174: We promised to resolve it in one go, and we meant it!

When the cold current from the Winter Palace Academy swept over, blood-red roses suddenly grew from the ice beneath her feet—that was the Forbidden Spell of Ice and Fire, written by Lu Chen using his finger bone as a pen and the Power of the Undead.

The opponents were still not quite up to par.

Even Morning Dew, a healer-class priest, could handle them easily!

The beacon smoke of the Northern Territory rolls across the land, the Throne of Winter suppresses the eight wastelands!

Trampling through a thousand layers of snow in the galaxy, the frost of eternity bows to my Emperor.

When the Divine Artifacts of the five ancient civilization academies resonated above the arena, Lu Chen had already secured victory.

Ning Xiwei and the other four women stood at the core eye of the Formation respectively; their power, connected by the force of the netherworld, formed a powerful web of magic.

"So that's how it is... Kunlun Academy is simply the place Lu Chen uses to select personnel!"

A netizen in the live stream chat said.

The Mayan calendar inscriptions and the Bagua Formation Diagram intertwined to create a four-dimensional hypercube, and Atlantis's trident was tempered in ice and fire into a space-time key.

When Erlos's Throne of Winter collided with Morning Dew's Holy Light, the powerful energy needed no words.

It was already enough to generate world-destroying power.

Lu Chen looked at the representatives from all sides in the audience, as well as the people watching the live stream around the world, and declared:

"Today, I use Earth as a cauldron to refine the fire of all civilizations in the heavens."

"The heavens cannot destroy us!"

"We shall recast the order of the Universe!"

...

After these few competitions, there were quite a few people who could be selected as seeds.

Lu Chen personally vetted them all.

He gathered them up as quickly as possible.

And then handed them over to the Human Cultivation Alliance.

The current Human Cultivation Alliance is controlled by the Five Great Nations.

The administrator of the Five Great Nations Alliance this year happens to be China.

This also makes it convenient for Lu Chen to do many things.

Early in the morning.

After Lu Chen returned from the capital, he saw the Grand Elder and the Old Dean already waiting for him at the entrance of Kunlun Academy.

"What's wrong?"

Lu Chen asked.

"Senior Lu, take a look at this confidential document sent jointly by the Five Great Nations. A treasure has been discovered in the Mayan jungle, and the Puppets of the Heavenly Dao seem to be moving in the shadows as well. This time, we really need you to personally take charge; otherwise, we won't feel at ease!" The Grand Elder handed over the document.

After Lu Chen opened and read it, he immediately understood.

"Hmm, alright. I will take people there. This time, bringing Feifei and Ignis will be enough; Xiwei and the others will remain here."

...

Inside the Mayan jungle.

This place is the ancient Amazon rainforest, also known as the lungs of the Earth.

Sun Feifei walked in front, holding a bronze compass in her hands. The compass in her palm was trembling, tracing thirty-six star tracks in the Void Realm. The faint blue glow of the Kunlun Academy teleportation array had not yet fully dissipated from her body, and Ignis and Lu Chen, who were following behind, were much the same.

The three of them had stepped onto the dark red soil accumulated from the humus layer of the Mayan Secret Realm.

The scent of sulfur seeped from the gaps in Lu Chen's bone armor. He raised his hand to brush aside the hanging aerial roots of a strangler fig, and the Nine Nether Bone Flag traced the patterns of the Mayan Sun Calendar stone in the Void Realm—these were all from the map obtained before coming.

The dark golden runes entwined with feathers on the giant trees all around could prove the power of the magic that once existed here.

Ignis's lava wings flowed into flames that burned but did not scorch or ignite everything around them.

Ignis was also carefully dealing with everything around her in her True Body of the Flame Demon.

"So this place is also a karst landscape? I thought only our Yunnan-Guizhou region in China was like this."

Sun Feifei's Seven-Star Dharma Sword pierced into the moist moss, and the gravel pried up by the sword tip allowed them to search through some of the ancient ruins here, only to discover turtle shells engraved with yin-shang dynasty oracle bone script.

"They say the indigenous people of the Americas might be descendants of the yin-shang dynasty from ancient China. I didn't believe it before coming, but after arriving, I really have to believe it! Tell me, our handsome and great Elder Lu, is there really something we are looking for here?"

"There certainly is. A confidential document issued jointly by the Five Great Nations wouldn't be a joke."

Lu Chen's jawbone emitted a resonance like a bronze chime; he summoned the Undead Crystal Core, illuminating the entire rainforest.

They saw that the rotting vines all around revealed their true form in the intense light—they were actually countless bronze chains entwined with crystal skulls, and the links were densely engraved with a mixture of Mayan numerals and hexagrams from the Guicang Yi.

A high-tech light screen projected Ning Xiwei's phantom above the three of them; the bone staff in her hand was resonating with the Secret Realm.

"Remote communication check, complete. Lu Chen, satellite positioning indicates there is a living energy reaction thirty zhang to your southeast, in the Xun position."

Ignis pulled open her leather corset, and a ring of purgatory fire burned the entire patch of strangler figs to ashes.

The moment the scorched earth was exposed, everyone saw three hundred skeletons of Mayan warriors clad in yin-shang dynasty bronze armor; in their hollow eye sockets, blue Soul Fire, originating from the same source as Lu Chen's, was leaping.

Lu Chen stepped forward with his sword, channeling powerful energy!

He chanted softly, "The Yellow Springs roll back three thousand li, the heroes of eternity forge my flag. The Dragon's roar from the Nine Nethers shocks the sun and moon; I dare to make gods and demons avoid the white-robed one!"

The moment Lu Chen chanted the prophetic poem, the Nine Nether Bone Flag flew out from behind him and suddenly plunged into the center of the Mayan warrior Formation.

Sun Feifei's Bagua Formation Diagram and Ignis's lava wings lit up simultaneously, and the three energies collided on the bronze chains, emitting a searing white halo.

Shelley, who was providing intelligence support from the rear, said urgently through the communication channel: "Those oracle bone scripts are human sacrifice inscriptions from the Shang and Zhou dynasties! How could the Mayan civilization... are they really descendants of China?"

Lu Chen did not speak.

He simply slashed and exterminated the evil spirits that were blocking their path forward as quickly as possible.

Deep in the Secret Realm · Blood Altar.

When passing through the crystal cave, Ignis's flames illuminated the stalactites here into an amber color.

Sun Feifei gently pressed her hand on Lu Chen's arm bone and said softly, "Little Skeleton, the Kan water and Li fire are clashing; these Mayan calendar stone carvings are absorbing the energy here! Isn't that amazing? It's just like our ancient Eastern Formation from China..."

As she spoke, the taiji diagram on the young girl's Daoist robe rotated automatically, clearly having sensed something.

The blood gradually seeping from the cave walls was at this moment slowly transforming into the qi of the Innate Bagua.

There really was ancient Eastern power here.

The Soul Fire in Lu Chen's eye sockets flared up, and he threw a segment of his finger bone into the air just like that.

The bone transformed during its descent into a turtle shell engraved with the Luoshu, illuminating the entire cave within the Netherworld Bagua Formation.

Ignis's lava wings folded into a crimson cloak; she kicked away the crystal skull at her feet in a fit of temper, cursing and grumbling:

"Hmph, this damn place is even more troublesome than the Valhalla in Northern Europe! It's all weird things, and so many disgusting bugs and trees, and now so many skeleton heads. And for some reason, I just feel so uncomfortable staying here."

"Quiet—." Lu Chen chided helplessly, then gently stroked the Flame Demon Girl's red lips, injecting pale white ghost energy into her heart, "Your Bloodline must be affected by this place now. I will calm your mind and spirit. The Mayan Sun Calendar characters here have likely become a part of the heavenly dao contamination; this place has been contaminated and assimilated."