Chapter 461 - 460: Heaven-Reaching Demon Palace, Buzhou Mountain!
Chapter 461 - 460: Heaven-Reaching Demon Palace, Buzhou Mountain!
Hearing the system’s response finally made Lin Heng feel that he was truly alive.
There was no choice.
This journey had lasted too long.
So long that Lin Heng felt confused.
He couldn’t discern what was real and what was false.
"Am I still within the Illusion Realm now?" Lin Heng asked silently.
But this time, the system did not answer.
Lin Heng wasn’t surprised.
On the contrary, he felt a bit joyful.
Because the system never responds to questions outside its functional commands.
And the lack of an answer precisely proved that the system’s earlier voice was not an illusion.
"Let’s break through together."
At this moment, the voice of Cyan Snake sounded again.
She stood with her sword ahead, facing countless troops, intending to grip the sword with both hands and fight to the death.
But she couldn’t wield the sword with both hands because Lin Heng was still tightly holding her wrist.
"What’s wrong with you?" Cyan Snake’s beautiful eyes shimmered with tenderness, feeling Lin Heng was a bit absent-minded, which made her unable to stop worrying.
However, Lin Heng didn’t respond to her and instead asked gravely in his mind:
"Help me check the Reputation Value!"
"As you wish."
With the system’s response, subtitles appeared in Lin Heng’s mind.
Total Reputation Value: twelve billion!
As soon as this number appeared, Lin Heng’s gaze became sharp.
Since the Immortal Court was established.
Lin Heng’s reputation had been steadily increasing every day.
But this time, venturing to the Outer Demon Race land, it was a near-certain death situation, so Lin Heng had always been monitoring the growth of his reputation.
The aim was to immediately draw a prize the moment his reputation reached one hundred billion.
Acquiring a trump card technique!
And just before entering the land of the Outer Demon Race, Lin Heng secretly checked his reputation once.
At that time, the reputation value was precisely in the twelve billion range!
However.
In his perception.
He should have been trapped in the Mist Forest for millennia or even eons.
Yet there was no change in the reputation value?
In this case, there were only two explanations.
One.
The moment he stepped into the land of the Outer Demon Race.
The Dao Immortal Court suffered an extinction-level blow!
But Lin Heng immediately dismissed this possibility.
He neither believed nor could believe that under the guardianship of Sun Wukong and the fortune of the Immortal Court, the court could be directly exterminated?
It was too unrealistic!
In that case.
There could only be one truth.
The seemingly endless passage of time, as he believed, was merely another illusion!
"Sister!"
And just as Lin Heng came to a realization.
Another familiar voice disrupted his thoughts.
He opened his eyes and looked into the distance.
It was Bai Suzhen.
Bai Suzhen remained gentle and beautiful.
But she was now deep within an army, her white robes stained with blood, looking desolate.
"Sister!"
Cyan Snake saw this scene, her beautiful eyes turning red, and she immediately wanted to charge into the formation to rescue her.
However, Lin Heng still held her wrist, not letting go.
Cyan Snake didn’t care, dragging Lin Heng and charging into the Demon Race army.
But as soon as they entered the formation.
A Celestial Blade descended from the sky, carrying a terrifying aura, aiming to strike Cyan Snake.
Lin Heng frowned, instinctively wanting to push both palms, but as he was about to let go, he suddenly realized something and instantly gripped Cyan Snake’s wrist more firmly.
As a result, a sharp pain pricked his palm.
When he lowered his head once more.
What appeared in front of him was not Cyan Snake’s delicate hand, but a stinking and thorn-covered bramble.
The sharp pain in his palm.
Made him instinctively want to let go.
But with strong willpower, Lin Heng resisted this action.
He hesitated no more, fervently shouting in his mind.
"Ah Xi?"
"Here!"
"Ah Xi?"
"Here!"
"Ah Xi?"
"Here!"
Lin Heng seemed to turn into a machine, neither hearing nor seeing anything.
Just repeating the call to the system.
There was no extra conversation between them.
Just a call and a response.
The Illusion Realm still existed, but it could no longer affect Lin Heng.
This process didn’t last long.
Accompanied by a staggering step.
The voice of Long-armed Ape sounded.
"Are you okay?"
Lin Heng slowly opened his eyes, his gaze clearer and more tranquil than ever, discovering a vast plain ahead.
And the Mist Forest was already behind.
"You can let go now, I am not an illusion."
Long-armed Ape said, then tried to point a finger at Lin Heng’s Celestial Spirit.
This time, Lin Heng didn’t react excessively, allowing the gesture with a smile:
"I know."
Long-armed Ape seemed a bit surprised, giving Lin Heng a once-over before laughing:
"It seems you’ve found a way to break the illusion."
Lin Heng smiled, his gaze looking into the distance.
Beyond lay a vast, boundless plain.
Even further ahead.
The Heaven-Reaching Demon Hall stood tall, its shape sinister, resembling a giant skull.
Within the Demon Hall.
There seemed to be a mountain standing tall.
Reaching through the clouds, straight into the stars.
Soaring, no one knows how many millions of miles high.
Long-armed Ape’s tone turned solemn: "According to the Demon Ancestor’s account, that should be the Chong Lou Demon Palace."
"And that mountain is the legendary Buzhou Mountain!"
"Buzhou Mountain?" Lin Heng was astonished.
This name was too illustrious.
Once hailed as the pillar of heaven and earth.
But in Lin Heng’s understanding, this legendary Divine Mountain had long been toppled and vanished during a past calamity.
Now hearing Long-armed Ape refer to the Heaven-Reaching Stone Pillar in the distant Demon Palace as Buzhou Mountain.
Inevitably caused some confusion.
Long-armed Ape calmly explained: "To be precise, this is just one section, among several factions of the Outer Demon Race, each has a section of Buzhou Mountain."
"In ancient times, after the Ancestral Witch Gonggong fought and lost to Celestial Emperor Zhuanxu, he crashed into Buzhou Mountain."
"It damaged the heavens."
"The Outer Demon Race, taking advantage of that moment, descended upon the Grand Thousand Upper Realm."
"As it is said, when the pillar of heaven collapsed, the earth’s rigors were severed, the four poles laid waste, and Kyushu shattered."
"The arrival of the Outer Demon Race was a great calamity for all beings, leading to the demise of countless souls!"
"Until Nuwa acted and invited the previous incarnation of Sun Wukong, the Innate Holy Spirit Five-Colored Stone, to assist, only by using Heaven-Reaching Magical Power, was the entryway of the Outer Demon Race into the Immortal Realm sealed."
"Though the heavens were repaired, the toppled Buzhou Mountain was taken away by the Outer Demon Race."
"Thus Buzhou Mountain became the key for the Demon Race to enter and exit the Great Thousand Upper Realm."
Long-armed Ape’s eyes held a deep emotion.
Buzhou Mountain was once the pillar of the Great Thousand Upper Realm, but it is now the possession of the Demon Race.
"So, are we next headed to that Buzhou Mountain?" Lin Heng speculated.
"Yes." Long-armed Ape spoke in a heavy tone: "According to the Demon Ancestor’s account, only Buzhou Mountain can bear an altar associated with Nuwa!"
Lin Heng frowned: "Your Demon Ancestor seems to know much about the Demon Race?"
Long-armed Ape corrected: "Not just the Demon Race, the Demon Ancestor knows everything about all things!"
There was reverence in his tone.
"Is that so..." Lin Heng did not dwell on this issue, shifting the topic: "Next, we have to force our way through, correct?"
Long-armed Ape nodded: "A bloody battle is ahead."
Both were acutely aware.
From the moment they entered this place, there was no way to escape the perception of a Quasi-Saint.
At this moment.
In the distant Heaven-Reaching Demon Palace, a gaze also happened to glance over.
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