Against the Gods - Volume 05 - Primordial Profound Ark

by Mars Gravity

  However, it was actually eaten by Hong’er… eaten!

  And she even found it delicious!

  Not even considering the price of a Purple Veined Heaven Crystal, they were rare energy crystals that only paled in comparison to Purple Veined Divine Crystals. It was extremely tough, and with his current cultivation level, he wouldn’t be able to damage it at all even if he used his full strength. At the same time, Purple Veined Heaven Crystals possess very dense natural energies. Cultivating using its energy would allow a person to move five hundred kilometers in a day; using it to maintain one’s life force and vitality would allow one to stay alive for a long period of time, and allow one’s body to be rebuilt. If used luxuriously, it could activate profound arks. A small piece of Purple Veined Heaven Crystal would be able to power up a several hundred ton profound ark for several thousand kilometers of flight! No one would ever imagine what the effects of eating a Heaven Crystal that possessed such dense energy would be… Because no one would actually consume this heavenly treasure.

  Not only did Hong’er eat it, she actually chewed it!

  Her teeth felt that an ordinary biscuit was tough… but could bite into Dragon Fault and Purple Veined Heaven Crystal as though they were tofu!

  “The title Master is so much more harmonious, isn’t it?” Jasmine said with her eyes half closed: “Anyways, the Purple Veined Heaven Crystals are not the only things she had eaten. She has already consumed all your Yellow Profound Crystals, Cyan Profound Crystals, Purple Profound Crystals, Yellow Profound Jade, Cyan Profound Jade, Purple Profound Jade, and the Purple Crystal Jade Marrows you bought in Divine Phoenix Empire.”

  “Hehehe…” Hong’er’s little face looked up and laughed, beside her lips were two sparkling little canines. It was uncertain whether she was laughing embarrassingly or proudly.

  Yun Che was now feeling very unwell. After a quick count of what he had left, he realized that other than the lowest grade impure profound stones, profound crystals and profound jade… All his energy crystals, and even the precious Purple Crystal Jade Marrow were all eaten; not one bit was left behind.

  All the various energy crystals he amassed all these years that he couldn’t bear to use were obviously kept in the safest place on earth; even safer than a massive portable space he could open… yet, everything was swept in one night. Yun Che scratched his scalp, covering his face, and asked with tearless grief: “Jasmine, why did you not stop her?”

  “I’m your master, not your servant.” Jasmine replied in disdain.

  Yun Che: “…”

  Jasmine’s tone changed as she continued: “Don’t worry, Hong’er won’t eat your things for free. Her entire being is now contracted to you. She is both your person and your sword. Even though what she eats is special, it will bring your great benefits.”

  “Bring me great benefits?”

  “Can’t you feel a little of Dragon Fault’s aura from her body?” Jasmine asked.

  “Dragon Fault’s aura?” Yun Che stared at Hong’er, concentrated his senses, and was instantly shocked… Even though it was very slight, her original body that didn’t have any aura was now giving off Dragon Fault’s aura! If it was simply just Dragon Fault’s aura, he would be able to think that it was from her having not completely “digested” it. However, this was the aura from when Dragon Fault had not been broken yet, and still possessed low grade spiritual intelligence. He asked in shock: “How can this be?”

  “Very simple. After she ate Dragon Fault, its powers were digested and absorbed by her body, becoming her strength. Not only does she possess the slight aura of Dragon Fault, the sword that she turned into has become bigger and more powerful!” Jasmine turned and looked at Yun Che, who was in shock: “Which means to say, every time she eats a sword, her own strength will increase accordingly, and the Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword that she transforms into becomes stronger as well! She is not only Hong’er, but your sword as well! If you want your sword to become stronger, you need to find various strong swords for her… And it would be best if they were all heavy swords! To Hong’er, swords are the best food, and at the same time, she would also become a massive aid for you!”

  “!!” Yun Che was indeed secretly amazed. When Hong’er ate Dragon Fault, he had already found it unbelievable. But now, he found out that she was able to absorb the strength of the sword she eats, then make herself… and the sword she transforms into, grow stronger!!

  There was actually such a bizarre existence in this word!

  After his shock, he was suddenly thrown into elation… The Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword was already powerful by itself; at least ten times stronger than Dragon Fault! If it could grow using such methods… Then to him, it would be the ultimate assistance! Its power would not be lower than those legendary Heavenly Profound Treasures!

  “It will work as long as I find various swords to feed her?” Yun Che looked at Hong’er. His anger from her eating the Purple Veined Heaven Crystals and Purple Crystal Jade Marrows dissipated immediately, as his eyes glittered.

  “That doesn’t seem to work.” Jasmine pointed at the area on the left: “Because towards swords that are below the Sky Profound Realm, she has no interest in them at all.”

  Looking at where Jasmine pointed, Yun Che saw his other swords that were in the Sky Poison Pearl: The Overlord’s Colossal Sword, Tiger Soul Sword… and the few hundred other swords that he obtained from the Xiao Sect Branch Sect’s treasury. Seeing Hong’er’s greedy attitude, she could give up her morals just so she could eat… yet the swords laid there untouched.

  This meant that Hong’er did not eat just any sword. The swords she would be willing to eat had to be at least Sky Profound… Or even Emperor Profound!

  Sky Profound Swords were limited, as for Emperor Profound Swords… within the entire Profound Sky Continent, how few were they? In regards artifacts above the Emperor Profound… Yun Che had only seen Ye Xinghan’s Sun Moon Calamity. As for swords above Emperor Profound, he had never seen them before.

  Where exactly could he find weapons for her that were above the Sky Profound Realm?!

  “Alright, I understand.” Yun Che nodded. Even though a Sky Profound Weapon was extremely difficult to find, if it could help Hong’er strengthen after eating, it was undoubtedly good news. But then, he became a little low-spirited, and said: “She’s now my person and my sword, but why… does she not listen to me at all? Not only is she able to escape from the contracted space by herself, she can come out by herself as well… The worst part is that she can ignore my control.”

  When he was chasing Hong’er previously, she ran extremely quickly… Even though both were similarly restricted by contract, the Snow Phoenix could not disobey any of his orders he issued.

  “Oh?” Yun Che’s words caused Jasmine to reveal a face of shock for an instant. Then, she coldly replied in annoyance: “She’s not a profound beast, moreover, she’s a celestial spirit at a much higher level than you. It would be weird if you could completely control her. Even though she looks innocent, she is much smarter than you think. As long as you treat her nicely, not only will she listen to you, even if you cancel the contract next time to let her leave, she wouldn’t want to leave you.”

  “Oh…” Yun Che could only nod and sigh in his heart. Treat her nicely? Wouldn’t that mean I have to please her? Damn! Am I the master, or is she the master?!

  “Then, the crystals she eats, will they increase her strength as well?” Yun Che asked.

  “No.” Jasmine shook her head decisively, then said to Hong’er: “Hong’er, show your master the profound ark.”

  “Profound ark?” Hong’er blinked with her misty red eyes, before her eyes sparkled: “Oh, that thing!”

  As she spoke, she stretched out her little hand and a red glow flashed past. Instantly, a palm-sized, dark red miniature profound ark sat in the palm of her hand.

  Chapter 492: Seeing Injustice, Being a Busybody

  “This is?” The small, dark red ark in Hong
’er’s hand gave Yun Che a strangely familiar feeling.

  “I don’t know either, I just suddenly have it! Master, do you want to play with it?” Hong’er offered the tiny profound ark to Yun Che. The words ‘master’ came out exceptionally smooth. Yun Che had no idea how Jasmine had managed to educate Hong’er in this manner.

  “You can’t recognize it? This is the Primordial Profound Ark that you were trapped in for two years!” Jasmine said.

  “What?” Yun Che’s brows furrowed together, “But….”

  “On the very day we entered the Primordial Profound Ark, I told you that the interior of the Ark had formed its own world, and that this internal world was much bigger than the ark’s outer appearance. However the reality of the situation was much more exaggerated than I had originally determined. This profound ark’s interior does indeed have an internal world, but it can also change size at will! And no matter how the exterior changes, the interior world is not affected in the least.” Jasmine stared at the profound ark in Hong’er’s hand with a serious expression. “There was a rumor circulating about in the Profound Sky Continent concerning the Primordial Profound Ark; every time the Divine Phoenix Empire discovered the Profound Primordial Ark, it was followed by the signal of the appearance of an extremely high class treasure. And this treasure is not within the profound ark, but should actually be the Primordial Profound Ark itself! The Primordial Profound Ark itself is a rare and unparalleled dimensional treasure! Things with its own internal worlds, I have seen many of those, but an item which can have such a huge internal world while being able to shrink down to such an extent, even I have never seen such a thing…. This is indeed worthy to be called a primordial artifact! And only a True God with the strongest ability to control dimensional power would be able to create such a profound ark!

  “You mean… this thing? It’s really that Primordial Profound Ark? But didn’t it disappear?” Yun Che asked in disbelief. That Primordial Profound Ark, with an interior so vast that the Profound Sky Continent spent countless years exploring, but could not finish doing so, was actually the little ark in Hong’er’s hand? Even though it was Jasmine who had personally said it, he still had difficulty accepting this fact. And when he had escaped the Primordial Profound Ark, he personally witnessed it disappear into thin air.

  “After you have taken a hold of it yourself, you will naturally find out.” Jasmine said these mysterious words.

  Yun Che complied with Jasmine’s words and took the little ark from Hong’er’s hands. The moment his fingers touched the little ark, a ball of weak white light suddenly flashed forth…. Yun Che’s movements froze in place, and pieces of soul fragments entered his heart, suddenly filling his head with some strange memories, while establishing some form of spiritual link with the tiny profound ark.

  Observing Yun Che’s situation, Jasmine said in a timely manner, “Do you remember the lingering spirit at the time we discovered Hong’er? She didn’t completely disappear at that time; she imparted the last vestiges of her spirit to Hong’er. It was only once you left the Profound Primordial Ark, that she truly disappeared. And this Primordial Profound Ark was left to you, consider it your repayment for rescuing Hong’er. She handed over the primary control over the profound ark to Hong’er, while the secondary controls were passed to you…. Those were the soul fragments that you received just now. However, following the dissipation of the spirit, this profound ark has completely exhausted its energy. Not only is it unable to move, it is also unable to support its internal world, and it has been sealed completely.”

  “The kind of energy it requires to move… Is the same as that of a normal profound ark…” Yun Che muttered in a low voice. The soul fragments had established a clean spiritual link between him and the Primordial Profound Ark, and accompanying this link, came memories which clearly instructed him on the Primordial Profound Ark’s power source and some basic controls. It did not, however, tell him anything about the origin of the ark.

  Its power source was basically the same as a normal profound ark, and it could fly in the air just like a normal profound ark. At the same time, it also possessed the ability to traverse dimensions, which normal profound arks definitely could not do.

  And if one wanted to use its ability to transverse dimensions, the amount of energy required would be incomparably large! Even if you gathered up all the energy crystals within the Profound Sky Continent, it would only be enough to power it for several jumps.

  The primary control of this profound ark laid in Hong’ers hands. At the same time, it had established an extremely strange connection with her… because the method to power up the ark… was actually by feeding Hong’er!!

  Yun Che did not even know how to describe Hong’er’s existence, which was bizarre to the point of being heaven breaking!

  The interior of the profound ark was boundless, but once he held it in his hand, he could not feel any heaviness whatsoever. Yun Che gripped the profound ark tightly and said in a low voice, “This means that if I can give it enough energy to move, I can use it to traverse the dimensions, and return to the Profound Sky Continent!”

  “Hmph, you are too naive.” Jasmine said, bluntly pouring cold water over his idea, “Let’s not even mention the obscene amount of energy required to traverse dimensions, even if you could use that ability…. Do you know where the Profound Sky Continent is located? Do you know how far it is from this world?”

  Yun Che: “…”

  “Even though you have obtained this Primordial Profound Ark, at the moment, it is not something you can take into consideration. First, you must understand the world that you have landed in right now.”

  “Right!” Yun Che crisply nodded his head. This was his second day in this world and he had been slowly understanding the living creatures that made up this world on his journey, but he had yet to inquire about where he was in this world, or even what this world was called in the first place… After all, if he asked this question, there would be the risk that people would suspect he was not right in the head.

  Yun Che’s consciousness left the Sky Poison Pearl. He soared into the sky and continued towards the west.

  Yun Che was about four hundred kilometers away from Jasmine’s indicated target location. Yun Che’s speed was not fast at all. In a day, he could roughly travel one hundred to one hundred and fifty kilometers. And every time he reached a town, he would stop there for half a day, then would quietly observe the communication of the people around him to glean more information about this world. He could distinctly feel that as he ventured westward, the people, demons, and beasts he met grew stronger and stronger in profound strength. On the third day, in a relatively small town, he merely walked down a street that was not longer than one and a half kilometers, and he had already felt the presence of twenty or more Thrones in the vicinity.

  On the afternoon of the third day, he finally reached the area that Jasmine had indicated.

  Yun Che flew more than three hundred meters into the air, and faced the west. He saw an exceptionally large grey-white city. This city was still at least fifty kilometers away, but it was huge to the point that he could not see the other side of the city. The whole city was covered in a stagnant grey-white color, and even the sky above the city seemed to have an additional mantle of gloominess.

  “What a big city…. It’s at least three times bigger than Divine Phoenix City.” Yun Che said.

  “The demonic energy is exceptionally thick.” Jasmine said in a low voice, “From its scale and the power levels present, this city should be the center of this entire world. The population seems roughly half human and half demon. Your real trials in this world, should begin from this city…. Hmph, you better be careful. Do not die too quickly!”

  Yun Che slowed down his speed as he drew nearer to the grey-white city. At this time, the sounds of a fiercely violent fight emerged from the area to the front of Yun Che, and as he grew nearer to that spot, bursts of profound energy storms flew from a very far distance
to heavily impact his surroundings.

  Yun Che’s brows jumped violently… amongst the people who were fighting in front of him, every single one of them emitted an exceedingly strong aura. In terms of profound strength and levels, they were far above him.

  “Two half a step into the Tyrant Profound Realm, three others at the first level of the Tyrant Profound Realm!” Jasmine said dully.

  Yun Che halted his movements and hesitated for a moment. But he chose to continue flying forward and he quickly reached the scene of the battle.

  He had arrived at a forest which was not too thickly enshrouded. In the aftermath of the fierce battle, several hundred meters of the area had already been leveled into a flat surface. Not even a blade of grass could be seen, much less trees. In the center of the area, three people were clothed in black and they wore pitch-black hoods. They were wrapped up in cloth from head to toe, only showing their hands and eyes. And the three people were surrounding a couple; the couple looked extremely young, approximately twenty years of age. The couple stood back to back; the man had a physique that was similar to Yun Che, his face was uncommonly handsome and elegant. He was dressed in all white, holding a longsword completely stained in blood, with a trickle of blood leaking from the corner of his mouth. Even though his wounds were not light, his eyes emitted a ferocious and unyielding light.

  The girl was dressed in a light green, tight-fitting bodysuit. Her face was delicate and pretty while also having an heroic aura which would not lose to men. But what surprised Yun Che was that there were two especially long pointed ears on the side of her head, and on her back, stretched a pair of semi-transparent, butterfly-shaped, diaphanous wings; they were very beautiful. Her weapon was also very special, it was actually an oddly-shaped emerald bow broader than her entire body. On the strings of her tautly-drawn bow were three streaks profound energy sword rays…. But the power of the profound energy rays seemed to have grown weak.