Chapter 867
Zhong Wei walked to the cliff wall. Looking at the moss-covered cliff wall, she reached out and lifted the moss away, revealing green stone.
When her fingers touched the green stone, Zhong Wei suddenly exerted force. Her entire hand sank into the green stone. The originally whole green stone began to show cracks, piece by piece. The cracks grew larger and larger. Finally, reaching its limit, it burst apart with a bang.
“Be careful!” Ye Chu’s figure shot out explosively. He reached out to wrap around Zhong Wei’s waist. The supple waist landed in his palm, warm and elastic. Even though Ye Chu was only focused on saving Zhong Wei at this moment, he still could not help but feel his heart ripple. Compared to other women, what was most alluring about Zhong Wei was that swaying, undulating waist, as sinuous and graceful as a snake’s.
“Rumble…”
The green stone collapsed. Massive green stones tumbled down. Ye Chu held Zhong Wei as he watched the dust filling the sky from the collapse. When the dust from the collapsing green stones settled, what appeared before Ye Chu and the others was a massive cave. The cave was not deep. Ye Chu and Zhong Wei stood outside, yet they could see everything inside clearly.
At the centre of the cave, there was a massive piece of jade, as smooth as condensed fat. The jade lay there peacefully. Even though not a single breath emanated from it, Ye Chu could still sense its extraordinariness.
Ye Chu and Zhong Wei floated down and landed beside it, looking at the jade that was several metres huge.
“This is Other Mountain Jade?” Ye Chu looked at Zhong Wei, wanting her confirmation.
Zhong Wei nodded and said to Ye Chu, “It should not be wrong.”
Hearing Zhong Wei’s words, Ye Chu did not think much more. He reached out to scoop up this piece of jade, preparing to take it away.
But before Ye Chu’s hand even touched the jade, his expression suddenly changed. He reached out to protect Zhong Wei. His figure leaped, shooting towards the distance.
But the result caused both him and Zhong Wei’s expressions to turn deathly pale. Even though Ye Chu drove his full power, his figure did not move in the slightest. He was entirely bound within this small patch of space.
Just as the two of them felt as if their bodies had fallen into an ice cellar, the jade before them suddenly began to twist. Very soon, Ye Chu and Zhong Wei could see through the jade that within it lay a person dressed in black robes. Even with eyes closed, the person lay there quietly. Yet with just one glance, Ye Chu felt an immense majesty, like the majesty of heaven and earth.
Especially on the person’s forehead, there was a piece of dark jade texture.
“Dark Jade Venerable!” Ye Chu and Zhong Wei swallowed their saliva. The shock in their hearts could be imagined. So what the Flowing Water Sect Master’s junior brother said was all true. Dark Jade Venerable was sealed within Other Mountain Jade.
At this moment, Ye Chu and Zhong Wei gave up all hope. This was the item sealing Dark Jade Venerable. They could not, and did not dare, move it. What kind of figure was Dark Jade Venerable? With just his corpse, he could easily annihilate them.
Ye Chu tried his best to drive the power throughout his body, wanting to flee from here. But this space was interwoven with laws. He simply had no strength to escape.
Just as Ye Chu’s heart was pounding with fear, the Dark Jade Venerable who had originally been lying within suddenly opened his eyes. In his eyes, a sharp light shot out. If not for the obstruction of Other Mountain Jade, just this one glance would have caused Ye Chu to be shattered into pieces.
Dark Jade Venerable’s gaze landed on Ye Chu’s body. Those eyes shone even more brilliantly. Lying within, he actually slowly began to stand up. As he stood up, cracks appeared one after another on Other Mountain Jade.
“Chi…”
“He actually is still alive.” Ye Chu and Zhong Wei exchanged glances. This was too inconceivable. A figure from seventy thousand years ago, yet he could still exist in the world.
As he stood up, Other Mountain Jade began to split. A piece about the size of Ye Chu’s fist flew and shot towards Ye Chu. Ye Chu hurriedly caught it and put it away.
“Crack…”
The precious Other Mountain Jade completely split apart like this. As Other Mountain Jade split apart, Dark Jade Venerable stood before Ye Chu and Zhong Wei.
However, when he was exposed to heaven and earth, his originally blood-qi-filled body began to be covered with wrinkles, one strip after another. The wrinkles were like old tree bark, shockingly covering his entire body.
“Vitality disappearing!” Ye Chu naturally knew why this was. Watching a originally young body instantly become so aged, Ye Chu also felt reverence for the power of time.
Although Other Mountain Jade had sealed Dark Jade Venerable, it could only delay his ageing. It could not completely isolate him from the outside. His vitality over these tens of thousands of years had still dissipated greatly. So in an instant, he went from that vitality-filled body to becoming like this.
But thinking that he could still live after tens of thousands of years, Ye Chu and Zhong Wei also felt admiration for him in their hearts. If it were an ordinary seal, he would have long been dead beyond dead. That he could still be alive showed that the seal was absolutely heaven-defying.
“I had not expected that sealing three thousand years of vitality, yet only leaving thirty-some years to live.” Dark Jade Venerable muttered to himself. Looking at his withered, old-tree-like palm, his eyes were full of bitterness. No matter how heaven-defying you are, you cannot block the power of time.
Hearing his muttering, Ye Chu and Zhong Wei also felt shock in their hearts. Three thousand years of long lifespan, yet only thirty years remained. This was undoubtedly a huge price.
Dark Jade’s expression was somewhat dazed, but his surroundings were entwined with laws. Standing there, Ye Chu held his breath, feeling so suffocated it was unbearable. After collecting several pieces of Other Mountain Jade, Ye Chu was powerless to move in the slightest.
Dark Jade finally turned his gaze to Ye Chu. After sizing Ye Chu up and down, his originally dazed, bitter heart finally revealed a few points of difference.
“Female Saint, how could you understand my heart. I would rather seal myself than compete for supremacy on the Supreme Path. Even if I can only protect your every little bit, I am willing.” Although Dark Jade Venerable had been sealed for tens of thousands of years, his adoration for the Female Saint did not diminish in the slightest.
Ye Chu did not know what he wanted to protect for the Female Saint, but his fingers continuously tapped. The laws on his body began to interweave, continuously collapsing and merging into the void.
“Rumble rumble…”
Ye Chu immediately saw a terrifying scene. Within ten thousand li, heaven and earth resonated. The sky was filled with unceasing thunder. Patterns shook all things in heaven and earth. Everything in the world seemed to twist. At this moment, heaven and earth merged with Dark Jade Venerable, beating in the same rhythm as his heart.
Within ten thousand li, heaven and earth continuously rumbled along with him. How shocking was this. Those sky-filling patterns also continuously shot towards all directions of heaven and earth. Endless spiritual energy was produced from heaven and earth, pouring down to all places in the world. Plants and trees grew frantically. In a short instant, a plant the size of a finger grew into a towering tree.
What kind of terrifying spiritual energy was this, to cause the plants and spirits within ten thousand li to transform.
And this disturbance also alarmed many experts in the Red Dust Domain.
At a mysterious place entwined with seven-coloured light, there was a massive stone tablet engraved with “Heavenly Secrets”. Within it, several people gazed into the distance at the changes in heaven and earth, watching that heaven-toppling spiritual energy pouring down.
“The flourishing era has finally arrived. Another rain of blood and wind. It is just unknown this time, who will emerge victorious. This time, how many more people will be buried on the path of competing for supremacy.”