"And who is Ye Wuyi?"
Luo Xiu glanced at Lin Tong, then unhurriedly sat down cross-legged and said patiently, "You could say he's the former self of the Buddha Killer. No, to be precise, he's the one who created the Buddha Killer."
Lin Tong asked, "From the sound of it, he's even stronger than the Buddha Killer?"
Luo Xiu said, "I don't know how strong he used to be, but right now he's just a wisp of Residual Soul under my control."
"Lin Tong, you keep watch. I'll go ask him some questions."
"Got it, big bro."
Luo Xiu said nothing more and directly sent out his Divine Sense to connect with the Soul Imprisonment Mark.
"Ye Wuyi, I want to ask you a few things."
"You may ask, but I might not answer."
Luo Xiu chuckled lightly. "I'll probably die in this battle, so before I die, I'll offer you up as a sacrifice to Natuoyasi."
Ye Wuyi said coldly, "Are you threatening me?"
Luo Xiu smiled and said, "Which brings us to the questionâhow much do you know about the Ascetic Heavenly Emperor? Why is it that no matter how many times you kill him, he won't die?"
Ye Wuyi was silent for a moment, then said, "Back when I was attached to that idiot Buddha Killer, I remember once the Buddha Killer had a big fight with Ku Xing."
Luo Xiu asked, "And then?"
Ye Wuyi: "Then, the Buddha Killer literally killed him fifty times and still didn't manage to finish him off."
"And every time he resurrected, he was stronger than the last time."
Luo Xiu asked, "What was the reason?"
Ye Wuyi said, "Later, the Buddha Killer found out that Ku Xing's Law Domain is very special. His Domain isn't used outwardly to affect others, but is used on himself."
Luo Xiu frowned slightly. "No wonder I never saw him release a Domain from the start. Turns out he'd already cast it on himself."
Ye Wuyi said, "His Law Domain is called 'Endless Sea of Suffering'. Once activated, he can undergo eighty-one cycles of Reincarnation."
"And with each Reincarnation, he uses the 'Suffering Technique' to comprehend pain and draw Power from that pain."
"By the eighty-first Reincarnation, he'll become incomparably powerfulâprobably so strong that even at my peak back when I was alive, I might not be able to beat him."
Luo Xiu asked, "You've actually witnessed his strength after eighty-one Reincarnations?"
"I have not." Ye Wuyi said, "He's a Heavenly Emperor after all, so there are very few in this world who can kill him. Even if he runs into someone strong enough to do it, he'll usually just Reincarnate ten-odd times and wear his opponent to death."
"Like you lot right now⊠if he Reincarnates another two or three times, chances are you'll also be worn to death. You won't even get the chance to see him after eighty-one Reincarnations."
"In addition, I can tell you this: all the pain you inflicted on him earlier will be stacked up by his 'Suffering Technique' and can be returned to you at any time."
Hearing this, Luo Xiu couldn't help but feel his mood grow heavy.
No flesh-and-blood living being is unafraid of pain.
Of course, he was afraid too.
"How do we break his 'Endless Sea of Suffering'?"
"HeheheâŠ"
Ye Wuyi suddenly let out a weird laugh. "Kid, now that's a question you asked the right person. The Buddha Killer suffered a huge loss back then, so he specially researched him. I wasn't interested in that crap, but I had no choiceâeverything the Buddha Killer knew, I know too."
Then he suddenly changed the topic. "But before I give you the answer, I need to bargain a little something for myself. Otherwise we can only die together. I'm just a wisp of Residual Soul anyway, no hope of resurrection. Having you accompany me to the grave, I'm not losing out."
Luo Xiu asked, "What do you want?"
Ye Wuyi said bluntly, "I want to go home, and I want to bring Natuoyasi along."
Hearing this, Luo Xiu fell silent for a moment, then said, "If I survive, I will definitely send you both home."
Ye Wuyi asked, "Can I trust you?"
Luo Xiu said, "I'm someone who does what I say. Of course, whether you believe me or not doesn't matter, because you have no choice right now."
"I can tell you really don't want to die, because you still have desires."
"Then I'll trust you this once, kid."
"You won't regret it."
Ye Wuyi said, "Actually, the Thunder Cloud in the sky is the key."
"Ku Xing's six rootsâeyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mindâare hidden inside it. As long as you find the Seals that store his six roots and destroy them, his 'Endless Sea of Suffering' can be broken."
He added, "Even if you can't destroy them, for the sake of self-preservation he'll choose to voluntarily dispel 'Endless Sea of Suffering'."
Luo Xiu ended the Divine Sense communication with him and raised his eyes to look at Lin Tong ahead.
Just now, his Divine Sense communication with Ye Wuyi hadn't been shielded or isolated, so Lin Tong could hear it as well.
Lin Tong looked up at that mass of Thunder Cloud in the sky. "So that's where the real key is."
Luo Xiu said, "Lin Tong, lend me a drop of your Divine Blood."
"Okay."
Divine Essence Bloodâhow precious it was.
But Lin Tong didn't hesitate in the slightest.
In just a moment, he refined a drop of Essence Blood red as a gemstone yet exuding a chilling aura of death.
As he handed the Essence Blood to Luo Xiu, Lin Tong's face turned noticeably paler. Clearly, expending Essence Blood caused him quite some damage.
Luo Xiu carefully controlled that drop of Death God's Essence Blood, raised his head to the Thunder Cloud in the sky, and his gaze suddenly turned razor sharp.
Lin Tong naturally knew what Luo Xiu intended to do and said excitedly, "Using this Divine Technique, we'll definitely break it!"
"Divine Blood Breaks Ten Thousand Laws!"
Luo Xiu flicked his two fingers lightly, and that drop of Death God's Essence Blood instantly shot out with supreme divine might, tearing through the air.
However.
Strangely, that drop of Divine Blood only flew halfway before suddenly dropping straight down, blasting a bottomless pit into the distant ground.
Seeing this, Lin Tong's eyes flashed with shock, but he quickly figured out the cause.
"Big bro, that area has a gravity restrictionâno, it should be a 'ban on flight for all things'."
Luo Xiu ground his teeth. "What a waste⊠we blew a drop of Divine Blood for nothing."
Lin Tong said, "Big bro, if that area is a no-fly zone, then we can't reach that height in the sky at all. Any Dao Technique we launch will end up just like that drop of Divine Blood."
Luo Xiu slowly took a deep breath and strode forward.
"If we can't fly, then we'll make up for it with height."
"Height?" Lin Tong was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Big bro, you mean you're going to use that Divine Technique to grow yourself to several thousand meters tall?"
Luo Xiu shook his head, and his whole body suddenly erupted with dazzling light.
A terrifying aura of might instantly rose between heaven and earth!
"Demon Heaven's Lift!"
Seeing this, Lin Tong's gaze shook. "Damn, so big bro you were still hiding a trump card like this!"
At this moment.
Several thousand meters up in the sky.
Ku Xing, who had yet to complete his Reincarnations, also frowned.
"To actually choose to dodge the no-fly restriction with a gigantic body⊠interesting."
"And judging from this, you seem to have discovered the weakness of 'Endless Sea of Suffering' as well."
"But so what?"
As a Heavenly Emperor, Ku Xing's powerful Divine Skills were far from limited to a single Domain.
He raised his right hand high, and a Dharma Seal instantly condensed within the Thunder Cloud.
"Star Sea Mirage City!"
A colossal city suddenly surfaced within the Thunder Cloud, as if it had appeared out of thin air.
With a downward swing of his right arm, the giant city let out an earth-shattering roar, as though the land were cracking and mountains were collapsing, and slowly came crashing down toward the Nine-headed Giant several thousand meters tall below.
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I'm a bit hypedâhaven't written a story with over a thousand chapters in years.
Really feel like taking ten days off to celebrate properly.