OBS Chapter 1405 The Death of the Barbarian Beard!
Chapter 1405 The Death of the Barbarian Beard!
Chapter 1405 The Death of the Barbarian Beard!
Faced with this terrifying attack that could severely injure or even kill an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator, the bearded man did not dodge or evade. Instead, he let out a deafening laugh: "Hahaha! Well done! Let this old man see what you're made of!"
He suddenly crossed his arms in front of his chest, and the protective golden light on his body suddenly surged, becoming as dense as liquid gold, enveloping his entire body and forming an indestructible golden demon god phantom!
"clang--!!!"
First, the gilded armor-cracking blade pierced the golden light like a poisonous dragon, producing a loud clang of metal against metal, and sparks flew everywhere! The sharp blade tip, which was sharp enough to tear apart the protective shield of an ordinary magic weapon, was like a piercing of the toughest divine iron in the world when it came into contact with the golden light of the Heaven-Supporting Demon Art. It only caused the golden light to fluctuate violently and indent inward by an inch, and then it could not penetrate any further!
Almost simultaneously, two giant golden halberds also crashed down!
"Boom——!!!"
A violent energy storm instantly swept through the entire chamber, causing the Spirit Eye Spring to churn and splash, and sending pebbles and dust raining down from the stone walls. Blinding golden light filled every inch of space, completely engulfing the two figures.
The golden light slowly dissipated.
The bearded man remained standing like a mountain, slowly lowering his crossed arms. The golden light protecting his body, though slightly dimmer than before, was completely unharmed! Even his crossed arms, used for blocking, bore only a faint white mark that vanished instantly. The formidable golden halberd, however, was firmly held back by the golden light just inches above his head, ultimately dissipating into countless specks of light.
"Hmph!" The bearded man sneered disdainfully, brushing off non-existent dust from his body. He glanced at Qin Hao with a mocking grin, his voice booming like thunder: "Boy, is that all you've got? You can't even tickle me! You thought you were so great for killing that piece of trash Ji Yin, but it turns out you're just relying on some opportunistic tricks! Before my Heaven-Supporting Demonic Art, all your struggles are futile! Hahaha!"
Arrogant laughter echoed in the stone chamber, filled with absolute confidence and utter contempt for Qin Hao. He approached step by step, each step causing the ground to tremble slightly, as if stepping on Qin Hao's heartstrings, the heavy pressure pressing down like a mountain.
Qin Hao's pupils contracted slightly, his heart trembling. Although he had known that the Heavenly Demon Art was unparalleled in defense, witnessing firsthand that even his full-force Golden Radiance Slash Talisman and his natal magic weapon combined to attack had failed to budge his opponent in the slightest, still put him under immense pressure. This old demon's physical defense was simply monstrous!
But he did not panic. Instead, his gaze became even more focused, like a deep, cold pool. He moved with lightning speed, advancing instead of retreating, and took the initiative to meet the approaching barbarian.
"Golden Spear Talisman!"
Qin Hao shouted repeatedly, and the Myriad Talisman Treasure Record flashed again, activating several more high-level talismans without hesitation!
The golden halberd, solidified into a tangible form, rained down like a storm, striking at the barbarian's vital points from every tricky angle! At the same time, the gilded armor-splitting blade, under his exquisite control, transformed into a dark golden storm of death, frantically slicing and piercing around the barbarian, searching for any possible weaknesses in the golden light shield.
The entire chamber was transformed into a raging vortex of energy! Blinding light and deafening explosions mingled together. The stone walls were riddled with craters from the escaping energy, and the Spirit Eye Spring was blasted into turbulent waves.
However, the bearded man at the center of the storm was like a rock in a raging storm! He would either use his iron fist covered in golden light to shatter the talisman attack, or he would churn up golden light to resist the cutting, and no matter how tricky the gilded armor-cracking blade was, it could only splash dense sparks on the surface of the golden light and make a tooth-grinding friction sound.
"Useless! Boy! You have no chance against my Heaven-Supporting Demonic Art!" the bearded man roared, his fists like two giant golden hammers, each strike carrying the power to split mountains and shatter rocks, repelling Qin Hao's talisman attacks and magical weapon offensives one by one. Although he was slightly slower than Qin Hao, in the confined space, his terrifying explosive power and unparalleled defensive strength made him virtually invincible!
The battle escalated, with Qin Hao employing every trick in the book, scattering talismans as if they were free, consuming a great deal of magical power and causing his face to turn slightly pale. Meanwhile, the barbarian's golden light fluctuated slightly, but his aura remained incredibly powerful, even growing stronger with each battle, his eyes filled with even greater contempt.
"Hahaha! That feels great! It's been a long time since I've stretched my muscles like this! Kid, give it your all!" The barbarian shattered a golden talisman with a punch and laughed wildly as he approached again.
A fierce glint flashed in Qin Hao's eyes, as if he had been forced into a desperate situation. While dodging the barbarian's heavy punch, his movements seemed to falter slightly. He was struck by the barbarian's violent fist wind, which hit his protective aura. He groaned and flew backward, crashing heavily into the stone wall behind him.
"Pfft!" Qin Hao felt a sweet taste in his throat and forced down the surging blood. His breath instantly weakened and his face turned as pale as paper.
"Haha, kid, is that all you've got?" The bearded man's eyes blazed with ferocity. How could he let such a golden opportunity slip by? He stomped his foot hard, and the hard ground cracked instantly. His burly body shot out like a cannonball, and his giant hand, covered in dense golden light, was like an iron clamp, tearing through the air with a sharp shriek, and went straight for Qin Hao's neck!
"Boy, come here!" The bearded man grinned maliciously, his five fingers spread wide, about to capture Qin Hao!
At this critical moment!
Qin Hao's seemingly listless, even despairing gaze suddenly turned as cold as ice, eerily calm! A barely perceptible curve even appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"It's now!"
He didn't try to dodge the giant golden hand that was grabbing at him; instead, he seemed to be actively going to meet it! But in the instant before the two made contact, a terrifying power that he had been suppressing and holding back within his body suddenly erupted like a dormant volcano!
"Asura Sacred Flame, burn!"
A flame, so alluring it seemed to contain the coldest and darkest energy in the world, burst forth from Qin Hao's palm without warning! It didn't make a spectacular display; instead, it was unusually restrained, only the size of a palm, its color constantly shifting between dark blue and pale white, exuding an eerie aura that could freeze one's soul!
The moment the flame appeared, the temperature in the entire chamber did not rise; instead, it dropped drastically and eerily, as if the air itself had frozen and solidified! The surface of the Spirit Eye Spring was instantly covered with a layer of deep blue ice crystals! But at the same time, an immense sense of fear, stemming from an innate life force, instantly seized the bearded man's mind!
This eerie flame, precisely at the moment the giant hand of the bearded man grabbed Qin Hao's shoulder, touched his knuckles, which were covered in a dense golden light!
"laugh--!!!"
A strange sound, like cold water dripping into a boiling oil pan, suddenly rang out! The seemingly indestructible protective golden light, upon being touched by that eerie flame, melted and vanished silently, like bubbles in the sunlight! There was absolutely no resistance; it was as if that layer of golden light, capable of withstanding magical artifacts and talismans, was nothing more than a thin sheet of paper before it!
"What?!" The savage grin on the bearded man's face froze instantly, and his pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints!
He clearly felt a power carrying extreme cold and destructive energy spreading from his fingertips, ignoring his proud physical defenses, and frantically eroding his arm and even his entire body! The feeling was like being instantly pierced deep into his bone marrow by billions of fine needles containing extreme cold poison and destructive power!
Unprecedented pain and extreme fear stemming from the instinct for survival instantly overwhelmed the bearded man!
"What the hell is that! Get out of my way!" The bearded man roared in utter terror. The immense power of his mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivation surged wildly towards his arm like a burst dam, attempting to force out and disperse the strange flame!
At the same time, he pushed the Heaven-Supporting Demon Art to an unprecedented limit, and the golden light on his body was more intense than ever before, like a golden sun bursting in the small stone chamber!
However, a scene that terrified him occurred!
The seemingly weak flame, upon contact with his surging magical power and even denser protective golden light, was not only not extinguished but seemed to be replenished with fuel, hissing and suddenly expanding!
The three colors of flame—deep blue, pale white, and dark purple—intertwined and entwined instantly, like maggots clinging to his bones, rapidly spreading upwards along his arm! Wherever it passed, the golden light of the Heaven-Supporting Demon Art, hailed as the strongest defense in the Chaotic Star Sea, seemed to have encountered its nemesis, disintegrating and turning into nothingness at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Under the golden light, his tough muscles and skin, honed to perfection and comparable to a magical artifact, began to melt, char, and carbonize like candles under the licking of the flames! Even more terrifying, the flames seemed to directly burn away his soul, and the intense pain caused even a fierce figure like Barbarian Beard to let out a shrill scream!
"Ah—!!! What...what kind of ghost fire is this?! My Heaven-Supporting Demonic Art...how could it not stop me?!" The bearded man's eyes widened in disbelief, filled with shock and despair. He frantically swung his arms, trying to shake off the flames, even slamming his arm against the stone wall beside him!
boom! boom! boom!
The hard stone wall was smashed into pieces, but the flames seemed to grow from his flesh and bones. Instead of being extinguished, they spread even faster because of his struggle and the stimulation of his magic! The flames had covered his entire right arm and began to spread to his shoulder and chest! A strange, eerie smell of charred flesh mixed with a peculiar, icy coldness filled the air.
"No! Impossible! How could my Heaven-Supporting Demon Art be unable to withstand this tiny flame?!" The bearded man, as if possessed by a madman, poured all his life's power into his protective divine power. The golden light on his body even condensed into a tangible, ancient demonic rune-covered golden armor phantom, attempting a final struggle.
However, the Asura Sacred Flame is formed by fusing the Azure Ice Flame and the Profound Soul Yin Flame. It is not an ordinary flame. Although the Heavenly Demon Art is powerful, it can only be burned to ashes in front of the Asura Sacred Flame.
"Chichichi..."
The golden demonic armor, which was as solid as a physical object, lasted for less than a breath before it melted and disintegrated rapidly under the flowing tri-colored flames of the Asura Sacred Fire, just like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun!
"Uhhh-!!!"
An even more piercing and desperate scream echoed throughout the secret chamber! Barbarian Beard watched helplessly as his proud, thousand-year-old, powerful body rapidly charred, carbonized, and disintegrated in the flames! The pain of his body being burned away bit by bit while his soul was torn apart inch by inch was enough to break even the most resolute will!
Despair, like a cold, venomous snake, coiled around the bearded man's heart. He finally understood that this flame was the true nemesis of his Heavenly Demon Art! If he continued to resist, his physical body, along with his nascent soul, would be reduced to ashes and his soul scattered by this eerie flame!
"Ah—!!! I'm not reconciled!!!"
In his final roar filled with endless resentment and unwillingness, Barbarian made the only possible, yet also the most tragic, choice to save his life!
A blinding golden light suddenly burst forth from the top of his head!
A tiny infant, about an inch tall, radiating golden light, with an appearance identical to that of the barbarian bearded man, yet with a face full of pain and eyes filled with resentment and fear—the barbarian bearded man's natal spirit—transformed into a golden rainbow and instantly emerged from the top of his physical body!
The instant the nascent soul left the body, the physical body, having lost the support of magical power and the dominance of the nascent soul, was like rotten wood stripped of all its support. Under the frenzied licking of the Asura Sacred Fire, it was completely reduced to a pile of charred ashes at a speed visible to the naked eye! Not even a trace of remains was left!
Only the lingering smell of burning in the air and the eerie flames still burning quietly on the ashes, leaping with tricolored light, silently told the story of the tragedy that had just occurred.
A golden light flashed, and the barbarian's nascent soul hovered in mid-air above the secret chamber, several feet away from the pile of ashes. His small face no longer held any of the arrogance and domineering nature it had shown before, only the extreme fear of surviving the calamity and the heart-wrenching hatred of losing his physical body remained.
"You..." The bearded man was filled with shock and rage. He never expected that after roaming the Chaotic Star Sea for hundreds of years, relying on the Heaven-Supporting Demon Art, almost no one could harm him at his core, but today he was defeated by a junior who had just entered the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and even his physical body was destroyed! This was simply an utter disgrace! Overwhelming hatred almost broke through his reason.
However, when his gaze met Qin Hao's calm yet deep and cold eyes, a chilling coldness instantly extinguished all his anger and impulse.
In his Nascent Soul state, he felt the threat of death more clearly than ever before! Not only did his opponent possess a strange flame that could ignore the Heaven-Supporting Demon Art, but more importantly, he also had an ancient treasure that could freeze the Nascent Soul's teleportation ability—the Condensing Light Mirror!
His Nascent Soul teleportation was his only means of survival. If even this was countered, he would be utterly helpless in this cramped chamber, facing Qin Hao, who possessed the Asura Sacred Flame! Forget revenge; he might not even be able to preserve his Nascent Soul body!
All arrogance and resentment vanished instantly in the face of absolute power disparity and the threat of death.
The bearded man forced a look that was worse than crying onto his Nascent Soul face, and spoke in a pleading, submissive tone:
"Fellow Daoist Zhang...please have mercy! I...no, I...I admit defeat!"
"I was blind and offended you, fellow Daoist! I beg you to spare my life, considering how difficult cultivation is!"
The voice in the Nascent Soul state had a peculiar tremor, which made it even more apparent that he was weak and fearful.
Qin Hao stared expressionlessly at the trembling golden figure in the air, his gaze as indifferent as if he were looking at an inanimate object. He slowly raised his right hand, and a simple, ancient-looking mirror, radiating a soft white light and with a surface that seemed to reflect the soul, quietly appeared in his palm—the Mirror of Condensed Light! The mirror's surface shimmered, locking onto the golden nascent soul in the air.
Barbarian Beard's nascent soul trembled violently, as if he had been targeted by a venomous snake. The intense sense of crisis made him almost instinctively want to teleport away, but he restrained this impulse. He knew that if he made any rash moves, the mirror light would freeze him instantly, and what awaited him would be the holy fire that would burn everything!
"Show mercy?" Qin Hao finally spoke, his voice calm and even, a cold smile curving his lips. "Fellow Daoist Man, if I were in your hands now, would you let me go? You previously vowed to annihilate me, but now, you're asking me to show mercy?"
This seemingly casual question struck the bearded man's nascent soul like a heavy hammer.
A look of despair flashed across the bearded man's Nascent Soul face, but his survival instinct made him struggle again. He knew he had to offer something truly compelling to his opponent. Forcing down his fear, he said solemnly:
"Fellow Daoist Zhang! I'd like to make a deal with you! I only ask for this remnant of your Nascent Soul body in exchange, what do you say?"
"Oh? Tell me." Qin Hao's Condensing Light Mirror remained locked on him, his tone revealing neither joy nor anger. This attitude made the bearded man's heart sink even further.
"If you are willing to let my Nascent Soul depart, I am willing to reveal to you the complete cultivation manual of my lifelong fundamental technique, the 'Heavenly Demon Art,' as well as all the treasures, spiritual materials, and hoards that I have collected and hidden in a secret place in the Chaotic Star Sea over the past few centuries, including their exact locations and methods for unlocking their restrictions! There is absolutely no falsehood in this!"
Upon hearing this, Qin Hao's eyes flickered slightly, seemingly showing a hint of interest, but this quickly turned into a deeper chill and suspicion. He stared at the barbarian's Nascent Soul and said coldly, "It sounds tempting. However, Fellow Daoist Barbarian, do you think I'm some three-year-old novice? How credible are your words? Furthermore..."
He paused, his tone tinged with mockery: "It seems that I, Zhang, could also find out these things myself through soul-searching techniques. Why go through all that trouble and leave behind future problems?"
Upon hearing the words "soul search," Man Hu Zi's nascent soul body trembled violently, but he immediately forced himself to calm down, forcing a bitter smile on his face, and hurriedly explained, "Fellow Daoist Zhang, you may not know this, but the 'Heavenly Demon Art' that I cultivate is extremely special. Not only is my physical body extremely strong, but even my primordial spirit is different from ordinary people, and it can resist all soul search spells."
Qin Hao naturally knew that what the barbarian said was true. In the original story, the Extreme Yin Old Demon spent hundreds of years without succeeding in searching the soul, but on the surface he still had an ambiguous expression.
Barbarian Beard felt that every breath was as long as ten thousand years, and his nascent soul body trembled slightly under Qin Hao's gaze and the lock of the Condensing Light Mirror.
Finally, Qin Hao spoke slowly, his voice still icy: "Even if the soul search fails, or you self-destruct your nascent soul, to me, it's just a matter of not gaining some material possessions. But letting your nascent soul leave..." He shook his head slightly, a flash of killing intent in his eyes: "After much consideration, I still feel uneasy leaving such a hidden danger like you. After all, I am quite wary of the methods of a mid-stage nascent soul cultivator."
The bearded man smiled bitterly: "Fellow Daoist Zhang is too modest. With your cultivation and supernatural powers, even in my prime, I would not be your match. Now that my physical body is destroyed, even if I find a suitable body, most of my cultivation will be wasted. Moreover, even if I consume a longevity fruit, my lifespan will only be a few decades longer..."
"I only wish to use these remaining decades to settle my family affairs. I hope you will grant my request!"
Before he finished speaking, Qin Hao activated the Condensing Light Mirror and raised his hand. A soft yet powerful white light suddenly shot out from the mirror and accurately enveloped the Barbarian Beard's nascent soul!
"Certainly!"
With Qin Hao's soft shout, the barbarian felt an invisible, overwhelming force instantly engulf him, completely freezing and imprisoning the magic power flowing within his nascent soul and his most relied-upon teleportation ability!
He was as if he had been thrown into a millennium-old ice cave, his thoughts seemed to become sluggish, and apart from being able to think, see, and hear, he was completely unable to move! This was precisely the terrifying power of the Condensing Light Mirror against the primordial spirit!
"Fellow Daoist Man, there's no need to panic." Qin Hao's voice came calmly, with an indifferent air of complete control: "Letting you go is not impossible, but before you fulfill your promise and truthfully hand over the cultivation technique and treasure information, I, Zhang, still need to place a restriction on you."
"Fellow Daoist Zhang! You..." The bearded man was filled with shock and anger, yet utterly helpless. He was at the mercy of others! He couldn't even self-destruct now! He could only resign himself to his fate and close his eyes, his golden nascent soul face filled with humiliation and a hint of resigned dejection.
Qin Hao remained expressionless, raising his hand to summon a blank jade slip that flew to the top of the barbarian's nascent soul. With a flick of his finger, he sent a divine thought into the jade slip, simultaneously releasing the mirror's control over part of the barbarian's divine thought.
"Begin, Fellow Daoist Man. Inscribe the entire 'Heaven-Supporting Demonic Art' manual here, word for word. Remember, my patience is limited." Qin Hao's voice was icy cold and brooked no argument.
The bearded man opened his nascent soul, a complex mix of resentment, fear, and helplessness flashing in his eyes. But he dared not hesitate any longer. He extended his divine sense and began to meticulously inscribe the mantra of the "Heaven-Supporting Demonic Art," imprinted at the very core of his nascent soul, onto a blank jade slip. Golden runes appeared and disappeared on the surface of the jade slip.
Time passed slowly. Qin Hao stood to the side, the white light of the Condensing Mirror firmly locked onto the bearded man, ensuring he made no sudden movements.
After an unknown amount of time, the jade slip flashed with light, seemingly indicating that the recording was complete.
Qin Hao naturally didn't completely trust Man Hu Zi. After Man Hu Zi recorded all the techniques of the Heaven-Supporting Demon Art, Qin Hao began to ask him a series of questions.
“Fellow Daoist Man, the incantation for the third stage of the ‘Golden Body Tempering Chapter’ is ‘Guide the Qi of the Earth Veins into the Marrow, Circulate the Qi through the 365 main acupoints of the Heavenly Circuit.’ Why is it five acupoints different from the ‘Circulate the Qi through the 365 main acupoints of the Heavenly Circuit’ that you just inscribed? This subtle difference can be fatal.” Qin Hao’s voice was calm, but it carried a chilling aura.
Barbarian Beard's nascent soul trembled violently, a hint of panic flashing in his eyes.
"This...this...I was so flustered that I made a mistake...a mistake!" the bearded man hurriedly explained, his voice trembling slightly.
"A careless oversight?" Qin Hao's lips curled into a cold smile, a glint of cold light flashing in his eyes. Without any visible movement, the mirror-like light enveloping the barbarian's beard suddenly froze!
"Ah—!!!" The barbarian's nascent soul let out an extremely shrill scream! The mirror light seemed to transform into countless red-hot steel needles, piercing fiercely into the origin of his nascent soul! It was a torture that directly affected the depths of his soul, a hundred times more painful than the burning of the physical body! The golden light of the nascent soul fluctuated violently and dimmed instantly, the small body curled up into a ball, twisting in pain.
“Zhang’s patience is not meant to tolerate this kind of ‘oversight’.” Qin Hao’s voice was as cold as the wind from the depths of hell: “If there is another ‘oversight’, your Nascent Soul will have no reason to exist.”
"I dare not... I dare not! Fellow Daoist, spare my life!" The bearded man was in excruciating pain, all his remaining hope utterly crushed by the extreme agony. He finally understood that against this meticulous and ruthless young man, any small move was suicidal! His only remaining hope was to hand over what the other man wanted intact, and then... perhaps there would be a sliver of a chance of survival?
"Re-record!" Qin Hao coldly uttered two words, removing the soul-chilling torment of the mirror light.
This time, Barbarian Beard was completely speechless. He could only obediently and meticulously re-engrave the "Heavenly Demon Art" technique. During the engraving process, he even took the initiative to mark out as much detail as possible the subtle key points of the technique's operation, the parts prone to errors, and his own insights from thousands of years of cultivation, for fear of being found to have any more flaws.
Qin Hao took the newly engraved jade slip and immersed himself in it once more. This time, he read it more slowly and meticulously, while simultaneously using the AI to perform high-speed deductions and analyses. He repeatedly questioned some seemingly ordinary but actually profound words and phrases in the jade slip, as well as the key points connecting the various stages of the cultivation technique, asking the barbarian to explain and verify them on the spot.
"Here, 'focus your mind on the mysterious gate and draw in the evil energy.' What specific kind of evil energy from heaven and earth does this 'evil energy' refer to? How is it drawn in? What is the proportion?"
"When the Bone Tempering Chapter is completed, golden patterns appear on the bones. What is the order of formation and distribution of these golden patterns?"
Each question pointed directly to the core of the technique or the dangers of cultivation. The bearded man was terrified and dared not conceal or distort anything further, revealing everything he knew in detail.
Whenever his explanation deviated slightly from or became ambiguous with the contents of the jade slip, Qin Hao's icy gaze and the restless Condensing Light Mirror would immediately compel him to supplement and correct it.
After questioning him repeatedly for nearly several hours, Qin Hao finally stopped. With only a few hours left before being teleported out of the Void Heaven Palace, the treasures in this secret chamber couldn't be wasted.
He ignored the bearded nascent soul frozen in mid-air by the mirror's light and walked straight to the spring. The spring water was crystal clear, radiating an extremely rich spiritual energy. Beside the spring, beneath a stalactite, a milky white liquid was slowly dripping—the legendary ten-thousand-year-old spiritual milk!
Qin Hao took out a specially made jade bottle and carefully collected the ten-thousand-year-old spiritual milk. Then, his gaze fell on a wall, and from a hidden compartment in the wall, a small section of black wood that looked withered but faintly exuded a warm aura was visible.
"Soul-Nourishing Wood?" Barbarian Beard could only watch all this in silence, filled with regret. If he hadn't been so arrogant and underestimated his opponent, falling into this kid's trap, all these treasures should have been his!
Several hours passed in the blink of an eye. Just a quarter of an hour before the Void Heaven Palace was about to close, Qin Hao took the jade bottle containing the ten-thousand-year-old spiritual milk, put the barbarian bearded man's nascent soul into a jade box, affixed a sealing talisman, and then stepped forward to put the piece of soul-nourishing wood into his pocket.
Just as Qin Hao put away the Soul-Nourishing Wood...
hum!
In the center of the secret chamber, a soft glow suddenly illuminated, indicating that the removal of the treasures had triggered some mechanism, and the teleportation array was about to activate.
A quarter of an hour later, Wan Tianming appeared in the sky above a part of the Chaotic Star Sea.
Wan Tianming's eyes were sinister as he took out a long-distance transmission talisman: "From this day forward, all disciples of the Wanfa Sect, listen to my command! Dig three feet into the ground and find Barbarian Beard for me. Anyone who provides clues, regardless of their cultivation level, I will accept as my personal disciple!"
In Wan Tianming's view, the Void Heaven Cauldron must have fallen into the hands of the Barbarian Beard. After all, how could Qin Hao, a mere newly promoted Nascent Soul cultivator, be a match for the Barbarian Beard, who was at the peak of the mid-Nascent Soul stage? The Heaven-Supporting Demon Art, known as the number one defensive technique in the Chaotic Star Sea, was no joke.
So, for the next ten years, the righteous and demonic paths of the entire Chaotic Star Sea, including the Star Palace, were searching for the whereabouts of the Barbarian Beard. After all, there are no secrets that stay hidden forever. The Myriad Laws Sect came out in full force, and the righteous and demonic paths and the Star Palace's high-ranking officials were all a group of ancient monsters who had lived for thousands of years. How could they not guess the reason behind it?
As for Qin Hao, he did not appear in the Chaotic Star Sea for a full ten years, which further proves that he had been "silenced" by Barbarian Beard.
Of course, the Star Palace also sent people to secretly monitor the whereabouts of Yuan Yao and the other two women.
Compared to the Void Heaven Cauldron falling into the hands of the barbarian, the news that Tian Wuzi's Nascent Soul was destroyed by a Core Formation cultivator is naturally nothing.
……
Meanwhile, ten years later, on a secluded desert island in the outer space.
Barbarian Beard looked at the protective array rising in the valley of the deserted island and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. His gaze towards Qin Hao was also somewhat complicated.
If we're talking about hatred, he certainly does. If it weren't for Qin Hao, he would have at least several decades more to live.
But, to be fair, given that he had already fallen to such a state, the fact that the other party still honored the agreement and brought several of his talented juniors here to protect them was enough to fulfill his wish.
"Fellow Daoist Man, the time has come; it's time for you to set off."
Upon hearing this, the bearded man let out a long sigh, and his nascent soul gradually transformed into specks of golden light.
A gentle breeze blows by, and dust returns to dust, ashes to ashes!
As the bearded man completely vanished into the world, a glint of light flashed in Qin Hao's eyes.
"Now that I have achieved some success in the Heaven-Supporting Demon Art, and with the few bottles of pills that Barbarian Beard has treasured, it's time to find a place to go into seclusion and break through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm!"
The next second, a streak of dark light shot towards an island in the Chaotic Star Sea.