Nine Nether Heavenly Emperor
Chapter 20: Blood Skeleton

Chapter 20: Chapter 20: Blood Skeleton

Shi Feng looked up, glanced towards the returning Dark Evil, and asked, "Have you found the place? Take me there."

Dark Evil seemed to understand Shi Feng’s words, as its body merged back into the earth.

Following that, the ground where Dark Evil had just stood began to slowly split apart on both sides.

Soon, the earth cracked open to form a pitch-black, bottomless fissure, one meter in length and width. Shi Feng stood up and leaped down into it.

Then, the earth started moving again; the fissure slowly closed back up, and the ground returned to its original state, leaving no trace in the artificial rocky cave that anyone had been there.

Shi Feng found himself in a tiny, pitch-black space without a speck of light; Dark Evil led the way ahead. The seemingly solid earth walls, upon Dark Evil’s approach, cracked open on each side, creating a pathway just wide enough for a person to walk through.

As Shi Feng passed, the cracks behind him seemed to come alive, swiftly closing back up.

Even with his extensive experience from a past life, Shi Feng couldn’t help but marvel at the wonders of nature, capable of creating beings like Yin Corpses, endowed with Earth Divine Power.

It was uncertain when Dark Evil would advance to become a Ninth-stage Corpse Emperor; what a profound and earth-shattering power that would be. However, thinking about that now was premature, as there was still a long journey ahead.

Dark Evil led Shi Feng for the duration of half an incense stick, reaching a man-made tunnel that seemed quite ancient based on the excavation marks.

The tunnel wasn’t long, about thirty or forty meters. Shi Feng and Dark Evil stood right at its center, facing a stone door in front, with a staircase leading upward behind them.

From afar, Shi Feng sensed a strange feeling emanating from behind the stone door, "What is this? This feeling seems somewhat familiar." Looking at the stone door, Shi Feng furrowed his brows.

"No, that’s not right. According to that lad’s description, there’s a blood-red Demon Sword inside, but I’ve never encountered such a sword in my life. What could this mean?" Full of doubts, he walked towards the stone door.

Suddenly, a flash at Shi Feng’s glabella emitted a golden light, the size of a fist, that seemed alive. It circled twice above Shi Feng’s head before quietly hovering there.

Shi Feng’s pupils dilated sharply as he exclaimed in great surprise, "Source of All Things!"

"I thought I had lost this Source of All Things to those worthless Martial Emperors after my death, but unexpectedly, it was reborn with me."

"Could it be that my ability to be reincarnated, despite having my soul shattered, has something to do with the Source of All Things?"

Then Shi Feng shook his head, "When I obtained it in the past, I was never able to decipher it, and even after scouring through some ancient texts left by Ancient Supreme Powers, only a few mentioned the Source of All Things, noting that someone once obtained it and ultimately ascended to divinity."

"Ascension to divinity!" Shi Feng sighed. This was what many Martial Artists pursued, yet under this sky, no realm holder of divine prowess had appeared for tens of thousands of years.

"Right!" Shi Feng suddenly snapped to attention, shifting his gaze from the Source of All Things and looking towards the stone door ahead, "That familiar feeling behind the stone door, it’s the aura of the Source of All Things! Although not identical, it is similar!"

"Could it be something like the Source of All Things, perhaps an Ancient Divine-Rank Mystic Artifact?" Even Shi Feng, who normally maintained his composure even when his Dantian shattered, could no longer keep his calm.

Ancient Divine Artifact, indeed, this was an event that could shock the Tianheng Continent to its core, perhaps even more shocking than the fall of Emperor Nine Nether. If people knew there was a Divine Artifact in this wretched place, countless would swarm here, countless would die, and so much blood would be shed.

Describing it as mountains of corpses and rivers of blood would not be an exaggeration.

Next moment, before Shi Feng could rush forward, the Source of All Things shot forward rapidly, like a golden meteor sliding through the pitch-black tunnel.

Shi Feng hurriedly followed.

"Boom!" A roaring sound erupted before the golden light even reached it; the stone door collapsed thunderously, followed by a blast of Blood Light shooting out from the rubble.

"Boom!" The golden light and Blood Light collided like sworn enemies with a deep-seated grudge, fiercely slamming into each other.

Still running, Shi Feng suddenly felt a violent blast of air rush towards his face, against which he could hardly stand his ground, his body flying backward like a snapped kite.

During his backward flight, Shi Feng saw that the Blood Light, having collided with the golden light, was also thrown backward.

"Bang!"

"Clang!"

Shi Feng and the Blood Light landed one after the other, the Blood Light immediately dispersing, transforming on the ground into a blood-colored longsword about one meter in length and as wide as three fingers.

Subsequently, the still-hovering golden light emitted a golden beam as thick as a barrel, enveloping the Blood Sword like a cage.

The fallen Blood Sword moved again, as if showing its defiance, as if displaying its ferocity, slashing, stabbing, and ramming within the golden beam, constantly making a "ping ping ping" noise.

Shi Feng stood up to watch, it was clear that the Source of All Things was the victor, but what Shi Feng now pondered was how he would subdue the unruly Blood Sword.

A spirit-possessed Mystic Artifact was clearly no ordinary object.

While he appeared to own the Source of All Things, controlling it was another matter entirely, akin to dealing with a stubborn old master; in both his past and present lives, he simply could not direct it.

When the Source of All Things appeared, it shook the entire Tianheng Continent, attracting powerful beings to the Wilderness Desolate Land, including Emperor Nine Nether and his Eight Ghost Generals.

In the end, even Emperor Nine Nether himself could not understand what attracted the Source of All Things. Amidst the struggle of various powerful beings, the Source of All Things actively chose him, swiftly burrowing into his flesh.

Outwardly, everyone saw that Emperor Nine Nether had acquired the Source of All Things, but only he knew the full truth: possessing it was essentially the same as not possessing it.

Normally, when he introspected his own body, he couldn’t even find where within his flesh the Source of All Things was hidden, yet sometimes, if he ignored it, it would fly out on its own, circling around him. When he tried to grasp it, it eluded capture, frustratingly elusive.

Even when erecting a powerful barrier, the barrier was effortlessly breached by it, ultimately forcing Emperor Nine Nether to scour ancient texts to see if there was a way to destroy it.

Returning to the present matter, while Shi Feng was contemplating how to acquire the Blood Sword, the Source of All Things fired another thick beam of golden light, seemingly targeting the direction of the collapsed stone door.

As Shi Feng wondered what it was attempting to do, the golden light quickly retracted back, and within the returning golden beam, it carried a bright red humanoid skeleton, roughly three meters tall.

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