Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

Jun Wuxie did not stay in the stone chamber for long.

He had Yue Yao extinguish the baleful aura within the corpse, and then burned the dried-up flesh with a fire, leaving behind a glistening skeleton.

Although the corpse's useful energy had long been lost, the skeleton still retained some divinity.

This bit of divinity was enough to make the skeleton exceptionally tough, at least for cultivators in the God Realm who were not at a high level.

After all, the corpse's realm during its lifetime was very high, a powerhouse at the God Ancestor Realm.

He stored the skeleton away, planning to take it back and dismantle it later to forge weapons.

In this world, various materials were basically Saint-grade, and God-grade materials were extremely difficult to find.

Although he had obtained many ancient swords in the ancient tomb sword mound within the Azure Dragon Gorge Secret Realm, the quantity was not small.

However, the number of those ancient swords seemed insignificant compared to the demand.

Just considering the people around him, if the disciples of the Immortal Slaying Sword Sect in the Lower Realm were included, there would be tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands.

Dismantling this skeleton to refine weapons, even if a large amount of Saint-grade Rank Nine materials were integrated, God-grade weapons could be forged.

When the doomsday torrent arrives, it would certainly be a good thing to have more God-grade weapons.

Leaving the stone chamber, they continued to advance along the dark tunnel, traversing countless forked caves.

Along the way, they saw a large number of stone chambers.

Near or inside many of the stone chambers, they discovered traces of battle, as well as dried-up corpses.

The realms of these corpses during their lifetimes were very high, none lower than the Ancestral God Realm, and there were even a few Supreme God-level powerhouses.

Regardless of whether they were Ancestral Gods or Supreme Gods, their bodies were in a dried-up state, and there were many wounds on their flesh, with all the fatal wounds on their heads, their skulls riddled with holes.

For powerhouses of these realms, injuries to the body alone were not enough to pose a life-threatening danger; only attacks to the head could kill them.

Unless it was someone of a much higher realm, with absolute suppression over them, who took action.

In that case, even attacking the body could achieve a killing effect.

Because under the suppression of absolute power, the attacker's divine law energy would remain in their body, causing damage and suppression to their vitality, and even penetrate into their body's different space to pierce through their cave heavens, or pierce through their Wheel of Life and Origin.

For cultivators, although the cave heaven is actually within the body, if one were to directly dissect the body, one would not be able to see the cave heaven at all.

This is because the cave heaven is hidden in the strange space opened up within the body; it is concealed.

This means that, normally, even if the physical body turns into a bloody pulp, the cave heaven can still be preserved intact.

"All the way down here, we only see the corpses left behind by the powerhouses of that mysterious force.

Judging from the injuries on their bodies, they were all killed by powerhouses from the Longevity Valley.

Based on the current situation, it seems that the people of Longevity Valley had the upper hand back then.

But in the end, powerhouses from Longevity Valley were lost here, corroded by the curse.

Even a goddess like Su Lan was not spared, indicating that the Longevity Valley paid a great price in that incident, and must have lost a large number of high-realm powerhouses.

There should be something very terrifying at the deepest part of the tunnel."

The situation and results seen along the way were somewhat contradictory, so the problem should lie deeper.

Along the way, it seemed that the powerhouses of Longevity Valley had the absolute upper hand, because there were only corpses of the powerhouses of that mysterious force, and not a single skeleton of a powerhouse from Longevity Valley was seen.

"Yes, I can feel it; there is an aura deeper in the tunnel that makes even me feel a sense of danger."

Yue Yao's expression was solemn.

Her current realm has already reached the Half-Step Eternal God Realm, only half a step away from stepping into the highest realm of the God Realm.

In today's special great era, such a realm may not be considered a top powerhouse.

But it is definitely a remarkable God Realm cultivator.

After all, in previous eras, except for each great era, Supreme Gods could overlook the world and command the eight wastelands, let alone Half-Step Eternal Gods.

The aura that can make her feel a sense of danger and vigilance—what level is that? At least the same Half-Step Eternal God level.

"It doesn't matter; no matter what is lurking inside, we still have to take a look.

Maybe Su Lan is inside, and Wan Wan, perhaps she is also trapped inside and cannot get out."

Jun Wuxie summoned an ancient sword flowing with moonlight and handed it to Yue Yao, "This is a weapon I obtained in a certain sword mound, of the Heavenly God grade.

With it, even if you encounter a powerhouse at the Eternal God Realm, you can fight."

Yue Yao accepted the ancient sword.

The sword body was three fingers wide and three feet long, with beautiful patterns engraved on it, flowing with a faint brilliance.

Slightly infusing it with divine power, the sword body lightly trembled with a clang, emitting a sword鸣 sound, and the light of the engraved flowers on it greatly bloomed, with wisps of terrifying sword intent permeating out.

"Xuan Yue."

Near the hilt of the sword, two ancient characters were engraved, the name of the sword.

"What a peerless divine weapon; I can feel the vast power contained within the sword body.

It's just that it seems to have some problems, unable to establish a connection with the weapon spirit within the sword body."

Yue Yao dripped her blood on the sword body and refined it on the spot.

She felt a special connection between herself and this Xuan Yue, a sign that it had been successfully refined into her own weapon, but she could not connect with the weapon spirit inside; the weapon spirit was asleep and could not be awakened.

The inability to awaken the weapon spirit meant that it was difficult to unleash the Heavenly God weapon's own power; one could only rely on the wielder to consume a massive amount of divine power to forcibly release a very small portion of its power.

However, even this was already very terrifying; when encountering an invincible powerhouse, one could use this sword to cross realms to repel or even kill the enemy.

The price was that one would become weak afterwards, with severe divine power consumption, requiring time to recover.

Using it when surrounded by enemies would be very dangerous; if one could not kill all the enemies, the weakened sword holder would be killed by the enemies.

"It does have some problems; it suffered severe damage back then, and after countless ages, it has not yet fully self-repaired.

However, the weapon spirit no longer has major problems; it will return to its full state in the future, and will naturally awaken at that time."

Yue Yao's divine sense perception was stronger; next, Jun Wuxie always chose the tunnel based on the direction of her divine sense perception.

Although their soul realms were similar, Yue Yao's realm was higher, and she could freely use her strongest divine sense perception, while he could not; if he forcibly used it without reaching the realm, there would be the drawback of an unstable primordial spirit about to leave the body.

Under normal circumstances, he would not fully release his soul realm.

Even when he had to use that level of divine sense, he would only release a moment's worth of power before stopping, otherwise the consequences would be severe.

The tunnel was too deep; they wandered around, and could not remember how many tunnels they had passed through along the way.

As before, each tunnel had a stone chamber, and each contained the corpses left behind by the powerhouses of the mysterious force.

He had already collected a large number of corpses, burning the dried-up flesh and leaving only the divine bones; there were more than a hundred of them.

Finally, the cold and evil aura was getting closer and closer, and stronger and stronger, so strong that Jun Wuxie felt somewhat uncomfortable.

This aura did not have the power of slaughter, but it would impact people's minds.

His willpower was naturally incomparably firm, but his realm was ultimately limited.

Being able to withstand the impact of this aura was already something that cultivators in the Half-God Realm dared not imagine.

Having reached this point, under normal circumstances, even Ancestral Gods would not dare to say that they could be completely unaffected.

Ahead, they encountered a forked cave again, but the number had decreased significantly.

After continuing to go deeper, the number of forked caves became less and less.

In the end, there were no more forked caves, only a huge tunnel, like the open mouth of a giant beast.

The evil and cold aura surged like a mountain flood.

In addition to those terrifying auras, there was also a咚咚咚 sound coming out, with a strong sense of rhythm, like war drums beating; each time it sounded, it was like striking the heart, making people's hearts very uncomfortable, as if they were about to burst.

Jun Wuxie felt his heart suddenly contract, as if it had been pinched hard, and then it frantically expanded.

His expression changed slightly, and he instantly suffocated, about to prop up the world domain.

At this time, divine laws permeated Yue Yao's body, forming an invisible field, obliterating the influence brought by the sound.

"Wuxie Gege doesn't need to waste essence, qi, and spirit to use the world domain."

Yue Yao smiled sweetly, her eyes seeming to say, let Yao'er protect you.

Seeing her expression, Jun Wuxie could not help but smile, like when she was a young girl, he spoiled her by gently scratching her delicate nose.

Then, he took her hand, his fingers passing through the gaps between her fingers, interlocking their fingers, and they walked forward side by side.

The rhythm of that sound became heavier and heavier, like a heartbeat.

In fact, Jun Wuxie and Yue Yao had already determined in their hearts that it was the sound of a heartbeat, and not just one heartbeat.

Just when they felt that they were getting closer and closer to their target.

Suddenly, the yin wind rose sharply, whistling and coming, the sound sharp.

A terrifying claw, as if appearing out of thin air, with sharp, long nails, grabbed over, wanting to cover them.

The palm was in the shape of a human hand, condensed from divine power; although it was large, it was very slender, and one could tell at a glance that it was a woman's hand.

It was just that the nails on the fingers were too eerie, as red as blood.

Not to mention being grabbed by that hand, just the cold baleful aura when it attacked was unbearable.

However, Yue Yao's field resisted the terrifying aura.

She pointed her fingers together and drew a line, and a wisp of Taiyin finger light rushed out like a moon-white crescent, cutting through the void and cutting the hand in half.

Then, Yue Yao struck out with a palm, shattering the severed divine power palm.

After the palm disappeared, they wanted to continue forward, but in an instant, the figure of a woman appeared in front of them, with disheveled hair and blood flowing from her eyes; with a casual blow, thousands of divine lights pierced through the air.

These divine lights were divine needles condensed from divine law energy, coming overwhelmingly.

Each divine needle possessed shocking killing power.

Clearly, this was the method of a Changsheng Valley expert.

However, these divine needles were no longer for healing the sick and saving lives, but for killing, filled with an incomparably cold murderous intent.

With a clang, a sword cried out.

Yue Yao summoned the Xuan Yue Ancient Sword, a Heavenly God artifact, given to her by Jun Wuxie.

With a flick of her wrist, the Xuan Yue created blossoming sword flowers in her hand, the sword energy crisscrossing to form a dense net.

The Taiyin sword intent swept towards the front of the cave, instantly illuminating the dark passage.

The sword energy blocked those divine needles, and upon collision, all of them shattered into a rain of light.

In the center of the sword net, a sword formation diagram instantly evolved. Yue Yao thrust the Xuan Yue Ancient Sword in her hand forward, and countless Taiyin sword energies shot out from within the diagram.

The woman did her best to resist, with countless strands of divine light, but she still couldn't withstand it. With a miserable shriek, she was pierced by dozens of sword energies and collapsed on the spot.

No blood splattered, only a rain of light permeated the air.

Clearly, that woman was not a flesh-and-blood body, but a reflected projection.

The strength of a projection is far inferior to the original body, less than a tenth, even much weaker than an incarnation.

"My Yao'er is so valiant and imposing in battle," Jun Wuxie said with a slight smile.

A touch of shy smile flashed across Yue Yao's exquisite face.

They continued forward and soon saw a light.

Although it wasn't very bright, it was very conspicuous in the dark environment.

The light came from the end of the tunnel.

Looking from the opening at the end, they could see an open space.

In the center of that open space was a huge, pink energy cocoon. They could vaguely see a weak figure sitting cross-legged inside, with disheveled hair, unable to see the face clearly, and wearing what appeared to be red clothes.

The ground beneath the cocoon was engraved with runes, looking like an altar.

As for the surroundings, due to the limited angle of vision, they couldn't see them.

However, they could feel a very terrifying aura from those surroundings, and the sound of the heartbeat also came from there.