Chapter 1801: Chapter 1668: Two Choices
Judging from the fact that these human-shaped creatures are filled with a dense Death Aura, it’s entirely possible that they used Undead Holy Gold, this special metal, to perform Sacrificial Refinement on an Emperor Weapon.
Undead Holy Gold is not a naturally produced metal, but can only be formed in extremely特殊environments, and is incomparably rare.
It’s said that Undead Holy Gold is formed when Death Aura first liquefies and then solidifies, and only after hundreds of millions of years can it finally take shape.
If an entire Ancient Star of Life dies out, there might be a certain chance for Undead Holy Gold to form, but it’s by no means guaranteed; even the slightest deviation in the process makes its formation impossible.
You could say Undead Holy Gold is even more precious than Sun God Gold and Dark Immortal Gold.
But so-called "precious" is relative; at the very least, very few people would use this kind of metal to refine their own weapons—most people simply cannot control it.
Undead Holy Gold emits a faint blue glow, its shape irregular, with obvious broken edges; it was clearly shattered by force.
An Emperor Weapon refined with Undead Holy Gold is terrifyingly powerful—what kind of person could possibly shatter such an Emperor Weapon?
In an instant, the stalwart figure of the Nine Heavens Xuan Emperor appeared in Ye Fan’s mind; perhaps only he could accomplish the feat of shattering an Emperor Weapon, right?
Just at this moment, the shattered piece of Emperor Weapon, the Undead Holy Gold, suddenly burst out with a cold blue radiance that shot straight into Ye Fan’s eyes.
"Ah..."
Ye Fan let out a miserable scream, feeling a sudden chill run through his entire body; his body seemed to stiffen, an icy aura corroding him from within.
He sensed a ghostly blue ball of light attempting to seize control of his body and sea of consciousness—if it succeeded, Ye Fan’s consciousness would likely be wiped out in an instant.
"Roar~"
At this life-and-death moment, Ye Fan desperately circulated his Mystical Skill; the golden Holy Embryo struggled and let out an enraged roar toward the sky.
Immediately after, the Holy Embryo Illusions in all three hundred and sixty Acupoints across his body instantly solidified, transforming into three hundred and sixty true Holy Embryos, all roaring in unison.
Their voices boomed like thunder, shaking that ghostly blue ball of light until it trembled.
"I’m very satisfied with this body. You can go die now!" A consciousness actually spoke from within that ghostly blue ball of light.
"What the hell are you? Get the hell out of my body!" Ye Fan roared!
However——
It was useless; that ghostly blue ball of light easily broke through Ye Fan’s sea of consciousness defenses and entered straight into his sea of consciousness.
Swish!
The next moment.
The Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown, which had been quietly floating above the sea of consciousness, suddenly released a beam of light that instantly enveloped the ghostly blue ball.
"Nine Heavens Xuan Emperor? No..."
The ghostly blue ball of light only had time to let out a startled cry before it was completely obliterated!
Before the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown, it had no power to resist at all, even though Elder Xuan was already in slumber.
Cold sweat broke out all over Ye Fan’s body; without a doubt, this wisp of consciousness was very likely a remnant soul of that silver-scaled humanoid that had once fought the Nine Heavens Xuan Emperor, or perhaps a residual will from its Emperor Weapon.
If not for the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown guarding his sea of consciousness, this time would truly have been disastrous.
Luckily, the danger had already passed, and Ye Fan gradually calmed down. For the first time, he realized that his body was also a treasure. Aside from the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown in his sea of consciousness, the Holy Embryo Illusions in the three hundred and sixty Acupoints throughout his body were also unique in all the world.
After regaining his clarity, Ye Fan looked toward the Bai Yan wolf, only to see that this fellow had already retreated a hundred zhang away, staring at him with a guarded expression, clearly frightened out of its wits.
"Come over, it’s no longer dangerous." Ye Fan called out to it.
"Are you still Ye, or have you already been taken over by that filthy thing?" The Bai Yan wolf didn’t move, its eyes bright and sharp, shooting out two silver beams, looking ready to bolt at any time.
Ye Fan let out a snort and said, "You’re really that eager for me to be taken over? If I truly had been taken over, would I still be wasting words with you?"
"Of course not!"
The Bai Yan wolf gave an awkward laugh, then cautiously edged closer, scrutinizing Ye Fan from head to toe for a long while.
"Have you looked enough?" Ye Fan asked.
"The aura of that thing just now was incredibly powerful, far beyond what you can withstand. Why weren’t you taken over? What exactly happened to you? Where did that thing go?" The Bai Yan wolf fired off several questions in a row.
Ye Fan put on an innocent look and said, "I don’t know either. Maybe my constitution is special and not suitable for it to take over. As for that thing, I killed it."
"You... you killed it?"
The Bai Yan wolf’s jaw dropped in shock, its eyes wide like bells. The terrifying aura of that ghostly blue ball of light had even startled it, yet inside Ye Fan’s body it didn’t even get the chance to stir up a single wave before being killed—this was simply unbelievable!
No matter what, this piece of Undead Holy Gold was still a fragment of an Emperor Weapon. Although it was small, it was definitely extremely rare. The only question was whether the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown would reject this kind of Immortal Gold infused with such an aura.
Ye Fan wasn’t absolutely certain, but he still wanted to give it a try. What if it worked?
During that battle against the Ancient Emperor’s Emperor’s Golden Bronze Furnace, Elder Xuan had suffered heavy injuries. If he could absorb the Divinity within the Undead Holy Gold, perhaps he might be able to recover somewhat?
As soon as he thought of it, Ye Fan moved his Mind and urged the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown to absorb the Divine Energy within the piece of Undead Holy Gold in his hand.
This was absolutely a risky attempt—the Nine Heavens Xuan Emperor had definitely used the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown when battling that Emperor Level humanoid creature. Their auras were completely different, and Ye Fan had no confidence whether it would work.
What surprised Ye Fan was that when he drove the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown to absorb the Divine Energy in the Undead Holy Gold, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown did not resist. Instead, it absorbed it quite thoroughly.
Endless Divine Energy was devoured by the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown, while the Undead Holy Gold grew dimmer and dimmer, its Death Aura growing weaker and weaker.
"Bang!"
An hour later, the Undead Holy Gold in Ye Fan’s hand suddenly cracked open, turning into a lump of scrap iron, its Divine Energy completely gone, all of it absorbed cleanly by the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown.
"So that’s how it is!"
Seeing this scene, the Bai Yan Wolf instantly realized why that terrifying aura had vanished without a ripple after entering Ye Fan’s body, extinguished without a sound. It had to be the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown at work.
It had long known that Ye Fan carried an Emperor Weapon. No matter how terrifying that thing was, if it wanted to take over Ye Fan, it had to pass the hurdle of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown.
As an Emperor Weapon, even damaged, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Crown could still town-kill a strand of lingering will without any problem.
Afterward, Ye Fan and the Bai Yan Wolf suddenly discovered that the Death Aura on this planet had thinned a great deal and would no longer have any real impact on them.
Because of this, the Bai Yan Wolf put away the Purple Gold Little Bell. One man and one Wolf continued exploring this desolate planet, hoping to find something.
Of course, it would be best if they could find a complete Transmission Array Platform to return with; otherwise, drifting in the boundless Star Domain would be an extremely bitter experience.
The environment on this planet was extremely harsh. Hurricanes appeared from time to time, capable of destroying great mountains. Even Ye Fan found it especially strenuous to withstand them.
The entire planet was covered in thick Bone Powder. One step in would sink you down to your thigh. Some ruined Spiritual Treasures and Holy Weapons whose Divinity had completely dissipated were half-buried in the Bone Powder.
One man and one Wolf spent a full two months to completely explore this planet, which had once been full of vitality but was now deathly silent and desolate.
Aside from that piece of Undead Holy Gold Ye Fan had obtained earlier, which still held some Divine Energy, even Holy Weapons at the Supreme Holy Master level had had their Divine Energy utterly eroded by the power of time.
Unless it was an Emperor Weapon, nothing, no matter how tough, could withstand the erosion of time, ultimately turning into dust.
"Looks like we can’t go back!"
In the end, one man and one Wolf once again returned to that giant boulder with the two large characters "Luan Gu" carved on it. Ye Fan let out a sigh and spoke.
"Right now, we have two choices. First, stay forever on this desolate, birdless planet, waiting for people from the Imperial Academy to figure out a way to construct a super Transmission Array spanning the Star Domain to rescue us. Second is to risk stepping into the Star Domain itself, searching for a way back. But both paths are extremely dangerous."
"If we wait on this planet, who the hell knows when they’ll be able to deduce where we ended up. By the time they construct a super large Transmission Array Platform capable of traversing the Star Domain and arrive here, we’ll probably be nothing but a pile of bones—maybe not even bones left."
"And entering the Star Domain to search for a way back is basically betting on blind luck. In the boundless starry sky, planets number in the hundreds of millions. To find the Linxian Ancient Star, the odds aren’t even one in ten billion. It’s very likely we’ll wander the endless Star Domain forever until our life force is exhausted and we become dry corpses drifting in the starry sky."
The Bai Yan Wolf suddenly spoke with an unusually solemn expression.
Ye Fan knew the Bai Yan Wolf wasn’t fearmongering; everything it said was true. Both paths were slim chances, about the same as winning a grand prize lottery ticket.
This planet had already been completely crippled, with no trace of vitality left. Give it another thousand years, and it would probably become something else entirely.
A choice between two perils. Whether they stayed on this dead planet and waited, or risked entering the Star Domain to search for a way back, both were extremely dangerous.
"We go to the Star Domain!"
Ye Fan pondered for a long time before finally deciding to step into the Star Domain and gamble on his luck. No matter what, it was better than waiting to die on this birdless planet.
Even if he ultimately grew old and died in the vast starry sky, at least he had fought and struggled, and wouldn’t be left with too many regrets.
Most importantly, Ye Fan felt that waiting for the Imperial Academy to send people was unrealistic.
If the Imperial Academy had known that altar was a super large Transmission Array Platform capable of traversing the Star Domain, they would definitely have marked it.
But near that altar he hadn’t found any sort of warning. This meant that the Imperial Academy also didn’t know the altar led into the boundless Star Domain.
He could not die yet, at least not now, because there were still too many things left undone.
The Sealing on the spatial passage needed to be reinforced. Right now, although the older strong people of the Demon Clan could not appear at will, that didn’t mean they could not emerge at all.
Once they discovered the spatial passage, Earth would truly be in danger.
Moreover, his mother Ling Yun had not been found yet, and the ingredients for refining the Soul Gathering Pill had not been fully gathered.
In addition, ever since coming to this world, Chen Daozang had vanished and never shown himself again.
Ye Fan firmly believed that Chen Daozang was not dead!
This was a man like a dark overlord. In the kind of environment on Earth where the Great Dao was distant and Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi was scarce, he could still reach the Peak of Gang Qi Realm and even take that half-step to become a strong person at the Half-step Yuan realm. His talent went without saying.
In Ye Fan’s view, all these years Chen Daozang had most likely been lurking in the shadows, hiding his edge, choosing to bide his time and wait for the right moment to reemerge!
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