Chapter 217

Everyone placed the lid of the God-Burying Coffin properly, then carried the god corpse and left this secret realm space.

Returning to the Central State Imperial City, Fang Xu, after seeing Gu Qiu, concealed nothing and directly spoke of Xu Liang's matter.

Gu Qiu was very calm.

"I know he is a member of the Yanshen Sect."

"Back when I had not yet entered the Immortal Island, members of the Yanshen Sect approached me, wanting me to join the Yanshen Sect."

"After I refused, they still gave me many secret techniques and cultivation methods and such."

Fang Xu was somewhat startled upon hearing that.

No wonder, when Gu Qiu and I initially went to carry out the mission to kill Yu Shan Tianyi, upon seeing Yanshen Sect disciples consuming god blood, Gu Qiu once muttered that they were drinking inferior goods.

As it turned out, she had long known that her father, Xu Liang, was a member of the Yanshen Sect.

"Then… we killed him…"

Fang Xu was somewhat worried.

After all, he and Gu Qiu are now husband and wife, and he had killed her father……

Gu Qiu gave a faint smile: "If I were here, I would personally take action."

Seeing Fang Xu's face showing some disbelief, Gu Qiu calmly said: "The reason I know his identity and still accept the benefits sent by the Yanshen Sect is to quickly make myself stronger."

"One day, I will kill him with my own hands."

"Fang Xu, what about his corpse?"

Gu Qiu suddenly asked.

Before Fang Xu could answer, Gu Qiu again gritted her teeth and said: "I want to refine his corpse into a zombie, then have him guard before my mother's grave for a hundred years, a thousand years!"

Seeing the surging hatred bursting from Gu Qiu's body, Fang Xu couldn't help but shiver.

"Do you think I'm being a bit excessive?"

Gu Qiu turned to look at Fang Xu and said, "Do you know what he did back then?"

Fang Xu shook his head.

Xu Liang had said he and Gu Qiu's mother fell in love at first sight, but because the Gu family looked down on him, they were torn apart, forcing the two to separate.

But the credibility of that statement is low.

"Back then he was just a penniless martial artist, nearly dying in the jaws of a ferocious beast."

"It was my mother who saved him, taking him into the Gu family as a guard."

"But he was a wolf with ambition; to obtain the Gu family's resources and secret arts, he deceived my mother with honeyed words, making her pregnant with me."

"Afterward, my maternal grandfather and the Gu family members, though dissatisfied, did not exterminate him; they planned to wait for an opportunity to let him marry my mother and move into the Gu family as a son-in-law."

Saying this, a hint of intense hatred suddenly appeared on Gu Qiu's face.

"But he was far from satisfied with that."

"On the eve of the wedding, he plotted poison, killing everyone in the Gu family."

"Only my mother escaped the disaster."

"After poisoning the entire Gu family, he lured the members of the Extending God Sect to the Gu family, looting all their accumulated wealth over countless years, and had someone kill my mother."

"Fortunately, although my mother was pregnant, her own strength had already reached the level of Martial Venerable."

"She risked her life to slaughter the Extending God Sect's followers and escaped."

Gu Qiu's narration left Fang Xu somewhat dumbfounded.

He never imagined that Xu Liang would be such a deranged lunatic.

That was his own wife and unborn child.

Even a tiger's poison does not eat its cubs, yet he...

"Gu Qiu, the person has already been killed."

"His head was chopped off by the Seventh Elder."

Fang Xu could only do his best to comfort Gu Qiu, helping her move past her hatred.

"That's really letting him off easy!"

Gu Qiu said fiercely.

Everyone rested for a while in the Central State Imperial City, after which Fang Xu decided to take them to the Death Sand Sea.

All disciples of the Dark God Temple's forces had already been transported by the Scarlet Rock Merchant Guild's treasure ships to Three Mountains Island.

The numerous temple disciples inevitably needed a place to dwell.

The great world beneath the Death Sand Sea is undoubtedly an excellent choice.

By relying on that great world, they can completely evade the pursuit of the Heavenly Dao's will, while also using its resources to enhance their own strength.

After obtaining the agreement of Qi Shaoyu and others, everyone set out.

Death Sand Sea.

Setting foot here again, Fang Xu felt somewhat emotional.

Thinking back, when I and the old ape first came here, we nearly got trapped by the great formation that inverted space in this place.

Now, setting foot here again, he can already sense everything beneath the Death Sand Sea.

Desert worms.

Beneath the Death Sand Sea there are vast numbers of desert worms.

They seem to be guarding a palace.

Combining the scene seen in the stone-coffin world behind the funerary attendant earlier, Fang Xu thought these desert worms might not be enemies.

"Divine Son, let me handle this."

Gazing at the endless desert before him, Zhongli Hui slowly rose to his feet.

As he waved his hand, the ground before him suddenly trembled violently.

Afterward, the endless sand particles on the Death Desert seemed to be forcibly torn apart by an invisible force!

Such mighty power already surpassed ordinary people's imagination.

Only Zhongli Hui, who had reached the God-Communion Realm and mastered the Earth Law, could easily achieve this.

Otherwise, even Qi Shaoyu, whose strength slightly exceeded Zhongli Hui's, could not so easily shift all the sand of the entire Death Desert.

The desert was split open, revealing a huge stone block buried beneath for an unknown length of time.

The stone blocks were neatly arranged, as if the entire Death Desert had previously been a vast plaza.

However, everything around the plaza had vanished.

"This is……"

Seeing the huge plaza that appeared on the ground after the desert disappeared, everyone present was stunned.

Especially Yun Wan and the others who originally lived on Three Mountains Island.

They never imagined that beneath the Death Desert lay hidden such a magnificent relic.

"Divine Son, there's an entrance over there."

At that moment, Qi Shaoyu noticed a hole in the distance that had been forcibly broken open by an external force.

Everyone was about to go investigate when the plaza below suddenly emitted a rumbling sound.

"Be careful!"

The sudden change made everyone dare not act rashly, and they all left the plaza before them.

Qi Shaoyu and the others directly flew up into midair, ready to respond to any possible attack at any moment.

Boom—

Boom—

The plaza below trembled with increasing intensity.

Under everyone's gaze, one after another circular passage quickly appeared.

Hiss!

Hiss!

……

Immediately thereafter, a dense hissing came from within these passages.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, one huge Desert Worm after another burrowed out of those passages, quickly occupying the plaza before them.

The number of Desert Worms reached over a hundred thousand!

In the sky, Qi Shaoyu slowly raised his golden longsword in hand, about to launch an attack on those Desert Worms the next moment.

"Seventh Elder, wait!"

Fang Xu hurriedly stopped him.

Because after these Desert Worms burrowed out, they did not immediately attack them; instead, they gradually became docile.

Fang Xu curiously examined these Desert Worms and discovered that the aura they emitted was actually quite different from the cultivation system of the Heavenly Mystery Realm.

Judging by the strength of their aura, the strength of these Desert Worms was mostly above the Martial Lord level.

Some of the larger ones, already bearing scales, were even comparable to late-stage Prime Martial Realm martial artists!

Terrifying!

At this moment, Fang Xu suddenly felt a sense of terror.

Over a hundred thousand Desert Worms, over a hundred thousand warriors stronger than Martial Lords—such strength could easily sweep across the entire Three Mountains Island.

Even on the Central Continent, they could secure a foothold.

At least a power like the Three Immortals Domain could muster a hundred thousand cultivators above the Martial Lord Realm.

"Strange, these guys seem to be quite close to the Divine Son."

At this time, Zhongli Hui also noticed the problem.

The attitude of these Desert Worms before them toward Fang Xu seemed rather ambiguous.

Each raised its head, hissing, as if trying to tell Fang Xu something.

"Gu Qiu, can you understand what they're saying?"

Fang Xu asked Gu Qiu for help.

But Gu Qiu shook his head.

Obviously, the Desert Worms do not belong to the Heavenly Mystery Realm; Gu Qiu simply cannot understand what they are saying.

Unable to communicate, Fang Xu also did not understand the meaning of the Desert Worms.

The only thing that could be certain was that they seemed to have become affectionate toward him because of something on his person.

"Thing?"

Fang Xu carefully sensed the aura of the Desert Worms and suddenly felt it was somewhat familiar.

After a moment's thought, his eyes lit up, and he immediately took out a gleaming small coffin from his Universe Ring.

This small coffin was obtained in the Three Gods Space by exchanging it with the Bone Prison Breath.

Inside it was still stored the corpse of the Derived God.

As soon as the golden small coffin appeared, all the Desert Worms on the spot instantly became agitated.

Thereafter, under everyone's gaze, each Desert Worm devoutly lay prone on the ground, motionless.

Indeed!

These Desert Worms must have some connection with the Bone Prison Breath.

The Bone Prison Breath is a will born from the corpse of an ancient mighty one interred in the Three Gods Space.

Its former self very likely came from the same world as these desert sandworms.

After confirming this, Fang Xu did not dwell on the issue of communicating with the desert sandworms.

He went straight up to a giant desert sandworm covered in black scales, reached out, and pressed his hand to its forehead.

"Take us down."

He conveyed his will using his soul power.

This method of communication is unaffected by language.

The desert sandworm easily understood his meaning.

"Apostle, please wait a moment."

The other party not only understood his meaning but also gave a response.

But he referred to himself as "Apostle," which made Fang Xu a little curious.

This desert sandworm immediately hissed a few times at the sandworms beside it, and then the surrounding sandworms all began hissing, passing the information along.

Not long after, all the desert sandworms voluntarily made way, clearing a path.

Seeing this, Fang Xu immediately led the group forward.

Following the path cleared by the sandworms, they quickly arrived before a huge entrance.

Then they arrived beneath the plaza.

Here, Fang Xu saw a strange and eerie sight.

Stone Gate!

A huge stone gate, very similar to the aperture space within his own body, stood upright!

It seemed that behind the stone gate lay the entrance to that great world.

"How do we open this stone gate?" Fang Xu asked the desert sandworm.

The desert sandworm gave a response.

Opening the stone gate requires the Apostle to activate his own token.

But the problem is that Fang Xu currently does not know how to control the golden small coffin.

This small coffin was obtained by him from Bone Prison Xi in exchange, and to this day he has not yet researched the specific method of controlling it.

Just as Fang Xu was at a loss, a black vortex suddenly appeared above the stone gate.

Immediately afterward, a familiar figure walked out from within the vortex.

"You finally brought out the golden small coffin."

"Otherwise I really wouldn't be able to find you."

It was Bone Prison Xi.

After he walked out of the black vortex, numerous figures continued to appear within the black vortex.

They were all the wraiths that had followed him in the Three Gods Space back then.

Moreover, Fang Xu also saw the silhouette of the golden-scaled fire-thread snake.

This guy also brought his entire clan along with Bone Prison Xi to this place.

"How did you all come here?"

Regarding the appearance of Bone Prison Xi and the golden-scaled fire-thread snake, Fang Xu felt somewhat surprised.

"I said back then that it wouldn't be long before I came to find you." Bone Prison Xi laughed.

"Thanks to your help, I now have the strength to break free from the Three Gods Space."

Fang Xu nodded.

He knew that Bone Prison Xi had absorbed two top-grade soul crystals, aided by a large number of common soul crystals, greatly increasing his strength.

"It's them!"

"So it really was their bodies back then!"

Shi Bu Yu and the others immediately understood upon seeing Bone Prison Xi and the golden-scaled fire-thread snake.

Back in the Three Gods Space, it was Fang Xu who swept them aside!

It was him, together with the golden-scaled fire-thread snake and Bone Prison Xi, who joined forces to seize their stronghold.

Fang Xu gave an embarrassed smile.

Fortunately, these people are now considered loyalists of the Dark God Temple; otherwise they would surely be shouting to beat and kill him again.

"Senior, your timing is perfect."

"Can you open this stone gate?"

Fang Xu hurriedly asked.

Bone Prison Xi, upon hearing this, glanced at the stone gate, a complex expression flashing across his face.

"The Tianhuang Realm..."

"I don't know whether, after all these years, anything has improved."

Saying this, he took the golden small coffin from Fang Xu's hand and then activated it.

Boom—!

Boom—!

After the golden small coffin burst forth with a dim gray light, the huge stone gate before them slowly opened.

A huge vortex appeared before everyone.

"Come on, let me take you to see the world I once lived in."

Under Bone Prison Xi's lead, everyone entered the huge vortex one after another.

Behind them, the desert sandworms, seeing that huge vortex, all became excited.

It seemed as if a child who had been away from home for a long time finally saw their hometown.

Everyone, including the sand desert worms, passed through the vortex and entered the Heavenly Splendor Realm that Guyuxi spoke of.

After passing through a misty stretch of road, Fang Xu suddenly furrowed their brows.

"Senior, is this world incomplete?"

The Heavenly Splendor Realm feels incomplete, its laws imperfect, like a secret realm.

Guyuxi nodded slightly.

"That's because this is only a small part of the Heavenly Splendor Realm."

"Back then, the Heavenly Splendor Realm was shattered, and only this small part remained."

"After drifting for a long time in the endless void, the Heavenly Splendor Realm unexpectedly came into contact with the Heavenly Mystery Realm."

"We five apostles joined forces to break through the barrier between the two realms, preparing to explore the Heavenly Mystery Realm."

Speaking while bringing, Guyuxi shook their head.

"We can only say our luck is bad."

"We just arrived here from the Heavenly Splendor Realm, and happened to encounter the God War."

"Many ancient powerhouses and deities are fighting each other."

"Our five of us suddenly arrived, directly becoming targets of both sides."

Upon hearing this, Fang Xu instantly felt some sorrow for Guyuxi.

"The God War in the Heavenly Mystery Realm is an internal conflict."

"But they are outsiders."

"However the internal fight goes, once outsiders intervene, they will without exception be eliminated by both sides working together."

"How did that senior end up inside the Three Gods Space?" Fang Xu asked curiously.

Guyuxi shook their head.

He is merely a new will born from the corpse of an apostle from back then, and has not retained much memory of his previous incarnation.

"Fang Xu, although the laws here are incomplete, the resources are still decent; you and your followers can temporarily reside here."

Guyuxi obviously knew Fang Xu's plans and directly spoke up. (End of chapter)