Chapter 975: You Provide the Betrothal Gifts, I Enter the Bridal Chamber

Near the border between the North and East regions, beneath the glacier, it was pitch black.

The thick layers of ice formed the sky of the river, shrouding this place.

The biting cold of the river and the chill it contained should have frozen the water itself, but the water here was strange; it contained both the strange substances transformed from divine breath and spiritual power.

Depending on the distribution of different layers, the freezing point varied as well.

The deeper one went, the more the freezing point defied common knowledge. Even though Xu Qing and Chen Erniu could no longer feel any heat within their bodies and were relying entirely on their own cultivation bases to sustain their vitality, the water still did not freeze!

And the cold, as they descended, became even more intense!

So much so that when they reached about thirty thousand zhang, Xu Qing’s figure paused!

If he continued to descend, his physical body could naturally withstand it, but his soul had already begun to feel the pressure!

But at the very least, he could still manage to descend another ten or twenty thousand zhang!

However, Feng Lintao and Yue Dong had already reached their limit!

Any further down, they would no longer have the ability to manifest immortal arts and inheritances!

On the contrary, Chen Erniu’s peculiar nature was displayed to the fullest here; he was completely unscathed.

It even felt to Xu Qing that in this freezing river water, Chen Erniu seemed much more at ease than he was outside!

"Your Senior Brother is always your Senior Brother!"

Noticing Xu Qing’s gaze, Chen Erniu looked smug!

Hearing this, Xu Qing cooperatively wore an expression of admiration on his face, which made Chen Erniu feel immensely satisfied, but he also knew that Feng Lintao and Yue Dong were not suited to go any deeper!

Therefore, after the two exchanged glances, they decided to start

the activation of Feng Lintao’s inheritance here!

Thus, Chen Erniu waved his hand, and immediately Feng Lintao’s soul appeared within the river; the moment it manifested, its soul body trembled and visibly began to freeze!

The intense life-and-death crisis made Feng Lintao’s mind churn, and without hesitation, he erupted with all his soul power, attempting to resist the cold here!

But the effect was minimal!

So much so that Feng Lintao had to drift upward; only after rising three thousand zhang did he barely manage to balance himself, preventing his soul body from becoming an ice sculpture!

"So useless."

Chen Erniu frowned and scolded him!

A sense of grievance welled up in Feng Lintao’s heart; he wanted to tell Chen Erniu that he was a soul body without a physical form, so the strength he could exert was naturally much weaker!

And all of this was not what he had wished for—was it not caused by being fished... besides, on the way, the two of them had placed restrictions on him, so his strength was naturally limited!

However, he dared not voice these grievances and could only bury them in his heart, while his face still had to show a fawning expression!

He was truly worried that after handing over the inheritance, his value would be infinitely small...

If he made the other party unhappy, he feared that by then, he

would be doomed with no chance of survival!

Although he had been constantly pondering how to break the situation along the way, up to now, he had not thought of any solution!

At this moment, being stared at by Chen Erniu and Xu Qing, the predatory gaze made Feng Lintao’s mind tremble; not daring to disobey, he steeled his heart and looked at Xu Qing!

"Fellow Daoist Xu Qing, next I will be sincere and honest, without the slightest concealment, nor will I employ any means unfavorable to you. I will go all out to deliver the inheritance and help you

imprint the flame into authority!"

"I have no other requests, nor do I hope that you will return my freedom. I only want to survive; even becoming a slave is fine, so Fellow Daoist Xu Qing..."

"I want to believe you; I hope you can give me a promise."

Feng Lintao looked at Xu Qing. After he finished speaking, before Xu Qing could say anything, Chen Erniu on the side was displeased!

"What do you mean? You don't want to believe me?"

Feng Lintao’s heart trembled, and just as he was about to explain, Xu Qing’s voice came, interrupting him!

"I will do my best within my capabilities to send you back to the human race. As for your life or death, that will be decided by the Empress!"

Once Xu Qing’s words were out, Feng Lintao finally felt settled in his heart and let out a long sigh of relief!

If Xu Qing had promised everything, he would have been uneasy instead, but such words from Xu Qing showed sincerity!

Therefore, determination appeared in Feng Lintao’s eyes; no longer hesitating and making no further demands, he pinched a seal with both hands and pressed it against his brow!

Immediately, his soul body shone with a brilliant light, like a star in this pitch-black river!

Furthermore, strands of silk appeared on his soul body due to the cold here, intersecting and outlining each other to form a blooming flower!

Once this flower totem appeared, a strange fragrance drifted out!

As it expanded outward...

A primitive and majestic intent rose from this flower,

that was... the aura of a Great Emperor!

If this aura had appeared in the outside world, it would have been illusory!

But appearing in this freezing river water, it gained substance...

It became a ring composed of countless imprints, manifesting around Feng Lintao, constantly rotating and flashing!

It shone in reflection with the flower totem!

Finally, this ring, as if it were the outward projection of that flower, materialized into a flower outside Feng Lintao’s soul body.

Every imprint that made up this flower radiated a sense of Dao essence, and looking closely, one could see that these imprints were blank, containing no will and no magical techniques!

What they had was only the purest and most fundamental essence of the Great Dao!

"This is the authority transformed from the Great Emperor’s inheritance of my Liaoxuan Holy Land. It is blank and can be imprinted with suitable magical techniques and divine abilities to form authority."

"But not all techniques can succeed, and every failure will cause the inheritance imprints to permanently dissipate a little, so it is best to choose correctly in one go!"

Feng Lintao spoke immediately, his expression twisted; clearly, manifesting the inheritance, even with the help of the environment here, was still difficult for him!

"Two Fellow Daoists, I can only hold on for the time of one incense stick."

"Decide quickly what technique you want to imprint."

Xu Qing and Chen Erniu looked at each other!

They could choose not to use Yue Dong’s immortal art for this opportunity, but since Yue Dong had planned to imprint her immortal art into authority, she must have made preparations, and the possibility of success was the highest!

Xu Qing pondered!

Chen Erniu narrowed his eyes!

"Little Ah Qing, I am thinking about a question, and that is whether Yue Dong’s plan is really just to imprint her immortal art into authority... Based on the few exchanges I’ve had with Yue Dong, this woman gives me the feeling that her schemes are extremely deep!"

"So, is it really impossible that she still has subsequent plans? Imprinting into authority might just be an important link in her final plan!"

After Chen Erniu finished speaking, Xu Qing was lost in thought!

Recalling Yue Dong’s previous cooperation with Lan Yao, if she were truly only after Feng Lintao, then there would have been no need to get deeply involved in the struggle between the Lan family and the Great Emperor’s disciple, Lu Ling.

She should have had other ways to bypass the Lan family and plot for Feng Lintao’s inheritance!

Yet she chose the path that would yield the greatest harvest for the Lan family if successful!

"She definitely has other motives."

Xu Qing and Chen Erniu looked at each other, then raised their hands, and Yue Dong, controlled by the shadow, appeared in the river water!

The moment she appeared, Yue Dong’s body trembled, and her eyes remained filled with resentment, but with her body controlled by the little shadow, she could not resist and could only let the little shadow control her to speak!

"Master, no other motives were found in this woman’s memory. It seems that turning the immortal art into authority is indeed her final plan!"

Xu Qing’s eyes were cold; he looked at the resentment in Yue Dong’s eyes and spoke indifferently!

"Control this woman and unleash her immortal art. This inheritance authority will not be imprinted with other techniques; just imprint this woman’s immortal art."

The little shadow obeyed!

Under its control, Yue Dong raised her hands, and the immortal art, Six Thieves Delusion, was unleashed directly!

As the seven-colored light shone, the resentment in Yue Dong’s eyes was rapidly replaced by anxiety, but it was to no avail; she could only watch helplessly as her own body uncontrollably performed the immortal art!

Soon, the seven-colored light became brilliant, erupting from her body to form a sea of seven-colored light, completely enveloping the flower formed outside Feng Lintao’s body!

Those blank imprints, in this rendering, also rapidly absorbed the seven-colored light and turned seven-colored. Finally, when the little shadow controlled Yue Dong’s hands to raise and slash fiercely in front of her!

Immediately, the connection between the seven-colored sea of light and Yue Dong was severed!

All the seven-colored light poured into Feng Lintao’s inheritance flower, distributing itself into all the imprints, turning that blooming flower into a seven-colored flower!

Staring at this flower, a conflict arose in Feng Lintao’s heart; he had the desire to claim it for himself, but the next instant, Xu Qing’s figure appeared behind him, and Chen Erniu arrived in front of him!

Under Xu Qing’s cold gaze and Chen Erniu’s mocking smile, Feng Lintao had to suppress this flicker of agitation in his heart and spoke sincerely!

"Two Fellow Daoists, pour the Liaoxuan Holy Liquid over it, and it will be completely solidified!"

"The Liaoxuan Holy Liquid is hidden in my soul. In my current state, outsiders cannot retrieve it, and it will affect the formation of the authority, so please undo my restriction and let me retrieve it!"

Feng Lintao tried his best to make his expression look full of sincerity!

This was his final trump card!

It was just that there was one thing he had misjudged from the root... Xu Qing also had Liaoxuan Holy Liquid, and much more than his.

So the next instant, Xu Qing raised his right hand, took out a bottle, and with a wave, an amount of Liaoxuan Holy Liquid dozens of times greater than Feng Lintao’s poured out from the bottle!

The moment it landed on the seven-colored flower, due to the sufficient quantity, the flower rapidly solidified, completely turning from an illusory state into reality!

The next instant, as Xu Qing raised his hand, a clinking sound echoed; this seven-colored flower suddenly disconnected from Feng Lintao and flew toward Xu Qing!

Xu Qing grabbed it and held it in his palm!

This scene made Feng Lintao’s eyes widen, his heart roaring!

"So much..."

He immediately guessed the reason, understanding that back in the cave of Liaoxuan Holy Liquid, the holy liquid was not as little as he had seen, but had been taken away by Xu Qing in advance.

His mind churned, and countless emotions arose, but he had to suppress them, enduring the grievance and bitterness, while continuing to put on a fawning expression, all the while placing his hope on that seven-colored flower!

This flower radiated a vast aura, and the essence of the Great Dao became strong enough to be true authority!

Furthermore, it is ownerless; once fused, it can transform into Dao marks!

Such a stroke of fortune, if placed in the outside world, would surely drive countless cultivators to madness, and even gods would be tempted!

"But there is only one," Feng Lintao muttered in his heart beneath his ingratiating exterior. He asked himself that if it were him, even if it were his own brother, he would still snatch it, let alone a fellow sect member!

"

But the next instant, a scene that made his heart skip a beat appeared!

After playing with that seven-colored flower, Xu Qing actually flicked his wrist and tossed it to Erniu!

Erniu caught it, looked at it in his hand, and then raised his head to look at Feng Lintao!

Feng Lintao’s ingratiating expression grew even more intense!

Erniu grinned!

"Little Feng, let me perform a magic trick for you. Speaking of which, this trick only had the foundation for completion thanks to your generosity!"

After speaking, amidst Feng Lintao’s bewilderment, Erniu glanced at Xu Qing!

Regarding this matter, they had already found a solution on the way here!

Thus, Xu Qing raised his hand, and his Holy Heaven God Vine suddenly flew out, heading straight for Erniu!

Erniu’s body also swayed, and his own Holy Heaven God Vine flew out just the same!

These two God Vines were once one, having been bitten apart by Erniu into two, but now, as they drew near, they actually began to

fuse again, and soon became one once more!

Subsequently, as Feng Lintao’s mind shook, Erniu tossed the seven-colored flower in his hand toward the God Vine!

The God Vine opened its large mouth and swallowed it in one gulp!

Instantly, its entire body shone with seven-colored light, and after circulating throughout, it transformed into Dao marks that spread across its entirety, then separated on their own and returned...

After merging into the bodies of Xu Qing and Erniu, both of them shuddered, closed their eyes, and auras of authority rose from their bodies as they began to fuse!

The Immortal Art, Six Thieves Delusion... was perfectly split in two!

Feng Lintao’s heart sank continuously, and a sense of helplessness rose intensely!

Beside him, Yue Dong’s emotional fluctuations in her eyes were the same!

At this moment, the two of them felt resonance for the first time in their lives!

But the result could no longer be changed, and what shook their minds even more was that after several dozen breaths, as Xu Qing and Erniu opened their eyes, they turned their heads at the exact same time, with identical movements, to look at Yue Dong!

"So that’s how it is."

"To actually hide the thought containing the ultimate goal within the Immortal Art, and so discreetly... if it hadn't transformed into authority, it would be extremely difficult

to detect!"

"No wonder Little Shadow couldn't see it from your memory. Yue Dong indeed has a deeper plan; that is the ultimate reason she chose to cooperate with the Lan family.

"

This reason, this thought, had been erased from her own memory at a critical moment and transferred into the Immortal Art, which is why Little Shadow could not probe it before!

At this moment, after Xu Qing and Erniu fused with the authority, they finally understood roughly!

Refining Feng Lintao’s inheritance and imprinting the Immortal Art into authority was only the second step of Yue Dong’s overall plan!

The first step was her cooperation with the Lan family to help lure the Great Emperor’s disciple while plotting for Feng Lintao’s inheritance!

The second step was to fuse with Feng Lintao to make the Immortal Art, Six Thieves Delusion, into authority!

As for the third step, that was her ultimate goal!

She had an agreement with the Lan family that after the Lan family took the Demon Eye from that Great Emperor’s disciple, the physical body would be handed over to her to be refined into an emotional puppet!

Then she would control this puppet to approach the place where the Great Emperor was in seclusion with the Lan family, to plot against that Great Emperor who was

suspected to have fallen in seclusion.

The Lan family did not know what methods were hidden, but they had absolute certainty and told Yue Dong that the Great Emperor was not just suspected to have fallen, but had truly fallen!

Furthermore, the place of seclusion was sealed, and the Dao essence and cultivation base released by the Great Emperor’s fall would settle; if absorbed, it could cause one’s cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds!

They claimed that according to the plan, it would definitely succeed!

At that time, the Lan family would obtain the Great Emperor’s other inheritances and cultivation!

And Yue Dong would use this authority of hers to imprint it onto the Great Emperor’s corpse to refine a Great Emperor corpse puppet!

This plan obviously still required many details and clearly contained infighting; after all, looking at it roughly, Yue Dong’s role seemed not so significant!

Yet the Lan family still chose to cooperate with Yue Dong... but the specific details did not exist in this thought!

It was unknown whether she had hidden it using other methods, or if it was hidden in the emotions of others, or perhaps with the Lan family!

Even so, Erniu was still stirred by the madness of this plan!

"This Yue Dong is so crazy and so bold... I like it."

Erniu’s eyes soon lit up, and he suddenly turned his head to look at Xu Qing!

"Little Ah Qing, since Yue Dong is fated with us and has done this much for us, should we go to the Great Emperor’s place of seclusion and pull off a big job next!"