Chapter 476: The Great War Begins (Two-in-One)

"Let's go down first. This matter should be done sooner rather than later."

As Zhu Jiuge said this, she jumped directly into the bottomless black hole. Long Xuan raised his eyebrows—was the method to enter the sealed land so simple? He suppressed his fear of the unknown abyss and followed her down.

The other four clones followed closely behind, while another clone pushed the door open and walked out of the room, following Long Xuan's instructions to go refine the Chess Gu.

Repairing the seal required drawing massive amounts of array patterns and couldn't be finished in a short time. He hoped that the day he finished repairing the seal would be the day the Chess Gu was completed.

At this time, inside the Demon-Suppressing Tower, the number of people was sparse, far fewer than two years ago. The top few floors didn't even have their rooms filled.

Because of someone, the spirit energy in the Demon-Suppressing Tower had greatly decreased. Although some people still went in to cultivate, most people didn't intend to waste their opportunities to enter the Demon-Suppressing Tower to absorb thin spirit energy.

Therefore, very few people came to the Demon-Suppressing Tower to cultivate every day. Most people were standing by and waiting. However, what they didn't expect was that this wait lasted for two years.

Everyone was about to go crazy. That monster could actually cultivate in the Demon-Suppressing Tower for two years. Such a long time exceeded everyone's expectations.

However, today, that person finally walked out of the Demon-Suppressing Tower. Seeing the figure who had finally come out, everyone was about to cry with joy.

"He's out! He's out! He's finally out!"

"The spirit energy in the Demon-Suppressing Tower has recovered. Haha, charge!"

"My god, he finally came out. Do you know how I've spent these two years!"

The crowd was completely crazy, scrambling to charge toward the Demon-Suppressing Tower.

At this time, under the Demon-Suppressing Tower, in the endless abyss, there was not a trace of light. Long Xuan groped around in this pitch-black darkness where one couldn't see one's own fingers.

It was simply too dark under the Demon-Suppressing Tower. Anyone who entered here would see nothing.

Long Xuan tried to illuminate with light, with Heavenly Fire, but what was mind-boggling was that any light would mysteriously disappear here. Heavenly Fire could appear here and release temperature, but it simply wouldn't emit light.

Even the light of Heavenly Fire would disappear here, so other lighting methods went without saying.

In this world, anyone would become a blind person. Darkness would produce fear. This really wasn't a place where a normal human could stay.

Especially since the violent spirit energy here was far superior to that in Room Number One on the ninth floor of the Demon-Suppressing Tower, and it was extremely erosive. If an ordinary person entered here, they would be killed by the spirit energy here before long.

Too much is as bad as too little. Although the spirit energy here was a great tonic for humans, once the quantity was too large, it would become a deadly poison.

Long Xuan took a deep breath and said gravely: "This world can actually absorb light. Even soul perception is greatly suppressed here."

"Anyone who enters here will completely become a blind person. Once they encounter danger, it is truly a fatal thing."

At this moment, Zhu Jiuge's voice came from beside him: "That's why the name of this monster is Yuan."

"Yuan's ability is to create an endless abyss. The terrifying abyss has no end. Any living creature swallowed into the abyss has no possibility of going out again, because the abyss is so large that it has no boundaries, and no one knows how massive an amount of spirit energy is stored in the endless world."

Hearing this, Long Xuan revealed a shocked expression. He reached out and grabbed toward the position where the voice came from, grabbing a soft little hand. The body of the little hand trembled significantly at this moment.

It was simply too dark here. Anyone who entered here would become a blind person. He was afraid of getting separated from Zhu Jiuge and never being able to contact her again, so he decisively grabbed her hand.

Otherwise, once lost in this world, Zhu Jiuge could rely on her astonishing luck to walk out of here, but he might not.

"What on earth is this monster? Do you know its origin?" Long Xuan took a deep breath and asked curiously.

Zhu Jiuge glared at him, but still explained patiently: "Yuan's origin is simply too ancient. It can be traced back to when this world was just born."

"That was the most ancient era. Humans hadn't been born in this world yet. Heaven and Earth gave birth to the first batch of living creatures. This batch of living creatures was also called True Spirits by ancient humans."

"True Spirits had strange appearances, each with an astonishing volume, and all possessed endless lifespans."

"These True Spirits could be a sea, a giant mountain, a cloud; they could be any shape you couldn't imagine."

"But their commonality was that their volume was large, large enough to make you see no end."

"A large volume is bound to store more spirit energy. Their volume was countless times larger than humans, so their spirit energy storage was naturally countless times more than humans."

"Especially since the spirit energy of Heaven and Earth in that era was so thick it was about to drip water. That batch of True Spirits all possessed endless lifespans. After they absorbed spirit energy for countless years, god knows to what extent the spirit energy in their bodies reached."

"The Yuan under our feet is one of the powerful True Spirits among them. Its form is an abyss, and it masters the rules of the abyss, making it extremely difficult to kill."

"It is said that after Yuan was heavily injured by a human powerhouse, its strength was not even one percent of its peak. Under the suppression of the array formation, its injuries have been unable to recover to this day. Otherwise, in its peak state, Yuan might not necessarily be something that this Locking Yuan Great Array could trap."

Hearing this, Long Xuan was shocked to the extreme in his heart. Was such a terrifying existence truly something that his future self could defeat? Even if this existence's current power was not even one percent of its peak, he felt a bit of trepidation in his heart.

At this time, in the Dean's office of the Saint Gu Academy.

"Dean, the call for help has been sent out. Now, the old students who have graduated from the Saint Gu Academy are rushing to the Saint Gu Academy from all over the world."

"Students who are close have already arrived at Saint Gu City."

The Dean nodded and sighed: "Although the Saint Gu Academy has cultivated countless Gu Kings for the Gu World, not all Gu Kings cherish old feelings, and not all Gu Kings have spare time."

"According to your estimation, how many old students will return to help in this calamity of the Saint Gu Academy?"

The old woman who had just spoken was silent for a moment, hesitated, and then said: "There should be eight hundred if not a thousand?"

"With so many Gu Kings, we can already contend with Lingtian Ancestor and the forces behind him."

The Dean shook his head, stood up, walked to the window with his hands behind his back, looked at the students walking back and forth in the academy, and said melancholically: "Lingtian Ancestor has already discovered the secret of the Saint Gu Academy. This battle is unavoidable, and I don't know how many innocent students will lose their lives in this battle."

"Even if the Saint Gu Academy can luckily kill Lingtian Ancestor, we will inevitably be heavily injured. By then, the number of people who die will definitely not be small."

The old woman frowned, walked over, and said: "Is this Lingtian Ancestor truly so terrifying? Our Saint Gu Academy can recall so many Gu King students to defend, and we can only win by luck?" The Dean shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The Central Region is the very center of this world and the place with the most powerhouses in this world. Is the number of Gu Kings of the Hun Clan, one of the ten great powerful clans of the Central Region, small? Weren't they still exterminated by this Feng Wuhen with his own strength?"

"This Feng Wuhen is a prodigy rarely seen in the Hun Clan in a million years. The geniuses of the same clan can only see the sixth layer of virtual insects in space at the highest, but he can directly see the ninth layer of virtual insects hidden the deepest."

"Directly dropping three layers from the second genius in the clan—it is truly terrifying."

"That is to say, he can see all the virtual Gu in the hands of his clansmen, while all his clansmen cannot see his virtual Gu. He can slaughter his clansmen like slaughtering dogs."

"Slaughtering Gu cultivators of other clans who don't understand virtual Gu is even more like cutting vegetables."

"No matter how many Gu King students we recall, as long as no one can see the virtual Gu he releases, then we can only be beaten, and the chances of winning will be extremely slim."

Hearing this, the old woman had a relaxed expression and said dismissively: "No matter how strong the ninth-layer virtual Gu he refines is, the quantity is ultimately limited. We have many people, so what if we let him kill?"

"As long as we have enough Gu Kings, we can capture the thief by capturing the king first. Feng Wuhen absolutely cannot be our opponent."

The Dean shook his head, sighed, and said in a deep voice: "It's not that simple."

"Ancient books record that in a very distant period, virtual insects flooded Heaven and Earth, killing the human race until it was almost extinct."

"Finally, a heaven-defying prodigy named Feng Jie created a Gu worm with over ten million units of materials: the Eye of Apocalypse."

"The Eye of Apocalypse is the natural nemesis of virtual insects. All virtual insects seen by the Eye of Apocalypse can be unconditionally controlled."

"Feng Jie relied precisely on the Eye of Apocalypse to seal all the virtual insects in the world into the Demon-Sealing Tower, pacifying the chaotic world."

"The Hun Clan thus became the guardians who watch over virtual insects, guarding beside the Demon-Sealing Tower for generations, and even constantly sacrificing the lives of clansmen to reinforce the seal inside the Demon-Sealing Tower."

"In the era of thin spirit energy, the Hun Clan never gave up on making the Eye of Apocalypse reappear in the Gu World."

"But the material quantity of the Eye of Apocalypse was simply too massive, the success rate was simply too low, and the materials were simply too expensive. The Hun Clan exhausted resources for generations but failed to refine the Eye of Apocalypse."

"Finally, in this generation, after tens of thousands of years, this Eye of Apocalypse was finally successfully refined. The entire Hun Clan rejoiced."

"But I don't know why, after consultation, the upper management of the clan unanimously decided to reward the Eye of Apocalypse to the second genius of the clan, Feng Wu Lei, instead of rewarding it to Feng Wuhen, whose talent far exceeded Feng Wu Lei's."

"In the end, Feng Wuhen slaughtered the whole clan in a fit of anger, snatched the Eye of Apocalypse, and brought the Demon-Sealing Tower along with it."

"Since the Eye of Apocalypse can pacify the chaotic world, it can also bring about a chaotic world. The person who possesses the Eye of Apocalypse can control the massive amount of virtual insects in the Demon-Sealing Tower, which is equivalent to possessing the power to destroy the world."

"Once Feng Wuhen opens the Demon-Sealing Tower regardless of the consequences and releases all the virtual insects suppressed in the tower, the world will welcome the end."

"This is precisely what I am worried about. We must defeat him, but we cannot force him into a corner. A fight where one is afraid of breaking the vase will inevitably lead to greater casualties. How difficult it is to handle."

Hearing this, the old woman furrowed her brows deeply, and her expression finally became grave. After a long silence, she finally said: "He won't easily open the Demon-Sealing Tower."

"Although his Eye of Apocalypse can control all virtual insects in the world, there are limitations. Feng Jie died precisely because he controlled too many virtual insects, which led to the exhaustion of his pupil power."

"Feng Wuhen's current realm is too low. For the most terrifying virtual insects in the Demon-Sealing Tower, he should only be able to release them but find it difficult to take them back."

"These virtual insects that have been suppressed for a long time will definitely break free. In the situation where they cannot be controlled by the Eye of Apocalypse, they might kill him first."

"Once he overuses the power in the Demon-Sealing Tower, he will definitely play with fire and burn himself."

The Dean nodded and said: "You are right. He has concerns. As long as he is not forced into a corner, he will not easily release the most dangerous virtual insects in the Demon-Sealing Tower."

The Dean narrowed his eyes and added: "The key to defeating Feng Wuhen probably still lies with Zhu Jiuge."

"Anyone who dares to make a move against Zhu Jiuge will have bad luck. As long as Zhu Jiuge is still in the Saint Gu Academy when Feng Wuhen leads his crowd to attack, then this calamity can be resolved."

At the same time, in the Central Region, Lingtian Sect.

Feng Wuhen threw an ancient jade slip on the table and curled his mouth: "It should be this thing."

"I really didn't expect that the powerhouse who established the Saint Gu Academy actually sealed a True Spirit and used the absorption of the True Spirit's spirit energy to mass-produce powerhouses. It's truly a genius idea, and they truly dared to think it."

"This True Spirit named Yuan possesses universal spirit energy. Not only is the quality extremely high, but it can also be absorbed by anyone. It's simply a priceless treasure." A look of extreme greed appeared in Feng Wuhen's eyes.

"Is the Ancestor planning to snatch this True Spirit?" An old man beside him asked.

Feng Wuhen looked at him and sneered: "Snatch? Is that thing something you can snatch just because you say so?"

"I mistakenly entered that place this time and was lost for two full years, almost not coming out. That kind of terrifying existence, even in a heavily injured state, is absolutely not something we can contend with."

Feng Wuhen withdrew his gaze and said with an extremely grave expression: "That place must absolutely not be acted upon rashly. Once that thing is accidentally released, all of us will die."

"For the current plan, we can only slaughter all the people in the Saint Gu Academy and completely occupy that place. I want to make that tower a cradle for cultivating powerhouses for my Lingtian Sect."

Feng Wuhen slammed the table heavily, his gaze sharp and his voice fierce.

Hearing this, the old man was startled and hurriedly said: "Ancestor, think twice. That place is the Saint Gu Academy. I don't know how many Gu Kings it has cultivated for the Gu World over countless years."

"Many well-known powerhouses in the Gu World come from the Saint Gu Academy, and many major forces in the Gu World also have ties to the Saint Gu Academy."

"The Saint Gu Academy's connections are extremely extensive. Once they encounter a critical moment, they can let graduates from all over the world return to help. By then, we will have poked a hornet's nest," the old man said in alarm.

"Hmph! Do you really think I'm a fool? Destroying the Saint Gu Academy is easy; what's difficult is how to completely occupy that place."

"We must have enough deterrent power to make a large number of graduated students not dare to have thoughts of revenge."

Feng Wuhen stood up, walked to the window, looked into the distance, and said with deep eyes: "It looks like with the strength of my Lingtian Sect, it's difficult to swallow that place. This matter can only be done by joining forces with many Demon Path forces."

"Pass my order. Send letters to the leaders of the Blood God Sect, Demon God Sect, Bone God Sect... etc. immediately. I want to invite the helmsmen of all nearby Demon Path forces to have a meal." (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 477 =====