150: Chapter 150 Soul-inducing Lamp

Medicine Not So took out a jade box from his Storage Pouch. Inside lay a radiant Medicinal Pill emitting a dense aura of life. "This is the nine revolutions life-sustaining pill I refined using the Heart's Blood left by Grandmaster. I originally kept it for myself to save my life. Giving it to Master will lock his last sliver of vitality, preventing it from dissipating for a hundred years. Only..."

He paused, his voice strained: "If the soul guiding lamp does not arrive within a hundred years, Master... will experience Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, without even the possibility of entering Reincarnation."

Burning bridges, leaving no path for retreat.

Bai Wuji took the Medicinal Pill and carefully fed it into Bai Yu's mouth.

The Medicinal Pill melted as soon as it entered his mouth. A gentle life force enveloped Bai Yu; the wounds on his body stopped worsening, and his dissipating Divine Soul was temporarily stabilized, falling into the deepest state of suspended animation.

"Go!"

Bai Wuji handed Bai Yu over to the old man, turned around, and led the fourteen figures behind him toward the tunnel torn open by the Void Realm.

Just as they were about to step into the tunnel, the voice of Void Realm rang out again, carrying a trace of unprecedented gravity.

"Wait."

Everyone looked back.

Void Realm looked at them and said slowly: "There is one more thing."

"That sword, heaven slasher, also disappeared after swallowing a sliver of the escaping Divine Soul of Venerable Scarlet Gold."

"It is a hound that knows the way; having tasted blood, it will never give up on its prey."

"It will return."

"Before you find the soul guiding lamp, it will find this place first..."

"To return and eat its last supper."

The Void Realm tunnel closed silently the moment Bai Wuji and the others disappeared.

In the courtyard, only a deathly silence remained, along with the increasingly heavy smell of blood in the wind.

Void Realm staggered, leaning against a door pillar, his face even paler than the white jade teacups on the stone table in the courtyard. He looked up at the sky that had been torn and then forcibly healed, as if he could see an invisible vicious dog following the scent.

"The watchdog failed to guard the door and let the wolf out of the cage."

The nameless old man stood beside him at some point, clutching the water ladle that had fallen to the ground, his voice raspy, making it impossible to tell if it was mockery or self-deprecation.

"That wasn't a wolf." Void Realm coughed, his breath weak. "It's something that crawled out of a grave. Now, we must find a way to press it back in."

"Press it back in?" The old man sneered, throwing the water ladle to the ground. "In your current ghost-like state, a gust of wind could knock you over. With what will you press it? With your mouth?"

Void Realm ignored his harshness and simply walked to the stone bed, looking at Bai Yu who was in suspended animation.

That face, which had once always carried a hint of laziness and composure, was now devoid of color, with the pain of struggling against the heaven slasher sword frozen between his brows. The efficacy of the nine revolutions life-sustaining pill formed a layer of faint light, enveloping him like a cicada's wing, yet also resembling an exquisite coffin.

"A hundred years... those little fellows really dare to gamble."

The old man also walked over, his eyes complex. "Even if they really get the soul guiding lamp, do you think we can hold out until they return?"

"I don't know." Void Realm was telling the truth.

"That sword knows you very well." The old man suddenly said, "It knows you would use Time-Space Backtrack, and it calculated that your Origin Qi would be greatly damaged because of it. It wasn't fighting Bai Yu; from the very beginning, it was fighting you."

Void Realm was silent.

This was exactly what made his heart palpitate the most. The thing hidden in the sword knew his abilities and his bottom line like the back of its hand.

"Fine." The old man spoke no more and stomped his foot hard. A fierce aura, completely different from his disheveled appearance, suddenly exploded. "Since we're on this sinking ship, we can't just wait for death. You, the one guarding the Heavenly Gate, can't move now, so guard the heavens well. As for the matters on the ground, I'll handle them."

Before he finished speaking, his figure flickered and appeared directly outside the mountain gate of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

He didn't set up an exquisite Formation like Chu Han; instead, he pulled a rusty Bone Knife from his Storage Pouch and made a deep cut across his palm.

Blood dripped down, but instead of soaking into the soil, it condensed into beads of blood floating in mid-air.

"With my remnant blood, I notify the Mountain God and Earth God of this place."

The old man's voice became ancient and low, every word seemingly carrying the power of a contract.

"Within a hundred days, this mountain is forbidden! No living being shall enter, no ghost or god shall invade! If there are violators, let them be like this stone!"

He pointed his finger, and a ten-thousand-jin boulder in the distance silently turned into dust.

After doing all this, the old man's face turned a shade paler. He returned to the courtyard, sat on a stone stool, grabbed the teapot, and drank directly from the spout without using a cup.

"A crude method that won't stop the real big shots, but at least it can block some flies looking to take advantage." He wiped his mouth. "What about you? Besides breathing, what else can you do?"

Void Realm pointed toward the back mountain.

"Beneath those two peach trees, there is a gap in the Spiritual Vein."

The old man was stunned for a moment, then reacted, cursing: "Damn it, those two spendthrift brats!"

His figure disappeared again. A moment later, two muffled sounds of peach trees being uprooted came from the back mountain, along with the old man's grumbling voice.

Over the next seven days, the Heavenly Sword Sect was completely transformed.

The nameless old man almost emptied his entire collection.

On the thirty-three peaks surrounding the Heavenly Sword Sect, he buried the skeleton of an unknown Vicious Beast on each, using an ancient Blood Sacrifice method to set up a savage and violent "Ten Thousand Beasts Ferocious Evil Formation."

On the day the great Formation was completed, the entire Heavenly Sword Sect was shrouded in gloom, with ghosts wailing and gods howling, and even the sun dimmed.

Void Realm sat in the courtyard, adjusting his breathing while pointing out the loopholes in the Heavenly Sword Sect's defenses. From the material of the mountain gate's plaque to the depth of the backyard well, no detail was too small.

The old man cursed him for being nitpicky while honestly repairing everything as he said.

One understood the timing of heaven, and the other was well-versed in the advantages of the earth.

Two Old Monsters who had lived for an unknown number of tens of thousands of years used the most primitive, clumsy, and resolute way to forge the entire Heavenly Sword Sect into an impregnable... tomb.

Just to wait for that "Grave Digger" who was destined to return.

The eighth day.

The sky did not brighten.

It wasn't a cloudy day, nor were there dark clouds obscuring the sun.

Instead, the sun rose halfway and then seemed to have its light blocked by something, plunging the entire world into a sallow, sickly dawn.

In the air, the originally mild Spiritual Qi became thin and sharp; inhaling it into the lungs felt like swallowing a handful of broken glass.

In the courtyard, the Spiritual Plants planted by the old man withered and turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Void Realm opened his eyes.

The nameless old man also jumped down from the roof.

The two looked at each other, both seeing the gravity in each other's eyes.

It had come.

Although it was still far on the horizon, its "law" and its "Dao" had already begun to erode this place.

This world was being covered and rewritten by another set of rules.

"Faster than expected." The old man licked his dry lips, a fierce light flashing in his eyes. "This beast really can't wait for a single moment."

Void Realm didn't speak, just looked up at the sallow sky.