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Chapter 462 - 411: Ye Fan Became Rich

Chapter 462: Chapter 411: Ye Fan Became Rich

Ye Fan was well aware that the crimson-golden crown within his body would only actively emerge under two circumstances.

First, when his consciousness (soul) suffered an attack that he couldn’t withstand, the crimson-golden crown would promptly appear to protect his consciousness.

Second, when his mind power was completely depleted, the crimson-golden crown would also appear, absorbing Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi at an astonishing rate and transforming it into mind power to replenish himself.

It was this second scenario that Ye Fan had been using for cultivation, achieving a doubly effective result. It was also the main reason why his Flying Knife Assassination possessed the power to kill masters of the Half-step Gang Qi Realm.

Apart from the above situations, Ye Fan had never seen the crimson-golden crown emerge.

Now, sensing the sudden appearance of the crimson-golden crown, although Ye Fan didn’t know what it was about to do, both his intuition and reason told him that whatever was coming would definitely be to his advantage!

With this thought, Ye Fan suddenly had an idea and used his mind to check the black-red token once again.

Just like before, when Ye Fan’s mind entered the black-red token, it was immediately blocked by an invisible barrier, preventing him from continuing his investigation.

The crimson-golden crown, however, remained unchanged.

Just when Ye Fan was starting to doubt his speculation, something unexpected happened!

Two terrifying auras, so dreadful that they made Ye Fan’s consciousness shudder, suddenly emerged within the black-red token. One of them felt full of righteousness, while the other was filled with evil.

When the auras appeared, visions manifested!

Two figures suddenly flashed in Ye Fan’s mind. One of the figures was an old man.

The old man had white hair, was thin, and had wrinkled skin, giving off a skeletal appearance as if a gust of wind could knock him down.

However—

The powerful aura emanating from the old man made it clear to Ye Fan that the seemingly frail body of the old man undoubtedly contained a power beyond his imagination!

After all, the aura exuding from the old man was far too strong, much stronger than the battle-fueled aura of Chen Feilian that Ye Fan had previously encountered.

In addition, the old man was holding a scepter, with a white gem embedded at the top. The gem was emanating a pure white light, which circled around the old man, giving him a sacred and inviolable aura.

The other figure, exuding an evil aura, was a sinister-looking man.

The man had long black hair and rare red pupils that were startling, his face frightful and terrifying.

If the old man’s most noticeable feature was the scepter in his hand, then what stood out the most about the man were his teeth.

He had a pair of long, sharp canines, stained with fresh blood!

Could it be the Pope and the Xue Clan from the legends of the Western world?!

As the illusion emerged, Ye Fan was first startled, then quickly recalled some information about the Cultivation World of the West.

As a closed-door disciple of Chu Xuanji, although he hadn’t read extensively, he had learned many things about cultivation from Chu Xuanji’s teachings, including some information about the Cultivation Worlds of both the East and the West, even tracing back to ancient times.

He had heard from Chu Xuanji that in ancient times, due to the abundance of Primordial Qi between heaven and earth, it was the golden age of the Cultivation World, with strong people as common as clouds.

At the peak of the Cultivation World, there were far more cultivators who had reached the realm of Gang Qi than now, and there were even some powerful cultivators who could break through the Gang Qi realm to reach that legendary level.

As now, practitioners back then could be roughly divided into Martial Artists and Magicians.

Of course, these were the terms used in the East; in the West, they were called Samurai and Wizards.

Among them, in the Western Cultivation World, there once existed a race known as the ’Xue Clan’, whose cultivators specialized in absorbing the Evil Yin Qi from between heaven and earth for cultivation, and, in addition, they liked to drink human blood.

At that time, due to the cruel acts of the Xue Clan, they incited a joint siege by the major forces of the Western Cultivation World—led by the righteous powers of the Church Court, which carried out a bloodbath against the Xue Clan, wiping out the race in one fell swoop.

When Ye Fan first heard Chu Xuanji talk about these things, it was like listening to a myth, as if hearing a fairy tale.

Latterly, following Chu Xuanji’s instructions, Ye Fan went to the European Union to carry out missions, where he encountered cultivators of the Church Court, who were far from being as powerful as the legends suggested, and as for... the legendary Xue Clan, he never came across them at all.

At this moment, however, Ye Fan was certain that the owner of the evil aura within the black and red token was exactly the same as the Xue Clan described by Chu Xuanji!

"Could... Could it be that everything the old fellow said was true?" Ye Fan couldn’t help but silently question himself when he remembered what Chu Xuanji had told him.

"Louis III, you have suppressed my soul for over a thousand years. In all those years, you have always tried to destroy me, but you have never been able to!"

Before Ye Fan could figure things out, the Xue Clan male, radiating evil aura from within the red and black token, suddenly spoke, his voice eerie, "Now, both your body and mine have perished long ago, leaving only a trace of lingering soul power, surviving by the might of this token of our Xue Clan. I advise you to give up continuing to suppress me, let us both venture out, each choose a suitable body to take over, and start cultivating anew, how about that?"

"Great God above, is this a Divine Artifact?"

Ignoring the words of the Xue Clan man, the gaunt old man stared at the crown flashing with crimson golden light, murmuring to himself in shock.

"Divine Artifact? Louis, have you lost your mind? There are no gods in this world, nor are there any so-called divine artifacts, otherwise, why haven’t any of us, including you, the strongest of the age, been able to break through that legendary realm and become Divine? On the contrary, we both perished in the river of time! Oh no, we two poor souls, relying on this token, have luckily survived to this day in the form of souls!" the Xue Clan man said with a mocking laugh.

"Ignorance and foolishness!"

The one called Pope Louis replied coldly, "Our inability to break through that legendary realm is due to the limitations of heaven and earth. And according to the instructions once conveyed by God, once the Divine Artifact descends, God will soon appear. Then, the limitations of heaven and earth will be broken, and for cultivators, breaking through that realm will no longer be a mere legend!"

"Haha... Poor believer, you really are devout." the Xue Clan man burst into laughter, seemingly mocking Pope Louis’s ignorance and foolishness in the same way.

"Dracula, you dare to blaspheme against God, you will be punished by the Divine Artifact, you will be!" Pope Louis shouted in anger.

Whoosh!

As if to confirm Pope Louis’s judgment, as his voice fell, the crimson golden crown within Ye Fan’s body suddenly started spinning wildly, its radiance intensifying.

Shortly after, just like the time when the crimson golden crown absorbed the spiritual imprints left by the generations of Wudang Sect Leaders within the Taiyi Xuan Sword, the crimson golden crown suddenly transformed into a golden vortex, from which a terrifying suction emerged.

"Ah... No!!"

The man of the Xue Clan named Dracula, trapped within the black and red token, was suddenly drawn by the suction, emitting a painful howl, and before he could struggle, he was sucked into the golden vortex, disappearing without a trace.

"Oh, divine artifact, I am God’s most devout follower, representing God in this world, spreading His glory..."

Watching the Xue Clan man named Dracula disappear, Pope Louis knelt on the ground, looking up at the golden vortex that the crimson golden crown had become, speaking rapidly with excitement and devotion.

However—

Before Pope Louis could finish, that terrible attraction suddenly acted upon him.

"If God wishes for my death, I must die..."

Feeling that terrifying suction, Pope Louis instinctively struggled briefly, then realizing all resistance was futile, simply gave up struggling, trying to use this act of submission to achieve rebirth. However, before he could finish speaking, he was sucked into the golden vortex!

"This..."

Even though Ye Fan had witnessed the crimson golden crown turn into a golden vortex and absorb the spiritual imprints left in the Taiyi Xuan Sword by the past Wudang Sect Leaders, he was still overwhelmingly shocked by this bewildering scene that unfolded before him.

If Ye Fan hadn’t experienced all of this himself, he would never have believed what Chu Xuanji once said about the existence of a miraculous race like the ’Xue Clan,’ nor would he have believed that there are people who could exist in the form of a soul, and even less would he believe in the existence of something as magical as the crimson golden crown—capable of autonomously absorbing one’s soul, spiritual imprints...

It could be said that all of this completely overturned the rules of the Cultivation World!

Shortly thereafter.

While Ye Fan was still in a state of shock, the golden vortex disappeared, and the crimson golden crown returned to its original form, but... its color was now much deeper than before!

Apart from that, at a certain moment, Ye Fan suddenly sensed a terrifying and powerful aura emanating from the crimson golden crown!

That aura far surpassed the auras of Yan and Chu Xuanji, the two strongest individuals in Huaxia!

Even in Ye Fan’s view, compared to the aura the crimson golden crown exuded in that instant, the auras of these two powerful figures of the present age, Yan and Chu Xuanji, were as a stream is to the ocean, incomparable!

"Could it be... Could it be that what Pope Louis said was true? Is the crimson golden crown truly a divine artifact?!"

Sensing that overwhelmingly powerful aura, Ye Fan, amidst his shock, had a notion so absurd that even he found it hard to believe, "And... do gods really exist in this world??"

There was no answer, and the suction reappeared, rousing Ye Fan from his confusion.

He clearly sensed that the terrifying suction force once again entered the black and red token, and within the token, the two distinctly separate black and white streams of Qi were abruptly sucked into the crimson golden crown!

A few seconds later, under Ye Fan’s incredulous perception, a pure and rich Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi flowed out from the crimson golden crown.

"Heaven and Earth Essence?"

Ye Fan’s mind stirred, and he immediately engaged in meditation to absorb it, and upon absorption, found that the pure and rich Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi was indeed the Essence of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, just as he suspected!

Moreover... it was even purer than the Essence of Primordial Qi found in the Plant Essence!

"Why has the crimson golden crown not disappeared this time?"

After completely absorbing the Essence of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, Ye Fan discovered that the crimson golden crown did not disappear as it had in the past but continued to envelop his consciousness—such a thing had never happened before!

The next moment.

Before Ye Fan could understand the reason, another stream of pure Heaven and Earth Essence emerged from the crimson golden crown...

"Uh..."

This sudden development first startled Ye Fan, then, without hesitation, he absorbed the Heaven and Earth Essence flowing out of the crimson golden crown anew.

This time.

Before Ye Fan could finish absorbing it, new Heaven and Earth Essence emerged, as if there was no end in sight!

"I’ve struck it rich! I’ve really struck it rich this time!!"

Ye Fan was overjoyed in his heart.

Although he didn’t know why the crimson golden crown could suddenly provide him with Heaven and Earth Essence, he was very clear about what all this meant for him!!

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PS: First update!

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