Chapter 125: The Palace Under the Ground
Abyss of despair!
Four words brought out a mysterious aura, and a terrifying atmosphere emanated from them. Countless cultivators who were chasing stopped in their tracks, looking at the two women and the man who had already lost his life. The cultivators' faces revealed cold smiles one by one.
Two women looked down at the man with a glance, and then the three of them hugged each other and jumped down into the bottomless abyss.
From start to finish, Ye Chen never saw the faces of those two women. Han Qingxue watched as the scenes replayed, and a hint of fluctuation appeared in her dry well-like eyes. The others were also moved beyond measure. They had all heard about this incident before, but now they were witnessing some of the scenes from back then with their own eyes. That man was too terrifying - he single-handedly slaughtered thousands or even tens of thousands of cultivators from the same realm, including many who were far superior to him in terms of cultivation level. Yet, they all died at his hands, a testament to his heaven-defying combat prowess. But in the end, such a person still fell, for being too heaven-defying was not tolerated by the world's cultivators.
Ye Chen looked on from a distance, his heart filled with a sense of desolation. A generation's strongest warrior was surrounded and killed by tens of thousands of people from various major forces, fighting until his blood ran dry and he died with resentment!
In the gray misty air, the scene gradually blurred, and then gradually condensed into the figure of that man, tall and majestic, with an unmatched domineering aura.
"Ah!!"
The man looked up at the sky and let out a loud roar, his hatred soaring to the heavens. Then, that figure gradually became blurred and faded away, finally disappearing from sight.
From start to finish, the eight major forces and the mysterious figure shrouded in mist did not utter a single word, all silently watching those scenes, even some people from several major forces were slightly trembling.
"Rumble!"
Suddenly, the mountain valley began to shake violently, and the surrounding mountains were also slightly trembling. Amidst the deafening roar, Ye Chen saw that in the central area of the mountain valley surrounded by the eight major forces, a radius of ten miles of ground began to appear with countless large cracks.
The massive crack continued to spread in all directions, while an endless aura of resentment and tragic energy enveloped the entire mountain valley. The people from the seven major forces were shocked and pale, their faces revealing terror. The ancient beasts pulling the carriages let out uneasy roars, their enormous bodies trembling constantly.
Rumble!
The earth in the center of the mountain valley cracked open countless times, as if something was slowly emerging from beneath the ground. Endless bloody mist burst out of the cracks, like a sky-high blood spray, and the pungent smell of blood and the atmosphere of tragic death enveloped the world.
The elder of the seven major forces turned even paler, and the barbaric beast and dragon of the carriage stared at the central valley in horror, as if they wanted to escape.
"Quiet, it's all right." Their masters each spoke a word and the fierce beasts and dragons gradually quieted down.
"Everyone, let's work together to purify this resentment with our law power, otherwise none of us can get in." The Heavenly Lord of the Ling Xiao Cave Heaven spoke from within the palace, and at the same time, a vast amount of law power shot out from the palace, with countless divine lights all shooting towards the blood-colored mist in the center of the mountain valley.
Yu Ling raised her hand and waved it, a purple light flew out and stopped in the air above the bloody mist. It was a purple ring, only the size of a fist, but in an instant it expanded to a hundred feet in diameter. Endless purple divine flowers emerged from it and fell into the bloody mist. Strands of purple divine flowers flashed through the air, and wherever they passed, the turbulent blood mist was frozen in mid-air.
"Everyone, work together and bring out your divine soldiers to dispel these grievances and evil energies!" The person on the carriage pulled by the two ferocious beasts said in a deep voice. As he raised his hand, his palm transformed into a colossal hand that covered the sky. With a flip of his palm, his spiritual energy surged forth like a massive ocean overturning, pouring down in torrents.
Buzz buzz!!
Everyone from the eight major forces has made their move, each bringing out their own divine soldiers. With the purple divine ring of Yu Linglong as the center, it's as if they've formed a large formation. Various divine auras descended, the Tao was like the sea, and the power of the law surged. The turbulent blood-colored mist was finally suppressed and gradually dissipated.
"Ah!"
A deafening roar of resentment echoed through the bloody mist, as if it had come from the endless expanse of time and space.
"I hate heaven, I hate earth, I hate all people!"
Listening to that voice, Ye Chen could clearly feel a deep and indescribable hatred, a hatred that pierced the sky and cracked the earth!
"Who is he after all, why have I never heard of this person? Surrounded and killed by the forces of the world, if it were me, I would also be so resentful!" Ye Chen muttered to himself, a chill in his heart.
"After tens of thousands of years, I didn't expect the resentment he left behind would almost leave us helpless. He was indeed the most terrifying physique of that era. Such a person is really too frightening, no wonder all the powers in the world at that time wanted to put him to death!" The Ling Xuan Cave was filled with exclamations every day.
"Heh." The two-headed beast pulling the carriage looked at the person shrouded in a divine aura, whose face was indistinct, and smiled faintly, saying: "If such a physique were to grow up, not only would we top forces feel threatened, but even the ancient imperial families would feel greatly threatened. If it had been you back then, I wouldn't have wanted to see him grow step by step either."
"But in the end, they regretted it and paid an unbearable price. Five thousand years after his death, the Invincible Saint Emperor suddenly appeared, using his powerful methods to destroy all the forces that had participated in his assassination, including two ancient imperial families that were reduced to ruins with just one palm strike. All the ancient imperial soldiers were not even as strong as rotten wood in front of the Invincible Saint Emperor and were annihilated with a single palm strike, without even leaving behind a piece of scrap metal."
"That was the most extraordinary woman in history, known as the ultimate being. With an ordinary physique, she achieved the state of a saintly emperor, which is a miracle that has never occurred before. I heard that at the beginning, she used a single 'Linghun Zhen Tian Qu' to counter the ancient emperor's soldiers and the sacred emperor's soldiers of the five major ancient emperor families and the three great sacred mountains without falling behind. Moreover, it was said that dozens of top-notch experts who were moved by the ancient emperor's soldiers and the sacred emperor's soldiers were exhausted, their Taoist practices scattered, and at that time, she had not yet achieved the state of a saintly emperor."
"It's here!"
Rumble rumble!!
The crimson mist dissipated, and the earth in the center of the mountain valley completely split open. An ancient temple slowly emerged from underground, its surface covered with cracks, leaving behind the marks of years, emitting an old, desolate, and sorrowful aura.
This temple is a hundred feet high and several miles long. Only the front has a bronze ancient gate, with Taoist scriptures flowing and patterns appearing and disappearing.
"Let's join hands and destroy the Taoist patterns on it!" A voice said from a faction that had never spoken before.
"Alright! Break through the path, we'll force our way in. Whether or not we can get what's inside depends on our abilities!" Ling Xuan Tian said in a deep voice.
"Don't be impatient." The person on the cart said, pointing at an elder in the Lingquan blessed land, "You, give it a try!"
The old man's face changed greatly, and a look of fear appeared in his eyes. However, he had no choice but to take action. The several major forces here were much stronger than the Lingquan Blessed Land, and he did not have the power to resist, nor did their lord have any room for resistance.
The elder walked out and slapped the bronze ancient gate of the palace with one palm, and the mighty hand that gathered the law covered the entire bronze gate, and the divine light rushed into the sky.
"Hum!"
The bronze gate shone with divine light, and a ripple suddenly shook out. The old man's powerful magic hand of the Spirit Spring Blessing Land instantly collapsed like sand.
"Pffft!"
That wave of energy surged forth, and the body of the Longevity Spring's elder suddenly split into four or five pieces. His body and blood instantly ignited, and in an instant, he was reduced to nothingness.
The rest of the people changed their faces and stared tightly at the bronze ancient gate.
"I'll give it a try!"
Ling Xiao Tian's voice shook the heavens and earth, a divine light flew out from the golden palace where he was located, piercing through the void, transforming into a magnificent sword that pierced the sky, as the essence of the ten directions wildly converged towards the great sword.
"Hum!"
The giant sword shook and slashed out a ten-mile-long sword light.
BOOM!!
The sword light chopped on the bronze ancient gate, and was instantly dispersed by a wave of ripples. The large sword hummed and rang continuously in mid-air.
"No way, we must join forces, it's absolutely impossible for one person to break through!" Ling Xuan Tian said.
"I've said it before, let's work together, but the Lord of the Heavenly Realm seems to think otherwise." Someone from one of the forces sneered.
"Alright, let's stop talking nonsense. The most important thing is to join forces and break through the Bronze Ancient Gate." Yuling said calmly, looking at the several major powers.
"Linglong Fairy is right, let's get started! No one should think about just going through the motions without putting in any effort!" said Ling Xiantian.
Among the seven major forces, seven people walked out instantly. Each of them was surrounded by a divine light, as if wrapped in a cocoon of light, and their body shape and appearance could not be seen at all.
Seven people simultaneously drew out their divine weapons and launched a fierce attack on the Bronze Ancient Gate.
BOOM!!
The deafening sound, these seven people are the masters of the seven major forces. Among them, four are the masters of the two Tian Dongtian and the two universities. Together with Linglong Island's Yu Linglong, there are also two people whose identities are unknown, but the strength they have shown is extremely powerful.
Under the relentless attacks of the seven, the Dao marks on the ancient bronze gate gradually faded away. After tens of thousands of years had passed, its Dao power had long since dissipated too much, and now under the uninterrupted fierce attacks of the seven, the Dao power on the ancient bronze gate would ultimately be ground to extinction.
In this process, the person shrouded in mist had never made a move, just standing quietly in the void, watching. The people of the seven major forces also didn't notice him, and although he was mysterious, after all, there was only one person.
After an entire afternoon of constant bombardment, the bronze ancient door finally showed a crack. Someone from several major forces immediately rushed up and transformed into a stream of light rushing towards the bronze ancient door, wanting to be the first to enter through the crack.
"Ah!!"
The first person to rush in suddenly let out a blood-curdling scream that made people's hair stand on end. Everyone saw that as soon as the person approached the crack, endless divine light burst out, and the person was instantly crushed into powder.
Everyone was shocked, among the people who came this time, except for Lingquan Fudi, every one of them was a true strongman, with a body full of Taoist power that could reach the sky and enter the earth. However, as soon as they approached the Bronze Ancient Gate without truly entering the Tao, they were shattered by the divine light emanating from it and turned into bloody mist.
