Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

Jun Wuxie saw Master Fu Sheng playing chess with Senior Shen Lian on the eighth floor. His Shiniang was sitting beside Master Fu Sheng, watching them make their moves with a smile.

“You came here with a purpose, it seems you have encountered some trouble.”

Fu Sheng didn't turn his head, his gaze still fixed on the chessboard, but he already knew Jun Wuxie had arrived.

At this moment, Shiniang turned her head and said with a smile, “Your Shizun mentions your name no less than ten times a day, now that you're here, he's putting on airs instead.”

“Hua Yi……”

Fu Sheng glanced at his wife helplessly, a hint of embarrassment on his face.

“Stop pretending, even my sister can't stand it anymore!”

Shen Lian glanced at Fu Sheng askance. When Fu Sheng turned to look at Jun Wuxie, Shen Lian swiftly changed a chess piece on the board with lightning speed.

Then, with an expression as if nothing had happened, he looked at Jun Wuxie, who had come closer, and said, “Not bad, not bad. It hasn't been long since you left last time, and you have already cultivated to the middle stage of the Saint King Realm. However, your alchemy skills don't seem to have improved much.”

“Senior Shen Lian, are you serious?”

Jun Wuxie was speechless, “I am now a Third Realm peak Saint Artifact Refiner. If I improve further, I would have to step into the Fourth Realm. It's only been a few months since last time, isn't Senior's request a bit too high?”

“High?” Shen Lian stroked his beard and said knowingly, “Do you know what realm my alchemy skills had reached when I was your age? Fourth Realm peak! So, you still need to work hard. Don't think that just because you have super talent, you can slack off. A person's achievement requires not only talent but also diligence and hard work!”

“Really?” Jun Wuxie was shocked. Senior Shen Lian had actually cultivated to the Fourth Realm peak of Saint Artifact Refiner when he was his age, wouldn't that be equivalent to the Overlord Saint Realm in martial arts?

He felt this was incredible. Even with his abnormal growth experience, he couldn't understand it, and he felt it was particularly exaggerated. He couldn't help but look at Fu Sheng and said, “Shizun, is what Senior Shen Lian said true? Back then, at this age, Senior was a Fourth Realm peak Saint Artifact Refiner?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Lian, who was opposite Fu Sheng, kept winking at Fu Sheng.

Fu Sheng looked at Shen Lian's facial expressions and couldn't help but reveal a playful look.

Jun Wuxie was deeply surprised, and noticing his Shizun's strange gaze, he turned his head and looked in the direction of his gaze, and immediately saw Senior Shen Lian's winking facial expressions.

He was stunned.

The expression on Shen Lian's face froze, and the muscles on his face twitched a few times in embarrassment.

“If he could have cultivated to the Fourth Realm peak at your age and had such heaven-defying talent, he would have cultivated to the peak of the Tenth Realm long ago, not just the early stage of the Tenth Realm. Don't listen to him bragging. When he was as old as you, he was only a Second Realm Saint Artifact Refiner, which is far worse than you are now.”

Exposed for bragging, Shen Lian was extremely embarrassed. Seeing Jun Wuxie's shocked gaze, he only felt a burning sensation on his old face.

“Don't believe your Shizun, kid. When we were that age, your Shizun and I didn't even know each other, he doesn't know the situation at all…”

Shen Lian argued seriously.

“Some people want to forcibly quibble after being exposed for bragging. Their skin is really thick.”

Fu Sheng mocked, lowered his head, and was about to make a move, but the chess piece did not fall for a long time.

He looked at the chessboard in astonishment. How did this game seem different from before?

He was clearly in the upper hand, but now his chess pieces were forced into a dead end.

“Brother-in-law, you have no bottom line, right?” Fu Sheng immediately knew that Shen Lian had cheated and secretly changed his chess pieces, “You are also a Tenth Realm Artifact Refiner, how can you be so unprincipled? Can't you afford to lose?”

“Hmph, you are the one who can't afford to lose! You have been winning all your life, what, you can't stand losing once? It seems your cultivation is not enough. Look at you, you are not young anymore, why are you still so impatient and so angry.”

Shen Lian looked at Fu Sheng with a smile on his face, his eyes full of pride.

Hua Yi just smiled as she watched the two of them, not participating.

Jun Wuxie watched them arguing here speechlessly.

The two great Eternal Saint Realm powerhouses were actually like two children, which was really something.

Senior Shen Lian actually took advantage of his arrival to attract Shizun's attention and secretly changed the chess pieces on the chessboard.

“Who can't afford to lose? Are you calling a thief to catch a thief?”

Fu Sheng refused to give in, and the two argued more and more fiercely.

“Ahem, can you two, Master Fu Sheng and Senior Shen Lian, wait a moment to argue and help me solve the matter first?”

“No!”

The two said in unison, and then started arguing again.

“What are you arguing about? It's just a game of chess. If there is any objection, why not just overturn the table?”

As Jun Wuxie spoke, he directly overturned the table, scattering black and white chess pieces all over the ground.

Fu Sheng and Shen Lian were both stunned, and Hua Yi was also stunned. The three of them looked at him in unison.

“Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something wrong? Look, Shizun and Senior Shen Lian, you are both dissatisfied with each other. Arguing back and forth won't solve any problems. In the end, you still have to get entangled in this game of chess. Why not just overturn the table? Everyone stop playing, wouldn't that solve it?”

“I told you to overturn the table!”

Fu Sheng muttered, reached out, and flicked Jun Wuxie's head. He reacted quickly and dodged in time.

Almost at the same time, Senior Shen Lian's flick also came, and he was almost hit.

The muscles on both of their faces were twitching. They were really angry.

Playing chess and arguing has been their pastime for so many years.

As a result, this guy was good, he directly overturned their table, really had no sense of propriety at all.

“You are trying to anger your Shizun to death!”

Fu Sheng looked at the scattered chess pieces all over the ground, rubbed his forehead, and said, “Speak, what's the matter?”

“There is a Bagua stone plate that needs Shizun to decipher…”

Jun Wuxie reached out and swiped in the void, and the scene in the corridor outside appeared.

He explained all the circumstances in detail.

“This is the Dark Corpse Refining Technique, said to be a Dark Dao technique passed down from an era that cannot be traced. Since ancient times, few people have cultivated this Dao technique, because anyone who cultivates this Dao technique will have their mind affected by the Dao technique until they become demonized!”

After listening to what Jun Wuxie said, Fu Sheng remembered some things, “It is said that Dark Dao techniques belong to extremely ancient and strange Dao techniques. In addition to Dark Dao techniques, there are also Necromantic Dao techniques. Since you have encountered these things in the ancient tomb you are in, it means that there may be someone who practiced Dark Dao techniques buried near you…”

“It's a pity, Dark Dao techniques are similar to evil techniques and are not suitable for cultivation. However, there are rumors that Dark Dao techniques do not exist alone but are recorded in Strange Dao techniques, which also include Necromantic Dao techniques. It's just that the two Dao techniques in Strange Dao techniques belong to different directions and cannot be cultivated simultaneously, only one can be chosen.”

Dark Dao techniques are relatively easy to master, so basically everyone chooses Dark Dao techniques to refine corpses.

A very small number of people choose Necromantic Dao techniques, but the progress is very slow, far inferior to Dark Dao techniques. As a result, Necromantic Dao techniques were sealed, leaving only the inheritance of Dark Dao techniques.

“You are lucky. The ancient tomb has existed for too long, and the Dao technique runes in the Dark Demon Corpse have been worn away beyond recognition, otherwise its power would be many times stronger…”

As Fu Sheng spoke, he looked at the Bagua stone plate evolved by Jun Wuxie.

Endless rune diagrams flashed in his eyes, which were quietly deducing the diagrams on the Bagua stone plate.

“This is a dead end…”

After a while, Fu Sheng said the result, “No matter how you solve it, there is no way out. All the changes caused by changing the Bagua diagram are full of danger. From this, Shizun has deduced the location of the burial chamber. And it is the only way to leave that corridor.”

“To leave the corridor, we can only go to the burial chamber. We have no choice…”

Hearing this, Jun Wuxie was not surprised. When he saw through that the Bagua stone plate had not left a way out, he had already thought of this.

“That's right, you have no other way to go, unless you stay in that corridor forever!”

“Master Fu Sheng, please teach me how to open the way to the burial chamber!”

Jun Wuxie did not hesitate or struggle at all. Since the place where he was staying now only had this choice, then he could only find a way to leave here and then look at the reality to see what to do.

“You must be very cautious. When you encounter people who practice Dark Dao techniques, even if they are buried corpses, you must not be careless. If you arrive in the burial chamber, try not to touch anything casually, especially do not easily touch the coffin, so as not to cause accidents!”

After Fu Sheng finished speaking, he pointed at Jun Wuxie's brow.

He transmitted the method of breaking the Bagua stone plate diagram array deduced in his mind into Jun Wuxie's sea of consciousness.

“I know, I will be careful.”

After receiving the guidance, Jun Wuxie immediately withdrew from the Trial Tower.

He was worried that something might happen outside if the time was too long.

Those Dark Demon Corpses, Xu Yan'ning and An Ning, could not cope with it. Even with Lan Lan, they could only hide in the corner and passively defend with the Dragon Scale Shield.

Returning to reality, fortunately nothing had happened.

It was very quiet here, with bones all over the ground, and the light was dim and gloomy.

Jun Wuxie looked at the Bagua stone plate in front of him, and according to the information in his mind, he quickly changed the Bagua arrangement on it, so that the Bagua diagram on the stone plate changed rapidly in an instant.

Gradually, an ancient aura permeated, coming from behind them, at the end of one side of the corridor.

There was originally a smooth stone wall, but at this time, strange runes lit up, and a space vortex gradually appeared.

Strands of terrifying aura permeated from the spatial vortex, making people feel frightened and uneasy, their hearts filled with oppression.

At the same time, within that spatial vortex, there seemed to be pure energy overflowing, but the nature of that energy was unsettling, carrying an unspeakable aura of decay.

"We're going in!"

Jun Wuxie erected a golden blood energy shield, enveloping Xu Yan'ning, Anning, and Lanlan within it.

Arriving before the spatial vortex, Jun Wuxie directly activated his World Domain. The instant he entered the vortex, the terrifying force of spatial obliteration caused the World Domain's barrier to tremble slightly.

No wonder it's a dead end. Without the World Domain, this spatial obliteration alone would be enough to turn them into a bloody pulp.

The next moment, they arrived in a gloomy, dim space.

This place resembled a huge cave, surrounded by steep, jagged rock walls, with a bottomless abyss in the center.

No immediate danger!

Jun Wuxie immediately withdrew the World Domain to conserve his mental energy.

He used the golden blood energy shield to carry Xu Yan'ning, Anning, and Lanlan forward.

As they approached the abyss, flames suddenly seemed to ignite within it, casting a bright light that illuminated the entire cave.

Everything here was clearly visible.

The first thing they saw was a stone platform located in the center of the abyss, resembling a steep mountain rising from the abyss floor, standing there alone.

The stone platform was approximately tens of meters in circumference, with a rectangular high platform in the center, surrounded by stone steps on all sides.

On the rectangular high platform, a coffin was quietly placed.

The coffin was engraved with mysterious symbols, covering the entire coffin body.

The coffin was cast from metal, with a slight bronze-green hue.

Looking upwards, above the coffin, there was another coffin suspended.

That coffin was wrapped in iron chains, one end of the chains hanging from the cave's ceiling.

This scene was very strange!

One coffin on the stone platform, and one coffin suspended in the air, but that coffin was facing downwards, bottom up.

The two coffins were made of the same material. Apart from the height difference, even their vertical positions were the same.

Besides the two coffins, around the stone platform, there were also clusters of dark red flowers. The petals of the flowers were very thick, somewhat resembling fungal caps, but not quite.

Those strange flowers emitted pure energy, carrying a strong aura of decay, causing the air within the cave to be filled with a putrid smell. Taking a few deep breaths, one felt that their body was tainted with the aura of decay.

"Corpse Bloom Flowers, special Saint-grade rare treasures!"

Jun Wuxie's pupils constricted slightly. His attention had been on the coffins earlier, but now, upon closer inspection of those flowers, he couldn't help but feel shocked.

"Those are Corpse Bloom Flowers?"

Xu Yan'ning and Anning had apparently heard of Corpse Bloom Flowers before, but had never seen them.

"That's right, those are Corpse Bloom Flowers. Judging by their grade, they should only have evolved to the third grade, but that doesn't affect their value as rare treasures…"

Jun Wuxie didn't expect to encounter Corpse Bloom Flowers here, and in such large quantities.

This kind of rare treasure, Corpse Bloom Flowers, is useless to ordinary cultivators.

Because it contains the energy of decay, ordinary cultivators simply cannot use it for cultivation.

There is very little demand for Corpse Bloom Flowers in the world, and only a small number of people need them. At the same time, the output of Corpse Bloom Flowers is even smaller, difficult to find throughout the ages, so it remains in a position where it is still sought after but hard to get.

"Corpse Bloom Flowers are indeed rare treasures, but they are useless to us."

Anning said this, as this kind of resource cannot be used for cultivation, no matter how pure the energy it contains.

"That's not necessarily true."

Jun Wuxie revealed an unfathomable smile, and then led them forward.

In front of them, there was an irregular stone path, very long, extending from the edge of the abyss towards the middle, with a slight curve, forming a natural stone bridge, extending all the way to the stone platform.

The stone bridge was not wide, only about two meters, covered with moss, and the bridge surface was very slippery.

Arriving at the edge of the abyss, Jun Wuxie looked down, seeing a sea of blood-red.

Below, there was a field of blooming spider lilies. From above, each spider lily looked like a blood-colored flame.

"What are those flowers? They're so beautiful…"

Anning and Xu Yan'ning's eyes lit up.

"Spider lilies bloom on the other shore, leaves fall and flowers bloom, never to meet."

"Ah?" Hearing Jun Wuxie say this, they both looked at him in shock, "Could it be that what's below the abyss are the legendary spider lilies?"

"That's right, they are indeed spider lilies."

Jun Wuxie was also very shocked that he would see spider lilies here. This was too abnormal.

The place where spider lilies bloom must be near the Yellow Springs. How could they be here?

He did not delay, using the golden blood energy shield to wrap Xu Yan'ning, Anning, and Lanlan, stepping onto the moss-covered stone bridge.

They walked all the way towards the stone platform in the middle of the abyss, very smoothly, without encountering any obstacles or dangers.

This smoothness made people feel uneasy. In such a place, thinking about the previous experiences outside, the current smoothness was obviously wrong.

"This metal coffin is so big!"

Anning looked in shock at the metal coffin on the high platform in front of her. The entire outline looked relatively delicate and slender. Coupled with the patterns on the surface of the coffin, it should be a woman's coffin.

It was more than ten meters long and three meters high!

The coffin suspended above was the same size.

The difference was that the outline of that coffin was not slender, but rather appeared firm. The patterns carved on it were also the same. At first glance, one could tell that it was a man's coffin.

Xu Yan'ning and Anning both looked at the coffin, their eyes gradually changing.

Pink light mist filled the coffin, and within that light mist, a stunningly beautiful woman gradually emerged.

She walked from above the coffin. Around her, a large number of graceful women appeared, dancing with the woman walking from the coffin. The beautiful dance made people intoxicated.

Not only did Xu Yan'ning and Anning see this scene, but Jun Wuxie also saw it.

He saw many graceful women dancing, displaying all kinds of charm.

This charm could captivate people's minds.

"Corpse Bloom Flowers, and the illusion created by the symbols on the coffin…"

His eyes narrowed slightly, his divine sense condensed, and the soul light in the center of his brows burst forth, shattering all the illusions before him in an instant.

Turning to look at Xu Yan'ning and Anning, he found that they were still immersed in the illusion, their eyes full of intoxication, even following the dance moves in the illusion.

Fortunately, Lanlan was not confused by the illusion, maintaining her clarity, her eyes fixed on the high platform and the coffin in the air, the fur on her back gradually standing up.

Almost at the same time, Jun Wuxie also felt a chill down his spine.

He sensed danger. That feeling of chilling crisis came from the coffin in front of him.

Not only the coffin on the high platform, but the one suspended in the air gave him the most terrifying feeling.

It was as if some terrible evil was buried in that coffin, about to awaken and break out of the coffin.

"Wake up!"

Realizing that danger would soon descend, Jun Wuxie immediately roared at Xu Yan'ning and Anning like a dragon's roar, condensing his divine sense to directly impact their sea of consciousness and minds.

Before their minds could return to reality, Jun Wuxie wrapped them in a blood energy shield, stepping on the Word Formula and the Divine Rune Technique, rushing like the wind towards the Corpse Bloom Flowers on the edge of the stone platform, leaving behind a trail of afterimages.