153: Living is trouble, and dying is the same!
Heavenly Dao runes were carved on the bronze coffin lid, with chains wrapping around three thousand miniature coffins.
Shelley controlled the ice crystal spear, directly touching and penetrating the main coffin within.
At the moment of the explosion!
An image from the ancient period suddenly appeared in the Void Realm.
[Under the bewitchment of the Heavenly Dao Incarnation, the seventh-generation Clan Chief of the Flame Tower made a Bloodline covenant to serve the Heavenly Dao for a hundred thousand years in exchange for the Star-Burning Power...]
Ignis's Flame Demon Tattoo lay quietly in Lu Chen's arms; after the image passed, a remnant of Mental Energy condensed into a Red-Gold Contract in the Void Realm.
Morning Dew's Holy Light swept over the inscriptions, and she read them out with a trembling voice, "...If the oath is broken, the Bloodline shall be entirely incinerated..."
"Then let it burn completely!" Ignis, lying in Lu Chen's arms, said harshly and fiercely. She was currently furious and regretful; she had almost hurt the Little Skeleton, and she was filled with remorse and immense distress, her heart full of hatred and resentment.
Ignis raised a weak hand and summoned the power of her Bloodline, triggering the Stellar Totem at her collarbone that she could now utilize. The light of Betelgeuse immediately pierced through the atmosphere of Mars.
Lu Chen persisted and did not stop her; he knew Ignis's temper very well.
What did an ancestor matter?
She cared more about the present.
Without a second thought, Lu Chen thrust the tianwen sword into the contract. He used his powerful Mental Energy, using Sword Qi to carry the sand of time Shelley had given him, and personally revised the Stele Contract left by the Heavenly Dao: Everything is decided by me, Lu Chen!
Lu Chen was disdainful and defiant.
He was even more furious on Ignis's behalf.
A contract of the Heavenly Dao?
I'll change it for you all the same!
The effect of the sand of time was fully displayed here at this moment.
Raging flames burn the heavens but not the heart,
My fate is mine to command, not the gods'.
Even on the day of Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering,
I shall fail neither the world nor you!
The moment the contract shattered, pitch-black tentacles reached out from the bronze coffin.
Ning Xiwei's Bone Legion formed a Formation and charged, the Undead Fire burning charred flames onto the tentacles, giving them no chance.
When the bone soldiers were entangled by the tentacles, they self-destructed, carrying the Undead Fire with them.
Sun Feifei had already set up the Five Elements Grand Formation, directly using the five elements flags to draw upon the local Dragon Vein.
Magma turned into a cage, trapping this Heavenly Dao Incarnation and these disgusting tentacles.
After half a day.
When everything ended.
Amidst the post-war ruins, Ignis slumped on the cooled lava.
Morning Dew's Holy Light carefully healed her wounds from the backlash.
Not far away, Lu Chen's crystallized skin was also slowly recovering.
He was absorbing the power of this place.
Lu Chen's power was about to step into the King Realm.
Shelley picked up the half-broken Bronze Mirror from the ground. Reflected in the mirror was actually Ignis dressed as a bride in red; this should have been a joyful scene, but the background was the burning Flame Tower.
Shelley handed it over for Ignis to take a look.
Ignis's face flushed, and she peeked cautiously in Lu Chen's direction.
Seeing that Lu Chen wasn't looking over, she breathed a sigh of relief.
However, regarding that burning Flame Tower.
She felt even more furious in her heart!
Must everyone of the Flame Demon Clan be a sacrificial bride for the Heavenly Dao?
The Flame Tower was her home; she could not accept its destruction!
This damned heavens.
"So that's what a contract wedding means? Using the Flame Tower as a dowry to become a Puppet controlled by the Heavenly Dao? Then I'd rather marry Little..." Ignis twitched the corner of her mouth, suddenly picked up the broken mirror, and rushed toward Lu Chen, "Hey, if I really wore this..."
Before she could finish, Ignis just handed the broken mirror to Lu Chen.
Suddenly, a deafening sound of collapse interrupted her words.
A Bronze Stele rose from the bottom of the altar, with inscriptions recording a prophecy, or perhaps the whereabouts of a secret treasure to deal with the Heavenly Dao—it was actually in the hidden layer of Morning Dew's holy codex.
Everyone turned their heads; the Little Nun was hurriedly closing her Bible, her ear tips turning blood-red.
Uh (⊙o⊙)... why was she blushing?
Everyone was puzzled and found it very strange.
Hey, the little girl seems to know something.
Does everyone else not know?
What was with this honest and well-behaved Little Nun, the Little Priestess?
Lu Chen was also curious!
...It was already a month later when they returned to Earth.
But as soon as they landed, to resolve Morning Dew's issue.
Lu Chen immediately went to Vatican X in the West.
The secret passage beneath St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican X was currently filled with the smell of stale incense.
One sleeve of the Zhongshan suit Lu Chen was wearing swept across the bronze floor tiles engraved with the Bible.
The Bible projection on the dome intertwined with the cultivation runes on the walls, casting an eerie Cross Starburst under the reflection of Morning Dew's Holy Light.
This place actually utilized the cultivation civilization of Eastern Huaxia.
Used together in Fusion to create the defensive magic Formation here.
This was the first time Lu Chen had come here, and he was very curious about all of this.
This was truly different from the Vatican in his own world.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Sun Feifei's phantom emerged from the Quantum Communicator.
Behind her was the bustling archeological site of Kunlun Academy, where people were even engaged in heated discussions:
"We just discovered in the Dunhuang Secret Chamber..."
A sudden explosion directly cut off the signal; the last image sent back was of a Six-Winged Angel on a mural holding some kind of bronze book.
It seemed similar to Ning Xiwei's Ancient Marriage Contract from before.
Lu Chen frowned.
Are Sun Feifei and the others okay?
Fortunately, the communicator sent back a signal that Sun Feifei was safe.
It's just that video communication was impossible at the moment.
Morning Dew gripped the cross on her chest, the holy codex burning in her palm. She followed behind Lu Chen and said weakly, "Brother Chen, maybe I shouldn't have come with you?"
Before she finished speaking, the ground suddenly caved in.
Lu Chen grabbed her waist and leaped up, the tianwen sword stabbing into the stone wall and creating a hundred meters of sparks as the two fell into a secret chamber filled with fluorescent moss.
In the center of this secret chamber was an altar, where there were also some modern research devices and equipment, surrounded by electronic instruments such as computers, and equipment for data analysis; as for the altar's position, there was also a Nine-Dragon Bronze Incense Burner operating in symbiosis with the altar's Formation.
It seemed that Vatican X had been researching the secrets here all along, without even reporting to the Five Great Nations.
This place where charlatans gathered.
They really didn't know the current orders.
Huaxia, the strongest of the Five Great Nations, had already issued orders for the Five Great Nations.
Does Vatican X still dare to keep secrets?
Do they really think they are stronger than the forces of the Five Great Nations?
Seeking death!
Turning on a computer, a holographic projection was looping a scene from 328 AD:
[This is Morning Dew's past life—Saintess Irene; she sealed a marriage contract into the Bible, a marriage contract for the future.
The person in her background was a disguised Easterner, none other than Xu Fu!
He was having a secret discussion with a Cardinal about something.]
Lu Chen was somewhat surprised to see this scene.
This was different from his memory.
That old fellow Xu Fu was really acting up while he was alive just as much as when he was dead, having done quite a few things.
It seemed he gave help while alive.
And caused trouble after death.
For a moment, Lu Chen didn't know whether to cry or laugh about this old brother.