Chapter 1764: Using A Mountain As An Axe

The scent of the Remnant Scent could cause a living to forget everything about Dong Ji and even prevent them from creating a record, but that wasn’t the only function of the Remnant Scent.

Legend had it that consuming just a single leaf of the Remnant Scent could immunize them from all illnesses and dramatically increase their resistance against all evils. They would also gain a strange scent that naturally improved their charisma and removed all hostility toward them.

To put it simply, a person who consumed a leaf of the Remnant Scent would become extremely charismatic. They could be a ruthless butcher of millions, and it would still be difficult for someone to feel malice or develop a negative opinion of them. It was quite the miraculous plant.

In fact, one could say that consuming a leaf of the Remnant Scent would guarantee one a peaceful and worriless life—as long as they did not actively try to commit suicide, of course.

The group was pretty interested in the Remnant Scent. Alas, obtaining its leaf was not an easy matter.

First, the Remnant Scent was rooted in the sky. It looked very close from the ground, but in reality it was as high as the nine heavens. It would take three to five days just to get close to the Remnant Scent.

Besides that, the closer one got to the Remnant Scent, the stronger and richer its scent would become. Not even sealing off one’s five senses and six perceptions could immunize oneself to it. The scent would gradually erode one’s mind and soul until they forgot why they were flying toward the Remnant Scent in the first place.

If the seeker still knew no restraint and continued to approach the Remnant Scent, then the roots would excrete some sort of mysterious liquid that spread throughout the air. It would wipe away one’s memories gradually until they had transformed into a memoriless, mindless, and soulless shell.

In conclusion, some things were only meant for people of great fortune and destiny.

Although the group was interested in the Remnant Scent, sense triumphed over greed once they learned how deadly it was. Searching for the evil suppressing spiritual treasure took precedence anyway.

Another one hour later, a towering mountain entered their view.

The mountain boasted a strange shape. The lower part of the mountain was more or less even. It looked like a round pillar, just a very, very thick one.

The upper part of the mountain spread out dramatically in two directions. Overall, it looked like an axe.

The mountain was suspended in the air and surrounded by silver clouds. It was also shining with mysterious, fantastical lights.

The silver cloud looked harmless, but it was anything but. Although they were over one kilometer away from the mountain, they could sense infinite sharpness and coldness coming from the clouds. They seemed sharp enough to cut anything; cold enough to kill everything.

“What... what is that thing?”

Just looking at the clouds was enough to make Lingyu feel hurt both in body and soul. She felt like her very being was about to be cut into many pieces by the sharpness or annihilated by the coldness.

“If I’m not mistaken, that is the Innate Geng Metal Divine Edge!”

Old Man Turtle was looking at the mountain with astonishment and stroking his beard so hard he nearly broke it.

Before Lingyu could say anything, Old Man Turtle launched into an explanation, “The Innate Geng Metal Divine Edge is an object of ultimate yang, forcefulness and sharpness. It could split mountains, sunder earth, break streams, and divide rivers. It could cut anything and everything in the world. There is nothing in the world that can stop it.”

There was no doubt that the Innate Geng Metal Divine Edge was the ultimate treasure and divine object of everyone’s dreams. This was doubly true for a swordsman. Even a wisp of it could be used to refine their sword or temper themselves.

Of course, the Innate Geng Metal Divine Edge was also extremely rare. It could only be found in places with ample concentrations of Geng Metal and killing qi. It also took thousands and thousands of years to form a single wisp. It was unobtainable by all except the extremely fortunate and destined.

A wisp of the Innate Geng Metal Divine Edge was already this precious, but the one before them was so thick that it had formed clouds. To say it was innumerable would be an understatement. Even someone as worldly and knowledgeable as Old Man Turtle had never seen or heard something like this before.

“Is this where the evil suppressing spiritual treasure is located, Joyless?” Feng Qingyou asked.

“It is. More accurately, this entire mountain

is

the evil suppressing spiritual treasure,” Ye Qing said with a mysterious glint in his eyes.

“What? This whole mountain is the evil suppressing spiritual treasure?”

Lingyu’s eyes were widened like saucers, and her face was riddled with disbelief. She spread out her arms and repeated herself, “This whole mountain?!”

Feng Qingyou and Old Man Turtle were looking at him in disbelief as well.

“That’s right. You did not mishear me,” Ye Qing declared.

According to King Taishan’s spiritual senses, this gigantic mountain was definitely the evil suppressing spiritual treasure they were looking for.

“Even if that’s true... How are we going to move a mountain, exactly? Are you

sure

you got it right, big brother Ye?” Lingyu stared at the gigantic mountain before her before looking at Ye Qing. The size difference was such that she just could not believe that the young man, as powerful as he was, could whisk away this mountain.

“I cannot, but someone can.”

As Ye Qing said this, someone walked out of his body.

He was wearing a tall crown and an imperial robe. He looked noble and mysterious.

He was King Taishan, naturally.

The silhouette performed a

jishou

to Ye Qing after showing himself.

Ye Qing returned the salute and said, “I entrust this task to you, Dao Friend.”

King Taishan nodded and slowly walked toward the mountain.

As soon as King Taishan got close, some sort of mysterious energy seemed to leak out of King Taishan and formed some sort of inexplicable connection with the mountain. The clouds of Innate Geng Metal Divine Edge swayed and rang sharply as if they were excited to see him. They did not try to harm him at all.

Then, something even more amazing happened. Every time King Taishan took a step, the mountain would shrink three hundred meters, and the Innate Geng Metal Divine Edge would condense a few meters.

Nine steps later, when King Taishan was standing before the mountain, what was a towering peak that pierced through the heavens had shrunk to the size of a hundred meters.

Although it was still much bigger and taller than King Taishan, the size difference wasn’t nearly as ridiculous as before.

When King Taishan reached out, the mountain shrank another dozens of meters and fell snugly into his palm.

The moment King Taishan grasped the mountain, the Innate Geng Metal Divine Edge shone like the sun. At that moment, it became so bright that one could see its radiance from thousands of thousands of kilometers away.

The next moment, the rocks and earth of the mountain fell apart on its own. A mysterious axe emitting a radiant glow was revealed in the blink of an eye.

The axe was about three meters long. A silver dragon adorned its handle, and its blade was shaped like a crescent. Sharp, mysterious, and profound light circulated around its body and split apart the surrounding space, the wind, the clouds, and even light itself.

“Ahhh!”

A wisp of profound light happened to shoot in the group’s direction, and Lingyu felt like she had been stabbed in the eyes. Even her mind and consciousness were threatening to fall apart.

At a critical moment, Ye Qing flicked his finger and clashed against the wisp of profound light. The resulting clash sounded like clanging metal.

“Impressive!”

Ye QIng looked down on his finger to find a mark. The Geng Metal’s intent of sharpness was clinging to his skin incessantly and refusing to be annihilated.

Although the light failed to cut open his skin, the fact it could even leave a mark was already very impressive.

“What a terrifying divine axe!”

Old Man Turtle shuddered as he stared at the divine axe King Taishan was holding. He had a strong premonition that he would not be able to block an attack by the axe.

When the divine axe had fully withdrawn its light, King Taishan finally stepped toward Ye Qing.