Chapter 2005

In an instant, several long rivers and lakes appeared around Empress Yao Xi, massive torrents surging wildly outward.

And those Gu Clan were like boats on the great waves.

Water can carry a boat, and it can also capsize it!

Numerous Gu Clan members were about to activate their gu to resist, but they had already been entangled by the huge waves.

The Dao of Water evolved into myriad phenomena.

Ferocious beasts, ferocious lands' great momentum… directly devoured them.

And not far away, Yun Zheng's double pupils shone outward.

Look at mountains and they crumble; look at seas and they dry up!

Wherever her gaze fell, the bodies of numerous Gu Clan members exploded outright.

The power of destruction is too terrifying!

In the ensuing battle, the advantage of the Reincarnation Army grew ever greater.

Gu Clan members kept being annihilated.

And then!

Outside the battlefield where no one was paying attention, Yang Jian had already fallen into a coma, and the last trace of his sanity sank into the human skin scroll.

"What is this…"

"Wake up! Wake up right now!"

But it was useless!

Yang Jian felt that endless strange power surrounded his consciousness; he was like an ant, pressed beneath a massive mountain.

There was no way to break free!

He could not see the outside world clearly, only perceiving endless black strange Dao Resonance around him.

Also, the power of cause and effect entwined him.

He drifted in the void.

Drifting toward the direction of the Yinlin elder.

He was no longer a human form.

But a monster with a frail fleshly body.

His skull was hideous, showing no human traits; his arms and legs had grown several extra limbs, and many spikes protruded from his body.

The will of the human skin scroll had taken over him!

He was drifting toward the remaining fragments of the strange artifact.

The Yinlin elder piloted the black cloud boat, moving even faster.

His divine sense had already swept over Yang Jian, and he immediately revealed a mocking, teasing smile.

"It's him!"

"Heh! Indeed, it's miserable."

"This is the backlash of the human skin scroll."

"Yang Jian, how many people did you kill with the human skin scroll? Now ending up like this is getting off easy for you. I know you can no longer hear me speaking. If we put it in the words of Ancestor Cangwu, you should have become the artifact spirit of the human skin scroll."

Beside her, the Xuanji Holy Lord's beautiful eyes slightly furrowed.

At this moment, Yang Jian's appearance made her very uncomfortable.

One could hardly say Yang Jian was still a person.

He no longer had any human aura.

He had turned into a strange artifact, as the Yinlin elder said—he had become an artifact spirit.

This is Ancestor Cangwu's scheme.

The Yinlin elder's spiritual art shifted in his hand, and he released all the fragments of the human skin scroll.

"Hiss hiss hiss!"

Countless black fragments flew toward the core of the human skin scroll.

Like black rain.

Yang Jian's consciousness had a moment of awakening.

He suddenly saw everything clearly.

"Is this me?"

"How did I become like this?"

"Damn it! Is this the ultimate backlash of the human skin scroll?"

He felt those fragments merging into his body, to become part of him.

He immediately understood.

"I have become the human skin scroll."

"This Ancestor Cangwu harbors a murderous heart."

Waves of dark light emanated from the human skin scroll.

The Yinlin elder snorted coldly: "Yang Jian, this taste is unpleasant, isn't it? From now on, you will become the hound of my Gu Clan; previously you killed my Gu Clan, and now you will be my Gu Clan's dog."

Yang Jian roared angrily.

"Never! You won't succeed!"

"Even if I die, I will never work for you!"

But his roar merely turned into a tremor of the human skin scroll.

It's futile!

He couldn't commit suicide!

He was imprisoned eternally!

"How sad! How sad!"

The Yinlin elders began to mock.

As his thought stirred, he accelerated the fusion of the human skin scroll.

Those fragments began to unite!

Yang Jian felt himself trapped in a cage.

Vast, surging strange power turned into an ocean, rolling and surging, his consciousness drifted within it, and besides that, causal power and temporal power flowed within the strange ocean.

The true power of the human skin scroll was reviving.

This was a supreme artifact that once clashed with Dieyue in a single strike!

Although that strike shattered it.

Yet it was incredibly heaven-defying!

Not long after.

The Yinlin elder slapped his hand.

Yang Jian's flesh had long since transformed into a piece of human skin; those fragments had already merged with the core.

Although the current human skin scroll hadn't reached its peak state, it was still a Dao Venerable-tier treasure.

The Yinlin elder wore a satisfied smile, pulling the human skin scroll back before him, and said to the Xuanji Holy Lord, "Ming, now that we have the human skin scroll, we can deduce where the remaining heavenly mandate origin lies."

"We only know it lies within the Mountain Ding Realm, but we don't know exactly where it sank."

"We also don't know whether Dieyue did it intentionally, or the heavenly mandate origin concealed itself."

The Xuanji Holy Lord frowned, silently thinking.

We must not let the Ghost Tribe take this human skin scroll back.

Yang Jian has done much for humanity.

By reason and sentiment, he shouldn't end up like this.

She wanted her master to act, to defy heaven and change Yang Jian's fate!

The Yinlin elder said, "Go! Now we must rescue Elder Wang Luo and the others, slay the Ruthless Empress, and capture a few disciples of Lu Xuan."

He immediately shot forth with the human skin scroll toward the depths of the Barbarian Ox Star Sea.

Just then!

In the depths of the Barbarian Ox Star Sea, Qi Chun Jing's vast Dao field suddenly trembled, and surging righteous qi rose and fell like a tide.

Heaven and earth trembled!

Space tore apart!

The life-bound character "Heaven" was about to condense successfully.

Xiao Nannan excitedly waved her fists, "Great!"

Lu Xuan rubbed Xiao Nannan's head.

This time, Xiao Nannan indeed played a key role.

Suddenly, a system voice sounded in his mind, "Ding! Release disciple quest: Please host rescue Yang Jian and accept him as your sixteenth disciple!"

Then his mind showed Yang Jian's condition.

Lu Xuan slightly furrowed his brow, "Huh?"

Yang Jian's current situation is dire.

He has actually transformed into a strange artifact.

Neither human nor ghost!

However, last time, his system space still held the Mirror of Transforming Spirit to Return to Truth.

This item can help Yang Jian reverse causality and return to the origin.

"Boom!"

Qi Chun Jing's eyes snapped open.

His aura had already transformed.

Just now, after condensing the life-bound character "Heaven," the boundless ancient scholar Dao Resonance accumulated on his body completely melted within.

Thus he also received tremendous feedback!

His cultivation directly surged to the Four-Star Dao King Realm!

But now, for Qi Chun Jing, cultivation is no longer important.

What matters are his two life-bound characters.

"Person!"

"Heaven!"

These two life-bound characters, in the Butterfly World, are unprecedented and unmatched.

Moreover, they are this incredibly heaven-defying life-bound character!

Before Qi Chun Jing floated two supreme treasures.

One is the Mountain Water Great Seal, bearing the life-bound character "Person."

The other is a hairpin, bearing the life-bound character "Heaven."

Qi Chun Jing's inner world, the Dao foundation shone brightly.

This time he had a clear realization.

His enlightenment, perhaps cannot be called an enlightenment, but rather finding back his former self.

Qi Chun Jing bowed to Lu Xuan, "Thank you, Master."

Lu Xuan nodded.

The little girl pouted, "And me too."