CHAPTER 538: CHAPTER 540: YOU CAN’T GRASP IT!

The figure collapsed to the ground, blood trickling from the mouth, slowly lifted their head to see the golden scroll that had fallen from their body.

Gritting their teeth, they crawled towards that page of the golden scroll.

Finally reaching it, the figure smiled faintly, reaching out to pick up the fallen page of the golden scroll.

However, a hand reached down and picked up that page first!

The figure halted their hand, trembling as they looked up.

"It’s you!" Upon seeing the figure who had picked up the golden scroll, they exclaimed in surprise.

The one who picked up the page of the golden scroll was naturally Yang Yan.

He held the golden scroll and saw figures patterning across it.

Alongside, words appeared explaining a cultivation skill.

Reading it once, he comprehended it all!

"It should be the Yijing Bone Marrow Cleansing Technique!"

Yang Yan turned over the page, seeing five large characters manifested on the back.

"You are the thief who sneaked into the Buddhist Sect’s Forbidden Land and stole the treasure from the Scripture Pavilion!

Do you recognize me?" He asked, looking down at the injured person lying on the ground.

This person was dressed as a monk, but their appearance kept changing.

It was evident that they had cultivated a technique that disguised their true appearance, taking on the face of someone else.

However, due to severe injuries, the profound qi fluctuated uncontrollably, making it impossible to maintain the transformed appearance.

"It’s me, I did meet you indeed! Return the Yijing Bone Marrow Cleansing Technique to me!"

*Return the Yijing Bone Marrow Cleansing Technique?*

Yang Yan frowned.

"What Yijing Bone Marrow Cleansing Technique? When did I take it?" he said, spreading his hands.

Even though the golden scroll recording the Yijing Bone Marrow Cleansing Technique was right in his hands!

"You... isn’t that in your hand?"

Upon hearing Yang Yan’s words, the severely injured figure’s face changed more rapidly.

Enraged and anxious!

The already unstable profound qi, due to injuries, surged even more erratically, more unpredictably, failing to maintain the transformed appearance any longer!

Eventually, unable to hold on, the monk appearance vanished.

The face revealed was one Yang Yan had seen before.

"So it’s you, little girl! I wondered why you didn’t seem surprised to see me!

You even said you’ve met me before!"

The one who stole the Yijing Bone Marrow Cleansing Technique from the Buddhist Sect’s Forbidden Land Scripture Pavilion.

Was the girl who secretly watched Yang Yan from behind the door after entering the east wing room!

She had seen him!

And Yang Yan had glimpsed her through the door!

"Little girl, stealing is wrong!

The item, I’m confiscating it!

Now go back!"

With that, he prepared to place the page of the golden scroll into his storage bag.

However, the page did not enter the storage bag!

"It can’t be stored in the storage bag!

It’s a valuable item!

No wonder she stole it and held it in her hand!"

Yang Yan then attempted to store it in the secret realm but found that it couldn’t be stored there either.

"Can’t store it inside my body either, so..."

The space between his eyebrows opened, and a golden beam shot out, shining on the page recording the Yijing Bone Marrow Cleansing Technique.

Buzz!

The golden scroll vibrated, its patterns shifting.

Gradually forming a golden Buddha silhouette on its surface!

"Still not working!"

The space between Yang Yan’s eyebrows closed, and the Buddha silhouette vanished!

The girl was startled upon seeing the space between Yang Yan’s eyebrows open.

"The Second Sea of Consciousness, you truly are different from anyone else!

My grandma was right to warn me to be wary of you!"

She then spoke again.

"This golden scroll recording the Yijing Bone Marrow Cleansing Technique was refined from the skull of the Buddha.

It is imbued with countless spells by many eminent monks and cannot be stored anywhere, only carried on the person.

Now quickly return it to me; it is mine!"

Yang Yan shook his head.

"Once in my hands, it is naturally mine!

Moreover, at your age, you should cultivate earnestly, not be swayed by these external items!

They harm your heart realm, you can’t grasp them, understand?"

As he spoke, he casually placed the golden scroll recording the Yijing Bone Marrow Cleansing Technique into his bosom.

Currently, he couldn’t store it anywhere, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t be able to in the future.

He planned to try again later!

Right now, there was no time to experiment with these matters!

"You, you scoundrel, you double-crossing thief!" the girl said angrily and dejectedly.

Yang Yan’s gaze remained calm.

"Little girl, don’t be unreasonable!

I’m saving you, helping you!

Do you think you could take this item out?

Do you know how many monks outside are searching for you?

If I truly wanted to double-cross you, with your current state,

I could kill you with ease!

Enough!

Go home quickly, I still have matters to attend to.

Take this opportunity to leave, and there’s still a chance for you.

If you’re late, you’ll surely die!"

His figure merged into the void, heading toward the eighteen-story relic tower.

The girl clenched her fists and struck the ground.

"Despicable villain, just wait!"

She took out an elixir and placed it in her mouth.

After resting for a short while, she heard footsteps.

She hurriedly merged into the void, gazing far at the direction Yang Yan had taken.

He was heading towards the winding path, his pace unhurried!

And just as she looked back, several monks appeared on the winding path.

They stopped at the end of the path, gazing at the plain filled with black towers before them.

"Senior brother, that person is severely injured, they probably wouldn’t enter the cemetery’s pagoda forest, right?" a young monk asked.

The leading monk’s gaze swept across the plain.

"Not necessarily, they might know there’s a tiger and still head towards the tiger’s mountain!

Let’s search, leave no stone unturned, lest she escapes!"

At this point, his eyes lit up.

He had spotted a patch of blood on the ground in the plain.

"There!"

He led the charge to the blood-stained spot where the girl had spat out blood.

The dry ground bore traces of blood.

"Senior brother, it’s the thief, she entered the pagoda forest!" the young monk hurried to say.

"What do we do? Do we pursue inside or notify the master?"

"The pagoda forest contains the remains of many ancestors of the Buddhist Sect and houses numerous relics of high monks.

The deeper it goes, the mightier and more majestic the Buddhist chanting becomes!

No ordinary person can withstand it!

She was forced out here due to her severe injuries, even spitting blood.

She shouldn’t have gone far!

One of you go notify the master, the others come with me into the depths of the pagoda forest to capture the thief!"

"Yes, senior brother!"

They chased into the depths of the pagoda forest on the plain, not knowing.

The thief had already left the cemetery, leaving the Buddhist Sect.

And the one entering the depths of the pagoda forest was Yang Yan!

At this moment, Yang Yan stood beneath the eighteen-story relic tower, at the plain’s center, where the Buddhist chanting was exceptionally powerful.

Even a king-realm cultivator might be shaken at heart, making it difficult to advance.

If Yang Yan were outside, his Emperor Body would be unaffected.

But at this moment, he was within the void, not outside, thus he faced significant influence.

"When I see Sun Lingming, I’ll reemerge!"

He had harnessed his comprehension of the Space Dao to its fullest.

Stabilizing himself and the surrounding void, he approached the relic tower.

The relic tower had no door, only a wall inscribed with the word ’Buddha.’

As Yang Yan approached, the wall with the word ’Buddha’ emitted a suction force, the void rippling, drawing him inside.