Lord of All Gods

Ye Liuyun didn’t dare to enter the treasury rashly. If even a library had book demons, there might be weapon spirits residing within powerful weapons or treasures inside the treasury.

Besides the martial cultivators scouting ahead for him, he also released the powerful martial cultivators by his side—a total of more than a hundred late-stage Ninth Level experts standing outside the treasury, all prepared for battle.

This time, Ye Liuyun still had the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon help break the treasury’s formation.

Luo Yu had wanted to ask what that white light was—a special technique—when she saw the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon last time, but she held back. She felt she and Ye Liuyun weren’t familiar enough to that extent yet.

But she became even more curious about Ye Liuyun’s strength: "How much power does he still have?"

After the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon blasted open the treasury’s formation, it stopped.

Ye Liuyun was about to send someone to open the treasury’s main door when it opened automatically. A white-bearded elder walked out from inside, stood beneath the sunlight, squinting his eyes to enjoy it for a moment, then looked at Ye Liuyun and the others.

Ye Liuyun’s golden pupils had already thoroughly assessed this white-bearded elder. He was indeed a living person, and a peak Ninth Level Return-to-One realm expert at that; only, the elder was quite advanced in years and his vitality was already very weak.

"So many years have passed, and finally someone has come here. I too shall finally be liberated!" The elder looked at the martial cultivators before him and couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.

"Senior, are you the guardian of the Hongtian Dynasty?" Ye Liuyun didn’t want to fight desperately with this elder, so he asked politely.

"Oh? You still know of our Hongtian Dynasty?" The elder seemed quite curious as well, and asked Ye Liuyun: "Do the people outside the secret realm all know that this is the Hongtian Dynasty’s secret realm?"

Ye Liuyun shook his head, pointed at Luo Yu, and told the elder: "Most people don’t know. She is the inheritor of the Hongtian Dynasty, so that’s how we know."

Actually, he suspected in his heart that perhaps the Huoyin Dynasty also suspected this was the Hongtian Dynasty’s secret realm; otherwise, they wouldn’t have sent so many powerful martial cultivators in. But he wasn’t certain, so when replying to the elder, he didn’t state it so absolutely.

The elder looked at Luo Yu and also shook his head helplessly: "The Hongtian Dynasty was destroyed many years ago. One inheritor cannot possibly restore the former glory. You should forget about this matter and live your life well!"

Luo Yu also politely bowed to the elder: "I also know it’s impossible to accomplish. I came here to find that cultivation technique for refining True Yuan, so that I can breakthrough to the Tai Void Realm. Senior, do you know where that technique is?"

Hearing Luo Yu mention the technique, the elder said somewhat agitatedly: "It was precisely that technique that caused the entire dynasty to be completely destroyed. You still want that technique to see the light of day again? Aren’t you afraid of bringing down a fatal disaster upon yourself?"

"But without this technique, my realm cannot breakthrough!" Luo Yu explained.

Hearing this, the elder merely sighed deeply: "I don’t know how many more people will die because of that technique!"

After sighing for a while, he still asked Luo Yu, Ye Liuyun, and the others: "That technique isn’t in the treasury. What did you come to the treasury for?"

"Naturally, to retrieve resources. The Hongtian Dynasty has no one left; keeping these resources serves no purpose. I hope Senior can do us a favor!" Ye Liuyun interjected, not wanting to beat around the bush with the elder.

The elder wasn’t angry; instead, he nodded slowly: "What you said is indeed correct. However, my duty is to guard this place and wait for descendants of the dynasty to come collect the resources. I cannot let you take the resources away."

"But isn’t she a descendant of the dynasty!" Ye Liuyun said, pointing at Luo Yu.

The elder looked at Luo Yu and asked her: "Can you prove you are a descendant of the Hongtian Dynasty? I don’t sense any aura of a token on you."

Luo Yu felt somewhat embarrassed upon hearing this.

Ye Liuyun, seeing this, reminded Luo Yu: "Did your family’s elders pass anything down to you?"

Luo Yu shook her head: "Apart from the map of this secret realm, some techniques, and related information, no token was passed down to me!"

Ye Liuyun also asked the elder: "Do the related information and map of the Hongtian Dynasty count?"

The elder smiled: "I actually believe this girl’s words. But without the relevant token, I won’t let you enter. Related information and maps don’t count—those can be obtained through other channels."

"Is there no method to verify bloodline?" Ye Liuyun asked.

The elder also said: "There are indeed methods to verify bloodline. However, my duty is to only allow passage upon seeing the token. Even if you can prove it through bloodline, I still won’t let you enter."

"So if we don’t have the token, we’ll have to break in by force?" Ye Liuyun asked helplessly.

The old man, however, seemed eager and nodded to confirm, "Without the token, you only have one option—defeating me with your strength. I’ve waited so many years, and this day has finally come."

Hearing this, Ye Liuyun surmised that the elder had grown weary of guarding this place alone. Moreover, with his lifespan nearing its end, he surely preferred dying in battle to dying of old age in this treasury.

But the old man looked at Ye Liuyun and his group, then said with slight regret, "Your strength doesn’t seem sufficient!"

"Does Senior mean that even these late-stage Unity Ninth Layer cultivators are no match for you?" Ye Liuyun guessed.

The elder nodded and told Ye Liuyun, "Between late-stage and peak-stage Unity Ninth Layer, it appears to be just a minor realm, but the gap in strength is immense—not something you can make up for with numbers!"

As he spoke, the old man struck a palm toward the sky. An exceptionally condensed True Yuan giant hand materialized in the air, appearing almost solid. It was so dense that one could seemingly see the palm lines on it, far surpassing the strength of Ye Liuyun’s subordinates.

"With Senior’s True Yuan being so condensed, you still cannot break through to the Void Transformation Realm?" Ye Liuyun wasn’t worried about the elder’s strength, but was more concerned about the breakthrough.

His Golden Pupils could see clearly that the elder’s Divine Soul power was also much stronger than his; he simply wasn’t the elder’s match.

"Indeed, no matter how solidified my True Yuan becomes, without that technique, I cannot meet the criteria to break through to the Void Stage." The elder’s words were filled with deep regret.

"So that technique really is that important!" Ye Liuyun hadn’t imagined that a single cultivation method could have such a significant impact.

Ye Liuyun pondered for a moment, finally releasing the Demon Vine, preparing to have it battle the elder, unwilling to let the other martial experts die in vain.

The elder nodded upon seeing the Demon Vine, "Decent strength, capable of fighting me, but still somewhat lacking..."

As he pondered, a tiger-shaped Guardian Divine Seal appeared behind him, and he asked Ye Liuyun, "How do you plan to deal with this?"

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