Just as Ye Qiu prepared to sacrifice the Qiankun Cauldron, suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his right eye. Immediately afterwards, the golden coffin flew out from his right eye.
“What is happening?”
Ye Qiu was very surprised.
This golden coffin had remained silent ever since hiding in his right eye. He had not expected it to emerge on its own at this moment.
“The supreme opportunity from the Mountain of Immortality!”
Elder Bear’s primordial spirit saw the golden coffin. His eyes burst with bright light as he said excitedly, “The demon race is saved.”
Boom!
After emerging from Ye Qiu’s right eye, the golden coffin flew directly into the void and abruptly enlarged.
For a moment, the entire heaven and earth seemed to fall into a state of stillness.
Even the Yin-Yang Bell trembled slightly and voluntarily returned above the Wuji Heavenly Venerable’s head.
The protective clan array also stopped shaking.
“The supreme opportunity from the Mountain of Immortality is indeed on you.” Seeing the golden coffin, the Wuji Heavenly Venerable laughed loudly. “It seems the supreme opportunity from the Mountain of Immortality is destined to belong to this seat. Truly, the heavens have eyes.”
“With this opportunity, in the future, I will have the chance to prove the dao and become emperor.”
The Wuji Heavenly Venerable’s eyes burned with eagerness. After speaking, he reached out with one hand towards the golden coffin.
“Buzz!”
The golden coffin trembled lightly. Radiance burst forth, releasing an overwhelming momentum. Instantly, the Wuji Heavenly Venerable sensed a trace of threat.
“Hmph!”
The Wuji Heavenly Venerable snorted coldly and quickly withdrew his palm.
“It seems you are unwilling to follow me? No matter. This seat will suppress you with an imperial artefact.”
The Wuji Heavenly Venerable formed seals with his hands before him, fully activating the Yin-Yang Bell. Soon, the Yin-Yang Bell erupted with world-shocking power, directly suppressing towards the golden coffin.
“Boom!”
The Yin-Yang Bell collided with the golden coffin, producing a heaven-shaking explosion. Vast expanses of void collapsed, as if doomsday had arrived.
However, to the Wuji Heavenly Venerable’s surprise, a single strike from the imperial artefact failed to suppress the golden coffin.
The golden coffin spanned the void, unscathed. After enduring the imperial artefact’s strike, dense mist appeared around it, like the opening of primordial chaos.
The next second, Ye Qiu saw a hazy lotus within the mist.
Ye Qiu thought his eyes were playing tricks. He quietly activated his heavenly eye, and his vision instantly cleared.
It was indeed a lotus.
This lotus seemed rooted atop the golden coffin. Dazzling light pained the eyes. An aura filled with majesty swept across the sky overwhelmingly.
However, the lotus was cyan in colour.
It seemed born alongside the heavenly dao. Each leaf was incomparably verdant, covered in divine patterns, releasing strands of immortal light. It carried a momentum that made all beings in heaven and earth wish to bow in worship.
“Why is there a cyan lotus atop the golden coffin?”
Ye Qiu felt puzzled.
The Wuji Heavenly Venerable shot two beams of light from his eyes, staring at the golden coffin for a while. He snorted coldly. “I refuse to believe a mere coffin, even if an imperial artefact cannot suppress it.”
Rumble rumble!
Under the Wuji Heavenly Venerable’s activation, the Yin-Yang Bell unleashed its strongest strike, as if piercing the firmament. A terrifying momentum surged from ancient times, horrifying to the extreme.
This imperial artefact seemed fully revived, smashing towards the golden coffin with a boom.
Ye Qiu’s heart rose to his throat.
He feared the golden coffin could not withstand the Yin-Yang Bell and would shatter. After all, he had not yet fathomed the secrets of this golden coffin.
Soon, Ye Qiu discovered his worry was unnecessary.
As the Yin-Yang Bell drew closer and closer to the golden coffin, like a star with immense power, when it was still fifty metres away, it strangely froze.
“Hm?”
Not only Ye Qiu was surprised, but even the Wuji Heavenly Venerable found it unbelievable.
Why had the Yin-Yang Bell stopped for no reason?
The Wuji Heavenly Venerable continued forming seals with his hands. Endless yin-yang qi surged from his palms. Then he thrust both palms forward.
The yin-yang qi resembled two long rivers, streaking across the sky, all converging atop the Yin-Yang Bell.
“Boom!”
The Yin-Yang Bell released dense yin-yang qi, yet even so, it remained motionless in the void.
“Could that golden coffin also be an imperial artefact?”
As Ye Qiu pondered, laughter rang out from the void, from the Wuji Heavenly Venerable.
“Worthy of the supreme opportunity from the Mountain of Immortality. It can even resist the Yin-Yang Bell’s power. Excellent.”
“As long as this seat obtains this coffin, who in the world can block me?”
“With this coffin, I can not only flatten the demon race but also destroy the Qingyun Sword Sect.”
“From then on, this seat will be the foremost in the Eastern Wilderness!”
“No, the foremost in the cultivation world!”
“Hahaha…”
The Wuji Heavenly Venerable threw his head back and laughed loudly. His voice shook the void with rumbling echoes.
Unexpectedly, at that moment, a verdant lotus leaf transformed into a stream of light, like heaven-piercing sword qi, striking the Yin-Yang Bell.
“Clang!”
A deafening sound rang out.
The Wuji Heavenly Venerable looked at the golden coffin and smiled. “Although you may also be an imperial artefact, you do not know that the Yin-Yang Bell is the companion divine weapon of our Yin-Yang Sect’s founding sect master, the Yin-Yang Great Emperor. You cannot harm it in the slightest…”
Before he finished, a “crack” sounded. A fine crack appeared on the Yin-Yang Bell.
“What?”
The Wuji Heavenly Venerable’s smile froze abruptly. He had not expected a single lotus leaf to damage an imperial artefact.
“How is this possible?”
As the Wuji Heavenly Venerable was shocked, a “puff” sounded. The Yin-Yang Bell exploded with a boom, turning to powder that scattered with the wind.
“This…”
In an instant, the Wuji Heavenly Venerable felt a chill down his spine. He had not expected the Yin-Yang Bell to be destroyed just like that.
Ye Qiu and the Long-Browed Real Person were also utterly shocked. That was the unparalleled imperial artefact of the Yin-Yang Sect. How could it be destroyed so easily?
What exactly was the origin of this golden coffin?
The Wuji Heavenly Venerable stared fixedly at the hazy cyan lotus. After a moment, he suddenly recalled something and exclaimed in shock, “The eternal cyan heaven, one lotus. Could you be…”
“This is impossible!”
“You are already dead. You cannot reappear in the world!”
“What exactly are you?”
The Wuji Heavenly Venerable roared furiously in rage, pointing at the golden coffin.
Whoosh!
A sharp sword whistle rang out.
A cyan lotus soared into the sky, transforming into a vast cyan sword qi ten thousand zhang long, releasing peerless sharpness. Like splitting heaven and extinguishing earth, it slashed directly towards the Wuji Heavenly Venerable.
At this moment, the Wuji Heavenly Venerable felt ice-cold all over. Without hesitation, he turned and fled.
It was hard to imagine a Saint King in such a sorry state.
However, the sword qi formed by the cyan lotus was simply too fast, like lightning. It instantly reached behind the Wuji Heavenly Venerable.
The Wuji Heavenly Venerable desperately tore open a spatial fissure with his hands and stepped inside. Yet even so, he could not escape that sword qi.
The next second, the sword qi followed into the fissure.
“Ah…”
A piercing scream shook heaven and earth.
Ye Qiu and the others saw clearly. The Wuji Heavenly Venerable was slashed into a bloody mist by one sword.
