Chapter 1794: Chapter 1813: Ancient Divine Palace

Ancient Divine Mountain, halfway up the slope!

Hoo, hoo, hoo!

The Undying Heavenly Lord panted violently, the deathly aura all over him slightly disordered, his aura somewhat weakened, yet he was excitedly sizing up the Ancient Divine Mountain before his eyes.

He was the first to arrive at the Ancient Divine Mountain, all thanks to a map given to him by the "Prison". This map not only marked how to enter the Ancient Divine Mountain, it also recorded the prohibitions and dangers in each Ancient Divine Palace, and even indicated the great opportunities within and the inheritance of the Ancient Times lineage.

With this map, the Undying Heavenly Lord was like a god had taken his hand, incomparably familiar with the Ancient Divine Mountain, which would make this trip twice the result for half the effort.

"Ye Xuan, I may not be able to kill you, but you won’t have a good end either. Once I find the Three-Life Three-Life Flower and reform into a living person, I’ll be able to sit on equal footing with the ’Prison’. When that time comes I will definitely tear your body into ten thousand pieces and grind your bones to dust."

The Undying Heavenly Lord muttered venomously, an extremely icy chill appearing in his eyes.

He wished he could eat Ye Xuan’s flesh and drink Ye Xuan’s blood, but he had to complete the task the "Prison" had assigned him, otherwise his end would be miserably tragic beyond compare. He simply did not dare go against the will of the "Prison".

Boom!

Suddenly, a tearing sound of the air came from behind the Undying Heavenly Lord, startling him. He hadn’t expected someone to catch up so quickly, and this made the Undying turn around to look at the newcomer.

"It’s you?"

When the Undying Heavenly Lord saw the person behind him, his expression instantly turned hideous and sinister. He had not expected the one who caught up to be Ye Xuan.

This guy really wasn’t simple; no wonder even the "Prison" attached so much importance to him.

The Undying Heavenly Lord marveled inwardly, but his expression had already calmed. The look he cast at Ye Xuan was extremely tranquil, and he had no intention of making a move against Ye Xuan.

The calmer the Undying Heavenly Lord was, the more Ye Xuan knew there was something seriously wrong with him. His eyes flickered slightly, and a cordial smile surfaced on his face as he walked toward the Undying.

"Undying Daoist, you and I can actually have a good talk. There’s really no need to drive each other to death."

Ye Xuan’s face was full of kindness as he strolled to the Undying’s side, as if he really were an old friend of many years to the Undying Heavenly Lord.

"Hmm?"

The Undying Heavenly Lord suddenly started.

Others might not understand Ye Xuan, but as for him, he couldn’t be clearer on what sort of person Ye Xuan was.

At this moment Ye Xuan was putting on a harmless-to-man-and-beast facade, which only meant he was brewing some huge scheme and definitely wanted to calculate against him.

"Ye Xuan, don’t play this game with me. Do you think there’s still any room for easing things between you and me?" the Undying Heavenly Lord said coldly.

"Undying Daoist, you jest. The grudges between you and me all happened in the past. You killed me once, I killed you once, that should be considered even. Besides, now that Daoist has become a taboo existence, your Cultivation surpasses mine. The grievance between us can actually be completely put down." Ye Xuan said with a smile.

"Put down?"

The Undying Heavenly Lord let out a string of cold laughs. "How do we put it down? Don’t you feel your words are very hypocritical?"

"I still remember you once told me that you and I are actually the same kind of people and could very well be friends. Now I’m very sincere in wanting to befriend you. Can’t everything that happened in the past be resolved?" Ye Xuan said earnestly.

The more friendly Ye Xuan acted, the more cautious the Undying Heavenly Lord became inside. He had suffered too many losses in Ye Xuan’s hands and would never believe Ye Xuan.

Seeing the Undying Heavenly Lord’s cold silence, Ye Xuan didn’t mind. He had long expected this outcome; after all, the hatred between the two was fundamentally irreconcilable.

Ye Xuan’s eyes moved as he sighed in feigned emotion, saying, "I actually feel it’s really unfair for Daoist. Once, Daoist was the Supreme of the ages, lofty above, jointly revered by the Chaos All Spirits. Yet now you’ve become a taboo existence and are being controlled by others. Are you truly willing to accept that?"

"What a joke. How could I, the Undying, be controlled by anyone? I merely..."

The Undying Heavenly Lord shot back in retort, but as soon as he said half a sentence he snapped awake, realizing Ye Xuan was trying to trick him into spilling information.

Seeing the ever-changing expression on the Undying Heavenly Lord’s face, Ye Xuan’s eyes flashed sharply. He knew he had guessed right—sure enough, the Undying Heavenly Lord was being controlled by someone.

Dong—dong—dong!

Ye Xuan paced back and forth in front of the Undying Heavenly Lord, then halted his steps, looking at him with extraordinary solemnity as he said, "Your bearing is in no way inferior to mine, Ye Xuan. Why stoop to being someone’s dog? If Daoist is willing, you and I can be friends. On this trip into the Ancient Forbidden Land, if we join hands, there will be no one we cannot defeat, and the opportunities of this Ancient Divine Mountain will all belong to us."

As for Ye Xuan’s pitch, the Undying Heavenly Lord naturally wouldn’t believe it, but it did make him slightly tempted. After all, he had to stop Ye Xuan from obtaining that item; this was also the task the "Prison" had entrusted to him.

The Undying Heavenly Lord absolutely did not dare betray the "Prison"—unless he could once more become a living person. Otherwise, if he truly betrayed the "Prison", his end would likely be miserably tragic beyond imagination.

In all the Time he had spent in the Death Prison, no one knew better than he just how terrifying the "Prison" was. That existence had surpassed taboo, and its methods were simply beyond the imagination of outsiders.

"Ye Xuan, there’s no need to try and pry words out of me. There’s no one pulling strings behind me, and no one can make me be their dog. However, you and I can indeed be friends and make a big show of things here in this Ancient Divine Mountain, each taking what we need."

The Undying Heavenly Lord finally calmed down. Since Ye Xuan was showing goodwill, he might as well go along with the flow and agree to Ye Xuan—it just so happened to help him complete the task given by the "Prison".

"Daoist is indeed straightforward. Then it’s settled between us."

Ye Xuan smiled lightly and even cordially patted the Undying Heavenly Lord on the shoulder, as if the two of them really were old friends of many years. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Of course, both of them knew the other harbored their own ghosts, but neither exposed it.

Ye Xuan wanted to ferret out the person behind the Undying Heavenly Lord, while the Undying Heavenly Lord wanted to complete the task assigned by the "Prison". It would come down to who could outplay the other.

Aside from the person behind the Undying Heavenly Lord, Ye Xuan even more wanted to know why the Undying Heavenly Lord could be the first to enter the Ancient Divine Mountain—whether he held some treasure Ye Xuan didn’t know of.

Rumble!

Just as the two of them were each nursing their own schemes, the entire Ancient Divine Mountain trembled with a deep rumble, and the scene that followed left the two of them staring at one another in shock.

What did they see?

Ancient Divine Palaces rose from the ground one after another, and that eye-piercing Ancient Divine Light rampaged crisscross through Heaven and Earth, while an ancient, desolate, and heavy aura of endless ages came sweeping in to blanket everything.

"The Ancient Divine Palaces have appeared!"

The Undying Heavenly Lord roared in excitement, the scarlet in his eyes flashing violently. His fists clenched unconsciously, proof of how stirred up he was inside.

Ninety-nine Divine Palaces of the Ancient Times presented themselves in the form of a pyramid, and at the Top of the Divine Mountain a black palace stood there.

It seemed the most important opportunity lay at the summit of the Divine Mountain!

Ye Xuan gazed up at the black hall on the mountain peak and could vaguely sense an unusual aura, as if it were calling him to come.