“Rest assured, nothing will happen. Didn’t I already collect holy liquid once?” Ye Chu smiled at Lin Shixin, hugged her gently, then turned and walked toward the dark pool.
“Be careful! If it doesn’t work, retreat immediately!” Lin Shixin was unable to stop Ye Chu, so she could only remind him.
Ye Chu turned his head and smiled at Lin Shixin. His gaze returned to the dark pool, and now his expression grew solemn too. Although he had just made the laws retreat, that was due to the primal azure energy and the black iron. But in truth, Ye Chu had no absolute confidence that he could enter the dark pool. When he collected holy liquid back then, he nearly perished. The laws here were much stronger than those there. Although his strength had improved greatly now and he had undergone a complete transformation, he still could not guarantee that he would definitely be able to enter the dark pool.
Of course, no matter what, Ye Chu had to try once.
Ye Chu flew forth, heading toward the dark pool. When Ye Chu stepped into the range of the dark pool, countless laws reappeared, materialising into chains that swept toward Ye Chu. Each one was thick, each one heart-stopping, radiance brilliant, laws profound, divine light dazzling, all sweeping toward Ye Chu.
Ye Chu covered his entire body with primal azure energy, using the azure lotus to protect his primordial spirit. He walked step by step, giving the feeling that no laws could invade him. The chains formed from the Red Dust Female Saint’s laws automatically retreated when they touched the primal azure energy.
“Primal azure energy can actually block the Female Saint’s laws?” Everyone looked at Ye Chu in astonishment, carrying a few degrees of surprise. This was a huge secret, previously unknown. For someone who had reached the level of the Red Dust Female Saint, even primal azure energy should not have made her laws behave like this. All things should be hers to take at will, yet now they retreated from the primal azure energy.
“Does the Red Dust Female Saint have a connection to primal azure energy?”
When everyone thought of this possibility, their hearts shook. They were curious about what connection the Red Dust Female Saint had with primal azure energy.
But only Ye Chu knew that it was not because of the primal azure energy at all. The reason the Red Dust Female Saint’s laws retreated was because of the black iron. The primal azure energy and the black iron had merged into a spring source flowing in his qi sea. Whether the azure lotus or the primal azure energy, both carried the black iron’s aura.
“What exactly is this black iron, that even the Red Dust Female Saint treats it with such respect!”
Ye Chu felt this black iron was too miraculous. After he obtained the technique, it had become increasingly wondrous. The spring source in his qi sea would occasionally reflect some particularly mysterious ancient characters.
Ye Chu did not recognise these characters, but each ancient character seemed to contain the ultimate principles of heaven and earth. With one glance, his mind would be baptised, and his technique would transform because of it. Ye Chu tried to imprint these characters into his qi sea, but they carried strange power and simply could not be imprinted. Ye Chu could only memorise them by heart. Every time he thought of these great characters, his primordial spirit would tremble and transform because of them. His technique grew increasingly mature, his primordial spirit strengthened, and the azure lotus rooted itself more deeply in his qi sea, constantly growing.
This was too astonishing. Every time those ancient characters flashed through his mind, they put Ye Chu in an extremely mysterious state, as if heaven and earth were all within his heart. It truly could nurture his primordial spirit to extreme purity.
Ye Chu somewhat understood what Jin Wawa meant when he said some cultivators had relied on the black iron to achieve the Supreme position, and had done so with their primordial spirit shaking the Supreme throne. This black iron indeed possessed such divine effects. The benefits to the primordial spirit were simply beyond words. If one could comprehend those reflected ancient characters, who could know what kind of transformation the primordial spirit might undergo?
Ye Chu walked step by step. The azure lotus protected his entire body, rooted in the black iron spring source, absorbing the spring source and primal azure energy. Green divine light, like an azure lotus at dawn still bearing dewdrops, radiance flickering, flawless and untainted, clear and alluring.
It was this azure lotus that protected Ye Chu. The Red Dust Female Saint’s laws did not stain Ye Chu’s body. Ye Chu walked slowly, constantly advancing deeper toward the dark pool.
The laws transformed into divine chains one by one. Every time they whipped forth to strike Ye Chu, the azure lotus would tremble, green light flickering, and the divine lotus would immediately retreat.
“Damn it!” Everyone stared blankly at Ye Chu. No one had expected this. It was too bizarre. A place that had once slaughtered supreme experts was now being trodden by a cultivator at the Sovereign realm. Could he truly be fated?
Fated with the Red Dust Female Saint! The moment this thought emerged, everyone gasped in cold air. This was truly a heaven-defying opportunity.
Ye Chu walked step by step. The laws grew increasingly powerful, and more and more divine chains burst forth, constantly sweeping toward Ye Chu. The densely interwoven divine chains would give anyone else a terrible headache. These were the laws that had ground supreme experts to death.
Yet when such laws crashed into Ye Chu, most were repelled by Ye Chu’s azure lotus. Occasionally, some divine light struck Ye Chu’s body.
But even this occasional divine light that struck Ye Chu directly shaved away a large portion of his vitality. White hair began to appear on his head.
“Ye Chu! Don’t go!”
Lin Shixin’s voice was somewhat weak as she shouted at Ye Chu, telling him to retreat. Ye Chu’s azure lotus was not yet mature, his technique not yet perfect. He could not wrap every part of his body. And the divine light entered through the gaps. In an instant, it erased much of Ye Chu’s vitality.
Ye Chu let out a light breath, allowing the spring source in his qi sea to flow through his entire body. As it flowed, some vitality recovered, and the divine light within his body was expelled. He continued to step forward.
Ye Chu quickened his pace. Step by step, more and more divine chains shook out, divine light dazzling, constantly surging toward Ye Chu. They were blocked by the primal azure energy flickering from the azure lotus, but occasionally some broke through the primal azure energy and landed on Ye Chu’s body, directly shaving away his vitality. Time and again his vitality was shaved away, and more and more white hair appeared on Ye Chu’s head. Before long, Ye Chu’s entire head of black hair had turned completely white, silver hair dancing in the wind, exactly like Lin Shixin.
Lin Shixin’s eyes turned completely red. She was beautiful and stunning, gazing with tears in her eyes, so captivating that many people’s souls trembled. The way they looked at Ye Chu carried infinite jealousy and envy.
The white-haired Ye Chu continued to rush forward quickly. His face began to age. Regarding his own changes, Ye Chu did not care at all. His pace did not slow, and he grew increasingly close to the dark pool.
In the end, Ye Chu was already breathing like one in twilight years. The azure lotus trembled unsteadily, difficult to resist the dazzling divine light of the divine chains.
Ye Chu was already in his twilight years, like an old man about to perish. His entire body was like dried tree bark, his arms like withered firewood.
“Is he about to perish?” Everyone sighed, thinking that if his technique were not so weak, he might have reached the end. But with an immature technique, even if the Red Dust Female Saint treated the primal azure energy somewhat differently, it could not ultimately protect him.
Tan Miaotong’s eyes were also red. Her delicate face was covered with a layer of pallor. Compared to her usual rosy tenderness and white softness, she had a different kind of pitiful, delicate beauty.
“Ye Chu, you must hold on!” Tan Miaotong looked at Ye Chu, who was on the verge of death and might collapse with every step. Her delicate fists were clenched tightly, her nails digging into her flesh.