435: Chapter 435 There are living creatures

Chen Mu accepted the order and respectfully retreated.

He needed time to digest everything he had learned today, whether it was the subsidiary seat attached to the Primal Wood Fruit Position or the truth that had overturned his understanding of over a hundred years.

Gu Changsheng sat on the throne, his fingers unconsciously tapping on the armrest.

A hundred years.

Although the force of the Heavenly Dao's rejection was still weak right now, the feeling of a countdown hanging over his head was real.

What exactly was the situation beyond the heavens?

The first ancestor of the Solemn Gold Palace had left behind the eight words, "The area beyond the heavens is not a pure land; do not force it," and then completely lost contact.

Whether he was alive or dead was an unknown.

He had to find clues himself.

Gu Changsheng quickly went through the places in this world where ancient ruins might exist in his mind.

The Qingsong Daoist Academy in the Eastern Wilderness had been crushed into a bead by him, and there was nothing inside except for that book, "Ancient Records."

On the side of the Solemn Gold Palace, the first ancestor had only left behind an Immortal-Slaying Talisman and a single sentence.

The Blood Lake in the Southern Border had just been completely destroyed, and there was nothing worth investigating in the Tianji Mountains in the Central Province.

Only one place remained.

The Western Desert, the Xumi Sand Sea.

When he went there to get the taiyi gold mother before, Gu Changsheng felt that the place was strange.

It was a ruin of ancient Laws, obscuring the heavenly secrets, and even the Divine Sense of the Golden Core Stage could not penetrate it.

Moreover, the space there was extremely fragile, and a divine object like the taiyi gold mother was actually stuck abruptly in a space crack.

At that time, his mind was full of getting the Materials quickly to refine the True Treasure liangtian ruler, and he had no time to investigate carefully.

Now that he thought about it, the reason for the Formation of those ruins was definitely not simple.

Gu Changsheng stood up, the hem of his gray Daoist robe swaying slightly.

He took a step forward.

The barrier of the cave heaven automatically opened a passage.

The next breath, his figure had already appeared above the sky of the Western Desert.

The Western Desert, the Small Sumeru Heaven.

This was Monk Faxiang's natal cave heaven, an independent space hidden beneath the vast yellow sand.

At this moment, the atmosphere inside the Small Sumeru Heaven was suppressed to the extreme.

Monk Faxiang sat cross-legged on the golden lotus platform of the Mahavira Hall, his face pale, and fine beads of blood oozing from the ring scars on his bald head.

He had just escaped back from the edge of the sand sea.

The moment that "Suppress" character exploded in his spiritual terrace, his Golden Core Buddha heart, which he was proud of, shattered directly to the ground.

It was too terrifying.

That absolute suppression, which didn't even allow a thought of resistance to arise, made him, an old monster who had lived for three thousand years, experience for the first time the feeling of powerlessness that a Mortal felt when facing a natural disaster.

Protracting Purity had broken through to the Dao Embryo Realm.

This news was like a huge mountain, pressing firmly on Monk Faxiang's spine, making him unable to breathe.

He had previously been hiding in the Great Void, calculating that he would wait for Protracting Purity and the old ghost of Qingsong to fight until both were injured so he could pick up the bargain and snatch the Primal Wood Fruit Position.

Now that he thought about it, it was simply an old man eating arsenic—tired of living.

"Buddha Lord..."

Below the main hall, several old monks of the Purple Mansion Stage knelt on the ground, their voices trembling.

"The Mortal believers outside are in chaos. That pressure just descended, and the Power Of Will towers in several large settlements directly collapsed, causing countless casualties."

"Should we send people out to comfort them..."

"Shut up!"

Monk Faxiang suddenly opened his eyes and shouted sharply to interrupt.

He had no mind to care about any Mortal believers now! If the Power Of Will towers collapsed, they collapsed; keeping his life was the most important thing!

"Transmit my decree!"

Monk Faxiang formed seals with his hands at high speed and spat a mouthful of natal essence blood onto the prayer beads in mid-air.

"From this moment on, the Small Sumeru Heaven is completely sealed!"

"Cut off all teleportation Formations to the outside world! Close the entrance to the cave heaven!"

"Without my order, no one is allowed to enter or leave! Violators will be thrown directly into the pit of vipers!"

The several old monks below looked at each other, all seeing horror on each other's faces.

Seal the mountain?

The Western Desert Buddhist Cultivator lineage had always been high-profile, relying on absorbing Mortal Power Of Will to cultivate. If this connection were completely cut off, hundreds of years of management would be completely ruined.

"Buddha Lord, this..."

An old monk gathered the courage to try to persuade him.

Before he could finish his words, Monk Faxiang's face changed drastically, his features twisted together.

Boom!

A vast, boundless, and terrifying aura that reigned above heaven and earth descended on the sky of the Western Desert without warning.

This aura did not deliberately target anyone; it just spread out extremely naturally.

But for Monk Faxiang of the Golden Core Stage, this was simply like having a knife held to his throat.

"He is here!"

Monk Faxiang let out a shrill scream that had changed pitch.

He couldn't care about any Buddhist dignity at all; he sprang up from the lotus platform, his hands frantically slapping the void.

"Seal! Seal quickly!"

At the entrance of the Small Sumeru Heaven, more than a dozen golden Buddhist Formations lit up at the same time, wrapping the cave heaven barrier tightly, three layers inside and three layers outside.

Outside the main hall, several Purple Mansion Elders who had just rushed back from outside were desperately beating the Formation light screen.

"Buddha Lord! Open the door!"

"We are still outside!"

"Let us in!"

Monk Faxiang turned a deaf ear.

He stared fixedly at the dome of the cave heaven above his head, his whole body shaking like a sieve.

Open the door?

Opening the door at this time, if that Dao Embryo Immortal Lord slipped in through the gap, the entire Small Sumeru Heaven would have to be buried with him!

"Amitabha... Amitabha..."

Monk Faxiang fell back to the ground, clutching the prayer beads tightly in his hand, muttering neurotically.

He now only prayed that the evil star was just passing by and would definitely not take a look below.

High above the Western Desert.

Gu Changsheng stood with his hands behind his back, the strong wind blowing his Daoist robe and making it rustle loudly.

He lowered his head slightly and glanced at a space node covered by yellow sand below.

Monk Faxiang's little movements, in front of his Dao Embryo Realm Divine Sense, were simply like a turtle in a transparent water tank; every move was clearly visible.

Seal the mountain?

Gu Changsheng twitched the corner of his mouth.

If I really wanted to kill you, would it be useful for you to hide in a turtle shell?

A wave of the liangtian ruler, and any cave heaven Formation would have to be shattered into scum.

However, he was not in the mood to deal with this old bald donkey today.

Keeping these Golden Core old monsters would be just right for Chen Mu to practice on later.

Gu Changsheng withdrew his gaze, took a step, and came directly to the depths of the Xumi Sand Sea.

This was the forbidden zone of life in the Western Desert.

The violent iron sand storm never stopped all year round; if a Purple Mansion Stage Cultivator came in, they wouldn't last half an hour before being scraped into white bones.

Gu Changsheng did not take any protective measures.

Those iron sands, which were enough to tear apart Magic Treasures, encountered an invisible wall when they approached three feet of his body and automatically slid away.

He followed the route in his memory and headed straight for the core area of the sand sea.

Soon, the storm ahead stopped.

Replacing it was an eerie vacuum zone.

There was no wind, no sand, and even sound was completely swallowed.

Only boundless gray fog rolled slowly in mid-air.

Gu Changsheng stopped and looked at the gray fog ruins in front of him.

When he came last time, he was only at the Golden Core Stage; when facing these ruins, he could clearly feel the spatial pressure that shredded Divine Sense, and he even had to rely on the Law to resist it in order to walk in.

But now.

Standing here, he only felt that the Law structure of these ruins was riddled with holes, as rough as a toy made of mud by a child.

He raised his foot and walked directly into the gray fog.

There was no obstruction.

Those gray mists that could once obscure even Golden Core Divine Sense automatically retreated to both sides when encountering the Dao Embryo aura, giving way to a wide passage.

Gu Changsheng walked all the way to the deepest part of the ruins.

A huge space crack appeared in front.

Last time, that millstone-sized taiyi gold mother was stuck in this crack.

Gu Changsheng walked to the edge of the crack, squatted down, and carefully examined the edge of the crack.

This was not a naturally formed space collapse.

Naturally collapsed space would have irregular jagged edges and be accompanied by continuous spatial turbulence.

But the edges of this crack were extremely smooth.

It was as if a knife that was fast to the extreme had been used to forcibly cut an opening in the fabric of heaven and earth.

Gu Changsheng reached out his finger and wiped it gently on the edge of the crack.

A very faint stinging sensation came from his fingertip.

He rubbed his fingers, and a barely noticeable silvery-white light flashed and disappeared at his fingertips.

Gold attribute killing Qi.

Moreover, this aura was even purer and more overbearing than the aura on the Immortal-Slaying Talisman that Bai Gengzi had handed over.

Gu Changsheng stood up and looked up.

Gray fog rolled overhead, obscuring his vision.

But he knew very well that this crack extended all the way up.

"It seems I found the right place."

Gu Changsheng patted the dust off his hands.

This place definitely had an inseparable connection with the first ancestor of the Solemn Gold Palace.

Perhaps, this was very likely the place where the first ancestor broke the world and left back then.

However, relying on guessing was not enough.

He needed exact intelligence.

Before, there was no object as a medium, which made it impossible to get intelligence on the Dao Embryo, but it was different now.

Gu Changsheng's mind moved, and he brought up the system panel.

"Deduce."

Gu Changsheng muttered in his heart.

Target: Events that occurred here ten thousand years ago.

As the instruction was issued, the light on the system panel flashed, and a line of prompts popped up.

[Consuming one hundred thousand Spirit Stones, deduction starts.]

After a few breaths, the light on the panel stabilized, and several lines of text appeared before his eyes.

Gu Changsheng's gaze swept across the system panel.

[daily intelligence update]

[Intelligence 1: Ten thousand and three hundred years ago, the first ancestor of the Solemn Gold Palace, Bai Jue, forcibly cut open the Heavenly Dao barrier at the core of the Western Desert's Xumi Sand Sea to Ascend.]

[Intelligence 2: When Bai Jue broke the world, he used the True Treasure he created himself, the 'World-Breaking Formation Plate'. Both the taiyi gold mother and the flowing sand gold essence were scraps left over from refining the Formation Plate back then.]

[Intelligence 3: After Bai Jue cut open the boundary wall, he encountered an unknown interception, his half-broken natal Flying Sword snapped, and it remained in the gap of the boundary wall.]

After reading these three pieces of intelligence, Gu Changsheng closed the panel casually.

Sure enough.

This was the place where the last Dao Embryo Ascended ten thousand years ago.

No wonder these ruins could obscure even Golden Core Divine Sense; this was the residual Law left after a Dao Embryo Realm powerhouse exerted their full strength.

A divine object like the taiyi gold mother, which could attract Heavenly Tribulation, was actually just scraps left over from someone else's refining.

But what Gu Changsheng cared about most was the third piece of intelligence.

Encountered an unknown interception.

Half of the Flying Sword snapped.

Bai Jue was a Sword Cultivator who mastered the Dao of Gold attribute killing, and his attack power was definitely top-notch among those of the same rank.

To be able to snap his natal Flying Sword, what on earth was it?

The Heavenly Dao of this world?

Gu Changsheng raised his head, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Inside the Dantian, the phantom of the Dao Embryo suddenly opened its eyes, and the blue-gold light surged into his eyes along the Meridians.

Dao Embryo Dharma Eye, seeing through falsehoods.

His gaze instantly penetrated the rolling gray fog overhead, penetrated the violent spatial turbulence, and pierced straight towards the highest point of this heaven and earth.

Ten thousand zhang.

Thirty thousand zhang.

One hundred thousand zhang.

...

Gu Changsheng's gaze climbed upward continuously until it touched an invisible and thick barrier.

Heavenly Dao boundary wall.

This was the cage that wrapped around the Nine Provinces Cultivation World and prevented all living beings from leaving.

The surface of the boundary wall flowed with extremely complex Heavenly Dao rules, integrated into a whole, without any flaws.

But in Gu Changsheng's line of sight, at a certain point on the boundary wall, there was an extremely subtle flaw.

That was a crack about a zhang long.

The rule lines around the crack were broken and could not heal.

It was precisely the mark left by that sword of Bai Jue ten thousand years ago.

Gu Changsheng brought his gaze closer, locking tightly onto that crack.

In the middle of the crack, something was stuck.

It was a broken piece of silvery-white sword blade.

The sword blade was only half a foot long, its surface covered with spiderweb-like cracks, and the blade, which should have been sharp, was now rolled.

This half of the broken sword was stuck firmly in the gap of the boundary wall, preventing the boundary wall from self-repairing.

Gu Changsheng stared at the broken sword.

The position of the hilt was gone, leaving only the sword body.

And on the fractured cross-section, a pool of extremely glaring black blood was stained.

Ten thousand years had passed.

That pool of black blood had not only not dried up, but was still slowly squirming.

Drip.

Under Gu Changsheng's gaze, a tiny black blood drop dripped from the sword blade.

The moment the blood drop left the sword blade, it was directly crushed into nothingness by the Heavenly Dao rules on the boundary wall.

Gu Changsheng frowned tightly.

This blood was definitely not Bai Jue's.

A Sword Cultivator's blood, even in death, would still exude sharpness; it would never be this kind of black, full of decay and eerie aura.

This black blood was left by that "unknown existence" that intercepted Bai Jue.

There are living things at the critical point.

And, extremely dangerous.

Gu Changsheng withdrew his gaze, and the blue-gold light in his eyes gradually faded.

He stood in place, rubbing his fingers gently at his side.

This was very interesting.

The rules of heaven and earth changed, cutting off the path for Golden Core to go upward.

It was hard for a fierce person to forcibly break the boundary wall, but as soon as they went out, they were intercepted.

No matter how you looked at it, it looked like a pigsty kept in captivity.

The people inside couldn't get out, and the people outside were guarding the door.

"The area beyond the heavens is not a pure land..."

Gu Changsheng muttered a sentence.

This sentence left by the first ancestor was not a sigh, but a warning.

Warning future generations not to go out and die.

But this was not up to him to choose.

The Heavenly Dao repulsion force was getting stronger and stronger, and he must leave within a hundred years.

If he didn't leave, he would be forcibly squeezed by the rules of this world; at best, his cultivation would regress, and at worst, his Dao foundation would collapse.

Leave, and there are unknown monsters guarding outside.

Don't leave, and it's a slow death inside.

Gu Changsheng sneered.

Cultivating to the end, it turned into a dead end.

However, he was not Bai Jue.

Bai Jue had risked his old life back then to cut a crack in the boundary wall.

He was now a full-status Dao Embryo, and he still held a True Treasure like the liangtian ruler that could stabilize Laws.

If he really faced the things outside, it was uncertain who would suffer.

A hundred years was enough for him to make many preparations.