Chapter 377 - 157: Boxing Saint Daoist Temple, Creating the Fist Scripture, Peeking into the Jin Yun Great World
Su Bai lowered his gaze to Xie Nian Daoist, who was firmly trapped by the altar. His eyes were dark and profound.
"You are quite the character. And over the years, you’ve been a great help to me."
Hm?
Hearing Su Bai’s calm words, a great sense of unease welled up in Xie Nian Daoist’s heart.
"You... what are you trying to do!?"
After all these years, no one knew better than him. Beneath the gentle exterior of the white-robed young man before him lay a ferocious, murderous nature.
A person like that was more terrifying than any Demon or Great Demon.
’For him to suddenly speak so gently is definitely not a good sign!’
Su Bai smiled and changed the subject.
"You’ve had this altar for quite some time. Do you know its origin, its function..."
"...and the secrets behind it?"
"What?"
Xie Nian Daoist was taken aback for a moment.
After having his Feathered Divine Spirit repeatedly severed, his thoughts moved very slowly.
"This altar is called the Wish-fulfilling Altar, also known as the Exchange Altar. It’s a rare and wondrous treasure from a Great Realm."
Before he could answer, Su Bai began to explain on his own:
"This altar likely comes from a Great Realm called Jin Yun. Its creator might be a Great Power from the Jin Yun Great World, or perhaps a Great Power from another Great Realm..."
’Wish-fulfilling Altar?’
’Exchange Altar?’
’A rare and wondrous treasure from a Great Realm?’
’The Jin Yun Great World, a mysterious Great Power?’
Xie Nian Daoist’s Heart Spirit wavered as he listened, shocked and uncertain. "You... how could you possibly know all this?"
He was utterly horrified.
His entire rise to power had depended on this altar, so he was well aware of how terrifying it was.
But even after possessing it for tens of thousands of years, he never knew the altar had such a terrifying origin.
’How could this person know?’
"I have to say, you can truly be considered a person of great fortune."
Su Bai remarked with a sigh.
This Exchange Altar was enigmatic and unfathomable, its value far beyond what any ordinary person could imagine.
Aside from the even more mysterious Purification Tripod, this was the highest-Level treasure he had seen so far.
For Xie Nian Daoist to have obtained this altar, he must have possessed great fortune.
Xie Nian Daoist was a bit stunned.
"You... why are you telling me all this?"
"I’m telling you this in the hope that you can find life in desperation and turn misfortune into fortune, living up to your status as a person of great fortune."
Su Bai smiled faintly and pointed a finger at the altar.
WHOOSH!
A streak of Divine Light, visible to the naked eye, flowed down from his fingertip and instantly sank into the golden ball of light that was Xie Nian True Master.
"No, don’t!"
A brilliant red light erupted from the altar, like a vast, bloody maw. Amidst Xie Nian True Master’s sharp shriek, it swallowed him whole.
OMMMM!!
The crimson light surged as countless infinitesimally small, ancient runes circulated within it at an unimaginable speed.
Su Bai slightly closed his eyes, his Divine Spirit highly focused.
He wasn’t doing this just to squeeze out Xie Nian True Master’s remaining value, of course.
He also wanted to see for himself what kind of Great Realm lay on the other side of this Exchange Altar.
’Is it the Jin Yun Great World, or some other Great Realm?’
This was something Su Bai had wanted to do for a long time.
He had a faint feeling that one day, this Exchange Altar would prove to be immensely useful.
OMM!
With his eyes closed and mind focused, Su Bai perceived the altar’s translocation.
He infused a wisp of his Divine Thoughts into Xie Nian True Master’s golden ball of light. Then, he gathered countless streams of Yin Sha Qi to forge a body of white bone for him.
That wisp of his Divine Thoughts had almost complete control over the skeleton.
He wanted to see if he could use it to glimpse the mysteries on the other side of the altar.
SPLASH!
The next moment, what sounded like rushing water could be heard.
Enveloped by vast True Qi, Su Bai’s wisp of Divine Thoughts carefully extended outward, sensing its surroundings.
It was a bizarre and phantasmagorical tunnel. Endless crimson light intertwined within a dim void, and this very light was being abraded away by the void itself.
This revealed Xie Nian True Master’s skeletal body.
WHOOSH!
Silently, the parts of Xie Nian True Master’s body exposed outside the red light vanished, an annihilation more complete than mere vaporization.
It was as if he had been wiped directly off a scroll.
The toughness of Xie Nian True Master’s skeletal body far surpassed any mundane metal, and the Power of Divine Thought occupying it was unimaginably strong.
In the next instant, Xie Nian True Master let out a silent scream.
In this place, no sound could be made.
Su Bai’s Heart Spirit grew heavy. In just an instant, the streak of red light had pierced the void, traversing an immeasurable distance at an incredible speed.
But even at such a speed, much of the red light had been worn away.
In what seemed like less than a single instant, over eighty percent of Xie Nian True Master’s skeletal body had been abraded away!
Only his skull, the toughest and best-protected part of his body, remained. Following the red light, it crossed the endless void and plunged into an unknown land.
...
Above a vast and savage wilderness, ten suns hung in the sky, casting down endless light!
In one corner of the boundless land, countless precipitous peaks shot up from the ground, piercing the clouds and soaring to unimaginable heights.
Between the mountains and across the land, towering ancient trees, so thick it would take dozens of people to encircle one, formed dense forests.
Countless strange flowers and plants also covered the mountains, and vines on the trees stretched for thousands of meters.
Amidst the mountains and ravines, innumerable primordial beasts roared and rampaged. The largest were comparable to stars in size, while even the smallest were hundreds of meters long.
And the auras of these primordial beasts were simply incredible.
From time to time, the roar of a colossal beast would echo across the vast sky,
startling into flight countless giant birds with wingspans of hundreds or even thousands of meters.
Even more colossal beasts charged rampantly through the forests, shattering mountains and trees as they engaged in bloody conflict with one another.
The sky...
The land...
The mountains...
The forests...
This boundless Great Realm exuded an ancient and savage aura.
Farther in the distance, under the brilliant glow of the ten suns, countless Immortal Palace Divine Halls stood across the firmament, radiating a boundless, vast aura.
In a trance...
...one could see powerful experts swallowing suns and moons, and Great Powers stomping out Star Rivers.
This was the Jin Yun Great World—a bloody yet glorious world where the strong survived and the weak perished!