Chapter 670 - 669: Divine Level Secret Realm Opens: Who is Twisting Time?
Chapter 670: Chapter 669: Divine Level Secret Realm Opens: Who is Twisting Time?
Lahut paused for a moment before continuing.
"Next, I ask all the Emperor Realm experts from every nation to accompany me to the Himalayas."
"Together, we will open the gate to the Divine Level Secret Realm."
"We will allow the Divine Son, Xue, to enter the Divine Level Secret Realm and receive her inheritance!"
Rhodes’s expression was as foul as if he’d just eaten shit.
But he could only swallow his pride and follow behind Lahut.
’He inwardly cursed Chu Sheng’s entire family tree, eighteen generations back.’
As for Chu Sheng, he had already been prepared to fight.
He’d even figured out exactly how he was going to grind Rhodes into the dust.
’I never expected Rhodes to chicken out so quickly.’
’Old bastard, you know what’s good for you.’
’I’ll let you live a few more days.’
Chu Sheng instructed Deputy Leader Huang to take the student contestants and return to Great Xia first.
He himself, along with Xue, followed the Emperor Realm experts from the other nations toward the Divine Level Secret Realm.
In the eyes of the other Emperor Realm experts, the Divine Level Secret Realm contained Blue Star’s only opportunity to ascend to the Divine Realm.
If an Emperor Realm expert entered, they would be strongly repelled by the Power of Law within the Secret Realm, making it impossible for them to ascend.
That was why the God-Slaying Alliance had unanimously concluded that only a young prodigy could possibly seize this chance to attain divinity.
Even if they couldn’t immediately break through to the Divine Realm, they could, one day in the future, become the only expert on Blue Star to ascend to the Divine Realm through their own power.
Only Chu Sheng himself knew the truth.
The so-called Divine Level Secret Realm was nothing more than a Grotto-Heaven that had died not long ago.
The world’s Origin within the Secret Realm was already dead, and its fundamental Laws were on the verge of collapse.
It lacked the fundamental conditions for any living being to break through to the Divine Realm.
However, the residual Heavenly and Earthly Treasures and ancient inheritances within the Secret Realm were still quite alluring to those at the Emperor Realm.
This was the real reason Chu Sheng had insisted on coming to this Divine Level Secret Realm.
Soon, the group arrived deep within the Himalayas, at a valley perpetually covered in ice and snow.
Chu Sheng and the Emperor Realm experts from the other nine nations each stood at one of ten different positions.
Simultaneously, they unfurled their Emperor Domains.
As the ten Emperor Domains, each with a different attribute, unfolded at once, the Space in the center of the valley began to fluctuate violently.
The originally folded Space slowly smoothed out.
A massive, radiant Light Gate appeared before them.
The Light Gate was covered in profound and mysterious runes, and it emanated an ancient and mystical aura.
Xue glanced at Chu Sheng.
Chu Sheng gave her a slight nod.
No longer hesitating, Xue stepped through the Light Gate.
Chu Sheng and the nine other Emperor Realm experts needed to continue releasing their Emperor Domains to maintain the Light Gate’s stability until Xue emerged from the Secret Realm.
Just as Xue stepped through the Light Gate, a faint BUZZING sound came from within her golden hair.
Who else could it be but Chu Sheng?
It turned out that Chu Sheng had long since summoned an Outer Body Avatar to walk with the other Emperor Realm experts and open the gate to the Secret Realm with them.
Meanwhile, his true body had already transformed into its White-striped Aedes Mosquito form, hidden among the strands of Xue’s hair, its aura completely concealed.
The Emperor Realm experts from the other nations only saw "Chu Sheng" still dutifully deploying his Emperor Domain.
They would never have imagined that the real Chu Sheng had already snuck into the Divine Level Secret Realm with Xue.
Not long after the person and the mosquito entered the Divine Level Secret Realm, the view before them suddenly opened up.
A magnificent ancient city appeared before them.
The city walls were over ten meters high, constructed entirely from massive bluestone slabs.
Outside the walls was a wide moat.
But the entire city looked extremely dilapidated.
The walls were covered in cracks and the marks of blades and axes.
Ruins and crumbling walls were everywhere.
There wasn’t the slightest trace of human presence, only a deathly stillness.
"Is this what the Grotto-Heaven used to be?"
"It’s a complete city!"
Xue exclaimed in astonishment.
Chu Sheng smiled. "There’s more than just this one city here."
He had just used Chaos True Sight to scan the area.
Due to the suppression from the collapsing Law within the Secret Realm, he could only see for about a hundred li.
But even within that hundred-li range, he saw three cities of roughly the same size!
However, without exception, all three cities were deathly still.
There were no signs of life whatsoever.
"Should we enter the city?" Xue asked.
Although she was technically Chu Sheng’s senior, this was her first time as a human, and her mind was still somewhat unseasoned.
Throughout their journey, she had very naturally followed Chu Sheng’s arrangements.
Chu Sheng looked around.
Besides these three cities, the surroundings were nothing but bare, desolate mountains.
There was nothing else.
"It seems there’s nothing here but the cities."
"Let’s go in and take a look."
As he spoke, Chu Sheng took Xue’s hand.
With a single Instant Teleportation, they appeared inside the city.
The city streets were wide and flat, but the shops and houses lining them were all in a state of decay.
Doors and windows had rotted away, and walls had collapsed.
An aura of desolation and deathly silence permeated the air.
The ground was covered in a thick layer of dust.
It looked like no one had lived here for many, many years.
"I’m afraid this Grotto-Heaven has been dead for at least a century," Chu Sheng slowly surmised.
"It’s just that no one ever discovered the entrance to this Space before."
The moment he finished speaking, a thick, rotten smell suddenly wafted over from all directions.
Immediately after, the stench of decay grew stronger and stronger.
Clearly, something was rapidly approaching them.
Chu Sheng and Xue immediately went on alert, each looking in a different direction.
A moment later, "humans" with decaying bodies, peeling skin, and ghastly white bones exposed, crawled out from the alleys and houses on all sides.
They roared, baring their teeth and claws as they charged toward Chu Sheng and Xue.
Chu Sheng said in surprise, "Strange. There was none of this in the city before we entered."
"Did we trigger some hidden mechanism by coming in?"
These Zombies were extremely fast.
Moreover, their strength was immense.
Even the weakest among them had a Sixth-Grade Cultivation.
The few running at the very front had even reached the Emperor Realm!
What shocked Chu Sheng even more was that among the horde of Zombies, he sensed a terrifying aura that was in no way weaker than the Emperor Realm!
’Could it be that after a Grotto-Heaven dies, all the living beings inside turn into these undying, indestructible Zombies?’
This was not the time to investigate such things.
With a mere thought, Chu Sheng acted.
He summoned ten Outer Body Avatars, and they each blocked off a different street exit.
Although he could have taken Xue and used Instant Teleportation to leave the city directly, this bizarre phenomenon didn’t seem like a natural occurrence at all.
It was more like...
It was man-made!!!
Ordering his Outer Body Avatars to intercept the Zombies, Chu Sheng immediately activated Chaos True Sight and began a carpet search of the entire city, hoping to find the person hiding behind the scenes.
But after searching for a long time, he found nothing.
Aside from the ceaselessly surging Zombies, the entire city was devoid of any living presence!
’Did I guess wrong?’
Chu Sheng frowned.
Just then, Xue, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.
"Brother Wen, have you sensed it?"
"The flow of time here is... off."
"How is it off?" Chu Sheng asked, puzzled.
Xue replied gravely, "The Time Law is being..."
"...artificially distorted!!!"