Chapter 921: The Last Imperial Silhouette

The Last Imperial Silhouette

Chen Ling was speechless.

He had thought the Lord of Hanging Jade might be an enemy. He had thought that perhaps he had offended him somewhere in the past. He had thought that perhaps he was an execution machine dead set on killing all "Emperors"... But he absolutely never expected that the dignified Lord of Hanging Jade, one of the Nine Monarchs, would actually be messing with him??

"You..." Chen Ling opened his mouth for a long time, truly not knowing whether he should curse or laugh.

"I should go, Director Chen." The smile on the Lord of Hanging Jade's face gradually faded. At this moment, his facial features could no longer be clearly seen, and his entire body was beginning to fade and disappear bit by bit.

"We will meet again in the future... Oh, right..."

"Say hello to Brother Lu for me."

As his voice fell, the Lord of Hanging Jade's figure completely vanished without a trace.

Chen Ling had just been wondering why the Lord of Hanging Jade's body had become blurry. He didn't expect him to disappear from the world in the blink of an eye... It seemed that the Lord of Hanging Jade before him was also an entity that didn't belong to this timeline.

After a brief thought, Chen Ling figured out the Causality within. It was just that the Lord of Hanging Jade's behavior of making time to "intimidate" him before leaving left Chen Ling still recovering from the shock...

"Ji Xuan..." Chen Ling muttered to himself. "Just you wait."

With the Ancient Vault of the Imperial Path collapsed, Chen Ling didn't stay any longer. He directly used Cloud Steps and descended toward the land of the Gray World.

...

Thud—!!

The Ancient Vault of the Imperial Path, originally suspended in the sky, was like a collapsing iceberg. Massive fragments slowly plummeted downwards, crashing into the earth of the Gray World with booming roars.

At this moment, in the shattered "Seeing the Dragon in the Field" layer.

A-Qian's arms were tightly wrapped around Li Fu's waist, while Li Fu tightly gripped a crossbeam protruding from the edge of the cliff. Beneath them was the empty high altitude. As howling gales blew through the shattered world, their figures swayed precariously.

"Brother Xiao Li... I'm so scared..."

A-Qian was terrified silly by the apocalyptic scene before her, her face deathly pale. If she accidentally let go of her hands now, she would definitely be smashed to pieces.

"Don't look down! Hold on a little longer!"

Li Fu's eyes were bloodshot. His thin frame, drawing strength from who knows where, dragged the weight of two people. Inch by inch, he climbed up the crossbeam to the still-suspended Imperial Palace ruins, then collapsed on the ground, sweating profusely.

A-Qian was also so frightened that her limbs went weak. Before she could say anything, the fragment the two were on also seemed to malfunction, suddenly plummeting downwards!

Screams echoed in the sky. Fortunately, this ruin didn't plummet straight down, but intermittently hovered in the air occasionally. Finally, accompanied by an intense feeling of weightlessness, the two and the ruin smashed heavily into the earth of the Gray World!

Billowing dust flew up. Under the lead-gray sky, a large number of ruin fragments like this one were still falling, like a thousand falling stars.

"A-Qian... A-Qian, are you okay?"

Li Fu felt the severe pain coming from his back, as if his entire body was about to fall apart. But he still climbed up from the ground immediately, stumbling as he searched through the ruins.

Fortunately, he quickly found A-Qian not far away. Luckily, the ruin had hovered in the air a few times, so A-Qian wasn't too badly hurt. She just seemed to have fainted from the terror of weightlessness.

After confirming A-Qian was safe, Li Fu finally let out a sigh of relief...

Next, Li Fu found several other figures in the nearby ruins. Those were the young people who had similarly been swept into the Ancient Vault of the Imperial Path. They were originally still struggling up the Path of Ascension, only for the path to shatter halfway, followed by the collapse and destruction of the Ancient Vault.

Li Fu checked their breathing. Most of them had fallen from the Path of Ascension and died directly. But there was still a small portion of lucky ones who were still alive.

"Over a hundred people entered the Ancient Vault, and in the end, less than ten came out alive... They all said the Gray World was dangerous, and it really is so." Li Fu shook his head bitterly.

Just as Li Fu was about to pick up A-Qian and leave, bursts of noise suddenly came from the ruins not far away!

Li Fu turned to look, his eyes filling with shock... He saw that the already shattered Imperial Palace wreckage and the scattered stone fragments all seemed to be pulled by an invisible giant hand, flying forward!

Stones returned to their places one by one, and the pulverized palace floor perfectly restored itself. Above the originally shattered Imperial Palace, a black palace actually formed from nothing, established out of thin air!

"This is..." Seeing this scene, Li Fu felt an unreality like being in a dream.

In just over ten seconds, a grand and mysterious hall stood atop the countless Imperial Palace ruins.

The heavy doors slowly opened toward Li Fu, and a faint imperial might wafted out from within...

As if waiting for his entry.

Li Fu subconsciously took a step back. He had stood in the Ancient Vault of the Imperial Path for too long, and he had an instinctive fear of these Imperial Palaces... Getting close to emperors wouldn't lead to a good end.

Roar—

Low roars came from other directions in the Gray World, as if some kind of Calamity was approaching this place.

Li Fu, who was preparing to leave, abruptly stopped in his tracks. He looked around the gray world, hesitation surfacing in his eyes... He had escaped the Ancient Vault of the Imperial Path, and then what?

Leaving the Ancient Vault, the Gray World would only be more dangerous. Without the protection of the Holy Relic, he and A-Qian probably wouldn't make it a kilometer before being eaten by Calamities. It seemed like he had survived a desperate situation, but in reality, he had just stepped into an even crueler deadly predicament.

After frowning in thought for a moment, Li Fu still turned around and looked back at the mysterious palace whose doors were open to him...

He didn't know if it was his illusion, but this palace seemed to have guessed his thoughts, just keeping its doors open quietly, certain that he would walk in.

After all, this was the only glimmer of unknown possibility within a certain death situation.

"...Forget it, this life hasn't belonged to me for a long time anyway. There's nothing to fear."

Li Fu gritted his teeth, passed through the messy ruins, and stepped into that grand palace!

The moment he stepped into the palace, the heavy, open doors closed heavily with a booming sound, plunging the entire hall into pitch darkness...

Just as Li Fu's heart leapt into his throat, a low voice slowly rang out from the darkness ahead:

"To think that the last hope of the Imperial Path is actually a kid who can't bear the fate..."

Clusters of flames suddenly lit up in the darkness, paving a long path of dancing candlelight within the hall. And at the end of the long path, before that tall throne, a faintly discernible imperial silhouette flickered.

The moment he saw that figure, Li Fu's heart trembled!

One must know that all the Imperial Remnants Li Fu had seen in the Ancient Vault of the Imperial Path were incomplete, even having lost the ability to speak... But the one before him was not only more solid than the other remnants, but could even speak and communicate!

Just who was he??