Chapter 1397: Myriad Phases Golden Core

"You will die..."

Hearing Dantai Lan's heavy words, Li Luo's expression also flickered uncertainly, and he couldn't help but say: "Mother, please don't scare me."

Jiang Qing'e beside him also grew anxious and asked: "Mother, why is that?"

Dantai Lan sighed and said: "Speaking of which, it's because of that 'Myriad Phases Seed.' This thing carries too great a creation; it's not something so easily borne."

Li Luo immediately felt somewhat uneasy all over and said: "I don't feel any danger."

Dantai Lan said: "The Myriad Phases Seed is fierce and domineering. It has been the standard equipment of every generation's Sect Master of the Faceless Holy Sect, and within it lies a complete set of inheritance. Merely obtaining the Myriad Phases Seed does not mean one can easily wield its power."

"Back then, in order to figure out the path and method to control the Myriad Phases Seed, the Faceless Holy Sect paid an unimaginably heavy price. There was even more than one generation of Sect Masters who paid with their lives for it."

"The reason you haven't felt any danger until now is simply because you were too weak in the past. Your Myriad Phases Seed has not truly awakened."

"Once it awakens, and you have no true method to control and master it, then the Myriad Phases Wheel will lose control and devour your own phases, truly transforming you into a faceless person."

Li Luo felt his scalp tingle, cold sweat breaking out all over his body. Only at this moment did he realize just what a terrifying thing the mysterious golden wheel quietly slumbering within him truly was.

It was a peerlessly fierce and domineering dire beast.

He had never felt the danger it brought simply because he was too weak, still unable to touch upon its terror.

However, Li Luo felt that as he now stepped into the Marquis Realm, that step was probably not far off.

"Mother, what should we do? Is there still hope for me?" Li Luo asked with a mournful face. Dantai Lan had truly given him a great "surprise."

He had never imagined that the Myriad Phases Wheel within him contained such a threat.

Dantai Lan smiled and said: "Silly boy, isn't that exactly what we've been working toward all these years?"

"From the very day you became the Myriad Phases Seed, we have been seeking ways to resolve this hidden danger for you. We consulted many secret tomes recovered from the ruins of the Faceless Holy Sect and finally managed to uncover a faint trace of that inheritance method."

"The Faceless Holy Sect called it the 'Myriad Phases Golden Core.'"

"Myriad Phases Golden Core?"

Li Luo murmured to himself. He discovered that the moment he uttered that name, the incomplete golden wheel deep within him suddenly began to roar violently.

"Mm, this Myriad Phases Golden Core is the inheritance method matched to the Myriad Phases Seed that the Faceless Holy Sect deduced after spending countless generations' worth of price."

"Only when these two things combine can the Myriad Phases Seed truly awaken, thereby avoiding the crisis of backlash."

Dantai Lan nodded helplessly and said: "But unfortunately, although we know of the Myriad Phases Golden Core, we have absolutely no idea of its refining method."

"And the Faceless Holy Sect's ruins have once again vanished into the depths of the void. Even a Heavenly King-tier powerhouse cannot find them."

"But we never gave up. We've been searching all along."

"Until later..."

"We obtained a piece of intelligence from a trustworthy source. In a shattered heaven and earth somewhere within the Wang Hou Battlefield, certain strange phenomena once appeared that might be related to the Myriad Phases Golden Core."

Dantai Lan stroked Li Luo's hair and said gently: "This is the first piece of intelligence related to the Myriad Phases Golden Core we've gathered over all these years. Tell me, could we give up on it lightly?"

"If we do not seize this last chance, then what awaits you in the future will only be the fate of having your own phases devoured by the out-of-control Myriad Phases Seed. At that time, you will truly die."

"So, now do you understand why back then, your father and I left in such a hurry?"

"Because that was your last hope."

Li Luo stood stunned for a good while, his inner emotions surging like waves. He gazed at Dantai Lan, whose face bore a gentle smile, and an intense sourness welled up in his nose before he could stop it.

He could imagine just how reluctant Li Taixuan and Dantai Lan had been at the time, but since this intelligence concerned his life and death, they went without hesitation.

Even though it was the Wang Hou Battlefield, the most perilous place that made countless Marquis-tier strongholds feel fear.

At this moment, Li Luo truly and tangibly felt what was meant by a weighty love.

For his sake, they were willing to endure the longing, personally brave the danger, and be gone for years on end.

This was perhaps the most selfless emotion in the world.

Li Luo stepped forward, embraced Dantai Lan, and said softly: "Mother, thank you."

"Psh, you stinky kid, getting all sentimental." Dantai Lan pursed her lips, but her beautiful eyes flowed with gratification and tenderness. She also reached out and gently stroked Li Luo's back.

When they left back then, the youth was not this tall, nor did he have such broad shoulders.

After a few years apart, the youth of those days had truly grown up.

"Mother, did you find that Myriad Phases Golden Core in the Wang Hou Battlefield?" Jiang Qing'e first waited for the two of them to enjoy a moment of mother-son affection before asking this most important question.

Dantai Lan smiled faintly and extended her palm. A crack split open in the flesh of her palm, and a wisp of silver light flowed out.

The silver light was a thumb-sized rhomboid crystal stone, inscribed with numerous mysterious light patterns. Li Luo's gaze, however, was directed at the interior of that silver crystal stone at the very first instant.

He saw a wisp of golden liquid slowly flowing within. That liquid would sometimes curl up into a ball, transforming into a golden pill, and sometimes turn into a trickling stream, as if possessing a spirit of its own, constantly flowing.

Boom!

The moment he saw that golden liquid, the mysterious and incomplete golden wheel within Li Luo suddenly began to tremble violently.

A feeling, as if of longing, spread out from the golden wheel.

Li Luo's heart also began to pound violently. His gaze was fixed dead on the golden liquid sealed within the silver crystal stone. He had a premonition that if this thing merged into the mysterious golden wheel within him, then that golden wheel would begin to reveal its true mysteries to him.

The mysteries belonging to the Myriad Phases Seed.

"Is this the Myriad Phases Golden Core?" Li Luo murmured.

Dantai Lan sighed with emotion and said: "Strictly speaking, this is not a complete form of the Myriad Phases Golden Core. Taixuan and I call it the 'Myriad Phases Lesser Golden Core.'"

"After all, the true 'Myriad Phases Golden Core' was the most precious treasure even within the Faceless Holy Sect itself. And now the Faceless Holy Sect's sect ruins are hidden in the depths of the void, completely impossible to probe, so the 'Myriad Phases Golden Core' is very hard to obtain."

"In that shattered heaven and earth we found within the Wang Hou Battlefield, there happened to be a branch sect ruin of the Faceless Holy Sect. We went through untold hardships before we found this one 'Myriad Phases Lesser Golden Core.'"

"However, although its grade is not as good as the true Myriad Phases Golden Core, it can temporarily resolve your peril. At the very least, with this thing, you will be able to begin awakening the Myriad Phases Seed."

Dantai Lan raised her hand, and the silver crystal stone emanating spatial power fell toward Li Luo.

Her gaze rested gently upon the emotionally agitated Li Luo, and she smiled faintly.

"Xiao Luo, this is the gift your father and mother have for you. Are you satisfied?"