Chapter 495 The Green Jade Statue of the Patriarch (1/2)

“Nine rings…”

When Zhou Yuan stepped out from the large bronze doors, he heard the sound of a melodious old bell echoing within the mountain. His mouth hung slightly ajar as shock appeared in his eyes.

Even the person himself had not expected that his results would reach the nine bell level.

“Is it because the divine grindstone smashed apart the golden sun? That’s why the evaluation is so good…” Zhou Yuan awkwardly scratched his head. He did not feel overly proud, because he only needed seven rings to achieve his goal.

Of course, the additional two rings would naturally not be rejected by him. It was after all still a form of acknowledgement of his performance.

Now that he knew the outcome, he breathed a deep sigh of relief as if a heavy weight had been lifted from his shoulders. The bell represented that he had successfully passed the three trials.

As Zhou Yuan suppressed the surging emotions in his heart, he raised his head and saw a mountain path that snaked upwards, with streams flowing to its left and right.

There was no mist here, and Zhou Yuan was clearly already quite deep in the main peak.

By following this path, he should be able to reach his destination.

Zhou Yuan wet his lips as he cast away his hesitation and walked forward, slowly following the mountain path.

After a few dozen minutes, his footsteps began to slow. The path had ended some distance to the front, where an ancient large hall silently towered within the mist.

The hall looked quite simple, and was covered in the mottled scars of time.

This hall was the main hall of Saint Genesis Peak!

Zhou Yuan stood in front of the hall, as he looked upon it with burning eyes. The second Saint Rune he deeply yearned for should be hidden somewhere inside.

After a quick scan of the surroundings, he was just about to step forward, only for his foot to come to an abrupt stop. His gaze darted towards the front in amazement, where faint cracks could be seen in the air.

An indescribable feeling of danger spread from it.

“There’s still such a terrifying seal outside the main hall?” Zhou Yuan’s expression was grave. The dangerous aura from this seal was even more frightening than the ones outside the mountain.

He had no doubt that a brief contact with the undulations from the seal was all it would take to completely obliterate himself from existence. In fact, even a Heavenly Sun stage expert would likely share the same fate.

This seal was obviously the last defense of the main hall.

An awkward look appeared on Zhou Yuan’s face. It had not been an easy task for him to pass the three trials, and he had thought everything would be smooth sailing from then onwards. Why had a seal suddenly appeared? Was he going to have to call for sect master and the rest? But if they came, they would likely discover the existence of the Saint Rune...

Zhou Yuan fell silent for a moment. A thought suddenly struck him all of a sudden as he smacked his head and said, “I almost forgot about it.”

With a pat of the spatial bag at his waist, a glow rose from his palm. It was a white jade token, the signet patriarch Cang Xuan had left him in the Saint Remains Domain.

Patriarch Cang Xuan had mentioned that this signet could undo the seal.

“I’ll just have to give it a try…” Although he did not know if it would work, there was nothing else Zhou Yuan could think of.

He raised his hand as the white jade token slowly rose into the air. It moved towards the seal outside the hall and slowly made contact.

Zhou Yuan nervously watched while on full alert. He was ready to dash off the moment he felt something was wrong.

Warm, gently rays were reached out from the white jade token. As the light spread, the seal swiftly dissolved like snow that had met magma.

In a short few minutes, the seal around the main hall had completely faded away.

The distorted space gradually returned to normal.

“So simple…”

Zhou Yuan was stunned, as he involuntarily wet his lips. He was thankful that the patriarch had left him this signet. Otherwise, given his current strength, even breaking his head open would have been nowhere near enough to even give this seal a tiny shake.