347: The flawed jade is the king (86).

Wang Yun was utterly lost within the Chaos.

He was like a solitary leaf adrift in a boundless grey sea, having lost all sense of direction.

He tried to find a way out, but his Divine Thought was suppressed to its limit here, unable to extend beyond a hundred zhang.

Here, he couldn't even tell if he was moving forward or backward, ascending or sinking.

An unknown amount of time passed.

That terrifying aura that made his heart palpitate descended once more.

This time, Wang Yun saw it clearly.

It was not a beam of light.

It was an Ancient Seal.

Its entire body was forged from a Divine Metal Wang Yun had never seen before, presenting a Chaos-like hue, as if all the colors from the dawn of creation had been fused within it.

Upon the Ancient Seal were inscribed ancient totems of mountains, rivers, the sun, the moon, and myriad creatures paying homage.

Every single carving contained unimaginable dao rhyme.

An Imperial Might capable of suppressing all ages emanated from that Ancient Seal, causing the surrounding violent Chaos Qi to submit and retreat of its own accord.

Yet, this Imperial Might was firmly locked onto Wang Yun.

This Ancient Seal seemed to be a weapon.

What shocked Wang Yun even more was that from within the Ancient Seal, he sensed an aura of the Supreme that felt incredibly familiar, yet was so powerful it made him tremble.

It was the aura of a Supreme Body.

But the purity and power of this aura were far beyond what he could currently match.

It did not belong to those "Supreme" beings who had proven their Dao and could contend with Great Emperors.

It belonged to a true, peerless powerhouse possessing a Supreme Body.

Wang Yun understood in an instant.

The one who forged this Ancient Seal was a Senior of the same Origin as him, a Supreme Body cultivator, a Supreme powerhouse who had reached the end of the cultivation path.

And this Ancient Seal was the weapon that Senior had lost within this Chaos.

"Hum!"

The Ancient Seal trembled, giving Wang Yun no time to think, and charged towards him, carrying a power that could suppress all things.

Wang Yun's expression turned grave. He could feel that if he were struck, his Supreme Body would instantly collapse.

He had no choice.

"Unrivaled."

He uttered a low shout, and the peerless sword at his waist unsheathed in response.

Upon the dark-golden blade, divine patterns of purple, cyan, and gold lit up, with the annihilating aura of the Light of the Epoch swirling around it.

Wang Yun pushed the power of his Five Lotus Saint King to the limit, merging man and sword as one, and facing that Ancient Seal, he unleashed a sword strike with all his might.

However.

Clang!

A crisp sound of metal clashing.

But the result left Wang Yun utterly horrified.

The moment the peerless sword made contact with the Ancient Seal, it actually let out a mournful cry.

That was not the sound of weapons colliding, but a submission and trembling originating from the very depths of the sword spirit.

Wang Yun could clearly sense that the peerless sword was afraid.

It was expressing the most complete submission to that Ancient Seal.

An irresistible force of suppression transmitted from the Ancient Seal.

The peerless sword's radiance instantly dimmed, the divine patterns flowing upon it shattered inch by inch, and the blade trembled violently as if it would snap at any moment.

Wang Yun's tiger's mouth split open, golden Saint's blood splattered, and his entire person was sent flying far away.

How is this possible?

Wang Yun was horrified in his heart.

His peerless sword was forged primarily from phoenix blood gold, fused with countless Heaven And Earth Treasures, and it bore his four Heaven-Defying powers as his life-bound Saint weapon.

Its quality had long surpassed ordinary top-tier Saint weapons, separated only by a hair's breadth from the legendary extreme dao saint weapons forged by Great Saints.

Wang Yun knew very well that to suppress Unrivaled, only an extreme dao saint weapon could do it.

But this Ancient Seal was not merely suppressing Unrivaled.

It was *subduing* it.

There was only one explanation.

An unbelievable thought occurred to Wang Yun.

The one who forged this Ancient Seal was a true Great Emperor.

And what he was encountering now in the Chaos was a true treasure left behind by a Great Emperor.

A true Imperial Weapon.

If he could successfully subdue it... This thought had just arisen when Wang Yun immediately quashed it.

Because he then discovered another, even more brutal fact.

A cold, merciless will transmitted from that Imperial Seal, directly imprinting itself upon his Divine Soul.

That will clearly told him that the reason the Imperial Seal had targeted him was not for some Legacy or trial.

It was solely because of his Supreme Body.

The Imperial Seal had drifted within this Chaos for far too long, and its own power was being slowly eroded and erased by the Chaos Qi.

It needed nourishment.

And Wang Yun's Supreme Body was, in its eyes, the perfect nourishment.

It wanted to devour Wang Yun, using Wang Yun's Origin to delay its own process of being erased by the Chaos.

Not only that.

The will of the Imperial Seal also conveyed an extreme desire.

It sensed from Wang Yun's Supreme Body a power that shared the same Origin as Chaos, yet had different roots.

A power of "erasure."

It was precisely the "Light of the Epoch" contained within Wang Yun's first generation supreme bone.

The Imperial Seal could sense that if it devoured this power, it would obtain the key to break free from the restraints of this Chaos and see the light of day once more.

A chill ran through Wang Yun's heart.

He had become prey.

Prey targeted by an Imperial Weapon.

"Hum!"

The Imperial Seal moved again.

This time, it did not charge directly. Instead, it began to rotate in the air.

A terrifying devouring force erupted from the base of the seal, transforming into a massive vortex that firmly enveloped Wang Yun.

Wang Yun felt his Saint Body disintegrating uncontrollably. His Supreme Origin transformed into streams of golden light, being frantically pulled and devoured by the vortex.

He resisted desperately. Saint King power, Primordial Chaos Domain, Myriad Things Born... all his Divine Ability techniques seemed utterly pale and powerless before this absolute Imperial Might.

He was trapped firmly. No matter how he struggled, he could only watch helplessly as he was slowly devoured bit by bit.

He felt an unprecedented threat of death.

Despair, unwillingness—all sorts of emotions churned within his heart.

Could it be that his path of cultivation was to end here?

Just as Wang Yun's consciousness was about to be completely overwhelmed by that devouring force, and his Divine Soul was on the verge of being erased...

From the deepest part of his body.

That sinister will, which he regarded as his greatest hidden danger and had been firmly suppressing all along, awoke.

The "Indestructible Art."

It sensed Wang Yun's desperate situation, and it also sensed the greed of that Imperial Seal.

In its "logic," this perfect Supreme Body Cauldron was its preordained final feast. It absolutely would not allow any other existence to lay a finger on it.

Boom!

A terrifying Demonic Will erupted violently from within Wang Yun's body.

This Demonic Will was icy, sinister, and filled with contempt and malice towards all things.

The moment it appeared, the Imperial Seal, which had been frantically devouring Wang Yun's Origin, suddenly halted.

As if it had encountered a natural enemy.

That lofty, age-suppressing Imperial Might actually began to retreat before this pure Demonic Will.

Hum... hum hum... The Imperial Seal began to tremble violently.

It was not excitement, nor was it Battle Intent.

It was fear.

Fear originating from its very Origin.