deity revered by all races, and it was very possible that he was the most powerful expert since ancient times.
This was indirectly the Undying Heavenly Emperor's blood and life imprint! How many people could compare to him?
Ye Fan pondered for a few days but still couldn't find any clues. In the end, he clenched his teeth and released no less than the Heavenly Prince's blood. Brilliant symbols immediately appeared within the stone.
"What does the Heavenly Prince want?" Ye Fan didn't know. In the end, quite a bit of sage blood flowed out, and the brilliant symbols were a bit more than the Heavenly Prince's.
Beside the immortal pond, all kinds of ancient medicines grew in large patches. Ginseng stalks took shape, and orchids were everywhere. They breathed in and out essence, and the fragrance was intoxicating. There were even qilin beasts lying on the ground, and auspicious beasts roamed about.
Ye Fan stayed under the immortal peach tree for more than half a month, but he didn't find anything strange. In the end, he took a scroll and left.
The scroll vaguely recorded some of the secrets of the Western Emperor's emperor weapon refinement. It was almost like a legend, such as fighting his way into the primal chaos immortal sea, entering the nine heavens alone, and killing a deity as a sacrifice to the heavens … It made him frown.
"Forget it, I'll slowly study it in the future. Otherwise, it'll be like reading a fairy tale." He shook his head.
Even though he walked out of the Jade Lake, he couldn't get rid of that strange stone with nine apertures and eight holes in his heart. The Western Queen Mother once said that the path to immortality was about to open, and they had no choice but to search for all kinds of bloodlines to nourish the divine embryo. She had to be born before that happened.
"Is what I left behind a sage blood imprint?" Ye Fan muttered to himself. He felt that he had to find the Heavenly Prince and kill him. Otherwise, he always felt that something was wrong.
"Oh, you've finally come out. We've been waiting for you for more than half a month."
Several hundred miles away from the Jade Lake, a few ancients blocked his way. The one in the lead had gray hair, and even his eyes were lead gray. He had antlers on his head, and he was a Dao Cutter.
"Why were you waiting for me?"
"Nothing much, we just wanted to have a chat with you." The few ancients surrounded him, and there was a hint of mockery at the corner of their mouths. All of them revealed their killing intent.
Ye Fan smiled, and said, "Sure, I also wanted to have a chat with you."
"Are you the Central Prefecture's Yuhua King, one of the Gemini Kings, or someone else, like the Netherworld King?" the antlered man asked calmly.
They had received accurate information that the kings of the Central Prefecture should have arrived in this half a month, so they thought that Ye Fan was one of them.
"None of them." Ye Fan shook his head.
"Reckless thing, hurry up and report your name," one of them shouted.
The deer-horned gray-haired male even more so immediately took action. A black mist overflowed into the heavens, instantly surrounding the world, sucking Ye Fan inside. "It's best if we be a bit more careful. We'll slowly interrogate him after capturing him."
This was a secret treasure bestowed by the Heavenly Prince. They had absolute confidence that this scroll could trap all Dao Cutters, and it could even kill human king-level experts.
The world within the scroll was like a cage, and the people inside and outside could see each other.
"The Heavenly Prince has spent so much effort, so how can he let a rat poop spoil a pot of porridge? Search his sea of consciousness, and see what his identity is."
The group of people looked down at the scroll, and they laughed coldly, revealing their killing intent.
"Reckless thing, appearing in the Jade Lake at this time is really annoying. Let's cut open his body first, and see what kind of blood it is."
These people all had cold expressions, and they had the power to decide life and death in their hands. One of them held a divine whip and lashed it at the scroll.
Pfft!
A beam of bloody light flickered, and this person collapsed on the spot, turning into a bloody mist. The others were shocked.
Then, a large golden hand reached out, covering heaven and earth, enveloping all of them, and grabbing them into the scroll.
"This … How is this possible?!" They were all horrified.
Based on what they knew, apart from the Son of Heaven, only Huangxu Dao, the Son of Fire Qilin, and a few others were able to break through this painting scroll. However, it had suppressed and killed many Dao Severing cultivators of the Human Clan, and now, something like this had actually happened.
"Speak, what does that Heavenly Prince, that rat poop, want to do?" Ye Fan stood on a beautiful mountain peak in the scroll.
"You …" One of them wanted to berate him.
In the sky, a large foot descended, trampling him into a bloody mist on the spot. Not even his bones were left, and they drifted in the air.
"I was just about to go find him, and you just happened to deliver yourself to my door. Hurry up and tell me what he wants to do," Ye Fan said coldly.
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