202: Chapter 202 The Empress Returns, a Strange Tide Erupts!

She once stood at the peak of the myriad Daos.

She once suppressed the Ghost Spirits of half the Xiangu World with her own strength.

She once secluded herself in this Ancient Hall for a millennium, solely to comprehend the essence of the black shadow behind the stone door.

In the end, she failed.

It was not because her strength was insufficient, but because that thing simply could not be solved with strength.

It was not an enemy.

It was the dark side of the rules themselves.

Su Yuxi opened her eyes amidst the torrent of memories, silver-white Dao light swirling within her pupils.

"So that is how it is!"

She spoke in a low voice, her tone carrying a calmness that spanned the ages.

"This is the trump card you left for this life!"

The progress of the Dao Fruit Fusion reached one-third.

Su Yuxi's aura began to climb, and the Innate Dao Fetus resonated violently within her body.

Outside the Ancient Hall, Lin Yi stood in the center of the main gate, his Divine Sense spreading out.

Chu Wanqing sat to the left of the palace gate, holding the imperial zither; as she plucked the strings, the sound waves formed a thin protective net.

Shen Qingyue sat cross-legged to the right of the gate, Hunyuan Qi slowly circulating to stabilize the fluctuations of the aura within the palace.

Xu Chen carried the ancient desolate hall, patrolling the perimeter back and forth, his mouth never stopping.

"What are you all looking at?"

"Are you not afraid of death?"

"Disperse, disperse! This has nothing to do with you!"

A bold Cultivator shouted from afar.

"The Opportunities of the world belong to those who are virtuous!"

"Is your Heavenly Profound Holy Land trying to hog all the Opportunities for yourselves?"

Xu Chen rolled his eyes.

"Nonsense!"

"We fought for this with our lives, why should we share it with you?"

"Where were you all just now?"

"When you were hiding in the back watching the show, why didn't you say that Opportunities belong to the virtuous?"

The man was choked into silence.

Several surrounding Cultivators also shrank their necks in response.

Xu Chen snorted and continued his patrol.

Time passed bit by bit.

Su Yuxi's Fusion deepened, and her aura grew stronger and stronger.

The silver-white Dao light inside the Ancient Hall began to overflow, illuminating even the roof of the palace.

Shen Qingyue suddenly opened her eyes and looked toward a corner of the palace.

There was a stone wall covered in dust, engraved with dense, tiny characters.

She stood up, walked over, and raised her hand to brush away the dust.

The handwriting was revealed.

It was the ancient script left by the Shen Family.

She read line by line, her expression changing from calm to shock, and then from shock to coldness.

"The Shen Family..."

Her voice was very soft, so soft that only she could hear it.

"It was indeed a scheme plotted by them together."

The records on the stone wall were very clear.

Back then, after the Shen Family discovered that the Ghost Spirits behind the stone door had begun to erode the world, they voluntarily chose to seal the door and cover the retreat.

The Heaven and Earth Gate cooperated on the surface, but secretly colluded with the True Dragon Lineage, intending to launch a sneak attack while the main force of the Shen Family was sealing the door.

And the purpose of the True Dragon Lineage was even simpler.

They wanted the stone door.

They wanted to return to the Xiangu World through the stone door.

Since the Shen Family was blocking the way, then they would destroy the Shen Family!

The so-called eternal marriage contract was merely a fig leaf fabricated by the Heaven and Earth Gate afterward.

Shen Qingyue memorized all the content on the stone wall and turned back to the palace gate.

Lin Yi turned his head to look at her.

Shen Qingyue did not say much, only offering a look.

Lin Yi nodded.

"Have you remembered everything?"

"Mm."

"That is good."

Lin Yi's tone was resolute.

"Once we get out, we will settle the score one by one!"

Shen Qingyue's lips twitched slightly, and she sat back in her original position.

Another half an hour passed.

Su Yuxi's Fusion progress broke through the halfway point, and the entire Ancient Hall began to vibrate violently.

Endless divine light shot up from the palace roof, tearing directly through the black fog above Burial Emperor Island.

That pillar of light could be seen for ten thousand miles around.

Deep in the seabed, countless dormant Ghost Spirits were awakened by this fluctuation.

They crawled up from the seabed and surged in the direction of the pillar of light.

The first few already had auras that reached the Divine Fire Realm.

And behind them, even Ancient Corpses of the Peak Saint King level appeared.

They emerged from the black water in droves, dense and numerous, making one's blood run cold.

Wang Hong's expression changed drastically.

"Not good!"

"These things have been lured here by the aura of the Dao Fruit!"

Hongmeng Chaos Qi erupted from Lin Yi's body, and the surrounding Ghost Spirits' energy instinctively retreated a distance.

He looked at the vast, dark army of Ghost Spirits surging from afar, without a hint of panic in his eyes.

"Xu Chen."

Xu Chen immediately ran over carrying the ancient desolate hall.

"Big Brother!"

"Wanqing."

Chu Wanqing stood up holding the zither, her fingertips resting on the strings.

"Qingyue."

Shen Qingyue spread her Hunyuan Qi to protect the palace gate.

Lin Yi stepped out and stood at the very front of everyone, facing the surging black tide.

"Yu Xi still needs time."

"Before she finishes the Fusion."

"Not even a single fly shall fly inside here!"

As his voice fell.

The first wave of Ancient Corpses had already charged within a hundred zhang.

Lin Yi slashed out with a sword finger; the Divine Souls of dozens of Ghost Spirits in front shattered on the spot, and their bodies turned to ash before they even fell.

But more Ghost Spirits behind them were still surging forward endlessly.

Xu Chen swallowed hard and hoisted the ancient desolate hall onto his shoulder.

"Big Brother, this workload..."

"Is a bit outrageous."

Chu Wanqing's zither music exploded, and a wave of sound blades swept out.

"Less nonsense."

"Fight!"

Xu Chen took a deep breath, swung the ancient desolate hall, and charged up.

"Come on!"

"This young master will guard this place until the end of time today!"

Inside the Ancient Hall, Su Yuxi sat cross-legged and motionless, the Dao Fruit Fusion still continuing.

Memories of her past life and the power of her current life slowly converged within her body.

She heard the sounds of fighting outside.

She heard Xu Chen's cursing.

She heard Chu Wanqing's zither music.

She also heard the sounds of Lin Yi's Sword Intent striking down again and again.

She did not open her eyes, but the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

"Lin Yi, wait for me."

She murmured in her heart.

"It will be done soon!"

On the other side, the black tide crashed into the stone steps in front of the Ancient Hall.

Thud!

A loud noise.

The Ancient Corpse at the very front smashed its knees into the ground, pressed its rotting palms onto the stone steps, and opened its mouth to spew out a cloud of black mist.

A foul stench rushed toward them.

Xu Chen had only rushed out three steps before he was almost knocked unconscious by the stench.

"This smell is way too pungent!"

"Whose corpse has been pickled for so long without sealing the jar!"

Chu Wanqing plucked rapidly with her fingertips, and the imperial zither rang seven times in succession.

Seven sound blades whipped up flames, shredding the black mist into pieces.

She turned her head and glared at Xu Chen, a hint of urgency in her eyes.

"Xu Chen, talk less nonsense."

"Block the left side!"

Xu Chen immediately hugged the ancient desolate hall tightly and smashed it toward the three Ghost Spirits lunging from the left.

"Received!"

"Leave the left side to me, guaranteed fresh!"

The ancient desolate hall was swung around and brought down.

Boom!

The three Ghost Spirits were smashed into the black water, the sound of bones cracking rattling loudly.

But the next moment, a dozen more claws reached out from the black water, grabbing the edge of the ancient desolate hall and pulling it down.

Xu Chen's feet sank into the stone steps, his face flushed red.

"No way."

"Using a ghost sea tactic?"

"Do you have any dignity as monsters from the forbidden zone!"

Lin Yi stood at the very front of the palace gate, his right hand forming a sword finger, and the Grass Sword Intent swept out.

A cyan sword light swept across the ground.

Wherever the sword light passed, the Divine Souls of the lunging Ghost Spirits were completely shattered, and their remains tumbled back into the Black Sea.

But there were too many of them, and the surface of the sea was densely packed with black shadows.

They simply could not be killed off!