Chapter 1016: On the Verge of Breaking Out

One of these three parties was a youth.

He looked about fourteen or fifteen years old, sitting cross-legged at the stone gate. His face was delicate, his hair tied up with a simple silk ribbon. As his gaze stared at Xu Qing and Chen Erniu through the crack in the stone gate, the corners of his mouth moved, revealing two rows of neat, white teeth, appearing so innocent and pure.

Beside him was a huge black silkworm, its size completely surpassing the youth himself, covered in tentacles, looking very ferocious.

And from the silkworm's mouth, silk was being spat out, forming a black line that connected to a Great Emperor supreme treasure shaped like a jade bottle near the Immortal Remains in the underground palace, which it was trying to collect with all its might.

The silk was pulled taut, but the Great Emperor treasure clearly possessed resistance; although it had a tendency to be pulled, the speed was incomparably slow.

In another direction, standing at the stone gate was a woman.

This woman had exquisite features, eyebrows like a new moon, a high nose bridge, and lips as red as cherries, but her overall temperament was cold, as was her gaze.

Especially the palace attire with wide sleeves, which added to her sense of being high and mighty.

Regarding the appearance of Xu Qing and Chen Erniu, she glanced at them, her delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly, but she still chose to withdraw her gaze and focus her attention back on the mirror in front of her.

That was an octagonal mirror, floating above, with the mirror face toward the underground palace, reflecting everything inside into the mirror.

This included the Immortal Remains, as well as the inheritance, authority, and supreme treasures surrounding the Immortal Remains.

And that woman was reaching her jade hand into the mirror, seemingly trying to grab something.

But the difficulty was clearly also immense; so far, she hadn't succeeded.

As for the last party, it was a young man.

Dressed in a cyan robe, in the attire of a scholar, his hair tied on top of his head and fixed with a simple hairpin.

His expression was calm, possessing a composed and gentle temperament. As for his figure, it was thin and straight, like bamboo or pine, his face delicate, and his eyes bright and piercing.

His attention toward Xu Qing and Chen Erniu was the least; after just a glance, he didn't look again.

All his attention was on the incense stick burning in front of him.

This incense was the thickness of a finger, entirely crimson, and now, as it burned, it emitted bursts of red smoke. The scholar blew on it gently, and the smoke flew into the underground palace, landing on those inheritance imprints.

This smoke was strange; under its constant rendering, those inheritance imprints actually began to flicker, as if they had been endowed with life, even growing tiny limbs.

Seemingly attracted, they actually lined up and slowly walked toward the young man on their own.

These scenes, falling into the eyes of Xu Qing and Chen Erniu, caused their inner thoughts to constantly emerge.

After encountering the Sovereign who had been extorted before, the two had long guessed the identities of the people who had entered the place of Ming Yan's seclusion together.

Seeing it with their own eyes now, the guess became reality.

"They are all Sovereigns who have hidden their cultivation bases and identities!"

"And this underground palace is strange, containing danger and the unknown!"

"These Sovereigns of West Moyu are clearly extremely cautious and have seen through certain clues, so... they haven't stepped into the underground palace, but are trying to obtain fortune from the gates using their own different methods!"

"And... they all appeared here, which shows that they had some understanding and preparation for this underground palace beforehand!"

Xu Qing and Chen Erniu immediately understood.

The two looked at each other, both seeing the heaviness in each other.

After all, judging by the situation, they were at an absolute disadvantage here.

Any one of them could easily deal with them if they attacked.

"Fortunately, there is this family..."

Chen Erniu took a breath, couldn't help but turn his head to look at the two large heads ingratiatingly, and then gritted his teeth hard.

"Little Junior Brother, we can't worry about the exposure issue now. We are both in our original forms, and they have seen everything they should have seen..."

"So, we..."

Speaking to this point, Chen Erniu didn't continue, but his meaning was clearly perceived by Xu Qing.

"Let's give it a try!" Xu Qing said decisively.

Chen Erniu's eyes showed madness. They attacked at the same time, pushing hard against the stone gate that had a crack in front of them.

Each erupted with all their might.

Amidst the roaring sounds, the stone gate was slowly pushed open, until finally, it was completely opened.

Sovereigns didn't dare to easily step into the underground palace. Although Xu Qing and Chen Erniu were crazy, madness and suicide were two different things; at least... it hadn't reached that level yet.

So after the gate opened, the moment they arrived at the edge and scanned the underground palace, staring at the corpses covering the earth, Chen Erniu and Xu Qing immediately made a decision.

The next instant, gray mist appeared in Chen Erniu's eyes.

The Fate Engraving Knife in Xu Qing's body also emitted mist threads.

The power of both sides gathered together and, without hesitation, surged into the underground palace.

In the blink of an eye, a skeleton suddenly had a flash of gray light in its eyes, and it actually wobbled and stood up from among the large number of skeletons around it.

Then, using both hands and feet, it crawled toward the altar where the Immortal Remains were located.

Its movements, except for being a bit wobbly at the beginning, were normal thereafter, exuding extreme proficiency, without any sense of stiffness, and its speed was getting faster and faster.

If it were when they had just obtained the power of death, it would have been quite difficult for them to control it so precisely.

But as they prepared food for that family, under these repeated sharpenings, the two's control ability had infinitely approached the level of perfection.

So at this moment, controlling this corpse was a familiar path.

Very quickly, the corpse crawled onto the altar, arrived beside the Immortal Remains, then jumped up and slammed into a Great Emperor treasure shaped like a shield.

The direction of the collision was the stone gate where Xu Qing and the other were.

But the moment it touched, there was repulsion on the Great Emperor treasure, and the corpse went 'bang' and directly collapsed, becoming flying ash.

This treasure didn't budge.

The other three parties ignored this.

Xu Qing and Chen Erniu's eyes flashed, and the next moment... seven or eight corpses jumped up at the same time, heading straight for that shield, colliding again.

'Bang bang' sounds constantly rang out, and the corpses became flying ash.

But soon, dozens of corpses flew up.

Then hundreds...

Finally, hundreds of corpses rushed out in the underground palace, scrambling to go, and under constant collision, they finally moved the shield floating in mid-air.

Thereafter, it was continuous; the shield was pushed, getting closer and closer to the stone gate where Xu Qing and the other were.

Although due to the existence of the pull, its speed of arrival was slow, this was relative.

Compared to the other three parties here, this speed was already considered fast.

And this scene was naturally seen by the three Sovereigns, so they raised their heads one after another and stared over.

At the same time, also looking at this scene together were two other parties...

One party was the black-robed person whose stone gate had not been pushed open by him; he sat cross-legged behind the stone gate, his gaze piercing through to perceive the internal affairs, and his brows furrowed.

The other party was the Empress.

She had a strange expression, watching those corpses rush to collide one by one, watching the longing that appeared on Xu Qing and Chen Erniu's expressions, and she sighed.

Just like that, time slowly passed.

One hour passed.

Two more parties arrived.

The first to arrive was Lin Kun, the son of the Fifth Sovereign.

It was just that... his true identity was not hard to guess.

He was the Fifth Sovereign of East Moyu, and one of Great Emperor Ming Yan's disciples!

After arriving here, his gaze didn't land on other items, but stared at a Dao mark of authority, with an intense longing that flashed and vanished.

And his method of acquisition was also different from others; he just sat cross-legged there, and after emitting a fluctuation of the same origin as that authority, this Dao mark of authority actually slowly approached him.

As for the last one to arrive, it was an acquaintance of Xu Qing and Chen Erniu.

The old man who had been extorted by them.

He saw the underground palace, saw the various parties, and even saw Xu Qing and Chen Erniu.

The moment he looked at the latter, intense killing intent rose on his body, but he scanned the environment of the underground palace and looked at the stone gate behind Xu Qing and Chen Erniu.

He finally suppressed the killing intent in his heart.

"No rush for a moment. If they can luckily survive and get out, I will definitely smash the two of them into ten thousand pieces!"

Finally, he snorted coldly, sat there, and activated the death aura, which became a rope, hooking a Dao mark of authority like fishing.

Just like that, another stick of incense passed.

The acquisition behavior of all parties was still continuing, and it was almost time for the harvest, especially for Xu Qing and Chen Erniu, the shield that was bumped over was now less than ten zhang away from them.

What they regretted was that the large head side, clearly based on wariness, did not transmit any suction force to help.

"But if it goes on like this, at most one stick of incense, this treasure will be ours."

Chen Erniu licked his lips, his heart excited.

But clearly, no one stepped into the underground palace, which didn't seem to fit the planner's plan, so unexpected things were inevitable.

Just like at this moment, when all parties were about to have a harvest, suddenly, a stone gate that was originally closed roared and directly opened.

A figure actually rushed out from this opened stone gate.

Its speed was astonishing; amidst the changes in the expressions of all parties, it directly entered the underground palace.

That was an old woman!

In the world of Great Emperor Ming Yan's memory fragments, the old woman who had clearly died in the hands of the Yun family ancestor.

But now, she appeared.

Moreover, with a wave of her hand, a Sovereign's fluctuation erupted from her body, forming a storm that swept across the surroundings.

It shattered the silkworm silk, repelled the mirror, broke the death aura rope, blocked the reviving inheritance, and even interrupted the route of authority, grabbing back the shield that was approaching Xu Qing and the other.

All of this happened in an instant.

Subsequently, amidst the flashing glints in the eyes of all parties, she walked to the front of the Immortal Remains, sat cross-legged, and transmitted a cold voice.

"Since you all are unwilling to take risks, then don't come in."

After speaking, the old woman closed her eyes, and while pinching a seal with both hands, she opened her mouth and sucked fiercely toward the Immortal Remains in front of her.

Under this suction, an invisible connection seemed to connect her and the Immortal Remains together.

It was unknown what astonishing means the old woman had deployed, but the Immortal Remains actually began to dissipate, and the old woman herself, with the absorption, saw her aura climbing visibly to the naked eye.

Getting stronger and stronger.

It seemed she was absorbing the status from Great Emperor Ming Yan.

And in this absorption, the surrounding inheritance and authority actually trembled, as if they felt their master, approaching her, wanting to merge with her.

Those Great Emperor treasures also showed signs of their artifact spirits wanting to wake up.

This drastic change instantly broke the balance of this place!

This was an open conspiracy!

It didn't matter if all parties saw the problem with the old woman, because if they didn't stop her, once the old woman succeeded, all parties would gain nothing, and at the same time, letting this matter happen would definitely bring greater crises and variables.

Most importantly, what was being absorbed by the old woman also included... the black crystal transformed from the life soul of Great Emperor Moyu!

At the critical moment, all parties had gloomy expressions, and Lin Kun's eyes flashed with cold light, actually rushing out first, heading straight for the old woman, and after approaching, he attacked to interrupt the other party's absorption.

Amidst the roaring, the two fought.

Other Sovereigns were still hesitant.

At the same time, Xu Qing and Chen Erniu looked at each other quickly, and also gritted their teeth hard, the gray mist in their bodies instantly erupting with all their might.

In an instant, countless skeletons in the underground palace all shook, actually all waking up.

Taking advantage of the chaos, they rushed upward, pouncing toward those inheritance authorities and Great Emperor treasures. ===== CHAPTER 1019 =====