In front of the Purple Mountain, Fatty Duan was scared out of his wits. He decisively took out the lid of the evil jar and … fled!
He didn't want to fight, he wanted to escape. Although he had half an emperor weapon, it wasn't perfect. Moreover, activating it would definitely suck him dry.
He didn't have the demeanor of a master or a heroic spirit. He used the lid to protect himself and ran.
The saint was all skin and bones, his flesh and blood dried up. However, the vitality he exuded was terrifying. He was wearing a tattered battle robe from an unknown era as he chased after Duan Du.
This was naturally Ye Fan. After entering the saint's body, he wanted to beat Duan Du up the moment he saw him. Naturally, the heartless daoist was scared out of his wits and ran faster than a rabbit.
After Ye Fan adapted to this body for a short while, he immediately used the Row Formula and quickly caught up, laughing strangely.
"Motherf * cker, what a horrifying laugh …" Fatty Duan's hair stood on end. He shrunk his neck and rolled like a ball, his speed increasing by several times.
Ye Fan chased after him. The sparse hair on this body fluttered in the wind and the deep eye sockets glowed eerily. He really looked like a ten-thousand-year-old corpse.
"Kekeke …"
Hearing this laughter, Duan De had goosebumps all over his body. Seeing the other reaching out to touch his butt, he was so scared that he turned into a black light and disappeared into the ground.
Ye Fan used the Clairvoyant Eye and saw that there was a thief's tunnel leading to an altar deep underground. The damned fatty was so scared that he wanted to cross the void to escape.
"Hahaha …" Ye Fan laughed.
Fatty Duan stood on the altar with a gloomy expression. Then, he slowly figured out that if this was a saint who wanted to kill him, he would've attacked the evil jar long ago.
"Motherf * cker!"
Duan De rushed out of the thief's tunnel and stared at Ye Fan for a long time. He was flustered and exasperated. He cursed loudly and almost pounced on Ye Fan to kill him.
He understood feng shui and had cultivated the Heavenly Eye of Yin Yang. After careful observation, he saw a familiar wisp of energy rushing out of the saint's head.
After cursing, Duan De's eyes lit up again. "With the flesh of a saint, it'll be much safer to enter the Purple Mountain."
After Ye Fan familiarized himself with the Sage's body, he felt that the dried up Sea of Reincarnation and Dao Palaces in his body had recovered some vitality. Even the broken bronze bell and battle spear flew out for his use.
However, he sighed again. The strength of this physical body was absolutely indescribable. It was ridiculously powerful! He felt as if he could shatter a Holy Weapon. However, even though a portion of his divine power had recovered, it couldn't be completely revived. After all, he had been dead for many years. Moreover, his Primordial Spirit had already passed away. There were no Sage laws or Great Dao comprehensions left behind.
This was the flesh shell of a Saint. After Ye Fan's primordial spirit took control of it, his physical body was absolutely invincible. However, if he wanted to display the might of a real Saint, it would be too difficult. He lacked the corresponding heaven-defying law imprint.
"That kind of thing is born in the Primordial Spirit, and the imprint has long been extinguished with time. Otherwise, how could you take control of the sacred shell? You would have been erased long ago! Unless it's the corporeal body of an ancient great emperor, I reckon that even his hair and even his clipped nails are interweaved with the supreme Great Dao laws and have the most original markings of heaven and earth, "Duan De said.
Ye Fan asked the heartless Daoist why the old blind hadn't arrived yet. He said that he had gone to borrow the devil jar from the seventh great bandit, Tu Tian.
The two of them waited here for several days and finally saw the old blind swindler. Compared to a dozen years ago, he looked even more like an old swindler in the pugilistic world.
The moment they met, he grabbed Duan De's hand affectionately and shook it. Then, he cleanly and skillfully removed the string of Heavenly Fey Divine Pearls and put it on his wrist without blushing or skipping a beat.
Duan De stomped his feet and scolded him for being an ingrate, heartless, and for saving his life for nothing.
The old blind man rolled his eyes and said that he was the one who saved the heartless Daoist's life. It was the damned fatty who plundered the ancient cemetery of an archaic royal family that provoked an ancient king's avatar to chase after him.
None of them were good people, this was Ye Fan's understanding. Neither of these two were good things and were rather scoundrels. Put together, they were about the same weight.
The old blind man's current cultivation was extremely frightening. Ye Fan couldn't quite figure it out. According to his conjecture, he was at the same level as the crimson dragon back then. After the world changed, he became a king.
"What if we go in and alarm the archaic royal family?" Ye Fan asked.
"Don't worry, they've already scrammed away. Back then, when Wu Shi's bell rang, all the ancient kings here were swept out," said Duan De. He spoke of a few secrets not known to others.
Back then, Great Emperor Wu Shi entered Purple Mountain and imprisoned all the protectors of the nine dragon veins in Ancient Sovereign Mountain, leaving them a place to be gate gods.
"Gate gods sounds nice, but in reality, it's just forcefully imprisoning them here to serve as guards," said the old blind man.
Last time the bell rang, all the archaic races were shaken out. They couldn't stay here any longer, so Purple Mountain was almost empty.
"Let's go. What are we waiting for? Rumor has it that there's an immortal phoenix medicine inside. This time, we can smell the medicinal fragrance." Duan De was impatient.
"You little grave robber, you've been waiting here for more than ten years. I knew you were up to no good. You even dared to enter the cemetery of an archaic royal family. Today, you finally couldn't help but set your sights on the tomb of an ancient great emperor," said the old blind man.
"Damn it, I'm just a great archaeologist. Everything I do is to restore history and witness miracles. Don't compare my lofty ideals to your insignificant demigod mentality."
"Dogshit!" The old blind man was concise.
"Stop arguing. Should we forcefully break in or find a path to enter?" asked Ye Fan.
Duan De said, "Every tomb is a beautiful work of art. Forcefully breaking in is a crime and trampling on history. You are a sinner for all eternity. We have to walk in elegantly and appreciate it with a lofty state of mind."
"Scram!" The old blind man slapped the back of his head. He tossed a pile of tortoise shells on the ground and began to look for an auspicious divination.
In the end, he pointed at a dragon vein. That was the gate of life and there was an auspicious divination.
Ye Fan laughed when he saw this. This was the path he had walked in the past, but when he followed the ancient vein, he couldn't laugh anymore.
In the depths, that natural yin yang diagram turned into primal chaos, becoming a dao point. It made one's heart palpitate and couldn't help but tremble.
Ye Fan was deeply moved. Yin and yang reversed, turning into limitless. This was the innate beginning of the dao. This was a terrifying transformation of the dao!
They definitely couldn't enter this place. If they forced their way in, they would most likely return to limitless and become dao on the spot. They would become a strand of laws and disappear from the world.
"This is your divination? It's just a charlatan, far worse than my tombs." The others all left while Duan De nagged.
"Humans make mistakes and horses stumble. That used to be the safest gate, but after Little Brat Ye walked through it, it became the most dangerous place."
Then, the old crazy man continued to deduce. The tortoise shell made crackling sounds as it rolled around on the ground.
His expression was solemn as he rejected five more dragon veins. He went to verify them one by one, and sure enough, they were all dead ends. Someone had walked through them and turned them into a natural moat.
Only the last three were left. He deduced them one by one and found that they were all passable. In the end, they chose a path with a better divination and began to advance.
"Have we come to the universe? Why does it look like a star domain?" Duan De muttered.
This dragon vein was difficult to walk. They didn't know how many formation patterns they had to break and how many dangerous areas they had to pass through to reach the end.
This was a resplendent starry sky. Stepping into it would make one lose their way. There was no way to go through and they didn't know what was going on.
"It really is a star domain …" Even Ye Fan was a bit dumbfounded. This path was too mysterious.
He couldn't help but think of the secret history of Laozi leaving Hangu Pass. Opening the west gate of Hangu Pass connected to a star domain and walked towards the ancient path of the starry sky.
Could this dragon vein be the same? The end led to a star domain?
"This isn't a real star domain, but it's close. I'm afraid it's a miniature star domain refined by Great Emperor Wu Shi," the old blind man said.
Ye Fan was dumbfounded. How could they go over? How many years would they have to fly across a star domain? Perhaps they wouldn't reach the end even if they died of old age.
"It's not a real star domain, there are flaws to be found. Since Great Emperor Wu Shi left a path in the previous dragon veins, we can definitely go through here," the old crazy man said.
Duan De said, "This might not be left behind by Wu Shi. Maybe it was refined by that old bastard, the Undying Heavenly Emperor. After all, this was his grave in the beginning."
"It's not impossible, but as long as it's not a real star domain, there's still a way." The old blind man began to deduce with the tortoise shell.
Just like that, they began a difficult journey, advancing while risking their lives.
During the night, the old blind man pulled out a bunch of hair and finally figured out a way to find the spatial node. He believed there would be a way out.
Several days later, they were lost in this terrifying star domain. They couldn't tell their direction and completely lost their sense of space.
Suddenly, a black hole appeared out of nowhere and swallowed them all.
"Boom!"
At this moment, the saint shell that Ye Fan had taken over displayed its terrifying side. A punch shattered the vacuum and sent them flying out.
"No, it's this black hole. If we go through it, we'll pass through this star domain!" the old blind man suddenly shouted.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's use the sky-devouring evil jar and go through it," Duan De said.
"No, if we use the imperial weapon now, we'll most likely trigger the Wu Shi Bell. At that time, this place will most likely be destroyed and we'll be in danger." The old blind man shook his head and then stared at Ye Fan.
"Fine, if you're not worried, then let me try," Ye Fan said.
What was a star domain black hole? It could devour and destroy everything. Perhaps only the physical body of a saint could withstand this kind of power.
Ye Fan drew them into his body and then took a deep breath. He turned into a beam of light as his golden blood energy soared into the sky and illuminated the entire miniature star domain.
"Boom!"
He entered the black hole and passed through it. After an unknown period of time, he appeared inside a purple mountain.
The light here was somewhat dim. The jade palaces and pavilions were covered in dust, simple and unadorned. There were many ancient paths and caves leading in all directions.
They had successfully entered the purple mountain. Duan De jumped up and rubbed his hands excitedly. "People in our line of work have always been researching an important topic, and that is how to overcome the curtains of the ancient emperors. This is especially true for the tomb of Wu Shi. I'm the first archaeologist to enter this place."
"Have we arrived at the deepest part, the place where Great Emperor Wu Shi passed away?" The old blind man felt uneasy as he stared at the platform behind the bejeweled palace.
Ye Fan and Duan De also looked over after hearing this and felt their hair stand on end.
There was a dao platform there, incomparably grand and tall. There was a lot of mist lingering around it, giving it a mysterious and terrifying appearance. One could vaguely see a tall figure sitting cross-legged on it, exuding a terrifying aura.
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