Chapter 322

Bai Ze slowly spat out three words.

"Mount Buzhou."

"Mount Buzhou?" Su Chen frowned, "Is Senior talking about the Mount Buzhou of the heavens from the ancient Primordial period? Wasn't that knocked down long ago during the Lich War?"

This was an ancient past event.

The current Three Realms are also very different from the ancient period.

During the ancient Primordial period, in the final battle of the Lich War, both sides fought with true fire; the Witch Clan's Du Tian Shen Sha Array and the Demon Court's Zhou Tian Xing Dou Array clashed, the heavenly pillar Mount Buzhou collapsed, the heavens tilted to the northwest, and the earth sank to the southeast.

Since then, Mount Buzhou had completely disappeared from the map of the Three Realms, leaving only a legend.

"Mount Buzhou did indeed break back then." Bai Ze nodded, "But the ruins are still there."

Su Chen's heart stirred.

Bai Ze walked to the cave entrance with his hands behind his back, his voice sinking: "Most people in the Three Realms believe that Mount Buzhou turned into powder during that Great Tribulation and completely dissipated between heaven and earth. But that is not the case."

"Mount Buzhou was transformed from the Great God Like Pangu's spine. That was the hardest and most core part of Like Pangu's physical body. What was destroyed back then was only the mountain body exposed above the ground. The true foundation of Mount Buzhou, the core of Like Pangu's spine, fell into a void crack when the mountain body collapsed."

Bai Ze turned around, those white eyes without pupils looking straight at Su Chen.

"It did not disappear. It just detached from the Three Realms and sank into the void turbulence in the middle of North Ju Luzhou, becoming a ruin independent of the Three Realms."

Su Chen took a deep breath; he had never heard of this claim before.

The ruins of Mount Buzhou were not destroyed but hidden in the void turbulence of North Ju Luzhou.

That place preserved the aura of the Great God Like Pangu and a large amount of Like Pangu's baleful Qi.

If the Chaos Bell were to choose a hiding place for itself, the ruins of Mount Buzhou, where Like Pangu's aura is most concentrated, is indeed the most reasonable choice.

"Senior should have lived in seclusion on Demon Emperor Island since the late stage of the Lich War; how do you know these things?" Su Chen asked.

Bai Ze was silent for a moment, sighed, and said: "Because I went there secretly later."

"After the Lich War, Emperor Taiyi died in battle. The Chaos Bell disappeared. As a Demon Sage of the Demon Court, I also wanted to retrieve the Chaos Bell and spent tens of thousands of years searching for its whereabouts; the ruins of Mount Buzhou were one of the places I visited, but I gained nothing there. Is your confirmed information correct?"

Finally, Bai Ze asked Su Chen in return.

Su Chen shook his head slightly: "The clue I obtained is very vague, and I am not sure if it is really here."

Bai Ze nodded and continued: "The Like Pangu baleful Qi there is too intense. Inside, if a Great Luo Golden Immortal is not careful, their soul will be eroded by the baleful Qi, and they will become a monster without any reason. I relied on my own bloodline to force my way in back then and nearly got myself trapped. In the end, I only went in less than ten thousand miles before I had to retreat."

Hearing this, Su Chen frowned slightly: "Even Senior Bai Ze couldn't reach the end? Is that place that evil?"

"It's not evil." Bai Ze shook his head, "It's that the power of Like Pangu's baleful Qi there is too pure. Like Pangu's baleful Qi is different from ordinary baleful Qi; if you can't withstand it, your consciousness will be assimilated by it, completely merging into heaven and earth, and you will never come back."

"Then I still have to go."

Su Chen said.

Bai Ze's brows furrowed upon hearing this.

"You are too reckless." Bai Ze said bluntly, "Your magic power cultivation is only at the peak of the Tai Yi Jin Xian realm; even if your physical body cultivation has reached the Great Luo level, it is still a notch worse than when I went in back then."

"Senior, you forgot one thing." Su Chen smiled slightly, "The 'Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Axes' I cultivate were derived from the Witch Clan's realization of the true meaning of the Great God Like Pangu."

"The 'Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Axes' use the spine as the heavenly pillar and the limbs as the four poles, drawing in the baleful Qi of heaven and earth to temper oneself, pursuing the supreme physical body realm of the Great God Like Pangu. The Like Pangu baleful Qi in the ruins of Mount Buzhou is a deadly poison to others, but to me..."

He paused.

"It might be a heaven-sent sacred place for cultivation."

Bai Ze had lived for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, having seen the rise and fall of the Three Realms, and at this moment, he was speechless for a time.

After a long while, Bai Ze let out a long breath.

"Your fortune, kid..." Bai Ze shook his head and gave a bitter smile, "Even ancient Like Pangu baleful Qi can be used by you; are you planning to take all the advantages of the Three Realms?"

Su Chen did not respond to this; he was indeed calculating rapidly in his heart.

Ruins of Mount Buzhou, Like Pangu baleful Qi.

If he could cultivate the "Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Axes" within it, using the purest Like Pangu baleful Qi in the ruins of Mount Buzhou to temper his physical body, could he push the cultivation of the "Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Axes" one step further, innovate, and thoroughly walk his own path?

Moreover, if the Chaos Bell were truly hidden in the depths of the ruins of Mount Buzhou, he would have to walk to the most core area.

Searching for the Chaos Bell and cultivating the Like Pangu True Body—killing two birds with one stone.

"Senior, do you know where the entrance to the ruins of Mount Buzhou is now?" Su Chen asked.

Bai Ze pondered for a moment and took out a tattered animal skin scroll from his sleeve.

The scroll was slightly yellowed, and a simple map was drawn on it using ancient demon script.

"North Ju Luzhou, central wasteland; there is a forbidden area there, and the ruins of Mount Buzhou are hidden within that forbidden area." Bai Ze handed the scroll to Su Chen, "This is the route map I drew back then; take it."

Su Chen took the scroll and carefully put it away.

"Su Chen." Bai Ze suddenly called out to him, his expression rarely serious, "This matter must be kept absolutely secret. Once even half a word of the Chaos Bell's news leaks, all the powerful beings in the Three Realms will go mad. The Buddhist Sect, the Heavenly Court, a crowd of rogue cultivators, and even those few high-and-mighty Sages will not sit idly by."

"I understand." Su Chen nodded, "Only Monkey Brother and I will go on this trip. Everything on Flower-Fruit Mountain will remain as usual; to the outside world, just say I am in seclusion."

Bai Ze nodded and added one last sentence: "Come back alive."

Su Chen smiled and nodded solemnly: "Senior, rest assured; if the matter is impossible, I will not force it."

Su Chen left Bai Ze's cave dwelling and headed straight for the Water Curtain Cave to find Sun Wukong.

Su Chen arrived at the Water Curtain Cave, where Sun Wukong was bragging to a crowd of monkey descendants.

"Monkey Brother, let's go."

Hearing Su Chen's words, Sun Wukong reached out to disperse the monkey descendants surrounding him and leaped in front of Su Chen: "Little Brother, have you found the whereabouts of that bell?"

Su Chen nodded, told him that the Chaos Bell might be hidden in the ruins of Mount Buzhou, and explained the dangers involved.

"Monkey Brother, do you really want to go with me?" Finally, Su Chen asked.

"Asking this is looking down on Old Sun." Sun Wukong grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, "When has Old Sun ever been afraid?"

Hearing this, Su Chen said no more, left the Water Curtain Cave first, and Sun Wukong followed closely behind.

Emerging from the Water Curtain Cave, two streams of light shot into the sky, one gold and one cyan, tearing through the clouds and heading straight toward North Ju Luzhou.