Follow the path of Dao from infancy - Chapter 490

Chapter 490: Chapter 53 Haotian Supreme Venerable (Two in One)_2
 

However, this speed was extremely slow, like unraveling silk thread.

But Li Hao held back his sadness and fully operated the Soul Sacrifice True Demon Skill; he knew that only this way could he grasp a thread of hope and not let its sacrifice go to waste.

A severed limb smashed down, pushing Li Hao’s body into the Blood Lake. He no longer struggled but instead sat cross-legged in the Blood Lake, concentrating wholeheartedly on refining and absorbing.

However, the speed at which he absorbed seemed unable to keep up with the rate of erosion. Bones slowly peeled away and shattered into fragments.

The body gradually wore down, shrinking smaller and smaller.

Yet the blood radiance twisting and coiling on his head gradually condensed into something deeper…

…

…

Above the desolate sea, a figure appeared as if by instant teleportation, then abruptly vanished.

When he next reappeared, he was standing suspended above the barren abyss.

The vacuum laws above the abyss seemed to have no effect on him.

His long white hair fluttered, and he wore an extremely simple ancient robe, his face a mask of solemnity.

His eyes stared intensely into the pitch-black abyss below, his gaze apparently able to see the bottom of the abyss, the surging blood waters, and the collapsed and disintegrating body of Ji’s remnant.

“Has that obsession actually dissipated?”

The old man’s eyes narrowed. This Ji had once attacked the Saint Ancestor, but the Saint Ancestor, considering the time she once spent by his side, shattered her consciousness yet did not completely erase her lingering thoughts, sealing them within this body.

If not sealed, they might have been absorbed by the Mo River, merging into the most terrifying Mo River.

Thus, it would become a danger to all living beings, and for Ji, an eternal confinement.

Unexpectedly, now this lingering thought had dissipated.

*Was the obsession fulfilled, dispersing on its own, or did it transcend and leave?*

He carefully observed the Blood Lake, able to sense that this was a lake of toxic blood, extremely harmful and corrosive, along with the disintegrating laws left on Ji’s body.

These laws, in their disintegration, became chaotic. The laws originally condensed by the great way now only retained their primordial essence, only causing indiscriminate harm.

Though he did not touch it, he already saw that the great way Ji practiced was one of decay.

As long as one approached this place, even above the Blood Lake, they would rapidly age and wither.

Precisely because these laws were so terrifying, at the end of that great battle, Ji completely exhausted her strength, causing her body to decay like this.

Had it been another in the Saint Realm, their body could remain intact for millennia, let alone rot.

“Who woke it up?”

The old man frowned, feeling a hint of perplexity. The Saint Ancestor was his grandfather, and he remembered how his grandfather sealed this thing here. Yet, for countless years it had remained peaceful; why was it causing such a disturbance now?

He shifted his gaze, focusing on one of the chains hanging over the abyss’s edge, raising his hand in a beckoning gesture.

A black shadow on the chain flew over, her hair snowy white and on the brink of death.

But as she left the abyss, the aura around her was gradually recovering. With surprise, she said, “Third, Third Ancestor!”

This figure was Ji Yun Yue; she had not died. Before, she let go of Li Hao’s hand, not wanting to burden the child. Unexpectedly, the Demon Saint’s tentacle did not attack her but instead chased after Li Hao directly.

Clearly, the Demon Saint had been drawn by the Saint’s aura on Li Hao.

And this allowed her to cling tightly to the chain, preserving her life.

“What happened, did you awaken it?”

The old man asked with a frown, not recognizing the elderly woman before him but knowing she must be a descendant.

Hearing the Third Ancestor’s question, the sorrow within Ji Yun Yue surged forth. She had also seen the Abyss Sky Stele being overturned, making her eyes crimson with rage.

That was the Ji Family’s Dao Seed, yet those damned criminals abandoned it!

She wished she could go and kill them all.

“Third Ancestor, please save our Ji Family’s Dao Seed; he was swallowed by that Demon Saint and who knows…”

Ji Yun Yue hurriedly said.

“Dao Seed?”

The old man was slightly stunned, his expression changing for a moment, thoughts racing as he quickly deduced the reason. It must be that the Dao Seed awakened Ji’s remnant.

Most of the Ji Family’s Dao Seeds had Holy Bones; only a Holy Bone could potentially influence Ji’s remnant. Yet, no one ever expected something like this would happen.

Moreover, Ji Family’s Dao Seeds held a prestigious status and would not venture into such a perilous place, just as a favored Crown Prince would not easily visit a prison.

“That Demon Saint is already dead.”

The old man looked at Ji Yun Yue’s anxious expression and said, “Besides you, there were no other survivors, unless he was in the Blood Lake. But with the aura of the great way from the blood covering it, it couldn’t be detected, but…”

“But what?”

Ji Yun Yue asked nervously.

“But if he were truly in the Blood Lake, even someone in the Tao Comprehension Realm would suffer greatly and have long since struggled out. Otherwise, soaking this long, he must be dead.”

The old man glanced at the abyss, frowning further, and said:

“That Ji’s lingering thought most likely gained from the Holy Force on his internal Holy Bone, having transcended and disappeared, abandoning this body, or her obsession was fulfilled and naturally dissipated.”

“Third Ancestor, that child didn’t have a Holy Bone.”

Ji Yun Yue hurriedly said, “He only had a Saint’s mark.”

“Saint’s mark?”

The old man was slightly stunned, a flicker in his eyes. “Could it be the faint Holy Force I vaguely sensed a few days ago when he was inheriting the Saint’s mark?”

“It should be.”

“Then he is even less likely to be alive, without even a Holy Bone. What was his realm?”

The old man asked.

“Three Immortal Realms.”

Ji Yun Yue said this, then quickly added, “But he created a legend, defeating Ji, who had a Holy Bone, and even broke open his Dao Domain with the Three Immortal Realms. If this child stepped into the Four Stands Realm, I can’t even imagine how strong he’d become!”