Immortal-Exterminating Divine Venerable

"What's wrong? Don't you recognize me?"

Seeing Li Mubai's expression, Yang Xiao couldn't help but smile.

And when he smiled...

Li Mubai found himself smiling along with him.

Once the laughter died down, however, his Heart Spirit jolted in shock.

'I didn't even mean to laugh. Why did I start laughing just because the Saint Prince smiled?'

Li Mubai was completely baffled.

Yang Xiao, however, didn't notice. He had just absorbed the Demon Patterns and felt a subtle change within himself. When the Demon Patterns fused with the Time Pattern, a feeling that was profound beyond measure had welled up in his heart.

It was as if a strange power had been born within him.

'This power... it feels similar to the power of heaven and earth, yet also different. I'll have to study it carefully. But this Time Divine Pill of mine... its might seems to have changed after integrating these Demon Patterns. The Time Secret Pattern was already one of the most profound powers in the world, and now, fused with these Demon Patterns, it seems even stronger. It might even surpass the Gold Element Origin Divine Pill, second only to my Heaven and Earth Origin Flame Divine Pill.'

A thought surfaced in Yang Xiao's mind.

But he said aloud, "Your beloved just needs to rest and she'll be fine. I have some other matters to attend to, so I'll be leaving now. If you need anything, you can come find me at the Saint Emperor Hall."

With that said, Yang Xiao's figure flickered and vanished.

As he watched him depart,

Li Mubai instantly felt a weight lift from his shoulders.

It was as if an inexplicable pressure had just dissipated.

"Mubai, the Saint Prince... he's truly an extraordinary person."

Yu Xiaodie, who had gotten out of bed at some point, said softly.

Li Mubai nodded slightly.

"Yes. If it weren't for the Saint Prince, we would have been separated by life and death. Now that we can be together, we must cherish this moment. And we must thank the Saint Prince."

Li Mubai was one to remember a kindness. As an orphan, Yu Xiaodie was the most important person in his life, so he was naturally filled with immense gratitude toward Yang Xiao.

Yu Xiaodie felt the same.

She cherished Li Mubai as she did her own life.

Now that she could be with him, she too was deeply grateful to Yang Xiao.

She was even willing for her beloved to serve under Yang Xiao.

Of course,

Yang Xiao knew nothing of this.

At that moment, his mind was completely preoccupied with the Time Divine Pill within his body.

So, the moment he returned to the Saint Emperor Hall, he immediately entered seclusion.

He began to inspect it in detail.

Upon inspection,

Yang Xiao was overjoyed.

'I didn't realize it before, but now I see... this Divine Pill is actually more perfect than the others. It's as if only now is it a truly perfect Divine Pill. And the Power of Time seems to have grown stronger. As for its corrosive power, that seems to have been amplified as well. They're in a state of mutual reinforcement.'

He quickly realized this.

Just as a thought came to him and he was about to test the Divine Pill's power, Yang Xiao's brow suddenly furrowed.

He had discovered something strange about his own body.

'It seems... someone placed some kind of restriction on me... Huh? It's a Sensing Array? Who did this?'

Yang Xiao was puzzled.

A Sensing Array wasn't a Killing Array. In fact, it was the kind of array elders often placed on their juniors. Furthermore, Yang Xiao was certain this array hadn't been on him before.

'Looks like I must have alerted someone when I was fusing with the Demon Patterns. But who could it be?'

Yang Xiao didn't bother guessing.

There was no need.

'In that case, since I need to test the power of the Time Divine Pill anyway, let's see just who placed this restriction on me, and why.'

With a single thought from Yang Xiao,

the Unparalleled Divine Pill—once covered in silver patterns but now adorned with alternating lines of silver and black, giving it a luxurious and beautiful appearance—immediately began to surge with power.

Streams of the Power of Time began to swirl around Yang Xiao.

It was the move: Time Reversal.

Previously, to use this move, Yang Xiao had to be at the original location and use the void as a medium to see what had occurred in that small pocket of space.

But now, after integrating the black Demon Patterns, he could completely bypass the void's limitations. He could cast it directly on himself and witness events that had transpired around his own body.

This way,

no matter what happened to him, he could use this move to continuously rewind the past. He could even trace events back to the birth of this current body.

Of course, doing so would consume an immense amount of the Power of Time.

Yang Xiao's current cultivation was still too shallow for that.

Attempting it would be incredibly difficult.

However, rewinding events from just a short while ago was a simple matter.

And so, very quickly...

Yang Xiao saw the roguish man that Human Emperor Xuanyuan had transformed into. Given Yang Xiao's knowledge of him, he instantly recognized his origin from the aura he exuded.

It was the will-clone of Emperor Xuanyuan.

He even saw more than that.

His discoveries were even more profound than Emperor Xuanyuan's.

In addition to seeing Human Emperor Xuanyuan mutter the origin of the Demon Patterns to himself, he also saw the Emperor's prior state of having Fallen into Demon, as well as that single wisp of black aura that had emerged from Yang Xiao's own body.

All of this,

instantly caused Yang Xiao's expression to change drastically.

'So that's what happened just now. It seems these Demon Patterns I fused with are quite extraordinary. And that Demonic Qi... it didn't seem to come from someone else, but rather from myself... Also, my current display of power has been a bit too conspicuous.'

With that thought,

one of the twelve Divine Pills within his body began to stir.

In an instant,

a change occurred within his Qi Sea.

Had Emperor Xuanyuan still been there, he would have discovered something startling.

Of the twelve Divine Pills Yang Xiao originally possessed, only a single, most ordinary Wood Element Divine Pill seemed to remain.

At the prompting of the Void Divine Pill just now, the other eleven had completely vanished.

Their auras were gone without a trace.

And Yang Xiao himself, after repeatedly probing his own body,

and confirming that he truly could not sense the power of the other eleven Divine Pills,

he breathed a sigh of relief.

'The Dao of Arrays is truly useful. This Little Hidden Void Array can hide all the Divine Pills I don't want others to see, concealing even their auras. Even if someone were to detect the Little Hidden Void Array, they would only discover the power of the void. That power is a key to godhood, so it's perfectly normal for it to appear in a Martial Artist. However, the Wood Element Divine Pill doesn't suit me. I'll let the Fiery Yang Divine Pill out instead.'

With another thought from Yang Xiao,

the Wood Element Divine Pill in his body vanished, replaced by a fiery-red Fiery Yang Divine Pill.

Yang Xiao had obtained this Fiery Yang Secret Pattern from the Nine Yang Celestial Skill. It was perfectly compatible with the Fire Secret Pattern and suited his own attributes. More importantly, it was his weakest Divine Pill.

It wouldn't attract unwanted envy or suspicion.

With that taken care of, Yang Xiao's Heart Spirit couldn't help but turn to the wisp of Demonic Qi he'd discovered earlier.

Human Emperor Xuanyuan might have thought it was a Dark Night Demon God, a being above the rank of Demon Venerable, who had ambushed him.

But Yang Xiao, having witnessed it through the power of Time Reversal, felt something was different.

But as for the Void Dark Realm, although he had roamed it for over a million years, he had somehow never encountered beings like the Dark Night Demon Gods and knew little about them.

He was filled with doubt.

'Human Emperor Xuanyuan seems to have left. If I want to find someone to clear up my doubts, Elder Long is the only one on the Profound Sun Continent who can. Well then, I should make a trip to the Lu Family Secret Realm anyway. It's the perfect chance to complete my missing Greater Yang Secret Pattern.'

With this decision made, Yang Xiao emerged from the quiet room where he had been in seclusion.

Just then, a figure happened to be rushing in from outside, appearing before him.

Seeing this, Yang Xiao couldn't help but smile.

'Looks like I have no choice but to go to the Lu Family Secret Realm after all.'