Talisman Sword Art.
The sword of wind, fire, and thunder, piercing the high heavens.
The vast sword aura, like a long dragon, roared past, striking the southwestern guide on the town tombstone in the air, causing a loud explosion.
Boom——
With the fire still in the sky, the town tombstone flew into the secret realm, and then fell from the sky due to no one controlling it, crashing onto the open ground ahead.
The crack in the secret realm was completely closed.
As for the southwestern guide, he was hit by the sword of the Red Name, his life or death unknown. Of course, even if this sword couldn’t kill him, being severely injured and trapped outside the secret realm, facing a group of ghosts and ghost dragons, he wouldn’t end well.
“Hero Chu’s sword aura is so strong that even the sixth realm guide can’t resist it.” Monk Pǔ Shàn exclaimed.
“Hehe.” Chu Liang chuckled, then flew forward, arriving at the place where the town tombstone had fallen.
On a patch of grass, the tombstone, restored to its original size, was deeply embedded in the ground, ancient and solemn. Chu Liang pressed on the tombstone, storing it in his storage artifact, almost bursting the small space inside.
This town tombstone was naturally a powerful artifact. The southwestern guide was able to be so fierce just now, mostly relying on the help of this tombstone, but Chu Liang didn’t plan to keep it.
There are things to do and things not to do.
“When we leave this place, I plan to return this tombstone to the Flying Immortal Tomb, is that okay?” Chu Liang asked.
“Of course.” Monk Pǔ Shàn replied, “Hero Chu, your intention is truly admirable.”
Luo Yao looked deeply at Chu Liang, seemingly quite approving, and then spoke again after a moment, “I hope that one day we can take back everything that the Underworld Sect has taken away.”
“Did the Underworld Sect take more than just the eight town tombstones?” Chu Liang asked, because Luo Yao’s words seemed to imply something else.
“Of course not.” Luo Yao said, “During the battle with the demon god, large-scale immortal gates in the human world all had heavenly realm fall, and just the ones whose bodies could be found… there were sixteen, hence the sixteen town tombstones in the Flying Immortal Tomb.”
“This thing was originally made to guard the bodies of the fallen heavenly realm, and eight of them are intact. The Underworld Sect’s surprise attack on the Flying Immortal Tomb was to snatch those eight heavenly realm bodies. As for this town tombstone, it was just incidental.” She said coldly.
So that’s how it is.
With her explanation, Chu Liang finally understood the reason for the Underworld Sect’s raid on the Flying Immortal Tomb.
The golden skeleton he had encountered before, which seemed to be close to the seventh realm, already had such a spiritual nature that could elevate a clan. And the great power that had cultivated to the eighth realm, holding the heavenly realm, both the soul and the skeleton were considered treasures.
Even after death, the body remains immortal.
Many of the eighth realm great powers, in order to prevent themselves from being offended after death, would find an unknown place as a tomb before their lifespan was about to end, just to be able to rest in peace.
And the eighth realm great powers who fell in the battle with the demon god, obviously didn’t have this preparation time. So the cultivation world at that time made these powerful town tombstones to guard those bones.
The Underworld Sect practiced demonic techniques, which could utilize both the soul and the skeleton, but it was unexpected… they would be so insane as to extend their demonic claws towards those great powers who had made great contributions to the human race.
“They truly deserve to be executed by everyone.” Chu Liang said.
Monk Pǔ Shàn turned around and said, “The destruction of the two guides here has also made these demonic sect people pay a heavy price. Let’s first look at our current situation.”
Hearing him say this, Chu Liang stopped thinking about the town tombstone and looked up at the secret realm in front of him.
……
This was a small world of spiritual energy, green mountains and clear waters, vast green mountains surrounding a river like a jade belt, with palaces hidden on the mountain peaks.
Below the mountain was an open grassland, with small birds and beasts on the grassland, but what was a bit strange was… whether it was birds or beasts, they all maintained a posture.
Motionless.
“What’s going on?” Monk Pǔ Shàn walked up and examined it, saying, “They’re not dead, they just seem to be asleep.”
He gently stroked a bird on the ground with his palm, its body and feathers were lifelike, but it didn’t react at all. It closed its eyes and stood on one foot.
“Is this why it’s called the Abyss of Sleep?” Chu Liang murmured.
“It’s a pity that this war broke out too early, we still don’t know what these demonic sect people are looking for.” Luo Yao said.
Just as she finished speaking, a gloomy voice responded, “Then let me tell you…”
Slap.
As soon as the voice fell, a black hand suddenly appeared from under her feet, grabbing her ankle.
Luo Yao’s body shook, and she couldn’t move. She was very familiar with this feeling, the thorn that was similar to the soul nail had controlled her in the same way.
This was a spiritual level of restraint.”Who’s there?” Chu Liang and Pǔ Shàn immediately took defensive stances.
A shadow slowly emerged from beneath Luo Yao’s feet, gradually taking the form of the man they had met on the southern road. He stood behind Luo Yao, gripping the girl’s throat.
He was the first to enter the secret realm, and the three of them had assumed he had gone elsewhere. They never expected him to still be hiding at the entrance!
What they didn’t realize was that his hiding at the entrance was a calculated move. If the man from the southwest had pursued him, he would have fled before the secret realm closed, thus shaking off his pursuer.
But he had run into the three of them here.
“I really didn’t expect this…” The man from the southern road chuckled darkly, “The soul-binding order that the Marquis prides himself on being so strict, actually allowed spies to infiltrate, and so many at that.”
“It’s just a misunderstanding.” Chu Liang said, “Let her go, we’ll leave immediately, so as not to interfere with your treasure hunt, sir.”
“Do you think I’m a fool?” The man from the southern road looked at him strangely.
“Haha!” Pǔ Shàn suddenly burst into laughter, stepping forward and saying, “Sir, actually I am a counter-spy hidden among these two spies, just to expose their plot…”
“Get lost!” The man from the southern road cursed rudely.
“Oh.” Pǔ Shàn stopped in his tracks.
“Don’t try to trick me anymore, behave and do some things for me, and I won’t hurt this little girl.” The man from the southern road said.
“Alright.” Chu Liang nodded.
“You two, start walking towards the mountain, stop before that palace!” The man from the southern road gestured towards the palace at the mountain peak with his eyes.
Chu Liang and Pǔ Shàn had no choice but to start walking towards the mountain peak.
The man from the southern road followed behind them, holding Luo Yao hostage, and said as he walked, “As you know, I’m seriously injured right now. There might be some tricky troubles later, hehe, I’ll have to trouble you to help me out.”
Chu Liang couldn’t help but frown, “Sir, aren’t you overestimating us? If it’s a problem that even you can’t solve, how can we handle it?”
“Hehe.” The man from the southern road chuckled coldly, looking at Chu Liang with a wise gaze, “You don’t need to hide, I know you’re powerful. The man in black who attacked my subordinates in the mist, that was you, wasn’t it? Your strength is definitely enough!”
Chu Liang’s earlier attack on the man from the southwest had clearly been seen and remembered by him. In fact, if it weren’t for his fear of Chu Liang’s strength and his desire to use it, he would have disposed of the three of them long ago.
Even though he was seriously injured, killing three Golden Elixir realm cultivators would be no problem. The reason he didn’t act was because of the overly powerful Chu Liang.
This boy was definitely not in the Golden Elixir realm!
——Author’s Note——
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