Chapter 484: Chapter 490: Desolate Sky Sacrifice! Eternal Fall into Reincarnation! (One more)
The Black Death Clan’s powerhouse had left!
With a hysterical howl, he departed quite peacefully, as if his wishes had been fulfilled. He appeared quite comfortable.
The black cavern in the land of the altar burst open, startling everyone.
Elder Qian, in particular, was visibly shaken upon seeing the expression on the face of the Black Death Clan’s powerhouse. He exclaimed, “Oh no, everyone take cover!”
Actually, even before Elder Qian’s warning, the instant the Black Death Clan powerhouse had roared, everyone had already scrambled in all directions.
What a joke, any attempt to take everyone down with him was utterly sinister and dangerous.
Even in death, he wanted to take others down with him. Indeed, this Black Death Clan powerhouse was truly wicked.
Yang Zhen ran the fastest. In a flutter, he was gone, vanishing over Two Mountain Heads. Only then did he cautiously stop and look back.
Hua Youyue and Han Yan’er, his fellow students, had not yet reacted. The Slink Cat and Sao Chicken were completely perplexed.
“Kid, when did you become so fast!”
Slink Cat was amazed as he looked at Yang Zhen in surprise.
Yang Zhen didn’t respond to Slink Cat’s question. He collapsed like a deflated balloon, grimacing in pain.
The time for using the Desolate Heavenly Skill had come. If he persisted any further, Yang Zhen wouldn’t be able to endure.
Something akin to a forbidden skill would have broken anyone else’s limit. Still, Yang Zhen, with his strength akin to a humanoid beast, managed to persist until now.
“Are you okay?” Hua Youyue came forward, took Yang Zhen’s hand, and a surge of life energy flooded into his body.
Yang Zhen shook his head and said, “I am fine. Look at the altar and see if something else has crawled out.”
“Seems like… nothing!” Slink Cat said in confusion: “Damn, was that bastard bluffing us?”
“Nothing?” Yang Zhen was taken aback.
“Really nothing!” Slink Cat said earnestly.
Yang Zhen took a deep breath, got up to look and, indeed, saw that the area around the altar had quieted down again. Even quite a few audacious practitioners started to crane their necks to peek inside.
“There’s really no danger?” Yang Zhen felt an urge to curse.
What the hell, that dark thing wouldn’t behave decently even when dying, it had to deceive people?
At this point, many practitioners had already started entering the altar one after another. Yang Zhen groaned, quickly stood up and said, “Hurry, if we are late, all the good stuff will be gone!”
Yang Zhen hurriedly rushed toward the altar. When they reached the side of the altar, they stopped, looking completely baffled.
They couldn’t get in anymore.
Damn, even Yang Zhen was gobsmacked. Fortunately, he hadn’t just woken up, or he would have thought he was trying to squeeze onto a bus.
Who knew how many people had squeezed into the mouth of the altar by now? People jam-packed in the entrance, rubbing shoulders and jostling against each other. There was absolutely no way to push in.
“Damn it!” Slink Cat yelled, “Kid, what should we do, should I pee and see if it can flush them out?”
Splash!
With a loud noise, the practitioners blocking the entrance jumped out in unison, glaring at Slink Cat in fury.
“Eh?” Slink cat chuckled, “It’s indeed open now!”
Without even looking, Slink Cat started walking straight forward, only to be pulled back by Yang Zhen.
“Why are you stopping me?” Slink Cat looked puzzled.
Yang Zhen threw Slink Cat to the ground, indicating it to look at the entrance: “You take a look for yourself, can you get in?”
The humble cat gave a start at the sight, there were even more people inside the cave; so many that they couldn’t leave even if they wanted to, they could only curse non-stop with their heads tilted.
At that time, nobody dared to take action. If anyone did, there would be nowhere to run, they would drop dead in piles.
“Forget it, this altar doesn’t seem so big!” Yang Zhen curled his lips, pondering whether to first dig out the treasure the lowly cat had mentioned.
Still feeling slightly unwilling, the humble cat was about to speak when a violent tremor vibrated the entire world—it seemed as if it had turned upside down.
It indeed had!
Fear exploded in Yang Zhen, disbelief written all over his face as he witnessed the overturning world. Endless mountains and stones crumbled; boulders flew and caused monstrous waves that blocked the sun, roaring towards the sky.
It was just like an apocalypse—the entire Mobei Abyss seemed about to be leveled.
A hollow and low moan as if it came from the netherworld echoed, a gigantic pillar shooting to the sky from all sides of the world. The altar, crowded with sacrifices, once again emitted a massive wave of red light that surged from below the ground.
In an instant, it morphed into a gigantic and terrifying structure.
The practitioners who had been trapped inside by the people behind them were now free; they rolled down from the temple, not a single bone in their bodies intact. They lay bloodied on the ground, dead as a doornail.
“What… what is this?”
Everyone’s face was filled with horror as they watched the towering structure, nobody knew what it was. But the ancient aura emanating from it made everyone become uncertain.
Seeing the massive structure, Qinglin and his clan members were so frightened that they knelt down in front of it and slowly began to retreat. Not one person could keep their composure.
Everyone silently retreated without uttering a word—as if they had never been there at all.
It wasn’t because everyone had gone silent, but because nobody standing there had the courage to speak.
Around them were eight towering, indecipherable celestial columns and in the middle was a bloody ominous structure rising into the sky.
Boom—!
Yang Zhen burst out with unprecedented speed, clutching Hua Youyue and Han Yan’er, along with the humble cat and Sao Saint. He disappeared from the spot in an instant. With a flicker, everyone was underground, swiftly leaving.
Once the sounds from Mobei Abyss were no longer heard, Yang Zhen and his team appeared on the ground, to their surprise, they had already left Mobei Abyss.
“We… we’re out?” The humble cat looked at Yang Zhen, his face still filled with lingering fear.
Sao Saint pulled his head out from under his wing, his body trembling.
“What… what was that?” Hua Youyue’s face was pale, filled with shock.
Han Yan’er, who was more deeply affected having entered the path, was the most sensitive to the world’s aura. Her face was pale and her eyes reflected her uncertainty. She suddenly took a deep breath.
“It’s the Desolate Heavenly Ceremony!”
“The Desolate Heavenly Ceremony?” Yang Zhen was startled, then asked suspiciously, “What is that?”
Hua Youyue also turned confused and uncertain now.
The humble cat came to his senses and blankly said, “Desolate Heavenly Ceremony, I didn’t expect this to still exist. Damn, kiddo, we’re in trouble now.”
Yang Zhen was taken aback and slapped the humble cat, “Damn, stop pussy-footing around. You’re making it seem like only I, Sao Saint, don’t know what this is. That’s embarrassing!”
The humble cat took the smack without getting angry, but hung onto Yang Zhen’s words, “The Sealed Land was created by several saints. What do you think about that?”
Yang Zhen snorted, “Though it was effortlessly broken by Sao Saint, I have to say that the Sealed Land is lethal for most people.”
The humble cat nodded, “Then, the Desolate Heavenly Ceremony was arranged by the emperor!”
“No wonder I, Sao Saint felt a bit of danger. So it was arranged by the emperor…wait what, it was set up by an emperor? Which emperor was so bored that he went through great lengths to arrange this? Also, what’s it used for?”
“To refine the heavens and earth. Once, an emperor isolated a part of the heavens and earth, refined them using the Blood Refining Technique, and forcefully stripped the origin from the external world to be used as power for the Desolate Heavenly Ceremony. As for the creatures inside… they are forever trapped in the cycle of reincarnation!”
“Damn, who did he have such a big grudge against?” Yang Zhen and the humble cat stared at each other wide-eyed.