Yun Ze's heart suddenly tightened, but Bu Bu remained as steady as an old dog.
As if hearing a joke, she asked Di Sha back, "Are you kidding me?"
"What?" Di Sha seemed not to have heard clearly.
"With so many people still here, are you sure you want me to take it out now?"
Bu Bu sneered, "Let alone you don't know their identities, they are all the geniuses of this era.
Once they know what you want, after you leave the secret realm, countless powerful beings will chase after you.
Don't tell me you're so arrogant that you can ignore those existences."
"...I was too hasty."
Di Sha frowned, "Then I'll send them out first."
"Mm."
Bu Bu responded and reached out to Wei Lanshu, "Give me the Yuan Qi."
"Yun Ge..." Wei Lanshu still wanted to insist.
"Give it to her."
The others didn't know what they would face next, but Yun Ze did!
If they wanted to leave, now was the only chance!
Otherwise, who knows what would happen next!
Yun Ze placed his hand on Xiao Shu's head, gently rubbing it through the cloak, "It's my fault I couldn't protect you. Cultivate well after you leave, and if you have a chance, apologize to Senior Sister for me.
Tell her I didn't fulfill her lifelong wish, but someone else did."
This was a double entendre.
To outsiders who didn't know, Senior Sister's lifelong wish was Dao Foundation Establishment. Yun Ze's words meant he hadn't achieved Dao Foundation Establishment, and Di Sha had done it first.
But to Senior Sister who knew, she would definitely understand the second meaning.
Immortal Jade!
Someone had taken the Immortal Jade first!
"You must remember!"
Yun Ze repeated to Xiao Shu.
"Okay, I know."
Wei Lanshu nodded heavily and quickly took out the three hundred and eleven strands of Yuan Qi from her Sumeru Ring and handed them to Yun Ze.
She had wanted to give it to him earlier, but it was too rushed, and there was no time.
A swirling green light appeared, and a hint of ruthlessness flashed in Di Sha's eyes!
This thing clearly belonged to him!
These bandits!
But now was not the time to talk about this, getting that Immortal Jade was the priority!
"Are you ready?"
Di Sha asked everyone, "Anything else to say? This is your last chance.
Oh no, it's the last chance before you go out."
The last sentence felt like a superfluous addition.
Everyone present knew that if Di Sha got that so-called supreme treasure, he wouldn't let Yun Ze leave.
This was an exchange!
"Third Brother, we'll wait for you to come out."
Xiu Yun walked to Yun Ze's side, placed his hand on his shoulder, and patted it lightly, "If you can't come out, I will definitely avenge you with all my might for the rest of my life!"
"Me too!" Gu Wudao also placed his hand on Yun Ze's other shoulder.
"Little Uncle-Master."
Dan Chenyu saw that Yun Ze had nowhere to place his hands, so he walked to Su Ling's side and placed his hand on her shoulder, "Don't worry, if anything happens to you, I will definitely take good care of your wife and children for you!"
"Good... Eh, wait!"
Yun Ze had only spoken one word when he realized something was wrong, "Wife and children? Where did I get a wife and children from? Explain yourself, hey!"
As he was confused, everyone else also turned to look at Dan Chenyu and Su Ling, their eyes filled with shock!
"Alright, don't waste time!"
Di Sha didn't like to see these things and didn't want to waste time.
With a casual wave, he sent everyone directly out of the Heaven-Building Secret Realm.
Yun Ze's question naturally went unanswered, and he was still bewildered.
He, how did he suddenly have a wife and children out of nowhere?
Forget it, forget it, now is not the time to dwell on these things, there's still an old fossil in front of him.
Yun Ze looked at Di Sha again, his gaze inadvertently sweeping over Bu Bu.
Alright, there were two of them.
The combined cunning of these two old fossils was probably enough to fill the cores of all the spirit beasts in this place!
"Can you take it out now?"
Di Sha asked again, his eagerness undisguised.
"Is that possible?"
Bu Bu retorted again.
Di Sha frowned, "What do you mean?"
"The Immortal Jade is hidden in the spatial rift.
Not to mention that you've disturbed the space, and I can't take it out. If I take out the Immortal Jade and expose it in the Heaven-Building Secret Realm, you can take it back directly, right?"
Bu Bu sneered and shook her head, "Di Sha, Di Sha, you are smart, but don't think everyone is too stupid. If you don't hand over the last wisp of origin, how can I possibly take out the Immortal Jade?"
"Heh..."
Di Sha chuckled.
His original plan was indeed like this.
But now that Bu Bu had seen through it, he was also annoyed. After a few moments of silence, he said, "...It seems you know more about the Immortal Jade than I thought."
"You flatter me."
Bu Bu condensed the three hundred and eleven strands of Yuan Qi into pure origin and directly stuffed them into Yun Ze's mouth, making him swallow them, "I won't hide it from you, I want your last wisp of Yuan Qi, and I also want to kill you.
If you don't give me the Yuan Qi, you won't get the Immortal Jade. If you give me the Yuan Qi, then we..."
A flicker of excitement flashed in Di Sha's eyes. Before Bu Bu could finish, he interjected, "We'll compete in speed!"
"Well played, a brilliant scheme!"
His gaze towards Bu Bu held a hint of admiration, "You brought up the conditions after I sent those guys out, knowing that in this situation, I can't refuse.
This is my only chance to kill you, and it's also your only chance to kill me.
You want to force me to gamble."
"Yes."
Bu Bu did not deny it, "Do you dare to gamble?"
"Why wouldn't I dare!"
Di Sha said, and took out the last wisp of origin from his body. However, he didn't give it directly to Bu Bu, but said to her, "Let's make a contract! Once the contract is established, it will be yours!"
"Good!"
Bu Bu did not refuse either, so frankly that Yun Ze almost believed she really had the Immortal Jade.
"Human Di Sha, today exchanges origin for Immortal Jade."
Di Sha said, biting his tongue and spitting out a mouthful of blood!
"With blood as sacrifice, I invoke the ancient saints to witness the contract. Those who violate it will have their bloodline stripped and be eternally damned, never to enter the human path!
Contract, established!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a mysterious array diagram condensed from blood flew towards Bu Bu.
Before Bu Bu could speak, Di Sha explained, "This is an ancient blood contract. The power of this contract far surpasses any contract today. You just need to follow me and recite it."
Ancient...
Yun Ze frowned.
The era Di Sha lived in was the current ancient times. Their ancient times were precisely the distant past that Bu Bu lived in!
The 'ancient saints' mentioned in this contract, weren't they the 'ancient saints' that Bu Bu spoke of?
If it were any other contract, it would be fine, but to have Bu Bu make a contract in the name of ancient saints, would she... truly be willing?
Just as Yun Ze was pondering, Bu Bu had already spoken!
"Human Li Bu Bu, today exchanges Immortal Jade for origin!"
Huh!?
Yun Ze looked at Bu Bu, a flicker of surprise in his eyes.
She used the name... Li Bu Bu!? Not Kong Lingxian?
However, since Bu Bu had recited it, he had no reason to refuse.
"Human Yun Ze, today exchanges Immortal Jade for origin!"
Bu Bu bit her tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood, and as Di Sha had said earlier, she repeated, "With blood as sacrifice, I invoke the ancient saints to witness the contract. Those who violate it will have their bloodline stripped and be eternally damned, never to enter the human path!
Contract, established!"
Yun Ze followed closely behind Bu Bu, also biting his tongue and reciting together.
The blood of the two condensed into another half of the mysterious array diagram, which combined with Di Sha's half, forming a complete array diagram!
Instantly, the array diagram dissipated, splitting into three, forming two blood talismans that landed on the sides of the three people's necks!
Seeing this, Di Sha had no more doubts. With a flick of his hand, he sent the last wisp of origin to Bu Bu!
"Here!"
Bu Bu did not hesitate at all. She refined this last wisp of Yuan Qi into origin at the fastest speed and then stuffed it into Yun Ze's mouth.
Three hundred and sixty-five strands of Yuan Qi gathered!
Yun Ze felt the scattered Yuan Qi in his Qi sea gradually condense into a green pearl, pressing down on the seven vortexes. Its pressure even surpassed the Sword Seed and the Heavenly Mandate Blood!
He tried to activate the pearl with spiritual energy, and in an instant, the surrounding spiritual energy surged towards him!
This spiritual energy didn't need him to absorb and convert; it was as if it originally belonged to him. As long as it was absorbed into his body, it would automatically become his cultivation.
In just a few breaths, his realm broke through to the middle stage of Qi Refining Level Seven!
Although it was only a small realm advancement, this was under the condition of a three hundred and sixty-five-fold Qi sea!
The spiritual energy for this one small realm advancement was enough for three hundred and sixty-five people to advance from the early stage of Qi Refining Level Seven to the middle stage!
"Alright."
Di Sha did not stop him when he saw this, but said to Bu Bu, "Now can you give me the Immortal Jade?"
"The space is still in chaos, how can I take it out for you?"
"Humph."
Di Sha snorted, taking it as Bu Bu stalling for time.
Now that the blood pact was established, he was not afraid of the two of them going back on their word, otherwise, they would all die! What was the point of all this scheming?
With a casual wave, he restored the space to normal.
But just as he was about to speak again, Bu Bu pulled Yun Ze and disappeared from their original spot!
Spatial jump!
They... directly disappeared from the secret realm!
Di Sha was stunned for a moment.
But in the next instant...
"No!!!"
His roar echoed throughout the entire secret realm!
These two people... No! These bastards, these beasts!
They would rather sacrifice their lives than give me that Immortal Jade!
Beasts!
Even if I dig three feet into the ground, I will find you!
"Appear!"
Di Sha frowned and uttered a word. Thirty-five figures instantly appeared around him!
These were the other thirty-five people who had appeared with Monk Du Zhi. Except for Monk Du Zhi's corpse, which was in Yun Ze's Sumeru Ring, the other thirty-five people were all here.
This was Di Sha's backup plan!
If he didn't have a backup plan, he would never have agreed to compete in speed with Yun Ze!
Originally, he planned to have these thirty-five people swarm up and deal with Yun Ze and the other one after the Immortal Jade appeared.
But he never expected...
These two actually dared to go all out!
"Pfft!"
Di Sha was so enraged that he spat out another mouthful of blood and released all the spatial rifts, "Search! Search for me!"
He himself did not have a spatial spiritual root. It was only in this Heaven-Building Secret Realm, which was based on his Qi sea, that he could control space at will.
Being able to do this much was already not easy, and it was impossible for him to find the one spatial rift out of millions that the two had escaped through.
He could only try them one by one!
But it didn't matter, time was what he lacked the least!
...
Void layer.
Yun Ze and the two entered the void layer again. Before they could catch their breath, they felt a surge of foul blood rush to their hearts!
"Pfft!"
Both of them spat out a mouthful of black blood, and Bu Bu directly fell to the ground!
"Bu Bu!"
Yun Ze quickly stepped forward to help her up, but the next moment he felt an intense burning sensation on his neck!
He tried to scratch it, but Bu Bu grabbed his hand!
"Don't move!"
Bu Bu forced herself to get up, placing her left hand on the array diagram on her neck and her right hand on the array diagram on Yun Ze's neck, "Calm your mind and gather your Qi. No matter what happens later, don't open your eyes! And don't worry about me!
Remember, now that your Qi sea has formed a complete cycle, and you have the origin of wood, you only need to use any one of the other two Immortal Jades to transform it into the origin of gold or water, and then use the Immortal Jade as a guide to achieve Dao Foundation Establishment.
Remember, remember! Before establishing the Dao Foundation, absolutely do not go out!"
"What are you doing!?"
Yun Ze felt more and more that Bu Bu was like entrusting her legacy to him!
He absolutely couldn't let this happen!
Bu Bu must not die!
She was the only family he had left!
What if he didn't achieve Dao Foundation Establishment? Couldn't he still live forever, couldn't he kill enemies!
Now he was only at Qi Refining, but he could still kill those at Foundation Establishment and Core Formation!
Wasn't that enough!
"Remember what I said!" Bu Bu stared into Yun Ze's eyes and repeated.
Yun Ze could feel the burning sensation on the side of his neck gradually dissipating!
Bu Bu...
Seemed to be transferring the blood pact from him!
Bang~
With a muffled sound, Bu Bu collapsed to the ground.
On her fair and slender neck, a dazzling crimson array diagram was imprinted, gradually devouring her life and bloodline.
"No! No! No!"
Yun Ze directly pounced forward, placing his hands on the array diagram, "Don't die! Don't die! You're not allowed to die!
This damn blood pact! That damned ancient saint died countless years ago! Why is it still useful! Why!"
"Also! The one who made the oath was clearly Li Bu Bu, what does it have to do with her Kong Lingxian!"
"Cancel it! Cancel it!"