Journey to the head

Chapter 876 Entering the Dragon Palace

At this moment, Ao Ti's expression was quite interesting.

The filter of intimacy based on blood ties was shattered, and the unusual behavior of Yu Jiao, Hai Yiwei, Hai Shuangyao, and others during the recent chaotic battle suddenly became crystal clear.

How could Ao Ti not know that there was a trap involved? He was furious and activated the full power of the Dharma Domain: Fierce Dragon Court. In an instant, the Xuanbing City Wall in front of him rumbled and began to soften. The Bi'an Prison Suppression Seal struck down, and the spatial ripples stopped the city wall in mid-air. With a wave of his arm, the Cangming Thunder Halberd roared like a dragon's cry, and a bolt of lightning cleaved the Xuanbing City Wall in two.

But as soon as he leaped out from behind the ice wall, azure frost crashed down on him!
Hai Yiwei was surrounded by mysterious ice, and his domain trembled. The eternally frozen earth that had plunged into the void and the Dragon Court Palace with its myriad dragons standing around the pillar collided heavily with one of them. With a loud hum, a spatial ripple shot out diagonally, directly erasing several layers of sea race military formations.

Having successfully sent his beloved daughter into the Dragon Palace, Wei Shuai was now free of worries and full of vigor, determined to continue protecting the other two members of the Hai family who were destined to enter the palace, as well as the six prodigies who had perished.

As soon as Ao Ti and Hai Yiwei exchanged blows, Ao Ti knew that the person in front of him was definitely a formidable opponent. It would be difficult to fight without being fully focused. Then, several angry shouts were heard, and several Immortal Nascent Soul experts from the other side also rushed in and entangled Ji Yunrou.

Although the roars and fury of millions of dragons and sea creatures outside were about to engulf them, in this localized battlefield, the Immortal Fallen cultivators ultimately possessed more primordial spirits and stronger offensive capabilities. Hundreds of primordial spirits had already broken through the blocking ranks and arrived near the Dragon Palace passage!

Ao Ti gritted his teeth, about to unleash his full power and regroup his troops to intercept the enemy. If he could hold them off for just three more breaths, his millions of allies would completely overwhelm the enemy.

At that very moment, a crisp cracking sound was heard!
Ao Ti was shocked and his movements were slightly hesitant, which allowed Hai Yiwei to seize the opportunity and knock him back with a palm strike.

But he paid no attention to the minor injury and retreated, his gaze fixed on the Dragon Palace passage.

A crack had appeared in the golden halo that supported the passage to the Dragon Palace and revealed the boundless and magnificent illusory image of the Dragon Palace!
That was the golden halo that burst forth when Bixi blew the celestial conch shell. Once the halo shatters, the Dragon Palace passage will close!

This is something that has never happened since the Dragon Palace was established. That's a celestial artifact! How could it possibly malfunction?
The Bixi Ancestor has taken the conch shell away, and it cannot be reinforced now—

With another crack, another long fissure appeared on the gold ring!
This time, Ao Ti saw it clearly: it wasn't that the golden ring's power was waning, but rather that the spiritual vein connecting to the Dragon Palace was tightening! It seemed as if an indescribable force was pulling at the passage, trying to sever it completely!

The Dragon Palace passage is about to collapse, and that traitorous jade dragon has already led the human cultivators inside ahead of time. The group of the Six Fallen Immortal Pillars is already upon us...

The situation is urgent!

Ao Ti roared, "Let's go in!"

He used another Divine Power of the Law Domain - Thunder Prison Shackles, forcing away the enemy in front of him, grabbing several dragon princes beside him, and plunging into the passage like a streak of lightning!

His departure triggered a chain reaction. The Dragon Prince team, the Hundred Races team, and the Sea Race team had no intention of stopping him and all followed him into the Dragon Palace. The Immortal Fallen cultivators also had no heart for fighting, and their top priority was to get those who entered the palace in.

In an instant, Ji Yunrou, Shen Jian, and Xinghan Xuanjun entered the passage, followed by some of the other prodigies. Then, with a final loud bang, the spiritual vein passage contracted again, and the golden ring shattered instantly!

The Dragon Palace passage suddenly closed, and the magnificent illusory image of the Dragon Palace vanished without a trace. Several prodigies who had just entered the passage were instantly crushed into dust.

This is not over yet!

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the spiritual vein containing the passage suddenly shrank and vanished like a bubble.

In that instant, both the dragon and sea races showed expressions of utter horror, their hearts filled with monstrous waves, and the impact they suffered was no less than that of the previous heavenly tribulation.

Even though the Dragon Palace was closed in the past, the spiritual veins still exist. They will reopen when the conch shell blows again in the next thousand years.

Now, the spiritual vein has completely disappeared!
That dragon palace within the spiritual vein, the treasure left behind by the True Dragon Heavenly Lord, the fundamental heritage of my dragon race—and so it was—

Gone? !
The dragons and sea creatures in the front ranks froze in shock, while the hundreds of millions of troops in the back ranks continued to push forward, plunging the Great Ocean Abyss into chaos. The Immortal Fallen cultivator seized this opportunity; the void trembled, and a Void Refinement cultivator from the Heavenly Market Palace burst forth, a dazzling ball of light rising from his palm.

"Move closer to me!"

Hai Yiwei protected the others as they jumped to his side. The Immortal Fall cultivators also struggled to get closer to him. The Dragon Clan and Sea Clan Void Refinement cultivators caught up, but were blocked by the other Immortal Fall Void Refinement cultivators with all their might. Their attacks were also blocked by the barrier of the light sphere.

That was a pseudo-divine artifact! The entire space began to ripple and fold.

"Stop them!" Dragon Clan cultivator roared angrily, and millions of dragons and sea creatures finally pressed down.

Seeing that it was too late to wait for everyone to enter the light sphere, Lianxu, who was controlling the light sphere, immediately activated the spell. Countless stars twinkled in the light shield, the space trembled slightly, and the ripples swallowed the light sphere carrying hundreds of people, making it disappear without a trace.

Several immortals who had fallen to the Void Realm also used their own methods and paid a price to disappear into the void.

Only a hundred or two immortal cultivators, who were too slow to move due to being entangled, were completely swallowed up by the dragon and sea races before they could even let out a scream.

As Ao Ti chased after the Dragon Palace, he squeezed into a flexible, winding pipe. The omnipresent, resilient, and powerful pressure came from all directions, pushing him forward at an even faster speed.

This feeling of entering the passage has long been mentioned in the Dragon Clan's heritage. Ao Ti knew that after passing through the passage, the next step would be the inspection facing the Dragon Palace gate. Only those who passed the inspection could enter the Dragon Palace, or rather, step into the small world.

Assuming one's cultivation level is between the Golden Core and the Primordial Spirit stage, there are two ways to pass the Dragon Palace gate inspection: either possessing pure dragon blood or having an Ascension Token.

Sure enough, the next instant his body felt light, and Ao Ti was already suspended in front of a gigantic, semi-transparent portal that shone with golden light and seemed to stretch endlessly. Above the portal, a giant dragon phantom was swimming, its five claws outstretched, majestic and imposing, its whiskers fluttering, and a bright pearl gleaming beneath its chin.

The moment they saw Ao Ti and his dragon sons, a golden light shot out from the dragon's eyes and swept over their bodies.

This is the dragon-shaped phantom of the True Dragon Heavenly Lord!
Although this phantom lacked any intelligence and merely mechanically performed the checks, it should still be incredibly excited and prostrate itself in worship upon seeing the True Lord's illusory image. However, at this moment, Ao Ti was both shocked and furious, his attention completely drawn to the figures within the portal.

The jade-colored dragon was coiled in mid-air, with two female cultivators flanking a young man of extraordinary bearing.

In the young man's hand, he tightly gripped a two-foot-long, three-pronged, nine-leaf golden branch, its dazzling golden light reaching the heavens and the earth!

Who is this person? How did he get into the Dragon Palace? And what treasure does he possess?
A series of questions arose in Ao Ti's mind. At this moment, Ji Yunrou, Shen Jian, Xing Han Xuanjun, and more and more people rushed to the gate of the Dragon Palace. The phantom of the giant dragon emitted rays of golden light and began to verify the qualifications of everyone.

Ao Ti had no time to get entangled with them; he instinctively felt that the young man holding the golden branch was extremely suspicious. Once he passed the inspection, he would leap up and capture the young man and his companions.

However, at this moment, the young man swung down the golden tree branch in his hand!
A surge of golden light swept across the sky, and a power that transcended space swept over. Ao Ti's eyes widened, and he heard a loud bang behind him as the golden ring supporting the passage shattered completely!
The Dragon Palace passage is blocked!
Those prodigies who didn't make it to the Dragon Palace gates were all swallowed up by spatial turbulence and void storms.

At that moment, Ao Ti was shocked and paled.

It turns out that the person who destroyed the golden ring was this person!

What exactly is that golden tree branch?!

Inside the gate, Yu Jiao caught Lu Qian, who had collapsed from exhaustion, and flew into the Dragon Palace with Jiang Qingfeng and Hai Shuangyao.

Lu Qian's golden branch trembled slightly, and another leaf turned to ashes. Now, only eight leaves remained on the branch.

Because of the golden ring, Lu Qian used a full three golden leaves this time in order to close the Dragon Palace passage and completely sever the spiritual veins! Moreover, each time he brushed, his spiritual power was exhausted, requiring a restorative innate spiritual pill.

Because the two recovery attempts took some time, Ao Ti and the others eventually caught up with them.

Otherwise, Lu Qian and his three companions could have the entire Dragon Palace to themselves!
Although the spiritual veins have been severed, some people have still entered the Dragon Palace.

With the Golden Branch's power greatly diminished, it's hard to say whether this deal was profitable or not.

Moreover, the Dragon Palace was created by the Heavenly Lord, and the True Dragon Heavenly Lord could not possibly be unprepared for the rupture of the spiritual veins. Lu Qian felt that the Dragon Clan must have a way to summon the Dragon Palace back.

"My lord, that really scared me to death! I thought it would be like at the bottom of the sea, with the Reverse Scale Blood Seal being swept out by the golden light," Yu Jiao said as she ran.

"Fortunately, when the Dragon Palace was completed, the Reverse Scale Blood Seal hadn't been invented yet, so the Dragon Palace didn't have that requirement for certification. If you ask me, such a vicious thing shouldn't have been developed in the first place. My lord, just remove it for me someday, I'm not going to run away."

Hearing the gate behind him swung open and the entire Dragon Palace begin to tremble, Lu Qian took a deep breath, his spiritual power restored by the third spiritual pill.

He ignored Yu Jiao's mutterings and pointed forward.

"Let's go through this passage and shake off our pursuers!"

Behind them, a shimmering light appeared, and Ao Ti, Ji Yunrou, Shen Jian, and Xing Han Xuanjun had all entered the Dragon Palace.

The journey to the Dragon Palace has truly begun.

Above the shattered sky, in the pitch-black void, the aura of immortals spread, transcending reincarnation and overturning heaven and earth.

The presence of Dao Haijun, who had already ascended to immortality, made the hearts of all those at the Dao Integration and Void Refinement stages pound like drums. Yao Shu Immortal Lord suddenly felt as if he were facing a world that had taken human form!
That was the oppressive aura emanating from a realm, making it extremely difficult to even conceive of resistance.

The Dao-Merging and Void-Refining cultivators of the Dragon and Sea races bowed in worship, their expressions filled with ecstatic joy. The Dao-Merging Immortal Lords on the Tianji Continent gritted their teeth and whispered, "Don't be afraid, they're here!"

In an instant, the heavens and earth shook again!

Everyone stared wide-eyed as golden light suddenly burst forth in the void, the boundary wall of the Yuan Chen Realm churned up like a tsunami, and countless golden chains stretched out from the depths of the void, binding Dao Hai Jun.

Each chain carried an aura of destruction and confinement; these two contradictory forces merged harmoniously, making the spatial barrier of the Yuan Chen Realm appear as blank as paper before it, easily pierced. Countless golden chains stretched across the sky, forming two ancient seal characters resembling fish and insects high in the heavens.

"Forbidden Immortals!"
This is the Luo Tian Forbidden Immortal Tent!

With a whoosh, the moment the large tent appeared, terrifying pressure crashed down from the sky, forcing all those high-ranking immortals and true lords in the arena to prostrate themselves on the ground!

Only Dao Haijun was able to maintain his standing posture.

He groaned, his whole body creaking. But he straightened his thin, short frame, a flush rising on his pale face. Seemingly angered by his arrogance, a deluge of golden chains wrapped around him.

Yes, that's it! Immediately remove this new immortal from the Yuan Chen Realm!
Not only Yao Shu, Tian Men, and Ba Suo Immortal Lord of the Immortal Fall Islands, but also human immortal lords from other continents cried out in their hearts, no one was willing to face the might of an immortal, and no one was willing to let him stay in this realm for even a moment.

Dao Haijun's blood-red vertical pupils suddenly widened, and his violent and ferocious aura was like countless tiny knives scraping across the bodies of everyone present. He spread his hands to the left and right, and his seemingly thin palms burst forth with red light, forcefully supporting the binding Immortal-Suppressing Golden Locks!

The earth shook and the heavens and earth trembled!
A roar pierced the nine netherworlds. Behind Dao Haijun, the pitch-black dragon, the true form of Ya Zi, howled to the sky. His bones creaked, veins bulged on his face, his palms trembled, and his eyes were fierce. He actually managed to hold back the Immortal-Forbidden Golden Lock!

The human immortal lord was terrified!
Fortunately, in the next moment, more and more Immortal-Binding Golden Locks extended from the void, crashing down like giant waves and engulfing Dao Haijun. The red light struggling in the dazzling golden light was constantly trembling.

The Eight-Section Immortal Lord was no longer as irritable as before. His eyes were full of pleading. At this moment, he transformed into a devout believer, praying for the Immortal Forbidden Tent to win immediately.

Hurry, crush him! Bind him! Banish him!

Suddenly, a mournful cry rang out, so piercingly loud, from the sky.

That was the dragon-turtle Bixi, taking one last look at the Starry Sea, surrounded by all the dragons and sea creatures.

Its eyes were clearer than ever before, a testament to the power of a final burst of light.

Its eyes were full of satisfaction and pride.

Heaven bless my dragon race! I've truly become an immortal by leaping into the sea; my old life can finally be put to good use.

I already have a plan. If I succeed in crossing the sea, I can transform into spring mud to nurture the dragon race and bring them new life. If I fail, I will sacrifice my life to guard the Dragon Palace. In any case, the dragon palace must not be allowed to enter this time.

Now that you've successfully crossed the sea, it's up to you, Ao Ti.

My lord... I, Bixi, have come to keep you company.

Under the horrified gaze of everyone, the sixth of the nine sons, the living legend, the Dragon Ancestor Bixi, disintegrated!
"Dive into the sea. You only have one breath left."

Boundless light and boundless energy emanated from the colossal, mountain-like body of the Dragon Ancestor, who had lived for countless millennia. The armor on its back, which had withstood countless calamities, shrank continuously within this light, then plunged directly into the crimson light surrounding the Sea-Treading Lord!
Behind Dao Haijun, beside the Yazi phantom, the Bixi phantom appeared, and two of the nine sons of the dragon who had once fought side by side stood together once again.

The Bixi roared, the Yazi howled, and a blinding red light surged forth!

In the blink of an eye, before any of the immortal lords and true lords could react, the Sea-Walking Lord broke free of the Immortal-Binding Golden Lock! A blinding red light extended into the void, instantly enveloping many immortal lords and true lords.

Yao Shu, Tian Men, and Ba Suo felt a blur before their eyes, and they found themselves separated from the Yuan Chen Realm and entered a completely unfamiliar fiery red world.

Dao Haijun sat high above the sky, rubbing his fingers, his voice hoarse.

"So this is what it feels like to become an immortal."

The Eight-Stranded Immortal Lord trembled uncontrollably. He whispered, "Bixi said he can only hold off the Forbidden Immortal Tent for a single breath. Even that short time, we can definitely hold out."

Tianmen Immortal Lord was filled with despair, and he gave a bitter smile.

A breath? Shouldn't the time it takes for you to say that have already passed?
Then why is Daohaijun still around?

"That's just a breath of the Yuan Chen Realm, meaningless to those of you who have entered here." Dao Haijun chuckled, opening his arms to the Immortal Lords and True Lords who had been pulled into this world.

"Welcome to my Immortal Realm, or rather—Volcanic Hell."

(End of this chapter)