Following the green jade steps all the way down, what appeared before Ye Chu was a massive stone cave. This cave branched out in all directions, with numerous tunnels leading deeper within. In the centre of the cave, which was as large as a football pitch, every stone wall was covered with countless inscriptions. These characters resembled sacrificial texts, written in blood-red ink.
Ye Chu examined them carefully. The writing was extremely ancient, even containing pictographic characters.
The King saw Ye Chu and Ye Tian’s silence, and he spoke, “With this stone cave as the centre, one can walk endlessly through these underground passages. This King once tried, walking for three days and three nights without reaching the end. In the end, due to suffocation, I had to turn back. These passages, I do not know where they lead. Most importantly, these stone walls are harder than metal. Back then, I wanted to chip some off, but several weapons broke, yet these walls remained completely undamaged. This King finds it difficult to understand just how much force was needed to carve these sacrificial-text-like characters onto these walls.”
As the King spoke, his gaze fell upon the stone walls. The sacrificial texts on the walls flickered with a bloody light, eerie and horrifying, complementing the gloomy atmosphere. The King felt a chill in his heart.
“You say this place has existed for countless years?” Ye Chu asked curiously, examining these sacrificial texts. These texts contained various meanings. Although Ye Chu could not read them, he could sense a few things from their intent.
“It has existed since the Yao Kingdom came into being! This place can be considered the most mysterious location of the Yao Kingdom. Ancestors of successive generations have studied it, but none knew what this place was. An ancestor once said that this might be the place where some great power offered sacrifices to heaven.” As the King spoke, he continued walking forward. “Follow me. What they are looking for is that thing!”
The two followed the King and continued forward, arriving at the centre of this stone cave. At the centre of the cave stood a massive sacrificial altar, densely covered with sacrificial texts that spread upward, their blood-red colour assaulting the eyes.
At the very top of this strange and gloomy altar, an object was placed. It was a divine dragon composed of blood-red metal. It was not very large, only about a metre long, but it was in a posture as if soaring into flight. It sat quietly upon the altar, yet it gave Ye Chu the illusion of soaring through the nine heavens.
“What they want is this thing. This King does not even know how they learned that this thing was in the Yao Kingdom’s royal house.” The King sighed and said, “And I also do not know what use this thing has.”
Ye Chu looked at this blood-coloured divine dragon. His body rose into the air, wanting to land beside it. But the moment Ye Chu rose into the air, he felt an immense force pressing down upon him. He directly fell from the void, crashing heavily onto the ground.
“Thud…”
Ye Chu climbed up from the ground in a dishevelled and sorry state, covered in dust. He shook his head at Ye Chu, who had come to help him up, and stared intently at this altar.
This altar was somewhat strange. It actually forbade cultivators from hovering in the air.
Since he could not rise directly into the air, Ye Chu stepped onto the altar. The King, watching this scene, shouted, “Be careful. The altar has strange forces. Several kings among the ancestors died within a few days of ascending the altar.”
Hearing the King say this, Ye Chu became more alert. He carefully stepped upward, wrapping his entire body in power, defending against any possible accidents.
With each step he took, the sacrificial texts on the altar continuously flickered, and blood-red light enveloped Ye Chu, carrying a corrosive force.
At this moment, Ye Chu could understand why several kings of the Yao Kingdom had died within a few days of ascending the altar. Because this blood-red light possessed corrosive power, somewhat similar to baleful aura, capable of eroding a person’s vitality.
This bit of corrosive power naturally had no effect on Ye Chu. Ye Chu continuously stepped upward, and soon reached the top of the altar, standing before that blood-coloured divine dragon.
The divine dragon was blood-red all around, with blood-red light flowing across its entire body, as if real blood were flowing within it. Ye Chu examined it from top to bottom, but from it he only felt an intent to soar into flight. He could sense nothing else.
Ye Chu shifted his gaze, and his eyes fell upon the altar. Beneath the divine dragon, Ye Chu discovered some text.
Unlike the sacrificial texts from before, these characters were exceptionally clear. Ye Chu could completely distinguish them.
However, after seeing these characters, Ye Chu’s expression changed dramatically. He was completely stunned in place, staring blankly at these characters, his heart surging with monstrous waves.
“Blood Butchering Supreme!”
The text above was not much, but from the signature, Ye Chu clearly knew who had left it. Looking at those four scarlet characters, Ye Chu only felt his mind explode with a boom.
Blood Butchering Supreme, the last Supreme of the Sentiment Domain. Blood Butchering Supreme attained the Supreme position five thousand years ago. This was a legend, and because it was the closest to the present, his legends were the most real in the Sentiment Domain.
Everything about him, everyone could recite by heart.
Among the many Supremes, Blood Butchering Supreme was one of the most notorious. Back then, he attained the Way through killing, slaughtering all along the way. Who knows how many people died at his hands. Most importantly, he truly drank human blood and ate human flesh.
Wherever he passed, news would occasionally spread of cities being completely massacred, with blood flowing like rivers. Compared to other Supremes, Blood Butchering Supreme was far too cruel and bloody.
This was a demon of the Sentiment Domain, but this demon was also invincible. Five thousand years ago, the Sentiment Domain was practically a living hell. This situation only disappeared after Blood Butchering Supreme attained the Supreme position.
It was also precisely because Blood Butchering Supreme massacred so wantonly back then that the Sentiment Domain declined from being the most prosperous domain back then.
The entire Sentiment Domain declined because of Blood Butchering Supreme alone. And now, he had actually left an object here, and left an altar here.
Ye Chu took a deep breath, his gaze falling upon the line of text left by Blood Butchering Supreme: “Become a god through killing, the Sentiment Domain as burial, the divine dragon receiving blood!”
Each large character contained a strange intent, carrying the power of rules, spreading from them in all directions, then entering into the various cave tunnels.
Ye Chu could not see through it. These rules did not affect Ye Chu, but merely permeated in all directions. The blood-coloured divine dragon sat upon these large characters.
Ye Chu was very clear that these large characters were the power of rules left by the other party. Only, what did these characters represent?
Become a god through killing? Could it be that there truly were eternally existing gods in this world?
Blood Butchering Supreme was a legend. In recent times, he was the last person to attain the Supreme position.
In ten thousand years, he was the only one to attain the Supreme position. From this, one had to admit the uniqueness of Blood Butchering Supreme.
Everyone guessed wrong. Blood Butchering Supreme should possess secrets, and they were world-shaking and extraordinary. To be able to attain the Supreme position in such a harsh environment made this even more legendary, and even more astonishingly extraordinary.
But the last Supreme of the Sentiment Domain had erected such an altar here. What exactly was he trying to do?
Ye Chu stared intently at the divine dragon metal, his heart trembling with fear, not knowing what significance it represented.