In the depths of the Ancient Sorcerer Valley, there was nothing but gray fog and silence.
Ye Xingchen turned his gaze in a certain direction. Apart from the barren rocks, there was no sign of life. The cold gaze he felt just now was just an illusion.
"Illusion?!" Ye Xingchen was puzzled.
Suddenly, he felt a chill run down his spine. He felt someone blowing into his ear.
The surface of his body immediately exploded with dense Dao patterns. When he turned his head to look, there was only silence behind him. There was nothing at all.
"That was definitely not an illusion. There really was someone lying on my back. I could feel their breathing."
Ye Xingchen felt his hair stand on end. There was something terrifying in the Ancient Sorcerer Valley. Perhaps there was an ancient evil spirit that was still alive and had walked out of the kingdom of the dead.
"Brother Ye …" Fatso suddenly said in a trembling voice. He felt something behind him.
Ye Xingchen looked over at him and gasped. He could see a black shadow lying on Fatty's back, its figure blurry. When it noticed that Ye Xingchen was looking at it, it grinned, revealing a set of white teeth, and then slowly vanished.
"What is it? Come out!"
At the same time, Blue Dream's people also felt the strangeness of this place. Blue Dream's armor glowed and shone with a blue divine light that spread in all directions.
Just now, he clearly felt someone standing behind him. That person's hands were wrapped around his neck, trying to strangle him.
"Who's playing tricks?"
The young master of the Peacock Clan swept the gray fog away with his Five-colored Divine Light. The scene within a radius of 300 meters was revealed. Everyone was shocked when they saw it.
They saw several corpses under the huge stone tablet with the word "God" written on it. They were from the Hundred Flowers Tower.
"Eighth Elder, Ninth Elder, and Senior Sister, how is this possible? Didn't Ninth Elder return to the Hundred Flowers Tower and inform them about what happened in the Ancient Sorcery Valley?" Hua Qingchan cried out in surprise. Her pale face was covered in cold sweat.
Since Eighth Elder, Ninth Elder, and many of the Hundred Flowers Tower's senior sisters had died here, who was the Ninth Elder?
In an instant, Hua Qingchan thought of a certain possibility, and a chill ran down her spine.
"Fairy Green Cicada, you said that the Ninth Elder of the Hundred Flowers Tower had escaped and told us the secrets hidden in the Ancient Sorcery Valley. Now that the Elder of the Hundred Flowers Tower is dead, could it be …" Blue Dream's face stiffened as he thought of a possibility.
Hua Qingchan nodded. Everyone immediately sensed a scheme, and cold sweat appeared on their foreheads.
Who was the Ninth Elder?
Could it be that a living being within the Ancient Shaman was impersonating the Ninth Elder of the Hundred Flowers Tower?
"Wu wu …"
The wind blew through the crevices on both sides of the mountain walls, producing a sobbing sound. It was as if someone was crying, and the sound was heart-wrenching.
"Hehe …"
A cold and gloomy voice drifted along with the wind, like an old ghost from hell lingering in the mortal world.
Ye Xingchen's eyes shone brightly as he activated his Destiny Eye and scanned the surroundings. Suddenly, his eyes narrowed as he saw a black figure flash past in a certain direction.
The black figure sensed him and glanced at him. The other party's cold and resentful gaze caused his heart to tremble.
"Bang!"
Ye Xingchen activated his Destiny Eye to search for the black figure. After locking onto the other party's position, Ye Xingchen suddenly made a move and unleashed the Sky-Splitting Nine Strikes. Dazzling immortal light turned into an immortal sword and slashed in a certain direction.
"Rumble!"
Rubble pierced through the air and the earth trembled. However, apart from flying rocks and dust, there was no other discovery.
"Brother Ye, this place doesn't look good. I think we should leave!" Fatso's voice trembled as he said.
"I'm afraid not." Ye Xingchen pointed behind him. Fatso turned around and was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground.
Behind them, the gray fog dissipated. There should have been a path, but what appeared before them was a mountain of corpses. There were bite marks on those corpses, and it was extremely terrifying.
"I'm afraid we've already entered a special space by the time we reach the stone tablet with the word 'Divine'. It'll be as difficult as ascending to the heavens to find the way out."
Ye Xingchen took out a jade bottle and let it hover above his head. The pure white jade bottle emitted strands of light to protect him.
"Goddess Qingchan, do you have any records of the way out?" Xiu Tianji asked.
"No." Hua Qingchan shook her head with a bitter expression.
"Back then, the Hundred Flowers Tower only obtained a map of the Ancient Shaman Valley and deduced that it was the place of the Great Shaman of the Primordial Era. So, they sent the Eighth Elder and the Ninth Elder of the Hundred Flowers Tower with their disciples to investigate. Three days later, only the Ninth Elder escaped. He told everyone about the secret of becoming a god in the Ancient Shaman Valley, and then he turned into the Dao. But now, the Ninth Elder's body is lying under the stone tablet. I'm afraid the Ninth Elder who returned might not be the real Ninth Elder.
Maybe it's all a trap. "Everyone fell silent. Suddenly, Blue Dream laughed and said confidently," It's just a special space and a schemer hiding in the dark. What's there to be afraid of? Watch me destroy this space. "
As he spoke, his entire body glowed like a god descending to the mortal world. Mysterious Dao patterns appeared on his blue armor one after another.
"Bang!"
Blue Dream activated the power of the King's Battle Armor and unleashed a dazzling attack towards the skeleton that had blocked his attack.
"Keke …"
A cold voice sounded in the dark. Blue Dream's punch disintegrated in the air, and all the corpses seemed to come back to life. They looked at Blue Dream as if they were mocking him for overestimating himself.
"Blue Dream, be careful." The young master of the Peacock Clan saw a black shadow standing behind Blue Dream and warned him.
Blue Dream was about to turn around, but he found that his body was extremely slow. It was as if he had been hit by a Slow Spell. Even the power of the Imperial Armor was hundreds of times slower.
He turned around with difficulty and saw a blurry face. Only a pair of cold eyes and snow-white teeth could be seen.
The black shadow slowly raised its hands and grabbed Blue Dream's neck, trying to strangle him to death.
"Awaken!"
Blue Dream was extremely anxious. He activated the Imperial Armor with all his strength, but his thoughts and movements were extremely slow. The Imperial Armor's awakening was very slow, and he could feel a great force coming from his neck. He was gradually suffocating, and he could not help but fall into despair.
Swish!
At that moment, a five-colored divine light swept out, sending the black shadow flying and saving Blue Dream. It was the young master of the Peacock Clan.
"Thank you, brother Kong, for saving me." Blue Dream let out a long breath.
"We have to be careful. This black shadow is too strange. It can actually ignore the Imperial Armor and almost strangle brother Lan to death," the young master of the Peacock Clan said gravely.
Right now, everyone felt that something was wrong. The way back had been sealed, and there was a strange and demonic black shadow hiding in the dark that could ignore the power of the Imperial Armor. Anyone would feel their blood run cold.
"Brother Ye, what should we do?" Fatso asked.
The current situation was very clear. The young master of the Peacock Clan, Blue Dream, Hua Qingchan, and the others had joined hands. On the other side, there was Ye Xingchen and Fatso.
Ye Xingchen thought for a while and said, "Let's wait and see. The black shadow hasn't directly attacked us. Perhaps it's afraid, or perhaps it's toying with us. In any case, we can only deal with the myriad of changes by remaining unchanged."
"That's the only way." Fatso's originally ruddy face became even whiter than paper.
Ye Xingchen's gaze fell on the stone tablet. He was thinking about the scene in his mind. What did it have to do with the stone tablet? What did it have to do with the black shadow in the dark?
If he could solve this puzzle, perhaps he could find a way to deal with the black shadow.
The stone tablet was extremely huge. It was like an ancient Buzhou Divine Mountain, and its top reached the clouds.
On the stone tablet, there was a "god" child. It was black, as if it was dyed with the blood of the gods, and then turned black after a long time.
The "god" character had a majestic aura, and there was a kind of solemn "momentum" that made it hard for people to breathe.
Ye Xingchen activated his Eye of Fate. Golden halos appeared in his eyes. There were a total of nine halos, and with each one, his Eye of Fate became several times more powerful.
At this moment, Ye Xingchen activated the six halos. Under his gaze, the "god" character on the stone tablet emitted strands of evil aura.
"Gaze Through Time and Space, Reverse Time!" The eight halos in Ye Xingchen's eyes lit up.
In an instant, he "saw" the scene that had appeared in his mind.
In ancient times, a peerless evil god appeared and fought with the gods. The gods were no match for him, so the evil god slaughtered and devoured them. In the end, a supreme existence of the God World acted personally and killed the evil god. The evil god's blood splattered everywhere, but the origin of the evil god was not destroyed. That supreme existence suppressed the Heaven Refining Tablet.
The final scene was the "god" character descending from the sky, suppressing the origin of the evil god. That existence used the blood of the gods to write the "god" character, hoping to use the power of the gods to refine the evil god.
Many years passed, but the evil origin was not refined. It returned to refine the blood of the gods, corroding the blood of the gods. The originally holy blood of the gods was polluted into evil blood. Then, the evil origin turned into strands of black fog and struggled out of the "god" character on the stone tablet.
However, before the Wretch God could condense the Wretch God's body, an existence that was glowing with divine light walked over and refined the black fog that had broken free. This existence then pulled out the Heaven Stele and brought it into a mysterious world … the Great Void Paradise.
"That person with the divine light, could it be the Great Void Heavenly Lord?" Ye Xingchen thought.
He activated his Eye of Fate and continued watching. The "god" character on the stone tablet was placed in the deepest part of that world. Clearly, that existence wanted to use the power of the great world to refine the evil origin in the stone tablet. Unfortunately, that existence never returned after leaving the Great Void Paradise.
The "god" character on the stone tablet was discovered by a Grand Shaman in a valley. The Grand Shaman used the valley as his training ground.
After a long time, the evil origin finally accumulated a certain amount of power. It separated a part of its power from the stone tablet and transformed into the form of a Divine King. It tempted the Grand Shaman and made him cultivate the Art of the Evil God.
When the Grand Wizard was trying to reach the Supreme realm, the Evil Source activated the Evil God's Law and took over the Grand Wizard's body. Then, he wanted to use the power of the God's Tribulation to destroy the stone tablet and release all of its power. Unfortunately, in the end, a mysterious giant hand appeared and smashed the Grand Wizard's body into ashes. The Evil God's Power was also destroyed.
The Grand Shaman's training ground was destroyed and turned into the Ancient Sorcerer Valley.
Time passed quickly. After the Ancient Age, the Middle Age, and the Modern Age, the evil origin accumulated enough power to separate a wisp of black mist. However, because the power of the God's Tribulation was still left in the Ancient Sorcerer Valley, it would not appear normally. But when the evil origin's aura spread out, the power of the God's Tribulation would gather and turn into the hand of a god to suppress the evil origin.
The evil origin hid in the "god" character on the stone tablet and did not dare to come out. About a few decades later, a group of people came to the depths of the Ancient Sorcerer Valley and came into contact with the "god" character on the stone tablet. The evil origin killed them and recovered part of its power.
Just like that, another few hundred years passed. A few dozen groups of martial artists came to this place, but they were all killed by the evil origin.
The last group was the people from the Hundred Flowers Tower. At this time, the evil origin had recovered enough power to carry out possession. However, although the people from the Hundred Flowers Tower were strong, their talents were too poor. So, it used a drop of blood from the Hundred Flowers Tower's Ninth Elder to create a new being. Then, it returned to the Hundred Flowers Tower and told the Hundred Flowers Tower about the secret of becoming a god recorded in the Ancient Sorcerer Valley.
"That black shadow should be a wisp of the evil origin's power. With its strength, it could easily kill us. But why didn't it attack us?" Ye Xingchen fell into deep thought.
"Is there something here that the evil origin is afraid of?" Ye Xingchen suddenly thought of the World Tree in his sea of knowledge. Maybe it could restrain the evil origin's power.
The Heavenly Demon was of the Demon Path, so it was completely restrained by the World Tree. The evil origin belonged to the Evil Path, so it might be able to restrain the other party.
The black shadow felt the power of the World Tree and was afraid, so it did not rush to attack.
"This is not good. After the evil origin finds out the truth, it will definitely attack us," Ye Xingchen thought.
The people who had arrived were all outstanding talents of the younger generation. Such people were very talented, and they met the requirements for the evil origin to possess them.
Ye Xingchen guessed. The evil origin would possess the young geniuses, cultivate to the Great Sage level, and then step into the domain of gods. Then, it would break the stone stele and release its own power. At that time, the two powers would fuse together, break the barrier, and reach the next level.
"Who has it taken a liking to?" Ye Xingchen looked around and thought to himself, "Me?
Or Blue Dream, the Peacock Race's Young Patriarch, or Xiu Tianji and the others? "
There was no need to talk about himself. His strength and talent were both top-notch, and he was the best candidate for possession. Besides him, Blue Dream was wearing the King's Battle Armor. Clearly, he was the successor of the Blue Spirit Race. His talent was definitely not weak. The Peacock Race's Young Patriarch and Xiu Tianji were the same.
As for the four mysterious people, Ye Xingchen had fought with them before. He understood some of their strength, and they were not weak either.
Hua Qingchan was the Top Courtesan of the Hundred Flowers Tower. Not only did she rely on her looks, but she also relied on her talent and strength.
The Top Courtesan of the Hundred Flowers Tower was equivalent to the Young Patriarch of the other races.
"Shua!"
While Ye Xingchen was deep in thought, the black shadow made its move. It pounced towards one of the four mysterious people, a young man.
The young man took out a Dao Talisman unhurriedly. The Dao Talisman flashed, and the image of the Immeasurable Heavenly Lord appeared behind him. It shocked the black shadow and actually forced it to retreat.
"Dao Talisman, someone from the Dao Faction?" Ye Xingchen was a little surprised.
In this world, the Dao Faction, Confucian Faction, and Buddhist Faction existed side by side. They were very powerful and not limited to just one faction.
The Dayan, Zi Wei, and Xuan Pin Holy Lands all belonged to the Dao Faction.
"No, it's target is … me!"
Ye Xingchen was suddenly shocked. A black shadow appeared behind him, passed through the light screen, and drilled into his body.