242: Chapter 242 Offering empty promises to the Yellow Spring Demon Saint! Becoming the spirit of a divine artifact?

“Rumble!”

As Xiao Ting's voice faded,

boundless thunderclouds suddenly gathered in the sky that exuded an ancient aura.

Countless bolts of lightning transformed into giant dragons. The roaring sound, like the roars of thunder dragons, shook the entire world as they swept across the sky to attack Xiao Ting.

“A pointless test!”

Xiao Ting didn't even bother to block them. He directly circulated his cultivation technique and absorbed all the lightning.

To him, lightning was merely a tonic to temper his body, a stepping stone to increase his strength.

Although this lightning was powerful enough to kill any Dou Zun expert, upon touching his body, it was like a tornado entering the ocean, absorbed by the five-star vortex.

As the lightning continuously disappeared, a massive yellow finger gathered in the sky, and an extremely powerful gale suddenly tore through heaven and earth.

This was a low-grade Tian class Dou Technique, the Yellow Spring Finger!

Xiao Ting raised his hand slightly, and his vast soul power instantly surged out, directly shattering the Yellow Spring Finger.

“Boom!”

After the Yellow Spring Finger shattered, more Yellow Spring energy appeared, gathering into a massive yellow palm that fell with lightning speed, carrying the power to suppress the void.

This was a mid-grade Tian class Dou Technique, the Yellow Spring Palm!

Seeing this, Xiao Ting merely released a stronger soul power from his body, easily shattering the giant yellow palm.

“Rumble!”

As Xiao Ting shattered the giant palm as well, the entire ground suddenly trembled, tearing open a massive crack. Immediately after, a mountain peak rose from the ground, towering between heaven and earth, exuding the majesty of the world.

At the peak of this mountain, there was a golden throne, upon which sat a man dressed in a yellow fur robe. He sat there perfectly straight, exuding a supreme aura that stood above heaven and earth.

“A half-step Perfect Heavenly State soul.” A look of approval appeared in the eyes of the Yellow Spring Demon Saint's remnant soul, and he spoke, “I can sense that you are not even twenty years old, yet you have reached such a realm. Even in ancient times, you would be a top-tier genius.”

“In the future, it is entirely possible for you to break through to the emperor realm. You are indeed qualified to inherit all of this seat's legacy, as well as the Demon Saint's Essence Blood.”

Toward Xiao Yan, who was at the late Heavenly State, the Yellow Spring Demon Saint had still been full of himself until Xiao Yan showed his Heavenly Flame.

But toward Xiao Ting, who had half a foot in the Perfect Heavenly State, the Yellow Spring Demon Saint's eyes were filled with appreciation.

After all, having half a foot in the Perfect Heavenly State meant that he would definitely be able to break through to the Perfect Heavenly State.

Xiao Ting's age was right there; he was even more talented than the Demon Saint himself had been back then to break through to the Emperor Realm Soul.

At the very least, he was more than qualified to inherit his legacy.

“Greetings, Senior.” Seeing how straightforward the remnant soul of the Yellow Spring Demon Saint was, Xiao Ting firmed up a certain idea and smiled as he spoke, “Senior, would you be willing to try another way of living?”

The Yellow Spring Demon Saint, the Pure Lotus Demon Saint, and Xiao Xuan had all fallen.

Their bodies had dissipated, and their cultivation was gone, but because their souls had once reached the emperor realm, they all lived on in special ways.

Xiao Xuan was still alive because his soul imprint was anchored in the Heavenly Tomb, becoming a special energy body. He was only able to keep to himself because of his sufficient strength, but even so, he still needed to periodically devour the wandering energy bodies in the Heavenly Tomb to continue living.

The Pure Lotus Demon Saint died the most completely. This was because his fall was related to being backstabbed by the Purification Lotus Demon Flame. The soul imprint in the remnant map of the Purification Lotus Demon Flame was extremely weak, only barely able to appear in the Demon Flame Space with the help of the Ancient Sky Refining Formation.

The Yellow Spring Demon Saint's situation was slightly better than Xiao Xuan's and the Pure Lotus Demon Saint's; his situation was similar to the remnant souls of the Dou Di of the various ancient clans.

His soul imprint still existed intact. Before his fall, he had refined his nine-star peak Dou Saint body together with a strange stone from the bottom of the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, turning it into this yellow spring stone tablet.

This was why he was able to preserve the Demon Saint's Essence Blood, which could allow a Peak Dou Zun to break through to Dou Saint and even increase a Dou Saint's cultivation by one star, keeping its power from dissipating for thousands of years.

It could be said that if there were a Dou Di-level body, a Dou Di-level flame, and an Emperor-grade medicinal pill, one could use a method similar to how Yao Chen was resurrected to help the Yellow Spring Demon Saint resurrect.

Xiao Ting did not have these things, and even if he did, he wouldn't use them on the Yellow Spring Demon Saint, who was neither kin nor friend.

However, he did possess another method that could allow the Yellow Spring Demon Saint to be resurrected in an alternative way.

“Another... way of living?”

This phrasing was interesting, piquing the Yellow Spring Demon Saint's curiosity.

Although under the passage of time, his soul power had been continuously declining and the things he remembered were decreasing, he still remembered the key information.

Back then, he had half a foot in the Dou Di level, lacking only a certain thing that no longer existed in the world to break through. Even so, he could not avoid his lifespan running out and heading toward death, ultimately surviving in another way.

Yet this junior, Xiao Ting, actually said he could make him live?

“With Senior's strength, you must have already sensed that a certain thing is missing from this world, which is why no more Dou Di can be born.”

“My clan's ancestor, Xiao Xuan, also reached this level back then. He named this thing 'Origin', which I call the Emperors Source.”

“During the peak era of the Fighting Qi Continent, there was no shortage of the Emperors Source, which is why many Dou Di emerged in ancient times.”

“However, a great war shattered the Fighting Qi Continent, and the Emperors Source also began to dissipate.”

“Senior probably doesn't know that the Fighting Qi Continent is merely a Lower Plane.”

“In the Great Thousand World, Lower Planes are as numerous as the hairs on a cow, nothing more than a drop in the ocean, or perhaps not even that.”

“Dou Di...”

Xiao Ting gave the Yellow Spring Demon Saint a brief explanation, letting him know about the situation in the Great Thousand World and the existence of endless Lower Planes.

He also let him know that a Dou Di on the Fighting Qi Continent is equivalent to an Earth Supreme, but in a flawed and weakened version of the world.

When a Dou Di goes to the Great Thousand World, they need to undergo the Three Small Tribulations of the Sovereign again, and even after that, they would only reach the Sixth-Grade Sovereign.

However, before breaking through to Earth Supreme, as long as a Dou Di has enough resources, they can break through without any bottlenecks.

After introducing these, Xiao Ting paused for a moment and began to enter the main topic: “In the Great Thousand World, there is a strict classification for magical treasures and divine items.”

“The lowest is the Spiritual-grade, divided into low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and peerless-grade.”

“Above Spiritual Artifacts are Divine Artifacts. The first four levels are the same as Spiritual Artifacts, and finally, there are Quasi-Sacred Objects.”

“Sacred Objects are divided into low-rank, mid-rank, high-rank, and Quasi-Peerless Sacred Objects. Their power is something even an Earth Supreme would covet, and it is generally impossible for a Lower Plane to breed even a single Sacred Object.”

“Peerless Sacred Objects are divided into Spiritual-grade, Immortal-grade, and Sacred-grade. Because they are too rare, even many Heavenly Supremes do not possess one.”

“The strange stone that Senior discovered at the bottom of the Nine Serene Yellow Springs back then has existed since the very beginning of the Fighting Qi Continent's birth.”

“After fusing with Senior's body, the yellow spring stone tablet has already reached the level of a Quasi-Divine Artifact.”

“As long as an Artifact Spirit is born, it can become a true Divine Artifact, and not just an ordinary low-grade one.”

“Not only that, but as long as it is nurtured properly, there is a significant possibility of it transforming into a Sacred Object in the future.”

“The power unleashed when a Sacred Object's spirit controls the Sacred Object is something even an Earth Supreme would dread, far surpassing an ordinary Sovereign and incomparable to a Dou Di.”

Hearing this, the Yellow Spring Demon Saint's breathing became rapid, and the light in his eyes flared up.

“My young friend, do you mean...”

“To have this seat become the Artifact Spirit of the yellow spring stone tablet.”

If the yellow spring stone tablet could become a Sacred Object...

Then he would be the Artifact Spirit of the Yellow Spring Sacred Tablet!