155: Qin Wangchuan! There's a conspiracy!

A vast sword light, bright enough to illuminate the sky, cleaved down, and countless alien races lurking in the sky turned into a bloody rain.

You had already guessed who the person behind you was: Qin Wangchuan.

Only he possessed such strength.

But you didn't turn back, you just kept running.

~Immortal Path Entry - Day 57~

Day and night, sword lights continuously flew by, and alien races constantly fell.

But the alien races seemed endless, impossible to kill completely.

Fortunately, perhaps because you seemed weaker, those alien races didn't focus their attention on you.

You heard a voice from behind: "Sky Sword!"

You looked back to see a gigantic Sky Sword descending from the heavens, splitting the clouds. Many alien races flew up to meet it, seemingly trying to block it.

But the next moment, they all turned into dust.

Just then...

The three-eyed alien race made its move.

"The time has come," you heard it say.

Then, a huge crack split open in the ground.

Countless more alien races emerged from it, and their aura was considerably stronger than the previous ones.

'An ambush?' you thought to yourself, before you had time to ponder it further.

"Boom—!!!"

The sudden aftershocks of an explosion sent you flying. You fell heavily to the ground, your consciousness gradually blurring.

In a daze, you saw a black nail appear in the hand of the three-eyed alien race, shooting towards the distant figure.

But Qin Wangchuan had already sensed it. A Flying Sword rushed forward, and both the black nail and the Flying Sword shattered.

Another wave of explosive aftershocks struck.

You were once again thrown a hundred zhang, and as you struggled...

The sight before you made your Soul tremble, almost suffocating you.

The path ahead was broken.

At the edge of the broken cliff, rubble tumbled down, falling into the endless abyss of the Void Realm.

However—

At the end of that broken path, a colossal head, comparable to a mountain, gradually emerged from the Chaos mist.

The head resembled a Dragon's, but it bore six pairs of curved horns, each entangled with remnants of broken chains.

Its aura was extremely faint, like a flickering candle in the wind, yet it still carried an awe-inspiring sense of ancientness and desolation.

Its silhouette was like a continuous mountain range, its face covered in scale armor like star wreckage, its eyes tightly shut. Those scales had long since cracked and shattered, revealing the starlight-flickering flesh beneath.

Countless thick, dark chains, inscribed with runes, extended from several massive stone tablets at the end of the path, tightly coiling around and piercing its enormous head!

Those chains slowly writhed like living things, and with each movement, they drew immense energy from the giant beast's body, bringing endless pain.

A World Devouring Beast! The ancient existence that the Shen Family had guarded for generations, and which had brought about their destruction! It was truly still here!

Boundless grief and sorrow welled up in your heart, almost bringing tears to your eyes.

"So that's it..." Your throat tightened, as if you understood something.

"The World Devouring Beast has always been beneath our feet."

The Immortal Path had long been broken.

The Ji Family's capture of the Void-Devouring Beast was precisely to create a new path across this broken one. Although it wouldn't reach the end, one could directly ride it to break through the boundary and fly to the other side of the Immortal Path.

This was a path built on the flesh and blood of a giant beast, a bloody path forcibly carved out of the Void Realm!

You calmed your turbulent emotions, dragged your injured body up, and found the largest stone tablet located beneath the giant beast's head.

The stone tablet was already severely damaged, but you knew that this was the key to unsealing it.

How could an ancient existence like the World Devouring Beast be confined by others?

So this was a self-imposed restraint, a restraint to protect the Shen Family.

And these chains were not set by others; they were personally placed by the Shen Family for a promise—

You limped forward with your injured body, muttering:

"Today, with your body, I exchange a glimmer of hope for my Shen Family. When the Shen Family is safe, someone will surely come to return your freedom."

"If not in a year, then a hundred years; if not a hundred, then a thousand; if not a thousand, then ten thousand. Passed down through generations, the flame never extinguished—this is the unyielding blood oath of the Shen Family!"

As you spoke, you raised your head, all pain seemingly vanished, and walked towards the stone tablet, speaking firmly:

"Now the Shen Family is safe, the Ji Family is destroyed. It is I who shall fulfill the promise, to return your freedom, and... the Shen Family's freedom."

Almost there.

Almost there.

You raised your hand, and just as your fingertips were about to touch the stone tablet—

"Commendable. This is the closest you've ever gotten."

"Mortal."

A ghostly voice suddenly whispered next to your ear.

Your whole body stiffened, and you felt your vision suddenly rise. Looking down—your own body still maintained its leaning posture, but a three-zhang-high fountain of blood erupted from your neck.

A figure in a scarlet robe stood beside your headless corpse, your fresh blood still dripping from its fingertips.

"I... died?"

Your head tumbled in the air, yet you could still think.

There was no fear, only endless regret surging like a tide—just a little bit, just a little bit more!

If only you had been a step faster just now, if only you had sustained fewer injuries before, if only... Your head plunged into the endless abyss beneath the Immortal Path.

In the last moment before your consciousness dissipated, you finally saw the truth—

At the bottom of the abyss, dozens of alien race priests sat around a blood-red altar.

Several blood-red tentacles extended from the altar, greedily drawing the starlight-like blood of the World Devouring Beast and injecting it into a crack in the center of the altar.

On the other side of the crack, countless alien races gathered like a tide, their scarlet eyes greedily gazing in the direction of the Ten Directions Immortal Court... "So... that's how it is..."

Your unfocused pupils constricted violently.

No wonder the alien races suddenly invaded; it turned out these damned alien races had used the flesh and blood of the World Devouring Beast to break through the world barrier!

With the emergence of the alien races, the Ten Directions Immortal Court was bound to face a great catastrophe.

Your last thoughts flickered like a candle in the wind: 'I must tell others... I must...'

'Qin Wangchuan... this... there is...'

Darkness completely engulfed you.