Chapter 597: Chapter 595: Celestial Refining Divine Scripture, Immortal Dao Volume

"Xu Yang?"

A startled cry echoed across the White Jade Plaza.

Shi Hu sprang to his feet, his face suddenly changing, staring at Xu Yang with anxiety: "Xu Yang?"

"Can you hear me? Wake up!"

He shouted again, his face full of urgency.

But Xu Yang had no reaction, like a statue!

"Kid, wake up!"

Even Blood Ming couldn’t sit still anymore. Realizing something was wrong, he hurried to the front and let out a low roar charged with willpower.

At this moment, compared to Xu Yang’s earlier agony, it was like two different people.

He didn’t move at all, his face ashen as death, breath completely severed, utterly unruffled!

He looked no different than a corpse!

Xu Yang had perished!

Blood Ming and Shi Hu simply couldn’t accept this outcome.

In the face of Blood Ming’s willful summons, several breaths passed, but Xu Yang didn’t respond at all.

What was displayed was utterly and completely the extinction of life force!

Shi Hu couldn’t accept it. He rushed forward, grabbing Xu Yang’s body and shaking him non-stop.

Even so, Xu Yang showed not a single hint of movement.

The moment his hands touched him, Xu Yang’s whole body was ice cold.

There wasn’t even a trace of life left in Xu Yang’s body!

Not even a residual wisp of power remained!

For one as strong as the Shenxiao Realm, even in death, their power couldn’t possibly dissipate this quickly.

"Senior, what should we do?"

Shi Hu’s face turned deathly pale, as he turned dumbly to look at Blood Ming.

Blood Ming opened his mouth but was silent for a long while!

Was it a failure?

Thinking back to when he sensed Xu Yang burning will and soul earlier, his heart trembled.

The result was self-evident!

But right now, they didn’t even know what road or method Xu Yang had tried—so how could they change anything?

"Xu Yang, how the fuck could you die?"

Shi Hu roared in agony and rage: "You still have to compete with Xiao Ming! If you’re dead, who can stand in Xiao Ming’s way? Who can stop the Five Elements Celestial Realm?"

"You son of a bitch!"

Hearing Shi Hu’s cursing, Blood Ming forced a bitter smile.

Suddenly!

Shi Hu looked as if he’d seen a ghost, staring at Xu Yang with wide eyes, suddenly bursting into mad laughter: "He moved! He just moved! I knew it, this bastard isn’t dying so easily, hahahahaha!"

"What?"

Blood Ming darted like a spring to Xu Yang’s side, examining carefully, but he saw no change at all.

He reached over to sense carefully—there wasn’t the slightest ripple, only deathly stillness like a netherworld pool!

Blood Ming couldn’t help looking at the wildly gesticulating Shi Hu, his facial muscles twitching.

"Shi Hu, are you sure you saw him move?"

"Senior, I’m absolutely sure! He really moved."

"Wait, Senior, you’re not thinking I’m insane and had a hallucination, are you?"

Shi Hu froze, quickly shaking his head in explanation: "I’m not crazy, I’m perfectly calm—this bastard really moved just now!"

"..."

Blood Ming took a deep breath and silently turned away.

You kept shaking him, how could he not move?

You’re not crazy, I am!

Still, Blood Ming didn’t say anything more, just blankly stared at Xu Yang, his heart even more unwilling than Shi Hu to see something happen to him.

But the facts were right there!

No matter how hard it was to believe, they had to accept reality!

At the same time.

Xu Yang’s consciousness, lost in endless darkness, was suddenly surrounded by brilliant celestial light.

Within the Celestial Gate, a cluster of immortal radiance burst forth fiercely, like the eruption of the sun.

In a daze—

Xu Yang heard innumerable chains clashing together!

Clank! Clank! Clank!!

In an instant, he revived, and saw a scene all too familiar.

At first, it was that mysterious void where he received the inheritance from King Beixuan’s palace.

In boundless emptiness, pitch-black chains hung down, thick as pythons!

Nine in all, firmly locking up an enormous black cauldron!

Black mist surged, emitting an ancient, terrifying air that made even the void tremble.

Even gods and demons would bow in submission!

Even now, when he’d reached the Shenxiao Realm and touched on celestial fortune, this was still unbearably frightening.

It brought an unprecedented sense of oppression!

Even that young Immortal, even all of Desolate Heaven Sword Sect, could not overshadow the supreme, boundless aura of this place!

"Why am I back here again?"

"Is this an illusion?"

Xu Yang forcefully suppressed his shock, completely at a loss.

Thinking it through, he finally recalled—he had found the right path, crossed the Ascension Bridge, glimpsed the Peeping Immortal Sect, but had burned all his willpower and sunk into darkness.

"At the last moment, I seemed to have already entered the Celestial Gate!"

"So why have I appeared here?"

He only grew more perplexed.

If he hadn’t died, upon awakening shouldn’t he be comprehending the secrets of the celestial way?

Suddenly.

The nine chains shook violently.

Clatter, clatter!!

Xu Yang reflexively fixed his eyes upon them.

He saw the void twisting, churning like thick ink, the chains shattering, and from within the Divine Tripod erupted a wave of dazzling celestial light, surging straight toward him.

With a flash at the corner of his vision, he didn’t even have time to react before he was swallowed by immortal light!

The Divine Tripod unleashed immortal light!

This was a scene that had never happened when he first received the inheritance.

"Could it be that after stepping into the celestial path, I triggered a deeper secret within this inheritance?"

This thought arose in Xu Yang’s mind, and he offered no resistance at all.

But even if he wanted to resist, he had no strength to struggle!

Boom!

The celestial light exploded fiercely, carrying an unparalleled, vast shockwave, violently crashing into Xu Yang’s consciousness, pouring in boundless, inexhaustible knowledge.

The abrupt psychic impact made Xu Yang scream in agony on the spot.

"Ah~~~"

The shrill scream echoed across White Jade Plaza as well.

Utterly heartrending!

Chilling to the very soul, making scalp tingle!

Bang!

Blood Ming was so startled that he leaped away, nearly falling over from fear.

He stared at the violently convulsing, endlessly screaming Xu Yang as if he’d seen a ghost, his mind completely blank.

This really was like seeing a ghost!

"How can this be?"

"He—he—he hasn’t even revived a shred of vitality, and yet he’s still alive?"

The mighty Blood Ming Divine Sparrow at the peak of Shenxiao Realm was so shocked he stuttered all over himself; even with his knowledge, he simply couldn’t comprehend this bizarre scene.

Shi Hu was also startled.

But his ability to handle surprises was clearly far beyond Blood Ming’s, tempered by sheer repetition.

Seeing Blood Ming utterly spooked, Shi Hu grinned and said, "See, Senior, I told you I wasn’t lying."

He now fully understood—Blood Ming hadn’t believed a word he said earlier.

But that didn’t matter.

Now the ironclad truth was right in front of them both.

Can someone who’s truly dead still scream?

Though even now, he couldn’t explain why Xu Yang showed not a trace of vitality whatsoever.

Blood Ming wiped cold sweat from his brow, forcing a wry grin, his heart still in turmoil.

Still, this was undoubtedly tremendous news.

Truly cause for rejoicing!

At some point—

The screams abruptly ceased!

Xu Yang suddenly opened his eyes, gulping for air as if just rescued from drowning.

His body trembled, celestial light bursting forth from within, radiant as rosy clouds, brilliant beyond compare.

The previously extinct vitality now recovered and soared at a terrifying speed.

Yet Xu Yang’s expression was still dazed, as if entirely unaware of the ruckus from his own body.

"Xu Yang, what happened?"

Shi Hu pressed urgently.

"Let me catch my breath."

Xu Yang waved his hand, immediately shutting his eyes.

He was still digesting the torrent of information he’d received.

It was astonishing.

But it was exactly the answer he’d so desperately yearned for!

The information transmitted from within the Celestial Refining Divine Tripod.

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