Martial arts ascend to the gods

Chapter 577 Cheng Dao
Zhou Leng quickly stood up and stared intently at the siren.

The group of sirens glanced at Zhou Leng, then suddenly laughed, and spoke as they laughed.

Zhou Leng activated the translation function of the magical wristwatch, converting their language into text.

"I really don't know whether to say this human is lucky or unlucky. If you say he's unlucky, he was fortunate enough to enter the ancient ruins. If you say he's lucky, he met us."

"This place seems quite attractive to humans; no wonder that bastard Blood of Tyranny was the first to discover it."

"If the blood of tyranny can advance to demigod status here, so can our Azure Royal Family!"

"Your Highness, the future of the Azure Royal Family depends entirely on you..."

These sea monsters were all at the Great Innate level, among them the prince known as Azure Sword, who was at the Innate King level.

Zhou Leng wanted to get more information, so he didn't stop them and kept recording. When they heard about the Blood of Tyranny, he started recording a video.

These sirens were confident of victory and didn't take any humans seriously at all. They said whatever they wanted, completely unconcerned.

Zhou Leng gradually understood the whole story.

It turns out that the Azure Royal Family was not only the culprit who killed the parents of the Tyrannical Bloodline, but also the mastermind behind the attacks on the Tyrannical Bloodline, both openly and secretly.

Before Tyrannical Blood ascended to the Martial Saint realm, he had always kept his anger towards the Azure Royal Family hidden.

Until he ascended to demigod status, he attacked and killed the Azure Royal Family demigod, wiping out the entire clan.

The Azure Royal Family has a history spanning thousands of years, with influence spreading across various regions. A small number of its descendants have fled to different places.

Long before Tyrannical Blood ascended to the Grandmaster level and became famous throughout the Ten Realms, the Azure Royal Family was secretly investigating Tyrannical Blood, suspecting that he had some secrets.

But the blood of tyranny was never revealed to outsiders, and they never had the chance.

Unfortunately, the Blood of Tyranny entered the Ancient River Ruins too many times, and even fought with humans over the Ancient River Jade Tablet. In the end, the Azure Royal Family discovered clues about it.

Over the years, the Azure Royal Family has been searching for the whereabouts of the ancient river ruins in the relevant sea areas, and has even used the extremely rare treasure "Light-Seeking Fish".

This azure sword belongs to the person in charge of this sea area.

Fortunately, he finally discovered the ancient river ruins.

Unfortunately, the entire clan was almost wiped out.

Zhou Leng kept looking at the translated text.

These sirens have already set their sights on the Azure Sword, hoping to become the next Tyrant Blood. They will gain the power of the ruins, strive to improve themselves, and eventually ascend to demigod status to kill the Tyrant Blood.

Zhou Leng discovered that the reason these sea monsters didn't attack wasn't because they underestimated the enemy, but because they were worried about some kind of curse or restriction here.

It seems these sirens are a bit more rational than normal sirens.

While reading the text translation, Zhou Leng also observed his surroundings.

The surrounding buildings are distinctly in an ancient Eastern style, and are extremely similar in style to the first ancient river sect site, the "Chuan Gong Hall".

Moreover, the environments are also very similar.

Both ruins are located in a mountain range, on the mountaintop.

Some of the mountains looked vaguely familiar to Zhou Leng, as if he had seen them before in the Hall of Transmission of Skills.

So he took out the video he had recorded at the Ancient River Sect and compared it carefully.

Sure enough, the mountains in the two places are extremely similar.

By comparing the two mountains, their approximate locations and distances were determined.

However, in the previous video of the Transmission Hall, it was an empty mountain.

Looking at the mountain where the Hall of Transmission of Merit is located from here, it is also an empty mountain.

Zhou Leng looked at the dilapidated buildings.

On a half-collapsed hall, a plaque is crooked, with a three-dimensional divine script carved on it.

Zhou Leng looked at it carefully for a while, pondered it deeply, and quickly translated it into two parts.

Inheriting the Way.

As Master Wu said, the outer sect has the Hall of Transmission of Skills, and the inner sect has the Hall of Inheritance of the Way.

However, the Chengdao Hall was too badly damaged, and Wu Fuzi's power could not reach here.

Zhou Leng suddenly looked helpless because he had discovered a serious problem.

Aside from the map, Tyranny of Blood didn't reveal any other important information.

Fortunately, I had served as his and Wu Fuzi's translator, so I knew a little bit about it.

At this moment, the azure sword with golden scales on its face walked over and asked in siren language, "Hello, human, do you speak siren language?"

Zhou Leng looked blank, then waved his hand to indicate that he didn't understand.

Unexpectedly, Azure Sword glanced at the enchanted wristwatch, revealed an indifferent smile, and switched to slightly off-key Dragon Language, saying, "Then let's communicate in human language. Hello, I am Azure Sword."

"Hello, my name is... Hu Yi," Zhou Leng said.

Azure Sword recalled briefly and realized that there was no innate master among the human race named Hu Yi, and his smile widened.

He clasped his hands in a fist salute, just like a human, and said, "I'd really like to know, how did you find out about this place?"

"I stumbled upon a treasure map and entered this place," Zhou Leng said, spouting complete nonsense.

"Oh? Can I borrow it to take a look?"

"Unfortunately, it disappeared when we entered."

"That's a pity. I came to find you for no other reason than this. This place should be an ancient ruin, which may be related to us sea monsters or you humans. How about we join forces? If you are not at ease, we can swear an oath to the sea god."

Zhou Leng thought to himself that he was not a three-year-old child, and that the siren's oath was no match for a dog's bark. However, he was not clear about the situation here, so he said, "No problem. As long as you cooperate sincerely, I will definitely cooperate sincerely in return."

“That’s great! Based on our guess, this should be a trial ground. The nearest palace is collapsed, and there’s a door on the side. That door should lead to some kind of trial.”

"Have you gone in?"

"No, we just arrived recently and are still searching for clues."

"What have you all discovered?"

"I wouldn't call it a discovery, but rather a lot of speculation. For example, there's a powerful force protecting this place, because the ground is very clean, and so on..." The Azure Sword generously shared a lot, seemingly without holding anything back.

Zhou Leng simply listened, trying to guess the Azure Sword's intentions.

Finally, the Azure Sword said, "I hope we can work together to overcome the trials and reap the final rewards. What do you say?"

"of course."

The Azure Sword reached out, and the two clasped hands.

He withdrew the azure sword, walked back to the other sea monsters, and muttered to himself.

"The good news is that this human hasn't reached the realm of perpetual true qi, so he's not very strong. The bad news is that this human's body is quite strong, and he may possess a powerful physical extraordinary body."

"Are we really going to cooperate with him?"

"As long as he's willing to cooperate with us, there's no one we can't work with. We have only one goal: to eliminate the tyrannical bloodline!"

"Slay the tyrannical blood!" the blue-skinned sirens roared in unison.

Having heard this phrase countless times, Zhou Leng knew exactly what they were talking about without even needing to look at the translation.

Zhou Leng walked to the entrance of Chengdao Hall and looked inside.

The main hall collapsed, but the main entrance was still shrouded in a pale blue light curtain.

Zhou Leng had experience with the Transmission Hall and knew that the Inheritance Hall was most likely used for sacrifices or ceremonies, and should not be entered unless absolutely necessary.

There is no bronze furnace in the Transmission Hall here, so it is highly unlikely that it can be activated.

At this moment, Azure Sword led his men over and smiled, "Human friend, won't you go in and take a look?"

Zhou Leng shook his head and said, "I'm too timid to go in. Even if there are treasures, I wouldn't dare take them."

Seeing that he was tall and strong, with a blank expression, and didn't seem timid or cowardly at all, no one believed him.

Looking at their expressions, Zhou Leng realized that he still lacked experience and needed more practice.

"Now that we're cooperating, and I've already shown you a lot of sincerity, shouldn't it be your turn to show sincerity?"

Zhou Leng raised his hand and pointed to the crooked plaque above, saying, "This place is shown on the treasure map. It's called Chengdao Hall. Is my sincerity enough?"

"Uh...which one is 'cheng'? Which one is 'dao'?"

“Inheriting the laws of Heaven and establishing the Way for the people.” Zhou Leng directly translated this divine text.

Azure Sword looked embarrassed and said, "Your sincerity is indeed very good, but... you should still write it down."

Zhou Leng saw that this guy's Mandarin was only half-baked, so he wrote it down.

The Azure Sword looked at it for a long time before translating it into Siren language and speaking to the other Sirens.

The sirens looked excited, and several were eager to try.

"What do you think?" Azure Sword asked Zhou Leng.

“This is no ordinary place. We are probably not qualified. It would be best to maintain basic respect for our ancestors,” Zhou Leng said.

To be honest, this main hall, which is obviously only opened on a few occasions, is not something that even the senior disciples of our sect can enter and exit at will, let alone sea monsters. At least it requires the level of elders.

The sirens were buzzing with discussion, while Zhou Leng checked the translation of the demonized wristwatch.

"I think we should be cautious." Azure Sword was clearly very rational.

"You can try it."

"Who's going?"

"I want to try. They didn't die from the Bloodthirsty Bloodline, they must have been here before..."

After discussing for a while, one of the sirens, a burly blue-skinned sirens, could no longer contain himself and charged forward.

Zhou Leng thought to himself that the siren had finally returned to normal; a volatile siren was a good siren.

The siren plunged headfirst into the blue light curtain, and in an instant, lightning crackled and spread out like a net.

Crackling...

Dense arcs of electricity exploded, enveloping the siren and instantly turning it into white ash, which fell to the ground in a thick layer.

The sirens retreated in terror.

Zhou Leng ignored them and circled the square in front of Chengdao Hall, carefully examining the surroundings and even looking at some pebbles and vegetation.

Finally, head towards the side door on the left.

When the sea monsters saw Zhou Leng enter the side door without any hindrance, they immediately followed and passed through together.

"Phew..." The sirens, including Azure Sword, breathed a sigh of relief. They would have to be careful from now on.

Zhou Leng walked through the side door and looked around the new place.

It also features a main hall with two side doors.

Above the main hall, on a plaque, is written a divine script.

Thousands of instruments.

Previously, Tyrannical Blood had told Martial Master that this was a trial ground. After completing the trial ground, one could enter the third courtyard.

In the third courtyard, there is a mural of "Celestial Maiden Flying to Heaven," and the consciousness of the goddess is hidden within the mural.

I don't know the details.

"Human friend, what does it say on this sign?"

"A thousand refinements forge materials, ten thousand grindings for perfect craftsmanship," Zhou Leng said.

"Benevolence and righteousness!" Azure Sword's opinion of Zhou Leng changed drastically.

Zhou Leng stood in front of the Thousand Weapons Hall, looking around.

Below the steps at the entrance of the Thousand Artifacts Hall stand three oval bronze mirrors with dragons and phoenixes intertwined, each about three meters tall.

(End of this chapter)