646: Ancestral Hall and Mysterious Palace

"Why..."

Shen Wan's expression froze, seemingly unable to accept it.

If Lady Yao Guang had known her background all along, why had she never done anything to her over so many years, even granting her immense trust and teaching her everything she knew?

Yet, she was the daughter born to her father and another woman, which was undoubtedly a betrayal to her Revered Master.

"Ever since I learned of this, I've been hesitating whether to tell you the truth."

"The truth of the matter would undoubtedly be too cruel for you."

"But I didn't expect that you would still find out..."

With unspoken emotions flickering in her eyes, Lady Yao Guang looked at her Senior Disciple and slowly said.

"Perhaps, you and I never truly understood Senior Brother."

A spirited, proud, ambitious, and broad-minded youthful figure flashed through Lady Yao Guang's mind.

Back then, her Senior Brother's talent, character, and aptitude were all of the highest caliber.

Otherwise, her father wouldn't have left that place for Senior Brother... But in an instant, that spirited figure in Lady Yao Guang's mind merged with the figure enveloped in gray Qi, with fierce and evil eyes, intent on sacrificing the living beings of an entire domain.

Lady Yao Guang's eyes turned cold.

"When Senior Brother did what he did back then, I didn't want to implicate you, because you were innocent."

"Just like now, the Cultivators guarding Xuanyuan Pass, and the citizens living behind Xuanyuan Pass, they are equally innocent."

"You shouldn't have resorted to such methods..."

Lady Yao Guang's gaze fell once again on the black-clad Shen Wan.

As her words fell.

Shen Wan's face turned pale.

How could she not know these things?

But for revenge, how could she still care about the lives and deaths of others?

"I have nothing to say."

"Revered Master, do you know something about my mother... Please tell me..."

"Revered Master, this is my last request."

Shen Wan suddenly looked up, meeting Lady Yao Guang's gaze.

She heard a hint of something unusual in her Revered Master's tone.

Perhaps, the truth was not as she knew it.

Looking at those eyes, which were no different from usual, stubborn yet resilient.

Lady Yao Guang's heart trembled.

This was the Disciple who had followed her for thousands of years.

But now... "See for yourself..."

Lady Yao Guang sighed softly in her heart.

Then, she pointed a stream of light out.

It landed between Shen Wan's eyebrows.

This was a bit of the truth she had deduced from scattered clues after her Senior Brother's death, by returning to the old place and following the faint traces.

"Profound Yin Physique... Plundering Origin... Enhancing Talent..."

A moment later, Shen Wan's face was ashen, and her body swayed precariously.

The Profound Yin Physique was a Physique even more powerful and coveted than the Wood Yin Physique.

One born with a Profound Yin Physique, if forcibly taken, could not only greatly increase their cultivation but also enhance their own inherent talent.

"So that's how it is..."

Shen Wan's heart was like dead ash; at this point, with her doomed body, there was no need to deceive her.

"You inherited your mother's Physique, but it was sealed by Senior Brother when you were very young..."

Lady Yao Guang did not continue.

It was also because she had accidentally seen something on Shen Wan after Senior Brother's demise that she followed the traces and learned a little.

The words that followed were too cruel; she paused, somewhat unable to bear it.

If her guess was not wrong.

Sealing the Physique, taking Shen Wan as a Disciple, and meticulously teaching her, was very likely to repeat the same trick in the future... "Senior Brother, which one is the real you..."

Lady Yao Guang no longer looked at Shen Wan, slowly closing her eyes.

"Hehe..."

"Revered Master, if there is a next life..."

Shen Wan let out a tragic laugh.

Her words were unfinished.

Within her body, the Primordial Spirit containing her own law and Dao began to disintegrate inch by inch.

Until the very end.

A black-clad figure gently fell backward, only to be softly caught by the sorrowful Lady Yao Guang.

"Fellow Daoists, due to this change, This Lord/Monarch must excuse herself."

Lady Yao Guang, carrying the lifeless Shen Wan, disappeared from the main hall.

Only her words echoed in the air.

"Farewell, Female Sovereign."

One after another, Cultivators with complex expressions bowed respectfully in the direction the Female Sovereign had departed.

"Grand Elder, why don't we rest here for a few days, and return to the Chaotic Sea once the Ancient Capital is stable."

Behind Black Demon Dao Lord, Zhou Leren, who had already put away the seven-story divine altar in his hand, withdrew his gaze, suppressed a hint of curiosity in his heart, and looked towards Black Demon Dao Lord.

Black Demon Dao Lord nodded, not overly concerned.

However, there were still some ripples in his heart.

He hadn't expected that coming out on a whim would lead to such an event.

He almost perished... Black Demon Dao Lord chuckled self-deprecatingly; if it were Lady Yao Guang and that Zhao Guandao, with his current cultivation, he would certainly not be a match for those five figures.

Fortunately... "That guy has become so much stronger again... Isn't that a bit too abnormal..."

Black Demon Dao Lord was distracted, his face calm and composed, but in reality, when Mo Xuan appeared, he almost gnashed his teeth.

"Is this still a demon..."

Black Demon Dao Lord deeply doubted, suspecting that beneath the snake skin hid the figure of a monster.

"Senior, please follow me."

At this moment.

An Ancient Kingdom Cultivator came forward, leading everyone to other parts of the imperial palace.

Black Demon Dao Lord nodded gently.

He and Zhou Leren, along with Zhou Tailai and other Zhou Family Disciples, went to other side halls to rest... North of the Chaotic Sea, outside Gui Zhou Island.

A massive black figure quietly emerged from the void.

Beside it, two trembling small beasts, about a zhang in size, followed.

Their Aura was not at all apparent.

At a glance, they looked like wild beasts without awakened sentience.

Mo Xuan's mind stirred.

The three figures floating beside him disappeared.

At the same time, in the center of Gui Zhou Island, on Qingyang Peak.

Zhou Dingyang's heart trembled.

He awoke from his cultivation.

He quickly rose, bowed respectfully, pushed open the door of his secret chamber, and flew out beyond Qingyang Peak.

Just at this moment.

Amidst the vast clouds and mist.

A stream of light descended from the sky.

It landed in an open area above Gui Zhou Island.

A trace of Archaic Bloodline Qi dispersed.

Startling all the Zhou Family Disciples awake.

Zhou Dingyang gathered all the Zhou Family Elders and appeared at the place where the stream of light had landed.

He looked down.

He saw a thousand-zhang-sized black Three-Headed Jiao Peng quietly prostrate on the ground, its life force completely gone, but the residual might emanating from its body made Zhou Dingyang and the others hesitate to approach.

Beside this thousand-zhang-sized Three-Headed Jiao Peng, there were also two humanoid figures.

"Hiss..."

"The corpse of a Dao Integration Realm demon monarch, the remains of a Dao Lord..."

Zhou Dingyang was in a difficult situation.

Now that Black Demon Great Elder was not present, Elder Qingtian was in the Lower Realm, and Elder Liyuan was stationed in the Minguang Realm, relying solely on them, it would be difficult to handle these precious remains.

This was truly a happy problem.

At the same time.

Outside Gui Zhou Island.

The enormous Black Giant Serpent disappeared.

Appearing at the bottom of the sea.

The bottom of the sea at this time was already vastly different from before.

Mythical Elephant and Qing Shi, who had transformed into a zhang in size, looked down into the sea.

They saw a magnificent palace, stretching for an unknown number of miles, appearing before the two beasts.

"Ancestral Hall."

In front of the main hall of the magnificent palace, a plaque hung, with two large ancient characters on it.

Mo Xuan glanced, looking at the two beasts.

He wasn't lying; his mansion genuinely lacked two Spirit Beasts to guard the gate.

This palace was built by the Zhou Family.

Although he didn't care, he couldn't reject the good intentions of the Zhou Family Disciples.

However, something was missing in front of this grand palace.

Mythical Elephant and Qing Shi's hearts tightened.

They remembered what was said before.

They hurriedly and busily bowed.

Their forms flickered.

They arrived at the two sides of the grand palace gate.

Their forms shifted, transforming into two magnificent ancient beasts, guarding the sides of the palace gate.

Their forms were majestic, and their Aura was extraordinary.

"Perfect."

In the sea.

Looking at the two majestic ancient beasts that seemed to merge with the palace, indistinguishable from each other.

Mo Xuan's heart stirred, and he nodded with slight satisfaction.

It was just a little asymmetrical... Snake pupils, like a great sun, swept over Mythical Elephant and Qing Shi.

An invisible chill rose from the bottom of the two beasts' hearts.

The two beasts' hearts trembled.

They quickly adjusted their postures, trying to make themselves better.

He glanced.

Mo Xuan no longer looked, his figure moved, and he disappeared before the huge and magnificent palace.

Within the palace, which stretched for an unknown number of miles.

The Black Giant Serpent coiled.

"Ding~"

Mo Xuan's mind stirred, and an invisible light screen unfolded before his eyes.

[Name: Mo Xuan;

Race: Black Water Profound Serpent;

Bloodline: Divine Beast;

Lifespan: 432 / 129600 years;

Talents: Water Control, Wind Manipulation, Cloud Gathering, Heaven and Earth, Thunder Descent;

Innate Divine Ability: Summon Wind and Call Rain, Realm of Clouds and Mist, Eye of Heaven and Earth, One Transformation Myriad, Thunder and Lightning Control;

Companion Magic Treasure: mountain sea pearl, clan-guarding divine stele;

Divine Ability: Water Form: Myriad Transformations, Wind Form - Traceless, Cloud Form: Mist Concealment, Universe - World Transformation, Thunder Technique: Heavenly Punishment, Size As Desired Transformation Divine Ability, Breath Concealment Divine Ability, Seven Transformations of the Demonic Body, Riding Clouds and Driving Mist, Dividing Spirit and Transforming Thought, Summoning: Descent of Spirit, mirror of heaven and earth, Lost Void Domain, Body like a Grotto-Heaven, God-Slaying Profound Light, Divine Thunder Horn;

Realm: Late-stage Dao Integration;

clan protecting system bound: Zhou Family, Family Head - Zhou Dingyang.

Clan Fortune Points: 1682]

"Next step, Heavenly Venerable..."

"I just don't know how many Clan Fortune Points will be enough..."

Mo Xuan's mind stirred, and the light screen before his eyes vanished, his heart pausing slightly.

Although he had only made a slight move, he already had a certain understanding of his own strength.

That Archaic Exotic Species, the Three-Headed Jiao Peng, in the Middle Stage of Dao Integration, was no longer considered weak.

But it couldn't truly make him display his full capabilities.

Those who could cultivate to the Dao Integration Realm were undoubtedly geniuses among geniuses.

But even these supreme Prodigies, even in the Late Stage of Dao Integration, probably had a huge gap compared to him.

He just didn't know how much he still lacked compared to a true Heavenly Venerable... Within the magnificent palace.

The head of the Black Giant Serpent slowly lowered.

Its Aura slowly became ethereal.

The palace was silent, with only the two ancient beasts before the palace gate like stone statues, yet possessing an invisible and immense might, silent and eternal.

At the bottom of the sea.

Sea beasts looked from afar towards the direction of the Profound Palace beneath Gui Zhou Island.

"That adult seems to have subdued an extraordinary existence..."

One after another, sea beasts looked from afar, feeling the thick and ancient Aura pervading the sea.

ps:

It's too late today, so only one chapter~ Sorry, sorry~