Chapter 270: Sealing, Yinming Fujun

Dizu Huangzun cast his gaze toward the location of the Mingluo Dayu, where Nether Qi, tinged with black and purple, surged like clouds and mist.

He probed with his Immortal Sense, piercing through the thick clouds and mist, but upon seeing the source, he felt a tingling sensation across his scalp.

Swarming white skeletal insects were densely packed, the red threads growing from their heads twisting and dancing; they opened a fissure, revealing dense rows of tiny, sharp teeth inside.

They were frantically crowding into the flesh and blood of a rotting corpse.

But the most terrifying thing was not this, but that the damaged parts of this rotting corpse were actually slowly repairing themselves! He swallowed hard; having now attained the Seven-Colored Immortal King Body, he could sense that the aura emanating from the rotting corpse was the same Didao origin aura as that of Huangtian Shenmu.

Furthermore, the moment his Immortal Sense landed on the rotting corpse, the corpse seemed to sense something, as if an invisible gaze had reached out and landed on him.

It was cold and greedy, like a primitive human coveting meat.

"Th-this is what?! A corpse, a corpse that is reviving!"

Dizu Huangzun's pupils constricted slightly; in the Mingluo Dayu of the past, although these skeletal insects were merely a rather troublesome natural disaster, they were, in reality, impossible to eradicate.

Yet now, these skeletal insects were frantically pouring into a corpse from an unknown era, and this corpse actually showed signs of reviving! He could not comprehend it; even a true Immortal King would not have such means, would they?

"Yinming Fujun, a Didao Xiantian Shengsheng who died in an ancient era," Qin Jiang said.

It seemed Dizu Huangzun did not know that there was a rotting corpse within the Jiuyao Xianwang Yiji.

Viewed in this light, perhaps the Jiuyao Xianwang Yiji was truly a projection of the past, which, after the evolution of long ages, had become the present-day Mingluo Dayu under the influence of this rotting corpse.

Since the rotting corpse here had already emerged, what state would the Jiuyao Xianwang Yiji on the continent be in? He knew that the power of the Immortal King level had already transcended the Time River, which meant that at the same time, two corpses of Yinming Fujun could not appear.

Would it disappear? Or was it only the corpse of Yinming Fujun that had vanished?

"Yinming Fujun! The legendary ruler of Difu! He actually existed in reality?"

Dizu Huangzun could not help but gasp; no matter what, he could never have imagined that a legendary figure would appear just like this.

There was no other reason; whether it was the Ancestral King or Huangtian Shenmu, they all had, more or less, some things left behind that could verify their existence.

But this Yinming Fujun was different; from the moment he knew this name, this person was the Lord of Difu, akin to the Heavenly Dao.

That description, even for an Immortal King, seemed too high-level.

Qin Jiang nodded slightly; the years of Yinming Fujun's existence were too ancient. Even Renhuang, who had personally experienced the Ancient Era, did not know the deeds of his active period, let alone the present Near-Ancient Era.

"Let's go, let's go over and take a look."

The two walked toward the Mingluo Dayu. As they stepped into the Mingluo Dayu, shrouded in black-purple mist, a feeling completely different from the Huangling Dayu assailed them from all directions.

If the Huangling Dayu gave one a feeling of being as heavy as the earth, then this Mingluo Dayu gave one the eerie and profound feeling characteristic of Difu as recorded in ancient texts.

Especially for Dizu Huangzun, after absorbing the Didao origin of Huangtian Shenmu, his perception of this feeling was very distinct.

He could even sense the intense malice surging within the surrounding black-purple air currents; it was a greed that wanted to swallow him alive.

Not long after, the two arrived at the core of the Mingluo Dayu, and a buzzing sound rang in their ears.

Looking ahead, they saw a tall black jade altar, with a rotting corpse floating one meter above the center of the altar.

Walking up the stone steps onto the altar, the jade carvings on both sides of the stone path were extremely exquisite, featuring unknown exotic beasts and rare flora that were recorded as extinct.

Reaching the top of the altar, the buzzing in their ears could already be called deafening.

Only then did they learn the source of the sound: it was the noise made by the wings of these skeletal insects rubbing against flesh and blood as they burrowed into the corpse of Yinming Fujun.

Looking closely, although the corpse of Yinming Fujun appeared no different from rotting flesh and blood, in reality, this was not a fleshly body, but an extremely hard material.

"Ten Thousand Spirits Immortal Gold Mother Root? This corpse is actually forged from Immortal Gold Mother Root?"

Dizu Huangzun spoke in disbelief. Since ancient times, there had been Immortal Gold and Divine Gold that transformed into living beings; legend even held that an Immortal King whose name was lost in ancient history had attained the Dao through Immortal Gold. But there had never been an Immortal Gold Mother Root that transformed into a living being.

There was no other reason; the Immortal Gold Mother Root was the source of Immortal Gold mineral veins, and it possessed a special property called 'Source Change'.

This meant that the Immortal Gold Mother Root would change its position according to the fluctuations of Source Qi between heaven and earth.

This property meant that the Immortal Gold Mother Root had the blessing of Heavenly Dao laws, and this property extinguished the possibility of it birthing its own will.

"Do not be surprised. Didao is a high-level existence corresponding to the Heavenly Dao. Ordinary masters of the Way of Artifacts can refine human-shaped puppets with Immortal Gold Mother Root; with the capabilities of the Didao entity, it is not difficult for it to make the Immortal Gold Mother Root manifest a body."

Qin Jiang spoke. Although the Immortal Gold Mother Root manifested under the influence of Heavenly Dao laws, it was, after all, born in reliance upon the earth; it was nothing surprising for Didao to use it to manifest a body.

Dizu Huangzun nodded slightly and looked at the corpse that was recovering. After approaching the altar, the feeling of malicious, greedy peeping was gone, which made him feel somewhat strange.

"Then how should this corpse be dealt with?"

This corpse was still in the process of reviving, much like the previous Huangtian Shenmu, both protected by Didao laws; before it fully revived, no one could harm it in the slightest.

"Like Huangtian Shenmu, let us seal it here first. According to the speed of its physical recovery, it will likely take about another year," Qin Jiang said.

The protection of Didao was too unsolvable; it was all-encompassing and without blind spots. Perhaps when he truly attained the Immortal King Dao, he would have a chance to break this layer of blockade.

But now, it was clearly impossible.

Hearing the words 'seal it', Dizu Huangzun did not hesitate in the slightest and rose into the air.

Qin Jiang glanced at him, somewhat surprised.

He looked at the rotting corpse before him, raised his hand, and a platinum ring of light expanded, enclosing the entire altar within it.

Patterns extended from the ring toward the interior, forming a tripod-shaped pattern.

Platinum brilliance was released from the patterns, transforming into chains that wrapped around the altar, and then the entire Mingluo Dayu began to tremble.

As the chains tightened, black-purple air currents surged from the ground beneath the altar, but the next moment they were suppressed by the platinum brilliance.

The surging black-purple Nether Qi had nowhere to vent; it flowed from beneath the platinum Array Pattern to the surroundings, squeezing and cracking the surrounding ground.

The spiderweb-like cracks spat out black-purple Nether Qi from time to time, and the range of the cracking gradually expanded, as if the entire Mingluo Dayu were about to completely collapse.

"Seal."

Qin Jiang gave a light reprimand, and the platinum Array Pattern released a dazzling brilliance; the phantom of a giant platinum tripod emerged, lifting the entire altar within it.

The next instant, the giant platinum tripod plummeted, as if the ground below did not exist.

When the altar had completely submerged into the ground, the platinum Array Pattern gradually dissipated, the surroundings no longer spat out black-purple Nether Qi, and the shattered ground slowly closed up.

*Hoo~~~* He let out a long breath; this Heavenly Array was something he had combined from classics and improved according to his own power characteristics.

Although the effect was stronger, the consumption was also much greater; this single layer of array was better than the effect of the hundred-layer Heavenly Array that had sealed Huangtian Shenmu before.

Dizu Huangzun breathed a sigh of relief and landed on the ground, "Fellow Daoist's attainments in the Way of Arrays are already beyond my understanding; it is truly astonish-"

Before the sentence was even finished, the surrounding Mingtud suddenly began to shake, and the ground beneath the two of them cracked open abruptly, releasing a dazzling platinum radiance.

But the next instant, the platinum radiance was swallowed by thick, black-purple Nether Qi, and a terrifying aura surged wildly from underground toward the surface.

Qin Jiang's expression changed drastically, "It's the Earth Dao! The Earth Dao has taken action itself! Run!"

As he spoke, he moved to pull up Dizu Huangzun, but before he could even raise his hand, a mass of black-purple flames erupted suddenly, and a rotting giant hand, where the White Bone could be seen, lunged out from the flames and gripped Dizu Huangzun in its grasp.

(End of chapter)