Living in the deep palace

"No!"

"I, Su Chen, have come a long way and experienced many hardships. How can I die here? Break it for me!"

Su Chen roared to the sky, his eyes filled with a crazy desire to survive!
"The Tree of Immortality! The power of the Blood Prison! Burn it for me...!!!"

At the moment of life and death, Su Chen went completely crazy! He burned his own immortal essence, origin, and even his soul without hesitation!
The immortal tree in his body burst out with an unprecedented brilliant green light! Even the blood prison power that had just merged not long ago and still retained the aura of destruction and filth was forcibly activated by him and turned into a raging blood flame!
"Star Sea - Reincarnation!!!"

Su Chen poured all his burning power into his "Star Sea" field!
The starry sea, where jade and blood colors intertwined, seemed to have transformed into a real, huge millstone that encompassed life and death, yin and yang, creation and destruction at this moment!
The millstone turned slowly, emitting a terrifying aura that seemed to be able to erase all the heavens and worlds and reverse the cycle of heaven and earth!
Facing the giant green hand that blocked out the sky...

Crash into it brazenly!!!

This is Su Chen's strongest attack, which he is betting everything on! It is the swan song that burns his life and soul!
He didn't know if he could block this attack, but he knew that if he didn't fight, he would surely die!

boom!
An indescribable horrific explosion happened again!
This explosion was a thousand times more terrifying than the previous collision between Su Chen and the ancient sword immortal!
The entire Shattered Palace, along with the star fragments and space within a radius of millions of miles, was completely turned into nothingness under this blow!!!

An incomparably huge space black hole that constantly devours all light and matter around it appeared at the original location of the temple!

Su Chen's figure had already been completely swallowed up by the terrifying energy torrent, and his whereabouts were unknown...

"Ah."

"Junior!"

"I actually let you escape. If I hadn't been afraid that Zuo Qingcang would notice that I had violated the rules and woke up early to be active, with my strength, crushing you would be no different from crushing an ant!"

"But it's strange."

"I didn't expect that after so many years, when it's no longer the Immortal Era and without the blessing of the Age of Chance, such a brilliant genius could still be born?"

"True Immortals... Xuanyu Immortal Ranking, wow, this is really interesting!"

"So funny."

In the ancient temple, behind a door, a strange laugh came from inside, and the person seemed to be marveling at Su Chen's power.

Followed by.

The next moment, the power of rules emerged, and countless blood seeped out from the other end of the portal and enveloped the corpse of the bronze armored swordsman.

"You are still useful. We can't let you get away with it like this."

"Go on... stand guard for me!"

“I really didn’t expect that!”

"That guy was able to kill you too. Is the Immortality Tree really that terrifying? I remember studying it back then..."

The voice of the Golden Immortal at the other end of the portal gradually became inaudible and then disappeared.

The bronze-armored swordsman seemed to have lost all his memories, and continued to look indifferent, guarding the gate...

Always and always!
Just like, he had no idea how many times he had been killed in these millions of years, but he had never been truly free!

……

……

Time seemed to have passed for a long time, yet it seemed to be just a moment.

In the absolute darkness and silence, Su Chen's consciousness slowly awakened like a candle in the wind.

"Cough...cough..."

He coughed violently, and every time he coughed, it seemed as if he was going to cough out all his internal organs.

Seriously injured again!
pain!
The pain goes deep into the bones and soul!

He felt as if his body had been completely crushed countless times and then forcibly pieced together.

The immortal essence was exhausted, the soul was dim, the immortal world was full of cracks, and the Longevity Tree and the Immortal Wood Heart became listless.

He had never been injured so badly!

That attack from the giant hand that was the condensed will of the Golden Immortal was truly too terrifying!
Even though he burned everything and performed the "Star Sea Reincarnation", he only barely managed to keep a trace of his spirit alive under the destructive force. He was caught in the space turbulence caused by the explosion and survived by chance.

"I'm alive……"

Su Chen struggled to sense his own condition, a faint bitter smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.

Although he survived, the price he paid was too high.

Without decades or even hundreds of years of hard training, it would be difficult to recover to peak condition.

And...where is this place?

Su Chen looked around and found that he was floating in an endless... space turbulence!
Surrounding it is a colorful yet extremely dangerous energy storm, as well as countless tiny, blade-like space fragments!
If you are not careful, you may be sucked into it, completely lost, or cut into nothingness by the space debris!
“Damn it… I was dragged into a place like this…”

Su Chen's heart sank.

The spatial turbulence of Zanghai is definitely one of the most dangerous places in the entire starry sea. Even a Golden Immortal would not dare to set foot there easily.

Given his current state of severe injuries and dying, it is almost impossible for him to escape.

Is it possible... that I am really going to die here?

Just as a trace of despair arose in Su Chen's heart.

suddenly!

Something in his arms vibrated slightly.

Ok?
Su Chen's heart moved, and he raised his hand with difficulty and reached into his arms.

The next moment, his pupils suddenly contracted!

A dark object with complex patterns engraved on its surface, emitting a faint light...

key!

Lying quietly in his hands!

The Ninth Mysterious Heaven Key!!!

It...it actually...

In that horrific explosion, she was swept up by some force, involved in the turbulence of space, and... fell into his hands? !
This... this is simply...

Is it fate? Or... a way out?!
Su Chen's heart began to beat violently!

He could clearly feel that the black key in his hand was emitting an extremely weak yet extremely tenacious force, like an invisible shield, wrapping him up and resisting the erosion of the surrounding space turbulence!

Although this power was very weak and seemed likely to be extinguished at any time, it gave Su Chen... a glimmer of hope!
"The ninth key... can actually protect the master?"

Su Chen was surprised and happy!

He didn't have time to think about what was going on and immediately seized this fleeting opportunity!

Enduring the severe pain all over his body, he sat cross-legged with difficulty, and began to use all his remaining immortal energy and spiritual power to communicate with the ninth key in his hand!

At the same time, he also activated the eighth key in his body that he got from the Dao Xian Sect!
Buzz——buzz——!!!
The two Xuantian keys seemed to sense each other's existence and burst out with faint light at the same time!
A mysterious force that seems to be able to connect heaven and earth and travel through time and space slowly emanates from the two keys!
Under the influence of this force, the violent space turbulence around was actually... miraculously calmed down!

Those space fragments that originally cut everything like blades seemed to have lost their target and became docile.

"It works!" Su Chen was greatly encouraged!
He immediately increased his strength and used all his strength to activate the two keys!

The light emitted by the two keys became brighter and brighter, and finally intertwined together to form a stable and mysterious...

Space beacon! Su Chen seemed to see a vague, yet real... path!
Leading to...

Get out of the path of this damn space turbulence!

"God will not abandon me!!!"

A strong desire to survive burst out from Su Chen's eyes!
He no longer hesitated, and used his mind to activate the space beacon formed by the two keys. He struggled to control his body, and slowly floated forward along the vague path...

……

……

In the turbulence of space, there is no time, no direction, only endless danger and silence.

Su Chen was like a lone boat in the ocean, moving forward with difficulty guided by the faint light emitted by the two Xuantian keys.

His injuries were so severe that he had to endure great pain every time he moved.

The immortal essence and soul power are also constantly being consumed, and they have to rely on swallowing pills and absorbing immortal stones to barely maintain it.

Fortunately, although the protective power of the Ninth Key was weak, it always existed tenaciously and helped him to resist most of the deadly threats from space turbulence.

Just like that, I don’t know how long I drifted.

Maybe it's a year, maybe ten years, or maybe... longer.

Su Chen even felt that his consciousness was becoming blurred, and he was almost sinking into this endless darkness and silence.

Just when he was about to give up.

In front of us, the space beacon constructed by two keys suddenly burst out with unprecedented bright light!
Immediately afterwards, a dazzling gate of light suddenly appeared in front of him!
From the other side of the light gate, a familiar and friendly sound came...

The breath of the sea of ​​stars!!!

"Exit...Exit!!!"

Su Chen used up his last bit of strength and rushed towards the light gate!
The next moment, everything was spinning!

When Su Chen regained consciousness, he found that he had escaped from the terrifying space turbulence and returned to...

In a strange starry sky!

Although it is still desolate, compared to the space turbulence, this place is simply a paradise!
"I'm back... I'm finally... back..."

Su Chen floated in the cold starry sky, feeling the operation of the laws of the sea of ​​stars, and the ecstasy of surviving the disaster filled his heart!

He lowered his head and looked at the two Xuantian keys held tightly in his hands.

One is dark and ancient, the other is glowing with green light.

It was these two mysterious keys that pulled him back from the desperate situation of certain death!
"The ninth key... the eighth key..."

Su Chen murmured to himself, his eyes filled with complicated emotions.

Although this trip to Zanghai was extremely dangerous and almost cost him his life, it was not... completely fruitless!
The ninth Xuantian key is in hand!

Moreover, after this life-and-death test, his understanding of his own Tao and the "Fifth Level of the Absolute Immortal Art: Star Sea" seemed to have... made a new breakthrough!

Although his injuries were still severe and his strength was only one-hundredth of what it was, his Dao heart had become even stronger! His eyes had also become even more profound!
Faintly, he seemed to have touched... that one... opportunity... leading to the "Tenth Turn"!!

He even didn't need to devour the third piece of tree whiskers or the broken tree heart in the body of the Heartless Immortal to have a chance to step into the Tenth Turn!
of course.

It's just a chance.

……

……

"The will of the Golden Immortal... is indeed so terrifying!"

Su Chen was walking in the sea of ​​stars.

Thinking back to the giant green hand that covered the sky and the sun, and the terrifying power contained in it that seemed to be able to wipe out all life and laws, he still has lingering fears.

If he had not fought for his life at the last moment, and that Golden Immortal had reservations and was unwilling to continue to increase his power even a little bit, he would probably have been annihilated and completely dissipated in this vast sea of ​​stars, without even a trace of his existence left.

"Just stay alive."

Su Chen calmed his mind and forced himself to suppress the surging blood in his body and the stabbing pain coming from deep within his soul.

The top priority is to recover from the injury as soon as possible.

He looked around and found a huge black planet that was completely dead and even its core was frozen.

He landed carefully on the surface of the planet, found a huge crater in the shade, and then used his remaining immortal energy to barely open up a simple cave and set up several concealment and defense restrictions.

After doing all this, Su Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat down exhausted in the cave.

He looked inward and saw that the situation was worse than he had imagined.

The immortal body was covered with fine cracks, like a piece of porcelain that was about to break.

Deep within these cracks, there were still traces of extremely difficult-to-eliminate blue laws of destruction belonging to the Golden Immortal's will, which were constantly destroying his vitality.

His spirit was even more listless, like a candle in the wind, which seemed likely to go out at any time.

"This injury... I'm afraid it will take at least a hundred or eighty years to heal..." Su Chen estimated, his face becoming more and more solemn.

A hundred years may not be too long for an immortal.

But now the starry sea is undercurrent, and Tian Buyu’s “opening ceremony” is like a sword hanging over his head, which may fall at any time.

The starry sea will inevitably be in chaos!

He doesn't have that much time to waste!

"We must...recover as soon as possible!"

A hint of determination flashed in Su Chen's eyes.

He no longer hesitated and took out all the healing medicines, elixirs, and mountains of immortal marrow stones stored in the storage space at once!
Apart from the Immortal Marrow Stone, many of these were gifts from the Ebony Chamber of Commerce. The descendants of the Ebony Immortal Clan are indeed wealthy!

Resources as huge as a small mountain instantly filled up the entire crude cave, emitting a rich medicinal fragrance and fairy spirit.

If other Xuanxian saw this scene, they would probably be so shocked that their eyes would pop out! Taking any one of these out would be enough to cause a fight!
But Su Chen didn't care at all at this moment.

Saving your life and restoring your strength are the most important things!
He began to swallow the pills and absorb the immortal stones frantically like a whale sucking water!
Although the destructive power left by the Golden Immortal's will was extremely stubborn and continued to destroy his repair results, with the support of a huge amount of resources, Su Chen's injuries still began to heal at an extremely slow but steady pace...

Getting better little by little.

Time passes slowly during this boring and painful healing process.

One year...

Five years...

ten years……

Outside the cave, the desolate star field remains unchanged and dead silent.

Inside the cave, Su Chen was like a rock, motionless.

The cracks on his body were slowly healing, his depleted immortal essence was re-condensing, and his languishing spirit was gradually growing stronger. (End of this chapter)