Boom—
A great battle erupted, for not long after, Ye Chen and the others encountered an extremely fearsome demonic creature. It stood three zhang tall, wielded a trident, and its demonic energy surged to the heavens. It was astonishingly powerful, surpassing all previous alien race demons and even demonic beasts, and could be called a King-level alien race demon.
Now, the Northern Netherworld Saint stepped forward to confront it, and a terrifying battle ensued.
The Northern Netherworld Family's Saint, Beiming Gongwang, was undoubtedly a powerful young supreme powerhouse at the False King level. His cultivation suppressed the younger generation's prodigies, ranking among the top three strongest of the new generation in the Heavenly Saint Domain. As he made his move, he formed hand seals and performed techniques, causing vast oceans to surge forth, flooding this expanse of void.
In the Northern Netherworld, there is a fish called the Kunpeng!
It was said that the Northern Netherworld Family were descendants of the supreme creature Kunpeng from the Mythical Era, capable of unleashing their ancestral Kunpeng's ultimate divine techniques. The surname 'Beiming' itself evolved from 'Beiming' (Northern Netherworld).
The surging, churning ocean carried boundless cold, freezing into frost that blotted out the sky and earth. This was the Northern Netherworld Divine Sea, manifested by Beiming Gongwang.
Boom—
A colossal figure leaped out from the Northern Netherworld Divine Sea, sending up waves hundreds of zhang high. It was a giant Kun fish, a hundred zhang in size, which soared into the void and then rapidly transformed, growing divine wings and evolving into a supreme Kunpeng that shot across the sky, pouncing to kill the King-level demonic creature, initiating a fierce battle.
The Kunpeng struck at the heavens, its wings flapping through the thirty-three heavens, reaching an extreme speed. It was both an ultimate offensive divine ability and a terrifying movement divine technique. The Kunpeng rapidly shrank, merging with Beiming Gongwang. Wings of the Kunpeng sprouted from his back, and with a single flap, they transcended the ordinary and the rational, achieving the world's ultimate speed, rivaling Ye Chen's Reverse Void Eight Steps.
Whoosh! The twin wings swept across the sky like heavenly blades, slashing at the alien race King-level demon. They shattered many of its pitch-black scales on its body, causing evil blood to spurt out, the clanging sounds unceasing.
The alien race King-level demon roared and snarled, wielding its trident in a sweeping attack. Moreover, terrifying rays of black light erupted from its body, shooting in all directions.
But Beiming Gongwang's speed was truly too fast, as if it were the world's ultimate speed, traversing heaven and earth. The demon could not even touch the hem of his garment.
Even Ye Chen watched with flickering eyes; this divine technique moved even him.
"There have long been rumors that the Northern Netherworld Family are descendants of the holy spirit Kunpeng. It seems this saying is not false. Brother Beiming's speed can be called number one among Kings," Daochu couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Faced with such divine speed, almost any great enemy would despair.
However, the Northern Netherworld Saintess shook her head with a light laugh. "Brother Daochu, you jest. My Northern Netherworld Family is not at all descendants of the Kunpeng. If that were the case, our family could almost become an imperial clan or a royal clan, not merely an immortal force. It's just that our ancestors were fortunate, having once obtained part of the Kunpeng's divine abilities by a stroke of luck. It's nothing to boast about."
Indeed, the Kunpeng's fame in the Mythical Era was completely on par with holy spirits like the Azure Dragon and White Tiger who separated heaven and earth. It could also stand shoulder to shoulder with the Undying Immortal Phoenix and the World Tree, ranking among the most powerful holy spirits in the world.
How could the descendants of the Kunpeng be weak!
In the midst of the battle, Beiming Gongwang traversed the world, and moreover, he operated an ultimate divine technique, sweeping across the six directions and eight wildernesses, truly displaying the peerless cultivation of a False King supreme powerhouse. Merging his body with the Kunpeng, with Kunpeng divine wings on his back, he instantly traversed the void, arriving before the alien race King-level creature and launching a terrifying final assault.
Various powerful divine techniques surged forth endlessly as he operated them for attack. Divine radiance flooded the heavens, and the Northern Netherworld Divine Sea swept forth, trapping this alien race King-level demon.
Finally, after a round of terrifying fierce combat, although the alien race King-level demon was very powerful, it gradually proved no match for Beiming Gongwang. This was because Beiming Gongwang possessed powerful secret treasures of the Northern Netherworld Family and could absorb spiritual energy from the heavens, continuously transforming it into his own divine power. His treasure techniques erupted, sweeping forward, tearing off three of the demon's bat wings and causing evil blood to spurt. Moreover, one of its arms was severed.
The alien race King-level demon let out a roar, but it also caused Beiming Gongwang to suffer injuries. A bloody gash was torn open on his chest, the flesh rotting, and even the blood turned pitch black—a very serious wound.
But Beiming Gongwang did not allow others to assist. His limit King-level combat power erupted, and he tore the alien race King-level demon in two alive. Evil blood spurted, corroding large swathes of buildings.
Unfortunately, the Primordial Spirit of this King-level creature had also been annihilated, preventing them from obtaining any useful information, which made them frown.
Although the deeper one went into the ancient city, the more dangerous it became, it was undeniable that this area possessed far more Heaven and Earth Treasures compared to the outskirts. Moreover, there were quite a few medicinal herbs with ages exceeding five thousand years, which were obtained by several young supreme powerhouses and divided equally among them.
Finally, their group traversed the entire ancient city ruins. Just as they were about to reach the deepest part of the ancient city district, they suddenly encountered countless demonic creatures—hundreds, even thousands of them—covering the sky and earth. They had been disturbed and then enveloped Ye Chen and the others, launching attacks.
"Let's attack."
Faced with numerous demonic creatures, although Ye Chen and the others wore grave expressions, they could not be said to be fearful. That was because most of the demonic creatures before them were at the Demigod level, far from threatening individuals of their caliber.
Boom—
A great battle erupted once more.
Although the fight appeared bloody, the outcome was beyond doubt. Every person present was a true Young King, each as if a deity reincarnated. Kingly divine might erupted as they directly swept forward. The path was littered with the corpses of alien race demons, piling up within the city district.
Not only them, but even other immortal force successors who had ventured deep into the ancient city district encountered immense obstruction. Countless alien race demons charged over, a thousand troops and ten thousand horses, enough to make one's heart tremble.
If not for each of them being terrifyingly powerful, worthy of being called Kings, ordinary young experts who came up would only meet their end.
Finally, after experiencing bloody battles along the way, leaving behind a ground full of alien race demon corpses, the young Kings all successfully broke through and advanced into the deepest part of the ancient city district. What lay before them was merely a desolate expanse of ruined ancient relics.
Although mist still swirled here, it was relatively much clearer. Many areas were clearly visible.
Judging from the many traces left on the ground, one could vaguely glimpse the prosperous and flourishing scene of the past. It was a magnificent complex of palace halls and pavilions, stretching for dozens, even hundreds of li, no less grand than the royal palace of an ancient kingdom. It should have been the palace complex where a certain peerless powerhouse of the Purple Mansion Sacred Land once resided. Unfortunately, now it was long since deserted, and moreover, it had been occupied and had decayed many times over, no longer resembling its former self.
At the center of the ruined relics, it was not a majestic and imposing divine palace, but a pyramid, standing at the very center, incomparably huge, even more massive and grand than a mountain range. It was constructed block by block from bronze-colored giant stones.
Including Ye Chen and the others, the young supreme powerhouses stood at the periphery of this ancient palace ruins, gazing into the distance at the simple and ancient bronze pyramid at the very center.
For some reason, everyone felt a sinister and terrifying sensation, a kind of great terror aura drifting in the air.
Ye Chen could sense that the demonic and evil aura in this area had suddenly intensified many times over, making one's mind feel uneasy. Even powerful False King experts were not exempt.
"Look quickly, what is that on the very top of the pyramid?"
Suddenly, someone exclaimed in alarm, pointing towards the apex of the pyramid. The various powerhouses all looked into the distance. When they clearly saw everything, everyone couldn't help but suck in a cold breath.
Because on the very top of the ancient bronze pyramid, there was actually a massive bronze coffin, about three zhang long, lying horizontally upon it, motionless. And the entire massive, mountain-like bronze pyramid, seen from afar, resembled a giant bronze altar, offering up the ancient bronze coffin.
In that instant, everyone felt a chilling sensation drift through their hearts.
Looking again, they clearly saw that below the bronze pyramid were over a dozen pools, each a hundred zhang wide. Inside each pool were countless dried-up corpses piled up. The blood had long since been drained. Within the ancient, massive pools, one could vaguely still see dark red bloodstains.
This made people pale, for these dozen or so massive pools seemed to be using the blood of countless people as a sacrifice, offering it up to the bronze coffin on the pyramid altar.
It was as if one could see that in the past, the countless living beings who inhabited the metropolis of the Purple Mansion Sacred Land were slaughtered, thrown into the giant pools to have all their blood drained, used to sacrifice to the bronze coffin.
The various powerhouses felt their hearts turn cold, felt anger, but were also horrified. What exactly was inside the bronze coffin that made the alien race willing to sacrifice countless lives and blood?
Now, the bronze coffin lay quietly on the pyramid altar, as if sealed away, never having been opened.
They also saw that on the bronze pyramid, there were actually many figures of young experts. However, they were no longer living beings, but corpses, coldly lying on the pyramid, motionless.
They were piled in a slightly smaller blood pool on the pyramid. The blood from their bodies had been drained. With the naked eye, one could see streams of blood flowing out from the blood pool, actually flowing upwards against gravity towards the top of the pyramid, flowing towards the bronze coffin at the very top. Everything appeared so eerie.
At the same time, they could see clusters of light, enveloping Heaven and Earth Treasures, divine materials, Dao weapons, and other treasures, continuously gushing forth and shooting towards the very top of the ancient pyramid, revolving around the ancient coffin.
Among them, they even saw a cluster of radiant divine light source floating up and down, emitting a soft dawn-like glow. That was a divine spirit source, a divine object that was the ultimate sublimation of spirit stones. It was actually half a zhang in size.
One must know that a divine spirit source the size of a human head could be worth five hundred thousand jin. Now, half a zhang in size, its value was absolutely terrifying beyond description.
But all of this was not the main point. The main point was that within the divine spirit source, there was clearly a dragon!