532: Chapter 532 Entering the Ancient Realm, Suffering Heavy Losses

Chapter 532: Entering the Ancient Realm, Heavy Losses

“Yes, Grandpa, let’s go in quickly too, don’t let Luo Tian get ahead!”

Ye Qingxuan was also excited, her eyes filled with thrill.

She seemed to already see super treasures beckoning to her.

To be valued by Luo Tian and have so many strong individuals follow and protect him, the opportunities and treasures inside were definitely extraordinary.

As long as she obtained them, she would certainly be qualified to contend with Ye Mu for the position of Family Head.

One must know that the Ye Family had never had a female patriarch in hundreds of thousands of years.

If she could succeed, it would be a pioneering achievement.

“Alright, everyone enter! Listen carefully, anything that Luo Tian wants to obtain, snatch it all!”

The Second Elder gave a direct order.

With that, he pulled Ye Qingxuan and stepped directly into the portal.

Regarding the Luo Family, others might be afraid, but his Ye Family was not.

In terms of the number of strong individuals and the scope of their star domain, the Ye Family held a slight advantage.

Their usual trade dealings were merely for mutual benefit, but when it came to conflicts of interest of this level, they would not yield to each other.

The Luo Family would not give them a share, and they did not need to be wary of the relationship between the two families; the stronger party would obtain it.

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Taixu Ancient Realm.

The moment Luo Tian stepped into the colossal black gate, he felt a dense aura, like ten thousand years of profound ice, crash into his soul.

The dojo before him was not as grand and vast as he had imagined, but rather a stretch of broken walls and ruins extending to the horizon—

Thousand-foot-tall stone pillars were half-buried in the yellow earth, and the carved celestial dragon reliefs on the pillars had largely peeled off.

Only faint golden light of laws remained in the surviving dragon scale patterns, and every crack silently spoke of the earth-shattering battle that had once taken place in this Immortal Emperor’s dojo.

“This is… the outer perimeter of the Immortal Emperor’s dojo?”

Xing Feng’s voice trembled as he pointed to a collapsed archway in the distance. The four characters “Myriad Laws Return to Void” on the plaque had shattered into three pieces, with only the corner of the character “Void” still emitting faint spatial ripples.

The ground beneath their feet was covered in spiderweb-like cracks, and with every step, faint green runes emerged from the ground only to quickly dissipate.

Those were the Myriad Dao Totems laid down by the ancient Immortal Emperor; now only fragments remained, yet they still filled Luo Tian and the others with deep reverence.

Both he and Xing Feng were at the late-stage Immortal King cultivation, and for them to feel such reverence, one could imagine how powerful these totems were in ancient times.

However, they were now severely damaged and had lost their power.

The outer perimeter of this dojo could not stop them.

The map in his hand felt hot, its golden light pointing northwest.

Luo Tian took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart: “Keep up, the core area is deeper inside.”

He could feel that the power of luck pulling him was surging from a point ahead—

The base of the myriad tribulations immortal furnace must be there.

Xing Feng nodded, signaling the Luo Family members to follow.

Although this place was already in ruins, it was an ancient Immortal Emperor’s dojo; the deeper they went, the more various dangers they would inevitably face.

Their mission was to ensure Luo Tian’s safety so that he could better find what the Family Head needed.

However.

They still underestimated the value of the words ‘Ancient Immortal Emperor’.

In the time that followed, every step they took was like treading on thin ice.

On the first day, they encountered the backlash of the “Sundial of Time”.

An ancient bronze bell suspended in the void suddenly boomed, and three Saint Immortal Realm Perfection elders of the Luo Family instantly turned white-haired, their cultivation plummeting to early Saint Immortal.

Xing Feng, thinking quickly, forcibly tore space with his Immortal King power, managing to lead everyone out of the bell’s range.

From the outside, this ancient bell had a faint inscription on its surface: “Time Emperor under Ancient Void’s Command.” What seeped from the cracks in the bell body was not bell milk, but solidified fragments of time.

“Hiss~~ Isn’t an Emperor the revered title for an Immortal Emperor? This Ancient Void dojo actually had more than just Ancient Void as an Immortal Emperor, how terrifying!”

The moment they saw the bell inscription, everyone gasped in cold air.

Xing Feng and Luo Tian were also shocked, but at the same time, their expressions became even more solemn.

They had just entered the outer perimeter of the dojo and already encountered methods set by a former Immortal Emperor; the core area was unimaginable.

The group dared not approach further, only able to bypass it.

Falling into this area of time fragments, anyone below an Immortal King would find it difficult to survive.

On the seventh day.

The group entered an area called “Myriad Sword Barren Tomb”.

Tens of thousands of rusty ancient swords were stuck in the scorched earth. The immortal patterns on their hilts had long since faded, but they all vibrated in unison as Luo Tian and the others approached.

The Luo Family’s only Domain Lord Level expert attempted to pull out a sword. In an instant, the myriad swords resonated, and sword qi transformed into a bloody torrent, instantly grinding him to dust.

He didn’t even let out a scream, instantly perishing in body and soul.

Luo Tian and the others were startled and quickly retreated from the ancient swords.

It was then that they discovered that a blurred name was carved on the hilt of each sword—

Those were the remains of sword cultivators under the command of the Ancient Immortal Emperor Ancient Void. Now, only the residual sword intent souls remained, guarding this burial ground.

“Everyone, listen! Do not pull these swords, and do not disturb these guardian residual souls!”

Luo Tian said in a deep voice.

He had already sensed the terror of these swords.

In fact, what killed the Luo Family’s Domain Lord was not the sword itself, but the residual soul within the sword body.

Their only command in life was to guard this sword tomb, and even after they all died in battle, they retained this obsession, their residual souls transforming into guardian wills to protect this place.

And to be able to instantly kill a Domain Lord Level expert, these residual souls must have been at the Immortal King Level during their lives.

These sword tomb residual souls might not sound as powerful as the Immortal Emperor’s methods from before, but this area was much larger, and there were many of them.

The bloody torrent just now contained at least ten thousand swords.

Let alone a Domain Lord Level expert, even he and Xing Feng would have suffered greatly if they encountered it.

Upon hearing this, everyone carefully began to retreat.

They definitely couldn’t pass through here; they could only bypass it again.

If they tried to force their way through, they might be completely wiped out.

Meanwhile, Lin Yu, who was following closely behind the Luo Family, was unaffected. He was less than a hundred meters from the Luo Family’s group, and all dangers were borne by the Luo Family.

However, the Ye Family members who entered later suffered greatly.

When they entered, they could no longer see any trace of the Luo Family, only able to follow by some lingering aura.

It was precisely because of this that everything the Luo Family experienced, the Ye Family also experienced.

It could be said that their losses were heavy.

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Time slowly flowed by.

Unconsciously, more than a month had passed.

Within this month, apart from Luo Tian and Xing Feng, who still looked intact, the remaining few members of the Luo Family were all severely injured.

Even the other early-stage Immortal King expert now only had half of his body remaining.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to recover, but he was overly exhausted and had no surplus immortal power to recover.

Over these many days, they chose to bypass wherever possible, and if they absolutely couldn’t bypass, they had to force their way through.

And the cost was great; many people were left here forever.

But at this moment, they had no choice but to stop.

Because the path to the core of the dojo once again encountered an unavoidable area.