Chapter 1295 The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell
"You only need to answer one question, and I can save you."
"How long ago did the Saint Moon Divine Venerable occupy this cave dwelling?"
To Chen Yang's question, the armored giant replied without hesitation, "About a hundred years ago?"
"I don't know the exact time, it was just a blink of an eye for me."
Before the armored giant could finish speaking, Chen Yang's spiritual power directly broke the ice pillar.
Watching the ice on his body slowly fall off, the armored giant was instantly stunned.
For so long, the armored giant had fantasized about escaping this place almost every moment.
However, he had never imagined that it would be so easy to get out.
"I really never thought that a human would be able to help me escape from here..."
A wry smile appeared on the armored giant's face, but it disappeared instantly, followed by a roar.
This sound was mixed with an inexplicably powerful force, which shook the surrounding ice walls and cracked them.
A few seconds later, the armored giant slowly sat on the ground, stroking everything around him with his hands, and two tears flowed from his deep blue eyes.
"What should I do?" the armored giant's voice trembled.
Chen Yang, standing beside him, was instantly dumbfounded.
The armored giant said to Chen Yang in a voice close to collapse, "I was just thinking about how to persuade you to save me, but I never thought about what I could do after I got out!"
"Even if it was a seal, my enemies have already dissipated and ascended, so what's the point of me being alive!"
Chen Yang did not expect the armored giant in front of him to be so fragile. From his words, Chen Yang could feel that this was a being that had existed for a very long time.
It was like when he was a tree spirit in the bronze cauldron, at that time Chen Yang had also been on the verge of collapse.
"Since he can ascend, so can you?"
"The current world will no longer restrict beings above the Nascent Soul realm, otherwise, how could I appear here?"
"Your so-called 'dissipation and ascension' should be above the Nascent Soul realm, right?"
"Although I don't know how long you've been sealed, you can still maintain your life now, so your previous realm must have been quite high."
"Moreover, even if you want to die, you have to tell me everything you know."
Hearing Chen Yang's words, the armored giant slowly recovered.
"Yes! The heavens and earth have truly undergone a great change. You, a cultivator at the Core Formation realm, can actually walk in the mortal world!"
"It seems that the path to ascension has been reopened!"
"You are right, if that bastard can ascend, then I can too!"
After recovering, the armored giant's body gradually shrunk until it was the size of a normal person before stopping.
"You wanted to ask me about the Saint Moon Divine Venerable earlier?"
"There's something I didn't make clear to you before."
"The Saint Moon Divine Venerable did obtain many useful things from me, but I only guessed some of his secrets..."
Chen Yang's brows immediately furrowed.
However, he suppressed his displeasure and said, "Speak!"
In the explanation of the armored giant, Chen Yang's understanding of the Saint Moon Divine Venerable deepened.
When he first occupied this cave dwelling, the Saint Moon Divine Venerable was only at the Grandmaster realm.
And according to the armored giant's description, the Saint Moon Divine Venerable was very weak at that time.
After a long period of recovery, the Saint Moon Divine Venerable began to take action.
A black crow had been searching for the whereabouts of some things for the Saint Moon Divine Venerable in the outside world.
"Frankly speaking, during that period when the immortal path was broken, the Saint Moon Divine Venerable's strength was definitely top-notch in the world."
"However, during this process, he was injured again, which made me feel some doubts."
"Under my repeated questioning, he revealed that a power that should not have existed in this realm injured him, and the other party also suffered a backlash."
"Since then, the Saint Moon Divine Venerable's actions became more frequent until he finally disappeared."
"As for the cultivation technique he practiced, it was very mixed."
The armored giant's gaze fell on the cave dwelling, which had been completely plundered by Chen Yang, and he sighed, "The person who sealed me here was originally a great Confucian scholar, but for some reason, he later began to study Buddhism."
"What's even more surprising is that he succeeded!"
"Based on the various information left by that person, the Saint Moon Divine Venerable not only learned Buddhist secret techniques but could even track causal clues."
"You are at the Core Formation realm, so you must have some understanding of the Dao."
"This Dao is not the Daoist techniques of the human race, but the Dao in the act of defying the heavens."
"The Saint Moon Divine Venerable should have comprehended one of these Daos."
At this point, the armored giant looked at Chen Yang and said word by word, "If you have a conflict with this person, you must be careful. The Saint Moon Divine Venerable's style of action is easy to perceive, but he is actually a treacherous and cunning person."
"He has learned countless techniques of stealing heaven and exchanging fate, and he has mastered their essence!"
Chen Yang's eyes instantly flickered upon hearing this.
Exchanging fate?
"If the Saint Moon Divine Venerable always keeps a person you don't know around, what do you think he is plotting?"
The armored giant had been with the Saint Moon Divine Venerable for such a long time.
Chen Yang wanted the armored giant to guess what the Saint Moon Divine Venerable's actions were for.
A faint light flashed in the armored giant's eyes, "Hmm? Are you referring to that fellow named Shi Tianning?"
Seeing the flicker in Chen Yang's eyes, the armored giant was instantly certain that he was talking about Shi Tianning.
The armored giant chuckled, "Then you really asked the right person. Others might not be able to guess the Saint Moon Divine Venerable's intentions."
"But I... I personally watched him make the move."
"There is a technique called 'Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell'."
"Although it is a legendary technique, even cultivators at the Core Formation realm cannot perfectly perform it. However, the Saint Moon Divine Venerable found a way to replace the key steps with the mother-son Gu worm technique."
"And for the Gu worms to survive, they must have a host."
"Shi Tianning has the mother worm on him."
"If the Saint Moon Divine Venerable's body dies, he can transfer his spiritual power to the Gu worm, and then the Gu worm will occupy Shi Tianning's body."
"The Saint Moon Divine Venerable began researching this technique a long time ago. I must say, his talent is indeed very rare."
At this moment, Chen Yang's face had turned ashen.
Before, it was just Chen Yang's guess, but now, from the armored giant's words, Chen Yang had confirmed that the Saint Moon Divine Venerable was not dead!