Chapter 613: Ancient Ruins, Spirit Immortal Head

Chapter 613: Chapter 30: Ancient Ruins, Spirit Immortal Head

Near the Lingkong Celestial Ruins were only two World Heavens affiliated with the Dongyang Immortal Alliance, one of which was Yuelang Heaven. The great families and sects within Yuelang Heaven controlled a number of World Heavens that rivaled that of the Beiming Immortal Race.

As for Black Universe Heaven, it was a World Heaven independent of both the Beiming Immortal Race and the Dongyang Immortal Alliance. The Demon Dao flourished there, and the realm bristled with Demon Sects. It had also produced many powerful Spirit Immortals and possessed formidable legacies, so even the Beiming Immortal Race and the Dongyang Immortal Alliance dared not encroach upon this world.

The two men before him were the Two Elders of Youxuan, a pair of infamous Demon Dao titans from Black Universe Heaven. They roamed the heavens, leaving a trail of countless massacres in their wake, and had few rivals. They had long been on the wanted lists of numerous academies and sects in Yuelang Heaven, which was why Pan Lang, the Ji Jiu of Daxia Academy, recognized them at a glance.

“Mr. Pan, might the Tier Six Demon Beast from that Bronze Palace have fallen into your hands?”

the Two Elders of Youxuan asked, their eyes on Pan Lang.

Pan Lang smiled faintly and pointed to the two people within the giant crater’s treasure light. “Not at all. I too arrived late.”

The Two Elders of Youxuan exchanged a look and said no more. After giving Pan Lang a respectful salute, they once again transformed into two plumes of incredibly dense black smoke and shot into the treasure light.

Pan Lang considered this for a moment before suppressing the urge to kill the Two Elders of Youxuan.

He possessed an Eight-Tribulation Cultivation. Although the two elders were at the level of Seven Tribulations, their combined Cultivation and Divine Techniques could rival a Nine-Tribulation Great Power. Now was not the opportune moment to strike.

Compared to the academies that possessed legacies from Spirit Immortals, Daxia Academy was still a bit lacking.

Pan Lang sighed softly. With a flick of his wide sleeve, he summoned a compass that shone with a dazzling, auspicious light.

The compass split in two before him. He sent one half forth, and it instantly transformed into a piercing ray of light that penetrated layer after layer of treasure light, appearing within the twenty-seventh layer of the prohibition inside the sphere of light.

Then, Pan Lang stepped onto the other half of the compass, formed a spell with his hands, and abruptly vanished.

When he reappeared, he was already within the twenty-seventh layer of the void inside the sphere of light.

The Two Elders of Youxuan, who had just charged into the thirtieth layer of the void, saw this and instantly recognized the compass-like Magical Artifact. ‘Rumor has it he possesses a Tier Five Upper Grade Magical Artifact, the Zhi Chi Xingluo. It truly is wondrous…’

At this moment, Fang Cheng, Feng Yan, Pan Lang, and the Two Elders of Youxuan had each been teleported by the Treasure Light Prohibition, placing them in four different locations, extremely far apart from one another.

All five were completely focused on breaking through the Treasure Light Prohibition to reach the center of the giant crater and claim the ancient bell, leaving them no time to pay attention to anything else.

Not long after, more Escape Lights descended from the horizon. Even though the newcomers knew the intact Bronze Palace had likely been claimed by someone else already, they still went in to take a look around. They then emerged, disappointed, and charged into the glowing prohibition within the giant crater.

By the time Fang Cheng reached the nineteenth layer of the void within the sphere of light, a total of thirteen Tribulation Realm Cultivators, including himself, had gathered in the giant crater.

The auras of four of them were noticeably weaker than that of a typical Tribulation Realm Cultivator, a clear sign that they were off-body avatars.

Fang Cheng had been the first to enter the giant crater’s prohibition, so he had progressed the fastest, already reaching the nineteenth layer of the void. Here, the power of the Golden Seal Jade Talismans was comparable to that of a First Tribulation Cultivator. Fang Cheng no longer met them head-on with his sword, instead weaving nimbly between them and relying on his incredibly fast Sword Escape to arrive at the Treasure Light Prohibition of the eighteenth layer.

The deeper he went, the sturdier and denser the Treasure Light Prohibition became. Upon reaching the eighteenth layer, it often took Fang Cheng over ten consecutive sword strikes to slash it open.

Meanwhile, he also had to contend with the hundreds, even thousands, of Magical Artifacts and Armored Warriors manifested by the Golden Seal Jade Talismans, forcing him to go all out just to get through.

Fang Cheng thought back, speculating on how the giant crater had been formed. ‘It must have been created when two powerful Spirit Immortals were battling in the heavens. A Supreme Divine Technique from one of them must have collided with the ancient bell, knocking it down to this spot and gouging out this crater.’

‘The remnants of that Spirit Immortal’s Divine Technique must have lingered, transforming into these layers of Treasure Light Divine Prohibition that have been suppressing the bell here all this time.’

SWISH!

As Fang Cheng entered the eighteenth layer of the void, he suddenly sensed something and looked back toward the distant nineteenth layer.

A compass gleaming with a dazzling, auspicious light pierced through three layers of the Treasure Light Divine Prohibition and appeared within the nineteenth layer of the void.

Then, a young Cultivator in a green robe with a long sash, wide sleeves, and straw sandals materialized out of thin air.

While using his Divine Techniques to fend off the attacks from the Golden Seal Jade Talismans, he channeled his Magical Power and sent the compass forward once more, pressing it against the eighteenth layer of the Treasure Light Divine Prohibition, where it began to spin rapidly.

The friction between the compass and the Treasure Light Prohibition erupted in a shower of countless sparks and brilliant flashes, creating an exceptionally eye-catching spectacle.

At this moment, Feng Yan was within the twentieth layer of the void.

The Two Elders of Youxuan were in the twenty-sixth layer…

With so many people having entered, it was destined that only one person would be able to obtain the ancient bell, a Sixth-rank Magical Artifact.

The cultivators who arrived later knew their chances were slim, but they couldn’t help but enter and try their luck. They would press on until they could no longer withstand the siege of the Golden Seal Jade Talismans, at which point they would make a sorry retreat.

Some of them left for good, while the majority remained outside the giant crater to continue spectating.

…

「Several days later.」

The seventh layer of the void within the giant crater’s Treasure Light Divine Prohibition.

A Giant Bronze Cauldron was being bombarded by countless streams of light, causing it to tremble ceaselessly as its radiance dimmed.

Fang Cheng stood atop the giant cauldron, enveloped by the brilliant spiritual light rising from within it, his expression slightly grave.

Having made it this far, the power of the Golden Seal Jade Talismans in the void was now comparable to a full-powered strike from a Sixth Tribulation Cultivator.

Even when Fang Cheng destroyed them, new Golden Seal Jade Talismans would simply materialize from the void to continue their assault.

He had already figured out the pattern of this place.

‘If I’m not mistaken,’ he thought, ‘in the sixth and fifth layers deeper inside, the power of the Golden Seal Jade Talismans will rise to the level of Seven Tribulations.’