bantayden Chapter 2332 - 2331: Overlord Race Secret Realm
Chapter 2332 - 2331: Overlord Race Secret Realm
Long Fei had Wang Xiaoya take care of Chu Feng and the others while he went alone into the other caves to look over the murals, carefully studying them against the notes in the handbook.
This place should have been visited by many experts; a lot of ruined traces had been left on the stone walls.
However, this stroke of fortune should still be here.
"Chessboard Mountain?"
He muttered this name, stepped into the air, and, hanging high above, stared down at this Chessboard Mountain, examining it again and again.
These peaks, each one like a chess piece, some covered in greenery, some made of red sandstone.
One green, one red, they really did look like black and white stones on a Go board, dotting the ground below.
Moreover, the distances between them horizontally and vertically were equal; the more he looked, the more it seemed this had been made by some great figure through sheer human effort.
The land as the board, the mountains as the pieces.
What kind of audacity and what kind of cultivation would it take to use mountains as chess pieces here for amusement?
From what Brother Long could see of this game, the green pieces were on a fierce offensive, while the red pieces were defending step by step, already forced into a corner.
Judging from the whole board, the green pieces seemed about to win in the end.
But hidden within that defensive stance of the red pieces was a trap, as if deliberately luring the green pieces to attack.
The two sides had formed a stalemate in one corner, appearing to have reached a dead position.
Long Fei said with great interest, "If they’re dead pieces anyway, why bother caring?"
He raised his hand and pointed; a mountain-moving, sea-toppling Law wrapped around one of the "chess pieces," uprooting this nearly ten-thousand-meter-tall peak in one go.
As Long Fei had expected, this mountain had no roots; it really had been moved here later.
The mountain’s base had not fused with the Earth Elemental Force beneath it.
The ground was already rumbling thunderously, and giant, man-height animals were fleeing in panic in all directions.
Those disciples of the Sun Worshiping Cult were all so scared they flew off on their swords.
Originally they had stayed where they were, intending to spy on the movements of Long Fei’s group.
Who could have known that this enormous mountain would suddenly be uprooted for no reason.
Though the mountain was sloped, it was still ten thousand meters tall.
Its weight was impossible to calculate; an ordinary person probably couldn’t even lift a single stone from its face.
Yet such a massive peak had been forcibly hoisted up by someone.
The ground boomed again, and Long Fei set this dead piece off to the side.
The entire chessboard was instantly brought to life; the vast chains of mountains all trembled with a buzzing hum, and in an instant a beam of Mysterious Light surged up.
Long Fei stepped down through the air and slipped through a crack in that Mysterious Light.
Chu Feng and the others were inside the mountain healing their injuries; they only felt the rumbling outside and had no idea what was happening.
Wang Xiaoya was worried about Long Fei, afraid some Celestial Venerable had come to cause trouble.
She ran out for a look, but there was no sign of Long Fei anywhere.
In her anxiety she glanced around, grabbed a disciple of the Sun Worshiping Cult, and asked urgently, "Where is my husband?"
That disciple hadn’t clearly seen what had happened either; he only stammered, "Just now a beam of light flashed up over this area; when the light faded, he was gone."
Chu Feng was the first to follow her out; he looked around and said, "Why do I feel something’s off about this place?"
Earlier there had been a surging river in front of the peak they were on.
But now in front of the door it had turned into a dried-up valley.
Wang Xiaoya asked the disciple of the Sun Worshiping Cult she was holding another question.
The disciple stammered that the mountains here had just shifted around, all changing positions.
"Mountains moving around? You’re not trying to fool me, are you?"
Wang Xiaoya didn’t believe it.
But Chu Feng was overjoyed. "Could Brother Long have found the treasure entrance here?"
"Ah?"
Wang Xiaoya suddenly remembered that this place still held the treasure of Overlord Star!
Chu Feng knocked out the captive in Wang Xiaoya’s hand with a slap, then took Wang Xiaoya back into the cave and immediately had the Bald Dog change its position.
He knew that once this opportunity appeared, plenty of experts were bound to show up.
The Bald Dog and the Ground Rat Demon King set up a spatial Formation and were just about to leave through a tunnel in the ground.
When suddenly a portal opened inside the cave, and a beam of Mysterious Light flashed out, sweeping them all inside.
Everyone was shocked, thinking they had fallen into some unknown place.
After the Mysterious Light around them vanished, a wild, barbaric aura of the Primordial Wild rushed at their faces.
A brightness appeared before their eyes, and it took quite a while for them to see their surroundings clearly.
A thick stench of blood pressed in from all around; as far as the eye could see, the ground was pitted and uneven, covered in scarlet blood springs.
The springs varied in size, with Blood Qi steaming up from their surfaces, making this entire world look blood-red.
Long Fei was already soaking in one of the hot springs, smiling and waving at them. "Get down here, this feels amazing!"
Chu Feng and the others took one look and, without another word, all jumped in after him.
The Bald Dog and the others had just gotten in when their fur stood on end; they yelped in pain and leapt back out.
Chu Feng and the other three all cried out, their faces twitching.
Wang Xiaoya laughed at the Bald Dog. "Why did you all come back out?"
The Bald Dog clicked its tongue and complained, "How is this a hot spring? It’s clearly hotter than lava!"
Chu Feng howled with pain in the pool. "What is this place anyway?"
Long Fei told them, "In the Ancient Era, this was the trial ground of the Overlord Star Human Tribe. All these blood springs were places the people of Overlord Star used to temper their muscles and bones. This is Essence Blood of Divine Beasts from the Ancient Era; you won’t find this stuff outside."
"This extravagant?"
Chu Feng and the others were all wide-eyed as they stared at the blood-filled pits all over the ground. "How many Divine Beasts would they have had to kill for this?"
Long Fei said, "Back then the conditions on Overlord Star were harsh; everywhere you looked was ferocious Exotic Beasts. Some soared to hundreds of meters tall, and the land was full of giant creatures more than ten meters high. For the Human Race to survive in such an environment, they could only find ways to grind and temper their own muscles and bones. From birth they had to be soaked in the bloodlines of all kinds of Exotic Beasts; by three years old they could lift a hundred jin or more. After ten they could increase that to over a thousand jin, and once grown, thanks to their different tempered muscles and bones, their strength rose to an immeasurable level. Among the Human Race, the kings of each generation were all called ’Overlord’!"
The group all smacked their tongues in amazement, thinking that the Human Race on this planet was truly the strongest of the strong!
Being able to lift over a thousand jin at ten years old—was that still human, or a superhuman?
These Demon Clan Exotic Beast bloodlines contained strong divine substances, and even more various harmful substances.
When absorbing and refining them, one had to constantly expel those harmful substances; this was the key to a Physique Refining Warrior.
If an ordinary person jumped into the blood pool Long Fei and the others were soaking in, they would be melted into thick slurry on the spot.
The Bald Dog and the others now had bodies at the Demon Emperor level, yet they still couldn’t withstand soaking in this pool.
They each went to find a smaller pool for themselves, going in first to slowly get used to it.
Wang Xiaoya didn’t soak with them; she found a pool of her own that had flames on its surface.
The bloodline in that pool was the Essence Blood of the Phoenix Clan.
She felt the aura of her own kind, and her whole skin and flesh, like saplings after a long drought, along with her bloodline, all boiled up.
The group went into seclusion in this Secret Realm, not knowing that the outside world was already packed with Cultivators from all sides.
Even the Golden Crow Celestial Venerable, who had just had his Cultivation Level cut down, rushed over from his closed-door seclusion as soon as he heard news of Long Fei.
First, for the fortune here; second, to cut down this great enemy as soon as possible.
The Eight Celestial Venerables also came together, planning to act according to the situation.
If the Golden Crow Celestial Venerable won, they would back the Golden Crow Celestial Venerable.
If Long Fei won, they would back Long Fei.