High-Level Martial Era - Chapter 1711 - 745: Vice Alliance Hierarch, Long Time No See
Chapter 1711: Chapter 745: Vice Alliance Hierarch, Long Time No See
“Hmm, Little Tomb, don’t worry. I will naturally do my utmost to understand the secret of your origin,” Li Yuan said solemnly.
Li Yuan was well aware that Little Tomb had been helping him all along for a reason, which was to explore his own origin.
This was Little Tomb’s obsession over the long years.
For this obsession, he accompanied and assisted Beihai Supreme from weakness to strength, and he requested Beihai Supreme to leave behind a treasured relic.
Now, he placed his hope on me once again.
But Li Yuan was also aware that back then, Beihai Supreme was so powerful, having obtained the Eternal Dao Weapon… His strength might have been the greatest in the cosmos at that time.
Yet, when Beihai Supreme attempted to explore the mystery of the Bronze Coffin, he still faced the danger of falling, which showed the mystery and danger of the Bronze Coffin.
Without sufficient strength, Li Yuan would not act rashly.
To live is to have everything. This was something Li Yuan always remembered.
“This time, the three treasures Little Tomb has prepared for me, one hundred billion Eternal Crystals and the Nine Great Emperor Guards, are extremely useful right now,” Li Yuan thought to himself, “and the Life Source Sea Mark, though temporarily unusable, will be of much greater value in the future. Even when I step into the Emperor Realm, it should still prove very useful.”
Towards Little Tomb and Beihai Supreme, Li Yuan’s heart was full of gratitude.
Swish! Swish!
Little Tomb and Li Yuan transformed into two streaks of light, soaring into the sky, flying out of this peculiar palace… Immediately, the space shifted, and they flew out from the ancient temple door that had merely opened a crack.
“Close,” Little Tomb pointed distantly.
“Rumble~” Countless secret runes on the ancient, hefty temple doors flashed with dazzling light. Then, the doors slowly pushed until they were completely shut, as if they had never opened.
“Closed.”
“Without the corresponding permission or the Dao Seal Secret Technique, one would need supreme power to break it open with brute force,” Little Tomb nodded in satisfaction. “However, if a Supreme wants to enter the Supreme Hall, they would first have to violently destroy the Origin Core of Supreme Star City… which is not allowed by the Immortal Sky Pillar rules.”
“Haha, in any case, as long as Supreme Star City hasn’t decayed and broken down, it’s absolutely safe,” Little Tomb said.
Li Yuan couldn’t help but nod. Vaulting the treasures here meant it was indeed absolutely safe for at least two to three hundred million years.
“Little Tomb.”
“You had me enter Beihai Supreme Hall first because you wanted me to get the Nine Great Emperor Guards and take them into the Hong Ying Supreme Hall, right?” Li Yuan inquired.
“Yes,” Little Tomb nodded.
“Or, should I send one true body into the Hong Ying Supreme Hall?” Li Yuan pondered. “That way, even if I encounter any danger and fall, the other true body can leave with the other treasures.”
Li Yuan ventured out in teams of two true bodies.
This was to prevent the loss of treasured relics.
After all, if one true body fell, it could be retrained back; the loss would be controllable… But if treasures like Siyuan were lost, it would be nearly impossible to retrieve them again.
Li Yuan was confident.
But when facing the means left by a supreme, he still felt it was better to be cautious.
“No.”
Little Tomb resolutely said, “The Nine Great Emperor Guards can withstand material attacks. If facing soul attacks… they can also form an array to weaken them.”
“In the Hong Ying Supreme Hall, regardless of what danger there is, the supreme has already fallen… You have the Nine Great Emperor Guards for protection, plus your own strength; you shouldn’t lose your life.” Little Tomb said solemnly, “At critical moments, it’s better to self-destruct than be subject to soul control.”
“Soul control?” Li Yuan was suddenly startled. “Isn’t the Top Eternal Dao pioneered by Supreme Hong Ying about time-space, world, and all things?”
About some of the Supremes who had passed, Li Yuan had learned a lot of information from Chaos God Emperor, Cloud Moon Divine Emperor, and others.
“What you know isn’t wrong,” Little Tomb said, “but what you don’t know is that this is just the three Top Eternal Daos Hong Ying Supreme pioneered upon stepping into the Fourth Step.”
“Like Heart Device Dao and Reincarnation Dao, after becoming Supreme, Hong Ying Supreme also successfully pioneered them, but they did not reach the Fourth Step… the integration of many Eternal Daos also made him extremely skilled in soul techniques.”
“He was definitely at the pinnacle level across the cosmos.”
“In fact, he once controlled the soul of another Dominator from the Dark Domain… It shook the entire cosmos back then.” Little Tomb sighed in amazement.
Li Yuan was even more shocked upon hearing this.
Soul-controlling a Dominator? How terrifying is that?
Each Emperor Realm existence had an extremely powerful soul will. The soul attacks of other Emperor Realm experts generally only affected their opponent’s strength…
Briefly using an Illusionary Realm to incapacitate an enemy was already exceedingly difficult. Just like Li Yuan, with his displayed strength, many Emperor Realm Peak Experts deemed it difficult to make his consciousness succumb in a short time.
Even more difficult was to soul-kill an enemy, requiring repeatedly annihilating the enemy’s soul origin.
The most challenging was soul control, which required perfectly suppressing the enemy in an instant, as those being controlled would do their utmost to counterattack… Once successful, soul control equated to gaining an eternal servant.
As Li Yuan cultivated all the way.
Low Rank Quasi-Saints were rarely soul-controlled, let alone in the Emperor Realm… Indigenous Emperor Realm experts of Immortal Heaven and Earth were typically coerced to submit, or controlled by strong cultivators using miraculous items from the Immortal Divine Hall.
And that’s just the regular Emperor Realm.
Soul-enslaving a Dominator? Li Yuan had never heard of such.
“He only successfully enslaved one Dominator,” Little Tomb said solemnly, “Yet even so, it’s scary enough… Although he was also a founder of the Honghe Alliance, who knows the thoughts of a dying man?”
“You cannot ignore the methods he left behind,” Little Tomb warned.
“I understand.” Li Yuan nodded; Little Tomb’s meaning was clear: better to abandon the Nine Great Imperial Guards than to fall into a desperate situation.
Of course, there is another choice, which is to give up entering the Hong Ying Supreme Hall.
But the Ancient Universe has already entered the Hong Ying Supreme Hall, and although Li Yuan can sense the presence of the Ancient Universe, even standing outside the hall, no matter how he summons it, he cannot call it back.
Compared to the Ancient Universe, the value of the Nine Great Imperial Guards is far less.
“Then let both true bodies bring all the magical treasures and the Nine Great Imperial Guards inside.” Li Yuan said softly, “No need to leave any backup plans.”
Li Yuan’s two true bodies carried treasures with them, the most valuable being the Ancient Universe and the Nine Great Imperial Guards… If these are all lost.
Leaving one true body outside would hold little significance.
Contrarily, if both true bodies go in together, encountering danger will be easier to handle.
“Li Yuan, I want to go in too.” Little Tomb said quickly.
“Alright.” Li Yuan nodded, Little Tomb’s Holy Spirit Body only contained a trace of consciousness; even if destroyed, it could be retrained in his Inner Universe.
Besides, even if his Inner Universe is destroyed, it would have nearly no impact on Little Tomb’s origin consciousness; after all, his origin consciousness derives from the Bronze Coffin.
…
Whoosh!
Li Yuan waved his hand to collect Little Tomb, then transformed into a stream of light, entering the mysterious and unfathomable Hong Ying Supreme Hall.
And at the moment he entered the Supreme Hall.
“Boom~” The ancient hall gate, originally emanating countless brilliant lights, unexpectedly began closing at an astonishing speed.
“Hmm?” Just entering, Li Yuan immediately sensed the anomaly with the hall gate, feeling a shock inside: “Is the hall gate closing?”
But he didn’t have time to react.
Buzz~
An unmatched mighty force instantly enveloped him, and following a spatial shift, he found himself inside a majestic and endless palace.
The palace was imposing and boundless, stretching over thousands of kilometers, with a series of purple Divine Pillars arrayed on both sides, engraved with countless mysterious runes.
What stunned Li Yuan was that on both sides of the Divine Pillars sat one enormous figure after another, most of them humanoid beings, but some were like Divine Beasts, some resembled giant fish, others were akin to trees, and some undulated like mountains… Each figure exuded an extremely powerful aura, and subtly possessed Eternal Dao Rhythms.
“Emperor Realm?”
“All Emperor Realm?” Li Yuan confirmed in an instant: “136?”
At the feet of the Divine Pillars on both sides of the palace, there were as many as 136 Emperor Realm true bodies… Their aura was so intense that it gave Li Yuan the illusion that ’they are all alive.’
Especially a few Emperor Realm bodies, which in the dark gave Li Yuan a sense of threat even more terrifying than the Chaos God Emperor, likely representing Dominator-level existences.
But Li Yuan could clearly sense.
These Emperor Realm individuals, including several suspected Dominators, should all be deceased… only their Divine Bodies have been perfectly preserved.
Even their Soul Aura has been largely retained.
“Who are these Emperor Realm beings? What has Supreme Hong Ying left behind?” Li Yuan was filled with doubt, his heart stirred: “Little Tomb, come out.”
Whoosh! Li Yuan had already summoned Little Tomb.
“What is this?” Little Tomb flew out, glanced around at the palace scene, and suddenly displayed a shocked expression: “Bogu, East Cultivator, Ruins Lake… How are their true bodies all here?”
“Not just them.”
“Wei Qi, Po Huang…” Little Tomb swept his gaze over each Emperor Realm body, consecutively naming more than ten individuals, leaving Li Yuan deeply amazed.
Because.
The names Little Tomb mentioned, each was once an Emperor Realm Expert born in the Honghe Universe, including many at the Emperor Peak and even Dominator existences.
“Little Tomb, meaning, the Emperor Realm true bodies in this palace… are all the Emperor Realm true bodies of the Honghe Universe?” Li Yuan couldn’t help but ask.
Little Tomb was about to answer.
Suddenly.
Swish~ A golden light flashed across the end of the palace, followed by a golden-robed figure slowly descending in front of Li Yuan and Little Tomb; his face was chiseled, his eyes deep as the cosmos, filled with an oppressive aura, giving Li Yuan a sense of mortal danger.
“Senior, may I know your name?” Li Yuan politely bowed and asked.
But the golden-robed figure only glanced at Li Yuan before his gaze fell on Little Tomb, saying in a deep voice: “Vice Alliance Hierarch, long time no see; I didn’t expect you to still be alive.”
“Jin Yuan, neither did I.” Little Tomb’s aura was very weak, but he showed no fear and said with deep emotion: “Supreme Hong Ying entrusted the affairs of the Supreme Hall to you.”
“It’s because the master trusts me.” The golden-robed figure’s voice was calm.
“This is Heart Source Quasi-Saint.” Little Tomb said, “Whatever Supreme Hong Ying has left, I hope it won’t harm his life.”
“I’ll try my best.” The golden-robed figure replied.
“Heart Source Quasi-Saint?” The golden-robed figure turned to look at Li Yuan: “You were recognized by the master’s token, so you should be a favored candidate of the master, but you are only at God King Realm and have yet to receive proper guidance.”
“You weren’t supposed to come here.”
“But since you’re here, I must act according to the master’s command and hope you don’t completely perish here.” The golden-robed figure said in a deep voice.
