Chapter 21
The secret room was deep and dead silent. The dark blue runes engraved on the wall flickered faintly like the heart of a dying person, illuminating a figure in the corner that almost merged with the darkness.
Lin Wuya stood silently, like a black statue forgotten by time. Yet no one could have known that beneath that silent exterior, a raging rage and resentment surged!
At the banquet, the arrogance and contempt in Li Jue's eyes were like poisoned ice needles, repeatedly piercing his soul which had long been torn apart by the inner demons.
"How dare you treat me as a remote cultivator, a lowly ant you don't care about... Wangjiang Tower, how dare you!"
Once upon a time, he was a brilliant and promising child who had the hope of becoming an immortal. But now he had to endure humiliation in front of this young boy!
In the darkness, the deepest crimson in his eyes suddenly swelled, thick as blood, surging with resentment and madness that threatened to overflow. His fingertips unconsciously dug deep into the cold stone wall, making a "crackling" sound that made his teeth ache.
His gaze suddenly turned to the center of the secret room - the young man on the stone platform was still sleeping, and right between his eyebrows, a cluster of pale flames was jumping restlessly, emitting an extreme coldness that kept people away, freezing the surrounding air into tiny ice crystals.
Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing.
The "egg" had implanted, though it wasn't as flawless as originally planned, and had contaminated this body. However, he now seemed to be holding another trump card...
Since it is enough to pry the gears of fate, why should he wait?
Wait another three months and tolerate that kid to continue to bully others in his territory, examining his life's work like a toy and coveting his greatest secrets?
Thinking of this, a crazy desire for destruction suddenly hit him, breaking through the shaky dam of his rationality.
"Since you all want it... then come on!" A hoarse, twisted growl erupted from his throat, mixed with extreme madness. "I want to see who will be the final glutton if this feast starts early!"
Before he finished speaking, he clenched his hands in his sleeves suddenly, and a black jade talisman that had been prepared long ago shattered!
“Crack—”
A crisp, shattering sound rang out thrillingly in the silent secret room. Immediately, as if a huge rock was thrown into a quiet lake, an invisible wave, with the stone room as its core, suddenly burst out towards the outside world!
Almost at the same moment, in the back mountain of Bo Deng Sect.
This place is shrouded year-round in a thick, inky fog. The jagged, dark mountains look as if furiously hacked and chopped by a giant god's axe. Steep and treacherous, lifeless. Normally, only strong winds, like the wailing of thousands of ghosts, rage day and night. This is a perilous and deadly place, a secret that everyone in the sect keeps secret.
It was the site of the Yunshan Grand Ceremony in the past, and the gateway to Yunshan.
The forbidden area of Bo Deng Sect, Fallen Immortal Cliff.
An invisible ripple suddenly struck, and then... the eternal silence that had lasted for hundreds of years was violently torn apart!
“BOOM—BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!”
A loud noise that was extremely dull and seemed to come from the bottom of the underworld suddenly erupted!
The next moment, the massive black mountain suddenly cracked open from the center, creating a bottomless, hideous chasm! A scarlet light, too intense to even contemplate, gushed forth from the deepest depths of the earth's veins, transforming into an immensely powerful beam that pierced through the gloomy night and thick fog, staining the entire northwest Yunzhou sky a shocking crimson crimson!
Along with the destructive crimson light surged forth a violent demonic aura mingled with endless resentment and desire! Its aura, thick and foul as swamp mud, weighed heavily on the hearts of all those watching in terror from afar. Those with weaker cultivation paled, their bodies trembling. Those with unstable hearts even vomited blood, gravely wounded and near death!
Countless dark purple lightning bolts as thick as giant pythons were born from the scarlet light, twisting wildly and making deafening thunderous explosions. Every time they fell, they left bottomless scorched pits on the black rock of the Fallen Immortal Cliff, which was harder than steel.
Faintly, there seemed to be countless huge, twisted, indescribable, terrifying black shadows wriggling and struggling in the depths of the boiling blood, roaring and madly ramming against the invisible barriers, eager to descend into the world.
......
Inside Bo Deng Sect.
The unusual movement in the distance caused the entire Bo Deng Sect to tremble violently, the palaces and pavilions trembled, and glazed tiles fell like rain.
Alarm bells in various parts of the sect kept ringing like crazy, and countless lights shot up into the sky from various peaks. They were the elders and elite disciples of the sect. They rushed towards the back mountain in a panic, trying to find out what was going on. However, when they approached the terrifying power erupting from the Fallen Immortal Cliff, they retreated like a tide, and finally just hovered far away in the air, with shock, fear and helplessness written all over their faces.
"What happened?!"
Lin Yibai was so startled by the earth-shaking roar and the subsequent violent vibration that he jumped up from the couch. His heart was beating so wildly that it seemed like it was about to jump out of his chest, and the remaining sleepiness was instantly swept away.
The gauze curtains hanging in the hall shook violently, and the glass lamp on the table also shook and fell down at this time, smashing into pieces with a "bang".
Outside the window, a strange blood-red light filled the sky and earth, illuminating her chamber as bright as daylight, brimming with a heart-pounding sense of strangeness and foreboding. The horrifying roar, oppressive and suffocating, pierced through the walls and reached her ears, clearly discernible!
"Young Sect Master! Young Sect Master! This is bad!" The palace door was flung open, and Luluo, with disheveled hair and a face as pale as paper, practically crawled in. Her voice was shrill and incoherent with extreme fear. "Fallen Immortal Cliff! It's Fallen Immortal Cliff... It's collapsed! Such a terrifying bloody light, the sky, the sky is all red! Everything outside is in chaos, the disciples are all running..."
The little maidservant was obviously very frightened, her whole body was shaking like a sieve, and the hand that was holding Lin Yibai's sleeve was ice-cold.
"Is there any unusual movement at the Fallen Immortal Cliff?" Lin Yibai's mind seemed to explode with thunder, and the last trace of blood color on his face faded away in an instant. A chill ran from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.
The Fallen Immortal Cliff shook, and the clouds and mountains opened up!
This is clearly a sign of the opening of the Yunshan Secret Realm!
But why, why tonight?!
In the original novel, it was clearly three months later, after Li Jue had enjoyed the pleasure of being superior to the Bo Deng Sect and humiliated everyone in the sect, that the secret realm was opened as scheduled.
Why was it brought forward to the first day he came to the sect?
This unexpected change made no sense and completely overturned her cognition!
Immediately, a huge sense of confusion and an even deeper, bone-chilling fear gripped her.
Yunshan is about to open.
—And what about her? According to the system's mandatory tasks and the original novel's fate, she must be sacrificed, personally sent to Yunshan by Lin Wuya, until she was torn apart and devoured by the demonic fragments, her soul shattered!
Were all her previous efforts in vain? Not only did the plot not change despite her careful avoidance, but it would instead accelerate towards that terrifying end in an even more violent and uncontrollable manner?!
"Luluo!" She suddenly grabbed the maid's cold, trembling hand, her voice shrill with extreme urgency, "Go quickly! Go and find out! What exactly happened? Is it the secret realm... Is it opened early? What instructions does father have?"
Her heartbeat was so fast that it hurt, her temples were throbbing, and a strong premonition of impending disaster made her feel cold all over. She had to use all her strength to barely stand.
"Yes, yes! I'll go right away!" Luluo was frightened by the unprecedented panic and pale face in her eyes. She stumbled out and her figure quickly disappeared in the shadow of the corridor.
For a moment, the only sound in the bedroom was the unsettling flash of blood outside the window and the faint, incessant clamor of chaos in the distance. Lin Yibai, restless like a trapped animal, paced back and forth within the chamber, her frantic heartbeat hammering against her eardrums, resonating eerily with the distant roar.
Just as her thoughts were in a tangle, her entire mind was seized by the terrifying vision in the back mountain, and she was extremely anxious—
Behind her, next to a wooden pillar supporting the dome of the hall, the originally still and thick shadow of the pillar suddenly squirmed as if it were alive.
Immediately, a ghostly black shadow, deeper and more ethereal than the night, silently seeped out and condensed from the shadow like ink dripping into still water.
There was not a sound, not a single draft.
Lin Yibai didn't even notice any signs of approaching crisis, he just felt a sudden dull pain in the back of his neck!
All thoughts, fears, and anxieties were instantly interrupted.
Her eyes lost focus and her body fell forward limply.
*
At the same time, in another carefully decorated guest house.
Li Jue had already stood proudly on the eaves, his clothes fluttering in the strong wind mixed with the smell of blood.
Those molten golden pupils shone brightly as they stared intently at the devastating scene in the back mountain. Not only was there no fear on his face, but instead it was filled with uncontrollable greed and ecstasy.
"It's finally opened." He whispered to himself, looking at the blood, the corners of his lips couldn't help but rise.
His father's profound and ambitious instructions before leaving kept echoing in his mind:
"My son, the Bodeng Sect has run out of luck. Lin Wuya is nothing more than a withered creature possessed by a demonic mind, and is nothing to be feared. However, the 'Secret Treasure of Yunshan' he possesses is a legacy left by an ancient demon lord, and it is crucial to Wangjiang Tower's ambition to unify the three thousand continents! Therefore, this viewing ceremony is a lie; the real purpose is to seize the core of the secret treasure! If we obtain this, not only Kuizhou... but all the demons in the world will respect Wangjiang Tower as their master!"
"Unifying the Three Thousand Continents...is just around the corner!"
There was a golden light in Li Jue's eyes, as if he had seen the flags of Wangjiang Tower planted all over the mountains and rivers, and the glorious scene of himself standing on the top of all demons.
He took a deep breath of the air in front of him that was filled with violent energy, and felt relaxed all over.
"Lin Wuya, ah Lin Wuya, I have to thank you for this 'generous gift'. The secret treasure of Yunshan, my Wangjiang Tower... I would be disrespectful to refuse it!"
With a long laugh, his figure flashed and turned into a sharp and decisive dark golden light, and he actually took the initiative to shoot towards the terrifying crack in the Fallen Immortal Cliff in the distance!
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