233: An Age Without Saints! (Chapter 32)

The Great You Ancestor supported Gu Yun as they returned to the Undying Fortress.

News had already preceded them, and the garrison commander Lin Xiao personally cleared out the quietest manor.

Inside the quiet room, layer upon layer of Restrictions were laid down.

Gu Yun sat cross-legged, his face deathly pale, his life force extremely weak.

His Physical Body was covered in fine, dense cracks, as if it might shatter at any moment.

Those were dao wounds left behind after being crushed by a Venerable's Law.

Even more terrifying was that deep within those dao wounds, a trace of the Heavenly Wolf Demon Venerable's destructive Law still lingered.

It was constantly eroding Gu Yun's vitality.

The Great You Ancestor's expression was grave as he extended a withered finger and tapped Gu Yun's brow.

A majestic surge of Venerable power was slowly funneled into Gu Yun's body.

He was attempting to help Gu Yun dispel that destructive Law.

However, as soon as his power made contact, a completely different power erupted from within Gu Yun.

It was an overbearing, indestructible, and incomparably dominant dao rhyme.

The Azure Heaven Indestructible Art!

It was actually operating on its own, treating the invading Venerable Law as 'nourishment' and attempting to forcibly refine it.

The two powers began a new round of collisions within Gu Yun's body.

"Pfft!"

Gu Yun spat out another mouthful of blood, and the cracks on his already crumbling Physical Body grew even deeper.

The Great You Ancestor's expression changed, and he quickly withdrew his hand.

He was filled with uncertainty and surprise.

"What an overbearing Cultivation Technique!"

"This little fellow's Dao Foundation is truly unheard of and unseen before."

He could feel that Gu Yun's body seemed to contain a primitive power of Chaos.

Just as he was lost in thought...

Buzz— Buzz—

At his waist, the simple and ancient scabbard that had never left his side and had been silent for countless years suddenly trembled violently.

It was an excitement and longing born from encountering a power of the same origin.

But this resonance did not come from the Gu Yun before him.

It came from an incredibly distant direction.

The Great You Ancestor's heart jolted, and he suddenly gripped the scabbard.

"This is..."

The scabbard floated up from his waist of its own accord, its opening turning to point directly toward the deepest part of the Northern Plains.

A crystal-clear coordinate appeared in the Great You Ancestor's mind.

"Could it be... another relic of the Ancestor has emerged?"

The Great You Ancestor's breathing grew rapid, and he was beyond excited.

He glanced at Gu Yun, whose injuries had stabilized and who had fallen into a deep sleep, and then at the scabbard that was constantly emitting a sense of urgency.

He made a split-second decision.

After settling Gu Yun and leaving behind a Clone, the Great You Ancestor's figure tore through the Void Realm and vanished.

Following the scabbard's resonance, he tracked at high speed toward the depths of the Northern Plains... the Demon Court, the core of power for the Northern Plains Yao Race.

This was a magnificent airspace suspended above a sea of blood-colored clouds.

Countless palaces forged from the skeletons of giant beasts were arranged in rows, and Demonic Qi permeated the air.

The Great You Ancestor's figure quietly appeared outside the Demon Court.

He looked at the massive nest before him, which was thick with Demonic Qi, and his brow furrowed.

"How can it be here?"

He found it hard to believe that the place the scabbard pointed to was actually the Yao Race's headquarters.

Could it be that Ancestor Chen's relic has fallen into the hands of the Yao Race?

Just as he was preparing to risk everything to sneak into the Demon Court and investigate...

Buzz.

The vibration of the scabbard in his hand came to an abrupt halt.

That resonance originating from Bloodline and the Way of the Sword instantly vanished.

The trail had gone cold.

Standing in the Void Realm, the Great You Ancestor looked at the Demon Court, which was guarded by layer upon layer of demonic arrays, his heart full of doubt.

He didn't dare act rashly anymore and could only temporarily hide his presence, waiting for a change.

It was at this moment.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

Inside the Demon Court, the urgent and piercing sound of alarm bells suddenly echoed in all directions.

Countless Great Yao rushed out of the palaces, frantic and lost.

"Not good! The Forbidden Treasury has been invaded!"

A roar came from the deepest part of the Demon Court.

The interior of the Demon Court instantly fell into Chaos.

The Forbidden Treasury was where the Demon Court stored its most precious treasures; its defenses were so tight that even a Demon Venerable would find it difficult to infiltrate.

However, at this moment, the treasury's gates stood wide open.

"What is missing?"

A Demon Lord with a dragon's head and a human body, wearing a black dragon robe and possessing a terrifying aura, descended.

He looked at the carnage inside the treasury, his voice icy.

A Yao Race Elder responsible for the inventory knelt on the ground, trembling.

“Re... Report to the Holy Lord, the other treasures are all still here, it's... it's just that the 'Heaven-Shrouding Jade' is missing.”

The Heaven-Shrouding Jade!

Hearing those three words, fury burned in the dragon-shaped Demon Lord's golden vertical pupils.

That was an ancient jade pendant capable of masking heavenly secrets and traversing any Restriction.

Its value was even above that of some Saint Weapons.

It was a treasure that had flowed out from the Ancient Starry Road during the previous Great Era, capable of shielding one from heavenly secrets.

He had planned to rely on this item to face his Four-Lotus Tribulation in the future, but now it was lost! Stolen!

"Good, very good!"

The Demon Lord laughed from extreme anger.

To have someone sneak into the Forbidden Treasury and steal a supreme treasure right under his nose, as if entering an uninhabited place.

What a colossal humiliation!

"It must be the work of those old geezers from the Human Race!"

The Demon Lord roared, his demonic might vast and powerful, making the entire Demon Court tremble.

"Pass down my command! Thoroughly investigate the entire Northern Plains! This Lord will make those humans pay the price!"

However.

Just as he was about to issue the order.

And just as the Great You Ancestor, hidden in the shadows, was hesitating whether to temporarily retreat.

The sky of the Northern Plains suddenly changed color.

The blood-colored sea of clouds, originally thick with Demonic Qi, was forcibly dispersed by a vast surge of purple Qi.

Boom!

A powerful Saintly Might descended from the heavens.

That Saintly Might locked onto the entire Demon Court.

The earth of the Northern Plains trembled violently under this pressure.

Crack.

The Void Realm shattered.

An old figure wearing a purple-gold robe, with white hair and beard, appeared between heaven and earth.

With one step, he stood above the Demon Court.

It was the Gu Family Saint Ancestor, who had freed himself from the entanglement of the mysterious expert and rushed back from the Void Realm outside the world!

He didn't waste a single word.

His sonorous voice echoed over the Demon Court.

"Scheming to trap and kill my Gu Family's Dao Seed?"

"Do you think my Gu Family has no one left?"

"Today, this old man has come to settle this score!"

The dragon-shaped Demon Lord, who had been in a rage, felt his arrogance freeze the moment he sensed this Saintly Might.

In its place was extreme horror.

He felt a fatal threat.

In the shadows, the Great You Ancestor looked at the purple Qi filling the sky and that overbearing figure, his heart also filled with shock.

He understood that today, this Demon Court was likely going to be turned upside down.