The Old Gods

Chapter 1066 Seeing Life

The power of the Jade Venerable is known to all the gods of the Burning Gate.

She was like a huge shadow looming over the gods, crushing and conquering each and every sacred mountain with overwhelming force.

Despite the gods' concerted efforts and fierce resistance, their fighting power far surpassed that of the ancient gods and demons. However, the soldiers still could not escape being crushed.

Bad news would come from all over the celestial realm from time to time.

The soldiers were filled with sorrow upon hearing this.

This also terrified the soldiers, who knew that they might be the next to die suddenly.

That is why the scene that took place at Blood Dust Divine Mountain was so incredibly shocking!
The tiny human race pushed the magnificent pillar of fire, crushing the enormous jade vessel into the ground and wantonly ravaging it.

Explosive killing!

In no time, the news of the sect leader's emergence from seclusion spread throughout the Heavenly Realm battlefield.

The morale of the various sacred mountains is high!

If the faith of the masses is that of gods, then the faith of the gods of the Burning Gate is that of the one and only human being!

"Good, good!" Cheng Yi watched Lu Ran's rampage from afar, his heart pounding with excitement!
But the next moment, his expression changed.

For some unknown reason, Lu Ran suddenly abandoned the favorable situation and disappeared.

Where did the sect leader go?
While unleashing a sea of ​​sand to fight off the Jade Venerable's minions, Cheng Yi also searched for the tiny human figures.

The enormous jade vessel still lay on the ground, its jade body shattered beyond repair, unable to withstand any further wind or rain. At this moment, anyone who went to finish it off would surely perish!
But what about Lu Ran?
The soldiers were all taken aback, unsure whether their sect leader had vanished into thin air or teleported away.

Lu Ran has indeed disappeared.

With a flash, he knelt directly on the forehead of the enormous jade statue, pressing down with one hand.

"What are you doing?"

The enormous jade vessel struggled to speak, managing only a few words, but its lips cracked from the effort of its movement.

Lu Ran remained silent, unleashing the Forgotten Spring Divine Technique: Floating Life Coin!
This method can retrieve the memories of the deceased and extract a key memory from their life, which can then be materialized into a special ancient bronze coin.

The true effectiveness of this method lies in its spiritual output.

Since the "Floating Life Coin" is shaped from a series of unforgettable memories, it naturally contains extreme emotions. When this coin strikes a living being, it will cause a significant mental impact.

However, for Lu Ran, spiritual output is the least important thing about money.

Memory probing is useful!

It's memory extraction!
"So it really didn't work." Lu Ran murmured to himself, listening to the crashing sound of something breaking beside him.

The enormous jade deity would certainly not allow Lu Ran to cause trouble. She reached out and slapped her forehead, trying to crush the tiny creature on it.

But she was too broken.

As soon as she raised her hand, her forearm broke, and large pieces of jade-like skin peeled off.

The scene was quite poignant.

"Sigh," Lu Ran sighed inwardly. He was indeed not on the same level as Wang Quan. He could truly cross the boundary between life and death.

Unfortunately, this jade body seems to have been created specifically for "tombs".

Lu Ran even reached into her skull with his small hand, which was burning with the fire of the tomb, along the crack on her forehead.

Still useless.

The jade vessel is solid; its surface is made of white jade, and its inner "flesh and blood" are also made of white jade.

Her soul was fused into a special body, so Lu Ran's Tomb Fire could not take effect and therefore could not blur the line between life and death.

It seems we still have to rely on Cheng Xin.

Let him use the divine magic "Sheep" to completely change the form and nature of the Faceless Jade Venerable, and then try to extract her memories.

Let's just leave this jade vessel as is.

She is about to fall apart, and if she dies right after turning into a sheep, it would be a huge loss.

Another point is that the Wangquan stone sculpture in Lu Ran Garden has just been completed and is still in the development stage.

In the Misty Realm, Stream Realm, and River Realm, leveling up is almost instantaneous. However, as the Stone Sculpture arrives in the River Realm, it takes 2 to 3 hours to advance to each minor rank.

After reaching the Sea Realm, it takes half a day for the Stone Sculptor to advance to each minor rank.

It will take two or three days to reach the Heavenly Realm!

In other words, even if Lu Ran's Tomb Fire takes effect, the Forgotten Spring Divine Art: Floating Life Coin that he uses later is currently only at the Jiang grade.

Quality naturally determines efficacy.

Hmm. Let's play it safe.

Lu Ran pondered to himself, when suddenly he felt a jolt in his body.

Although the Great Jade Venerable did not know what Lu Ran was doing, he clearly did not want him to continue like this.

Lying on her back, she suddenly raised her head: "You are really special, Lu Ran. If you weren't so stubborn, your world and home would be more beautiful, okay?"

Lu Ran gently stroked her broken forehead with one hand, his voice low and hoarse:
"You and I are in the same boat."

"Heh." A slight smile appeared on Yu Zun's tattered lips. "My world has long been destroyed by gods and demons."

Gods and demons deserve to perish.

"Lu Ran, you and your men are like stone statues. I will crush you all."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Zun suddenly leaned back violently, as if to slam the back of his head against the ground.

Suicide?

"Crack!"

Lu Ran instantly drew his Zun-Zhan Dao (Slaying Venerable Blade) and thrust it diagonally downwards, piercing through the giant beauty's skull before the enormous Jade Venerable could commit suicide.

This is valuable experience, and it shouldn't be wasted.

"Om~"

As expected, the feedback from the Venerable Slayer Blade was quite intense.

For the past month and a half, it has been slaying the lackeys of Wangquan, and it has also been harboring a desire to advance to the next level.

Now that he had finally killed the main culprit, the Blade Spirit of the Slaying Venerable even felt a sense of exhilaration.

Lu Ran noticed this state of mind and said in a deep voice, "Pay attention to your mindset."

The Demon Slayer Blade Spirit: "."

"Pfft~" A thick fog spread out. Lu Ran opened his Eyes of the Dead, fixing the flying soul in place.

Now that she is dead, there is no longer a vibrant life to serve as a conceptual barrier.

Lu Ran can now use the Forgotten Spring Divine Technique: Floating Life Coin to acquire her memories.

It's just unknown whether the memories of the deceased soul can affect the living Jade Venerable.

Lu Ran held a pessimistic view on this.

"Lu Ran." Yu Zun's voice came again from the thick fog. In her ghostly state, her words were much more fluent.

Lu Ran remained silent, quietly absorbing energy.

“I know you can hear me,” the Jade Venerable said calmly.

Lu Ran suddenly asked, "How many original bodies do you have?"

After a long silence, the Jade Venerable's divine soul slowly responded, "Endless."

"Hehe." Lu Ran laughed.

You're really good at bluffing!

"You cannot defeat me." Jade Venerable's divine soul ignored Lu Ran's mocking laughter and said softly, "Or rather, I am invincible."

"Is that so?" Lu Ran's eyes were cold. "Then I'll have to give it a good try."

"You are so different, Lu Ran. You are not a stone, nor are you human. Are you truly indestructible?"

Lu Ran: "."

Strictly speaking, Lu Ran could be destroyed.

The tomb feeds on gods and demons.

Therefore, the premise of his eternal existence is that gods and demons exist in the world!

Once all the gods and demons perish, Lu Ran will lose his source of food.

Even if the natural energy in the world could sustain the tomb's continued existence, Lu Ran still couldn't cause it to be so devastating.

Without enough energy, he naturally lacked powerful combat strength!
Of course, Lu Ran doesn't need to worry too much about this.

After all, he could create divine and evil sculptures himself, give them life, and then, throughout the long years of their existence, draw life from them day and night to nourish himself.

Achieving a closed loop!

Eternal and indestructible!

It's like... well, squeezing a child and then sucking their blood for a lifetime.

Lu Ran only needs to nurture the stone sculpture a little, and then throw it into the human world. Hundreds of millions of people will naturally use their endless faith to continuously support the divine sculpture.

The ultimate beneficiary was naturally Lu Ran.

One thing is certain: the more gods and demons exist in the world, the more guaranteed Lu Ran's combat power will be.

When the number of gods and demons decreases to a certain extent, his subsequent supplies will naturally be insufficient.

At this very moment, the Jade Venerable Clan is frantically destroying the Burning Gate Divine Mountain and slaughtering a host of gods and demons, which is almost equivalent to cutting off Lu Ran's lifeline!
"You are indestructible?" Lu Ran asked solemnly, looking at the Jade Venerable's soul through the mist.

"If you are willing to switch allegiance to me and order your gods and demons to abandon their stone bodies and the god-demon system, I promise you that you will live a peaceful life as humans."

Lu Ran snorted: "We've discussed this issue before. How come I remember you saying you wouldn't give me another chance?"

The Jade Venerable's divine soul didn't care about Lu Ran's tone, and simply said softly:
"When we meet again, you look different once more."

"Report!!"

Lu Ran suddenly tilted his head slightly, listening to the sounds from a great distance.

"The situation at Gun Saint Mountain is critical. Yan Tianjiang has destroyed the mountain and led his team to retreat from Changying Mountain!"

"Report! The mountain body in the first level of Star Moon Divine Mountain is severely damaged and the mountain may collapse at any time. Leng Tian will ask Madam for permission to withdraw to Blood Dust Divine Mountain or Immortal Jasmine Divine Mountain."

Upon hearing the two intelligence reports in succession, Lu Ran's face darkened.

Meanwhile, the enormous Jade Venerable's divine soul was still whispering: "You and I both want the gods and demons to be completely destroyed. We have the same goal. Why did you give up halfway?"
Why choose to be one of these dirty, ugly stones?

Why?

Because I cannot entrust my fate and the survival of my race entirely to you, nor place my hopes on your whim.

In the thick fog, Lu Ran flashed to the Jade Venerable's divine soul and appeared once again on her forehead.

His palm probed into the illusory soul, and a surge of divine power churned within it.

"call!!"

The enormous jade statue's spirit trembled.

Lu Ran, his imperial robes fluttering in the wind, slightly raised his head and slowly closed his eyes.

"What are you doing?" Jade Venerable's divine soul appeared somewhat shocked and angry.

Lu Ran had been fighting with her for so long, and he had never seen her emotions fluctuate so much.

"What do you think I'm doing?" Lu Ran's voice was deep and resonant; if it weren't for his terrifying aura, it would have been quite magnetic.

His hand, which had reached into the forehead of the Jade Venerable's soul, seemed to grasp something out of thin air and slowly pulled backward.

The words of the Jade Venerable's soul abruptly stopped, his eyes widening as if he realized that the most forbidden area deep within his soul was being wantonly touched by him.

Lu Ran's movements were very slow.

Such powerful and bizarre methods appeared so cruel in his slow yet irresistible movements.

"Whoo~"

The countless semi-transparent threads were slowly and forcefully pulled out of her soul by Lu Ran.

These threads are her memories, her past.

It is also her foundation!

It is what shaped her and is the most fundamental basis for who she is.

Thousands of threads intertwine and entwine, eventually transforming into a dynamic, semi-transparent scroll of memories.

Lu Ran finally opened his eyes.

He lowered his head, looking down at the ever-flowing scroll of paintings before him.

She cruelly watched everything that was etched into her memory.
(End of this chapter)