Chapter 287: Heavenly Nail Suppresses Demon Snake

The supreme treasure of this small Profound Heaven Sect was a mountain rock carved with a mural.

It was a mural that looked very ordinary, and indeed, it was very ordinary.

But the content carved on the mural was extraordinary. It depicted a huge dragon-snake beast. This beast had a very long body, looking like a snake, but it had six pairs of fleshy wings on its back.

Its head was even more like a crocodile, looking extremely ferocious. Even though it was just carved on a mural, its monstrous ferocity still rushed toward them.

In the mural, it was nailed firmly by its tail with a huge nail, which restricted its movement. At the same time, a thick chain connected one end to the nail, and the other end was directly refined into the head of this dragon-snake beast.

In this way, both the head and tail of this dragon-snake were restricted, but it would not die easily. And on its body, a long wound was clearly cut open, revealing the tendons and bones inside.

One could see that restrictions were carved on these tendons and bones, dense and shocking.

These things in the mural were enough for anyone who saw them to understand that this dragon-snake must have had a miserable life. It could only struggle and wail, but it was to no avail. From this, it could be seen... the person who nailed it down must have had monstrous hatred for this dragon-snake.

This was clearly something that could be killed, but the person insisted on torturing it, making it extremely painful.

What made Xu Qing and the Captain's minds shake the most was that in the snake's eyes, the person who carved it also sculpted the rotation of stars. Looking closely, it seemed like ten thousand stars were overlapping together.

This was... the second stage of the Great Void Realm!

Xu Qing looked at the Captain, and the Captain's gaze also fell on Xu Qing, and then they simultaneously swept toward the old man.

"What is this object?" The Captain asked.

"This is why our Profound Heaven Sect is connected to the Profound Heaven Ancient Emperor. Countless years ago, before the Profound Heaven Ancient Emperor unified Wanggu, he stepped across the sea with a mission, walked onto the Wanggu Continent, and began his legendary life." The old man explained hurriedly.

"When he first arrived, the land the Ancient Emperor stepped on was the current Yinghuang Prefecture. And on the way here, at the moment he was about to land, a demon snake that was causing chaos in this place at that time did not submit to the Ancient Emperor and actually bit the Ancient Emperor, not knowing what was good for it."

"Although the Ancient Emperor's Great Dao was not yet complete at that time, suppressing this small demon snake was easy. In the end, the Ancient Emperor used a heavenly nail to nail this demon snake to the shore of Yinghuang Prefecture, and branded restrictions within its tendons and bones to torture it. At the same time, he joked with his companions, saying that since it bit him, he would suppress this demon snake for one hundred thousand years."

"In addition, the Ancient Emperor also left a poem back then."

"Heavenly nail suppresses demon snake, ten thousand laws refine the universe!" Speaking of the Profound Heaven Ancient Emperor, although the old man was lying on the ground being stepped on by the Captain, he couldn't help but show a look of pride.

"Bite him once, and he cuts open its belly to brand restrictions, torturing and suppressing it for one hundred thousand years? Is he that petty?" The Captain's expression was strange, and he couldn't help but look at Xu Qing, transmitting his voice.

"Little Ah Qing, before this, I thought you were the pettiest. Now it seems you still need to work harder." The Captain blinked. With outsiders present, he wouldn't call out Xu Qing's name, but voice transmission was fine.

"Captain, in your past life, you were that snake, right?" Xu Qing's expression was as usual, and he replied.

The Captain raised his eyebrows, chuckled, turned his head and stepped on the old man's stomach, and spoke with a ferocious expression.

"Your sect's supreme treasure is just this mural? Since there is a mural, then the location where the snake was nailed is also here?" After speaking, the Captain looked around, not seeing any location like what was carved in the mural.

Regarding this question, the old man was a bit embarrassed. After hesitating for a moment, seeing that these two Upper Sect disciples were not kind people, he didn't dare to hide it and could only sigh.

"It's not here."

"Where is it?" Xu Qing asked, having a faint guess in his heart.

"In the forbidden land of your Eight Sect Alliance's Profound Heaven Sect." The old man spoke truthfully.

The Captain laughed upon hearing this.

"Your sect's supreme treasure mural depicts the forbidden land of the Alliance's Profound Heaven Sect?"

The old man was even more embarrassed and began to smile bitterly.

"Actually, within Yinghuang Prefecture, we are the most orthodox Profound Heaven Sect. Back then, the sect's ancestors were ordered by the Ancient Emperor to guard that demon snake, and they had to make it suffer more every year."

"Just like that, time passed. Although it was broken a few times in the middle, it was barely passed down. Until my master's time... back then, he met your Alliance's Profound Heaven Sect's Immortal Zixuan, who is now Immortal Zixuan. My master took one look and immediately saw that Immortal Zixuan's future was limitless."

"So he willingly gave away the ancestral land and handed over this sect's great responsibility to the other party, and then lived in seclusion here, living a beautiful life of peace and quiet, and thirty years ago, he rode a crane to the west..."

Xu Qing looked at the sallow and emaciated disciples around, then looked at the timid old man, and remained silent regarding his words.

The Captain's expression was strange, and he looked at the old man.

The old man felt embarrassed in his heart, not knowing what to say.

"Is your master surnamed Zhao? Is he called Zhao Zhongheng?" After a long while, the Captain coughed and spoke.

"Ah? Master is not surnamed Zhao." The old man was stunned.

The Captain shook his head and lifted the foot he had stepped on the old man. He felt that bullying them was a bit bad; they were too pitiful.

So he carefully asked about the snake again.

"That ancestral land is now the foundation land of the Eight Sect Alliance's Profound Heaven Sect. I haven't been there, but I heard Master mention that the ancestral land is full of terrifying soul power."

"The soul power is so dense that it is quite helpful for cultivation. Taking a breath of it has great benefits."

"And although that demon snake's physical body died and only its skeleton remains, Master said that actually, the demon snake didn't truly die. Its soul is still there, but it is extremely weak and in a deep sleep, so what can be absorbed is only its scattered soul power."

"The Ancient Emperor's seal nailed not only the demon snake's physical body but also its soul. And this demon snake has hated the Profound Heaven Ancient Emperor to the bone for countless years!"

Following the old man's introduction, Xu Qing and the Captain had a better understanding of the Alliance's Profound Heaven Sect's land of creation. Until half a day later, they chose to leave.

They didn't pursue the matter of this sect diverting the river too much, just told them not to go too far, and let them be. As for the large stone at the entrance, the two of them tried and found that it indeed could not be taken away; this object was equivalent to growing on the ground.

The Captain was unwilling, went over and took a bite, and bit off a piece, but this was his limit. So, under the terrified gazes of these people from the Profound Heaven Sect, the two of them left.

"I always feel a bit at a loss, not having obtained anything." On the way back, the Captain sighed.

Xu Qing nodded. He also felt that the harvest this time was too small.

So the two of them looked at each other.

"How about we think of a way to go over and absorb some after we return to that Profound Heaven Sect's land of creation?" The Captain instigated.

Xu Qing hesitated. The figure of Immortal Zixuan appeared in his mind, and he instinctively didn't want to go over, especially since he felt that just absorbing some scattered soul power wasn't worth going to the Profound Heaven Sect.

"But just going to absorb some scattered soul power, this kind of small matter is meaningless. If we can think of a way to wake up that demon snake's soul and we go and take a bite, the benefits will be the greatest!" The Captain's eyes shone when he said this.

Upon hearing this, Xu Qing was immediately tempted. At this moment, he didn't consider the matter of Immortal Zixuan and began to seriously think about the feasibility of this matter. The Captain was also pondering.

A moment later, the two of them flew out of Taisi Du'e Mountain. When they saw the Alliance's fleet from afar, Xu Qing spoke suddenly.

"Since that demon snake hates the Profound Heaven Ancient Emperor to the bone, then if it sees someone similar to the Profound Heaven Ancient Emperor, do you think it's possible that it will be stimulated, thereby causing its soul to wake up from its deep sleep?"

Upon hearing this, the Captain's eyes lit up.

"I was just considering this problem too. You're talking about Little Jianjian, right..."

Xu Qing nodded, and the Captain chuckled. The two of them began to discuss some details. Until they arrived on the ship, and as the ship continued to move forward, the two of them finalized the details.

"Wu Jianwu didn't come. He should still be in Nanhuangzhou, his tracks are in the Huang Forbidden Area." Xu Qing looked at the Captain. How to make him come willingly was the key point.

"This is simple. That brat worships the Profound Heaven Ancient Emperor to the point of madness. I'll send someone to look for him in the Huang Forbidden Area, and then send him a message, saying... we have discovered the Profound Heaven Ancient Emperor's old home, and there is even a poem written by the Ancient Emperor himself there!"

"Let me tell you, Little Ah Qing, the old home and the poem, especially the latter, have an indescribable attraction to Little Jianjian!" The Captain was in high spirits and immediately used the Security Division's ship to send a voice transmission to the sect, beginning to arrange this matter.

Just like that, time passed slowly. Several months passed in a flash. The Security Division's river patrol went quite smoothly. Gradually, their fleet of ships finally arrived at the end of the river channel.

This was the intersection point of the main river and Taisi Du'e Mountain, and it was also where the Shaosi Sect's mountain gate was originally located. As they approached, Xu Qing saw the Shaosi Sect that had become ruins, and also saw the collapsed dam.

The fragments of this dam, the small ones were hundreds of zhang in size, and the large ones were thousands of zhang. One could imagine that before it collapsed, this dam must have been earth-shattering.

And outside the shattered dam and the Shaosi Sect ruins, Xu Qing and the Captain saw a vast river sea that surpassed the tributaries by who knows how much.

That was... the main river of the Immortal-Nurturing Eternal River!

As it surged, it was like the sea, the river water rolling, the sound monstrous, rumbling continuously.

The Immortal Spirit Qi was even more dense to the extreme here, so much so that most of the Seven Blood Children's disciples could not get too close, as it would cause a feeling of dizziness as if drunk.

Standing here, Xu Qing's heart was also shaken. He looked to the east, which was the direction of the Taisi Immortal Gate, while to the west was the vast Taisi Du'e Mountain and behind the mountain... the first forbidden area of Yinghuang Prefecture.

This main river became black after flowing into the forbidden area and flowing out, becoming astonishingly heterogeneous.

One could imagine that within that forbidden area, there must be an extremely terrifying existence that reversed the Immortal Spirit, turning Immortal into Heterogeneous! ===== CHAPTER 288 =====