chsdbacks Chapter 371 Ruins
Chapter 371 Ruins
The gatekeeper remained silent for a long time.
Then he opened his palm again, holding Sun Wukong, and pointed his finger deep into the silver spot.
"Go in. But when the aftershocks of the cataclysm blast open the mountain gate, those ancient beings deep within the chaos will simultaneously lock onto the coordinates of the Tai Sui star. The moment the mountain gate reopens, they will all come crashing down."
"Then press them. I, Old Sun, have always been afraid of having no one to fight me."
Sun Wukong grinned and somersaulted from the palm into the depths of the silver dot.
The silver dot behind him suddenly expanded, exploding into a huge gate of light that stretched across the outer perimeter of the planet Tai Sui.
The guardian deity withdrew his palm, stood outside the gate of light, crossed his arms in front of his chest, faced the depths of chaos, and assumed the first defensive stance of the ancient Kunlun Mountain Guardian General.
Inside the portal, Sun Wukong stood in the very center of the ruins of the old Kunlun.
Beneath my feet are shattered jade tiles, and all around me are collapsed corridor pillars.
Above the ruins hang nine ancient, extinguished stars, each a key point in a formation.
He slammed the golden cudgel to the ground, and the aftershocks of the great calamity in his mind flowed along the cudgel into the ground, causing countless white light cracks to appear on the entire ruined ground.
The light cracks spread outwards along the stone texture of the ruins, extending from the mountain gate square all the way to the base of the outer protective array.
The nine extinguished ancient stars were rekindled one by one under the impact of the aftershocks of the great calamity.
In the deepest part of chaos, three pairs of eyes, even more ancient than the Lord of the Well, opened simultaneously.
The golden light of Mars trembled violently outside the ruins of Donghuang.
That was a warning signal sent by the Primordial Celestial Venerable from the ridge of the South Heavenly Gate.
The frequency of the golden light trembling on Mars accelerated in sync with the rhythm of the fetal breath resonance deep within the Ruins of Return, each breath flowing along the newly healed layer of laws into the chaotic gray mist surrounding Zhenxing.
Su Fan stood in front of the tilted stone pillar at the entrance to the first level of the Eastern Emperor Ruins.
Upon hearing that phrase uttered from the depths of the ruins of the dynasty, the eyes of the three-legged golden crow relief on the stone pillar suddenly cracked open.
It wasn't smashed open from the outside; it cracked from the inside out.
The cracks spread along the edge of the eye socket to the entire stone pillar, and the sealing laws on the surface of the stone pillar shattered layer by layer, with the fragments falling to the ground and breaking into pale golden powder.
After the eyes of the golden crow relief were completely cracked, a bell-like sound emerged from the depths of its eye sockets.
The bell tolled deeply.
It burst forth from the deepest part of the ruins, passed through three layers of time rifts, through countless collapsed palace wreckage, and through an ancient battlefield frozen by the laws of time for thirty thousand years, before crashing directly into Su Fan's chest.
His broken ribs had not fully healed after being welded shut by the will of all living beings. The sound of the bell caused the dark gold scab at the broken ribs to crack instantly.
He glanced down at his chest, where a faint golden light shone through the fabric.
"The first bell tolls as a test."
Xu turned around and explained to Su Fan using the long sentences he had just learned.
Its voice was still quite raw, with a pause between each word, but it could spell sentences much faster than before.
"The Eastern Emperor Bell shattered long ago, with fragments scattered across different time zones within the ruins. These ruins are divided into three layers. The outer layer is the ruins of the Eastern Emperor's Divine Palace, the middle layer is the ancient battlefield of gods and demons, and the deepest layer is the secret chamber that the Eastern Emperor sealed with his own heart before his fall. The sound of the bell coming from the secret chamber indicates that at least one fragment is still intact."
"How do we get into the secret room?" Su Fan asked.
"A key is needed. The key is a living human heart capable of withstanding three layers of time flow simultaneously. My heart has a core of pure gold, which counts as a key."
"But the secret chamber sealed the heart of the Eastern Emperor. Before the bell shattered, He divided the heart into three parts, locking them in the divine palace, the battlefield, and the secret chamber respectively."
"To enter the secret chamber, you must first find the heart fragments on the first two floors, reassemble them into a complete heart, and then the door to the secret chamber will open."
Nezha, carrying his Fire-Tipped Spear, stood beside the crack in the stone pillar and turned around to ask a question.
"Where is the heart fragment of the outer shrine?"
Xu pointed behind the stone pillar.
Behind the stone pillars lies a vast plaza that has been leveled by the laws of time.
Three hundred and sixty-five broken stone pillars stand in the square, each with a relief of a three-legged golden crow carved on it.
The reliefs all have their eyes closed, with a tiny speck of dark gold light sealed in each eye socket.
The 365 fragments of light combined form the heart fragment of the outer divine palace.
The countdown to the Starfall Rift is ticking wildly.
After the three pairs of eyes in the depths of chaos opened in the direction of Tai Sui, the chaotic gray mist surrounding Zhen Xing began to surge faster.
Nezha picked up his gun, looked at the 365 stone pillars in the square, and asked in a low voice.
"Should we smash each one to pieces? Or is some special method necessary?"
Xu walked to the nearest stone pillar, stretched out his right hand, and used his newly grown pale gold fingernail to trace the edge of the eye socket in the relief.
The relief's eyes were not broken; the eyelids were slightly open, and the dark gold fragment sealed in the eye socket flew out automatically, hovering half an inch above its palm.
Ruins, carrying the shard of light, turned towards the two of them.
"No need to knock. They recognize the Eastern Emperor Mother Essence within me. I'll just touch it and it will open."
Su Fan lifted the Pangu Axe from his shoulder to his waist.
He glanced at the densely packed stone pillars in the square, then at the dark gold ancient star that was getting closer and closer in the direction of Zhenxing, and spoke.
"Then hurry up and touch it."
Xu walked barefoot on the stone bricks of the square, touching the eye sockets of the relief sculpture one by one, starting from the first stone pillar.
One after another, fragments of light lit up behind it.