Chapter 573

Looks like the Underworld God Emperor and that one have already left. Chang Wu let out a laugh and entered the Samsara Tree Sea.

The surrounding Youming beasts sensed Chang Wu's powerful aura and retreated automatically.

Soon, Chang Wu came before a huge ancient tree, saw a group of people standing ahead, and couldn't help but be stunned.

"Who!!"

The group turned their heads and saw Chang Wu slowly walking over.

Chang Wu smiled: "Human race, how did you end up here?"

"Asura?!"

"No, this person is!"

"Run!"

Chang Wu smiled, raised his hand to control the few people in midair, felt their strength, and couldn't help but exclaim:

"Martial Dao cultivators? You're all?"

Chang Wu's face full of surprise, he discovered that this group had actually crossed the sages' seal and reached the Martial Dao Nascent Soul level.

That Martial Dao Dao Mark on them is genuine, it's just a pity they met me, and one of them has even reached the Martial Dao Void Refinement stage.

However, this person is somewhat special.

"Let me go! Who exactly are you?"

"I am the priest of the Southern Asura Clan, who are you?"

"We...."

Those few human martial cultivators hesitated, then the Void Refinement cultivator with a calm expression said: "Are you Senior Chang Wu?"

"Who are you?"

"I am Hong Chengtao of Fu Hai Gate."

"Oh, you are a descendant of Hong Yuan?"

"Senior, since you are acquainted with my ancestor, why resort to force?"

Chang Wu shook his head: "I don't know how you managed to survive to this era; looking at it, those people aren't dead either, Hong Yuan didn't come, and the Martial Konghou didn't act—why didn't they come themselves?"

Hong Chengtao's expression changed; judging by his birth year, he is indeed not someone born only in the past thousand years—he comes from ten thousand years ago, when martial cultivation had not yet completely declined.

It's just that he received his ancestor's intent, actively sealed his flesh and hid his soul, thereby avoiding the heavenly mechanism's lifespan, arriving in the era ten thousand years later.

Of course, Chang Wu knows such secret arts exist, but the cost is great, not inferior to the difficulty of refining a nine-turn immortal accumulation today.

Hong Chengtao took a deep breath: "Senior Chang Wu, we only want to take the Huang Tian Soul."

Chang Wu smiled: "You say this in front of me, a native Asura of the Youming Realm—do you really think your ancestor's face is that big?"

Hong Chengtao sensed the killing intent hidden beneath Chang Wu's smile, and then said: "I think there may be another way to resolve this matter."

Chang Wu said lightly: "What do you want to do?"

"Since senior didn't directly strike to kill us, it shows the Huang Tian Soul isn't very important to you either."

Chang Wu smiled: "So?"

Hong Chengtao looked at Chang Wu and said directly: "Senior, if you are willing to let us take the Huang Tian Soul, we will tell you the location of a place."

Chang Wu frowned: "What place?"

"Mengjing."

Chang Wu's pupils contracted: "Mengjing? You know where this place is located?"

"Before coming, my ancestor told me that if I met you and things went wrong, I could speak up to let you let us go." Hong Chengtao laughed.

Chang Wu let out a cold snort, then immediately set these people down.

After the few martial cultivators came down, they respectfully bowed to Chang Wu and said: "Thank you, senior."

Chang Wu waved his hand: "Although I let you down, I have never seen you people before."

Hong Chengtao was delighted and quickly said: "Yes, yes, yes, we hadn't seen anyone before coming here!"

Immediately, Hong Chengtao took out an ancient animal skin scroll from his bosom and placed it on the ground.

Then Hong Chengtao turned his head, looking at everyone: "Alright everyone, we've already come here, let's hurry in and talk later."

"Good!"

Seeing those few people enter the ancient tree, Chang Wu waved his hand to pull the animal skin scroll on the ground toward him.

"Indeed, it's Mengjing?"

Chang Wu fell silent, then put away the animal skin map.

"One shichen, if they don't obtain the Huang Tian Soul within one shichen, then I'll have to go in and take it myself."

Meanwhile, the few martial cultivators who had entered the ancient tree let out a sigh of relief and looked toward Hong Chengtao.

"Senior Hong, who is that senior?"

"A Great Vehicle Stage Asura cultivator, Chang Wu. He's an old monster who has lived for several hundred thousand years." Hong Chengtao looked around, his expression also not looking good.

"Senior Hong, since Senior Chang Wu let us in, let's hurry to find the Huang Tian Soul!"

"Yeah, who knows if that senior has other ideas."

Hong Chengtao naturally knows this, but at the moment he looked toward the person beside him.

"Young friend Ye, what do you think?"

This person is none other than Ye Zhilong, the somewhat renowned martial Dao cultivator of the Nan Ting Mountain Region nowadays!

Ye Zhilong looked around; the interior of the ancient tree seemed like a world of its own. He is not a successor of those ancient martial Dao sects, so naturally he couldn't see anything.

However, Ye Zhilong has cultivated for a long time, and he has also joined the Xuan Gate of the Nan Ting Mountain Region, relying on the Xuan Gate's influence to be invited, thus entering the Youming Realm together to seek the Huang Tian Soul.

"Not far ahead, there seems to be a powerful Youming beast; please be careful, everyone." Ye Zhilong's face was solemn; after reaching Nascent Soul stage, he automatically comprehended a martial Dao divine ability, Inspecting Fate, which is not a secret in the Nan Ting Mountain Region, but rather widely spread by the Xuan Gate.

Although this Inspecting Fate divine ability is a martial Dao divine ability, it possesses the strong capability to foresee danger in advance; other martial cultivators lack such talent, so they still greatly trust Ye Zhilong's words.

Hong Chengtao nodded: "If that's the case, then everyone should proceed carefully; we must find the Huang Tian Soul as quickly as possible and take it away!"

Good!

After the group entered, Ye Zhilong also began to consider what to do next.

For him, having risen from a general of a dynasty to today, although he has some fame in the Nan Ting Mountain Region, facing these several people who are equally outstanding in Martial Dao talent, he naturally also has a competitive spirit.

However, upon learning that there is an even stronger Hong Chengtao ahead, Ye Zhilong realized that the so-called Martial Dao cutoff is certainly not as simple as he thought.

Moreover, this time they even went into the Youming Jie to search for some Huang Tian Soul; he doesn't even know what this thing is used for, and it even involves a Great Vehicle Stage Shura clan expert—anyone can see that this is probably not something they should be controlling.

"I don't even know whether coming to the Youming Jie this time is good or bad; moreover, seeing that those few Martial Cultivators seem to come from other great regions shows that among the Five Regions there are no shortage of Martial Cultivators who can break through the Golden Core stage. And now we have also seen a Martial Cultivator expert from ancient times at the Void Refinement stage—what exactly are they all plotting?"

Ye Zhilong finds it hard to understand, because his background is not deep; even the Profound Gate side didn't explain it clearly to him, they just asked him to come along and help out.

The problem is, since there is already a Void Refinement stage Martial Cultivator, why do they still need me to come help?

This is also Ye Zhilong's most troubling problem.