Chapter 285

Chapter 285

Second, their cultivation levels were the lowest, making them easy to control, ensuring she could dominate the inheritance without any surprises.

“Since the Ethereal Saintess has spoken, I’m naturally willing!”  Yu Zun walked to the Ethereal Saintess’s side.  At this moment, his heart was practically bursting with joy.

Originally, facing Yang Chen had filled him with fear, and he had given up hope for the inheritance here. But unexpectedly, there was a pleasant surprise. This Ethereal Saintess had actually invited him to enter and receive the inheritance with her.

Heh heh.

This was perfect, absolutely perfect. The inheritance of an immortal giant who viewed true immortals as ants—if he obtained it, killing that bastard Yang Chen in the future would surely be no challenge. At that time, the humiliation he had suffered would be repaid tenfold. And receiving the inheritance alongside his cousin and the Ethereal Saintess, with beauties by his side, who knows what might happen then.

Seeing Yu Zun’s smug expression, Yang Chen felt a trace of helplessness in his heart. Worthy of being a protagonist. Even standing still, opportunities came knocking at his door. And this pattern was all too common in novels.

The Ethereal Saintess would use Yu Zun to enter the vertical eye together, only for him to end up seizing the inheritance instead. That was probably the next part of the plot.

But well, things were about to change.

“Ethereal Saintess, I’m also very interested in the Aurora Dao Lord’s inheritance. And my attainments in the Dao of Light can be said to surpass all my peers. Why not let me join you?” Yang Chen spoke up at this moment, his tone carrying a hint of amusement. He knew full well why the Ethereal Saintess didn’t choose him. Naturally, it was because his strength was too great, making him difficult to control.

“You have no connection to my Three-Eyed Immortal Clan, so you cannot enter!” The Ethereal Saintess said flatly.

“Three-Eyed Immortal Clan? This is the first I’ve heard of it! But what if I insist on entering?”

At those words, a flash of killing intent flickered in the Ethereal Saintess’s beautiful eyes.

“Don’t think that just because you can kill trash like King Yanbei, you can fear nothing. I’m not afraid of you! Now that I’ve reached the peak of Void Refinement, I’m two minor chasms above you! If you dare to act, I’ll have no choice but to kill you first!”

…

The tricolor light gathered in the vertical eye on the Ethereal Saintess’s forehead.

Yang Chen sensed a hint of danger within it. The current Ethereal Saintess was not only two levels higher in cultivation than before, having crossed a minor chasm, but her combat strength within the same realm had also clearly risen by a significant margin.

However, this still wasn’t enough to make him back down.

Clang!

A sword hum reverberated through the tomb space.

Yang Chen pointed his finger, and an invisible sword intent directly condensed into a blood sword, thrusting toward the Ethereal Saintess’s forehead.

“Courting death!” The Ethereal Saintess let out a cold shout.

A red beam shot out from her forehead.

Boom!

The sword intent and the red beam collided, ultimately canceling each other out.

“What’s this? The Ninth Realm of Swordsmanship!?” The Ethereal Saintess exclaimed softly. Her beautiful eyes were filled with disbelief. When she had seen Yang Chen kill King Yanbei with a single sword strike earlier, she knew his swordsmanship was extraordinary, but she couldn’t discern its exact level.

But that blood sword condensed from sword intent just now made her truly feel it. With a cultivation at the fifth level of Void Refinement, he had reached the Ninth Realm of Swordsmanship.

In the Kunlun Realm’s more than one million years of history, no such figure had ever emerged, had they?

Yu Zun understood Yang Chen’s intentions—this bastard wanted to enter and was surely aiming to replace him.

“Damn you, Yang Chen! Stealing my cousin was bad enough, and now you want to snatch my opportunity too! Once I obtain the Aurora Dao Lord’s inheritance, the first one I’ll kill is you!” Yu Zun cursed inwardly, then hurriedly said:

“Ethereal Saintess, not only is Yang Chen exceptional in swordsmanship, but his mastery of the Dao of Light is unfathomably deep! If you let him enter with you, I’m afraid the entire inheritance will be taken by him!” Yu Zun’s words made the Ethereal Saintess’s resolve even firmer.

If she allowed this Holy Son of the Heavenly Dao Holy Land join her, even though the Aurora Dao Lord was of the same clan as her, she might not be able to dominate the inheritance.

“Holy Son, your talent is impressive, but your cultivation is too low! While I can’t kill you, you can’t do anything to me either! Moreover, the right to enter the statue’s vertical eye lies in my hands—you can’t forcibly take it!”

As the Ethereal Saintess spoke, she waved her hand. The vertical eye on the statue’s forehead, which had been emitting tricolor immortal light, actually closed shut. Clearly, the Ethereal Saintess could control the opening and closing of the statue’s vertical eye. And she would rather close it than take Yang Chen inside.

“It seems I’ll have to suppress you and force you to open it!” Yang Chen was starting to lose patience. This woman, after awakening her third eye, had really gotten cocky as hell.

However, Yang Chen didn’t clash with her head-on. To suppress her, he needed to act swiftly and decisively. He wasn’t certain his own combat strength could suppress her, especially since that red beam earlier wasn’t her full power. Yang Chen’s mind sank into the Cosmic Void Seal.

When Ji Qingyou saw his primordial spirit projection, she immediately cursed: “Yang Chen, let me out right now! Otherwise, when the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm closes, I’ll make sure you have no way to heaven and no door to the earth!”

Seeing Ji Qingyou’s furious expression, Yang Chen couldn’t help but smile and say: “Senior, don’t be angry! I can let you out, but you’ll need to help me with something!”

“Help you with something?” A trace of mockery flashed in Ji Qingyou’s beautiful eyes: “No wonder you came to me on your own—it seems you’ve run into trouble! Now that you mention it, I’m suddenly not in a rush to leave! I’ve just realized that it’s actually pretty nice inside this Cosmic Void Seal!”

Yang Chen hadn’t expected Ji Qingyou, an empress who had cultivated for thousands of years, to have such a childish side, leaving him somewhat speechless.

“The Fallen Immortal Secret Realm only opens once every tens of thousands of years. Empress Senior, you risked your primordial spirit’s destruction to enter—do you really want to leave empty-handed? Besides, the final tribulation of the Three Immortal Transformations isn’t easy to overcome. Senior, you wouldn’t want thousands of years of hard cultivation to end up as a pile of tribulation ashes, would you?”

Yang Chen’s words made Ji Qingyou’s expression falter slightly. She dropped the mockery from her lips and said coldly: “What do you mean by saying all this?”

“I still have a quarter of a true immortal’s blood in my body, which I can give to you, Empress Senior! It should be enough to help you successfully pass the tribulation and ascend to the rank of True Immortal, right?”

“You’d give me the true immortal’s blood in your body? Are you insane? You’re not joking? That’s a quarter of a true immortal’s flesh and blood essence!” Ji Qingyou couldn’t quite believe it.

The value of a quarter of a true immortal’s flesh and blood essence was beyond measure. Would Yang Chen, this junior, really be willing to give it to her? Was there some trick involved?

“Senior, rest assured, my word is my bond! If you’re still worried, I can swear an oath on my inner demons!” Yang Chen said firmly.

Using a quarter of a true immortal’s flesh and blood essence to secure Ji Qingyou’s help was, naturally, a losing deal. But Yang Chen had a longer-term plan in mind.

After all, he could give Ji Qingyou the true immortal’s blood, but how it was given would be up to him. He had obtained this quarter of a true immortal’s blood from Empress Yan, but it had taken over a month of intense “battle” in a cave to do so.