Chapter 3424: Writing a Legend, Leveling the Tianhu Tomb Realm
Su Yun had miscalculated!
She had never imagined that Zhang Ruochen could refine the Ding Shen Zhen in such a short time.
Using the number one treasure of the White Fox Clan, he had broken her Divine Sea and destroyed her Divine Source.
What she had miscalculated even more was that Zhang Ruochen, having just broken through to the Infinite Realm, could instantly locate her Divine Source within her Divine Sea and shatter it with a single strike.
These two feats were beyond the capabilities of most peak Qiankun Infinite Realm powerhouses.
If she had known Zhang Ruochen was this formidable, she would have negotiated with him earlier instead of rashly activating the formations within the Tianhu Tower, forcing him to kill her.
This was the price of underestimating an opponent's strength—one misstep, and the entire game was lost.
The Ding Shen Zhen was embedded in the ground, its light flickering, surrounded by Su Yun's broken corpse and Divine Blood, a rather tragic sight.
Her strands of soul mist were pinned by the Ding Shen Zhen, unable to escape.
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Inside the Tianhu Tower, tens of thousands of miles away, another Su Yun stood on the highest floor, beneath her feet an ancient, strange formation filled with purple crystals.
This Su Yun was formed from a vast number of soul thoughts left in the Tianhu Tower by her true body, possessing the cultivation strength of the Tai Xu Realm.
The destruction of her Divine Source filled her with regret.
But this was not the time for regret; she had to suppress and kill Zhang Ruochen, reclaiming the part of her soul mist and corpse pinned by the Ding Shen Zhen.
Only then could she salvage more of her cultivation power and avoid losing too badly.
Moreover, if she could seize Zhang Ruochen's body and obtain his First-Rank Divine Path, she might break through the crisis and turn misfortune into fortune.
The Tianhu Tower was built in ancient times under the direction of the Twelve-Tailed Celestial Fox, standing 10,800 zhang tall with 108 floors, used to suppress the taboo existence in the Night Soil.
At the same time, it was the hub of the formations, earth veins, and spatial networks of the entire Tianhu Tomb Realm and the eastern region of the Night Soil.
Legend said the Twelve-Tailed Celestial Fox was buried beneath the Tianhu Tower.
Every generation of the White Fox Clan's patriarch would merge their soul with the tower spirit of the Tianhu Tower, becoming one and inseparable.
This allowed them to control the power of the Tianhu Tower to the greatest extent.
At this moment, purple light patterns emerged on every floor of the Tianhu Tower.
These purple light patterns gathered from the eastern region of the Night Soil, spreading upward and erupting from the tower top, forming a destructive beam of power.
The beam's power grew stronger, and Zhang Ruochen gradually felt the strain, realizing his current cultivation was insufficient to contend with the legacy left by the Twelve-Tailed Celestial Fox.
"Whoosh!"
He released Divine Qi, rolling up the Ding Shen Zhen, the Dun Kong Stone, and Su Yun's corpse on the ground, then performed a Space Teleportation.
The beam struck the ground, causing the earth to sink and the soil to melt.
A surging wave of heat swept in all directions, causing the glowing purple mist to surge outward like water waves.
Zhang Ruochen's figure appeared ten thousand miles away.
He hadn't fully dodged; the beam grazed his left side, igniting it with searing heat.
Gradually, the Divine Flame vanished, and his black robe remained intact.
The Ancestor Divine Travel Garment was, after all, extraordinary.
Even if the Ancestor's power was suppressed, the garment's own defensive capabilities were still considerable.
From the soul mist wrapped around the Ding Shen Zhen, Su Yun's incredulous voice rang out: "You could dodge even this?"
"Just lucky."
Zhang Ruochen gazed into the distance at the spot where the beam had struck. He had left in such a hurry that he hadn't had time to retrieve the Ming Jing Tai and Xuan Yi.
The Ming Jing Tai was enveloped by strands of glowing purple mist, flying toward the Tianhu Tower.
Xuan Yi had vanished without a trace.
Zhang Ruochen looked at the Ding Shen Zhen and spoke to Su Yun's soul mist: "Still want to fight?"
"What, are you afraid?"
Su Yun's voice came from the soul mist, unafraid and confident.
Zhang Ruochen directly threw Su Yun's corpse and soul mist into the Earth Cauldron, sealing them inside. He would refine them slowly after dealing with the current situation.
"Those who measure are immortal, only I am eternal. You can break my Divine Sea and shatter my Divine Source, but as long as I have a single strand of soul left, I can live forever. But you cannot, Zhang Ruochen. The experts of the Night Demon Six Clans have all been alerted; you won't leave the Night Soil!"
Su Yun's silver-bell-like laughter echoed from the Earth Cauldron.
Zhang Ruochen grew wary, realizing that the relationship between Su Yun and Xuan Yi was more complicated than he had imagined.
Su Yun actually believed in "Measure" as well.
Had the influence of the Quantity Organization reached even the border universe?
Was Su Yun one of the Twelve Quantity Venerables?
Without dwelling further, Zhang Ruochen immediately teleported away.
"Boom!"
The next moment, a beam fell from the sky, blasting the ground where he had stood into a lake of magma.
In the Tianhu Tomb Realm, it was difficult to use the Divine Spirit Step, but with each step, Zhang Ruochen still covered several thousand miles, chasing after the Ming Jing Tai, which was being swept away by the glowing purple mist.
In the palm of his right hand, a vortex swirled, with pieces of stone spinning and flying within. Finally, they coalesced into a complete God-Defying Stele.
Zhang Ruochen stepped onto a sea of Origin Divine Power, striking out the God-Defying Stele, suspending it in the purple mist, and activating its special power to counter the Tianhu Tower.
In the purple mist, countless formation inscriptions faded and then dissipated.
The Twelve-Tailed Celestial Fox was indeed a myth of ancient times, legendary beyond compare, but the means she had left behind had been eroded by millions of years of time, no longer able to guard this land.
As the most outstanding young Divine Venerable of the current era, Zhang Ruochen had full confidence to bury the ancient myth and forge his own legend.
Inside the Tianhu Tower, Su Yun struggled to hold on, resisting the strange power released by the God-Defying Stele.
She could clearly feel the formation inscriptions in the Tianhu Tomb Realm dissipating, the defenses weakening bit by bit.
Zhang Ruochen stood with heroic bearing, his gaze firm and profound. He took a deep breath, and instantly, the power of heaven and earth and various rules in the Night Soil converged toward him endlessly, greatly increasing the Divine Power emanating from his body.
Inside the Tianhu Tower, Su Yun's soul body was shocked beyond words. "How is this possible? He can actually mobilize the various rules of heaven and earth in the Night Soil?"
The God-Defying Stele crashed toward the Tianhu Tower.
The purple patterns on the Tianhu Tower's body became even more unstable.
From the tower top, a beam shot out, striking the incoming God-Defying Stele.
The stele shattered again, turning into dust that scattered in all directions.
The God-Defying Stele was not particularly sturdy and couldn't withstand Infinite-level attacks. Its true power lay in the strange force it contained, capable of causing all inscriptions and rules in the world to dissipate.
Calling it a stele was more like referring to a substance.
The powder of the God-Defying Stele scattered across the Tianhu Tomb Realm. Gradually, the glowing purple mist began to recede, and the power of the Tianhu Tower grew weaker.
Zhang Ruochen manifested a giant hand, shattering the glowing purple mist wrapped around the Ming Jing Tai, and retrieved it.
By now, he was standing at the base of the Tianhu Tower.
He lifted his left foot and stamped it on the ground. Grains of powder flew up, quickly recondensing into a stele.
...
The glowing purple mist that had long shrouded the Tianhu Tomb Realm thinned, allowing everything inside to be seen from outside the tomb realm.
The patriarchs of the other four Night Demon Clans arrived one after another, gathering with Wu Dao, the patriarch of the Red Centipede Clan.
The patriarch of the Golden Crow Clan transformed into human form, appearing as a middle-aged man in his forties, with golden pupils and a pair of golden flame wings on his back.
His expression was cold and stern. "This Zhang Ruochen is too domineering. Does he think that with someone backing him, he can do whatever he wants in the Huanmie Star Sea?"
Earlier, the Tianhu Tomb Realm had been shrouded in glowing purple mist, so they didn't know what had happened.
The patriarch of the Phoenix Clan transformed into human form, a hunchbacked old woman. "Ever since the Six Directions Heavenly Venerable Cauldron was lost, the area beneath the Night Soil has been unstable. If the Tianhu Tower and the Tianhu Tomb Realm are destroyed, no one knows what kind of disaster will be triggered."
"Ancestral teachings say that anyone who enters the Night Soil must die."
"Zhang Ruochen has several formidable figures behind him. It's better to suppress him first. I believe that whether it's the Heavenly Mother or the Yunshen Daozhu, they are reasonable people. If something happens to the Night Soil, it won't just endanger the Huanmie Star Sea."
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Zhang Ruochen stood at the base of the Tianhu Tower for a moment, a faint sense of foreboding rising in his heart. At the same time, he sensed the auras of the patriarchs of the Night Demon Clans.
Thus, he abandoned the idea of entering the tower to completely kill Su Yun and retreated before the five patriarchs arrived.
"Whoosh, whoosh!"
The five patriarchs appeared at the base of the Tianhu Tower, their figures solidifying as they asked Su Yun for details.
Su Yun's soul body voice came from within the Tianhu Tower, filled with hatred: "Zhang Ruochen has seized our clan's number one treasure, the Ding Shen Zhen, and destroyed this patriarch's divine body and Divine Source. Our Night Demon Six Clans are united in spirit. I ask the five patriarchs to seek justice for the White Fox Clan!"
The situation was more serious than they had imagined. Zhang Ruochen was so ruthless, destroying a clan patriarch's cultivation and seizing a divine artifact.
The five patriarchs were all at the Qiankun Infinite Realm. In no time, they calculated Zhang Ruochen's location.
They transformed into their true forms: the Demon Spider riding black demon clouds, the Red Centipede riding boundless poisonous mist, the Golden Crow radiating divine light like a divine sun, the Divine Dragon's body like a mountain range, and the Phoenix spreading its wings like two seas of fire. They charged forward with murderous intent.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the Qiangu Nüdi had just entered the Night Soil when she was intercepted by three Infinite Realm experts from the Hell Realm.
The Qiangu Nüdi was naturally outmatched, relying on her mastery of the Way of Time to break through and escape. She used the Wujian Divine Sword to tear through space and flee into the Void World.
Unfortunately, the Nine Chi Divine King's cultivation far surpassed hers, and he caught up again.
After a fierce battle, the Qiangu Nüdi was already wounded.
The Red Eye Divine King and Bai Zun guarded two different positions, preventing the Qiangu Nüdi from escaping while occasionally unleashing divine abilities and casting curses.
"Roar!"
The Red Eye Divine King suddenly heard a Qilin's roar from behind him. He immediately turned, forming hand seals, and in an instant, unleashed eight hundred Underworld Law divine abilities.
Zhang Ruochen shattered all eight hundred divine abilities with a single punch, sending the Red Eye Divine King flying backward. His internal organs were riddled with cracks, and blood surged toward his throat.
The Red Eye Divine King was furious. Having been renowned for a lifetime, he never thought he would be injured by the fist gloves he had given away.
With the Qilin Fist Gloves aiding him, Zhang Ruochen was like a tiger with wings. The power of the Immovable Wisdom King Fist was more than a notch stronger than before.
Zhang Ruochen joined forces with the Qiangu Nüdi, taking out the Dun Kong Stone and holding it in his hand, using the ten-billion-fold gravity space to suppress the surroundings.
Zhang Ruochen faced off against the Nine Chi Divine King, with divine artifacts orbiting around him. "You seem to be injured quite badly?"
"It's nothing; my foundation hasn't been harmed. What about Xuan Yi?" The Qiangu Nüdi's battered body gradually reconsolidated, becoming beautiful and aloof again, with a long river of time flowing around her.
Zhang Ruochen said, "Xuan Yi passed through the Tianhu Tomb Realm and fled deep into the Night Soil. Also, Su Yun, the patriarch of the White Fox Clan, is a member of the Quantity Organization. This is very suspicious. Xuan Yi seems to have come to the Night Soil with a different purpose. I might have been used by him!"
Zhang Ruochen believed it was unlikely that Xuan Yi would have come all the way to the border universe just for A Le and Tao Hua.
The more likely scenario was that he had come to the border universe and accidentally discovered A Le and Tao Hua.