Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

After the stone gate opened, Jian Yang gradually sank downwards under the impact of the aura of time.

There was only the aura of time inside, and no aura of life!

This meant that the high-quality aura of life that occasionally overflowed here had dried up at some point.

The old Sect Master and the old elders had sealed themselves in slumber for too long.

Back then, they were already in poor condition, suffering from a loss of life essence and severe internal injuries.

If they did not have the replenishment of the aura of life for a long time, even if they were sealed in slumber, and their own life essence flowed slowly, they probably would not be able to withstand it.

He passed through the opened stone gate and stepped into the dark hall.

Jian Yang waved his hand, and a blaze of lights ignited on the walls around the hall.

The scene in the hall was revealed under the illumination of the lights.

It was not large inside, only a few tens of meters in radius, but it was quite empty.

Because only on the one-meter-high stone platform directly above the hall were nine specially made coffins placed.

Those were coffins made with the art of refining, made of materials that looked like crystal but were actually high-quality source amber.

Of course, they were not all source amber, and there was also a kind of crystal stone containing life essence inside.

These coffins were refined from several kinds of rare materials.

Jian Yang's gaze fell on the nine coffins, and he hurried over, his eyes looking through the transparent coffin lids at the sleeping figures inside.

At this moment, his tense heart suddenly relaxed, and he breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

The old ancestors still had life fluctuations, and he could clearly sense them at close range.

"The nineteenth-generation acting Sect Master of the Refining Sect respectfully requests all the old ancestors to come out of the coffins!"

Jian Yang tidied up his clothes, knelt respectfully on the ground, facing the nine coffins, his hands and forehead touching the ground.

His divine sense merged into the runes on the coffins, transmitting into them.

This was a special awakening method, merging the divine sense into certain fixed runes on the coffins.

It was a method left by these sleepers before they sealed themselves, in order to awaken them when the sect was facing life and death, or when they could leave this world in the future.

The runes on the nine coffins lit up in patches at an extremely fast speed.

The people sleeping inside slightly twitched their fingers twice, and then their eyelids began to move.

Gradually, they opened their eyes, perhaps because they had been sleeping for too long, and a look of confusion appeared in their eyes.

But soon, their eyes instantly became sharp and blazing, the coffin lids were blown away, and they suddenly sat up, leaping out from inside.

Their originally younger faces rapidly aged when they came out of the coffins, and many wrinkles grew, changing from around forty years old to the appearance of seventy or eighty years old.

Even so, their eyes were still fierce, and their gazes were like torches!

"Are you the nineteenth-generation acting Sect Master?"

The one who spoke was an old man with white hair and beard, who seemed to be the highest in status among the nine from his standing position.

"In response to the old ancestor, this disciple is the nineteenth-generation acting Sect Master, Jian Yang!"

Jian Yang was very respectful, kneeling on the ground, maintaining the posture of kowtowing.

"Get up, there is no need to perform this great salute in the future." The old man helped Jian Yang up, looked him up and down, and couldn't help but nod: "Not bad, cultivating to the Supreme Saint Realm, but the realm of the Art of Refining is not outstanding."

"This disciple is dull."

Jian Yang lowered his head, listening to the teachings.

"This time, awakening us, is it because the sect is facing life and death, or is it because we have the opportunity to leave?"

The eyes of the nine people were a little eager, of course hoping to hear the latter answer, not the former.

They were constantly thinking about returning to the main world and revitalizing the Refining Sect's glory.

Back then, their sect was so majestic that it enjoyed a great reputation even in the entire starry sky.

It was just that the era was too dark, and their masters and grandmasters fought to resist the darkness, never to return.

"In response to all the old ancestors, it is the opportunity to leave, and we have also found the successor of the ancestor, and the Eternal Sacred Furnace!"

"You… what did you say?"

All nine people were shocked, especially three of them.

"The master's successor, carrying the Eternal Sacred Furnace?"

They were both shocked and excited. Did this mean that there was a slight possibility that the master was still alive?

"It is absolutely true. Should this disciple now notify the Sect Master to come here to meet?"

Seeing the old ancestors' excited appearance, Jian Yang was also happy in his heart.

These nine old ancestors were the strong people who protected the people of the sect and came here to take refuge under the pursuit of various forces back then, and they were also the people who created the method of body cultivation using different fires to temper the body.

Their contribution to the sect was too great!

"Let him come, quickly!"

They couldn't help it, they were very eager.

Jian Yang immediately used his divine sense to inform Jun Wuxie of the matter here.

At the entrance of the village, Jun Wuxie was talking to the foundation experts who had been awakened later. Hearing Jian Yang's voice transmission, he briefly explained, released Yue Chenyu from the cave, asked her and Mu Ciyin to wait here, put away the Eternal Sacred Furnace, and rushed to the depths of the village.

Soon, he passed through the water cave, came to that great hall, and saw the nine old experts.

"Jun Wuxie, the current Sect Master of the Refining Sect, has met all the seniors."

As Jun Wuxie spoke, he was about to salute, but was stopped by one person, who said: "What seniors, don't shout randomly first, and don't salute randomly!"

Jun Wuxie looked at him in some surprise, but found that the others were nodding at him, and their eyes were full of curiosity.

"You cultivate both weapons and martial arts? Who is your master in the art of weapons, and what kind of refining art do you cultivate?"

"The True Understanding of the Primordial Refining Art, personally taught by Senior Shen Lian."

"Personally… did you say personally?"

"The master is not dead, the master is still alive?"

"Is the grandmaster really still alive?"

…

The expressions of the nine people were incomparably excited, obviously the nine of them were not of the same generation.

"It may not be the same as you think…" Jun Wuxie sighed, took out the Tower of Trials, and said: "Come with me, Senior Shen Lian is inside, you will know when you see him."

With excited hearts, the few people followed Jun Wuxie into the Tower of Trials, while Jian Yang waited outside.

Jun Wuxie directly brought them to the eighth floor.

Shen Lian and the Chaotic Yuan Sage were playing chess, while Fu Sheng and his wife were watching.

Sensing someone's arrival, Shen Lian held a chess piece in his fingers and said without raising his head, "You kid, why did you bring so many people this time?"

"Master… Master!"

As Shen Lian's voice fell, a trembling voice with a cry suddenly sounded.

The people playing chess and watching chess were all surprised and turned to look.

The chess piece in Shen Lian's fingers fell on the chessboard with a snap.

He slowly turned his head to look, his eyes falling on the faces of the nine people beside Jun Wuxie.

Although those nine faces were very old, different from what he remembered, he still recognized them at a glance.

"Manman! Zhu'er! Xi'er!"

Shen Lian's eyes were wet, he suddenly stood up, "You… you are still alive…"

He did not expect that he would be able to see his three proud disciples from back then!

From ancient times to now, it has been tens of millions of years.

How long is that.

"Master!"

The three people ran quickly, came to Shen Lian, knelt on the ground, already in tears.

They looked very old now, while Shen Lian looked like he was in his forties or fifties, even younger than them.

"Your body, how could it be…"

They naturally saw the state of the divine sense, not a real body, not even a complete soul body.

"In the battle back then, I was already dead. Now it is just a wisp of divine sense imprint. If it were not for the special nature of this space, this wisp of divine sense would have already dissipated. Don't be sad, it is already very good to be able to see you again like this."

Saying this, he called to Jun Wuxie, "Stinky brat, why don't you come over and meet your senior brothers and sisters?"

Jun Wuxie was stunned, senior brothers and sisters?

He then remembered that he was a disciple of Senior Shen Lian. He was the founding ancestor of the Refining Sect. In this way, his seniority would be outrageously high, directly elevated to the level of ancient ancestor!

"Come, let me introduce you. This is your eldest senior brother, named Shen Manman, because his nature is always slow, I don't know if he has changed so many years."

Shen Manman, who looked like he was in his seventies, showed a silly smile when he heard this, and scratched the back of his head.

Shen Lian pointed to an old man who, although old, still had full and developed muscles, and said: "This is your second senior brother, Shen Zhu, who used to be a refining madman."

"This is your third senior sister, Shen Xi, she is meticulous and is best at refining delicate and complex artifacts."

Shen Lian introduced the woman who had many wrinkles on her face but could still see that her young state should be very beautiful from her features.

"Junior brother Jun Wuxie, I have met the eldest senior brother, second senior brother, and third senior sister."

Jun Wuxie saluted and greeted with a smile.

"Little junior brother, with amazing talent, will definitely have extremely high achievements in the future."

Shen Manman said, patting him on the shoulder. Shen Zhu nodded very seriously when he heard this, and said: "Cultivating both weapons and martial arts, being able to achieve this at this age is unheard of since ancient times!"

"Little junior brother will definitely be brilliant in the future, but unfortunately we may not be able to see it…"

Shen Xi sighed.

When she said this, Shen Manman and Shen Zhu both showed a trace of sadness.

Their lives were about to come to an end. After sleeping for a long time, their lives had been almost exhausted.

There were hidden injuries and internal injuries when they sealed themselves back then. If it were not for this, they might have been able to live for a few more years.

"Hey, we still have some days. If we can return to the main world, we will try our best to help the little junior brother consolidate his foundation before we sit down, so as to prevent him from being bullied in the future."

Shen Manman said this.

"Senior brother and senior sister, your lives are still very long, but it is just a loss of life essence, with hidden injuries inside, it is not impossible to repair."

Jun Wuxie saw their state when he entered that hall.

The twilight aura on their bodies was too heavy, it was a sign that life was coming to an end and the fire of life was about to be extinguished.

However, he didn't think this was a problem.

“Junior Brother, please don't comfort us. How easy is it to recover? We are equivalent to cultivators in the Mixed Origin Saint Realm. To recover, we need the life essence of a Mixed Origin Saint Realm expert, which means we need to kill three Mixed Origin Saint Realm experts and extract their life essence. Moreover, this method will sow karma, and we will inevitably suffer a great calamity in the future. Even if we could do it, we would never deprive others of their lives to save our own.”

“To be honest, Senior Brothers and Sisters, I happen to have quite a few life essences of Mixed Origin Saint Realm experts here.”

As Jun Wuxie spoke, he directly summoned nine corpses of Mixed Origin Saint Realm experts, which stunned Shen Manman and the others, their pupils shrinking violently.

They were shocked and couldn't believe it!

They naturally knew how powerful cultivators in the Mixed Origin Saint Realm were.

Junior Brother is only in what realm? He just entered the Overlord Saint Realm, how could he have so many corpses of Mixed Origin Saint Realm experts!

“Don't be surprised, his master helped him kill them.”

Shen Lian pointed to Fu Sheng.

Only then did Shen Manman and the others notice Fu Sheng and Hua Yi, and they hurriedly paid their respects.

“No need to be so polite.” Fu Sheng finished speaking and pointed to Bai Yuanfeng, saying, “Come, meet the Chaos Origin Saint.”

“What, he is the Chaos Origin Saint?”

Shen Manman and the others were born in ancient times, so they naturally knew the famous figures of the last Chaotic Ancient Era.

They never expected to see a peerless figure like the Chaos Origin Saint!

The three hurriedly paid their respects, their eyes full of admiration, and the other six also followed suit.

“Alright, in the future, assist your Junior Brother well. You must help him complete any requests he has, understand?”

Shen Lian directly stood up for Jun Wuxie, and Shen Manman and the others hurriedly agreed.

The other six were also like this, “Master Ancestor, rest assured, Little Uncle is now the master of the sect, and we disciples will naturally do our best to assist him!”

“My seniority is quite high.” Jun Wuxie stroked his chin, “Look at you, with your white beards and white hair, I feel like you're making me sound old. You should quickly heal your injuries, restore your life essence, and increase your lifespan.”

After he finished speaking, he took the corpses of the Mixed Origin Saint Realm experts into his cave, devoured their life essence, and refined and purified them with the Millstone of the World.

Drops of crimson and crystal-clear blood, exuding an incomparably pure aura of life, appeared in Jun Wuxie's palm, a full nine drops.

He gave the essence blood to his Senior Brothers and Sisters, as well as his grand-nephews, but they hesitated to accept it.

“This… will there really be no karma?”

“What are you hesitating about? If Wuxie dares to give it to you, it means he has already erased the karma. Don't doubt it, he has this ability, something that others cannot do!”

Shen Lian signaled them to quickly swallow the essence blood. He looked at his disciples in such an old state, and he felt very uncomfortable, even older than him.