Living in the deep palace

"Roar!!!"

"Giant Spirit obeys! I will follow your decree!"

Upon hearing this, Giant Spirit One's eyes blazed with red light.

He didn't raise any defensive shields at all. Instead, he took a step forward and charged out of the battle formation, crashing head-on into the sky full of Night Beasts!
"Smash it, you son of a bitch!!"

Giant Spirit One gripped the two-zhang-long Sky-Splitting Axe tightly with both hands, his muscles undulating like dragons and snakes, and the "Longevity Giant Spirit Seed" bestowed upon him by Su Chen was operating wildly within his body.

boom!
A single sweeping axe strike!
This axe strike contained no fancy supernatural powers, only pure, extreme power, and the law of gravity attached to the axe blade!
Om-! ! !
The space itself collapsed instantly before this axe.

Those originally formless Night Beasts were forcibly squeezed into physical form under extreme gravitational distortion! Their smoky bodies were compressed into black crystals, and then…

Bang bang bang!

Within the fan-shaped area swept by the axe blade, thousands of Night Beasts instantly exploded into dust!
The so-called "physical immunity" is a joke in the face of absolute power that can shatter space!
"what?!"

The Changsheng Guards behind them were stunned.

So, you can fight ghosts like this?

"Hahaha! That's awesome!!"

Giant Spirit One was bathed in the black rain of souls, feeling its blood boiling.

"Brothers! This axe bestowed by the Dao Ancestor is for cutting down anything that dares to defy us!!"

"Whether it's a ghost or a god, if it dares to block my way, I'll chop it down!"

"kill!!!"

The three thousand giant spirit guards were ignited with fighting spirit by their commander's divine might.

They roared in unison, brandishing their silver-white battle axes, and crashed into the dark beast tide like three thousand meat grinders.

With three thousand battle axes at the quasi-spiritual treasure level in hand, they are now equivalent to a legion of three thousand Golden Immortals.

Even the weakest Golden Immortal at the initial stage of combat strength couldn't withstand their sheer numbers—a full three thousand!
This is a horror theater troupe!
This is a massacre.

On one side are soul beasts relying on bizarre characteristics, and on the other side are war machines armed to the teeth and with the strength to fly bricks.

Faced with the "unreasonable" army built by Su Chen, the first line of defense of the Eternal Night Forbidden Zone was like a thin piece of paper, instantly pierced through!
……

The carnage continues on the edge of eternal night.

The once deathly darkness was now turned upside down by the soaring blood energy and the aura of war.

"Gravity Field - 100x!"

In the heat of battle, Giant Spirit One slammed the Sky-Splitting Axe in its hand into the void.

hum!
The Dao patterns on the axe handle lit up, and a terrifying gravitational field instantly covered an area of ​​thousands of miles.

Those Night Beasts flying in the air were as if they had been hung on by a huge boulder, screaming as they fell to the ground like dumplings. Before they could even get up, they were crushed by the giant spirit guards who followed.

"This axe... it's simply divine!"

A newly promoted Golden Immortal Giant Spirit Guard squad leader looked at the battle axe in his hand, which was still dripping black blood, with eyes full of ecstasy.

In the past, when they encountered monsters that targeted the soul, they could only passively defend themselves, which was incredibly frustrating. But now, the gravity law inherent in this axe can forcibly "materialize" spirits.

Once they have a physical form, that's the world of the Giant Spirit Guards!

"Push forward! Keep pushing forward!"

Lady Kugu directed the Longevity Guard flying boats behind her, continuously releasing beams of bronze array light to provide support and recovery for the Giant Spirit Guards in front.

As she looked at the army that was becoming increasingly coordinated, her awe for the man sitting high on the imperial throne deepened.

This not only granted them power, but also reshaped the fighting spirit of these outlaws.

How can this be considered a rabble anymore?
This is clearly a fierce and powerful army capable of conquering all realms!

"In the near future..."

"maybe!"

"It really can replace the Heavenly Court!"

"The Heavenly Court occupies the Heavenly Domain, with the Heavenly Emperor, who possesses the Sixth Realm, in charge. The Ruins Domain also has many ancient beings of the Fifth Realm, and there are even rumors that in the deepest depths of the Ruins Domain, there is a Sixth Realm being, but no power has ever been formed..."

"And my lord, there is no doubt that you will become a sixth-realm expert in the future. Even if you don't become a sixth-realm expert, you will definitely be an invincible powerhouse of the fifth realm! At that time, the Imperial City may become the Heavenly Court of the Ruins Domain!"

The skeleton's eyes burned with passion.

Having followed Su Chen, she had long been impressed by his various extraordinary abilities, and ambitions had already begun to emerge in her heart.

for all this.

Su Chen was unaware of this, and even if he had, he wouldn't have cared.

He never cared about any Heavenly Emperor.

So what about the sixth realm?

He'll bring them down sooner or later.

Back then, in the vast starry sky, he emerged from the Mountain and Sea Realm and met Xuan Yu Xian, like a mayfly glimpsing the heavens.

But so what?
Xuan Yuxian, his contemporary, had long since passed away; only he remained alive. Moreover, he had become a Great Luo Immortal!

……

On the imperial throne.

Su Chen rested his chin on one hand, watching the battle below with a calm expression.

Behind him, the phantom of the Longevity Tree loomed in and out of sight, and the black Soul-Capturing Branch, like a greedy tentacle, roamed the battlefield.

The pure soul power released from each Nightfall Beast after it is killed is absorbed by it immediately.

"Although the quantity is large, the quality is still too low."

"Most of them are aggregates of remnant souls without any intelligence, and they taste like chewing wax."

Su Chen yawned, feeling a bit bored.

These Night Beasts are at most at the True Immortal or Profound Immortal level. Occasionally, there are a few Golden Immortal level beast kings, but they are all snatched up and killed by Giant Spirit No. 1.

For him, who is now a Great Luo Golden Immortal, this amount of soul power is not even enough to fill a tooth gap.

"That big guy... isn't it coming out yet?"

Su Chen's gaze pierced through the chaotic battlefield, looking deeper into the eternal night.

at this time.

woo-

A desolate, deep sound, as if from ancient times, suddenly came from the depths of darkness.

The sound was extremely eerie, completely drowning out the sounds of battle on the battlefield, causing everyone's heart to skip a beat.

Followed by.

The once surging horde of Night Beasts, as if encountering some natural enemy, suddenly stopped attacking, let out terrified howls, and frantically retreated to both sides.

"What's going on?" Giant Spirit One put away its battle axe and stared warily ahead.

From the endless darkness, a thick, impenetrable black mist rose up.

Amidst the mist, a colossal, suffocatingly large, ancient black ship slowly emerged.

This ship was enormous, measuring ten thousand feet in length, larger than any of the flying ships of the Changsheng Guard.

The ship was in a dilapidated state, covered with rotting seaweed and rusty chains. The sails were made of hides of unknown animals, painted with pale, ghostly face patterns.

What's most chilling is that the deck of this ship was densely packed with... "people".

No, that's not a person.

Those were countless undead dressed in ancient clothes, with blank faces and exuding an aura of death! Some of them were missing arms and legs, and some were just heads, piled up like cargo.

"This is……"

Lady Bone's pupils constricted sharply, and she cried out in disbelief, "The Netherworld Black Ship?! That's the legendary ghost ship that guides the dead to the 'underworld'! How could it appear in the Ruins?!"

"Underworld?"

A glint flashed in Su Chen's eyes.

Finally, something interesting has arrived.

slam-la-

As the black ship approached, a tall figure wearing a straw raincoat and holding a long white bone pole slowly appeared on the bow.

He had no face; beneath his hood were only two burning, eerie green flames.

"Living beings... halt..."

The man in the straw raincoat made a hoarse sound, like two bones rubbing against each other.

"This is... the path to rebirth... trespassers... die..."

boom!
As the word "death" fell.

The man in the straw raincoat slammed the long white bone pole in his hand against the deck.

hum-

A gray ripple spread out from the black ship.

Wherever the ripples passed, the space instantly turned grayish-white, and all life was stripped away in that instant. "Oh no! It's the 'Withering Domain'!"

The giant spirit guards at the front were the first to be hit. To their horror, they discovered that their indestructible bodies were beginning to develop lividity under the wash of the gray ripples, and their skin was starting to dry out and age!

"My hands...my hands have withered?!"

"Spiritual energy can't circulate!!"

Even Giant Spirit No. 1 was forced to retreat repeatedly by this force, its heavy armor sizzling as it corroded, and its aura instantly plummeted.

This man in the straw raincoat was actually a powerful Taiyi Golden Immortal at the peak of his cultivation, with one foot already in the Great Luo realm!
Moreover, what he controls is an extremely high-level "Netherworld Law"!
"Huh, pretending to be a ghost!"

Just as the army was about to be overwhelmed by this strange domain.

A cold, elegant voice rang out.

Lady Dry Bones has made her move.

She stepped out of the flying boat, her black and gold robes fluttering in the wind.

"Trying to play death magic in front of me? You're still too green!"

Lady Kugu formed a hand seal, and the mark of "Withered Leaf" between her brows suddenly lit up.

"Taoist Technique: Rebirth of Withering and Flourishing!"

boom!
A towering, thousand-foot-tall skeletal form rose from the ground behind her. This form was not ferocious or terrifying; instead, it radiated a sacred, jade-like luster, holding a half-withered, half-flourishing blue lotus in its hands.

As Lady Kugu pointed out.

The blue lotus bloomed instantly, casting down countless rays of divine light interwoven with gray and green.

The light collided with the gray ripples of the black ship.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a silent dissolution.

The once domineering and lifeless desolate domain, upon encountering Lady Bone's Divine Light of Withering and Flourishing, vanished as quickly as ice and snow meeting the blazing sun!

"what?"

The two will-o'-the-wisps on the man in the straw raincoat at the bow of the boat suddenly flickered, as if he were quite shocked.

"This is no ordinary death energy...this is...the Great Dao of Life and Death that reverses life and death?!"

"How is this possible... This is a taboo that only 'that one' can master..."

There was a hint of panic in the man in the straw raincoat's voice.

"Nothing is impossible!"

Lady Dry Bones, having gained the upper hand, pressed her advantage and, controlling her skeletal form, slapped the black ship down with her bare hand!

"Stop right there, Madam!!"

Boom!

The enormous bone hand slammed down on the black ship's protective shield, causing the entire colossal vessel to shake violently, and countless undead screamed.

"court death!"

The man in the straw raincoat was enraged. The long pole in his hand transformed into a giant, pitch-black serpent from the Styx River, and he tried to retaliate.

"I think you're the one who's looking for death."

at this time.

A voice so calm it sent chills down one's spine suddenly rang in the man in the straw raincoat's ear.

The man in the straw raincoat was completely stiff.

He had no idea when the person had come up behind him.

He turned his head with difficulty.

What I saw was a pair of emotionless eyes, one black and one gray.

Su Chen.

No one knew when, but he had already left the throne and was standing at the bow of the black ship, less than three feet behind the man in the straw raincoat.

He stood with his hands behind his back, and chaotic energy swirled around him, isolating him from the deathly aura on the black ship that was enough to corrode even a Golden Immortal.

"The ferryman?"

Su Chen looked at the man in the straw raincoat as if he were examining a novel toy.

"The spirits on this ship are not from the Ruins Domain. Their soul imprints carry a hint of 'reincarnation'."

"Are you... smuggling?"

"You...who are you?!" The man in the straw raincoat retreated in terror, feeling a terrifying pressure emanating from Su Chen that threatened to shatter his very soul.

That's the scent of a superior predator!

"I am the owner of this land."

Su Chen smiled slightly, revealing a set of gleaming white teeth.

"You've been soliciting customers on my turf, haven't you ever paid protection money?"

"Since you haven't paid..."

Su Chen suddenly reached out and grabbed the man in the straw raincoat's crown (although he had no face, his soul core was there).

"Then use your brain to pay off the debt!"

"No—Your Excellency, spare my life! I am under the command of the 'Nine Netherworld Ghost Emperor'..."

puff!

The man in the straw raincoat hadn't finished speaking.

In Su Chen's palm, several jet-black roots of the Soul-Capturing Branch instantly erupted and pierced directly into the core of his soul!
"Soul search!"

boom!
A vast torrent of memories surged into Su Chen's sea of ​​consciousness along the roots.

Images flashed through Su Chen's mind.

A shattered earth... a murky river... a broken Bridge of Helplessness... and an ancient scripture radiating the light of reincarnation...

After a while.

Su Chen let go of his hand.

The man in the straw raincoat had become a transparent, empty shell devoid of any intelligence; all his memories, cultivation, and essence had been instantly drained by Su Chen.

"I see……"

Su Chen stood at the bow of the ship, his gaze fixed on the deeper parts of the Eternal Night Forbidden Zone, his greed growing ever stronger.

"There's actually a... fragment of the underworld hidden here!"

From the memories of the man in the straw raincoat, Su Chen learned a shocking secret.

In an extremely ancient era, a great cataclysm occurred in the ancient underworld. One of the core fragments, containing parts of the "Road to the Underworld" and the "Gate of Hell," did not dissipate but instead fell into the depths of this desolate realm, which even the Heavenly Court was unwilling to concern itself with.

This fragment forms its own world, called "Netherworld".

Because of the remnants of the laws of the underworld, this place has become a paradise for the dead.

This black ship was the slave ship responsible for collecting wandering souls from the outside world and transporting them to the underworld to serve as laborers.

more importantly.

In the deepest part of that underworld, there seems to be a supreme treasure that can control "reincarnation"!

"Reincarnation..."

Su Chen touched his chest.

The Soul-Capturing Branch within his body had now quieted down, replaced by a deeper longing.

That was the Longevity Tree's yearning for the eighth Great Dao—the Great Dao of Reincarnation!

"If I could obtain that fragment and control reincarnation..."

"I will be able to establish my own 'underworld' within my realm of immortality!"

"At that time, my followers will not enter the Heavenly Court for reincarnation after death, but will be reborn directly in my territory... Then my power will truly become inexhaustible and indestructible!"

This is the true foundation of the "immortal pantheon"!

"Good, very good."

Su Chen turned around, looked at the stunned Giant Spirit No. 1 and Lady Bone below, and waved his hand.

"I have requisitioned this ship."

"All troops, board the ships!"

"We're not leaving."

Su Chen pointed to the deepest part of the Eternal Night, to a coordinate that wasn't even marked on a map.

"We're on this ship..."

"Charge straight into the Underworld!"

"Go raid the lair of that so-called Nine Netherworld Ghost Emperor!"

...(End of chapter)