154: The truth behind the door

The muffled, terrifying roar grew increasingly violent!

Under the gazes of Ji Yueyao, Feng Xinglie, and the others, filled with endless horror and disbelief, that terrifying bronze giant door, which had been tightly shut for billions of years and seemed to have existed since ancient times, was actually… slowly moving apart!

The speed was so incredibly slow.

But, with every inch it moved, the aura of endless desolation and deathly silence leaking from within grew thicker!

"Open... It's really opening?!" Feng Xinglie's sinister eyes were filled with extreme greed! "Ancient Divine Temple! Behind this, there must... there must be supreme treasures enough to elevate us to the heavens in one step!"

"We're rich! We're rich!" The seductive woman's breathing also quickened, and her face, which had been filled with fear, was now only filled with endless ecstasy!

Even King Kong struggled to crawl out from under the broken stone pillar. He didn't care about his Physical Body, which was almost falling apart; his once honest eyes were also filled with a burning greed!

Treasure Trove!

A supreme Treasure Trove capable of driving even God Emperor-level powerhouses mad!

In the face of absolute temptation, fear had long been cast aside by them!

Lin Ye calmly gazed at the widening, pitch-black gap in the door, his dark eyes flickering with unprecedented solemnity.

He could clearly feel that the bronze fragment in his arms, which had been cold, had become... scorching hot after completely fitting into the giant door!

A terrifying aura, filled with endless sorrow, unwillingness, and... monstrous resentment, was frantically... seeping out from the depths of the gap, like a bursting flood!

This... Finally, under the gaze of those several pairs of eyes, the terrifying giant door, a thousand zhang tall, completely... opened!

However, the moment everyone saw the scene behind the door—

Everyone's expressions froze completely at that instant!

Behind the door, there were no mountains of Divine Stone as they imagined! No Divine Weapon Sharp Weapon radiating treasure light! And certainly no supreme Divine Pill emanating a fragrant aroma!

What there was... was just a... vast emptiness!

It was an ancient hall even grander and... larger than they had imagined! Above the dome of the hall, there were no sun or moon, no stars, only a bottomless, seemingly light-devouring... Chaos void!

And beneath that void was a vast square paved with entire pieces of unknown black divine metal! The square was empty, with nothing on it, only an aura from the primordial era, filled with endless desolation, decay, and... suffocating... deathly silence!

It was as if time had completely... stopped within this ancient Divine Temple.

"How... how could this be?!"

Feng Xinglie looked at the vast, empty hall before him, and the blood instantly drained from his face, which had been filled with greed and ecstasy! "Where are the treasures? Where are the Divine Pill?! Why... is there nothing?!"

"No... impossible..." The seductive woman's legs went soft as if all her strength had been drained, almost collapsing on the spot. "This... this must be an illusion!"

However, just then, Ji Yueyao's clear, cold voice, filled with endless solemnity and... a hint of horror, slowly sounded.

"No..."

Her gaze was fixed on the two massive walls, also a thousand zhang tall, on either side of the main hall!

"The Treasure Trove... is here!"

Upon hearing this, everyone subconsciously turned their gaze towards the two walls.

They saw that on the two massive walls, which seemed to connect with heaven and earth, were inscribed... magnificent murals beyond words!

Those murals, carved by an unknown hand, had brushstrokes so ancient, yet so... powerful! It was as if they were not Acquired carvings, but rather Dao of heaven and earth, personally... imprinted here!

Each mural was enveloped in a faint, Holy Light, filled with endless sorrow and unwillingness! Waves of terrifying Dao resonance, vast as the sea yet full of endless vicissitudes and deathly silence, emanated from the murals, pressing down on them, these Demigod powerhouses, making them almost... breathless!

Lin Ye's mind trembled violently!

He could clearly feel that what was contained within the murals was a terrifying power... far older and more... Origin than the "Emperor's Might" of Heavenly Profound Divine Emperor!

He subconsciously turned his gaze to the first mural.

It was a boundless, brilliant starry sky. Beneath the starry sky, myriad races stood, gods and demons danced together. There were God Race with wings on their backs, wielding thunder; ancient giants with robust physiques, capable of shaking mountains; "Flame Gods" controlling fire, burning mountains and boiling seas; and also... "Fallen God" whose bodies were shrouded in black mist, controlling death and shadows!

Though their forms were varied and their Dao different, they... coexisted harmoniously beneath that golden starry sky! Together, they explored the unknown Universe, and together, they opened up new worlds!

It was a... golden age, filled with endless vitality and hope!

Lin Ye's mind couldn't help but be shaken.

However, when his gaze shifted to the second mural, the style of the painting... suddenly changed!

Unbeknownst when, that golden age, which had been full of harmony and vitality, began to... collapse!

A supreme divine being, seemingly formed from the purest light and order between heaven and earth... descended without warning!

He proclaimed himself the "Lord of All Gods"!

He demanded that all gods and demons must submit to his will! And all their "Origin" must be... handed over!

He wanted to establish an... absolute order, ruled by him alone!

This sparked endless... Chaos and war!

On the third mural, that once brilliant golden starry sky had long been completely... stained red by endless war and blood!

The God War... erupted!

The "Order God Race," led by the "Lord of All Gods," and the "Chaos God Demons" ("Fallen God") who cherished freedom and refused to be bound, launched a terrifying God War capable of utterly shattering all the myriad worlds!

The war raged for billions of years!

Divine blood stained the entire star river red!

Countless ancient divine beings... fell in this catastrophe! Lin Ye's heart had already sunk into an endless abyss! He seemed to have already foreseen the ultimate... outcome!

His gaze, with difficulty, moved to the fourth... and final mural!

It was a shattered world, filled with endless death and decay... a ruined world!

The God War had reached its end!

The "Chaos God Demons" lineage was retreating, about to be... completely annihilated!

However, at that most crucial moment!

Among the "Chaos God Demons" camp, a supreme general, who should have been guarding the last line of defense, clad in black star battle armor... suddenly turned his back without warning!

The longsword in his hand did not stab the enemy, but instead, from behind, pierced the heart of the... Chaos God Demon leader, who was already exhausted but still fought to the death!

Betrayal!!!

This was the... final straw that broke the camel's back!

Lin Ye's pupils suddenly constricted to the size of a needlepoint!

He stared intently at the figure of the betrayer!

Although that figure appeared somewhat blurry on the mural.

But, his iconic star battle armor, which seemed to contain the entire starry sky! And the pale golden divine sword in his hand, exuding supreme majesty and control!

Lin Ye would never mistake him!

That was, astonishingly... "Cang Xuan God Emperor Scripture!!!"

Ji Yueyao, beside him, had long since gone limp as if all her strength had been drained, collapsing onto the cold ground! Her beautiful face, which had been filled with supreme majesty, now had no color, only endless bewilderment and... disbelief!

She pointed at the figure of the betrayer, her pale golden eyes filled with endless pain and... despair!

"No... impossible..."

"That... that is the ancestor of my Tianxuan Imperial Family!!!"

...Feng Xinglie, King Kong, the seductive woman... all the surviving Prodigy stood stunned, their minds blank!

The "Lord of All Gods" whom they revered, worshipped, and held in high esteem was actually... The evil demons and heretics they scorned and called "Fallen God" were actually... martyrs who fought for freedom?!

And the supreme founder of their Tianxuan City, the ancestor of Heavenly Profound Divine Emperor... was actually a shameless traitor who betrayed his comrades and sold out his faith?!

This... This was simply... overturning all the knowledge they had built over tens of thousands of years!

Lin Ye looked at the Chaos God Demon leader, who, even after being stabbed through the heart by his most trusted comrade, still had eyes filled with endless sorrow and unwillingness.

He watched him, in his final moments before falling, use his last trace of Divine Power to dig out his own heart, which was already shattered but still burned with an undying Battle Intent, from his body!

He transformed that heart into two... bronze fragment!

One piece sealed his lifelong Legacy and... unwillingness!

And the other piece transformed into this... bronze giant door, capable of isolating the detection of God Emperor-level powerhouses!

It was not a Treasure Trove.

It was a... mausoleum!

A mausoleum that had waited for billions of years, only to reveal this bloody truth to those destined in later generations... a cenotaph!

And just then!

The bronze fragment in Lin Ye's arms, which had already merged with the giant door, once again let out a violent hum!

It slowly floated out from the groove!

And remotely... echoed the shattered "heart" on the mural!

[Ding!]

[Detected that the host has touched the core secret of the "Ancient God War"...]

[Detected that the "key of the void god" and the "Fallen God Legacy" have resonated...]

[System panel has been updated!]

[Ultimate series mission — [Conquer the Myriad Worlds]... has been changed to...]

[— [Myriad Worlds Unite, Gods and Demons Rectified]!]

[Mission Objective: Ascend to God Emperor, recast the divine personality, and clear the grievances of the ancient "Chaos God Demons" lineage... re-establish their divine seat!]

Lin Ye looked at the new mission, which exuded endless sorrow and monstrous Battle Intent, and two blazing flames, capable of igniting all gods and buddhas in the heavens, ignited in his dark eyes!