291: Chapter 291 The Key from the Mortal Realm to the Upper Realm!

"He who holds the heavenly token shall activate the Ascension Formation and enter the Ancient Road to Immortality!"

A cold voice boomed and echoed in everyone's minds.

It caused Chu Ling and Mary to tremble slightly.

Qin Xueji's legs even went weak.

Su Yang sneered, his eyes filled with disdain.

"A remnant soul that has been dead for who knows how many tens of thousands of years dares to play tricks in front of me."

Su Yang did not hesitate in the slightest and strode toward the stone platform in the center of the secret chamber.

Just as he was less than three feet away from the golden skeleton, a sudden change occurred!

Two dazzling golden lights suddenly flared in the eye sockets of the golden skeleton sitting cross-legged.

The skeleton's right hand, which had been resting on its knees, raised like lightning and thrust straight toward Su Yang's brow!

Before the Sword Qi even arrived, countless deep sword marks had already appeared on the hard walls surrounding the secret chamber.

"Boss, watch out!"

Chu Ling exclaimed, her ice-blue dress fluttering in the wind as she prepared to step forward to block the attack.

"Stand back."

Su Yang's tone was calm. He casually raised his right arm, curled his five fingers into a claw, and reached out to grab the skeleton's sword finger.

"Crack!"

A crisp sound of bone breaking rang out.

The golden finger bone, rumored to be indestructible and flowing with the aura of immortal time, was firmly clutched in Su Yang's palm.

The moment the violent Sword Intent touched Su Yang's palm, it vanished without a trace, like a clay ox entering the sea.

"You want to test me? You old bag of bones aren't qualified."

The Mutated Pure Yang True Fire within Su Yang suddenly erupted.

The violent golden-purple flames surged down his arm like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey, instantly engulfing the entire golden skeleton.

"Presumptuous..."

The skeleton's jaw moved up and down, emitting an angry yet powerless roar.

In just two breaths of time, this ancient skeleton, having withstood the test of time, was reduced to a pile of fine white ash under the burning of the Mutated Pure Yang True Fire.

A breeze swept through, and it completely dissipated into nothingness.

On the stone platform, only this ancient token remained, blood-red throughout and engraved with the character "Heaven".

Su Yang reached out and grabbed the blood-red token, holding it in his hand.

The token felt warm to the touch, like a piece of beating flesh.

A vast and boundless stream of ancient information attempted to force its way into Su Yang's Sea of Consciousness through his palm.

"Get back!"

Su Yang coldly snorted, his Soul Transformation Stage Divine Soul power manifesting as a golden heavy hammer, smashing the invading stream of information into smithereens.

The token let out a mournful cry, its flickering red light instantly dimming as it lay obediently in his palm, never daring to act up again.

Inside his Sea of Consciousness, the ancient expert Lei Kuang, who had just been subdued, sensed everything happening outside through his Divine Sense and was so excited that even his voice trembled violently.

"Mas... Master! The object in your hand, could it be the legendary heavenly token for Ascension?!"

Su Yang sent a wisp of his Divine Sense into his inner world, looked at Lei Kuang, who was imprisoned at the bottom of the starship, and asked calmly, "You recognize this?"

Lei Kuang nodded frantically, his eyes filled with fanaticism and awe.

"This old servant once saw records in an ancient, top-secret tome! Master, between the Upper Realm and the Mortal Realm, there originally existed a trial path called the 'Ancient Road to Immortality'."

"This path is independent of the Heavenly Dao's lightning punishment. If one can fight their way through this path and successfully reach the top, they can directly achieve sainthood with their Physical Body, ascend to the Upper Realm, and remain completely free from the jurisdiction of the Lightning Punishment Temple!"

Lei Kuang swallowed hard and continued, "However, the Ancient Road to Immortality is fraught with danger. To open the entrance, one must collect the corresponding credentials."

"This heavenly token is one of the core keys!"

"Master's Divine Might is peerless. If you can open this path, storming the Lightning Punishment Temple in the future will be as easy as taking something out of a bag!"

After listening to Lei Kuang's explanation, a smile appeared on the corner of Su Yang's mouth.

"Interesting. Being able to storm their doorstep without having to get struck by lightning saves me quite a bit of trouble."

He tossed the token into his System space.

The moment the heavenly token left the stone platform, the entire secret chamber, and even the massive purple-gold temple, suddenly began to shake violently!

"Rumble—!" A dull sound of collapse came from all directions.

The huge white jade pillars supporting the temple snapped one after another, and giant stones kept falling from above.

The lightning light net that separated the outside seawater also began to dim rapidly, and hundreds of millions of tons of cold seawater from all around, carrying earth-shattering water pressure, flooded in frantically!

"Boss! This place is going to collapse!"

Chu Ling shouted a warning, her ice-blue dress snapping in the gale.

Mary was so scared that she immediately flapped her bat wings and flew into the air to dodge the falling debris.

"The array core has been taken, so this underwater ruin naturally cannot hold up."

Su Yang's expression was calm. With a thought, a circle of brilliant golden Pure Yang True Qi protective shield instantly expanded, firmly shielding the three beauties in the center.

"Hold on tight, I'm taking you out."

As soon as he finished speaking, Su Yang bent his knees slightly and exerted force under his feet.

"Bang!"

The hard floor of the secret chamber was crushed into a deep pit several meters in diameter.

Su Yang, like a Heaven-Defying missile, carried the three women and smashed directly through the dome of the secret chamber!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Pure Yang protective shield, like a drill, smashed through layers of temple architecture.

The cold seawater flooding in was instantly evaporated into large clouds of white steam the moment it touched the Pure Yang True Fire.

In just a few breaths, the golden stream of light pierced through the entire purple-gold temple and rushed directly into the endless deep sea of the East Sea Return Ruins.

Deep under the sea, the water pressure was terrifyingly extreme, enough to crush a steel submarine into a pancake in an instant.

But under the protection of the Mutated Pure Yang True Fire, Su Yang and the others didn't get a single drop of seawater on them.

"Break for me!"

Su Yang punched upward with his right fist. The massive, golden-purple intertwined fist aura transformed into a roaring ancient fire dragon, forcibly splitting open a vacuum channel in the deep sea!

Splash—!

On the surface of the East Sea, in the center of the originally crazily rotating Return Ruins whirlpool, a water column reaching a thousand zhang into the sky suddenly exploded upward.

The golden stream of light broke through the water, like a scorching sun rising into the sky, and instantly hovered above the ten-thousand-meter cloud layer.

The Frost Giant Dragon, which had been circling high in the sky waiting, saw this and immediately let out a joyful dragon roar, its massive body flying over quickly to steadily catch Su Yang and the three women.

Breathing in the fresh air above the sea again, Qin Xueji patted her full chest and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Boss, the speed at which you rushed out just now was too fast; I'm feeling a bit dizzy."

Qin Xueji said softly, her stunning face still bearing a trace of lingering flush.

Mary was jumping around excitedly on the dragon's back, her hot curves under her black bikini fully exposed.

"That was so exciting! It was a hundred times more fun than riding a roller coaster! Boss, where are we going next? Are we going to dig up other graves?"

Su Yang ignored everyone's chatter, his brows slightly raised as he stared at his right palm.

The heavenly token that he had just put into his space was now flying out on its own, completely out of his control!

Not only that, but the token hovered in mid-air, its complex surface patterns flowing rapidly as if they were alive.

Immediately after, inside the System space, the two fragments of the Ascension Jade Disc that had been collected previously were also pulled by some mysterious force, flying out automatically to circle around the heavenly token.

"Hum—!"

The three ancient artifacts produced a strong resonance in mid-air.

A dark red beam of light shot up from the heavenly token, firing directly into the depths of the cloud sea ahead.

The cloud sea churned, and a massive holographic map hundreds of zhang long slowly unfolded in mid-air!

This map depicted the mountains and topography of the entire Huaxia Divine Province.

And in the southwest corner of the map, a conspicuous golden dot was flickering frantically at a rapid frequency.

Chu Ling leaned forward, looking carefully at the position of the golden dot, a flash of surprise in her eyes.

"Boss, the location marked by this light point doesn't seem to be any famous mountain or river..."

Chu Ling pointed at the markings on the map, her voice cold and clear.

"This location is the Fengdu Ghost City in the southwest region!"

Hearing the words "Fengdu", Su Yang narrowed his eyes.

"Fengdu Ghost City? The place rumored to be the gathering point of ten thousand ghosts, connecting the human world to the Underworld?"

"Since this damned token is guiding us to take a trip to the Ghost City, consider it me taking you out for an all-you-can-eat buffet."