The Earth Fire Qilin’s body was gigantic, and the feathered wings on its back were seventy feet long when unfolded, burning with destructive flames that seemed to turn seawater into magma.
“Giggle!”
The Market Realm Warriors and Red Cloud Python Jiao that didn’t have the time to escape were caught up by the Earth Fire Qilin and didn’t even let out a single scream before their bodies burst into flames, turning into flying ash in an instant.
A moment later, Zhang Ruochen was also caught up by the Earth Fire Qilin, getting closer and closer, and was about to be caught by the claws of the Earth Fire Qilin.
Zhang Ruochen’s finger, touched on top of his storage ring and took out the holy decree given to him by Elder Xuan Gui and squeezed it in his hand.
“Wow!”
Mobilising his true qi, he injected it into the holy decree.
Within the holy decree, a wisp of white holy qi immediately emanated and flowed around Zhang Ruochen, condensing into the silhouette of Old Man Xuan Gui, emitting a huge divine aura.
Elder Xuan Gui’s silhouette, which was three feet tall, shone with white light and overlapped with Zhang Ruochen’s body.
Seeing Old Man Xuan Gui’s silhouette, the Earth Fire Qilin sensed a powerful aura fluctuation and paused slightly, revealing a scornful expression.
When a holy decree came out, it was like the presence of a saint himself, enough to intimidate the world and force all beings to kneel and bow.
Only, each holy decree represented a different power.
Elder Xuan Gui was training Zhang Ruochen for the sake of training him, so this volume of holy decree only contained the power of speed. If he encountered a danger that he could not resist, as long as Zhang Ruochen injected his true qi into the holy decree, he would be able to immediately escape up to ten thousand miles away.
Of course, if Elder Xuan Gui was willing, he could also give Zhang Ruochen a scroll of holy decree that carried the power of a Saint, only, that would only be bad for Zhang Ruochen, without any benefits.
Would people, once they possessed a powerful external force, still endeavour to cultivate?
“Wow!”
With the holy qi of the holy decree on his body, Zhang Ruochen, like a god, turned into a white light and rushed towards the bottom of the trench, instantly escaping the attack of the Earth Fire Qilin.
In the next instant, Zhang Ruochen reached the bottom of the trench one step ahead of the Wool Skeleton Jiao King and the Standing Earth Monk, landing on top of a layer of hard seabed slabs.
The temperature at the bottom of the sea, by all rights, should be very low.
However, the seawater at the bottom of the Blood Spring Trench was quite hot, and standing in the water was like standing inside a boiling frying pan. Only cultivators who had cultivated to the Fish Dragon Second Transformation and reached the realm of “Refining Skin into Gold” could withstand such temperatures.
When Huang Shenyi was able to come here, he was afraid that he had used some kind of treasure.
According to Zhang Ruochen’s instructions, Huang Yichen, Ao Xinyan, and the Orange Moon Star Envoy had already reached the bottom of the trench first, so they didn’t die under the Earth Fire Unicorn’s flames.
When they saw Zhang Ruochen flying down, they immediately rushed over and converged with Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “Have you found the Xuanwu Inheritance Land yet?”
Huang Yichen’s expression was very serious as she said, “We are, right now, on the back of the Xuanwu corpse.”
Just now, Zhang Ruochen was so busy running for his life that he didn’t have time to observe the environment at the bottom of the sea, and it was only when he heard Huang Yichen’s words that he carefully looked around.
Only to see that not far away, there stood an iron pillar with a diameter of three zhang, as if it was a divine needle that fixed the sea, sticking into the stone layer of the seabed, towering up to a height of hundreds of zhang.
Such a huge iron pillar, I do not know how many thousands of jin?
Iron column in the water, also do not know how many years immersed, in its surface, has long been rust stains.
Through the rust, one could see that on top of the iron pillar, there was an eerie and bizarre pattern imprinted on it, some of which resembled white bones, some of which resembled stern ghosts, and some of which resembled evil flowers.
Zhang Ruochen walked over and only just touched his finger on top of the iron pillar, and immediately, a monstrous force of death aura entered his body through his finger.
“Oooh!”
Immediately, the cries of billions of evil dead spirits resounded in Zhang Ruochen’s mind, and a bloody image surfaced, as countless forces of evil aura, like a ball of black ink, began to corrode his Martial Soul.
Right at this moment, on the wall of Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Sea, the seal of the Gods lit up, like light breaking through the darkness, expelling a monstrous evil aura from his body.
As if he had been electrocuted, Zhang Ruochen immediately withdrew his fingers and took two steps back, an astonished look on his face as he said, “What a terrifying Evil Qi of Death, fortunately, there is the Seal of the Gods, otherwise, I’m afraid that I would have already turned into a mindless monster.”
Just a moment ago, Zhang Ruochen felt like he was being pulled to an evil world by this iron pillar.
There, there were white bone creatures as huge as mountains, and a blood-red eye flying in the sky, and in the abyss under the ground, a black ghost flew out, transforming into a black ghost cloud.
That one world was like the legendary hell.
A confused look appeared in Huang Yichen’s eyes, and unknowingly, he also walked to the side of the iron pillar, slowly extending his hand over.
“Don’t touch it, it’s an evil weapon.”
Zhang Ruochen grabbed Huang Yichen’s wrist and led her, away from the iron pillar.
Huang Yichen immediately came back to her senses, her eyes becoming bright again as she said with a palpitating heart, “That one iron pillar, it can actually affect my mind, what exactly is it?”
Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head.
“Puffing!”
Little Black stretched out his claws and scratched on top of the iron pillar, scraping the rust away and revealing three golden marks.
It was not affected by that surge of evil power in the slightest and said, “This is a battle weapon.”Then, it added, “It doesn’t seem to be from the Kunlun Realm.”
“Why isn’t it from the Kunlun Realm?”Orange Moon Star Envoy asked.
Little Black stared at the Orange Moon Star Envoy and said without slowing down, “Because, the forging techniques are different. The Kunlun Realm’s battle soldiers are based on inscriptions. However, in this one iron pillar, there is no inscription, but a different forging technique.”
Little Black’s two claws, pressed on top of the iron pillar, mobilising its entire body’s strength, wanting to pull it out.
However, no matter how much strength it used, the iron pillar just wouldn’t budge.
“Good fellow, I’m afraid that even a half saint may not be able to pick it up.”Xiao Hei withdrew both claws and took two steps back, panting sharply for two breaths.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen channelled his true qi into his legs and stomped his foot downwards, cracking the thick stone layer.
Stones fell down one after another, and inside the stone layer, the Xuanwu’s back shell was finally revealed.
Xuanwu’s body, was very huge, just its back shell was more than ten miles in size, if it were to stand on the ground, it would be a large mountain.
When the Xuanwu body outside the stone layer all cracked, the crowd only saw, the original that an iron pillar, surprisingly, from the back of the Xuanwu pierced the body, Xuanwu nailed to death at the bottom of the trench.
The blood spring of the blood spring trench, in fact, from the Xuanwu body flowing out of the blood, will be hundreds of miles of seawater dyed red.
Everyone was shocked by the image in front of them, unable to speak for a long time.
Zhang Ruochen frowned and said, ”It is indeed not a pure-blooded Xuanwu of the Ancient Divine Beasts, but rather a Xuanwu’s descendant, the Green Flame Xuanwu, but with the size of its body and the aura that emanates from it. If it were still alive, I’m afraid it would be able to tear apart even a Saint.”
“Such a powerful one, the Green Flame Xuanwu, just what kind of person was it that was able to kill it?”
Xiao: “It should be the owner of that one iron pillar.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “The back of a Xuanwu is the place with the strongest defence. That one iron pillar was able to strike through the Xuanwu’s body, from its back, so how powerful must the owner of the iron pillar be?”
“You just said that the casting and refining method of the iron pillar is completely different from the Kunlun Realm’s weapon refining techniques. However, as far as I know, the refining techniques of all the major Market Realms are very similar to those of the Kunlun Realm, and there isn’t much difference.”
“Then, the owner of the Iron Pillar, which Market Realm is it from?”
“The owner of the Iron Pillar, who was able to kill this one Greenflame Xuanwu, is definitely a super terrifying powerhouse. Apart from the Kunlun Realm, I’m afraid that even the superior Market Realms would find it hard to give birth to such a strong person, right?”
A bad premonition arose in Zhang Ruochen’s heart, always feeling that the evil world that appeared in his mind earlier could possibly be real. The owner of this iron pillar might be from there.
If that was the case, wouldn’t it mean that in this vast universe, there was even a great world as powerful as the Kunlun Realm? Even, to say the least, that one world was even more powerful and terrifying than the Kunlun Realm.
Because, the cultivators of that one world had already come to the perimeter of the Kunlun Realm. However, the cultivators of the Kunlun Realm had not yet been able to discover the orientation of their world.
In an instant, countless thoughts surfaced in Zhang Ruochen’s mind, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt boundless fear, and his body felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, his whole body chilling.
“It should just be my random thoughts, with so many market worlds around the Kunlun Realm, it’s only normal for an evil little world to be born.”
“This one Xuanwu, I don’t know how many years it has been dead. If there really is a great world that is even more powerful than the Kunlun Realm, I’m afraid that it would have already begun its large-scale invasion of the Kunlun Realm, and it’s unlikely that we haven’t been able to see any traces of them until now.”
Zhang Ruochen tried hard to convince himself to calm down.
Without waiting for Zhang Ruochen to continue thinking more, above his head, a fiery light pressed down, causing the seawater to become unbearably hot.
The Earth Fire Qilin chased after the King of Ursus Jiao and the Monk of the Standing Ground, rushing towards the bottom in a hurry.
Feeling the enormous power coming from above, Huang Yichen, Ao Xinyan, and the Orange Moon Star Envoy all changed their faces greatly, as if they were suffering from the suppression of a nine-fold mountain, and were almost about to kneel on the ground.
The power of a Half-Saint level was not something they could withstand.
“Go, hide in the Xuanwu Body first.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Zhang Ruochen was able to detect that Xuanwu’s inheritance was inside Xuanwu’s torso.
To enter Xuanwu’s torso, there were only two entrances, and those were Xuanwu’s eyes.
The Xuanwu’s eyeballs had long since corroded away, only revealing two black eye holes more than ten feet high, leading to the interior of the body, very deep and unable to see the bottom.
Wisps of Xuanwu Qi, like a multi-coloured waterfall, gushed out from the eyes, merged into the seawater, and disappeared.
Standing at the Xuanwu’s left eye, Zhang Ruochen glanced downwards, only to see that an iron pillar had struck the Xuanwu’s body right through, rushing out from its abdomen and plunging into the magma under the ground.
Below the Xuanwu’s body was a boiling lake of red-coloured magma, and a single Red Reef Beast, which seemed to have been sensed in some way, rushed out of the magma and attacked Zhang Ruochen and the others.
