Gateway of Immortality

Chapter 1335: The True Celestial Palace

Qin Sang and the others arrived beneath the passage.

This place was a bare mountaintop with no trace of ancient barriers, but in the danger-filled Sin God Palace, that itself seemed highly abnormal.

Qin Sang swept onto the summit of a mountain and saw that the area directly ahead was filled with spatial rifts. Spatial turbulence and fragments of ancient barriers were everywhere. They were already close to the edge of Sin God Palace.

He sank his mind into his Qihai. The Killing Sword fragment lay quietly in the arms of his Spiritual Infant.

He had already crossed the entire Sin God Palace, yet the sword spirit had shown no reaction. It seemed there were no other Killing Sword fragments here.

I can basically confirm that there is no second Killing Sword fragment in Beichen Realm. In the future, I’ll have to leave Beichen Realm and search the other three realms, or go to the Demonic Sea. Qin Sang thought.

A wisp of five-colored mist drifted in front of him. He reached out and touched it. The mist scattered, and there was nothing strange about it.

Five-colored mist filled the surroundings, endlessly surging out from the lightning ring.

Canghong cautiously flew beneath the lightning ring. After inspecting it, he suddenly let out a soft sound of surprise, an unexpected expression appearing on his face.

Everyone had been watching Canghong’s movements. Seeing this, their hearts tightened, and they hurriedly asked what had happened.

"Everything inside the passage is normal," Canghong said in a strange tone. "This five-colored mist seems to be drifting in from the other end of the passage..."

The other end of the passage was Ziwei Palace. Did something happen in Ziwei Palace?

Everyone looked at one another.

"Since the passage is normal, we’ll know once we go in and look!" Zhenyi said in a low voice.

Everyone gathered toward the passage entrance.

This passage was different from others. As long as everyone used the corresponding secret technique, they could pass through it at the same time and arrive in Ziwei Palace. The exit was the devilish hole at the edge of the outer palace. There was no need to worry that Old Devil Ye would lie in ambush and defeat them one by one.

Everyone summoned their own astra, ready to respond at any moment, and sat cross-legged in the void.

Qin Sang took out the Devil-Binding Chain, which Qingjun had handed to him earlier.

He looked back. Qingjun and Jingyu still had not caught up; they were still inside the forbidden ground.

This woman’s attainments in the Dao of puppetry may have already reached the pinnacle! Jingyu looked at Qingjun and thought to herself.

At least among the cultivators she had seen, no one could be compared to Qingjun in puppetry. Because of Qin Sang, they were friends rather than enemies.

Yet for some reason, deep in Jingyu’s heart, she had always felt an indescribable layer of wariness toward Qingjun.

Now, Qin Sang’s reputation in the immortal cultivation world was extremely great. It was rapidly approaching Old Devil Ye’s, and even seemed to be showing signs of surpassing veteran powerhouses like Zhenyi and Devil Lord Tongyou.

The more remarkable thing was that he was still young. Unless something unexpected happened, the future Beichen Realm would belong to Qin Sang. Qingjun, by contrast, was far more low-key.

She had transformed into Leng Yuntian and only revealed her edge at Blood Lake, where she had fought Old Devil Ye without falling behind. In the end, however, she was still one move short and had the jade skeleton’s brocade skin taken away by Old Devil Ye. Her brilliance had been overshadowed by Qin Sang’s battle achievements.

However, Qin Sang’s strength was plainly visible, and his own cultivation was not especially high.

His Lightning Evasion art, top-tier astra, powerful devilish flames, puppet, and refined corpses were trump cards that could not be concealed. Once he used them once, others would remember them.

As Jingyu recalled her few interactions with Qingjun, she always felt Qingjun was difficult to fathom and quite mysterious. There was no definite evidence. It was purely an instinctive feeling.

It should be an illusion. Hiding one’s strength in front of Old Devil Ye would be no different from seeking death. Jingyu secretly laughed at herself. After being trapped for two hundred years, she had become too easily surprised.

While her thoughts wandered, Qingjun put away the Azure Luan puppet and flew out from the seal, gently shaking her head. She had found nothing.

***

At the passage entrance, Qin Sang and the others formed seals at the same time. Talismans formed from spiritual power appeared before them one after another, glittering with silver light as they established a connection with the passage.

"Break!" The instant the talismans were complete, everyone struck toward the passage together.

Crack! The talismans shattered at once, turning into specks of light. Half drifted toward the passage, while the other half fell onto their bodies.

Everyone felt their bodies tighten, and everything in their vision abruptly vanished into darkness. A gentle force tugged them upward. At first, the speed was slow, but it grew faster and faster.

No one knew how far they had been carried.

At last, Qin Sang felt the pulling force disappear and knew he had been brought into the devilish hole. Just as he was about to activate his astra and remain on guard, an earth-shattering roar suddenly came from above.

It was as if the world outside had collapsed!

Qin Sang’s mind trembled, and his expression shifted slightly. The others also appeared around him, all shocked by the tremendous noise.

Everyone exchanged glances, then hurriedly flew out of the devilish hole. They discovered five-colored mist drifting through the void. Sure enough, it had come from Ziwei Palace.

The instant they flew out of the devilish hole, everyone was stunned by the sight before them.

There was no sign of Old Devil Ye. But that was no longer important. They stared blankly toward the inner palace of Ziwei Palace, their faces filled with shock and disbelief.

Zhenyi and Devil Lord Tongyou had already entered Ziwei Palace several times. Even Qin Sang was entering for the third time.

In the past, Ziwei Palace’s inner palace had been extremely calm. It was actually less dangerous than the outer palace. As long as no one trespassed into the forbidden grounds, even Golden Core Realm cultivators could pass through unimpeded.

The heavenly mountain, the sword-scarred mountain, Hanging Garden Palace, the herb garden, the celestial city ruins...

Those forbidden grounds were layered with ancient barriers, but they were very stable, and their power never manifested outwardly.

Now, everything was completely different!

The inner palace was extremely unstable. The void shook violently, all the ancient barriers had been activated, and their power was fully revealed. The hidden realms and forbidden grounds that had once been concealed were now all displayed before their eyes.

The celestial city had been flattened by a single hand, leaving a massive palm print behind. The remaining ancient barriers had been activated, producing an illusion of the celestial city. Though it was shattered and ruined, one could still glimpse the splendor of that peerless celestial city!

At the sword-scarred mountain, the illusionary realm had appeared in the world, covering the surrounding mountains. Yet from within it, a world-shaking sword qi soared into the sky, shattering the illusionary realm with a momentum that seemed capable of cleaving the clouds.

At the herb garden, profound light formed luminous shields, each covering a vast stretch of spirit fields. Faint treasure light emerged from within, clearly indicating peerless spiritual herbs that had never been discovered before.

Above the center of the herb garden, a hidden realm appeared out of thin air. Within it stood a spiritual tree with a canopy like a cloud, blotting out the sky and sheltering that broken hidden realm. Inside, vitality surged, mist drifted in waves, and the place seemed profoundly mysterious.

Qin Sang recognized it. This was Hanging Garden Palace, the mysterious place that had nurtured Wandering Man and the Nine-Illusion Heavenly Orchid. He had originally intended to explore Hanging Garden Palace!

He also saw another damaged palace.

Spirit-Gathering Hall had also appeared in the world. Back then, it had been from the celestial platform in Spirit-Gathering Hall that he had obtained the Jade Liquid of Three Radiances.

At the summit of the heavenly mountain, even more phenomena appeared one after another. Shadows of celestial palaces flickered in and out of sight. No one knew whether they were illusory or real, but they looked very similar to the celestial palace above Seven-Kill Hall.

These were only the tip of the iceberg within the inner hall. Whether they had already been discovered before or had always remained unknown, every hidden realm had now reappeared in the world.

This was the true celestial palace! The true Ziwei Palace!

Everyone was incomparably shocked and found it hard to believe.

One cultivator murmured, "Could this be the work of Old Devil Ye and the devilish monster?"