"Buzz"—
The barrier trembled. Long Chen had already appeared inside. He wanted to turn around to look at Long Tianrui, but found that behind him was chaos, and nothing could be seen.
Moreover, after entering this barrier, Long Chen felt an ancient, desolate aura rushing toward him, and he followed that aura forward.
"Step step step ..."
Only then did Long Chen notice something unusual. The ground beneath his feet was no longer mortal earth, but a mirror.
The moment he spotted the mirror, the space around Long Chen changed again, and now he found himself surrounded by blue skies and white clouds.
Above and beneath his feet was a deep blue sky, with white clouds swirling everywhere, the sky clear and pure, spotless. The whole world seemed to be purified. Immersed in it, Long Chen felt as if his soul was being cleansed, bringing peace to his heart.
Long Chen was stunned by the surroundings. At this moment, he could neither sense the power of space, nor the flow of time. All the forces of heaven and earth had vanished, and he seemed to have arrived in an absolutely still space.
Here, there is neither birth nor death; it feels like an eternal world.
Long Chen suddenly looked up and saw an ancient stone stele floating in the void, its symbols flickering around it—it was the Jiuli Divine Stele.
However, at this moment, the Jiuli Divine Stele was only about a zhang high, and the runes, once as massive as mountains, were now as small as tadpoles.
When Long Chen saw the Jiuli Divine Stele, he was overwhelmed with excitement and slowly stepped forward. As Long Chen approached the stele, it began to hum, and various runes started flashing rapidly.
According to Long Tianrui, when Long Chen saw the Jiuli Divine Stele, it was as if he had entered its inner world.
This world was unique. Even if he broke through the ninth layer of the barrier and entered, he would not be in the same world as Long Chen. So after arriving here, he could focus on studying the Jiuli Immortal Script in peace.
"According to Long Tianrui, if you comprehend just a dozen or so of these Three Thousand Divine Talismans, you'll have the chance to ascend to Half-Emperor. If you comprehend them all, could you become the Lord of the Nine Heavens?"
Long Chen looked at the countless symbols on the divine stele. What a joke, only comprehending a dozen or so? So who is left for the rest? I'm going to take them all down.
"Buzz buzz buzz...
When Long Chen arrived in front of the Jiuli Divine Stele, these runes became unusually active. With his previous experience, Long Chen knew that by using his soul power to activate one of the runes
, he could communicate
with them Long Tianrui had once told Long Chen that comprehending runes depends on fate. If a rune is repeatedly communicated with no effect, he should immediately give up and seek the rune that is destined to resonate with him.
If he fought to the death with a single rune, he might end up empty by the time the Jiuli Divine Stele left, and that would truly be a disaster.
"Are you kidding? Their fluctuations are all the same, and their trajectories are no different. How would I know which of them is destined to be with me?" Long Chen stared at the rapidly circulating symbols, speechless.
Long Tianrui and the others had experience; as long as they focused their spirit and ignited their blood, it was easy to resonate with runes they were destined to. But Long Chen couldn't; his bloodline was mixed, so this method definitely wouldn't work.
"Buzz buzz buzz...
Watching the divine talismans rapidly flow on the Jiuli Divine Stele, various methods rapidly circulated in Long Chen's mind.
Time passed bit by bit, and no one knew how much time had passed. Suddenly, Long Chen gritted his teeth: "
Divine Ring appears, battle body activates!"
"Boom!"
The
divine ring appeared, the eight-star battle body activated, and endless stars appeared.
"Burn!"
Long Chen shouted angrily, endless flames erupting from the stars. The starfire trembled, and at that moment, his star power reached its peak.
"How long will it take to comprehend each one of these? Whether it's a dragon or a snake depends on this time."
Long Chen gritted his teeth, flicked his hand away, and a seven-colored divine talisman appeared. Blood energy swirled within the talisman—this was the life-bound talisman of Long Chen's Seven-Colored Supreme Blood, containing the power of all his seven-colored Supreme blood. Long Chen took a deep breath and slowly pressed his large hand toward the Jiuli Divine Stele.
"Boom!"
The moment the talisman touched the Jiuli Divine Stele, all the runes on it suddenly trembled, and a violent force crashed into Long Chen.
"Pfft!"
An unprecedented force swept through. Long Chen's body trembled violently, his clothes bursting open, skin torn and flesh torn apart, blood mist rising. At that moment, Long Chen felt as if he had been cut into a thousand pieces, multiple bones exposed, nearly shattering his entire body.
"That was close."
Long Chen was in intense pain all over, his internal organs shattered, but all of this was within his expectations. He barely withstood the first wave of impact, even taking the first step toward success.
"Buzz."
The runes in
Long Chen's palm, which were on the verge of collapse, suddenly trembled. A vortex star appeared, and a Jiuli Divine Talisman was slowly drawn into the vortex.
"Ah..."
Even with Long Chen's endurance, he let out a piercing scream. Within his soul space, a Jiuli Divine Talisman appeared within his sea of consciousness.
His sea of consciousness churned, his soul burned. Although this internal burning did not consume Long Chen's origin, the pain was simply unbearable.
At that moment, the skin on Long Chen's face had vanished, his features twisted and deformed in pain, and his eyes were about to burst out of their sockets.
At that moment, Long Chen was in so much pain he nearly gave up. The Jiuli Divine Talisman burned the soul, a thousand times more terrifying than any torture, the pain so intense it would shatter one's will.
"Ah..."
Long Chen roared madly, using this method to disperse the pain, while his soul power circulated, guiding the talisman toward the Divine Gate deep within his sea of consciousness.
"Buzz"—
When the talisman vanished the moment it entered the Divine Gate, it reappeared, already in Long Chen's dantian and the sea of stars.
"Success or failure depends on this one move."
Long Chen gritted his teeth and shouted, directly activating the talisman and attaching it to a star in the sea of stars.
"Buzz!"
The talisman landed on the star, causing it to tremble violently, sending endless fragments flying and finally exploding with a thunderous crash.
"It's over, we failed."
If
a star couldn't withstand the power of a divine talisman, that meant this path was impossible.
Perhaps it would be possible to use stars like Feng Mansion or Yuheng, but if they failed, if even one star shattered, Long Chen would be doomed. Even if he was bold enough to use them, he wouldn't dare use themGamble.
"No."
Just as Long Chen was about to give up, he suddenly cried out in alarm. After the star shattered, a golden point of light appeared among the endless debris.
"This is ... Star Core ... The Star Core didn't explode." At this moment, Long Chen was overjoyed.
Not only did the star core not explode, but at this moment, a divine talisman was embedded within it, deeply imprinted on its body.
"It worked!"
Long Chen shouted excitedly, proving that his bold idea was feasible.
"Buzz!"
In his excitement,
Long Chen directly absorbed the second Jiuli Divine Talisman into his soul space, followed by the third, then the fourth, ....