IS Chapter 152

Chapter 152

The Northern Territory was a bit colder than the last time Ye Zhuo had come. The Ancient Immortal Secret Realm, which only opened once every hundred years, was indeed very dangerous.

The secret realm was dangerous, and the people were dangerous too. Precisely, Ye Zhuo needed this kind of danger.

So, Upper Purity Mountain lost two more Immortals.

In the Immortal-level Secret Realm, there would be many gains, but there was nothing Ye Zhuo needed. Thus, he simply broke the formations that needed breaking, killed the people who needed killing, passed the trials that needed passing, figured out the structure of the secret realm, and looked through the inheritances within.

He came to find an opportunity to break through to the Human Immortal Realm, but the opportunity didn’t seem to be here. Ye Zhuo rarely experienced this feeling: the realm was only a hair’s breadth away, yet he didn’t know where that hair’s breadth truly lay.

The items produced by the secret realm were all given to those who needed them.

Leaving the Ancient Immortal Secret Realm ahead of schedule, the outside was still an endless expanse of frozen mountains. The snow seemed to never stop. Further ahead was the far north, and Ye Zhuo didn’t like this place.

There, the wind and snow raged. Once, an extremely violent Extreme Cold Ice Vein was born, and in the end, the heart of the ice vein was used to forge Yun Xiang Xi’s Life-Bound Sword. The remaining part was used to forge twelve Xiang Zhuo Swords. Of course, they were all destroyed now.

And he hadn’t seen Yun Xiang Xi’s sword for twenty years.

Ye Zhuo headed toward the direction of the Extreme Cold Ice Vein. Halfway there, he faintly heard chaotic beast roars and fighting sounds. Some figures in scarlet and cyan were scattering in the snow in a sorry state. They were disciples and elders of the Red Dust Sword Sect, and even the Red Dust Immortal Ruler himself was among them. There were also a few blue-clothed disciples from the Hongmeng Sect mixed in, and Shen Xin Ge was also there.

When the Ancient Immortal Secret Realm opened, the Red Dust Sword Sect was also among the participants, but they didn’t appear in the secret realm. It turned out they were all here.

Looking at them again, they were being pursued by a tide-like wave of demon beasts. The beast tide came from the north, and leading them was a Qiongqi beast with ribs sprouting wings and a tiger face with fangs. Its ice and snow wings were spread open, covering the sky and sun, and were splattered with drops of blood. The Red Dust Immortal Ruler and several elders couldn’t protect all the disciples, and the entire sect was fleeing in a sorry state.

Someone suddenly shouted loudly: “Palace Master Ye!”

“Palace Master Ye!”

“Palace Master Ye, be careful!”

The Red Dust Immortal Ruler didn’t want to be associated with them. Why was it that when facing the ferocious beast, the disciples shouted “Sect Leader, go get ’em!” to him, but shouted “Palace Master Ye, be careful!” to Ye Zhuo?

Shen Xin Ge: “Dao friend Ye, let’s escape together!”

Ye Zhuo: “Escape to where?”

“To the Ancient Immortal Secret Realm!” Shen Xin Ge was full of vigor. “When the Upper Purity Mountain comes out of the secret realm, we’ll lead the demon beasts to rush over, and let the Dao Sect experts act on behalf of Heaven!”

?

Not something a Sword Cultivator would do.

More like a Dao Cultivator’s style.

As they spoke, several more disciples were hit by the Qiongqi’s Gang energy and fell to the ground. Ye Zhuo directly drew his sword.

The fallen disciples watched as the Qiongqi’s figure blocked their entire field of vision, and the fishy, fragrant scent of the alien beast and killing intent assaulted them together. Just at this moment of life and death, a cold sword edge cut through everything.

The Qiongqi beast let out a majestic roar, its wings spread open with a whoosh, casting a night-like shadow, and fiercely fought with the red-clothed figure that had drifted over in mid-air, creating earth-shattering movements.

Actually, fighting alien beasts was exactly what Ye Zhuo excelled at.

But such a scene of one person and one sword fighting alone against a sky-filling giant beast was rarely seen, even in the Xian Dao world.

The Red Dust Sword Sect disciples had the heart to let their sect leader fight alongside Second Palace Master Ye, but looking at the situation, they were afraid that if their sect leader got too close, he would be scraped to death by the aftershocks.

“Sect Leader.”

“Hm?”

“You are a Human Immortal, but not Palace Master Ye is a Human Immortal, right?”

Red Dust Immortal Ruler: “…Isn’t him fighting beyond his level a common occurrence?”

“That’s true.”

“Sword Cultivators have always been able to fight enemies beyond their level.” The Red Dust Immortal Ruler said deeply, “It’s just that Second Palace Master Ye is fighting across a major realm, and you are only fighting across a minor realm. Don’t be discouraged.”

“We’re not discouraged, we’re just afraid you’re discouraged.”

In the end, no one was discouraged.

Because that old Qiongqi was finally pierced through the heart by Second Palace Master Ye’s sword and fell down with a bang. It was dusk at that time, and the blood-like setting sun shone all over the snowfield.

As a member of the human race, seeing this scene, one could be proud of it.

The disciples spontaneously went to clean up the remaining demon beasts.

Ye Zhuo stood quietly in place, watching the Qiongqi’s copper-cast iron-forged corpse fall in the snow, its blood flowing out and then freezing into blood-red ice. Even the most powerful creatures would eventually die. He killed the Qiongqi, and even more powerful creatures could kill him.

“This is also a famous fierce beast in the Northern Territory,” the Red Dust Immortal Ruler walked to his side. “It has repeatedly committed crimes against the human world for hundreds of years. The most recent time was a dozen years ago during the human war. It trampled dozens of mortal cities, and was finally repelled by people sent by Upper Purity Mountain.”

“You didn’t go to the secret realm, but instead went to find it?”

“How dare we. On the way to the secret realm, we discovered that there were sporadic demon beasts going south. We thought that this winter was extremely cold, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was scarce, so demon beasts would inevitably come to the human world to plunder blood food. Afraid of something happening, we searched along the direction they came from and encountered this guy.” The Red Dust Immortal Ruler said, “Palace Master Ye, at the end of the road, great chaos is bound to arise. Just in this Northern Territory, there are tens of thousands of demons and monsters. That Extreme Cold Ice Vein back then gave birth to countless ice-attribute alien beasts. Killing some today is only one-tenth or one-twelfth.”

Ye Zhuo didn’t speak, as if all of this had nothing to do with him. He went forward and cut open the Qiongqi’s chest and abdomen, and took out its inner core. The Red Dust Immortal Ruler ordered the disciples to station here and disperse to clear out the other remaining demon beasts. After more than ten days, the disciples returned one after another with trophies and news.

“Palace Master Ye.” Suddenly, a disciple brought up a basin. “Look at this.”

Ye Zhuo looked over. In the basin, several snow-white, tiny somethings were surging.

–Ye Zhuo directly took two steps back.

The disciple who presented the thing looked confusedly at the inside of the basin. Thunder weasel cubs, weren’t they very cute? These little weasels had sapphire eyes and smooth fur. They had discussed it for a long time and planned to give them to Palace Master Ye to play with. Why did they feel that Palace Master Ye didn’t like them at all?

The disciple hesitated and said: “Their parents were a pair of Great Harmony demon, who liked blood food and had invaded the human world. Now they have been killed by us. But the cubs are innocent and have not done anything bad yet. We don’t know whether to kill them or keep them.”

Ye Zhuo didn’t want to touch such young beasts that would die if pinched and were unable to protect themselves at all. Just like when Li Yuan had stuffed that deer cub into his arms, he only felt fear.

In fact, the thunder weasel and the deer cub had done nothing wrong, and everyone else was the same. Like that Qiongqi, in front of it, the human body was just a piece of thin flesh.

“Palace Master Ye?”

“Is this the first time you’ve brought back something like this?” Ye Zhuo said. “Dispose of it according to the rules, no need to ask me.”

Yuan Sea. Two red dragons transformed into human form and sat listlessly by the pillars. A golden dragon was faintly coiled around the pillars.

“He really can cultivate.” Yao Zhu said, “The Ancestor is really something, not even letting us disturb him.”

“An ancient bloodline reappearing, what would you say if you were the Ancestor?”

“Oh, then I would also enshrine him.”

The golden dragon said: “Is there any clue about what he’s doing in the human world? The Ancestor asked me again. Even with a breakthrough in realm, there’s no reason to be doing closed-door cultivation silently like this. Everyone is afraid he has a heart demon.”

“Then go ask him yourself.”

“The Ancestor doesn’t allow disturbing his cultivation.”

“He hasn’t been cultivating these past few days.” Xian Zhu said, “He’s been reading.”

“Really?” The golden dragon came down from the top of the pillar, transformed into human form, and pushed the door open to enter.

Li Yuan had his eyes closed.

In front of him, more than a dozen books floated and flipped, and there were also some glowing jade slips suspended.

The golden dragon walked over and roughly glanced at them. Apart from one or two classic sword manuals, most of them were actually Buddhist scriptures, and some notes recording the life of the Sumeru High Priest.

What was he thinking of doing looking at these things? Becoming a monk?

The golden dragon vigilantly looked at Li Yuan’s desk. On the desk was a piece of paper with an extremely dangerous and mysterious pattern drawn on it, faintly a lotus flower pattern. He had never seen such a thing.

The golden dragon cleared his throat.

Li Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

In fact, he knew that the three older siblings had been guarding outside the Scripture Pavilion for a long time. This was out of concern, but he didn’t want to say anything right now.

“They said that you suffered a love injury in the human world, and they also said that you were probably abandoned by someone.” The golden dragon’s eldest brother’s voice was a bit stiff, obviously not used to inquiring about people’s worries.

Li Yuan didn’t answer, and the golden dragon coldly snorted: “Is the human world some kind of dragon’s pool and tiger’s den? The last time you came back, you locked yourself in Yuan Sea for several years, and it’s the same this time. I think we might as well just take it down! Whoever you like, just tie them over, wouldn’t that be fine?”

“I was not abandoned by anyone.” Li Yuan said.

“Then what are you doing now? Cultivating so desperately, aren’t you trying to go there again?”

“I just understand what I should cultivate and what I lack.” Li Yuan said, “Before, I went to see the old Holy Master of the Ancient Barbaric World, and he said he couldn’t teach me. I asked him, who could teach me. The old Holy Master said, Heaven has its own will. Now I know, I have already been taught.”

“How funny! Teaching you to lock yourself in Yuan Sea? Li Yuan, how did your uncle die, how did your Life-Bound Sword come to be, I think you wouldn’t not know!”

“That has nothing to do with it.”

The pages finally stopped turning, and Li Yuan stared straight ahead at the deep darkness that could not be illuminated by the lights: “We were born belonging to the dragon race, and the realm has been peaceful for many years, many things are readily available, so we are not too attached. But there are many things in this world that require you to calculate every step and fight for with your life.”

“The Heavenly Dao has many gifts for true dragons, and then, the dragon race respects the Heavenly Dao. Therefore, I didn’t know before that some things even have to be fought for with the Heavenly Dao. The human race is always fighting, so the human body is born weak, but in the end, they can ask about the Great Dao. I cultivate because I also have something I want to fight for now. If elder brother thinks what I say makes sense, you can also go cultivate now.”

“Speaking, you do have the demeanor of a Dragon Lord.” The golden dragon sneered, “But I hear that a human has indeed taught you a lesson. Humans are cunning and deceitful. You are inexperienced, and being deceived is common. Tell us, and we will avenge you.”

Li Yuan frowned.

“I said, I was not abandoned, nor was I deceived.”

“Who are you fooling?” The golden dragon said, “Whether you don’t want to pay attention to others because you don’t want to, or because you feel sad, we have our own conclusions.”

“Was I very attentive to you before?” Li Yuan said, “If I have ten points of sincerity, and give him nine points, if he has one point, and gives me one point, how can there be talk of abandonment? He just couldn’t do it!”

The golden dragon’s eyes widened, as if recognizing his younger brother for the first time. His face turned blue and white for a while, and he felt that he should say something, but he couldn’t squeeze out a single word.

“He’s afraid.” Li Yuan suddenly said. That voice was very soft, like he was saying it to himself.

“He has experienced it before, all the people he knew and didn’t know were like fish on a chopping board, killed one sword after another, all of them. Not even having the power to fight back.” He quietly looked at his older brother’s eyes, “If it were you? What would you do? The things he can do, I can’t do. What about you?”

The golden dragon stared straight at him, and finally squeezed out a sentence unpleasantly: “Then should I congratulate you on still leaving one point of sincerity, not being beyond redemption?”

“That one point is not up to me.” Li Yuan said, “Leave it for the day I die, for the final verdict.”

“You are really unreasonable!” The golden dragon’s angry voice still echoed in the hall, and he had already flung his sleeves and slammed the door shut.