Chapter 1570 - 850: Opponent (Part 2)
"Probably not, let’s keep moving forward," Lin Feng glanced at the surrounding mist, a hint of a bitter smile emerging in his mind.
"No need to be afraid, I have a compass here. It’s the most marvelous tool for dealing with this kind of array. It can discern the direction." Xia Youyu said.
Upon hearing this from Xia Youyu, Lin Feng followed the direction Xia Youyu pointed to and continued forward.
Meanwhile, Su Chen sensed the surrounding mist and a gleam flashed in his eyes. He said to Xia Houqing and Zhu Chan, "Let’s go, the action has begun."
Immediately, Su Chen took out a compass, targeting the Chen Family.
Xia Houqing responded excitedly, whereas Zhu Chan showed a peculiar expression, remaining silent.
At this moment, a giant ship effortlessly broke through the waves, rapidly approaching the Chen Family island, and it seemed the surrounding celestial phenomena were having some issues.
Meanwhile, Lin Feng and his companion from another direction also saw the island, almost opposite to Su Chen’s group, landing on the island almost simultaneously. The island bore a strange atmosphere.
In the Chen Family’s secret area, also the location of the Ancient Tomb’s stone tablet, listed as a forbidden area by the Chen Family, today it welcomed a big group, all elites of the Chen Family, totaling over a dozen, all with cultivation above the Second Spirit Knot, seemingly the essence of the Chen Family.
The Chen Family Head looked solemnly at the tombstone in front, pondering: "Behind this tombstone there’s said to be a space, and the method to open it is within the burial mound behind the tombstone."
The tombstone was without words or marks, standing there, giving a strange feeling, as if it had endured countless years, still standing within the river of time.
"Let’s go." The Chen Family Head sighed and said. Immediately, the Great Elder stepped forward with a resolute expression, addressing the crowd, "Prepare yourselves."
The Chen Family members nodded, and two Elders took out two jade pendants, both showing broken marks, obviously defects. When the two jade pendants combined, there was a strange feeling, still lacking something.
Then the Chen Family Head took out a small bottle, gently extracted a drop of water, and let it fall upon the jade pendants.
The water was black, seeming to contain the meaning of life and death.
As the Xuan Water dripped onto the jade pendants, it instantly reacted, revealing a peculiar light visible to everyone on the island, a desolate atmosphere rushed out, startling Xia Youyu, Lin Feng, and Su Chen’s group.
"This atmosphere, could it be the Ancient Tomb can still be opened, and the Chen Family is planning to open the Ancient Tomb?" Xia Youyu finally understood why the Chen Family would activate the grand array, it was all for creation.
The creation handed down from the Ancient Tomb, such astonishing celestial phenomena, if not on the island, coupled with the array’s concealment outside, really makes it undetectable. But why publish it in various sects’ tasks?
Su Chen remained incredibly calm, not shocked by the appearance of the Ancient Tomb, instead he said to the excited pair, "Ready, let’s go in."
Su Chen’s team was the second batch to arrive in the tomb, the first batch from the Chen Family had already entered.
"Let’s go." The three figures turned and disappeared.
Lin Feng and Xia Youyu were the last to arrive, watching the nearly disappearing black hole in the sky, Xia Youyu immediately flew in, directly breaking into it, the creation inside the Ancient Tomb must be substantial.
As Lin Feng was about to enter, suddenly the fragment of the East Emperor Bell within him shook, making Lin Feng halt instantly, and the spirit tree within him suddenly flew out, scattering glowing specks onto the stone tablet, which then emitted a desolate, heavy aura.
"Could this be a treasure?" Lin Feng understood that for something to cause resonance between two great treasures, it certainly must be valuable, but due to his level, he couldn’t discern it, nor did he know who took an item of at least Divine Weapon level as a tombstone, indeed this ancient person’s wealth is extraordinary.
In the final moment before the black hole was about to disappear, Lin Feng took away the stone tablet, and then leapt into the black hole, becoming the last entrant.
"Junior Brother Lin, you’ve come in." Just upon entering, Lin Feng heard Xia Youyu’s voice, it seemed incredibly dark here, with a chilling aura making Lin Feng frown.
And with Lin Feng’s vision, he couldn’t see the surroundings, it was simply unbelievable.
"Senior Sister, it’s me." Lin Feng said.
Upon hearing Lin Feng say this, at Xia Youyu’s location, a torch suddenly appeared, only for it to instantly extinguish, but it did light up Xia Youyu’s face.
"It’s regrettable, it seems in this atmosphere, we can’t see each other for the time being." Xia Youyu said with a bitter smile. As a cultivator with the ice attribute, creating an ice block was easy, but making an enduring torch was very difficult, and given the heavy chilling atmosphere here, ordinary torches would ignite only to extinguish.
Lin Feng lightly smiled, flicked a spark, which landed directly on the torch, igniting it and illuminating the surroundings clearly.
Xia Youyu nodded and said, "Unexpectedly, you are a fire attribute cultivator, I thought you were a gold attribute cultivator."
Lin Feng smiled mildly without replying, the two proceeded together, intending to explore this place.
Surrounded entirely by dark stone walls, some were engraved with text or depicted murals, yet the pair couldn’t make sense of them, and Xia Youyu analyzed, "Perhaps these are things praising the tomb owner."
"Perhaps," the text above was in ancient script, along with the murals’ obscure meanings, leaving them confused.
They cautiously walked forward, and ahead began to open up a new world, in this world, it was actually a circular cavern, with vitality dispersed around.
In the middle, however, was a river forming a division line, splitting the sides into a Tai Chi.
Seeing this, Lin Feng frowned and said, "Tai Chi, such grand workmanship."
Xia Youyu exclaimed, "This is the Netherworld Water, reputed to make people lose memory, it’s a third-grade material."
"Right, be careful not to let the Netherworld Water stain you, this stuff has a strong corrosive nature." Lin Feng said.
Xia Youyu nodded softly, the Netherworld Water before them seemed to separate life and death, claiming cyclical existence, carrying ineffable, unspeakable Dao charm, making them a bit bewildered.
However, suddenly the Tai Chi began to rotate, the place in front shifted to another area, causing the two to hastily retreat to another spot, at this moment, an annihilation aura charged directly at them.
Witnessing this scene, Lin Feng immediately summoned the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, the Jade Ruyi ascended into the air, purple energy rising, and black and white, golden colors danced, blocking this extinction aura.
Relieved, Lin Feng exhaled a breath.
Meanwhile, Xia Youyu glanced at the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi and said, "It’s the jade pendant from that auction day."
"Indeed, Senior Sister guessed right, yet, there seems to be no path here." Lin Feng said with a bitter smile.
In front of them was only a Tai Chi, it seemingly appeared pathless.
"No, Tai Chi embodies life containing death, death containing vitality, I think, if we find the vitality within the Land of Death, or the death within vitality, we might be able to escape." Xia Youyu said.
This was an array Xia Youyu had come across in an ancient text, used to transform life and death energy. If Xia Youyu’s guess was correct, the entire ancient tomb is a grand Tai Chi, constantly transforming life and death.
