Chapter 904 - 819: Heavenly Abyss Reconnected
True Ancestor World, Northern Border Great Wall.
This Great Wall was made from accumulated corpses.
There were huge demonic bones as large as mountains; strange spiritual bird wing bones that dangled amidst the bone city; sky-splitting bone blades still sharp enough to sever Divine Metal!
It is said that this Wall of Corpses was left over from an ancient, enormous battle.
Atop the Wall of Corpses, there were also many stone beacon towers.
—Although this place had formed an endless Wall of Corpses, each bone within the wall was indestructible and uncarvable.
Hence, when successors built the wall, they could not alter the original accumulation of bones and could only add and fill in using stones on top of the Wall of Corpses.
Thus, the Wall of Corpses presented a bizarre combination of two styles.
At this moment, atop a beacon tower.
An old man in white robes stood here, gazing into the distance.
Before the Wall of Corpses lay an endlessly vast plain.
Throughout the plain, there were also bones piled up like mountains.
Despite the eons that had passed, some remnants of grey mist would still rise from those corpses, giving the entire plain a foggy appearance, filled with grey hues.
And at the end of this grey plain was pitch blackness!
That darkness was the legendary… Heavenly Abyss!
“A generation’s Martial Honor used bones to suppress the Heavenly Abyss…”
The old man looked at the Heavenly Abyss for a long, long time before he said,
“Let’s scatter some paper money for this World-Honored One again!”
He spoke.
Behind him followed two figures in white cloaks, tightly covered, revealing only their eyes, indistinguishable as male or female.
A faint mist seemed to rise from atop their white cloaks.
These cloaks were specially made to help them resist the erosion of the grey mist.
Both were carrying bamboo baskets, filled with yellow paper money.
They respectfully handed the baskets full of paper money to the old man.
The old man suddenly knelt down towards the Heavenly Abyss. He grabbed handful after handful of paper money and scattered it over the plain in front of him.
“Universally respected… now withered away… how lamentable!”
“The World-Honored One is Indestructible, future generations will still remember your great deeds!”
The old man scattered the paper money while shouting loudly; his aged voice echoed across the empty plain, sounding like a wounded old wolf howling.
After a long, long time.
The bamboo basket was empty.
The old man then stood up.
“General, according to the old covenant, only the existences in the Sacrificial Temple who perform the World Sacrifice Ritual will purify those dignitaries tainted with evil marks with the world-shaking power when they engage the Ascendant Path… and those dignified ones will fulfill their final mission to suppress the Heavenly Abyss with their bones.”
Behind the old man, a person in a white cloak spoke,
“But, according to the information, until now, only Yang Daomei and Jiang Yunsheng performed the World Sacrifice back then, and moreover, they failed, met with deception, and disappeared without a trace.”
“Before Martial Honor emerged, no one in the world performed the World Sacrifice.”
“Why is that?”
“Could the old covenant be wrong?”
He was puzzled.
But the old man, who he addressed as General, shook his head and said,
“No, it’s not.”
“The old covenant was established by the one from The End of Myriad Paths, it is not mistaken.”
“And she established the old covenant because… at the time she established it, she had already completely lost hope!”
“Now that Martial Honor has emerged, and is not an Evil Corpse and has regained clarity…”
“This can only prove that, in this world, a power has emerged that can be likened to the old covenant.”
Upon hearing this, the two figures in white cloaks were shocked.
Could it really be… this way?
“Is this the great upheaval mentioned in the ancient prophecies?”
They looked at each other.
But the old man shook his head and said,
“I’m just speculating.”
He paused before continuing,
“As Martial Honor’s bones enter the Heavenly Abyss, it’s highly likely that there will be trials from the Grey Mist Sea, intent on breaking into the Ancestral Realm… We need to bolster our defense soon.”
However, a person behind him said,
“General… our people can no longer fill all the beacon towers.”
“Over these ten thousand years, neither the Guardian Organization nor the Sacrificial Temple has sent us a single soldier.”
“We… have no one to use.”
The tone was filled with deep helplessness!
The old man, hearing this, a tinge of sadness flashed in his eyes as he murmured,
“The Heavenly Abyss is where the being from The End of Myriad Paths with one sword cut off the Grey Mist Sea from the Ancestral Realm forever…”
“But, that sword strike also severed the source of Chaotic Origin Qi from the Ancestral Realm.”
“With each passing generation, the Origin Qi in the Primordial Ancestral World will become increasingly scarce; the Ancestral Realm cannot always remain in seclusion…”
“So, the one from The End of Myriad Paths left contingencies.”
“She gave enough time for the Ancestral Realm to grow, and at the same time, she ensured that once the Ancestral Realm reached the moment to engage the Ascendant Path, the twelve strongest beings, using their bones, will refill the Heavenly Abyss, reopening the connection with the Grey Mist Sea…”
“She painstakingly planned, preparing so much for future generations…”
“But unfortunately, no one performed the World Sacrifice…”
“Now, even the Great Wall she left behind after slaughtering countless enemies is left unguarded…”
The old man felt an unprecedented heaviness.
Over countless eons, among so many mightiest beings, only Yang Daomei and Jiang Yunsheng performed the World Sacrifice as per the covenant…
Would she feel disheartened if The End of Myriad Paths entity was still alive?
She conquered all enemies, only to be defeated by human nature…
The old man stood atop the desolate Great Wall, holding a high position; he knew too many secrets.
The Chaotic Origin Qi of the Ancestral Realm seemed infinite, yet it was limited.
The True Ancestor World, like a pool of clear water guarded by someone.
But, the water will disappear, will evaporate, cut from the ocean, and eventually dry up.
And The End of Myriad Paths entity naturally considered this too.
She gave time for the Ancestral Realm to grow, for the ultimate World Sacrifice, for the Ascendant Path to take place, so that the Ancestral Realm would have a chance to survive in the entire Grey Mist Sea…
And by then, the bones of the twelve mightiest ones will fill the Heavenly Abyss, reopening the path to the Grey Mist Sea.
To let this pool of clear water return to the ocean!
But, now an accident has happened…
Martial Honor’s bones fill the Heavenly Abyss, but he has not reached the target of the Ascendant Path…
When beings from the Grey Mist Sea come to attack, can the Ancestral Realm withstand them?
Could the existences in the Sacrificial Temple not have thought of this?
The elder did not know.
He pondered for a long, long time in his mind.
“No man’s beacon tower… raise the battle flag!”
“Starting today, we… need to prepare to meet the enemy.”
After the elder had spoken, he turned and left.
The two people behind him, cloaked in white mist, looked at each other.
“Brother Ji Duan, do you think we can really… hold them off?”
One of them whispered.
The cloaked figure named Ji Duan shook his head and said,
“Do the human effort, leave the rest to fate.”
They also turned and left.
After departing, Ji Duan, alone, entered a beacon tower.
Ensuring no one was around, he suddenly took out a jade pendant.
Inside the pendant, the light flashed.
A strange rune lit up.
And a secret phrase.
“Draw the rune with blood, to channel what comes from the Grey Mist Sea.”
Ji Duan pondered upon hearing this, glanced at the great flag worshipped inside the beacon tower.
That flag, once raised, would join with other flags to form a large array, repelling all from the Grey Mist Sea.
Then, he heard the sound of a horn from a distant beacon tower.
It was time for him to raise the flag.
Yet, he did not move, but suddenly bit his hand and drew a rune as shown on the jade pendant.
…
At this moment.
Within the Vast Heavenly Abyss.
This abyss was filled with death and darkness, and nothing else.
Anything that entered, whether objects or creatures, would be turned into nothingness by the endless mighty power within and erased from this world.
Even Chaotic Origin Qi could not enter this abyss.
At this time, a corpse sank into it.
In utter darkness, the corpse emitted a faint white misty light, barely visible, an imposing man.
In the darkness, the corpse silently split open.
Turning into countless lights.
Scattering throughout the pitch-black void, eventually forming a faint light bridge.
The light bridge spanned across the Heavenly Abyss.
On one side was the bone wasteland of the True Ancestor World.
On the other, a foggy world.
At this moment, in that foggy world.
A crimson eye lit up, suddenly emitting a low whisper.
“I vaguely sense the presence of that world…”
“Heh heh, the Heavenly Abyss has blocked us for eons, now, is it finally going to reopen…”
A gray claw suddenly reached out toward the Heavenly Abyss!
Terrifyingly overwhelming, with gray mist swirling as if to destroy the world.
But the moment that claw touched the edge of the Heavenly Abyss, some incredible force acted.
“Ah—”
A wretched scream, that massive gray claw was instantly shattered.
“There is indeed a faint connection…”
“But, we are still far from establishing a real bridge!”
Other crimson eyes lit up, saying,
“We must wait!”
Upon hearing this, the foggy world fell silent.
“Hmm? No, I sense the Blood Talisman.”
“Is someone trying to contact us?”
An entity whispered.
“Heh heh… the person who activated the Blood Talisman, is actually asking us for the method to the Grey Mist Path?”
The entity scoffed.
“Umm… perhaps the Forbidden Master’s strategy has succeeded? The foolish Ultimate Beings of that world, have they truly given up the woman’s Nine Laws?”
“If so… heaven aids us too!”
These entities with crimson eyes were all ecstatic!
“Send it over to them, as the Forbidden Master once said!”
“Heh heh, give them the method… If they truly cultivate it, we won’t need to exert so much effort.”
“This world will fall apart on its own!”
An entity spoke.
…
At this moment.
In a beacon tower on the Northern Border Great Wall of the True Ancestor World.
Ji Duan was covered in cold sweat.
He was doing his utmost to maintain the Blood Talisman.
Suddenly, within the Blood Talisman, several cryptographic shadows flashed!
Seeing this, Ji Duan was overjoyed.
“Have we really made contact with the entities from the Grey Mist Sea?”
“Ha ha, it seems that the corpse of Martial Honor has indeed established a faint connection between the True Ancestor World and the Grey Mist Sea!”
Ji Duan hurriedly took out a crystal, recording those cryptographic shadows!
After about half an hour.
The Blood Talisman finally disappeared.
“Are these cryptograms… the items the old ancestor wanted?”
Ji Duan muttered to himself.
The Ji Family’s original ancestor was also in the Sacrificial Temple.
He was acting on this ancestor’s command, doing this deed.
He got up and raised the flags inside the beacon tower.
Then, he secretly transmitted the recorded crystal.
…
Good night.