Chapter 435: 【Underworld Emperor, you didn't die】

Nearly twenty Venerables slept in the Ancient Mine of Early Spring. It was impossible for everyone to awaken. Inside the Ancient Mine of Early Spring, and even between forbidden zones, there were agreements to change one or two Venerables to keep watch every few tens of thousands of years.

During this period, whether the rotating Venerable chose to launch a Dark Turmoil to absorb the life essence of all living beings to replenish their own blood energy, or chose to pass this period peacefully, the forbidden zones would not interfere too much.

Of course, the Venerables had a tacit understanding to take turns emerging to prevent too many Venerables from foraging, which would cut off the roots of all living beings in the Great Universe, leaving nothing to eat in the future.

However, this life was unusual. The Immortal Road was about to open. If a Venerable could become an immortal, there was no need to worry about others. If they could not become an immortal, then after I die, who cares about the flood—they would no longer show restraint.

Coupled with the Qing Emperor's successive actions, all the Venerables in the Ancient Mine of Early Spring who were light sleepers were awakened.

Therefore, in this forbidden zone alone, the auras of several Venerables were floating, appearing and disappearing, with a trace of divine sense awakening.

"No."

"This Emperor did not send any envoys out."

The divine senses of several Venerables collided and communicated, and they all reached a conclusion.

"Then who is he?"

The Ancient Mine of Early Spring diffused a piece of immortal mist, rising in wisps, hazy and strange. The Venerable's voice was like a god from the nine heavens, shaking the sky and the earth, rumbling and ringing, making all living beings tremble.

The Venerables of the Ancient Mine of Early Spring were a bit surprised. If there were no envoys, how could one person be equipped with six Emperor Tokens? This formation was really a bit too big.

"It's the son-in-law of the old Dragon Emperor..."

The Qilin Ancient Emperor, who was rotating in this life, spoke up. He was the first to wake up in this life, so he knew the most information.

"Bloodline, family affection, hehe, our generation has slept for a million years. The phenomena of the red dust, the universe and the wilderness have all been trampled upon. This heaven and earth is nothing but a small chess game."

The Venerable of the Ancient Mine of Early Spring sneered, "I didn't expect the Dragon Emperor to have not let go. With such a Dao heart, how can one become an immortal?"

"Different people have different Daos."

The Qilin Ancient Emperor frowned, not approving of the path of the other Venerables in the Ancient Mine of Early Spring. Everyone's path to longevity was different, and the paths shaped different personalities. Even if they were in the same forbidden zone, they were not on the same path.

"This Emperor personally sacrificed his own race and destroyed the orthodoxy back then for the sake of becoming an immortal. What is impossible about that?"

A cold and ruthless voice sounded: "With attachments in the heart, how can one fight the Immortal Road? It might be better for this Emperor to take action and erase this attachment for the Dragon Emperor, so that he can step onto the Immortal Road with peace of mind in the future."

"It's him, the Corpse Emperor." The Qilin Ancient Emperor looked over and recognized the identity of the person who came.

In the divine source, a bearded man was looming, full of energy. He didn't look like a self-slashing Venerable at all. His opportunity was mysterious, giving people a very strange feeling, as if he had experienced the long ages of the past, heavier than the time aura stained by everyone else.

This Ancient Emperor was a person of great perseverance. The Venerables of the Underworld coveted the Underworld Emperor's methods but dared not try. Only he took the lead. He was once a Venerable of the Luan Gu era. Later, the Emperor's corpse became spiritual, formed a reincarnation seal, attained the Dao in the Primordial era, and was an Emperor for two lives. He was terrifying to the extreme.

The Yin God attained the Dao, allowing him to ignore emotions and destroy his entire family, because the Corpse Emperor did not belong to the later generations.

"No need to trouble fellow Daoist."

A cold snort sounded. In the Ancient Mine of Early Spring, streaks of purple glow emerged, and the sound of dragon chanting was endless. From the stone fetus cast by the Early Spring Life Stone and Divine Source, a purple-haired man of medium build opened his eyes. He was not very majestic, but he was soul-stirring and awe-inspiring without being angry.

He stood in front of the Corpse Emperor and did not let this Venerable take action.

"Hehe..." The Corpse Emperor smiled and didn't say anything more. It was not worth clashing with a Venerable for such a small matter.

"Wan Longhuang, the Venerable who sleeps the deepest, has never emerged in the past. In this life, he awakened because of the Immortal Road and his daughter."

The Venerable of the Ancient Mine of Early Spring carefully examined the stone fetus created by the Dragon Emperor for himself, as if it were a miniature chaotic dragon nest, where the true dragon rested and underwent nirvana.

This involved the Wan Longhuang's longevity method—the Hibernating Dragon Method.

"The hibernating dragon is silent yet has sound, sound by sound spoken to the heart to listen. The spirit is silent and the energy is dark, the hibernating dragon sleeps but is still awake."

The Qilin Ancient Emperor praised, "Fellow Daoist's mysterious method is connected to immortality, hibernating for ages, without launching a single Dark Turmoil, yet the blood energy is like when he first entered the ancient mine."

This longevity method was really too suitable for Venerables. Almost everyone in the Ancient Mine of Early Spring borrowed from it, but no one could do what the Dragon Emperor did—sleeping for a million years without damaging blood energy.

"Not becoming an immortal, it is all empty in the end, just blood energy in the later years."

Wan Longhuang whispered, his eyes as deep as the sea, shooting divine light to watch Lin Xian. His daughter had said that this person involved the bloodline of the Immortal Realm and was similar to the Undying Emperor who established the Primordial order, which was why the old Dragon Emperor awakened in advance.

Otherwise, with his personality, he would definitely not be willing to waste a trace of blood energy, fearing that he would be short of that little bit of strength on the Immortal Road.

"Junior pays respects to the Dragon Emperor."

Lin Xian bowed slightly and said sincerely, "Dragon Girl asked the junior to inquire about the senior's well-being. This trip represents the Heavenly Court, specifically offering immortal liquid and divine spring to express a little heart."

Before coming to the Ancient Mine of Early Spring, Lin Xian had stripped the Undying Medicine from the Wheel and Sea world and placed it in Purple Mountain to be safe.

However, there were still quite a few immortal liquids in the Immortal Pool, precious water in the Merit Pool, and divine springs in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone. Combining the three, the effect was comparable to the life spring of a Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun.

Wan Longhuang's eyes closed slightly, and the immortal liquid was sucked in by the dragon, nourishing the body that had been dry for a million years. However, it stopped there in the end.

The most important thing for a Venerable is the Immortal Platform, not the physical body. As long as the secret realm is not destroyed, the physical body can be reorganized even if it explodes billions of times.

"It is rare that you have this heart."

After a while, Wan Longhuang sighed, "Unfortunately, this kind of thing can prolong life if taken once, but it has no great effect after the second or third time. For our generation, it can only replenish magic power."

"Unless you find the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, it has no effect on the enlightened ones."

Medicine Kings, divine marrow, and Undying Medicine are precious, but who among the emperors and emperors hasn't eaten them? It was only after trying all the methods in the human world to no avail that they unwillingly slashed themselves and fled into the Life Forbidden Zone, looking forward to the opening of the Immortal Road in the future.

"The Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, my Heavenly Court is trying to refine it."

"His Majesty Qing Emperor has a long-term vision, laid out plans for ages, and left behind pill methods. Now, quite a few auxiliary materials have been collected."

Lin Xian said calmly, "The junior's trip to the Ancient Mine of Early Spring is precisely to seek the Early Spring Life Stone to prepare for refining the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill."

"If you seniors are willing to cooperate with His Majesty Qing Emperor and refine pills together with the Heavenly Court, contributing a piece of Early Spring Life Stone, then on the day the immortal pill is refined, one can be distributed to each of you Venerables."

Once these words were spoken, whether it was the Venerables who were awake or those pretending to sleep, they instantly woke up.

Nine-Turn Immortal Pill? If you want to talk about this, I'm not sleepy anymore.

This is a Great Dao treasure pill that is helpful to Great Emperors, allowing an emperor to live another life and extend their lifespan by ten thousand years. Even for a Venerable who has slashed themselves, after taking this pill, they can repair the Immortal Platform and gain two thousand years of peak imperial life.

Fighting the Immortal Road in a slashed state versus attacking the Immortal Road in a flawless state—these are completely two different concepts!

Attacking the Immortal Realm at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong people—at least three Red Dust Immortals are needed. This is purely using brute force to open it.

But if it is the right time, the right place, a flawless Great Emperor with peak blood energy really has hope of breaking in.

"You are here to negotiate on behalf of the Qing Emperor. Is the Heavenly Court outside established by him?"

Another Venerable who was pretending to sleep woke up at this moment and asked very seriously.

"I am a representative of the Heavenly Court!"

Duan De shook the Ancient Emperor Token in his hand, spoke for himself, and attracted the attention of the Venerables, saying, "Please satisfy my request first."

"Courting death, then I will fulfill you."

A Venerable said coldly. He also found an ant appearing on the scene an eyesore. A ray of immortal light appeared in his palm, vaguely flowing with the imprint of the Heavenly Heart of the past, arriving in an instant, and struck Duan De's body.

"Puff!"

His body exploded, torn apart, the blood mist dissipated, turning into wisps of energy, merging into the heaven and earth, and disappearing in an instant.

"What, Duan De is dead!"

"Good death, this tomb robber is finally dead."

"The Heavenly Dao has reincarnation; who has Heaven ever spared!"

The news of Duan De's death was spied on by various races with heavenly mirrors. Some were happy and some were sad, but joy occupied the majority, and some even planned to set off firecrackers to celebrate.

However, facts proved that they were happy too early.

"Duan De will die?"

The people of the Heavenly Court thought about it and shook their heads one after another. How could a disaster like the Underworld Emperor die easily? Good people don't live long, but disasters live for ten thousand years.

Sure enough, in the heavenly mirror, the originally silent Corpse Emperor suddenly spoke, staring at the position where Duan De disappeared, with a trace of doubt: "This is... the ancient Tribulation Crossing Heavenly Art!"

The Corpse Emperor did not originally belong to the Ancient Mine of Early Spring. He was dug out from the deepest part of the Underworld, then attained the Dao, and stationed in the Underworld. Like the Undying Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun, he was the master of the Underworld for a period of time.

It was just that the Heaven-Reaching Underworld Treasure flew away tens of thousands of years ago, scaring the Corpse Emperor, who thought it was the Underworld Emperor returning, so he fled to Beidou and came to the Ancient Mine of Early Spring to seek protection, not wanting to become the Underworld Emperor's war slave.

The methods of the reincarnation seal are too terrifying. If you rise by this, you will surely perish by this. In front of the four-seal Underworld Emperor, the one-seal Corpse Emperor is like a new recruit.

"Tribulation Crossing Heavenly Art, this ancient method has always been incomplete. The true scripture has never appeared. How could he get it?"

The Corpse Emperor's voice was cold, but his eyes were full of surprise. As a Venerable from the Underworld, he knew the origin of the Underworld Emperor. His previous life was the first Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun of the Mythological era, so he was very sure that the Tribulation Crossing Heavenly Art was never passed on.

But if it wasn't the flawless Tribulation Crossing Heavenly Art, who could escape under the eyes of several Venerables?

This kind of method is really too heaven-defying!

Even when the Venerables deduced the heavenly secrets, they couldn't find any traces of Duan De.

"More than two hundred thousand years ago, when that person in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone was opening the dojo, a trace of inexplicable energy appeared. Could it be that the Tribulation Crossing Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun was buried on this ancient star... and was discovered?"

The Venerable of the Ancient Mine of Early Spring whispered. He was the Kunpeng Ancient Emperor. More than two hundred thousand years ago, it was his turn to rotate. He witnessed the rise of that Empress and was so scared that he trembled, fearing that he would be caught by that demonic Great Emperor to be made into soup.

People in the world say that Venerables are ruthless, but compared to the demonic methods of the Swallowing Heaven Empress, it is simply a small witch meeting a big witch.

Venerables were all Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors in the past. They once guarded the Great Universe and had supreme merits. All living beings admired their first life. Although they later fell and chose to slash themselves and launch Dark Turmoils, they also experienced a long period of psychological struggle.

For example, the Abandoning Heaven Venerable in the neighboring forbidden zone waited until his relatives, friends, children, and familiar people had all passed away, and his heart was like dead ashes, before he turned from a dragon slayer into an evil dragon.

Looking at the Swallowing Heaven Empress, she walked on the path of cannibalism from the beginning. Various heroes and kings of the world were just Undying Medicines to her. Practicing the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art was equivalent to harvesting divine medicines in the human world, making the Forbidden Zone Venerables call out "good fellow."

They at least walked from light to darkness back then, but the Ruthless Empress was a demonic Great Emperor from the start!

"Is it an Ancient Emperor Token? Is it from that person in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone?"

"That shouldn't be. She never cast an Emperor Token."

The Empress left indelible traces on the Ancient Emperors of Early Spring. A demonic Great Emperor who ate people even more than the Forbidden Zone Venerables made the Ancient Emperors tremble, fearing that the Ruthless Empress would eat up the Great Universe and run to the forbidden zone to eat the Venerables.

Back then, she leveled the Heaven-Breaking Mountain Range with one sword and destroyed a forbidden zone. Her combat power was incomparably terrifying.

"That is not the token of the Southern Ridge Heavenly Emperor; it is the Underworld Emperor Token cast by the Tribulation Crossing Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun in the Primordial era."

"The Underworld Emperor is the spiritualization of the Tribulation Crossing Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun's corpse."

Just when the Venerables were whispering, Lin Xian suddenly spoke, his words shocking, attracting the attention of the Venerables of the Ancient Mine. He said in a deep voice: "He is a disciple of the Tribulation Crossing Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun, representing the will of the Underworld Emperor, symbolizing that the Underworld lineage is to return to my Heavenly Court."

The Ancient Mine of Early Spring fell into a brief silence. Even the Venerables were shocked by the massive amount of information.

Wan Longhuang frowned and scolded: "Don't talk nonsense. In the late Mythological era, the Underworld Emperor ambushed the Ye Di Zun. Since then, the Underworld and the Heavenly Court have been at odds. Even the Qing Emperor cannot change such a landscape."

"The Dragon Emperor does not know that the Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun who held the Underworld weapon to ambush the Ye Di Zun back then was actually not the Underworld Emperor,"

Lin Xian said meaningfully: "Inside the ancient mine, there should be a senior from the Underworld, right? He has ancient origins and should know the truth of the late Mythological era."

There are many mysteries in the late Mythological era, and even Venerables cannot distinguish them.

In an instant, everyone in the Ancient Mine of Early Spring looked at the Corpse Emperor, seeking the truth.

"Underworld Emperor... you didn't die."

"I knew it, I knew it!!!"

The Corpse Emperor roared, shaking the Ancient Mine of Early Spring, and countless corpse aura rose. As a generation of ancient Venerables, he should have looked down on the world, but at this moment, he was incomparably miserable. He seemed to be showing off his power, but in fact, there was a fear originating from his heart.

The other Venerables were terrified. To be able to scare the Corpse Emperor like this, how terrifying is the Underworld Emperor?

"The Underworld Emperor naturally didn't die."

"On this point, Corpse Emperor senior, you should have guessed it long ago, right?"

"The Heaven-Reaching Underworld Treasure flew away tens of thousands of years ago to achieve a true immortal weapon. The Underworld Emperor is about to return, reappearing the greatest reincarnation in the human world."

"We are recasting the Heavenly Court, the ancient Ye Di Zun is reincarnated, and the glory of the past will spread across the nine heavens and ten earths again, and then we will settle all the great karma one by one."

"Recasting the broken sword, conquering the Immortal Road again, flying to immortality with the whole sect!"

Lin Xian said sonorously. Facing the Venerable Corpse Emperor, he had no fear at all, but instead had a condescending scolding.

The Venerables of the Ancient Mine of Early Spring were slightly stunned, then looked at each other, and finally looked at Wan Longhuang together.

You said your son-in-law came from the Heavenly Court, but you didn't say which Heavenly Court.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 436 =====