Chapter 33: How Is This Possible?

To the east of the Jiuzhou Continent, not far away, floats a realm called the Mysterious Heaven Realm!

The Mysterous Heaven Realm is the eastern neighboring realm of the Jiuzhou Continent, its scale roughly comparable to the Jiuzhou Continent!!

Within the Mysterious Heaven Realm there is a forbidden place that makes all cultivators shudder, even Emperor Realm strongmen dare not set foot lightly; this forbidden place is called the 'Primeval Forbidden Land'!

The Primeval Forbidden Land contains countless fated treasures, and rumors speak of a chance to become an immortal, yet inside lies an immensely powerful seal; any cultivator who steps in will have their cultivation drop by more than half!

Even Emperor Realm strongmen are no exception!

It is said that long ago two Emperor Realm figures, unafraid of evil, jointly entered the Primeval Forbidden Land seeking an immortal path, and then… there was no after.

Since entering that forbidden land, the two Emperor Realm figures never emerged again!

Since then, even Emperor Realm strongmen from the Mysterious Heaven Realm and other realms have been extremely wary of the Primeval Forbidden Land; although they know of its many fated treasures, they dare not go in to sacrifice themselves.

Within the Primeval Forbidden Land, a dark, dense fog shrouds the sky and blocks the sun!

Not a single ray of sunlight penetrates; despite it being daytime, the whole Primeval Forbidden Land feels like night!

Darkness is the hue here!

Standing inside, one cannot see a hand in front of them!

Yet at the very center of the forbidden land, a faint light emanates!

As the view zooms in, a resplendent golden‑jade palace stands amid the darkness, like a lantern in the gloom!

Zooming in further, the surroundings of the radiant palace are piled with countless bleached white bones!!

Looking outward from the palace, mountains rise on all sides, their heights… seemingly endless!

If one pays slight attention, one can see that those mountains are formed from heap after heap of white bones!!

Indeed, surrounding the palace are countless bone mountains, the number of lives lost unknown!

At this moment, inside the palace, an elderly man with white hair, leaning on a crystal‑clear staff, stands at the center.

The old man's face bears four pairs of eyes, and atop his head sprouts a flesh lump larger than his own head!

Seen from afar, it looks like a small head perched atop a large head, exceedingly bizarre!

This person is the Grand Priest spoken of by the Cloud Emperor!

At the top of the palace floats a man with only an upper body; below his waist nothing exists, as if he were cut cleanly at the waist!

An eye opens on this man's forehead, exuding great majesty, his aura boundlessly mighty!

And this half‑bodied man is the Immortal Emperor spoken of by the Cloud Emperor!

At this moment, the Grand Priest is reporting news to the Immortal Emperor!

"Immortal Emperor, the Cloud Emperor's fate tablet shattered!" the Grand Priest rasped hoarsely, making one's teeth tingle!

"Oh?" the Immortal Emperor seemed calm, as if the death were of no consequence, "What a waste, to fall even in a place like the Jiuzhou Continent; I wasted so much to cultivate him!"

"Indeed a waste, but with the Cloud Emperor's fall, his piglet must have been ruined; the sacrificial date will need to be pushed back!" the Grand Priest's four pairs of eyes blinked, emitting a strange greenish glow!!

"Hmph, insufficient to succeed yet abundant in failure." The Immortal Emperor snorted coldly, his whole body unleashing a sea‑like aura that made the palace hum and tremble, the surrounding void cracking with a "crack‑crack‑crack"!

"Promptly send someone to patch those piglet gaps, and also investigate which reckless thing unintentionally ruined my plans; the Cloud Emperor is, after all, a dog I raised, so send someone to avenge him as well." the Immortal Emperor declared with full authority.

"Yes, I'll check right away!" the Grand Priest nodded, his four pairs of eyes rotating, flashing eerie green ripples!

"Huh?" the Grand Priest seemed surprised, "The opponent also practices the Heavenly Mechanism Technique, now that's interesting!"

"But to spar with me in the Heavenly Mechanism Technique is like wielding an axe at the master's gate!"

The Grand Priest sneered, a hint of amusement flashing on his face!

After all these years since his debut, he has never lost a Heavenly Mechanism duel to anyone!

Then he closed his eyes, muttering incantations!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Who could know that the next moment, his four eyes exploded, spilling greenish blood everywhere!

"Ah!!"

He let out a wail, hurriedly withdrew from the Heavenly Mechanism simulation, took a few steps back, then spat a mouthful of fresh blood!

He gasped heavily, the remaining four eyes bulging, exclaiming in shock: "What kind of joke is this, one glance and it explodes?!"

The fragment he was analyzing in the Heavenly Mechanism was a vague four‑eye piece, and then all four eyes burst!!