Chapter 1759: Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal (Part 2)
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Yun Che's voice suddenly stop and him clearly stunned, Qianye Ying'er's slender brows furrowed slightly as she asked in doubt.
"...!" Yun Che's gaze froze, and he didn't speak.
It was a woman's voice—the most ethereal and dreamlike voice he had ever heard in his life.
Softer than drifting clouds, gentler than a breeze, it seemed to come from an extremely distant ancient era, or perhaps from the deepest part of a dream.
But in the silence, the voice didn't sound again. He closed his eyes and concentrated his mind, but didn't sense any soul presence... It was as if his own thoughts were telling him that the voice he just heard was merely an illusion.
"Who are you?"
He asked within his own soul... but received no response for a long time.
He reached out again, touching the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal, but for a long while, no sound arose in his sea of consciousness.
"What exactly is going on?" Qianye Ying'er asked again, observing his unusual state.
Yun Che withdrew his finger from the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal and said calmly, "It's nothing. Both being Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures, the Heavenly Poison Pearl simply had a special reaction."
Reverse... Xuan...
That was the Evil God's name.
Was it truly just an illusion?
Qianye Ying'er shot him a glance but didn't press further. Instead, she spoke slowly, "The Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal was accidentally discovered by the Fantian Shen Di three generations ago in a relic at the southern edge of the Eastern Divine Region. As you said, it was a dead seal. If not for its appearance matching exactly with historical records, it would have been difficult to even detect it by aura alone, let alone believe it was the third-ranked supreme treasure of ancient times."
Yun Che listened with a furrowed brow.
Like the Heavenly Poison Pearl and the Zhou Tian Pearl, the source spirit of the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal had also died.
According to the ancient legends he knew, the original owner of the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal was the Life Creation God, Li Suo. After Li Suo died, the seal fell into the hands of the demon race, and then all traces were lost... But when the Brahma Emperor Divine Realm discovered the dead Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal, it was in the southern region of the Eastern Divine Region?
"However, 'eternal life' is the kind of thing that drives people mad," Qianye Ying'er let out a derisive low laugh. "To activate the eternal life power of the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal, the Brahma Emperor Divine Realm used countless methods, many of them extremely cruel. The number of lives sacrificed far exceeds your imagination."
Yun Che: "..."
"Finally, in the generation of Qianye Wugu, they obtained a successful 'experiment.' That experiment was Old Man Gu."
In terms of lineage, Qianye Wugu was Qianye Ying'er's great-grandfather. But she called him by his name flatly.
Because she was no longer Qianye Ying'er; she was Yun Qianying!
This fact had not changed even with Qianye Fantian's death and her taking over the Fan Emperor Token.
Yun Che glanced at the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal and asked, "How did they succeed?"
To become the spirit of a Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasure, only He Ling was capable in this era. Even someone like Zhou Tian Taichu, who had bonded with the treasure first and possessed a glass heart, found it extremely difficult. Naturally, the Brahma Emperor Divine Realm couldn't make the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal generate a true spirit.
"The Buddhist Soul Death-Pleading Seal."
Qianye Ying'er lowered her voice, revealing an answer that made Yun Che's face show surprise.
She tilted her gaze and said, "The profound formation beneath our feet was born from a special formation disk left from ancient times, called the Fanhuang Yangtian Formation. It belongs to the highest level of profound formation power in the Brahma Emperor Divine Realm, capable of forcibly stimulating the potential within one's profound veins, but also carrying extremely high risks. That the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal showed a faint reaction was within this formation."
"However, while standing beside the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal, Old Man Gu's lifespan was clearly affected, but Qianye Wugu and the others couldn't absorb the divine aura from the seal. Later, they discovered it was because Old Man Gu bore the Buddhist Soul Death-Pleading Seal."
"Old Man Gu was the only Divine Lord-level experimental subject Qianye Wugu found. To prevent betrayal, he was planted with the Buddhist Soul Death-Pleading Seal using the Fan Emperor Token, but unexpectedly, they obtained the result that only those bearing the Buddhist Soul Death-Pleading Seal could absorb the eternal life divine aura. Probably because the Buddhist Soul Death-Pleading Seal affects all meridians in the body, and it somehow resonated with the divine aura of the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal. Hah, quite ironic."
"So that means Qianye Wugu and Qianye Bingzhu have been alive until now... They were also planted with the Buddhist Soul Death-Pleading Seal?" Yun Che said.
"Of course." Qianye Ying'er's gaze was profound. "That's why I said the word 'eternal life' is the thing that most drives people mad and strips them of reason. The Buddhist Soul Death-Pleading Seals on Qianye Wugu, Qianye Bingzhu, and Old Man Gu are all masterless seals, all planted via the Fan Emperor Token."
"In other words, now that I hold the Fan Emperor Token, I completely control the fates of these three. So your earlier worry is completely unnecessary."
Yun Che's lips twitched slightly, and he said, "But it seems Qianye Wugu and Qianye Bingzhu don't have that great a desire for eternal life."
Qianye Ying'er gave a cold smile. "This kind of 'eternal life' that comes with extreme lack of freedom is actually a long, drawn-out torment. If not for their need to guard the Brahma Emperor Divine Realm, they might have chosen death long ago."
Yun Che didn't comment further... The fear of death was an instinct shared by all living beings.
Just like the Three Yan Ancestors—they would rather be ghosts in the Eternal Dark Bone Sea for over eight hundred thousand years than choose death.
Qianye Ying'er stepped forward and suddenly reached out to pick up the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal, then directly tossed it to Yun Che.
"I'm giving it to you."
Four words, as casual as if she were handing over an ordinary piece of uncut jade.
Yun Che caught it, his gaze inward. "Are you sure? This is the Brahma Emperor Divine Realm's greatest secret and most important treasure."
Qianye Ying'er said, "You managed to take the Zhou Tian Pearl from Zhou Tian Taichu with ease. Perhaps you can revive this Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal as well."
"A Dark Eternal Calamity Demon Lord with eternal life will bring eternal darkness to this world... I hope you can achieve that."
Yun Che looked deeply at Qianye Ying'er, said no more, and calmly put away the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal.
Thus, of the seven Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures, four were now in his possession... But the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal was in a dead state; the Zhou Tian Pearl had been drained of power after opening the Zhou Tian Divine Realm for three thousand years a few years ago; even the Heavenly Poison Pearl had just exhausted all the Heaven's Wound Devastation Poison it had accumulated over the years.
As for the Reincarnation Mirror... it remained silent.
Leaving the underground space, all the Fan Kings and Brahma Emperor Elders were prostrating in neat rows outside. The surviving Brahma Emperor Divine Envoys had also struggled to arrive, their eyes filled with pleading expressions as they looked at Yun Che and Qianye Ying'er.
Looking at the devastated Brahma Emperor King City, everything felt like a different world. Qianye Ying'er's chest rose and fell slightly as she said, "I have no reason to refuse the great gift Qianye Fantian gave me before his death. I'll stay here for a while, making them recover their maximum utility in the shortest time possible."
When Qianye Ying'er said these words, there was no emotion in her voice.
Whether it was pure exploitation or if she still felt attachment to the place of her birth... perhaps not even she herself knew.
"Alright." Yun Che agreed directly, then said, "Also, help me investigate one thing."
"Oh?" Qianye Ying'er turned her gaze sideways.
Yun Che said, "Back when I planted the slave mark on you, I asked you about something: In the Brahma Emperor Divine Realm, who was it that attacked the Wood Spirit Royal Clan, causing the Wood Spirit Clan leader and his wife to self-detonate their Wood Spirit Pearls and die?"
"You want me to clarify this matter?" Qianye Ying'er looked surprised.
She remembered answering him back then that it couldn't have been someone at too high a level, otherwise there would have been no survivors to escape.
"Yes." Yun Che's expression was solemn. "This matter is very important to me. Of course, the person might already be dead. If not dead... bring him to me alive, without fail."
"What specific time?" Qianye Ying'er pondered briefly, then asked.
"Fifteen years ago."
"Alright." Qianye Ying'er agreed. "At most three days."
Yun Che nodded and prepared to fly away.
"Wait." Qianye Ying'er suddenly thought of something. She looked at Yun Che with a steady gaze. "Are you sure it was someone from the Brahma Emperor Divine Realm?"
This question made Yun Che frown slightly.
He Ling and He Lin's parents had been forced to death by someone from the Brahma Emperor Divine Realm. This was told to him years ago in a Wood Spirit hidden ground in the Heiya Realm by an elder named Qingmu, who had given him a Wood Spirit Pearl.
"...Later, the clan leader and his wife, after countless hardships and tribulations, finally got close to one of the king realms. The clan leader and his wife thought they were nearing hope, but unexpectedly, a disaster suddenly befell them... In that disaster, the clan leader, his wife, and thousands of their clansmen perished. Their desperate resistance allowed the young clan leader and princess to escape..."
"I... received the spiritual voice transmission the clan leader sent before his death. Only four words."
"Brahma... Emperor... Divine... Realm."
Recalling Qingmu's words from back then, Yun Che slowly nodded. "The four words 'Brahma Emperor Divine Realm' came from the Wood Spirit clan leader's deathbed transmission. It can't be wrong."
"That dead Wood Spirit clan leader—what was his cultivation realm?" Qianye Ying'er asked again.
"He Ling, what was your father's cultivation?" Yun Che asked He Ling.
"Divine Spirit Realm, mid stage." Receiving the answer from He Ling, Yun Che told Qianye Ying'er.
"Divine Spirit Realm?" Qianye Ying'er frowned deeply.
"Is there a problem?" Yun Che said.
Qianye Ying'er shook her head, her golden eyes narrowing slightly. "I'm probably overthinking it. In the mighty Brahma Emperor Divine Realm, there's actually an idiot who would reveal his identity when facing only a Divine Spirit Realm cultivator. I'm even more curious than you about who this fool is. It's a disgrace to the Brahma Emperor."
Qianye Ying'er clearly had more to say.
And at that moment, Yun Che's heartstrings shook violently.
He suddenly realized something he had never considered before...
The answer "Brahma Emperor Divine Realm" had been told to him by Qingmu back then, and Qingmu had learned it from the Wood Spirit clan leader's deathbed transmission.
But... was the Wood Spirit clan leader's transmission necessarily correct?
Based on Yun Che's gradually deepening understanding of the Brahma Emperor Divine Realm over the years, it being the number one king realm of the Eastern Divine Region was largely due to its very high sense of belief and honor.
Hunting Wood Spirits—an act that would leave a huge stain—if someone from the Brahma Emperor Divine Realm did it, they would surely strike a fatal blow and leave no traces. Otherwise, if a stain were left, it would be a grave offense.
The fact was that many Wood Spirits had escaped, and the Wood Spirit clan leader knew the identity of the assailants before he died.
Wood Spirits wouldn't maliciously lie, so he had never doubted Qingmu's words. Over the years, he had never entertained any suspicion... But Qianye Ying'er's expressed doubt instantly infected him.
Moreover, according to Qingmu, the Wood Spirit clan leader seemed to have never truly made contact with any king realm before the disaster. Then, before his death, how exactly did he determine that the attackers were from the Brahma Emperor Divine Realm?
"Go back to Zhou Tian first. I'll give you the answer in three days."
Qianye Ying'er's eyes shimmered with an unusual light... The first contact instantly identifying them as Brahma Emperor Divine Realm, plus the words "fifteen years ago," made her vaguely think of something.
Yun Che flew into the air, and the purifying light descended. Following Qianye Ying'er's choice, he purified Qianye Wugu, Qianye Bingzhu, and the entire king city of Heaven's Wound Devastation Poison, then returned to Zhou Tian.
A great drama awaited his starring role.