Chapter 944: Chapter 930: An Answer Worth More Than Its Price
When Ye Zhen’s gaze firmly fell on the face of the mysterious elder, who finally revealed his true body behind Ye Zhen, what followed was a deep disappointnt!
The mysterious elder who suddenly appeared behind Ye Zhen had a faint outline and features that Ye Zhen could make out, but when he tried to focus on the specific appearance, it beca very blurry.
It’s as if there was a layer of water shimring over the face, making it impossible to see clearly.
“Kid, are you really so interested in seeing the true face of an old man like ?”
“When the ti cos for you to know, you will be told. Let’s go!” The mysterious elder casually tugged Ye Zhen, and Ye Zhen felt as if he were soaring through the clouds, being whisked toward the subtly radiant door of the Sun and Moon Divine Altar’s first layer.
What shocked Ye Zhen was how this mysterious elder regarded the door of the Sun and Moon Divine Altar as nothing, and with a peculiar fluctuation of power around him, he took Ye Zhen directly through it.
Ye Zhen knew well the defensive strength of the Sun and Moon Divine Altar’s door, having left a trace of his Divine Soul Imprint inside the altar.
Even a king at the peak of the Ninth Stage Establishnt couldn’t break this seemingly dimly glowing door with a full-forced strike.
Yet, this mysterious elder could charge right in.
And not only the door, but the barriers of power between every two layers in the first nine layers of the Sun and Moon Divine Altar were just like decorations before the mysterious elder.
Moreover, he had brought a living person, Ye Zhen, along.
Ye Zhen’s astonishnt was indescribable.
At the sa mont, Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense slightly moved, prompting the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten to act.
However, it was not in Ye Zhen’s arms but outside the Sun and Moon Divine Altar.
With the movent of Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense, the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, which hadn’t followed him, soared into the sky, turning into a streak of gray light, rushing towards the Bamboo Sea Spirit Institute, the residence of Bai Zizai at the Sun and Moon Divine Sect Main Temple.
Ye Zhen had always speculated about who the elusive mysterious elder might be, and among the pri suspects was Bai Zizai, who guarded the Bamboo Sea Spirit Institute.
Ye Zhen had investigated the sparse records of bizarre deaths of martial artists in the Divine Sect, and although there was no direct link to Bai Zizai, sohow, sooner or later, he seed to be connected.
According to the mysterious elder himself, he had been in the Divine Sect for at least eighty years, yet searching through those with eighty years of service, Bai Zizai stood out as the pri suspect.
Moreover, a year ago, Ye Zhen had seen the silhouette of a mysterious person at the Sun and Moon Divine Altar, which vaguely resembled Bai Zizai. All deductions led Ye Zhen to think Bai Zizai was the most suspicious.
Having arranged to et the mysterious elder at midnight tonight, Ye Zhen had considered the issue and left the kitten outside beforehand to observe Bai Zizai’s situation and confirm Ye Zhen’s judgnt.
Since Ye Zhen could distinctly sense that the mysterious elder beside him was flesh and blood, if he truly were Bai Zizai, then Bai Zizai was surely not present or was disguised!
Ye Zhen self-assuredly thought the plan was good.
But in the next instant, Ye Zhen froze.
Since they were not too far away, Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul in the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten nearly visually perceived what the kitten’s eyes saw.
Inside the Bamboo Hut at the Bamboo Sea Spirit Institute, where Bai Zizai resided, lanterns flickered and the white-haired Bai Zizai sat facing the window, with half a pot of aged wine heated on the table, alongside a dish of peanuts, a dish of bamboo shoots salad, and a dish of braised flavor, drinking rrily.
During this short mont, the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten had watched Bai Zizai down several steaming hot cups of aged wine, savoring it with a delighted hiss.
A cup of wine, a chopstick of food, showcasing an effortlessly joyful deanor.
This left Ye Zhen greatly disappointed.
To be eating at ease signaled that Bai Zizai was not an illusion conjured by spiritual power but a truly flesh-and-blood entity.
Evidently, this discovery entirely overturned Ye Zhen’s previous assumption: the mysterious elder was not Bai Zizai!
This realization left Ye Zhen sowhat flustered.
“Ye, what are you thinking about, daydreaming?” The mysterious elder’s voice suddenly sounded.
“Uh… nothing.”
“The younger is pondering how to address you, senior. May I ask for your title?” Ye Zhen tily eased the awkwardness of his distraction.
“A title?” The mysterious elder appeared slightly reminiscent, “The na used in Jianghu, I nearly forgot! Just call Elder Qiaoo!”
“Elder Qiaoo?”
This thoroughly disappointed Ye Zhen, as this title further indicated no connection between Elder Qiaoo and Bai Zizai, thinking Ye Zhen had overthought.
“We’ve arrived, the barrier of power at the Ninth Layer Altar, this old man still can’t break it, you need to step in!” Elder Qiaoo suddenly spoke up.
“Oh, alright!”
Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense activated, triggering the imprint left in the Moon Disk, and according to the magic formula taught by Jian Qianxiong, after a round of activation, the seemingly solid stone-like power barrier of the Ninth Layer Altar suddenly waved like ripples.
In the next instant, Ye Zhen and Elder Qiaoo entered the Ninth Layer Altar.
The Ninth Layer Altar Ye Zhen visited today was the sa as the last two tis, but Elder Qiaoo displayed utter curiosity upon entering.
Ye Zhen could sense Elder Qiaoo’s imnse Divine Sense begin to storm throughout the Ninth Layer Altar, ticulously observing.
Much to Ye Zhen’s frustration, even at this mont, the faint mist shrouding Elder Qiaoo’s face showed no sign of movent.
“Ye, go, stand on the Moon Disk, use your Divine Soul Power to subtly activate the Moon Disk!” Elder Qiaoo abruptly commanded.
“Elder Qiaoo, what is this?”
“Enough with the nonsense, just do as I’ve asked. I’m rely trying to verify so ideas. If I truly had malicious intentions, do you think you could stop ?” Elder Qiaoo’s tone turned impatient.
“Uh, alright….”
In the next mont, Ye Zhen stepped onto the Moon Disk. The instant his Divine Sense sank into it, the entire disk glowed with a circle of moon-white radiance.
“Stand still, don’t move, maintain your Divine Sense continuously, it absolutely must not break!”
With a low shout, Elder Qiaoo’s palm suddenly emitted a surge of moon-white radiance, pouring it violently into the Moon Disk. In an instant, a large amount of moon-white light illuminated around this Ninth Layer Altar.
The radiance projected by this moon-white light overwhelmingly converged onto the Moon Disk. Suddenly, a beam of moon-white light shot into the sky, piercing through the top of the Sun and Moon Divine Altar tower, extending into the endless void.
Ye Zhen could feel that Elder Qiaoo’s Divine Sense, in this instant, was attached to this moon-white pillar of light, seemingly stretching outward with it.
Almost simultaneously, as Ye Zhen stood on the Moon Disk, an extrely peculiar feeling surged within him.
It was an undefinable feeling.
At this ti, under Bai Zizai’s intervention, the Moon Disk seed to beco illusory and ethereal, pointing sowhere, yet feeling intensely real beneath his feet.
This feeling was incredibly strange.
As the moon-white pillar of light extended out, the consumption was incredibly astonishing. Even with Elder Qiaoo’s cultivation, he could barely support it for less than ten breaths before the moon-white radiance from his palm abruptly halted.
With the moon-white pillar of light cut off, all the radiance within the Ninth Layer Altar faded away, except for the dim light beneath Ye Zhen’s feet on the Moon Disk.
That bizarre feeling of Ye Zhen also vanished!
“Hahaha……”
In the sa instant, Elder Qiaoo suddenly burst out laughing, his laughter brimming with joy and surprise!
“I’ve found it, after so many years, finally found it, finally matched it, all my painstaking efforts over these years have not been in vain!”
“Hahaha…..”
Elder Qiaoo’s laughter was like rolling thunder in spring, causing Ye Zhen’s ears to ring as though countless waves of sound were crashing against him from all directions.
At the sa mont, Ye Zhen’s expression beca extrely vigilant, as Elder Qiaoo’s mad deanor sent a bad premonition rising within Ye Zhen.
If not for Elder Qiaoo’s terrifying cultivation, Ye Zhen might have considered fully activating the defenses of the Sun and Moon Divine Altar.
According to Jian Qianxiong, the interior of the Sun and Moon Divine Altar itself was exceedingly miraculous; even if a strong enemy invaded, it could isolate and defend.
“Hehe, young Ye, do not be alard, do not be alard!”
“I rely obtained verification for an answer I’ve pondered for nearly a century, which is why I’m a bit out of sorts, just a bit…” Elder Qiaoo said.
“An answer of nearly a century, Elder Qiaoo could you share…..”
“Young Ye, it’s not that I’m stingy, at this step, I’ve only just taken an incredibly important step, rely verifying one of my judgnts.
To derive a concrete answer and harvest, further deduction and verification are needed!” Elder Qiaoo said.
“Further deduction and verification? What does Elder Qiaoo need from ?” Ye Zhen asked.
“No need, not for now!” Elder Qiaoo shook his head.
“To proceed with further deduction and verification, I must journey to several other locations. However, when I ask for your help again and find this place once more, it should be when I’ve found the final answer!” Elder Qiaoo laughed.
“The final answer?”
“Indeed, the final answer! Perhaps this answer will also be beneficial to you, young Ye. If I truly find that final answer, your share is indispensable.” Elder Qiaoo said.
“Alright, young Ye, with the matter at hand concluded, send out!”
As Ye Zhen led Elder Qiaoo out of the Ninth Layer of the Sun and Moon Divine Altar, Elder Qiaoo’s voice sounded again, “Rember, our transaction is only half completed. When the other half is fulfilled, the final answer I’ve been probing will be handed over to you, young Ye, which I believe will be worth it!”
“Worth it?”
“What, you don’t believe? Just wait and see, young one!”
With that said, Elder Qiaoo’s figure vanished into thin air, and from the void ca a voice that seed both contemplative and self-reflective.
“What I’ve relentlessly pursued for nearly four hundred years is sothing ‘worth it’ could never describe…..”
In the sa instant, Ye Zhen’s expression had already turned to one of indescribable shock.
Four hundred years!
This Elder Qiaoo before him was actually an ancient being who had lived for four hundred years!
Moreover, according to Elder Qiaoo, he had rely been pursuing that final answer for over four hundred years. Before that, he certainly had his youth, growth, and cultivation.
So how old is Elder Qiaoo really?
Five hundred years?
Six hundred years?
Or perhaps seven hundred years? (To be continued. If you enjoyed this work, feel free to cast your recomndation votes and monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian). Your support is my greatest encouragent. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.)
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