Lord of All Gods

In truth, Mo Teng himself often couldn’t sense any obvious change in his cultivation realm—he only knew that he had grown stronger. So even if he could explain it clearly, it wouldn’t be of much reference value to others.

The demon beasts and people around him were still far from breaking through to the Taixu realm, so for now, they could only observe the changes in the two demon flood dragons and the snow wolf.

Ye Liuyun, for his part, felt that he was rather fortunate. Just by casually exploring a secret realm, he had encountered someone like Luo Yu—a descendant of an ancient dynasty—and learned so many secrets. Even when he had soul-searched Jiang Yuntian before, he hadn’t uncovered nearly as much information.

"Perhaps the Fire Seal King knows something related to this. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have organized people to directly tear open the void and travel to a higher-tier world."

With that thought in mind, Ye Liuyun turned to Luo Yu and asked, "When did the Fire Seal King previously tear open the void and send people out?"

"The Fire Seal Dynasty has actually been doing this all along. They have no higher-grade cultivation techniques and no way to find a path to break through their realm, so every two years, they send people out once. And each time, it’s always near this planet. By my calculations, it should be coming up soon." Luo Yu said.

Ye Liuyun nodded, mulling over whether he should wait and go take a look when they tore open the void.

Luo Yu then spoke up on her own initiative: "If you want to go see it, I can notify you when the time comes. I heard you have a teleportation treasure—is that true? If it is, you can teleport over when the time comes and definitely make it in time. Otherwise, you’d have to wait around here."

Upon hearing this, Ye Liuyun immediately left Luo Yu a sound-transmission talisman and told her to notify him the moment she noticed any movement.

Luo Yu agreed readily, feeling it was no trouble at all. Like Ye Liuyun, she had no ties to the Fire Seal Dynasty.

Moreover, through their conversation, she had discovered that Ye Liuyun’s earlier arrogant attitude had all been an act to conceal his identity—in reality, he was very easy to talk to. So she held no aversion toward him and felt that if she could help, she might as well.

The group ate and chatted, and time passed quickly. Before long, the crowd near the secret realm entrance began to stir.

Ye Liuyun and Luo Yu immediately looked over, and saw that the passage into the secret realm had stabilized—everyone was preparing to enter.

"We have a map, so there’s no rush. Let them go in first! If anything changes inside the secret realm, they’ll conveniently serve as pathfinders for us!" Ye Liuyun transmitted to Luo Yu.

So although they stood up as well, they didn’t rush over. Instead, they watched as the others entered the secret realm group by group, everyone scrambling to be first, afraid that if they were late, the treasures would be snatched by others.

Only after most of the crowd had gone in did they finally enter.

The moment Ye Liuyun stepped inside, he found that this was no deserted ancient city—it was a scene of bustling prosperity, with street vendors calling out their wares and a constant stream of people.

A squad of gold-armored guards was inspecting the martial cultivators who had just entered. Some of the gold-armored guards were escorting martial cultivators away for further questioning, and upon spotting Ye Liuyun’s group, guards immediately came rushing toward them, shouting: "Evil Creature, submit to inspection!"

But at that very same moment, the Wanshen Order suddenly radiated golden light, keeping Ye Liuyun’s mind clear. What his eyes saw abruptly changed into something entirely different from before.

There was no one inside the ancient city at all. Near the entrance, a number of martial cultivators who had just entered were scattered about—some standing dumbly in place, some moving forward in formation, and others scattering and fleeing in all directions.

On the ground was a swarm of dark gray rats, their eyes crimson as they glared at the group. Jiang Yunhan and the others had gathered together and were striking at some of the rats on the ground.

Cern Qifeng noticed Ye Liuyun looking their way and immediately called out to him: "These rats can cast illusions—hurry up and wipe them out!"

In truth, what Ye Liuyun was actually looking at was the illusion-warding treasure that Jiang Yunhan was wearing.

"Looks like this guy has finally learned his lesson." Ye Liuyun thought with a quiet smirk, paying no attention to Cern Qifeng’s call.

He simply put the snow wolf and the demon flood dragons away to keep them from falling under the illusion, while at the same time sending a sound transmission to warn Luo Yu. Luo Yu, for her part, had already put away her demon wolf as well—she had clearly detected the illusion here too.

Luo Yu gave Ye Liuyun a nod and transmitted to him: "These rats may have spawned anew inside the secret realm—I have no memory of this kind of danger. What do we do now? Should we help kill the rats?"

By this point, the rats were being killed off in greater and greater numbers. With a sharp squeak, the Rat King’s call rose up from underground, and even more rats suddenly poured out from holes in the walls all around, lunging at the martial cultivators.

"Let’s move—the illusion isn’t coming from these rats!"

Ye Liuyun had already used his Divine Soul Crimson Pupils to take control of one of the rats and found that they were simply treating the human martial cultivators as food, without casting any illusions at all. The soul power of these rats was extremely weak, and their overall strength was nothing to speak of—an illusion this powerful couldn’t possibly have originated from them.

The Heaven and Earth Grand Momentum already permeated his entire body, effortlessly shredding any rat that dared to charge at him, without him needing to lift a finger.

Luo Yu also followed Ye Liuyun’s example. Although her power of Heaven and Earth was far inferior to Ye Liuyun’s, it was more than enough to deal with these rats.

Following the map, they chose a relatively remote fork in the road instead of taking the widest main path before them. That road appeared to lead straight to the royal palace, but it was actually a maze with the most traps and mechanisms.

"There’s no warning about illusion dangers on the map?" Luo Yu asked Ye Liuyun as they walked.

Ye Liuyun countered, "How did you discover the illusion?"

Luo Yu held up a jade pendant hanging around her neck and asked Ye Liuyun, "Could this be a treasure that defends against soul attacks?"

"Why don’t you try taking it off and see!"

Ye Liuyun didn’t believe that trinket she wore could block illusions. If it had that function, it should have blocked his Crimson Eye illusion earlier.

Luo Yu followed his advice and tried. Sure enough, even without the treasure, the illusion still had no effect on her.

"This... could this secret realm recognize me?" Luo Yu realized that the illusion not attacking her might be related to her identity.

Ye Liuyun also speculated, "Very likely. That defensive treasure of yours can only resist soul attacks, not block illusions.

Regardless, this is a good thing. Stop investigating for now and stay alert for surrounding dangers! There might be new threats appearing in this secret realm."

Ye Liuyun swept his divine sense around and discovered that the shops along the street still retained their original appearance, as if everyone had suddenly vanished.

The entire royal city was quite large. Even at his current speed, exploring everything would take several days. The palace walls were over a hundred zhang high, with pavilions and towers still intact.

In a large square before the palace stood a hundred-zhang-tall stone statue of a middle-aged man wearing a crown and battle armor, leaning on a massive sword as he gazed into the distance.

From these structures alone, one could tell that this Hongtian Dynasty had been quite powerful in its time.

However, due to age, everything was covered in dust and appeared exceptionally desolate—completely different from the prosperous scene they had witnessed upon first entering.

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