The feathers of the Phoenix clan's beings, when combined with them, could further ignite the most terrifying might.
"Rumble!"
At this moment, Dian Wei and the others were simultaneously suppressed to the ground by a colossal power. This streak of golden light, manifested from a mere speck, had traversed endless spacetime. Coupled with the fall of the Cheng Tian Zhi Mu and the mortal body severed by the Immortal Lord when he stepped into the Immortal Realm, the divine power contained and unleashed was not of the top-tier Chaos Dao Venerable level, but it was at the elementary stage. This was something that those insignificant Supremes among them could not resist.
"Boom!"
The divine powers of the three factions collided, unleashing a terrifying storm of protective energy. The terrifying might raged and exploded at the center of the Cheng Tian Zhi Mu.
"Fortunately! We managed to block it!"
The feather in Xia Xin Yu's hand turned to dust, and the wooden sword in Wang Zhuo's hand also dissipated. At this moment, both felt an unspeakable bitterness. This was their most powerful trump card, without exception. Only by joining forces could they shatter this speck of yellow dust, which was far from its peak.
Terrifying!
"Boom!"
The terrifying energy storm began to surge outward. The sky here crumbled inch by inch, and the terrifying energy prevented the void from repairing itself!
"Be careful, everyone. Leave here quickly. If you stay any longer, I will have no more trump cards to shield you from this terrifying, world-ending onslaught!"
After a long while, Wang Zhuo's eyes were filled with boundless anger. Not only had he missed the sealed land of the Candle Dragon's primordial spirit and failed to complete the family's important mission, but for himself, it was a case of losing the wife and the soldiers as well.
"Let's go quickly. This is not a place for us!"
Xia Xin Yu nodded solemnly. If she had reached the realm of a Chaos Dao Venerable, she would truly want to go up and take a look. Perhaps she would have made an extraordinary discovery. Alas...
Dian Wei and the others quickly nodded. Faced with a speck of yellow dust the size of a fly, they had almost been annihilated. If not for Xia Xin Yu and Wang Zhuo being present, killing them ten thousand times over would likely not have been enough.
The group glanced around, identified the direction, and bypassed the location of the Cheng Tian Zhi Mu from the left, continuing to advance forward.
After the incident with the Cheng Tian Zhi Mu, the group became extremely cautious when traversing the void, not daring to easily release their divine senses to scan their surroundings. There might be some mysterious power that they could not contend with descending upon them and suppressing them all.
"Such a large cave-heaven, expending so much effort. Was it all just to seal the withered body of the Cheng Tian Zhi Mu?" Wang Zhuo was puzzled.
"But that speck of light, the size of a fly, forced you and me to use our most powerful trump cards just to shatter it. With such terrifying divine power, would the Immortal Lord have moved the withered body of the Cheng Tian Zhi Mu from the core of the Central Continent to this place?"
Dian Wei, Long Ju, and Yang You Ji looked at Xia Xin Yu with solemn expressions. Although Xia Xin Yu and Wang Zhuo were beings of the same era, in the eyes of the other three, Xia Xin Yu knew more and was slightly more powerful.
Xia Xin Yu frowned heavily. She was also puzzled about this matter. If she hadn't encountered that mirror in her previous life and her primordial spirit hadn't been severely injured, perhaps she could have unraveled quite a few mysteries.
As it was, she was also clueless. What else could be here?
The group walked and stopped. After a few days, they discovered an ancient rune, identical to the runes inherited by the Chu family. However, it was more complex and mysterious than the Chu family's. In front of this rune lay a wooden sword, refined from the tender sprouts of the Cheng Tian Zhi Mu, pointing directly north.
The group stood far away, not daring to approach.
"That should be left by the Immortal Lord. But who, apart from the Immortal Lord, could have severed and refined such a thing from the tender sprouts of the Cheng Tian Zhi Mu in the late ancient period!" Wang Zhuo took a deep breath.
"The wooden sword points north. Is it telling us something?"
"Or is it a mark left by the Immortal Lord for himself?"
Xia Xin Yu looked and said, unable to discern for a moment. The others were completely clueless and simply gave up, sitting cross-legged and quietly listening to Xia Xin Yu and Wang Zhuo's conversation.
Xia Xin Yu then said, "This is an ancient rune inherited by the Chu family. This rune is for enhancing combat techniques. The wooden sword refined from the Cheng Tian Zhi Mu—could it be that the Immortal Lord encountered a strong enemy? If he left a mark, there would be no need to use such a precious item!"
"You're right. It's likely that the Immortal Lord encountered some powerful being here!" Wang Zhuo suddenly said.
Dian Wei and the others looked at Wang Zhuo. They saw that Wang Zhuo was holding a rust-covered fragment of armor in his hand.
"Void Demonic Qi!"
"The Immortal Lord encountered a being from the Void Demon race!!" Xia Xin Yu said, looking at the rust-covered fragment of armor.
"It seems that the battle back then did not completely clear out the strong experts of the Void Demon race! Let's go, follow the direction pointed by the wooden sword."
"Swish"
Xia Xin Yu and Wang Zhuo sped away. Dian Wei and the others promptly got up and followed, traversing the void. After they had moved far away from that place, the suspended wooden sword suddenly turned bright red, a crimson hue like fresh blood.
"Om~~~"
The wooden sword moved slightly, and from pointing north, it abruptly pointed west. With a bang, at a speed ten thousand times faster than Xia Xin Yu and the others, it shot towards the west. The wooden sword shot out of the cave-heaven, passed the battlefield where Dian Wei fought Chu Fan, and rushed west out of this secret realm. At an extremely fast speed, it then entered another secret realm adjacent to this one.
In about two breaths' time, it directly arrived at the core of this secret realm. Here, the earth was cracked, all things were burning with raging flames, and blood and flesh were everywhere. Most of them were the remains of beings from the Zhan and Jian families.
"Thump thump~~"
Three figures emerged from a ruin. The first person was the leading expert of the Jiang Zuo family, Jiang Zuo Zi Nan!
In his palm, he held a wooden coffin the size of his palm. With a hum, a blood-red light flashed before Jiang Zuo Zi Nan's eyes, and the wooden coffin in his hand immediately erupted with boundless blood-red light, shooting towards the sky!
He stared fixedly at the wooden coffin in his hand, saying nothing. His eyes were very calm. As the blood-red light gradually weakened, the original wooden coffin had now transformed into a blood-red coffin.
The corners of his mouth curved slightly: "So that's how it is!"
Meanwhile, Xia Xin Yu and the others had passed the place of the wooden sword and had traveled an unknown distance northward. The terrain changed rapidly.
Until a palace a thousand feet tall appeared before them. The outer layer of this palace was covered with dense Chu family runes, some of which were still faintly circulating divine power.
"This ancient palace is very mysterious. Look at the Chu family's inherited runes carved all over the outside. These were likely inscribed by the Immortal Lord. Is he suppressing something?" Xia Xin Yu said with a heavy tone.
"Perhaps we can only know by going inside. What do you all think? I intend to go in and take a look!" Wang Zhuo said calmly.
"Of course, we have to go in. There are probably the most traces of the Immortal Lord inside. We absolutely cannot miss it!" Xia Xin Yu immediately followed.