Chapter 2626: The Key to Going Home and Fate's Judgment

This sign was exactly the same as when the He father and son first broke into the Panlong Ancient City. In He Lingchuan's understanding, this pool shouldn't be full, so no matter how much you pour in, it won't fill.

The Secret Realm is a very metaphysical place, completely different from reality.

And at the lotus petal position directly facing the Gao Ta, a small circular groove had appeared on the stone strip of the pool's edge.

Right now, this groove was emitting a dark red light.

As if afraid he wouldn't see it? He Lingchuan touched it a few times; the feel was the unique coldness of stone.

The Soul-Capturing Mirror in his arms also let out a "Huh?": "Last time you entered the Secret Realm, this groove didn't exist yet."

The Blood Demon habitually doubted: "Are you sure?"

"Nonsense, how could my memory be wrong! It's you, a place you come to every three days, and you can't remember either?" The Soul-Capturing Mirror hissed at it, then continued, "This groove, it seems like you need to embed something into it?"

It has to be a ring-shaped object.

The Blood Demon thought for a moment: "The Divine Bone Necklace? Can't it shapeshift?"

It made this suggestion because the Panlong Secret Realm's connection with the Great Square Pot was the closest; with the Secret Realm undergoing a change, seven or eight out of ten it was related to the Great Square Pot, so trying the Divine Bone Necklace would be the least likely to go wrong.

But He Lingchuan shook his head and said: "It's not the Divine Bone Necklace."

The Divine Bone Necklace represents the Great Square Pot; if something needed to be activated here, there would be no need for an entire embedded groove to appear — it could operate it directly itself.

Finished speaking, he took out an object, and sure enough it was ring-shaped.

Both artifact spirits let out a long "Oh—":

"So it's that!"

The Fate Godhead!

Its form is the Ouroboros snake, isn't that just a ring?

However, the Fate Godhead's shape doesn't quite correspond with the groove on the pool's edge.

He Lingchuan didn't care about that; holding the Fate Godhead he moved to insert it into the groove, but just then, the tail-biting little snake suddenly started rotating in his palm, its head raised high facing him, not only trembling slightly, but its snake eyes also emitting a bloody red light!

The Soul-Capturing Mirror was startled: "What's it doing!"

"Warning!" The Blood Demon's voice became heavy and solemn, "It's warning Jiuyou. If you embed it into the groove, I'm afraid, I'm afraid there might be risks? Hey hey wait a moment, why has your Blood Karma power suddenly surged!"

That last sentence, it suddenly shouted out.

The words barely fell before the cloak violently exploded outward, immediately followed by the dark sky canopy sweeping in all directions!

This scene was terrifying and eerie.

The New Panlong Secret Realm's area was even larger than the former Yujing City, but the spreading black mist rapidly and mercilessly occupied every corner of the Secret Realm, looking just like the apocalypse had suddenly descended.

The light emitted by the lanterns on the streets and in the houses instantly became lonely and weak, as if they would be swallowed by the deep darkness at any moment.

Within the dark sky canopy, countless ghostly shadows stirred restlessly.

They were all ferocious ghost shadows, seeming human yet not human, patrolling the entire city under the cover of darkness, unrestrainedly releasing their pain, sorrow, and anger in roars and wails!

At this moment, the Panlong Secret Realm truly was a purgatory!

Fortunately this was an empty city, with no living creatures; otherwise, the moment they touched them they would go mad and die.

This is the myriad blood karma that the Jiuyou Great Emperor carries on his back!

This is the endless karma he must bear!

From the moment he made the grand vow to oppose the Heavenly Demon, he stepped onto a road of no return;

He single-handedly opened the Dragon God War, bathing the entire Shanjin Plain in blood;

He established the unprecedentedly vast Cangyan Empire, established a united front against the Heavenly Demon, directly or indirectly changing the fate of hundreds of millions of living beings in the present and the future.

Within this are endless karmic cause-and-effect entanglements, giving birth to more karma every single day.

This karma will not weaken because he is the lofty Jiuyou Great Emperor, nor will it be offset because he has done countless good deeds of accumulating virtue.

People live in the world, karma always accumulates continuously, until death extinguishes the karma.

And the speed and scale at which the Jiuyou Great Emperor accumulates karma is more than tens of millions of times that of ordinary people.

Even the Soul-Capturing Mirror that follows He Lingchuan every day screamed:

"Good heavens, it actually accumulated this much!"

It hadn't seen the Jiuyou Great Emperor release all his karma for a long time; before, before it was far from this terrifying.

Even the Blood Demon could only smile bitterly: "Sooner or later."

As the aggregation of the world's blood karma, it had already used all its strength to help him delay, but this thing is like a powder keg, only accumulating more and more; sooner or later it won't be able to hold it back and will explode.

The power will only be greater.

"But it shouldn't be right now."

The force of the endless ghost shadows rushing out was so strong that even He Lingchuan was carried along, staggering several steps.

Once he steadied his stance, he walked forward again, looking down at the Blessing Pool.

The entire Panlong Secret Realm was filled with the vengeful souls' soul-piercing howls, yet the little snake in his palm was instead silent. But He Lingchuan could hear it solemnly asking him:

Really do this?

Once the Fate Godhead is embedded into the groove, it will likely trigger a reversal of fate, causing terrible consequences:

"Consequences that even you — the Jiuyou Great Emperor — cannot bear."

The Soul-Capturing Mirror worriedly said: "Why must you open this slot? I think, just leaving it like this is also quite, quite fine."

Since the New Panlong Secret Realm was established, hasn't it been operating well all along? What's wrong with just maintaining it like this?

But He Lingchuan knew the answer faintly in his heart. This was a whim, not needing to be specially told, yet he just knew.

He had waited for this day for far too long.

"This is the key." He looked at the Fate Godhead in his palm, the little snake also waiting for his answer.

Both artifact spirits didn't understand: "What key?"

"The key to going home."

Home?

He Lingchuan looked at the little snake and asked:

"At least tell me what I'll have to face from now on?"

The Judgment of Fate!

The little snake didn't speak, but He Lingchuan could understand just by closing his eyes:

As long as this passage is reopened, the second trial of Fate will come at any moment!

"The next trial of Fate?" The Fate Divine Aspect was pieced together completely in Does Bailie, and then gave him his first trial. And that was already over a dozen years ago.

After that, it remained silent, and He Lingchuan even wondered if it had forgotten what to do next?

Actually, it has been waiting for a new trial opportunity all along.

The destiny of Emperor Jiuxiao himself is already extremely powerful; for the Divine Aspect to wait for his next chance to reverse fate is truly no easy feat.

He Lingchuan nodded: "Understood, open it."

Are you sure?

"I'm sure." The voice of Emperor Jiuxiao echoed in the empty, desolate Panlong Secret Realm, overpowering the cries of other resentful shadows: "Do what you must do."

As soon as the words fell, the dark sky suddenly retracted, almost as quickly as it had expanded.

Those nether shadows hadn't even finished wandering in the city before being dragged back by an invisible force. No matter how unwilling they were, they were still swept into the black torrent and reabsorbed into the Jinglong Battle Armor.

"Next time..." The howls of countless nether shadows finally coalesced into one sentence: "Next time, you dare not suppress us again!"

(End of Chapter)