Besides this recognizable ancient rune, there was another, extremely fragmented Primordial Rune. Ye Tianling could vaguely discern that it was likely the character for "annihilate."
However, he couldn’t be certain.
As he approached the palace and saw the two ancient statues at its entrance, Ye Tianling couldn’t help but shudder.
The two ancient statues looked like materialized totems of an Alien Race. They had the pure upper bodies of the Human Race, but from the chest down, they were the massive bodies of scorpions.
Rows of deathly-pale scorpion pincers seemed to emanate an invisible chill and killing intent.
The two statues, one male and one female, silently guarded the entrance of the ancient palace.
The palace gates stood open, revealing a stretch of darkness within, making it impossible to see what lay inside.
The cultivators who had climbed the steps had all entered the dark palace, disappearing from sight.
By the time Ye Tianling arrived, the last cultivator had already scrambled through the palace gates.
Ye Tianling descended from the void and landed on the steps.
BOOM—
An incredibly terrifying gravity pressed down on him, so immense that Ye Tianling could barely withstand it and almost buckled to his knees.
A terrifying urge welled up in his heart, a desperate desire to rush into the palace.
It was as if a call from the depths of his soul was frantically luring him forward.
’What’s going on?’
Ye Tianling circulated the Chaos Destiny Scripture, and in an instant, the sensation of being pulled forward intensified dramatically.
At the same time, the two silent statues seemed to come to life.
The male statue’s eyes were ice-cold, staring at Ye Tianling with an air of complete indifference to all living things. That gaze, that aura, sent a chill down his spine.
As for the female statue, her eyes were sinister, enchanting, and utterly bizarre. She, too, stared fixedly at Ye Tianling, her gaze holding the weight of one who judged the world.
Ye Tianling almost immediately stopped circulating the Chaos Destiny Scripture, switching instead to his Celestial Dao Rule Domain.
Once the Celestial Dao Rule Domain was active, the strange pressure lessened considerably, but the sense of crisis that came with it grew even more lethal.
The unknown attraction felt like a spark igniting the madness in his heart.
THUMP-THUMP-THUMP—
Ye Tianling’s heart began to race. The beating of his Nine-Orifice Exquisite Demon Heart was like the pounding of a war drum.
This sound gradually fell into resonance with the tolling of a bell from the unknown region.
BANG—
When the two sounds merged, Ye Tianling instantly spat out a mouthful of blood.
The blood instantly vaporized in the air, turning into a white mist that dissipated into the world.
The light in Ye Tianling’s eyes dimmed. His Life Force had been instantly depleted by nearly ten days’ worth.
He originally had sixty days of Life Force, which had been almost entirely intact until now, but at this moment, only fifty days remained.
Ye Tianling tried to activate the Tianshu Myriad Paths Imperial Qilin Armor for defense, but the moment this powerful Battle Armor materialized, it immediately let out a series of crisp cracks. KAKA!
Ye Tianling immediately deactivated its defensive effect.
At that moment, his Soul Talent detected that cracks had even appeared on the Battle Armor.
Ye Tianling tried using simulation methods like the Little Faceless Technique to achieve fusion with his surroundings.
But this time, he failed as well.
Ye Tianling took a single step up, and the attraction instantly doubled. His eyes began to turn red, and he was already finding it difficult to resist the terrifying pull.
Ye Tianling took a deep breath, slowly supported his body, and sat down cross-legged on the step.
By circulating his Soul Talent, he kept a constant watch on the two statues.
The two statues also continued to watch him with those same, incomparably cold eyes.
’How... how can I escape this danger?’
While sitting cross-legged, Ye Tianling tried circulating every cultivation technique he knew. Whether it was the Tianshu Ancient Town Celestial Secret Divine Skill, the Eye of Celestial Secret, the Celestial Sword Divine Body, or the techniques corresponding to his other various Divine Bodies—none had any effect.
Finally, Ye Tianling recalled the information Xue Fanqian had mentioned—the information about being a chess piece.
Ye Tianling stopped circulating all of his cultivation techniques, even his Soul Talent, and quietly began his cultivation of the Bloodthirsty Soul Refining Technique.
It was a very simple and rudimentary cultivation technique.
The version from the original, fragmented scroll, not the version he had later modified.
As he cultivated this technique, the white mist in the air suddenly drifted over to him quite naturally.
Soon, the terrifying pressure on Ye Tianling’s body gradually disappeared.
This part of the world also seemed to emerge from its hazy state, becoming much clearer.
In this state, Ye Tianling unexpectedly felt an unusual sensation, as if he had achieved Unity of Celestial Dao.
As he absorbed the white mist, his Life Force seemed to gain a new foundation. It became vibrant with vitality, as if he had gained several years of Life Force in an instant.
But that wasn’t the truth of the matter.
’Are they trying to ripen a seed? Fine. I’ll just see how you so-called Upper Ranks plan to harvest me once I’m fully ripe!’
Ye Tianling had many reservations, but in the end, they all vanished.
He no longer held back, but directly began devouring the white mist of this world, pushing his own Life Force to its most vigorous limits.
Ye Tianling devoured a massive amount of white mist in one go. Eventually, the mist on this Celestial Ladder of steps had completely dissipated.
His body had also swelled to more than ten times its original size, as if he had transformed into a giant.
Ye Tianling looked up again. The palace now appeared completely normal and no longer seemed immeasurably huge.
The bizarre statues flanking the palace had also become plain and unremarkable.
The statues that had been staring at him with such cold, severe eyes were no longer so lifelike.
With no more worries and feeling no pressure, Ye Tianling walked up the steps one by one.
Finally, Ye Tianling stepped through the palace gates.
The moment he passed through the gates, Ye Tianling felt as if he had stepped into the cycle of reincarnation.
In that instant, Ye Tianling seemed to see a long stretch of memories—memories that seemed to belong to his past.
But the memory flowed by too quickly for him to grasp any of it.
He only remembered a single scene from that memory—a scene of a woman thrusting a sword into the space between his eyebrows.
That sword strike was too real.
So real that as the sword thrust forward, Ye Tianling was instantly jolted back to his senses.
Inside the palace, it was a very quiet place.
But at this moment, the silence was terrifying.
In the sky hung a Blood Moon, just like the Blood-Colored Crescent Moon that had once appeared on the Sword Ancestor Star.
Below the crescent moon, in the distance, lay an icy Cold Pool.
"This place..."
Ye Tianling shuddered. Seeing such an environment inside the palace made his heart, which had just calmed, begin to pound again.
He was deeply moved—this place was strikingly similar to the Cold Pool beneath Forbidden Moon Cliff, the place where he had inherited the Huaxia Dragon Soul Divine Blood!
What made Ye Tianling’s heart pound even harder was that in the distance, beyond the Cold Pool, stood an ancient altar.
On the altar rested a blood-red Crystal Coffin.
Atop the Crystal Coffin sat a woman in a red gauze dress, meditating quietly.
Her back was to Ye Tianling.
But even so, Ye Tianling could tell with absolute certainty—she had to be the Little Dragon Girl!
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