Chapter 747: Burial

Ye Tianling nodded again, bowed deeply once more, and pledged, "Feng Chaoge, I will avenge you! Although I haven’t grasped the Law of Fate yet, I will in the future. I definitely will!"

After speaking, Ye Tianling bowed three more times.

The green fuzz on Feng Chaoge’s body receded slightly, turning as crimson as blood, just like the transformation of the Emperor’s Qi Sword Body.

But soon, the green fuzz spread over him again. It strongly resembled some kind of mutated Life Soul Poison Curse.

Moreover, this Curse was even more perverse and aggressive.

Ye Tianling considered trying to take a strand of the green fuzz to test it, but the moment the thought arose, his Mechanical Heart blared a terrifying alarm.

"BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!—"

The warning sound was incredibly shrill, but it only echoed inside Ye Tianling’s mind.

Ye Tianling shuddered and took three or four steps back, putting distance between himself and Feng Chaoge’s corpse.

"What’s wrong?"

Ye Tianling asked the Mechanical Heart.

"This substance is a toxin from highly active Dark Matter. It’s more vicious than Life Soul Poison. If you get contaminated, not even the Space-Time Soul-locking Tower or the Thunder Inference King’s Dao of severing the past and future could cut this causal link. You would be dead for sure!"

Although the Little Dragon Girl’s voice was somewhat mechanical, it was filled with deep apprehension.

Ye Tianling sucked in a sharp breath of cold air and took another three or four steps back in trepidation.

"You have the Samadhi Celestial Fire. As long as you don’t touch it, you won’t attract this substance.

But while it hasn’t awakened yet, close this Blood Stone. Then, use the Bloodline Power of your Emperor’s Qi Sword Body to shrink the Blood Stone and bury him."

The Little Dragon Girl advised.

"Okay."

Ye Tianling agreed.

’But something this terrifying would obviously erupt, spread, and multiply. Bury it? Where would I even bury it?’

’If it were to break out, it would be a true world-ending storm.’

’If not even the Emperor’s Path Thunder Inference King’s Cause and Effect Sword that severs the past and future could destroy it, then it’s practically an inescapable deathtrap.’

One could only imagine the horrifying catastrophe that would unfold if this thing ever got out.

"Bury it in the Thousand Shadows Pool. The Law of Cause and Effect will suppress it on its own. As for Feng Chaoge, he’s truly beyond saving."

The Little Dragon Girl’s message let Ye Tianling know the outcome.

Thinking about the situation at the Thousand Shadows Pool, Ye Tianling finally felt a sense of relief.

Perhaps that desolate and sorrowful place, the Thousand Shadows Pool, was indeed the best Burial Land for Feng Chaoge.

’The world of Cultivators is truly as cruel as blood and as brutal as madness. A man as brilliant and peerless as Feng Chaoge couldn’t escape his own demise either.’

’He reached such a pinnacle step by step, truly peerless, with unrivaled Battle Power and unmatched style, yet even he met such an end...’

Ye Tianling sighed deeply, standing before the Blood Stone in silence for a long time.

His spirits were low, and the light in his eyes had dimmed. He mourned Feng Chaoge’s death and lamented the cruel path of Cultivation that all Cultivators must walk.

He wasn’t an emotional person, but Feng Chaoge’s death had dealt him a massive blow.

Ye Tianling stared at the green fuzz, observing it for a good while. Combining his Soul Talent, the powerful Abilities of his Mechanical Heart, and the Celestial Observation Divine Technique from his Celestial Secret Dao, he managed to see through to some of the cause and effect.

Feng Chaoge had indeed been killed by someone. There was a fatal, bloody hole in the center of his brow, as if he had been killed in a single strike.

But before that, Feng Chaoge had been undergoing some kind of transformation.

After a long period of analysis, Ye Tianling finally reached a conclusion. Feng Chaoge was an Emperor’s Qi Sword Body who had successfully passed the Ninth Layer Hell Celestial Tribulation. He had already reached the Sword Ancestor Nine Paths Great Perfection Realm and was on the verge of breaking through to the Sword Saint Realm.

Unfortunately, at the critical moment, he was slain for some unknown reason and sealed within a blood-red wasteland.

Furthermore, the entire blood-red wasteland had been melted down and refined into a massive Blood Stone.

The inner walls of this great stone were incredibly smooth. They possessed some kind of miraculous Law that actually repelled this heaven-defying Dark Matter Soul Poison!

Reaching this conclusion left Ye Tianling utterly shocked.

It was all too staggering, and the more he thought about it, the more terrifying the implications became.

Such a powerful Emperor’s Qi Sword Body, a Feng Chaoge who had passed the Ninth Layer Hell Celestial Tribulation and even possessed the Abilities of the Soul Race and certain special Talents of the Immortal Phoenix Peacock... A being like that had been killed in a single blow!

No matter how many times Ye Tianling thought about it, his heart would pound with fear every time he considered this fact.

Finally, following the Little Dragon Girl’s information and method, Ye Tianling used the aura of the Thunder Tribulation Origin contained within his Emperor’s Qi Sword Body. He tried to separate his bloodline and will, then projected them onto the center of Feng Chaoge’s brow.

The next moment, the massive stone immediately began to shrink. It closed up again without leaving the slightest crack, and no trace of the Dark Matter Soul Poison’s aura leaked out.

Everything was stable.

The great stone began to shrink.

Eventually, the stone shrank to the size of a thumbnail, lying there silently like a blood-red eyeball.

Ye Tianling’s hand trembled slightly, but he still picked up the eyeball-like stone without hesitation and placed it in his palm.

’Feng Chaoge, I will bury you with my own hands. May you rest in peace.’

Ye Tianling murmured to himself. A wave of Samadhi Celestial Fire then swept out, enveloping the eyeball, and he temporarily stored it in the Space-Time Soul-locking Tower.

Just holding this thing in his hand cast a great shadow over Ye Tianling’s heart.

Ye Tianling had no absolute confidence he could even counteract Life Soul Poison, as the Celestial Dao was constantly changing. Now, with the appearance of this terrifying Dark Matter Soul Poison that not even the Emperor’s Path Thunder Inference King’s Absolute Kill Killing Dao could break, it was even more unimaginable.

If this had been anyone other than Feng Chaoge, Ye Tianling would have turned and fled the moment he heard such news from the Little Dragon Girl, getting as far away as possible.

With a complicated mix of emotions, Ye Tianling left the area. He had even forgotten his original reason for coming here.

He flew out, heading straight for the Thousand Shadows Pool region.

「Half an hour later, Ye Tianling arrived at the Thousand Shadows Pool.」

The Cold Pool was desolate and mournful, dotted with barren burial mounds.

Wild cranes danced in the air, their lonely silhouettes bleak.

In the sky, a Blood-Colored Crescent Moon still hung. Within that crescent moon, a solitary figure still stood quietly, like eternal solitude, or the solitude of eternity.

The sight was something Ye Tianling could not get out of his mind for a long time.

Ye Tianling took out the blood-red eyeball, closed his eyes, and casually tossed it.

After falling into the lake, the blood-red eyeball quickly sank to the bottom.

But the lake’s surface roiled with huge waves and ripples.

Within the Blood-Colored Crescent Moon, an eye seemed to appear—a blood-red eye.

That eye stared coldly at Ye Tianling, its gaze filled with a demonic and bizarre light.

It was as if, at that moment, the Feng Chaoge inside the Blood Stone had been possessed by some strange, otherworldly entity and had been resurrected, locking onto Ye Tianling with that very gaze.