Mortal Bones

As a last resort, Fairy Lingyue had to erase the mark first.

If the mark was not erased in time, she and Xu Taiping would not survive tonight.

"Bang!"

Just as Fairy Lingyue was distracted to erase the mark, the Heaven Sealing Stone held in Xu Taiping's palm shattered with a bang, and then turned into countless fine dust, all of which were sucked into his left eye.

In the end, only a piece the size of a grain of rice fell into the box.

Seeing this scene, Xu Taiping's heart sank.

Then, his left eye began to become extremely hot, as if a piece of branding iron was put into it.

"Heaven Sealing Stone, that is an existence that even the demon god may not be able to cut open, and it was actually... actually eaten by your lotus pupil?"

Fairy Lingyue looked at Xu Taiping's eye that was bleeding in disbelief.

She suddenly realized that Xu Taiping's eye might be more terrifying than she imagined.

"Sister Lingyue, what exactly is the Sealing Heaven Stone? Why does my eye want to eat it so much?"

Xu Taiping covered his eyes and asked Fairy Lingyue with a puzzled tone.

Fairy Lingyue stretched out her hand to press Xu Taiping's eyes, and used her own divine essence to help Xu Taiping suppress the violent power in her eye.

When the violent power in Xu Taiping's left eye gradually subsided, she explained:

"The Sealing Heaven Stone is also called the Heaven Gate Stone."

"When the ancient order of heaven and earth had not yet collapsed, it was used to build the Heaven Gate of the ancient Heaven. It was because of the existence of the four Heaven Gates in the east, west, south and north that Jiuyuan spent hundreds of thousands of years without being able to attack the Heaven."

"And this Sealing Heaven Stone was not born from heaven and earth, but was refined by the ancient fire god Zhurong with hundreds of millions of fine gold and stones."

"Since the collapse of the ancient Heaven and the fall of the gods, no one has been able to refine the Sealing Heaven Stone."

"The Sealing Heaven Stones that can be found now are all fragments left in the world after the four Heaven Gates were broken."

"But even these fragments have been searched for millions of years. Your master-in-law is really determined to find such a piece!"

When Fairy Lingyue said this, her eyes were full of respect.

When Xu Taiping heard this, he finally realized the preciousness of the Sealing Heaven Stone just now.

"Wait, Sister Lingyue, you just said that this Heaven Sealing Stone is made of Golden Essence Stone. Could this be the reason why my left eye wants to eat it so much?"

Xu Taiping suddenly realized something.

"If nothing unexpected happens, it should be so."

Fairy Lingyue nodded.

"Sister Lingyue, have you guessed the purpose of my master's sister-in-law looking for this Heaven Sealing Stone?"

Xu Taiping asked with a serious expression.

Fairy Lingyue nodded, and then continued:

"After the ancient Heavenly Gate was broken, these Heaven-sealing Stones scattered all over the place were later collected by Emperor Yan, supplemented by refined bronze, and nine bronze giant doors were cast to seal the nine entrances of Jiuyuan."

"These nine bronze giant doors are also called Demon-sealing Gates."

"For example, under the Zhenhai Tower of Youyuntian, there is a Demon-sealing Gate made of fragments of the Heavenly Gate."

"If my guess is correct, the entrance to Jiuyuan in Zhenwutian is just below your Qingxuan Sect."

"And for some reason, the Demon-sealing Gate that seals the entrance to Jiuyuan has been damaged, and your Qingxuan Sect needs to use some method to block it at the cost of sacrificing the monks in the sect."

"And your sister-in-law has gone through so many years to find this Heaven-sealing Stone, just to repair the Demon-sealing Gate, so as to break the deadlock of Qingxuan."

Hearing this, Xu Taiping was stunned.

"Could it be that the previous leader of Qingxuan Sect did not disappear, but went to seal the sect?"

He suddenly recalled the dream.

Recalling the scene in the dream when the junior master said goodbye to the previous leader, he became more certain of his guess.

"So the next one to seal the sect is Master?"

Xu Taiping murmured.

Thinking of this, he looked at the jade box again, and there was only a grain-sized Fengtian Stone left. Xu Taiping suddenly blamed himself:

"Such a precious and important thing was actually destroyed by my eyes?!"

For a moment, he had the urge to take off his eye.

Seeing this, Fairy Lingyue immediately stepped forward to comfort him:

"Taiping, although the Sealing Heaven Stone is rare now, it is not impossible to find it."

Hearing this, Xu Taiping's face immediately lit up, and he quickly asked Fairy Lingyue:

"Sister Lingyue, what method?"

Fairy Lingyue smiled, pointed to the rice-sized Sealing Heaven Stone in the jade box and said: "Don't forget, you still have the Earth Fruit. As long as you find the remains of the former Heavenly Gate, and then plant the Earth Fruit and a fragment of the Sealing Heaven Stone, you will definitely be able to produce a complete Sealing Heaven Stone."

Xu Taiping suddenly said with a look of enlightenment:

"Yes, how could I forget the Earth Fruit."

"Moreover, the method of repairing the Sealing Demon Gate is not only the Sealing Heaven Stone. When you return from Youyuntian this time, we can find a way to temporarily seal the Sealing Demon Gate, and then slowly look for the Sealing Heaven Stone."

Fairy Lingyue continued.

"Thank you, Sister Lingyue."

Xu Taiping thanked her immediately.

"It's my fault too. If I hadn't been so curious, maybe your eyes wouldn't have had a chance to eat the Sealing Heaven Stone."

Fairy Lingyue smiled and shook her head.

"But if you want the Earth Fruit to grow a treasure of the same grade as the Sealing Heaven Stone, your cultivation must break through the Transformation Realm, otherwise the Earth Fruit won't be able to complete the fifth burning seed."

She suddenly looked at Xu Taiping with a serious face.

"I understand that success or failure depends on this trip to the Blood Rain Forest."

Xu Taiping nodded vigorously.

"Well!……"

And just when the two were about to discuss what they should prepare for entering the Blood Rain Forest, Xu Taiping's left eye suddenly felt a heartbreaking pain again.

Then, a young man's voice sounded in his mind——

"This is a thank you gift."

Xu Taiping always felt that he had heard this voice somewhere before, but he just couldn't remember it.

The moment the sound rang out, the true energy in his body began to flow toward his left eye uncontrollably.

Immediately afterwards, scenes began to flash rapidly in Xu Taiping's mind.

Although these scenes flashed very quickly, Xu Taiping felt as if he had experienced them personally.

What’s even weirder is that the time in these scenes seems not to be in the past, but in the future.

"Hoo, ho, ho!..."

After a while, Xu Taiping was like a drowning man, gasping for air.

Fairy Lingyue on the side, after seeing Xu Taiping's appearance, immediately asked with a worried look: "Taiping, is there something wrong with these eyes?"

"Sister Lingyue."

After his breathing calmed down a bit, Xu Taiping suddenly looked at Fairy Lingyue with a hint of disbelief and said:

"I...I just seemed to have seen what happened a few days later...and I... seemed to have been killed!"