Chapter 1309 - 662: Distant Memories
He gave a bitter smile and said, "Neither of you has Barbarian blood in your veins."
Changtian said coldly, "And the second way to open it?"
"When I designed this underground palace, I already took into account that anyone who could break in here would definitely not be an ordinary person—eight or nine times out of ten they’d be a great power whose realm was above Immortal or even True Immortal. So we also had to guard against these people breaking through the restraints of the Flesh Furnace, disturbing the Barbarian King’s eternal rest and stealing the Barbarians’ Holy Artifacts. So, so..." He couldn’t help hemming and hawing twice, sounding somewhat guilty as he said, "So the Flesh Furnace actually isn’t located in the world we’re currently in anymore."
Changtian and Yin Jiu You exclaimed at the same time, "What!" An extremely ominous premonition arose in both their hearts.
Although Yang Ze was only the shadow of an Artifact Spirit, at this moment he even made a nose-rubbing gesture. "An enemy whose ability has reached the True Immortal Realm and above is not someone you can kill casually, especially since this Tomb could lie sealed for who knows how many years before being opened. So we had only one option—to drive the enemy infinitely far away."
"We used the blood and flesh of the hundred thousand mortals in the Human Sacrifice Pit as the lure, and the full strength of ten Great Witches as the foundation, to beg the barbarian ancestor for the chance to throw the Flesh Furnace into another Plane. This place is separated from our world by several hundred Planes, so once the Teleportation Array shuts down, ahem, the two of you will likely..."
No wonder the Demon Eye couldn’t take effect, with such layers of obstruction in between—there was no way Changtian could have contacted Ning Xiaoxian!
The temperature in this Quiet Room dropped abruptly; even the bronze coffin began to sprout fine white icicles. Both the shadow and Yin Jiu You knew that this anomaly originated entirely from that figure in the Quiet Room who was on the verge of erupting—Changtian.
He was so furious that he became calm instead, slowly drawing the Nanming Lihuo Sword as he said, "If we were to shatter this Flesh Furnace from the inside out, what then?"
Yang Ze said, "If it were anyone else, I would tell him the Flesh Furnace is indestructible. But you and Master may indeed have the ability to break it. However, once the Magic Artifact is destroyed, the two of you will have to face the Plane turbulence outside with your own bodies. After all, this is simply too far from our original world. There are countless turbulent Vortices in the inter-Plane Void; with your abilities, a single misstep could still see you smashed to pieces, and making it back will be anything but easy."
Changtian asked the most important question, "Do you know the Plane-coordinate for this place?"
"But of course." Yang Ze nodded and recited a Plane-coordinate, then said, "Even if the two of you can find your way back, I fear it will cost you no small amount of time."
This coordinate was far too distant from his world! Back then, the reason Changtian had been able to shatter the Heavenly Residence’s Little Thousand Mirror constraint in the Central Capital and break out of the realm, was because Bai Yujing grew parasitically upon the Great Thousand World; the distance between them was extremely short, and with his ability, it had cost him almost no effort. But now the situation was completely reversed.
Changtian did the calculations silently in his heart, then discovered two things:
First, with his current Divine Skills, and now that he had this Plane-coordinate, he could indeed tear open the Void and rush back to his original world.
Second, the journey was truly too far; even if he could go back, it would be absolutely impossible to achieve the goal within just a few days.
Since that was the case, he secretly drew in a deep breath, suppressed the restlessness in his heart, and said blandly to Yang Ze, "Explain all of this—from cause to effect—one thing at a time." With his cultivation, he had long since reached the realm of not to be elated by external gains, not to be saddened by personal losses; what was more, he cultivated the Insight Heart Method and had always been extremely adept at controlling his emotions.
Yin Jiu You glared at him, feeling that in many moments, he was in fact even less like a Human than she was. But in the end she had known him too long; she could faintly glimpse anxious emotion from his golden eyes. She smiled slightly and said, "What, you’re no longer afraid that that little sweetheart of yours is out there all alone?"
"She still has a way to contact me." Changtian sighed. "But I’d rather she not remember it."
Yin Jiu You fell silent. After a while she said, "You didn’t expect to run into me before entering the underground palace, so what did you come here for?"
Changtian said coldly, "The same as you. You think the fact that the Barbarian King’s Tomb is buried on the Earth Evil Vein is some earthshaking secret known to no one? It’s just that there really aren’t many in this world who’ll rush here like you, eyes shining, to dig up their own father’s grave."
This was actually Yin Jiu You’s father’s Tomb!
"Your tongue is still as venomous as ever." Yin Jiu You didn’t mind in the least and said with a laugh, "Since he could be unjust, I can be disloyal. Yin Wushang may be my father, but he was also the penultimate Barbarian King of the Ancient Barbarian Tribe. A few of the items buried with him in the Tomb—you’ve captured several of my avatars, so you probably know some of the reasons behind them. Those few, I absolutely must obtain. Yang Ze!"