Chapter 420: Nine Heavens Demon Language in the Darkness, Sword Opens the Heavenly Gate in the Light

Qian Chen stood on the edge of the waterfall cliff, watching the daylight of the cave heaven slowly fade away.

The huge shadow crossed the entire demon soil, permeated the land below the suspended mountain, and in an instant shrouded the demon soil. The reddish-brown vast land fell into extreme silence at this moment.

The darkness attacked the suspended mountain where Qian Chen was like a tide, and the whole world was like a huge black velvet curtain, slowly closing.

It swallowed the spreading mountains and rivers along the way, covered the winding rivers, and finally stopped in front of Qian Chen, no more than three feet from the tip of his nose.

Qian Chen stared at some existences in this gradually thick darkness, and his spiritual sense could clearly feel those gazes lingering on him. Just as the darkness gradually permeated, seemingly about to cross this three-foot distance and come to Qian Chen, the aristocratic family disciples left near the Void Stone Platform suddenly exclaimed. Only then did they see that behind the stone platform, from the flying waterfall falling from the nine heavens, bright light shone.

Hidden by the waterfall, the outline of an ancient palace suddenly appeared.

That light was emitted from a ball of fire dedicated in the palace, illuminating the entire suspended mountain.

"A waterfall, there is a palace behind the waterfall!" Fu Youzi widened his eyes.

The older generation of aristocratic family True Persons breathed a sigh of relief, True Person Zhu said: "The holy fire left by Fangshi is still guarding the suspended mountain..."

Wang Longxiang stared at this light and whispered: "Candle Dragon fire essence!"

Where the light of the Candle Dragon fire essence on the suspended mountain shone, the darkness suddenly retreated.

At this moment, the stars in the sky hid, but the suspended mountain floating islands rotating in the surroundings were constantly lit up, emitting light like sparks, breaking the darkness. Those dots of light lit up one by one, and soon, like ten thousand lights being lit one by one, they unfolded slowly on the picture scroll like countless stars!

At this time, everyone suddenly realized why predecessors would leave the name 'Star Luo Heaven'.

Where the light reached, the darkness retreated calmly.

The Candle Dragon fire essence emitted light, suppressing the darkness surging from the depths of the Nine Heavens, but only in front of Qian Chen, the darkness did not retreat under the illumination of the firelight, but boiled like boiling water.

Strange demon sounds came from the darkness, as if countless people were whispering softly... but they carried a strange demonic nature.

"We have waited for you for a long time!"

"From ancient times to now..."

"The Five Emperors Divine Court has fallen, you promised us!"

"Return! Return!"

"You belong to the Nine Heavens! You are the Nine Heavens!"

"Our master!"

"Future Demon Ancestor, return to your position... Future Demon Ancestor, return to your position..."

The darkness boiled in front of Qian Chen, emitting unintelligible murmurs. Those sounds were like echoes left in the darkness long ago, or close at hand, murmurs from countless underworlds in the darkness, and even emerged from Qian Chen's mind, as if auditory hallucinations appearing in his memory.

The essence of these sounds had already distorted and violated the foundation of living beings' existence... It was a language full of demonic nature that was completely contrary to rationality.

At this time, it was like a wriggling parasite, desperately drilling into Qian Chen's mind.

At the very beginning, Qian Chen felt even a bit suffocated, as if drowned by water, sinking into the deep sea.

But gradually this suffocation turned into ease, and the heavy darkness also became like a fish in water...

"Yan Yan Shixiong!" Ning Ning Shimei Si came behind Qian Chen and saw Qian Chen revealing a brilliant smile, staring at the darkness, as if seeing something interesting. She frowned slightly and called out softly: "Yan Yan Shixiong, this darkness comes from the Nine Heavens and is very strange. It is best not to stare at it for a long time!"

"It's okay!" Qian Chen said softly: "They are all friends!"

"Hehe..."

Si Princess Qingcheng suddenly seemed to see Qian Chen suddenly twitch the corners of his mouth, revealing a mysterious, evil smile! Strange laughter came to her ears!

"What?" She was slightly stunned and asked: "Yan Yan Shixiong, why did you make this laughter?"

Qian Chen turned his head, looking blank: "I didn't laugh!"

Si Princess Qingcheng felt slightly trance-like, feeling that the memory just now had a subtle, empty, and distorted feeling, as if that scene just now was just her hallucination! She shook her head, dispelling the dizzying, psychedelic feeling in her mind, and said: "I seem to have been infected by something in the darkness! Strange illusions appeared before my eyes."

Si Princess Qingcheng squinted her eyes and hesitated: "How come I see you have two heads, Yan Yan Shixiong..."

Qian Chen's face at this moment was very normal, calm, but when he turned his head, another head remained in place. The mouth of that head was split to the ears, and its mouth was open, revealing countless fangs and sharp teeth, occupying most of its face. At this moment, it was sticking out a long tongue, licking the darkness.

The strange demon sound in Qian Chen's ear had been silent for a long time, and only then did it speak slowly: "Master, why are you licking us?"

"Future Demon Ancestor, your eyes are not right!"

"The Nine Heavens only wants to swallow the heavens and contain all worlds, why is there only destruction in your eyes?"

"I seem to see a piece of waste soil, a world more evil than the Nine Heavens... It seems to be the corpse of the Nine Heavens!"

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Qian Chen's normal head had to turn back and say: "You might have found the wrong person!"

"So delicious! Hehe..." The demon head on his left shoulder split its mouth and revealed sharp teeth.

"You are so fragrant! Can I have a taste?"

The darkness fell into a long silence.

After a long time, the voice hesitated: "Sorry! We might have really found the wrong person!"

The darkness stirred slightly.

At this time, Qian Chen's body had split into two from the waist, one opened its arms to embrace the darkness, and the other continued to turn its head, smiling at Si Princess Qingcheng.

The demon head entered the darkness, two long, zombie-like sharp claws seemed to be holding something, its split blood basin mouth, the neck stretched long, like a Candle Dragon coiling over the darkness, greedily looking at the thing in its hands, the blood light in its eyes broke the darkness, revealing a round shadow outline in its embrace.

The voice in the darkness said: "You calm down, let go of this head of mine first..."

"We are friends? Aren't we? Between friends, treat each other, shouldn't you treat me to a head?" The demon body said reasonably.

The voice in the darkness hesitated: "I don't know you, can you let go of me?"

"Gulp... Gulp..."

The demon sound suddenly asked in a pale, stiff voice: "What are you eating?"

"Nothing..." Qian Chen's demon head said vaguely: "I am, I am chewing fingernails!"

The darkness continued to emit the sound of crunching, as if chewing on crisp bones...

"You still don't stop it!" The voice in the darkness suddenly said to Qian Chen's normal head: "It has already eaten one of my ears! And it wants to eat the other one, can you manage it!"

Qian Chen sighed: "You beat it back, I will continue to suppress it."

The darkness suddenly surged, and the endless darkness outside the suspended mountain turned into a huge handprint, suddenly beating the demonic nature revealed by Qian Chen back into his body.

Qian Chen took the opportunity to activate the Dao Dust Bead, suppressing that trace of deep demonic nature to the deepest part of the Dao Dust Bead.

"I won't give up, Future Demon Ancestor!" The voice in the darkness left a harsh word at the end: "The things you promised us, you must do!"

The darkness retreated from Qian Chen's front and returned to calm.

Only then did Si Princess Qingcheng break free from that strange aura, looked up and saw Qian Chen looking over with concern. The demonic nature on Qian Chen just now... that terrible shadow, demon head, and darkness, all disappeared without a trace. She looked carefully for a long time, but Qian Chen's eyes only had concern, and no other mixed emotions.

Si Princess Qingcheng held her forehead and said: "I just stared at the darkness for too long and had hallucinations, actually seeing you... This darkness is too terrible!"

Si Princess Qingcheng hugged herself in fear and said: "There is a deep demonic nature. Even if you just take a look, you will be affected. If you look for a long time, you might walk into the darkness involuntarily. Yan Yan Shixiong, you'd better go in quickly, don't get too close to it!"

Qian Chen nodded seriously: "This place might be the closest place to the Nine Heavens. No wonder Fangshi could only raise suspended mountain floating islands and use Candle Dragon fire essence to guard this place."

Si Princess Qingcheng had some lingering fears, patted her chest and said: "Someone found a magnificent palace left by Fangshi behind the waterfall. The Candle Dragon fire essence is inside, and there might be some things left by Fangshi. Now several True Persons of the aristocratic families and Immortal Sects are preparing to join forces to break into the palace... Let's go join the fun too!"

After saying that, without waiting for Qian Chen to reply, she pulled him toward the Void Stone Platform.

The two moved extremely fast, just swaying between them, crossing twenty li, and returned to the river bank where the Void Stone Platform was located.

Qian Chen greeted Wang Longxiang and looked at the waterfall. Only then did he see the bright light of fire burning behind the hundred-zhang torrent. The entire waterfall seemed to be glowing, which was extremely beautiful and shocking in the night.

A group of aristocratic family True Persons were attacking the forbidden laws behind the waterfall

Sima Yue sacrificed the Eastern Palace Forbidden Hall, the divine light in front of the hall transforming into a divine bridge, wanting to cross the waterfall and enter the palace behind it.

The divine bridge broke through the water flow. Although the impact force of the waterfall was great, for the Eastern Palace Forbidden Hall, it should have been like floating clouds, but the divine bridge was shaking, as if every drop of water crashing down from the waterfall was as heavy as a mountain.

Those countless water flows crashed down, almost like a heavenly gate falling, causing the divine bridge to tremble continuously. In less than two breaths, the divine light shattered, and the divine bridge broke.

True Person Zhu, bearing the Mountain-River Cauldron, struggled out from under the waterfall with difficulty and shouted: "The seal left by the Fangshi is powerful! Most of the water flow in this waterfall is normal, but occasionally it is mixed with a few drops of true water as heavy as a mountain, which almost smashed my Mountain-River Cauldron down."

Zhou Yin said solemnly: "About how much of that strange true water is there?"

"About one drop mixed in every thousand drops of river water!" True Person Zhu supported the golden cauldron, his arms still trembling.

Ning Ning Shimei Si quietly covered her mouth and secretly transmitted her voice: "Yan Yan Shixiong, you knew this long ago, didn't you!"

Qian Chen nodded slightly and said: "The waterfall is mixed with meta-magnetic true water, which should be used by the Fangshi's water-refining method. If the rivers above the suspended islands all have meta-magnetic true water mixed in, these water flows, when falling into the demon soil, will pass through several mining areas, and the mineral powder will be polished by the meta-magnetic true water... Perhaps the darkness of the demon soil is too terrifying, so even puppets cannot pass through, and the Fangshi can only adopt this method to collect the mineral sand of the demon soil. Then, from the downstream where hundreds of rivers converge, they use a suspended continent with extremely strong magnetism to suck these meta-magnetic true waters back up, and then let them flow through the suspended islands where workshops are set up everywhere, to refine them into various puppets and magic treasures..."

"When I split the waterfall with a sword, I discovered that the sword momentum was flowing against the current, and there was a strong resistance, so I realized it. Later, I discovered that there was an extremely trace amount of mineral sand mixed in the meta-magnetic true water, and I understood everything."

"This is a true assembly line!" Qian Chen exclaimed: "The Fangshi truly have extraordinary methods!"

"No wonder Yan Yan Shixiong never mentioned going upstream along the waterfall to climb to the higher suspended mountain... So there is such an arrangement in the Tianhe! Going upstream means having to endure the endless impact of meta-magnetic true water. If there are still seals activated, even a Primordial Spirit True Immortal couldn't go up!"

Si Princess Qingcheng realized: "Meta-magnetic true water can only be followed downstream, not upstream. If it flows downstream, it is no different from ordinary river water, but if you go upstream, every drop weighs a million jun!"

"Going upstream requires enduring the impact of countless meta-magnetic true waters, which is certainly very difficult. But wanting to support it for a moment to pass through the waterfall is not impossible!" Qian Chen laughed.

Si Princess Qingcheng's eyes lit up, and she was just about to say something.

At this moment, Sima Yue was already furious. He ordered the several clan disciples who entered with him to add their magic power to the Eastern Palace Forbidden Hall, sacrificed the imposing and majestic bronze hall, and smashed it toward the waterfall.

The bronze hall smashed onto the hundreds-of-zhang-wide silk-like waterfall. The meta-magnetic true water impacted the bronze hall's seal, setting off a huge repulsive force that made the bronze hall buzz.

This huge repulsive force also triggered the bronze hall's seal to counterattack.

The bronze hall emitted a terrifying aura. This aura was extremely domineering, full of a majestic power that suppressed everything, and even caused the magic power and primordial spirits of the noble family disciples who were closer to be stagnant, making it difficult for them to take a step, and even breathing was very difficult.

The spiritual light of the bronze hall condensed as if it were substantial.

At this moment, the green bamboo leaf that Qian Chen left in front of the bronze hall's door finally shattered in the instinctive counter-shock of the magic treasure's seal...

Sima Yue, taking advantage of the waterfall's pressure, was just about to trigger the magic treasure's own counterattack power to strike a powerful blow and smash through the waterfall, but he saw the hundred-zhang-wide torrent suddenly split from the center line, revealing a gap that could only allow one person to pass.

"Did the Eastern Palace break through the seal left by the Fangshi?"

Sima Yue felt a joy in his heart, standing in the forbidden hall, emitting a domineering aura.

But at this time, Xie Lingyun sighed: "It's a sword mark! The sword mark of Fellow Daoist Taibai from the daytime that split the waterfall has appeared again!"

Sima Yue raised his head in anger, only to see that the crack indeed penetrated a thousand zhang, splitting the waterfall; it was exactly the position of that sword from the daytime. It seemed that when the bamboo leaf shattered just now, the sword qi leaked out, once again triggering the sword intent left by the daytime sword mark.

The sword mark split the sky into a line, and the magnificent palace behind it emitted the light of fire essence, a brilliant hall, like a heavenly palace.

Sima Yue wanted to smash out the Eastern Palace in shame and anger to destroy the sword mark, but the shadow Qian Chen left him earlier was truly too deep. He was only afraid that after smashing out the bronze hall, it would trigger the sword intent remaining in the sword mark, gather the power of this Tianhe waterfall, and cause some other trouble.

Thus, he could only grit his teeth and endure it!

Looking at the sword mark that split the waterfall, like a sword opening the heavenly gate, everyone had a strange emotion in their hearts that they couldn't describe or explain.

Following Xie An, who took the lead, they stepped into the crack and walked into the waterfall.

The rest of the crowd then followed one after another, walking toward the palace behind the waterfall...