230: Chapter 231 The Jedi Palace! The Gate of Sacrifice! Two Deadly Paths!

Pay? Where to pay?

Everyone's gaze followed the direction Lin Qi indicated.

It was an area they had never seen before.

Lin Qi didn't say another word, turned around, and walked in that direction.

His back, in the darkness, appeared exceptionally solitary and imposing.

Xiao Kuangyun and the others looked at each other, their faces filled with the bewilderment of having survived a disaster and the fear of the unknown.

But they dared not refuse to follow.

That silent slaughter just now had completely shattered all their arrogance and wishful thinking.

Now, Lin Qi was the King of Hell deciding their life and death.

When the King of Hell told them to walk, they dared not stop.

The group struggled to crawl up from the ground, ignoring their disheveled state, and like a pack of leashed dogs, they followed dejectedly behind Lin Qi.

This road was harder to walk than they had imagined.

Twenty times the gravity was draining their already limited stamina every single moment.

With every step, their legs felt like they were filled with lead, and their lungs felt like they were about to explode.

Several Prodigies, after walking for a while, felt their legs go weak and collapsed to the ground, only to be dragged up by their terrified companions, scrambling to their feet to continue following.

They dared not fall behind.

Because the figure walking at the very front wouldn't even deign to glance back at them.

It was as if, if they couldn't keep up, they would be mercilessly abandoned in this Skeleton Wasteland to become new fossils.

In contrast, Lin Qi did not walk fast, but every step was as steady as Mount Tai.

To him, twenty times the gravity seemed no different from taking a stroll in his own backyard.

This stark contrast made the sense of powerlessness and fear in the hearts of Xiao Kuangyun and the others following behind deepen even further.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, when they felt they were about to collapse from exhaustion, the scene before them finally changed.

It was no longer that endless, pale white Skeleton Wasteland.

A dilapidated but still visibly magnificent ancient palace ruin appeared before them.

Huge stone pillars were tilted and toppled; some were snapped in half, while others had smashed into the ground.

On the broken walls were carved ancient totems they couldn't understand at all, filled with the traces of time's erosion.

The entire ruin exuded an aura that was desolate, solemn, and unsettling.

"W-what is this place?" Han Qianchi panted heavily, his eyes wide, stunned by the sight before him.

"In the Dragon Tomb... how could there be such a place?"

"I can feel it, there are very strong energy fluctuations here! Much denser than outside!"

Several Prodigies whispered among themselves, their eyes filled with both shock and greed.

They were all children of noble families with discerning eyes, and they could tell at a glance that this palace ruin absolutely hid a massive Opportunity.

But immediately after, a deeper chill rose from the bottom of their hearts.

The greater the Opportunity, the more terrifying the danger that often accompanied it.

And now, the one who had brought them here was a Devil King more terrifying than any danger.

Xiao Kuangyun's Adam's apple bobbed up and down.

He could feel a pressure permeating the air that made even his Soul tremble.

This place was definitely not a safe haven!

Lin Qi ignored their shock and did not linger in the ruins.

Like an emotionless driver, he steered this group of "hostages" straight toward the front of the palace ruins.

There, a door stood tall.

A giant door, a hundred zhang high, cast entirely from bronze, was tightly shut.

On the door were carved dense, lifelike totems of ancient exotic beasts.

The eyes of those totems, carved from some unknown material, glowed with a faint, eerie light in the darkness, as if they had come alive and were staring at every living being that approached.

A terrifying pressure that made one's Soul tremble was seeping out, bit by bit, from the tightly closed crack of the door.

"Urgh!"

A Prodigy had barely approached within a hundred meters of the door when he screamed, his legs went weak, and his entire body was forced to the ground by an invisible force.

His face turned the color of a pig's liver, the veins on his neck bulging, as if an invisible hand had gripped his throat, making even breathing difficult.

The others were no better off.

Xiao Kuangyun and Han Qianchi gritted their teeth, desperately trying to circulate the little Qi they had left to resist.

But that pressure was simply not something that could be resisted by Qi.

It was a crushing force from the level of Law, coming from a higher dimension.

Their bones were creaking, and their legs were shaking like chaff sieves.

"Thump! Thump!"

One after another, all the Prodigies were pressed down to their knees, unable to even stand, and could only support themselves with their hands on the ground to keep from being flattened.

They discovered with horror that in front of this eerie door, they were as weak as a group of ants.

However.

The figure walking at the very front was still standing straight.

Lin Qi stood before that hundred-zhang bronze door, seemingly unaffected in the slightest.

That terrifying pressure that could crush the Prodigies blew against him, yet it couldn't even stir the corner of his clothes.

With his back to the crowd, he closed his eyes, unfurling his Martial Intent Insight without reservation, carefully sensing the aura behind the door.

Found it.

He keenly detected that behind the door, a massive, extremely pure energy source was hidden.

The quality of that energy far surpassed all the true dragon relic blood he had absorbed before.

This was the ultimate Opportunity he had been painstakingly searching for, the one that would allow him to completely forge his Indestructible Golden Body!

Primitive True Dragons Bloodline!

But at the same time, he also sensed that this door was sealed by an ancient Law.

Wanting to open it was by no means an easy task.

The experience of a Martial Saint raced through his mind, instantly providing a judgment.

Forcing the door open was not impossible.

With his Physical Body, where dark gold had permeated his marrow, combined with the spiral Penetrating Force of the Baji Mountain Crushing Force, he had a seventy percent chance of pushing the door open by force.

But the commotion would be too great, and it would consume a massive amount of stamina; it was not the optimal solution.

The best way was to use a sufficient amount of living blood and Qi as a catalyst to activate the totems on the door, performing a ritual similar to a "sacrifice" to neutralize the Law of the Seal.

Thinking of this, Lin Qi slowly opened his eyes.

He turned around and looked at Xiao Kuangyun and the others behind him, who were tortured by the pressure, kneeling on the ground and panting like dogs.

A trace of an inexplicable smile appeared on his face.

That smile carried no warmth, making Xiao Kuangyun and the others' hearts crawl with fear; a chill shot straight from their tailbones to their scalps.

Lin Qi slowly took a few pieces of parchment from his robes.

They were the blank tactical parchments he had looted from the corpses of the Li Family Death Warriors.

He tossed them casually.

The parchments fluttered in the air and finally landed in front of the group of Prodigies.

Xiao Kuangyun looked at the blank parchment that had drifted to his knees, then at the scalp-numbing smile on Lin Qi's face, and a highly ominous premonition rose in his heart.

Sacrifice...

Living blood and Qi...

A thought that made his whole body turn cold emerged uncontrollably.

They had been forced to this door that could not be opened, with nowhere to retreat and nowhere to advance.

The phrase 'fish on the chopping block' had never appeared so clearly in his mind.

Just as their hearts were gripped by fear and they were almost suffocating.

Lin Qi looked at them and spoke in a calm tone, saying the words that made them feel as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Now, there are two paths before you."