Chapter 578: One Hundred Thousand Golden Source Points (2/3)

"The most core secret?"

Li Heng raised an eyebrow, his interest immediately piqued.

"That's right. The Great Reincarnation suffering this calamity might also be related to this secret," Hou You said with a nod.

"What type of secret?"

Li Heng asked.

"I am not very clear on that point either. Because I am merely the guardian of the Reincarnation, not the Lord of Reincarnation, I can only roughly know that this secret is related to the 'before'."

"'Before'?" Li Heng caught the keyword.

"That's right, before. I am actually quite puzzled about this point as well; after all, the Time-Space Mother River has no beginning and no end, so where could a 'before' come from? Although I do not know what the future eras are like, in this era, the Heavenly Court is already the most ancient," Hou You said, also looking somewhat confused.

"I see."

Li Heng was lost in thought.

If this Hou You was not lying, then this "before" might be related to the even more ancient past, that is to say, the Multiverse Alliance side? But listening to Hou You's words, even Hou You, the guardian of this Reincarnation, does not know about the affairs of that more ancient past?

"I wonder if the Imperial Teacher might be interested?"

Hou You asked with some trepidation in her heart.

She did not know what the secret of the Reincarnation Core was, and she knew even less whether obtaining the secret would bring benefits or harm, but this was the greatest sincerity she could offer at present. Once Li Heng rejected this transaction, then the Great Reincarnation would be completely finished.

"I am indeed interested, but this is not enough."

Li Heng shook his head and said.

"If the Imperial Teacher can make the Lun Hui Gu Shi of the Great Reincarnation reappear and allow the Great Reincarnation to successfully revive and return, the Great Reincarnation is willing to honor the Imperial Teacher as its master!" Hou You felt a sense of urgency, gritted her teeth slightly, and spoke out, directly selling herself off.

Li Heng smiled slightly.

"Fellow Daoist, do not be anxious. The 'not enough' here is not just your 'not enough', but also my 'not enough'. I do indeed have the ability to make the Lun Hui Gu Shi of the Great Reincarnation reappear, and even allow you all to revive and return, but not now. Do you understand?"

No matter how profound or deep the core secret of the Great Reincarnation was, it was absolutely not worth him exhausting his entire fortune and consuming all his Source Power and Golden Source Points just to make the Lun Hui Gu Shi of the Great Reincarnation reappear.

His head had not been caught in an elevator door.

Upon hearing this, Hou You was stunned and fell silent.

She knew very well that this was Li Heng giving her another choice. She would pay everything, and Li Heng would, in the future or when he had the ability, make the Lun Hui Gu Shi of the Great Reincarnation reappear, causing the Great Reincarnation to return.

But doing this carried too much risk.

What if she bet everything on the Great Reincarnation, yet Li Heng had no intention of making the Great Reincarnation appear? Or what if Li Heng died halfway in the future? What then?

To Li Heng, this was simply an empty-handed gamble. To Hou You and the Great Reincarnation, this was extremely unfair!

Yet at this moment, Hou You sorrowfully discovered that she had no other choice; she could only choose this.

She had never seen anyone in the Great Void, not even that Supreme Heavenly Emperor, ever make someone or something that had been completely destroyed by Calamity or monsters reappear. This situation theoretically did not exist at all, let alone in reality.

But this mysterious Imperial Teacher could break theory, disregard reality, and truly make this period of Lun Hui Gu Shi appear, allowing her remnant spirit to recover. Only this mysterious Imperial Teacher before her could accomplish this; if she left this village, there would be no such shop!

"Fine, I agree. Hou You pays respects to the Venerable One."

She looked at Li Heng and spoke respectfully.

"Very good, a wise choice."

Li Heng nodded, waved his large hand, and a wisp of Source Power drifted out, entering Hou You's body, instantly transforming her from a blue-black corpse back into the Supreme Goddess in a phoenix crown and rosy-cloud cape.

Hou You could not see the Source Power, but seeing that she had returned to her state before death, she felt somewhat shocked in her heart. She realized that this was no illusion or hallucination, but a true alteration of her original form.

Yet after she died, she had clearly been polluted by the indescribable power of the Calamity monsters; it was already difficult enough to maintain her sanity, and it should have been impossible to fundamentally restore her state from before death.

But now, this impossibility had been broken.

What kind of power did this mysterious Imperial Teacher possess?

"I will not establish a Great Dao Oath with you, but if you violate this transaction between us, there will naturally be punishment. Letting you return to your original form now can be considered a gift to you."

Li Heng said calmly.

Although a Great Dao Oath could constrain ordinary Sacred beings, it did not have much binding power over Supremes or even Venerables; it was not as effective as his own Source Power.

The Source Power from just now, while letting Hou You return to her original form, also acted as a constraint, so he did not fear Hou You betraying him.

"Many thanks for the Venerable One's grace."

Upon hearing this, Hou You was overjoyed and bowed to Li Heng.

Most women loved beauty, and she was no exception; if she could, she did not want to remain in the form of a blue-black corpse eroded by Pollution Power.

This was also extremely disgusting to her.

As for the matter of the Great Dao Oath.

She knew very well that for such an existence, there were plenty of ways to constrain them, so it was better to be honest and not think about betrayal, especially since she had no other choice.

"Back to the main topic, what is the secret you spoke of?"

Li Heng asked.

"Venerable One, you said that you met me in your era after I had already turned into a Great Fierce, right?"

"That's right. Is this related to the secret?"

"Yes. The reason I, or rather my remnant body, could turn into a Great Fierce after death is related to this point. When the mutation first descended and the monsters and Calamity struck, I knew I was no match, so I used a Secret Technique to link myself to the core of the Great Reincarnation."

"As long as the Reincarnation Core does not perish, the remnant body will not perish."

"Looking at it now, my remnant body still exists and has turned into a Great Fierce object, which can be considered a step further; then presumably the Reincarnation Core still exists, and is preserved very well."

"The secret of the Reincarnation is within the Reincarnation Core!"

Li Heng was lost in thought, thinking of the ball of light he had seen before. He recounted the appearance of the ball of light he had seen.

Hou You nodded in pleasant surprise.

"Venerable One, that's right, it is that ball of light. So the Venerable One has already seen the Reincarnation Core; that is for the best. This is the Secret Technique to communicate with the Reincarnation Core, lock onto its position, and learn the core secret. Please accept it, Venerable One."

"It is only a pity that this period of Lun Hui Gu Shi has not fully reappeared, otherwise the Venerable One could have learned the secret within this period of ancient history; after all, at that time, the core ball of light was in my hands."

Her jade hand rose, and a Rune appeared, then drifted into Li Heng's hand, blooming with Reincarnation Dao rhyme; not only Heaven and Earth, but it seemed as if even the Void could rotate without end, mysterious and profound.

Li Heng sensed it for a moment, confirmed it was true and not false, and nodded to accept it.

"Then I understand, but what do you plan to do with this wisp of remnant consciousness? My goal has now been achieved, and I will leave this Lun Hui Gu Shi and return to the future. If you wish to leave with me, I can help you escape this Lun Hui Gu Shi."

Although he, Li, currently lacks the ability to resurrect this entire ancient history, he can still manage to resurrect a single person within the ancient history through indirect methods.

"Many thanks for your kindness, Venerable, but Hou You chooses to stay."

Hou You nodded and said softly.

"Now, relying on your power, Venerable, this Lun Hui Gu Shi has been slightly reproduced. Although it is still in an Illusion and cannot truly manifest in the world, it is better than nothing. Hou You is willing to stay behind to guard this ancient history, waiting for the day you take action to make this ancient history truly emerge."

"Everyone is dead, so how could I live on alone?"

She knew very well that if she followed Li Heng back and used a certain Secret Technique to control that remnant self-body which had already turned into a Great Fierce, she could achieve a form of resurrection.

But she was unwilling to linger on in such a way.

"Good, I understand your meaning, so stay then. I will hide this ancient history between True Reality and Illusion. As long as no accidents occur, the Disaster and monsters that destroyed the Great Reincarnation back then and are still active today will not notice this place."

Li Heng nodded, his expression neither sad nor happy. Between him and Hou You, it was merely a transaction, each with their own choices. How did that saying go? "Give up the desire to help others, and respect the fate of others."

He then took a step out, and the light and shadow around him flowed; she began to withdraw from the time-space tracing and return to the present. Meanwhile, this Lun Hui Gu Shi and Hou You began to slowly fade, hiding between True Reality and Illusion.

The Time-Space Mother River has no beginning and no end; if it has a beginning and an end, it must be artificial, or the previous era was destined to be destroyed. The Supreme of some eras all hold this view.

At this moment, downstream of the Time-Space Mother River, in a powerful era dominated by Reincarnation, a supreme existence slowly opened their eyes, looked toward the upstream of the Time-Space Mother River, and revealed a look of doubt.

It seems something has appeared; what could it be?

The speed of the flowing light and shadow became slow, and finally returned to stillness. Li Heng completely exited the state of time-space tracing and returned to the present Node that belonged to him.

The blue-black corpse was still trapped by the Source Power Cage, and no matter how wildly it struggled, it still could not break free in the slightest. And at the location of the Reincarnation Core, that nebulous ball of light still stood, incomparably profound.

According to what Hou You said, the secret lies within the ball of light.

However, he was not in a rush for the moment.

He still had to resolve the trouble of the blue-black corpse first; after all, although the Source Power Cage is sturdy, it consumes Source Power every single moment. Plus, the fact that this blue-black corpse continued to struggle so violently made the consumed Source Power extremely painful for Li Heng.

Although his current base Source Power reserves have almost reached the order of magnitude of a mathematical large number, the consumption is also calculated according to the order of magnitude of a mathematical large number. Moreover, he also wanted to test exactly how many Golden Source Points a Venerable realm is worth!

First, he used Source Power to envelop the ball of light that served as the core, severing the connection between the ball of light and this blue-black corpse to prevent it from resurrecting and becoming immortal.

Then, with a thought, Li Heng erupted with full force, Heaven and Earth Dharma Form and the Thirty-Six Heavens fully opened, combined with the assistance of Source Power to grind away the essence of the monster Disaster, intending to quickly kill the blue-black corpse.

However, it was very clear that the higher the realm, the harder it is to die.

Even though Li Heng had already severed the connection between this blue-black corpse and the Reincarnation Core, it was still difficult to kill and would require a period of time to completely grind it away.

But he could afford to wait; it was not impossible.

It was just that Li Heng also saw from this that with his current strength, it was still very difficult to kill a Venerable, and he must go a step further, such as completing the puzzle of the Absolute Element.

After a period of time, following the strangulation of the Heaven and Earth Dharma Form and the Thirty-Six Heavens, no matter how the blue-black corpse roared and resisted, it was to no avail, and it slowly turned into ashes under the Sun True Fire.

And at this moment, Li Heng also sensed that the Source Power had arrived.

The Source Power was still difficult to quantify, but the Golden Source Points had increased by a full one hundred thousand. At this moment, his total Golden Source Points had reached two hundred and eighty thousand, about to break through the three hundred thousand mark!

Li Heng felt some emotion; he had previously thought he was quite far from two hundred thousand, but he didn't expect to surpass it directly. It seems it is true that one does not get rich without windfall, and a horse does not get fat without night grass.

After finishing this matter, he really must complete the puzzle of the last of the Three Elements. If he cannot reach the invincibility of the Venerable realm, it will be difficult for him to deal with the Multiverse Alliance.

And next, it was this Reincarnation Core.

He took a step out and arrived in front of this ball-shaped Reincarnation Core, casting the Rune Secret Technique that Hou You had taught him; instantly, light bloomed, illuminating the surrounding Void.

Li Heng only felt a flash of light, and in the blink of an eye, the Heaven and Earth had changed.