sonovelo Chapter 1553 Bloody Ink Sea
Chapter 1553 Bloody Ink Sea
Chapter 1553 Bloody Ink Sea
The golden imperial bone's voice was as cold as frost: "Remember your promise. If there is a next time, we will pay the price to ensure your complete annihilation!"
Its words were full of threats, each one carrying a chilling edge.
Wang Xian smiled, turned around, and dragged the Eternal Universe Immortal Emperor, who was bound by the Chaos God Chains, as he steadily stepped into the entrance of the canyon shrouded in blood-red mist.
With each step, the ground trembled slightly, and the chaotic aura condensed into dark golden patterns beneath the feet, as if proclaiming the majesty of the victor.
The three imperial skeletons stared at Wang Xian's departing figure, their auras surging. The Chaos Dragon Emperor roared softly, but in the end, they did not attack Wang Xian, allowing him to leave openly and honestly.
Su Qingyan and the others followed closely behind, each of their robes stained with the marks of battle—Su Qingyan still held her broken jade flute in her hand, the blood seeping from the cracks had congealed into dark red crystals, which shimmered in the dim light, as if they were the crystallization of her blood and tears for this battle.
Yan Yangjun's fire armor was dull and lifeless, with many plates cracked to reveal the charred skin underneath. The flame totems on the surface of the fire armor had also dimmed considerably, and the once blazing flames were now reduced to a few scattered sparks struggling to survive.
After entering the forbidden area of the canyon, the big fat Taoist and the little fat Taoist still looked back into the depths of the forbidden area, as if the pressure of the three imperial bones still tightly locked their souls.
Their legs were still trembling slightly, and their knuckles were white from gripping the magical artifacts so tightly.
The nine Heavenly Lords remained silent; today's events had truly been a great shock to them.
"thump--"
The Eternal Celestial Emperor, bound by the chains of chaos, knelt heavily on the blood-red earth.
The once powerful 'Ten-Turn Immortal Emperor', who wore the Nine-Dragon Imperial Crown and dominated the heavens, now had his hair disheveled like withered grass. The countless soul totems on his ancient robe had long since faded to gray-black, and the corners of his robe were corroded by chaotic energy, leaving countless holes, each hole emitting a faint aura of decay.
He crawled forward on his knees, his forehead slamming against the ground, splattering blood and mud across half his face. His exposed eye sockets were bloodshot, his eyes filled with fear and despair: "My lord! Spare me! I, Yongyu, am willing to give you everything!"
Wang Xian stopped, looking down at the mud-like mass with a cold, icy gaze.
The Emperor Dragon Spear pointed diagonally at the ground, and the chaotic aura dripping from its tip corroded the earth, leaving deep, hissing cracks. Each crack shimmered with eerie blue lightning, which crackled and popped within them, as if mocking the Eternal Universe Immortal Emperor's struggle.
"grown ups!"
The robes of the Eternal Universe Immortal Emperor burst open at the chest, revealing a hideous scar that had not yet healed—the spot where the King Immortal Emperor's dragon spear had pierced through, and now it was oozing dark golden blood.
Fresh blood dripped onto the ground, instantly evaporating into wisps of golden smoke.
Just as Wang Xian was wondering, a jet-black jade tablet flew out from the scar.
The surface of the jade pendant was covered with strange silver patterns, which intertwined to form a twisted pattern of ten thousand souls. Each silver line was emitting tiny soul flames, which were like trapped ghosts, struggling desperately within the patterns.
"This is the 'Ten Thousand Souls Locking Heaven Token,' a supreme treasure that I spent dozens of epochs refining with my heart's blood!"
The jade tablet flew up and landed in front of Wang Xian. Emperor Yongyu's voice cracked with excitement, "This tablet can activate the Myriad Souls Array of the Immortal Palace deep in the forbidden area of the canyon, temporarily imprisoning the three Emperor Bones! If you spare my life, I, Yongyu, am willing to be your slave for life and help you suppress those three Emperor Bones!"
Upon seeing this, Su Qingyan's jade flute trembled slightly and emitted a buzzing sound. The blood streaks at the broken point lit up with the sound of the flute, and a faint blood-colored halo appeared on the surface of the jade flute.
"Wang Xian, this token has an extremely sinister aura; it may be a trap. The pressure from the three Emperor Bones cannot be easily suppressed by any external object."
Her voice was cold, yet filled with worry.
Wang Xian didn't even lift her eyelids, only a cold smile curving her lips.
He had witnessed the terrifying power of three Emperor Bones casually causing the stars to annihilate. Those beings, who stood at the pinnacle of the previous cultivation era, possessed combat power at least at the 'Heavenly Emperor level'. How could a jade tablet refined by an ordinary 'Tenth-Turn Immortal Emperor' early stage cultivator possibly restrain them?
The struggle of the Eternal Universe Immortal Emperor was nothing more than the mournful cry of a trapped beast before its death!
Suddenly, the Emperor Dragon Spear erupted with thousands of light threads, which wrapped around the limbs and bones of the Eternal Universe Immortal Emperor like a spider web. Each light thread was engraved with chaotic runes, which shimmered with mysterious light, as if telling the story of the Eternal Universe Immortal Emperor's fate.
"No! My lord! Please listen to me—"
Emperor Yongyu's pleas for mercy suddenly changed, turning into a heart-wrenching scream.
Wang Xian's Chaos God Chains had already penetrated his body, precisely piercing his 'Immortal Emperor Origin'.
The gray chaotic divine chains writhed like living things, each pull bringing out a string of primordial light beads, which condensed into a blood-red crystal core at the tip of the Emperor Dragon Spear. The surface of the crystal core pulsed with unstable light, as if it were the last spark of life of the Eternal Universe Immortal Emperor.
"Spare me—!"
Emperor Yongyu's body began to become transparent, and the blood vessels under his skin burst like a spider web, with the overflowing primordial power being frantically extracted by the divine chains.
Gradually, the Eternal Celestial Emperor's gaze shifted from pleading to venomous resentment. Black blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, corroding the ground and creating smoking pits. His hoarse curse pierced the blood-red sky: "Immortal King! You will die a horrible death! I curse you with the imperial destiny of the Eternal Dynasty for sixty-three eras—may your soul be scattered and your soul forever fall into the dark abyss!"
"Noisy."
Wang Xian's eyes turned cold, and the Chaos God Chain, which had only been drawing upon the Immortal Emperor's essence, suddenly thickened, transforming into a ferocious dragon head shape, and violently tore apart the Eternal Universe Immortal Emperor's physical essence.
In an instant, the body of the Eternal Universe Immortal Emperor cracked like a punctured blood blister, revealing the burning soul fire beneath.
Emperor Yongyu possesses a special physique called the 'Blood Soul Overlord Body', and the origin of this physique has now been forcibly stripped away by Wang Xian, turning into a stream of blood-red light that is swept into the Emperor Dragon Spear, causing the world-destroying patterns on the spear to shine three times brighter.
"what--!"
A scream pierced the sky, echoing even from the distant blood-red canyon.
The life essence and soul essence of the Eternal Universe Immortal Emperor were also brutally extracted by the Chaos God Chain. His pupils rapidly dilated, his body turned into countless blood-red light spots, and even the last trace of his remnant soul was devoured by the Emperor Dragon Spear.
In the end, this once invincible 'Ten-Turn Immortal Emperor' was completely annihilated on the blood-red land, leaving not even a trace behind. Only the blood-red crystal core that condensed his life's cultivation trembled gently at the tip of the Emperor Dragon Spear, emitting a powerful primal fluctuation, as if telling the story of the fall of a powerful figure.
"Wang Xian," Su Qingyan said softly, "shouldn't we be leaving?"
Wang Xian said nothing, closed his eyes, and felt the resonance between his inner world and the laws of the Heavenly Realm.
After the suppression of the Blood-Red Canyon Forbidden Zone disappeared, the power of the Heavenly Domain flowed in more smoothly. He could even clearly sense that the faint restriction at the edge of the Heavenly Domain was trembling slightly.
“We can’t leave yet.” Wang Xian suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze gleaming, and pointed the Emperor Dragon Spear at the bottom of the blood-red canyon. “The next forbidden area is just below this canyon.”
Everyone was shocked.
Although it wasn't explicitly stated, everyone understood Wang Xian's meaning: they were going to the lower forbidden area! The fat Taoist scratched his hair, which was covered in blood and mud, and said in a trembling voice, "Old Wang, we just crawled out of the gates of hell, and we're going to go down there again? Those three skeletons are enough to give us a hard time, and who knows what other monsters are down there!"
His words were filled with fear and unease; he still felt lingering fear when he recalled the terrifying pressure of the three imperial bones.
"The beings beneath this forbidden area seem to be bound by some kind of rule, unable to kill us. It would be foolish to miss such a good opportunity."
Wang Xian's eyes revealed decisiveness.
After a moment of contemplation, Yan Yangjun, though his source beneath the fire armor was wracked with pain, grew increasingly resolute in his eyes: "What Wang Xian said makes sense. The three sets of Emperor Bones exuded terrifying pressure, yet they held back at every turn; there must be a hidden reason. Perhaps all these forbidden areas are like this!"
Su Qingyan, the two unscrupulous Taoist priests, and the nine Heavenly Lords all saw Wang Xian's persistence, so they said nothing more and stood firmly behind Wang Xian, their meaning clear: they would follow Wang Xian.
Led by Wang Xian, the group continued to descend and soon entered the next forbidden area.
A boundless, inky black ocean appeared in everyone's sight. The seawater was as viscous as blood, yet it exuded a cold, metallic luster.
Countless glowing conch shells float on the sea, their shells engraved with ancient runes. Each time they open and close, they emit a wailing sound, like the lamentation of ten thousand ghosts.
The sound echoed in the silent space, sending chills down one's spine.
Beneath the sea, countless enormous shadows could be vaguely seen swimming about. Each shadow exuded the pressure of a 'Tenth-Rank Immortal Emperor', making the air thick and heavy, as if an invisible giant hand was squeezing their bodies.
"This is... the Blood Ink Sea?"
Looking at the ocean, Su Qingyan exclaimed, and more blood seeped from the cracks on the jade flute.
"The Blood Ink Sea? This is the Blood Ink Sea? The Blood Ink Sea, the supreme forbidden land that appeared once hundreds of epochs ago?" Lord Yan Yang was extremely shocked.
Of course, neither Su Qingyan nor Yan Yangjun had ever seen the Blood Ink Sea, but their respective factions had records about it.
It was an extremely terrifying forbidden land. After its emergence, it launched a frenzied slaughter of the beings of that era, almost wiping them out completely. Only some extremely powerful forbidden lands escaped this calamity, and that era came to a complete end as a result!
Wang Xian stood in mid-air. The moment his fingertips touched the seawater, an extreme coldness spread through his meridians, even more intense than the chaotic energy, instantly condensing into a piece of mysterious ice at his fingertips.
The ice was crystal clear, yet it exuded a bone-chilling cold.
Beneath the sea, the swimming shadows seemed to be disturbed, stirring up huge black waves. On the crests of the waves stood countless sea creatures clad in bone armor, each a thousand feet in size. Silver blood flowed from the gaps in their bone armor, and when the blood dripped onto the sea surface, it exploded into a patch of ice crystals. The ice crystals shimmered on the sea surface, like countless stars adorning it.
"careful!"
Suddenly, Yan Yangjun reminded him that when his fire armor came into contact with the cold air above the sea, it made a hissing freezing sound, and the core of the flames was trembling violently, as if it would go out at any moment.
The temperature on the surface of the fire armor dropped sharply, and frost began to form on the originally dull armor plates. The frost flowers spread across the armor plates like a giant net, trying to bind the power of Yan Yang Jun.
Suddenly, a gaping fissure thousands of feet long appeared in the sea.
A gigantic hand, blotting out the sky, emerged from the seabed. The back of the hand was covered with dark blue-green scales, each scale the size of a mountain. Silver blood flowed from the gaps in the scales, and when the blood dripped onto the sea surface, it exploded into a patch of ice crystals.
The appearance of that giant hand was like a demonic claw reaching out from the depths of hell, carrying endless pressure and terror.
"Humans, halt."
A deep, resonant voice came from the seabed, carrying an undeniable authority, the sound waves making everyone's eardrums ache.
The voice echoed through the heavens and earth like thunder, each word like a heavy hammer striking the hearts of everyone present.
Wang Xian's pupils shrank suddenly; this pressure was even greater than that of the three Emperor Bones!
He gripped the Emperor Dragon Spear tightly, and chaotic energy surged around him, forming a protective shield. Mysterious runes shimmered on the surface of the shield, appearing and disappearing in the light, as if resisting an impending attack.
"Are you the master of this Blood Ink Sea?"
Wang Xian's voice was steady, yet carried a hint of wariness.
The giant hand did not answer, but instead flipped over suddenly, and two orbs of light burning with eerie blue flames flew out from the palm and hovered in front of Wang Xian.
Each ball of light contained a vast 'Immortal Emperor Origin', with fluctuations reaching the mid-stage of 'Ten-Turn Immortal Emperor', hundreds of times stronger than the 'Immortal Emperor Origin' of the Eternal Universe Immortal Emperor!
"Take it and leave."
The sound from the seabed rose again, tinged with frustration and impatience, as the seawater churned even more violently.
The waves roared like mad beasts on the sea, creating thousands of waves.
Wang Xian was stunned.
What's happening here?
Someone gave me the source of power as soon as I entered the forbidden area?
He turned to look at the others, and they all looked completely bewildered.
Why did you give me the origin?
Wang Xian asked in a deep voice, while secretly activating his Chaos Body to guard against a sudden attack.
He could sense that although the owner of the giant hand had a strong aura, it also carried a certain restraint and did not truly unleash his killing intent.
The seabed remained silent for a moment, then the giant hand slowly withdrew, and the seawater closed up again, leaving only two cold voices echoing between heaven and earth: "You came here for the 'Origin of the Immortal Emperor', didn't you? Now that you have obtained what you wanted, leave. Don't be too greedy!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the seawater surged violently, forming a huge whirlpool, as if urging them to leave.
Looking at the two clumps of "Immortal Emperor Origin" from mid-stage "Ten-Turn Immortal Emperors" before him, and then at the unfathomable Blood Ink Sea, Wang Xian felt a surge of doubts.
But one shouldn't refuse a source that's offered up so readily. With a wave of his hand, Wang Xian took the two orbs of light into his inner world.
"let's go."
Wang Xian made a decisive decision. Regardless of the Blood Ink Sea expert's purpose, as the expert said, he had already obtained what he wanted, and leaving at this moment was clearly the wisest choice.