The walls around the City Lord’s Palace had all become dilapidated, and only the wooden pa*sage to the backyard was still intact. The wooden pa*sageway was worth nothing compared to the ‘Void Black Star Stone’, but in this Black Stone City, the wooden pa*sageway became the most precious instead, perhaps this was how rare things were precious.
Ye Mo had only walked a few dozen metres from the wooden floor pa*sage when he was stopped by a large circular hall that had collapsed two walls. The walls of this circular hall had been destroyed, except for the formation that shielded divine sense, which still barely existed.
It was full of broken walls and scars, with a dozen or so cultivators of the Transformed Truth dead and strewn about, while the floor was more speckled with blood.
Inside the hall, there were many corpses of True Transformation cultivators and bloodstains all over the floor. The first thing Ye Mo saw was a crystal shaped orb in the middle of the hall. He noticed this orb not because it was very beautiful, but because there was a not too tall emerald green plant inside this orb.
“Bitter Bamboo,” Ye Mo blurted out, his voice lingering around the crumbling hall, with some echoes after a long time.
“How is this possible?” Ye Mo’s heart shook wildly, he was completely confused as to why a ‘bitter bamboo’ had appeared here? At this moment, he finally understood what Geng Xueming said about the spiritual object in Black Stone City, it turned out to be the ‘Bitter Bamboo’, something that even Immortals at the peak of the Immortal World would grab, how could it appear in Black Stone City?
This was absolutely impossible.
Ye Mo knew very well that ‘Bitter Bamboo’ was one of the ten spiritual roots in the world, no matter how many realms or realms in heaven and earth, only one of the ten spiritual roots would appear. And the one that appeared, the ‘Bitter Bamboo’, was now inside his Golden Page World, there would definitely not be another one. That was why Ye Mo was certain that it was absolutely impossible.
But in fact what he had in front of him was a ‘Bitter Bamboo’, and Ye Mo was sure that he was not wrong, it was definitely a ‘Bitter Bamboo’.
“Why is it like this?” Ye Mo muttered to himself, and then he gave himself several clearing spirit decisions, trying to force himself to calm down.
After a long time, Ye Mo completely calmed down before he forced his gaze away from the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ and then began to survey the surrounding area.
There were forty-nine toad-shaped things on the periphery of the crystal orb, and these toads had giant mouths that were bigger than their bodies, and the orientation of these giant mouths faced in all directions, towards the entire Black Stone City. In the middle of these forty-nine huge toad mouths, there was a wider position, on which a futon was placed, obviously for meditation.
Ye Mo once again looked around carefully, but in his heart he was greatly shocked, he could see that this was actually a ‘Forty-nine Locked Fate Formation’.
Of course Ye Mo knew about the ‘Forty-nine Locked Fate Formation’, he was a level nine formation master, although he couldn’t set up the ‘Forty-nine Locked Fate Formation’ it didn’t mean he couldn’t recognize this formation.
The ‘Forty-nine Locked Fate Formation’ had just one function, to absorb life and warm up spiritual objects. There was a ‘Forty-nine Locked Fate Formation’ here, so the purpose was already very obvious, to absorb the life energy of all the cultivators in the entire Black Stone City and then warm this ‘Bitter Bamboo’.
Ye Mo guessed that the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ had no soil and no sunlight here, the only thing it could rely on was spiritual energy and vitality. It would be fine if it was a mature ‘bitter bamboo’, but this ‘bitter bamboo’ in front of him was not mature yet, so it would have to be warmed up with vital energy. But Ye Mo always felt that something was wrong with him, this ‘Bitter Bamboo’ gave him a strange feeling.
The life energy absorbed by the ‘Forty-nine Locked Fate Formation’ still needed a person to refine it and then provide it to the bitter bamboo, so this futon should be provided to the person who refined the life energy. However, there is another special feature of the ‘Forty-nine Locked Lives Formation’ to warm up spiritual objects, that is, this cultivator who refines the vital energy to provide to the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ must also provide his own vital energy and jīng blood into it to warm it up, otherwise it will not work as well.
If this futon belonged to Suo Anshan, then Suo Anshan would have to provide his own vitality and jīng blood in addition to refining the vitality absorbed from all the cultivators in Black Stone City by the ‘Forty-nine Locked Fate Formation’.
But this also had its advantages, because once the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ was fully grown, then not only could he quickly refine the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ or get the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ to recognise him, but he could also get ‘Bitter Bamboo”s feed back.
Ye Mo frowned at the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ and was not sure if the Ten Great Spiritual Roots still needed to be refined. Because the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ he got was automatically recognized by its owner, who knew if the rest of the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ would be like that?
Afraid that he wouldn’t remember very clearly, Ye Mo also deliberately took the ‘Things’ book out again and flipped through to the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ again.
It was clearly written on the ‘Things’ that there was only one unique strain of the Ten Great Spiritual Roots in heaven and earth, and it was absolutely impossible for a second strain to appear.
This means that since the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ had been obtained by him, there was no other ‘Bitter Bamboo’ under the heavens, so why was there still a ‘Bitter Bamboo’ here? Moreover, this ‘Bitter Bamboo’ gave him a somewhat strange feeling.
Ye Mo carefully walked to the side of that futon and picked it up. Immediately afterwards, Ye Mo saw a line of words underneath the ‘futon’: “The top ten spiritual roots of bitter bamboo in heaven and earth, the ‘Forty-nine Locked Life Formation’ can be tempered, when the bitter bamboo leaves become a number of ninety-nine, the spiritual root will actively recognize the person who tempered it as the master. ”
The number of ninety-nine, that is eighty-one leaves. Ye Mo counted the leaves on this ‘Bitter Bamboo’ and there were already eighty of them.
Ye Mo suddenly understood the meaning of what Suo Anshan had said to Shi Tou, that even if he hadn’t appeared, Shi Tou would have launched an attack on Suo Anshan in these two months. The reason for that was clear enough, it was for the ‘Bitter Bamboo’.
Shi Tou knew that Suo Anshan was using his vitality and jīng blood to warm up the ‘Bitter Bamboo’, so he had asked Suo Anshan to do this job for him. Once he waited until the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ was warmed up and about to mature, Shi Tou would finish off Suo Anshan and then warm it up himself for a final period of time, in which case the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ would recognize him as its master.
In this instant, Ye Mo even understood why Shi Tou had pushed his woman to Suo Anshan. Xu Qingfei was his woman and must have double-cultivated with him, then Xu Qingfei carried Shi Tou’s breath and even jīng blood. And if Xu Qingfei had double-cultivated with Suo Anshan again, then this scent would be unconsciously pa*sed on to Suo Anshan. Suo Anshan used his jīng blood and vital breath to warm up the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ every day, and that ‘Bitter Bamboo’ would also be tainted with Shi Tou’s breath.
In this way, once Shi Tou had destroyed Suo An Shan, the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ in front of him would not refuse to recognise him, Shi Tou, and refuse to acknowledge its master. This was because once the spiritual root refused to acknowledge its owner, it would probably kill itself.
After understanding this, Ye Mo suddenly had a feeling of wanting to vomit, this Shi Tou was a bit too disgusting. If you are a human being, you can no longer be described as a scum.
The fact that Xu Qingfei apparently likes heroic men, Shi Tou deliberately dressed in fancy clothes, not a bit of heroic, all sissy taste, plus Shi Tou intentionally promote from it, Xu Qingfei like heroic Suo Anshan that is a natural thing.
Although Geng Xueming is thin and dark, he is a heroic man, so it is also possible that Xu Qingfei likes him. Or as Shi Tou said, what Xu Qingfei really liked was that old black man, not Suo Anshan. So An Shan only made a temporary move because she was so disgusted with the effeminate Shi Tou. In this way, that Xu Qingfei was shameful but also somehow pitiful.
When Ye Mo looked at the ‘bitter bamboo’ in front of him, he suddenly felt disgusted. He was a person with a cleanliness fetish, and when he thought that this ‘bitter bamboo’ also implied so many factors, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
Although Ye Mo was uncomfortable with this ‘Bitter Bamboo’, he did not destroy it, it was simply a priceless treasure in heaven and earth, who would not want it?
However, Ye Mo knew that this ‘Forty-nine Locked Life Formation’ was definitely not something that Suo Anshan could have set up, since it was set up by someone else, why did he let Suo Anshan refine it? Why could Shi Tou also know that there was ‘Bitter Bamboo’ here? As a cultivator at the peak of the True Transformation, didn’t Suo Anshan know that the ten spiritual roots were actively recognized, not refined?
Ye Mo couldn’t figure out any of these questions. He did not think any further, but carefully swept his divine sense along the crumbling hall, and suddenly he was once again stunned, and in an instant he came to a huge broken wall.
Several huge scratches appeared on top of the broken wall, which was made from the ‘Void Black Star Stone’, the scratches were fresh, obviously scratched not long ago, and Ye Mo even recognised the scratches.
This was clearly the scratch mark of the divine Beast Kun, which meant that the divine Beast Kun had come inside the Black Stone City.
Or maybe the divine Beast Kun joined in when ** happened in Black Stone City, and later on, I don’t know what happened, but those Transformation True cultivators and the divine Beast Kun fought to the City Master’s Mansion, and finally broke this hall.
Could it be that the ascension rift that appeared was not because those Transformation Truth cultivators broke the seal? Rather, it was because those False Truth cultivators saw the crystal ball inside the great hall as a seal, and then the divine Beast Kun broke in. Those False Truth cultivators started to join forces again against the divine beast Kun, after all, anything on Kun was a treasure.
A great battle ensued between the Kun and many of the False Truth cultivators in this great hall, resulting in countless deaths and injuries to the False Truth cultivators, and finally this crystal ball was knocked out.
As for the pa*sage to ascend, it might have been torn apart by Kun. With so many Fulfilled Truth cultivators battling against Kun, it was not impossible for the divine beast Kun to tear apart the ascension pa*sage here in anger.
Ye Mo had seen with his own eyes how powerful the Kun beast was, and with so many Perfection of Transformation Truths teaming up to fight the Kun beast, who could be sure that the Kun beast could not tear the space of the void rift in a fit of rage?
The space of the Void Rift was incredibly hard and tearing it apart had to be done by one person, so no Transformation True cultivator could tear it apart. But this any Fudao cultivator obviously did not include Kun, and if Kun got angry, who could be sure that it could not tear the space here as well?
If it was Kun who tore apart the space, then that would be a good explanation; the cultivators here had felt the ascension in droves as a result of the spatial interface of the void rift being torn apart. These cultivators, who had been trapped for countless years, were no longer willing to stay here for a moment and all chose to soar.
That Old Black was also righteous enough to come and pa*s a message to himself after receiving a message from his friend. Do you know that at that time, how much perseverance was needed for a cultivator who had been imprisoned by this void rift for hundreds or thousands of years and still managed to endure not to ascend?