The Heavenly Dao Flying Ship was like a shooting star as it traversed more than half of the Yanshen Empire's territory, passing through countless cities and hundreds of vassal states. However, all he saw along the way was desolation, darkness, and coldness. All the prosperous cities had fallen and become the territory of monsters.
Yanshen Empire, Imperial Capital.
The Heavenly Dao Flying Ship stopped in the sky above the Yanshen Empire. Looking down from the porthole, the entire Imperial Capital was pitch black. There was no light and a lonely cold wind blew on the streets of the city.
Ye Chen's heart sank.
He looked up at the dark horizon in front of him. "Could it be that the entire Ancient World has been taken over by monsters and everyone … is dead?"
He couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
When you suddenly realized that you were the only one alive in the world and everyone else had died and become ferocious monsters, it was scarier than death.
Bai Yijun looked at Ye Chen's pale face and felt a little worried. She gently held his hand and found that it was cold. "Don't worry, maybe it's just the Yanshen Empire that has fallen. Let's go to Bailing Mountain to take a look. That's the most famous mountain in the world and the terrain is dangerous. There should be people there."
Ye Chen came back to his senses and blamed himself in his heart. The haze on his face was swept away and he nodded. "That's right, there should still be people there."
He knew that he should take responsibility for some things in this world.
"Let's go to Bailing Mountain." Ye Chen ordered.
Xiao Pingsheng immediately controlled the Heavenly Dao Flying Ship and shot into the sky.
From here to Bailing Mountain, with the speed of the Heavenly Dao Flying Ship, it would take three to four months without the connection of the wormholes in the city.
"I wonder how the White Dragon and the others are …" Ye Chen was worried.
Day after day passed, but the sky of the Ancient World was still dark. The blood moon was like an evil eye, overlooking the entire world. Countless clouds and mist covered the ruined city.
Ye Chen sat cross-legged in the flying ship and secretly cultivated the third level of the Yanshen Secret Manual.
Back when he was still in the Demigod Realm, he had heard that in the entire Flame God Empire, other than the Flame Emperor, no one else had been able to cultivate to the third level of this secret manual.
However, things had changed. With Ye Chen's current state of mind and the refinement of his body by the fire-blooded phoenix, his attainments in the way of fire were extraordinary. He only spent ten days to complete the third level of the Yan's God's Secret Codex.
Along the way, the spaceship would often encounter large flocks of birds in the sky above the cities. These birds had red eyes that were filled with a demonic light. Once they heard the sound of the spaceship's thrusters, they would cry and pounce.
When Ye Chen had just finished cultivating the Yanshen Mystic Tome, he used these birds as wooden stakes to test the power of the third level of the Yanshen Mystic Tome.
Unlike the previous two levels, when the third level was displayed, a red light suddenly tore through the dark clouds above Ye Chen's head. The inside seemed to have collapsed, and a huge and bright red vortex appeared.
A fierce hot wind was emitted from this vortex, swallowing the surrounding dark clouds. Then, from the edge of the red vortex, a snow-white bone claw stretched out.
Behind this bone claw was a huge human skeleton, like the skeletons summoned by the ancient Babylonian civilization's necromancy magic.
However, the size of this skeleton was no less than that of the headless ancient corpse. It was incomparably huge, and its whole body exuded an unparalleled aura.
Ye Chen immediately found that his mind was connected with this huge skeleton. It was as if this skeleton had become his body and could fight.
Ye Chen found it hard to believe at first, but after trying it out, he immediately found that this skeleton was extremely powerful. Under his control, it could easily erupt with the power of the peak of the Virtual Sky World.
All of his secret manuals, including the black flame, could be transplanted to this white skeleton to be used. The skeleton's hardness was no less than the outer shell of the Heavenly Dao Divine Boat. No matter what kind of attack it received, it was not damaged at all. It was still pure white and sparkling like jade.
Ye Chen did not expect that there would be such a powerful and terrifying secret manual in the Yanshen Empire. No wonder the weapon spirit of the sealed fire origin, the Void Sky Artifact, wanted to obtain this Yanshen Mystic Tome. If he could summon this white skeleton and attach his soul to it, it would be a piece of cake for him to sweep through the entire Yanshen Empire!
After cultivating the Yanshen Mystic Tome, Ye Chen began to call out the many Masters of Civilizations that he had subdued in his runic space. These Masters of Civilizations were all obtained from the Ancient World Peak when he was searching for the key to the Ancient God's cave. In each of their internal universes, there were people of their respective civilizations. There were also some experts from other civilizations who were imprisoned inside and became eternal slaves.
Ye Chen called them out and counted them. He found that there were a total of 825 civilizations. Without hesitation, he immediately gathered the representatives of these 825 civilizations and collected a drop of essence blood from each of them.
The old Green Rune Man was sleeping in the runic spaceship. Every day when he woke up, he would fiddle with some small things. There were many materials in the runic space. If he lacked anything, he would ask these Masters of Civilizations for it. He was living a comfortable life. At this moment, when he saw Ye Chen here, his eyes immediately shone with a green light. Like a hungry male animal who saw a beautiful woman, he immediately pounced over.
Bang!
What awaited him was Ye Chen's foot, which accurately landed on his face.
"Stay away from me," Ye Chen said coldly as he collected the essence blood.
The old Green Rune Man climbed up from the ground and rubbed his cheeks. With a bitter expression, he said, "After not seeing you for so long, you are still so heartless to me. My heart is about to break …"
Ye Chen rolled his eyes.
The old Green Rune Man laughed slyly and sneaked closer. He looked curiously at the many test tubes in Ye Chen's hands. "Why do you need so much blood? Since when did you like to drink blood?"
Ye Chen was busy with his own work and ignored him.
The old Green Rune Man was not angry at all. Instead, he seemed to think that it was natural. He sneakily moved closer to Ye Chen's ear and laughed. "When are you going to help me refine the spaceship? I haven't been out for a long time. Now that the outside world is in chaos, I … Little Green also want to go out for a walk."
Ye Chen glanced at him. "I don't have so many materials. If you continue to talk, I will treat you as a material and merge you into the Heavenly Law Spaceship."
The old Green Rune Man was shocked. He quickly covered his mouth and retreated a few dozen feet.
Ye Chen rolled his eyes in annoyance and quickly collected all the essence blood. Then, he brought all the test tubes back to the Heavenly Law Divine Boat.
"This is …" Bai Yijun could not help but be shocked when he saw so many test tubes.
"For cultivation."
Ye Chen said softly. He then sat on the sofa and grabbed with his hand. Suddenly, more than ten of the 825 test tubes flew over and landed on the crystal table in front of him.
Ye Chen flicked his finger and one of the test tubes opened automatically. The drop of essence blood seemed to be pulled by a mysterious force and floated in front of Ye Chen.
Ye Chen used his finger to cut the blood vessels on his wrist. His sharp nails immediately cut through his fair skin and fresh blood flowed out.
The drop of blood that floated in front of Ye Chen quickly shot toward his wrist and entered the wound.
With Ye Chen's gradually increasing strength, he could already fuse the gene strands without the need for instruments.
"Heavens Smelting God Technique."
After the drop of blood entered his body, Ye Chen's eyes flashed with a golden light. He then slowly closed his eyes and circulated the Heavens Smelting God Technique in his body. He quickly broke down the drop of blood and extracted the best genes from it. Using the special method of the Heavens Smelting God Technique, he fused them into his body.
During this process, Ye Chen's body was weakened to the extreme. However, with Bai Yijun by his side, he could rest assured.
Time passed quietly …
Bai Yijun looked at Ye Chen worriedly. She sat quietly on the sofa not far away from him. She paid close attention to Ye Chen's situation and also paid attention to the movements outside the spaceship.
…
White Spirit Mountain.
In the vast ancient territory, White Spirit Mountain was the most famous mountain in the world. The terrain here was dangerous and surrounded by peaks that stretched for thousands of miles. The divine peaks were like bamboo shoots piercing through the clouds. They were steep and straight.
Hazy white fog drifted among the peaks. In the past, countless people came here just to stay for a period of time. There were even many princes of small vassal states who paid a lot of money in exchange for the right to enter this place to cultivate for a period of time.
This was the holy land in the hearts of almost all cultivators.
Outside White Spirit Mountain, the Heavenly Crossing River was like a bracelet. The surging river water flowed in the same direction as before. There was no change at all.
However, the 10130 peaks of the entire White Spirit Mountain were filled with people as far as the eye could see from high up in the sky. It was as if countless ants were crawling on the peaks, forming a pitch-black mane of shadows.
At the centre of the peaks was the tallest White Spirit Mountain.
At this moment, at the peak of White Spirit Mountain, the massive palace that the Bai Family had originally built had completely disappeared. What replaced it was a palace forged from ice crystals. It was luxurious and exquisite, grand and majestic. At the entrance of the largest palace in the centre was a massive stone tablet, engraved with the words: Ancient Divine Palace!
Inside the vast divine palace, the doors were wide open, light shining through. Entering from the entrance was a straight and bright red carpet. On both sides were eighteen thrones carved from ice and snow. At the very top was an ancient golden dragon throne. At the moment, there was no one on it. However, on the two rows of ice and snow thrones below, there were already thirty-six people seated.
Among them were Moon Spirit, the White Dragon, Yue Heng, Zhuge Fan and a few others. Apart from them, Saint King Lun Zhuan and Bai Tian were also seated here. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Thunder Hall Lord and the other Hall Lords of the past were all nowhere to be seen.
(To be continued.
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