Chapter 564: Lin Yuan and Nine Mystic Venerable

Nine Mystic Venerable wore a solemn expression.

The young man who suddenly appeared before him had a strange aura, yet gave him a faint sense of threat.

He was clearly also a Chaos Venerable.

"That brat is no longer within the Secret Realm."

Nine Mystic Venerable narrowed his eyes slightly; he had left a backup plan on Cang Yulong, allowing him to easily lock onto his location.

Although Cang Yulong's Karma was currently vague and obscured, there was no doubt he had completely vanished.

"Two Venerables? One forcibly took that brat away, while the other intercepted me?"

Nine Mystic Venerable looked at the young man not far away. If Lin Yuan hadn't suddenly appeared and put him on high alert, the moment Cang Yulong broke open the time and space within the Secret Realm, he would have been able to lock on and track him down.

"It's not two Venerables, but rather a Venerable's True Body Clone."

Nine Mystic Venerable thought to himself.

For an Eleven-Tier life to step into the Twelfth Order, a final leap was required.

During this final leap, to ensure all power was gathered to impact the Twelfth Order, all mental consciousness in the outside world needed to be retracted.

The essence of a Clone was to cut off a portion of the true body's mental consciousness, and then use that portion as the core to form a Clone, allowing them to share a single consciousness.

Retracting all mental will from the outside world meant that all Clones would collapse.

As for trying to condense new Clones after stepping into the Twelfth Order, the difficulty would increase by a huge margin, and it would also affect all aspects of the true body.

Therefore.

Many Twelfth Order lives were unwilling to refine Clones because it would lead to a decrease in the true body's combat power.

Lin Yuan's two Primordial Spirits, the Taiyin Primordial Spirit and the Solar Nascent Soul, remained before and after breaking through the Twelfth Order strictly because, in a strict sense, they were not Clones.

But rather some kind of derivative of the Martial Dao Evolution path.

Among the thousands of evolution paths in the Chaos Void, certain special evolution paths would master many special methods, and Primordial Spirits could also be considered a special method of the Martial Dao Evolution path.

Unknown hundreds of millions of folds of time and space away from the Nine Profound Secret Realm.

Lin Yuan brought Cang Yulong with him as he rapidly traversed. Every step he took was equivalent to crossing heavy layers of time and space, spanning hundreds of millions of trillions of light-years.

"Senior."

Cang Yulong felt the distance between himself and the Nine Profound Secret Realm continuously growing. With every step Lin Yuan took, it would take Cang Yulong hundreds or thousands of years of travel at his own speed to catch up.

"Is this a Venerable of the Eighth Realm of Time and Space?"

Cang Yulong silently sensed it in his heart. In terms of overlapping time and space shifting, he felt that even Nine Mystic Venerable fell short compared to the mysterious Venerable before him.

"What on earth did the ancestors of my Stone People Clan do to actually be able to establish a connection with such an existence?"

Cang Yulong steadied his mind, a sense of curiosity unexpectedly beginning to rise within him.

"Temporarily shaken off."

Lin Yuan glanced at the location of the Nine Profound Secret Realm.

This time, the Taiyin Primordial Spirit was responsible for helping Cang Yulong contend against the numerous binding Restrictions within the Secret Realm, while the Solar Nascent Soul was responsible for holding back Nine Mystic Venerable.

Now everything was going smoothly; Cang Yulong had been successfully brought out.

Next, it depended on the side of the Solar Nascent Soul.

Within the Nine Profound Secret Realm.

The highest hall.

Nine Mystic Venerable looked at Lin Yuan, the two vaguely confronting each other.

"Venerable, Venerable, that brat Cang Yulong has vanished." Several Sovereign Realm subordinates immediately contacted Nine Mystic Venerable. They were responsible for guarding the Sinister Pool and torturing Cang Yulong day and night.

Yet just moments ago, they finally discovered that Cang Yulong's aura had disappeared.

"A bunch of trash." Nine Mystic Venerable couldn't be bothered to reply, nor did he excessively blame his subordinates.

The one who made a move was also a Venerable, and moreover a Venerable who dispatched a True Body Clone. Caught off guard, even he hadn't detected it in time, let alone those Sovereign Realm subordinates.

"Nine Mystic Venerable, I will be taking this person away." Lin Yuan spoke.

Now that Cang Yulong was taken away by him, Nine Mystic Venerable basically had no other methods left.

As for means like Karma curse-killing? With a Venerable's Realm, curse-killing a life at the Proving Dao Sovereign Realm was not difficult.

But the premise was that there were no peers obstructing it. Means like Karma curse-killing could be blocked by external forces; for instance, the Profound Yellow Secret Realm could isolate Karma and isolate curse-killing.

"I am quite curious." Nine Mystic Venerable looked at Lin Yuan. "You mobilized your True Body, and on my territory, forcibly took that Cang Yulong away. You must also know about that mysterious space."

Lin Yuan's action was equivalent to standing in opposition to Nine Mystic Venerable. Unless there were irresistible benefits and interests, no Venerable would do such a thing.

Once reaching the Chaos Realm, unless absolutely necessary, Venerables rarely fought among themselves. As far as the Chaos Void was concerned, every single Venerable could be said to stand at the Peak.

It was precisely because of this.

That Nine Mystic Venerable concluded Lin Yuan also knew of that mysterious space.

If not for this, relying merely on a frail race like the Stone People Clan? How could they possibly attract another Venerable to rescue them? And that too under the premise of thoroughly offending another Venerable.

"Indeed, I already know." Lin Yuan nodded.

Nine Mystic Venerable's analysis was correct. If Cang Yulong had not proactively offered the chaos tree and that mysterious Legacy space suppressed by the chaos tree,

Lin Yuan would not have stepped in to forcibly rescue him, as this was equivalent to offending Nine Mystic Venerable to death.

"When you took Cang Yulong away, you probably didn't know the specific coordinate location of that mysterious space either, and needed Cang Yulong to tell you?"

"I tortured Cang Yulong day and night, yet he never spoke. It is impossible for him to tell you without any conditions; he must have raised some demands, such as saving him? Such as saving the entire Stone People Clan?"

Nine Mystic Venerable stared at Lin Yuan, his gaze turning somewhat chilling. "You clearly have already taken Cang Yulong away, yet you still haven't left. You must be doing this for the Stone People Clan? Was Cang Yulong's condition for you to save the Stone People Clan?"

A life capable of cultivating to the Chaos Realm had a mind that operated at the Ultimate speed, deducing Lin Yuan's objective based on merely a trace of evidence.

"Correct." Lin Yuan nodded.

The reason he hadn't left until now was precisely for the Stone People Clan still held in the hands of Nine Mystic Venerable.

"The life and death of trillions of the Stone People Clan are all within a single thought of mine." Nine Mystic Venerable flipped his hand, and a miniature world appeared before him, inside of which countless members of the Stone People Clan were imprisoned.

"I want the chaos tree of that mysterious space, otherwise all these Stone People Clan members must die." Nine Mystic Venerable looked at Lin Yuan.

"You want the chaos tree?" Lin Yuan sized up Nine Mystic Venerable with great interest. "I did promise that little fellow to try and save the Stone People Clan, but it was only a try. Whether they could actually be saved was not guaranteed."

"Both you and I understand the value of the chaos tree. If I were to cede that chaos tree to you, wouldn't all my busy work be for nothing?"

Lin Yuan's tone was calm. "If it were all for nothing, why would I make a move to rescue him?"

"Using these Stone People Clan members to threaten me? Useless. Why don't you slaughter all of these Stone People Clan members right now."

Lin Yuan looked at Nine Mystic Venerable with interest.

These words caused Nine Mystic Venerable's expression to change slightly.

He could indeed hear that Lin Yuan did not care about the life or death of these Stone People Clan members.

Now that Cang Yulong had fallen into the other party's hands, even if these Stone People Clan members were completely wiped out, the other party might still obtain the positional coordinates of that mysterious space from Cang Yulong's mouth.

As for himself… once he completely slaughtered these Stone People Clan members, it might even provoke that Cang Yulong into voluntarily telling Lin Yuan about the mysterious space.

Therefore.

At this moment, Nine Mystic Venerable fell into a dilemma.

"If it weren't for the fact that I needed to make use of this Secret Realm's Sinister Pool, you wouldn't have had any chance to take Cang Yulong away at all."

Nine Mystic Venerable was quite unreconciled.

The Sinister Pool was a unique wonder of this Secret Realm, and there was probably nothing identical to it in the entire Chaos Void. He had done so precisely to torture Cang Yulong so that he would reveal the coordinates of the mysterious space as soon as possible.

In fact.

Nine Mystic Venerable had already been extremely cautious.

He had even anticipated extreme situations where other Venerables would intervene.

Near the Sinister Pool, Nine Mystic Venerable had long since silently deployed numerous Formations. Other Venerables, even those at the Chaotic Realm Peak, as long as they weren't the type extremely skilled in Formations, would be detected by Nine Mystic Venerable the moment they approached.

But Lin Yuan?

Lin Yuan was able to silently take Cang Yulong away right under Nine Mystic Venerable's nose, his Formation attainments estimated to be no weaker than a Chaotic Realm Peak expert skilled in the Dao of Formations.

Being both a Chaos Venerable, skilled in the attainments of the Dao of Formations, and knowing about the mysterious space.

Under the Restriction of these three conditions, across at least dozens of nearby Void Domains, Nine Mystic Venerable couldn't think of anyone else who could meet the above requirements.

"Then what do you want to do now?"

Nine Mystic Venerable said in a low voice.

"I after all promised that little fellow that I would try to save the Stone People Clan." Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "However, letting you directly hand over the Stone People Clan is probably something you aren't willing to do either."

"Like this, I will give you a choice."

Lin Yuan said: "We can spar between you and me. If I win, you will hand over all members of the Stone People Clan to me. If you win, you will still hand over all members of the Stone People Clan to me, but I can give you a copy of the reproducible Legacy in that mysterious space."

"If I win, you'll just give me a copy of the reproducible Legacy?" Nine Mystic Venerable felt aggrieved inside.

For Lin Yuan, this basically meant no loss at all.

"The chaos tree—" Nine Mystic Venerable still wanted to try and negotiate further.

"You can forget about the chaos tree." Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "If you don't choose, you can slaughter all members of the Stone People Clan right now."

Nine Mystic Venerable looked at Lin Yuan, and he could sense that the choice the other party stated was already the bottom line.

"Alright."

After much consideration, Nine Mystic Venerable finally agreed.

There was no other way.

Slaughtering all members of the Stone People Clan would yield no benefits for him at all.

By agreeing to Lin Yuan's choice, he still had a chance to obtain that Legacy of the mysterious space.

Legacy.

For a Chaos Venerable, a Legacy was relatively important.

Most importantly, having something was better than having nothing.

"Swear an oath under the Chaotic Void Origin will." Lin Yuan looked at Nine Mystic Venerable.

The so-called 'swearing an oath' was a means of binding Restriction. The Chaotic Void Origin will was omnipresent; swearing an oath by the Chaotic Void Origin will would carry immense Karma.

If the 'oath' was ultimately violated, although it wouldn't result in any injuries, Karma would descend upon him, and he could forget about advancing any further.

As a newly advanced Venerable who still wanted to try for the Ultimate Great Saint Realm in the future, Nine Mystic Venerable would most likely not violate the oath.

In fact, if there were no other choices, no Venerable would be willing to have Karma burden them.

Which of the lives that could Cultivate to the Chaos Realm hadn't fought their way out of countless hundreds of millions of living beings? The consequence of having one's Dao severed was simply too heavy.

Soon.

Lin Yuan and Nine Mystic Venerable completed the 'oath'.

For Lin Yuan, the oath was very easy to fulfill. Even if he lost in the end, it would be under the premise of obtaining the Legacy of that mysterious space, sharing a copy of the reproducible Legacy with Nine Mystic Venerable.

"Give all members of the Stone People Clan to me."

Lin Yuan looked at Nine Mystic Venerable and spoke.

In the upcoming spar, if Nine Mystic Venerable lost, he had to hand over all members of the Stone People Clan; if he won, he still had to hand over all members of the Stone People Clan.

Therefore, Lin Yuan simply asked for them in advance.

"Here you go."

Nine Mystic Venerable directly threw out that micro-world. He had no interest whatsoever in these members of the Stone People Clan; if it weren't for threatening Cang Yulong, he wouldn't have bothered to imprison them specifically.

Lin Yuan took the micro-world and split a wisp of his mental will to examine it, discovering a large number of panicked members of the Stone People Clan inside. These members of the Stone People Clan also knew their own fate; a single thought from Nine Mystic Venerable would be enough to wipe out their clan.

"Where shall we spar?"

Lin Yuan checked it a few times to confirm there were no problems with the micro-world, put it away, and asked casually.

"Right outside the Secret Realm."

Nine Mystic Venerable said.

The spar and combat between Venerables possessed immense destructive power. The Nine Profound Secret Realm was nurtured by the Chaos Void, but it obviously did not possess the indestructible characteristics of the Universe.

If two Venerables fought inside the Secret Realm, the Secret Realm simply wouldn't be able to withstand it, and it was entirely possible for it to directly collapse and be destroyed.

The Nine Profound Secret Realm was Nine Mystic Venerable's lair, so Nine Mystic Venerable naturally didn't wish to see this happen.

"No problem."

Lin Yuan's figure slowly disappeared. "See you outside the Secret Realm in half an hour."

As soon as his voice fell,

Lin Yuan's figure vanished from sight.

Seeing this, Nine Mystic Venerable was not worried that Lin Yuan would leave early.

First, because Lin Yuan also 'swore an oath' under the Chaotic Void Origin will, and violating it would bring Karma upon him.

Second, regardless of winning or losing, there was no loss at all for Lin Yuan. This was also why Nine Mystic Venerable so readily handed over all members of the Stone People Clan.

"When did such a Venerable appear in the nearby Void Domain?"

Nine Mystic Venerable sat on his throne and thought silently to himself.

At the level of a Chaos Venerable, they basically all had acquaintances and knew each other, but he had never heard of a Venerable named Lin Yuan.

"Could he have come from a distant, other Void Domain? Or is he like me, having just stepped into the Chaos Realm without the news having spread yet?"

Nine Mystic Venerable speculated inwardly.

A moment later,

several Sovereign Realm Experts cautiously walked into the grand hall.

"Venerable." These Sovereign Realm Experts did not yet know what had happened, but Cang Yulong, whom they were guarding, had suddenly disappeared, and they surely couldn't escape blame.

"Alright, recall all the gathering points outside the Secret Realm back into the Secret Realm, and operate the Secret Realm's defensive Formation at full capacity." Nine Mystic Venerable commanded.

Around the Chaos Continent, there were various 'fragment worlds' surrounding it. Although the Nine Profound Secret Realm was not as grand as the Chaos Continent, it still had many gathering points converging there.

In the upcoming battle between Nine Mystic Venerable and Lin Yuan, the aftermath would spread, and these gathering points definitely wouldn't be able to stop it. It was safer to bring all of them into the Secret Realm.

Moreover, the Nine Profound Secret Realm itself needed to enter its highest defense state to cope with the battle aftermath of the two Venerables.

"Ah?"

"Venerable, why must we recall those gathering points?"

The expressions of several Sovereign Realm subordinates were filled with surprise and doubt. Nine Mystic Venerable didn't blame them at all for their poor guarding duty, yet gave these instructions instead?

"In a moment, I will spar with another Venerable outside."

Nine Mystic Venerable's words were brief, but his several Sovereign Realm subordinates felt a shock in their hearts.

A spar?

With another Venerable?

Beyond multiple layers of space and time.

The Taiyin Primordial Spirit was quietly standing in place.

Cang Yulong was respectfully standing nearby.

"It's done."

A figure condensed—it was precisely Lin Yuan's Solar Nascent Soul.

"Two Seniors?"

Cang Yulong was slightly stunned, and immediately understood that these should be Clones.

"These are your clansmen."

Lin Yuan flipped his right hand, and a micro-world appeared, containing a large number of members of the Stone People Clan inside.

"Clansmen."

Cang Yulong's expression was excited, and his voice even trembled slightly.

He never expected that he would have a day when he could see his clansmen again.

Although before Lin Yuan brought him out, he had once said he would try to save the members of the Stone People Clan, it was only an attempt.

Nine Mystic Venerable was not someone easy to get along with.

Yet now,

all the members of the Stone People Clan were right before him.

"Don't get excited."

"Nine Xuan handing over these members of the Stone People Clan comes with conditions."

Lin Yuan looked at Cang Yulong, and then stated the agreement between himself and Nine Mystic Venerable.

"Everything is up to Senior to decide."

Cang Yulong said respectfully.

Share a copy of the reproducible Legacy with Nine Xuan?

For Cang Yulong, this also amounted to nothing. Anyway, he had already intended to hand that Legacy space entirely over to Lin Yuan, so naturally he would listen to Lin Yuan in everything.

When Cang Yulong was in Nine Mystic Venerable's hands, the reason he chose death over surrender was because he knew that even if he submitted, it would be difficult for him to survive.

Moreover, in order to exact revenge and vent his anger, Nine Mystic Venerable would ensure that not only he wouldn't survive, but the entire Stone People Clan wouldn't survive either.

Cang Yulong took away that mysterious space right in front of Nine Mystic Venerable; one could imagine the anger in the latter's heart.

"Alright."

"My spar with Nine Xuan is imminent."

"Now you can tell me the specific space-time coordinates of that mysterious space."

Lin Yuan looked at Cang Yulong and said in a calm tone.

"Specific space-time coordinates." Cang Yulong took a deep breath and, without any hesitation, stated the space-time coordinates.

Now Lin Yuan had fulfilled all requirements, not only rescuing him, but also rescuing all members of the Stone People Clan along with him.

Cang Yulong naturally dared not delay at all.

Although up until now, Lin Yuan's impression on Cang Yulong was extremely amicable,

the more it was like this, the more awe-struck and reverent Cang Yulong felt. Being able to force such a ferocious Chaos Realm entity like Nine Mystic Venerable into such concessions, how could Lin Yuan truly be amicable?

If Lin Yuan were accidentally angered, Cang Yulong felt his end would be countless times more miserable than falling into the hands of Nine Mystic Venerable.

"Space-time coordinates."

Upon learning the specific space-time coordinates, Lin Yuan immediately began to extend his exploration based on them.

The space and time of the Chaos Void were incomparably vast, with layers upon layers of space-time strata existing within. Even a Chaos Venerable or Chaotic Great Saint could not walk through every single space-time stratum.

Therefore, the space-time coordinates of the Chaos Void were extremely important. Without specific space-time coordinates, even a Chaotic Great Saint could get lost within the endless space-time strata.

Hum, hum, hum.

Lin Yuan's vast mental will continuously spread and diffused. Following the space-time coordinates given by Cang Yulong, he finally locked onto a mysterious space deep within the space-time strata.

"That space."

Lin Yuan observed carefully.