novelraw Chapter 802 - 796: The Soul Returns—Heavenly Chastisement Chopper?
Chapter 802 - 796: The Soul Returns—Heavenly Chastisement Chopper?
The ancient underground palace ruins were covered in thick dust, untouched for years.
Ten figures clad in cyan-gold tattered standard armor, wielding bronze long halberds and long Ji-like antique weapons, patrolled along a fixed path.
The former power had vanished into the annals of history, but they remained loyally guarding this territory.
In the distance, ladies in palace attire drifted by, their bodies seeming both real and illusory, giving an unreal impression.
In the palace’s core area, powerful auras lay hidden.
This place was far from a benevolent land.
"Find a safe place to unlock the Heaven Repository."
The endless corridors were the handiwork of some unknown powerful being, for unknowable reasons.
It seemed not much time was left; the Heaven Repository must be opened swiftly, breaking through the Fourth Mystical Barrier.
Before the strong enemies arrive, depart from this place.
"These ghostly dry corpses affecting me must be dealt with in advance!"
Jia Ren was uncertain what would happen upon opening the Gate of Heavenly Repository, unwilling to face the threats here at this moment.
Potential hazards must be cleared.
The Power of Laws quietly flowed through the gray pearl, fully transforming into the Flame Principle.
The next moment, the gray flame coalesced into a giant flame phoenix, a thousand feet large, charging toward the distant corpses.
The patrolling corpses raised their hollow, eyeless sockets, with a flickering green light, simultaneously lifting their weapons.
Invisible secret powers flowed over their bodies, connecting the ten corpses as one, elevating their aura to an even higher level.
Sufficient to reach a level comparable to a Golden Immortal.
Above them, a gigantic miserable-green long halberd formed, slashing toward the gray flame phoenix.
Joint Strike Formation?
These corpses were indeed extraordinary; few forces had similar formations, and the destroyed power once shone brilliantly.
The gray flame phoenix flashed past, and before the ten corpses could lower their halberds, they were swiftly engulfed in gray flames.
Enhanced by the Flame Principle, the gray flames soared in power, stunningly effective against all sinister spirits, truly the nemesis of the remnants of the ancient palace’s various evil spirits.
The gray flame phoenix continued to sweep past, transforming ten corpses into towering gray fire pillars, intensely burning.
They turned rigidly to attack the gray flame phoenix, yet their decayed bodies scattered as white ash.
"Souls return!"
The tranquility of the ancient palace ruins was shattered, and a distant voice emerged from the darkness, old and hoarse.
Clusters of eerie green flames leapt continuously from the palace depths, not flames, but countless eyes of dry corpses.
Corpses rose from the ground, raising rusted, damaged blades, marching forth.
Even in death, still guarding this place.
Thousands!
Millions!
Hundred thousand!
An astonishing number of corpses appeared, up to a hundred thousand, each exuding an aura comparable to the True Immortal Realm.
The most bizarre thing for Jia Ren was that the detected corpses fell far short of those presented.
Additional corpses were gathered by unknown means.
The ancient corpses raised their weapons together, forming secret powers around them, merging into one entity.
A massive bronze long halberd occupied the ruins of the underground palace, emanating a chilling aura.
The bronze long halberd swung, and in the next moment, it disappeared on the spot.
The gray flame phoenix was split in two, scattering into countless gray flames in the sky.
The power of one strike rivaled the Daluo Golden Immortal!
Jia Ren was deeply shocked, increasingly feeling the ruins were extraordinary.
Could this power have truly had ten thousand True Immortal guards in its peak era?
No time for much thought, as the next moment, he felt locked onto.
The bronze long halberd vanished on the spot, suddenly appearing before Jia Ren, stained with gray flames, parts of it appearing semi-illusory and translucent.
The bronze long halberd slashed through, and the figure dissipated like shattered bubbles.
Jia Ren appeared a hundred miles away, escaping this strike.
His body was covered in tiny patches of bronze rust, spreading to more areas of his body.
The attack from the bronze long halberd didn’t touch him, yet mere contact with the surging aura caused an abnormal change in him.
Strange energy?
Quite similar, yet vastly different.
The Heavenly Treasured Path Celestial Force flowed through, purging the body, the bronze rust rapidly fading from his skin, restoring it to its original form.
The bronze long halberd lacked the chance for a second strike; the eternal gray flames on its shaft burned it down, disintegrating it entirely.
Above, a gigantic long Ji condensed again, its ancient shaft ruined, carrying an indescribable heaviness, filled with countless souls’ wails.
"Dusk Treasured Light!"
Jia Ren refused to passively endure strikes, surrounding himself with ten beams of treasure light, gray light surging like tides toward the ancient corpses.
The ancient corpses still raising damaged weapons suddenly lost power, their bodies collapsing weakly.
Where the gray tide surged, ancient corpses fell like wheat, not a single one an adversary.
The Power of Laws transformed into the Absolute Spirit Law, accompanying the surging Dusk Treasured Light, it became the true Light of the Dharma Ending.
The shattered ancient corpse lost its spirituality and the power to support its body, collapsing as a result.
More ancient corpses weathered on the spot, returning to dust and soil, as if this was their original state.
A Bronze Long Ji appeared behind Jia Ren at some unknown time, and just as it was about to slash his head, it dissipated gently like a breeze.
Inside the palace, innumerable ghostly palace maidens, resembling noble ladies, gathered from afar, merging into a giant woman.
She held an Octagonal Palace Lantern, with cold flames burning continuously.
Before making a move, waves transformed from the Dusk Treasured Light struck repeatedly, making her body translucent, until it disappeared without a trace.
The ghostly dry corpses of the ancient underground palace perished, and the sinister aura retreated at an astonishing speed.
Jia Ren did not relax, as a powerful aura within the ancient palace was reviving, precisely the formidable presence he had sensed before.
In the depths of the ruins, amidst flying debris and dust, a vaguely visible large figure holding a massive axe appeared.
Before the person arrived, the Dusk Treasured Light first fell upon the giant, continuously dissipating its strength and dismantling the spiritual body.
This massive spiritual body exuded a terrifying aura, vastly surpassing the previous ancient corpses, even giving a sense of confronting a Daluo Golden Immortal.
The giant axe in its hand emitted a suffocating power.
It was terribly broken, having experienced countless battles and the deaths of many strong individuals; just one glance caused a shudder in the soul.
The moment the axe head flew off, it expanded against the wind, and the silver wheel formed by the Dusk Treasured Light in the Absolute Spirit region turned into a torn curtain.
The broken giant axe seemed to have eyes, coming in pursuit.
Jia Ren’s eyes glinted brightly, his fingers dark, as if the sound of chewing emanated, accompanied by an insatiable hunger.
The next moment, he appeared beside the giant axe, pressing down with his five fingers.
The broken giant axe adhered firmly to his palm, its remaining spirituality and strength being devoured by his hand, with large amounts of grey-white powder scattering from the axe body.
Unlike the Bronze Long Halberd condensed by the Joint Strike Formation technique, this was not a tangible object.
This was a significant treasure, commanding extremely powerful strength even when broken.
The Spirit Devouring Treasure Art devours this treasure, not only destroying the opponent’s lethal weapon but also enhancing one’s own cultivation level, a win-win situation.
The axe trembled incessantly, striving to break free from the demon’s palm, as countless snow-white blade lights slashed in succession.
Jia Ren had no intention of dodging, fully committed to devouring this broken Immortal Artifact.
Mystic black light covered every part of his body, peculiar patterns vaguely appeared on his skin, the snow-white blade lights landed on them, producing a heavy muffled sound.
Every strike seemed to slash against cowhide, unable to tear it.
Jia Ren’s five fingers pressed down on the snow-bright axe body, gradually applying force, his fingers deeply piercing the axe surface, gripping it tightly in his palm.
The struggle and resistance grew feeble, with continuous essence flowing into his body.
The quality of the immortal power obtained from devouring this was superior to that absorbed from a High-grade Immortal Artifact, signifying this axe was undoubtedly a Supreme-grade Immortal Artifact.
The massive spiritual body, undeterred by the weapon’s destruction, maintained its composure like a god surveying the world.
The next moment, it appeared beside the giant axe, its body having unknowingly grown six arms and three heads, with glaring eyes wide open.
As the arms rested upon him, a wave of cold invaded his body, unable to be resisted.
Heavenly Treasured Path Celestial Force formed a defense first, no longer retreating.
Even so, his movements became sluggish and difficult.
"Offend my heavenly authority, and face obliteration!"
Black-red aura fluctuated, manifesting ancient dilapidated scenes, as a black-red guillotine with dragon motifs emerged.
This guillotine had unknown how many powerful beings it had slain, carrying the resentment and despair of countless people, emitting an aura that felt like falling into an icy abyss.
Jia Ren was not unfamiliar with the black-red guillotine; he had experienced its might before during a heavenly chastisement.
He hadn’t expected to encounter it once more in his lifetime.
During the heavenly chastisement in the Lower Realm, he had witnessed the Ancient Heavenly Palace; observing these ruins now, he was astonished.
Could this be the shadow of the Heavenly Palace manifested during the heavenly chastisement?!
The appearance of an almost identical black-red guillotine confirmed this fact.
The black-red guillotine slashed down from afar, giving Jia Ren the sense that his body and head were before a beheading guillotine, with an unprecedented sense of crisis enveloping him.
Linghuan True Heart and Heavenly Mystery Divine Change frantically warned, advising him to flee as far as possible.
"Substitute!"
Jia Ren’s figure swayed, as he seemingly split into two.
Crack!
The black-red guillotine fell, the body in the Third Layer Pass couldn’t resist, and the head was severed and rolled to the side.
The head landed and turned into a half-broken monkey hair.
Jia Ren appeared not far away, having evaded the fatal blow.
This journey required entering the ancient palace, with unknown dangers that could threaten his life at any moment.
By entering the Heaven and Earth Mountain and Sea Pearl, he found the Replica Monkey and used its hair to replicate an identical self.
Paired with the Substitution Calamity Law, it could preserve his life in crucial moments.
The Giant Spirit Monster glanced at the broken monkey hair, stunned.
Jia Ren didn’t give it a chance to strike, as the White Lotus Mark on his chest gently vibrated, releasing the long-accumulated power of the Dusk Treasured Light into the Giant Spirit Monster.
The Giant Spirit Monster’s eyes stared at Jia Ren, and the next moment, its body exploded with a massive blaze of grey flames engulfing its remains.
The shattered ancient palace now held no anomalies, with all hidden dangers completely eliminated.