Chapter 3530: Swallowing the Ancient Moon
The city gate of the Ancient Desolate Ruins City had long since fallen into disrepair, leaving only four massive stone blocks standing.
Entering the city, aside from the giant rocks, the place was piled high with divine corpses.
Some divine corpses were the size of mountains. Others stretched for thousands of miles, even over a hundred thousand miles, their faces decayed and twisted, emitting divine qi of various colors, making the entire city resemble a nine-colored ghostly realm and immortal paradise.
"An eight-thousand-year-old angelic ancient corpse, completely worthless."
"This is a human god's corpse from the Xuan Gu era; all divine matter has been drained away."
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Feng Tian's strikingly beautiful figure flickered among these divine corpses, shaking her head repeatedly, feeling disappointed.
After all, with the Earth Cauldron in hand, even divine corpses could be refined into divine pills.
Unfortunately, these corpses were far too ancient; their divine matter had become extremely thin, offering only minimal use.
Finally, Feng Tian discovered a corpse with relatively well-preserved divine matter. She descended and landed beside it, staring at its shriveled and withered face.
"Feng Tian, this corpse won't do! It's the remains of Yun Qing Ancient Buddha..." Zhang Ruochen said.
Feng Tian said, "Do I need you to tell me that I don't know Yun Qing Ancient Buddha?"
Zhang Ruochen said, "What I mean is, I want to take the Ancient Buddha's body out to bury it."
The last time he came to the Abyss of Darkness, his cultivation was still in the Saint Realm, unable to move Yun Qing Ancient Buddha's body, so he only brought out his incarnation.
This time, Zhang Ruochen had planned from the start to take Yun Qing Ancient Buddha's remains out and bury them in the Western Buddha Realm.
Suddenly, the Buddha corpse radiating golden light had its pupils turn blood-red, ferocious and terrifying.
"Rustle, rustle!"
Sand and stone flew in all directions.
The Buddha corpse abruptly leaped up, spewing a golden beam of light from its mouth, letting out a sky-shaking roar.
Then, its kasaya expanded, it swooped down, and a palm print pressed directly toward Feng Tian.
Zhang Ruochen leaped into the air, throwing a punch that clashed with Yun Qing Ancient Buddha's corpse.
"Boom!"
On the fist glove, the power of the Blunt Void Stone was activated, generating ten billion times the spatial gravity.
The Buddha corpse was crushed back to the ground by the spatial gravity, kicking up thick dust.
"Seal!" Zhang Ruochen commanded softly.
Dense spatial rules surged from Zhang Ruochen's body, enveloping the Buddha corpse. With a flash of light, the corpse was pulled into the sun "Illusory Annihilation Star Sea" and suppressed inside a planet.
"Rumble!"
Suddenly, the earth shook and mountains swayed.
All the surrounding divine corpses "awakened," stood up, and attacked Zhang Ruochen and Feng Tian.
Feng Tian stood unmoving, her gaze contemptuous, as if watching three thousand floating clouds. But her divine might and aura at the Indestructible Infinite level were released outward, forming layers of divine power waves.
"Let me handle it."
Zhang Ruochen pointed his index finger at the sky, his entire body radiating divine light.
The Illusory Annihilation Star Sea fully manifested. Planets, like a cluster of small suns, spun rapidly, simultaneously releasing Radiant Divine Radiance and World-Destroying Divine Flame.
In an instant, countless divine corpses turned into nine-colored powder.
Zhang Ruochen and Feng Tian flew out of the area shrouded in divine corpse ash, teleporting hundreds of thousands of miles away, stopping in a city district filled with towering stone forests.
Zhang Ruochen said, "Someone used a corpse-controlling secret technique. Feng Tian, did you sense that person's location?"
"The Ancient Desolate Ruins City has chaotic time and space, making heavenly secrets hard to fathom. The thick rule divine patterns permeating the city can interfere with the deduction power of fate. That person is hiding deep!"
Feng Tian looked up at the sky, her gaze locking onto that bright moon.
"Legend says this moon has existed since ancient times, containing unfathomable power. Its light can even block low-level strange beasts from entering the city!"
Before Zhang Ruochen could finish, Feng Tian's right hand, with five snow-white, jade-like fingers blooming like a lotus, reached toward the sky—she was going to... pluck the moon!
"People of today cannot see the moon of ancient times, yet the moon of today once shone on the ancients."
Since ancient times, countless powerful beings had fought here, including multiple Primordial Ancestors, who laid down countless heaven-and-earth-spanning methods.
Just the spatial techniques alone were so complex and profound that even with Zhang Ruochen's current cultivation, he could not fully comprehend them.
Feng Tian's raised fingers clashed with the chaotic space above, producing a series of ear-splitting booms from the sky.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
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As the invisible world barriers shattered, one floating continent after another appeared.
Each was about several hundred miles in diameter, bearing palaces, tower-shaped buildings, abandoned castles, and suspended long bridges...
Compared to the vast Ancient Desolate Ruins City, these continents were no different from islands.
Maintaining her posture of plucking the moon, Feng Tian flew up, landing on one floating continent, then kept jumping higher.
It seemed she would not stop until she had taken the moon!
Zhang Ruochen flew to one of the floating islands and stopped.
On this floating island stood a strange, mountain-sized black building made of stone, resembling the architectural style of the Underworld Clan.
Here, he detected Yan Wushen's aura.
Yan Wushen must have cultivated here for a long time, but he had left about a hundred years ago.
"Boom!"
All the floating continents trembled.
Zhang Ruochen looked up. That ancient, eternal moon was being shaken by Feng Tian, beginning to descend.
"What is she trying to do?"
Zhang Ruochen was stunned.
Since the ancients had placed the moon there, there must have been a reason. Wasn't Feng Tian afraid of courting disaster by forcibly taking it away?
Feng Tian had already reached the highest point of all the floating continents, her hand covering the sky. Beams of death light shot from her palm, like a hundred thousand divine rivers surging toward the bright moon in the infinitely distant space.
Below, in the city, wind and clouds surged.
Zhang Ruochen was forced to activate his protective divine light to resist, the black Ancestor Divine Garment covering his entire body.
From within the bright moon, a cold, sharp voice rang out: "Feng Caiyi, you should be chasing the Yellow Spring Great Emperor, or else your two subordinates will surely die without a burial place. If the Yellow Spring Great Emperor recovers, you too will turn to dust."
"I knew you were hiding in the Ancient Moon!"
Around Feng Tian, divine artifacts manifested one after another, spinning around her slender waist in a circle, unleashing vast might, all attacking the moon in the sky.
A mass of pitch-black demonic cloud flew out from behind the bright moon, condensing into Gai Mie's form.
At this moment, the aura he emitted was far stronger than when Zhang Ruochen had seen him in the Yellow Spring Forbidden Zone.
This made Zhang Ruochen suspect that the reason they hadn't seen any strange beasts along the way was that Gai Mie had devoured them all.
Even now, Gai Mie still lacked the strength to contend with an Indestructible Infinite. So, he swallowed the Ancient Moon in one gulp and, before the divine artifacts could reach him, fled straight toward the western sky.
"Boom!"
He landed on the ground, smashing a large crater.
Then, in a single step covering one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred miles, he charged toward the west gate of the Ancient Desolate Ruins City.
Only by exiting the west gate could one officially enter the vast world of the Abyss of Darkness.
In essence, the Ancient Desolate Ruins City was built at the exit of the Abyss of Darkness, a fortress used by ancient cultivators to prevent primordial beings from entering the real world.
Feng Tian pursued him.
"He actually swallowed the moon whole. This Supreme Pillar... is truly a fierce one!"
Zhang Ruochen instinctively felt that the Ancient Moon was definitely not simple and might help Gai Mie recover some of his cultivation in a short time.
But swallowing it like that—wouldn't there be problems?
Zhang Ruochen gave chase, pursuing all the way to the west of the Ancient Desolate Ruins City, landing on the city wall.
Looking outside the city, all he could see was a dense, oppressive yin qi, with visibility limited to ten thousand miles.
Gai Mie and Feng Tian had long since vanished into the darkness, having already penetrated who knows how many miles deep.
After a moment of thought, Zhang Ruochen ultimately did not follow the aura trail. Instead, he turned back and re-entered the city, heading according to memory toward the Heavenly Gate located in the western district.
The Heavenly Gate, the Witch Palace, the Nine Cauldrons, and the Seventy-Two Demon God Stone Pillars were all gathered at the same location. Although it was later discovered that the Seventy-Two Demon God Stone Pillars were just projected illusions, the Witch Palace was real.
Because, when suppressing Qiangshake, the Heavenly Mother had summoned the Witch Palace to fight.
With the Ancient Moon devoured, the Ancient Desolate Ruins City became extremely dark.
The yin wind howled, its sound piercing.
On the horizon, a patch of light blue clouds appeared.
As Zhang Ruochen rushed over at top speed, the area covered by the clouds grew wider and wider, spanning hundreds of thousands of miles of city territory. Vaguely, he could see two heavenly pillars standing on the earth, piercing into the clouds, forming a divine gate radiating a glazed brilliance.
The two pillars were eight hundred miles apart.
Embedded in the pillars were colorful star cores.
This was exactly the same as the legendary Heavenly Gate of the Saint Realm!
To enter the Saint Realm, one must pass through the Heavenly Gate.
One hundred thousand years ago, the Minor Calamity that swept through the entire universe destroyed the Saint Realm, and the Heavenly Gate vanished along with it.
Zhang Ruochen did not rush to approach, thinking to himself: "Jiusi Yitianhuang should have left the Ancient Desolate Ruins City and gone deep into the Abyss of Darkness. Otherwise, he wouldn't have refrained from attacking Gai Mie."
With this thought, Zhang Ruochen had no more worries. He stepped out from hiding, arrived beneath the Heavenly Gate, and gazed at the magnificent sight before him.
He threw a punch!
Truth Divine Light poured out from his fist. All the illusions, like a sheet of paper, shattered inch by inch, then were swept away by the fist wind.
The Heavenly Gate vanished!
The broken walls and ruins beneath the Heavenly Gate turned to sand.
Back when he first came here, Zhang Ruochen had not detected any falsehood. Even with Jue Miao Chan Nu's cultivation, she had not seen through the illusion here.
After all the illusions dissipated, a lamp appeared a hundred miles away, casting a hazy, pale yellow glow in the darkness.
In the darkness, two figures were confronting each other.
One stood beside the divine lamp, dressed in a green robe, wearing a scholar's headscarf, holding a scroll of bamboo slips, looking like a scholar.
The other stood ten miles away, clad in golden armor, draped in a dragon robe, wearing a purple-gold imperial crown. Zhang Ruochen could only see a small part of his profile, but he already felt an oppressive imperial might.
The two were clearly afraid of being discovered by Gai Mie and Feng Tian. Although they were confronting each other, they had both restrained their divine power and aura, not engaging in battle.
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A note to all readers: The physical copies of "Eternal God Emperor" — the pre-sale of five thousand copies sold out long ago. Now, the reprint is officially on the market and can be purchased on JD.com, Taobao, and Wenchuan. The cover has also been changed!
To be honest, I really didn't like the pre-sale cover. This time, I had the cover made by someone myself; it has some style.
If any Eternal God Emperor fans are interested in buying, be sure to identify the correct one and don't buy the wrong version. The price should be around 39 or 40. If buying on JD.com or Taobao, check if the seller is Chengdu Times Publishing House or Wenchuan Bookstore. Because I've seen pirated copies on Taobao priced at hundreds or even thousands, and people have actually placed orders! Sweating!
Remember, don't buy the wrong one!
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