by Feng Yise
Ye Yuan's expression changed slightly when he heard that too. To be able to severely wound the Vast Heaven Pagoda comparable to a divine artifact, that Heavenly Fiendgod's strength was truly daunting until it made people's hair stand on its end!
Ye Yuan heaved a sigh and said, "Senior, you don't need to feign composure anymore. Although artifact spirits' longevity is long, they are not of undying bodies. Your injuries have never gotten better because you injured your foundation, and your self-recovery abilities weakened greatly. If it continues to deteriorate like this, you'll probably thoroughly perish before long! Looks like I'll have to make a trip to the Chaotic Devil Sea!"
"Chaotic Devil Sea?" Long Teng said in puzzlement.
The era when Long Teng roamed the Divine Realm unhindered, the factions were already completely different from presently. The name Chaotic Devil Sea, it was still his first time hearing it.
Ye Yuan nodded his head and said, "En! The Chaotic Devil Sea is formed by seven great regions. These seven great regions don't belong to any forces. In the Chaotic Devil Sea, the strong reigns supreme, going on a killing spree at the word of disagreement. There is no order to speak of whatsoever. It's a haven for those wicked people and people who aren't willing to be restricted by rules. In the Chaotic Devil Sea, they don't look at the background, only strength!"
To the Divine Realm, the Chaotic Devil Sea was a very special place.
That place was utterly chaotic. Killing people to seize treasures was common occurrences. As long as you had sufficient strength, you could live very comfortably there.
Outside martial artists entering, they were completely unable to adapt at all.
Wanting to sit around and do nothing, waiting to die, was totally impossible.
Want to survive, one had to become stronger!
In the Chaotic Devil Sea, there was no lack of some targets wanted by major forces. But as long as they enter the Chaotic Devil Sea, those forces would not be able to do anything about them at all. Even super Holy Lands could not either!
Putting it bluntly, this was a world where the strong feasts and the weak were prey. In that place, it was teeming with the flavor of primitiveness.
"Going to that sort of place for what? Even though you broke through to the Heaven Enlightenment Realm, going to that kind of place is too dangerous, right?" Long Teng's countenance changed as he said.
Chapter 851 - Young Lord Returning
Although Long Teng had not been to the Chaotic Devil Sea before, hearing Ye Yuan's simple description, he knew that place definitely had a large group of murderous and wicked villains.
That kind of place, experts were probably in abundance.
Experts that were able to survive there, their strengths should definitely be incomparably formidable.
Even those Great Holy Lands' geniuses might not be stronger than them.
As for such a place, there were definitely a large group of Dao Profound Realm experts too. That went even more without saying.
Even those Phaseless Realm martial artists might not be people that Ye Yuan could easily cross realms to battle with.
The White Valiant Region was just one of the Divine Realm's most remote regions. The martial artists here, their strengths were not very strong. But in the Chaotic Devil Sea, that kind of place could be said to be a place where countless Divine Realm powerhouses gathered.
The two could not be mentioned in the same breath at all.
Therefore, Long Teng's concern was not utterly unjustifiable.
Ye Yuan just smiled and said, "If I can't even handle a Chaotic Devil Sea, my great vengeance don't need to be avenged anymore either. Senior, rest assured. A mere Chaotic Devil Sea, I, Ye Yuan, still won't place in my sights. Senior's injuries can't be delayed. Only by going to the Chaotic Devil Sea can it be treated!"
Long Teng's expression became slightly austere as he said, "Just what does the Chaotic Devil Sea have that you insist on going?"
"Skandha Divine Stone!"
Ye Yuan nonchalantly uttered three words but made Long Teng's expression change drastically.
"What did you say? That Chaotic Devil Sea actually has Skandha Divine Stones?"
"That's right. What I know at present, in the Divine Realm, only the Chaotic Devil Sea has Skandha Divine Stones. Only Skandha Divine Stones can aid senior to consolidate your foundation and nurture your essence, to recover to your peak condition," Ye Yuan said.
Skandha Divine Stone was a type of extremely rare wondrous item. It had extremely great nourishing effects towards divine souls, primordial spirits, artifact spirits, these types of existences.
Since Long Teng was an artifact spirit, Ye Yuan had no way of refining medicinal pills for him at all. Only the Skandha Divine Stone, which was a kind of heaven and earth wonder, could treat his injuries.
Long Teng gave Ye Yuan a glance with a complicated expression, but he shook his head and said, "This place that produces Skandha Divine Stones is probably exceedingly dangerous, right? With your current strength, it's likely too dangerous. And I already don't have strength left to spare to control the Vast Heaven Pagoda one more time again!"
Ye Yuan just smiled when he heard and said, "Senior just have to care about recuperating in this place. Other things, leave them to me."
Finished talking, Ye Yuan's mind stirred, and he exited the Vast Heaven Pagoda directly.
Watching Ye Yuan's departing back view, Long Teng was slightly dazed. Only after a long time did he scold with a smile, "Stinking brat!"
Although Ye Yuan inherited the Vast Heaven Pagoda, for such a long time, he had always been testing Ye Yuan's character.
Therefore, Ye Yuan actually did not truly obtain much help after acquiring the Vast Heaven Pagoda for a long time.
Without his, this artifact spirit's, approval, Ye Yuan could not even find this secret space.
But this time, Ye Yuan entering the boneyard without a single backward glance, wanting to slay Fiendgod Jia Lan, finally made Long Teng thoroughly accept Ye Yuan.
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This recent period of time, an extremely major incident happened in the White Valiant Region.
The Crimson Afterglow Holy Land's Holy Lord, Tu You, actually gained a new lease on life. After secluding for 10 months, he miraculously broke through to Second Level Dao Profound!
This incident shocked the entire White Valiant Region.
The Crimson Afterglow Holy Land was filled with exultation from top to bottom. The depressing air amassed these few years was instantly swept clean!
The other six Holy Lands' Holy Lords all issued greeting cards to the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land, wanting to come to the White Valiant Region to express felicitations to Tu You.
Helpless, Tu You could only organize a grand ceremony to welcome guests from all over.
"Holy Lord, the six Holy Lands' Holy Lords are all already waiting in the great hall," Chen Qin entered and said.
Tu You darted Chen Qin a glance and said, "Sigh, you also know that my lucky breakthrough this time was all thanks to Ye Yuan. Now that Ye Yuan's life and death is uncertain, we're hosting some grand ceremony in Crimson Afterglow. I can't get past this psychological hurdle!"
Chen Qin said helplessly, "This is also something that can't be helped. Holy Lord breaking through to the Second Level Dao Profound this time, not only does your strength reign supreme in the White Valiant Region, but your longevity also increased several hundred years out of thin air. Although the six Great Holy Lands' Holy Lords didn't say it explicitly, for them to come personally to congratulate, they are already expressing their intent to submit. If we don't accept it, it will instead cause everybody to panic. As for Ye Yuan, this subordinate also wishes for him to come back safe and sound soon. But his matters are evidently already not what we can poke our noses into."
"Be that as it may, I keep feeling like I owe Ye Yuan too much in my heart," Tu You said with a sigh.
"Talking about owing, it's not a matter of just Holy Lord alone. The entire Crims
on Afterglow all owe him far too much," Chen Qin said helplessly.
That Divine King powerhouse said before when giving Tu You the medicinal pill, he owed Ye Yuan a favor.
To be able to make this kind of existence owe a favor, Ye Yuan's background was definitely not small.
Therefore, the entire Crimson Afterglow Holy Land was actually very embarrassed right now, especially Tu You. He felt like he owed Ye Yuan too much, but he had no way of repaying Ye Yuan anything.
Especially now that a year had passed, and there was no news about Ye Yuan. This made Tu You feel even more fearful and in suspense.
"Say, do you think Ye Yuan can come back or not?" Tu You said.
Chen Qin could not help choking up, nodding his head, then shaking his head again. But in the end, he did not know what he should say.
According to the way Wu Siyuan said it, Ye Yuan was injured extremely severely at that time. Now, there was already no news for an entire year. The likelihood of survival was probably already very low.
In the end, Tu You gave a long sigh, but he still went out toward the great hall.
In the great hall, the Crimson Afterglow organized a grand celebration. The White Valiant Region's major and minor forces practically all gathered at the Crimson Afterglow, all here to express congratulations to Tu You.
"Congratulations, Holy Lord Tu. Soaring to the skies in one bound this time seriously made people endlessly shocked!"
"Holy Lord Tu is indeed a prodigious talent. In the future, our Cloud Watchtower Holy Land will listen only to the Crimson Afterglow's orders!"
"The Crimson Afterglow is well-deserving of being a veteran Holy Land with deep foundations! Holy Lord Tu breaking through to the Second Level Dao Profound this time, you have got to take care of us in the future!"
The ones talking were all Holy Lords.
These Holy Lords had always been contending in secret between themselves to see who could be the first to break through to the Second Level Dao Profound Realm.
And among them, Tu You's age was the oldest. His hope was naturally the bleakest as well.
These few years, it had always been widely rumored that Tu You entered closed-seclusion, wanting to breakthrough to Second Level Dao Profound, but he had never succeeded.
Not only the Crimson Afterglow's own people doubted Tu You, but even these Holy Lords were also very suspicious about Tu You's situation too.
If not for Tu You's age being the oldest and his strength being the strongest too, they would probably have made a move long ago to probe.
But now, they never would have thought that among the seven Holy Lords, it was actually Tu You who was the first to break through to the Second Level Dao Profound Realm!
In front of people, Tu You naturally would not display dispirited emotions. He immediately said coolly, "Everybody doesn't have to be courteous. The White Valiant Region is everyone's White Valiant Region, not my, Tu You's, personal White Valiant Region. Our White Valiant Region belongs to the bottom-of-the-barrel existences in the Divine Realm. Everybody should support each other all the more so, like birds of a feather …"
When making polite and insincere comments, Tu You did not even blink his eyes.
But right at this time, someone shouted at the top of voice outside the door, "Young Lord came back! Y-Young Lord Ye has returned!"
Tu You's expression changed, and his face immediately revealed a look of wild elation as he vanished from inside the great hall with a whoosh.
[0] Starting from this chapter, we will capitalised G and S in Great and Super Holy Lands.
Chapter 852 - Double Happiness
On the Crimson Afterglow streets, a group of people cl.u.s.tered around a young man, all incredibly excited.
"Young Lord, it's great that you're alright! You have no idea, we were all worried sick about you in this one year!"
"Yeah, Young Lord. Elder Wu came back and said that your situation was very bad. We were all worried to death. You're the hope of our Crimson Afterglow's future, nothing must happen!"
"Yii, Young Lord, you, you, you … broke through to the Heaven Enlightenment Realm already?"
One could tell that these young men truly took Ye Yuan to be like an idol. They were very worried about him this period of time.
Although the time Ye Yuan became the Young Lord was not long, his series of methods still brought everyone into submission.
Even Wu Siyuan yielded, let alone the rest.
Furthermore, Soul Martial Divine King, Zhong Zizhen's appearance the previous time made Ye Yuan's prestige in the youngsters' hearts rise to an impossible height even more.
To have relations with such a terrifying existence, this Young Lord was truly remarkable!
Tu You gaining a new lease on life and breaking through to the Second Level Dao Profound Realm, people coming from all around to pay respects, these were all intricately linked to Young Lord Ye Yuan.
If there were no Ye Yuan, those six holy lords would probably not be here to pay respects but sending out an army to attack instead.
But when they discovered that Ye Yuan actually broke through to the Heaven Enlightenment Realm, each and every one of them was so astonished that they could not close their mouths.
Didn't Wu Siyuan say that Ye Yuan was badly wounded and that his life was in critical danger? Why did he directly break through to the Heaven Enlightenment Realm after a year of not appearing in public?
Reality seemed to be entirely different from Elder Wu's version of things.
Ye Yuan saw through everyone's doubts, but said smilingly, "What Elder Wu said was right, when he left, I was indeed on the verge of dying. But later, I obtained some good fortune. Not only did my injuries recover fully, I even broke through cultivation realms consecutively."
Wu Siyuan was at loggerheads with Ye Yuan, this was something that was known to all in the Crimson Afterglow. These youngsters having doubts, that was within reason.
In reality, Wu Siyuan also suffered considerable skepticism in this one year.
They did not know what happened in the boneyard. There were even people who suspected whether or not Wu Siyuan struck a vicious blow against Young Lord.
But the Holy Lord did not seem to look into this matter excessively.
In this one year, Wu Siyuan had constantly lived in the seclusion of his own home and rarely came out. He himself withstood tremendous pressure too.
If not for Wang Zan supporting Wu Siyuan fervently, probably even Tu You would not believe Wu Siyuan either.
Thanks to Ye Yuan, Wang Zan also returned alive this time. And this Wang Zan was First Elder Chen Qin's trusted confidant.
"Ye Yuan! You … It's great that you came back!"
A figure flashed, Tu You revealed his figure, his appearance extremely agitated.
Ye Yuan returning safe and sound, a huge rock in his heart finally landed on the ground.
Seeing Tu You appear, the others all gave a bow, then withdrew in succession.
The Crimson Afterglow's people all understood why Tu You would be so agitated.
Ye Yuan smiled as he cupped his fists and said, "Congratulations to Holy Lord for breaking through to Second Level Dao Profound!"
Those youngsters chiming into the conversation, Ye Yuan also figured out what was going on in the Crimson Afterglow today.
For Tu You to be able to break through to the Second Level Dao Profound Realm indicated that Zhong Zizhen already came by before.
Tu You was originally peak First Level Dao Profound. Except, he had always been stuck at this bottleneck and was unable to break through.
In proportion to the difficulty of refining, the Nine-Yang Spring Restoring Pill's medicinal effects were extremely strong too. Tu You breaking through to Second Level Dao Profound was within Ye Yuan's expectations.
It was just that Ye Yuan did not expect that he would actually be gone for a year's time.
"What's there to congratulate about? Any greater joyous occasion can't match up to your safe retur
n too!"
Tu You went up agitatedly to pull Ye Yuan into his arms, rather like old friends who had not met for many years.
At this time, the other Holy Lords also followed outside. Seeing this scene, they could not help cl.i.c.k.i.n.g their tongues in amazement.
The relationship between the Holy Lord and the Young Lord can be said to be a relationship of a master and an apprentice as well. But there would never be a Holy Lord with such an attitude towards the young lord.
The Sheng Jun following behind the Cloud Watchtower Holy Lord was rather understanding towards this scene.
He had witnessed before Ye Yuan's methods underground. He was certain that even if these Holy Lords were present, they absolutely could not do it to Ye Yuan's sort of extent either.
Furthermore, hearing the news of Tu You breaking through to the Second Level Dao Profound Realm, Sheng Jun's first reaction was that it had something to do with Ye Yuan!
This was just a kind of intuition. Sheng Jun could not say why either. Tu You had always been announcing that he was in seclusion to assault the Second Level Dao Profound these few years, but he had never succeeded all along.
Now, Ye Yuan just became the young lord and Tu You successfully broke through. This was a bit too coincidental as well.
Ye Yuan said with a smile, "What's Holy Lord saying? You're the backbone of the Crimson Afterglow. Now that you broke through to the Second Level Dao Profound, the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land has at least several hundred years of glory. This is the first-rate joyous occasion for our Crimson Afterglow!"
Ye Yuan's position in Tu You's heart was long not what a Young Lord could be summarized with.
But today's protagonist was Tu You. Ye Yuan obviously would not be a gate-crasher and usurp the host's place. Furthermore, he was going to leave soon after. Coming back this time was primarily still for the sake of saying goodbye, but he did not expect to just happen to run into the grand celebration.