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Chapter 12759 Imperial Path
Chapter 12759 Imperial Path
Ye Chen, Ren Feifan, and Ye Xingcai also stopped to take a closer look. Since they couldn't see anything on the surface, the three of them released their divine senses and probed down into the crack.
His divine sense penetrated the chaotic and turbid air emanating from the earth and landed on the giant's body. Sure enough, he saw that many ancient characters were engraved on the dark red skin.
Those characters, twisted and intertwined, ancient and obscure.
Even with Ye Chen and Ren Feifan's knowledge, they didn't recognize any of them, let alone understand their meaning.
"These characters... are very ancient, I can't understand them."
Ye Chen withdrew his divine sense, his brows furrowing slightly.
Leng Yueyao probed with her divine sense and said, "Your Highness, I can't understand it either."
"At that time, I was attacked by the killing aura of Geng metal and was seriously injured. On the verge of death, a strange spiritual vision suddenly appeared in my mind. Those originally obscure and difficult characters became clear and discernible in my eyes. Among them were clues to the Yang chapter of the Yin-Yang Divine Contract."
"But now that I have been resurrected, that spiritual vision has vanished without a trace. When I look at these characters again, I am completely baffled and cannot even decipher a single stroke."
Ye Chen was astonished and said, "Could it be that only in a life-or-death situation can this kind of spiritual vision be triggered to understand these ancient characters?"
He looked at Ren Feifan, wanting to hear what Ren Feifan had to say.
Ren Feifan's gaze lingered on the giant's muscles for a long time before he said:
“I can’t understand these characters either, but I do know the origin of this giant.”
"This giant was once one of my subordinates... well, a named figure under the Great Heavenly Emperor, named Panwu Tianzun."
"Panwu Tianzun wields a giant axe and possesses the power to create the world, embodying the Great Heavenly Emperor's wish to create chaos and the world."
"Panwu Heavenly Venerable?"
Ye Chen, Ye Xingcai, and Leng Yueyao all turned their heads at the same time, their eyes filled with surprise.
Although they had heard the legend of the Great Heavenly Emperor, they had never heard of the name of this Panwu Heavenly Venerable.
Ren Feifan nodded and continued:
"In order to fulfill the Great Heavenly Emperor's entrustment, Panwu Heavenly Venerable did not hesitate to use his own cultivation as a catalyst, wielding a giant axe to break through the barrier of chaos, hoping to open up a new world. Unfortunately, he ultimately failed and perished in the chaos."
"However, his body is extremely special, and has long since given rise to the laws of the 'New World'."
"After his fall, his laws remained. His body could become the earth, his eyes the sun and moon, his breath the wind and clouds, his voice the thunder, his blood the rivers, and his teeth and bones the metal and stone."
"As long as Panwu Tianzun's physical body remains, a world can be created."
"The people of Jinyao District established this home by using the body of Panwu Tianzun."
Upon hearing this, Ye Chen and the other two were all shocked.
Unexpectedly, the world of Jin Yao District is closely related to this Panwu Heavenly Venerable.
Ye Chen seemed to have caught something and asked, "Now that disasters are happening all over the Golden District, could it be related to the demise of Panwu Heavenly Venerable?"
Ren Feifan pondered for a moment and said, "It should be. Now that chaos has revived, the dark chaotic energy is sweeping across the world, and Panwu Tianzun's body has also been eroded and is slowly decaying and rotting."
"This is the source of the Jinyao District catastrophe."
"Once Panwu Tianzun's body completely decays, the laws within him will collapse. At that time, the entire Jinyao District will be destroyed, and all living beings within the district will turn to ashes."
Ye Chen was horrified. He probed with his divine sense again and sure enough, he discovered that the giant's body buried underground had dark red skin with faint gray-black chaotic energy swirling around it.
The chaotic energy corroded away the giant's skin, revealing the texture of his muscles.
The catastrophe in the Golden District is already so severe, with only the skin being corroded. If even the muscles and bones are corroded, who knows how terrible it will be.
"Given the critical situation, why don't the people of Jinyao District choose to migrate? The world is so vast, they can surely find a place suitable for survival," Ye Chen asked again.
Ren Feifan shook his head helplessly and said, "The end times world may seem vast, but in reality, every inch of clean land has an owner, and the various regions are heavily fortified and incompatible with each other."
"And no man's land is unclean, with an extremely harsh environment, a veritable dark forbidden zone, making it difficult to survive."
"The people of Jinyao District have relied on the Dharma Transformation of Panwu Tianzun for generations to survive. Once they are freed from the protection of the Dharma Transformation, they will surely die."
Ye Chen fell silent, roughly understanding the plight of the people in Jin Yao District.
"Then, is there a solution?"
Ye Chen thought to himself, the people of Jinyao District are descendants of the Great Heavenly Emperor, which means they can also be said to be descendants of Ren Feifan. He couldn't just stand by and watch them die.
Ren Feifan pondered for a moment, then said:
"I didn't know the way to save him before, but now I do. The solution is to find the Yang chapter of the Yin-Yang Divine Contract and use the pure Yang flames of the Yang chapter to purify the dark and chaotic energy on Panwu Heavenly Venerable's body."
"Only in this way can we stop his corruption and avert the catastrophe in the Golden District."
“I think that Panwu Tianzun’s body manifested these ancient characters in order to save himself. He left the clues on his body, hoping that an outsider could understand them and come to save him.”
"Those characters are actually chaotic. They are patterns that Panwu Tianzun manifested when he suffered from the erosion of chaos and his spirit was in extreme pain. If someone happens to be at a critical moment of life and death and resonates with his spirit, he may develop a special spiritual vision and understand those characters."
Ren Feifan was sharp-minded. Combining Leng Yueyao's situation with the cause and effect behind the characters on Pan Wutianzun's body, he had probably figured out most of the facts.
Ye Chen was extremely surprised and asked, "Didn't they say that Panwu Heavenly Venerable had perished? Is he still alive?"
Ren Feifan said, "When chaos revived, he also revived, but he suffered from the erosion of chaos, which made his life worse than death."
Ye Chen, Leng Yueyao, and Ye Xingcai all remained silent after hearing this.
No one expected that there was such a complex cause and effect behind the Jin Yao District.
Ren Feifan waved his hand: "Alright, let's put these things aside for now. The most important thing right now is to go to the Li Huo Gui Yuan Pool."
Ye Chen, Ye Xingcai, and Leng Yueyao nodded and continued walking towards the Li Huo Gui Yuan Pool.
Along the way, the four encountered many monsters born from the catastrophe.
Corroded by the dark and chaotic energy, his body was twisted and swirling with a dense aura of Geng metal killing intent, making him extremely frenzied.
However, given Ye Chen and his companions' strength, they naturally had no fear of ordinary demons and monsters.
The journey was thrilling but safe, and they gradually approached the Li Huo Gui Yuan Pool.
A scorching heat gradually filled the air ahead, accompanied by the sound of viscous liquid flowing, which sounded like blood boiling.
Finally, a valley entirely crimson appeared before Ye Chen and the others.
In the center of the valley, there is a pool of steaming water, dark red in color, with a fiery mist swirling around its surface; this is the Pool of Returning to the Origin of Fire.
"We've arrived. The Li Huo Gui Yuan Pool is just ahead."
"This place was formed from the blood and sweat of Panwu Tianzun, and the water flowing in the pool is his scalding blood and sweat from back then."
Ren Feifan looked at the Li Huo Gui Yuan Pool and said with some nostalgia.
He had never met Panwu Tianzun, but he had Panwu Tianzun's memories. Jinyao District was an unfamiliar place to him, but now it felt like his hometown.
Fate, time, cause and effect—it all seems to have been fooled. Things that don't exist exist, and even his memories have been deceived.
But the person behind all this seems to be Ye Chen!
"There are guards."
Ye Chen could see a few scattered guards near the Li Huo Gui Yuan Pool from afar.
They looked exhausted, their auras disordered, clearly disturbed by the catastrophe, and had no will to guard the area.
Being unable to stay in the safe city of Jinxin and having to guard it outside is certainly not a good job.
"They're just a few guards; you can take care of them."
Ren Feifan's path.
With the impending catastrophe in the Golden District, the high-ranking experts have all remained in the central Golden Heart City, and the strength of the guards is not strong, making them easy to deal with.
Ye Chen gave a soft "hmm" and then cast a time-stop spell. A flash of light appeared at his fingertips, and an invisible force of time instantly spread out.
Before the guards could react, they were frozen in place by the time-stop spell, their breaths even stopping.
"Let's go." Ye Chen called out in a low voice, and the four of them quickly walked into the valley and arrived at the Li Huo Gui Yuan Pool.
The scorching heat of the pool water rushed towards me, and the rich spiritual energy and fiery power contained within it made me feel completely refreshed.
More importantly, this pool of water is formed from the blood and sweat of Panwu Tianzun. Just by listening to the sound of the water boiling, one's spirit seems to resonate, and one's heart beats with excitement, wanting to fight, to fight against the heavens, to destroy everything, and to break through the chaos.
It's a primal, untamed power that gets your blood pumping.
Looking at the boiling blood-red pool, Leng Yueyao took two steps back and said, "Your Highness, I'm afraid... I can't withstand the spiritual energy in this pool."
The spiritual energy in the Li Huo Gui Yuan Pool is so surging that ordinary people simply cannot withstand it.
Ye Xingcai said, "Brother Chenye, I want to go with you!"
The boiling crimson pool water stirred Ye Xingcai's mind, giving rise to an urge to fight.
"Okay, let's be careful together."
At that moment, Ye Chen, Ye Xingcai, and Ren Feifan stepped into the pool one after another. The water in the pool was extremely hot, like volcanic lava.
The three of them sat cross-legged, slowly absorbing the spiritual energy.
Ren Feifan used the spiritual energy of Panwu Tianzun to resolve the chaos accumulated in his body.
Ye Chen and Ye Xingcai, on the other hand, focused on consolidating their cultivation.
Leng Yueyao stood guard nearby, keeping watch against any unforeseen events.
Meanwhile, the Goddess of Illusion Moon, with the help of the spiritual energy of the Returning Fire Pool, slowly dissolved the chaotic energy on the pieces of debris.
Ye Chen sat upright on the east side of the pool. As he continued to absorb the lifeblood energy of Panwu Tianzun, his cultivation at the seventh level of the Heavenly Dao Realm became increasingly stable.
He even vaguely saw the figure of Panwu Tianzun in his mind.
Gradually, Ye Chen's consciousness became hazy. He heard a weak and painful cry, broken and intermittent: "Save me...save me..."
"Ok?"
Ye Chen's heart skipped a beat; this voice seemed to have come from Panwu Tianzun!
The voice was hoarse and ancient, carrying a sense of despair and struggle.
Ye Chen traced the sound, and his mind gradually sank into darkness, as if he had fallen into an endless dark void.
This void was as black as ink. Following the cry for help, Ye Chen soon saw a huge figure lying quietly not far ahead, its body radiating golden light, but within the golden light were wisps of gray-black chaotic energy.
"Panwu Heavenly Venerable?"
Ye Chen recognized that the figure was none other than Panwu Tianzun.
At this moment, Panwu Tianzun had long lost the awe-inspiring power he was known for in creating the world; his muscles twitched from time to time due to pain.
The chaotic energy corroded his skin, exposing large patches of blood-red muscle, which began to slowly rot, creating a horrifying sight.
"Save me... Great Demon Lord... Please save me..."
Panwu Tianzun sensed Ye Chen's arrival, slowly opened his eyes, his eyes were bloodshot and turbid, his tone was full of pleading and pain, and even carried a trace of humility.
"I've been corrupted by chaotic energy for too long, and I'm about to collapse. Great Demon Lord, only you can save me..."
Upon hearing this, Ye Chen was startled, and his brows furrowed tightly.
He didn't expect that Panwu Tianzun would recognize him.
Seeing Panwu Tianzun's pained appearance, Ye Chen was reminded of the pillar gods who had suffered the torment of the Heavenly Calamity in the past.
"The Book of the Divine Moon and the Vast Ocean".
Ye Chen immediately summoned the Divine Moon Azure Sea Book. The luminous white pages turned with a rustling sound, and strands of pure and mellow moonlight spiritual energy poured out, transforming into a gentle rain of light that slowly fell upon Panwu Heavenly Venerable's body.
Panwu Tianzun was, after all, a former subordinate of the Great Heavenly Emperor. If there was an opportunity to save him, Ye Chen would naturally not sit idly by.
The moonlight poured down, and the wisps of chaotic energy on Panwu Tianzun's body hissed as if they were being burned.
"Ho..."
Panwu Tianzun breathed a slight sigh of relief, as the symptoms of the Chaos Erosion seemed to have eased considerably.
"Thank you..." he said to Ye Chen.
Ye Chen frowned and said, "My little bit of moonlight can only slightly alleviate your pain, and is far from curing the root cause."
Panwu Tianzun said, "I know that the only way to save me is by relying on the power of the Yang chapter of the Yin-Yang Divine Contract."
Ye Chen asked, "The Yang chapter of the Yin-Yang Divine Contract? I want that too. It can save not only you, but also me."
"However, you said the Yang chapter is hidden in the Great Sun Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli. What kind of place is that? And where is the Ancient Road of Fusang?"
Ye Chen knew some clues, but not specifics.
At this moment, his consciousness resonated and communicated with Panwu Tianzun, so he naturally wanted to ask for clarification.
Panwu Tianzun took a difficult breath and slowly said:
"The Great Sun Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli is a sacred place on the path of the blazing sun. It is filled with the purest spiritual energy of the blazing sun, without yin or cold, and is the source of the laws of the blazing sun."
"The Yang chapter was hidden deep within the sacred land, guarded by the guardians of the Sun Holy Land. The Fusang Ancient Road is the only path to the Great Sun Glazed Pure Land. The ancient road is fraught with dangers, and ordinary cultivators cannot even get close to it."
"Moreover, the coordinates of this ancient road are not fixed, so finding it accurately is not an easy task."
"The path of scorching sun?"
Ye Chen keenly caught the meaning of those four words: "Is it one of the twelve ancient god pathways?"
A hint of reminiscence flashed in Panwu Tianzun's eyes: "Indeed! Where there is a moon, there is naturally a blazing sun."
"The people of the Golden District were originally subjects of the Sun. Later, the Sun Ancestor perished, and the Sun Path gradually declined, so they turned to the Great Heavenly Emperor."
After a pause, Panwu Tianzun continued, "The path of the Great Heavenly Emperor can be called the Emperor's Path."