325: Chapter 325 triggers a hidden plot: the core of the Immortal Qin Ark appears!

The iceberg sat on the east side of Dengxian Island, the chill from the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice sealing the surrounding several miles of sea into a white mirror. The surviving Disciples stood far away, their eyes filled with fanaticism for a miracle alongside their awe.

Lu Sheng stood in the center of the circular corridor inside the iceberg, right in front of the ice coffin containing Purple Cloud Ancestral Master.

"Young Island Master, you can't, you really can't do this!"

Li Xiaoyao spread his arms, firmly guarding the ice coffin, his old face wrinkled like a dried orange. He hadn't yet recovered from the joy of his Ancestral Master being rescued when he saw Lu Sheng holding the dragon devouring spear, looking ready to demolish the place.

"The old man has suffered enough, being drained in this ice lump for ten thousand years. Now you want to open the coffin and disturb the ground? This is destroying a person's dharma body, it will invite divine retribution!"

Lu Sheng lowered the tip of his spear, his black-gold skin appearing somewhat somber under the reflection of the golden light.

"Old man, if divine retribution worked, that heart in the Dragon Palace would have been struck into dust long ago."

He pointed to the broken transparent tube at the back of the ice coffin's neck.

"Staying here, he will always be a living corpse. Only by breaking this shell will I know how many parts are left inside that can be used."

"Parts?" Li Xiaoyao's eyelids twitched. "That is my Ancestral Master! Not your Artifact Refining Materials!"

Lu Sheng didn't waste any more words. When he did things, he never liked to explain a second time.

Buzz—

The phantom of the Archaic Heaven Emperor Venerable flashed behind him, and a domineering Spiritual Pressure directly knocked Li Xiaoyao ten meters away.

Lu Sheng raised his right hand, his index finger touching the center of the ice coffin.

"Five Elements Reversal, Desolation Stripping."

A deathly gray light spread from his fingertip. When the originally indestructible Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice touched this power, it made a dense cracking sound. The crystals reinforced by Laws began to melt, turning into rising white mist.

As the layer of profound ice thinned, the transparent tube that was originally frozen inside was finally exposed to the air.

Li Xiaoyao closed his eyes, old tears flowing as he muttered "sinful."

But the expected collapse of the corpse did not happen.

When the profound ice completely dissipated, the tube that had been dry suddenly twitched because it lost the external pressure. A drop of thick, shimmering purple liquid slowly slid down the tube wall.

Lu Sheng was quick, catching it between two fingers.

The drop of liquid did not disperse in his fingers; instead, it transformed into an extremely tiny purple lotus, swaying slightly in the Void Realm.

In an instant, a Sword Intent that pierced the clouds erupted from this drop of liquid.

The ice walls on both sides of the corridor were swept by this Sword Intent, and thousands of hair-thin sword marks appeared instantly.

"This scent..."

Lu Sheng sniffed, a hint of greed for top-tier ingredients appearing in his eyes.

The dragon blood in his body was boiling, and the Imperial Markingss deep within his spine even produced a strong desire to devour.

This wasn't blood.

"Old Man Li, open your eyes and look. What's left in your Ancestral Master's body isn't some cured meat water."

Li Xiaoyao looked over blankly.

He saw that the purple liquid, wrapped in the miniature lotus, appeared holy and pure. That familiar Dao rhyme of the "Green Lotus Sword Song" was ten thousand times more refined than what Li Xiaoyao could perform.

"This is... Dao Rhyme Original Liquid?" Dao Yi walked over at some point, his voice trembling violently. "According to ancient records, those with heaven-defying cultivation will have their Law insights liquefy into marrow, settling deep within their bones. This single drop is worth a hundred years of bitter cultivation for an ordinary Spirit King!"

Lu Sheng didn't say a word. He directly pressed the purple drop into his brow.

Boom!

An earth-shattering sword chime rang in his mind.

The originally heavy and domineering dragon devouring spear vibrated wildly in his Sea of Consciousness. A light and sharp sword Dao Law was arrogantly merging into its Spear Intent. The dragon scale patterns on the spear's surface actually developed a layer of lotus-like sharpness under the refinement of the purple light.

[Ding! Absorbed 'Green Lotus Sword Intent' Original Liquid!] [Spear Technique Realm Upgrade: Subtle Level -> Transcendent (Initial mastery of Sword-Spear Unification)!] [dragon devouring spear strength increased: 15%!]

Lu Sheng took a long breath. His skin, which was covered in black-gold patterns, now had a hint of agile luster.

"This isn't a heroic spirit; it's clearly a ten-thousand-year-old cellar-aged original mash."

He turned his head and looked at Li Xiaoyao with a playful gaze.

"What did you call this just now?"

Li Xiaoyao hadn't yet recovered from that terrifying sword pressure. He looked at the Ancestral Master in the ice coffin. Since a drop of the "original mash" had been expelled, the Ancestral Master's face, which had turned blue due to Abyss pollution, miraculously showed a faint hint of red.

What flowed back out of the tube was not just Dao rhyme, but also strands of black smoke.

That was the Abyss poison accumulated over ten thousand years.

"He's... detoxifying?" Li Xiaoyao's lips trembled.

"If it's not drawn out, these Dao rhymes will eventually be completely assimilated by Abyss energy. By then, your Ancestral Master will truly become an Abyss bomb that could explode at any time."

Lu Sheng patted the ice coffin.

"What I'm doing now is saving him and collecting some medical fees along the way. Do you still want to stop me?"

Li Xiaoyao fell to his knees with a thud, this time not to block him, but out of guilt.

"Young Island Master... this old man... this old man mistook your kindness for ill intent."

"Fine, don't get sentimental here."

Lu Sheng looked at Dao Yi and pointed to the room full of ice coffins.

"I've seen the structure of these tubes clearly. Although that heart in the Dragon Palace was ugly, I have to say, this 'juicing' technique is very mature."

A hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.

"Call all the Core Disciples on the island over and divide them into teams by attribute."

"Thunder-attribute ones go to that row from the Thunder Shock Sect, fire-attribute ones go to the Crimson Sun Valley area."

"I'm going to start a 'Great Supplement Plan' for everyone."

Dao Yi gasped. "You want to... share all the Dao rhymes of these ancient powerhouses?"

"The great trend is coming. What's the use of only me being strong?"

Lu Sheng turned his back and looked at the silent powerhouses deep within the iceberg.

"This sea is already rotten to the core. If we want to survive, everyone has to become a lunatic together."

He spoke calmly, but it sent a shiver through everyone present.

Over the next three days, Dengxian Island became the busiest "chemical plant" in the True Sea.

Thousands of spirit source crystal cores were thrown into the myriad things furnace by Lu Sheng, turning into pure energy to maintain the temperature control Formations inside the iceberg.

Lu Sheng was like a precise surgeon, controlling the Five Elements Reversal Wheel to reconnect the transparent tubes one by one.

However, this time, the other end of the tube was not connected to some blood pool, but to the top of the Dengxian Island Disciples' heads.

"Ah!! It hurts like hell!!"

An Dengxian Island Disciple had just connected to a tube flashing with lightning, and his whole body began to dance like he was doing the breakdance, his hair standing on end, and dense electric arcs erupting from his body.

"Shut up! Hold it in!"

Li Xiaoyao shouted loudly from the side, "That is the Origin of a third-generation Elder from the Thunder Spirit Sect! One breath is worth ten years of your practice! If you spit out even a bit, I'll break your legs!"

Above the entire island, due to the frantic dissipation of Dao rhyme, long-absent auspicious clouds actually condensed.

In the sea, the spiritual plants that had withered due to the Abyss aura began to grow wildly under the nourishment of these Dao rhymes.

Lu Sheng sat on top of the iceberg, the place closest to the starry sky.

He held a pale gold crystal core in his hand, which was a "Law Seed" just extracted from a Spirit Sovereign level remains.

[host: Lu Sheng] [Rank: Level 39 Spirit Ancestor (Progress greatly increased due to Dao rhyme feedback)] [energy points: 35,000]

Looking at the data on the panel, Lu Sheng didn't show much joy.

The Imperial Markingss in his body became increasingly hot, and the sense of hunger originating from the depths of his genes was constantly battering his sanity.

This indicated that the "Sea God" heart he had just eaten wasn't even an appetizer.

Just then, a commotion came from below.

"Young Island Master! Come quickly! This skeleton... something's wrong!"

It was Dao Yi's voice, carrying an unprecedented horror.

Lu Sheng moved, turning into an afterimage and landing at the end of the corridor.

That was the most remote corner of the entire Heros Tomb, containing an unnamed withered skeleton with no markings, whose flesh had almost dried into wood.

Currently, there was no tube inserted into the back of this skeleton's head.

But its fingers, without any external interference, were tapping on its thigh bone at an extremely eerie and high-frequency rhythm.

Ka. Ka-ka. Ka.

The sound echoed in the silent corridor, sounding extremely piercing.

Lu Sheng narrowed his eyes, and his Cross-shaped Pupils instantly opened.

[Species: Immortal Qin Remnant (Extreme dehydration state)] [Status: Awakening... Core code activated...]

"Code?"

Lu Sheng's heart skipped a beat.

He saw that the rhythm tapped out by the skeleton gradually formed rows of strange characters that only Lu Sheng could understand.

They were ancient, complex, yet possessed a mechanical aesthetic—Immortal Qin Seal Script.

[The Great Sacrifice has arrived... Guixu no longer exists...]

[Seek... the Master of 'Desolation'... Reforge... the ark...]

The skeleton suddenly raised its head, and in its eye sockets that had dried into black holes, two extremely faint but purely blue electronic cold lights suddenly lit up.

It stared fixedly at Lu Sheng, its jaw, which no longer had lips, clicking and making a sound in an extremely piercing language that did not belong to this era.

Then.

At the position of the skeleton's chest, a deep blue triangular symbol suddenly lit up.

The System inside Lu Sheng's body went completely haywire at this moment.

[Ding! Detected 'Immortal Qin Ark Core' fragment!] [host Rank force lock released!] [Detected starry sky coordinate lock... Warning! Warning! 'He' has seen you!]

Deep in the distant starry sky, a giant eye covered in black tentacles seemed to pierce through layers of mist, coldly watching this azure planet.

Lu Sheng slowly raised his head, looking at the sky outside the dome he had punched through.

The originally bright sunlight had, at some point, taken on a layer of unsettling blood-red.

"Watch if you want."

He gripped the dragon devouring spear in his hand, the black-gold Imperial Markingss flowing frantically under his skin.

"Just as well, I haven't tasted... what an alien god tastes like."

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