Chapter 507: Chapter 507
An excited heart, trembling hands!
This was the most authentic portrayal of Zhouyang’s emotions at that moment.
He didn’t even know how he got through these eleven years!!
He had lived for nearly three hundred years, and these eleven years were undoubtedly the most difficult period of his life.
Living each day watching his life enter a countdown was truly not a life for a normal person.
Zhouyang was considered an extremely determined cultivator, yet these eleven years almost drove him crazy.
Especially two weeks ago, when the Celestial Killer Corpse King spoke, it nearly shattered his Dao Heart!
Fortunately, after waiting for eleven years, he finally awaited an "opportunity" he had been anticipating for one hundred and fifty-one years.
One hundred and fifty-one years ago, after escaping from the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm back to the Boundless Sea of Sand Cultivation Realm, Zhou Guangxiang handed him a high-level cultivation technique "One Qi Qianyuan Technique" and a treasure "Kunxu Order" obtained by Zhou Guangtai of the Zhou Family.
At the time, the ghost cultivator Xu Song, who had once entered the "Kunxu Realm" when it opened last time, told him that the Outer Heaven Secret Realm "Kunxu Realm," which opened once every eight hundred years, should open again in a hundred and fifty or sixty years.
Since then, the "Kunxu Order," as the token to enter the "Kunxu Realm," had been carried by Zhouyang at all times.
A dozen years ago, when he was captured by the Celestial Killer Corpse King to be used as a cultivation cauldron, he thought of the "Kunxu Order" during his plans to escape.
According to what Xu Song said at the time, once the "Kunxu Realm" opened, the "Kunxu Order" would start vibrating and send a signal, and the bearer would have an hour to decide whether to go.
If he decided to go, he could inject magical power into the "Kunxu Order" and activate its space-breaking transmission function, sending him into the Kunxu Realm, a place full of risk and opportunity in the Outer Heaven Secret Realm.
As a top-tier secret realm, the "Kunxu Realm" could even accommodate Nascent Soul Stage cultivators. Each time it opened, many cultivators holding the "Kunxu Order" would venture inside to seek treasures, naturally including Nascent Soul Stage cultivators.
Moreover, in a place like the "Kunxu Realm," only those with a cultivation level above the Golden Core Stage could achieve anything. Those with low cultivation would not be able to handle the various dangers in the secret realm, even if they entered.
Zhouyang was now a Golden Core Stage cultivator. Although traveling to the "Kunxu Realm" also carried the risk of death, it was much better than being refined into a corpse servant by the Celestial Killer Corpse King.
Therefore, this journey to the "Kunxu Realm" had long been regarded by him as his only chance for salvation and escape.
Now, upon discovering the "Kunxu Order" in his Storage Ring starting to vibrate, how could he not be overjoyed?
Because the "Kunxu Order" was vibrating inside Zhouyang’s Storage Ring, even if the Celestial Killer Corpse King’s cultivation was sky-high, he couldn’t possibly detect anything unusual within.
Therefore, when it commanded Zhouyang to continue releasing "Qianyang True Flame" to assist its cultivation, Zhouyang finally seized the opportunity to unleash the resentment he had accumulated over dozens of years!
While releasing the "Qianyang True Flame" to assist the Celestial Killer Corpse King’s cultivation, he secretly maneuvered magical power into the "Qianyang Treasure Pearl," directly activating its enhancement function.
In an instant, the enhanced version of the "Qianyang True Flame," intensified by the "Qianyang Treasure Pearl," surged out from Zhouyang like a storm, instantly engulfing the unguarded Celestial Killer Corpse King.
A scream filled with pain erupted from the Celestial Killer Corpse King. The corpse evil qi, which had already adapted to the Small Success Realm of the "Qianyang True Flame," was directly burned into wisps of black smoke by the enhanced "Qianyang True Flame," as if oil in a raging fire.
Even its indestructible corpse king’s body, which not even a Tier Six Flying Sword could break through, showed black scorch marks under the flames!
At that moment, Zhouyang jumped behind a nearby dark golden coffin, extended his left hand to open a scroll and put the dark golden coffin into this spatial treasure, then raised his right hand to take out the vibrating "Kunxu Order" and inject magical power into it.
"Ah ah ah! Die for me!"
Seeing this scene, the Celestial Killer Corpse King was truly enraged, its Three Corpse Spirits leaping. It disregarded the "Qianyang True Flame" still burning on its body, directly waved its hand, and shot out a half-foot-long pitch-black nail towards Zhouyang like lightning.
This nail, refined for years with its corpse evil qi, though not a magical artifact, was sharper than an ordinary Tier Six Flying Sword and contained extremely terrifying corpse poison.
Guo Jinhong’s physical body was once ripped apart by this claw, with corpse poison invading his heart and skeleton, eventually forcing him to abandon his physical body and rebirth through possession.
Unfortunately, despite its fierce attack, it ultimately failed, missing its target!
The "Kunxu Order," as a treasure personally refined by the legendary Celestial Immortals, had extraordinary power.
After Zhouyang injected magical power to activate the "Kunxu Order" in his hand, the token instantly released a strange silver spiritual light, enveloping him entirely, and then his figure vanished from this world.
"Damn it! I didn’t expect this boy to have the ’Kunxu Order,’ such a rare treasure from ancient times!"
The Celestial Killer Corpse King inherited the memories of the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator "Master Heisha". Regarding the "Kunxu Order", a treasure passed down from ancient times, it naturally had heard of it.
At this moment, seeing Zhouyang disappear without a trace from its sensing and recalling the appearance of the token Zhouyang held in his hand, it immediately recalled the renowned treasure "Kunxu Order".
At this moment, it felt endless regret, regret for being too arrogant and not confiscating Zhouyang’s Storage Ring after capturing him; otherwise, today’s situation would never have occurred!
"Do you think you can rest easy just because you got rid of my hold using the [Kunxu Order]? Little do you know, you should never have taken my [Netherworld Profound Coffin] greedily!"
"In three years, when you return from the [Kunxu Realm], it’ll be the time when I come to take your life. Then, we’ll see what tricks you still have to escape my grasp!"
The Celestial Killer Corpse King’s whole body surged with Corpse Qi, instantly suppressing the fiercely burning "Qianyang True Flame", roaring with a hideous expression.
Today’s events, for it, truly ended with both loss and disgrace.
That "Netherworld Profound Coffin" is the foundation of its Dao, akin to a cultivator’s Lifebound Spiritual Artifact. Losing this treasure means its cultivation speed will slow down significantly, and it is crucial for breaking through the Nascent Soul Stage’s bottleneck. It’s an irreplaceable item!
However, Zhouyang was unaware of this.
The reason Zhouyang took the "Netherworld Profound Coffin" was partly to see if Qin Yue’Er inside could still be saved, and partly to collect some "interest", not wanting to serve the Celestial Killer Corpse King for eleven years in vain.
The "interest," as Zhouyang had resolved, was to settle the score with the Celestial Killer Corpse King someday if he managed to form a Nascent Soul.
One could say Zhouyang was lucky, while the Celestial Killer Corpse King was unlucky.
As an Exotic Treasure, the "Netherworld Profound Coffin" could only be stored with Spatial Treasures like the "Spirit Plant Map" in his possession and not in a Storage Ring. Even the Celestial Killer Corpse King used a space within the silver pendant treasure to store it.
For this reason, the Celestial Killer Corpse King casually placed it in the tomb chamber to absorb Yin Qi to nurture Qin Yue’Er’s body without setting up extra guards.
In summary, everything seems destined by fate; the Celestial Killer Corpse King was destined to face this calamity!
On the other side, as Zhouyang entered the legendary "Kunxu Realm" through the "Kunxu Order," he was instantly struck by the scene before his eyes. Nᴇw ɴovel chaptᴇrs are published on novel-fire.net
He stood on the top of a cloud-wreathed high mountain. Below the mountain lay thick clouds, while the mountain’s Spiritual Qi was rich enough to rival a Tier Five Low-Grade Spiritual Vein.
However, what truly left Zhouyang speechless in awe was the scene he encountered when he looked up at the sky.
The sky of the "Kunxu Realm" was vast, devoid of any clouds.
Based on what Zhouyang learned from Xu Song, climate changes in this secret realm occur as if pre-scheduled. When it rains, rain clouds appear suddenly above a specific area, dissipating immediately after the rain.
Obviously, where Zhouyang was didn’t align with rainfall time, so he witnessed a breathtaking scene seen by most first-time cultivators entering this realm.
He saw a brightly high and shining "Kunxu Realm", and outside its sky lay a deep, dark world, within which a huge, circular, multicolored object occupied thirty percent of Zhouyang’s view, emitting a faint multicolored glow.
"That circular multicolored object should be the world I just came from! Perhaps it should be called the [Spirit Realm]!"
Zhouyang gazed in wonder at the circular multicolored object outside the sky, eyes filled with awe.
Zhouyang was no longer that novice cultivator from the Boundless Sea of Sand Cultivation Realm, having traveled through the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm and the Westernmost Cultivation Realm. He had learned the formal name of this Immortal World from ancient texts.
According to those texts, the first to discover this Immortal World and impart Immortal Cultivation Techniques here were the "Celestial Immortals," who called it the "Spirit Realm."
As for what "Spirit Realm" means, few know.
The most widespread and easy-to-accept hypothesis is that "Spirit Realm" represents a powerful "Celestial Immortal"’s Dao title or name.
With the "Spirit Realm," other worlds naturally exist, like the worlds from which those "Celestial Immortals" hailed.
But even Zhouyang, at this stage, lacked the eligibility to access information beyond the "Spirit Realm."
Such information is beyond the reach of ordinary Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators, only accessible to the most supreme existence in the Cultivation Realm, passed down through centuries by the most major sects.
Even the "Kunxu Realm," where he was now, remains mostly unknown to the majority of cultivators in the "Spirit Realm."
Zhouyang already learned from Xu Song that the "Kunxu Realm" isn’t a complete major world; it’s merely an independent small world.
ps: Hahaha, indeed, a reader guessed this earlier, but unfortunately, it’s a new reader of pirated copies, really uninterested in dealing with them (angry), they say those reading pirated copies pay closer attention, could it be true? (suspicious face) This pit has been buried for ages! A full one hundred and fifty-one years! (smiling face)