Gu Qingfeng was comprehending the mysteries of the magic treasure eye seal when a voice suddenly sounded.
"Young... man, thank... you."
The voice was very weak and hoarse. It dragged out the words as if it had used all its strength to finish the sentence.
Gu Qingfeng retracted his divine sense and looked at the mysterious old man beside him.
The old man was still sitting cross-legged. His head was drooping, and his hair was as dry as grass. His body was shriveled and lifeless, like a dried corpse. He didn't look any different from before. The Spirit Gathering Array that Gu Qingfeng had set up was also operating normally. Only the essence that was used as the eye of the array had lost its luster.
Obviously.
The formation had played its role.
Origin essence was formed by the heavens and earth after countless years of nurturing. It contained the pure essence of spirit qi and was a precious item for recovering one's vitality. Back then, Gu Qingfeng had won a large sum of money from gambling in the Bipolar Heavenly Domain and specially bought a lot of origin essence. He had originally intended to use it to recover his vitality.
However, his body was rotten and chaotic, and essence had no effect at all. Even if his meridians and acupoints were opened, there were no impurities in his body and it was useless.
Gu Qingfeng had long been accustomed to this. Ever since he had tempered his body with the Nine Serenities Ancestral Fire, his body had embarked on a strange and extreme path. As his body grew stronger, the so-called resources became less effective. Now that his body had become like this, even drinking the Dao of Heaven and the Impermanence of Hell, which were said to be able to make the world drunk, was like drinking plain water, not to mention Primordial Essence.
Although the mysterious old man was still extremely weak under the nourishment of essence, he had at least regained consciousness.
"It was nothing."
The old man was on the verge of death, so he could only rely on the formation to slowly recover. As he spoke, Gu Qingfeng took out another piece of Origin Essence and placed it in the middle of the formation, continuing to use the Origin Essence to nourish the old man.
"Young... man... how long has it been since ancient times?"
Gu Qingfeng replied, "Ten thousand years since ancient times."
"What is the Mandate of Heaven?"
"Mandate of Heaven."
"Mandate of Heaven..." the mysterious old man murmured weakly, "Ancient Mandate of Heaven, Ancient Throne, Immemorial Imperial Seal... it seems that I have really stayed here for too many years..."
"You came here from ancient times?"
"Yes..."
"In that case, you have indeed stayed here for a long time."
To be honest, Gu Qingfeng did not know how many years had passed since ancient times. He only knew that it was very, very long.
Although there was no time in cultivation and one could enter seclusion for millions of years, that was only in terms of seclusion.
When one was in seclusion, they would be nourished by spiritual qi and wholeheartedly would be immersed in meditation.
Inside the Desolate Ancient Ruins, everything was barren. There was no trace of Spiritual Qi. Not to mention closed-door training, it would be amazing if one could live for tens of millions of years. It should be known that in a place without Spiritual Qi, every day one stayed would consume one's cultivation. One year, two years, ten years, a hundred years, or even a thousand years, one might be able to persist. However, if one stayed for tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years, no matter how high one's cultivation was, there would come a day when one's cultivation would be exhausted.
This mysterious old man had persisted in the Desolate Ancient Ruins for more than 100,000 years, perhaps even more than a million years. From this point of view, this old man's cultivation was absolutely unfathomable. At the very least, he was an old ancestor of a magnate.
"I wonder... how did you come here?"
The mysterious old man's weak voice came. Gu Qingfeng did not tell the truth, but lied, "The ancient ruins have just appeared, so I came in to see if I could find any treasures."
"What did you say?"
Hearing this.
The mysterious old man raised his head abruptly. Good heavens, that was an indescribable face. It was like a bag of bones, and the skin on his face was wrinkled like tree bark. His eyes had long sunken in, and even his eyeballs were gone. There were only two holes left, and his nose and mouth were only skin and bones.
It could be seen that the old man was shocked, but more than that, he was pleasantly surprised. He felt like a mummy had suddenly come back to life. He stared at Gu Qingfeng and said, "The ruins... really... appeared?"
Gu Qingfeng nodded and replied, "Yes."
"Good! Good! Good! Very good... "
The mysterious old man said three good words in a row and then slowly lowered his head.
"Senior, do you know which era the ruins are from?"
The old man was silent for a moment and replied softly, "I don't know... I don't know."
"Then why have you stayed here for so many years?"
There was another silence. After a long time, the old man replied, "I am Lin Chi. I am the Supreme Elder of Danding Valley."
Hearing that the old man was the Supreme Elder of Danding Valley, Gu Qingfeng could not help laughing and said, "So you are the Supreme Elder of Danding Valley. Sorry for the disrespect."
"In the ancient times, the ruins appeared in the Great Wilderness. Many people rushed in to search for treasures. I and the other elders of Danding Valley were no exception. Unfortunately, not long after we came in... the ruins mysteriously fell from the Great Wilderness into the Endless Sea beyond Sky..."
After the second essence was depleted, Gu Qingfeng hurriedly took out a third essence and continued to nourish it. He did not speak and only listened quietly.
As for the Supreme Elder of Danding Valley who called himself Lin Chi, he was too weak and could not absorb Spirit Qi at all. He could only slowly accept the nourishment of the essence. He said, "Everyone was trapped here and could not leave. At first, everything was still fine. However, as time passed, some people began to change... especially those demons. In order to survive, they began to kill and rob... snatch all resources..."
"Although the elders of Danding Valley worked together to kill those demons, they either died or were injured... In the end, only I was lucky enough to survive..."
"I see." Gu Qingfeng rubbed his chin, deep in thought.
"I had exhausted my cultivation and had been relying on the treasures I collected to survive. I wanted to... open the seal on the treasure eye and rely on its essence to survive. However, the seal was too profound."
Ancestor Lin Chi's voice became more and more hoarse and weak as he continued, "This old man spent a very, very long time to comprehend it. Unfortunately … when this old man comprehended it, his cultivation had already dried up and his consciousness was blurry …"
"Oh?" Gu Qingfeng said in surprise, "Senior, you comprehended the mysteries of the seal?"
"Yes … Yes …" After saying these two words, Ancestor Lin Chi seemed to have stopped breathing.
"Senior!"
Gu Qingfeng called out a few times, but Ancestor Lin Chi didn't respond. He walked over, squatted down, and called out a few more times, but Ancestor Lin Chi still didn't respond. Just as he was about to investigate, Ancestor Lin Chi, who looked like he was about to die, suddenly raised his head. His empty eye sockets were filled with killing intent. He raised his hand and clawed at Gu Qingfeng's head.
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