Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
At this point, Dongfang Niemie had already turned twenty years older. His face was full of wrinkles. His eyes had turned gloomy. His hair had become completely white. Even the clothes he wore no longer looked decent and had become rough-looking.
“How fascinating! How fascinating! It took me exactly four days and four nights to clean the second layer of my veins, but you only needed slightly more than four hours. Even the Xuan energy you needed was not even one-tenth of the amount I needed. How fascinating!”
“Son, I am facing a difficult choice now. Should I continue cleansing your veins or should I stop here?”
“If I continue to cleansing your veins? There is the possibility that my Xuan energy would prove insufficient. If I lose focus of my Xuan energy during the process, the consequences would be unimaginable. However, your body seems to have yet to reach its limit. If I stop cleansing your veins, I feel like it would be a waste of the large amount of Xuan energy I have left. If I can clean up till the third layer, you won’t have to struggle as much in the next few years. Then, you could become our Yin Yang Sect Head sooner. I’m just not satisfied stopping like this!”
“Should I continue or should I stop?”
Of course, Yang Dingtian couldn’t answer him as he couldn’t even move his fingers. Much less reply, he even couldn’t change his expression.
“God brought you to me to create a miracle. I’ll take this risk. I’ll do my best. Let’s continue. Even if I fail and cause a backlash, I also……”
In the end, Dongfang Niemie resolutely began to cleanse Yang Dingtian’s veins for the third time.
During the second cleansing, the pain that Yang Dingtian endured had already pushed him to his limit. Dongfang Niemie had also aged ten years but insisted on continuing with the third round.
As the third round began, Yang Dingtian had already lost all sensation in his body. This state signaled extreme danger. He couldn’t feel his hands, legs, limbs, or even his face. After losing his vision and hearing, he was left with only a bit of his consciousness floating between the raging fire and extremely cold ice.
Dongfang Niemie had noticeably turned older instantly. His skin was crumbling layer by layer. His body was thinning layer by layer. At first, his hair was white but still bright. Now, it had become as dry as desiccated grass.
One hour, two hours, three hours……
The sky dimmed and then brightened!
Over twenty hours had passed, but the third vein cleansing was still in progress. Dongfang Niemie had become thin and dry like a corpse. Compared to the previous day, he was now even older, and his hair was even drier and whiter. When Yang Dingtian first met him, his hair had looked like dry grass but was still luxuriant. But, at this moment, his white and grey hair had fallen out bit by bit to the point that there were only a few strands left on his head.
Meanwhile, his clothes had already completely turned to tatters.
As for Yang Dingtian, at first, the impurities expelled from his body were black. Now, the impurities coming out was blood red. In the end, all of his skin and veins cracked, coating his entire body in blood.
At this moment, Dongfang Niemie’s Xuan energy had already reached Yang Dingtian’s head. The third cleansing was 99% complete. However, Yang Dingtian’s life was already in danger. If he was injected with any more energy, his blood veins would burst and he would die.
The scariest part was Dongfang Niemie’s Sea of Energy was already empty with not even the tiniest bit of Xuan energy left.
“Am I really going to fail now?” Dongfang Niemie asked God. At first, he had kept a little energy in reserve to protect Yang Dingtian’s life just in case. However, since he didn’t have sufficient Xuan energy to completely cleanse the veins, he used up even that last bit of energy. Even so, he still couldn’t complete the last 1%. At this point, there was no doubt that Yang Dingtian would die.
“At first, I wanted to have a proper farewell, but that’s no longer possible,” Dongfang Niemie said sadly.
“Remember, you need to inherit my legacy and carry the Yin Yang Sect forward.”
“Remember, once you become powerful enough, you will be able to learn all of my secrets from the fiery ring. Then, you will discover how I ended up trapped in this ice cave.”
“Once you become powerful enough, finish the path that I couldn’t finish. Challenge the established world order and find out if God truly exists!”
“Remember to take care of my wife. Remember to take care of your wife, my daughter……..”
“Goodbye….”
Dongfang Niemie let out a scream!
“Boom….” A fierce flame burst out of his body, and his entire body started to burn.
“Boom….” The deep ice cave exploded, inundating everything inside with brilliant blue light. It was as if a huge missile had detonated inside the cave.
The blue light swept through everything in the cave. The crystal-clear ice cave started to crack. The ice stairs that Yang Dingtian had spent a year to build exploded and broke apart.
“Boom…”
Dongfang Niemie completely turned into ashes and vanished.
An extremely powerful force pushed Yang Dingtian up into the sky. It not only propelled him out of the cave but also shot him even higher until he was a few kilometers above the ground. After reaching the apex, he started falling back towards the ground.
By this point, the deep ice cave had already been shattered and had collapsed. The large amount of snow on the ground had buried the entire cave like a tidal wave.
“Leave here as quickly as possible. Soon, my enemies will find me.”
“Son, goodbye. Carry my dreams and my will. Continue my journey in this world…”
Dongfang Niemie’s final words reverberated in Yang Dingtian’s mind before he detonated his Sea of Energy. After completing the last 1% of Yang Dingtian’s vein cleansing, he blew up the entire ice cave and pushed Yang Dingtian out.
“Don’t. Don’t….” After bouncing through the snow several times, Yang Dingtian regained the energy to move and speak. He desperately crawled towards the collapsed cave.
At this moment, the cave no longer existed and was completely buried under snow. The area around the entrance was also covered by snow.
Dongfang Niemie never had any intention of leaving this place alive and had also never planned to use the ice stairs built through Yang Dingtian’s hard work. He had already planned to use all of his remaining energy to support Yang Dingtian. Detonating his Sea of Energy pushed Yang Dingtian out of the cave and more importantly, wiped away all traces of the young man. Dongfang Niemie did this to prevent his extremely powerful enemy from discovering the young prodigy.
“Don’t…,” Yang Dingtian yelled with his shattered voice. The scene where Dongfang Niemie had vanished in the explosion kept replaying in his mind. The old man’s arrogant and loving voice kept echoing in his ears.
They had kept each other company for more than a year. The old man was the closest person that Yang Dingtian had in this world and was also his only family. In the young man’s heart, he was not just a master but also a loving father. Yang Dingtian had put in so much effort to build the ice stairs. He’d constructed over ten thousand ice bricks just because he wanted to carry the old man out.
But now…
The closest person to him had sacrificed himself for him.
He’d helped YangDingtian, bestowed upon him his entire legacy, and even betrothed his most beloved daughter to him.
Such kindness was much greater than heaven and earth!
The grief he felt was overwhelming, but he had to get over it as quickly as possible. His master had warned him that his enemy would soon come to meet the ten-year appointment. Although Yang Dingtian wanted to know this enemy’s identity, he was rational enough to know that he should escape before this enemy arrived.
Yang Dingtian wiped away his tears, kneeled down, and kowtowed three times.
“Master, rest in peace. Everything that you’ve entrusted to me, I will definitely do it all!”
“I will make myself stronger quickly. I will carry the Yin Yang Sect forward. I will finish traversing the path that you could not finish even if I currently don’t know what that path is. I will kill this enemy of yours, even though I currently don’t know who he or she is.”
“I will make myself strong enough to challenge the established world order and find out if God truly exists. Though I don’t understand what you meant by those words.”
“I will take care of your good wife. I will take care of my fiancé, your daughter!”
“I will use my life to fulfill my promises to you!”
“Master, goodbye. Rest in peace!”
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The few kilometers around the cave entrance was also covered with snow. No matter which direction he went, all Yang Dingtian could see was an absolute blanket of white snow covering the land. It was as if there was only one color in the world. As such, he couldn’t accurately identify north, south, east, or west.
Yang Dingtian used the sun in the sky to determine the cardinal directions and headed west. To be honest, he didn’t even know where the Yin Yang Sect was. As everything had happened too quickly, Dongfang Niemie didn’t get the chance to give him many important details. He needed to find civilization to get directions to the Yin Yang Sect.
Yang Dingtian headed east towards the closest human settlement. However, it was still more than five thousand kilometers away.
The place where Yang Dingtian was currently located was called the Ten Thousands Kilometre Ice Stream, a name that was no exaggeration. This ice-and-snow-covered ground stretched more than ten thousand meters across, whether it be from south to north, or east to west. This world was much larger than Earth, and no one knew where it ended.
The ice cave that Dongfang Niemie was trapped in for over ten years was located in the middle of this frozen ground. There was a city five thousand and seven hundred kilometers to the east. There was also a human settlement more than seven thousand kilometers to the west.
At the moment, Yang Dingtian only had one Flame Pill left. He stuffed it in his right ear since he was naked and had nowhere else to put it. This pill could probably sustain him for half a month. As such, he needed to traverse five thousand seven hundred kilometers within this half a month.
“Master, I’m leaving……”