Chapter 865
Sect Master Liushui personally received them, treating Ye Chu and Zhong Wei with great courtesy. Ye Chu also explained the purpose of their visit to him, wishing to find the Tashan Jade in this area.
“Although there are legends about the Tashan Jade around here, they are merely legends. If such a holy material truly existed, countless people would have come to snatch it,” Sect Master Liushui said, shaking his head. “I have searched for it myself, but I did not find even a single trace.”
“Is there really nothing at all?” Ye Chu asked Sect Master Liushui somewhat unwillingly.
“It is not that there is absolutely nothing. I do know who the Tashan Jade is related to,” Sect Master Liushui said. “I wonder if you have heard of Venerable Mo Yu?”
“Venerable Mo Yu?” Zhong Wei and Ye Chu stared straight at each other, their hearts filled with immense shock. They had naturally heard of this Venerable. Legend had it that this Venerable was also a descendant of an ancient clan back in the day and had the potential to compete on the path to the Supreme Realm. However, he accidentally met the Mortal Dust Holy Maiden and was captivated by her elegance. He swore to follow her and gave up competing for supremacy on the path to the Supreme Realm.
Although he had no chance to become a Supreme or an Absolute Powerhouse, he was still terrifying. He was a world-shaking expert and a highly renowned figure even in his own era. He could truly be considered a resounding legend.
“Are you saying the Tashan Jade was left behind by Venerable Mo Yu?” Ye Chu’s heart trembled, and he stared blankly at the other party as he asked.
“Yes! The Tashan Jade was left behind by Venerable Mo Yu!” Sect Master Liushui sighed. “I spent countless amounts of effort searching everywhere for the Tashan Jade, and in the end, I discovered the connection between Venerable Mo Yu and the Tashan Jade. Later, I obtained an astonishing piece of news, which finally made me give up the search for the Tashan Jade.”
“What astonishing news?” Ye Chu asked the other party, feeling somewhat puzzled in his heart, wondering what kind of news could make a person about to step into the Xuanhua Realm lose his composure like this.
“Venerable Mo Yu might not be dead yet!” Sect Master Liushui said word by word.
This sentence made Ye Chu and Zhong Wei stand up abruptly. The hair on their bodies stood on end, and they stared wide-eyed at Sect Master Liushui, saying, “What?”
They could not help but be shocked. Venerable Mo Yu was a figure from the era of the Mortal Dust Holy Maiden. He had probably existed for seventy or eighty thousand years. How could such an ancient figure still be alive? Was this a joke?
Even a Supreme could only live for ten thousand years, and defying the heavens would only grant them forty or fifty thousand years at most. Yet now they received news that Venerable Mo Yu was still alive. How was this possible?
“I did not believe it before either, but in the end, I came to believe it,” Sect Master Liushui said. “Because my junior martial brother told us before he died that he had seen the Tashan Jade, and he had also seen Venerable Mo Yu.”
Ye Chu and Zhong Wei glanced at each other, both seeing the shock in each other’s eyes. This was simply too unbelievable, and Ye Chu could not help but frown.
After a long while, Zhong Wei finally said, “It is not entirely impossible that he is still alive. There are Xuan Stones and various other items in the world that can seal oneself and delay the ageing of one’s vitality. But sealing oneself for tens of thousands of years requires an immense price. No matter how much you delay ageing, you still have to die after tens of thousands of years. Moreover, finding a Xuan Stone capable of sealing a Venerable is extremely difficult. Ordinary precious Xuan Stones are useless; it requires at least a holy-grade Xuan Stone. Coupled with the appropriate secret techniques and various special conditions, one can seal oneself. Indeed, many experts from before the Middle Antiquity are not dead yet, but did they not all pay a tragic price to seal themselves and wait for the prosperous era to arrive?”
“Decades ago, the prosperous era had not yet arrived. Even if Venerable Mo Yu sealed himself and is still alive now, he would not be foolish enough to unseal himself back then. Time is simply too precious to them,” Zhong Wei said.
Sect Master Liushui nodded and said, “Although that is true, my junior martial brother explicitly said that he saw Venerable Mo Yu. He was so confident that I would not doubt him.”
Ye Chu nodded and said, “Perhaps there are other reasons. I just do not know where your noble junior martial brother saw the Tashan Jade!”
Sect Master Liushui said to Ye Chu, “Under a bottomless cliff to the west. I once sent people to go down, but it was entangled with evil energy. I went halfway down and did not dare to go any further. If the Tashan Stone truly exists, it is highly likely down there. It is just that the evil energy has become increasingly turbulent in recent years, and no one can go down anymore.”
“Oh, there is such a place?” Ye Chu asked curiously. “How did your noble junior martial brother go down back then?”
“He died an unnatural death precisely because he was tainted by the evil energy. Moreover, decades ago, the energy there was far less turbulent than it is now,” Sect Master Liushui replied to Ye Chu. “Otherwise, he would have died there before even going down.”
“No wonder!” Ye Chu nodded, then cupped his hands and said to the other party, “Thank you, Sect Master, for informing me of all this.”
Sect Master Liushui kindly reminded Ye Chu, “You two must not take risks. The evil energy inside is truly terrifying. Let alone whether there is any Tashan Jade inside, even if there is, it is not as precious as your lives. Moreover, if Venerable Mo Yu is truly alive as my junior martial brother said, you will not be able to get that thing even if you have heaven-defying abilities.”
“We understand, thank you!” Ye Chu thanked Sect Master Liushui and took Zhong Wei down the mountain.
“Sigh…”
Seeing that Ye Chu would not listen to his advice, Sect Master Liushui sighed and did not say anything else. He had already said what he needed to say. If the other party really went to take risks and died in there, they would have no one to blame but themselves.
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After going down the mountain, Ye Chu walked quickly towards the southwest, while asking Zhong Wei, “Do you think there is really someone in this world who can live for seventy or eighty thousand years?”
Zhong Wei shook her head and said, “Theoretically, it is impossible, but you also know there are many divine objects in the world, especially before the Middle Antiquity. There were countless divine objects. If one could find a few items that can seal oneself and completely isolate one’s vitality, living until now is not impossible. It is just that such things are too hard to find.”
“Too hard to find means such things exist. Perhaps Venerable Mo Yu is really still alive,” Ye Chu took a deep breath and said. “Since a Venerable can live, wouldn’t it be even more possible for a Supreme to survive?”
“Impossible! Anyone in this world can use objects to seal themselves, but only Supremes can only wait for death. Because they are too strong, so strong that there is nothing in the world that can seal them,” Zhong Wei said to Ye Chu. “Therefore, Absolute Powerhouses or Venerables in the world might still be alive, but Supremes can only consume their own time and wait for their end to arrive. This can also be considered the tragedy of a Supreme.”
Hearing these words, Ye Chu nodded, and then could not help but think of the old lunatic. He could actually fight against a Supreme, and sometimes when he went crazy, he said he was older than the Heartless Peak.
Although it was unknown whether these words were true or false, if they were true, the old lunatic was definitely a monster who had lived for more than ten thousand years. Someone who could live for more than ten thousand years must be a Supreme. Yet he could not possibly be a Supreme.