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Chapter 829 - 53: Underworld River Spring Eye [Vote for Monthly Tickets!]

Chapter 829: Chapter 53: Underworld River Spring Eye [Vote for Monthly Tickets!]

"Is the world outside now the domain of the Human Clan?" The Jiuli Tribe Man looked at the young man before him and asked.

The youth stood tall and straight, a picture of vitality, and he was none other than Xu Ziyang of the Shu Mountain Sect.

The power unleashed by the Iron Eating Beast had been too great, and all three had been blown away. After Xu Ziyang landed, he took a moment to recover his breath, and by the time he had recuperated, the anomaly had already occurred. In this scorched earth, he came across this piece of bronze, and upon it sat this strange man.

Perceiving no hostility from the other party, Xu Ziyang also spoke, "That’s correct."

"So it is." The Jiuli Tribe Man sighed, "The Supreme God once said that this world belonged to the Human Clan in the past and would also belong to them in the future."

"I will give you a godly treasure of the Mortal Realm if you do me a small favor, is that agreeable?" After a pause, the Jiuli Tribe Man asked again.

Xu Ziyang looked at him curiously, "What favor?"

"There is a small island in the Eastern Sea which had no name from the beginning, and by now probably doesn’t even exist anymore." The Jiuli Tribe Man gazed toward the distant sky and continued, "Back then, I was a blacksmith of the Jiuli Tribe, tasked by the Supreme God to forge the Bronze City. Together with my wife, we scoured the world for materials. On that small island in the Eastern Sea, we finally found the rare material suitable as the core for the city’s formation, but my wife died on that island trying to mine it."

"She was buried under the shattered rocks, and I couldn’t save her. I had to leave her there forever."

"I had said that after death, I’d surely want to be buried with her, but when the formation core was completed, an Artifact Spirit was needed. The Supreme God sacrificed three hundred craftsmen, including us, into the formation. I was lucky; I became the main spirit with lingering consciousness... also known as the Artifact Spirit of the Bronze City."

Xu Ziyang’s gaze shifted, the man before him was the Artifact Spirit of this ancient Bronze City?

Firstly, a city having its own Artifact Spirit was astonishing, and such a massive city, was it originally forged following the specifications of a Magic Artifact?

Wouldn’t that mean it could stand shoulder to shoulder with Divine Artifacts?

But if this city had already perished in the annals of history, how could its Artifact Spirit survive until now?

As if understanding his confusion, the Jiuli Tribe Man continued, "I was always suppressed within the formation, only able to maintain the operation of the city here, unable to leave even a step. Later, the Supreme God led the entire Jiuli Tribe to join the battle for ascending, and in the end, all were suppressed and killed. This whole Jiuli City, only this piece of broken copper remains."

"I should have died as well, but perhaps due to this piece of broken copper, equivalent to my physical body not being dead. A few days ago, a miraculous power awakened me, and everything that this piece of copper embodied began to evolve again, and the Jiuli City reappeared."

"What you saw earlier was merely a projection of the remains of the Jiuli City."

So that was it.

Xu Ziyang thus understood why the previous scene had seemed so real—it was all that the Bronze City’s Artifact Spirit had once carried.

"What force is so powerful that it can resurrect a dead Bronze City’s Artifact Spirit?" he couldn’t help but ask.

"I guess..." The Artifact Spirit spoke slowly, "It’s probably the safeguard the Supreme God left behind."

"Before the battle for ascending, he had foreseen the possibility of defeat, and using up all the resources of the Jiuli, he forged a Fountain Source on his own Bronze Mountain, which could continuously refine the Breath of Hades from the world, gathering it into an Underworld River."

A river formed by gathering the Breath of Hades?

Xu Ziyang was well aware of what Breath of Hades was, and his expression subtly changed upon hearing this.

Not long before, even a slight amount of Breath of Hades had caused such a huge fight; now such a vast amount, once leaked, the consequences were unimaginable.

"Even if the Supreme God were to fall one day, as long as this Underworld River was guided into the vicinity of his remains, he could be revived briefly. As long as he revived for a moment, he could regather the great Dao, achieving a true comeback as a god."

In an instant, Xu Ziyang understood the true intention of Elder Tan.

The Tan Clan had guarded this Secret Realm for countless years, awaiting the gathering of the Breath of Hades into the Underworld River, at which time they would channel it into the resting place of the Jiuli God’s remains, and the Jiuli God could naturally be revived.

Even if the power of the Breath of Hades could only bring him back for a brief moment, it wouldn’t matter. Being divine and at one with the great Dao at the Ninth Realm, as long as he could regather the Dao for himself in that fleeting time, true resurrection from death could be realized.

It was possible...that Lu Cang from Shenxu Temple came here to destroy this Secret Realm and seal the Bronze Mountain because the Fountain Source had already refined enough Breath of Hades to form the Underworld River, and the plan had reached a point where it could be executed.

But Elder Tan had still managed to escape.

If not for the intervention of Shu Mountain, he would have surely come back to complete the plan!

As for the remains of the Jiuli Supreme God, although no one had seen them, everyone knows where they are.

They are beneath the Zhennan Region’s Mountain!

The real location of this Secret Realm, if not misjudged, should be right under the foothills of Zhennan Region’s Mountain!

The so-called "Guardian of the Tomb" were not a fabrication; they were indeed guarding the tomb of the Jiuli God!

Xu Ziyang felt a sense of urgency rising within him as he looked in the direction of Bronze Mountain and said, "I have to stop him."

"Go, but make sure you come back alive." The Jiuli Tribe Man chuckled, tossing half of an ancient copper talisman, which appeared to bear the pattern of two beasts entwined, only to be split in the middle.

"The favor I ask of you is to go to the Eastern Sea. My wife’s body also possesses a beast charm like this one. Once the two beast charms draw near, they will resonate. I hope you can find it and then merge them into one."

"We have been apart for far too many years, and if I fall into a deep slumber again, I wish to be with her."

As the Breath of Hades in the air grew sparse, converging toward the direction of Bronze Mountain, the figure of the Jiuli Tribe Man became increasingly ethereal, almost insubstantial.

"Young man, although this piece of broken copper is but a remnant of Bronze City, it has survived the Ascension Battle," even his voice became elusive, "This Divine Copper that has withstood the heavenly tribulation is the finest material in the world; I’ll give it to you as a reward. Find the best blacksmith in your world, and you’ll certainly be able to forge a Divine Artifact..."

A breeze blew, and the Artifact Spirit’s figure vanished without a trace.

Only Xu Ziyang’s silhouette remained, facing the massive piece of Tribulation Crossing Divine Copper.

...

Boom, rumble—

The murky river flowed into an increasingly deep stream within the spacious cavern, where the river course was already carved out; the Underworld River simply needed to converge here. Once the dry riverbed was filled, the formation would redirect the surging river toward the location of the Jiuli God’s remains.

Each drop of this river was the exceedingly precious Breath of Hades, enough to drive countless people to madness.

In the center of the river was an island-like stone platform, covered with intricate array runes of a blood-like crimson. The runes lit up fiercely in red, gathering the Breath of Hades from all directions.

Only the Ninth Realm had the ability to refine the Breath of Hades, and only a Jiuli God could be so terrifying as to construct a Divine Artifact specifically for the extraction of the Breath of Hades, all for his own resurrection.

At this moment, atop the array runes stood Elder Tan’s weakened form; wounded and not yet recovered, he was freshly injured, his body soaked with blood. Yet his eyes gleamed with excitement, for he would accomplish the heavy duty passed down through generations by his family.

The return of the God would be realized by his own hands!

The very thought of this made him tremble with excitement!

As the Underworld River’s flow became increasingly turbulent, he knew the time had come. No longer could anyone stop him. His hands continuously shifted through the Seal Techniques he had memorized since childhood, activating the array runes to spin faster.

Whoosh—

A sliver of light appeared ahead of the river, which suddenly expanded into a fissure that seemed to break through the Qiankun, leading to an unknown place! A massive amount of the Breath of Hades streamed in that direction!

Just as the river’s front was about to enter, suddenly, a wave surged from the front of the river and unexpectedly reversed its course, spiraling in the cavern and cascading towards another area.

This vast Underworld River astonishingly transformed into a ring of water in mid-air, curling towards the side.

"It’s you guys again!" Elder Tan looked up and saw those two familiar faces.

He hadn’t expected these two, after being struck by the Iron Eating Beast, to be not only unharmed but also capable of returning so quickly to interfere.

Chu Liang and Jiang Yuebai had just rushed back. Seeing this scene, the two immediately made a move to stop it.

Jiang Yuebai wielded her sword and attacked. This time, she did not hold back, directing a tremendous attack of the Heavenly Sword Technique at Elder Tan.

Chu Liang, on the other hand, brought out one of the top hundred Magical Treasures from the Ten Thousand Treasures Record, the Bi Bozhan, which had the supreme power of controlling water! He summoned the Bi Bozhan, intending to draw the Breath of Hades-infused water into the treasure!

This was what the Jiuli Supreme God had spent countless years refining at the Underworld River Spring Eye, and the Tan Clan had also been isolated from the world for who knows how many generations for this. Yet, he was trying to take it away so effortlessly—Elder Tan’s eyes burst with rage as he shouted, "Ba Tiansha! Kill them!"

"Roar—"

With his command, that familiar terrifying figure darted out again, landing with a thud against the side of a cavern wall before leaping towards Chu Liang, who was deploying the Bi Bozhan!

The fierce wind howled, and the ferocious flame blazed!

As the Iron Eating Beast lunged towards him, Chu Liang held the Bi Bozhan in one hand, continuing to collect the Breath of Hades without wanting to stop. In his urgency, he suddenly revealed something with his other hand.

The Iron Eating Beast, about to pounce onto Chu Liang, was stopped in mid-air by the sight of his object, suspending its body in flight, restraining its fiery and violent killing intent.

In the eyes of the enormous creature, Chu Liang’s figure was reflected.

Upon looking more closely at what was in Chu Liang’s hand, it was none other than a golden, glittering Spirit Plant!