DipNovel Chapter 325 triggers a hidden plot: the core of the Immortal Qin Ark appears!
Chapter 325 triggers a hidden plot: the core of the Immortal Qin Ark appears!
The iceberg sits on the eastern side of Dengxian Island, its ancient ice emanating a chilling aura that has frozen the surrounding sea into a white mirror. The surviving disciples stand at a distance, their eyes filled not only with awe but also with a fervent fascination at witnessing a miracle.
Lu Sheng stood in the center of the circular corridor inside the ice mountain, with the ice coffin containing the Purple Cloud Ancestor right in front of him.
"Young Island Master, this is unacceptable! This is truly unacceptable!"
Li Xiaoyao spread his arms wide, tightly protecting the ice coffin, his old face wrinkled like a dried orange. He hadn't even recovered from the joy of his ancestor being rescued when he saw Lu Sheng carrying the Dragon Devouring Spear, looking like he was about to demolish something.
"He's already suffered enough, being trapped in this ice for ten thousand years. Now you want to open his coffin and disturb the earth? This is called destroying a person's spiritual body, and you'll be punished by heaven!"
Lu Sheng lowered the tip of his spear, his dark gold skin appearing somewhat somber under the golden light.
"Old man, if divine retribution were effective, the heart in the Dragon Palace would have been shattered into dust long ago."
He pointed to the broken transparent tube at the back of the ice coffin's neck.
"If he stays here, he'll always be a living corpse. Only by breaking through this shell will I know how many usable parts are left inside."
"Parts?" Li Xiaoyao's eyelids twitched. "Those are my ancestor's materials! Not your refining materials!"
Lu Sheng didn't waste any more words. He was the kind of person who never liked to explain things a second time.
hum-
The image of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor flashed by behind him, and an extremely domineering spiritual pressure directly blasted Li Xiaoyao away ten meters to the side.
Lu Sheng raised his right hand and placed his index finger on the center of the ice coffin.
"The five elements are reversed, and barrenness is stripped away."
A deathly gray light spread from his fingertips, and the once indestructible, millennia-old ice crackled and popped when it touched this power. The crystals, reinforced by the rules, began to melt, turning into rising white mist.
As the ice layer thinned, the transparent conduit that had been frozen inside was finally exposed to the air.
Li Xiaoyao closed his eyes, tears streaming down his face, muttering "sin".
The anticipated disintegration of the body did not occur.
As the ice completely dissipated, the previously dried-up conduit suddenly jerked back due to the loss of external pressure. A drop of viscous liquid, shimmering with a captivating purple light, slowly slid down the conduit wall.
Lu Sheng reacted swiftly, pinching his fingers together.
The drop of liquid fell between his fingers, but instead of dispersing, it transformed into an extremely tiny purple lotus flower, swaying gently in the void.
In an instant, a sword intent that shot straight into the sky erupted from this drop of liquid.
The ice walls on both sides of the corridor were swept by this sword intent, instantly creating thousands upon thousands of fine, hair-like sword marks.
"This taste..."
Lu Sheng sniffed, his eyes revealing a greedy look as if he were seeing top-quality ingredients.
The dragon blood within his body was boiling, and the imperial markings deep within the great dragon's spine even generated a strong desire to devour.
This is not blood.
"Old man Li, open your eyes and take a look. What's left in your ancestor's body isn't some kind of pickling liquid."
Li Xiaoyao stared blankly at it.
The drop of purple liquid, enveloped by the miniature lotus flower, appeared sacred and pure. The familiar Daoist charm of the "Azure Lotus Sword Song" was ten thousand times more refined than that of Li Xiaoyao's version.
"This is... Daoist Essence Liquid?" Dao Yi approached unnoticed, his voice trembling violently. "Ancient texts record that those whose cultivation reaches the heavens will have their understanding of the laws liquefy into marrow, settling deep within their bones. This single drop is equivalent to a hundred years of arduous cultivation for an ordinary Spirit King!"
Lu Sheng remained silent. He pressed the drop of purple liquid directly into the space between his eyebrows.
boom!
A deafening sword cry echoed in my mind.
The originally heavy and domineering Dragon Devouring Spear trembled wildly in his sea of consciousness, as a light yet sharp sword law forcefully merged into its spear intent. The dragon scale patterns on the surface of the spear shaft, under the tempering of the purple light, actually gained an additional layer of lotus-like sharpness.
[Ding! Absorbed the original essence of 'Azure Lotus Sword Intent'!] [Spear technique level improved: Subtlety Level → Transcendent Realm (Initial mastery of sword and spear unity)!] [Dragon Devouring Spear strength increased: 15%!]
Lu Sheng let out a long sigh of relief. His skin, which was originally covered by black and gold patterns, now had a more vibrant luster.
"This isn't a heroic spirit; it's clearly a cellar-aged elixir that's been stored for ten thousand years."
He turned his head and looked at Li Xiaoyao with a playful look in his eyes.
"What did you just call this?"
Li Xiaoyao hadn't yet recovered from the terrifying pressure of the sword. He looked at his ancestor in the ice coffin. Because a drop of "original essence" had been expelled from his body, the ancestor's face, which had been bluish due to the pollution of the abyss, miraculously regained a faint rosy hue.
What flowed back out through the duct was not only the Daoist rhyme, but also wisps of black smoke.
That was a deadly poison accumulated over ten thousand years in the abyss.
"He's...detoxing?" Li Xiaoyao's lips trembled.
"If you don't extract them, these Daoist principles will eventually be completely assimilated by the abyss energy. At that time, your ancestor will truly become an abyss bomb that could explode at any moment."
Lu Sheng patted the ice coffin.
"What I'm doing now is saving him, and incidentally collecting some medical fees. Are you going to stop me?"
Li Xiaoyao knelt down with a thud, not because he was trying to stop him, but because he felt guilty.
"Young Island Master...this old man...this old man has bitten off more than he can chew."
"Alright, stop getting sentimental."
Lu Sheng looked at Dao Yi and pointed to the room full of ice coffins.
"I just saw the structure of these ducts clearly. Although the heart in Ryugu is ugly, I have to say that this 'juicing' technique is very sophisticated."
A ruthless glint flashed in his eyes.
"Call all the core disciples on the island over and divide them into teams according to their attributes."
"Those with lightning attributes should go to the Lei Zhen Sect in that row, and those with fire attributes should go to the Chi Yang Valley area."
"I'm going to start a company-wide nutritional supplement plan."
Dao Yi gasped, "You mean... you want to share all the Daoist essence of these ancient powerhouses?"
"The tide has turned, what good is it if I'm strong alone?"
Lu Sheng turned his back and looked at the silent powerhouses deep within the iceberg.
"This sea is completely rotten. To survive, everyone has to go crazy together."
His words were spoken calmly, yet they sent a chill down the spines of everyone present.
For the next three days, Dengxian Island became the busiest "chemical plant" in the real sea.
Thousands upon thousands of spirit source crystal cores were thrown into the All Things Furnace by Lu Sheng, turning into pure energy to maintain the temperature control array inside the iceberg.
Like a meticulous surgeon, Lu Sheng manipulated the [Five Elements Reversal Wheel] to reconnect the transparent catheters one by one.
However, this time the other end of the conduit was not connected to a blood pool, but to the crown of the head of a disciple of the Immortal Ascension Island.
"Ouch!! That hurts like hell!!"
As soon as a disciple from Ascension Island connected to a lightning-shining conduit, he started breakdancing, his hair standing on end and his body bursting with dense arcs of electricity.
"Shut up! Hold it in!"
Li Xiaoyao shouted from the side, "That's the essence of a third-generation elder of the Thunder Spirit Sect! One sip is worth ten years of your cultivation! Spit out even a drop, and I'll break your legs!"
Due to the rampant spread of Daoist energy, auspicious clouds, which had not been seen for a long time, actually condensed in the sky above the entire island.
The spiritual plants in the sea that had withered due to the abyss's aura began to grow wildly under the nourishment of these Daoist principles.
Lu Sheng sat atop the iceberg, the closest place to the starry sky.
He held a pale golden crystal core in his hand, a "seed of rules" that had just been extracted from the remains of a Spirit Emperor.
[Host: Lu Sheng] [Level: 39 Spirit Master (Progress greatly increased due to Daoist feedback)] [Energy Points: 3500000]
Looking at the data on the panel, Lu Sheng didn't show much joy.
The imperial markings within his body grew increasingly scorching, and the hunger originating from the depths of his genes was constantly assaulting his reason.
This shows that the "sea god's" heart he just ate wasn't even an appetizer.
Just then, a commotion arose below.
"Young Island Master! Come quick! This skeleton... something's wrong!"
It was Dao Yi's voice, filled with an unprecedented terror.
Lu Sheng moved swiftly, transforming into a blur as he landed at the end of the corridor.
That was the most remote corner of the entire Heroes' Tomb, where a nameless skeleton was sealed, with no markings and its flesh almost dried into wood.
At this moment, there were no tubes inserted into the back of the skeleton's head.
But its fingers, without any external interference, were rapidly tapping on the femur at an extremely strange and high-frequency rhythm.
Click. Click-click. Click.
The sound echoed through the silent corridor, sounding extremely jarring.
Lu Sheng narrowed his eyes, and his cross-shaped double pupils activated instantly.
[Species: Descendants of the Immortal Qin (Severely Dehydrated)] [Status: Awakening... Core Code Activated...]
"Code?"
Lu Sheng's heart skipped a beat.
The rhythm created by the striking of the withered bones gradually formed lines of strange characters in the air that only Lu Sheng could understand.
It was the ancient and intricate Qin seal script, which possessed a mechanical beauty.
The grand sacrifice has arrived... and nothing remains...
[Seeking... the Lord of the Wilderness... to rebuild... the Ark...]
The skeleton suddenly raised its head, and two extremely faint, yet pure blue, electronic lights suddenly lit up in its eye sockets, which had shriveled into black holes.
It stared intently at Lu Sheng, its jaw, now devoid of lips, cracking as it uttered a harsh, out-of-this-era language.
Followed by.
Suddenly, a bright blue triangle appeared in the chest cavity of the skeleton.
At this moment, the system within Lu Sheng's body went completely berserk.
[Ding! Fragment of 'Immortal Qin Ark Core' detected!] [Host level forced lock removed!] [Star coordinate lock detected... Warning! Warning! 'He' has seen you!]
In the distant depths of the starry sky, a gigantic eye covered with black tentacles seems to pierce through layers of mist, coldly gazing upon this azure planet.
Lu Sheng slowly raised his head, looking at the sky outside the dome that had been pierced by a fist.
The once bright sunlight had somehow taken on an unsettling blood-red hue.
"Go ahead and watch."
He gripped the Dragon Devouring Spear tightly, the black and gold imperial runes swirling wildly beneath his skin.
"Perfect timing, I've never tasted... what alien gods are like."
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