Chapter 393: Yin-Yang Killing Formation

"Found it!"

After a long while, Yin Qi's eyes lit up suddenly, and he turned his head to look at the mountain ridge in the due east direction.

Of course, "life" is also relative.

For those with weak cultivation, this "path of life" is still perilous; even Jiang Taixu was trapped deep within it for four thousand years, and Ye Fan being able to enter and exit it was entirely due to his protagonist halo.

Although Yin Qi does not have a protagonist halo, his cultivation is not weak, and he is proficient in Feng Shui array formations, so there should be no problem with safety.

……

The due east mountain ridge.

The mountain ridge is towering, its momentum majestic, like a coiled Azure Dragon, stretching across the front.

The tall stone ridge is bare, presenting a reddish-brown color, without grass or trees, and carries faint traces of purple, similar to that large purple mountain.

Yin Qi searched patiently and soon discovered an ancient mine.

Yin Qi continued to advance, going deep for more than ten miles, and encountered hundreds of Magic Bat, all of which were slaughtered by the deity within his acupoint.

Squeak! Squeak!

A very simple pattern, recording various scenes of mining for source back then.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The Magic Bat let out a shrill scream, its body split into two, spilling large amounts of blood.

Subsequently, this Taigu race knelt before a piece of Divine Source, and the corpses around grew more and more numerous, until one day a Human Race powerhouse shrouded in a halo descended from the sky, which changed all of this.

There was no need for Yin Qi to act; the deity within the acupoint swung its arm and slashed.

Arriving here, one could see many stone carvings on the cave walls, all left by the knives and axes of the ancients.

Continuing to walk forward, the stone carvings finally presented a complete storyline, telling of a person with a single horn on their forehead and wings on their back being dug out from the Divine Source.

This person's features could not be seen clearly, with only the character "Emperor" carved above their head.

As he looked up and roared, the mine shaft collapsed, underground magma churned, and countless people died an unnatural death.

The pitch-black mine tunnel could not block Yin Qi's vision.

Suddenly, the sound of flapping wings came from ahead, and vaguely, a humanoid creature was seen flapping its wings and rushing over.

This ancient mine went straight down, like an old well; after he entered the ancient mine, he fell for more than three thousand meters before landing at the bottom of the ancient mine, which was pitch-black, extremely quiet, and filled with the aura of the passage of time.

Yin Qi's eyes were like lightning, and he soon saw the other party's appearance clearly.

His heart stirred, an acupoint opened wide, and the deity within that acupoint broke out of his body to rush to the front and scout the path, while Yin Qi walked behind, his speed not fast, carefully sensing and observing the surroundings.

Only after the Magic Bat King was also slaughtered did the mine tunnel become quiet, with no more Magic Bat appearing.

Advancing another thirty-plus miles, the journey was silent; not only could he hear his own breathing, but even his heartbeat could be heard—if it were an ordinary person, they would likely have felt their scalp go numb long ago.

In the end, there even appeared a Magic Bat King, standing over five meters tall.

This was a Magic Bat, looking just like a giant humanoid bat, two meters tall, covered in gray beast fur, with a pair of fleshy wings, often appearing in places of great danger.

However, this situation was a mere trifle in Yin Qi's eyes; he only felt it was somewhat tedious.

This Great Emperor killed the Taigu race creature with a single strike, and then attacked the Divine Source, but the ancient mine walls were broken here, so one could only watch in fragments.

The subsequent stone carvings were intermittent, roughly depicting the Great Emperor fighting with the person who came out of the Divine Source, who appeared to be a woman.

The final result, of course, was the ancient creature being suppressed by the Great Emperor.

Yin Qi watched these murals quietly, guessing if this was the scene of Wu Shi Dadi taking action against the Heavenly Empress, because this Purple Mountain was previously called Ancient Emperor Mountain, the place where the Heavenly Sovereign slept, and the Heavenly Empress had been suppressed by Wu Shi Dadi.

The ancient mine tunnel was dark and silent, and Yin Qi continued to move forward.

After walking another thirty-plus miles, the soil on the ground suddenly became soft; when stepping on it, the soles of his feet could sink in completely, appearing grayish-white.

This was not grayish-white soil, but decomposed ashes, still emitting waves of yin energy.

Continuing forward, the ashes disappeared, replaced by dry bones, dense and covering the ground.

It was unknown just how many people had died here originally; the endless yin energy accumulated, making this place like an ice cellar, the cold air piercing to the bone—no wonder it attracted Magic Bat to dwell here.

Yin Qi continued to move forward, walking for forty to fifty miles.

Along this way, he could occasionally hear various mysterious roars, indicating that other creatures still lived within this ancient mine tunnel.

Finally, he arrived before two bottomless pits.

One of them had Spirit Qi soaring to the heavens, with Source Qi constantly rolling upward; the other had baleful energy soaring to the heavens, even more terrifying than the sharpest Sword light, making one's heart and soul tremble, forming a Yin-Yang eye, a natural Taiji Diagram.

Bearing yin and holding yang, bearing yang and holding yin.

This was entirely a natural Taiji Diagram, not carved by human hands; this was the great power of nature.

Around the pit hole spewing Source Qi, there were nothing but skeletal fossils, the baleful energy grim; while around the pit hole shooting out baleful energy, it was shining brightly, with Source Stone everywhere.

The two types of energy intertwined, actually deriving the Divine Power of the Great Dao.

This is the Yin-Yang Killing Formation!

Below the Immortal Terrace Realm, to touch it is to die.

Yin Qi seized the moment; the instant the solitary yang rose, he transformed into a streak of lightning and rushed forward, peerless Sword Qi brilliant, shooting from the yang pole toward the yin pole, shrouding the entire divine diagram, with thousands upon thousands of Sword rays.

Clang! Clang!

Thousands upon thousands of Sword rays shot onto Yin Qi's body surface, all blocked by a purple-gold divine radiance, emitting a rapid sound like a downpour hitting roof tiles, continuous and unending.

A moment later, Yin Qi passed through the divine soil and arrived at the other end, nearly crashing into the stone wall.

There was actually no road left here.

The ancient mine had reached its end, with a purple stone wall blocking the path ahead.

This was already Purple Mountain.

Yin Qi knew this was because Purple Mountain had spirituality and could automatically repair its wounds, so the tunnel entrance excavated by predecessors had long since recovered at some unknown time.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Yin Qi took out a Sacred Weapon and, as if digging into mud, began to excavate the solid stone wall of Purple Mountain.

Very quickly, he dug through a passageway.

Ahead, with green jade for stairs and white jade for portals, a magnificent complex of buildings appeared.

Yin Qi knew he had arrived inside Purple Mountain.

Stepping onto the green jade stairs and entering the white jade moon gate, it was extremely quiet, as cold and desolate as Guanghan Palace.

Passing through the moon gate was another Dongfu, and Yin Qi saw a line of text carved into the purple stone wall: God King Jiang Taixu mistakenly entered the Demon Mountain, decided to take a look!

These dozen or so characters were written with vigorous force, containing a kind of Dao realm that made one feel as if the aura of a deity was flowing, as if a God King stood right before one's eyes.

Everyone continued forward, and soon they encountered several more lines of handwriting:

"Loose cultivator Li Mu explored the Demon Mountain and left this!"

"Yaochi Saintess Yang Yi seeks Zhang Lin, left before entering the Demon Mountain."

Zhang Lin was the previous generation's Source Heaven Master and was a pair of lovers with the Yaochi Saintess, but it was a pity that Zhang Lin met an ominous fate in his later years and vanished overnight; Yang Yi went deep into Purple Mountain to search for Zhang Lin and ultimately remained here.

Continuing forward, there were over thirty lines of carvings along the way, all left by predecessors who had explored Purple Mountain.

Some of the names were extremely ancient, having already vanished from the Eastern Wasteland for tens of thousands of years.

The most ancient line of carving among them even included a date; calculating carefully, it had been over seventy thousand years since then.

This person was named Gu Tianshu, and the handwriting still had Dao rhyme lingering even now.

In reality, Gu Tianshu did not pass away; he willingly entered Purple Mountain to guard the tomb of Wu Shi Dadi, and was then sealed into Divine Source by Wu Shi Dadi, occasionally leaving the Divine Source to move about.

The final line of handwriting was not carved deeply, clearly showing insufficient cultivation power that could not compare to the others, but the characters were still very clear: Zhang Jiye, successor of Source Heaven Master Zhang Lin, left this before entering the Emperor Mountain.