However, the process was extremely slow, as if drawing silk endlessly.
But Li Hao endured the sorrow and ran the Soul Sacrifice True Demon Skill with all his might, knowing that only in this way could there be a glimmer of hope, not letting its sacrifice be in vain.
A severed limb fell down, slamming Li Hao’s body into the Blood Lake, where he no longer struggled, but instead sat cross-legged, wholeheartedly concentrating on solidifying and absorbing.
It was just that the speed of his absorption seemed unable to keep up with the rate of erosion, his bones were slowly peeling away, fracturing into pieces.
His body was gradually wearing away, shriveling smaller and smaller.
But the strand of blood light that was drawn and coiled around his head was becoming increasingly condensed and profound…
…
…
Above the desolate sea, a figure appeared as if by teleportation, and then vanished abruptly.
The next instant, he was standing suspended above the desolate deep abyss.
The forbidding laws of the abyss had no effect on him.
His long white hair fluttered in the wind, and he wore an extremely simple ancient robe, with a solemn expression on his face.
His eyes earnestly gazed into the pitch-black abyss below, as if his sight could penetrate its bottom, to the raging torrents of blood and the collapsed and crumbling flesh of Ji Yun Yue.
“Has that obsession actually dissipated?”
The elder’s eyes narrowed; this Ji Yun Yue had once attacked the Saint Ancestor, but the Saint Ancestor, recalling her time spent in his company, had destroyed her consciousness but not completely erased her lingering obsession, sealing it within her flesh instead.
If not sealed, it might have been absorbed by the Mo River, merging into the most terrifying part of it.
In so doing, it would be a hazard to all living beings and also entrap Ji Yun Yue in eternal torment.
But unexpectedly, that lingering obsession had now dissipated.
Was the obsession fulfilled and thus dissipated on its own, or had it transcended and departed?
He attentively examined the Blood Lake, feeling its poisonous blood brimming with extreme harm and corrosive power, as well as the chaos of the dissipating laws on Ji Yun Yue’s flesh.
As these laws dissolved, they became disordered. The laws, initially condensed by the Dao, were now reduced to their original state and indiscriminately inflicted damage.
Although he did not make contact, he had already determined that the Dao Ji Yun Yue had cultivated was aging.
Anyone near this place, even above the Blood Lake, would age rapidly and wither away.
It was precisely because her laws were so terrifying that after the battle, when Ji Yun Yue exhausted her strength, she overexerted herself, corrupting her flesh to this extent.
If it had been any other being from the Saint Realm, their flesh could remain intact for ten thousand years, let alone decay.
“Who has awakened it?”
The elder frowned, a tinge of confusion in his heart. The Saint Ancestor was his grandfather, and he remembered that his grandfather had sealed this thing here but for countless years, there was no trouble. How had it caused such a commotion now?
His gaze shifted, landing on one of the chains dangling by the edge of the abyss, and with a gesture of his hand,
a shadow on that chain flew towards him, white-haired and on the brink of death.
But as she moved away from the abyss, her breath gradually began to recover, and she exclaimed in surprise, “Third Ancestor!”
This figure was Ji Yun Yue, who had not died. Earlier, she had let go of Li Hao’s hand, not wanting to drag the child down, but instead of attacking her, the tendrils of the Demon Saint had gone straight after Li Hao.
Clearly, the Demon Saint was attracted by the Saint’s aura on Li Hao.
And this had allowed her to cling to the chain and save her own life.
“What’s going on, is it you who awakened it?”
The elder asked with a frown, not recognizing the elderly woman before him, but knowing she must belong to a later generation of his lineage.
Hearing the Third Ancestor ask, all of Ji Yun Yue’s sorrow welled up. She had also seen the previous toppling and crashing of the Abyss Sky Stele, her eyes nearly splitting with anger.
That was the Dao Seed of the Ji Family, and those damned criminals had discarded it!
She wished she could rise and slaughter them all.
“Third Ancestor, please go quickly and save our Ji Family’s Dao Seed, he’s been swallowed by the Demon Saint, and I don’t know…”
Ji Yun Yue hurriedly spoke.
“Dao Seed?”
The elder paused, his complexion changing slightly, as his thoughts whirled and he quickly inferred the reason; it must be that Dao Seed that had awakened Ji Yun Yue.
The Ji Family’s Dao Seeds mostly possessed Holy Bones, and only Holy Bones could affect Ji Yun Yue in such a manner, though no one had anticipated such an event.
Moreover, the Dao Seed of the Ji Family, being of such distinguished status, would not venture to such a dangerous place just as a favored Crown Prince would not casually visit a prison.
“The Demon Saint is already dead.”
The elder looked at Ji Yun Yue’s anxious demeanor and said, “Besides you, there are no other survivors, unless he is inside the Blood Lake. However, due to the aura of the Dao in the blood, it can’t be probed, but…”
“But what?”
Ji Yun Yue asked nervously.
“But if he really is in the Blood Lake, even a Tao Comprehension Realm would be skinned alive and would have struggled out by now; otherwise, after soaking for so long, he would surely die without doubt.”
The elder glanced at the deep abyss, his brow furrowed as he said:
“That lingering obsession of Ji Yun Yue must have received the Holy Force from the Holy Bone in his body, and has transcended and disappeared, forsaking this flesh, or perhaps the obsession has fulfilled itself and dissipated on its own.”
“Third Ancestor, that child does not have a Holy Bone.”
Ji Yun Yue hastily said, “He only bears the Saint’s mark.”
“Saint’s mark?”
The elder looked mildly shocked, his eyes flickering: “Could that faint aura of Holy Force I sensed a few days ago be when he accepted the Saint’s mark?”
“Probably.”
“Then it’s even less likely he’s still alive. Without Holy Bones, what realm is he at?”
The elder inquired.
“Three Immortal Realms.”
Ji Yun Yue spoke, then hastily added, “But he has created a myth, defeating Ji with a Holy Bone, and broke through his Dao Domain while in the Three Immortal Realms. If this child steps into the Four Stands Realm, I can’t even begin to imagine how strong he will become in the future!”