Ou Yi’s figure shot fiercely into the depths. Ye Chu wanted to chase after him, but the white bones shattered by Ou Yi blocked his path. Ye Chu crashed into them. His body was sent flying sideways, smashing against a rock. He let out a miserable cry. His blood and qi surged wildly. A trickle of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth. His entire body felt as if it would shatter from the impact.
Watching Ou Yi disappear from his sight, Ye Chu felt helpless. Looking at the skeleton that had reformed and blocked the way again, Ye Chu finally gave up the strong urge to rush in.
Ou Yi is strange. Even the spirit corpses here do not dare to touch him. But Ye Chu is different. Ye Chu has no doubt that if he attacks this skeleton, it will kill him without hesitation. Although the skeleton is lifeless, the aura it emits is enough to tell Ye Chu just how terrifying it is.
“What exactly is the connection between this madman Ou Yi and the Ancient Nightmare? He treats the Ancient Nightmare like an enemy, yet the Ancient Nightmare does not dare to touch him, not even daring to let him die here!”
Ye Chu found it all too bizarre. If he had not seen it with his own eyes, probably no one would believe that someone could act so freely inside the Ancient Nightmare.
Although he felt worried about the already crazed Ou Yi in his heart, Ye Chu, who could not keep up with Ou Yi’s pace, had no choice but to grit his teeth and retreat from the cave. The pressure from facing such a skeleton was far too overwhelming.
After leaving the cave, Ye Chu returned to the altar once more. The grand array on the altar had been smashed into chaos by Ou Yi. Ye Chu and the others were no longer trapped by the formation. Taking this chance, they all shot outward from the altar.
Ye Chu leaped down from the altar. His gaze fixed on the towering altar that still flashed with brilliant light in front of him. In his heart, he remained worried about Ou Yi. That fellow had entered the depths of the altar. Although his performance seemed miraculous, this place is after all a forbidden land, an absolute deadly ground. Over countless years, who knows how many supreme powerhouses have died inside. Ou Yi may have decent strength, but compared to those supreme powerhouses, the difference is like heaven and earth. Can he really stay safe in there?
But this was no longer something Ye Chu could think about. The divine dragons on the altar, disrupted earlier, returned to their original positions. The grand array recovered. Without Ou Yi leading the way, it would be difficult for anyone else to enter.
Outside the altar, Ye Chu looked at the ten-thousand-zhang-tall myriad beasts surrounding them. He still felt his scalp tingle. Getting out of such a place would be extremely hard.
“Blast a path open!” Just as Ye Chu was pondering how to escape, a furious roar suddenly rang out. The Heavenly Feather Prince’s face was gloomy. He shouted at several of his accompanying experts. In his arms, he held the corpse of the Heavenly Feather Saint Lord.
The few followers nodded. Each erupted with terrifying power. Together with the artifacts on the Heavenly Feather Prince, they unleashed world-shaking light that surged straight toward a massive ferocious beast statue, trying to shatter it.
Their combined strike was terrifying. Although it did not shatter the beast statue, it still caused the huge carving to tremble and shift, opening a crack.
The followers were overjoyed when they saw this. They shot toward the crack. But the moment they touched it, the crack slammed shut fiercely. The leading cultivator was crushed directly into a pulp. Blood seeped and flowed out from the crack. The sight horrified everyone.
The Heavenly Feather Prince’s expression changed. He paused the movement he had prepared to shoot outward. But just when everyone was at a loss, the altar suddenly erupted with world-shaking light. As the light enveloped them, the ground beneath Ye Chu and the others began to shake violently. The myriad beasts condensed from the mountain range also collapsed. They turned back into peaks once more.
The light in the Ancient Nightmare forbidden land surged dramatically. The Heavenly Feather Saint Lord in the Heavenly Feather Prince’s arms also erupted with world-shaking radiance. The Heavenly Feather Saint Lord, who had shown no sign of life until now, suddenly unleashed supreme power. It shook the Heavenly Feather Prince away. The prince spat out a mouthful of blood that landed on the Heavenly Feather Saint Lord.
The Heavenly Feather Saint Lord’s palm, which had been about to grab the prince’s throat, suddenly halted. A twisted expression appeared on that emotionless face, as if undergoing immense struggle. In the end, he let out a miserable, ear-piercing scream. He flew fiercely toward the altar and vanished from everyone’s sight.
“Saint Lord!” The Heavenly Feather Prince roared. He wanted to grab the Heavenly Feather Saint Lord, but he could only watch helplessly as he disappeared.
Ye Chu watched the Heavenly Feather Saint Lord vanish. He could not help recalling a sentence Ou Yi had once said: “No one can take a corpse spirit out of the Ancient Nightmare forbidden land!”
Right now, did it not perfectly illustrate that very point? If the Heavenly Feather Prince’s blood had not stopped the lingering will of the Heavenly Feather Saint Lord from delivering the killing blow, then today the Heavenly Feather Prince, a true genius, might have fallen here.
The altar’s light continued to surge wildly. The ground beneath Ye Chu’s feet churned endlessly. Ye Chu tried hard to steady his body and not fall from the shaking. While the ground was upheaving, Ye Chu could see pieces of profound stone wriggling up from deep within the earth.
The profound stones made everyone’s eyes burn with greed. No one could resist the temptation. The Heavenly Feather Prince’s followers shot out fiercely and picked up several pieces of profound stone.
Ye Chu did the same. Ignoring the violent shaking of the ground, he grabbed two pieces of profound stone. Just as he reached for a third, the ground there split open. Ye Chu nearly fell in. He could only abandon the stone in front of him, flip his body, and step onto a huge rock.
The ground’s upheaval did not last long. Although profound stones kept rising from the earth, they soon vanished again. Ye Chu had no time to seize more.
When the ground’s shaking finally stopped, all the profound stones had disappeared completely. Looking at the two pieces in his hand, Ye Chu felt somewhat fortunate. Luckily he had acted fast enough to grab two.
Although the two profound stones in his hand were not top grade, the power surging from them was enough to support him breaking through to the primal spirit realm.
The altar’s light surged to its peak and then suddenly collapsed. The originally massive altar vanished without a trace. The carved divine dragons shot toward various mountain peaks and sank deep into them. In an instant, each peak erupted with supreme light. These lights carried terrifying killing aura and invaded every living being present.
Several cultivators following the Heavenly Feather Prince could not withstand it and turned into flying ash in an instant. The Heavenly Feather Prince relied on his artifacts to barely hold on. Among the cultivators beside him, not a single one survived this outburst.
Ye Chu felt the terrifying killing aura eroding him. He frantically circulated the yin-yang conversion method to transform and refine the killing aura. Surprisingly, his strength increased because of it. He stepped into the eighth layer of the innate realm.
But what truly surprised Ye Chu was something else. The killing aura of the multicoloured pattern evil spider inside his body, which he had nearly exhausted, increased again.
This filled Ye Chu with wild joy. He suddenly thought of a possibility: “Could it be that the killing aura of the multicoloured pattern evil spider can be replenished with other killing aura?”
This discovery made Ye Chu unable to contain his excitement. If this is true, does it not mean that in the future he can still rely on the multicoloured pattern evil spider?
As long as there is enough killing aura, Ye Chu can erupt with power far surpassing his own level. This is one of his trump cards. It had just been nearly depleted from overuse. But if it can be replenished, then…
Ye Chu felt thrilled just thinking about it. This means that in the future he can still use such a powerful trump card.