An Ultimate Martial Art

In the sky, among the nine stars.    

Immediately, Su Ye felt a heavy feeling that felt like the pressure of a huge mountain. That seemingly curling fog, every strand of it was heavier than ten thousand kilograms, and could transform into a huge mountain.    

At the same time, a wave of coldness that could freeze one's soul settled down, and almost sealed Su Ye's soul.    

"Is this the legendary impure Qi?"    

Su Ye was shocked.    

Legend has it that when the heaven and earth was separated, clear air rose, turbid air sank, and turbid air broke apart. Only then did Xiantian energy come into existence. Many Xiantian lifeforms and Protocosmic spirit-treasures were born from such a background.    

According to the rumors, that kind of innate turbid air was the heaviest thing in the world, even the earth was initially formed from foul air, but after the earth had condensed, the foul air still did not stop falling, continuing to descend deeper into the earth, gradually forming the Underground Yin Demon World, the Eighteen Hells, and other special worlds.    

Even after these worlds were formed, the turbid air still did not stop settling. Legend has it that the turbid air was too heavy, and that there was no end in sight. In contrast, the clear air was constantly rising, so the sky never stopped, and the earth never stopped.    

And turbid air was not only heavy, but also foul. Its impure power could even destroy the Heaven's Arts, thus, this impure Qi could be said to be the most terrifying thing in the world.    

But very quickly, Su Ye realized that this was definitely not Innate Qi. If it was innate turbid air, not to mention the Concourse of the Underworld Saber, even if such a thing appeared in the world of origin of a Protocosmic spirit-treasure, it would still be turbid.    

Furthermore, from what Su Ye knew, the turbid air did not have this sort of ice-cold characteristic. The cold of the gray fog before his eyes was even more terrifying than the ice of thousands of years.    

How could there be such a heavy and foul atmosphere if it wasn't foul air?    

Su Ye looked over, with an extremely sharp gaze, like an arrow piercing through layers of mist, he discovered that there was a layer of grey ice condensed in the depths of the mist. This layer of ice was extremely hard and cold, even his consciousness was unable to penetrate it completely, and he was shivering from the cold.    

Su Ye did not believe him, he felt that if he could not even completely seal his consciousness in the most mysterious place in the Heavenly Mystery Ancient City, what kind of layer of ghost ice could freeze him to the point that he could only retreat?    

He recovered slightly.    

He gritted his teeth and tried again.    

The result was still not good. The gray ice was too tough, and if his consciousness could not penetrate it quickly, he would first have to tremble from the cold.    

"Damn it, I don't believe that I can't penetrate you!"    

After trying a few times but to no avail, Su Ye was infuriated. His arrogance was ignited, and he directly used the spiritual archery.    

The spiritual archery was a secret soul technique, in truth it was a method that could gather and condense soul force, allowing it to have an extremely penetrating power.    

As expected, it worked.    

The Spirit Arrow shot out with lightning speed and easily pierced through the layers of fog, leaving behind a finger-sized hole. It then shot into the layer of gray ice, ruthlessly creating a hole.    

Su Ye's eyes widened in disbelief. Even though the spiritual archery he used all his strength to pierce through the layer of ice, it was still unable to reach the bottom, unable to actually pass through. He had only thinned the layer of grey ice at a certain point. He could vaguely see that something was frozen within the layer of ice.    

"It seems like this grey fog is really not simple …"    

Su Ye muttered to himself for a while, quietly recovered his soul force, and without stopping, continued to use spiritual archery.    

Since even the spiritual archery could not penetrate the layer of ice in one go, he might as well use his spirit as water drop through stone to shoot a few more arrows at a certain spot. Although one arrow could not pierce through it, two arrows could not pierce through it.    

Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!    

Like an arrow god, Su Ye shot out arrow after arrow, recovering his soul force. After that, he shot out another arrow, arrow after arrow, sweating like rain without the slightest tiredness.    

A total of 21 arrows!    

Other than within the Seven Stars Arc Formation, Su Ye had never tried using the spiritual archery so recklessly.    

At the twenty-second arrow, it had truly penetrated the last bit of the layer of ice, passing through it. As if his consciousness had rushed into another world along with the spiritual archery, he finally saw an extremely shocking scene before it dissipated.    

Two ancient characters!    

Two ancient runes floated in the air. Each character was as big as a mountain. Its entire body radiated with an incomparably pure aura. These two words were like all the paths of the underworld that governed the eighteen levels of hell. It was as if they transformed into the general principles of the world, looking down on all living things.    

The two words that should have been golden and resplendent had now been frozen two-thirds by layers of gray ice. A large amount of gray fog surrounded the two words, like maggots bone seemed to want to freeze the last third of the word as well, causing the two characters to turn dark gold and their auras to weaken at a slow rate.    

Seeing this scene, Su Ye couldn't help but have a somewhat absurd feeling. These two words were poisoned by the grayish fog. As the two characters fought against the poison, their power gradually declined, and in another thirty to fifty thousand years, or even less, they might completely lose their former radiance. They might even lose everything like the Immortal cultivator, or even completely disappear.    

However, for some reason, Su Ye suddenly thought of the sudden birth of an ancient rune that he had seen in the True Classic Scripture Pavilion of the Qing-Yun Sect.    

When he thought about how long the ancient runes had been hidden in the Heavenly Passage World, about to turn all the books in the Successor Disciple Pavilion into Spirit Books and how he had already suppressed Huangfu Chentian before he fully recovered his strength, he suddenly thought it was not absurd.    

Since the Qing-Yun Sect's Scripture Pavilion was able to bury such a powerful ancient character, why would it be strange if there were two ancient characters here?    

The problem was that Su Ye did not understand the meaning behind these Ancient Runes. He searched through his soul but could not find any explanations or information related to the Ancient Runes.    

At most, he would only be able to find the 108 ancient characters that were found in the final phase when he was stealing the Silver Desire Book. Those were the words that he was still unable to recognize. However, it was obvious that the one hundred and eight ancient characters were of no help in this situation.    

Su Ye could not help but sink into deep thought. Suddenly, a light flashed through his mind, the two ancient words Sen Luo had written contained such pure and dense Qi, that was unable to completely hide the noble Qi that ruled over Sen Luo. Perhaps this word was the real source of the Sen Luo Prison Blade?    

If that was the case, the layers of ice formed from the gray fog was probably a type of immortal technique used by the expert from the Nine Heavens Immortal World who had injured the Concourse of the Underworld blade.    

Thinking of this, Su Ye knew exactly what he should do.    

He once again recovered his soul force, and this time, he did not need to use spiritual archery, and directly used his consciousness to pass through the hole that he had not had the time to reseal yet. The two ancient characters came into contact, and a message was sent to the two ancient characters.    

"Tell me the details and origins of the grey fog. Perhaps I can help you dispel it …"    

Su Ye had confirmed that the two ancient characters were the true origin of the Dark Asura Prison Blade. That meant that it contained all the spirituality of the Dark Asura Prison Blade, and was treating it as though it was a person who was communicating with others.    

Indeed, when the two ancient characters received the message he sent over with his consciousness, they began to tremble violently. However, their trembling immediately caused the grey fog to tremble as violently. A large amount of gray fog fiercely wrapped around the word 'ancient', almost forming a large cocoon around it.    

The two ancient characters were unwilling to be bound, and they shook even more violently. A dark golden light burst out, violently colliding with the gray fog.    

Because of this, Su Ye's consciousness was affected, and he also felt the heavy, icy-cold strength grinding towards him. It was clear that the gray mist could not seal Su Ye's consciousness in ice like the ancient words, but Su Ye still found it hard to accept. Realizing that his consciousness was about to collapse, he sent another message to the two ancient characters.    

So let me tell you, my soul is very special, and this gray fog cannot completely freeze me. As long as you tell me the details of this gray fog, I can help you dispel it.    

Su Ye was also getting anxious, because he realized that the hole that he had gone through with great difficulty with his spiritual archery, was actually showing signs of closing into ice again. The two ancient characters seemed to not believe him and did not reply immediately.    

Hence, there was a hint of urging in his tone.    

However, this urge was really instantaneous. The two ancient characters seemed to have also realized that the gray fog seemed to be really unable to harm Su Ye's soul. At least, Su Ye's consciousness could penetrate the layers of ice to communicate with it.    

"Whiz!"    

In the midst of the chaos, the two ancient characters suddenly and explosively released a wisp of golden light that swiftly shot toward Su Ye's consciousness. It actually merged with Su Ye's consciousness as one, and like a river, merged into Su Ye's consciousness.    

Su Ye took the opportunity to retract his consciousness, and retracted all of his consciousness back into his soul. At this moment, all the light above his head dissipated and turned into the dark sky where Su Ye had just entered the origin world.    

However, Su Ye could still feel that beneath the calm surface, the battle between the two ancient characters and the gray fog was still ongoing.    

It was also at this time that Su Ye realised that something extra had appeared in his soul. After observing for a bit, he immediately became ecstatic.    

It acknowledged him as its master!    

The Limitless Prison Blade had actually acknowledged him as its master. He had finally obtained this acquired spiritual treasure.