406: Immortal scripture?

Time passed very slowly.

Because Chu Ying watched these almost perverted, self-mutilating individuals suffer excruciating pain, even he felt a chill down his spine, but he also had to admire their “courage.”

Finally, at a certain moment, the flames on the bloody cross where Chu Ying was bound disappeared, as if the painful sacrifice had been completed for him.

At this point, Chu Ying also noticed that his cultivation seemed to have recovered and could be used.

A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and he immediately broke free from the restraints of the bloody cross, appearing before the old man in the blink of an eye and grabbing him by the neck.

“Was everything you said earlier true or false?” Chu Ying’s eyes glowed with fierce light.

“You have endured the painful sacrifice, and you are also a part of our Ao Jing Sect. From now on, you shall worship Gu God.”

The old man smiled and spoke, his expression not changing much.

“Worship?”

Chu Ying sneered; he had never had a belief before. How could a cultivator believe in fate?

“Since you all enjoy sacrificing your pain so much, I’ll let you sacrifice to your heart’s content.”

Chu Ying scanned these Ao Jing Sect members, who were dressed in white mourning clothes and wore white headscarves, and directly moved all of them to the side effect position.

In an instant, these people, who had just survived a disaster and then became calm and collected, seemingly ignoring the various intense pains of their burns and even taking pleasure in them, suddenly became excruciatingly pained.

“Ahhh… no, what level of pain is this?”

“Am I… am I ascending? Am I going to see Gu God…?”

“Spare me, spare me… I don’t want to sacrifice pain anymore…”

In a flash, large swathes of figures in white mourning clothes before him died in pain. Those who died transformed into wisps of eerie black gas, as if they themselves were a part of the pain, or had already sacrificed all their pain, and their lives had come to an end.

Including that old man, his face was twisted and ferocious, and he was already foaming at the mouth, his body convulsing and twitching.

“You… you didn’t become Gu God’s envoy…”

The old man looked at Chu Ying in horror, his face full of disbelief.

Chu Ying was too lazy to respond. What Gu God, what Bar Hiel, it had nothing to do with him. He wouldn’t believe in this so-called Siming, even if this position was at the Great Emperor level, so what?

He might not be unable to become a Great Emperor in the future.

At this moment, all the Ao Jing Sect members had sacrificed themselves and perished in pain. Golden flames had risen around them at some point, seemingly intending to once again burn the already dilapidated ruins of this place to ashes.

Chu Ying sneered, “I have heard your voice.”

Chu Ying strode forward, and in his vision appeared the dilapidated divine sect, which was the so-called Ao Jing Sect.

In the main hall stood a tall statue, its face indistinct, its appearance very blurry.

Those Ao Jing Sect members dared not engrave its name, so this statue was either the so-called Gu God or that Bar Hiel.

In the statue’s hand, a strange golden bamboo slip was held, like an immortal scripture.

Chu Ying’s eyes flickered. The people in white mourning clothes earlier also held yellow booklets in their hands. He wondered if there was any connection between them and the golden bamboo slip in the statue’s hand.

The voice that had been echoing in his ears grew stronger and clearer:

“Sacrifice your pain to me, and I will give you all the power you desire…”

This was what Chu Ying had heard ever since he entered the ancient ruins of the divine temple. He didn’t know whose voice it was, but it was definitely very bizarre. Perhaps it was that so-called Siming, Bar Hiel, who controlled pain and had fallen into darkness and evil.

“Sacrifice? If I sacrificed, would you dare to take it?”

Chu Ying’s gaze fell on the golden bamboo slip, and with a thought, he pulled it down.

The next moment, the entire dilapidated divine sect hall began to shake violently!

The temple collapsed, the walls on all sides turned to dust, and a dark, bottomless abyss appeared beneath his feet.

“Again?” Chu Ying frowned again, his body falling straight down.

This time, however, he clearly felt the surrounding environment; a somewhat familiar… immensely powerful gravity fell upon him.

His body instinctively resisted the gravity, and his mind gradually became enlightened.

Chu Ying, who had landed steadily, saw the surrounding scene clearly.

An incredibly massive body, like Mount Tai, lay across here, with a snake-like head and a tortoise-like body, its body a dark black color. The patterns on its tortoise shell were so ancient and mysterious, having endured countless years.

The several treasured bones in Chu Ying’s eight Cave Heavens, including the bones of the Archaic Ten Fiends and the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, and even that tender green willow bud, instantly revived, as if they had encountered some forbidden great enemy.

But in fact, they were merely “awakened,” not encountering an enemy, but rather a reverence for the mysterious and ancient.

“Cough cough, you… have finally arrived.”

Hearing this voice, Chu Ying’s vision became more detailed, and he noticed a figure suppressed beneath the Black Tortoise phantom.

That figure was enveloped in eerie grey-black gas.

The moment his gaze met the figure’s, Chu Ying felt all the blood in his body, all the consciousness in his Soul, all his divine sense, every inch of his flesh and blood, every inch of his tendons and bones… all underwent a kind of sublimation.

The sublimation of pain! Neither living nor dead, the sublimation of sacrificing all pain!

“You are Bar Hiel!”

Chu Ying’s mind was terrified. In a split second, his side effect transfer succeeded, the pain disappeared, and Chu Ying even averted his gaze, not daring to meet the figure’s eyes.

Yes, just now Chu Ying felt he was about to possess supreme power. He was staring at an ancient and terrifying existence, as if he saw the boundless world in the Starry Sky and extremely deep and distant scenes.

But, it was too painful, so painful that he wanted to end his life, so painful that he wanted to wash away all evil with it.

“Eh?”

The voice of the suppressed figure became surprised, still as ancient as before: “You are not afraid of sacrificing pain? No, you didn’t sacrifice?”

The gaze and words, seemingly coming from ancient time and space, sent shivers down Chu Ying’s spine.

Just then, Chu Ying found his body was no longer under his control. The mysterious golden bamboo slip he held in his hand was indeed an “immortal scripture,” now emitting golden-red light, enveloping him.

“What?!”

Chu Ying watched in horror as his right hand directly tore off his left arm!

Rip!

A bloody severed arm floated in the air. Chu Ying’s left shoulder was a bloody mess, and the excruciating pain only appeared for an instant before disappearing, because it had been transferred away.

But at this moment, the golden immortal scripture actually transferred a large amount of vast and boundless mysterious power, instantly making Chu Ying feel as if he possessed a Realm comparable to Array Formation Realm ninth level!

“What… what is this?”

This increase in power terrified Chu Ying, but if it was exchanged by sacrificing his own body, he would rather not have it!

However, his remaining hand also became disobedient, clenching into a claw and forcefully digging into his own chest!

Puff!

Chu Ying’s eyes widened, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. He was actually going to dig out his own internal organs?

An unknown fire burned in his abdominal cavity, causing his internal organs to bleed profusely. Unspeakable pain appeared once again.

But it still disappeared in an instant.