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Chapter 397: Shattered Immortal Path, Imperial Catastrophe Pseudo-Realm (Part 2)
Chapter 397: Shattered Immortal Path, Imperial Catastrophe Pseudo-Realm (Part 2)
Some Sages had explored other forbidden areas, relics, or received some unknown opportunities, which might be relevant to this gate.
After all, those who could cultivate and ascend generally had rare and hidden great opportunities.
"Right, while he is still destroying the Immortal God Path, let's all think of ways to solve this. When the gate opens, we will all step onto the Immortal God Path together!"
The Primordial Ancestor immediately said.
The Sages exchanged looks. At this point, it seemed they had no other choice.
The God King, seeing this, remained silent and sat down to recover the Saint Path that had been injured by the gate.
As the Sages worked together to decipher the patterns on the gate, Li Hao's body entered the gate and passed through the crack, arriving in a dark passage.
This passage was pitch black, and Li Hao's divine sense seemed to be shrouded in darkness, making it impossible for him to perceive his surroundings.
Unable to determine the direction, he could only move forward.
The aura of Immortal Power grew stronger, but at the same time, a low, menacing whisper seemed to surround him, making him feel a chill.
After walking for a long time, he finally saw a light ahead.
When Li Hao stepped into the light, his perception returned, and he saw the scene before him.
It was an ancient path shrouded in mist, with towering peaks on both sides, as if he were in a large canyon.
Li Hao turned around and saw that the path he had taken was not a path but the gate itself!
The gate was identical, with the same patterns.
He also noticed the crack in the patterns, in the same position.
The dark area he had walked through seemed to be a minute space within the crack.
Li Hao was momentarily stunned but quickly regained his composure. He immediately gathered his power to form a physical body.
Previously, his physical body had transcended to immortality and was scattered throughout heaven and earth. Part of it had been severed and destroyed by the Primordial Ancestor and the God King, and only a small portion had entered the crack, arriving here with diminished strength.
Li Hao looked at the misty canyon ahead, feeling a sense of unease. Everything before him seemed different from what he had imagined the Immortal God World to be.
There were no birdsong or flowers, only a desolate, cold, and lifeless landscape.
Li Hao pondered for a moment and did not rush to explore further. Instead, he sat down in front of the gate and entered a transcendent state, releasing the Heavenly Stars Vein to gather power and heal his wounds.
To avoid being detected by the Primordial Ancestor and the God King, he had moved through the crack very slowly, resulting in only a fraction of his body making it through, and he was severely injured.
Fortunately, he could be reborn from a single drop of blood, allowing him to heal as long as a drop remained.
As the Heavenly Stars Vein unfolded, Li Hao immediately sensed something was wrong.
A vast power surged into his body, rapidly healing his wounds. At the same time, he felt that the power drawn by the Heavenly Stars Vein was more terrifying than before, as if it could fill his body in an instant!
"This Starspower..."
Li Hao couldn't help but look up, the fog-like gray mist overhead blocking his view. Even though his eyes couldn't penetrate it, he could still see a few bright stars shining through the thin fog.
Those seemed to be... real stars!
Li Hao was somewhat dazed. He felt that the Heavenly Stars Vein could only truly manifest its full potential here.
Before long, Li Hao's aura grew strong again, and his injuries were completely healed.
Li Hao sensed that the Heavenly Stars Vein, even at just a tenth of its power, was as effective as his previous Full Power Eruption.
Moreover, the Power permeating the air around him was incredibly pure. As soon as it entered his body, it quickly merged with him, carrying a light and mighty presence. The Power was extremely light and pure.
Under the influence of this Power, his Dao Bones and Divine Blood seemed to be undergoing subtle changes.
Li Hao felt that if he continued to stay here, his Physical Body would certainly be further enhanced, becoming even more formidable.
"This is where the Immortal Deity resides, then..."
Li Hao's eyes flickered. He felt that if ordinary cultivators were to stay here, even just eating and sleeping, they would be influenced by the free-floating Power, greatly enhancing and transforming their constitutions.
However, besides the dense Power, the constant presence of malevolent energy had a significant impact. If ordinary martial artists were here, they would likely have already gone mad.
"This feeling seems similar to what I experienced with the Dragon Saint. Could that bizarre blood have come from here?"
Li Hao's eyes flickered as he looked ahead toward the canyon, his heart filled with caution.
He activated his Soul Spirit, and his Divine Sense spread out, but he encountered some resistance. The light, vast Power he had absorbed, which he hadn't yet refined, formed countless dust-like particles in the air, allowing him to detect only about ten miles ahead.
Along the path, Li Hao saw broken black stones, and on the ground, there were scattered bones and broken weapons.
"Does this seem like a battlefield?"
Li Hao was somewhat stunned. He moved forward and approached the first set of bones.
The bones were already reduced to stark white, lying on a black corpse. The skull had fallen off, an arm bone and a leg bone were missing, and several ribs were broken. In one of the hand bones, a battle saber was tightly gripped.
The battle saber had lost all its luster, with the blade edge curled.
On the body were a few tattered pieces of silk, fluttering in the canyon's fierce wind.
Li Hao squatted down to examine them closely, picking up the scattered bones to weigh them. To his surprise, the bones were extremely heavy, like picking up thick, heavy iron.
A single finger-length bone weighed several tens of thousands of pounds!
Li Hao was startled. Upon closer inspection, he noticed silver-white, fine patterns on the bones. These were not bone patterns but some kind of Dao Pattern!
"Great Dao imprinted on bones, this... seems like a Dao Bone!"
Li Hao's expression changed. His current bones were like this, but a Dao Bone was one of the conditions for reaching the Hearing Dao Ultimate Realm. Could the owner of these bones have also mastered the Hearing Dao Ultimate Realm in life?
Even in the All Heavens, Supreme Sages might not have mastered the Hearing Dao Ultimate Realm, yet here, a random skeleton had Dao Bones!
Unfortunately, the flesh had long since rotted away. The white bones Li Hao held in his hand had lost their luster. Though heavy, they crumbled with just a slight pressure from Li Hao.
"It seems to have been dead for a very, very long time..."
Li Hao's gaze flickered. He thought of the Primordial Ancestor, who was born in the Ancient Era when Immortal Deities had already vanished.
Could these bones be from that era?
If so, the fact that they had decayed to just bones was already terrifying!
After all, even Supreme Sages living to the present day was extremely difficult, let alone remaining unrotted for so long after death.
Li Hao's heart grew heavy. He felt that the owner of these bones must have been one of the legendary Immortal Deities.
Now dead here, and in the ten-mile area he had explored, there were over a dozen such skeletons!
"It seems there were many Immortal Deities, and they also fought among themselves..."
Li Hao murmured to himself.
Immortal Deities, surpassing Supreme Sages and living as long as Heaven and Earth, still engaged in battles. Was this the essence of life, to devour each other from the moment of birth?
His mood grew heavier as he picked up the battle saber from the hand bone. It was even heavier, weighing a million pounds, but it emitted no Power fluctuations, like the surrounding rocks, just more condensed and lifeless.
Li Hao suddenly thought of the fragment and immediately took it out, then gently drew it across the battle saber.
To his surprise, the fragment only left a damaged indentation on the battle saber and did not sever it completely.
The fragment, which could destroy anything, encountered resistance for the first time, unable to cut through directly.
Li Hao's eyes flickered. He put the battle saber back into the Heavenly Earth Space and continued forward.
Before long, he came across a second skeleton leaning against a rock, as if it had died while sitting.
On its shoulder bone, there was a jade pendant, dull and covered in dust.
The clothes on its body were torn and caught on the bone spurs, not blown away by the wind.
It seemed to be a woman.
In life, she might have been a beauty; in death, she was a skull.
Li Hao silently picked up the relics beside her: a broken sword and a necklace.
These were all extremely top-tier treasures, but now they had lost their former luster and might, just like their owner, silent and sealed in dust.
Li Hao put them away and continued forward.
He encountered more skeletons, some of which were just scattered bones on the ground.
Besides these white bones, Li Hao also saw a broken bronze chariot on the ground, adorned with ancient patterns of fierce beasts. The beasts looked extremely savage, and their mere appearance exuded a powerful aura.
Li Hao, like a scavenger, put the broken bronze chariot into the Heavenly Earth Space as well.
Continuing on, he passed by more skeletons, delving deeper into the canyon.
The vast canyon was lined with bones.
Before long, Li Hao suddenly stopped. Using his Divine Sense Exploration, he saw a group of skeletons about ten miles away, and among them, a massive skeleton.
The skeletons he had seen earlier were all human bones, but this massive skeleton was that of some kind of fierce beast. It looked extremely terrifying, with sharp spines growing on the bones and extremely long, curved claws that were incredibly sharp. It was hard to imagine how sharp the scales or flesh that once covered it must have been.
"Is this something that fought against an Immortal Deity, or a mount enslaved by an Immortal Deity?"
Li Hao's eyes flickered as he approached the massive skeleton.
When he got close, Li Hao carefully examined the surroundings. After a moment, he noticed the traces of a battle. The beast and the Immortal Deity skeletons had killed each other.
"There are actually beasts that could fight Immortal Deities. Could they be Demons who cultivated to the Immortal Deity realm?"
Li Hao pondered, searching the ground and collecting some broken weapons.
After a brief stay, Li Hao continued on.
As he delved deeper into the canyon, the number of skeletons increased.
Li Hao kept picking up scattered weapons and four more bronze chariots.
After walking for hundreds of miles, the terrain gradually became steeper. Li Hao saw what seemed to be the end of the canyon.
Suddenly, he felt a sense of unease, sensing that the world beyond the canyon might be even more terrifying.
With a heavy heart, he slowly moved forward.
Finally, following the gradually steepening slope, Li Hao emerged from the canyon.
Upon arriving, Li Hao saw a bronze chariot at the canyon's exit, with a white skeleton leaning against the chariot's tracks.
The skeleton was cradling an ancient sword. Compared to the other skeletons, this one was exceptionally well-preserved.
Li Hao glanced at it casually but suddenly his gaze sharpened. He felt that the empty eye sockets of the skeleton seemed to be staring at him.
The feeling made his hair stand on end, as if the skeleton were alive!
Li Hao's eyes then fell on the ancient sword in its embrace, noticing that unlike other weapons, it was not broken. Although the blade was chipped, the Dao patterns were still clear and emitted a faint aura of intimidation.
Li Hao looked at this scene with a mix of shock and suspicion, not daring to approach rashly.
At that moment, a gust of wind blew, and the skeleton seemed to move.
"Huh?"
Li Hao saw that the skeleton's jawbone seemed to have moved.
Just as he was doubting his eyes, the skeleton suddenly sat up straight, turning its head to look directly at Li Hao. Two deep, silver lights appeared in its empty eye sockets.
"Countless ages have passed, and yet someone has come here... Hmm? There is a faint Immortal Qi. Are you at the Sixth Extreme Realm?"
A voice, filled with the weight of ages, suddenly spoke.
Li Hao did not understand the language, but he somehow comprehended the words.
His heart pounded fiercely. After seeing so many skeletons along the way, the one in front of him was actually still alive!
As Li Hao's entire body tensed, preparing for defense, the skeleton seemed to notice his movements. Suddenly, blood gushed from its bones, and meridians and flesh grew from the blood, covering the skeleton.
Soon, the flesh transformed into the form of a middle-aged man, weathered by time.
His head was covered with disheveled hair.
At the same time, a set of broken armor appeared on his body, making him look like a warrior from the battlefield.
As the armor appeared, the man seemed to reveal his true form, and a vast aura made Li Hao feel a chill down his spine.
The man sat there, leaning against the chariot, as if carrying the weight of heaven and earth. His gaze was cold and sharp, and the aura of heaven and earth seemed to converge on him.
“Senior...”
Li Hao trembled, feeling as though a single thought from the other party could end his life.
He hadn’t expected to encounter such a terrifying existence as soon as he arrived in the Immortal God World. Was this what a living Immortal Deity looked like?
As Li Hao felt fear, the other party flashed him a slight smile, though it was extremely stiff, as if his facial muscles hadn’t moved in a long time, making him look somewhat rigid.
“Don’t be nervous. You came from the ancient path, so you must be from the Imperial Catastrophe Pseudo-Realm, right?”
The middle-aged warrior said with a smile.
Seeing that he harbored no ill intent, the bristles on Li Hao’s body slightly relaxed. He asked, puzzled, “Imperial Catastrophe Pseudo-Realm?”
Could it be referring to the Land of Sages?
“Indeed. Those born in this world would hardly know its true name.”
The middle-aged warrior saw Li Hao’s confusion and smiled with a carefree air. “You came from the Mysterious Mother Gate, didn’t you? That thing tried to sneak in while I was dozing, but I managed to stop it in time. Still, it managed to scratch the Mysterious Mother Gate, and I figured that with the scratch, it was only a matter of time before someone would come through.”
Mysterious Mother Gate?
Was he referring to that mysterious gate?
Li Hao asked, “I indeed come from there. May I ask for your name, Senior? Is this the Immortal God World?”
“Immortal God World... heh.”
The middle-aged warrior gave a self-deprecating smile and said to Li Hao, “You don’t need to call me by name. I’m just a nameless soldier under the Heavenly Catastrophe Immortal Emperor. If you managed to leave the Imperial Catastrophe Pseudo-Realm, you must be considered a World-Class Genius.”
As he said this, he sized up Li Hao, a hint of admiration in his eyes. “You’ve mastered the Ultimate Realm, even the Sage Ultimate Realm, and you’ve even developed a nascent form. That’s truly remarkable!
Hearing his words, Li Hao felt a chill run down his spine.
Just a glance, and he was completely seen through?
Even his most deeply hidden Three Saints Power was detected by the other party. This was truly terrifying!
“Such talent, if it were in the True World of old, would be a standout among major sects. Unfortunately...”
The middle-aged warrior’s eyes showed a mix of sighing and regret. He shook his head slightly and then said to Li Hao:
“Take this opportunity to return while those things haven’t arrived. Don’t try to seek out Immortal Deities. Even if you live as long as Heaven and Earth, what does it matter? That’s just the view of a frog at the bottom of a well. Besides, the True World today is far from what it used to be...”
Li Hao watched him, unsure if he was speaking to him or to himself, and couldn’t help but smile bitterly. “Senior, I can’t go back for now. Immortal Deity longevity doesn’t interest me much now. After all, I have a long time to live, and the end is far off. But the way back is blocked, so I can only stay here.”
“Hmm?”
The middle-aged warrior was somewhat surprised by Li Hao’s words. Then, a silver light suddenly appeared in his eyes.
The silver light quickly dissipated, and his eyes showed surprise. “Your soul age is less than sixty years?!”
Li Hao felt he was being probed again, but he couldn’t defend against it, feeling somewhat helpless.
“It seems I underestimated you earlier.”
The middle-aged warrior couldn’t help but sigh. He hadn’t seen such a genius in a long time, which was a pity.
“You said you were forced here, were you being pursued? Such talent often attracts jealousy, but in your state, unless you cultivated to the Ultimate Realm in the pseudo-realm, it would be impossible to kill you...”
He thought for a moment, as if talking to himself. “Indeed, after so many years, the Imperial Catastrophe Pseudo-Realm should have produced someone who has reached a bottleneck.”
Li Hao didn’t know what kind of bottleneck he was referring to, but he guessed it must be at least the Sageultimate Realm.
The other party clearly misunderstood. He hadn’t encountered such an existence, and the Land of Sages didn’t have such beings. However, a god king and a Primordial Ancestor working together could be considered half a Sageultimate Realm.
“Regardless, you should still go back. You’ll die here, and you won’t even have a chance to enter the Cycle.”
The middle-aged warrior said to Li Hao.
Li Hao asked, “Senior, what exactly happened here?”
“A terrible disaster.”
The middle-aged warrior shook his head. “Knowing more won’t do you any good.”
He seemed to think for a moment, looked down, and rummaged through his body, then smiled bitterly.
“All these years guarding this place, I’ve used up all my Immortal Artifacts and immortal herbs. Otherwise, I could have given you an Immortal Pill, which would have ensured your safety.”
(End of Chapter)
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