At this moment, Dongfang Minmie had aged by twenty years. His face was full of wrinkles and his eyes had once again turned turbid. His hair had already turned completely white and even the brocade robe on his body was no longer glossy, as if it was made of coarse sackcloth.
"Too shocking, too shocking!
That year, I spent a total of four days and four nights to cleanse the second level of marrow and meridians, but you merely spent four hours. The amount of Profound Energy you used wasn't even a tenth of what I used back then. It's too shocking! "
"Child, I'm now faced with a choice. Do I continue to cleanse your meridians, or do I stop here?"
"Continue to cleanse my meridians?
It's very likely that my Profound Energy is already insufficient. If my Profound Energy is insufficient in the middle of cleansing, the consequences will be unimaginable. Moreover, your body seems to have reached its limit.
If I stop, I'll have quite a bit of Profound Energy left. It's simply too wasteful. I'm really unwilling. If I can cleanse your meridians to the third level, it'll mean that you'll struggle less for a few years and you'll be able to become the head of Yin-Yang school a few years earlier. I'm really unwilling! "
"Do I continue?
Or stop? "
Of course, Yang Dingtian was already completely unable to give him an answer. Because he couldn't even move his fingers, let alone speak. He couldn't even reveal his gaze.
"The heavens let you appear in front of me to create a miracle. I'll gamble, I'll stake it all. Let's continue. Even if it fails and backfires, I'll also …"
Finally, in a tone filled with determination, Dongfang Minmie began the third round of marrow and meridians cleansing on Yang Dingtian.
During the second round, Yang Dingtian's pain had already reached its limit. Dongfang Minmie had also aged by more than ten years, but he still continued with the third round.
During the third round, Yang Dingtian already couldn't feel the existence of his own body. This was an extremely dangerous signal. He couldn't feel his own hands and feet, he couldn't feel his own four limbs, and he couldn't even feel his own face.
Without sight and hearing, it was as if there was only a trace of consciousness floating between the raging fire and the extremely cold ice.
Dongfang Minmie was also aging at a speed visible to the naked eye. His skin wrinkled layer by layer and his body became thinner layer by layer.
Although his hair was already white, it still had a luster to it. At this moment, it began to dry up like dehydrated grass.
One hour, two hours, three hours …
The sky darkened, and then it was bright again!
More than twenty hours had passed, and the third round of Marrow Cleansing was still ongoing.
Looking at Dongfang Minmie again, he was already shriveled up like a mummy. He looked even older and paler than before. He was like a lamp that had run out of oil.
When Yang Dingtian first met him, his hair was like withered grass, but at least it was still lush.
But at this time, his gray and withered hair was also broken and shattered strand by strand, and there were only a few strands of hair left on his skinny scalp.
As for the robe on his body, it had already turned into threads.
As for Yang Dingtian, at the beginning, his body was still flowing with black impurities. But later on, the impurities that seeped out were already blood red. In the end, his skin and veins simply split open like a net. Fresh blood seeped out, causing Yang Dingtian's entire body to be badly mutilated.
At this moment, Dongfang Minmie's profound energy had already closed in on Yang Dingtian's head. The third round of Marrow Cleansing was already 99% complete, but Yang Dingtian's life was already in danger. It was as if as long as there was a bit more pressure, his veins would explode and he would die.
And the most terrifying thing was that Dongfang Minmie's energy sea was already completely empty. There was no trace of profound energy left in his body.
"Could it be that I'm really going to fail on the verge of success?"
Dongfang Minmie asked the sky in despair. Originally, he still had a trace of energy left in case of any eventuality to protect Yang Dingtian's life.
But at the end of Marrow Cleansing, his profound energy was insufficient, so he used up the last of his stored energy.
But even so, he was still unable to complete the last round of Marrow Cleansing. The progress stopped at the last 1%. If he stopped now, Yang Dingtian would undoubtedly die.
"Originally, I wanted to say a final farewell, but now there is no more." Dongfang Minmie slowly said.
"Remember, inherit my mantle and carry forward the Yin-Yang school."
"Remember, when you are strong enough, you will be able to see all my secrets in the flame ring. Then you will know why I am trapped under this glacier."
"When you are strong enough, go and complete the path that I did not complete. Thoroughly challenge the order of this world and see if the so-called God really exists."
"Remember, take care of your master's wife, take care of your wife, my daughter …"
"Remember, never let anyone know about your Nine Yang Profound Veins, no one …"
"Farewell forever …"
Dongfang Minmie roared!
"Boom …" A raging flame suddenly burst out from his body, and his whole body was burning fiercely.
"Boom …" The deep ice cave suddenly exploded. A blue light suddenly burst out, like an incomparably huge missile exploding in the cave.
The blue light swept through everything in the cave, and the crystal clear ice cave suddenly cracked.
Yang Dingtian had spent a year to create more than ten thousand ice stairs, but they instantly shattered and shattered.
"Boom …"
Dongfang Minmie was completely annihilated.
An incomparably powerful impact force suddenly lifted Yang Dingtian up and shot him towards the sky. It directly blasted Yang Dingtian several thousand meters high. Not only did he leave the cave, but he was also fiercely thrown a thousand meters above the ground before the force weakened and he fell heavily to the ground.
At the same time, the originally deep ice cave completely exploded and collapsed. Countless amounts of snow on the ground buried the cave like a tide.
"Go quickly, leave this place with the fastest speed. Soon, my enemies will come to see me."
"Child, farewell forever. Take my ideals and will and continue to walk in this world …"
Dongfang Minmie's last words echoed in Yang Dingtian's ears!
He completely detonated his energy reserve to help Yang Dingtian complete the last 1% of the cleansing. Then, he completely blew up the entire ice cave, and at the same time, pushed Yang Dingtian directly out.
"No, no …" After falling on the snow for a few minutes, Yang Dingtian finally regained the ability to speak and move. He desperately crawled towards the collapsed cave.
At this time, the cave no longer existed. It was completely buried by snow.
As far as the naked eye could see, it was all a vast expanse of snow.
Dongfang Minmie never planned to leave this place alive, and he never thought of using the ice steps that Yang Dingtian worked so hard to create.
He had planned everything long ago. He would use all his remaining strength to help Yang Dingtian.
He would detonate his energy reserve to push Yang Dingtian out of his classmates. Most importantly, he would destroy every inch of evidence left behind by Yang Dingtian, so as to prevent his incomparably powerful enemy from discovering it.
"No …" Yang Dingtian shouted hoarsely. The scene of Dongfang Minmie exploding and turning into ashes kept replaying in his mind. Dongfang Minmie's proud and kind voice rang in his ears again and again in his heart.
For more than a year, they had been together for more than a year. The old man was the closest person to him in this world, and also his only family.
In Yang Dingtian's heart, he was not only a strict teacher, but also a loving father.
Yang Dingtian worked hard to create ice steps. He made more than ten thousand of them, just so that he could one day carry the old man out of this ice cave.
But now …
The person closest to him had sacrificed his life and everything.
He had helped him, entrusted his life's work to him, and betrothed his most beloved daughter to him.
Such kindness was greater than heaven and earth!
Grief overwhelmed him, but he had to get over it as soon as possible.
Because his master had said that his enemy would come soon to fulfill the promise of ten years. Even though Yang Dingtian really wanted to know who this enemy was, he was very rational and knew that what he should do was to avoid this enemy before they arrived.
Yang Dingtian wiped away his tears, knelt down in the direction of the cave, and kowtowed three times.
"Master, please rest in peace.
Everything that you said, I will do it! "
"I will make myself stronger as soon as possible. I will bring glory to Yin-Yang school. I will finish the path that you didn't finish, even though I don't know what kind of path it is.
I will kill your enemy, even though I don't know who it is, whether it's a man or a woman. "
"I will make myself strong enough to challenge the order of this world and see if the so-called God really exists, even though I don't know what you mean."
"I will take good care of master's wife. I will protect my future wife, your daughter!"
"I will use my life to fulfill my promise to you!"
"Master, goodbye, rest in peace!"
*****
Thousands of miles of ice and snow. No matter which direction one looked from, all that one could see was a vast expanse of flat white snow. It was as if the entire world only had one color, making it impossible to distinguish north from south.
Yang Dingtian relied on the sun in the sky to determine the direction, and walked towards the east with his entire body naked.
In fact, he didn't even know which direction the Yin-Yang school was in. Because everything happened too suddenly, Dongfang Minmie didn't have time to explain these details.
He had to find the human gathering place, then ask for directions to the Yin-Yang school.
Yang Dingtian walked towards the east because it was closer to the human gathering place, but it was still more than five thousand miles away.
The place where Yang Dingtian was now was called the Ten Thousand Miles Glacier. This wasn't an exaggeration, but it really was more than ten thousand miles.
The entire world of ice and snow, whether from south to north or west to east, was more than ten thousand miles.
This world was much bigger than Earth, and no one knew where the edge of this world was.
The extremely deep ice cave that trapped Dongfang Minmie for ten years was almost in the center of this world of ice and snow.
It was about five thousand and seven hundred miles away from the human gathering place in the east, and more than seven thousand miles away from the human gathering place in the west.
At this time, Yang Dingtian only had one flame pill on him, and it was stuffed into his right ear. He was completely naked, so he could only stuff it into his ear. This pill could sustain his life for about half a month, so he had to walk the five thousand and seven hundred miles in half a month.
"Master, I'm leaving …"