Chapter 719: Revival of the Saint Medicine
Chapter 719 -715: Revival of the Saint Medicine
As Lin Hao reached his hand into the barrier, it seemed to come to life and began to transform.
The barrier was no more; in its place, an invisible Celestial Sword manifested.
The Celestial Sword slashed down from above, aiming to cleave Lin Hao in two, starting from his head.
Although Lin Hao immediately noticed something was wrong, he was powerless to stop it. The Celestial Sword was about to pierce his skull.
This was a killing blow.
“Break!”
Lin Hao roared, activating the Creation Jade Butterfly.
This Celestial Sword was supremely powerful. Lin Hao had a dreadful intuition that not even the Six Paths of Reincarnation could withstand it.
Only by activating the Creation Jade Disc would he have a fighting chance.
But Lin Hao was too severely depleted.
The Creation Jade Butterfly merely shuddered once before falling still.
That shudder made the invisible Celestial Sword pause for an instant.
At this life-or-death moment, Lin Hao unleashed a burst of terrifying power.
He slammed his palm on the ground, launching his body into the air and tumbling just above the ground.
His destination was the distant Saint Medicine.
Just as Lin Hao reached for the Saint Medicine, the invisible Celestial Sword moved again, its speed beyond belief.
It was going to sever Lin Hao’s head.
PFFT!
Blood sprayed from Lin Hao’s neck.
He collapsed at the foot of the Saint Medicine.
The invisible Celestial Sword had sliced through the skin on his neck.
Without a second thought, Lin Hao stuffed the tender shoot he’d managed to grab into his mouth.
This Saint Medicine was likely formed from the demise of Emperor Hongtian and possessed an unimaginable divine power.
Before Lin Hao could even begin Refining it, the Creation Jade Butterfly instantly broke it down for him.
Then, the Creation Jade Disc trembled and blocked the invisible Celestial Sword.
This gave Lin Hao a moment of respite.
The ground he was on had nourished the Saint Medicine, so Lin Hao grabbed handfuls of the soil beneath him and shoved them into his mouth.
The Celestial Sword was too powerful; it had just nearly decapitated him. Lin Hao didn’t dare let his guard down.
The Creation Jade Butterfly seemed to rejoice, coming to life.
Like a greedy infant suckling its mother’s milk, its forty-nine streams of Hongmeng Purple Qi stretched out, directly purifying and absorbing the divine essence from the soil Lin Hao had consumed.
While shoveling dirt into his mouth with one hand, Lin Hao used the other to pluck tender shoots from the Saint Medicine, absorbing their divine essence.
Even though this was a Saint Medicine, Lin Hao couldn’t bring himself to destroy it.
“My actions today were born of desperation. One day, I will surely return and help you bear Holy Fruit once more.”
Lin Hao only took three tender shoots before stopping.
This was a Saint Medicine, an item that even Saints would go mad for.
But Lin Hao was not blinded by greed. His heart was filled with gratitude, and he treated the plant as an incarnation of the Great Emperor—as a person.
As Lin Hao spoke these words, the Saint Medicine swayed, and ripples spread through the void.
Even the invisible Celestial Sword retreated.
At the same time, a brilliant light emanated from the Saint Medicine.
It was as if the Saint Medicine was truly coming alive!
CLANG! CLANG!
A metallic clang echoed between heaven and earth. The Saint Medicine swayed, and the ripples in the void grew more intense.
To Lin Hao’s horror, he discovered that the very laws of heaven and earth were being dispelled!
Lin Hao was aghast.
‘So this is a Great Emperor,’ Lin Hao thought. ‘Even after falling and becoming a Saint Medicine, he still possesses world-shaking divine might, enough to suppress the very heavens.’
The Saint Medicine swayed, its pressure overwhelming, yet Lin Hao was completely unaffected.
On the contrary, a gentle power began to nourish his body, making him feel as though he had returned to the womb.
Then, Lin Hao watched as the Saint Medicine actually pulled itself from the ground and flew into the air.
In the distance, the void thundered, as if about to be pierced by some mysterious force.
CRACK!
A bolt of lightning seemed to strike the firmament, tearing the void open.
The Saint Medicine was sentient; it had torn a hole in the heavens!
Then, the Saint Medicine flew straight through the opening.
With his quick reflexes, Lin Hao grabbed onto the trailing end of the Saint Medicine.
SWOOSH!
With a flash of brilliant light, the opening in the sky sealed shut.
Lin Hao and the Saint Medicine vanished from the sky.
The world fell deathly silent.
The moment they broke through the sky, an incomparably immense power surged in from all directions. Lin Hao instantly lost consciousness, and then he knew nothing more.
When Lin Hao awoke, the first thing he smelled was the scent of damp earth.
Startled, Lin Hao shot to his feet.
But he immediately collapsed back to the ground.
A tearing pain shot through his body, and Lin Hao grimaced.
Turning his focus inward, Lin Hao was stunned by what he found.
His body was too gravely injured.
Setting aside his external wounds, Lin Hao looked within and was shocked to find that several of his meridians had snapped.
These were meridians that had been reforged by the Creation Jade Butterfly! Like his organs, they had been transformed into furnaces, tough enough to melt gold and forge iron.
For even such meridians to break, one could only imagine how brutal the experience had been.
Lin Hao didn’t want to dwell on how they had broken. His only thought was to recover his strength.
A moment later, however, a bitter smile crossed his face.
‘Right now, even sitting up is a distant hope, to say nothing of cultivating.’
Realizing his predicament, Lin Hao’s nerves instantly tensed. He held his breath and strained his ears to listen.
With his meridians broken and his cultivation base gone, he would surely die if a Devil Beast appeared.
After a few dozen seconds, Lin Hao gradually relaxed, as he hadn’t sensed any danger.
Though his cultivation was gone, his Spiritual Sense was still terrifyingly sharp.
Lying quietly on the ground, Lin Hao’s eyes darted around, trying to determine his location.
He appeared to be in a mountain valley, surrounded by towering peaks on all sides.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Hao made another discovery.
The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in the air here was far denser than on the Celestial Yang Continent, nearly on par with the middle courtyard of the Heaven-Breaking Pavilion.
‘Could this be the Dragon Transformation Ancient Realm?’
Alarmed, Lin Hao quickly turned his head.
He was searching for the Saint Medicine.
‘To recover my strength, I’m afraid that Saint Medicine is my only hope.’
He had just realized that he was truly left with nothing—even his storage ring was gone.
But unfortunately, he couldn’t find it anywhere.
‘The Dragon Transformation Ancient Realm is a passage that connects to the Divine Demon Destruction Domain. It hasn’t been opened since the birth of the Nine Yang Continent, an unimaginably long time ago. If this truly is the Dragon Transformation Ancient Realm, I must be in a peripheral region, extremely close to the Nine Yang Continent.’
‘But that’s more than enough. The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi here is far richer than on the Celestial Yang Continent, so there must be countless Spirit Medicines. I managed to recover on the Celestial Yang Continent even after having my bloodline stolen. Compared to that, what are these injuries?’
Lin Hao murmured to himself, a carefree smile gracing his lips.
He wasn’t just trying to comfort himself; he truly felt that confidence.
Then, Lin Hao splayed his body out on the ground, completely relaxing as he began to circulate the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi using the Godslaying Celestial Slash Skill.
However, after only a moment, he gave up.
The Creation Jade Butterfly had altered his meridians, making them one of a kind. His old Cultivation Technique was now useless.
When the Creation Jade Butterfly had taken shape, it had manifested the Hongmeng Purple Qi. That purple qi had directly converted and purified the energy in his body, a process that didn’t involve any Cultivation Technique.
‘Good thing there are no dangers here, otherwise…’
Before Lin Hao could finish the thought, his expression changed drastically.
ROAR!
The roar of a Devil Beast suddenly echoed from the distance, shaking the very mountains and rivers.
RUMBLE!
A tremendous clamor followed from afar, and Lin Hao could even feel the ground itself trembling.
A massive battle was taking place!
Whether it was a Devil Beast fighting a human or another Devil Beast, for Lin Hao, it spelled crisis.
In the next instant, Lin Hao’s eyes widened in alarm.