Living in the deep palace

however.

when--! ! !
A crisp sound of gold and iron sounded.

There was no bloodshed as expected.

The young man in the green robe simply extended two fingers and effortlessly caught the enormous bone axe, powerful enough to split mountains and shatter rocks.

Not moving.

"what?!"

The guard's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. His face flushed red, and the veins on his arms bulged as he tried to pull the axe back, only to find that the two fingers were like iron clamps, firmly locking the axe blade in place.

"Not bad strength, but a pity..."

Su Chen raised his head slightly and looked at the giant whose face was full of terror.

"Your skills are terrible."

Click!

Su Chen twisted his two fingers gently.

The bone axe, crafted from the leg bone of a high-level ferocious beast, snapped in two like a brittle biscuit!
"roll."

Su Chen waved his hand casually.

The broken axe blade transformed into a streak of light, flying back at ten times the speed it had come from, and struck the guard directly in the chest.

boom! !

The giant, standing three zhang tall, let out a miserable cry as his massive body flew backward like a cannonball, crashing heavily into the city wall behind him and creating a large, human-shaped crater in the hard bone wall.

"You...you dare to make a move in the Desolate Bone City?!"

The other guard was terrified, his hand gripping the axe trembling. "You're dead! The city lord will not let you get away with this!!"

"Let him come."

Su Chen patted the bone powder off his hands, as if he had done something insignificant.

He looked up at the dark red biofilm above the city wall, his voice not loud, but it carried an undeniable domineering air.

"I don't want to waste time."

"Either let me in or..."

"Either I tear down this broken door and go in myself."

……

[Wilderness Bone City, City Lord's Mansion]

“Report——!!!”

A scout scrambled into the hall, kneeling on the ground, trembling.

"City...City Lord! A ruthless bastard has arrived! He just crippled the Black Tower with a single move at the city gate! He says he's going to tear down our city gate!"

In the very center of the hall, on a throne carved from a complete dragon skull, sat a giant man nearly five zhang tall.

He was completely naked except for a piece of animal skin around his waist, his skin covered in dark red, lava-like patterns. At that moment, he was holding a small, lively blood beast in his hand, crunching it like an apple, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

Lord of the Desolate Bone City – Ba Shan.

The renowned powerhouse in this desolate outer realm is said to have tempered his physical body to the level of "golden bones," capable of tearing apart ferocious beasts at the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal with sheer strength.

"Tear down my door?"

Ba Shan swallowed the meat in his mouth, a savage red light flashing in his eyes.

“No one has dared to speak to me like that for thousands of years since those two ‘outsiders’ left.”

"very funny."

Ba Shan slowly stood up.

Boom!

As he stood up, the entire hall trembled, and a terrifying, suffocating aura shot into the sky like smoke, directly shattering the dome of the hall.

"Walk."

Ba Shan casually grabbed a huge spiked club from the side (it looked like a fossilized leg hair of an ancient god).

"Go see where these bugs came from. I'm actually hungry, I'll have them as an extra meal!"

……

The city gate.

By this time, a large crowd of locals had gathered to watch the spectacle.

Su Chen and his two companions did not force their way in, but stood there quietly.

Su Chen sensed a powerful aura rapidly approaching.

"coming."

Su Chen looked into the city.

boom! boom! boom!
The heavy footsteps sounded like the beating of war drums. With each step, a crack appeared in the ground.

Immediately afterwards, a towering figure, as imposing as a mountain, emerged from the city gate, exuding an overwhelming aura of ferocity.

"Who dares to cause trouble on my turf?!"

Ba Shan roared, and the sound wave transformed into a tangible shockwave, blowing the surrounding natives who were watching the spectacle off course.

His gaze instantly locked onto Su Chen and the other two.

"Hmm? There's no trace of ancient god bloodline?"

Ba Shan frowned, a hint of doubt appearing in his eyes, which then turned into an even more cruel grin.

"So they were 'smugglers' from outside!"

"It's been so long since I've tasted meat from outsiders. I heard it's especially tender!"

"die!!"

Ba Shan has no habit of wasting words. In this world, if you can take action, you won't waste time talking.

He leaped up suddenly, his huge spiked club carrying destructive power, and slammed down on Su Chen's head!

This attack compressed space so much that it produced a booming sound. Pure physical strength had actually produced the effect of a law-based attack!
"So strong!"

The Demon Lord of Chaos behind him changed his expression. "My lord, be careful! This barbarian's power is probably already close to the late stage of the Great Luo realm!"

Su Chen stood still, looking at the increasingly larger spiked club, but his face showed no panic.

Instead, he laughed.

He was laughing very happily, as if he had seen a toy he liked.

"Smugglers?"

"No, I am... the conqueror."

Su Chen neither dodged nor tried to catch it with his fingers.

This time, he clenched his right fist.

Suddenly, streaks of cyan-gold light appeared on his right arm. These were the self-protection mechanisms passively activated by the [Origin God-Demon Body] under the suppression of the rules of the ancient god world.

"A contest of strength?"

"I am your ancestor!!"

boom! ! !
Su Chen threw a punch.

This punch created a sonic boom and a vacuum.

The fist collided with the spiked club.

Time seemed to stand still for a moment.

Followed by.

Click——! ! !
The spiked club, which was said to be indestructible and had killed countless ferocious beasts, shattered inch by inch from the point of contact, exploding into countless fragments.

Su Chen's fist, still powerful, pierced through the flying bone fragments and slammed into Ba Shan's chest!
boom! ! !
A muffled thud—the sound of a heart being squeezed by tremendous force.

Ba Shan's massive, five-zhang-tall body instantly arched into the shape of a giant shrimp. The magma patterns on his back shattered, and he coughed up blood (mixed with fragments of internal organs).

Rumbling--

This arrogant Lord of the Desolate Bone City was blasted thousands of meters away by Su Chen's punch, crashing through more than a dozen bone walls before finally embedding himself deeply into the ground of the city center square.

The whole place was dead silent.

All the natives gaped open, their jaws dropping to the floor.

Their god, the invincible city lord... was killed in one punch?
Su Chen withdrew his fist and gently blew away the dust.

He looked around, and wherever his gaze fell, all the natives retreated in unison, their eyes filled with fear and awe.

"Now……"

Su Chen pointed to the open city gate.

"I'd like to go inside and rest for a bit."

"Is there anyone else who wants to pay?"

No one dared to respond.

"very good."

Su Chen nodded in satisfaction and strode into the city.

"Hun Tian, ​​go and bring that big guy over here." "I have something to ask him."

"in addition……"

Su Chen glanced at the massive city of bones and a smile appeared on his lips.

"Pass down the word: this city... will now belong to the Su family."

……

……

[Wilderness Bone City, Lord's Mansion Hall]

On the dragon-headed throne that originally belonged to Ba Shan, a young man in a green robe was now sitting.

Su Chen toyed with several top-grade Ancient God Blood Crystals he had found in the Ba Shan Treasure Vault, feeling the warm and immense energy within them.

On the steps below, the once arrogant Lord of Bashan City was now kneeling on the ground, his face bruised and swollen, his body wrapped in bandages (actually chains condensed by Meng Po using death energy). His eyes had lost their previous ferocity, leaving only deep fear.

They were completely defeated.

In the world of ancient gods, the rule is simple: might makes right. Su Chen's punch not only shattered his spiked club, but also shattered his pride.

"Don't...don't kill me..."

Ba Shan spoke tremblingly, "My lord, I am a 'Golden Bone Realm' expert, I am useful! I can be your henchman! I know all the hundreds of tribes around here!"

"Golden Bone Realm?"

Su Chen crushed a blood crystal, and the red mist seeped into his body through his fingertips.

"Tell me, how are the boundaries defined in this place?"

"Return to my lord."

Ba Shan quickly explained, "We, the children of the gods, cannot cultivate magic, we can only cultivate our bodies. The realms are divided from low to high as follows: mortal bones, iron bones, bronze bones, silver bones, and gold bones."

"It is said that in the Inner Domain Divine Palace, there is also the legendary 'Divine Bone' (Jade Bone) Realm. Such a powerful person can crush us with a single drop of blood."

"I see."

Su Chen nodded.

This is actually another system for achieving physical immortality. Golden bones roughly correspond to the early to mid-stages of the Great Luo Golden Immortal in the outside world, while the so-called divine bones should be the physical body at the fifth realm (creation/eternity) level.

"I ask you."

Su Chen leaned forward slightly, his gaze as sharp as a knife.

"Have you seen any other 'outsiders' before you?"

"Not recently, but a long time ago."

Upon hearing this, Ba Shan's pupils contracted slightly, as if he had recalled some terrible memories.

“Yes…yes!”

"That was three thousand years ago (the time flow in the Ancient God World is different from that in the outside world). At that time, I was just a lowly Iron Bone Realm Guardian."

"Two ruthless men broke in."

"A skeleton covered in black smoke, wielding a black scythe, hacking at anyone he saw while shouting strange things like 'The opportunities of the Sixth Mirror are all mine.'"

"The other one... was a young man who looked like a scholar. He didn't talk much, nor did he kill many people, but he held a wordless book in his hand. Anyone who tried to stop him was suppressed by the words that flew out of that book."

Skeleton Lord!

Chen Sheng (Chen)!
Su Chen and the Demon Lord of Chaos exchanged a glance, confirming their suspicions.

"And then?" Su Chen pressed.

"Later..." Ba Shan swallowed hard, "they fought their way through the outer realms, even shattering the Wall of Sighs, and stormed into the inner realm's divine palace."

"I don't know the specifics of what happened; that's taboo. But later, it was rumored that the skeleton, in order to protect the scholar, exploded half of its body and was trapped in the divine palace."

"And that scholar... escaped with serious injuries and has been missing ever since."

“Since then, the ‘Wall of Sighs’ in the inner domain has been completely sealed off by the guardians of the Divine Palace, and no one has been able to enter it since.”

"Are they trapped inside...?"

Su Chen's fingers tapped lightly on the armrest.

The Skeleton Lord is covering for... the Saint of the Stars?
Is this really that outrageous?!

Even if they were unaware that they were projections, the conflict between them was deep-rooted. What had they encountered that made them join forces against an enemy?

It seems that the Ancestor of the Ruins was not lying.

This place is indeed extremely dangerous.

and.

It's true that a portion of the Skeleton Fairy remained here. And while Chen Sheng escaped, he clearly failed to take the Emperor God Token; otherwise, the Void Ancestor wouldn't have sent him back again.

Where is the Wailing Wall?

"It's at the end of the Bone Plains, just follow the Blood River upstream and you'll see it."

Ba Shan honestly replied, "But sir, that place is currently guarded by the 'Heroic Spirit Legion,' which is the manifestation of the ancient god's battle will before his death; they cannot be killed..."

"Can't be killed?"

Su Chen smiled.

He stood up, walked up to Ba Shan, and threw a top-grade blood crystal into his arms.

"There is nothing in this world that cannot be killed, only fists that are not strong enough."

"Here, have this candy."

"From today onwards, you are the deputy city lord. Gather all the warriors in the city."

"Also, move all the blood crystals out of your warehouse."

Ba Shan held the blood crystal, paused for a moment, then kowtowed in wild joy.

"Yes, Lord City Lord!!"

……

The next three days.

The city of wasteland is undergoing an unprecedented purge.

Su Chen did not rush to the inner region.

Sharpening the axe won't delay the work of chopping wood. He knew very well that although he was currently in a state where he could easily overwhelm the outer realms, he still needed a stronger foundation to face the mysterious and unpredictable divine palace and its guardians.

He needs to adapt!

"Crack! Click!"

Inside the secret chamber of the city lord's mansion, the sound of chewing, so sickening it made your teeth ache, could be heard.

Su Chen sat cross-legged amidst a pile of blood crystals that resembled a small mountain.

These blood crystals are the culmination of Ba Shan's plundering over thousands of years, each containing the primordial power of a raging ancient god. Even an ordinary Golden Bone Realm expert would need to seclude themselves for months, carefully refining each one.

But Su Chen... was eating it like food.

"Gluttony - Full Throat!!"

Behind Su Chen, the phantom of the Longevity Tree appeared and disappeared.

Although suppressed by the rules and unable to manifest its magnificent form, it still stubbornly continues to operate as Su Chen's natal object.

Especially that [Chaos Branch].

It's like a universal converter.

As a large amount of blood crystals entered its abdomen, the Chaos Branch began to frantically analyze the structure of this "ancient god energy".

[Absorbing high-purity ancient god blood crystals...]

[Ancient God Rule Resistance increased to 30%...50%...]

[The Longevity Tree has begun simulating the 'Ancient God's Veins'... The physical body is undergoing a second round of enhancement...]

Su Chen's skin began to change.

Beneath the originally delicate, bluish-gold skin, a layer of dark red, ancient god-like muscle fibers faintly emerged. But this was not assimilation, but fusion!

Su Chen is using the genes of the ancient gods to optimize his [Origin God-Demon Body]!
boom!
three days later.

The door to the secret room was pushed open.

Su Chen came out.

At this moment, he appeared unchanged, but the Demon Lord of Chaos felt a suffocating pressure standing next to him.

If Su Chen was a sharp sword before, then he is now a heavy hammer.

A heavy hammer infused with the brute power of an ancient god!
"My lord, your aura..." Meng Po covered her mouth in surprise.

"I've gotten used to the environment here a little."

Su Chen clenched his fist, and the air exploded between his fingers, producing a series of popping sounds.

"I should be able to perform at about 80% of my potential here now."

"Even... due to the enhancement of his physical body, his close combat ability is stronger than it is in the outside world."

Su Chen looked up at the dark red glow on the horizon in the distance.

That's the direction leading to the inner realm. (End of Chapter)