Chapter 1217 - 557: What Is That?

Chapter 557

The direction where the blood light rose seemed to be the central area of this continent. Under the illumination of that blood light, the silhouette of a giant mountain, more majestic than all the surrounding peaks and ruling over the land like an emperor, appeared and disappeared!

"What is that?" Zhen Shan exclaims in surprise.

Xu Ran’s pupils suddenly contracted.

Within that blood light, he felt a... both familiar and unfamiliar aura.

The familiar part was that within that force lay a trace of the same source as the "Prison Suppression" Law, a domineering and unparalleled will of destruction.

The unfamiliar part was that this force was purer, more ancient, and... more violent than the "Prison Suppression" Law.

It was as if the power of Prison Suppression was just a tributary branching off from this source!

"Let’s go! Take a look!"

A gleam of light flashed through Xu Ran’s eyes.

Crisis often comes with opportunity!

Though this violent energy was dangerous, for him who urgently needed to replenish his strength at the moment, it was no less a sweet spring amidst the desert!

More importantly, he had an intuition that this continent, this ancient battlefield, might be intricately linked with the "Heavenly Principles" and the birth of "Prison Suppression"!

To fight against the Heavenly Principles, one must first understand it!

The three of them no longer hesitated, supporting their weak bodies and swiftly moving towards the direction where the blood light erupted.

...

The closer they got to that central giant mountain, the more shocking the surrounding scene became.

On the ground, began to appear enormous skeletons. Some resembled divine dragons, stretching for thousands of miles; some looked like demon gods, with three heads and six arms, even as mere skeletons, they still emanated overwhelming ferocity.

Weapons!

Countless broken weapons were lodged into the ground. Fragments of giant swords, shattered war axes, spears piercing through divine and demon bones... every piece was once a Divine Soldier that shook the land, yet now they lay discarded here like scrap iron.

What kind of horrific battle took place here?

Finally, they crossed a ridge, and that blood-light-soaring central giant mountain was fully presented before them.

That was not a mountain at all!

It was a... sword!

A giant, unimaginable... broken sword!

The sword tip slanted into the ground, and just the exposed blade reached tens of thousands of feet high, straight into the clouds. The blood light soaring into the sky was emitted from this broken sword’s blade.

And around the broken sword, there were actually... several figures gathered!

Those figures varied in form. Some were humanoid creatures in pitch-black heavy armor, revealing only a pair of scarlet eyes; some were colossal, like a mountain of flesh, covered in tentacles and eyes; and one was composed of countless corpses stitched together, wielding a bone blade... a Sewn Giant!

They were seemingly all attracted by the anomaly of this broken sword, scavengers from the Sea of Realms...

At this moment, they were confronting each other, eyes filled with greed and vigilance.

"Hehehe... the ’Godslaying Blade’s’ ’Evil Qi Tide’, once in ten thousand years, and we happen to encounter it today!" The humanoid in the pitch-black heavy armor emitted an unpleasant laughter like metal scraping, "Whoever can absorb this Evil Qi will see their cultivation soar!"

"Black Armor, stop the nonsense! Such opportunity, every viewer can have a share! Who dares to hog it all, it means being enemies with me ’Many Eyes’!" The monster like a mountain of flesh, with countless eyes rotating simultaneously, emitted a hair-raising buzzing sound.

"Kill... eat... all... mine..." the Sewn Giant let out broken and violent roars.

Clearly, a fierce battle was about to break out!

Xu Ran and the three quietly concealed themselves behind a giant rock, suppressing all their aura.

"Godslaying Blade? Evil Qi Tide?" Xu Ran silently recited these two phrases in his heart, with a light flickering in his eyes.

He could feel that emanating from that broken sword was precisely the energy containing High-level Laws that he urgently needed! Though violent, with his Reincarnation Domain, it might not be impossible to refine!

"My lord, those guys... their aura is incredibly strong!" Cang Shi transmitted in a heavy tone, "Even the weakest among them might have the strength of Daoist Monarch of five heavenly layers and above! We now..."

Xu Ran slightly nodded, signaling him to not worry.

The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

Xu Ran at this moment was that oriole ready to act, only, he as this oriole was in an extremely dire state. Not to mention compared to the three realm-depth scavengers of the Sea of Realms, even compared to his pre-furnace state, he was more feeble than ever.

He suppressed his aura to the utmost, his broken Reincarnation Domain transformed into a thin gray film, blending with the surrounding Sea of Realms mist, like a part of the reef, without a trace of disturbance. Zhen Shan and Cang Shi were being shielded by him, their breathing seemed to have even stopped.

"My lord, these three Sea of Realms wanderers, their strength is unfathomable." Cang Shi’s Divine Thought had a slight tremble, "That black-armored humanoid, Evil Qi condensing and unscattering, seems likely a strong being specializing in the Dao of Slaughter, has probably reached the realm of Daoist Monarch sixth heavenly layer. That Many-eyes Flesh Mountain, with its curious Divine Thought, each time its eyeballs turn, it triggers the resonance of the broken Laws here, the realm is probably even higher. As for the Sewn Giant... though it seems dull, its physical strength might have already surpassed the scope of a Daoist Monarch, reaching an incomprehensible state!"

Cang Shi’s assessment matched Xu Ran’s perception accurately. This was the cruelty of the Sea of Realms, those who survived here were all ruthless entities climbing from Corpse Mountain Blood Sea. Any slight negligence would lead to utter annihilation, without even the qualification to become drifting remnants.