Honghuang Taihuang

Chapter 254 The Underworld

Tian Si had been leading his team to hunt other divine beasts in order to accumulate merits and gain a chance to enter the Blood Lake. However, he had not accumulated enough merits yet. Looking at Tai Wei walking into the Blood Lake step by step, a look of envy flashed in Tian Si's eyes.

Taiwei remained calm as he stepped into the blood lake under the watchful eyes of Tianjue and Tiansi. The blood surged and waves rose, and Taiwei's body was quickly and completely submerged in the surging blood.

Tian Jue looked at the churning blood lake, pressed down with his five fingers, and the layers of purplish-black spiritual light on the blood lake closed up, sealing off the spiritual energy escaping from the blood lake.

At this moment, Tian Si reluctantly swallowed the last wisp of spiritual energy escaping from the Blood Lake, bowed to Tian Kuang, and left the palace.

Within the Blood Lake, Taiwei manipulated Tianhuang's body into five male vipers, which devoured the essence within the Blood Lake and continued to grow stronger. Taiwei could see through the true nature of this Blood Lake at a glance.

The so-called Blood Lake is actually a lake formed from a drop of Tianqi's heart blood fused with the essence of countless Heavenly Serpents. Over the years, the Blood Lake has become increasingly pure through the continuous refinement of the Heavenly Serpents' essence within the ancient Serpent Clan.

Even a Primordial True Saint at the Taiyi Realm who enters this Blood Lake will be affected by the incomplete will and inheritance left behind by Tianchi, revealing their true aura.

In the past, the Celestial Serpent Clan used this method to eliminate spies who had infiltrated the clan, but this method was ineffective against Taiwei, who was also a top-tier Primordial True Saint.

As fellow top-tier Primordial True Saints, even after countless years of growth, Tianqi's efforts could never shake Taiwei's will.

The purple celestial serpent's spiritual light was absorbed and eroded by Taiwei with his own dragon vein power. The celestial serpent essence belonging to Tianchi in the blood lake was refined by Taiwei and then merged into the body of the five-headed male serpent. The fusion of the bloodline from the celestial serpent clan's ancestor caused the bloodline of the five-headed male serpent to begin a new round of transformation.

A massive crimson vortex appeared in the center of the blood lake, and the scarlet blood was decreasing at a visible rate. Tian Jue, who was sitting on the throne, suddenly changed his expression.

This Blood Lake is one of the foundations of the Heavenly Serpent Clan. Tian Jue is only temporarily in charge of it. If any problems arise, he cannot bear the responsibility.

However, just as Tianjue was about to stop the Blood Lake from operating, the swirling vortex on the surface of the Blood Lake stopped, and layers of viscous blood slid down, revealing a gigantic seven-headed king serpent slowly emerging from the center of the Blood Lake.

Seven long, slender snake heads were scattered around, and the aura belonging to the Taiyi realm made Tian Jue's face show a look of wild joy. A seven-headed king snake of the Taiyi realm was already equivalent to a Taiyi realm innate true saint.

Such bloodline strength can be considered top-tier among the current Heavenly Serpent Clan. Even Tian Jue's own Cultivation Serpent bloodline is much weaker than the Seven-Headed King Serpent bloodline. With such a being born, it's not a big deal that the Blood Lake loses some blood.

The seven-headed king serpent shrank back into Tianhuang's form. However, at this moment, snake-head-shaped patterns appeared one after another on Tianhuang's purple clothes, and his temperament underwent a dramatic change.

Taiwei stared at Tianjue with his dark purple eyes. Even with Tianjue's late-stage Taiyi realm cultivation, he felt a slight tremor in his heart. However, in just an instant, all the cold aura on Taiwei's body had disappeared.

As the blood lake disappeared, Taiwei sensed the power of the seven-headed king serpent's body. A thoughtful look flashed in his eyes. He originally cultivated the Mountain and Sea Dragon Path, and his own body transformed into a pure-blooded true dragon, extremely strong and yang.

Now, this seven-headed king serpent body has undergone the tempering of the Heavenly Blood and a massive amount of Heavenly Serpent Clan essence, and has transformed into a pure-blooded Heavenly Serpent with an extremely good nature, possessing the essence of extreme yin and gentleness.

The dragon of ultimate yang and the snake of ultimate yin, combining the nature of dragon and snake, Taiwei can sense that its own essence is undergoing a gradual transformation.

The Great Dao of Yin and Yang runs through the entire primordial world. If Taiwei could transform his seven-headed king serpent body into a nine-headed Xiangliu, perhaps he could use his dragon and serpent nature to glimpse the mysteries of the Great Luo Daojun realm ahead of time.

As Taiwei carefully considered this possibility in his mind, he began to chat with Tianjue, who was excited. Having passed the test of the Blood Lake, Taiwei had gained Tianjue's absolute trust, so Tianjue also told Taiwei the true situation of the Heavenly Serpent Clan.

Just as Taiwei had guessed, after being defeated by the True Dragon Clan in the past, the Heavenly Serpent Clan had concealed all its power and hidden itself in the Great Wilderness. Serpent King Mountain was merely a base that the Heavenly Serpent Clan openly displayed in the Great Wilderness.

The true ancestral home of Tianshe Mountain is not in the Southern Region of the Primordial Wilderness, or even in the Primordial Continent. After years of recuperation, the strength of the Tianshe Clan is still far from its peak, but it far surpasses that of ordinary Primordial Great Clans.

According to Tian Jue's account, there are currently three powerful beings at the Taiyi realm in the Heavenly Serpent Clan, and Tian Jue is one of them. Above these three powerful beings at the Taiyi realm, there is also Tian Shi, who has just transformed into the Primordial True Saint and wields the Heavenly Serpent Clan's supreme treasure, the Heavenly Serpent Mace.

Tian Shi was a powerful being born at the beginning of creation. His true form was a pure-blooded celestial serpent. After Tian Chi was defeated in battle, Tian Shi immediately led most of the elite celestial serpents into hiding, allowing the celestial serpents to preserve some of their strength.

Not long ago, after Tian Shi fell, without the suppression of Xu Yemai, the ancestor of the Heavenly Serpent Clan, Tian Shi finally succeeded in transforming into the Primordial True Saint and became the current ruler of the Heavenly Serpent Clan, that is, the Serpent Head of the Heavenly Serpent Clan.

Aside from this Primordial True Saint and three powerful beings at the Taiyi realm, the Heavenly Serpent Clan also possesses three thousand powerful beings at the Golden Immortal realm. Such strength is enough to sweep away all the great clans of the prehistoric world except for the five royal clans.

Upon hearing Tianjue's account of the Heavenly Serpent Clan's situation, Taiwei remained outwardly calm, but inwardly he harbored murderous intent. Although Tianchi was dead, he was still the original ancestor of the Heavenly Serpent Clan. Taiwei himself did not know how the Heavenly Serpent Clan viewed Taiwei for killing Tianchi.

Furthermore, Taiwei, who killed the first ancestor of the Heavenly Serpent Clan, has already formed an indelible karmic bond with the Heavenly Serpent Clan. Taiwei cannot allow the Heavenly Serpent Clan to return to its peak, nor can he allow the Heavenly Serpent Clan to revive.

Taiwei, his heart churning with killing intent, remained silent and followed Tian Kuang to the deepest part of Snake King Mountain. In a dark cave, Taiwei saw dozens of pure-blooded celestial serpents whose cultivation had reached the Golden Immortal realm. Behind these dozens of pure-blooded celestial serpents was a constantly rotating vortex of starry sea.

Upon seeing Tian Jue's arrival, the dozens of pure-blooded celestial serpents bowed deeply. The leader of the pure-blooded celestial serpents chanted some mysterious incantation in a low voice, and the constantly spinning vortex of the star sea slowly came to a stop.

"Over the years, my Heavenly Serpent Clan has been hiding in the shadows, focusing on development. Our strength has already approached its former peak. What you are about to see is the true ancestral home of my Heavenly Serpent Clan. You will definitely be surprised."

Tianjue looked at Taiwei beside him and spoke, his tone full of admiration and reverence for the ancestral court of the Heavenly Serpent Clan. Taiwei smiled at Tianjue and said, "Ah, I will definitely be surprised..."

Tianjue and Taiwei entered the vortex of the starry sea one after another. Taiwei's eyes were filled with dazzling light as she felt the flow of the great power of spacetime.

The distance and stability of this star vortex transmission are far inferior to Yang Mei's spacetime gate, but it still traversed billions of miles of mountains and rivers in an instant.

After a few dozen breaths, the flowing sea of ​​stars around them all came to a standstill, and a void radiating purple light appeared in front of Tianjue and Taiwei. Tianjue was the first to pass through the void, and Taiwei followed suit.

The moment Taiwei stepped out of the Star Sea vortex, his expression changed slightly. Looking at the desolate, bleak, and dark world before him, a look of surprise appeared on his face: "This really surprises me. I never expected that the Heavenly Serpent Clan would hide in the Netherworld. Has this place of life and death already been conceived?"

What came into Taiwei's view was the Netherworld, which was still in the process of being conceived. Taiwei had not paid attention to the Netherworld before, and he thought that this place of life and death had not yet been conceived.

Now, Taiwei deduced the secrets of heaven and discovered that this world has already given birth to a main body. Although it is not yet fully evolved, it is already vast and boundless, and living beings and cultivators can enter it to cultivate.

However, although the laws of heaven and earth in the Netherworld are considered to be subordinate to the Great Dao of the Primordial World, the nature of the Great Dao rules in the Netherworld is cold and lifeless, completely different from the Great Dao of the Primordial World.

Alternatively, it can be said that the Primordial World and the Netherworld can be regarded as two worlds with completely different Daos.

Therefore, in the Netherworld, most of the Great Daos of the Primordial World cannot operate or extend, which makes it impossible for most races and cultivators of the Primordial World to adapt to the laws of the Netherworld and survive in it.

However, this was not a problem for Taiwei. Taiwei was a top-level Primordial True Saint, and such a lofty position was enough for Taiwei to quickly adjust his foundation and energy, and perfectly integrate into the Netherworld.

Not to mention that Taiwei's current foundational Dao is the Mountain and Sea Dragon Dao. Taiwei can perfectly adapt to any place with dragon veins. Although the Netherworld is the place of life and death in the future, it also has an extremely large number of dragon veins.

Although the dragon veins of the Netherworld have different attributes and structures than those of the Primordial World, they are essentially the same. Therefore, Taiwei integrated his own energy into the Netherworld in an instant.

Taiwei always felt that something was missing from this Netherworld, and it always looked awkward and empty.

Following behind Tian Jue, Tai Wei observed the Netherworld with great interest. As the future place of life and death in the Primordial World, the overall area of ​​the Netherworld was far smaller than that of the Primordial World, but it was still one percent the size of the Primordial World.

Moreover, this is still the state in which the Netherworld has not yet fully evolved. Once it has fully evolved, according to Taiwei's calculations, the total area of ​​the Netherworld should be able to reach one-tenth of the Great Primordial World.

(End of this chapter)