Library of Heaven’s Path - Chapter 2093

With a flick of his wrist, he took out a Godblood Rock. Comparing it to the one in his hand, it was like comparing a graphite to a diamond.

Even though they were made of the same material, the difference in appearance was simply too huge!

If one did not take a closer look, it would be impossible to tell that they were the same material.

“The Godblood Rock is formed by the blood of the gods seeping into the rock. Thus, the corpse of the gods that Palace Master Du spoke of might be possible!”

Zhang Xuan said as he stood up. With a flick of his Tongshang Sword, he cleared away the ten-meter-wide rubble, revealing the ground beneath.

In other words, the blood of the gods had been splattered all over the place.

After doing all of that, Zhang Xuan called out, “Palace Master Du!”

Du Qingyuan flew over.

She didn’t gain much in other places.

“Have you found it?”

“Not yet, but it should have something to do with these patterns.”

Zhang Xuan pointed.

Du Qingyuan turned her gaze over.

The black patterns were extremely bizarre, as if they were carved with some kind of inscription. If one were to take a closer look, they would realize that they were similar to the inscriptions on the Heaven Anchoring Boulder and the Azure Bridge.

A moment later, Du Qingyuan seemed to have noticed something, and she said, “This is … a hall used for rituals!”

“Rituals?”

“Indeed. These patterns are made of fresh blood. It’s likely that some kind of large-scale ritual was carried out, but before it could be completed, the entire city was knocked down from the Firmament!”

Du Qingyuan said grimly.

“This …”

Zhang Xuan’s heart skipped a beat.

Most rituals only required a sufficient amount of treasures, but there were also some evil rituals that required human lives or fresh blood.

Back then, in the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe, Sovereign Chen Ling had slaughtered a hundred thousand of his subordinates in an instant through the sacrificial ritual. He had sacrificed so many lives in order to summon the immortal’s envoy to the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe, thus allowing him to recover from his injuries.

Could it be that the ritual before him was a similar one as well?

This kind of method was usually extremely powerful, but even so, an entire city had been knocked down from the God World … That was a little too terrifying!

“As long as I can find the center of the altar, I should be able to find the source of the air of degeneration!”

Du Qingyuan nodded as she flung her sleeves.

A huge area of rubble was cleared away.

She infused her zhenqi into the surroundings, and in less than ten minutes, a hundred meters of rubble had been cleared away. Beneath the rubble was a pitch-black door.

“The center of the veined patterns is inside this door. Let’s go and take a look!”

Du Qingyuan walked up to the door and pushed it open.

Zhang Xuan took a deep breath and stepped forward to block Zhang Xuan’s path.

This was a half-underground building. Everything around it had collapsed, leaving only this place, buried under the ruins, forming a space of its own.

Sizzle!

As soon as Zhang Xuan entered, he immediately sensed countless rays of light shooting toward him. Brandishing the Tongshang Sword, Zhang Xuan sent a surge of Sword Intent gushing forth.

The heart is like a double net, with thousands of knots in it!

Knowing that it was dangerous, he didn’t hold back at all.

Bang! Bang!

With a muffled groan, countless black shadows dissipated.

“It’s a Degeneration Beast! However, it’s even more powerful … ”

Du Qingyuan said with a hushed voice.

Zhang Xuan replied.

The things that had attacked just now were indeed Degeneration Beasts. They seemed to have no bodies, and they were like ghosts in the night, giving off an evil feeling.

Along the way, Zhang Xuan had killed many Degeneration Beasts. Most of them were at High Immortal realm, but there were actually Semi-Divinity realm Degeneration Beasts among them.

If it had been anyone else, they would have been reduced to a pile of bones in an instant.

“Where is the aura of degeneration?”

Du Qingyuan asked.

Following the direction that she was heading in, Zhang Xuan saw black veined patterns on the ground, forming a ring that was concentrated at the center of the hall.

Zhang Xuan walked up to it.

There was a small altar embedded on the surface of the platform.

“This …”

Zhang Xuan was taken aback.

It was extremely similar to the one in the Starchaser Palace, just that it was of a higher grade.

If the altar that Wu Chen used was from the Master Teacher Continent and Du Qingyuan used was from the Azure, the one before him should be from the Firmament!

It was hard to tell what kind of material the altar was made of, but despite being buried under the ruins for several thousand years, it still emanated a faint glow.

“Could it be …”

Du Qingyuan clenched her fists tightly.

Given how similar the altar was to the Guardian Artifact of the Starchaser Palace, even a fool would be able to make sense of it.

The Otherworldly Demonic Tribe originated from the Starchaser Palace. Since they had descended to the Master Teacher Continent, there was a good chance that the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe was from the Firmament!

“It seems like what he said is true …” Zhang Xuan nodded in agreement.

Previously, after Kong Shi ‘saved’ him, he had told her about the relationship between the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe and Starchaser Palace, and he had also said that Starchaser Palace was an Abandoned God.

Seeing that Du Qingyuan was still confused, Zhang Xuan swiftly explained what Kong Shi had said to her.

Du Qingyuan sighed deeply. “It’s true that the Starchaser Palace has been spreading the rumors around, but I thought that it was just a rumor. Who could have thought that it would actually be true?”

The other five sects of the Forsaken Continent had been using the identity of the Abandoned God Tribe for a very long time, and as time went by, the lies became the truth.

It had been several thousand years since then, so no one had been able to find out why such rumors had started to appear and when they had first started spreading.

This was something that was deeply ingrained in everyone’s heart. Even if it was a lie, no one would deny it.

Even if Zhang Xuan were to explain the truth to everyone in the Azure right now, it was likely that no one would believe him.

However, whether the rumors were true or not did not make much of a difference to the people of Starchaser Palace. As long as they could not become Gods, everything else was meaningless.

After searching around the altar, Zhang Xuan was unable to find anything. With a helpless look on his face, he said, “It seems like there’s nothing else here other than this. Even though this is the core of the air of degeneration, there doesn’t seem to be any aura of degeneration at all!”

There was no typhoon in the eye of the typhoon.

This was the place where the air of degeneration originated from, but it was completely empty. If not for the fact that they were in the City of Collapsed Space, they would have thought that they had returned to the Azure.

“Since it’s an altar, it should be able to be used. Perhaps, the Aura of Divinity might be here,” Du Qingyuan said.

“Oh?”

“Since it’s identical to the altar in our Starchaser Palace, I’ll give it a try and see if I’m able to assimilate it with my bloodline!”

Du Qingyuan said as she took a deep breath. She cut her wrist open and placed it on the inscriptions on the side of the altar.

Fresh blood flowed along the inscriptions, and it did not take long for the inscriptions to be filled to the brim. It was as if a magic formation had been activated.

Hong long long!

The altar began to tremble.

With a pale face, Du Qingyuan continued infusing her blood into the altar, and the light grew brighter and brighter.

Her blood clotted three times, and she made three consecutive cuts.

It was fortunate that there was no air of degeneration in the area, or else she would have already been reduced to a pile of bones.

Boom!

Just as Du Qingyuan was about to reach her limits, and just as Zhang Xuan was about to rush over to help her, the altar suddenly glowed brightly. In an instant, the two of them seemed to have been teleported away, and they found themselves in a pitch-black space.

It was so vast that they could not see the end of it. The only thing that they could see was the dense fog that obscured their vision.

“Be careful!”

Zhang Xuan quickly fed Du Qingyuan a bottle of Little Chick’s bath water and an Origin Energy Pill to replenish his energy before making his way forward.

It was a pitch-black environment, and it felt as if they had entered a cave without any light at all. There was a scorching smell in the air.

“Is this the City of Collapsed Space as well?”

Du Qingyuan asked doubtfully.

Zhang Xuan’s face turned grim. “Perhaps … this is the true source of the air of degeneration!”

He could feel an immense power that left his heart palpitating in fear from the darkness before him.

Putting aside his current strength, even if he were to overcome his bottleneck and reach the level of the gods, he would still not be able to stand against it!

The fact that it was able to exert such pressure on him could only mean that there was a real god hidden in the depths of the darkness.

“I’m starving. I’ll head in to look for something to eat …”

A telepathic message sounded in Zhang Xuan’s ears.

It was Little Chick!

“Shut up!” Zhang Xuan’s scalp nearly exploded on the spot.

There was a good chance that there was the corpse of a god here, or perhaps even more fearsome existences. Eat, eat … All you know how to do is eat!

Even though he had never come into contact with a god before, given Vicious’ level of cultivation, even a Semi-Divinity realm cultivator like him could come back to life after death. Regardless of whether a cultivator of that level was truly dead or not, they were not existences that a mere Semi-Divinity realm cultivator like him could afford to offend.

“I’m starving!”

Little Chick said.

“Let’s eat these Origin Energy Pills first!”

With a thought, Zhang Xuan took out a bottle of Origin Energy Pills from the Myriad Anthive Nest. Little Chick walked over gracefully and began pecking at the pills one by one.

Seeing that Little Chick had stopped wreaking havoc, Zhang Xuan heaved a sigh of relief before proceeding forward with Du Qingyuan.

A massive tombstone appeared before their eyes.

Six large words were carved on the wall. They seemed to be a barrier that blocked the two of them from advancing. They gave off a heavy pressure that made it impossible for them to advance any further.

Zhang Xuan took a closer look at the tombstone.

The words inscribed on the tombstone were similar to the inscriptions on the Azure Bridge, making it difficult for him to read them.

“T-this …”

Du Qingyuan’s body trembled uncontrollably.

“You recognize these words?” Zhang Xuan asked with a frown.

With a pale face, Du Qingyuan nodded. With a quivering voice, she said, “It says … Tomb of the Deathless Monarch!”

“Deathless Monarch?” Zhang Xuan was taken aback.

“It’s said that he’s an unparalleled expert of the Firmament, one who coexists with the heavens and the earth. Could it be that … he’s dead?” Du Qingyuan asked in disbelief.

“Coexists with the heavens and the earth? Unparalleled? ”

Zhang Xuan narrowed his eyes in astonishment.

He had no idea whether Du Qingyuan was right or not, but the fact that the other party was titled ‘Deathless’ was a testament to his strength and capability.

Even an unparalleled expert known as the ‘Deathless’ had died …

Just what in the world happened in the City of Collapsed Space?

“Who dares barge in here?”

While Zhang Xuan was still in shock, a loud explosion sounded. Following which, a figure slowly walked out from the dark mist.

Gripping the Tongshang Sword tightly, Zhang Xuan and Du Qingyuan quickly turned their gazes over.

Unbeknownst to them, a pitch-black skeleton had appeared before their eyes.

This skeleton was tall, and the exposed bones were dark and sparkling, giving off an irresistible sense of oppression.

If Vicious’ skeletal frame was said to possess immense strength, it would be nothing in comparison to this.