Immortal Path to Heaven

Chapter 838: Devour Memories

Ou Yangming did not bother about anything in the outside world because his mental conception was fully immersed in analyzing Qiu Chengwang’s memories at the moment.

In actuality, even Ou Yangming did not think about how harmful this would be to the Venerable One.

According to his original intention, he only wanted to break through Qiu Chengwang’s spiritual defense to see if the powerhouse from Zhangzhou’s Reborn in Paradise was hiding anything else. Who knew, an unusual change seemed to have occurred as the energy that contained the Heavenly Phoenix Fire kept attacking the man’s consciousness.

In the end, Qiu Chengwang could not withstand the coercion, hence his consciousness simply crumbled.

Subsequently, countless memories gushed out from his sea of consciousness.

Ou Yangming seemed to have transformed into Qiu Chengwang at this moment and experienced his whole life.

It would not be easy to read someone else’s memories. In particular, it would almost be an impossible task if the person was a Venerable One with notable mental power. Not to mention an Intermediate Spiritualist, even a top-grade Venerable One would not be able to do it.

Nevertheless, due to the raging Heavenly Phoenix Fire, Qiu Chengwang’s will to resist was weakened to an extremity. Consequently, he ended tragically where his mind crumbled and he was eliminated.

Although his spiritual will and mental conception had dispersed, a part of his memories was copied when the Heavenly Phoenix Fire attacked. Moreover, the effect was perfect such that even the things that he did not remember were successfully recorded.

Even so, Ou Yangming was deeply troubled that his Heavenly Phoenix Fire achieved such an unbelievable effect.

After all, those were the memories of a Venerable One!

Even if a normal cultivator with unequaled natural gift cultivated smoothly until one became a Venerable One, plenty of hardships and a long time would be required.

It would be impossible to achieve instant success—not even for those with the bloodline of a dragon or a phoenix.

For instance, Lil’ Red possessed the Phoenixes’ bloodline. Besides, Venerable Ones treated it with respect and dared not offend it. Nevertheless, to say that Lil’ Red’s cultivation base was equivalent to that of a Venerable One… It would be a joke.

Qiu Chengwang was not only a Venerable One, but he was also a potent formation master. At this moment, all of his experiences and knowledge were converted into memories that were displayed in front of Ou Yangming. The enormous information almost burst the young fellow’s consciousness.

The memories that transformed into endless images surged in Ou Yangming’s sea of consciousness like monstrous waves. If he had not experienced the frightening situation himself, he could not have imagined it.

Ou Yangming took a deep breath, but his face was also twisting involuntarily. As he kept studying the images, he had a misconception that he would soon be assimilated into them.

Despite that, this was the exact reason Ou Yangming felt extremely fearful.

The consequence would be unbearable if his mental conception merged with those memories. This was because he had only cultivated for over 2 decades from the time he was born until now. On the other hand, how many years of memories did Qiu Chengwang have?

Once they fused, would Ou Yangming or Qiu Chengwang be the dominant one?

Ou Yangming gritted his teeth and tried hard to resist the memories from invading. A reservoir could store water but if the water exceeded the capacity limit, the water would overflow.

At this moment, Ou Yangming was overestimating himself as if he was a small fish that was eating a big fish

This was not what he wanted, but even he could not turn things back to when they began.

Ou Yangming’s slowly became heavier. The spiritual power fluctuation inside his body slowly became messy as well.

On the side, the 10,000 Beasts Venerable One and Multi-armed King Kong looked at each other anxiously. It was great that Qiu Chengwang was turned into a fool, but if it would be at the expense of Ou Yangming’s life or if anything mishap were to happen to him, they would not be able to bear it.

“Father, what should we do?” Multi-armed King Kong was worried.

Seeing as Ou Yangming was in an unfavorable situation, it was distressed.

The 10,000 Bests Venerable One was secretly regretful. ‘I really shouldn’t have believed him so easily.’

As useless as Qiu Chengwang had become, he was still a Venerable One. Even if Ou Yangming possessed the Phoenixes’ secret techniques, there was a huge disparity between them, hence it would be too unrealistic for the young fellow to get anything good out of the man.

Now that a crisis was happening, the 10,000 Beasts Venerable One could only watch on the side.

While the father and the son were feeling like ants on fire, a drastic change happened in Ou Yangming’s sea of consciousness again.

The initially quiet giant head, which was occupying a corner on its own, seemed to have sensed danger. It suddenly moved and drifted.

As the giant head swayed in the void, it widened its giant mouth and sucked hard.

Numerous memories of Qiu Chengwang that were floating inside the sea of consciousness instantly gushed in like birds flocking into a forest, and they vanished without leaving a trace. As for the bottomless hole that seemed like it could never be filled, it grew bigger after devouring the innumerable memories. Energy that seemed like it could devour the universe was released from the giant head.

Ou Yangming became refreshed but at the next moment, his mental conception was instantly linked to the giant head.

It was an indescribable feeling, and it was a new experience.

At this instant, Ou Yangming seemed to have turned into the giant head itself, by which he kept devouring the memories that came from Qiu Chengwang.

Nonetheless, it was more than just devouring because the giant head would analyze the contents of those images throughout the process. As such, Ou Yangming felt like he experienced everything in the images in that short period.

The only thing was that as compared to watching it at the beginning, he was not going through the situation but was merely a spectator. In this case, regardless of how soul-stirring the experience was, he felt like he was watching an interesting documentary. At most, the young fellow was appreciating the memories, where his mind was no longer in danger.

Furthermore, after the giant head became connected to Ou Yangming’s mental conception, incredibly fearsome energy burst out.

While the images of Qiu Chengwang’s memories were being devoured, Ou Yangming could even distinguish their contents.

He could simply glance through those that were related to Qiu Chengwang’s life and leave them to the giant head. As long as they entered the head’s large mouth, they were no longer threatening to him.

This was because the giant head would convert those images into energies and completely destroy them from their source.

However, some of the contents were memories related to Qiu Chengwang’s cultivation and learning process. Each time Ou Yangming came across them, he would do his best to preserve them.

Needless to say, even though he did his best, many cultivation contents slipped away and were devoured by the giant head due to the significant gap between his strength and that of Qiu Chengwang.

As the memory images reduced in Ou Yangming’s sea of consciousness, he regained a better complexion and slowly breathed steadily.

The 10,000 Beasts Venerable One and Multi-armed King Kong had lingering fears, but they sighed breaths of relief. In fact, the former even swore that it would not take such a risk in the future anymore.

Ou Yangming’s mental conception was in a stimulated state at this time because he gained a lot of knowledge that he had been dreaming of from Qiu Chengwang’s memories.

With the giant head’s help, he successfully salvaged part of Qiu Chengwang’s memories, which were his most-desired knowledge regarding formation maps. They were only a part of the Venerable One’s diverse memories, but they were the most precious memories that the young fellow needed at the moment.

It was worth noting that Qiu Chengwang was a Venerable One from Reborn in Paradise and was also a formation master.

Similar to Ou Yangming, he was most adept in Illusion Formation.

Having said that, as compared to the most basic Illusion Formation that was apprehended by Ou Yangming, the Illusion Formation that was grasped by Qiu Chengwang was much more powerful.

One that fell inside Ou Yangming’s Illusion Formation would at most lose one’s way and be blocked by various changing sights, where one would lose connection with one’s partners. On the contrary, one would be faced with immense danger if one was strapped by Qiu Chengwang’s Illusion Formation.

A Venerable One’s Illusion Formation was more than just confusing one’s seeing and hearing.

According to Qiu Chengwang’s setup, the formation board that he refined had the feature to release mists. Besides, one that was surrounded by the mists would be attacked by gravel and plants at any time. One would panic and treat everything as one’s enemy—this was his Illusion Formation’s greatest feature. Other than that, the Venerable One’s formation could also transform into flying swords, various weapons, and even different spirit beasts. If those things attacked amidst the mists, one would not be able to guard against them.

Normally, a formation map that could achieve such mightiness would be on a Big Mountain-guarding Formation’s level.

That said, powerhouses from Reborn in Paradise had a secret technique to carve such a formation map on formation boards that they carried with them.

Qiu Chengwang used this kind of formation board when he trapped Multi-armed King Kong.

A formation board had endless functions. When it could not be used to resist an enemy’s attacks, it would suddenly explode and hurt one’s enemy in the most direct way.

Nevertheless, once the formation board exploded, one’s defensive ability would reduce. Therefore, this would usually be used as a last resort as no formation master would want to hurt themselves while harming others.

It was said that a higher level of this Illusion Formation could even bring an enemy into a nightmare, where the enemy would encounter all sorts of miserable experiences. For example, being betrayed by close ones, being hurt by loved ones, and so on. All in all, one’s greatest fears would appear, so much so that one’s mind would crumble in the end.

With that, the formation board’s effects and its detailed refinement process were displayed in Ou Yangming’s sea of consciousness bit by bit, and he remembered it well.

“Boom…”

All of a sudden, deep inside those memory images, a peculiar scene appeared, causing Ou Yangming to focus on it right away.