"Ye Xuan is the Immortal Lord!"
Xia Xin Yu stood up and slowly walked to the stone tablet. "When the Immortal Lord first entered the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, he called himself Ye Xuan. However, as the name Immortal Lord became more renowned, eventually the beings of all races only knew the Immortal Lord and not Ye Xuan's name!"
"The divine power on this stone tablet has already collapsed. It seems we have arrived at a good time. If we had come earlier, we might not have been able to leave this place suppressed by the stone tablet!"
"Take your time to recuperate and replenish your divine power. This Mu Jian mountain peak will likely be even more dangerous!"
In the blink of an eye, two days passed. The auras of several people gradually stabilized, and their divine power was nurtured to its peak. Xia Xin Yu proposed to stay for another three hours before entering the mountain.
Soon, three hours blinked by. The group continued forward, passing the stone tablet and climbing towards the summit. Here, even though they were all in the Supreme realm, and some were even reincarnated powerhouses, they still couldn't withstand the suppression of the aura of this place. They couldn't step through the void and could only climb like mortals.
"The higher we go, the stronger the suppression. Be careful, everyone!" Wang Zhuo reminded them. After one day, the five people reached the summit. The summit was empty. The center of the entire mountain peak had collapsed into a giant stone pit thousands of feet deep. Standing on the summit and looking inside, it resembled a massive basin in the heart of Mu Jian mountain peak.
Other than that, there was nothing else on the summit. The group stayed for half an hour, and could only head towards the basin at the center of Mu Jian mountain peak. The further they went, the lower the temperature became. The drop in temperature seeped into their bodies, causing Dian Wei and the other four to grimace and their faces to turn purple.
"Why is the space getting smaller the further down we go!"
Wang Yun Xuan was somewhat frightened. Descending from the summit, the lower they went, the colder it became. The chill here could penetrate their divine power defenses and directly corrode their bones. The space also became smaller and smaller, with the overall interior space resembling an inverted cone.
As their divine senses were suppressed here, the group, who were initially standing on the summit, found it difficult to probe the depths of the earth. The further down they went, the more they realized the space was narrowing.
"Hang in there a little longer, we're almost at the bottom. See if anyone has any spiritual materials or pills and help each other out. We have no grievances, and we've come this far together, so let's help each other!" Wang Zhuo smashed a piece of mountain rock and clenched his right fist, gripping the mountain body.
Half a day passed, and the group reached the bottom of the mountain. The light was dim. The entire space at the bottom was not large, only a little over three hundred square feet. In the center of the underground space lay a black skeleton, seated cross-legged. A three-foot wooden sword was inserted into its skull. This wooden sword was also refined from a branch of the Chengtian wood.
"A black skeleton, it's the skeleton of a Void Demon!"
At this moment, Xia Xin Yu and Wang Zhuo's faces were shocked. Compared to Dian Wei and the other four, their reactions were even more extreme.
"This is the remains of the Void Demon leader!"
Xia Xin Yu approached the black skeleton and observed it carefully for a long time before speaking.
"How can you be sure it's the remains of the Void Demon leader, with the flesh and blood gone, just based on this black skeleton?!"
Wang Zhuo hesitated.
"Look at the hilt of the wooden sword. There's a drop of divine blood that has lost its divine power and spiritual energy. That's the Immortal Lord's divine blood. After the battle in Changsheng City, the Immortal Lord cultivated the Immortal Emperor Golden Body. His blood was golden, yet as translucent as jade."
"In the late ancient era, only the Immortal Lord had cultivated the Immortal Emperor Golden Body. Who else could have injured the Immortal Lord besides Zhulong and the Void Demon leader? Do you think there was anyone else?" Xia Xin Yu's words shocked Wang Zhuo immensely.
"A wooden sword refined from Chengtian wood was inserted straight into the head of this Void Demon leader. Theoretically, the Void Demon leader's primordial spirit must have collapsed. The Immortal Lord also spent a great deal of effort to suppress him here. What was it for?" Wang Zhuo spoke, stumbling and almost falling to the ground, his face pale with shock.
"Unless!"
Xia Xin Yu spoke.
"Unless this Void Demon leader is not dead, and his primordial spirit has left this physical body and escaped elsewhere!"
Long Ju interrupted Xia Xin Yu and scanned his surroundings again. "Just like Zhulong, the Immortal Lord at the time couldn't do anything to the Void Demon leader, so he could only suppress his physical body here to prevent him from causing chaos in the world after entering the Immortal Realm!"
"If you say that, then where did the Void Demon leader's primordial spirit go? The current era is a full era after the Immortal Lord's era. Why is there no longer a peak being in this world who can suppress the planar?"
Yang You Ji shook his head, disagreeing with Long Ju's words.
"Look, there's a passage there!"
Dian Wei shouted. Behind the remains of the Void Demon leader, about ten feet away, there was a narrow passage just wide enough for one person to pass. Looking through the dim light, it was covered in dark red moss-like plants, with black mist swirling among them.
Looking at the scene in the narrow passage, the group felt an ominous premonition. What were these dark red plants, and where did this passage lead?
"Let's go in and see. Our retreat is cut off, we can only go forward, there's no other way!" Xia Xin Yu said, looking up at the summit. Heavy snow was falling under the sky.
Xia Xin Yu took the lead, stepping into the narrow passage decisively. The others followed closely behind.
This narrow passage was very long, spanning a thousand miles. Looking up, the rocks were dense and impenetrable about three feet above. Their divine senses were blocked here, and they had no idea where they were going.
Slowly, not knowing if there was danger ahead, they dared not quicken their pace. The group continued their steps. After more than an hour, they entered a larger space.
Upon entering, the five were greatly surprised. In the vast space, there were seven mounds, covered with scarlet grass, which they didn't know what kind of plant it was. It wriggled like a snake.
"What is this ghost thing?"
Wang Yun Xuan shouted. The group was startled, their faces solemn, and they all dared not approach. This space was huge, covering tens of millions of square feet. In such a large area, besides the seven mounds, there was a dark red river surrounding them.
This river was not wide, only about ten feet in width. The dark red liquid within flowed with a gurgling sound, its source and destination unknown. It meandered and encircled the seven mounds.
Strangely, on each of the seven mounds, there was a fifteen-foot-long sword, refined from a branch of Chengtian wood, inserted into it. These seven swords, perhaps having been stained by the dark red liquid flowing around the mounds for an era, were entirely dark red.