"I practiced the secret method I created, and after going through many difficulties, I finally condensed the power of the three tripods into my physical body. I am only one step away from the power of the four tripods."
"But this step is like a chasm. I am not willing to accept it. I go to the gravity area of the Death Swamp, hoping to take the last step to make the four tripods complete and the empress appear."
"The ancients said that if you hear the truth in the morning, you will die in the evening. Today I follow the example of the ancients. Even if I fall due to failure, I will still be able to smile."
The notes of the Sixth Elder ended abruptly here.
"The four tripods are completed and the empress appears. Is this statement true?" A strange light flashed in Xiao Ye's eyes.
According to the records in the Four Cauldrons Heavenly Skill, when the skill is completed and the power of the Four Cauldrons is condensed into the physical body, one can form a causal relationship with the empress. In fact, Xiao Ye has always been somewhat skeptical about this statement.
Now that he saw that even the Sixth Elder was convinced of this, he gradually believed it and looked forward to it very much.
"The Sixth Elder had known for a long time that it was a dangerous place to go, but he chose to go there resolutely. It's really admirable."
"And the Sixth Elder must have failed, otherwise he would not have fallen here." Xiao Ye secretly thought, feeling sorry for the Sixth Elder who was a scholar of heaven and earth.
The animal skin roll in Xiao Ye's hand looked very special. After twenty years of wind and rain, it was still intact. He put it in his arms and continued to explore this wasteland.
Because this wasteland was not big, Xiao Ye quickly looked around and found nothing except a few more corpses.
Xiao Ye even touched the corpses, not even a hair was left.
"These people are trapped here. They must have taken all the elixirs on their bodies, so naturally they won't leave anything behind." Xiao Ye shook his head, sat down cross-legged, took out the map of the Death Swamp, and began to think about the next way.
First of all, this wasteland is still on the outskirts of the Death Swamp, and the poisonous insects and ferocious beasts that appear are not strong. The closer you get to the depths, the greater the danger.
And according to the sixth elder's notes, he must have gone to the gravity area of the Death Swamp.
"The gravity area is deep in the Death Swamp." Xiao Ye glanced across the map.
He found that in order to reach the gravity zone, he would have to cross at least half of the Death Swamp, which would take more than half a month. Moreover, he would also pass through the territories of several very powerful ferocious beasts on the way.
"It's really dangerous, but I like it!" Xiao Ye put away the map, his blood boiling all over.
Only when there is a challenge will you not be lonely, and he has regarded this trip to the Death Swamp as a kind of training.
"The six elders have mediocre qualifications, but they dare to imitate the ancients. How can I, Xiao Ye, lag behind others? How can I, Xiao Ye, lag behind others?" A smile appeared on Xiao Ye's face.
Xiao Ye corrected his mentality, had a good night's rest in this wasteland, and set off again in high spirits.
This time, Xiao Ye walked very slowly while searching for the footsteps of the Sixth Elder. Every time he walked, he made a mark and took out a map to confirm the direction to ensure that he would not get lost.
If you break into the territory of a powerful beast, you will have a lot of fun.
Although Xiao Ye was very careful, he still inevitably encountered attacks from poisonous insects and ferocious beasts. Moreover, they were of very high levels, mostly at the fifth level of the Innate Realm.
In order to sharpen his cultivation, Xiao Ye did not use the flame sword, but he immediately felt extremely strenuous and suffered serious injuries.
Xiao Ye fought bloody battles all the way, moving forward step by step, with fighting spirit soaring to the sky, and finally broke out a bloody path.
Three days later, Xiao Ye reached the second safe point marked on the map and rested here.
"Thankfully I have a map, otherwise I would be dead if I wandered into the Death Swamp." Xiao Ye took out the elixir to recover from his injuries, adjusted his condition to its peak, and then searched for the footprints of the Sixth Elder in a safe spot.
But this time, he found no clues, not even a corpse, it was very empty.
"Going forward, I must use the flame sword, otherwise I will perish." Xiao Ye took out the map and started from the second safe point. Most of the ferocious beasts in front were at the sixth level of the Xiantian realm.
Only by using the flame sword can he have the strength to fight.
"This is the first time I have used the flame sword since I entered the innate realm." There was a hint of expectation in Xiao Ye's eyes.
When he was in the acquired realm, the flame sword in his hand could not exert the power that a mysterious weapon should have at all. Compared with the innate weapons, it was just sharper and harder.
But the innate warrior is different. He can let the true energy leave the body, infuse it into the mysterious weapon, and activate the sword light. The power must be very powerful.
After being fully prepared, Xiao Ye continued on the road.
Not long after he walked out of the second safe point, Xiao Ye encountered a savage beast in the early stage of the sixth level of Xiantian realm.
Clang!
Xiao Ye did not hesitate and pulled out the flame saber. More than two hundred droplets of true energy in his dantian emitted a blazing light and were then poured into the flame saber.
boom!
The blade of the flame saber buzzed, as if a king had awakened, its peerless sharpness shot straight into the sky, the sky changed color, and the surrounding void was turbulent.
With Xiao Ye as the center, the terrifying knife energy radiated out in a ring, cutting off the surrounding big trees in the sky.
"Is this the power of the mysterious weapon? It's too strong!" Xiao Ye's face was full of excitement, and he himself was shocked by the power of the flame sword.
At this moment, he was holding the flame sword in his hand, and he had the illusion of controlling the world, and the urge to compete with the heroes of the world.
In the Death Swamp, he can use the flame knife unscrupulously without worrying about being discovered.
The savage beast at the sixth level of the Xiantian realm was completely shocked by the momentum of the flame sword. Its huge body trembled, and finally turned around and ran away.
"This..." Xiao Ye didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and then put away the flame knife.
"Just by activating the flame sword once, 10% of my energy was consumed." Xiao Ye was shocked when he felt the energy passing through his body.
You know, he hasn't attacked that ferocious beast yet. If there's a real fight, it won't be sucked dry.
"It seems that my current cultivation level cannot fully activate the power of the mysterious weapon, so I'd better use it as little as possible." Xiao Ye stepped forward and continued to move forward.
During the next journey, if he encounters an unbeatable ferocious beast, Xiao Ye quickly activates the flame saber, exuding the power of the mysterious weapon, and most of the ferocious beasts will be scared away.
However, there was also a ferocious beast that had reached the middle stage of the sixth level of the Xiantian Realm, roaring and pounced on Xiao Ye.
"Fengtian Knife!"
Xiao Ye roared, and the powerful true meaning of martial arts rose into the sky, integrated into the flame sword, and launched his strongest attack.
boom!
A flaming sword with a length of two hundred meters spanned the void, making the void boil, and directly cut the ferocious beast in half, and the dark-brown beast's blood floated down like rain.
"Using the Flame Sword to unleash the power of the Burning Sky Sword is so powerful that it allows me to kill enemies across two realms!" Xiao Ye's face was filled with surprise.
However, this blow exhausted Xiao Ye's last innate energy.
"You have to go to the third safe point quickly." Xiao Ye didn't dare to stay, and his figure quickly shot out.
Perhaps it was Xiao Ye's terrifyingly powerful sword that suppressed all the other ferocious beasts, so his journey went very smoothly and he quickly reached the third safe point.
"Good luck." Xiao Ye breathed a sigh of relief and took out the elixir to heal his wounds and restore the consumed energy while looking around here.
Xiao Ye soon discovered that the third safe point turned out to be like a basin, with a depression in the center and a very deep pit.
"What is that?" Xiao Ye's eyes fell on the pothole, and a strong desire to explore emerged in his heart.
However, Xiao Ye did not take action immediately, but waited for his cultivation to return to its peak before walking over with the flame sword in hand.
There were dense cracks around the pit, extending ferociously towards the surroundings. Xiao Ye glanced over and felt a trace of doubt in his heart.
Because the deep pit does not look natural, but looks like it was bombarded by a huge force.
Xiao Ye walked carefully to the deep pit and visually determined that it was at least fifty meters deep and three meters wide.
He hesitated for a moment, then jumped down and quickly landed on the soles of his feet.
"It's nothing strange." Xiao Ye glanced around and found nothing. He was about to leave when he suddenly felt a shock all over.
"This is?" Xiao Ye landed in the center of the pit, where there was a very deep fist mark.
This deep pit was actually punched out by someone!
A punch can dent the ground into a deep pit. How terrifying is this power? It can definitely crush a mountain with one punch.
Xiao Ye walked over and touched the fist mark with his hand.
boom!
At this moment, Xiao Ye burst out with powerful blood energy, and the four cauldrons of heavenly power were automatically activated, condensing two giant cauldrons, one real and one virtual, above his head.
At the same time, the fist seal exuded a strange aura, which was closely related to Xiao Ye's Four Heavenly Skills, as if he were seeing close relatives and friends.
Vaguely, from the strange aura, Xiao Ye seemed to see a man in black robes, with a sad and angry expression, pointing at the sky, but the shadow quickly disappeared.
"What's going on?" Xiao Ye quickly took a few steps back, feeling extremely horrified.
There are no ferocious beasts in a safe place. Combined with the black-robed man in the shadow, the answer has already jumped out.
"This deep pit was created by the sixth elder's punch!" Xiao Ye's mind suddenly changed.
Finally discovering the footprints of the Sixth Elder again, Xiao Ye quickly stepped forward and carefully observed the fist mark and the surrounding area.
Soon, Xiao Ye discovered that the ground around the fist seal was very hard. Xiao Ye swept away the dust, and a line of writing suddenly appeared.
Xiao Ye took out the animal skin scroll and compared it, and found that the writing on the ground was exactly that left by the Sixth Elder.
"Look what the Sixth Elder left behind." Xiao Ye looked over quickly.
"I have always wanted to break through that last step, to form a karmic relationship with the Empress, obtain the Empress' inheritance, change my fate against the will of heaven, and obtain excellent cultivation qualifications."
Seeing this, Xiao Ye's heart skipped a beat. It turns out that the sixth elder practices the Four Cauldrons Heavenly Art for this reason.
Xiao Ye quickly continued reading.
"Only in the end did I realize that the person who stopped me from taking the last step was actually the peerless empress!"
What!
Xiao Ye's pupils shrank violently, his face full of disbelief.
The peerless empress, prevents the Six Elders from breaking through the power of the Four Cauldrons? How is this possible! If the four great emperors of the True Spirit Continent have not all disappeared, how can they still prevent the Six Elders from breaking through?
At this moment, Xiao Ye felt horrified all over his body and his mind was shaken, as if there was a pair of eyes looking at him.
He also practices the Four Tripod Heavenly Skills, and the four elders are likely to serve as a lesson for him. (To be continued)