Living in the deep palace

"boom--!!!"

The moment that "eye" opened.

Su Chen felt as if he had been thrown into a wildly spinning sphere.

The world spins, time and space are reversed.

There is no up, down, left, or right; there is no past or future.

There was only an endless feeling of falling.

"Certainly!!"

Su Chen bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of essence blood containing the power of origin.

The illusory image of the Longevity Tree manifested behind him, its nine branches plunging into the chaotic void around him like anchors, forcefully stabilizing its form.

"Hun Tian! Meng Po!"

Su Chen shouted.

"My lord, we are here!"

Two disheveled figures emerged from the void not far away. The Demon Lord of Chaos's demonic body was almost falling apart, and Meng Po's other shore flower was mostly withered.

"here it is……"

When the three of them regained their composure and saw the scene before them clearly, they all gasped in shock.

Even those who were well-informed and had just demolished the Heavenly Court were speechless with shock at the scene before them.

This is not a cave dwelling at all.

It's not some kind of secret realm.

This is a... human body.

Yes, the human body.

Although this "person" is ridiculously large, so large that it seems to be a universe.

At this moment, Su Chen and the other two were suspended in the air.

The ground beneath my feet was a crimson plain. But this plain wasn't made of soil; it was composed of countless crisscrossing, mountain-like...muscle fibers!
In the distance, the mountain peaks are rows of stark white bones piercing the clouds. Golden divine light still lingers on those bones, and each bone exudes an aura of hardness comparable to an ultimate imperial weapon.

The sky wasn't blue, but a dark red. Hanging there were enormous "stars," which, upon closer inspection, turned out to be blood crystals formed from the solidified blood clots accumulated within the body!
Rivers are rushing lymph, and wind is residual nerve impulses.

This is the inner world of a deceased sixth-realm powerhouse!

"This is... an ancient god?"

Su Chen watched this scene in shock.

The saying goes, "One flower, one world; one leaf, one Bodhi." Upon reaching the sixth realm, one becomes a perfect universe within oneself. Even upon death and the dissipation of one's spiritual essence, the physical body can still evolve into such a vast world.

"My lord, I feel... my magic power has been sealed."

Meng Po suddenly exclaimed in panic.

She tried to activate the other shore flower, but found that the power of the law, which was originally as easy as her own arm, became extremely heavy here and could not be mobilized at all.

"Me too."

The Demon Lord of Chaos looked grim. "There is an extremely domineering rule here that suppresses all external 'Dao'. My demonic energy is compressed inside my body, making even flying difficult."

"This is an 'Ancient God Forbidden Technique'."

Su Chen closed his eyes, carefully sensed the surroundings, and then opened them, his gaze sharp and intense.

"Although the body is dead, its 'self' still retains an instinctive rejection."

"Here, all elemental laws and supernatural spells will become ineffective."

"The only thing that can be used is..."

Su Chen clenched his fist suddenly.

boom!
The air was blasted, producing a crisp sound.

Physical strength!

"And... pure 'intention'!"

Su Chen took a deep breath, and the [Chaotic God and Demon Body] (the evolved version after devouring the Jianmu tree) within his body began to roar.

In this forbidden land, cultivators who specialize in magic are lambs to the slaughter. But for a freak like Su Chen, who cultivates both body and magic and has achieved physical sainthood, this place... is simply paradise!
If you can't fly, then don't fly.

Su Chen landed on the crimson, muscular ground, feeling a solid sensation beneath his feet.

"You can explore the world by walking."

"Let's go."

"According to the vague senses given by the Void Ancestor, that [Emperor God Token] should be in the 'center' of this world."

"That is... the location of the ancient god's divine palace (brain) or dantian."

……

The three began their journey across this strange land.

Because he couldn't fly, his speed was much slower. But Su Chen wasn't in a hurry, because he discovered an unexpected surprise.

The air here (which is actually the residual essence within the ancient god's body) has an extremely nourishing effect on the physical body!
With each breath, Su Chen felt his cells cheering and his strength subtly increasing.

"Roar--!!!"

Just as the three of them crossed a "rib mountain range", a ferocious roar suddenly came from the blood-red jungle ahead.

Immediately afterwards, the earth trembled.

A monster, hundreds of feet tall, covered in keratinous armor, and with six legs, charged out like a heavy tank.

The monster had no eyes, only a huge mouth full of sharp teeth, dripping with corrosive saliva.

"Are they native to this place?"

The Demon Lord of Chaos instinctively wanted to summon his demonic weapon, but found his magic power stagnant, causing him to be a beat too slow.

"careful!"

boom!
The monster was incredibly fast, instantly sending the Demon Lord of Chaos flying. A dignified Great Luo Golden Immortal was actually struck by this attack, breaking three of his ribs and flying away like a ball.

"What incredible strength! This brute force is at least at the peak of a True Immortal level!" Hun Tian got up from the ground, his face filled with horror.

"This is no ordinary beast."

Su Chen stared at the monster, activating the [Eye of Origin] in his eyes (although suppressed, it could still see through its essence).

"This is... a creature evolved from the 'white blood cells' or 'parasites' of the ancient gods."

"They are naturally adapted to the rules here, and their physical bodies are incredibly strong."

"Roar!!"

The monster charged again, this time targeting Su Chen.

"Well done!"

Instead of retreating, Su Chen advanced.

He didn't use any magic; he simply mobilized the power of all his muscles. His spine trembled like a great dragon, and the power traveled from the soles of his feet to his waist and hips, finally converging in his right fist.

"Get down...!"

boom! ! !
Two fists, one big and one small, collided.

There are no fancy lighting or special effects.

Only the most primal and violent sounds of flesh colliding.

Click!

That was the sound of bones cracking.

Immediately afterwards, the hundred-foot-tall behemoth let out a shrill wail. Its massive body was sent flying backward by Su Chen's punch, tumbling through the air more than a dozen times before crashing heavily to the ground!

Its head was smashed in half by Su Chen's punch!

"call……"

Su Chen withdrew his fist and exhaled a breath of white air.

"Cool!"

"This feeling of every punch landing is much more satisfying than casting spells!"

Su Chen walked to the convulsing monster corpse.

At this moment, golden-red blood flowed from the monster's wound, emitting an enticing aroma.

"Gurgle." Su Chen's stomach let out a disapproving growl.

That's the instinct for binge eating.

"Although I have no magical power, gluttony is my innate divine ability, which has been integrated into my bloodline."

"That is to say..."

Su Chen looked at the monster as if he were looking at a sumptuous buffet.

"Here, I can still...eat!"

"Hun Tian, ​​Meng Po, start a fire!"

With a wave of his hand, Su Chen took out a large cauldron and various seasonings from his storage space (the Origin Space was not sealed).

"Since it's a creature from within an ancient god, it must be incredibly nourishing."

"Today we're going to try... this 'Steamed Ancient God Parasite'!"

……

Half an hour later.

A rich aroma of meat wafted through the once desolate and lifeless inner world of the ancient god.

"It smells so good..."

The Demon Lord of Chaos held a golden-brown, crispy roasted beast leg in his hand, his mouth dripping with oil as he ate. As he swallowed the meat, he was surprised to find that his recently broken ribs were heating up and healing, and even his suppressed physical strength was slowly increasing.

"This meat...contains the bloodline factors of an ancient god!"

"Eat more, you'll have the energy to work when you're full."

Su Chen was drinking soup.

With the intake of a large amount of ancient god essence, every cell in his body is undergoing fine-tuning, seemingly gradually "adapting" to the suppression of the world's rules.

[-Devour Ancient God Derivatives, gain 'Ancient God Resistance' +1%...] [-Slightly increase physical strength...]

Seeing the characters appear as the Longevity Tree swayed, Su Chen's lips curled into a smile.

"really."

"What ancient god forbidden techniques, what rule suppression?"

"As long as it's edible, it can evolve."

"As long as I eat enough, sooner or later I will eat my way to the top of this world!"

"After we finish this meal, let's go to that gathering place up ahead."

Su Chen pointed into the distance.

Just now, during the battle, he keenly noticed that a wisp of smoke was rising from the foot of the "Rib Mountain Range" in the distance.

"Someone's here?" Meng Po asked in surprise.

"They should be natives, or descendants of those unlucky souls who came in and never left."

Su Chen wiped his mouth, stood up, and his eyes gleamed.

"Since there are people, there must be intelligence."

"We can't find the Emperor God's Token by just blindly stumbling around like a headless fly."

"We need to find a guide."

"If they don't cooperate..."

Su Chen glanced at the monster's corpse, which was now just a pile of bones on the ground.

"Then... we'll force them to cooperate!"

"set off!"

The three packed their bags and embarked on their journey once again.

This time, their steps were more determined, and they were even more...hungry.

……

Ancient God Ruins - Outer Realms - Wasteland Plains

Under the dark red sky, the wind carried a salty, fishy smell.

This wind wasn't the movement of air, but rather the lingering aura of blood and malevolent energy remaining within the body of an ancient god after its death. If an ordinary True Immortal were to inhale even a single breath of it, they would likely suffer a qi deviation on the spot due to the malevolent energy entering their brain.

But for the three people walking on the earth at this moment, the wind was the best guide.

"My lord, that building ahead... is that the settlement?"

The Demon Lord of Chaos stopped and looked up at the enormous creature on the horizon, a look of shock flashing in his eyes.

It was an extremely magnificent, yet also extremely primitive, giant city.

It was less a city and more a colossal fortress of bones. It was built beneath several towering, curved bones (possibly the ribs of ancient gods), and its walls, constructed from the skulls of countless unknown behemoths, stood a thousand feet tall, radiating a pale and hard sheen.

Instead of the array-like light screens commonly found in the cultivation world, the city walls were covered by a thick, dark red "biofilm" woven from countless vengeful spirits and blood. This film seemed to be alive, rising and falling with its breath.

"Wilderness City".

Su Chen narrowed his eyes as he looked at the three large characters written in the blood of some kind of beast above the city gate.

"This font... is quite interesting."

"It's neither the common immortal script of today nor the ancient divine script. Instead, it's more like..." Su Chen stroked his chin, "like a kind of hieroglyphic script that degenerated due to being in a closed environment for a long time, but then evolved into something even wilder."

"It seems that the civilization here has been isolated from the outside world for far too long."

People were coming and going at the city gate.

These people (or natives) look largely similar to humans from the outside world, but are much taller and more robust. Even ordinary peddlers and laborers are over ten feet tall, with bulging muscles and bronze or dark red skin covered with totem tattoos.

They had no magical energy fluctuations, but with each step they took, they left a shallow footprint on the ground, clearly demonstrating their extremely strong physical strength.

"Let's go in and take a look."

Su Chen walked briskly toward the city gate with his hands behind his back.

Although the Demon Lord of Hun Tian and Meng Po's magic power was sealed and their bodies were somewhat heavy, their foundation as Great Luo experts was still intact. They followed closely behind Su Chen, and even though they had restrained their murderous aura, it was enough to make the surrounding natives take notice.

"stop!!"

As soon as they reached the city gate, two enormous bone axes crossed and blocked their way.

Two guards, each over three zhang tall and covered in black scales, looked down at the three "short" outsiders.

"An unfamiliar face?"

The guard on the left spoke in a deep, booming voice, "Look at your delicate skin and tender flesh, you don't look like hunters from the wilderness. Where did you spring from?"

"Fine skin and tender flesh?"

The Demon Lord of Chaos's lips twitched. He, the mighty King of Hell, a demon feared in the Avici Hell, was actually being mocked by two native gatekeepers?
“We come from afar.” Su Chen said calmly, without any anger. “We were just passing by and wanted to stop in for a rest and to inquire about some information.”

"distance?"

The guard on the right sneered, a greedy glint in his eyes. "No matter where you come from, if you want to enter Desolate Bone City, you have to abide by the rules here."

He stretched out a large, fan-like hand and laid it out in front of Su Chen.

"The entrance fee is three 'bloodstones' per person. If you don't have any bloodstones, you'll have to leave behind a hand or a leg as food."

"Bloodstone?" Su Chen raised an eyebrow.

"This is it!" The guard impatiently pulled a red crystal the size of a fingernail from his waist and waved it in front of Su Chen. "Don't tell me you don't have one. In the wasteland, without a bloodstone, you'd be eaten by blood beasts long ago!"

Su Chen glanced at the crystal.

Although suppressed, the Eye of Origin can still see through the essence.

These so-called "bloodstones" are actually energy crystals formed from the accumulated blood and qi within the bodies of ancient gods over millions of years. Although they contain many impurities, they do indeed contain a faint trace of the ancient god's essence.

"nice one."

Su Chen nodded, commenting as if appraising a treasure, "Unfortunately, I don't have one."

"No?"

The two guards exchanged a glance, and the greed in their eyes instantly turned into a fierce glint.

"If you don't have the Bloodstone, then pay with your life!!!"

"These three fellows may be thin, but their skin and flesh look very firm. If we offer them to the city lord, we might be able to get some reward in return!"

boom!
Before he finished speaking, the guard on the left had already swung the bone axe that weighed ten thousand pounds, bringing a whistling wind with it, and chopped it down hard on Su Chen's forehead!
This axe strike was devoid of any fancy moves; it was purely a release of power. If it had struck an ordinary True Immortal, their physical body would likely have been smashed into a pulp on the spot.

The surrounding natives who had entered the city all stopped in their tracks, their faces showing cruel expressions of anticipation. In the City of Bones, the law of the jungle was the only truth; every day, unlucky souls who didn't want to pay their dues died at the city gates. (End of Chapter)