Chapter 158

Walking into the ruins, there was a long bronze corridor, extremely dim, with only some light shining in from outside the bronze door illuminating it slightly.

After walking for a while, passing through the corridor, there was a spacious underground palace. Peculiar bronze buildings stood in great numbers, and a tall sacrificial altar stood erect. In the center of the sacrificial altar was a dragon-shaped bronze statue.

Looking around, the area of this underground palace was much larger than the one in the Fenglin Mountain Range.

The surrounding walls were covered with holes, big and small. The small ones were only as tall as a person, while the large ones were ten or even tens of meters!

It was hard to imagine what kind of creature would need such a large entrance.

What was even stranger was why creatures with such vastly different sizes would coexist in this underground palace.

He jumped down the passage and landed directly on the bronze avenue in front of the sacrificial altar, which was wide enough to accommodate a hundred people walking side by side holding hands.

Walking toward the sacrificial altar, looking at the sides from time to time, he discovered that there were many scratches of varying depths on this avenue.

If one viewed the adjacent scratches of the same size as a whole, they looked very much like the claw marks of some kind of creature.

Looking at the direction of the claw marks, it seemed they were trying their best to escape from the direction of the sacrificial altar.

Not long after, he walked up the nearly hundred-meter-high sacrificial altar and looked at this dragon-shaped sculpture.

It was a demon dragon standing in human form with a pair of fleshy wings. The four pairs of dragon horns growing on both sides of its head were the mark of the highest bloodline of the demon dragon race.

But strangely, this demon dragon was wrapped in chains, as if it were performing some kind of ritual.

He thought for a moment, but didn't understand its meaning. His palm touched it lightly, and immediately a cold airflow poured into his body.

【Potential points absorbing. 68111317】

【Potential points: 2768.4】

Qin Jiang's eyes brightened slightly; nearly 2,700 potential points exceeded his original expectations.

He looked at the offering table in front of the statue. Besides the utensils used for placing offerings, a bronze mask of a slightly darker color was placed on the edge.

The patterns engraved on it were similar to the Nightmare Beast, but also somewhat different; it seemed to be some kind of higher-level creature.

He picked up the mask lightly, and a cold airflow poured into his body.

【Potential points: 3288.4】

Over five hundred potential points made him somewhat surprised.

Sure enough, the mask had an extraordinary status in the Ancient Yu Kingdom.

He put down the mask and didn't rush to add points; some bronze utensils and buildings in the underground palace also contained potential points.

Not long after, when Qin Jiang returned to the sacrificial altar again, the potential points had already reached 3627.8.

Looking at the panel,

【Current Martial Arts】

Vajra Indestructible Body (Ninth Layer) (6200/200000) 【93%】 Qi King Hun Tian Halberd (Second Layer) (1500/25000) 【94%】 Eastern Wood Longevity Body (Third Layer) (2300/30000) 【86%】 Purple Mansion Insight Scripture (Perfect) 【89%】 God Demon True Canon (Perfect) 【98%】 【Potential points: 3627.8】

If possible, he actually wanted to save up the potential points and then deduce the God Demon True Canon to the Divine Martial level.

It was just that there was still the threat of the Huai Country now, so it was better to upgrade the Vajra Indestructible Body and the Qi King Hun Tian Halberd first.

"Potential, Vajra Indestructible Body, add to full for me."

【Vajra Indestructible Body (Ninth Layer) (6200/200000) 【93%】, Experience +193800】

【Vajra Indestructible Body (Perfect)】

【Detected that 'Vajra Indestructible Body' has reached the limit of Earth Grade martial arts. Do you wish to consume 20,000 potential points to perform martial arts leap deduction?】

【Potential points: 1689.8】

*Hum~~~* With a hum, transparent ripples vibrated in all directions, stirring up a layer of dust, floating in mid-air as if solidified in amber.

This was a manifestation of having reached the extreme in controlling space power, sealing the surrounding space; whatever the eye could see, a single thought could reach.

And it wouldn't produce spatial cracks, making it difficult to detect, let alone resist. Ordinary Divine Martial artists wouldn't have the slightest power to resist, even eighth-rank Divine Martial artists were the same; only True Gods had the qualifications to resist.

A moment later, the amber-like transparent space gradually recovered, and a materialized Diamond Bell appeared behind Qin Jiang.

The next moment, the Diamond Bell dissolved, turning into a pool of golden fluid, slowly gathering into a golden human shape.

The materialization of the True Spirit was the mark of reaching the end of the True God realm.

Neither the current Xia Emperor nor the Grand Marshal had reached this step.

Within the Huai Country, only that legendary Huai Wang seemed to have reached this step; even the battle-hardened Fushan had never reached it.

After feeling it for a moment, the True Spirit slowly returned to his body, and the surrounding golden light gradually converged.

Without hesitation, he invested the remaining potential points into the Qi King Hun Tian Halberd.

【Qi King Hun Tian Halberd (Second Layer) (1500/25000) 【94%】, Experience +168000】

【Qi King Hun Tian Halberd (Sixth Layer) (39500/45000)】

【Potential points: 9.8】

*Boom—! * A massive aura erupted, and the surging energy spontaneously formed a Square Sky Painted Halberd; that was the landscape naturally formed after the Hun Tian Halberd Intent naturally radiated and influenced heaven and earth.

Legend had it that the Qi King back then could even form a halberd of energy over a hundred meters long, leveling a large mountain with one strike! He clenched his fist slightly, and white energy burst between his five fingers, leaving marks wherever it landed.

After adapting, he turned around and looked at this demon dragon statue, flicked his fingers, and the head of the demon dragon statue cracked, revealing a pitch-black scale.

The scale radiated demonic energy, like a mirror, its curved surface reflecting Qin Jiang's slightly bent figure.

He didn't go up to take it down; the next second, the scale struck toward the back of the sacrificial altar.

With a "Boom," the wall shattered, revealing a huge pit, and a rich bloody smell accompanied by a decaying aura rushed toward him.

Walking close, the dim pit was over a thousand meters in diameter, with demon fire burning inside and countless white bones piled up like a mountain.

On the edge of the pit, there was a pitch-black, huge cave, with no end in sight, like a monster opening its big mouth waiting for food to enter it on its own.

It wasn't like... *Boom~ Boom~* The surrounding stone walls trembled, countless shattered stones fell, the huge cave slowly closed, and a pair of huge red light clusters moved slowly under the pit.

Looking closely, those weren't red light clusters at all, but clearly a pair of huge eyes.

"Roar——!!!"

A heaven-shaking dragon roar shook heaven and earth, and the entire underground palace trembled in the roar.

Accompanied by the sound of huge chains sliding, the pair of eyes slowly rose, raising to a position level with Qin Jiang.

The huge shadow revealed some contours; the diameter of just this one eye was over two meters.

The entire dragon head was over thirty meters, even larger than the demon bodies of some Demon Kings.

*Whoosh—! * The nasal breath blew past Qin Jiang; although it wasn't forceful, it was still like a hurricane.

"Human race? No, you have the bloodline of the demon dragon; you are a descendant of dragon blood."

The old voice echoed in the underground palace. Qin Jiang raised his eyebrows; such strong power, definitely not below his own.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"Me?" The demon dragon's huge pupils contracted, as if recalling something.

*Clatter, clatter~~~* With the sound of chains surging, half of the demon dragon's body crawled onto the sacrificial altar.

It glanced at the demon dragon statue and slapped it away casually.

Only then did Qin Jiang see clearly that this demon dragon was actually wrapped in thick chains, and its lower body had already turned into white bones, with the bones and chains almost fused together; only the upper body still had flesh and blood.

"I have long since forgotten my name. However, I am the first demon dragon between heaven and earth. The current demon dragon race should all be my descendants; you can call me Dragon Ancestor."

(End of chapter)