“Haha… a comeback…” Old Man Xu let out an inexplicable laugh, “I’m afraid this king won’t have this opportunity.”
Yang Kai asked curiously, “What does Old Xu mean?”
“This king will die!”
Yang Kai was shocked, “How could this be?” Old Man Xu’s appearance was completely devoid of any injuries, and although Yang Kai knew he was injured, he had never expected his injuries to be so serious, to the point where they threatened his life.
Old Man Xu didn’t bother explaining anything to him and simply handed him something.
Yang Kai took it and found that it was a jade piece, asking suspiciously, “What is this?”
“The Seven Skillful Land's Main Array Seal!” Old Man Xu said lightly, “With this Seal, you will have a chance to control the Seven Skillful Land's Main Array!”
Yang Kai’s heart jumped when he heard this. Although he had yet to refine it, he could still feel the mysterious fluctuations coming from it and knew that what Old Xu said was true. This could really be the Seven Skillful Land's Main Array Seal. The reason Old Xu was able to seize the Seven Skillful Land's Array was likely because of this artifact.
“This is for you. Whether you throw it away or keep it is up to you.”
There was actually such a good thing… Yang Kai was bewildered. From his previous interactions with Old Man Xu, he could tell that this guy wasn’t a good person. Could it be that he would become kind before he died?
Old Xu said, “This King no longer has the strength to take revenge, but if you have the opportunity to grow in the future, you can take this jade and snatch the Seven Skillful Land. There should be a chance for success. Moreover, don’t worry, the Seven Skillful Land’s Spirit Array can’t be changed in a short time. At the very least, for the next thousand years, this jade will be useful. After a thousand years, it’s hard to say.”
Hearing this, Yang Kai’s doubts were relieved. Old Man Xu wanted him to take revenge for him. With the Main Array Jade in his hands, if he was capable enough, he would definitely covet such a big piece of meat.
It was also because of this that Old Man Xu didn’t vent his anger on him, otherwise he would have killed him a long time ago. Even if Old Man Xu killed him now, he would only be venting his anger for a moment. If Old Man Xu let him live, he might have a chance to take revenge.
Thinking so, Yang Kai quickly put away Jade and cupped his fists, “Old Xu, don’t worry, I’ll definitely break through to the Open Heaven in a thousand years. When the time comes, I’ll return to this Seven Skillful Land.” No matter what, he had to put on an act. As for whether or not he would help Old Xu take revenge in the future, that would depend on whether he had the mood to do so or not. Although Yang Kai didn’t have a good impression of this Seven Skillful Land, he didn’t waste much time here. Those who wanted to harm him had all died, so there really wasn’t any deep hatred between them.
Old Man Xu didn’t say anything, probably having sensed Yang Kai’s thoughts, but now that he didn’t have much life left, there was nothing he could do to Yang Kai, so he simply nodded lightly before closing his eyes.
As soon as he closed his eyes, the aura around his body began to rapidly weaken, soon losing all vitality. At the same time, the Small Universe, who was on the verge of collapse, began to disintegrate at a speed visible to the naked eye, the Yin-Yang Five Elements Energy becoming extremely chaotic.
Yang Kai hurriedly said, “Old Xu, you can take back the Black Gong Centipede.”
Old Man Xu didn’t respond at all…
A moment later, the Small Universe completely collapsed, and Yang Kai’s vision blurred as he appeared in the void. Not far away, Old Man Xu was sitting cross-legged, but unfortunately, there was no trace of life in his body.
Yang Kai stretched out his hand to test the old man’s breathing and found that Old Man Xu was indeed dead, causing him to feel a headache. The Black Gong Centipede in his Dao Seal had been planted by Old Man Xu, so he didn’t know what kind of effect it would have on him if he died.
Yang Kai stood there vigilantly for a long time, but after seeing no response, he finally relaxed.
However, with such a thing in his Dao Seal, Yang Kai really didn’t feel safe. Previously, he had Old Xu to restrict it, but now that Old Xu was gone, if the Black Gong Centipede lost control one day and did whatever it wanted in his Dao Seal, Yang Kai wouldn’t even know how he died.
Yang Kai even suspected that before Old Man Xu’s death, he had given the Black Gong Centipede some kind of order. If he didn’t take revenge for him in the future, he would activate it.
This was also extremely likely, otherwise why would Old Man Xu spare his life?
However, now that Old Man Xu had returned to the Heavens, there was no point in worrying about it. Yang Kai could only think of a way to break through to Open Heaven as soon as possible. Reaching out, Yang Kai took off Old Man Xu’s Space Ring and searched around, but he couldn’t find the Six Directions Wishful Bag. Yang Kai then searched Old Man Xu’s body for a while and found the bag in his sleeve.
Fortunately, he had refined the Six Directions Wishful Bag before, so although he couldn’t use it to defend himself, opening and closing it wasn’t a problem.
With a series of hand seals, he opened the Six Directions Wishful Bag, revealing Old Fang, Die You, Asun, and the Great General.
Old Fang appeared and cupped his fists, “Greetings, Senior!”
Yang Kai said, “Dead!”
“He’s… he’s dead?” Old Fang raised his head in shock and carefully examined Old Xu, only to discover that he was no longer breathing. He couldn’t help asking curiously, “How did he die?”
Yang Kai replied, “It’s probably because his injuries are too severe.”
Die You asked, “Is he the one who attacked the Seven Skillful Land?”
Yang Kai nodded, “It’s him.”
Old Fang let out a long sigh, “It’s good that he’s dead!” If he really had to accompany such a powerful master, he would be extremely nervous. If he was in a bad mood, he wouldn’t be able to resist.
On the way to escape, Yang Kai had suddenly encountered such an accident. Fortunately, Old Xu had died from a serious injury and nothing else had happened. Yang Kai collected Old Xu’s corpse and placed it into his Mysterious Small Word, secretly instructing Mu Zhu and Mu Lu to bury him. Yang Kai didn’t know if Old Xu had left behind any kind of contingency plan, so leaving behind his corpse was just a precaution.
“Let’s go as well,” Yang Kai said after settling his matters.
Everyone naturally didn’t have any objections, but the Great General remained unmoved. Previously, the Great General had helped Yang Kai block Du Rufeng’s fierce attack and had been seriously injured, so he had been in the process of healing his injuries. Now, however, not only did he not leave with Yang Kai, he instead kept shouting at Yang Kai.
Yang Kai didn’t understand and turned his head to look.
The Great General called out for a while, but seeing that Yang Kai was still indifferent, he had no choice but to flap his wings and fly behind Yang Kai, using his fat body to push him in a certain direction.
Old Fang asked curiously, “Brother, it seems it wants you to go somewhere!”
Yang Kai also saw this and reached out to grab the Great General from behind, asking, “Where are you taking me?”
The Great General snorted twice before turning to look in a certain direction.
Yang Kai looked around but couldn’t see anything.
Pondering for a moment, Yang Kai said, “Great General must have something he wants to discuss with me. I want to go with him, what about you?”
Die You and the others glanced at each other before Old Fang said, “Since we don’t know where to go, we’ll go with you. At least we can look after each other.”
“Then let’s go together,” Die You also nodded.
Asun never had any ideas, so she naturally wouldn’t refute.
As a result, Yang Kai placed the Great General on his head and let him lead the way while the four of them continued to fly through the vast universe.
The road ahead was long and Yang Kai had nothing to do, so he quietly took stock of his gains over the past few days.
It had to be said that ever since he had been summoned by Du Rufeng, although his days had been fraught with danger, his gains had been enormous! First, he had taken Du Rufeng’s Space Ring, then the Water Spiritual Land Procetor Venerable's Space Ring, and then Old Xu’s Space Ring.
Putting everything else aside, the Six Directions Wishful Bag was an amazing artifact! Since he had started cultivating, other than the Mysterious Small World and the World Bead he had refined, Yang Kai had never seen any artifact that could contain living things. The Six Directions Wishful Bag was the first!
After entering this Outer Universe world, if one’s strength couldn’t keep up for the time being, they could only rely on the power of their Artifacts. Although the Artifacts he had obtained in the Star Boundary were all quite good, they were no longer able to keep up with the pace here. Whether it was the Mountain River Bell or the Soul Slaying Blade, dealing with an Emperor Realm master was no problem, but dealing with an Open Heaven Stage master would be quite difficult.
Now that he had obtained a Six Directions Wishful Bag, it made up for this shortcoming and he had to refine it as soon as possible. If he were to encounter a powerful enemy later, perhaps it would be of some use.
Taking inventory of the Space Rings one by one, the harvest was not small. There were more than three hundred thousand Open Heaven Pills, among which Du Rufeng only had a few tens of thousands in his Space Rings. The rest were basically all from the Space Rings of Water Spiritual Land’s Protector Venerable.
Yang Kai finally understood what it meant to become rich overnight! Previously, he had worked so hard to collect insects and feed them to the Great General, but after a month, he had only managed to collect a few thousand of them. Now that he had three hundred thousand Open Heaven Pills in his hands, he felt extremely heavy.
However, after thinking about it carefully, a Third Grade Open Heaven material cost more than 15,000 Open Heaven Pills, and these three hundred thousand pills could only buy a few Fourth Grade materials, not even a Fifth Grade material, it wasn’t a big deal.
In addition, he also took back the Fourth Grade Scarlet Clouds Golden Flame he had collected for Du Rufeng. This thing was a hard currency, and as long as he could find a suitable channel, he could easily exchange it for a few hundred thousand Open Heaven Pills.
What surprised Yang Kai the most was the Shadowless Gauze he found in Du Rufeng’s Space Ring.
Yang Kai had experienced this thing’s unique ability before. It could conceal one’s presence, making it impossible to detect even if one was close to it. Moreover, Du Rufeng had also said that the Shadowless Gauze was bestowed by the Venerable, anyone below the Third Order Open Heaven Stage could forget about discovering its traces. Even if it was a Mid-Rank Open Heaven Stage master, as long as one didn’t search carefully, they could easily miss it.
Compared to the Six Directions Wishful Bag, this Shadowless Gauze was the most suitable for him.
If one’s strength was insufficient, they would not be able to resist a powerful enemy. The Shadowless Gauze could save their lives many times over.
In comparison, Old Xu’s Space Ring was quite poor. Other than that strange wooden sword, there were only some random materials. Thinking about it, it wasn’t strange. Old Xu had been focused on revenge all these years, so he probably didn’t have the time or energy to do anything else.
However, there was one thing that Yang Kai was quite curious about. According to his understanding, the Seven Skillful Land should have belonged to Old Xu, but for some unknown reason, it had been snatched away by someone else. What was the reason that Old Xu couldn’t even protect his own territory?
However, there was no place to ask such things. Old Xu was already dead, so who could he ask?
TO BE CONTINUED...
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