Chapter 2068: Refiner, Solver
Swallowing Wanyou, absolutely not!
Yao Yulou shook his head frantically, his heart clenched violently, and for a moment his lips trembled uncontrollably.
However, Jiang Wanyou smiled faintly while tears continued to flow, saying, "Only this way can I help Young Master Sikong. Only this way can I break the Thousand Prison Tower and rescue my parents."
"If you don’t swallow me, Pei Kuang will notice the moment I achieve the Sacred Body. If you don’t swallow me, Pei Kuang will."
"Yulou, you must make up your mind."
Tears streamed uncontrollably from Yao Yulou’s eyes, and his entire body trembled violently.
He couldn’t do it; he really couldn’t.
Swallowing Jiang Wanyou, she will die, and it will be a terrible death.
Yet Jiang Wanyou threw herself into Yao Yulou’s arms again, whispering in his ear, "Swallow me, and we can be together forever. I’ll forever live within your body."
"Of course, before that, we still need to find a way to delay. I must ensure Pei Kuang never hurts you again."
Jiang Wanyou’s final words were still spoken in a murmur, yet they were resolute and unequivocal.
Yao Yulou held Jiang Wanyou tightly, his fist clenching against her back, five fingers deeply embedded in his palm, as his mind went completely blank.
His heart, as if painfully dripping with blood...
...
Outside the thatched cottage in Teng Mansion’s small secret realm.
Complex and illusory lines and ripples enveloped Sikong Jing’s surroundings.
At the same time, the low voice of the Nether Lotus Sea Snake rose...
"King, this Stone Stool Treasure originally belonged to a sect called Desert Sea Snake Rock Sect in Canghai Wujiang."
Now, having fully submitted, the Nether Lotus Sea Snake directly called Sikong Jing "King."
"Their sect was not far from the Deserted Sea Forbidden Land, and hundreds of years ago, they faced total annihilation and had to enter the Desert Sea Absolute Array."
"But everyone died in the Absolute Array."
"Of course, the Desert Sea Snake Rock Sect did not possess the ability to refine a Heavenly Pattern Treasure. They could only commission a Heavenly Pattern Master after capturing me, so the heavenly patterns were crafted by that master."
Sikong Jing listened intently to the explanation of the Nether Lotus Sea Snake...
He planned to visit Canghai Wujiang eventually, so he needed to learn more common knowledge about Canghai Wujiang.
As always, the demon beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sky Prison had been imprisoned for many years, and they were not familiar with many things in this world, especially those of the Human Clan.
"And the invited Heavenly Pattern Master at that time was not a decent person. He deliberately concealed it from Desert Sea Snake Rock Sect, secretly leaving my Spiritual Shadow and hiding it in the Stone Stool Treasure..."
"That way, when my Spiritual Shadow recovered and erupted, he could charge a second fee."
Upon hearing this, Sikong Jing surreptitiously twitched the corners of his mouth; the Heavenly Pattern Master was indeed quite deceitful.
Clearly taking advantage of the Desert Sea Snake Rock Sect’s lack of strength, knowing that when the Nether Lotus Sea Snake erupted and couldn’t be handled, they would have to hire him again.
Of course, this indirectly gave Sikong Jing the opportunity to solve this Stone Stool Treasure.
After thinking about it, Sikong Jing said, "So not all Heavenly Pattern Treasures retain the Demon Beast Spirit Shadow."
This dispelled Sikong Jing’s idea of wanting to see if the Frost Magic Box... or the Frost Heavenly Pattern Treasure contained the Ice Eternal Mystic Turtle’s Spirit Shadow, meaning he couldn’t use the same method to unlock the Frost Treasure.
Then the Nether Lotus Sea Snake explained further, because it had been in the Stone Stool Treasure for so long, it had deep knowledge of the heavenly patterns on the treasure, hoping one day to escape.
Of course, only someone who practices the Sea Snake Meridian can leave and be transformed and controlled by it.
Like Venerable Ba Lian and Sikong Jing before...
"King, next I’ll help clarify these heavenly pattern threads for you; whether you can solve them depends on your own talent."
After speaking, the Nether Lotus Sea Snake fell silent.
Relying on its hundreds of years of experience and observation, it meticulously unraveled the immensely complex heavenly patterns for Sikong Jing.
While it couldn’t learn the heavenly patterns, it could still point out "knots" to Sikong Jing.
For example, it would tell Sikong Jing where to start probing into the heavenly pattern lines and how to get started.
Gradually, Sikong Jing began to gain some understanding of heavenly patterns.
Heavenly patterns are like an extraordinarily complex network of silk threads, with one tangled "knot" after another, each small knot interlocking to form an even larger knot.
Much like a kind of intricate weaving.
Additionally, aside from the "knots," there would also be the Heavenly Pattern Master’s own power woven in.
Furthermore, this belonged to the Desert Sea Snake Rock Sect.
So the Desert Sea Snake Rock Sect would also require the Heavenly Pattern Master to incorporate their sect’s power, intricately complex to the extreme; but according to the Nether Lotus Sea Snake, this Stone Stool Treasure was relatively simple.
Sikong Jing couldn’t help but think of the Willow Leaf Holy Wall...
If it weren’t for Qian Wumie, if it hadn’t incorporated the Little Bone from the previous Master of Ten Thousand Beasts, or if Sikong Jing hadn’t practiced the Duoye Seal, it couldn’t be unraveled.
Like Patriarch Liu Duoye, who couldn’t even enter the tree hollow.
The Willow Leaf Holy Wall, which seamlessly blended various attributes, naturally represented another kind of heavenly pattern encryption.
Following the Nether Lotus Sea Snake’s guidance, Sikong Jing continually used the Spiritual Shadow and True Qi to gradually break apart the heavenly patterns on the Stone Stool.
Unraveling the first "knot" was a bit challenging, but after the first one, Sikong Jing became more adept, and because he didn’t need to search for the threads himself, he only had to keep unraveling the knots.
So by daybreak... buzz!
All the heavenly patterns on the Stone Stool Treasure lit up completely and were completely unraveled by him, and at that moment, the Stone Stool burst out with azure light, like a sea snake leaping skyward.
"It’s unlocked; now my consciousness can enter."
Sikong Jing’s eyes glistened, and without hesitation, he projected his consciousness into the Stone Stool Treasure’s interior.
In an instant, he saw the Nether Lotus Sea Snake Spirit Shadow within the Stone Stool Treasure, then scanned around with his consciousness, and was astonished by the blocks of Green Jade Stone Bricks inside...
The interior of the Stone Stool was a simple room, with Green Jade Stone Bricks neatly arranged inside, nothing more.
It seemed a bit too simple...
Noticing Sikong Jing’s confusion, the Spiritual Shadow of the Nether Lotus Sea Snake began to explain again...
"These Green Jade Stone Bricks store cultivation techniques and martial skills, similar to ordinary Green Jade Tubes..."
"They make up one inheritance formation after another; as long as the owner of the Stone Stool activates the formation, they can grant inheritance to disciples."
"As for how to activate or trigger the formation, only those from the Desert Sea Snake Rock Sect know."
Sikong Jing quickly understood; the Heavenly Pattern Master was merely the refiner...
Like refining a blank treasure without a master, whoever recognizes it as master becomes its owner and can control it to grant inheritances.
But Sikong Jing was not the treasure’s owner now.
He unlocked the heavenly patterns as a solver, someone who cracked the patterns and forcefully entered the Stone Stool.