153: Lost Temples and Bronze Gates

What kind of monster is he, after all?!

King Kong's towering, iron-tower-like body instinctively took half a step back. His proud Indestructible Vajra Body had long since dimmed in golden light and was covered in hideous cracks under the corrosion of the dark demonic tide just now!

He had no doubt that if Lin Ye hadn't intervened, he probably wouldn't have lasted even ten breaths before being completely... melted!

And that alluring woman, who had been so charming, was now pale with fright, trembling like a sieve, not even daring to look at Lin Ye!

"Let's go."

Lin Ye ignored the gazes filled with awe and fear from the crowd.

He glanced at the exquisite figure beside him, who was also gazing at him with eyes full of endless shock and complexity.

"Qingyue."

Su Qingyue's heart trembled fiercely. She forcefully suppressed the turbulent waves in her heart, and the unique coolness returned to her beautiful face. She nodded silently.

Lin Ye no longer hesitated. His figure flickered, like a ghost, and he stealthily moved towards the depths of the valley, which had long been blasted into scorched earth.

This time, no one dared to question him in the slightest.

Ji Yueyao, Feng Xinglie, King Kong... all the surviving Prodigies, like the most loyal guards, converged all their Qi and cautiously followed behind that slender figure.

Unbeknownst to them, the true "leader" of this hastily assembled team had already... changed hands!

...The team moved swiftly in deathly silence.

The deeper they ventured into the Desolate God Domain, the stranger the surrounding landscape became!

The earth was no longer barren dark red, but a dark black, as if it had been soaked in endless blood for billions of years!

On that pitch-black land, there was not a trace of life; all that remained were ancient Vicious Beast skeletons, already weathered but still exuding terrifying Qi!

And the sky was extremely dim! The hideous spatial cracks, like living creatures, slowly writhed, exuding a Chaos Qi!

It was as if this place was the forbidden zone of all the Universes!

"Quick... look!"

Just then, a sharp-eyed Prodigy pointed to the end of the mountain range ahead, shrouded in endless black mist, and let out a startled cry of disbelief!

Everyone instinctively looked up.

They saw a magnificent divine hall, quietly lying there, amidst the dense black mist that seemed to swallow the heavens and earth!

The divine hall, built of unknown material, was entirely dark black, as if it could devour all light, perfectly blending with the undulating pitch-black mountain range behind it!

"This... is this the 'Lost Divine Hall'?" Ji Yueyao's pale golden eyes, filled with supreme Divine Might, also showed a hint of solemnity. "Such... such terrifying 'Fallen' Qi!"

"Hmph! Who cares about its Qi!" Feng Xinglie forcefully suppressed the unease in his heart, and his sinister eyes were once again replaced by a burning greed. "Legend has it that within the Fallen God ruins, there must be astonishing secret treasures! We... are rich!"

Without thinking, he was about to transform into a gust of wind and be the first to rush into that ancient divine hall, filled with endless temptation!

"Stop!"

Lin Ye's cold, emotionless voice, however, exploded in his ears like a thunderclap!

Feng Xinglie's body stiffened abruptly! He turned back, looking at Lin Ye unpleasantly: "Boy! What are you trying to..."

"If you want to die, I won't stop you." Lin Ye didn't even bother to look at him, his dark eyes calmly gazing at the silent divine hall, and he slowly spoke, "Didn't you feel it? That divine hall... is 'alive'."

"Alive... alive?!"

Upon hearing this, everyone's Divine Souls were greatly shaken!

They once again cast their gazes towards the magnificent dark divine hall!

This time, they finally noticed something was amiss!

The divine hall was... breathing!

Its seemingly lifeless dark black walls were subtly... rising and falling with an extremely slow, yet strangely rhythmic frequency!

With each rise and fall, a vast amount of black mist, filled with the Qi of Fallen and decay, was expelled from the cracks of its tightly closed doors!

"What... what the hell is this thing?!" King Kong's towering, iron-tower-like body couldn't help but shiver!

Lin Ye could clearly feel that the cold bronze fragment in his embrace was resonating more and more strongly with the "breathing" of the divine hall!

It was as if something was... calling to it!

...After a standoff that lasted for half an hour, the "living" divine hall finally seemed to have... "fallen asleep."

Its slowly rising and falling walls gradually subsided.

The suffocating, terrifying Divine Might also dissipated by more than half.

"Go."

Lin Ye no longer hesitated. His figure flickered, like a ghost merging into the darkness, and he was the first to silently sneak into that ancient divine hall, full of the unknown and danger!

Seeing this, Ji Yueyao and the others also quickly converged all their Qi.

Inside the divine hall, there was a deathly silence!

There were no luxurious carvings, no exquisite murals.

All that existed were towering stone pillars, a hundred zhang high, crafted from entire unknown black boulders, and covered in grotesque totems filled with endless distortion and madness!

It was as if they were silently narrating a bloody and unwilling tale, long forgotten by time!

Everyone cautiously passed through the maze-like forest of stone pillars, making their way without major incident.

Finally, after half an incense stick of time, they arrived at the deepest part of the divine hall.

An incomparably huge... bronze door, like an insurmountable chasm, blocked all their paths!

The bronze door, a thousand zhang high, seemed to pierce through the entire sky! It was an ancient, dark green color, already mottled and corroded by the years!

And on the massive door, countless ancient divine runes, filled with endless profundity and vastness, were inscribed!

Those divine runes were so ancient, and yet so... complex! It was as if they contained the most fundamental Dao of the Universe!

Just by gazing at them, everyone felt as if their Divine Souls were about to be completely... swallowed by the vast ocean of divine runes!

"This... this..." Feng Xinglie looked at the terrifying giant door, which seemed to have existed since ancient times, and his eyes, which had been filled with greed, were now only filled with endless... horror and despair!

He could clearly feel that his proud Swift Wind Divine Sword was as tiny as dust in the face of this vast Divine Might!

"I'll try!"

King Kong roared, and he stubbornly took a fierce step forward! His towering, iron-tower-like body instantly swelled to ten zhang! A layer of dazzling golden light, several feet thick and seemingly solid, erupted!

He directly activated his Indestructible Vajra Body, which he had already Cultivated to Major Achievement!

His golden fist, as huge as a mountain, carrying terrifying power capable of shaking stars, slammed heavily onto the cold bronze door!

"Boom—!!!"

A dull, terrifying roar, enough to shatter even Peak Demigod powerhouses into a mist of blood, suddenly echoed throughout the entire divine hall!

However!

The terrifying giant door, a thousand zhang high, remained... motionless!

Not even a single... ripple, was stirred!

"Pfft!"

King Kong's massive body trembled violently! He felt a furious backlash of power, surging back along his fist!

His indestructible Indestructible Vajra Body, like fragile porcelain, shattered with a "crack"!

He himself was transformed into a golden streak of light, flying backward! He slammed into a stone pillar a hundred meters away, his fate... unknown!

"Hiss—"

Feng Xinglie and the alluring woman gasped in cold air!

Just then, Ji Yueyao slowly walked out from the team.

She slowly raised her hand, and in her pale golden eyes, a cluster of... purple-gold flames ignited!

A supreme Divine Might suddenly erupted from her small body!

"Emperor... Emperor's Might?!" Feng Xinglie cried out in horror!

"Tianxuan... Divine Finger!"

Ji Yueyao shouted softly. She pointed her fingers like a sword and gently pointed at the bronze giant door, covered with billions of ancient divine runes!

This finger seemed to transcend time and space!

This finger actually contained a trace of... the Origin Dao Rhythm of the Heavenly Profound Divine Emperor!

Om—!!!

The bronze giant door, which had been silent, trembled violently the moment it came into contact with this "Emperor's Might"!

The billions of ancient divine runes, which had been dim, began to madly circulate and shine, like a supreme divine array completely activated! They erupted with a dazzling divine light, enough to illuminate the heavens and earth!

"Boom!"

Ji Yueyao's finger, along with the "Emperor's Might" it contained, upon contact with the divine light, was madly... purified, evaporated, and annihilated, like melting ice and snow!

It vanished into thin air!

"Pfft!"

Ji Yueyao's body trembled violently! She staggered back two steps, and her beautiful face, which had been full of majesty, instantly lost all color, becoming as pale as paper!

Her pale golden eyes were filled with endless horror and... disbelief!

"These divine runes..." she spoke with difficulty, her voice hoarse, "Their... their Law power can actually... easily obliterate even Father Emperor's Dao Rhythm?!"

"This... this is simply not something we can... decipher!"

Upon hearing this, everyone present was completely plunged into... despair!

Even God Emperor-level power couldn't move it in the slightest?!

Were they... to stop here?!

However, amidst this despair that could suffocate everyone, Lin Ye, the young man who had always stood silently in the shadows, his dark eyes suddenly erupted with an unprecedented... dazzling brilliance!

He slowly walked out from the very back of the team.

He ignored everyone's gazes, filled with surprise and confusion, and step by step, calmly walked to the front of the terrifying giant door, a thousand zhang high, which seemed to have existed since ancient times.

He slowly raised his head, his handsome face calm and unperturbed.

He could clearly feel that the cold bronze fragment in his embrace was resonating more and more strongly with the circulation of the billions of divine runes on the giant door!

It was as if it was... calling!

It was as if it was... guiding!

And just then!

"Om—!!!"

The bronze giant door, which had been indestructible, suddenly trembled violently!

The billions of ancient divine runes, which had been filled with endless Divine Might and sacred Qi, actually retreated madly to both sides, as if subjects encountering their king!

Like... Moses parting the sea!

Finally, in the very center of the huge door, a small, inconspicuous, palm-sized... irregular groove was revealed!

The shape of that groove... was exactly the same as the mysterious bronze fragment in Lin Ye's embrace!!!

Lin Ye's heart pounded violently with this unprecedented surge of joy!

He slowly extended his right hand.

Under the gazes of Ji Yueyao, Feng Xinglie, and the others, filled with endless horror and disbelief!

The mysterious bronze fragment in his embrace transformed into a dazzling green light and automatically... flew out!

"Click."

An extremely crisp sound, like a key entering a lock, clearly echoed within the silent divine hall.

The mysterious fragment actually... perfectly fit into the groove!

Immediately after—

"Rumble... Rumble..."

A dull, terrifying roar, as if from the primeval Chaos, enough to make the entire Desolate God Domain tremble, slowly... began to sound from within the bronze giant door, which had been closed for billions of years!