đź“– Chapter 1184 - Submerged!
Chen Qingzi was silent.
Ming Kunzi’s gaze didn’t falter. He didn’t continue speaking.
The Underworld Sect cultivators in the surroundings kept their heads bowed. They had neither the right nor the ability to speak up at this moment. Only the pseudo-Underworld Child who walked the path of yin and yang seemed a little unwilling, but after glancing at Wang Baole, their two bodies also bowed their heads.
As for Wang Baole, veins were bulging on his forehead, and his whole body was trembling violently. He was struggling with all his might, and if he could speak, he would definitely be roaring with madness. Moreover, cracking sounds echoed out faintly outside his body, as if some invisible seal was barely holding itself together.
After a few breaths of time passed, Chen Qingzi nodded.
“Alright, Master. Since you insist… I swear that from now on, no one will interfere with my little junior brother’s actions. Even if he wants to leave the stele world, no one will block, seal, or disturb him at all!”
“Good.” Ming Kunzi smiled. He withdrew his gaze from Chen Qingzi and looked at Wang Baole again. Seeing his youngest disciple’s intense struggling, Ming Kunzi’s gentle eyes showed a hint of pain. He murmured softly.
“Don’t be sad. It’s already a miracle that I’ve persisted until now. I’m tired of guarding this tomb. So many years in this muddleheaded state, only barely holding on to this mission… just let me rest.
“For me, this is a kind of relief. Once I die, my eldest disciple will return the Underworld Sect to its former glory and inherit the mission of our forefathers. Once I die, my youngest disciple will be freed from the fetters of karma, and the day he achieves his Dao won’t be far away. At the same time, he will be able to leave this place if he so desires. This… is a joyous occasion!” As he spoke, Ming Kunzi laughed. His laughter became louder and louder, echoing in all directions and spreading throughout the entire Underworld Emperor Tomb.
Visible fluctuations erupted in the surroundings, forcing the Underworld Sect disciples to fall back one by one. Even the three soul lamps on the Underworld Emperor’s coffin trembled violently, and one of them… suddenly went out!
Wang Baole was screaming in his heart, but he couldn’t stop it. All he could do was watch as his master’s body slowly turned transparent. The second soul lamp went out, and Ming Kunzi’s figure faded more and more. Then…
The third soul lamp went out.
Ming Kunzi… completely disappeared.
“Master!!” Wang Baole let out a plaintive wail. Because Ming Kunzi had died, the restraints on Wang Baole’s body had also disappeared, allowing the scream that had been suppressed in his heart to finally echo out. His voice was filled with endless sorrow, but more than that, an indescribable madness. His body instantly teleported over to where Ming Kunzi had disappeared, and he raise his hands as if to grab something.
But all he grabbed was empty air…
“Ebbing Time!” Wang Baole’s eyes were completely bloodshot. Right now, nobody in this place existed in his mind. He didn’t even pay any attention to Chen Qingzi. There was only one thought in his mind… turn everything back!
He instantly unleashed Ebbing Time, but… the invincible divine ability of time seemed to have lost its effect. It wasn’t that he failed to use it, but rather… even after twenty breaths of time passed, the figure of his master didn’t reappear.
However, Wang Baole was unwilling to give in.
“Ebbing Time!
“Ebbing Time!!
“Ebbing Time!!!”
In the distance, Chen Qingzi’s gaze fell on Wang Baole unleashing the spell again and again. For a moment, pain and struggle flickered in the depths of his eyes, but resolve soon quashed them. Withdrawing his gaze from Wang Baole, he lightly pointed a finger at the Underworld Emperor’s coffin.
Rumbling sounds instantly echoed out from the huge coffin, and its lid slowly rose due to some invisible force. Once it completely opened, an infinite deathly aura erupted from the coffin.
Dazzling rays of light spread in all directions, and a corpse floated out from the open coffin. This corpse clearly hadn’t been left intact; only its upper body remained, and only the bones at that. But looking carefully, every single bone was packed with endless mysteries of the Dao of Death and seemed to be engraved with countless blurry runes. This incomplete skeleton… was the most precious holy relic in the Underworld Sect.
Nothing else could compare!
As the skeleton floated slowly toward Chen Qingzi, the cultivators of the Underworld Sect all kowtowed, trembling with excitement. However, Wang Baole… didn’t pay attention to any of this. Instead, he was still standing in the spot where his master had disappeared, unleashing Ebbing Time again and again as if he had gone mad.
His body seemed almost unable to handle it, and the void around him was so distorted that his figure could barely be seen. Moreover, because Wang Baole had used Ebbing Time so much, the flow of time had completely changed in some areas nearby.
“It should be possible! Ebbing Time uses the law of time. I should be able to do it!” Wang Baole’s eyes were completely bloodshot as he muttered and formed hand seals again and again. He didn’t care at all about the partial skeleton of the Underworld Emperor, which was a peerless holy relic in the eyes of all the Underworld Sect cultivators. He also didn’t care that the skeleton had already entered Chen Qingzi’s hands.
In the end, when Chen Qingzi touched the skeleton with his right hand, all the bones turned into motes of light and merged into Chen Qingzi’s arm, causing… color to appear.
In this abyssal underworld, there was originally no color aside from black, white, and gray. But at this moment… resplendent and colorful light burst into existence!
This light spread out from Chen Qingzi’s arm and gradually covered his entire body. The aura of the Heavenly Dao erupted from his body, growing stronger and stronger with every passing moment, and a vast vortex faintly appeared above his head.
This vortex seemed to encompass all of the abyssal underworld. Looking up, the Underworld Sect cultivators could feel that there was a passage within the vortex, a passage for them to enter!
At the end of the passage was… the Never-Ending Dao Domain of the world of the living!
Rumbling reverberated in all directions as the vortex slowly rotated. The entire abyssal underworld trembled, and the Underworld River also churned. It was as if everything was flowing according to Chen Qingzi’s will.
After sensing the new changes in himself and the Heavenly Dao in his body, Chen Qingzi’s eyes became calm. In the end, after taking a deep look at Wang Baole, he turned and walked away.
The cultivators of the Underworld Sect quickly followed, all of their eyes shining with excitement and determination. However… the man and woman who walked the path of yin and yang glanced back at Wang Baole with a trace of unwillingness in their eyes. As they were about to leave the Underworld Emperor Tomb, the man’s right hand suddenly split off and turned into a strand of black energy. In an instant, that energy shot straight toward… Wang Baole, who was still at the bottom floor of the tomb!
As it moved, the hand turned into a tiny person whose appearance was the same as the male pseudo-Underworld Child. However, it wasn’t moving very fast; it seemed to be waiting, waiting to see if the Heavenly Dao would stop it. When Chen Qingzi did nothing, the tiny person thought that it was being given a hint, so its speed instantly increased. A moment later, it reached a spot three zhang away from Wang Baole.
It didn’t slow down at all, intending to take advantage of Wang Baole’s current dazed state. However… as soon as the tiny person entered the three-zhang area, before it could even do anything, its body trembled violently. At a rate visible to the naked eye, distortions appeared on the tiny person. It was as if its time was flowing backward.
In an instant, it turned into an arm, then a strand of black energy, then a drop of black blood. Then… there was nothing left, as if its existence had been wiped away completely.
At the moment of disappearance, it seemed to be invaded by the power of karma, cutting off its root origin and causing it to truly dissipate into nothingness.
In that instant, the pseudo-Underworld Child who had turned his arm into the tiny being earlier trembled violently and coughed up blood. His divine soul seemed to blur, and the woman beside him also coughed up blood.
The other Underworld Sect cultivators frowned, but didn’t speak. As for Chen Qingzi, who was walking in the front, he didn’t pause at all, or even seem to register what had just happened. But at that moment, the mysteries of Dao emanating from his body fluctuated slightly, and then…
The yin-yang cultivator thought that they would be the number one Underworld Child in the Underworld Sect once Wang Baole disappeared and even the future sect leader. They had been filled with such lofty dreams, but… as their bodies abruptly trembled, disbelief appeared in their eyes. They didn’t even have a change to speak. In but a moment, they completely disappeared, killed in body and soul. They weren’t even qualified to enter the cycle of reincarnation. They had been erased… by the Heavenly Dao!
Chen Qingzi continued walking away step by step. The endless mysteries of Dao rolling off his body made the entire void tremble, and rumbles echoed out throughout the entire abyssal underworld.
Behind him, at the bottom of the Underworld Emperor Tomb, there was a figure with disheveled hair, a pale complexion, and two bloodshot eyes. This figure was still unleashing Ebbing Time again and again…
Gradually, the distance between the two grew wider and wider. In the end, after Chen Qingzi left the Underworld River, the waters of the river churned and the million-zhang passage collapsed, causing the Underworld Emperor Tomb to be submerged in an instant.
As the waters of the Underworld River flooded the tomb, Chen Qingzi murmured in a voice that only he himself could hear.
“I’m right. I have to be!”