Chapter 614: Prison-Dragon King

"Ah!"

Yu Yue Zhongtian suddenly opened his eyes; unconsciously, his strength leaked outward. The small courtyard nestled in the quiet bamboo grove trembled violently, and dust rose within the yard.

"Eighty thousand li!"

After panting heavily for a moment, Yu Yue Zhongtian's face looked extremely grim.

The Profound Heaven Divine Realm covers all realms, resembling a third world beyond the Present World and You Jing; everything within it is lifelike, and many sensations feel as real as truth.

Just like now, that extremely violent hammer remained imprinted in Yu Yue Zhongtian's eyes, as if he had truly been smashed into minced meat by a single blow.

"How is this a newcomer?"

Yu Yue Zhongtian was still somewhat dazed.

That strike was swift as lightning and violent as thunder; it gave him no chance whatsoever to dodge or shift, destroying his true qi, scales, and tempered physical body as if sweeping away withered wood.

Its speed, the ferocity of its force, and the violence of its divine intent all far exceeded any opponent he had previously encountered randomly on the Battle Platform.

"Quasi-Sixth Tier..."

After a long while, Yu Yue Zhongtian finally calmed the throbbing in his heart, rubbed his face, and reopened the Universal Knowledge Orb; he did not go to the Battle Platform again, but instead prepared to thoroughly investigate the origins of this 'Eighty Thousand Li'.

Buzz~

At this moment, a bell sound suddenly rang out.

This bell sound was deep and grand, as if it had exploded directly in Yu Yue Zhongtian's heart, instantly waking him from the Universal Knowledge Orb.

"This is... the Great Prison Divine Bell?!"

Yu Yue Zhongtian's heart shook; he hurriedly closed the Universal Knowledge Orb and pushed the door open to step out.

The Great Prison Divine Bell is a supreme treasure of the Prison Dragon Clan; once it rings, a major event must be occurring.

Whoosh~

Outside the room lay a bamboo grove.

Yu Yue Zhongtian leaped into the air; beyond the bamboo grove, clouds and mist swirled like a sea, and peaks rose sharply from the ground, piercing the clouds like a series of isolated islands.

And in the very center of these ten thousand isolated islands stood a towering bell tower, rising from the earth to the sky, as if it were about to sever the clouds and heavens.

Boom!

The heavy and magnificent humming sound shook the sea of clouds, startling the ten thousand isolated islands.

Yu Yue Zhongtian looked around; thousands upon thousands of figures rose from the isolated island where he stood, and the same was true for the isolated peaks in the distance.

Dang~

The bell rang again.

"Three rings of the Divine Bell? Is this a welcome bell?"

Hearing that the bell sound would not ring again, Yu Yue Zhongtian finally breathed a sigh of relief, gathered with several acquaintances, and flew together toward that magnificent bell tower.

That bell tower is named 'Prison-Dragon Tower'; it is the ancestral land of the Prison Dragon Clan and also a supreme treasure of the clan. The Great Prison Divine Bell, which is being struck now, hangs high above the Dragon Tower.

"Three rings of the Divine Bell? I wonder which great figure has descended."

As the crowd gathered, Yu Yue Zhongtian secretly felt shocked upon seeing many clan elders who had been in seclusion for many years emerging one after another.

Even though the Prison Dragon Clan has been in decline for a long time, and its ranking on the Three Tian Shi Yuan Ten Thousand Races List is no longer what it once was among the Prison Clan's affiliated tribes, it is still a great clan ranked within the top two hundred.

Only a great figure from Tian Shi Yuan could warrant the clan leader ringing the Divine Bell to welcome them; at least, when the Poison Dragon Divine Son visited in years past, the Divine Bell had never been heard to ring.

"A distinguished guest has descended; we failed to welcome you from afar. We hope the noble one will forgive our transgression..."

Shortly after the bell sound ceased, an old voice came from the Dragon Tower; almost simultaneously, the crowd in the sea of clouds seemed to sense something and turned their heads one after another, looking up toward the sea of clouds, beyond the dome of the sky.

Dong!

Dong!

Dong!

It seemed as if meteors were falling to earth, or as if an ancient god was wielding a hammer to beat a drum.

"This is..."

Yu Yue Zhongtian's pupils contracted.

The massive drum sound echoed; the sea of clouds spanning hundreds of millions of li churned and shook. Beyond the dome of the sky, eight burly giants strode forward.

Those eight men were as tall and burly as mountains cast in bronze; separated by an unknown distance of tens of thousands of li, the people of the Prison Dragon Clan could not help but change color at the sight.

"Prison Clan!" someone exclaimed, recognizing the origin of those eight burly giants.

Some exclaimed, but more people looked solemnly toward the eight men's rear, where a dark purple carriage slowly materialized, as if driving out from the void.

As an invisible aura spread, the entire Prison Dragon Star trembled slightly, as if it were about to be pushed out of its original orbit.

"Where is Yu Cang?"

The carriage slowly stopped, and a youth dressed in black robes stepped out. He was entirely shrouded in the black robe; he spoke softly, yet his voice resonated no less than the sound of the Great Prison Divine Bell.

Everyone in the sea of clouds was horrified.

"This old man is Yu Cang. I do not know from where the noble one hails."

The sea of clouds churned; a vigorous white-haired elder carrying a bronze bell approached. When he looked at the eight men outside the carriage, his eyes flickered slightly:

"What is your business?"

"It is said that before the Origin Divine Dynasty collapsed, there was once a Great Prison that suppressed countless alien races, alien beasts, and deities; there are even legends that a Divine King was imprisoned within it..."

The youth in black robes walked slowly, looking down upon the crowd in the sea of clouds, looking down upon this massive Prison Dragon Star.

!

He paid no attention to Yu Cang's drastically changed expression, nor to the sharp killing intent rising from the sea of clouds; he simply looked around once,

and finally, his gaze fell upon the bell tower that rose from the ground, almost as high as the starry sky:

"I never thought that the lineage of the Prison-Dragon King, which once suppressed the 'Divine Prison' for the Origin Divine Dynasty, would have declined to this extent... pitiful, sighing."

……

His spirit was so full he did not feel like sleeping.

Li Yuan's spiritual will was indeed full, but he had not yet reached the point where sleep was unnecessary; after such a long stretch without rest, his mind was somewhat weary all the same.

Still, after only two shichen, he woke naturally on his own.

Then he plunged back into the Common Lore Orb once more, absorbing every kind of intelligence with a hunger-like thirst, and his understanding of Tian Shi Yuan deepened little by little.

"The Common Lore Orb covers many realms, but between each realm there is a 'barrier.' For now, the orb I hold can only reach the Grand Void Phantom Realm within Tian Shi Yuan; it cannot even touch the other two great realms of the San Yuan Fa Jie…"

"To break through this barrier, one needs Origin Coins…"

"There are quite a few fine things in the Grand Void Market—treasures, spirit-treasures, even divine treasures for sale—but the price…"

"Intelligence concerning the deities is restricted within the Grand Void Myriad Manifestations…"

……

Three days, front to back, Li Yuan did not step outside his door, did not sleep, did not rest. Ten thousand Origin Coins spent, he still felt some lingering unwillingness to stop, but he forced himself to halt all the same.

No matter how much incense-coin he had, he could not spend it like this—let alone that his incense-coin was not much to begin with.

"Tian Shi Yuan is dominated by the Five Great Grotto-Heavens; next come the other sects, and the great clans…"

"The San Yuan Ten Thousand Clans Ranking only lists ten thousand clans, and among the many races of Tian Shi Yuan, not many make it onto the Ten Thousand Clans Ranking… tsk, every one of them has quite the background!"

"The Prison Dragon clan's ranking isn't even as high as its former vassal clan, the Prison Clan? Oh, with no deity in the clan to worship, no wonder…"

Li Yuan was sorting through the various pieces of intelligence he had gathered.

In three days he had spent ten thousand Origin Coins, and what Li Yuan gained was naturally no small amount. The intelligence concerning Tian Shi Yuan was only incidental; most of it had been spent on information about the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.

He had tried to exhaustively search for 'Eight Directions Temple,' but what he obtained was very little. Having no other choice, he could only start from within the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.

"This Grand Void Pavilion really does know how to treat people—small sects and minor houses get squeezed bone-dry, but the great sects get kept under wraps…"

After a few silent grumbles in his heart, Li Yuan extracted the intelligence concerning the Five Great Grotto-Heavens and Eight Directions Temple, preparing to compare notes with Chi He Lian later.

After that, he opened the 'Wan Yu Shan Xuan Zong.'

(End of this chapter)