352: Chapter 350: The ancestors worshiped, and the Seven Mysterious Lords went crazy

Gu Shengge just wanted to trick Lord Seven Mysteries, to see if he was the one behind it, even though the possibility was minuscule.

“Investigate quickly, and let’s go in a different direction,” Gu Shengge urged.

Lord Seven Mysteries’s Divine Thought spread out, but his expression suddenly changed. The System’s divine light flickered violently, as if he had discovered something incredible.

“Seven Mysteries, what’s going on?”

Lord Seven Mysteries stammered, “Gu Shengge, the System’s rules are restricted to a one-li radius. It seems like something… has awakened!”

Lord Seven Mysteries looked at the barren mountain peak in the distance, his face filled with horror.

Gu Shengge frowned and looked, but didn’t find anything. Under his double pupils, it was just an ordinary mountain.

After a moment of doubt, his eyes suddenly widened.

He felt it—a vast pressure, carrying the power of time, as if rolling back from an eternity ago.

Under the solemn gazes of Gu Shengge and Lord Seven Mysteries, ancient-textured ornaments appeared behind the mountain. A massive human-like head slowly emerged, wearing an ancient, simple mask. Her eyes were indifferent, desolate, and merciless. Her colossal body quickly surpassed the mountain, reaching over ten thousand feet tall and incredibly vast.

The ancient ornaments on her body seemed to have just awakened, appearing slightly worn, yet each contained profound and vast energy, and every single one was a heavenly spiritual treasure.

However, she herself had no aura whatsoever; or rather, neither Gu Shengge nor the System could detect any Qi from her.

As they were shocked, waves surged on the Feng River in the distance, churning and condensing into black humanoid beings, each a hundred feet tall. Soon, countless of them, numbering in the hundreds of millions, knelt down densely.

“Greetings, Fenghe God Lord!”

…The colossal sound was like thunder, resonating with heaven and earth. The entire Sky Burial Underworld trembled with it. Gu Shengge and Lord Seven Mysteries felt as if someone was continuously striking their heads with a large hammer, causing the scene before their eyes to vibrate violently and become hazy.

At the same time, the beings formed from the Fengshen River water began to chant ancient, obscure incantations, like a sacrifice, causing Gu Shengge and Lord Seven Mysteries’s brains to ache.

Gu Shengge activated Dijiang’s spatial Dao, forming his own heaven and earth to protect himself. The rumbling Dao sounds, though deafening, no longer affected Gu Shengge.

After steadying his mind, Gu Shengge found that Lord Seven Mysteries seemed to be unable to hold on. His energy body was disintegrating, flowing downwards like melting ice water.

“Bang!”

His energy body shattered and returned to Gu Shengge’s Dantian, merging with Qiangliang.

Gu Shengge was not much affected at the moment, and Lord Seven Mysteries, who had returned to Qiangliang’s body, also received protection.

He let out a long breath and said bitterly, “With such power, we definitely can’t leave.”

Gu Shengge ignored him. Looking out, on the originally empty and desolate land, countless gigantic black figures were prostrating, dancing, and chanting ancient incantations, as if ancient ancestors were sacrificing to their forefathers.

Lord Seven Mysteries probably also detected this scene, and his heart grew even more bitter: “It’s over! With such a display, we are bound to perish here!”

Gu Shengge frowned. No matter how dangerous the situation, he would never despair and wait for death.

He suddenly turned his gaze to the so-called God Lord in the distance.

The God Lord was a woman, with an graceful and shapely figure, her curves even more exaggerated than mountains.

As the ancestors formed from the Fengshen River water performed their sacrifice, golden divine patterns lit up on her body, as if activating the major acupuncture points throughout her body, completely reviving her.

“Buzz!”

With a hum, a wave of light erupted from the God Lord, releasing a large ripple of energy that spread outwards. The fierce divine light swept over Gu Shengge’s body. He felt as if he had been struck by a heavy blow, and intense pain assailed him. He fell straight to the ground, landing with a heavy thud.

In the distance, the sacrificing ancestors seemed to notice the disturbance here and suddenly cheered, excitedly dancing their ritualistic dance on the mountain.

Gu Shengge wanted to escape, but when he released his Divine Thought, he found that all directions—front, back, left, right, up, and down—seemed to be covered by an invisible light curtain. If he tried to break through, he would surely be pulverized.

Gu Shengge felt a chilling sensation at this moment, feeling that he was truly going to perish here.

“Lord Seven Mysteries, why don’t you just self-destruct? Maybe that will give me a chance to escape from here.”

Lord Seven Mysteries said bitterly, “I don’t want to die!”

Suddenly, he said excitedly, “Didn’t you pick up half of a System remnant from the Feng River before?!”

Gu Shengge frowned: “I did pick it up, but what good is it? Only half of that thing is left.”

He had planned to let the jade disc of creation refine it to improve his cultivation when Lord Seven Mysteries wasn’t paying attention, but he never had the chance. He didn’t expect Lord Seven Mysteries to have noticed it.

Gu Shengge didn’t waste any time and took out the System remnant, throwing it outside.

“I can combine a part of my System power with this remnant. This way, its self-destruction can release almost the same power as my own self-destruction!”

Gu Shengge understood. Lord Seven Mysteries truly didn’t want to die, but if they couldn’t escape, they were still doomed.

So he chose to self-destruct a part of his own body to deal with the current crisis.

“Buzz!”

The System rules began to pour in frantically, continuously merging into the System remnant.

“Gu Shengge, get ready. I’m about to detonate this part of the System remnant. Be prepared to escape at any moment!”

Gu Shengge nodded solemnly, then kicked the System remnant into the sky.

The System remnant flew over ten thousand meters high, crashing into the invisible energy barrier. Lord Seven Mysteries immediately detonated it.

“Boom!”

With a loud bang, dazzling white divine light covered a radius of hundreds of millions of li, and a huge gap was blasted open in the thick energy barrier.

Gu Shengge used his double pupils to clear the way, quickly soaring into the air and rushing towards the gap.

All of this happened in just a few breaths. Gu Shengge stepped through the air and rushed out of the energy barrier.

However, what awaited him was not the vast and free world outside. A gigantic hand pressed down from the sky, scattering countless clouds and stirring up a storm. Even before the giant hand fully descended, the ground had already begun to collapse.

Gu Shengge wanted to escape, but beneath the giant hand, containing myriad Daos, the surrounding space had already been locked down. He couldn’t move.

Lord Seven Mysteries also let out a desperate wail: “Why? Haven’t we already broken through the barrier?

Are we really going to perish here?”

【Ding! Recycling mission issued: Recycle the beings formed from the Fengshen River water. Reward: Heaven-Breaking Cone!】

【Ding! Mission complete. System reward has been issued and is automatically activating!】

【Ding! System mission issued: Recycle the sand and stones of the Sky Burial Underworld...】

Lord Seven Mysteries seemed to have gone mad, frantically issuing missions and then automatically completing them, pulling out treasures left and right. (End of chapter)