Ancient Ancestral Ruins - Chapter 39 The Snake Demon in the Immortal Tower

“You little bastard, you scared the hell out of me!”

Inside the temple, Lu Jiu calmly turned around, intending to leave.

After all, this bald old man wouldn’t dare mention anything about the taboos of the ancient primordial era.

Because those ancient secrets, which involve the cause and effect of the shattering of the ancient world, are all related to taboos above the True Immortal realm.

Even the bald old man himself admitted that in the ancient primordial era, he was just a relatively marginalized nobody who didn’t know much and much of what he knew was just hearsay.

“Wait a moment.”

The golden statue gave a shout.

“Speaking of which, the immortal sect ruins you went to are called the Fachan Immortal Sect, which is also the immortal sect I came from back then.”

“I am ordered to guard this place and cannot leave, but I can sense that there are things I left behind in the Immortal Sect ruins, and they seem to still be there.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Jiu turned around and asked curiously, “What did you leave behind?”

“A tower, a snake.”

The golden statue explained, “That tower is a celestial artifact that I once refined to suppress a snake demon. I promised to suppress her for 100,000 years.”

“Because the Heavenly Emperor once decreed that I should guard this place for 100,000 years.”

“But then something unexpected happened. The ancient wilderness was shattered, and I was forced to continue guarding this place and could not leave.”

“Now, countless hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and that snake demon has probably been suppressed to the point that it has little cultivation left.”

“However, I did not keep my promise. Could you please take care of her for me?”

When the old bald man said these things, there was a clear sense of guilt in his heart.

Upon hearing this, Lu Jiu frowned and said coldly, “The snake demon you’re talking about, is it a demon? My attitude towards demons has always been to exterminate them completely!”

The golden statue sighed, “I know, but the demon race and demons are two different concepts. Due to the times, in the ancient primordial era, the demon race submitted to the Heavenly Court and was governed and enfeoffed by the human race. Therefore, the demon race of my time was different from the demons you know.”

“After the ancient primordial world shattered, I can say that I personally witnessed this fragment transform into the Azure Realm that you know. The demons you recognize are beings corrupted by evil and demonic nature.”

“Here’s the deal: if you promise to take care of that snake demon for me, I’ll give you the immortal artifact I’ve refined!”

Upon hearing this, Lu Jiu narrowed his eyes slightly, his heart burning with the fire of gossip.

“You keep mentioning ‘her,’ you and that snake demon, could it be…”

“Holy crap! Don’t talk nonsense! I am pure and innocent, and devoted to the Dao!”

“Not good! The seal has loosened. I won’t chat with you any longer. Here’s the immortal artifact and its techniques; you decide what to do with it!”

The words fell.

A streak of light flew towards Lu Jiu and transformed into a jade slip.

Lu Jiugang reached out and took the jade slip in his hand.

The Green Mountain Temple trembled violently, as if the seal on the place had truly loosened.

“They’re putting on quite a convincing act.”

Lu Jiu pursed his lips, put away the jade slip, and turned to leave the temple.

…

We returned to the depths of the Immortal Sect ruins once again.

Following the guidance of the jade slip, Lu Jiu found an inconspicuous, barren mountain.

The malevolent energy deep within the rift also has a certain influence on the surrounding area, preventing even true gods from reaching this place.

According to the incantation recorded in the jade slip.

Lu Jiu quickly formed hand seals.

The next moment.

The barren mountain began to tremble violently, and countless pebbles shattered and fell, turning into dust on the ground.

A celestial tower, wreathed in lightning and adorned with countless flashing lightning runes, resembling a sky full of stars, appeared before Lu Jiu’s eyes.

“It actually contains the complete innate lightning laws?”

Lu Jiu’s eyes narrowed slightly. This was a treasure; only a True Immortal could refine a Celestial Artifact of this caliber.

Most importantly, to refine such a celestial artifact, one needs to find celestial materials containing innate lightning laws.

In the Azure Realm, immortal materials of this caliber are simply impossible to find.

Then, Lu Jiu strolled towards the dazzling immortal tower and entered it.

“Bai Su greets her master!”

As soon as I walked in, a melodious female voice reached my ears.

Lu Jiu also saw a woman in a white dress, with a figure and appearance that were absolutely stunning, kneeling down in front of him in this Immortal Tower space.

She was very weak, her skin was pale and bloodless, and her breath was weak and feeble.

Surrounding her were streaks of lightning runes. If she tried to escape, she would be attacked and suppressed by the innate lightning laws!

Furthermore, over the long years, she has not been able to absorb any spiritual energy or immortal aura here, only eternal loneliness accompanying her.

In comparison.

She has been suppressed and sealed here since ancient times, for countless hundreds of thousands of years.

Lu Jiu was only trapped in the Primordial Ancestral Ruins for a mere ten thousand years, which is insignificant in terms of time.

“You called me master?” Lu Jiu frowned slightly.

“Yes, Master.”

The woman in the white dress, her breath weak, spoke, “Bai Su has been suppressed and sealed here for 1.93 million years!”

“I originally thought that I would never have a chance to escape in this life, and that I would never see the light of day again.”

Bai Su then swore in her heart that if anyone could let her out and allow her to see the world one more time, she would serve him as her master for all eternity and never betray him!

“In fact, if my master hadn’t come, I felt I wouldn’t have been able to hold on for much longer. Maybe in a few years, I would have taken my own life.”

One million nine hundred and thirty thousand years!

Lu Jiu couldn’t help but gasp inwardly; what an incredibly long and distant period of time that must have been!

Sealed and suppressed here, unable to move, unable to cultivate, unable to see people, only silence and loneliness accompany them, what kind of torment is this?

As someone who has endured millennia of loneliness and suffering.

Lu Jiu could understand Bai Su as a woman.

She was promised her freedom after 100,000 years, but a full 1.93 million years have passed. Her heart must have long since reached the depths of despair.

“Get up, I’ll take you out.”

Lu Jiu sighed.

Based on his past attitude towards demons, he would have been absolutely ruthless and merciless in his annihilation!

However, the woman before him was indeed different from the demons he remembered; she possessed only a demonic aura but no demonic nature.

finally.

After 1.93 million years, she saw the world outside, even though it was completely different from what she remembered.

She thought she would be very excited.

But in fact, she felt that her heart, which had long been in despair, was actually not stirred at all.

Perhaps this is depression; it’s difficult to escape the shadows in one’s heart in the short term.

“Thank you, Master, for helping me escape this predicament. I will serve you for all eternity and never betray you!”

“If I break this oath, I, Bai Su, will surely die and my soul will be annihilated, never to be reborn!”

Bai Su knelt down at Lu Jiu’s feet once again.

Furthermore, a wisp of soul light, fused with a trace of her life essence, flew out from between her brows and hovered in front of Lu Jiu.

Clearly, her oath was not just empty words.

Instead, she swore an oath with her own primordial spirit and life force that as long as Lu Jiu put it away, he could control her life and death in an instant.

Lu Jiu put away the lifeblood of his soul and said calmly, “From now on, you’ll follow me.”