“This is a bit too easy, isn’t it?” Cheng Yifeng still found it hard to believe.
The Evil Sect's main altar was mysterious, powerful, and an unshakable existence.
Otherwise, the Evil Sect wouldn't have survived for so many years.
But this formidable Evil Sect's main altar was so vulnerable before Chu Zhiyuan, easily destroyed with a flick of his hand.
This contrast created a strong impact on him.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, “Those who know it aren't challenged, those who don't are. Once you find their weakness, they naturally collapse with a single blow. Let's go inside.
“Yes, let’s go in and take a look.”
Cheng Yifeng snapped back to reality, nodding vigorously: “Let’s see what their main altar looks like!”
The two floated along and arrived inside the valley.
The silent valley was almost devoid of sound in the setting sun.
Standing in the valley, they could hear the wind whistling from afar, and the chirping of birds.
Skeletal remains were scattered before them, and jade tripods were embedded in the stone walls, faintly shimmering.
Cheng Yifeng felt uneasy and turned to ask, “Your Highness, these jade tripods feel like they're alive.”
Chu Zhiyuan smiled: “Don't worry about them, they no longer pose a threat.”
“Really?” Cheng Yifeng asked.
He felt that something was amiss.
Chu Zhiyuan said, “They probably want to bring down their power; we just have to prevent them from succeeding.”
As he spoke, he formed a hand seal with both palms and lightly struck the tallest and largest jade tripod.
The jade tripod immediately began to emit light.
The glow became increasingly intense, changing from gentle to dazzling, and then to blinding.
Cheng Yifeng even felt that he couldn't open his eyes.
Just as he was about to open his eyes, a sudden burst of light filled his vision, like a small sun falling.
“Bang!” Violent power erupted.
He felt like a leaf in a storm, without any power to resist, and could only let the storm sweep him away.
In the air, he widened his eyes and saw that Chu Zhiyuan was already standing steadily a hundred meters away.
And the huge jade tripod had disappeared, leaving only a large pit in the stone wall.
Chu Zhiyuan flashed into the pit, quickly picked up a round bead, and smiled.
Cheng Yifeng circulated his Qi in the air to stabilize himself, and then floated down beside Chu Zhiyuan: “Your Highness, what is this?”
“These beads must be collected completely to sense the Evil Sect's demons.”
“No wonder.”
“The remaining jade tripods must be destroyed, and the beads inside them found.”
As he spoke, he floated to another jade tripod and did the same thing.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
Chu Zhiyuan stood in the twilight, examining the round bead the size of a green apricot in his hand.
Cheng Yifeng had already ordered the nine Grandmaster experts to scavenge everything that could be scavenged in the valley.
Chu Zhiyuan didn't care about these things and only stared at the green apricot-sized round bead.
“Your Highness, is there something wrong?”
Cheng Yifeng stood aside, watching Chu Zhiyuan stare at it for a quarter of an hour, as if he were entranced.
Chu Zhiyuan shook his head with emotion.
“What’s so fascinating about this thing?”
“Wonderfully ineffable!” Chu Zhiyuan exclaimed, “There are such strange objects in the world!”
After merging all the beads contained within the jade tripods of the Jade Cauldron Sect, this extraterrestrial divine crystal had undergone a mysterious transformation.
“All the demons of the Jade Cauldron Sect have a wisp of their primordial spirit residing within this bead, and this wisp of primordial spirit can destroy those demons.” Chu Zhiyuan chuckled and shook his head, “Such a method of control is truly vicious!”
Cheng Yifeng blinked, trying to understand the meaning of these words.
After a moment, he slowly said: “Are you saying that these demons have already offered their lives in advance?”
Chu Zhiyuan nodded: “At the cost of their lives, they can quickly gain powerful strength while alive, but after death, they must offer all their souls and essence blood.”
“That’s too miserable, isn’t it? Are these people fools?”
“They enjoy life while they’re alive, and who cares what happens after death? They think death is the end, everything vanishes, and offering essence blood and souls doesn’t matter.”
“Really doesn’t matter?”
“If it really didn’t matter, would these extraterrestrial evil demons waste their efforts?”
“After death, the soul still exists?”
“As far as I know, it certainly does exist. When it dissipates or in what way it dissipates, that is unknown.”
He practiced the Yin-Yang Reversal of Emptiness Art and could see the Yin and Yang energies, as well as the souls.
He knew through the Eternal Spirit Mystic Tome that there was also a primordial spirit within the soul.
That was an imperishable thing.
But for anything more specific, without condensing the Eternal Spirit Divine Seal, there was no way to figure it out.
He was only practicing the Divine Return Mystic Art. If he wanted to practice the Eternal Spirit Divine Seal, he would have to finish his business and sit under the Eternal Spirit Divine Tree to cultivate.
“Then it doesn’t matter whether it’s swallowed or not?”
“There is definitely something to it, but what the mystery is, is not clear. These extraterrestrial evil demons are on a higher level, and we cannot understand.”
“Then you can directly annihilate the demons of the Jade Cauldron Sect?”
“Yes, I’m going to try it.” Chu Zhiyuan said, “Zou Fang.”
“Yes.” Zou Fang, who had hurried back, nodded solemnly.
He looked around.
Cheng Yifeng stared curiously at Chu Zhiyuan, watching Chu Zhiyuan close his eyes and remain motionless.
After a moment, the green apricot-sized bead became crystal clear, its shimmering light like the rippling of a clear spring.
A quarter of an hour later, Chu Zhiyuan opened his eyes and smiled: “It’s done.”
“Those demons of the Jade Cauldron Sect are dead?”
“Yes, they’re all dead.”
“No matter how far away the demons of the Jade Cauldron Sect were, they all died?”
“That’s right.” Chu Zhiyuan smiled.
He had previously used the method of sacrifice and refinement to completely refine the extraterrestrial divine crystal for his own use.
Then the wisp of souls contained within it would be under his control. As long as the killing intent was triggered, these souls would be destroyed, and their masters would follow them to their deaths.
This method of control was truly exceptionally vicious.
“What about the demons of the other Evil Sects?”
“The other Evil Sects won’t work. It should be that after all the main altars are destroyed, all the Golden Venerable statues must be destroyed as well.”
This was the only way to control the disciples of the Jade Cauldron Sect.
There was no way to control the disciples of the other Evil Sects yet.
He speculated that it was because he had not been able to collect all the round beads within all the Golden Venerable statues.
If he collected all the round beads and merged them into the extraterrestrial divine crystal, it would be like the Jade Cauldron Sect.
“Are you saying that as long as all the main altars of a certain sect are destroyed, all the disciples of that Evil Sect can be annihilated?”
“Exactly.”
“That’s wonderful!” Cheng Yifeng clapped his hands: “I was still worried that even if we destroyed the main altar, they could still make a comeback, but now it’s great!”
“Annihilation forever, completely wiped out.” Chu Zhiyuan slowly said: “It won’t be in vain for this effort!”
Cheng Yifeng said: “If you can really do this, everyone should kowtow to you.”
Chu Zhiyuan laughed.
Cheng Yifeng said: “This is a great merit, Your Highness will surely sit on the throne, no one can take it from you.”
Chu Zhiyuan smiled but didn't speak.
He would have to wait ten years to become emperor, but he didn't want to wait that long.
In the matter of cultivation, one step slow, every step slow.
Just like Grandmasters and Great Grandmasters have age limits, and cannot step into those realms after a certain age.
The cultivation of the Outer Heavens must also be the same.
If he was powerless and could only ascend by borrowing the Son of Heaven Sword, then he could only wait.
But now that he didn't necessarily have to ascend by borrowing the Son of Heaven Sword, there was no need to waste ten years in vain.
