Volume 1, Chapter 333 – Imperial Clan

The hazy glow over the gap in the light barrier looked as though it could be shattered with a single blow, but in truth, it was terrifyingly resilient.

After staring at it in concentration for a moment, the Human Emperor suddenly reached down and snatched two people from the ground, then hurled them toward the light barrier.

Bang!

One was stopped outside the barrier, while the other passed through it without the slightest obstruction and landed before the palace. Dizzy from the fall, his expression immediately turned to wild delight. He scrambled to his feet and rushed toward the palace.

When he reached it, he pushed open the gate without hesitation.

Beyond the gate was a dark vortex. Without the slightest pause, and with feverish excitement all over his face, he stepped inside.

Pfft!

A short, muffled sound rang out. A thread of scarlet blood slowly seeped out from the vortex and dripped onto the steps below the hall, giving the scene a strange, eerie air.

“Hee hee hee—”

Suddenly, a burst of playful laughter came from within the vortex. A moment later, a bluish-white woman’s face poked out from it, her pupils unfocused and a twisted smile hanging on her face.

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“What is that thing?”

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“It should be some sort of ghost-spirit.”

“Wasn’t it said that all the yin spirits and ghostly beings in the Vast Land of Shenzhou were driven beneath the Yellow Springs by the Sovereign?”

The crowd on the ground grew uneasy. The Human Emperor’s actions just now had sent a chill rising unbidden through their hearts.

Although that man’s cultivation had not been high, only the late stage of the Earth Fiend Realm, he had been swallowed up without the slightest chance to react. It was truly horrifying.

The powerful figures in the sky remained expressionless. At their level of cultivation, very few things could still shake their Dao hearts. They had seen scenes a hundred times stranger than this.

The Human Emperor seized a few more people and threw them over. A short while later, he came to a conclusion.

“No one above the Nascent Soul Realm can enter. It is likely a screening method left behind to choose a suitable inheritor.”

“I have heard that Purple Lightning Manor’s Thunderclap Dao is especially effective against yin spirits, ghosts, evil entities, and monsters.”

“Why not let Purple Lightning Manor take the first step?”

Someone spoke in secret, concealing the source of the voice, so no one knew who had said it. The atmosphere immediately turned delicate.

After all, it had been Purple Lightning Manor itself that had just declared it would be the first to enter the secret realm.

“Fortune is for everyone. Our Purple Lightning Manor would not be so shameless as to monopolize the glory. Please, all of you, feel free.”

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A reply came from the lightning war chariot. The tone was calm, and there was not the slightest trace of embarrassment in it. The sheer thickness of their skin left even the people below speechless.

Several Human Emperors lowered their gazes to the people below, their expressions unreadable. The atmosphere in the field instantly turned heavy.

Only martial artists at the Nascent Soul Realm and below could enter. For these heavenly prodigies and younger descendants, the risk was still too high. With the situation still unclear, no one was willing to gamble their own future on it.

“If you step onto the martial path without the will to press forward, if you hesitate and look before and after at every turn, then why cultivate the Dao at all? Why practice martial arts? You’d be better off reciting sage quotations with those bookworms. Wouldn’t that be much easier?”

A burst of laughter shattered the oppressive silence. At some point, a pitch-black warship had appeared in the sky, and a young man strode out in broad steps, his blood and qi like a boundless sea of cloud and waves.

Shi Lan’s gaze tightened slightly. She caught a whiff of something unusual. This person in front of her barely qualified as an opponent.

It was not that she thought too highly of herself. It was simply that among those of her own generation, there were truly very few people left whom she could still regard as opponents.

The man looked to be around twenty-three or twenty-four years old, with a robust physique. His black eyes blazed with sharp light. As he swept his gaze over the surroundings, he was like the king of beasts surveying all beneath him, carrying an indescribably overbearing aura.

There were no banners on the warship beneath his feet to indicate his identity, and to the crowd, this young man was likewise a completely unfamiliar face.

“Junior, call out your elders. Is this a place where you get to speak?” The Human Emperor who had first seized people for testing looked down from on high at the youth and spoke indifferently.

He had an aged face and snow-white hair, and naturally bore the imposing majesty of an Emperor, enough to fill others with dread.

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“Remember this well, vermin. My compound surname is Tianwu, my name is Yangyu!”

The young man let out a long howl. Even in the face of that Human Emperor, he showed no fear whatsoever. He stomped down fiercely, shot into the sky, and landed directly before the light barrier. Without the slightest obstruction, he passed through the hazy glow and came to a stop before the black vortex.

The bluish-white woman’s face had vanished at some point, and that burst of playful laughter also seemed to have drifted away. The young man remained fearless. His blood and qi coiled around him like dragons, protecting him as he stepped into the vortex.

This time, no abnormal change occurred. Not the slightest sound came from the vortex. The young man seemed to have entered safely.

The Human Emperor’s expression remained calm, but a trace of gloom was hidden in his eyes. After casting a covert glance at the motionless black warship, he said nothing more. He sat cross-legged in the void and closed his eyes.

The crowd fell silent. The name Tianwu Yangyu spoke for itself. As a member of an Imperial Clan, and under the protection of the Heaven Extremity Blade, he naturally had the confidence to disregard a Human Emperor.

Provoked by Tianwu Yangyu’s example, the assembled heavenly prodigies grew eager to try, only to be quickly pressed back down by their elders.

With that precedent before them, some of the people on the ground also began to waver. This world had never lacked those willing to risk everything in a single gamble. Very soon, many people rose into the air and charged toward the light barrier.

The Human Emperors did not stop them. After watching several hundred people pass through the gate without encountering any further mishaps, they finally let their heavenly prodigies go, each assigning several Nascent Soul Realm great cultivators to guard their Dao before sending them into the barrier.

The violet-haired youth of Purple Lightning Manor and the princess of the Ling family of Kaiyang Prefecture entered one after another without exception.

Shi Lan lifted her head and glanced at the sky, a faint breath of relief rising in her heart. Now she should be able to leave…

“You, you, and the rest of you. Go in together.”

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An indifferent voice sounded from overhead. Following the direction of the voice, Shi Lan looked up and saw an old face full of wrinkles.

That aged Human Emperor pointed repeatedly through the void, selecting several hundred cultivators in all, including Shi Lan.

“After you enter, whether you obtain fortune or not, when you come out, this Emperor will give you guidance, pass on supreme arts, and aid your cultivation.”

“If any among you should chance upon even a sliver of opportunity and bring it out, this Emperor will accept that person as a personal disciple, pass on my mantle, and grant them all the Dao Treasury of my lifetime.”

A chill rose in Shi Lan’s heart. She cultivated Heaven’s Eye Qi-Sight and had already seen through some of this old Human Emperor’s condition. This man’s lifespan was nearly exhausted. He wanted nothing more than to seek a breakthrough and drag out his life a little longer.

A person like that was undoubtedly dangerous and extreme. If anyone went against his wishes, they would likely die on the spot.

Quite a few others clearly shared Shi Lan’s thoughts. Yet however unwilling they were, they had no choice but to fly toward the light barrier.

“Exalted One, what do we do?”

Tianbai had also realized something was wrong and spoke through voice transmission.

“Stay close to me and adapt as the situation changes.”

Shi Lan’s gaze turned cold. It was not as though she had never broken into a Sovereign’s tomb before.