Reaching Back Through the Ages, Penetrating the Profound Below—Two More Groups Arrive
Reaching Back Through the Ages, Penetrating the Profound Below—Two More Groups Arrive
The golden spear looked as though it had been condensed into solid form, glittering with golden light and surging with divine radiance, incomparably sharp. At this moment, however, it was stained with blood, having run Chu Hao straight through.
Drop after drop of blood imbued with divinity trickled down from high above, smashing ten-thousand-zhang-deep craters into the lake below.
Blood mist drifted and scattered, mixed with fragments of pale white bone splattering in all directions. It was a sight both stunning and terrifying.
Gu Changge tilted his finger toward the southern sky, and with a light flick of his right arm, Chu Hao’s corpse exploded, collapsing into ash without a trace remaining.
Even his divine soul was casually erased along with it.
Thus fell Chu Hao, a Fortuitous One of his generation.
Silence reigned all around—so quiet one could hear a pin drop.
Lin Wu and the others couldn’t help but shudder. None of them had imagined the ending would turn out like this.
As powerful as Chu Hao was, even after fighting with everything he had, he hadn’t even managed to get close to his opponent before being effortlessly slain.
Such overwhelming strength was truly despair-inducing, leaving them unable to muster even the slightest will to fight.
“They’re all from that side, yet they slaughter each other like this. This person is simply too terrifying. Do we even have anyone on our side who could defeat him?”
“We should leave quickly...”
The young man with fiery red hair, Huo Rong, couldn’t help but speak up.
His voice was kept very low, trembling slightly, fear rising in his heart.
The others nodded, holding their breath.
They silently retreated into the distance, not daring to reveal the slightest abnormality.
Lin Wu, Lu Luo, and the others all fell silent, their hearts heavy.
This was the enemy they would have to face in the future.
Even a terrifying expert like Chu Hao had been utterly powerless before him.
They dared not imagine how much of a chance they would have when they themselves faced Gu Changge.
This was truly despairing.
“What will this Heavenly Gift Treasure Chest contain this time...”
Gu Changge glanced in the direction Lin Wu and the others had departed, paying it little mind.
Though this space was vast, no one could escape his eyes.
Since Chu Hao had come here to find the Supreme Dao Diagram,
then the Fortuitous One from the Eight Wastelands and Ten Domains should be searching for the other Supreme Treasure.
So he still needed that person to help him locate that treasure.
Furthermore, regarding this Fortuitous One of the Eight Wastelands and Ten Domains, Gu Changge felt there was more use to be squeezed out of him.
He would make a fine, useful chess piece for probing the Eight Wastelands and Ten Domains.
Before killing Chu Hao, Gu Changge had already plundered all of his Fortuity points clean.
So in the next moment, a faint purple Heavenly Gift Treasure Chest—visible only to him—dropped out from within Chu Hao’s corpse.
Hazy purple mist swirled around it, quite archaic and profoundly mysterious.
With a sweep of his sleeve, he collected the Heavenly Gift Treasure Chest, and only then did Gu Changge look toward the people of Supreme Cave Heaven on the other side.
Chu Hao’s death had shaken every one of them.
“The Lord is dead!”
“Gu Changge killed the Lord!”
By now their eyes were practically bloodshot, their entire bodies blazing with light as if driven mad, fighting with every means at their disposal to avenge Chu Hao.
Vast fluctuations swept across heaven and earth as they all brought out various magical artifacts, divine light glittering as they bore down upon him.
However, Ah Da’s strength was terrifying. Even facing the entire group, he steadily held the upper hand.
His black spear swept across like a heavenly blade descending, its edge howling, raging in all directions.
Pfft!!
Everyone coughed up blood and fell back, their bodies wracked with agony, who knew how many bones broken.
Gu Changge noticed that among them were two Sacred Emperor Realm beings whose strength was the greatest—it was these two who had been desperately holding the line.
Weng!!
The next moment, his eyes narrowed, and he reached out with another palm strike. The void itself seemed to freeze.
Immense golden radiance condensed into a golden palm.
Runes flickered as it descended upon them, intending to suppress and kill them all.
This palm was like the Great Millstone of World Destruction grinding forward—terrifying and boundless, unmatched, unstoppable.
Boom!!
Accompanied by screams, everyone fell into despair. Beneath this palm they collapsed and burst apart, utterly unable to resist.
In moments they were torn to pieces, body and soul alike annihilated.
“Done.”
Ah Da put away his black spear and stood respectfully at attention.
The Three-Headed Black Flood Dragon also knelt reverently to the side.
At last, quiet returned to the four corners of the world.
“These are all yours.”
Gu Changge nodded, and only then turned his gaze to the Supreme Dao Diagram.
With a thought, his vast divine sense swept out like the manifestation of the Heavenly Path itself, carrying an irresistible will as it pressed down.
The Supreme Dao Diagram rustled and rattled, as if great stars were revolving within it, galaxies transforming. Streak after streak of terrifying blade qi emerged, slashing toward him.
“Innate blade qi... so that’s merely one of its methods...”
Gu Changge’s gaze turned somewhat thoughtful. When he had first learned of the Supreme Dao Diagram, he had already speculated about its origins.
Whether the Supreme Dao Diagram was connected to the Innate Tai Chi Diagram of legend.
After all, both distinguished black and white, divided Yin and Yang, and could pacify heaven and earth, the cosmos, and the elements of earth, water, wind, and fire.
Having received his permission, Ah Da opened his mouth wide and began devouring the blood mist pervading the area.
Although many of their techniques had been shattered just now, their cultivation and attainments were all contained within that blood mist. These days, it took the life Source of at least a Quasi-Nirvana Realm being to have any effect on Gu Changge.
So he had no intention of devouring this life Source himself—better to leave it for Ah Da.
After all, Ah Da had been born from a single drop of his true blood.
Had he not been trapped in the Demon-Burying Abyss for countless years, how could he be merely at the first heaven of the Quasi-Nirvana Realm?
Under Gu Changge’s forceful refinement, the Supreme Dao Diagram resisted, but gradually weakened.
Strand after strand of divine light cascaded down, black and white qi shrouding everything, endless and inexhaustible, before descending onto the top of Gu Changge’s head.
With a thought from him, the Supreme Dao Diagram began evolving vast and boundless scenes.
The space before his eyes seemed as though it could all be drawn within, turning the illusory into reality.
Offense and defense in one—truly extraordinary.
“Now then, I wonder what’s inside the Heavenly Gift Treasure Chest from killing Chu Hao...”
After putting away the Supreme Dao Diagram, Gu Changge took out the purple-hazed Heavenly Gift Treasure Chest.
A flash of hazy purple light passed, and an ancient mirror, crystalline throughout, emerged from within.
Its back was covered in archaic patterns—who knew from what era it came.
“This is... the Mirror of Wonders?”
Gu Changge raised an eyebrow slightly, somewhat surprised, then carefully read the ancient mirror’s description.
Reaching back through the ages above, penetrating the profound below.
This was a mysterious secret treasure that could reflect all manner of wondrous scenes.
Such wonders were indescribable—it could show the legendary Neraka and its netherworld, or the Immortal World of the heavens, or even traces within the River of Time.
As for what use these reflections could be put to once manifested, Gu Changge had no way of knowing.
However, he recalled another item—the Spacetime Stone.
If used in conjunction with the Mirror of Wonders, might there be some miraculous effect?
The following day, Gu Changge went to retrieve the Supreme Furnace Chu Hao had left behind, sealed it away, and then found a spot here to break through in cultivation.
Though the Supreme Furnace was wondrous, it wasn’t of much use to him.
So after some consideration, Gu Changge planned to visit the Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect when he had time and hand the furnace over to Lin Qiuhan.
She possessed talent in the Dao of alchemy—in her hands, the furnace would be put to far greater use.
The day after that, divine light erupted skyward from this place.
Radiance hazy and boundless, immortal mist coiling, fragments of the Great Dao continuously drifting down, forming a gleaming white cocoon around Gu Changge’s body, chaos light seeping out from within.
The sound of blood flowing through his veins was like rolling heavenly thunder, as though he were splitting open the heavens themselves.
After killing Chu Hao and swapping in several more Absolute Detachment bones, his cultivation naturally broke through to the Quasi-Nirvana Realm.
Were it not for the fact that Heavenly Tribulations had vanished over these countless epochs, the commotion of his breakthrough alone would have been immeasurably vast.
Shaking the ages past and present would have been no exaggeration.
Such a commotion didn’t last long. Soon, the radiance here dispersed.
The chaos-wrapped cocoon split open, and Gu Changge’s figure stepped out from within.
“More people have entered this space...”
“And it seems to be two separate groups.”
Gu Changge raised an eyebrow slightly, sensing the faint ripples transmitted through the space.
Then he took a single step, appearing atop the Three-Headed Black Flood Dragon’s head, tore open the void before him, and swiftly vanished from the area.
“According to the news sent by the young lady and the others, the space they entered should be right here.”
In a stretch of mountain ridges not far away, a group of powerful cultivators was hurrying along.
One of them murmured with a frown.
The rest were also carefully surveying this strange, vast space.
“Back then, the Spirit Gourd Master’s Supreme Treasure was lost here. What a pity that all these years, we never knew.”
An elderly man with crimson light flowing across his body spoke, his gaze filled with emotion.
He came from the Ancient Huo Family of the Eight Wastelands and Ten Domains, the blood of the ancient God of Flames flowing in his veins.
“Compared to that other world, what we lack isn’t actually geniuses or vigor—it’s experts standing at the very peak. One more Supreme Treasure means one more chance of victory.”
Beside him, a tall, burly man clad in armor
nodded at these words and spoke thus.
His name was Lin Yunxiao, a powerful expert of the Lin Clan of the Blood Dragon Clan, and also Lin Wu’s uncle.
The other experts all nodded as well, sweeping their gazes across the surroundings.
“Still, according to what the young lady and the others said, cultivators from that other world have also been quietly infiltrating this place.”
“What’s there to fear? Since they dare come to our world, they’d better be prepared to be annihilated. Those damned bandits, burning and slaughtering all the way—how many of our warriors have died miserably at their hands?”
Some were furious, killing intent boiling. When the other world was mentioned, they wished nothing more than to charge onto the battlefield and fight the invaders to the death.
To them, the Beyond had invaded time and again, destroying their peaceful existence.
Over these countless years, how many warriors’ bones had been buried along the shores of the Boundary Marker Sea, leaving wives and daughters to keep lonely vigil over empty estates?
How could such hatred ever be easily resolved?