Chapter 214: Funeral Bearer Reappears, Mysterious Seal!

Accompanying the operation of the Heaven-Praying Technique, a strange light suddenly shot from Fang Xu's head into the heavens!

Boom—

Boom—

As that light shot into the heavens, muffled thunder rumbled above the heavens!

A terrifying might of heaven and earth swiftly pressed toward the crowd's position!

"Not good, it's the will of heaven and earth!"

Among the crowd, Qi Shaoyu, the highest cultivator, instantly sensed the aura of the will of heaven and earth.

As members of the Dark God Temple, what they feared most was the will of heaven and earth.

Because once their hiding place is discovered by the will of heaven and earth, they will face the endless pursuit of the Great Expansion Dao Sect.

Especially since they came to Three Mountains Island precisely to avoid the Great Expansion Dao Sect.

For a moment, the crowd had considerable objections to Fang Xu's actions.

Because Fang Xu did this, it undoubtedly exposed the positions of all the temple's disciples completely to the Great Expansion Dao Sect.

But since it already happened, they couldn't stop it.

All we can hope is that Fang Xu quickly finds clues to the Funeral Bearer, retrieves the corpse of the Expansion God, and then swiftly leaves Three Mountains Island.

But the problem now is, the Heavenly Mystic Realm is just this big.

The Central Continent is no longer habitable, and Three Mountains Island is no longer habitable either.

With so many people in the Dark God Temple, where can they go?

The pressure of the will of heaven and earth grew stronger, electric arcs flickered in the dark clouds above their heads, and the crowd faintly saw a huge face emerging between the clouds!

Just as that huge face was about to form, a brilliant sword-light suddenly appeared from the other end of the sky!

The sword-light carried an unmatched domineering aura, directly splitting the gathered dark clouds in half!

Immediately, where the sword-light emanated, space split open a huge gap!

In the astonished gaze of Qi Shaoyu and others, a figure wearing a twelve-beaded imperial crown appeared from the spatial rift!

Behind that figure, countless banners stood erect, and spears bristled like a forest!

Roar!

The will of heaven and earth was blocked by this sword, and it instantly let out an angry roar.

But this roar sounded more like impotent fury.

The will of heaven and earth did not launch a counterattack; it was merely waiting silently.

After a long time passed, it seemed they had not found any trace of the Expansion God's past form, and the will of heaven and earth seemed to lose a bit of restraint, directly manipulating a large amount of dark clouds, condensing into a huge face that attacked that figure in the void.

In the past, the Void Existence and the past form of the Expansion God joining forces could slightly gain an advantage over the will of heaven and earth.

But now, the past form of the Expansion God is absent, suppressed by the whole Heavenly Mystic Realm, and the Void Existence seems unable to exert much strength.

Facing the offense of the will of heaven and earth, he clearly fell into a disadvantage.

Countless bolts of thunder carrying the momentum to destroy heaven and earth slashed toward that spatial rift!

Qi Shaoyu and the others could only faintly see within the spatial rift that countless banners standing erect dissipated one after another under the thunder's bombardment.

But that figure wearing the twelve-beaded imperial crown was helpless.

Sword-lights were sliced out, but they could only block part of the thunder.

"Ha!"

It seemed that the Void Figure's anger was fully ignited by the attack of the will of heaven and earth; it let out an angry shout, then suddenly turned back and hurled something emitting endless light over!

That thing passed through the spatial rift and directly transformed into a huge seal!

At the moment the seal appeared, the entire Heavenly Mystic Realm seemed to freeze!

Although Qi Shaoyu and the others were already experts of the Divine Connection Realm, they still couldn't help but kneel before that huge seal.

Clatter!

Clatter!

Accompanying the appearance of the seal, the sound of iron chains dragging slowly emerged in the sky.

Immediately, a figure bearing a huge stone coffin appeared beneath the seal.

Funeral Bearer!

Seeing that figure, everyone understood that it must indeed be the mysterious Funeral Bearer.

After the Funeral Bearer's figure appeared beneath the seal, it looked up at the seal above its head, then turned to gaze at the huge face formed by the will of heaven and earth.

Clatter!

Its hand's iron chain gave a slight shake; the dark iron chain, extending in the wind, directly transformed into a heaven-penetrating, earth-penetrating chain that directly drew apart the huge face of the will of heaven and earth.

"Roar!"

The will of heaven and earth let out an angry roar, but it was helpless against the Funeral Bearer.

He clearly knew that the Funeral Bearer's strength surpassed that of the Expansion God's past form, and with the Funeral Bearer and the Void Existence joining forces, he would surely gain no advantage.

The dark clouds above everyone's heads gradually dissipated.

This heaven and earth gradually returned to clarity.

Following that, the huge seal gradually shrank, and just as it was about to return to the Void Existence's hand, the Funeral Bearer moved.

He bore the stone coffin, took a Void Step, and approached the figure wearing the twelve-beaded imperial crown.

The two faced each other from a distance, seemingly engaging in some kind of communication.

After a long while—

A streaming light suddenly burst forth from within the seal, directly entering the Funeral Bearer's body.

Hum!

The Undertaker's massive body trembled slightly, then it actually knelt on one knee toward that illusory figure.

The illusory figure waved its hand, then directly vanished.

After everything returned to calm, the Undertaker did not leave; instead, it directly stepped toward the direction where Fang Xu was.

Seeing the Undertaker gradually approach, Qi Shaoyu and the others all became as if facing a great enemy.

They did not know what the Undertaker intended to do.

Fang Xu also stood up at this time, quietly watching the Undertaker walk toward him step by step.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Accompanying the Undertaker's approach, a strange feeling rose in Fang Xu's heart.

Before he could figure out what this feeling was, the Undertaker stopped its steps.

The next moment!

A crack slowly appeared on the stone coffin behind it, and then a corpse floated out from inside.

The corpse of the Derived God!

The corpse was supported by a gentle force and came straight to Qi Shaoyu and the others.

"This is the Derived God!?"

Looking at the corpse before them, Qi Shaoyu and the others hurriedly knelt on the ground.

After placing the Derived God's corpse down, a gray light directly appeared between the Undertaker's brows and flew toward Fang Xu.

Before Fang Xu could react, that light directly drilled into his sea of consciousness.

Boom!

A massive amount of information exploded in Fang Xu's sea of consciousness.

If his soul were not strong enough and his sea of consciousness not tough enough, this information would definitely burst his sea of consciousness.

After slowly digesting this information, Fang Xu's face showed a hint of shock.

The information transmitted by the Undertaker actually contained a method on how to summon him, as well as many secrets about this world.

For example, the so-called Will of Heaven and Earth is actually a living being.

He calls himself an Immortal.

According to the information transmitted by the Undertaker, the Heavenly Mystic Realm originally also possessed the Will of Heaven and Earth, but that was indeed the genuine Will of Heaven and Earth, without any personal emotions.

The Will of Heaven and Earth follows the Great Dao; as long as the development of the Heavenly Mystic Realm does not violate the Great Dao nor endanger the realm, the Will of Heaven and Earth will not interfere.

But until the Immortal appeared, he seized the Heavenly Mystic Realm's Will of Heaven and Earth, attempting to devour and refine the entire realm.

Therefore, he does not allow the Heavenly Mystic Realm's Heaven and Earth energy to leak out, nor does he allow internal consumption.

Thus, it was the Immortal who plotted the War of Gods and Men, and also the Immortal who designed for many gods originally belonging to the Heavenly Mystic Realm to die in that war.

After the gods fell, the energy absorbed by their divine bodies would slowly dissipate between Heaven and Earth, equivalent to indirectly supplementing the Immortal himself.

Afterward, the Immortal controlled the Great Expansion Dao Sect as a spokesperson, cutting off almost all the ascendants' inheritances in the Heavenly Mystic Realm, making the realm's cultivation path increasingly weak.

Once, the Heavenly Mystic Realm had humans and gods coexisting, and the number of ascendants was countless.

But now, not to mention ascendants and gods, even cultivators who can reach the God-Penetrating Realm are extremely rare.

Ultimately, it is because a large amount of inheritances have been buried.

If this continues, in several thousand years, the Martial Lord may perhaps become the strongest existence in the Heavenly Mystic Realm.

Afterward, it is even possible that an Age of Dharma Decline will appear, and the cultivation path will be completely cut off.

Of course, the information transmitted by the Undertaker also includes two cultivation methods of ancient ascendants.

One of them, after Fang Xu carefully examined it, he actually discovered that it was the technique from the nameless Immortal Classic on Immortal Island.

However, what the Undertaker transmitted is more comprehensive than the nameless Immortal Classic.

"Seventh Elder."

After digesting the ascendants' inheritance transmitted by the Undertaker, Fang Xu called Qi Shaoyu to come forward.

At this time, the Undertaker stood not far from Fang Xu, and Qi Shaoyu carefully approached him, fearing to disturb or anger the Undertaker.

"Divine Child."

Fang Xu slightly nodded, then extended his hand to give the more comprehensive nameless Immortal Classic transmitted by the Undertaker to Qi Shaoyu.

After receiving this information, Qi Shaoyu was completely dazed.

After digesting for a while, he then looked at Fang Xu in astonishment and said: "Divine Child, where did you obtain these?"

The nameless Immortal Classic on Immortal Island was discovered by her by chance; back then, she also retreated on Immortal Island for a long time, comprehended everything on the nameless Immortal Classic, then left Immortal Island and established the Ascension Society.

Later, she was invited to join the Dark Divine Temple and became a Temple Elder.

She firmly believed that the information transmitted by Fang Xu to her contained many things not recorded in the nameless Immortal Classic.

At least regarding the Way of the Sword Immortal, the nameless Immortal Classic has no record of what comes after the Sword Heart Realm.

And her current realm in the Sword Way is merely the Sword Heart Realm.

But Fang Xu now told her the two great realms after the Sword Heart Realm: the Sword Soul Realm and the Sword Realm.

Qi Shaoyu clearly understood that if she cultivated along this path, she would very likely achieve great accomplishment in the Sword Way and thereby ascend.

"Is there no problem with the item?"

Fang Xu opened his mouth to ask.

He did not say where this thing came from.

The Undertaker can now be regarded as a trump card.

Its strength is even greater than the past form of the Derived God, and it seems to have made some kind of deal with the Void Entity, which is why it chose to help himself.

Fang Xu does not know how strong the Will of Heavenly Dao is.

But at least one thing is certain: the Funeral Bearer is an entity capable of contending with the Will of Heaven.

Seeing that Fang Xu's side now had nothing left to do.

The Funeral Bearer slowly turned and walked toward the distant heavens and earth.

Their tall figure quickly vanished from everyone's sight.

Only after the Funeral Bearer left did the crowd gather around the Derived God's corpse.

"Divine Son, what should we do next?"

Zhongli Hui was somewhat confused.

Logically speaking, they should immediately leave Sanshan Island and find a place to hide again.

But looking at it now, behind Fang Xu stand not only the Derived God, but also a mysterious Funeral Bearer and that terrifying foreign powerhouse capable of tearing open the void and clashing with the Will of Heaven.

At this moment, Zhongli Hui and the others were very glad they had chosen Fang Xu.

Although the Dark God Temple now appears greatly weakened, with many forces having severed ties with it.

But with Fang Xu's addition, the Funeral Bearer and that foreign powerhouse are now also considered part of the temple's foundation.

"Sect Master of the Corpse Joy Sect, does your Three Corpses Sect have any good way to handle the corpse of the Derived God's senior?"

Fang Xu suddenly looked toward the Corpse Joy Sect and asked:

The Three Corpses Sect specializes in dealing with corpses; perhaps handing the Derived God's corpse to them would allow it to play a greater role.

However, at this moment the Corpse Joy Sect trembled in fear, clasped their hands toward Fang Xu, and said: "Divine Son, do not speak!"

"Divine Son, this is the corpse of Lord Derived God; how could our Three Corpses Sect dare to desecrate it?"

Several other temple elders also broke out in cold sweat at this time.

They never imagined that Fang Xu would actually have the idea of messing with the Derived God's corpse!

Could he be planning to refine the Derived God's corpse into a zombie?

Fang Xu looked at them somewhat doubtfully and said: "How? You wouldn't actually plan to just bury the Derived God's corpse, would you?"

"This is a divine body above the Divine Passage Realm!"

Everyone looked at each other in dismay.

The Derived God's realm was already on par with the God Realm; at his peak in life, he was not much weaker than an entity like the Funeral Bearer.

Had it not been for the combined efforts of the Will of Heaven and the sect master of the Great Expansion Dao Sect, the Derived God would not have fallen in battle.

Such an entity's bodily strength is absolutely rare.

Yet even so, they dared not desecrate the Derived God's corpse in any way.

You must know that the Derived God is the spiritual faith of the Dark God Temple.

His status is even more noble than that of the Dark God Temple's sect master.

They dare not even think of refining his corpse into a zombie.

"Forget it, forget it!"

Seeing their troubled expressions, Fang Xu immediately waved his hand.

He knew that hoping for the Corpse Joy Sect was impossible.

For now, he could only rely on himself.

Thinking of the golden small coffin he had obtained from Guyuxi inside his Cosmic Ring, Fang Xu immediately took it out.

The lid of the golden small coffin opened, and a thick surge of yin energy directly sucked the Derived God's corpse inside.

"Let's go."

The affair at Lifting Basket Mountain was temporarily concluded.

Overall, as of now, there also seems to be no need to come again.

Fang Xu directly led everyone away from Lifting Blue Mountain.

When passing outside Maple Forest Town, Fang Xu's footsteps paused slightly.

Gazing from afar at the thousand-year-old maple tree at the town's center, resembling a celestial canopy, a figure appeared in Fang Xu's mind.

After so many years, perhaps she has grown accustomed to it; better not to disturb her.

At this moment, Maple Forest Town.

At the entrance of Wang's tea house, Wang Shi, who had reached middle age but still retained her charm, sat quietly on the stool in front of the tea house, gazing toward the direction of Ti Lan Mountain, her expression somewhat dazed.

Boss...

Boss?

The attendant beside her bowed and called out a few times before Wang Shi came to her senses.

"What's the matter?" Wang Shi turned her head, feeling somewhat disappointed.

In a vague way, she had just felt as if the person she constantly yearned for had returned.

"A customer ordered a lovesickness dish; you need to make it yourself."

The attendant spoke respectfully.

Wang Shi lazily rose, walked toward the interior of the shop, and as she walked she muttered, "I've told you many times already, we don't't sell lovesickness anymore."

"Next time someone orders it, just say that."

"I understand, sir..."

……

Outside Maple Forest Town, after Fang Xu briefly paused, he led the crowd, transforming into streams of light, flying toward Central Province.

What he needs to do next is, with the help of Lu Zhiyuan's intelligence organization, locate the hidden base of the Yan Shen Sect and try to uncover the secrets behind it.

Furthermore, the great world beneath the Death Sands Sea is also due for exploration. (End of chapter)