Spirit Realm Chapter 534-535

Chapter 534: Five Progenitors and Three Emperors

After a brief moment, Ye Yihao and Huang Zhuli became gray skeletons, their flesh and organs disappearing without a trace.

They didn’t even make a sound.

The people nearest to them, Su Yan, Feng Yiyou, and Yu Men, were focused on the remains of the ancient warriors scattered throughout the desolate plain, so they didn’t immediately notice what had happened to the two.

“Crack!”

Their dried bones fell to the ground and disintegrated into dust.

Only then did Su Yan notice what happened.

—And she unleashed a bloodcurdling scream.

Feng Yiyou and Yu Men heard her scream, and when they looked over at the two piles of bone dust, understanding suddenly washed over them.

Terror immediately filled their eyes. They felt a chill run down their backs and swiftly spread through their body.

All three of them trembled in horror, coming to a sudden stop where they were in the desolate plain. They refused to move even a centimeter more.

This turn of events had frightened their souls out of them.

Qin Lie and the others, having paid attention to the body of the Voodoo Progenitor this entire time, saw the voodoo insects get consumed and the dismal fates of Ye Yihao and Huang Zhuli.

They exchanged looks and saw the terror and anxiety in each other’s eyes.

Luo Chen and Du Xiangyang inhaled deeply and inwardly rejoiced.

—They rejoiced that they didn’t immediately rush down into the Land of Buried Gods.

“Ahem…” Du Xiangyang licked his lips, his voice weak and hoarse. “I think… I think Qin Lie is right.”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

“L-let’s just watch for now and… not enter recklessly,” Su Tingyu said, shock on her face.

“Don’t try to take the Blood Progenitor’s body, Qin Lie! Nothing here is right!” Xue Moyan continuously took deep breaths, trying to maintain her composure. The burning light of excitement in her eyes slowly died down.

She was struggling to curb the greed within her.

“It’ll be best for us to calm down first,” Xie Jingxuan said in a relatively composed manner. “Don’t let the remains of those ancient warriors go to your heads.”

At that moment, the black barbarians that had been behind Feng Yiyou and the others charged down the side of the frozen lake to the Land of Buried Gods.

“How careless,” Sen Ye snorted, his expression full of disdain. He had witnessed the terrible fate of Ye Yihao and Huang Zhuli.

“They have no clue how bizarre the Land of Buried Gods is!” Jiang Tianxing laughed out loud.

“Gao Yu!” Sen Ye suddenly shouted.

Gao Yu had just slid down the icy wall that made up a part of the frozen lake’s interior. He glanced at Sen Ye and Jiang Tianxing’s group indifferently, nodded, then turned to travel toward the area the Evil God was in.

“We need to be wary of him!” Jiang Tianxin exclaimed grimly.

“I’ve never trusted him,” Sen Ye said with a frown, his eyes cold.

“Good!” Jiang Tianxing snickered.

“The same goes for you!” Sen Ye added.

Jiang Tianxing froze mid-smile.

Up to this point, the eastern barbarians were still the strongest, largest force in the Land of Buried Gods.

Although they had paid a significant price and lost half their number, more than seventy tribesmen surrounded Sen ye.

Most were black barbarians that were completely loyal to Sen Ye.

With the deaths of Ye Yihao and Huang Zhuli, Black Voodoo Cult had been utterly wiped out. Only Su Yan of the Su Family, Feng Yiyou of Celestial Artifact Sect, and Yu Men of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain still lived.

They were only three people.

They didn’t have the Demon Sealing Tombstone or any powerful spirit arts. They weren’t a threat.

Sen Ye had nothing to fear from them.

The ones that Sen Ye had to be concerned about were the people in Qin Lie’s group!

Despite the fact that few people were in his group, they had the Demon Sealing Tombstone and Blood Fiend Sect’s terrifying weapon, the Bloodthirsty Dragon, on their side.

Jiang Tianxing cultivated the Blood Spirit Art and used to be a part of Blood Fiend Sect. To Sen Ye, he didn’t deserve to be trusted.

Sen Ye only believed in his tribesmen.

“You and your father brought news of the Graveyard of Gods to us, but neither of you are eastern barbarians.” Sen Ye wore a somber expression. “I don’t know how telling us eastern barbarians about the Graveyard of Gods fits into your plans, but I know you are using us to achieve a certain goal!”

“My only goal is the body of the Blood Progenitor,” Jiang Tianxing replied, an awkward expression on his face. “It’s a pity that the Bloodthirsty Dragon took it from the Land of Buried Gods. Achieving that goal now seems unlikely, so I hope to take other remains from here to make up for it… I hope that we can continue this friendly relationship since neither I nor you eastern barbarians call the Land of Chaos home.

Sen Ye snorted skeptically. “As long as we find the remains of the five progenitors and the three emperors.”

“Ah… the five great progenitors and the three great emperors…” Light flashed in Jiang Tianxing’s eyes. “I also hope to find their remains, and by extension, their inheritances. Rumor has it that all of them were laid to rest here.”

“I hope that’s the case.” Sen Ye took a deep breath and shouted, “Everyone! Stay with me as we enter, and advance slowly!”

The eastern barbarians began moving forward from one end of the Land of Buried Gods. Their first target was the ancestor of the eastern barbarians, the Arrow God.

“Feng Yiyou, Yu Men, and Su Yan won’t dare to make any rash movements. The eastern barbarians are moving toward the Arrow God, and Gao Yu is heading to the Evil God…” Du Xiangyang narrowed his eyes as he peered downward from the edge of the frozen lake, taking note of what their enemies were doing.

Qin Lie didn’t make a sound. He simply watched the Voodoo Progenitor’s body and the two voodoo insects inside of it.

Ye Yihao and Huang Zhuli had been connected to the voodoo insects by soul and blood. When the voodoo insects were sucked into the Voodoo Progenitor’s body, it seemed to use that connection to drain the soul energy and blood from both Black Voodoo Cult ringers..

Qin Lie had noticed that the body of the Voodoo Progenitor, which was covered in writhing threads of black light, slowly radiated a nearly imperceptible life force.

The Voodoo Progenitor’s body, which had been lifeless for an interminable amount of time, resembled an ancient tree growing a tender green branch. It felt extremely strange.

Xie Jingxuan gasped.

“The Voodoo Progenitor’s body is showing signs of life!” she exclaimed.

Xie Jingxuan was extremely sensitive to life fluctuations. She detected the mysterious changes occurring within the body of the Voodoo Progenitor as well.

The moment she finished speaking, everyone turned their attention to the Voodoo Progenitor.

“The voodoo insects are drinking the blood of the Voodoo Progenitor!” Xue Moyan wore an expression of disbelief.

All of the group focused on the body, and as expected, the Eight-winged Centipede Queen and the Black Crystal Sky Scorpion were feeding off of the remaining droplets of blood inside of it.

The auras of Ye Yihao’s and Huang Zhuli’s souls could be sensed from the bodies of both voodoo insects. This shrouded the Voodoo Progenitor’s body with multiple soul auras, making anyone who sensed it feel uncomfortable.

“It just… doesn’t feel right,” Du Xiangyang said, shaking his head. A strange anxiety weigh upon his mind.

“Aaaaoooouuuuu!”

In the sky above the Land of Buried Gods, the Bloodthirsty Dragon wailed mournfully once again.

Blood Fiend Sect’s ultimate treasure dove toward Qin Lie and Xue Moyan, long streams of blood trailing behind it.

The Blood Progenitor’s body sat atop its skull, bloody light flashing from it as if it were a sanguine sun.

Dense, fiendish blood energy seemed to well from either the Blood Progenitor’s body or the bloody bone dragon. It resembled a sea of blood that threatened swallow people up and drown them.

“Th-the Blood Progenitor!” Pan Qianqian screamed in surprise.

Terror suddenly filled Qin Lie’s and Xue Moyan’s faces.

Were it not for the bizarre changes occurring in the Voodoo Progenitor’s body or the terrible deaths of Ye Yihao and Huang Zhulie, Qin Lie and Xue Moyan might’ve welcomed the body of the Blood Progenitor with open arms.

With that cruel precedent having been set right in front of them, Qin Lie and Xue Moyan felt nothing but fright. When they saw the bloody bone dragon carrying the Blood Progenitor’s body toward them, they considered fleeing.

“Ba-dump ba-dump! Ba-dump ba-dump ba-dump!

The heartbeats of Luo Chen and the others suddenly became uncontrollably fast like the deep thumping of a drum.

Their blood began boiling, their faces flushed bright red, and they felt as if their bodies were about to explode.

Everyone went pale with shock.

“I feel like I’m going to blow up!” Du Xiangyang howled.

“What’s going on!?” Luo Chen shouted.

Bloody light radiated from Qin Lie and Xue Moyan. Their eyes became a deep scarlet, almost as if blood were about to gush from them.

From their perspective, a sea of blood appeared right in front of them. Sanguine fluid dripped from the enormous dragon at the center of that sea, which growled as if it wanted to devour them and take over their souls…

Chapter 535: Soul Suppression!

Whether it was Xue Moyan who used it first or Qin Lie who used it afterward, neither of them had actually been acknowledged by the Bloodthirsty Dragon. They hadn’t tamed this violent Heaven Grade spirit artifact.

The only person it would acknowledge as master was the Blood Progenitor!

The Blood Progenitor created the Bloodthirsty Dragon, tempered it with his own blood, and refined it using countless spirit materials.

To the Bloodthirsty Dragon, he was its true master!

No one could take the place of the Blood Progenitor in its heart.

Today, the Bloodthirsty Dragon found out that the Blood Progenitor’s soul had perished, leaving only the man’s body. It could smell its master’s familiar scent, but it could no longer feel his summons.

Yet it refused to accept that as reality!

Instead, it decided that it would use the souls of these two juniors who cultivated his master’s spirit art along with their tempered blood to gather its master’s fragmented thoughts!

If some of its master’s consciousness still remained, the Bloodthirsty Dragon would awaken it!

In the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s heart, its master was the only one who was qualified enough to control it, and in doing so, reclaim their former glory.

To that end, it desired the True Souls of Qin Lie and Xue Moyan!

A seemingly endless amount of fiendish blood energy condensed to form a viscous sea of blood. The Bloodthirsty Dragon carried its master’s body on its skull, roaring amidst this bloody sea thick with the smell of iron as it turned to devour Qin Lie and Xue Moyan.

A terrifying, fiendish aura covered the sky and the earth, enveloping Qin Lie’s group. It locked down the area, keeping them completely confined.

Every single one of them could only watch as the bloody sea flooded toward them. They couldn’t escape this area.

Even thoughts of resisting were thoroughly shattered by the impact of the fiendish blood aura. Before anyone could realize it, the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s blood energy permeated their blood vessels and spread across their bodies. Its violent soul had dominated their minds.

They were helpless.

“Ba-dump ba-dump! Ba-dump ba-dump ba-dump!”

The dull, intense throbbing of a heartbeat constantly resounded like the rumbling of thunder. Everyone’s faces and skin flushed red as blood slowly dripped from their eyes.

The speed at which their blood flowed within their bodies became ten times faster than before. This sudden increase in speed made them lose all control over themselves.

In the face of the bloody bone dragon’s terrible pressure, despair reigned over them. As much as they wracked their brains, trying to think up countermeasures, they couldn’t think of any.

Having consumed a huge amount of the fiendish blood aura within the Demon Sealing Tombstone, then later finding the Blood Progenitor’s body, the Bloodthirsty Dragon emanated an invincible, sky-changing, earth-rending power.

Who could possibly compete against it?

Grim expressions dominated the faces of Qin Lie’s group, all of them losing control of their tempers. All they could do was wait to receive the order that was about to arrive.

—the order to burst into pieces and die.

Qin Lie’s demeanor seemed especially grim.

He stood at the very front of the group. His had experienced the bloody bone dragon’s terrible, earthshaking aura, which had flooded everyone’s minds, restrained their souls, and effectively enveloped this entire area.

The color of blood had long since filled his mind consciousness. Countless bloody lights even penetrated and flooded his Soul Lake.

Before Qin Lie knew it, a thread of the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s soul consciousness had seeped into his mind and polluted his Soul Lake.

His soul consciousness became a bloody red, and his Soul Lake changed into a lake of blood. Even his True Soul was slowly being corrupted, bit by bit.

His True Soul had been repeatedly tempered by the power of thunder, a power that could eliminate all traces of evil souls. In spite of that, it paled before this bloody corruption and was powerless.

It seemed as if the power of thunder couldn’t eliminate the blood energy that invaded his soul consciousness.

Qin Lie’s heart became heavy as blood energy gradually filled his soul, making him feel as if he were slowly sinking toward an endless sea of blood.

He was well aware of how the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s blood energy was dominating his mind and soul, corrupting him.

He would ultimately lose all sense of himself and succumb, becoming the bloody bone dragon’s puppet. He would no longer have his own thoughts, his own consciousness.

He would suffer a fate even worse than death.

—and he slowly gave in.

“Whoosh!”

At that moment, a powerful suction force, one which he himself wasn’t sure existed, suddenly appeared in the space between his brows..

The two people closest to him, Xue Moyan and Song Tingyu, could clearly see that a ray of pitch black light had appeared there.

In the next moment, a whirlpool that resembled a black hole appeared there, consuming the seemingly endless amount of blood energy that surrounded them.

Xue Moyan instantly discovered that the blood energy that had spread into her soul consciousness rapidly decreased, as if it were some sort of paint being drained from her mind.

Like Qin Lie’s soul consciousness, hers had been flooded with blood energy.

Her consciousness had initially been blurry, leaving her powerless to resist.

She had gradually given in to the despair.

Yet, when that pitch black light shone from between Qin Lie’s eyebrows, everything underwent an astonishing change!

Her blood-polluted soul consciousness quickly returned to normal. The bloody haze in her mind scattered as if a strong wind had blown through, freeing her frozen thoughts and cleansing her blood-polluted soul. In this way, her consciousness became clear once more.

Even the dense fiendish blood aura that had invaded her body was quickly extracted.

Xue Moyan was dumbstruck.

She could see wisps of bloody smoke entering the black dot between Qin Lie’s eyebrows.

That black dot was a deep, far-seeing eye.

—It was the Soul Suppressing Orb.

“Boom!”

Qin Lie’s mind shook, and he instantly broke free of his powerless state from earlier.

The blood that had dyed his soul consciousness had been entirely extracted, and the moment the last of it vanished, he regained his wits. Upon focusing his attention and checking his surroundings, he saw countless bloody lights being absorbed into the Soul Suppressing Orb and pulled into the vast space inside of it.

His third eye, the Soul Suppressing Orb, unleashed an absolute suppressive force capable of subduing all violent spirits and making them yield.

“Whoosh!”

A terrifying suction force erupted from the Soul Suppressing Orb.

The seemingly endless, turbulent sea of blood, the Bloodthirsty Dragon fiendishly roaring within it, and the Blood Progenitor’s body sitting on its skull… all of them transformed into rays of bloody light that Qin Lie’s third eye devoured.

—And they completely disappeared.

Only the Soul Suppressing Orb between Qin Lie’s eyebrows remained. It shone with dazzling light, traces of bloody rays swimming within it.

Song Tingyu, Xue Moyan, Du Xiangyang, Luo Chen, Xie Jingxuan, and Pan Qianqian froze where they stood.

To them, what had just happened seemed like the unlikeliest dream.

It was as if everything that had just occurred—the crazed, howling Bloodthirsty Dragon, the Blood Progenitor’s body atop its skill, and the terrible aura that shook the earth and blotted out the sky—were just an illusion.

All because they suddenly disappeared in a bizarre, untraceable way.

As a result, everyone felt astonished and confused. They suspected that the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s soul consciousness had created an illusion that tampered with their memories.

However, if everything that had just taken place weren’t an illusion and was actually real, why would Qin Lie possess a third eye? And why was that third eye capable of devouring Blood Fiend Sect’s ultimate treasure, the sea of blood, and the Blood Progenitor’s body?

“Just now…”

Du Xiangyang’s voice was hoarse. He looked like he wanted to say something, but didn’t know where to start.

“Was all of that… real?” Pan Qianqian asked timidly, giving voice to what everyone was thinking..

“I think… that everything we saw just now was real. None of it was an illusion,” Xue Moyan said, gripping the Illusory Demon Orb. Her eyes shone clearly with a strange, bright light. “At the very least… the Illusory Demon Orb tells me there weren’t any.”

This news startled the rest of the group.

Then everyone’s eyes simultaneously fell upon Qin Lie.

Under everyone’s gazes, Qin Lie’s third eye slowly withdrew into his forehead. The Soul Suppressing Orb almost instantly vanished into his flesh once more.

Qin Lie had regained his normal appearance.

In the eyes of the rest of the group, however, Qin Lie was obviously different from them.

“B-Big Brother Qin… you’re not… a member of a foreign race, are you?” Pan Qianqian spoke up again. “What in Spirit Realm was that eye?”

“It’s not an eye,” Qin Lie exclaimed. “It’s a spirit artifact as powerful as the Bloodthirsty Dragon.

A spirit artifact?

One that could devour a Heaven Grade spirit artifact like the Bloodthirsty Dragon?

This revelation stunned everyone into silence for a second time.

“Don’t ask.” Qin Lie sighed. “Even I’m not entirely sure… what it is. It’s occupied the space between my brows for as long as I could remember, but I don’t know where it came from or what it’s capable of…”

“Do you feel any different now?” Song Tingyu asked worriedly. “Has anything changed after that spirit artifact devoured the Bloodthirsty Dragon, absorbed that sea of blood, and took in the Blood Progenitor’s body?”

“I have yet to sense anything,” Qin Lie said.

His words shocked everyone.

“Swoosh!”

As Qin Lie’s group was repeatedly being astonished, the Demon Sealing Tombstone, which had been hovering above the Land of Buried Gods, whistled through the air at a surprisingly fast speed.

It arrived above Qin Lie’s head, floating in the air and letting out rays of prismatic divine light as if it were searching for something.

It seemed to have been attracted here by the aura of the Soul Suppressing Orb.

Unfortunately for the Demon Sealing Tombstone, the Soul Suppressing Orb hadn’t taken much time at all to devour the Bloodthirsty Dragon and everything that accompanied it.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone had detected the Soul Suppressing Orb’s aura, but by the time it rushed over to Qin Lie’s group from its position above the Land of Buried Gods, the orb had already vanished into the space between Qin Lie’s eyebrows.

“Look! It’s Di Fei!” Du Xiangyang suddenly shouted. “Di Fei has appeared!”

Di Fei, who had vanished earlier, currently sat atop the head of an ancient giant that lay flat on the ground of the Land of Buried Gods. The earth spirit’s set of eyes above his own exuded the immense power of earth.

“Rrrrmb…!”

This ancient hundred-meter-tall giant, which resembled a small hill from its prone position, suddenly sat up.

Revolving yellow rings of potent earthly energy appeared around the giant’s body. It opened its gruesome maw and unleashed an inaudible roar, suddenly standing up with Di Fei still seated atop its head.

Driven by the power of the earth spirit, this giant was the first corpse in the Land of Buried Gods to stand.

“That ancient giant’s body contains an immense, refined power of earth!” Luo Chen cried in surprise. “It’s like its body were made with soil, is if it were born into this world from the earth itself.”

The second it detected the strange events occurring in the Land of Buried Gods, the Demon Sealing Tombstone that had been hovering above Qin Lie’s head flew away once again.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone shot through the air, seemingly in a hurry to suppress the earth spirit along with the earthen body of the ancient giant that stood up in the desolate plain. It seemed as though the tombstone were trying to prevent an earthshaking calamity from happening.

After a moment of contemplation, Du Xiangyang spoke up.

“I understand now!” he said. “Some of the ancient elites buried here cultivated one power, and one power alone. For the seven spirits, all of these elites… are powerful puppets at their disposal!”

“The other two eastern barbarians, that Ka Deng and that A’Yue, probably have spirits within them as well,” Song Tingyu added, having understood the situation as well. “The sharp power of metal and gentle water of earth inside of those elites could temporarily prevent the Demon Sealing Tombstone from discovering them if they to possessed their corpses.

And things happened exactly as she said.

The moment Song Tingyu and Du Xiangyang finished speaking, abnormal changes occurred in the bodies of two other ancient elites in the Land of Buried Gods.

One was a giant, two-hundred-meter tall ape. It seemed to have been forged from gold and steel because its body was completely golden yellow. Every hair on its body resembled a golden needle that glittered with a sharp, metallic light.

Like the ancient giant, this giant ape was a beast of a bygone era. Both were members of the Giant Spirit Race.

However, this giant golden ape was significantly stronger than the members of the Giant Spirit Race that had escaped their seals in the freezing land beneath the Arctic Mountain Range.

Even in death, the violent power of metal that emanated from the giant ape’s body seemed sharp enough to pierce the sky.

This ancient giant ape clearly must’ve been far stronger than Mang Wang when it was alive and in peak condition!

Along with the ancient giant and the ape, the enormous dragon that the Blood Progenitor used to create the Bloodthirsty Dragon was a member of the Giant Spirit Race. During ancient times, the Giant Spirit Race was one of the most powerful races. They were capable of causing chaos that changed the color of the sky itself.

In terms of purely physical, explosive strength and potential to wreak havoc upon all living beings in the world, the Giant Spirit Race had always been considered the best amongst all the powerful races.

“Fssshhhh… fshhhh… fssshhhh…”

The melodious sound of murmuring streams came from a graceful woman with the fish of a tail in place of her lower body.

This woman was a member of the Merfolk, a foreign Sea Race. She was nearly five meters tall and had been dead for many years.

A’Yue of the Black Barbarian Tribe currently lay on the ground beside that woman. She didn’t seem to be breathing or showing any other signs of life.

The water spirit had abandoned her and instead taken over the body of this Merfolk elite who had been dead for many years, using it as its new puppet.

A’Yue had fallen, and this Sea Race elite stood, her body releasing the harmonic sound of hundreds of murmuring streams flowing at the same time.