After fighting for dozens of breaths:
The golden light all over Zhang Yao's body was pale, and his face had become visibly older, with sunken eye sockets, dry and cracked skin, and his hair was all gray.
Recovering from injuries time and time again, the intense depletion of energy caused his body to suffer a sharp depletion, and he looked very much like he was running out of life.
"You can't do it anymore!"
Yu Wentai laughed loudly, and his fist and kick attacks became more fierce, trying to kill the opponent in front of him in one go.
Zhang Yao, on the other hand, was silent, enduring Yu Wentai's continuous and terrifying attacks like a sea wave. His five-color glazed armor was in tatters, and there were more and more wounds all over his body. His recovery was gradually slowing down, and he looked extremely miserable.
Since the beginning of the war, he has been beaten back and forth by Yu Wentai like a sandbag, and he narrowly escaped death several times.
"Boom!"
During the fight, the two sides crashed through a small hill, causing countless boulders to break apart, and their movement trajectory seemed to have opened a trench in the earth.
A brief moment of fighting left indelible battlefield traces in the depths of Panlong Ridge. The violent wind and waves destroyed dozens of miles of ancient dense forest, causing thousands of beasts to run and thousands of birds to fly.
"Die!"
Yuwentai shouted loudly, and delivered another earth-shattering punch. The golden flames all over his body surged, like an ancient god swinging a giant hammer down.
He has already judged that the opponent's longevity energy has burned too much and his body must be extremely weak. This is a good opportunity to take advantage of his illness to kill him!
However, something unexpected happened:
"Bang!"
The terrifying punch, which was as powerful as the sky falling, was unexpectedly caught.
Zhang Yao's palm firmly blocked his fist, and he slowly raised his head with an expressionless face and a hoarse voice:
"It's my turn!"
"What?!"
Yu Wentai was shocked, suddenly felt that something was not good, and subconsciously wanted to retreat.
But how could Zhang Yao give him this opportunity?
"Crack!" "Crack!"
Zhang Yao's hands were clasped behind his back, his knuckles turned white, and they tightly grasped Yu Wentai's wrists like iron hoops.
Yuwentai struggled hard, and the golden flames all over his body flickered violently, but he couldn't break free, and his expression finally changed.
"How can it be……"
The other party is at the end of his rope and has burned down very little of his lifespan. How could his strength still increase so much?
"No, that's not right!!"
Yuwentai was suddenly startled, and finally noticed something strange about his body, and his heart trembled:
"It's not that he has become stronger, but that I have become weaker..."
"When exactly did I get tricked?"
What kind of mysterious Taoism is it that even he can't detect the clues of? !
"you lose."
Zhang Yao's spine straightened little by little, his sunken eyes seemed to have fire burning in them, and his tone was particularly cold:
"And you're going to die."
He knew before the start of this battle that in a normal battle, it was almost impossible for him to be Yuwentai's opponent.
His only chance of victory is the unreasonable curse of One Heart and One Life!
Previously, he did not hesitate to take the risk of disembowelling Yu Wentai's soul by using the Divine Light of Desolate Soul to bombard Yuwentai's soul, just to confirm his true state and whether there was a 'Ten Thousand Souls' Formation' engraved in his soul.
After confirming this, he did not turn around and run away. Instead, he exchanged words and took the initiative to engage in close combat, burning his longevity, and forcing Yuwentai to fight him in close combat.
In the fierce battle between the two sides, it seemed that he had been passively being beaten and struggling to support him, but in fact, with every collision of fists and feet, every body contact, the power of the One Heart and One Life Curse and the Septic Blood Technique were constantly penetrating into Yuwentai's body.
The two great methods cooperated seamlessly, disinfecting the vitality silently without being noticed by anyone, and the attack directly targeting Shouyuan was impossible to defend against.
All this foreshadowing and forbearance made quantitative changes finally lead to qualitative changes.
at this moment:
The subtle flesh and blood distortion in Yuwentai's body reached a critical point, and his little life span was on the verge of exhaustion. He was truly close to death and at the end of his rope.
Vitality is the innate foundation of the human body. If the vitality is exhausted, how can a person survive?
"伱......"
Yuwentai's pupils shrank, and a heavy shadow cast over his soul. He realized that what the other party said was true - he was going to die soon.
The situation reversed in an instant. Yu Wentai, who had the upper hand just now and was arrogant, turned around and was about to die forever.
Perhaps in the next moment, or in the next breath, he would die due to exhaustion of his lifespan, but he was powerless to change this outcome.
"how come……"
Yu Wentai's eyes were extremely complicated, with frustration, resentment, and unwillingness flickering one by one, and finally turned into unprecedented determination.
"Crack!" "Crack!"
He turned his wrists inwards and tightly clasped Zhang Yao's left and right forearms. The two sides became locked in a corner, and no one could move.
"I'm not a winner, and neither will you."
Yuwentai spoke in a hiss, his eyes filled with invisible air currents sparkling with psychedelic luster.
"Not good! The energy of soul thought!"
Zhang Yao instantly recognized the spirit of soul thought, was frightened in his heart, and subconsciously wanted to retreat.
Anyway, Yuwentai's lifespan was exhausted and he was destined to die. Even if he took out the third-level secret treasure, he could not change this ending. At worst, this body would be buried with him and he could be resurrected with the help of earth soul crystals.
But the energy of the soul can pollute the mind, and Yu Wentai also has this method. The fate of Du Xueren is a lesson learned from the past, and he would never dare to bet on this outcome.
"late!"
Yuwentai's smile showed a hint of ferocity, and he used the last bit of strength in his body to grab Zhang Yao's forearm.
His strength was so tyrannical that even though his body was extremely weak, Zhang Yao still couldn't break free immediately despite his desperate efforts.
After just such a moment of delay, everything was too late.
Under the control of Yu Wentai, the energy of soul thoughts directly ignored the protection of the soul and pierced Zhang Yao's sea of consciousness like an invisible arrow of energy.
"ah!!"
Zhang Yao suddenly felt an unspeakable sharp pain in his head, as if a red-hot iron was stirring inside.
"Bang!"
He barely managed to hold on for less than a breath, then he couldn't hold on any longer, his vision went dark, and he fell straight to the ground.
Yu Wentai let go of his palms, his body was shaky, looking at Zhang Yao who fell on his back and fell into a coma, he showed a strange smile and murmured:
"My life will not end here..."
As soon as he finished speaking, his pupils began to blur, and his body fell to the ground weakly, his breath cut off, and he was already dead.
Yu Wentai, the dignified master of Tianbao Tower and the invincible foundation builder of Dali, died in Gadali, a small and remote country, in obscurity.
And opposite his body:
"no no……"
Zhang Yao's face changed, sometimes frightened, sometimes angry, sometimes happy, sometimes greedy... struggling hard.
And within his sea of consciousness:
Countless memory fragments are like a torrent, forming different thoughts, ideas, and personalities under the influence of the soul's energy, and they are fighting with Zhang Yao's own thinking and memory.
The power that the spirit of the soul can carry is limited. Zhang Yao's own soul is extremely powerful and has the home field advantage, so he is still in a state of anxiety.
"So this is his last trump card!"
Zhang Yao finally understood what happened to the solitary traveler back then, and also understood the latter's advice before his death.
He worked hard to maintain the last inch of clarity on the spiritual platform, repeatedly thinking about his life and deepening the imprint of his memory, in order to fight against this terrible pollution of the soul.
Traveling to Qingping Palace, practicing health-preserving skills, then encountering an accident, fleeing down the mountain, joining a martial arts hall to practice martial arts, and quietly rising up;
After living in seclusion for three thousand days and nights, he finally became a master. After twenty years of leisurely enjoyment, he heard legends about immortals and traveled across thousands of rivers and mountains in search of opportunities for immortality;
Hidden in the mountains, ascended to the capital of heaven, wasted eighty years, and then went to Weiguo. After many twists and turns, he was able to change his martial arts, and then went to Wuyin Island to practice for many years;
Li Guo opened a shop in Mang Mountain, went north to cross the border of Rwanda, obtained the Foundation Establishment Pill in Tianyin Mountain, joined the GCC and went through twists and turns, and finally came to power...
This journey has been ups and downs, and over the three hundred years, it has settled bit by bit and turned into a fresh and clear self.
"Rumble..."
In Zhang Yao's ears, he seemed to hear the howling of the violent storm, the sound gradually grew from loud to weak.
Within the sea of consciousness, Zhang Yao's self-consciousness finally gained the upper hand, and he began to clear away the thoughts and personalities differentiated by the soul energy little by little, and took back his own territory.
During this process:
As the spirit of soul thought was exterminated and expelled, many memory fragments were digested and absorbed by Zhang Yao, bringing with them a huge amount of knowledge and life experience.
If all this knowledge and experience were to pour into his mind, his memory would be turned upside down, his thinking would be confused, another personality would be born, and he would even be turned into a guest.
But at this moment, Zhang Yao, who had the upper hand, absorbed and digested bit by bit and eliminated this risk.
"So that's it..."
With the digestion and absorption of many memories, Zhang Yao gradually pieced together the truth of the entire incident and learned the true origin of Yuwentai.
Different from all his previous guesses:
Yu Wentai is neither a blood descendant of Five Elements Sanren nor the reincarnation of Five Elements Sanren. He is an extremely special existence——
Just like lonely ghosts wandering between heaven and earth, they are the remnants of the party that do not belong to this era.
Two thousand years ago, before Liu Cang, a member of the Five Elements, died, he copied a part of his own thoughts and memories through a secret method, made it into an inheritance treasure, and secretly gave it to his family branch to be passed down.
If you meet the right person, the thoughts and memories in the inherited treasure will awaken, and then steal the newborn's body to achieve indirect rebirth.
But he didn't expect that this wait would last two thousand years.
So many things have happened in the past two thousand years that the Liu family passed down to him is no longer of his blood, but his real descendants have changed their surname to Li, and have even declined to the point where there is only one person left.
Two thousand years later:
The inherited treasure had been wandering around for many times, and finally met a suitable candidate. Liu Cang's consciousness then awakened and took over the body of the unborn fetus.
Emperor Yu Wenze was so happy that he named the newborn 'Tai' himself, and got an even bigger surprise a few years later.
When Yuwentai was six years old, his soul was already so powerful that he easily concealed his true spiritual attributes and was able to enter Hidden Mist Island to cultivate.
Nine years later, he left Kirigakure Island and never went back again in his life.
In his opinion, whether it is the Yuwen family or the Liu family, since they are not his bloodline, they have nothing to do with him.
He traveled all the way across the countries and came to Dali. It didn't take him many years to reach the foundation building stage. He joined Tianbao Tower as a casual cultivator. He secretly opened the Five Elements Secret Realm, and then started a journey that lasted for more than a hundred years. Plan.
"call……"
Zhang Yao sat up from the ground, took a deep breath, and his expression gradually relaxed.
The residual soul energy in the sea of consciousness has almost been cleared away, and he can free his hands to carefully sort out the memories from Yuwentai.
Yes, it is Yu Wentai, not Liu Cang, the Five Elements Sanren from two thousand years ago.
"Memory is just memory after all, not the soul of oneself, nor the imprint of the true spirit."
"Liu Cang is dead when he dies. His soul has completely disintegrated long ago. Even if he leaves behind all his thoughts and memories, he is no longer the same person..."
Zhang Yao had his own judgment on this point, and Yu Wentai actually knew it very well.
He has doubted his identity more than once, and has secretly conducted many tests, including the original contamination of the souls of single travelers, which was also based on this goal, but failed in the end due to accidents.
He tried to use the energy of his soul to make another copy of his own thinking and memory to use as a backup card, but he never succeeded.
"This time it was so thrilling, but it was also a huge profit!"
Zhang Yao stood up and looked at Yuwentai's body across from him, his eyes becoming profound.
"Yuwentai is dead, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"
"I must return to Dali as soon as possible to search the secret vault of Tianbao Tower. I must not miss the Five Elements Secret Realm as well!"
Yuwentai's memory is a huge and valuable asset.
The value of all kinds of monastic knowledge, realm understanding, understanding of exercises, methods of alchemy and weapon refining, knowledge and common sense from various places, etc. is already inestimable.
This is equivalent to gaining a lifetime of knowledge from an invincible overlord. Under normal circumstances, it is almost impossible. It was only in this extreme situation that Zhang Yao was given the opportunity to pick up the slack.
Not only that:
There are still many secrets in Yuwentai's memory, many of which make Zhang Yao feel thrilling.
The most important and intuitive secret at the moment is undoubtedly the Five Elements Secret Realm that is about to open!
In the Five Elements Secret Realm:
It has the soul energy he needs, and is of extremely high quality. It is a necessary material for inscribing the 'Ten Thousand Souls Formation', which can greatly enhance the power of the array and pave the way for the future.
In the core secret collection, there are several types of elixir-forming spiritual objects and elixirs, which can increase the chance of forming a golden elixir; there are also several top-notch treasures of heaven and earth that can be used to practice golden elixir magical powers and build golden elixir-level formations. , and there are several ready-made golden elixir magic weapons!
All these treasures were prepared by Liu Cang, a San practitioner of Five Elements, for his future life two thousand years ago. Zhang Yao is bound to get them!
And the most important point:
The protection of the Five Elements Secret Realm is very powerful. It was left by Liu Cang in his peak period. Dali's several golden elixir stages cannot enter or break through it.
So what else does Zhang Yao have to hesitate about?
(End of chapter)
