Chapter 546 - A City Where Deities Could Dwell

“Let’s go!”

Ding Hao turned to the stone gate at the end of the dark corridor with Ji Yingqi on his back.

All the supreme experts took out their cyan pieces of the stone map in succession, which emitted soft light in the air. Once all of them were exposed, they slowly seemed to be slowly gathering by a magical force. Finally, they were all connected in the shape of a giant stone tablet with a height of more than six meters, which was exactly as high as the cyan stone gate at the end of the brown corridor.

Something strange occurred at this moment.

The rough cyan stone gate that had been silent for tens of millions of years seemed to have sensed the existence of the stone tablet. It gradually gave off jade light and eventually became flawlessly translucent, on which the sand also became smoother. Strange lines, like human blood vessels, were winding inside the stone gate and slowly emerged, releasing a mysterious power.

In the end, those bizarre patterns formed the shape of an arched door.

It was a gate of light.

“The door to the mysterious ruins is open…” Someone said in a trembling voice, “Rush forward!”

“Haha, whoever breaks in first will obtain the divine treasures inside…”

“Let’s go! Fight!”

At this point, everyone was green with envy since they had an unprecedented opportunity. As long as they got their hands on divine treasures, they would probably possess the entire Sage Battlefield and even the hope to become a deity, a fact that was driving everyone crazy at this time. After a shout, someone turned into flowing light, rushing toward the gate of light in a flash…

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Terrifying forces surged.

An extremely powerful master who stood at the very front suddenly took action and ruthlessly killed all the experts who attempted to break into the space gate.

While the Demon Royal Bu Tianjue took action, Demon Aura burned like bloody flames, almost turning into bones the few experts of the Human Clan who rushed recklessly dashed toward the light gate. The Demon Royal of the Ancient Demon Clan of Silver Moon snorted and shook his fingers slightly, sucking all their blood in an instant…

In the meantime, the supreme experts of the Human Clan also started striking back.

Song Que shook his wrist with a sword in hand. At this time, countless dazzling lights of sword shot out, immediately cutting into mincemeat five or so experts of the Demon Clan who were close to the light gate. As for Bai Quanshui of the Extermination Swordsmanship Sect, he also killed dozens of masters of the Demon Clan who tried to break into the gate.

Blood burst out and torn limbs flew everywhere.

Ding Hao did not take any action; he only protected Ji Yingqi who was by his side.

Soon, the chaos finally receded in the presence of the bloody slaughter.

The crazed experts of the two races eventually sobered up in the face of the merciless slaughter of the supremely powerful masters. Reason prevailed over greed. Only those among the living would be able to obtain such precious divine treasures. If they were killed at this moment, everything would be over.

“Kill anyone who dares to barge in!” The killing intent burst forth from Demon Royal Bu Tianjue’s voice.

“Haha, I might as well put to death whoever tries to break the Altar Alliance rules today!” Song Que sneered as well. When the bulky man went mad, he looked incredibly terrifying, like Death incarnate.

No one else dared to move rashly after those threats were made by those extremely formidable expects

After a brief discussion, the leaders of the major forces who possessed pieces of the stone tablet map organized their teams and entered the space first, while the other rogue cultivators of the Human Clan and the individual experts of the Demon Clan who had luckily managed to follow them all the way could not enter the light gate until all the teams of the major forces went through.

Since Ding Hao owned two pieces of the map, he undoubtedly walked into space gate with the first group.

While carrying Ji Yingqi on his back, he led Evil Moon and Adorable to the light gate with Song Que, Bai Quanshui, and other supreme experts of the Demon Clan. Finally, all of them passed the light gate.

A sense of weightlessness overwhelmed them and their eyes lit up in a flash on account of the changed surroundings.

This time, they weren’t transmitted to random places.

The moment his feet touched the ground, Ding Hao discovered that Song Que, Bai Quanshui, and the Demon Royal Bu Tianjue were still by his side; they weren’t separated.

They were all on full alert and activated their Qi and Demon Auras to the extreme to prevent the sudden sneak attacks or the unexpected dangers.

Everyone, including Ding Hao, sized this place up with slight curiosity.

The legendary mysterious ruins eventually lifted their mysterious veil to all the people present.

They seemed to be the ruins of an ancient giant city, with numerous ochre stone buildings stretching to infinity.

The city seemed to be inlaid with gold.

There were collapsed stone buildings, low stone walls, broken stone squares, and layers of weird constructions. Ding Hao even saw some buildings similar to the ancient Egyptian pyramids, all of which had been destroyed and turned into pieces.

A wind, seemingly without clear origin, brewed up the yellow sands on the ground.

Since all the buildings had experienced all the vicissitudes of life for millions of years and had suffered from a serious desertification, they were mottled and rough, covered with scars. Most of them had been weathered so that people could barely distinguish their original appearances!

The crowd appeared on a gravel avenue that was wide enough for ten horse carriages to move freely side by side.

The broken yellow rocks spread out to the horizon.

Once they stepped on it, they could imagine how glorious the city had been in its heyday. Even the Giant Holy City, known as the enormous city of the Northern Region, was nowhere near it in scale. It was just like a place where deities and devils lived in myths and legends!

These were the mysterious ruins!

An indescribable sorrow permeated the air between heaven and earth.

A suppressive force that was similar to the one present in the ancient westbound road grew more and more distinct.

Ding Hao managed to operate his Qi but found it had been suppressed to a limit. Even a powerful master at the peak of the Martial Emperor Realm could not fly in such an environment; he could only move forward step by step.

More unusually, the suppressive force exerted a greater pressure on powerful experts, becoming lesser for weaker ones. People like Ji Yingqi, who had never learned martial arts, was free from pressure and could walk on the gravel road with great ease.

“Wheezing… Wheezing…”

There came a gust of wind all of a sudden.

Faintly, a strange sound was heard in the wind.

Ding Hao listened carefully and could not help showing an amazed expression.

Because the sound was changing with the wind. It sometimes sounded like a Holy Spirits’ battle song, sometimes like the neighs of horses and the clashes of weapons, others it was like countless elderly, weakened people, women and children weeping. It also sounded like the howls of beasts, and sometimes like the roars of devils…

The wind seemed to be retelling the story about everything that had happened in the ancient city.

“This city seems to have been destroyed in the war,” Song Que said thoughtfully as he looked at a half-collapsed building next to the gravel path.

Given the arena shape of the place, they looked at the arena, was covered in mottled weapon marks, along with a few palm and fist prints. Looking from the side, half of this stone building, which had been a hundred meters tall in its heyday, had vanished. There was an extremely clear giant palm imprint near the spot where he had been.

It was obvious that a sovereign master had struck with his palm in the distance, directly smashing half of the building into powder.

Clang!

Bai Quanshui cut a rock with his sword.

Sparks flew everywhere.

He let out a cry of surprise.

The other people also wore grave expressions because there actually was only left a shallow white mark on the ochre rock that was seemingly decaying and unable to defend from a single blow after the expert Bai Quanshui chopped it.

Ding Hao hesitated for a while and then punched on a rock beside him.

Boom!

There was a shallow fist print left and the rock remains undamaged.

Ding Hao was totally shocked.

With the power contained in his blow, even a piece of thoroughly-tempered steel would be smashed. The weathered rock in front of him, however, was able to bear it, and he only left a shallow imprint on it. What an abnormal rock it was.

As they looked around, they found that the ruins of the whole city were piles of this kind of rocks. It was really hard for them to imagine what kind of force had destroyed such a hard and magnificent city, which had been decadent in those days.

Their shock was greater when they caught sight of the huge palm print on the collapsed ancient arena.

They failed to figure out who had actually destroyed such an enormous and majestic arena made from hard rocks with a single blow from a distance.

With the lights and shadows flickering behind, other experts of the Human Clan and the Demon Clan walked in through the portal in succession.

Everyone was stunned by the ruins of such a grand city.

After a short period of uproar and excitement, the crowd spread in all directions like streams and entered the other regions of the ruined city.

Those rogue cultivators and individual experts of the Demon Clan were unwilling to be together with people from the major forces.

After all, they didn’t know where the legendary divine treasures were in this giant city, so they were more likely to encounter some opportunities if they separated from the major forces. If not, they would draw water with a sieve once they found the treasures.

After taking the elixirs given by Ding Hao, Li Muyun and Liang Feixue felt much better.

They thanked him and waved Ding Hao off. Then, they went deeper into the city with more than a dozen rogue cultivators of the Human Clan.

Although they were from the same sect, they were seemingly unwilling to follow Ding Hao, for there was an estrangement between them.

An exclamation rang out nearby all of a sudden.

Ding Hao turned his head and saw several experts of the Demon Clan who had entered the collapsed ancient arena somehow. After searching for a while, they seemed to have discovered something.

A moment later, a Demon King with a dog’s head quickly ran out with excitement and kneeled in front of the Demon Royal Bu Tianjue with one knee. He held a broken stone spear in both hands and respectfully said, “Young master, I found a matchless sharp spear!”