“Black iron?” Ruoshui looked at the golden doll in confusion, puzzled by his words.
The golden doll glanced at the crowd. “None of you saw that thing?”
Qing Wenting and Ruoshui both shook their heads. The others who had entered the depths of the tomb also shook their heads. When the black iron had been brought out earlier, everyone had been scrambling for various treasures. No one had noticed Ye Chu picking it up.
Seeing their reactions, the golden doll could not help frowning. “I just robbed everything from those profound cultivators who entered the tomb. I did not find the black iron. Could my guess be wrong? Is there really no black iron in that tomb?”
The golden doll scratched his head, showing an extremely regretful expression. This surprised even Ruoshui. The golden doll had not looked so pained even when using his replica gold ingot, yet a single piece of black iron made him like this.
“You really did not see it?” The golden doll looked at Ruoshui and Qing Wenting, asking again with great reluctance.
Qing Wenting and Ruoshui shook their heads. “We have not seen it!”
The golden doll showed a bitter expression. He could not help glancing towards where the tomb had been. “What a pity. That tomb has already collapsed and sunk into the ground. Who knows where it has drifted to now. Otherwise, this God of Wealth could have searched it thoroughly.”
Ye Chu saw how much importance the golden doll placed on that piece of black iron. He could not help asking curiously, “What exactly is that thing? Even someone who calls himself the God of Wealth feels such heartache over it?”
“None of your damn business!” The golden doll had no good tone towards Ye Chu. “Everyone else might have had the chance to get it, but only you did not. Why are you asking so much?”
Those words nearly choked Ye Chu to death. He took a deep breath, struggling to control the urge to explode and beat this madman to death. Ye Chu understood clearly that trying to deal with this lunatic right now would only end badly for himself.
“Dead fat man, do not let me surpass you. Otherwise, I will smash all your gold ingots and make you go play in the snake pit properly.” Ye Chu said through gritted teeth.
“What a pity, what a pity. It seems that thing will remain buried forever with the tomb.” The golden doll sighed.
Ruoshui spoke up. “Could there be even better things inside that we failed to obtain? What could be more precious than the Cloud Immortal Ribbon, the general’s Primordial Spirit True Source, and the heart method of an invincible supreme figure?”
Ye Chu’s gaze also turned to the golden doll. He very much wanted to know what that black iron truly was.
“Of course it is far more precious than those!”
The golden doll’s firm words made Ye Chu’s heart jolt. He felt his blood boil madly. Suddenly, even breathing became difficult for him.
No one was unaware of the value of the golden book and the Cloud Immortal Ribbon. Those were items left behind by an invincible supreme figure, among the most precious things in the current world. There were items comparable to them, but surpassing them was extremely rare.
This single sentence moved everyone. Even Ruoshui could not remain calm. Everyone understood the significance of something surpassing a supreme-grade artifact. Calling it one of the most precious things in the world would not be an exaggeration.
Ruoshui had always maintained a transcendent and detached demeanour. Yet now her expression turned solemn. She stared straight at the golden doll.
The golden doll’s heartache had not yet faded. He sighed once more. “Among all records about the general’s tomb, Wuxin Peak has the most. Grand martial aunt, you learned about the Cloud Immortal Ribbon being there from Wuxin Peak’s classics, right?”
Ruoshui nodded. Others only knew the general’s tomb held treasures. Very few knew specifically about the Cloud Immortal Ribbon. Outsiders’ understanding of the general’s tomb could not compare to Wuxin Peak’s. Because back then, the old madman had paid special attention to the general’s tomb and collected a great deal of information about it.
In the past, the old madman had also considered forcing his way into the general’s tomb. But he realised he could not suppress the tomb’s majesty. Forcing entry would at most destroy the tomb without allowing anyone inside.
It was precisely for this reason that Ruoshui had sought various methods to suppress the tomb’s intent. In the end, she seized Yao Kingdom’s jade seal and used it along with imperial bloodline to barely enter. They had originally thought the most precious items had already been taken, yet they never expected something even more valuable remained.
“What exactly is it?” Ruoshui asked.
“After piecing together all the records from Wuxin Peak, we finally traced it back to an invincible supreme.” The golden doll took a deep breath and said calmly.
Everyone already knew this point. Long ago, rumours had spread that a supreme figure stood behind the great general. Entering the tomb now and obtaining these items only confirmed the rumour was true. But no one knew who that supreme figure was. Though Ruoshui knew the Cloud Immortal Ribbon was refined by a supreme, she did not know which supreme had refined it.
“You have already found out who that supreme was?” Ruoshui asked the golden doll curiously.
“If there is no mistake, it is Azure Feather Heavenly Venerable!” The golden doll replied, his expression filled with longing.
“It is him!” Everyone felt shocked, even Ye Chu found it inconceivable. Azure Feather Heavenly Venerable belonged to an ancient era. Though few legends of him remained, people still remembered this peerless figure who had once been invincible.
“How could it be him?” Even Ruoshui found it unbelievable. This was a supreme figure who had dominated the nine heavens and ten lands, yet he had disappeared for who knew how many years. How could such a person have any connection to the great general?
Though the great general had been incomparably powerful, his lifespan had not been particularly long. Only a little over two hundred years. Compared to his strength, his years were simply too few. In other words, from birth to now, the great general had lived only a few short centuries. How could he possibly have intersected with Azure Feather Heavenly Venerable?
“Though it is somewhat unexpected, all signs point to Azure Feather Heavenly Venerable. And the Cloud Immortal Ribbon in your hand was refined by him back then for his younger sister.” The golden doll said.
Though Ruoshui knew the golden doll was mentally unstable, she also knew that when this person spoke, his words always had basis. If he said it, there was a ninety percent certainty.
Everyone fell silent. No one had expected it to be this legendary figure.
Though Azure Feather Heavenly Venerable had once been invincible in the world, before he became invincible, he had not been particularly outstanding. Many prodigies surpassed him, yet he overtook them one by one, eventually rising above all. In the end, he even created a peerless cultivation method.
Before the great general obtained Azure Feather Heavenly Venerable’s classics, another supreme had viewed them. Yet that supreme, also invincible in the world, had only said one sentence after reading: “Primordial spirit forging cannot be surpassed!”
This meant that although the later parts of Azure Feather Heavenly Venerable’s method were excellent, the most precious section was the primordial spirit forging volume at the beginning. In the realm of primordial spirit forging, no one could surpass it. It stood as the foremost in the world!
This was one of the legends left by Azure Feather Heavenly Venerable. And the primordial spirit forging volume was precisely the scroll Ji Die had taken, the very one Ye Chu desired most at this moment. Ye Chu had previously only thought it was a supreme’s primordial spirit forging method. He had never imagined it was the one hailed as the strongest primordial spirit forging method in the world. This scroll was truly one of the most precious items in existence.
Ye Chu let out a soft breath. He looked at the golden doll and said, “Since Azure Feather Heavenly Venerable left behind the most precious primordial spirit forging scroll, why do you say the black iron is even more precious than that?”