81: The second ancestor who lay all the way up to the Great Emperor
Jiang Yuan's words left even the five knowledgeable Old Ancestors and the Family head at a loss for how to respond.
One could only say that having pills makes one willful.
A single Spirit Ascension Pill, which could at most nurture an ordinary Physique, was enough to make major top-tier powers, divine dynasties, and Holy Lands break their heads trying to trade their respective divine daughters and Saintesses just to obtain one.
In particularly desperate situations like that of the Heavenly Sound Sect, one could even trade it for a half-step Ultimate Imperial Weapon!
And that was just for the Spirit Ascension Pill; the value of a saint spirit pill, which stably produces a Supreme Sacred Body, was simply immeasurable!
For a Holy Land, it would be worth launching a holy war just to seize one!
Yet, in the mouth of their own Yuaner, it sounded just like candy from the street.
But come to think of it, wasn't it just candy?
To Yuaner, this was practically a business with no cost and ten thousand times the profit; after all, he could get them from a Heavens Proud Daughter, ahem...
But, but to let them consume a Medicinal Pill capable of creating a Supreme Sacred Body, their hearts couldn't help but ache!
Wouldn't that be roughly equivalent to swallowing an Ultimate Imperial Weapon?
"But..." The Fourth Ancestor was still a bit hesitant. "Even so, the risk is too great. That's two Ultimate Imperial Weapons..."
"Hahaha..." Jiang Yuan couldn't help but laugh upon hearing this. "Fourth Ancestor, you underestimate me, Jiang Yuan, with those words."
"My own strength is certainly important, but the Jiang Family is my true Foundation! If the skin doesn't exist, where will the hair attach? Only when the Family's Foundation is as stable as a mountain can I go out and act recklessly, and continue to develop!"
"Using two saint spirit pills to gamble on an Opportunity that will cause the Jiang Family's heritage to skyrocket several times over, to gamble on the birth of two Saint Body Emperors!"
"In my opinion, this deal is a massive profit, not a loss!"
His words were filled with heroic spirit and rang with conviction.
Even the Fourth Ancestor, who had the most explosive temper, was momentarily intimidated by his Aura and didn't know how to refute him.
This kid... what he said actually sounded like it had a damn point.
Just then, the First Ancestor, who had been silent all along, finally spoke.
"Fourth, Fifth, you need not try to persuade him further." His voice was calm, yet carried an unquestionable majesty.
"Proceed as Yuaner said."
"Big Brother?!" The Fourth and Fifth Ancestors exclaimed in unison. "Big Brother, you also think this is feasible? This..."
The First Ancestor did not explain, only saying indifferently, "I trust Yuaner; he never does things without being certain."
The First Ancestor's words were the final verdict. Although the other Old Ancestors still had doubts, they said no more.
"Fine! Since Big Brother has spoken!" The Fourth Ancestor gritted his teeth, as if having made a decision. "Then I, this old man, will be the first to eat the crab! I want to see if this saint spirit pill can really make this old man's old bones bloom!"
However, Jiang Yuan shook his head. "Fourth Ancestor, you cannot."
"What?!" The Fourth Ancestor's eyes widened. "Kid, what do you mean? Looking down on me?"
"It is not looking down on you." Jiang Yuan smiled. "I checked the records before I came. If I am not mistaken, Fourth Ancestor, you... are already a Saint Body, right?"
The Fourth Ancestor was stunned, then nodded in acknowledgment. He was indeed a Saint Body, named the "Destructive War Immortal Body," a top-tier combat-type Saint Body.
Jiang Yuan's gaze then turned to the Fifth Ancestor. "Fifth Ancestor, you should be the Void Sacred Body, right?"
The Fifth Ancestor also nodded.
Jiang Yuan understood; it seemed his guess was correct. The seven Emperors of the Jiang Family, including his father, the First Ancestor, Sixth Ancestor, Fourth Ancestor, and Fifth Ancestor, were all existences with Saint Body level or higher. That left only the Second and Third Ancestors.
"Therefore, this Opportunity should be left to the Second and Third Ancestors."
As soon as these words were spoken, the two immortal mountains that had been silent the whole time trembled slightly.
A slightly hoarse voice came from the immortal mountain where the Second Ancestor resided, carrying a hint of complex emotion. "Yuaner... are you sure?"
He was indeed not a Saint Body. Back when he Attain the Dao, he had relied on supreme perseverance and Heaven-Defying Opportunity, as well as a little help from his Big Brother, Third Brother, Fourth Brother, Fifth Brother, and Sixth Brother, who had already become Emperors at the time.
The Third Ancestor was the same. He had Attain the Dao through external paths, proficient in the Dao of Pills, the Dao of Arrays, and the Dao of Artifacts, with many varied methods, but when it came to direct combat, he was ultimately inferior to the other Emperors.
If he could possess a Saint Body and make up for this shortcoming, his comprehensive strength would undergo a heaven-shaking and earth-shattering change!
"Second Ancestor, Third Ancestor, please come out." As Jiang Yuan's voice fell, light erupted from those two immortal mountains.
Two figures, equally majestic yet with vastly different Auras, slowly walked out from the Chaos Qi and appeared before Jiang Yuan.
One wore a black robe, with a cold, stern face and eyes like ten-thousand-year glacial ice; this was the Second Ancestor. The other wore a gray robe, with crane-white hair and a youthful face, possessing the demeanor of an immortal; this was the Third Ancestor.
Looking at the two saint spirit pills in Jiang Yuan's palm, their eyes revealed a hint of scorching heat like never before.
"Good!" "Good!" "What a good Qilin Child of the Jiang Family!" The Second Ancestor said "good" three times in a row, and on that face of his that had been an iceberg for ten thousand years, a rare trace of a smile actually appeared, although it looked worse than crying.
"Yuaner, this kindness, this old man will remember it!"
"For safety, and to avoid waste, Second, you consume it first." "Alright." "Please consume the pill, Old Ancestor!" He handed the saint spirit pill to the Second Ancestor.
The Second Ancestor took the Medicinal Pill, no longer hesitating, and swallowed it in one gulp. The next moment, the winds and clouds changed color!
Boom!!! The moment the Second Ancestor swallowed the saint spirit pill, a vastly different yet equally terrifying Aura erupted from within his body!
It was a Dao of extreme cold and slaughter, so domineering that it seemed to freeze the entire Universe!
This Aura was already at the Emperor level, and now, catalyzed by the saint spirit pill's boundless life essence and the Law of Creation, it began to undergo an incredible transformation!
"Hum—" The Second Ancestor's body was the first to change.
His cold, icy Physique suddenly erupted with billions of ink-black cold lights, each beam containing the true meaning of death that could freeze the Soul and annihilate all things.
Behind him, a towering phantom of a demon god slowly emerged, with three heads and six arms, a green face and fangs, holding blades, spears, swords, and halberds, his body wreathed in black-purple Evil Qi that would make even a Quasi-Emperor tremble in fear!
"This is... the Asura Annihilation Body! Legend has it that it is a supreme demonic body born in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, one that Attain the Dao through slaughter!" The Fourth Ancestor exclaimed, his eyes full of shock.
In terms of grade, this Physique was definitely not inferior to his Destructive War Immortal Body, and in terms of slaughtering power, it was even superior!