121: Entering the Realm of the Void Gods

The seven-colored light gate, like the maw of a giant beast choosing its prey, completely swallowed Lin Ye and Su Qingyue.

Lin Ye felt as if he had fallen into a viscous Chaos, emanating an ancient and boundless aura.

An indescribable terrifying pressure, from all directions, squeezed him frantically! That pressure was not merely strength; it was more like an absolute suppression of rank! It was as if an invisible pair of gigantic, divine hands were tightly gripping his throat, intent on crushing his humble Soul from the Lower Realm!

Even his formidable Physical Body, which had already Advanced into the Dharma Body Realm and cultivated the God-Demon Prison Suppressing Body, felt a distinct sluggishness under this terrifying pressure! The circulation of his magical power within him was like being stuck in a quagmire, becoming exceptionally obscure!

“Lin Ye!” Su Qingyue’s cool call, tinged with a hint of panic, came from beside his ear. Although she was also in the Dharma Body Realm, her Foundation was far inferior to Lin Ye’s, and at this moment, she felt as if her Divine Soul was about to be crushed.

Lin Ye’s heart tightened. He instinctively reached out and firmly gripped her icy, boneless, slender jade hand in his palm. He forcefully activated the Heaven Burning Heart Sutra within him, and a domineering, deep-red True Fire erupted, barely managing to create a small space, just enough for them to stand, around their bodies, protecting the agitated Su Qingyue.

It was at this moment that the terrifying pressure, capable of completely crushing one’s Divine Soul, suddenly eased!

Before their eyes, the viscous Chaos, like a curtain torn by a sharp blade, suddenly dissipated!

In its place was a vast, boundless, and utterly shocking new world!

Lin Ye and Su Qingyue found themselves standing on an unimaginably huge platform.

This platform, made of an unknown material, was an ancient grayish-green color, its surface covered with mysterious patterns long corroded and mottled by time, as if it had stood silently here for hundreds of millions of years.

The platform was so vast that it stretched beyond sight! Its edges connected to a deep, dark, seemingly light-devouring Void Realm.

And in the center of the platform stood nine gigantic stone pillars, a thousand zhang tall! Carved on these pillars were countless ancient divine demon totems, filled with a wild and sacred aura, emanating a terrifying might that could make even a Dharma Body Realm expert tremble!

“This… this is…” Su Qingyue looked at the scene before her, filled with endless shock and ancient aura. For the first time, a hint of bewilderment appeared in her usually cool eyes.

Lin Ye did not answer her.

He merely frowned deeply, sensing the vastly different Law of this world!

Solid! Incredibly solid!

He could clearly feel that the spatial Law here was more than a hundred times more stable than that of the Tiannan Dynasty where he had been before! Here, even with his current Dharma Body Realm cultivation, he could not easily tear open the Void Realm!

What shocked him even more was… Spiritual Qi!

No! It could no longer be called Spiritual Qi!

The air was filled with a purer, more… ancient energy! This energy appeared as a faint, milky white, visible to the naked eye, and was as viscous as a solid! Just by taking a breath, Lin Ye felt his Qi Sea, which had been slightly depleted from forcefully activating the True Fire, instantly refill!

However, this energy also carried an extremely heavy, extremely… domineering attribute! As it surged into his body, it was like countless invisible small hammers frantically pounding and squeezing his already incredibly condensed Heaven Burning True Fire! This made the circulation of his magical power within him exceptionally obscure! It was as if his Realm had been suppressed by several points!

Ding!

Detecting higher-level world Law… System adaptation in progress…

Adaptation complete!

Warning: Current world energy form has changed! Detected as “void origin qi”! The Origin Qi here contains violent spatial attributes, which have a natural suppressive effect on lower-rank Cultivation Techniques and powers below the Dharma Body Realm!

Warning: The idle efficiency of Mortal Rank and Profound Rank Cultivation Techniques such as Golden Bell Shield, Iron Sand Palm, and Wind Control Art has been drastically reduced by 90%!

System Prompt: The host needs to absorb a higher-level energy source, “Divine Source,” as soon as possible to upgrade the System, lift the suppression, and unlock higher-level Cultivation Technique idle permissions!

A series of cold System prompts exploded in Lin Ye’s mind!

Indeed! This new world was full of… malice towards him! Not only did it suppress his strength, but even the System’s idle efficiency was affected!

Just as Lin Ye’s mind was agitated by this sudden change, his peripheral vision suddenly twitched!

He was horrified to discover that on this unimaginably huge platform, he and Su Qingyue were not the only ones!

Around the nine towering stone pillars, there were already densely packed… figures!

Hundreds! Thousands! Even… nearly ten thousand!

These figures varied in form, and their auras were even more bizarre!

Some were ten zhang tall, entirely composed of hard rock, with eyes like burning lava, exuding an aura as heavy as a mountain!

Some had a pair of wings on their backs, and on their wings, crackling purple lightning, filled with destructive aura, swirled!

Others were like specters, completely shrouded in dark cloaks, revealing only a pair of eyes flickering with eerie green ghost fire, exuding a chilling coldness and death that made one’s heart palpitate!

But, without exception!

Every single one of them exuded an incredibly powerful aura, yet it was firmly suppressed by the Law of this world… a terrifying aura!

The weakest of these auras was comparable to the Peak of the Treasure Body Realm!

Among them, even more were… their auras were so vast that they had steadily stepped into the Dharma Body Realm! Some auras were even more terrifying than the true body of the Black Fiend Demon Venerable back then!

Here, hundreds and thousands of Dharma Body Realm experts from different worlds had gathered?!

Lin Ye’s heart instantly sank to the bottom!

Compared to these true Prodigies from the myriad worlds, his previous achievements in the Tiannan Dynasty were simply… not worth mentioning! His recently stabilized Early Stage Dharma Body Realm cultivation seemed… utterly insignificant here!

Su Qingyue evidently also noticed this. Her hand, holding Lin Ye’s, unconsciously tightened a little more. For the first time, a hint of solemnity appeared on her exquisite face.

“It seems we have… arrived at an extraordinary place,” she murmured softly, her cool voice carrying a hint of imperceptible… tremor.

Just then!

Buzz—!!!

In the center of the platform, the nine gigantic stone pillars, a thousand zhang tall, suddenly, without warning, simultaneously emitted a dazzling golden light that could illuminate the entire Void Realm!

An indescribable, vast will, filled with supreme majesty and sacred aura, like an awakened ancient deity, suddenly descended from the nine stone pillars!

In an instant, it completely enveloped this huge platform, which had been filled with noise and vigilance!

“Silence!”

An ancient voice, as if from the primordial Chaos, filled with endless majesty and indifference, like a final judgment, clearly and resoundingly exploded deep within everyone’s Divine Soul!

Just two words, yet they seemed to contain the terrifying power of words becoming Law!

In that instant, the nearly ten thousand Prodigies on the platform, who had been unruly and varied in aura, all fell silent, as if struck by a paralysis spell!

Awe and… fear unconsciously appeared on everyone’s faces!

Lin Ye could clearly feel that this will was a hundred times, a thousand times more terrifying than the true body of the Black Fiend Demon Venerable who had ambushed them that day!

This was definitely a supreme existence that transcended the Dharma Body Realm… a Demigod?! Or even higher?!

“You all,” the ancient and indifferent voice slowly resounded, like a god looking down from above at ants below, “have ascended from your respective worlds, bearing great Luck, yet you are… frogs in a well!”

“This place is the ‘Reception Platform’ of the Void God Realm, and also… your screening ground!”

“Only by passing the numerous trials we have set, proving that you are not useless beings who only cling to a corner, will you be qualified to step into the true ‘Upper Realm’ and glimpse that… immortal, in charge of Reincarnation… supreme Divine Path!”

“As for the failures…”

The voice suddenly turned cold, filled with undeniable chill and… killing intent!

“Annihilation!”

“Or, become the Void Realm slaves we raise across myriad worlds!”

These cold and cruel words were like a basin of ice water, instantly extinguishing any lucky in everyone’s hearts!

It turned out that this so-called “Ascension” was not a single step to heaven!

It was merely moving from a smaller cage into a… larger, and more brutal… gladiatorial arena!

“Now,” the ancient voice resounded again, “the first trial…”

“Is about to begin.”

“Are you all…”

“Ready to face your… destiny?”

Before the words finished!

Boom!

The entire colossal grayish-green platform, in that instant, trembled violently!

At the edge of the platform, in the deep, dark Void Realm, a boundless path, paved with countless bones and skeletons, slowly emerged, stretching endlessly… a towering path to the heavens!

A terrifying aura, filled with endless death and despair, suddenly swept in from the end of that bone path!

The first trial was actually… so cruel?!