138: Chapter 138 A Shocking Secret

Countless Ancient God-Demons fought bloody battles, using their mountain-like bodies to form a Great Wall of flesh and blood, blocking all enemies firmly on the periphery.

Some Ancient God-Demons even dug out their own hearts while on the verge of death, transforming them into barriers.

And the thing they were protecting so desperately behind them, even at the cost of their entire race's extinction...

Was actually an extremely tiny, yet vibrant, azure planet!

On the planet, there were familiar continental outlines and vast oceans.

That was... Earth.

Not the high-martial Earth of today, where exotic beasts run rampant after the spiritual energy resurgence.

But the extremely ancient, primeval azure water planet from before human civilization was even born!

"This... is this Earth?!"

Ji Hongyi covered her red lips, gasping in shock, her voice trembling violently.

"How is this possible?!" Dragon Battle felt his worldview completely collapse.

In the cognition of the entire universe, and in the words of those higher races in the Hundred Cities Alliance, Earth had always been a "low-level wasteland planet" on the edge of the universe, an uncivilized trash star region.

But now!

In this Ancient God-Demon temple that buried the gods, they actually saw ancient murals of the Allied Ten Thousand Races besieging Earth!

They saw those Ancient God-Demons who only existed in myths, shedding their last drop of blood to protect this planet!

"So that's how it is..."

Lin Yuan stared at the azure planet on the mural, and all the clues in his mind connected like lightning at this moment, abruptly exploding with a world-shaking secret!

Earth is not some low-level wasteland at all!

It is the ancestral planet of the Ancient God-Demons!!!

It is the supreme holy land in this universe that once nurtured the most terrifying and purest physical power!

And the reason why the ten thousand races of the universe invaded Earth so frantically after the spiritual energy resurgence, like sharks smelling blood, was not for any so-called "colonization"!

They were afraid!

They were searching for the ultimate treasure left on the ancestral planet before the Ancient God-Demons fell, or... they were terrified that descendants who inherited the bloodline of the Ancient God-Demons would reawaken on this planet and settle that blood debt from hundreds of millions of years ago!

Earthlings are not some inferior bloodline.

They are the orphans of the Ancient God-Demons!

"Captain..."

Ancient Sword Soul's eyes were bloodshot, tears sliding down silently; he finally understood why his heart surged with such sorrowful palpitations when approaching this temple.

That was the call of bloodlines spanning hundreds of millions of years, the obsession of ancestors who died in the depths of the universe and turned into withered bones, yet remained unyielding!

Inside the deathly silent bronze temple, only the firelight flickered.

Lin Yuan slowly turned around.

He lowered his head, looking at his own hands, which flowed with dark golden divine blood and contained a terrifying strength of two thousand tons.

He finally understood why the system had made the God-Demon Body Forging Technique the core cultivation method for him to establish a foothold in this starry sky.

Because this was originally something that belonged to them, the Earthlings!

His gaze, from the initial shock and astonishment, gradually settled down, eventually transforming into an unprecedented, extreme killing intent.

"Dragon Battle, Old Gu, Ji Hongyi."

Lin Yuan's voice was very soft, yet it stirred up rumbling echoes within the vast temple, as if he were making a vow to those Ancient God-Demons who lay at rest here.

"All this time, the ten thousand races have been high and mighty; we thought we were bugs in the universe, being bullied by them, struggling to survive in desperate situations."

"But now, I understand."

He pointed at the baring-fanged and brandishing-claws ancestors of the alien races on the mural, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"We are not being bullied."

"We are reclaiming lost territory."

Bang!!!

Accompanied by this roar, Lin Yuan lifted his right leg, which felt as heavy as a thousand jun, and stepped onto the second step of the bronze staircase amidst the blood mist filling the sky!

An ultimate bloodline trial that spanned thousands of years, in the form of "opposing ancient laws."

At this moment, it officially began!

Passing through the bronze mural corridor that seemed to record the rise and fall of the entire universe.

When the end of the mural was left far behind, the scene before everyone changed drastically once again.

This place was no longer a traditional temple structure.

When Lin Yuan looked up to gaze at the dome of this bronze temple, he did not see exquisite carved stone slabs or giant pillars supporting the temple, but rather... a truly deathly silent starry sky.

Dim stars that had already extinguished, each comparable in volume to the moon, were forcibly embedded into this dome by some incomprehensible supreme power.

They were like ancient chandeliers that had run out of oil, emitting a faint light, barely illuminating this vast space that felt like an independent small universe.

"My god... taking real planets down to use as lightbulbs?"

Dragon Battle craned his neck, feeling dizzy.

This method of playing with stars in the palm of one's hand had completely exceeded the cognitive limits of a Fourth-Rank Martial Artist like him.

"Don't just stare at the sky, look down at your feet."

Lin Yuan's voice pulled everyone back to reality from their shock.

On both sides of the path they were advancing along, countless huge remnants of ancient weapons were scattered.

There were bronze war halberds broken into two, a thousand meters long; star-giant shields split down the middle by some terrifying power; and even some fragments of unknown warships that had long weathered but still emitted an aura of despair.

Although these weapons had weathered millions of years of erosion and their internal divinity had completely drained away, the basic materials used to forge them, if placed in today's Hundred Cities Alliance...

Would still be top-tier divine materials that even Seventh-Rank or Eighth-Rank Great Experts would break their heads to snatch!

"Captain, these scrap metals, we..." Ancient Sword Soul swallowed, his hands itching again.

"Leave the scrap metal for now; storage space is limited. I won't do things like picking up sesame seeds while losing a watermelon."

Lin Yuan waved his hand, his gaze sweeping across this ancient battlefield ruin, finally settling on several huge bronze cauldron remnants not far away.

At the bottom of those several giant cauldrons, clusters of strange, grey-black mist lingered, even slowly corroding the surrounding space.

"Ji Hongyi." Lin Yuan turned his head.

"Yes!"

Lin Yuan pointed at those clusters of grey-black mist, "See that mist? That is the 'God-Demon Poisonous Miasma' formed by the resentment and virulent poison within the bodies of the Ancient God-Demons after they fell, mixed over thousands of years."

"You just bought the Myriad Poison Mother Body at the auction; go, use your mother body to absorb all that poisonous miasma."

Ji Hongyi's beautiful eyes lit up suddenly: "Yes! Captain!"

For a poison cultivator, this kind of ancient divine poison that had spanned thousands of years was simply more lethal and fascinating than any heavenly treasure!

In the gap while Ji Hongyi collected the poisonous miasma, Lin Yuan took Dragon Battle and Ancient Sword Soul to continue advancing towards the deepest part of the temple.

The further they went inside, the fewer scattered weapon remnants there were; in their place was an extreme solemnity and oppression that made it almost impossible to breathe.

Finally, when they crossed the last piece of ruins.

At the very end of the temple, there were no mountains of gold and silver, nor any ancient inheritances emitting precious light.

What appeared before them were only ninety-nine huge bronze steps.

Each step was ten meters high, cast entirely from the purest bronze, covered in the tragic marks of sword and axe slashes and dried black bloodstains.

And at the very top of those ninety-nine steps, at the end.

Quietly stood a throne of white bones, pieced together from the massive ribs of an unknown starry sky giant beast!

"That is..."

When everyone saw the scene on the throne clearly, their breathing stopped.

On the throne sat a headless bronze giant, one hundred meters tall!

The giant's head was long gone, and the cut at the neck was as smooth as a mirror.

It wore ancient and tattered bronze battle armor, its hands pressing firmly on the armrests of the throne, as if even after dying for hundreds of millions of years, it was still guarding some absolute taboo behind it.

And right in the center of the giant's broad chest.

A broken black spear was shockingly thrust into it!

The spear had pierced the giant's heart, nailing him firmly to the bone throne.

Black divine blood had flowed down along the spear, having long since dried into shocking dark spots.

Tragic and heroic.

Desperate.

An extreme sense of sorrow spanning the long river of time instantly gripped the throats of every Earthling present.

[Ding! High-energy extreme danger warning!!!]

Just at this moment, the System 3.0 that had just finished updating in Lin Yuan's mind suddenly erupted with a red alert!

[Warning! Residual super-dimensional life fluctuations detected!]

[Warning! The target ahead is not completely in a 'dead' state!]

[Extreme danger! Extreme danger!]

"Alive?!"

Lin Yuan's pupils shrank.

A bronze corpse without a head, with its heart pierced, sitting here for who knows how many epochs... the system actually indicated it still had life fluctuations?!

"Drip."

A drop of cold sweat slid down Lin Yuan's forehead, hitting the bronze ground.

In the depths of this deathly silent temple, this slight sound seemed to trigger some ancient restriction that had spanned thousands of years.

Lin Yuan took a deep breath, enduring the pressure that made even his soul tremble, slowly lifted his right foot, and tentatively... stepped onto the first of the ninety-nine steps.

Boom————!!!!

At the very moment Lin Yuan made contact with the first bronze step!

A sudden change occurred!

The space inside the entire bronze temple seemed to instantly turn from air into solidified mercury!

A terrifying gravity that could not be described in any language descended abruptly without warning!

Ten thousand times gravity!!!

"Ugh, ahhh!!!"

Dragon Battle and Ancient Sword Soul, who were less than ten meters behind Lin Yuan, didn't even have a second of reaction time.

Under this terrifying gravity that could instantly crush a small meteorite into a neutron star, the bones in both of their legs instantly made a cracking sound!

They were directly pressed firmly by this invisible force, blood spraying out wildly!

Their internal organs were shifting crazily, and their capillaries were bursting inch by inch!

"Retreat! Retreat out!!" Lin Yuan roared in the communication channel, but this gravity distorted even his voice.

And what was even more terrifying was yet to come.

"Hum..."

At the very top of the ninety-nine steps, the broken spear thrust into the chest of the headless bronze giant on the throne suddenly lit up with a bone-chilling light!

This light was like the breathing of a ghost, flickering on and off.

Immediately after, an ancient divine sense, devoid of any emotional color, ancient, weathered, yet permeating with endless killing intent, exploded!

"Those not of my race..."

"Die!!!!!"

Pfft!

Under the impact of this divine sense, Ancient Sword Soul and Dragon Battle sprayed another mouthful of blood, their consciousness already wandering on the edge of collapse.