Spirit Realm Chapter 475-477

Chapter 475: Forbidden Land of Thunder

“We finally got out!”

Outside the lush forest, a vast wilderness stretched out into the distance.

Surveying the view before her, Song Tingyu wore a look of joy on her face as if their days of hardship had finally come to an end.

“We walked in the direction that Luo Chen pointed out to us for the past ten days. At long last, we know that we were not on the wrong path.” Du Xiangyang also smiled. “After the wood spirit was sealed, the forest returned to normal as well. The ancient trees no longer move around on their own. That’s why we didn’t get lost and were able to leave this forest!”

“Is this wilderness the Forbidden Land of Thunder that Luo Chen previously mentioned?” Song Tingyu asked doubtfully.

“What do you think, Qin Lie?” Du Xiangyang asked with a smile.

“We’ll reach the Forbidden Land of Thunder after we’ve passed through this wilderness!” Qin Lie said affirmatively.

“How do you know?” Xie Jingxuan could not help but ask.

“I sense the powerful fervor of a thunder lightning field!” Qin Lie said excitedly.

The Forbidden Land of Wood and Forbidden Land of Thunder were separated by a field of wilderness. At the other end of the wilderness was an intense thunderous commotion.

He knew that they were heading in the right direction.

“Then let us pass through this wilderness,” Du Xiangyang said cheerfully.

“Let’s go!”

A day later.

Upon passing through the wilderness, a swampy area covered in a torrent of rain and crisscrossing lightning became visible to them.

At first glance, there were all kinds of ponds, puddles, and swamps along with mountains of various heights.

“Prak prak prak!”

Bolts of light blue lightning accompanied by thunderous rumbling would reverberate from every direction of the swampy area every so often. They were deafening.

“This is the Forbidden Land of Thunder!” Qin Lie’s eyes gleamed with an odd light as he broke out into a smile. “How wonderful! This place is great!”

“What’s so great about it?” Du Xiangyang asked with curled lips.

“It’s good for my cultivation! Hehe!” Feeling happy, Qin Lie didn’t say anything else to Du Xiangyang and stepped into the forbidden land.

Du Xiangyang and the others had no choice but to follow.

The Forbidden Land of Thunder was a place where wind, rain, rumbling thunder, and lightning would frequently appear. Its weather was extremely nasty.

Ponds, puddles, and swamps filled every corner of the area. A single misstep might lead to someone sinking deep into the ground.

Qin Lie’s group could hardly find a place that was dry along the way. There was rarely a time when the sky wasn’t filled with rain or lightning.

“There isn’t much to be worried about. As long as we aren’t struck by lightning, we’ll be fine.” Qin Lie kept comforting the group. “We simply need to replenish our spirit energy with the spirit stones for now, that’s all.”

A shield of scarlet light surged to cover Du Xiangyang’s body. Xie Jingxuan’s shield of light was green, whereas Song Tingyu’s was a rainbow of color.

They formed the barriers of light with spirit energy from inside their bodies, using them as precious clothing that covered their entire being and nullified the lightning that would occasionally strike from the sky. The shields protected them from actual harm.

However, maintaining the shields of light required energy, and every once in a while, they would have to recover that energy using their spirit stones.

Qin Lie was the only one exposed to the elements, completely wet.

He only wore short, animal-skin pants, baring his nude upper body while calmly walking amidst the raging storm.

Lightning would strike his body every so often, causing huge sparks to appear. The energy from the lightning would then vanish into his body.

It was as if his body were absorbing it.

Sometimes he would grin and laugh aloud, looking incredibly comfortable and relaxed. It was obvious that this Forbidden Land of Thunder suited him greatly.

When they arrived at the foot of a small mountain, Qin Lie examined its peak and saw that it was covered in dense thunder and lightning energy. He was immediately attracted to it.

“I’m going to cultivate for a while. You guys go dig out a cave and hide inside of it.”

“Do whatever you want.” Du Xiangyang shrugged his shoulders.

He took out the sword that burned with scarlet flames and began to dig a hole in the body of the mountain. He was the first to slip inside.

Song Tingyu and Xie Jingxuan looked each other in the eye before taking out their own weapons, digging their own caves, and hiding in them as well.

This way, they did not need to get wet in the rain or be on guard against random lightning strikes. This allowed them to breathe a bit easier.

For the time being, this was how they recovered their strength.

At the peak of the small mountain.

Wearing a pair of leather pants and exposing a large portion of his body, Qin Lie quietly sat in the thick of the raging thunderstorm.

At the third stage cultivating Heavenly Thunder Eradication, Qin Lie needed to temper his soul with thunder and lightning. He would need to borrow the power of thunder and lightning to support his cultivation. This meant that, the more that thunder and lightning were gathered in one spot, the faster he would be able to progress through this stage of his cultivation.

Qin Lie had previously used the power of his thunder Natal Palace in his dantian’s spirit sea to temper, shatter, and reform his soul.

In reality, this method wasn’t very efficient and wasn’t where the true magic of this stage of the cultivation occurred.

Qin Lie ultimately needed actual thunder and lightning for this stage of his cultivation. He needed to be tempered by natural lightning bolts!

The Forbidden Land of Thunder was mired in perpetual rumbling thunder and crisscrossing lightning. For Qin Lie, this was the cultivation paradise he always dreamed of.

Just like how the ultimate blood ground could greatly benefit those who cultivated the Blood Spirit Art, the Forbidden Land of Thunder could also improve the efficiency at which he cultivated Heavenly Thunder Eradication to the maximum!

Qin Lie began circulating Heavenly Thunder Eradication and attempted to draw thunder into his own body.

“Boom boom boom!”

With a thought, every organ in his body and every pore on its surface began to rumble with the indistinct sound of thunder.

The lightning bolts that were gathered above this small mountain all focused on the spot that Qin Lie sat like magnets that were attracted by one another, or spirit snakes that smelled the scent of blood.

From time to time, the deafening roar of thunder would resonate nearby. The increasingly oppressive giant web of lightning that covered the sky slowly descended.

Lightning twisted and turned in midair, dancing like serpents and dragons while filling this land with dazzling electrical light.

“Prak prak prak! Boom!”

A sudden bolt of lightning as thick as a pail descended from the sky, striking Qin Lie’s shoulders.

Tendrils of lightning and waves of thunder surged into his body and soul..

Violent, berserk thunder energy instantly flooded his entire body, causing it to involuntarily tremble.

“Good!” Qin Lie grinned amidst the raging thunderstorm and howled angrily like a beast. “Again!”

Bolts of lightning descended from the sky and mixed with the sound of thunder.

Like earthworms or spirit snakes, numerous lightning bolts reached his sea of consciousness and Soul Lake, blasting his True Soul.

Qin Lie’s True Soul was like a spirit artifact that had been tossed into a furnace and refined. It was constantly tempered and refined by an obscene amount of lightning bolts and explosive thunder.

As that thunder and lightning tempered his True Soul, it became immeasurably tough, resembling a piece of fine iron that had been tempered hundreds and thousands of times.

It was as if the impurities inside of his soul were gradually being burned away by the power of lightning and thunder.

Even Qin Lie’s Soul Lake grew clearer and clearer as his True Soul underwent this strengthening process. The wisps of his soul consciousness and thoughts became compact and pure, as if they were being tempered by a flaming iron hammer.

The third stage of Heavenly Thunder Eradication, where one tempered their soul with thunder and lightning, was obviously a miraculous soul tempering art that was mysteriously profound.

To top it all off, this was a soul tempering process that used thunder and lightning, the bane of all souls!

Amidst the raging storm of rain and lightning, Qin Lie was half naked as he sat at the peak of the small mountain. He relentlessly tempered his True Soul, releasing odd howls from time to time.

Once this cultivation begun, it was as if it would never stop. Day by day, time passed. Song Tingyu, Xie Jingxuan, and Du Xiangyang had recovered a long time ago, and every time they awakened and walked out of their stone caves, they would inwardly click their tongues.

Qin Lie, who was attracting thunder and lightning into his body, caused every trace of the two in the surrounding area to gather. This made the strength of the thunder and lightning in this particular area become nearly ten times more frightening than any place nearby!

The second Song Tingyu and the others left their stone caves, they would be met with an apocalyptic deluge of lightning strikes. This made all of them grumble on the inside.

They weren’t even able to climb up to the peak of the small mountain and check on Qin Lie’s condition. They could only hide in their caves and wait for the moment that Qin Lie stopped cultivating.

They ended up waiting for nearly half a month.

“It stopped! It finally stopped!” Du Xiangyang cried out, poking his head out of his cave one day.

Song Tingyu and Xie Jingxuan followed suit and appeared from their own caves.

The thunder and lightning, which had only intensified for the last half month, had completely disappeared.

The previously raging storm no longer plagued the area either.

The world seemed to have found peace in this instant, causing the three who had been painstakingly waiting all this time to finally let out a sigh of relief.

They hurriedly ran up to the peak.

Qin Lie still sat atop this small mountain, back straight, unmoving, and half naked.

After half a month of hard cultivation and being assaulted with thunder and lightning countless times, not only did Qin Lie’s body not appear to be scorched, it was even filled with a jade-like luster.

Threads of fine electricity casually swam across his dazzling skin while the somewhat melodious sound of thunder occasionally rumbled from within his body. The sounds didn’t evoke any fear or discomfort.

Qin Lie suddenly smiled and opened his eyes.

Two bolts of dark blue electricity shot out of his eyes like electric snakes.

This immediately surprised Song Tingyu, Xie Jingxuan, and Du Xiangyang.

There was no mistake. It wasn’t a gaze that just looked like lightning. Lightning actually shot out of his eyes!

“Qin Lie, you… have you made a breakthrough?” Du Xiangyang cried.

“Mn. I have entered the middle stage of the Netherpassage Realm.” Qin Lie grinned.

“Congratulations.” Xie Jingxuan’s tone was calm.

“Oh you, the speed of your progress is also pretty amazing!” Song Tingyu’s eyes were filled with joy.

“I heard that you shattered your soul twice in order to destroy Black Voodoo Cult’s voodoo toxin, forcing your realm to fall from the Netherpassage Realm to the Manifestation Realm.” Du Xiangyang had a strange look in his eyes. “You shattered your soul twice and dropped to the Manifestation Realm twice, but now you’ve taken a step further and directly entered the middle stage of the Netherpassage Realm. This is… inconceivable.”

“For me, shattering my soul is but a process in my cultivation that I must go through.” Qin Lie calmly stood up with a gentle smile.

He noticed that he was obviously a little different than before. After this duration of tempering his soul with thunder and lightning, it was as if the many negative emotions in his soul had been purified.

He suddenly felt as if his mind had become remarkably calm.

It felt like he was returning to his original self from the abnormal state he had recently been in.

“How strange… The feeling you’re currently giving me is so strange…” Xie Jingxuan frowned and stared at him deeply. She took a moment to solemnly think to herself before saying “The feeling you’re giving me is very similar to the one I felt when I first met you. I remember you being a simple apprentice of Li’s Shop at the time.”

“That’s right! That’s exactly it!” Song Tingyu exclaimed softly.

“What do you mean?” Du Xiangyang looked confused.

“Give me some time to think.” After zoning out a little bit, Qin Lie gradually came to a realization and closed his eyes to ponder.

The third stage of Heavenly Thunder Eradication, Thunder Lightning Soul Refinement, was the tempering of one’s True Soul with thunder and lightning. Through repeated lightning strikes, Qin Lie’s True Soul would be purged of impurities so that it would become clean and spotless, as would his mind…

“Other than the fact that Heavenly Thunder Eradication by itself is an exotic spirit art, grandfather took me to Ling Town, taught me this spirit art, and told me to diligently cultivate it because… it could also purify my soul!” Qin Lie finally understood.

Previously, when he had been fighting Fan Le in the poisonous bog of Armament Sect, Qin Lie was accidentally invaded by the past memories of his soul and influenced by them.

Now that his soul was tempered and baptized by thunder and lightning, those negative emotions seemed to have been burned away as well.

In other words, he had removed the influence of the past “him.”

“This is actually very good for you,” Xie Jingxuan said quietly.

“This is the real you.” Song Tingyu gave him a soft smile.

Chapter 476: Hunter!

It was constantly raining cats and dogs inside the Forbidden Land of Thunder. Thunder, lightning, wind, and rain were seldom absent.

Under the dark gray sky was a dangerous swampy land littered with ponds and pools of muddy water.

“We need to find the true location of the Land of Buried Gods,” Du Xiangyang said with a gloomy face. “According to Chu Li, Xue Moyan, and that Ye Yihao, the Land of Buried Gods is the real key to the Graveyard of Gods. Supposedly covered with the remains of ancient elites, it’s where the true essence lies and where the biggest secrets can be uncovered!”

“And you know where it is?” Song Tingyu cast a glance at him.

Du Xiangyang gave her a bitter smile. “If I knew, I would’ve led you guys there a long time ago.”

Today the location they were in wasn’t experiencing heavy rain or thunder, but it could still be considered a wetland.

Du Xiangyang and the two women did not need to summon their spirit energy shields of light. This rare moment of relaxation allowed them to leisurely discuss their future plans.

Qin Lie calmly followed them with a smile on his face. He only listened quietly, not expressing any opinions.

Qin Lie felt that he was currently in excellent condition, and after going through half a month of True Soul tempering, he discovered that his soul consciousness now contained the might of thunder.

It was initially very difficult for a martial practitioner to sense the surrounding spirit energy in the Graveyard of Gods since there wasn’t any worldly spirit energy to sense.

Now, however, he could.

This was the Forbidden Land of Thunder. From the moment that Qin Lie’s True Soul was tempered by lightning, his consciousness contained the power of lightning. He could use it to sense the tiniest of movements in the Forbidden Land of Thunder.

He could even attract the thunder and lightning in the sky, easily manifesting the might of thunder to strike at the surrounding area.

In this Forbidden Land of Thunder, Qin Lie’s strength was definitely much stronger than it had been in the Forbidden Land of Wood. If he ran into Ye Yihao again, he was confident that the current him, which had broken through to the middle stage of the Netherpassage Realm, tempered his True Soul, and was able to use this land to his advantage, would not be at a disadvantage if he forcefully clashed against Ye Yihao.

“What do you think, Qin Lie.” Mid-discussion, Song Tingyu turned around to look at Qin Lie.

Qin Lie smiled calmly and said, “The supposed fire spirit in the land of flames was the Fire Qilin. Even though it was just a corpse when I found it, the Demon Sealing Tombstone still sealed it away. I can feel that the Demon Sealing Tombstone became a bit different after doing that.

“In the Forbidden Land of Wood, the Demon Sealing Tombstone sealed the wood spirit. The wood spirit still possessed its sentience and soul, and after sealing it, the Demon Sealing Tombstone once again changed slightly.” Qin Lie paused for a moment, then seriously said, “There should be a thunder spirit inside the Forbidden Land of Thunder as well. If we can find it and seal it, I believe that… it may be useful to our journey in the Graveyard of Gods!”

In reality, Qin Lie had some thoughts about the Demon Sealing Tombstone’s gift.

After sealing the fire spirit, he obtained three refined blood essences from the Fire Qilin. After sealing away the wood spirit, he acquired three emerald drops of immense life energy. Would he obtain another reward if he sealed the thunder spirit as well?

“What kind of strange creature would the thunder spirit be?” Du Xiangyang asked after a moment of pondering. “And how do we find it?”

“Let’s keep moving. As long as this thunder spirit exists, I should be able to detect it within a certain range.” Qin Lie smiled confidently.

“Are you saying that consecutively sealing the fire spirit, wood spirit, and thunder spirit has something to do with the Graveyard of Gods?” Du Xiangyang’s eyes gradually grew brighter.

“Chu Li and Xue Moyan both said something about seven spirits. They should be talking about the seven types of spirits in seven great forbidden lands. The Forbidden Land of Fire has a fire spirit, and the Forbidden Land of Wood has a wood spirit. Naturally, there is a thunder spirit at the Forbidden Land of Thunder as well.”

“What?” Du Xiangyang’s expression shook.

“I think that the Demon Sealing Tombstone is the actual key to the Land of Buried Gods!” Qin Lie softly exclaimed.

“Hahaha!” Du Xiang laughed and nodded, saying, “That makes sense… that makes a lot of sense! Before I coming here, I asked around and learned that the martial practitioners of all nine great Silver rank forces were searching for this tombstone. They had shackled all eight god corpses together and trapped them in an underwater island before allowing us to enter the Graveyard of Gods. The Demon Sealing Tombstone came from one of those eight god corpses, so it’s probably closely connected to the Land of Buried Gods!”

“What are you so happy about?” Song Tingyu was confused.

“I’m just happy that I made the right choice. Right now I’m in your group, so maybe I’ll be able to obtain something from the Land of Buried Gods through Qin Lie!” Du Xiangyang said, appearing quite pleased with himself.

“I owe you a favor, so if we really find the Land of Buried Gods and are able to obtain rewards through the Demon Sealing Tombstone, we naturally won’t forget yours!”” Qin Lie smiled and promised.

“Heh heh!” Du Xiangyang nodded over and over. “I don’t know why, but I keep on feeling like the current you is more trustworthy! So… I trust you!”

Xie Jingxuan glanced at Qin Lie and also nodded slightly. “I think so too.”

Qin Lie was surprised by their reactions.

It was at this moment that a strange ripple of energy came from the token at Song Tingyu’s waist.

“Eh, it’s the token of Celestial Artifact Sect. There are Celestial Artifact Sect martial practitioners in the area.” She took a moment to inspect the token, then said, “They’re very close!”

“It can’t be that Situ Tong and his ilk, can it?” Qin Lie frowned.

“There’s only one person,” Song Tingyu said. After another brief moment of surveilling their surroundings, she declared, “They’re swiftly approaching us.”

“We’ll wait for them!” Qin Lie smiled.

The Graveyard of Gods had always been filled with cruel competition. When martial practitioners of different forces encountered each other, bloodshed would often follow.

Powerful forces would acquire the tokens of rival forces by hunting and killing other martial practitioners. They would then use those tokens to find and kill more of them—

—all for the sake of exterminating the opposition.

“The four of us currently have tokens of the other eight great forces in our possession. This means that, wherever we go in the future, we’ll be able to immediately detect martial practitioners of those eight forces.” Du Xiangyang smiled bitterly. “Of course, they will be able to detect us as well, so if their strength exceeds ours, then we’ll be the ones out of luck.”

The martial practitioners of eight great Silver rank forces—the three great families, Black Voodoo Cult, Heavenly Sword Mountain, Ten Thousand Beast Mountain, Terminator Sect, and Celestial Artifact Sect—had been killed one after another.

Qin Lie happened to participate in all of those killings.

Except for Xue Moyan’s Illusory Demon Sect, Qin Lie and company now held one or several tokens of eight of the great Silver rank forces.

“If we were anywhere else, I wouldn’t dare to think of us as hunters. However, in this Forbidden Land of Thunder, we definitely aren’t prey!” Qin Lie grinned. “This is especially true since I’ve broken through to the middle stage of the Netherpassage Realm!”

“Feeling confident, are we?” Du Xiangyang chuckled strangely.

“Even if we ran into Luo Chen, Ye Yihao, or Yu Men, I’m certain that I’d win by a small margin!” Qin Lie said full of confidence.

“That’s great!” Du Xiangyang grew increasingly happy. “In that case, the four of us can go anywhere we want in the Forbidden Land of Thunder!”

Du Xiangyang himself was only a bit weaker than Luo Chen, Chu Li, and other ringers. Song Tingyu was at the peak of the Netherpassage Realm, and even Xie Jingxuan’s strength had largely increased after she acquired an inheritance and stepped into the late stage of the Netherpassage Realm.

Adding Qin Lie, a martial practitioner who could control thunder and lightning, to their midst, they truly were a force to be reckoned with in the Forbidden Land of Thunder.

They almost didn’t need to be afraid of anyone!

“Let’s see who it is. If it’s Situ Tong, we’ll just kill him outright!” Song Tingyu snorted coldly.

“As we should!” Du Xiangyang laughed loudly.

Not only did their group of four not move away, they even approached the newcomer of their own accord.

An hour later, an unfamiliar Celestial Artifact Sect martial practitioner appeared in front of them, a look of shock on his face.

He was a martial practitioner at the middle stage of the Netherpassage Realm with treacherous eyes and a nose shaped like a bird’s beak. He looked to be around thirty years old and wore the uniform of Celestial Artifact Sect.

The second he came near and discovered that the person with the Celestial Artifact Sect token wasn’t a Celestial Artifact Sect martial practitioner, and that there were actually four people, his expression immediately changed.

“You people…” Zhang Sheng frowned, gripping his Celestial Artifact Sect token. “Why do you have tokens of my sect?”

“Why do you think we would have them?” Du Xiangyang countered with a smile.

Zhang Sheng frowned.

The answer was clear. These four people must have killed martial practitioners of Celestial Artifact Sect and robbed them of their tokens.

“He isn’t one of the people we saw working with Situ Tong. Should we…?” Song Tingyu turned around to look at Qin Lie beside her.

“This is the Graveyard of Gods. When martial practitioners of opposing forces meet, bloodshed often follows.” Qin Lie’s tone was indifferent. “I don’t really like the way he looks.”

“Same here,” Xie Jingxuan said calmly.

“Then let’s kill him.” Song Tingyu let out a beautiful smile.

“Hey, Qin Lie, didn’t the two beautiful ladies say you became more benevolent? Why are you acting the same?” Du Xiangyang asked in surprise.

“Benevolent?” Qin Lie shook his head and smiled calmly, saying, “That depends on the person. I’m getting a bad vibe from this person, and I feel that killing him will save us a lot of trouble.”

“Alright!” Du Xiangyang wore an odd expression, but he accepted it in the end. “Leave him to me.”

The moment he said this, he took out his Scarlet Fire Sword. A soul-burning fiery light gradually formed at the tip of his sword.

After a moment of amazement, Zhang Sheng hastily screamed, “Situ Tong and I are not of the same group! I am here to find people who will work with my young sect master. We have have discovered a strange land and are sure that there are good things inside of it. We can’t handle the situation alone, so we need allies!”

“Strange land? Good stuff?” Du Xiangyang hesitated.

“What strange land? Also, by young sect master, you mean Feng Yiyou, right?” Song Tingyu frowned.

“That’s right, Feng Yiyou is the young sect master of Celestial Artifact Sect. He is also our leader in this Trial! As for that Situ Tong, he’s only pretending to be friendly with our young sect master. We aren’t working together. The land we discovered is filled with incredibly dense lightning, powerful life energy, and sentient beings!” Zhang Sheng shouted loudly. “We need allies!”

“What do you think, Qin Lie?” Du Xiangyang turned around.

“This guy’s probably up to no good.” Xie Jingxuan said to Qin Lie in a low voice.

Qin Lie shrugged. In a relaxed, confident manner, he said, “Lead the way!”

“Lead the way?” Zhang Sheng looked dumbfounded.

“We are your allies! Now lead us to Feng Yiyou and the strange land you discovered!” Qin Lie’s smile was warm. “We can fight side by side.”

Chapter 477: Having Ulterior Motives

The Forbidden Land of Thunder.

Lightning would occasionally strike in this gray, gloomy swampland. Wet pieces of land resembled islands in the watery landscape that looked like a broad sea.

Six Celestial Artifact Sect martial practitioners wearing clothes with the emblem of a furnace were gathered at a wet hill that looked like a small island, grimly staring at the scene before them.

Several thousand meters ahead of them, the thunder and lightning were clearly more violent than usual. The view was filled with a distorted field of lightning.

Lightning bolts descended through the dark gray sky like bead curtains. They flooded into the violent, energy-filled area.

“Have the corpses been dealt with?” Feng Yiyou stood underneath a large umbrella.

“They won’t be a problem. Nine people have died at the perimeter in the past month. We are also unable to actually enter,” someone answered.

“You don’t say! If that place could be entered so easily, I would’ve gone in a long time ago. Why else would I painstakingly search for sacrifices?” Feng Yiyou snorted.

The Celestial Artifact Sect clothes that Feng Yiyou wore were obviously a bit different than those that the others wore. His clothes had been made from some unknown material that constantly released a gentle spirit energy.

This spirit energy was absorbed into the pores all over his his body, like a person inhaling clean air.

He was the only person here who did not need to use spirit stones to gradually recover his spirit energy.

Feng Yiyou wasn’t tall. His appearance could be considered handsome, and the precious spatial rings that he wore on all ten of his fingers showed the immense wealth he possessed.

As the young sect master of Celestial Artifact Sect, Feng Yiyou was an artificer. Not only was he well versed in the construction of all sorts of spirit diagrams, he was also good at forging spirit artifacts.

Many spirit artifacts of different grades were stored inside of his spatial rings. He had personally forged some of these spirit artifacts, and others came from famous master artificers of Celestial Artifact Sect.

That wasn’t all. The spirit artifacts in the spatial rings of the people around him were also of higher grade and rarity than the ones that most martial practitioners would have.

“Why hasn’t Zhang Sheng returned yet?” Someone frowned.

“He probably hasn’t found anyone else. We’ve been traveling everywhere and inviting every group we encounter to enter the strange land. All of them end up as sacrifices,” another person answered. “There probably aren’t any other people in the area.”

The six people chatted amongst each other, frowning and staring at the area filled with chaotic thunder and lightning several thousand meters away.

A long while later.

A token at Feng Yiyou’s waist suddenly flared with energy, and after he touched it, his eyes lit up and he smiled. “Zhang Sheng had found fresh sacrifices! There are actually four of them this time!”

“Wonderful!” Everyone else chuckled strangely.

Two hours later.

Following Zhang Sheng, Qin Lie’s group arrived in a swampy area filled with water. They immediately saw Feng Yiyou’s group of six.

“Our Young Sect Master had been looking forward to meeting you for some time now.” Zhang Sheng’s back promptly straightened.

Along the way, Zhang Sheng had carefully played the role of a meek person, afraid that he would evoke the ire of Qin Lie and his people and would be killed before reaching Feng Yiyou.

In the Graveyard of Gods, martial practitioners of different forces needed to keep their guard up for every moment they spent together.

From the beginning, many of the people who entered the Graveyard of Gods had used all sorts of underhanded tactics to plot against others..

Zhang Sheng was afraid that he would easily be killed.

“Young Sect Master!” Zhang Sheng cried out before he quickening his space, leaving Qin Lie’s group in a hurry.

The moment Zhang Sheng saw Feng Yiyou and the other people from Celestial Artifact Sect, he became relaxed. He no longer needed to worry that Qin Lie and the others would suddenly make a move and kill him.

“Du Xiangyang! I know you!” From a distance, Feng Yiyou glanced in their direction and immediately broke into a cheerful smile. “Out of all the Heavenly Sword Mountain Trial participants, your strength is only second to Luo Chen. Even compared to He Wei, you’re slightly better. Hehe, very good. With you as an ally, things will definitely go much smoother!”

“Thank you for the praise.” Du Xiangyang smiled harmlessly, then loudly asked, “Brother Feng, I heard that you’re looking for allies?”

“Come, let’s talk.” Feng Yiyou beckoned.

Du Xiangyang glanced at Qin Lie.

“Are they martial practitioners of Heavenly Sword Mountain as well?” Feng Yiyou was surprised. “Brother Du, can you introduce them to us?”

“They are Qin Lie, Song Tingyu, and Xie Jingxuan. The three of them came in with the support of Heavenly Sword Mountain, but they are not Heavenly Sword Mountain martial practitioners, so you might not be familiar with them.” Du Xiangyang chose not to purposefully hide this fact.

“I heard about this. I heard that, for this Trial, Heavenly Sword Mountain recruited five participants from their vassal forces. They are three of those five right?” Feng Yiyou’s eyes shone with obvious contempt.

The moment they heard that Qin Lie’s group were from vassal forces of Heavenly Sword Mountain, the rest of the Celestial Artifact Sect martial practitioners were stunned, harboring disdain in their hearts.

In their eyes, martial practitioners of Copper rank forces couldn’t possibly be powerful even if they reached the Netherpassage Realm.

“That’s correct. They are three of those five participants.” Du Xiangyang did not object.

“Come talk, talk!” Feng Yiyou continued gesturing for them to come closer.

“Qin Lie, including Feng Yiyou, there are seven of them in total.” Song Tingyu sized up both sides and gradually became anxious. “The second a fight breaks out, we… might not have the advantage.”

Xie Jingxuan stayed where she was and did not move.

She hadn’t expected the opposing group to have six people aside from Feng Yiyou. This made her feel that the situation was a bit too dangerous.

From the very beginning, Zhang Sheng hadn’t given her a good impression. She kept feeling that he was harboring evil tricks in his stomach, seemingly trying to trick them into do something.

Earlier, when she had suggested that they kill Zhang Sheng, it was to avoid that danger.

Yet when Zhang Sheng revealed Celestial Artifact Sect’s discovery, Qin Lie changed his mind and even let Zhang Sheng led them to this place.

The second they arrived, they encountered Feng Yiyou and his group of six Celestial Artifact Sect martial practitioners. Furthermore, a large majority of these people were at the late stage of the Netherpassage Realm!

Xie Jingxuan realized that they might not be able to gain the upper hand against them, so she began feeling uncertain about whether or not they should step foot into these muddy waters.

It was at this moment that Qin Lie took the first step and calmly walked toward the other party.

As soon as he did, both Song Tingyu and Du Xiangyang cast their hesitation away and immediately followed him.

Xie Jingxuan had no choice but to follow.

When Zhang Sheng arrived, his treacherous eyes gleamed with an evil light as he bowed his head and said in a low voice, “Young Sect Master, there are four of them in total, but two of them are beauties of exceptional quality!”

The eyes of the other five Celestial Artifact Sect martial practitioners lit up, their minds wandering like a cantering horse. Feng Yiyou was the only one whose expression did not change.

“Shut up!”

Feng Yiyou snorted softly, his expression frigid.

The evil light in the eyes of Zhang Sheng and the others instantly disappeared. They regained their cool and put up a dignified facade.

Once they walked over to Feng Yiyou, Du Xiangyang raised his voice and tentatively asked, .”Brother Feng, I heard that you of Celestial Artifact Sect have found an interesting place?”

Feng Yiyou pointed at a place several hundred meters behind him that was filled with violent, chaotic lightning, saying, “The thunder spirit of the Forbidden Land of Thunder should be in there! I’ve detected more than one biomagnetic field within, so there should be other creatures as well!”

Thunder spirit?

Qin Lie’s group of three exchanged glances. The wheels in their minds involuntarily turned, and they quickly guessed that Feng Yiyou knew about the secrets behind the Graveyard of Gods, just like Chu Li, Xue Moyan, and Ye Yihao.

“What thunder spirit? I don’t understand what you’re talking about.” Qin Lie, who had kept quiet all this time, spoke up on his own accord, displaying curiosity on his face.

“How much do you know about the Graveyard of Gods?” Feng Yiyou felt disdain in his heart.

“Nothing,” Song Tingyu answered honestly.

“Before we decide to cooperate, can you dispel our doubt? Can you tell us what’s inside the Graveyard of Gods?” Du Xiangyang’s expression became straightforward.

“Sure, why not?” Feng Yiyou nodded.

In his mind, he had already sentenced these four people to death, so he didn’t mind wasting a bit of breath to get them to obediently join him.

“The Graveyard of Gods is the place where the remains of elites are buried. The Land of Buried Gods contains the bodies of elites of all sorts of races and the remains of ferocious beasts from ancient times. These elites and beasts were once existences of immeasurable power, so even after their souls were extinguished, their bodies preserved their tremendous energy. Their remains are the most precious materials in artifact forging!” Feng Yiyou explained some of the secrets.

“If these dead elites were buried in the outside world, they would have been discovered by other intelligent races. Their remains would have been dismembered and used to temper powerful spirit artifacts. Their souls also wouldn’t have been able to rest.

“To prevent this from happening and ensure that these once powerful existences would leave behind an intact corpse, the Graveyard of Gods was born.

“The Graveyard of Gods is a secret realm independent from Spirit Realm. It’s a small world, the purpose of which is to bury the ancient, reputable elites who have perished, and prevent their bodies from being disturbed.”