Son-in-law Heaven Emperor Xiao Yi

Chapter 318 The Nine Cauldrons Seal Eternal Life

Xuan slowly spoke, revealing his identity, "I am right beneath your feet!"

"Hm?"

Xiao Yi was taken aback.

He subconsciously looked toward the ground, asking in confusion, "You are the Cave of Desire?"

"..."

The corner of Xuan's eye twitched, he said, "I am the Beast Emperor Island beneath your feet!"

Xiao Yi: "..."

What the hell?

Beast Emperor Island?

He did not know the full size of the entire Beast Emperor Island, but he did know how vast the Beast Emperor City was, with billions of inhabitants, and it took two hours to travel from East City to West City by carriage.

And that was no ordinary carriage.

It was one pulled by Sea Dragon Horses, capable of travelling a thousand kilometers a day without breaking a sweat.

Two hours, almost three hundred kilometers!

Between two city districts, that's nearly three hundred kilometers, so how massive was the whole Beast Emperor Island?

At least four to five hundred kilometers in length and width!

Xuan was actually saying he was the Beast Emperor Island?

Has the island become incarnate?

Xiao Yi sized up Xuan from head to toe and ventured, "Senior, have you become an island incarnation?"

"..."

Xuan's eyelid twitched violently as he glared at Xiao Yi and said through clenched teeth, "What island incarnation... This Beast Emperor Island is my body, refined into an island by someone as a sacrifice."

Boom!

Xiao Yi's mind went blank.

He naturally knew about the methods of sacrifice, and indeed many powerful beings would refine the bodies or bones of powerful beasts into prime weapons. But after such a refinement, they usually remove the dross, and the scale only gets smaller.

After Xuan's body was refined, it was still a massive four to five hundred kilometers in length and width.

How terrifying must his true form have been?

"I was originally one of the Nine Beasts guarding the Hall of Longevity. Since Zhao Wuji shattered the Qingtian Realm in battle, the Hall of Longevity escaped into the depths of the void, and we, the Nine Beasts, scattered across various places in the Qingtian Realm."

Xuan spoke unhurriedly, "I was on the brink of death back then, so I refined my body into this Beast Emperor Island. One, to transform my soul into an Artifact Spirit, managing to cling to life. And two, to protect one of the Nine Tripods, in hope that when the Hall of Longevity reappears in the world, I could return and be resurrected..."

"Hall of Longevity?"

Xiao Yi was startled.

Having received the legacy of sages like the Wind Thunder, he naturally knew of the Hall of Longevity's existence.

Legend has it...

In the Ancient Era, the Qingtian Realm was united, and the natural energy of heaven and earth was a thousandfold, even ten-thousand-fold more abundant than it is now.

But in that era when martial arts were first burgeoning, the martial arts system was in a chaotic, primitive state, with cultivation at its peak being no more than the Dharma Phase Realm Peak.

Thus, an ancient mighty one crafted nine cauldrons and suppressed the martial fate of the Qingtian Realm within the Hall of Longevity. From then on, genuine martial arts began to flourish, and some powerful beings broke through the shackles of heaven and earth, stepping into the Longevity Secret Realm.

It was precisely because of this.

The world started to say, "The Nine Tripods secure longevity!"

Yet even in the legacies of sages like Wind Thunder, references to the Hall of Longevity were scarce and ambiguous.

Xiao Yi said solemnly, "Senior, are you saying that to step into the Longevity Secret Realm, one must truly have the Hall of Longevity?"

"Not at all!"

Xuan shook his head and chuckled, "Rumors are often exaggerated. Although there indeed are ways within the Hall of Longevity that allow one to enter the Longevity Secret Realm, its existence is not actually about breaking free from limitations to achieve longevity. The notion of 'The Nine Tripods secure longevity' is about stabilizing heaven and earth with the nine cauldrons, constraining the great dao so that the powerhouses of the Longevity Secret Realm can move freely between heaven and earth. Have you noticed that ever since the Hall of Longevity vanished, those who walk the Longevity Secret Realm are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns?"

Xiao Yi nodded.

That was precisely his confusion.

Xuan continued, "The Longevity Secret Realm is too powerful; if its beings were allowed to roam freely between heaven and earth, the impact on the world would be enormous. A single Longevity Secret Realm being could draw all the natural energy of a nation with a mere breath... 'The Nine Tripods secure longevity' stabilizes the earth and heaven, the great dao itself. Now that the Hall of Longevity has been struck by Zhao Wuji into the depths of the void, those from the Longevity Secret Realm naturally cannot wander freely between heaven and earth..."

Xiao Yi suddenly realized, "So 'The Nine Tripods secure longevity' refers to such anchoring!"

No wonder, even a power such as the Great Qian Dynasty doesn't have beings from the Longevity Secret Realm in existence.

Perhaps the Longevity Secret Realm beings of the Great Qian Dynasty have just never walked among the world.

Xuan said gravely, "Xiao Yi, I've waited for so many years, and you are the only one who has managed to come here. I am willing to bestow upon you one of the Nine Tripods of longevity. If one day the Hall of Longevity reappears in the world, I hope you can bring the Nine Tripods back to me, bringing my soul back to the Hall of Longevity!"

The nine beasts of longevity were born together with the Hall of Longevity.

If they could return to the Hall of Longevity, there was still hope for revival and rebirth!

Xiao Yi narrowed his eyes, immersed in deep thought.

He didn't fully trust the ancient fellow before him who had lived for untold years. Dealing with such beings required extreme caution, or else one might be devoured to the point of leaving no remains.

Seeing Xiao Yi's hesitation to agree, a look of urgency flashed in the depths of Xuan's eyes, and he continued, "To show my sincerity, I am willing to give you two drops of the Beast Emperor's heart blood!"

Hum! Hum!

With a casual gesture from Xuan, two drops of golden blood flew down from the peak of a thousand feet.

The blood was like pearls.

Crystal clear.

It contained an overwhelming surge of the Qi of heaven and earth within.

What is a Beast Emperor?

Above the seventh rank, comparable to the Human Race's Longevity Secret Realm!

The heart blood of the Beast Emperor was especially precious. It was said that a seventh-rank Beast Emperor could only condense a few dozen drops of heart blood in its lifetime, and consuming it could extend one's life by a thousand years.

It also had tremendous benefits for martial artists.

Little Lin was itching to move, its eyes gleaming as it looked at the two drops of heart blood.

Xiao Yi squinted his eyes, "Senior, please assist me and my brother in refining the heart blood!"

"No problem!"

Xuan nodded his head.

With a wave of his hand.

A dazzling golden cauldron fell between the two, and Xuan said, "This is one of the Nine Cauldrons, driven by the Qi of heaven and earth, it can speed up the refinement process. Place the heart blood within, and with your strength, you should be able to increase the refining speed by a hundredfold!"

Xiao Yi's pupils contracted slightly, a hundredfold refining speed?

What if it was a Dharma Phase Realm practitioner, or even a master of the Longevity Secret Realm?

Wouldn't that be thousands or tens of thousands of times faster?

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Even consuming medicinal pills required a considerable amount of time.

But if one could increase the speed of refinement, for instance, by a hundredfold, what would normally take a year would now only take three days. What kind of heaven-defying Divine Artifact was this?

Xiao Yi and Little Lin sat cross-legged before the small cauldron, dropping the heart blood into it, with the Qi of heaven and earth driving the cauldron. Golden light circulated around the small cauldron, nine golden dragons moved about its body, and it began to vibrate with a humming sound.

Brilliant rays of light enveloped both Xiao Yi and Little Lin.

They could distinctly feel their power rising rapidly—such a refining speed was indeed terrifying!

One hour.

Two hours.

Three hours...

After just ten hours,

the heart blood within the small cauldron was completely refined. Little Lin's body flickered with golden light, its scale armor shining brilliantly. It had reached the high level of the sixth rank, comparable to the seventh layer of the Dharma Manifestation Realm.

Xiao Yi also advanced two realms, reaching the Eighth Layer of Tao Tribulation Realm, and the number of God Sealing Seeds increased again to eighty million.

With his current strength, he was a match for a practitioner of the Dharma Phase Realm at the eightfold level!

"Under normal circumstances, refining these two drops of heart blood would take at least three to four months, but now it's only taken ten hours. With this hundredfold refining speed and with this Divine Artifact's assistance, what difficulty would there be for my Xiaoshanhe Institute disciples to grow stronger?"

Xiao Yi looked at the golden cauldron before him with a fervent gleam in his eyes. Turning to Xuan, he said, "Senior, I am willing to assist you!"

"Excellent!"

Xuan smiled with relief and eagerly said, "Xiao Yi, then quickly bond with this Longevity Cauldron! Simply drop a bit of fresh blood onto it!"

Xiao Yi, looking thoughtful, glanced at Xuan and squeezed out a drop of essential blood, letting it fall onto the small cauldron.

Hum!

The golden cauldron shimmered, enveloping him within its light.

Watching Xiao Yi covered in golden light, the benevolent expression on Xuan's face vanished, replaced by a vicious and mad grin: "Hehehe, after being trapped for so many years, this emperor will finally escape! Hahaha, boy, your body now belongs to this emperor!"

Hum!

Xuan transformed into a streak of light and entered Xiao Yi's brow.

Witnessing this, Little Lin's pores exploded, its eyes widened in fury, and two terrifying words surfaced in its mind—body snatching!