Chapter 55: yunling jade and Demonic Spear Incarnation

Chen Yuan watched as the Three Absolute Evil Venerable perished, but he was secretly on guard.

In his prime, the Three Absolute Evil Venerable had reached the Peak of the Ninth Realm, the Heavenly Profound Realm, and was definitely a Great Grandmaster level figure in the Jianghu.

Even if he wasn’t as powerful as top-tier forces like the Murong Clan with their thousand-year Legacy, he was still a powerhouse among Loose Cultivators, and even the Murong Clan had to treat him with respect.

Yet, because of his greed for Divine Magical Weapons, he sacrificed his lifelong cultivation and his life. He spent a thousand years meticulously planning and calculating, only for it all to come to nothing in the end.

Although Divine Magical Weapons were powerful, they were not everything for a Martial Artist.

One’s own strength was true strength; power gained by relying on external objects was always as fleeting as a reflection in a mirror or a flower in water.

Although Chen Yuan had seized the fragments of the seven killing stele, what he truly intended to Cultivate was his own power.

No matter how strong a Divine Magical Weapon was, it was only a weapon, not the foundation.

“Escape!”

Bai Xuewei was an incredibly decisive woman. Seeing the Demonic Spear Corpse Forest break free, she immediately called out to Zhao Xuan Xin and Xie Tianyun, and the three of them turned to flee.

A Grade Six Ningzhen Realm Martial Artist was indeed considered a top expert in the Jianghu, but even the Three Absolute Evil Venerable at his Peak could not suppress the Corpse Forest back then. What did the three of them amount to?

However, it was too late.

Having broken the seal, the first person the Corpse Forest naturally wanted to kill was the Three Absolute Evil Venerable.

But the Three Demon Clans had also participated in the sealing Formation over the years, and the Corpse Forest was very familiar with the aura on the three of them.

After strangling the Three Absolute Evil Venerable into ashes, the Corpse Forest suddenly lashed out. In an instant, the dense Devilish Qi transformed into countless black, withered bone branches. Like ten thousand arrows piercing the heart, they directly impaled Bai Xuewei and the other two, making them look like hedgehogs.

In the next moment, the Demonic Spear Corpse Forest directly pierced through the Formation in the upper layer of the Demon Sealing Valley and vanished into the horizon.

As the upper Formation was pierced, it triggered the collapse of the entire Demon Sealing Valley. Instantly, rubble began to fall like a torrential rain.

“Follow me!”

Chen Yuan moved, heading straight for the spot where the Three Absolute Evil Venerable had turned to ash.

He had gone to great lengths to participate in the Demon Sealing Conference and had even helped the Corpse Forest break its seal early, all for this moment of harvest.

Chen Yuan reached into the pile of ashes that was once the Three Absolute Evil Venerable and pulled out three pieces of crystal-clear jade.

To be precise, there were two complete pieces of jade, and the remaining one was shattered.

These objects were used to store Cultivation Techniques and insights, and were generally known in the Jianghu as yunling jade.

The Upper Three Grades of Martial Dao were the Seventh Realm Primordial Core, the Eighth Realm Divine Platform, and the Ninth Realm Heavenly Profound.

Upon reaching the Eighth Realm Divine Platform Realm, a Martial Artist could develop their Primordial Spirit power and pour their Cultivation Technique insights into jade made of special Materials, which was this yunling jade.

There were many types of Materials for yunling jade. High-quality ones could last forever, remaining indestructible for ten thousand years and preserving Cultivation Techniques that any Martial Artist could view repeatedly, much like a book that would never rot.

In the Chu Family’s celestial star divine box, the jade pendant that recorded the Inner Landscape Divine Art was a high-grade yunling jade.

As for ordinary yunling jade, it could only last for a few hundred to a thousand years. Moreover, once someone read the information within, the Spiritual Qi in the yunling jade would dissipate, making it essentially a one-time-use item.

yunling jade was different from Cultivation Technique books because it used a form of spiritual Legacy to directly imprint the essence of insights into the Sea of Consciousness. Therefore, after obtaining a yunling jade, if the user tried to write it down in words, it would usually be inaccurate and impossible to Cultivate.

Unless the user Cultivated the technique to Major Achievement and fully understood its true meaning, only then could they write it down.

Therefore, when those great Sects stored Cultivation Techniques, they either used reusable high-grade yunling jade or stuck to original books.

This kind of one-time-use yunling jade was mostly used by Loose Cultivators.

The Three Absolute Evil Venerable’s words were part truth and part lies; he really had poured his Cultivation Technique insights into yunling jade to leave behind, but he had left them for himself.

He had used his Physical Body and Divine Soul to suppress the Demonic Spear Corpse Forest, intending to Fusion with and control the Divine Magical Weapon, which caused his Physical Body and Divine Soul to undergo mutations.

He feared that these mutations would affect the martial insights within his Divine Soul, so he poured those things into yunling jade as a precaution.

Of course, it had all benefited Chen Yuan now.

Afterward, Chen Yuan took Thirteen Lang Luo to the place where the Corpse Forest’s main body had been suppressed.

There was now only a pit there, with residual Devilish Qi and Formation fragments.

However, looking closely, there were actually over a dozen black spikes stuck inside that looked like both bone spurs and tree branches. At first glance, they looked like a miniature version of the Corpse Forest.

“Quick! There’s not much time left! Cut open your arms, put one in each, and use your blood and Qi to nourish and suppress them!”

Chen Yuan took out the Azure Dragon Blood Drink, cut a slit in each of his arms, and placed the black spikes against the wounds.

In the next instant, the black spikes immediately began to greedily suck Chen Yuan’s blood before completely merging into his flesh.

Thirteen Lang Luo did not hesitate either and immediately did as Chen Yuan said.

Just after the two of them had fused with the black spikes, the remaining black spikes in the pit actually began to melt, turning into pure Devilish Qi and then dissipating.

“Let’s go!”

The Demon Sealing Valley had already begun to collapse on a large scale. The lower Formation was destroyed, and the upper Formation was also starting to crumble.

Chen Yuan took everything he needed and immediately pulled Thirteen Lang Luo away. If they delayed any longer, they would likely be buried alive.

Although Chen Yuan had pushed his Blood Fiend Force to the limit and Thirteen Lang Luo had also used a Divine Artifact Avatar, sacrificing all his True Qi and a large amount of blood and Qi, they still had some physical strength left.

The two of them climbed directly up the collapsing cliffside and finally leaped out just before the Demon Sealing Valley was submerged.

Thirteen Lang Luo let out a long breath. “That was close! I didn’t expect that just coming to watch the fun would almost get me killed.”

Saying this, Thirteen Lang Luo finally looked at his arm.

The wound was still there, but it was no longer bleeding, and a black line had appeared on it.

“Brother Chen, what is this?”

“This is the aura of the Divine Magical Weapon left behind by the Corpse Forest. You can think of it as a Divine Artifact Avatar, but a natural one.

Back then, some noble families and Sects were able to develop the Divine Artifact Avatar technique because they were inspired by these condensed, substantial auras of Divine Magical Weapons.

This kind of natural Divine Artifact Avatar is very rare and more powerful than those created artificially later on.

It’s just a pity that our strength is limited. Our blood and Qi can only support two of the Corpse Forest’s Divine Artifact Avatars. Any more, and we would likely suffer a backlash.”

Chen Yuan felt it was a bit of a pity; this was truly good stuff, and something that could be sought but not easily found.

The Corpse Forest had been suppressed in the Demon Sealing Valley for a thousand years, its aura constantly leaking out, even creating so many Corpse Monsters.

That was why so many Divine Artifact Avatars had formed around its place of imprisonment.

But once the Corpse Forest left, without its power to sustain them, these Divine Artifact Avatars would soon dissipate.

With Chen Yuan’s current strength, he could only support two Divine Artifact Avatars at most, and could only watch the others dissipate.

In the original plot, the Three Absolute Evil Venerable’s Cultivation Technique and the Corpse Forest’s Divine Artifact Avatars were actually supposed to be obtained by that woman, Bai Xuewei.

Even without Chen Yuan’s interference, the Three Absolute Evil Venerable would eventually have been unable to suppress the Corpse Forest, leading to the Divine Magical Weapon breaking its seal.

However, that process was gradual, and Bai Xuewei was prepared for it.

After the Three Absolute Evil Venerable died, that woman Bai Xuewei was ruthless enough to first bring all the Disciples of the Three Demon Clans from outside and seal their cultivation, then cripple her own Meridians to hide her aura.

When the Corpse Forest broke the seal, it killed all the Disciples of the Three Demon Clans to vent its anger and then left immediately.

Divine weapons and demonic tools have spirits, but they only possess simple intelligence and do not think like humans, so Bai Xuewei was able to deceive it.

Bai Xuewei found life in death, obtaining the Three Absolute Evil Venerable’s Cultivation Technique and these Divine Artifact Avatars.

Because the Three Absolute Evil Venerable was wary of his own Disciples, the Cultivation Techniques he passed down were all incomplete fragments. Only the techniques in the yunling jade were truly complete.

It wasn’t until the end that Bai Xuewei truly became the successor of the Three Absolute Evil Venerable.

But now, all these things had fallen into Chen Yuan’s hands.

Chen Yuan then took out the yunling jade. “This is the yunling jade left by the Three Absolute Evil Venerable. It contains his Cultivation Technique insights, but only two of them are still complete.”

Thirteen Lang Luo immediately said, “Brother Chen, you planned and earned all of this. If it weren’t for you, with my brain, I definitely would have been plotted to death in there.

Don’t you dare say you want to share this with me. Getting two of the Corpse Forest’s Divine Artifact Avatars is already a huge bargain for me.”

In fact, even without Chen Yuan, Thirteen Lang Luo wouldn’t have been trapped to death.

He had the Divine Artifact Avatar of the Burning Heaven Karmic Flame, so even if he fell into a trap, he could save himself.

The strength of a Divine Artifact Avatar lay in the fact that its power Origin came from a Divine Magical Weapon, which was enough to ignore most other powers.

Of course, Thirteen Lang Luo didn’t know this.

He only knew that Chen Yuan was not only a friend but had also saved his life and helped him obtain two powerful Divine Artifact Avatars.

Although Zhi Shilang of the Sun Exchange Alliance also had a divine weapon, Divine Artifact Avatars were not easy to make and were extremely precious in themselves.

Moreover, the power of the Corpse Forest seemed even stronger than Zhi Shilang’s Burning Heaven Karmic Flame.

Chen Yuan knew Thirteen Lang Luo’s personality. He put away the two complete yunling jades and handed the cracked one to Thirteen Lang Luo.

“I really do have to give you one. This piece of yunling jade is cracked, and I have no way to use it.

Only a Martial Artist who has reached the Eighth Realm Divine Platform can use Primordial Spirit power to extract the Cultivation Technique from it.

So this thing is useless to me. Brother Luo, take it back and give it to your adoptive father, Lord Zhi Shilang. He should have a way to extract the technique.”

Thirteen Lang Luo took the yunling jade and solemnly cupped his hands toward Chen Yuan.

“Brother Chen, words cannot express my gratitude. From owing you a meal at the beginning to owing you my life now.

In the future, if Brother Chen ever needs me, Luo Lie, or my Sun Exchange Alliance, I will go through fire and water without hesitation!”