Gaze and you will become stronger: starting from Doupo

The figure wrapped in thunder exerted the power of the Thunder Fruit to the extreme, and various powerful thunder secrets emerged one after another. Although the ancient emperor was powerful, he gradually became a little tired in the face of such a fierce attack. His face became solemn, and a trace of solemnity and vigilance appeared in his eyes.

However, the Ancient Emperor was a quasi-emperor after all, with a profound foundation. He took a deep breath, and a terrifying aura emanated from his body, as if he was going to swallow up the entire starry sky. He used his most powerful secret technique, and a powerful force instantly burst out, sweeping towards the figure.

The figure felt the powerful force of the attack from the Ancient Emperor, his eyes condensed, and thunder surged wildly around him, forming a huge thunder shield. At the same time, he also launched his strongest attack, and a huge thunder beam shot towards the Ancient Emperor.

The lightning shield collided with the ancient emperor's attack, and a shocking explosion broke out. The powerful energy fluctuations spread out in all directions like surging waves. And the lightning beam also collided fiercely with the ancient emperor's body. For a moment, the starry sky was so bright that people could not look directly at it.

As the light gradually faded, everyone looked up at the starry sky nervously, wondering what the outcome of this battle would be...

The sound of the iron chain rubbing against the divine gold was like a thousand horses galloping. The moment it burst out from the bottom of the abyss, the clouds in the entire restricted area were shattered into dust. The ancient apes 80,000 miles away were drinking from the stream. The sudden tremor made them all fall to the ground, their scarlet pupils reflecting the iron-gray clouds surging in the sky. They were four immortal chains as thick as bowls, with ancient star maps engraved on the chain bodies. Every line was flowing with golden divine light, and at this moment they were deeply embedded in a bronze body.

"Click——"

The holy body's knuckles crushed a piece of black iron as big as a millstone. This was his 2,300th attempt to break the chain. The nine holy mountains were originally rooted in the magma layer at the center of the earth. At this moment, they were slowly tilting with his movements. The ancient runes on the surface of the mountain lit up with crimson light, as if the earth was groaning in pain. When his left foot finally left the ground three inches, the gravity field of the entire restricted area suddenly became disordered. The meteorites suspended in the air fell like a rainstorm, but melted into molten iron the moment they touched his skin.

"enough."

On the top of the holy mountain surrounded by clouds and mist, the fingertips of a woman in white lightly slid across the bronze scroll on the stone table. Her hair was light golden, weaving a galaxy-like trajectory in the windless movement. When she looked back, the depths of her pupils reflected the scene of the beginning of chaos - that was a scene of the creation of the world that even the Great Saint Body had never seen. But this look only lasted for three breaths, and was replaced by the indifference of ten thousand years of ice.

"Xueyue, have you been guarding me all these years?" Shengti's voice was like sandpaper rubbing against rock, with a hoarseness after ten thousand years of sleep. He looked at the woman with gratitude and doubt in his eyes, "Back then, I volunteered to guard the restricted area because I was afraid that darkness would invade the human race... But now this iron chain is a trap set by you."

The fingertips of the woman in white, Xueyue, knocked three shallow marks on the stone table: "The ancient forbidden land is no longer a barrier for the human race. Three hundred years ago, the shadow of the Burial Heaven Island broke into the Sea of ​​Samsara and took away half a drop of the Blood of Time." Her voice suddenly became low, "Can't you sense it? The lightning on the other side of the starry sky is awakening all the sleepers in the forbidden area."

The Saint suddenly raised his head and looked at the torn void. In his consciousness, the entire universe suddenly turned into a burnt ancient scroll, and a figure wrapped in thunder was slowly walking along the crack, pulling the laws of heaven and earth with every step. He suddenly found that the power he had used to break the immortal chain was like a child's play in front of the lightning.

The reddish-brown earth trembled like thunder, and hundreds of ancient gods and demons emerged from the ground, with black mist overflowing from their empty eye sockets. In the depths of the Taichu Ancient Mine, eighteen figures sat cross-legged by the molten gold pool. Their bodies were translucent, and the star sand flowing in their bodies could be clearly seen - it was the embodiment of the power of the ancient stars.

"The 3,000th resonance." The old man in the center spoke, with a diamond-shaped ice crystal embedded between his brow bones. "Starting from the ancient forbidden land, the sound of iron chains has spread to the seven forbidden areas. The last time this happened was..."

"It was still when Emperor Desolate Heaven wiped out the dark chaos." The middle-aged man on the right said, his palm pressed on a tortoise shell, and broken runes kept appearing on the surface of the tortoise shell. "But the aura this time is different. Emperor Desolate Heaven's sword intention was to create the world, and this lightning... seems to be rewriting the way of heaven."

Suddenly, the molten gold pool boiled violently, and three red beams of light broke through the mine roof and condensed into a vague human face in midair. It was the guardian spirit of the Taichu Ancient Mine, an ancient consciousness that existed outside the rules of heaven and earth: "He is coming." The hoarse voice was accompanied by the sound of metal friction, "with thirty-three thunder tribulations, each of which is engraved with the bone patterns of the ancient ancestors."

The middle-aged man stood up suddenly, and the runes on the tortoise shell suddenly shattered: "Bone pattern? That is... the mark of the Human Emperor era! Could he be..."

"Don't guess." The old man stared at the sky, where a flash of lightning was passing. Wherever it passed, the stars were arranged into an ancient human battle formation. "No matter whether it is the ancient emperor or the great emperor, there are only a handful of people who can awaken the seven forbidden areas at the same time. Prepare to open the 'Blood Sacrifice Monument'. We need to know whether he is here to end the darkness or bring new chaos."

A blood-red stone tablet slowly rose from the bottom of the molten gold pool, with dense and tiny dents carved on the surface of the tablet - those were the blood sacrifices of the fallen masters over the years. When the lightning flashed over the ore vein, the stone tablet suddenly made a buzzing sound, and the three dents at the top began to ooze blood, which was warm blood that even the eternal silence of the Taichu Ancient Mine could not freeze.

The silver waves suddenly stopped in mid-air, and each drop of water reflected different fragments of time and space: there was the rainbow bridge built by the ancient ancestors in the starry sky, there was half of the fairyland that collapsed during the ancient emperor’s war, and there was... a vague figure standing at the source of the long river of time, reaching out to touch the golden pages floating in the river.

"boom!"

The sea surface seemed to be split open by an invisible giant hand, revealing a crack in the seabed that was thousands of feet deep. In the crack, a huge bronze bell hanging upside down was slowly turning, and the sundial pattern on the bell cast countless lights and shadows, each of which was the end of a certain era. When the bell rang, the sea water flowed back into the Milky Way and surged towards the lightning in the sky.

"Since you dare to step into the Sea of ​​Samsara, you must know the rules here."

The one who spoke was the gray-clothed man standing on the crest of the wave. The sun, moon and stars were flowing in his eyes, and the River Map and Luoshu embroidered on the hem of his clothes were deducing by themselves. When he raised his hand, the sea water condensed into twelve time chains, each of which connected to a different time node. "Either leave three strands of true spirit, or... stay forever in a forgotten past." The figure in the lightning stopped. In the perception of the gray-clothed man, the other party suddenly split into countless afterimages, each of which was in a different timeline: some were drinking with the Holy Body in the ancient forbidden land, some were touching the blood sacrifice monument in the Taichu Ancient Mine, and some... stood at the bottom of the Samsara Sea, smiling at the inverted bronze bell.

"Guardian of the Sea of ​​Samsara, do you still remember who taught you how to deduce the way of time?"

The deep voice seemed to come from all timelines at the same time, and the pupils of the gray-clothed man suddenly contracted. He had heard this voice in the deepest part of the River Map and Luoshu. It was an ancient heritage that even the ancient True Immortals had never recorded. When the lightning flashed again, he was horrified to find that the power of time in his body was flowing in the reverse direction, and the thirty-year-old face began to show baby-like fluff.

“I don’t dare!” He knelt down hurriedly. The seawater condensed into a time mirror in front of him. The other person’s figure was clearly reflected in the mirror. It was a man with a lightning-patterned halberd on his back. The embroidery on his robe was not any known Taoist pattern, but the star tracks of the entire universe. “Senior is the Lord of Time. I am blind…”

The lightning flickered slightly, and the gray-clothed man felt the flow of time in his body return to normal. When he looked up again, there was only a lightning streak on the sea that was gradually receding, and the huge bronze bell on the seabed was now pointing the mouth of the bell towards the starry sky, as if waiting for a destined knock.

The prehistoric stone tablets roared like an earthquake, and each stone tablet was shaking violently. The ancient characters on the tablets moved like living things. The most central tablet was a thousand feet tall, and a stone turtle was squatting on the top of the tablet. The cracks on the tortoise shell were oozing golden blood - that was a warning from the core of the Immortal Mausoleum. The last time this happened was during the dark turmoil ten thousand years ago.

"Roar--"

In the shadows at the bottom of the monument, a huge black shadow slowly stood up. Its body was made up of countless fragments of the monument, each of which was engraved with different laws of heaven. When it opened its eyes, the space and time of the entire Immortal Mausoleum suddenly became distorted. In the distance, the ancient emperor Gai Jiuyou was rushing over with several powerful human beings, but was thrown hundreds of miles away in an instant.

"Gai Jiuyou, you are still so persistent." The shadow's voice was like the friction of a stone tablet. "When your master, Emperor Yuhua, fell, I said that some secrets should not be touched." Its eyes passed Gai Jiuyou and cast towards the lightning in the starry sky. "But now, a more terrifying secret is approaching. Do you know why the stone tablets of the Immortal Mausoleum never speak? Because there are some truths that even the Heavenly Dao dare not record."

Gai Jiuyou clenched the ancient bronze lamp in his hand, and the three-color true fire was dancing on the wick - that was the Dao trace left by Emperor Yuhua. He could feel that the black shadow in front of him was not a physical entity, but the embodiment of the will of the Immortal Mausoleum, a special life existing between the stone tablet and the Heavenly Dao: "I don't care who he is, as long as he dares to harm the human race..."

"Danger?" The black shadow suddenly laughed in a low voice, shaking the words on the monuments. "Thirty thousand years ago, the human race was on the verge of extinction. It was he who built a rainbow bridge in the bloody dusk, allowing the last batch of human fire to escape to the starry sky. Ten thousand years ago, the dark turmoil swept the nine heavens. It was he who used the thunder halberd to split the chaos and refined the corpses of the seven ancient emperors into boundary guardian monuments. Why do you think the stone tablets of the Immortal Mausoleum are crying?"

Gai Jiuyou suddenly looked up and saw two lines of stone tears rolling down from the eyes of the stone turtle on the top of the monument. What shocked him even more was that the peeling words formed a picture in the air: the man with the thunder halberd knelt on one knee, allowing the weapons of the seven ancient emperors to pierce his body, but used his other hand to push the human child into the crack of time and space.

"he is……"

“Don’t ask for the name.” The shadow suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of the lightning. “When all seven forbidden areas awaken and the nine boundary guardian monuments resonate again, the answer will be revealed. Now, go tell all the human races - light the metamorphosis lamp and prepare to welcome... the returning gravekeeper.”

The cold pool at the bottom of the sacred spring suddenly boiled, and nine golden beams of light rose from the bottom of the pool, projecting nine overlapping pupils on the water surface. The old blind man living in the ruins of the gods suddenly trembled, and the abacus in his hand "clattered" and scattered - that was the Sky Eye Technique he had practiced for three thousand years, but at this moment it completely collapsed under the gaze of the nine overlapping pupils.

"Yes... the Nine-fold Pupil has appeared!"

Above the ancient spring, Gai Jiuyou and his human masters retreated one after another. They had heard the legend of the Ruins of Gods. It was said that there was a great ancient master sleeping here, with a divine eye that could see through the past and the future, but because he had seen too many secrets of the heavens, he sealed himself under the Holy Spring. At this moment, the figure rising from the cold pool was covered with crystal-like scales, and each scale reflected a different starry sky.

“After three thousand years, someone finally made me open my eyes.” Jiuchongtong’s voice was like the sound of a spring, but it was chilling. “Gai Jiuyou, you have the aura of the Emperor Yuhua. He promised me that if the human race encountered disaster again, he would let me see… the true appearance of that lord.”

Before he finished speaking, his nine pupils suddenly shrank violently, and the water in the pond turned into thousands of water droplets suspended in the air. Each droplet became a small mirror, and together they pieced together the image of the man with the thunder halberd. Gai Jiuyou was surprised to find that on the hem of the man's clothes, there was not a star track embroidered, but a winding chain, and each chain was engraved with a different forbidden area name - the ancient forbidden land, the Taichu ancient mine, the Samsara Sea...

“So that’s how it is.” Jiuchongtong sighed, and water droplets burst one after another. “He has never been a great emperor, but a prisoner of… a restricted area. Those so-called restricted areas of life are actually shackles that trap him. Each immortal chain is connected to the laws of heaven. Once broken, the order of the entire universe will collapse.”

Gai Jiuyou felt that his worldview was collapsing: "But the power he just displayed is beyond the reach of even the Ancient Emperor..."

“Power?” Jiuchongtong suddenly sneered, “What do you think those lightnings are? They are the thirty-three heavenly thunder tribulations that he watered with his own blood essence, and each thunder tribulation is devouring his essence. Now he is just a spent force, but he still has to resist the backlash of the seven forbidden areas for the sake of the human race.” The water droplets condensed into a pool of water again, and the figure gradually sank, “Go tell everyone, stop looking up at the stars, it’s us who should kneel down.”

The island floating in the starry sky suddenly hummed, and countless tombs on the surface of the island lit up green lights at the same time. The buried souls of ancient gods and demons were now bowing in the same direction. The huge black shadow in the center of the island stopped. Its body was composed of thick corpse gas, but in the moment when the lightning swept through, it gradually condensed into a vague human shape. (End of this chapter)