Chapter 1812: Entering the Ancient Vault of the Military Path Again

Entering the Ancient Vault of the Military Path Again

"Although I cannot be entirely certain, it should be him." Liu Qingyan's voice rang out from within his thoughts.

"According to intelligence, a few days ago, the Aurora Bastion organized a group of people to board this steamship heading to the Ancient Vault of the Military Path. This is a regular activity between the Chengtian Domain and the Aurora Bastion. They send Ordinary People into the Ancient Vault of the Military Path to see if there are any good seedlings who can gain the gaze of the Divine Path and step onto the Way of the Soldier God..."

Chen Ling wasn't surprised by this practice of the Aurora Bastion. Back in the day, he and Jian Changsheng were sent into the Ancient Vault of the Military Path in this exact manner.

He continued to listen attentively.

"In the Ancient Vault of the Military Path, struggles between one another are very normal occurrences. But among this batch of people, there was a youth who was hunted down by his enemies and mistakenly entered the depths of the Ancient Vault of the Military Path..."

"Normal tempering is strictly confined to a certain range. No one is allowed to enter the depths of the Ancient Vault of the Military Path without permission. None of those who previously ignored the warnings and charged in came out alive... But this time was a bit different."

"This youth came out alive from the depths of the Ancient Vault of the Military Path."

Liu Qingyan paused for a moment and continued,

"He didn't dare to go out, afraid that those Killing Intent Puppets were still blocking the outside. So, he could only bite the bullet and crawl deeper along the crevice. After crawling for a long time, he drilled out from the edge of a steep cliff..."

"Standing on the edge of the cliff, he saw a person."

"That person was draped in tattered armor, standing in the center of the largest Million-Man Pit in the entire Ancient Vault of the Military Path. With just one sword strike, he swept away all the Killing Intent Puppets inside..."

"At that time, he was already scared silly by the aftershocks of that Aura. According to his description, that person was quite young, probably around twenty years old. He seemed to have seen that person glance over from afar, and then he disappeared."

Around twenty years old...

The age matched up.

At this age, sweeping the Million-Man Pit of the Ancient Vault of the Military Path with one sword strike, Chen Ling could be certain that such a monstrous genius didn't exist in the timeline of the fifth-generation world. So, this person must be a variable that only appeared after Rebooting the World...

And those related to the Way of the Soldier God and the Ancient Vault of the Military Path, and at this age, there was only...

"Ancient Vault of the Military Path, huh..." Chen Ling frowned tightly.

"That's right, I should have thought of this earlier... Neither the Human Domains nor the Gray World have any traces of him. The biggest possibility is that he's hiding in the Ancient Vault of the Military Path."

"But... how did he make himself in this world so strong?"

"And why is he hiding from us?"

One must know, at the same point in time, the Jian Changsheng of the fifth-generation world was currently just a servant who hadn't even stepped onto a Divine Pathway. But listening to Liu Qingyan's description, that person's strength definitely reached the level of Rank 8.

Chen Ling was destined to not find the answers to these questions. He could only wait until he found Jian Changsheng to ask him directly.

But the biggest problem now was...

Chen Ling looked at the towering giant sword gradually approaching in the distance, his frown growing tighter.

A mass of dark clouds gathered in the sky above the Ancient Vault of the Military Path, swirling like a whirlpool. Thick black lightning flashed within like swimming dragons, and a suffocating sense of oppression assaulted his face.

The hairs on Chen Ling's body were already standing on end one by one. A sense of sharpness mixed into the biting cold wind, cutting his skin painfully, as if this cold wind could directly slice open his skin if he got any closer.

The Ancient Vault of the Military Path was emitting fatal hostility towards him!

The current Chen Ling was no longer that weak Law Enforcer who hadn't even liberated the power of the Calamity of Mockery back then. In the past, he was so weak that the Ancient Vault of the Military Path didn't even detect his existence. But now, the World-Ending Aura on Chen Ling's body was too dense.

That heaven-supporting and earth-standing human slaughtering sword was almost born precisely to slay Calamities. Even Chen Ling couldn't take it head-on...

"Do you need me to call Red Heart J over and let him go in to search?" Liu Qingyan's voice rang out at the right time.

Chen Ling pondered for a moment.

"No need. The Ancient Vault of the Military Path is currently being guarded by the Chengtian Dynasty. If our people force their way in, they will definitely be discovered... Better to act low-key."

"Then what do you plan to do?"

Chen Ling slowly turned around on the deck, his gaze sweeping over the other passengers on this steamship...

The passengers on the ship were mostly teenagers, with a few youths as well. Their postures were straight and their gazes sharp. Currently looking at the Ancient Vault of the Military Path gradually approaching in the distance, a touch of anticipation surfaced in their eyes.

These people were Ordinary People chosen by the Aurora Bastion and the Chengtian Domain, the next batch to enter the Ancient Vault of the Military Path to undergo tempering.

Chen Ling just blended into the crowd like this, weaving through them in a low-key manner. At this moment, the crowd, who were in an excited state, didn't notice this person's abnormality at all...

Ultimately, on a staircase in a corner of the ship, Chen Ling found a youth sitting alone in a daze.

This youth seemed to feel panic towards the upcoming tempering in the Ancient Vault of the Military Path. Hugging his knees, his face was somewhat pale... He sat alone in an unnoticed corner, seemingly the most transparent existence on the entire ship.

Chen Ling's figure slowly stopped in front of him.

At the same time,

That youth looked up blankly, looking at this baffling figure in an overcoat, his brow filled with confusion.

"You... do you need something?" he asked softly.

That figure in the overcoat slowly raised his right hand.

The pitch-black muzzle of Yesterday's Revolver aimed at the center of the youth's brow.

"I will personally enter the Ancient Vault of the Military Path... in another way." Chen Ling spoke calmly.

Bang——

The trigger was pulled, and an illusory bullet hit right in the center of the youth's brow.

...

Amidst the low rumbling of the steam whistle, the steamship broke through the thick ice layer and docked in front of a black door at the foot of the pitch-black giant sword.

Figures jumped down from the steamship one after another. After leaping behind the black door and a bout of dizziness, their feet stepped onto the earth of the Ancient Vault of the Military Path.

As everyone excitedly began to separate and look for creatures manifested by Killing Intent to undergo tempering, in a corner no one paid attention to, a youth calmly opened his eyes.

He was Chen Ling.

Or rather, Chen Ling's will, having transferred his memories into this youth's body via [Yesterday's Revolver].

As for Chen Ling's original body, which bore this youth's original memories, it had already been thrown into a Thought Storm by Chen Ling in advance. Relying on that youth's will, it was simply impossible for him to walk out of it in a short period of time, let alone use Chen Ling's body to do anything.

Possessing the youth's body, Chen Ling looked around, gazing at the towering cliffs in the distance, the rugged terrain, and that black giant sword that seemed to pierce straight into the sky. A touch of complexity revealed itself in his eyes...

"Ancient Vault of the Military Path, huh..." Chen Ling muttered to himself,

"To think there would actually be a day I'd return."