Chapter 1951: Chapter 860: Hongjun Borrows the Stele, The Pinnacle of Qingping

Inside the Valley of Split Path, at the end of a confusing array channel, Han Yi’s pupils shrank as he watched the Tao Stele float out from within him and land in the hands of Hongjun Great Heavenly Venerate.

This was indeed the Chongxuan Stele.

Not long ago, he had poured all the Boundary Power he obtained from the Returning Ruins into the Chongxuan Stele, causing many miniature worlds within this mysterious stele to begin ‘resurrecting’.

Moreover, he had placed the Bronze Giant Tripod he obtained in the Returning Ruins inside the stele, as well as Mie Yang Venerable, whom he had made a pact with not long ago.

He had never imagined that Hongjun Great Heavenly Venerate would actually come to borrow the stele from him.

Speaking of which, he had acquired this Tao Stele from the ruins of Ashen Mountain, and at that time, when he was trapped deep within the Ashen Mountain ruins, he had left his name on the stele in a special way, making himself one of the Taoist of Ashen Mountain.

As for the origins of the Tao Stele, as Han Yi’s Realm and knowledge had improved, its background continued to change.

Initially, he deduced it was a treasured relic of Ashen Mountain, perhaps a formidable ancient artifact.

Later, he discovered that it could stir its particles and transform them into Cave Heaven Worlds, making him deduce that it was a fragment of the Chaos Realm.

Now, he deduced that it must have been a major force within the ancient Taoist Spirit Chaos Realm that used it to get through a past catastrophe of the Tao Tomb, such as the Huanyan Sacred Land’s Ferry Grave Taoist Boat. Whether this ancient artifact succeeded in the past, he did not know; he only knew that numerous worlds lay dormant within the Tao Stele now, requiring Boundary Power to awaken them.

After deducing that this ancient artifact could get past the calamity of the Tao Tomb, Han Yi spared no effort and took the risk of going to the Returning Ruins to seize Boundary Power, desiring to resurrect the ancient artifact.

He had placed considerable hope in this powerful object.

Unexpectedly, here at this place, Hongjun Great Heavenly Venerate would actually ask to borrow this artifact from him.

However, he did not stop him; considering the majesty of Hongjun Great Heavenly Venerate, the fact that he ‘borrowed’ rather than directly ‘took’ the Tao Stele was already treating him as an equal.

Furthermore, the other party promised to compensate and return the Tao Stele after using it. Hence, Han Yi was not in a hurry.

The dark black Tao Stele, in the hands of Hongjun Great Heavenly Venerate, condensed into a small tablet stele.

With a gentle grasp of his other hand, several items were pulled out from this tablet stele by Hongjun and thrown back into Han Yi’s body, including the recently acquired Bronze Giant Tripod suspected of being a high-level or even peak ancient artifact and the Mie Yang Venerable he had made a pact with.

Watching Mie Yang Venerable being thrown back at him, Han Yi felt as if his consciousness had been frozen, as if space and time around Mie Yang Venerable had paused.

The fact that Hongjun Great Heavenly Venerate could easily put a Heavenly Sovereign in such a bizarre state with just a gesture, struck fear into Han Yi’s heart.

Truly a challenger capable of confronting the Immortal Mausoleum Master who is at Half-step Transcendence level.

With a thought, Han Yi took the Bronze Giant Tripod and Mie Yang Venerable into a Divine Aperture World within him.

In the Divine Aperture World, Mie Yang Venerable, in a daze, found his surroundings had completely changed. He did not think much of it, assuming it was Han Yi’s power that altered the surrounding space and time.

Immediately afterwards, Han Yi saw at the end of the channel, Hongjun directly took the palm-sized tablet stele into his body.

In the next instant, Hongjun’s body erupted with a terrifying aura that was so frightening that Han Yi’s heart shook and he had no choice but to back away frantically.

While retreating, he stared fixedly at Hongjun at the end of the channel, because the aura bursting from his body was not a unified one, but a confluence of three distinct auras mixed together.

One of the auras was filled with Taoism that could destroy everything; another was like the Heavenly Tao, cold and merciless.

The last was the true aura of a Seeker of the Path, Hongjun’s own aura.

With this realization, Han Yi’s heart suddenly stirred.

The aura of annihilation was very similar to that of the middle-stage Destroyer Venerable he had seen, including the Mie Yang Venerable within him, all belonging to the aura of the Destroyers, the Tao of Annihilation that crushes everything.

He deduced that this Taoism was left by the supremely strong being from the Chaotic Ancient Immortal Mausoleum, a remnant of the injuries that Hongjun Great Heavenly Venerate sustained after his challenge against the Immortal Mausoleum Master left him with wounds after the battle.

The second aura, cold and merciless, was completely unexpected to Han Yi, who was relatively unfamiliar with it but it reminded him of the indifferent figure who emerged from within the battle of the gods during the Divine Sovereign Tribulation; although it was only a fleeting appearance, the gaze from that figure matched the second aura currently on Hongjun.

Taoist Immortal.

There was an aura of a Taoist Immortal on Hongjun.

Han Yi involuntarily gasped.

As two additional auras appeared on Hongjun’s body, suddenly, a Tao Stele appeared behind him, stretching from the earth to the sky, filling the entire space of the channel. Dark black light burst forth from the Tao Stele.

Han Yi looked up at the Tao Stele, his eyes filled with shock, for he could see through the stele, worlds within its space reviving and elevating. The space of the Tao Stele was also continuously evolving into Chaos, with strands of Chaos Qi being birthed.

Then.

With a shout from Hongjun, he slammed his palm on his chest, and with a booming sound, the two abnormal auras that had emerged from him were forcefully suppressed into the Tao Stele behind him.