In the Imperial City of the Great Qin Dynasty, the new emperor, Qin Feng, stood in the great hall with his hands behind his back. He was listening to the 27th Imperial Prince recount his experiences in Death Valley.
The 27th Imperial Prince didn’t tell others, but he couldn’t possibly keep it a secret from the current Imperial Lord, Qin Feng.
After all, this matter was related to the Minister, the unparalleled expert of the Great Qin Dynasty.
When Qin Feng heard that a mysterious person had become a Sage, he looked to the south and seemed to see the Taiyi Holy Land which was hundreds of millions of miles away. He murmured to himself, “17th brother, you’ve killed an ancient Sage of the pegasus race and have thus gained the power to kill a Sage. At the same time, another peerless expert has transcended his tribulation to become a Sage. It should be you, right? ”
To be able to be chosen as the Imperial Lord, Qin Feng was naturally extraordinary in all aspects, be it in terms of intelligence, cultivation, knowledge, methods, and so on. From the clues, he could deduce that the mysterious Sage who had passed the tribulation not long ago was very likely to be his 17th brother, Qin Chen.
This was because Qin Chen was a great Venerable at the peak of the Bahunag realm, to begin with. Plus, he could even kill Sages while in that realm. All these showed how terrifying his potential was.
The more terrifying one’s potential was, the more terrifying the heavenly tribulation would be.
It was normal for Qin Chen’s heavenly tribulation to have covered a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles.
However, Qin Feng had also learned from the 27th Imperial Prince that Qin Chen did not want the matter of his killing a Sage to be known to the world. At the same time, he learned that Death Valley was the ancestral land of the pegasus race, one of the ten thousand ancient races.
During the primordial era, the ten thousand races flourished while the human race declined into a vassal.
The recovery of Heaven and Earth and the reappearance of the ten thousand races would inevitably change the current situation of the human race dominating the Canglan Continent. The territories would change greatly.
Some Sages of the ten thousand races might even want to set an example by killing a few human experts and making the human race submit again. They would kill the human Sages as a warning to the human race.
If those existences knew that the pegasus race had been exterminated because of Qin Chen, the other powerful races of the ten thousand ancient races would probably target him.
Naturally, Qin Feng would not allow his 17th brother to suffer such a calamity.
“It’s a pity that 17th brother isn’t willing to return to the Great Qin Dynasty’s imperial family. Otherwise, with the power of the Great Qin Dynasty’s imperial family, even if the ten thousand ancient races return, protecting him wouldn’t be a problem,” Qin Feng let out a soft sigh. The Great Qin Dynasty was the immortal divine dynasty left behind by Emperor Shi, the invincible emperor of the ages. How terrifying would the dynasty’s foundation be? Even the Taiyi Holy Land had ancient Sages sealed away, so the Great Qin Dynasty naturally had ancient Sages sealed away as well, and even more than one of them.
In the Taiyi Holy Land, Qin Chen was in seclusion.
He had passed the Sagely heavenly tribulation and truly become a Jiutian Sage who was invincible in the world.
After stepping into the Jiutian realm and dealing with the Sage-level Demon King, he finally had time to calm down and truly understand the extraordinariness of this realm. It was indeed worthy of being called the Sage level that transcended mortality where the mortal body would transform into a Sage body.
At all times, surges of Heaven and Earth essence would come from all directions and enter his body. He could faintly merge with Heaven and Earth.
In particular, Qin Chen had the Chaotic Holy Body, which made his Sage Body even more extraordinary. It constantly devoured a large amount of Heaven and Earth essence into his body, constantly transforming and strengthening his body.
“After so many years, I’ve finally become a Sage of the Jiutian realm. I didn’t expect the effects to be so extraordinary,” Qin Chen was surprised and overjoyed as he sensed the surging power in his body. It was not only from the divine sea derived from his dantian but also from the Chaotic Holy Body.
After the Chaotic Holy Body transformed into a Jiutian Sage body, it became even more powerful. It was definitely a Sage body that far surpassed those of the same realm. So much so that Qin Chen was even confident that he could crush all the Sages of the Jiutian realm.
Qin Chen went into seclusion to comprehend the extraordinary aspects of the Jiutian realm. This seclusion lasted for three months, a rare occurrence, far longer than before.
Three months later, he came out of seclusion. By then, he had a complete grasp of the Jiutian realm, and he was confident that he was much stronger than when he was a great Venerable. At this point, he was confident that if another being like the ancient Sage of the pegasus race or Sage-level Demon King were to come, he could suppress them with one hand.
At this moment, Qin Chen arrived at the great imperial hall where the Sage-level Demon King had been sealed. This palace was left behind by an ancient great emperor from the primordial era, though he had no idea which Emperor it was.
The place seemed to be covered with the footprints of many ancient great emperors. It was clearly not as simple as it seemed.
Back then, when the Sage-level Demon King had reappeared, it had brought about the great imperial hall reappearance as well. However, the place had been temporarily sealed by Ling Ran and the others, never exposed to the outside world.
After Qin Chen became a Sage, this was the first time he stepped into the great imperial hall. Due to the reappearance of the Sage-level Demon King, a gap had appeared in the core array of the palace, allowing Qin Chen to enter easily.
Even though he had become a Sage, he still maintained a respectful attitude towards the ancient great emperors.
In the great imperial hall, Qin Chen entered the core area. It was a towering hall that made it seem as if he had come to another world. It was astonishingly huge, even more so than the Taiyi Holy Land. He guessed that the ancient great emperor must have opened up a huge space with his emperor-level secret knowledge in the palace.
However, in this world, Kings of the Qiyao realm could travel through space, Venerables of the Bahuang realm could shatter the vacuum, and Sages of the Jiutian realm could open up space. It was not surprising that ancient emperors had such skills.
The imperial hall was not as grand as he had imagined though. On the contrary, it was dilapidated.
The walls were full of cracks, with sword marks, saber marks, axe marks, and other battle marks all over them. The few giant pillars that seemed to be supporting the sky were also tilted, and the imperial hall was almost completely shattered.
“These battle scars are at least marks left by Sages!” Qin Chen’s expression turned serious. He had expected that there would be some terrifying secrets hidden in the imperial hall, but he did not expect it to be so terrifying. The place had experienced the most terrifying and fierce battle, and it was a battle between many Sage-level experts.
In the center of the palace, apart from the countless battle marks, there were 33 steles more than ten thousand feet tall. They looked like 33 heavenly mountains.
Qin Chen rose into the air and looked down at the thirty-three steles. He was shocked to find that the thirty-three steles were arranged in a circle in a special way.
Under the 33 thousand-foot steles, special and mysterious lines connected them.
“This is an array!” Qin Chen could see that with the thirty-three steles as the center, the entire imperial hall was engraved with an ancient array. It was profound and mysterious.
Even with Qin Chen’s Jiutian realm attainment, he was unable to understand the function of this array.
However, he did not think that this was an ordinary array. Regardless of the fact that the steles were the core, the ancient great emperor who left it behind must have had a profound intention. Just the fact that the Chaotic Heavenly Emperor had probably once stepped into this place was enough to prove that this array must have a shocking origin.
What was even more shocking was that Qin Chen could feel the auras of different ancient great emperors from the thirty-three steles.
Among them, there were the auras of the Chaotic Heavenly Emperor, Emperor Shi, and the Great Desolate Ancient Emperor. As he had cultivated the imperial sutras and emperor-level supernormal knowledge of these ancient great emperors, he could naturally sense them.
But now, there were 33 steles left behind by 33 different ancient emperors. This was what shocked Qin Chen.
To be honest, it was hard for him to imagine that there had only been thirty or forty great emperors in history, yet all of them had left a stele in the imperial hall. Why was that?
Qin Chen frowned. He could feel that there was definitely a shocking secret hidden in this imperial hall.
However, it was a pity that even though he was a Jiutian realm Sage, he was still a long way from becoming an ancient Emperor. There was no point in overthinking it. Furthermore, there didn’t seem to be any danger in this imperial hall.
He should leave, for now.
Qin Chen wasn’t stupid. His goal was just to hide and stay safe. There was no need to lose his life just to explore secrets.
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