Chapter 619: The Gravekeeper

"This voice?" Li Yuan recognized it; it was the same person as the mysterious voice he had heard in the treasure space.

However, back in the treasure space, the voice had been extremely cold, whereas now it was relatively gentler.

Nevertheless, the content was still hair-raising.

One quarter of an hour? The Ten Thousand Saint Stone Wall?

"Move forward?" Li Yuan dared not delay. Even though his divine body and divine heart were severely damaged, he immediately exerted his divine body to its full capacity and sprinted forward at full speed.

After all, Li Yuan was not certain how far away the Ten Thousand Saint Stone Wall was. If he walked too slowly and failed to arrive on time, resulting in being wiped out, wouldn't that be a great injustice?

Boom!

Every step he took on the ground caused the earth to tremble faintly; Li Yuan was sprinting.

Occasionally, cold currents or flames would fall from the dim void above, but compared to the void, their numbers were much fewer, and the level of danger had significantly weakened, posing basically no threat to Li Yuan.

"The stability of space here is simply astonishing, far exceeding the surface of the North Star." Li Yuan sighed inwardly: "I have been falling for over six months; could it be that I have fallen into the core of the North Star?"

Moreover, the earth contained an astonishing gravitational pull, leaving Li Yuan unable to rise and fly.

Spiritual sense could not leave the body!

Unable to fly!

Causality was completely cut off!

The space in the distance was distorted, leaving Li Yuan unable to see very far... It could be said that Li Yuan's perception and investigative means had already lost ninety-nine percent of their effectiveness.

Sprinting all the way!

Time passed, gradually approaching the quarter-hour mark.

Li Yuan had not received any further reminders, and furthermore, he had not seen any stone wall along the way... Just as he hesitated in his heart, wondering if he had taken the wrong path.

Suddenly!

As Li Yuan took another step, the surrounding scene changed abruptly. A bright light appeared, and he was already standing inside a massive palace. The palace was extremely vast and boundless, with a diameter of fully one million kilometers and a height exceeding three hundred thousand kilometers... Even if Li Yuan maintained his Law Heaven and Earth form, he was still just a tiny speck within it.

"This is?" Li Yuan held his breath.

There were no pillars inside the palace, only one massive jade platform after another. Each platform was also incredibly huge; even if Li Yuan sat on one, he would appear tiny... It was as if they were seats specifically provided for terrifying lifeforms ten thousand miles tall.

However.

What attracted Li Yuan the most was the stone wall placed at the end of the divine palace. The stone wall was over three hundred thousand kilometers long and over one hundred and fifty thousand kilometers high. It was white jade throughout, and the entire stone wall radiated an extremely terrifying aura.

"This stone wall?" Li Yuan's gaze landed on the stone wall.

In an instant!

His entire mind and spirit were drawn in... Even his true self, located at the Chaos Divine Court headquarters, had his consciousness sink in an instant.

On the stone wall.

A dense multitude of figures were engraved. These figures appeared to be 'human portraits', yet they also seemed to be forged from countless mysterious Dao patterns... There were over ten thousand figures.

Each was a Dao pattern diagram of over ten thousand.

And these ten thousand Dao pattern diagrams... were faintly surrounding the towering figure at the very center, ultimately converging to form a whole.

Perfect and flawless!

"Boom!" Li Yuan's heart was filled with shock, and his consciousness sank completely. He seemed to be placed within the scene on the stone wall... It was a mysterious and vast ultimate land.

Powerful and terrifying lifeforms, each with strength far surpassing Li Yuan's.

From their bodies radiated extremely unique 'Dao Rhymes'.

They were all beings of the 'Path-Opening' realm!

These lifeforms, some resembled humans, some resembled divine dragons, some resembled true phoenixes, some resembled earthworms, some resembled beasts, some resembled plant life, some were rock lifeforms, some resembled flaming planets... and some were mist-like lifeforms...

There were even some lifeforms whose forms Li Yuan found difficult to describe, their auras unfathomable... In short, with Li Yuan's vision, he felt very unfamiliar with many of the figures.

However, Li Yuan only glanced at these figures briefly.

His consciousness remained immersed in this scene. Over ten thousand 'Dao-Opening' existences were all kneeling here at this moment, bowing toward the towering figure at the very center.

In their mouths, they were all calling out two words: "Eternal", "Eternal"... "Eternal"!

Eternal!

And the towering figure at the center, his figure seemed both real and illusory, holy! Vast! Immortal!

That was an aura that transcended everything Li Yuan knew, and he could only think of two words as well—Eternal!

Only eternity could interpret it.

On that towering figure's body, it was difficult to glimpse his true face, but around his body flowed strands of mysterious threads. These threads intertwined with each other, forming many unfathomable fluctuations.

"Threads?" Li Yuan looked up.

In the face of these mysterious and dazzling threads, everything he had comprehended seemed like a joke. Whether it was the laws of space, the God King secret techniques he had comprehended, or the Dao Rhyme auras he had sensed from other Dao-Opening powerhouses... Li Yuan could actually find answers to all of them within these threads, finding the same source.

It seemed to encompass everything.

Truly transcending above ten thousand Daos.

"Ultimate?"

"Is this the power that can truly be eternal?" Li Yuan was completely infatuated: "Transcending all the paths opened by all the powerhouses I know, transcending ten thousand Daos, it can be called the source of ten thousand Daos."

The source of ten thousand Daos.

The beginning of everything.

According to what Li Yuan knew, generation after generation of powerhouses in the Heart Dream Divine Domain first comprehended the basic laws, then comprehended the laws of space... The eight great laws were the foundation of cultivation.

Then, using the eight great laws as a foundation, they walked their own paths... The paths they opened originated from the eight great laws, yet transcended them.

This was the most orthodox path.

But at this moment, Li Yuan's understanding was somewhat shattered.

A long time passed.

"Wake up! Wake up!" A low voice suddenly sounded, shaking Li Yuan's spiritual world and causing Li Yuan, who had completely sunk, to wake up instantly.

Whoosh!

Li Yuan's source body and true self woke up simultaneously.

"This? How terrifying!" Li Yuan's eyes held some shock, and he even dared not look at that stone wall again.

Too terrifying.

Li Yuan considered himself knowledgeable enough, but he had to admit... except for the 'Eternal Divine Palace' where his consciousness had once descended, all other treasures and things in the world were inferior to the stone wall before him.

"If that voice hadn't awakened me just now, and my consciousness had continued to sink, I fear I would have been completely assimilated by this stone wall." Li Yuan sighed inwardly.

It was not that his soul consciousness was not strong enough.

Nor was it that his strength was not strong enough.

It was just that the gap in levels was too great... In the end, Li Yuan was only a True God who had cultivated for a few hundred years.

"Not bad."

"A Heavenly God who has only cultivated for a few hundred years, to actually possess such a powerful soul will." That low voice sounded again.

However, this time it did not echo in Li Yuan's mind, but reverberated directly within the divine palace.

"Moreover."

"Your comprehension of laws is clearly only so-so, not even reaching the peak of Heavenly God, yet you were able to simultaneously trigger the resonance of five 'Quasi-Saints' within the Ten Thousand Saint Stone Wall... It is truly incredible! This shows that you have many choices for opening the Eternal Dao in the future, at least five." The low voice continued.

Li Yuan was secretly shocked.

Five Eternal Daos?

Quasi-Saints? What were those?

"May I ask who you are, Senior? Thank you for saving this junior." Li Yuan said respectfully.

"I am the Gravekeeper." The low voice said: "Since you were able to pass through the four minor tribulations and arrive here alive, you are qualified to call me 'Grave Elder'."

Gravekeeper?

Guarding the grave of God Emperor Beihe? Li Yuan guessed in his heart.

"Greetings, Grave Elder." Li Yuan said respectfully.

"You may have a background, and you may know a thing or two about where you are, but as the Gravekeeper, and also the manager of the North Star... I will follow the rules and explain it clearly to you." Grave Elder said slowly: "That way, when you die, you can die with understanding."

The other party did not appear, only the voice kept sounding... yet Li Yuan could not detect the other party's existence. Clearly, the power the other party possessed was unfathomable.

However!

Li Yuan also keenly sensed that the other party's divine abilities might not be as terrifying as imagined... because the other party did not detect that he was only at the True God realm.

"My actions all follow the rules left behind by the God Emperor and the Honghe Universe Alliance." Grave Elder said slowly: "First, you must swear to the Eternal River and take an 'Eternal Oath'. You must never leak anything about this place; otherwise, you will surely die."

"Eternal Oath? Is it not a Great Dao Oath?" Li Yuan was stunned.

"Hmph!"

"Great Dao Oath? You have already comprehended a Great Dao of laws; the constraints of a Great Dao Oath on you are already very weak... The space laws might still have some effect, but if you can open the Dao at the Heavenly God realm, what does it matter if you don't comprehend the space laws?" Grave Elder said coldly: "Like God Kings and God Emperors, they don't care about Great Dao Oaths at all."

"Only the Eternal Oath... even a God Emperor cannot violate it!" Grave Elder said.

"I don't know how." Li Yuan shook his head.

Eternal Oath? He couldn't even sense the Eternal River, so how could he swear?

"I will help you." Grave Elder said in a low voice.

Clatter~

A strand of mysterious and vast aura descended. Li Yuan could only glimpse the tip of the iceberg, yet he was deeply shocked. He understood instantly... this strand of aura likely originated from the Eternal River.

"Come, learn after me: I, swear by the Eternal River..." Grave Elder said slowly.

Li Yuan listened to the oath once; it only required him not to leak the content, with no other requirements.

After pondering for a moment.

Li Yuan said: "I, Heart Source Divine Monarch, swear by the Eternal River..."

The oath was completed!

Instantly, Li Yuan felt a strand of mysterious supreme aura faintly form a shackle upon himself, leaving him unable to speak certain words... It also made Li Yuan understand why the two invincible Heavenly Gods in the history of the Divine Court, even though one of them had cultivated a clone technique and the clone had survived in the outside world, had still never leaked any information about the trial grounds.

"The Eternal Oath is formed, very good." Grave Elder's voice became much gentler.

He seemed to have set his mind at ease.

"This place was originally a trial ground left by the God Emperor for the Ten Star Pulse Heavenly Gods of the Honghe Universe Alliance... If a non-Ten Star Pulse Heavenly God comes to break in, there is almost no hope of success."

"First, you are not a member of the Honghe Universe Alliance... therefore, if you do not succeed in the end, there is only a dead end." Grave Elder said indifferently: "You found the four minor tribulations at the outermost perimeter so difficult; in my view, your probability of death is ten out of ten."

"Of course, if you have cultivated a clone technique."

"Or if after you die, some terrifying existence is willing to reverse time and space to resurrect you, you might also survive."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 620 =====