Xu Yan stood in the open space of the snowfield.

Where he had originally stood was a snow mountain, but... in the midst of the "rumbling" sound of the rolling snow tide, the snow mountain was leveled bit by bit.

It was hard to imagine that the collapse of this snow mountain was only due to being struck by the black fire at the tip of that large umbrella.

How powerful must that be?

The power of that "umbrella" far exceeded Xu Yan's understanding!

In his understanding, the abilities of high-level transcendent sealed items were certainly powerful, but they often consumed a large amount of energy... everything had its price, this was an unavoidable "iron law."

And this umbrella, how much Source Quality did it consume each time it was used?

Why did it look... like it could unleash a second attack at any time?

Xu Yan looked not far away at the ancient sacrificial robe-clad goddess holding the black umbrella. More than her delicate face and the perfect outline vaguely revealed beneath the sacrificial robe, he was more concerned about the "transcendent power" on her body.

Xu Yan had tried to probe this mysterious second successor of divination with his mental power, wanting to detect her depth from her aura.

Unfortunately, he failed.

This woman was like a vague and illusory existence.

Xu Yan could not sense the slightest trace of transcendent aura within her body.

Just as Xu Yan was thinking...

Without warning.

That black umbrella opened again!

Once again... it was aimed at him!

At the moment the umbrella opened, amidst the wind and snow, it seemed that black flower petal embers were dancing wildly!

"Boom!"

A beam of light directly broke through the blizzard, nailing through Xu Yan's chest, shattering his front, piercing through his back. He coughed up a large mouthful of blood, his pupils filled with bloodshot eyes, and he looked down in disbelief at this scene...

How could this be?!

Compared to the previous strike, this time the black umbrella was more like it had locked onto a "spot kill"!

The speed was frighteningly fast!

From the opening of the umbrella to the beam of light piercing him... it seemed to only take a millisecond! Even faster!

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"Run!"

The moment the black umbrella opened, also the moment the beam of light directly pierced Xu Yan, Chu Ling did not hesitate at all, and directly grabbed Shen Li and started running.

Shen Li was still in a daze.

He originally thought that her asking how his body was recovering... meant that a desperate attack was about to be launched, and she needed his cooperation!

But he never expected...

In just an instant, Xu Yan was shot through the body!

And the next moment... this woman was going to take him to escape for their lives?

Before he could say anything...

A palm grabbed the back of his collar... When Shen Li was grabbed, he realized that this hand was by no means as "gentle" as it looked.

With a "swoosh!"

The two disappeared from the spot.

Only at this moment did Shen Li finally understand Chu Ling's true intention in asking about his physical condition earlier.

Because the moving speed was too fast, he felt as if his body and soul were about to separate... the astral winds on the snowfield were like knives, tearing at his body. Those previously self-healing skins were now re-cut, cracking out dozens of dense and tiny wounds, and fresh blood surged like small insects.

"Hiss..."

Intense pain surged to the top of his head, and he couldn't help but gasp.

From the beginning, the intention of opening the umbrella... was just to escape?

Shen Li looked back at the distance in the blizzard, in the direction they came from. Xu Yan was nailed into a large snow mountain, triggering a secondary avalanche... it seemed that the strike just now had almost killed him!

"It's far from enough to kill him."

As if she had the ability to read minds, Chu Ling spoke.

"For other transcendents of the same realm, that strike just now would have been a guaranteed kill. But he's different, he has the keepsake of the Wine God Seat."

Shen Li bit his lip, his eyes a little unwilling.

He had never truly witnessed the power of a god.

Naturally, his understanding of "keepsakes" was also very limited.

After choosing to escape, Shen Li felt that it was a pity that they didn't press the attack in the situation just now.

"No, your injuries are a big problem."

Chu Ling glanced back and said seriously, "Although the physical injuries have been repaired, the mental problems have not been resolved. You have been poisoned by the soul toxin of the mental ability 'Scorpion.' If you don't find a place to treat it and just drag it on like this... you might die."

Shen Li looked a little pale.

"Scorpion... is Xu Yan's ability?"

No wonder he felt more and more tired mentally after escaping.

"Yes, to be precise, it's one of his abilities," Chu Ling said calmly.

"One of?"

Shen Li was taken aback.

In this world, are there really people who can possess more than one transcendent ability?

"Xu Yan's ability is 'Fire Thief'."

Chu Ling slowly said, "Under the cultivation of the Wine God Seat and the resources of the Source Tower, in recent years, he may have mastered twenty abilities, or even more... Wherever he goes, he can use these powers, because Xu Yan himself is a human-shaped family tree carrying a large number of transcendent abilities."

"Fire Thief..."

Of course Shen Li had heard of this ability!

After the transcendent family tree was divided into three major systems of abilities... it was the appearance of the Fire Thief that made the Federation re-divide the abilities roughly, and proposed the concept of the "Trait System."

Because the Fire Thief was too special.

It was rumored that the Fire Thief could steal and copy the powers of other transcendents!

Whether it was the Nature System, the Assault System, or the Mental System... the Fire Thief could replicate them!

"No wonder he was able to get an 'S-level' rating..."

"No wonder he was able to replicate a fire similar to Brother Gu's..."

Shen Li muttered.

All the confusion was resolved at this moment.

"Boom!!"

And the next moment, in the snow tide of the collapsed snow mountain behind them, a earth-shattering roar erupted.

A dazzling purple light rose into the sky.

Immediately afterwards, a figure burning with purple light hovered, locking onto the two of them.

Shen Li's expression changed drastically.

Obviously... Chu Ling's judgment was correct, Xu Yan might be injured, but he would never die.

At this moment, at the location of his chest, a cylindrical wound that had been pierced through was slowly shrinking.

A "miracle" was being staged.

As an apostle blessed by the Wine God, he would never die from such an attack!

Xu Yan stared at the two fleeing people in the distance, his expression icy.

He took a deep breath.

Clutching the Grape Token keepsake!

A purple light rose upwards, sweeping towards the location of Chu Ling.

"Hold your breath and guard your body."

Chu Ling said softly, uttering such a sentence lightly.

She also saw the purple light that rose into the sky.

As she expected... the destructive power erupted by the Flame Demon Umbrella was completely blocked by Xu Yan's "Apostle Power."

This strike.

Whether it consumed one petal of black flower or one whole black flower, the results were no different.

The power that overflowed Xu Yan's own "upper limit" would be completely blocked by the blessing of the "Wine God Seat."

This mere black flower was not enough to shake the Apostle's divine power.

Therefore... Chu Ling did not use all her strength.

In her palm, she was still twirling half a black flower. At this moment, the edges of the petals were constantly flowing with black light, and the collapsed order transformed into transcendent Source Quality, and the speed of the two's flight increased once again!

With a "buzz" in his ears, Shen Li only felt that this time, his spirit was truly separated from his body!

He felt boundless coldness pouring into his body!

In just an instant.

Frost formed on his eyebrows, hair, and cheeks. The frost piled up in the next moment, creating ice chips... At this speed, it would only take three or four seconds for his body to turn into a snowman, and his spirit would be frozen to "silent extinction" and die!

Chu Ling noticed this scene.

She was a Divine Embryo, able to sense the coldness of the world, but she would not be frostbitten.

The losses brought about by such high-speed travel were nothing... but Shen Li was different.

If this continued, before the mental toxin of "Scorpion" could take effect, Shen Li would be frozen to death.

So she controlled the black flower, dividing a portion of the transcendent Source Quality to protect the "fragile" body beside her.

This scene was somewhat dramatic.

In fact, the body of the [Iron Eater Disciple] was very domineering.

After reaching great success, this iron body would be fearless of all "body refiners" of the same realm!

But Shen Li's realm was low now, and the iron body was far from reaching great success... so in this level of battle, this body was just a fragile piece of white paper, which would break with a poke and had to be carefully protected.

The fluorescent light flowing out of the black flower enveloped Shen Li.

Dozens of seconds later, his consciousness barely returned.

The Little Iron Man's teeth chattered and trembled: "Thank you..."

He paused halfway through.

Obviously, he didn't know the name of the woman in front of him, and didn't know how to address her.

"Chu Ling."

Chu Ling responded while burning the black flower, keeping her distance from the purple light behind her.

Shen Li, his face full of frost, asked, his teeth chattering, looking back, "Thank you, Miss Chu... where... are we going now?"

The original Qingzhong Mausoleum was shrouded by this Calamity Domain!

It was now a frozen land with snow falling for thousands of miles.

Even if they escaped, where could they escape to?

Under despair, Shen Li suddenly realized... that there were still several titled experts who had entered the Mausoleum.

"This Calamity Domain is actually generated in response to the 'Mausoleum'. So even if it's a virtual realm, there's still an invisible map, but... no one has figured out the rules yet."

Chu Ling spoke, as if she had once again used "mind-reading" to see through Shen Li's thoughts: "The titled experts in the Mausoleum can't be relied upon, so don't count on them."

Shen Li was slightly stunned.

Before he could ask "why".

Chu Ling explained calmly, "The rules in this Mausoleum have teleported different people to different locations... in order to maintain the Mausoleum Calamity Domain as complete as possible. I guess the ultimate purpose of the rules is to keep the 'Calamity Domain' intact. And in order to maintain the greatest integrity, titled experts are most likely moved to more internal locations."

In fact, she had been in the Mausoleum for some time.

As soon as she entered the Golden Gate, she was separated from the little girl Li QingSui.

After entering the Mausoleum, she tried to find Li QingSui, but the Mausoleum was cold and deserted, a dead silence. Under the shroud of the snowfield... let alone finding Li QingSui, she couldn't even see a single figure!

Because the signal was blocked, [Deep Sea] had been unable to know the specific situation of the Mausoleum.

But Chu Ling personally entering the Mausoleum was a different situation.

She strolled in the snowfield.

And the [Source Code] at the bottom of the deep sea began to operate silently, deducing... using a huge computing power to simulate the unknown "Calamity Domain Rules" in this Mausoleum!

And the final conclusion was... that Gu Shen, the Mausoleum Guardian, and Li QingSui, who she was looking for, were probably all in the depths of the Mausoleum!

Although Li QingSui's cultivation realm was low.

But she had something that others didn't... that was the "Clan Leader Token" that symbolized the supreme status of the "Five Great Families"!

For six hundred years, the Five Great Families, who had always followed some kind of ancient etiquette, had always paid great attention to the respect of identity.

This could be seen from the setting of nameplates in the Elder Council's Zong Tang.

The "order" that the Five Great Families were committed to building.

Was the order of "name"!

Every clan leader who had been properly named and recognized would possess a token... that was an extremely important thing, symbolizing the long history of the Five Great Families, passed down from generation to generation, never lost even in war.

And before Li QuHu died, he naturally passed this token to his daughter.

This was actually why those people in the Elder Council previously impeached Li QingSui and wanted to seize it!

If Li QingSui was impeached.

Then no matter who the new clan leader was... they must possess this token!

In the Qingzhong Mausoleum... the function of the Clan Leader Token was no longer the so-called "name".

This was a place of rest for the spirits of the dead.

All the dead were equal.

No matter how powerful you were in life, after death you were just a wisp of ghost.

"Name" lost its function here.

The Qingzhong Mausoleum was able to be established in the first place... because it had been recognized by all the people in power of the Five Great Families before it could be built.

The five Clan Leader Tokens played a vital role.

Because the sleeping place of Mr. Gu ChangZhi was the "Colossus Ruins", six hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Five Great Families came to Nagano and began their "rise" here... The five Clan Leader Tokens of the Five Great Families actually contained five wisps of original bloodline power, which could each resonate and vibrate with a certain Colossus in the Colossus Ruins.

The bloodline of the Gong Family was related to the "Ancient God" Garuda!

As for the other families...

Because the fog shrouded by the Colossus Ruins was too thick, almost no one knew... the bloodline secrets of the Five Great Families.

People who possess the Clan Leader Tokens of the Five Great Families are likely to be teleported to the "Inner Mausoleum"?

This was the conclusion derived from the calculation and deduction of [Deep Sea]... it did not represent the truth, but it represented the possibility under a very high probability.

"We're going to the 'Inner Mausoleum' now."

Chu Ling said calmly.

Shen Li had heard of the "Inner Mausoleum". For him, before the Great Explosion, it was the most mysterious place in the Mausoleum, shrouded in a fog all day long.

Without the permission of the Mausoleum Guardian, no one could enter.

But now...

Even a fool knew that Qingzhong had become like this, so Master Qianye must have had an accident.

"Inner Mausoleum..."

Shen Li raised a very important question: "Is the Wine God Seat... is it... in the Inner Mausoleum?"

He was a martial arts fanatic, not an idiot.

Able to turn the Mausoleum into this with his own strength...

From the current situation, it could only be the Wine God Seat.

"Yes."

Chu Ling lowered her eyes slightly. This was one of the few certain results after [Deep Sea] had calculated for a while.

The Wine God Seat must be in the Inner Mausoleum!

"If you're afraid of entering the Inner Mausoleum, I can find an uninhabited place and put you down," Chu Ling said softly, "Xu Yan's target should have shifted to me... maybe you can take this opportunity to escape."

"Heh..."

Shen Li shook his head.

"Miss Chu, you're... underestimating me too much."

The Little Iron Man smiled weakly: "I, Shen Li, am not someone who is greedy for life and afraid of death. I would like to meet the legendary God Seat and then spit on him. Besides... his situation is also very bad, isn't it?"

If the Wine God Seat could appear, then why would there be so much trouble?

The God Seat only needed a thought to erase the people who should be killed!

An unexpected answer.

Chu Ling was silent for a while.

She subconsciously thought for others, or followed the logic of [Deep Sea]. The [Source Code] could simulate many correct choices, but it could not simulate successful "humanity"... If [Deep Sea] were to control Shen Li, then escaping from her at this moment would definitely be the best choice.

After a moment of silence.

She couldn't help but smile.

This was the beauty of this world... a world that could not be simulated by data or predicted by code.

The purple light behind her was getting closer and closer.

The burning of the black flower was nearing its end.

Only a small section of the broken flower stem remained, emitting a dark and deep radiance.

Chu Ling took a deep breath.

She crashed towards the "Inner Mausoleum" deduced by [Deep Sea]. In the distance was a towering snow mountain, covered by hundreds of meters of thick fog... Under the high-speed impact, the boundless fog and clouds were shattered.

Shen Li clenched his teeth.

His forehead bulged with veins, feeling the beating of layers of snow and fog, as if some forbidden power was blocking him from entering the Inner Mausoleum... After crashing into the snow mountain, there was no sense of "breaking" as he had imagined.

There was no pain either.

He just crashed into boundless darkness.

Extreme coldness penetrated into his bone marrow!

The darkness surged, and light appeared faintly.

In a very, very far place, he seemed to see circles of gold lines wrapped around the distance, where towering colossi and mountain ranges stood.

And in front of that mountain range... he seemed to see a familiar figure sitting cross-legged, surrounded by countless array pattern drawings.

Those drawings were engraved with obscure and difficult-to-understand complex symbols.

One after another, they were connected with each other with thin and fragile paper, forming a circular giant wall, as if they wanted to use light to turn the whole world into a tornado.

"Brother Gu..."

Shen Li recognized that figure.

He inexplicably felt a sense of peace.

In the darkness.

That figure seemed to sense something in the dark and also raised his head.

Gu Shen was a little confused.

After the Great Cold Calamity arrived, the entire Mausoleum was covered, but only the place where he was located, because of the "Mausoleum Guardian's" best efforts to protect it, retained the last peace and was not shrouded by the Great Cold Calamity.

However, outside the array pattern surrounding him, it was all darkness.

At this moment, Gu Shen looked towards the darkness in the distance.

In his eyes, there was surprise, loss, astonishment, disbelief... countless complex emotions were contained within.

Because he saw the person he was least likely to see.

The next moment.

His eyes instantly became gloomy.

Because in the darkness, a purple light swept out, and a palm wrapped in iron wind slammed fiercely towards Chu Ling's back!

Gu Shen suddenly stood up.

Accompanied by a vast sound, thousands of array pattern drawings flew away together!

"Xu Yan, how dare you!"

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(ps: 1, Report, today's 10,000-word update has been completed with guaranteed quality! It was too difficult, because there was no suitable environment, I buried my head and wrote until dark! Now my wrist can't take it anymore. 2, I know I'm going to be scolded for cliffhangers again, but there's no way, because every chapter is a climax, but the good news is that the tour is over, I'm going home tomorrow, and I'll continue to update explosively, with a bottom line of 10,000 words!)