prynovel Chapter 508 - 257: Nascent Soul as Heaven’s Will, Sumeru Divine Palace 2
Chapter 508 - 257: Nascent Soul as Heaven’s Will, Sumeru Divine Palace 2
First, he dispatched a group of disciples and descendants, or direct heirs, using special sensing methods, to search for those golden key fragments.
Then, by merging the golden key fragments, they formed a complete golden key, which served as a switch to open the teleportation gate.
Numerous Core Formation Cultivators, using secret techniques, forcibly lowered their own realms within a short period. Although this greatly depleted their essence and posed immense danger, it allowed them to deceive the rules of the entire Sumeru Forest Cave Heaven and be transported together into the newly opened secret realm of the Sumeru Palace.
It’s no exaggeration to say that Zheng Yi, too, found himself in complete bewilderment when he arrived at the Yellow Springs River above the Senluo Hall, after cultivators from both the Righteous Dao and Demon Dao had gathered the golden key and opened the spatial gate.
The position of his teleportation was deviated, as a result of the Heaven-Cutting Vine, and he ended up in the underground Netherworld World, a place untouched for thousands of years.
As for the Core Formation Cultivators from the Righteous Dao and Demon Dao, they stepped into a higher layer of the Sumeru Palace secret realm.
The entire Sumeru Forest Cave Heaven is actually divided into three layers.
It’s a three-tiered structure.
The topmost area is called the Sumeru Divine Palace, suppressing the great Grotto Heaven beneath it.
The middle is the main structure housing the entire life system.
And the Senluo Hall and the Yellow Springs River pervading the underground world serve as the foundation that supports the upper two worlds.
Sumeru Forest Cave Heaven has a long heritage, spanning over ten thousand years of time.
No one knows its origin.
The ancient cultivator sect that left behind the Nascent Soul Gathering Pill was merely a latecomer, who by chance, mastered this secret realm.
As for the time of Senluo Ancestor’s demise, it’s been so long that his life and existence have already become a mystery, making it very difficult to explore its secrets.
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The opened Sumeru Divine Palace is not a large space; compared to the Senluo Hall and Yellow Springs River below, it is indeed quite small.
The entire Sumeru Forest Cave Heaven is essentially a pyramid-shaped structure, with the Sumeru Divine Palace as the apex of the pyramid.
This area is also where the Nascent Soul Gathering Pill is placed.
Amidst a swirl of turbulent clouds, six figures, darting within streams of light, reveal their true forms in the mist.
Three from the Righteous Dao, three from the Demon Dao, a total of six individuals representing the highest level of late-stage Core Formation experts in the Great Yi City Immortal Realm, all appeared atop the Sumeru Divine Palace.
Without wind, the air trembled; with the appearance of the six late-stage Core Formation cultivators, the space itself started violently shaking.
This wasn’t due to deliberately released aura but was a result of the aura accumulated from their long years of cultivation, inadvertently unleashed due to emotional cues.
The vibrating aura clashed in the air, forming a dull sound that resonated throughout.
Soon, the turbulent space transformed into a relatively calm oppression.
Six pairs of eyes gauged each other, a mysterious chill curling the corners of their mouths.
They were all old adversaries.
To have stepped into the late stage of Core Formation in a barren place like the Great Yi City Realm, every one of them was an ancient monster who had lived for a long time.
The six Core Formation cultivators in the Sumeru Divine Palace appeared somewhat old and frail, each exuding an aura of age that had elapsed through time, unconsciously emanating an oppressive, soul-trembling presence.
They quietly exchanged glances, their eyes revealing unrecognizable expressions.
"Old Poison, you’re actually not dead yet?!"
On the side of the Righteous Dao, an old man in a black robe with a long sword on his back sneered slightly.
"Indeed, the good die young, while evildoers last for a thousand years..."
"Takes one to know one!"
"Daoist Xuanxiao, long time no see."
The old man referred to as Old Poison managed a strange smile on his gaunt face, a smile that didn’t reach his eyes, saying: "Since you’re still alive, of course, so am I."
The other two pairs of old enemies couldn’t help but exchange greetings as well.
Clearly, the six Core Formation cultivators present in the Sumeru Divine Palace were undoubtedly old acquaintances, their ongoing conflicts had persisted for many years, and hence, they were deeply familiar with each other.
Boom!
The magnificent and solemn Divine Palace suddenly emitted a wave of aura, instantly giving the six Core Formation cultivators a chilling sense in their bodies, causing their previously floating forms to be suppressed, brought down to the ground.
The heavy pressure made their bodies endure directly, producing a disordered creaking sound, yet their eyes shone exceptionally bright, as if they’d discovered some significant treasure.
"This is the power! This is the power we need!"
A trembling voice arose, and the eyes of all the Core Formation cultivators present grew even brighter, their mouths quivering slightly, emitting fragmented exclamations as their breath suddenly became extraordinarily heavy.
The aura erupting from the Sumeru Divine Palace was precisely the power that haunted them in dreams, a force critical for Core Formation cultivators to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, the pursuit of their lifetime.
That burst of power emerged in an instant and then vanished.
In that instant, all six eyes fell completely on the slowly opening gates of the Sumeru Divine Palace.
The slowly opened gates not only opened the Sumeru Divine Palace but also brought forth hope.
Inside the opened palace, there lay treasures for reaching higher realms, the pursuit of their lifetimes.
Whizz, whizz!
Without much conversation, they all turned into streaks of light, swiftly rushing into the opened palace.
If they couldn’t obtain the Nascent Soul Gathering Pill, what awaited these ancient monsters would only be the exhaustion of their life span and direct sitting dissolution.
Therefore, they weren’t too concerned about how many subordinates or disciples might die; they just hoped to find the Nascent Soul Gathering Pill upon opening the Sumeru Dao Platform, so any sacrifice was justified.
The nature of cultivators is indifferent, especially those Core Formation beings who have cultivated for countless ages, familial, romantic, and friendly feelings, have long been worn away over the years.
It can be said that these beings, who survived for long ages, had already lost the emotions a person should have.
What mattered most was breaking through the Core Formation Realm to gain more years of life.
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Senluo Hall, Yellow Springs River!
The Blood Egg at the deep pool’s end of the upstream Yellow Springs, under the impact of the terrifying spiritual power that had just erupted, underwent another change.
Stimulated strongly, the essence energy gathered on its surface, upon sensing the life-threatening danger inside, began absorbing all the essence flowing on its surface.
The dim yellow runic text on the Blood Egg suddenly lit up.
The not dazzling radiance exuded a profound and mysterious vibe, and this light possessed an incredibly strong permeability, not only swirling in the air but more importantly, it penetrated directly through the surface of the Yellow Springs River to its deepest parts.
Toward the upper side, it illuminated a vast hidden region in the darkness.
The mystical aura infused yellow light fell upon all parts of the space.
On the once calm surface of the Yellow Springs River, corresponding glows emanated from all directions in an instant.
Resembling the interlacing of moonlight and starlight, two different glows exploded in space, gradually merged in overlap, and ultimately the different energies unified.
Swish, swish!
Beams of light lit up one after another from the array points laid by Ancestral Master Senluo, and yellow light columns shot straight into the dark sky, as if trying to completely tear this space away.
A continuous stretch of light columns illuminated a bright expanse in the darkness of the Yellow Springs River.
"It has begun..."
"This is the crucial moment!"
Zheng Yi spoke as if talking to himself, a slight solemnity shading his face.
The Blood Egg, placed at the Yellow Springs River’s upstream source, moved with the force of a python swallowing a dragon; in this, the peril experienced by the Nether River Daoist was beyond the imagination of outsiders.
Even he, the body, was utterly powerless and couldn’t intervene.
In order to make Nether River Daoist born in the Blood Lake swallow the Yellow Springs River’s strength for a profound foundation deposit, it could only be methodically advanced.
Yet the stimulation from the prior Nascent Soul aura accelerated this step, necessitating a move of strategic risk.
Now it appears this move played rightly.
Not only did Nether River Daoist enhance his foundation, but he also linked to the Yellow Springs River’s essence, gaining unimaginable benefits.
Swish, swish!
The light columns extinguished slowly, leaving deep imprints in the numerous spaces shot into the void above.
A massive array map appeared before Zheng Yi’s eyes, and with his understanding of arrays, overlooking the surroundings, he clearly saw the massive array map interconnecting the Yellow Springs River, his heart stirred.