Chapter 480

Qian Chen stood before the Altar of God-Summoning, directly beneath the abyss where the five-colored mound had been breached.

He raised his head slightly, staring straight into the unfathomable darkness above.

Countless demonic sounds echoed through the stone walls, converging in the abyss overhead and transforming into the demonic sound of Great Extinction; fierce winds and malevolent qi blew out from the dense, honeycomb-like holes, creating a region above that spiritual sense could not penetrate.

Yet, Qian Chen's gaze seemed to pierce through this abyss, focusing on the sky above the five-colored mound at this very moment.

There, hundreds of hanging mountains and floating islands drifted high in the air, burning with the radiance of candle-light, moving according to the trajectories of the stars in the outside world.

"Calculating the time, the hanging mountains of the Star-Luo Heaven should have arrived by now!"

Qian Chen sensed the aura of the hanging mountains above through his Luo Heaven magic treasure, while his right hand nimbly performed calculations.

At this moment, a hanging mountain that resembled a volcanic crater, burning with raging subterranean poisonous fire, had moved directly above the abyss of the five-colored mound.

"You have prepared for hundreds of years, capable of deploying all sorts of great mountain-suppressing arrays; unfortunately, I have also prepared a great array for you all—a furnace! To refine you all together..."

In the days when both the righteous and demonic sides had descended into the abyss, no one had been able to discover that the hanging mountains and floating islands of the Jin Ling Cave Heaven were slowly moving.

Hanging high above the Star-Luo Heaven, moving according to the laws from time immemorial and the mysterious, unfathomable remnant array of the Zhou Tian Star Constellations, a portion of the hanging mountains had separated and slowly drifted toward this place ever since Qian Chen entered the five-colored mound.

After more than ten days of movement, the cluster of hanging mountains and floating islands had arrived in the sky above this location.

Furthermore, they vaguely used the floating islands left behind by the Square Immortal Dao—those used for alchemy and weapon refining—as the array eyes, deploying an array map Qian Chen had obtained years ago from the Yin Demon Bai Li Xi, who had been refined by Master Miaokong—the Heaven and Earth Furnace Great Array!

Those hanging mountains and floating islands used by the Square Immortal Dao to refine magic treasures, elixirs, divine weapons, and puppets were part of the Cave Heaven's massive manufacturing system, containing millions of fire seeds such as Master Chunyang Taiyin Zhenhuo, Heavenly Thunder Taiyin Zhenhuo, Earth Lung Poisonous Fire, and Solar Divine Fire.

At this moment, they were scattered across the sky, arranged into a mysterious formation resembling a dharma altar, a throne, and a city.

Qian Chen waved his hand, and thunder-light and electric locks transformed into a long whip wreathed in electric light, lashing out to clear and level the surrounding boulders and shattered rocks. Five-colored divine light erupted from the top of his head, merging with the Luo Heaven Umbrella to form a five-colored canopy, which shed five-colored brilliance to protect Qian Chen's location.

The Gold and Silver Boys, holding a red-skinned gourd and a banana-leaf fan, stood behind Qian Chen...

A mass of azure clouds, transformed from the Flying Cloud Pouch, supported Qian Chen's feet.

Tightening the Daoist robe transformed from his Flowing Cloud Flying Sleeves, Qian Chen pushed up the dharma crown on his head. With the Affectionate Sword unsheathed and pointed, he gave a clear shout: "Dharma altar... rise!"

Following this clear shout, the hanging mountain above, burning with raging true fire and resembling a volcano, suddenly separated a smaller floating island, which plummeted toward the five-colored mound below.

In the center of the Heaven and Earth Furnace Great Array, a Daoist Venerable riding a Jin Wu vaguely manifested. The Jin Wu let out a long cry, transforming into a fiery red rainbow light that wrapped around that floating island and plunged headlong into the abyss.

Following a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar.

The massive floating island, burning entirely with Master Chunyang Taiyin Zhenhuo, pierced through the abyss, broke through the demonic sound of extinction, shattered countless malevolent qi and sinister winds, and with peerless momentum, smashed through layer upon layer of obstacles. Only when it arrived above Qian Chen's head did it reverse its crashing momentum.

The massive crashing momentum instantly turned into a static hover, slowly landing in front of Qian Chen.

Qian Chen stepped onto the scorching red stone platform. Behind him, the Gold and Silver Boys first threw up the gourd and fan they had been holding, then climbed onto the stone platform somewhat clumsily.

Qian Chen waved his sleeve again, and the Xuan Huang Ruyi, Long Quehuan, and Magnetic Light Bottle lined up before him. With a point of his finger, several masses of spiritual light erupted from the red-skinned gourd—all precious primordial spirit elixirs—which simultaneously shattered under Qian Chen's finger.

Rolling spiritual energy swept around his body, diluting the surrounding sinister and turbid qi.

Raising the Affectionate Sword again, the seven stars on the hilt twinkled. A ray of spiritual light shot into the sky, accompanied by the descending spiritual light of the Heaven and Earth Furnace Great Array, suddenly tearing apart the darkness that had shrouded the abyss overhead for countless ages.

A single ray of heavenly light descended!

At this moment, the stars were arrayed, and the starlight introduced into the Cave Heaven by the hanging mountains and floating islands fell, shining upon the top of Qian Chen's head.

"Junior Sister! Talismans!"

Qian Chen pointed the Affectionate Sword to the side, and Si Princess Qingcheng understood immediately. She scattered countless yellow talismans from her sleeves. Produced by the Daoist Academy, various Three Mountains talismans flew out, each one neatly pasted onto that floating island dharma altar. Tens of thousands of talismans surrounded the dharma altar in a solid circle.

Qian Chen crushed a Master Chunyang Cinnabar Pill, and the crimson cinnabar powder exploded into a cloud of red mist. Qian Chen's right hand flipped the Affectionate Sword, dipping it into the red mist to outline a strange talisman flowing with silver light in the air.

"Kunlun Mirror!"

The ancient bronze mirror flew into Qian Chen's hand. The mirror reflected the true appearance of that talisman, which was the likeness of a Luo Heaven Immortal Talisman.

"Go!" The mirror light wrapped around the talisman and shot toward the due east direction...

A moment later, Qian Chen was heard shouting: "My youth was pure and clean, my body clothed in righteousness, never tarnished. I held this great virtue, yet was entangled by the vulgar and defiled. Above, there is no one to examine this great virtue; I suffer long-lasting disaster and sorrow! Soul, return!... The East cannot be entrusted!"

"Altar of God-Summoning, come forth!"

In the due east direction of the dharma altar, a ray of divine light crossed the darkness and rushed toward Qian Chen.

An ancient stone platform appeared in the darkness, upon which a human skin of a Ghost-Crying Sect disciple draped in a black robe lay scattered, along with some old spiderwebs.

The Spider God Luo Shi, surrounding the dharma altar in the darkness, gave a light laugh and crawled onto the stone platform.

Si Princess Qingcheng gave a cry of surprise: "This is the previous Altar of God-Summoning... Is Yan Yan Shixiong planning to summon the other eight Altars of God-Summoning as well?"

"Altars of God-Summoning, there are eight more?"

Xie Anshi was solemn for a moment. The aristocratic families had originally thought their trip to the Jin Ling Cave Heaven was well-prepared, but now it seemed they knew nothing of the true secrets of the Jin Ling Cave Heaven. Had Master Tao not made arrangements early on, they would certainly have been taken advantage of by the demonic path.

"As I decree!"

"Your curses and your grievances, I have fully understood! Nine Heavens descend, all gods suffer tribulation. Sinking into the gloom, blood stains the heaven and earth. A clan of insignificance, driving spiders and weaving maidens, piling corpses like mountains..."

Around the Altar of God-Summoning, that scene from the past appeared once more: the little weaving maiden struggling to climb out of the mountain of corpses piled up by her companions, sewing her own lower body to the jade spider.

It pulled out the countless threads dyed blood-red by the weaving jade spiders, slowly spinning webs and weaving...

A spiderweb woven from blood-stained silk, which was also an altar that sacrificed the surrounding darkness, resentment, fear, and the corpses of countless fallen gods and fierce spirits—an altar identical to that dilapidated stone platform—suddenly took shape!

Sewing herself to the jade spider, the little spider-maiden burrowed into the altar formed by the spiderweb, transforming and struggling in the nest. One day, countless demonic qi ran wild, eight spider legs stretched out, and a hundred-foot demonic body unfolded.

A tyrannical Demon God was born in the web!

"Originally an ant of the mortal world, born of great fear and despair! Upholding the Alliance Might of the Orthodox One, accepting the decree of the Supreme, I pardon and seal you as—Goddess of Fear!"

Qian Chen guided with the Affectionate Sword, and a trace of the Dao Dust Bead's aura attached to the tip of the sword, which he waved to write a divine talisman in the void.

Immediately, the long sword pulled, and the divine talisman flew toward Luo Shi. The heavy, overlapping, invisible blood-colored spider silk suddenly manifested, and the extremely dilapidated stone platform was wrapped by countless spider threads, forming a complete sacrificial altar.

The altar connected with the aura of the Luo Heaven, and countless residual wish-powers, countless despairs and fears from the Nine Heavens gathered, bit by bit filling in that illusory divine talisman.

Luo Shi bowed gracefully on the altar, watching as this divine talisman landed between her brows.

Instantly, her essence merged with the divine talisman, and countless divine lights surged. The divine talisman turned completely black, and the talisman script upon it twisted, seemingly written in blood as two demonic characters—Fear!

As the divine talisman stabilized, countless dense spiders crawled out from beneath her body, and the spiderweb altar also began to transform into a divine kingdom.

The heaven-defying momentum triggered by the dharma altar had already alarmed the Altar of God-Summoning not far away, and the four demonic arrays above changed instantly.

The Blood River raised boundless waves of blood, countless blood shadows merged into one to become a Blood God, who pointed a finger, shooting a blood arrow from the sea of blood; the angry face of the Buddha among the Four-Faced Buddhas opened its eyes, emitting a divine light with the momentum to destroy everything; the black Sun Jin Wu stamped its hooves; the Cold Ice Spirit Coffin opened a crack, and endless dead, silent cold air fell toward Qian Chen...

Qian Chen remained completely unmoved, not even turning his head.

Luo Shi smiled slightly, and countless spiders surged toward Qian Chen, weaving a spiderweb around him that shrouded one side.

As the spiderweb took shape, the Goddess of Fear Luo Shi suddenly appeared within the web, transforming it into her own divine kingdom. The blood arrows, divine light, hoof calls, and cold air all fell upon the web, damaging it slightly, but as countless spiders surged to the breach, this bit of damage was quickly repaired.

"Soul, return!... The South cannot be stopped!" Qian Chen pointed his sword to the south, and the Kunlun Mirror shone toward the south. Another stone platform also broke through the void and descended on the south side of the central stone platform.

"As I decree!"

"Majestic Immortal Qin, restore my Nine Provinces. Blood not run dry, death not cease fighting! In the West there is Great Qin, like the rising sun, ten thousand years of national hatred, the vicissitudes are hard to calm! The world is in turmoil, how can there be peace..."

The headless black-armored knights, surrounding the Qin battle flag, stepped onto the stone platform.

As those dilapidated stone figurines surged under the flag, and following Qian Chen's decree, the aura of the Luo Heaven swept through. Scenes of the once-glorious Immortal Qin Empire manifested one by one on the stone platform. Countless Qin figurines, remnant souls, warriors, and skeletons in the darkness surged toward that stone platform.

In the scene imprinted by the Luo Heaven world, the boundless Immortal Qin army's military aura gathered, manifesting a Black Bird flying above the battlefield!

The Black Bird flew out of the illusion and appeared on the stone platform!

"The remnant aura of Immortal Qin can serve as a god!"

Qian Chen pointed his long sword, not pardoning a divine title, because after the fall of Immortal Qin, the residual remnant aura and military soul did not need pardoning.

Before Immortal Qin was destroyed, its will had already surpassed that of the Divine Dao Emperors. Even after the fall of Immortal Qin, as long as the name 'Qin' remained, it would be immortal and indestructible! This was military aura, this was national aura, this was the heart-aura of the ten thousand people, this was the national destiny of Immortal Qin...

Surpassing the Southern Jin by who knows how much, an Immortal Qin will that even the Heavenly Court could not erase!

"The Black Bird cries, stopping at the thorns. Who follows the First Emperor? I have already faded. The generals are dead, the soldiers have no life. Oh, blue heaven, destroy my good people! If I could redeem them, a hundred of my bodies for one!"

The Black Bird landed on the dilapidated battle flag, and the desolate war song spread through the abyss. Countless awakened remnant souls surrounded the battle flag, and the residual Immortal Qin wish-power in the Luo Heaven gathered on the flag. The immortal Black Bird became increasingly lifelike...

Qian Chen summoned the stone platform again: "Soul, return! The harm of the West, drifting sands for a thousand miles!"

Another Altar of God-Summoning manifested, and the feathered celestial being fell onto the stone platform. Following the chanting of the Kunlun divine language from Qian Chen's mouth, the celestial being was reborn from the stone platform with wings shining with divine light.

Her wings unfolded, and the phantoms of countless feathered warriors of the Kunlun Great World and the Western Queen Mother's Kingdom manifested behind her. Melodious sacred songs were sung, ancient divinity revived, and the feathered celestial being stood on the stone platform, exuding a tyrannical aura.

This time, it was the revival of ancient divinity, so there was no need for Qian Chen to pardon.

"Soul, return! The North cannot be stopped."

As the fourth Altar of God-Summoning appeared, the four demonic arrays could no longer sit by and watch Qian Chen continue. A thousand-foot corpse dragon body coiled on the stone platform.

A golden bead appeared in Qian Chen's hand. He glanced at it and smiled slightly: "Lucky for you!"

Back when he killed the Dragon God with his sword, because he feared the Dragon God's backer, the Heavenly Court, Qian Chen had openly destroyed the True Dragon body, causing who knows how many watching cultivators to wring their hands in regret. But no one knew that Qian Chen had secretly taken away the most valuable trophy—the Dragon Pearl.

Destroying the dragon body was more to destroy the evidence!

Casually casting down the River God's Dragon Pearl, there was no need for Qian Chen to borrow the Altar of God-Summoning to melt wish-power. After the massive corpse dragon swallowed the Dragon Pearl, it had already begun to revive.

Goddess of Fear, Immortal Qin Black Bird, Feathered Celestial Being, Thousand-foot True Dragon!

The four drove the Altars of God-Summoning, suddenly crashing toward the four major demonic arrays, blocking the demonic arrays that wanted to join forces to suppress Qian Chen. Qian Chen held the Affectionate Sword vertically between his brows. Finally, the four most dilapidated Altars of God-Summoning, which could no longer even perform the God-Sealing sacrifice, crashed toward Qian Chen's dharma altar one by one, pacing around the central stone platform.

Qian Chen looked back at Xie An and said: "Master Xie, why not step onto the platform?"

Xie An laughed aloud, holding his sword, and stepped onto the stone platform in the southeast. Qian Chen raised the Kunlun Mirror, shining the mirror light toward a mysterious place in the darkness, and shouted: "Wang Longxiang!"

A ray of sword-escape light was extremely swift, piercing out from the darkness and landing on a stone platform in the northwest.

Wang Longxiang nodded slightly toward Qian Chen, with no surprise in his eyes. Instead, another person who turned with the Kunlun mirror light was shocked. Xie Lingyun, holding the Keting Flute, stepped on escape light and arrived. Seeing Qian Chen, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Li Er!"

"Step onto the platform!" Qian Chen pointed casually at the southwest stone platform, not bothering with him anymore, and prepared to arrange for the remaining fierce spirits to step onto the last stone platform.

At this time, Si Princess Qingcheng couldn't help but shout: "Yan Yan Shixiong!"

Her gaze was burning, with a trace of unexpected firmness.

Qian Chen pondered for a moment, then threw the Kunlun Mirror in his arms to her, saying: "The mirror must not leave your body, step onto the platform!"

Si Princess Qingcheng's face revealed an excited expression, and she followed the fierce spirits onto the eighth stone platform. The Kunlun Mirror illuminated the path, and a group of aristocratic True Persons also arrived driving magic treasures.

Xie An laughed heartily, driving the stone platform to go first, Wang Longxiang followed closely behind, and Si Princess Qingcheng's platform had too many terrifying fierce spirits, so the group of aristocratic True Persons had no choice but to step onto Xie Lingyun's stone platform.

Qian Chen pointed the Affectionate Sword at the Altar of God-Summoning that was surrounded in the center and guarded by the four demonic arrays.

A cold smile curled on the corner of his mouth, and he ordered: "Luo Heaven Decree, Nine Palaces return to one!"

The eight dilapidated stone platforms suddenly crashed toward the central stone platform. Between the stone platforms, there seemed to be a mysterious attraction, crossing the void, merging together with unstoppable momentum.

"Kill!"

The many gods, true dragons, celestial beings, black birds, and cultivators on the eight-directional stone platforms all killed toward the central stone platform. The merged nine great Altars of God-Summoning broke the blockade of the four demonic arrays, completely severing the four demonic arrays!