Chapter 1 The Wedge Seeking Collection

  Time slipped away quietly, and Longyan remained steadfast in a nearby mountain valley.

  Two days have passed, and there is no movement in the valley. Longyan's calm waiting has turned into impatience. "Damn it, he still hasn't come out! Is he really injured, at the critical moment of life and death when the oil lamp is exhausted? Can't wait any longer! Kill!"

  Longyan's ghostly figure rapidly sprinted towards Wang Yu's location, and Longyan's approach made it even more difficult for the heavily injured Wang Yu to escape.

  At this time, Wang Yu was sitting cross-legged in a cave in the valley.

  The purple robe on Wang Yu's body had become a beggar's outfit, with only a few pieces of fabric left to barely cover the important parts.

  "Despicable, I didn't expect the backlash from forcibly using the Tyrant Blade Technique to be so severe. It nearly destroyed my body. From now on, I must not act rashly." At this moment, Wang Yu had reached a critical juncture, his physical body having suffered a devastating blow and also gained rebirth.

  If he can get through the critical period, his skin's tenacity will reach the level of a low-grade spiritual instrument. Items below the ground floor cannot cause him any harm. Cells collapse and reorganize time and again, but without exception. Each reorganization is harder and more difficult to destroy than the last.

  King Yu's repeated reorganization and collapse consumed a huge amount of energy. The spiritual power stored in his body had long been depleted, so King Yu could only resist the consumption by swallowing the thousand-year-old stalactite, but this was not a solution either. The thousand-year-old stalactite would also be consumed eventually, and it had already been two days since the battle ended.

  Wang Yu's stalactite had been depleted, and even some of the less potent young spiritual herbs were consumed together. However, this amount of spiritual energy was still not enough to repair the gaps in his teeth. Wang Yu was extremely anxious, his body constantly deteriorating, but he couldn't get any spiritual energy replenishment, nor could he get effective repairs.

  Wang Yu endured the pain and stood up shakily, taking step by step to walk out of the cave. When Wang Yu reached the entrance, he found a shadow looming over it. Outside was scorching sunlight, and there was no obstruction at the entrance, so where did the shadow come from?

  Wang Yu looked up and saw that it was Long Yan who was blocking the entrance of the cave. Seeing this result, Wang Yu couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh.

  "What a big calculation the dragon leader has made." Wang Yu still had his usual smile, and he didn't retreat because of death. After all, Wang Yu was also someone who had died once before, so he looked down on the threat of death, because death wasn't scary at all, and it didn't mean that one's soul would scatter.

  Looking at Wang Yu's calm reaction, Long Yan was shocked instead. In the face of death, the young man in front of him did not show fear or terror, but rather a smile on his face. He didn't take death seriously at all.

  Longyan was getting more and more afraid, thinking about this. Longyan now only had one thought in his mind, to quickly get rid of Wang Yu, lest the night be long and the dreams many. A knife filled with murderous intent chopped towards Wang Yu, Wang Yu stood still on the spot, without any resistance.

  Because Wang Yu understood his current situation, he had no ability to resist or struggle. Even if Long Yan didn't come to kill him, what awaited him was a long and painful wait, ultimately leading to self-destruction.

  After waiting for a long time, Wang Yu didn't feel any pain. The moment he opened his eyes, Wang Yu was stunned. Long Yan was disappearing inch by inch, and it seemed that seeking death was faster than seeking life. It was as if the void was devouring him, erasing him inch by inch. Yet, this allowed Long Yan to clearly feel the suffering of the dying process, which wasn't just physical pain and death, but also spiritual agony.

  If Wang Yuxiu were high enough, he would see that in the depths of Longyan's soul, a dark and mysterious flame was burning. The fuel for the fire was Longyan's soul. Wang Yu stared blankly at everything happening before his eyes, looking at it all in dismay.

  After an unknown period of time, Wang Yu slowly came back to his senses and discovered that he had an extra layer of black armor on his body. This black armor weighed nothing when worn on the body, but it revealed a huge power, with evil energy surging into the sky, and the danger index reached its peak.

  But Wang Yu didn't feel any discomfort, instead he felt a sense of intimacy. It was as if they were connected by blood and flesh. Wang Yu raised his hand to gently stroke the black armor, and a cool, hard sensation entered his palm. Then, an aura filled with ancient vicissitudes emerged. Wang Yu seemed to see a magnificent and grand battle that had shattered the universe into fragments. The entire universe was almost destroyed, but the black-armored man in the vision had originally been able to win with ease, yet he couldn't bear to see the universe perish.

  He gave up his resistance, took off the black armor and threw it into a piece of ruins. He glared at the gods in front of him with anger, and finally smiled bitterly, as if he had said something to the gods, but no one believed him.

  The man's self-destruction was sealed, and the gods were shocked. They hastily attacked, weakening the man's will time and again, imprisoning it repeatedly, until finally they struck this mass of will into the cycle of rebirth.

  Witnessing all this, Wang Yu was shocked and speechless. At the moment when Wang Yu was stunned, a voice entered his heart.

  "Master... Master, are you the master? I sense a familiar aura from you, Master. Have you returned?"

  "Who! Who's speaking?!" Wang Yu, who was quietly immersed in his fantasy, was startled and looked around in doubt.

  "Master, it's me, Yu! Your little Yu, don't you remember me? Think back to when you refined me and the universe's origin transmission ability shook the entire cosmos. I followed you as we conquered the four corners of the universe. You went into seclusion for 12 billion 960 million years to prepare for a breakthrough beyond the cosmic shackles, but unexpectedly faced a rebellion from the gods. For the sake of sealing away the universe, you sacrificed yourself, and since then, we lost contact. Master, do you remember now?" The voice gradually faded away.

  "Huh... Little Youyou? Master? Me? 12.96 billion years? The gods? What are you talking about......" Wang Yu was stunned, the owner of this voice had brought him too much shock, "And who are you, where are you? Why can't I see you?"

  "I... I am... the spirit of this Supreme Shell."

  "What's wrong with you? Why are you speaking so weakly?"

  "Master, a while ago. You obtained a spirit pearl, I absorbed the power of the spirit pearl and awakened, but the power of that spirit pearl was too weak, it only made me awaken. Just now, Master encountered danger, and I burned most of the remaining power of the spirit pearl to eliminate the enemy. The remaining power was used to repair Master's body. Now, I lack power and will soon fall asleep again..."

  "Energy? What kind of energy?"

  "This yuan energy, this kind of energy, the master's current state cannot be obtained, not even a bit of divine spirit energy from the divine realm, nor can it be obtained again with a bit of immortal spirit energy..."

  "Hmm... what you're saying is, I'm already at a loss for it now, how can I help you then?"

  "With the various spirit stones and spirit pearls of the mortal world, I can barely sustain my needs, but this is not even one ten-thousandth of the power of the Supreme Axiom!"

  "Then I'll find some spirit stones for you to use temporarily?!"

  "It can't be helped."