The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 976

Chapter 976: Chapter 973: Respect not the Gods and Buddhas, but Respect Heaven and Earth Chapter 976: Chapter 973: Respect not the Gods and Buddhas, but Respect Heaven and Earth After a long time, all the strange phenomena in Chang'an City had finally dissipated.

Inside the Great Tang Dynasty Government, Shen Luo still maintained a sitting position, his Qiao acupoints had not yet fully closed, and golden light still spilled from his body, making him look as though he were caged in treasure light, possessing an air of an Immortal.

However, after a few deep breaths, the radiance surrounding his body gradually dimmed, and as the spilling light slowly receded, Shen Luo himself appeared even more contained in his divine splendor.

He stretched his body and slowly stood up from the ground, looking up at the hole above his head with a fleeting look of joy in his eyes.

“I've finally broken through… I should have caught up with Lu Huaming. I wonder what got into Bai Xiaotian, he immediately went into seclusion after returning last time. Has he come out yet?” As Shen Luo pondered secretly, he suddenly felt a strange sensation.

“Thump thump…”

His heart started to beat uncontrollably and rapidly, giving him a sense of unease.

“What's going on?” Shen Luo's mind tightened, having never before experienced such an inexplicable feeling.

It was then that he felt something and suddenly turned his head to look at the Storage Ring on his hand.

A ray of light shone from the Storage Ring even without his mental control; an object flew out on its own.

“Jade pillow”

Shen Luo let out a light cry, and a sudden change took place.

Unlike the drowsiness of the past, the jade pillow flew out directly this time, its surface shining with starry light, and a white whirlpool condensed on its surface, emitting strong suction forces as it spun leisurely.

Shen Luo's soul trembled violently as if it were about to leave his body in an instant, all his conscious thoughts drawn into it.

“What's happening…”

A sense of indescribable crisis rose in Shen Luo's mind, and the next moment, he lost consciousness.

Time passed unknowingly.

Shen Luo's head was heavy, and he gradually opened his eyes, but his vision was still blurry, only faintly sensing the surrounding environment full of smoke and fog.

“There's no time left…”

In a daze, he heard such a low chant, the tone sorrowful, the voice hoarse, like the unwilling lament of someone at death's door.

Shen Luo rubbed his eyes hard, his brows suddenly furrowed, and he turned over to sit up sharply, looking around warily.

It wasn't just because of his blurred vision that he couldn't see anything clearly in the misty surroundings.

“The scent of blood…” Shen Luo frowned.

He smelled an incredibly strong scent of blood, a mixture of sweet and nauseating, with a hint of warmth, close by.

Shen Luo's eyes condensed, and the Xuan Yin Mystifying Pupil's gloss shone as he scanned the surroundings.

Ahead, within the mist barrier, there loomed an enormous ancient pine tree, its bark charred black, burned to a crisp, with sporadic flames flickering upon it, emitting thick white smoke.

Behind that ancient pine, a long stone stair stretched upward, seemingly leading to an old building at its end.

“I've left Five Finger Mountain, but what is this place? Why can I feel the lingering traces of an Array?” Shen Luo's gaze flickered with confusion.

The fog around was not merely smoke, but the remnants of a protective formation after its collapse, mingling with Heaven and Earth Aura to form what was present.

“Not only can it disrupt the Divine Sense, but even the Xuan Yin Mystifying Pupil can't fully see through it. It seems that before this Array collapsed, it must have been a powerful Sect Protection Formation,” Shen Luo's Divine Sense had already swept around the area.

He formed a hand seal and softly chanted the word “Prohibition,” instantly suppressing the Mana fluctuations on his body, and carefully walked toward the ancient building, soon arriving under the old pine tree.

Upon closer inspection, he realized that the ancient tree had been burned through by Raging Fire, and half a metal Talisman was exposed in the heart of the tree, with the incomplete words “Great Prohibition” visible on it.

It was clear that this ancient pine tree was originally the location of the Array pivot for the Sect Protection Formation.

Puzzled in his heart, Shen Luo's gaze followed the stone stairs all the way up and saw a black and white Daoist temple standing at the top of the one hundred and eight steps.

The main gate of the temple had white walls and black tiles, the Big Gate was tightly closed, and at first glance, nothing seemed unusual except for a slightly tilted plaque hanging over it.

Shen Luo's gaze swept over the plaque, and upon seeing the three big characters written on it, his expression couldn't help but slightly change.

“Wuzhuang View…”

He softly chanted, his figure becoming ethereal like smoke as he dashed through the Void, leaving a lingering trail behind and instantly appearing in front of the temple's main gate.

The main gate of Wuzhuang View appeared plain and unadorned, looking slightly better than that of Spring and Autumn Pavilion, without any of the grandeur of grand cults.

The tightly closed gate was spotless as if it had just been cleaned, with no trace of damage.

Shen Luo's brows furrowed tightly, and he lifted his hand, pushing open the two thick black wooden doors.

“Creak”

Following the sound of the doors turning, the two gates slowly moved backward and opened.

“Whoosh”

As if a gust of wind swept through, an incredibly thick smell of blood surged forth like a flood, confronting Shen Luo head-on. Seemingly invisible and intangible, it nonetheless soaked his entire garment red as it swept past him.

Shen Luo didn't dodge or try to dispel the blood with mystic arts; instead, he let it wash over him, within which he sensed many familiar breaths.

“What… happened here?”

Shen Luo's eyes trembled slightly, and even he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle at the sight before him.

Behind the gate, the Courtyard was littered with mangled corpses and severed limbs, piled haphazardly. The great hall at the back was almost completely collapsed, and everywhere the eye could see was soaked in blood.

On the Ground, the fluids leaking from the corpses mixed with blood, already forming a stinking Blood Pool, with severed limbs floating on top of the bloodied waters.

Among the chaotic heaps of bodies, Shen Luo saw many Heavenly Soldiers in Silver Armor, numerous strongmen with exposed torsos, and also people from the Jade Fox Clan.

They really did escape here, yet it seemed they still could not evade their doom.

Shen Luo felt a chill throughout his body, but a fire of anger started to fiercely burn in his heart.

He took a deep breath, clenched his fists, and step by step, crossed the yard full of corpses, walking towards the remaining part of the great hall.

To say it remained was illusory–the hall was half collapsed, looking as if a giant Demon had stomped down, shattering half of it, and the other half was also teetering on the brink of collapse.

Entering the half-ruined hall, the incense table for veneration of the gods was still in place, and even the Incense burner on it had five sticks of long Incense, purple-black and not yet fully burned, three long and two short.

Behind the incense table, there was no collapsed deity statue, only a hanging scroll with “Heaven and Earth” inscribed on it.

Shen Luo had some understanding of the Master of Wuzhuang View; Yuan Daoist, whom he had met in the Heavenly Book Space, was indeed that famous Earth Immortal Ancestor, Zhenyuanzi.

Only a powerhouse like him could forgo worshipping gods and Buddhas and instead revere Heaven and Earth.

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