Grasping the Evil-Chapter 913: The Name of the Dreamland Realm
The Great Emperors on the Crimson Penetration Passage sensed some changes within the Barbarian Wilderness.
No one knew which link went wrong, leading to the premature appearance of the Ancient Passage.
The Chief of the True Dragon Clan’s expression was uncertain, looking towards the Tongtian Ancient Emperor, only to meet his gaze.
At the moment their eyes met, both saw the confusion in each other’s eyes.
"Wasn’t this the doing of the Human (Demon) Race? Could it be that the premature appearance of the Ancient Passage was merely an accident..." The Chief of the True Dragon Clan and the Tongtian Ancient Emperor thought to themselves.
After pondering for a moment, the Chief of the True Dragon Clan took out a golden bowl and offered it in sacrifice.
Once the golden bowl soared into the sky, it grew larger with the wind, emitting a majestic dragon sound. It then descended from the heavens, enveloping all the Great Emperors of the Demon Race within the Bowl Realm.
Those human Immortal Emperors, separated by the golden bowl, couldn’t see what the Demon Race emperors were doing inside the Bowl Realm.
Having done all this, the Chief of the True Dragon Clan sternly ordered the emperors behind him,
"Where is Huax Yao!"
"I am here..." a palace-dressed empress with a veiled face slowly stepped out from the group of demon emperors.
"Remove your veil, perform the Skin-Painting Demon Art, and project a corner of the Ninefold Celestial Towers with your skin, without any error!"
"Yes!"
This demon empress, named Huax Yao, possessed a cultivation of only the Eternal Sixth Calamity and lacked the background of a True Spirit Race. Yet in front of the Chief of the True Dragon Clan, she dared not defy orders.
Currently, the Barbarian Wilderness was sealed by the Heaven-Sealing Celestial Decree. Unless its power was exhausted, no one could enter the Barbarian Wilderness.
Fortunately, on the demon side, there was this empress Huax Yao, whose divine skills allowed her to slightly inspect the happenings within the Barbarian Wilderness, even through the Heaven-Sealing Celestial Decree.
Following the Chief’s orders, she removed her veil, revealing an incredibly beautiful face. Any man without strong reserves of will would be captivated upon seeing her.
But she then directly tore off this beautiful facade, revealing her bloody, hideous true face!
Huax Yao offered the torn face, and it unfolded like a canvas.
With her delicate hand, she gestured in the air, writing something on the skin painting. Shortly, lights and shadows seemed to flow on the canvas, faintly revealing something, yet it was too unclear to see clearly.
"Is the projection unclear due to the interference of the Heaven-Sealing Celestial Decree... Ultimately, this empress’s cultivation is somewhat lacking."
The Chief of the True Dragon Clan pondered for a moment, then took out a dragon tooth pill bottle and handed it to Huax Yao, saying, "Take this pill. Within three days, you can unleash your potential, allowing your demonic power and cultivation to rise by a small realm!"
Huax Yao took the pill and swallowed it in one go. After taking it, her bloody true face became even uglier, but her aura increased significantly in a short time, almost rivaling that of the Immortal Emperors of the Eternal Seventh Calamity.
This pill was extremely precious, and there were only a few in the entire True Dragon Clan, yet it was given to Huax Yao...
Huax Yao once again activated her divine skills. This time, the projection on the skin painting became somewhat clearer, vaguely revealing a section of the Barbarian Wilderness’s void, and within the void, towering a majestic palace.
The palace was not an illusion but real. Every brick and tile was an ancient relic, as if they had descended directly from the endless void into the Barbarian Wilderness!
The palace, with its heavy and ancient aura, incited an impulse for worship among any demon emperor who saw it.
That palace was the Ancient Passage of the Barbarian Wilderness—the Ninefold Celestial Towers!
Amid faint glimpses, the demon emperors saw four double-headed cultivators stepping into the palace!
Because the projection was too blurry, the onlookers couldn’t discern the appearances of these four double-headed cultivators.
However, just seeing the two heads was enough to make many demon race Immortal Emperors frown silently.
"Double-headed... could these four be some of the Barbarian Ancestors in the history of the Barbarian Wilderness..."
The demon race had been scheming against the Barbarian Wilderness for a long time, having had contact with the Barbarian Ancestors, and vaguely recognizing these four as Barbarian Ancestors.
Exactly which Barbarian Ancestors they were within the history of the wilderness remained unknown, for the projection was too vague to see...
The Chief of the True Dragon Clan, staring at the skin painting projection, frowned deeply and gradually fell silent.
While the Chief was working on projecting the Barbarian Wilderness, the Tongtian Ancient Emperor was not idle either.
He took out an ancient painting, unfurling it, incorporating all the human Great Emperors into its Realm Within Paintings. After pondering for a moment, he addressed Tablets Master Immortal Emperor, Meng Xuanzi,
"Daoist Meng Xuanzi, your Palm Position Path represents tablets, listing all things under the heavens, ranking them. I want you to create a stele..."
"What kind of stele?" Meng Xuanzi stepped out and asked.
"A stele that can spy on the Ninefold Celestial Towers!"
"This is quite difficult... Across the Heaven-Sealing Celestial Decree, even if I manage to create a stele, it might not be very useful. Never mind, I’ll give it a try!"
Meng Xuanzi tapped his Tian Ling, and a golden Spirit flew out from his crown.
The Spirit chanted silently, and suddenly pointed forward, where in an empty space, a loud roar ensued as a massive blue stone stele descended from the skies.
The stele was originally blank, yet with the changes in Meng Xuanzi’s divine skills, lines of rankings appeared gradually.
’First-Generation Barbarian Ancestor, Fan Canggu, has entered the first layer of the Ninefold Celestial Towers, Palace No. 11...’
’Second-Generation Barbarian Ancestor, Fan Zang, has entered the first layer of the Ninefold Celestial Towers, Palace No. 9...’
’Fourth-Generation Barbarian Ancestor, Fan Shoufei, has entered the first layer of the Ninefold Celestial Towers, Palace No. 7...’
’Seventh-Generation Barbarian Ancestor, Fan Mokong, has entered... specific location cannot be displayed...’
At this moment, the blue stone stele bore only four names, signifying that, at this point in time, only four individuals were present within the Ninefold Celestial Towers.
The positions of the four Barbarian Ancestors who entered the Ninefold Celestial Towers are clear for three, but the location of the Seven Ancestors cannot be displayed.
"Why can’t the position of the Seventh Generation Barbarian Ancestor be displayed..." Tongtian Ancient Emperor frowned slightly, asking.
"When casting through the Heaven-Sealing Celestial Decree, there’s limited information the old man can sense. If the sensed one carries an item of concealment, not much can be seen... This Seventh Generation Barbarian Ancestor must hold a concealment artifact that conceals only their whereabouts, not appearance or identity..." Meng Xuanzi replied.
"I see."
Tongtian Ancient Emperor stood with hands behind his back before the stele, silent, lost in thought...
Within the Barbarian Wilderness, in the Demon Race’s station.
Ao Xuan and Ancestor Dulong simultaneously walked out of the palace, gazing at the illusory image of the palace in the sky with expressions of both shock and joy.
According to the original plan of the Demon Race, the two of them must retrieve any one of the Ancient Effigies of the Barbarian Ancestors and wait for the power of the Heaven-Sealing Celestial Decree to wane before performing the Yin Yang Transformation, only then could the Ancient Passage be awakened.
Yet now, it is not the last day of the seven-day collapse of the Barbarian Wilderness, and they have not retrieved any effigies.
However, unexpectedly, the Ancient Passage has appeared...
"The old man was late in retrieving the Ancient Effigies, thinking the Ancient Passage could not be awakened. Unexpectedly, this Ancient Passage has appeared on its own! Although this incident is somewhat eerie, it is a good thing nonetheless!"
"This way, the task entrusted to us by the Clan Leader has great hope of being completed successfully!"
Ao Xuan and Ancestor Dulong were both invigorated, instantly abandoning the Demon Race demon cultivators stationed behind, heading speedily in one direction.
The image appearing in the sky is merely an illusion of the Ninefold Celestial Towers, not the actual towers. The Ninefold Celestial Towers are elsewhere.
At this moment, the two are eager to reach the true location of the Ninefold Celestial Towers, to enter and complete the task given by the Clan Leader. Compared to that, nothing else seems to matter!
Besides Ao Xuan and Ancestor Dulong, there are 13 Thought-Shattering Cultivators, 45 Shekong Cultivators, accompanying the two, leaving the Demon Race’s station, heading towards the Ninefold Celestial Towers.
...
Site of the Southern Li Fire Array ruins, Human station.
Liuhe Immortal Lord and Miaoyan Immortal Honorific exchanged glances, each seeing the shock in the other’s eyes.
The Ancient Passage has manifested in the world, indeed surprising the two.
"Hm! No wonder those three invading Immortal Lords didn’t battle with us but left directly. I think it’s to seek the Ninefold Celestial Towers. The early appearance of the Ninefold Celestial Towers, I must investigate immediately! My Black Devil Sect cultivators have plotted for this Ancient Passage for many years. This king’s visit, best to gain control of this passage. Even if failing this, cannot let the Demon Race seize the advantage!"
After speaking, Liuhe Immortal Lord transmitted thoughts to some human experts, taking 11 Thought-Shatterers, 37 Shekongs, choosing a direction, and promptly vanished.
Miaoyan Immortal Honorific did not leave with Liuhe Immortal Lord but stayed temporarily, solemnly saying to Ning Fan,
"Daoist Zhao, would you accompany me to explore the Ninefold Celestial Towers?"
"The Ninefold Celestial Towers refers to this palace shadow... What kind of place is the Ninefold Celestial Towers..."
Ning Fan gazed at the palace shadow in the sky, his eyes growing increasingly grave.
Miaoyan Immortal Honorific did not explain but took out a jade scroll, handing it to Ning Fan, slowly saying,
"Information about the Ninefold Celestial Towers is the highest secret within my Four Oceans Sect, untransmittable, but given the special situation now, Daoist Zhao may just look at this intelligence."
Ning Fan accepted the jade scroll, probing through it with spirit sense. Over a dozen breaths later, he returned the jade scroll to Miaoyan Immortal Honorific. His expression unchanged but secretly shaken inside.
Only then did he learn that the hidden Ancient Passage in the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain is named the Ninefold Celestial Towers, which is precisely the object indicated by this aerial shadow.
For many years, the Demon Race and Human Race have battled within the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain, both scheming for the Ninefold Celestial Towers located here.
The Ninefold Celestial Towers contain nine layers, each layer holding 111 palaces. Only by passing through the 111 palaces of the first layer can one enter the second, and so forth, paving the way to the highest point of the Ninefold Celestial Towers.
There lies a sealed stone door, the entrance to the Sky Desolate Ancient Realm, requiring the corresponding keys to unlock the entrance for access.
It is said the keys to this entrance in the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain are kept by Ancestor Dragon Zhuli, and now, the keys are still in the hands of the True Dragon Race.
The True Dragon Race possesses the keys to this entrance, hence has long hoped to seize control of the entrance here. Once achieving this, the True Dragon Race can use the keys to open the stone door entrance, accessing the legendary Sky Desolate Ancient Realm...
A billion years ago, the four heavens and nine worlds, Land of Demons, and Ancient Demon Abyss originally belonged to a single interface named "Land of Dreams."
Back then, the Land of Dreams was a complete interface; at that time, the cultivators of the Land of Dreams were under the jurisdiction of Zi Dou Immortal Domain; during this era, the cultivators could directly go to Zi Dou Immortal Domain unobstructed.
But later, the Purple Dou Immortal Sovereign suddenly descended divine skills beneath the Land of Dreams and Zi Dou Immortal Domain, blocking a mysterious interface called Sky Desolate Ancient Realm.
The existence of the Sky Desolate Ancient Realm entirely severed the path from the Land of Dreams to Zi Dou Immortal Domain, leaving only nine ancient passages within the Land of Dreams, alongside nine ancient realm keys. Only by using the corresponding keys to open the corresponding entrance can one enter the Sky Desolate Ancient Realm. Exiting the Sky Desolate Ancient Realm leads to Zi Dou Immortal Domain.
The nine keys to the ancient realm were once held by nine powerful beings, including Ancient Chaos and Zhuli. With the passage of time, many keys have gone missing. As of now, only three keys have been found.
Nine ancient passages, each hidden within the heavens and earth. Of those found, only six have been discovered, with four of these already ruined, rendering only two usable...
The three keys and two passages do not correspond to each other, hence cannot unlock the entrance to enter the Sky Desolate Ancient Realm.
The True Dragon Race’s desire to seize the Barbarian Wilderness entrance stems from knowing the entrance corresponds with their held keys.
Thus once seizing the entrance, their cultivators stand a great chance of opening the entrance, entering the Sky Desolate Ancient Realm, and reaching Zi Dou Immortal Domain!
The True Dragon Race is willing to pay any cost to achieve this goal.
Similarly, the Human Race desires this entrance to hold negotiating power equal to the Demon Race.
You hold the key, I hold the entrance, allowing us to discuss matters of jointly entering the Sky Desolate Ancient Realm...
To achieve this, the Human Race has plotted for the Barbarian Wilderness entrance for many years, with the Four Oceans Sect as the representative power...
(3/3) This Chapter is slightly short, I am truly too sleepy, forgive me. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to cast recommendation votes, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)
