Fights Break Sphere: Purple Thunder Emperor

Chapter 391 This is far more terrifying than the Soul Clan!
"Is this the Gate of Life and Death?"

The pitch-black stone gate stands majestically on the cliff behind the Yunlan Sect, its surface faintly visible to be covered with strange, ancient patterns resembling meridians.

Xiao Bai stood before the precipice, his black robe fluttering in the biting mountain wind, constantly scrutinizing the hundred-foot-tall stone gate before him, a strange light gradually appearing in his eyes.

He had recently seen another stone gate, much larger than this one, but that was the work of a Dou Di and the source of Zhu Kun's suppression. However, the stone gate in front of him seemed even more ancient and weathered than that one.

"That's right. According to the sect's records, it was here that Ancestor Yun Potian discovered this stone gate and established the Yunlan Sect."

Yun Yun, holding Xiao Bai's arm, noticed his apparent interest in the Gate of Life and Death, and began to recount everything she knew:
"This is also a place that every generation of young sect leader of Yunlan Sect must enter. I remember when I was still a Great Dou Master, I was officially established as the young sect leader of the sect, and then I went in once. The wind attribute inside is very violent and rich, which is extremely suitable for cultivating Yunlan Sect techniques, but it is also very dangerous. Back then, I was curious and almost did not make it out."

As she spoke, a lingering fear seemed to remain in her beautiful eyes.

"Oh?"

Xiao Bai raised an eyebrow, a hint of interest in his eyes. This stone gate was not Yun Potian's work, and it seemed to be even older than the gate of Tuoshe. It should have no connection with the Xiao family or the Xiao clan.

He took a step forward, directly crossing the spatial barrier in front of him. Although this barrier was old and lacked maintenance, and was on the verge of collapse, he could naturally tell that it was the work of a Dou Zun.

Arriving at the stone gate, Xiao Bai reached out and stroked the mottled stone patterns. A tiny golden arc of lightning landed on it from his fingertip, but it disappeared without a trace, as if it had vanished into thin air.

"Space?"

He could sense that just a moment ago, a strange spatial fluctuation trembled within the stone gate, and the lightning disappeared into the endless void the instant it struck.

A hint of surprise flashed in Yun Yun's eyes. She had naturally witnessed the power of the Demon-Slaying Divine Thunder. She only knew that the stone door was very hard and that no matter what method she used, she could not leave a mark on it. But she did not expect that the Golden Thunder would be so powerful.

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

Xiao Bai took Yun Yun's hand and looked at the constantly distorting space in the door frame, his eyes filled with even more curiosity.

"Be careful. Our sect's cultivation level was too low in the past, and we may have underestimated this Gate of Life and Death!"

Yun Yun took a deep breath to suppress the shock in her heart. Now she also had the cultivation of a two-star Dou Zun, so she was naturally no longer the Dou Huang she used to be.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of everything!"

Xiao Bai smiled, took a step, and plunged into the stone gate with Yun Yun.

The world is spinning.

The space was unnaturally distorted, as if one were in a kaleidoscope. Countless prism-like fragments of space reflected the distorted figures of the two. Xiao Bai felt that the spatial energy beneath his feet was unusually dense, giving him a contradictory illusion that he could take an infinitely long step, yet he was stuck in place.

When he regained his balance, he found himself standing on a floating boulder with Yunyun.

Looking back, the stone gate was still behind me, but it looked like a painting embedded in the void, appearing extremely unreal.

Xiao Bai withdrew his gaze from the stone gate and began to survey his surroundings.

This is a desolate starry sky, with only a few specks of light shining from the endless depths, and countless boulders of varying sizes floating silently.

In the distance, dark spatial rifts appeared and disappeared intermittently, like invisible behemoths tearing at the void. Each time a rift appeared, it was accompanied by a piercing whistling sound, the sound of gale-force winds passing through the spatial fissures.

"The pure, strong wind energy emanating from those cracks is the best supplement for cultivating the Yunlan Sect's techniques."

A bitter smile appeared on Yun Yun's lips:
"However, as you can see, the spatial rifts here are completely unpredictable. It's only slightly safer near the Gate of Life and Death, but it's not absolutely safe either. In the past, people from the Yunlan Sect only dared to stay near the stone gate and had to be careful of the spatial rifts that could appear at any time."

"Hehe. Your ancestor had good judgment. No wonder he set up the sect here!" Xiao Bai nodded with a smile in his eyes.

He now understood why Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran had both reached the peak of the Dou Wang realm when they left from here. The space near the stone gate was relatively stable, but precisely because of this, the energy of the gale was thin, requiring a period of recovery for people to cultivate to the peak of the Dou Wang realm.

Of course, if there were a Dou Zun protecting them, they could naturally go deep inside to collect the pure power of the gale, but unfortunately, the Yunlan Sect hasn't even had a Dou Zong in recent years.

Just then, Xiao Bai's eyes narrowed slightly. He saw a boulder floating by, covered with cracks. One of the cracks almost split the boulder in two. The edges of the crack were as smooth as a mirror, clearly indicating that it had been cleaved open by some kind of sharp weapon.

This wouldn't have been a problem, but he sensed a lingering, sharp sword intent emanating from it. This sword intent was quite unusual, actually causing a slight stinging sensation in his soul.

His soul is now infinitely close to the Heavenly Realm.

The fact that this sword intent could give him this feeling means it could not possibly have been left by someone from the Yunlan Sect.

"According to the patriarch's notes, a great event must have occurred here a long time ago. There are still remnants of the seal near the Gate of Life and Death. He entered it by chance. Many of the sword techniques of the Yunlan Sect were comprehended by him while he was sitting here for many years, on some floating pebbles!"

Yunyun noticed his unusual behavior, followed his gaze, and suddenly realized what was happening. She explained softly.

A long time ago?

The sword intent left by the passage of time still had such a feeling. A look of surprise immediately appeared in Xiao Bai's eyes. This was something that only a Dou Sheng could do. And it was not an ordinary Dou Sheng.

He reached out and beckoned, and the boulder instantly changed direction, floating straight toward them.

The boulder slowly floated to Xiao Bai's front, and the shocking crack looked even more ferocious at close range.

Xiao Bai lightly touched the edge of the crack with his fingertips and immediately felt an extremely sharp sword intent rushing straight into his mind.

"Humph!"

He snorted coldly, and the Tai Chi diagram within his body trembled, automatically protecting its master. Golden and black lightning surged through his meridians, instantly shattering the sword intent that had invaded his body.

But the stinging sensation made Xiao Bai's pupils shrink slightly—this sword intent could actually penetrate his battle qi defense!
"What's wrong?" Yun Yun noticed something was wrong and quickly took his arm.

Xiao Bai waved his hand, indicating that he was fine. Just as he was about to close his eyes to feel the sword intent that had just entered his body, a flash of light appeared on the boulder.

Startled, he grabbed Yun Yun's slender waist and quickly retreated.

"Human, die!"

A deep roar echoed throughout the desolate starry sky.

Xiao Bai looked up and was immediately shocked. He saw a huge black shadow roaring to the sky, its voice filled with endless bloodlust.

The moment he looked up, his gaze met that of the shadowy figure. His mind exploded, and a surge of evil and savage rage welled up within him, threatening to consume his reason.

"Damn it!"

Xiao Bai suddenly snapped back to his senses, cursing inwardly. How could an image have such a domineering influence? The Tai Chi diagram within his body immediately began to spin rapidly, instantly suppressing the fierce and evil intent in his heart.

"kill!"

A sharp shout came from beside him, and Xiao Bai's expression changed slightly. He hurriedly turned his head to look and saw that Yun Yun's clear eyes were now glowing red, and a sharp killing intent suddenly spread from her body.

"Wake up!" Xiao Bai flashed and appeared in front of her. Golden light burst from his fingertips as he lightly touched her brow. With a loud shout, a powerful soul force continuously rippled out.

Yun Yun's body trembled. After a moment of intertwining red and golden light in her eyes, the golden light slowly dispelled the red light, and her eyes gradually regained their clarity.

"punish!"

Just then, a cold shout, like the clash of metal and stone, rang out in the void. Then, to the astonishment of the two, a sword beam that pierced the sky and shattered the earth suddenly ripped through the void.

The sword light was as dazzling as a cascading galaxy, shattering space wherever it passed. The will contained within the sword light was pure and fierce, as if it wanted to split the starry sky in two.

Xiao Bai's pupils contracted sharply, and he instinctively shielded Yun Yun behind him.

Even just the lingering pressure in the image made his hair stand on end—this was absolutely the most terrifying sword intent he had ever seen!

"clang--"

The deafening clang of metal against metal resounded through the void.

The instant the sword's edge collided with the dark figure, a blinding white light engulfed the entire field of vision. Xiao Bai felt his very soul tremble, and he quickly activated the Tai Chi diagram to protect himself and Yun Yun behind him.

"Crack."

With a soft crack of breaking glass, the scene shattered instantly, and the starry sky returned to silence, as if the moment before had been nothing more than a hallucination for the two of them.

"Ah Niu, what was that just now?"

Yun Yun slowly came to her senses, her pretty face somewhat pale. Just a moment ago, she had only exchanged a glance with the dark figure, and she felt an endless killing intent filling her heart, almost causing her to lose her mind.

After a moment of silence, Xiao Bai uttered two words in a somewhat hoarse voice:

"The Evil Race."

Although he had never seen the evil race before, judging from the sinister and ferocious aura he had just witnessed, the fact that the shadowy figure, though humanoid, referred to others as human, and the evil that had invaded their minds, he was absolutely certain that he had not made a mistake.

Little did I expect that a moment of curiosity leading me to touch the stone would uncover such a shocking secret.
The evil race once visited the Dou Qi Continent.

And inside this Gate of Life and Death was actually the battlefield left behind back then.

Xiao Bai's words made Yun Yun tremble. She had never heard of the term "evil race" before, but the terrifying oppression brought by the dark figure just now made her instinctively shudder.

"I never imagined that there would be such dangers inside the Gate of Life and Death, besides the spatial storm rift. The Yunlan Sect has never had any records of this in all these years. Even the Ancestor Yun Potian didn't seem to have encountered such a situation back then!"

Yun Yun didn't press for details about what the Evil Clan was. Seeing Xiao Bai, who was usually calm and collected, now with his brows furrowed, she knew that it was no ordinary clan.

"Yun'er, are you saying I'm a jinx?" Xiao Bai's emotions subsided as he looked at the beautiful figure beside him with amusement.

"Pah! What 'jinx'? That sounds awful! I'm just telling you that none of the Yunlan Sect's ancestors ever triggered such an image. You should be careful!"

Yun Yun rolled her eyes at him, thinking, "What a ungrateful fellow."

"hehe."

Xiao Bai smiled and gently squeezed the slightly cool jade hand in his hand. He didn't say anything. Of course he knew this. Yun'er had said before that Yun Potian had comprehended sword intent here. He didn't believe that the latter hadn't touched this thing. If he had really triggered it, given how much he was affected just now, there might not have been a Yunlan Sect later on.

"Let's go back first!"

Xiao Bai gazed deeply into the depths of the starry sky, a strong sense of apprehension flashing in his eyes. He had originally planned to go deeper inside to take a look at the starry sky beyond the door, but at this moment, he had no desire to explore it at all.

Damn, if a supreme being suddenly appeared and shouted "Humans, die!", he'd probably have a heart attack.

Xiao Bai quickly led Yun Yun out of the Gate of Life and Death. When the two figures reappeared in front of the cliff, Yun Yun's eyes were still somewhat shaken.

"What do you plan to do about this Gate of Life and Death?"

Yun Yun turned her head and saw Xiao Bai gazing thoughtfully at the stone gate, so she asked softly.

At this moment, she was equally wary of her family's training grounds, which had been passed down for hundreds of years. In the past, she was fearless because of her ignorance, so she didn't think much of it. But just now, a single image had almost tricked her, so she dared not let any more disciples enter.

Xiao Bai did not answer immediately. He lightly touched his brow with his fingertip. In an instant, the vertical line between his brows shimmered with a faint light, and a chaotic vertical eye slowly opened, ethereal and majestic.

"Ok?"

Yun Yun's pretty eyes immediately widened in shock, not because of Xiao Bai's eyes, but because of the stone gate.

The moment Xiao Bai's mysterious vertical pupil between his brows landed on the stone door, a strong light burst forth from it, and the space in front of the door rippled slowly like a curtain of light.

The light twisted and turned, forming strange patterns on the spatial light. In an instant, characters appeared in Yun Yun's eyes.

"This is... a message left by someone before?" Yun Yun asked in surprise.

"Hmm? Yun'er, you recognize these characters?" Xiao Bai's voice seemed to have sound effects added, echoing in the void.

"what?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Yun Yun's eyes. She turned her head to look at Xiao Bai beside her and asked curiously:
"You don't recognize these ancient characters?"

In her eyes, Xiao Bai was almost omniscient and nothing could stump him. She never expected that this wicked guy would have things he didn't know.

"Speak quickly, or tonight you'll be punished according to family rules!" Xiao Bai kept the Eye of Chaos active, his voice carrying a hint of threatening laughter.

Yun Yun's pretty face flushed slightly, and she cursed this shameless man inwardly, but she didn't dare to delay and carefully examined the text on the light screen:

"Brother Chixiao, I have fulfilled my mission. I have stopped all the evil races on this road. However, during the fierce battle, my enemy and I discovered a strange passage. I also sensed the presence of the mission envoy, so we both entered the passage. Our return date is uncertain, so please do not worry!"

After Yun Yun finished reading the last word, the text on the light screen gradually faded away, returning to calm. Xiao Bai's vertical pupils closed, but his brows furrowed even more tightly.

"Crimson Sky: The Strange Passage for Mission Quests"

He repeated these keywords in a low voice, his eyes gleaming with contemplation.

Yun Yun gently grasped his hand: "This message looks like it was left by someone for someone named 'Chixiao'. And it mentions 'evil race'. Could it be that the terrifying sword light from before was unleashed by him?"

"Maybe!"

Xiao Bai smiled. It seemed that the powerful figure who left the message inside the gate had taken away all the evil race members inside. This put his mind at ease.

If he hadn't known this news, he would have been quite worried; it was far more terrifying than the Soul Clan!
The Soul Clan is at most confined to a single Central Continent, while the Evil Clan is confined to the entire continent.

(End of this chapter)