Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 1397: Chapter 673: 11. Reckoning (Part 2)

The Divine Monarch Ya Xie thus stood with a grim face, staring at the boundary wall of the Space Seat in the distance, observing the figure standing with hands behind his back in front of the boundary wall, as if the figure had already arrived and been waiting for him for a long time.

That figure was none other than Chen Mu!

“Ya Xie.”

“It’s been a long time.”

Standing in front of the boundary wall of the Space Seat, Chen Mu looked at the Divine Monarch Ya Xie with a calm gaze and said, “As far as I know, back then, when you and the others ambushed and killed Jianmu Divine Monarch, it was because Jianmu obtained an extremely precious treasure in a secret realm. I am somewhat curious, what exactly was that treasure?”

The Divine Monarch Ya Xie looked at Chen Mu with a somber expression, remaining silent. After a long while, he slowly closed his eyes, sighed, and said, “It was a piece of Floating Life Wood.”

Floating Life Wood.

One of the most valuable and rare treasures within the Creation Lineage, any Divine Monarch below the Nine Layer Heavens, upon obtaining a piece of Floating Life Wood, could use it to nurture a Floating Life Body comparable to their true body!

Its characteristics and abilities are similar to an Interface Avatar, yet more flexible, as the Interface Avatar requires cultivating the Void Lineage to a certain level to achieve Unity of Man and Realm, allowing free movement within the universe.

In comparison, the Floating Life Body has nearly the same power as the true body, without any movement restrictions!

Obtaining a piece of Floating Life Wood,

is almost equivalent to gaining an extra life!

Such an extremely rare and valuable treasure, even the Overlords at the Eighth Layer Heaven Peak and Eighth Layer Heaven Limit would certainly vie for it upon hearing about it. It’s no wonder that Ya Xie, Cang Shu, and many other Divine Monarchs were all eager to attain it!

“Floating Life Wood, I see, so this treasure ultimately ended up in the hands of Divine Monarch Ming Fan?”

After hearing Ya Xie’s words, Chen Mu’s expression showed little change.

Though Floating Life Wood is indeed an exceptionally valuable treasure, comparable to a full set of Upper Divine Weapons, it no longer serves much purpose for him now because he has ascended to the Nine Layer Heavens.

Floating Life Wood cannot nurture a Nine Layer Heaven avatar; its limit stops at the Eighth Layer Heaven.

Of course,

If one truly managed to obtain a piece of Floating Life Wood to nurture an Eighth Layer Heaven Limit Floating Life Avatar, it wouldn’t be entirely useless; at least for Chen Mu, it would make handling many matters more convenient.

After all, currently, his Divine Power True Body is still trapped in the Abyss of Eternity and cannot break free for the time being, and the only thing that can move in the endless Space Domain is his Interface Avatar.

Having reached this point, Chen Mu instead decides not to have his Divine Power True Body leave the Abyss of Eternity, at least not in the short term. On the one hand, exploring the deeper regions of the Abyss of Eternity poses a danger to the Nine Layer Heavens; finding a way out is more a matter of luck, and cannot be achieved in the short term.

On the other hand, the separation inside and outside the Abyss of Eternity is, in fact, a good thing for him.

Even though he has ascended to the Nine Layer Heavens, in the vast universe, among the innumerable Space Seats, with nearly endless Supreme Divine Monarchs, there are still beings that can threaten him. The isolation between the inside and outside of the Abyss, where external and internal dangers do not overlap, creates a place where he can reside for a long time.

Many Divine Monarchs of the Nine Layer Heavens reside within the Abyss of Eternity precisely for this reason. They remain safe there with combat power avatars outside, and naturally, they aren’t in a hurry to leave the Abyss.

“Indeed.”

The Divine Monarch Ya Xie slowly opened his eyes, his gaze now calm, and said lightly, “It was Divine Monarch Cang Shu who first detected the anomaly, perceiving that Jianmu had acquired a precious treasure. However, he wasn’t confident in seizing it from Jianmu, so he contacted me and Divine Monarch Feng Mao. Yet even the three of us weren’t completely sure of our success, and some unforeseen events occurred along the way, and the situation was discovered by Divine Monarch Ming Fan. In the end, we decided to secretly ambush and kill Jianmu, seizing all his resources.”

“After Jianmu’s death, the Floating Life Wood was taken by Divine Monarch Ming Fan, while we divided the remaining resources left by Jianmu among us, and additionally, Divine Monarch Ming Fan granted each of us some benefits.”

Upon hearing Ya Xie’s words, Chen Mu was not greatly surprised.

Among the vast universe, the beings of the God Realm are constantly embroiled in conflicts for resources and the Great Dao. That Jianmu Divine Monarch, upon attaining an exceptionally rare treasure, would be ambushed by other Divine Monarchs is unsurprising.

We can only say that though Jianmu Divine Monarch was a dignified Divine Monarch, with numerous methods for survival, Ya Xie and others were no simpletons. Even Divine Monarch Ming Fan, an Eighth Layer Heaven Overlord, partook in the act, leading to Jianmu’s eventual demise.

As for the piece of Floating Life Wood,

it should still be in the hands of Divine Monarch Ming Fan by now.

It takes several hundred to a thousand epochs to nurture a Floating Life Body with the Floating Life Wood, and from Jianmu Divine Monarch’s fall to his own rise from insignificance, much less time has passed.

Divine Monarch Ming Fan probably has yet to produce a Floating Life Avatar; otherwise, during the ambush with the Demon Ancestor, he could have used the Floating Life Avatar as a backup. If they had one more Eighth Layer Heaven level combatant back then, even if he could still manage, the situation would have been more perilous and might even have required Fan Gu’s avatar to assist.

“You once attempted to ambush me, but by then, you posed no threat to me, so I paid it no mind. However, having received grace from Jianmu Divine Monarch, whose death at your hands marks an affair I must settle in terms of causality.”