Chapter 818: Death God's Graveyard
“Yes, Jueyun Cliff is located in the Langhuan Mountains in the southeast of the Cang Yun Continent. The Langhuan Mountains lie at the border between Fusu Kingdom and another country of Cang Yun, Nantian Kingdom, with Fusu to the north and Nantian to the south.”
Yun Che’s memories of the Cang Yun Continent were still very clear. After all, he had only left it seven years ago.
“Mo Li, what exactly is going on? Why did you suddenly ask about Jueyun Cliff?” Yun Che frowned deeply. Over the years, he had occasionally told Mo Li about his experiences on the Cang Yun Continent, telling her how he had been forced to the edge of Jueyun Cliff under the pursuit of countless large sects from Cang Yun, and how, unwilling to be killed, he had forcibly swallowed the Heavenly Poison Pearl and jumped off Jueyun Cliff to his death.
He was not surprised that Mo Li had mentioned the name “Jueyun Cliff,” because he had told her about it—how Jueyun Cliff was the highest and most dangerous cliff on the Cang Yun Continent. Mo Li’s divine sense must have detected that it was the highest cliff there, and the words “Jueyun Cliff” naturally emerged from what he had told her. But what he couldn’t ignore was her reaction when she opened her eyes.
“…The aura over there is somewhat unusual,” Mo Li said softly.
“Unusual?”
Mo Li turned around, her tightly knit brows never relaxing since the start. “Tell me in detail about Jueyun Cliff.”
Yun Che thought for a moment and said, “Jueyun Cliff is the foremost of the four great death zones on the Cang Yun Continent. Once someone falls into it, there is no chance of survival, no matter how powerful their strength. Not a single person who has fallen into Jueyun Cliff has ever returned alive, so it is also called the Graveyard of the God of Death. Its fearsome reputation is well-known across the entire Cang Yun Continent, so very few people ever approach it. Back then, when I was forced into a hopeless situation, I fled to the edge of Jueyun Cliff with a death wish.”
“In other words, no one has ever seen what the bottom of Jueyun Cliff looks like?” Mo Li pondered slightly.
“Never,” Yun Che affirmed with certainty. “That’s exactly why it’s called the Graveyard of the God of Death. Normally speaking, for cultivators at the King Xuan or Overlord Xuan realm, even if an abyss were truly ten thousand fathoms deep, they could descend along the cliff walls and reach the bottom safely. And at the Emperor Sovereign level, even if they jumped straight down, they wouldn’t die from the fall. However, in the history of the Cang Yun Continent, many powerful experts have tried to explore the bottom of Jueyun Cliff—including many Thrones and Overlord Emperors—but once they descended, none ever returned alive. Later, three Emperor Sovereigns even went down along the cliff, but afterward, there was no news of them either.”
“After that, no one dared to attempt exploring Jueyun Cliff again.”
Mo Li: “…”
“What exactly is going on?” Yun Che pressed again.
Mo Li didn’t answer; instead, she asked in a low voice, “After you jumped off Jueyun Cliff back then, did you notice anything unusual? Or, did you catch even a glimpse of what the bottom looked like in that instant?”
“…” Although he had no memory of it, Yun Che still tried hard to recall for a moment, but finally shook his head. “Not at all. I lost consciousness during the fall, and even before losing consciousness, I had my eyes closed. When I woke up again, I was already back on the Tian Xuan Continent.”
“…………” Mo Li fell silent once more. A moment later, her gaze became focused. “It seems I must go there myself.”
“You’re going… to Jueyun Cliff?” Yun Che asked in surprise.
Mo Li had already made up her mind. “The aura over there is definitely not ordinary. I have to go and take a look. Don’t ask too many questions for now. After I investigate thoroughly and return, I will tell you.”
Before Yun Che could respond, a flash of red light appeared, and Mo Li’s figure vanished before his eyes.
Above the Ice Extreme Snow Domain, a blizzard raged. Bathed in the wind and snow, Mo Li’s face was full of solemnity. When she first arrived on this planet, her only impression was that it was a low-level lower world. If not for the memory fragments in the Evil God’s Indestructible Blood recording that the Evil God Seeds were scattered on this planet, she would never have deigned to come here.
But not long after she arrived, her demonic poison flared up violently, nearly causing her form and soul to perish… and then she encountered Yun Che.
Since then, as she stayed longer in this world, she increasingly realized that it was far from simple.
A planet created by the Evil God… remnants of the gods… two supreme treasures, the Heavenly Poison Pearl and the Lunhui Jing… Shiyue Mojun… and even the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel sealed in this world…
Setting aside everything else, out of the seven Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures, three of them existed in this world. That alone was enough to shake the entire Divine Realm to its core.
And this time, when she took the initiative to explore the Cang Yun Continent, she discovered an extremely abnormal aura… the shock it brought her was no less than the revelation that the Tian Xuan Continent harbored Shiyue Mojun, an ancient true demon.
“It’s too far; it seems I’ll need to expend a bit of effort.”
Mo Li muttered to herself, and a red light gathered at her fingertip before she pointed forward.
With a soft sound, the space was cut open with a clean slit under the flash of red light. Mo Li stepped into the slit, and the space instantly shifted. When she reappeared, she was above a blue ocean… millions of miles away from the Ice Extreme Snow Domain.
Mo Li pointed again; red light flashed, and a second spatial slit appeared before her. She silently stepped in, and upon reappearing, she had crossed another million miles.
Thus, after seven consecutive spatial slits and seven spatial traversals that far exceeded the understanding of Tian Xuan cultivators, what lay before Mo Li was no longer a vast sea but a stretch of dark mountain ranges extending to the horizon.
The mountain ranges were vast, but the Profound Beasts were sparse, and the atmosphere was oppressive. Looking into the distance, not a single human figure could be seen.
Mo Li swept her gaze around, then looked downward, muttering softly, “Jue… Yun… Cliff…”
The two highest mountains on the Cang Yun Continent were both located in this Langhuan Mountain range. Both mountains towered into the clouds, overlooking the world, standing adjacent to each other in the center of the Langhuan Mountains. Their heights were similar, but the most bizarre thing was that their outer sides were steep and perilous, while their facing sides…
Were almost straight up and straight down, as if cut by a knife!
From a distance, it looked like one mountain had been sliced vertically down the middle by a heavenly blade, splitting it into two oddly shaped mountains.
The abyss that stretched between these two mountains was the “Graveyard of the God of Death,” which made countless powerful experts on the Cang Yun Continent shudder at the mere mention—once fallen, certain death, where even Emperor Sovereigns would never return.
The peaks of the two mountains, near the fractured edge of the abyss, were recognized as the most dangerous place on the Cang Yun Continent: Jueyun Cliff!
On the southern side, that was where Yun Che had leaped down in his desperate death wish back then.
This cliff, sandwiched between the two oddly shaped mountains, was far narrower than expected—only about a hundred zhang wide—yet it stretched to the end of the horizon. Mo Li now stood directly above this cliff. Looking down into the vast abyss, the bright light only reached a depth of less than two hundred zhang before it seemed to be swallowed by something, turning into a strange, pitch-black haze.
“The demonic aura is even denser… and stranger than that of the Slay Moon Demon Cave.” Mo Li stared downward, murmuring gravely. “Let’s see what abnormal thing is hidden inside this time.”
With that, her petite body fell straight down from above the cliff, plunging into the abyss below—the “Graveyard of the God of Death” from which no one in the history of the Cang Yun Continent had ever returned alive!
Mo Li’s speed was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, she had already descended a thousand zhang, and the surroundings turned pitch black. Even the sky above, which should have been visible as a sliver of heaven, had lost all light.
A flash of red light from Mo Li’s body illuminated the surrounding world in a blood-red hue. Beside her, the rock walls rushed upward rapidly; below her, there was still an endless expanse of deep black, as if there was no bottom at all. As she descended quickly, Mo Li gradually noticed that the deeper she went, the darker the color of the rock walls became.
Two thousand zhang…
Three thousand zhang…
Five thousand zhang…
Seven thousand zhang…
A cliff abyss of such depth was already astonishing. But for Mo Li, let alone any Xuan Adept above the Heavenly Xuan realm, such a height was nothing. She descended deeper and deeper, but the surrounding environment and aura showed no significant change. If it had been another Xuan Adept trying to explore the bottom of the abyss, reaching this point, they would not have noticed anything different from any other abyss.
But Mo Li’s brows tightened at this moment. Because she was getting closer and closer to that strange aura.
Eight thousand zhang…
Ten thousand zhang…
Twelve thousand zhang…
Mo Li’s descent suddenly slowed, then came to an abrupt halt.
In the completely dark world twelve thousand zhang beneath the abyss, Mo Li’s pupils glowed with an eerie blood-red light as she stared fixedly at the black world below.
She sensed that the space less than three feet beneath her feet had undergone a drastic change in its law composition.
Although it was only a short distance of three feet, it felt as if there was an invisible wall separating two worlds with entirely different laws that did not interfere with each other.
“Could it be a transparent barrier?”
A strong sense of confusion and doubt rose in Mo Li’s heart, but her hesitation lasted only a few breaths before she continued descending… However, she did not encounter any barrier-like thing, nor did she feel any obstruction at all. She simply entered another world with completely different laws.
Mo Li’s whole body went cold. An intensely dense and powerful yin-cold aura surged from all around, and a heavy pressure instantly assaulted her Profound Veins… At the same time, she felt waves of strong suction pulling from below, as if countless invisible hands were fiercely dragging her, trying to pull her into the bottomless, terrifying abyss.
“Demonic aura!!”
Mo Li was greatly shocked. Earlier, in the Ice Extreme Snow Domain, she had detected an unusual demonic aura here, exceptionally dense. But now, she realized that this demonic aura was far stronger than what she had perceived before.
Although in terms of level, it was not as high as the demonic aura released by the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel in the Slay Moon Demon Cave, it was still extremely elevated. Even in the Divine Realm of the Gods where she was born, she had never seen dark demonic energy of such a high level.
And its density far surpassed that of the Slay Moon Demon Cave!
The demonic aura of the Slay Moon Demon Cave had no effect on Mo Li nowadays. But the demonic aura here made even Mo Li feel a slight suppression of her profound power.
What was going on? How could a world with such a low level of power and laws harbor such terrifying demonic aura… The demonic aura in the Slay Moon Demon Cave came from the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel, so what was the cause here?
Could it be that an ancient true demon was also hidden at the bottom of this abyss?!
At this point, Mo Li understood why all the Xuan Adepts who fell into it or tried to explore the cliff bottom never returned—certain death. Even a demonic aura that could cause slight suppression to her would be impossible for the Xuan Adepts of this world to resist. Even an Emperor Sovereign at Xuanyuan Wentian’s level, upon falling into this place, would have their profound power instantly suppressed to the point of being almost completely unusable, let alone able to resist the huge tearing force coming from below.
That meant that anyone who touched the dark world at the bottom of this abyss would be instantly sucked in, without even a chance to struggle, and would soon be devoured by the terrifying demonic aura, turning into dark dust.