Chapter 1022 - 340: Ancestral Witch’s Blessing (Part 3)

"It has begun..."

"Still not working!"

"If I had known, I would have given him that last bit of the origin power just now."

Qiong Yun looked towards the sky and sighed softly.

Ten thousand years have passed, and not only has the environment deteriorated, but the difficulty in establishing contact with the Ancestral Witch has also increased.

"If I hadn’t just given him three clusters of the origin power left behind as a guide, this little guy probably wouldn’t have been able to draw down even a strand of the Ancestral Witch’s blessing!"

Qiong Yun sighed softly.

This was also one of the reasons the Witch Race gradually headed towards extinction.

The great changes in the world and the increasingly harsh cultivation environment were only part of the reason.

Another reason was that it became increasingly difficult for them to contact the Ancestral Witch.

Witch cultivation originates from the twelve Ancestral Witches.

To become a true cultivator of the Witch Race, one must receive the blessing of the Ancestral Witch, to transform the body, making it more suitable for practicing the witch arts.

"Does the Heavenly Dao truly intend to extinguish our Witch Race!"

"It’s really not something I can accept!"

Qiong Yun spoke with unwillingness.

His heart surged with a strong sense of powerlessness.

Even at the peak of his strength, Qiong Yun was helpless, let alone now, when he was just a remnant soul.

"Hmm?!"

Suddenly, Qiong Yun, immersed in negativity, was taken aback.

He suddenly looked up at the sky above the Secret Realm, where he sensed a powerful aura.

It was the aura of the Ancestral Witch!

"How is that possible!"

"Such a powerful aura from the Ancestral Witch, though not half the blessing intensity granted to those with top-notch witch cultivation aptitude ten thousand years ago.

But it’s equivalent to the blessing intensity granted to ordinary witch cultivating aptitude of that time.

This is ten thousand years later!

In today’s harsh environment, how could such a powerful blessing appear?"

Qiong Yun exclaimed, his remnant soul appearing slightly out of sorts.

Even though he was just a remnant soul.

But with the help of his former body and the many arrangements in the Secret Realm, Qiong Yun could vaguely discern the current state of the world’s environment.

It could be said to be extremely dire!

"Unbelievable, unbelievable!"

"This little guy might just be the destined one born to withstand this great calamity, possessing astounding fortune and luck."

"Even among many who arise to withstand calamities, this person possesses top-tier fortune and luck."

"Perhaps, our Witch lineage could rise again with his help!"

Qiong Yun’s heart surged with potent hope.

If he could enter the trial, he might have even wanted to see him and give him that last cluster of origin power he left.

Any improvement counts.

Now, Lin Zheyu has become his last hope.

...

In front of the Earth Ancestor Witch Statue.

At the center of the altar.

As Lin Zheyu was receiving the blessing power from the Ancestral Witch, his mind raced, trying to find a way to obtain more blessings.

Celestial Eye, open!

With a slight shift in thought, the golden eye in his sea of consciousness suddenly opened.

Such thin blessing power didn’t require Lin Zheyu to actively guide it; his body’s instincts could easily absorb it.

Lin Zheyu opened the Celestial Eye, apologized mentally to the Earth Ancestral Witch, and then looked up.

From the perspective of the golden eye, above the Earth Ancestral Witch Statue, an invisible void rift cracked open.

The rift was peculiar, leading to an unknown void.

Even with Lin Zheyu’s spatial attainments, he couldn’t perceive this rift without using the golden eye.

"Is the blessing power of the Ancestral Witch coming from there?"

"If I could enter it, could I gain more blessings?"

Lin Zheyu’s heart stirred.

But soon, he extinguished that thought.

Not every void rift is as stable as a space-time node.

Even the void beyond nodes isn’t too dangerous.

Ordinary void rifts are filled with chaotic void currents and violent, terrifying forces.

Rashly entering would be akin to seeking death.

"If only my soul were not bound by the shackles of the Heavenly Dao, I might split a thread of my soul to see."

Lin Zheyu thought to himself.

Although he couldn’t enter the rift, he wasn’t entirely without options.

In his sea of consciousness, vast golden energy surged like boiling, pouring into the golden eye.

In an instant, the golden Celestial Eye burst forth with dazzling golden light, like a small sun within the sea of consciousness.

This was the first time Lin Zheyu pushed the golden Celestial Eye to its limits.

In this state, the consumption of golden energy was incredibly terrifying.

The vast ocean-like golden energy within the consciousness sea was rapidly decreasing at a rate of one percent per second.

At this moment, Lin Zheyu felt a swelling, piercing sensation emanating from the intangible golden Celestial Eye.

It was as if the Celestial Eye were about to explode.

Lin Zheyu’s eyelids trembled intensely.

Although the golden Celestial Eye was born within the consciousness sea, it was closely related to his physical body and tightly connected to his eyes.

At this moment, his Celestial Eye was enduring unimaginable pain, and so were his eyes.

Two droplets of blood flowed out from the corners of his eyes, trailing down Lin Zheyu’s cheeks.

However.

Lin Zheyu remained unmoved, relentlessly driving the golden Celestial Eye.

The saying goes: the rich rely on technology, the poor rely on mutation.

Lin Zheyu had no powerful background forces behind him, no ample resources; he could only rely on himself.

Now was a rare opportunity; if he didn’t go all out now, when else?

Time slowly passed.

Two streaks of bloody tears flowed down his cheeks, his eyes trembled madly, and the golden energy in the consciousness sea was down to less than twenty percent.

"I see it!"

Suddenly, Lin Zheyu’s expression changed slightly.

Using the power of the golden Celestial Eye, he barely pierced through the fog shrouding the Void Rift.

Lin Zheyu’s perception finally penetrated the invisible Void Rift, seeing the mysterious void on the other side.

In an instant.

An inexplicable feeling arose within Lin Zheyu’s heart.

He felt as though his consciousness had suddenly drifted away from his body, continuously floating upward.

Passing through the Void Rift, leaving this world, entering the vast, limitless starry sky.

In a trance.

Lin Zheyu saw the endless starlight.

His consciousness spanned across the endless star regions, arriving at a massive void flowing with gray fog and boundless.

Looking from afar.

Within that surging endless fog, an enormous phantom loomed intermittently.

Lin Zheyu couldn’t clearly see the appearance of the phantom; he could only hazily discern its snake-tail and human form as well as the gentle, loving aura it emitted.

"It’s the Earth Ancestral Witch!"

Lin Zheyu exclaimed.

This feeling akin to that of a mother was only given to Lin Zheyu by the Mother of the Earth, the Earth Ancestral Witch.

As Lin Zheyu perceived the unbelievably massive phantom of the Earth Ancestral Witch from an unimaginable distance.

The Earth Ancestral Witch’s phantom seemed to have discovered his existence as well.

Lin Zheyu felt a pair of gentle eyes gazing from an endless distance, filled with boundless love.

"Hmm~ah~~"

At the center of the altar, Lin Zheyu couldn’t help but let out a groan.

His consciousness instantly returned, and the previous scene seemed only a fleeting illusion.

However.

As Lin Zheyu’s consciousness returned, the rift above the Earth Ancestor Witch Statue tore open wider.

The thin ancestral blessing energy instantly changed.

Like spring water, the ancestral blessing energy gushed out of the Void Rift, engulfing Lin Zheyu in an instant.

"Success!"

"Shh... The previous pain was worth it."

Lin Zheyu’s eyelids twitched, his eyes were in excruciating pain, and his vision was somewhat blurred.

This was the side effect brought by his excessive use of the golden Celestial Eye, almost surpassing its limits.

Lin Zheyu ignored the side effects on his body.

He hurriedly sat on the ground cross-legged and swiftly absorbed this powerful energy.

Now was the true time to test his physical talent.

Previously, the ancestral blessing energy was so thin that it didn’t require much physical potential to be fully absorbed.

But now, it’s different.

The surging ancestral blessing energy couldn’t be fully absorbed by mere physical instincts; Lin Zheyu needed to actively control its absorption.

Lin Zheyu frantically absorbed the ancestral blessing energy.

His physical talent was rated as Class A, even considered superior in ancient times.

With his active absorption, the newly appearing ancestral blessing energy was immediately absorbed by Lin Zheyu, far from being enough for him.

The current strength of the ancestral blessing, with Lin Zheyu’s physical qualifications, was still somewhat weak.

But this was Lin Zheyu’s limit.

Even so, the golden Celestial Eye he painstakingly cultivated was almost rendered useless.

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