Chapter 1605: A Butterfly

Ten Thousand Aspects Golden Core!

These four words entered Li Luo's ears, instantly causing monstrous waves to surge in his heart, his mind thundering like a storm, his very thoughts stalling for several breaths, his whole body petrifying on the spot.

These four words, for the current Li Luo, possessed a staggering magic.

Especially now that his strength had advanced to Unparalleled Upper Sixth Grade, only a single step away from that Unparalleled Hou Zhijing realm, the legendary "Ten Thousand Aspects Golden Core" had become something he thought of constantly.

Although he had never shown this emotion on ordinary days, when each day's cultivation ended, Li Luo could not help but knit his brow in worry, because without the Ten Thousand Aspects Golden Core, his realm could only stop at Unparalleled Sixth Grade, and the Unparalleled Hou he dreamed of would become a heavenly moat he could not cross.

This was something Li Luo absolutely could not accept.

After all, for this day he had poured out countless hours of blood and sweat, so he also wanted to spare no effort in gathering intelligence on the Ten Thousand Aspects Golden Core; but the Ten Thousand Aspects Golden Core was a divine pill unique to the Faceless Holy Sect, and since the Faceless Holy Sect had vanished into the long river of time, finding the Ten Thousand Aspects Golden Core through that route was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

If one truly wanted to find a trace of it, one would probably have to go to the Wang Hou Battlefield, an extremely special place in the world, and only there could one find traces of the Faceless Holy Sect's existence.

Originally Li Luo had planned to wait until the matters of Daxia were resolved before heading to the Wang Hou Battlefield, and along the way think of a way to rescue Li Taixuan, but he had not expected Li Li Lingjing's sudden arrival to bring him such a shocking piece of intelligence.

Faceless Holy Sect, Six Sons of Faceless, Pill Saint, Ten Thousand Aspects Golden Core!

"Cousin Li Lingjing, this intelligence of yours is too important!"

Li Luo gradually came to his senses and could not help but reach out to firmly grip Li Li Lingjing's slender hands, which were covered in black snake scales; a chill surged inward as energy brimming with an ominous aura corroded toward him wave after wave, but he was so excited that he paid it no heed.

After all, this intelligence concerned his path to Unparalleled Hou.

Li Li Lingjing gazed at Li Luo's palms being continuously corroded by her own energy; she tried to break free, but Li Luo's grip was too strong, as immovable as an iron clamp, so a helpless look surfaced on her cheeks as she said: "I told you not to touch me."

But even as she said this with her lips, the force of her struggle gradually weakened; she could feel Li Luo's excitement and agitation at this moment, which caused ripples to spread through her heart that had been like a pool of dead water without a single wave — that emotion was very special, and very rare.

This feeling made even Li Li Lingjing freeze for a moment, and at the same time she could not help but sigh within: so it turns out, in her heart, there were still some emotions remaining.

It was just that this special feeling could only be stirred by the Li Luo before her eyes.

After all, when she merged again and again with that energy filled with ominousness and evil, the darkness tried to drag her into depravity, and whenever her heart was about to fail to hold, on the verge of shattering, the figure before her eyes would surface in the depths of her heart — just as when he had walked into that cold, broken-down courtyard of the Li Shi old residence in Xiling City, bringing to her, who was about to step into death, a sliver of hope she had longed for countless times.

"Don't get your hopes up too soon either; as for whether that Pill Saint truly exists, even the Eight-Headed Black Demon King or the Guiyi Hui probably can't confirm it completely — after all, such an endless span of time, even a Li Li Tianwang-level powerhouse would find it hard to pass safely; they only detected some traces in some manner."

"And even if that Pill Saint truly extended his life in some special form, if you want to obtain the Ten Thousand Aspects Golden Core, you'll still have to face the covetousness of the Eight-Headed Black Demon King and the Guiyi Hui."

"Finally, perhaps the Pill Saint still lingers, but he doesn't actually have a Ten Thousand Aspects Golden Core on hand? After all, in this endless span of time, even a Li Li Tianwang can be ground away, let alone a single golden core."

Li Li Lingjing did not want Li Luo to be blindly excited, so she directly poured cold water on him.

Hearing her words, Li Luo's emotions gradually settled; he first awkwardly released Li Li Lingjing's slender hands covered in black snake scales, and said: "Although it really is very difficult, it's still better than hearing nothing at all."

Jiang Qing, who had been standing to one side, spoke up at this moment and asked: "Then how should we go about finding that Pill Saint?"

Her voice had also softened considerably, because she likewise understood how important the intelligence Li Li Lingjing brought was to Li Luo; the other party was clearly of the Guiyi Hui's camp, yet had repeatedly aided Li Luo — this complicated, hard-to-fathom relationship truly inspired heartfelt gratitude.

"Your question really hits the nail on the head, because I don't know either. But judging from the Eight-Headed Black Demon King's attempt to spread the Calamity across all of Daxia, perhaps he is trying to pollute every region with evil thoughts, and thereby force the Pill Saint out." Li Li Lingjing said calmly.

Li Luo frowned and said: "This method is too extreme."

If the price of finding that Pill Saint was the destruction of Daxia, he clearly could not bear it — after all, there were too many people he cared about and too many memories here; although the Ten Thousand Aspects Golden Core was rare, it was not as if there were no other paths to seek it, but if the Eight-Headed Black Demon King truly destroyed Daxia, then everything would be beyond recovery.

Moreover, Li Luo also did not believe that finding that Pill Saint required only this kind of method.

Li Li Lingjing said nothing; she held not the slightest affection for Daxia—or rather, apart from Li Luo and Li Li Rouyun, she cared nothing for anything else—so she actually felt that using Daxia as the price to force out the Pill Saint was, in fact, a relatively simple, brutal, and feasible method.

But she did not voice what was in her heart, because she knew she was the abnormal one; what she felt was perfectly logical to her, yet in the eyes of many others it was unacceptable.

"Before coming to Daxia this time, I entered the Guiyi Hui's secret vault, where there are many ancient texts, some of which can even be traced back to when the Faceless Holy Sect existed."

"I tried to help you find more clues related to that Pill Saint, and in the end, I found a few things."

Li Li Lingjing spoke softly, but in reality what she had done went beyond this, because the Guiyi Hui's secret vault was extremely terrifying — terrifying forces lurked within, and being inside meant constantly enduring the corrosion of those forces; one careless moment and one would be assimilated into part of it, which was why the people of the Guiyi Hui did not dare stay long within.

But Li Li Lingjing had stubbornly endured the corrosion, searching through those ancient texts, and in the end, in a text on the verge of disintegrating, she found some traces.

"What is it?" Li Luo asked in surprise.

Li Li Lingjing thought for a moment, extended her palm, energy rose up, weaving before the three of them, gradually transforming into an extremely blurry light-and-shadow image.

The light-and-shadow image could not be seen clearly; one could only make out what seemed to be a strange creature with many wings and antennae on its head — its wings were broad, flapping slowly, while an inexpressible spiritual resonance spread outward.

Li Luo and Jiang Qing stared intently at that blurry light-and-shadow image, and faintly, they felt that this thing seemed to be...

A butterfly.