Absorbing the sacred liquid, Ye Chu also began to take out jade bottles, filling them with the jade belt of sacred liquid. This jade belt was not abundant, yielding only about a hundred jade bottles.
However, after Ye Chu had filled all the jade bottles with the sacred liquid, he stared blankly at the object beneath the jade belt.
Previously obscured by the sacred liquid of the jade belt, it was invisible to Ye Chu. Once the sacred liquid vanished, a Bagua diagram was revealed before him.
“A Bagua diagram?” Ye Chu stared blankly at the diagram, unable to help but think of the Divine Palace in the Love Domain and the old madman. Outside the Divine Palace, there was a corpse identical to the old madman, and all of these were related to the Bagua diagram.
The Bagua diagram below trembled incessantly as the sacred liquid disappeared. Amidst the trembling, the diagram burst forth with terrifying radiance. Consequently, the earth cracked open, and in the process of splitting, the Bagua diagram sank into the fissure and vanished without a trace.
This scene left Ye Chu frozen in place, and a possibility involuntarily crossed his mind. Was this sacred liquid used to suppress the Bagua diagram?
Ye Chu did not know. As he watched the Bagua diagram disappear, the previously cracked earth sealed itself back together. There was not the slightest trace of anything unusual.
Of course, Ye Chu was completely unaware. Hundreds of thousands of miles away from where the Bagua diagram had fled, a place reputed to be comparable to a forbidden zone suddenly erupted into turmoil. A massive Bagua diagram manifested in the void, radiating peerless and unparalleled brilliance. As this radiance trembled, a colossal coffin appeared in the void. Its emergence shook countless powerhouses, including terrifying existences who had already withdrawn from the mortal world.
After the colossal coffin appeared, the manifested powerhouses lunged at it madly. However, before they could even touch it, they were instantly obliterated by the erupting radiance.
Every single one of them had been famous for a long time, figures who had lived for who knows how many years, yet they perished in the void just like that, leaving no bones behind.
This place erupted with an aura of peerless terror, yet countless powerhouses did not give up despite the peril. They threw themselves at the coffin one after another, but not a single one could get within three metres of it.
Its appearance left behind rivers of blood. Countless powerhouses died beneath it, staining the earth red. Only after being offered such a vast sacrifice of blood did it shatter the void and shoot rapidly in the direction of the Red Dust Domain.
At the same time, the Divine Palace in the Red Dust Domain also trembled terrifyingly. The Bagua diagram flashed with peerless, dazzling radiance.
“…”
Ye Chu was completely unaware that a river of blood was flowing outside. He surveyed the area below, and seeing nothing else of interest, he finally swam up from the depths.
…
Seeing Ye Chu surface, Zhong Wei looked at the purple and red frostbite on his face and asked anxiously, “What happened? Why do you have so much frostbite on your body?”
Ye Chu shook his head and did not answer Zhong Wei. He sat cross-legged in a spot, meditating to dispel the chilling cold within him. Ye Chu meditated for a full two hours. After two hours, the frostbite on Ye Chu’s body had mostly vanished.
Seeing this, Zhong Wei also breathed a sigh of relief. “Are you alright?”
Ye Chu shook his head and said, “Just some frostbite, it is nothing serious!”
“This pool of water is very warm, how could you get frostbite?” Zhong Wei asked curiously. “Did you discover something strange within it?”
Ye Chu nodded. He had previously felt an aura similar to the sacred liquid within it. That was why he had recklessly dived into it, and his guess had not been wrong.
Looking at the pool, Ye Chu thought to himself that the water had only gained such miraculous effects because it was tainted with the sacred liquid. However, since he had taken the sacred liquid away, this miraculous effect of the pool would gradually fade in the future. Given the volume of the pool, it would take at least thirty or forty years for this effect to disappear completely.
“A treasure was nurtured within it, which is why this pool has such miraculous effects,” Ye Chu said to Zhong Wei.
“What treasure? How could it make the pool water like this?” Zhong Wei asked Ye Chu.
“Sacred liquid!” Ye Chu did not hide it. Since this was a place Zhong Wei had brought him to, he naturally needed to tell her.
“Sacred liquid?” Zhong Wei did not react immediately. She muttered it twice before widening her eyes and looking at Ye Chu, saying, “Are you talking about the sacred liquid of the Red Dust Female Saint?”
“Exactly!” Ye Chu nodded.
“No wonder, no wonder!” Zhong Wei muttered to herself, then took a deep breath and said, “Let us go. Since it is this thing, we cannot obtain it anyway, so do not even think about it. Cultivators simply do not have the life to spare to take such a thing.”
Zhong Wei had naturally heard of the Red Dust Female Saint’s sacred liquid, as there was some at the Sacred Cliff. However, among the countless powerhouses in the world, who could actually take it?
“I never expected the Red Dust Female Saint to leave a spring of sacred liquid here. What a pity, no one can obtain her sacred liquid.”
Hearing Zhong Wei’s words, Ye Chu was slightly stunned. However, he did not explain. A thing like sacred liquid was far too tempting. He should keep it hidden from outsiders as much as possible. Even though Zhong Wei would not harm him, one could never be too careful about letting things slip.
“Do not tell outsiders that there is sacred liquid here, otherwise who knows how many people will die here,” Zhong Wei sighed, knowing the allure of such a thing.
Ye Chu shrugged, thinking that he was not afraid of it being known anymore, because there was no longer any such thing here.
Just as Ye Chu and Zhong Wei were talking, several young boys ran over, shouting to Zhong Wei, “The two big brothers are back. Sister Zhong Wei, the big brothers are injured, please hurry and help them heal.”
“Injured?” Zhong Wei was startled in her heart and quickly followed the boys, running over.
Ye Chu followed as well, stepping into the village, and saw the village children gathered around two young men. The two young men were not particularly handsome, but they had resolute faces and an extraordinary aura, making them quite eye-catching.
Both men had a long, deep bloody gash on their arms, and several people were currently applying medicine to them.
“It is nothing serious, everyone do not worry. This minor injury is just a bit of bleeding,” the two young men said with a smile, signalling to the crowd not to be nervous.
“What happened? How could someone of your strength get injured?” Zhong Wei walked over at this moment and handed a few bottles of sacred healing medicine to the boy treating the young men.
Upon seeing Zhong Wei, the two young men instantly changed their previously slouching posture, sitting up straight. They looked at Zhong Wei with burning eyes, filled with admiration.
“Miss Zhong Wei, you are here!” Both men spoke with some awkwardness.
Zhong Wei smiled at the two men and then asked, “What happened, how did you get injured?”
Su Banshi shook his head and said, “Miss Zhong Wei, please do not worry. It is just a minor injury, nothing serious.”
As he spoke, Su Banshi’s eyes dodged somewhat, not daring to meet Zhong Wei’s bright and clear eyes.
Zhong Wei did not press him further and turned to look at Ye Chu. “Ye Chu, please help them check their injuries.”
Ye Chu glanced at them and then said, “It is fine! It is just superficial injuries, nothing serious. They will recover after resting for a while.”
Only then did Su Banshi and the other man notice Ye Chu. This caused the two of them to exchange a glance, both unable to help but frown. Who was this man? Why had Miss Zhong Wei brought him here!