Chapter 318: The Head of Qingming Tianzun

Chapter 318: The Head of Qingming Tianzun

Each of the innate spiritual treasures treasured in the Shenxiao Palace has a palace dedicated to its collection and preservation.

The palace that houses the Immortal Sword is called Huangquan Palace.

With a creaking sound, the long-sealed palace door was opened. In the dark palace where no one had been for a long time, only eighteen eternal lamps emitted dim light.

In the very center of the palace, there is a hot spring, but the water is turbid, as if it was drawn from the underground Yellow Spring, exuding the cold breath of the four seasons.

In the center of the spring, a heavenly sword was inserted diagonally, obscured by the hazy light, making it difficult to see clearly.

Lu Chengfeng and Kong Xuan both fixed their eyes on the knife. Just by looking at it from a distance, they could feel the piercing sharpness, and even their pupils felt pain.

"What a murderous weapon!"

Kong Xuan couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. He sensed some extremely subtle resonance between his own great Dao and the weapon, and he couldn't help but feel excited as he stepped forward.

"boom"

Just as he stepped into the spring water, the murderous blade shrouded in dim light suddenly burst into extremely bright light. It was like a living thing, as if it contained a god, absorbing and exhaling the essence of the Yellow Spring, echoing with the Yellow Spring in the dark.

This sword is extremely magical. It absorbs and exhales the essence of the underworld, giving birth to an incomparably brilliant vitality.

It draws the five elements above and connects to the underworld below, and life and death are one, just like the most original creation of heaven and earth.

Kong Xuan raised his hand and wanted to grab the Heavenly Sword, but this mysterious and ancient weapon suddenly made an extremely clear buzzing sound.

Keng! Keng! Keng!
The blade flashed like water, as if to cut off life and death. Peacock even felt that something belonging to him was being taken away from him.

"life?!"

A look of surprise appeared on his face. "This knife can actually cut off a person's lifespan?"

This was also the first time that Lu Chengfeng came to the treasury to get the knife. He was only generally familiar with these innate spiritual treasures in the treasury, and he did not know the specific mysteries contained therein.

At his level of cultivation, the role of external objects has become smaller and smaller, and one's own magical powers are the most powerful. Only innate spiritual treasures that are extremely compatible with one's own cultivation can be of benefit to him.

At this moment, Kong Xuan used his mind to sense the killing weapon, and felt that the blade light was hazy, emitting an ancient and mysterious aura. This blade was called Immortality, and it could cut off people's lives, which was indeed somewhat evil.

“I practice the way of the five elements, and you use the power of the underworld to cut off the enemy’s lifespan and nurture the vitality of nature.” When Kong Xuan spoke, five-colored divine light appeared behind him, and he circulated the five elements of nature and resonated with it.

This innate spiritual treasure contains spirituality, which is not wisdom, but the mysterious and almost instinctive nature of a magic weapon.

If the innate spiritual treasures sealed in the treasury had not been suppressed by the empress, this heavenly sword would have already broken free from its restraints and killed the enemy on its own.

After Kong Xuan finished speaking, he slowly walked forward and placed his hand on the hilt of the knife.

All of a sudden, in this ancient palace, there was an extremely fierce sound of swords. The heavenly sword trembled violently like a dragon bound by iron chains, and made a clanging sound like the collision of metal and iron.

Kong Xuan simply grasped the hilt with his hand, and infiltrated the five-colored divine light into the heavenly sword. No matter how it struggled, his hand was heavier than a mountain and suppressed it firmly.

"Although you are a spiritual creature created by heaven and earth, without anyone to drive you, how can you compete with me?"

"Since it is a harmless killing weapon, you should naturally follow me to slaughter living beings, so as to live up to the sharpness of this sword."

His tone was calm, but he was extremely domineering and decisive when he took action. He allowed the sword light to engulf his body, and only used the five-colored divine light to protect his body. He was invulnerable to all kinds of attacks, and could not be hurt by swords or knives.

After an unknown amount of time, all the strange phenomena in the hall disappeared, and the Immortal Sword was quietly held in Kong Xuan's hand, revealing its true form.

The knife looked like a handful of moonlight, clear and flawless, with ripples of light flowing on the blade and a faint glow of five colors. The handle was simple and seemed like brass, or like the stubborn stone at the bottom of the underworld, emitting a certain heart-pounding aura.

Kong Xuan couldn't help but reveal a smile on his face. This sword was not only in perfect harmony with his own path, but was also extremely ferocious and had the mysterious ability to cut off people's lives.

Whether it is against immortals, Buddhas, demons, or ghosts from the underworld, it has extremely terrifying killing power.

With this item protecting him, he is confident that he can escape unscathed even if he faces the Peacock Sage in the underworld.

He snapped his fingers, and the bell transformed from the Lord of Impermanence hung on the hilt of the knife, swaying in the wind and making a crisp tinkling sound.

"These two items are already in hand, Kong Xuan is leaving now!"

As Kong Xuan spoke, he put the Immortal Sword behind his back and nodded slightly to Lu Chengfeng. Then, accompanied by the crisp sound of the Impermanence Bell, the great magical power that connects the two worlds was activated. He took a step forward and the world had changed.

……

The Impermanence Bell opened up a deep passage that led straight to the front. Kong Xuan was fleeing at a rapid speed. The void around him was in chaos, with no distinction between up and down, and he could even occasionally see extremely huge monsters in the void.

A faint light flickered, the heaven and earth retreated, Kong Xuan felt that the time and light were distorted, the space channels were changing, and everything became unreal.

Finally, accompanied by a loud bang, he suddenly felt an unusual breath.

"Is that... the aura of the Heavenly Lord?!"

Kong Xuan's heart was slightly shaken. He actually felt the breath of the Heavenly Venerable in the turbulence of the void.

His pupils couldn't help but shrink. He pressed the hilt of the knife. The bell hanging on the hilt shook violently. The power of his supernatural power rippled, stabilizing the void and allowing him to stay in the turbulence of the void.

Kong Xuan looked in the direction he sensed. There was no light in the world and nothing could be seen. It was pitch black, and one could not see one's hand in front of one's face.

But in that deep darkness, it seemed as if there was a horrifying existence that had existed with the underworld until now, absorbing and exhaling endless essence. Even the void was swallowed up, and nothing existed anymore.

When Kong Xuan stared at the darkness, he felt as if his body was about to break apart. The immortal sword in his hand roared violently, and a chill penetrated deep into his soul.

"What is that?! A corpse of a celestial being?"

Kong Xuan used his magical powers to sense that there seemed to be an ancient bronze coffin in front of him, covered with rust, lying in front of him.

The existence in the coffin seemed to have been buried for countless years, but now it seemed to have a glimmer of life, which surprised him.

"Could it be that the corpse of the ancient Heavenly Lord has transformed into a corpse?"

Kong Xuan tightly grasped the Immortal Sword and released the five-colored divine light, which covered him tightly like a rain curtain, and then slowly moved forward.

In the dark and silent turbulence of the void, there was no sound at all, only the eerie silence that made people's hearts run wild.

He walked slowly forward, approaching the ancient bronze coffin.

The corpse of an ancient celestial being was buried in the chaos of the void, and it was given new life at the border between the human world and the underworld. This is truly a miracle.

Kong Xuan gradually approached, and the five-colored divine light protected his body, preventing him from being swallowed by the deep and terrifying devouring force.
A closer look revealed the antiquity and mystery of the coffin. The material was very special. It looked like ordinary bronze, but it was actually made of many divine materials. He found that there seemed to be traces of Chaos Divine Iron in it, a divine material that even Chaos could not wear away. The coffin made of it could remain immortal for hundreds of thousands of years even in the turbulent void between the two worlds.

Kong Xuan tried to use his spiritual thoughts to detect the situation, but he was surprised to find that the coffin could block his powerful spiritual will and he could not see through it.

But at this moment, the Immortal Sword hummed, the Impermanence Bell made a crisp sound, and an invisible secret power merged with his mind, and he immediately sensed the situation inside the coffin.

The coffin does not look big from the outside, but it is full of wonders, as if it were an ancient world with various palaces and ancient buildings inside, stretching as far as the eye can see.

But as endless years passed, everything inside seemed dilapidated. Time is the most terrifying force, it can erase everything, and nothing can escape its reckoning in the end.

In this coffin world, there is no sun or stars, but there is a bright moon hanging high in the sky, casting cold moonlight.

When Kong Xuan sensed the bright moon, his pupils suddenly shrank, his scalp went numb, and a chill went straight into his lungs, making him gasp.

"That is……"

He saw a human skull, snow-white and crystal clear, like the most perfect work of art from heaven, quietly floating in the center of the bright moon, motionless, emitting a soft light.

"she……"

Kong Xuan's heart was beating violently. The moment he saw the skull, he felt an inexplicable sense of closeness and familiarity, as if he had known it since ancient times.

"who is she?"

A thought flashed through his mind, and he had a vague guess, "Could it be the remains of Qingming Tianzun?"

But the skull is very old, and the breath of time flowing on it is at least hundreds of thousands of years old. Qingming Tianzun is the Tianzun of the world, so how could she have lived through such an ancient time?

"No, there are words on this head..."

Kong Xuan quickly focused his attention and saw extremely ancient characters inside the skull, as if they were divine characters from the beginning of the world, engraved inside the skull and emitting an inexplicable Taoist charm.

Although he did not understand these divine patterns, he could naturally comprehend the meaning of these divine patterns when he sensed them with his mind.

"I have been abandoned. This is a forgotten time and space. When can I go home..."

Kong Xuan seemed to hear a woman's mournful sigh in a trance, and he was extremely shocked.

"It really has something to do with Qing Ming Tian Zun!"

She doesn't seem to belong to the Three Realms, and says that this is a forgotten time and space. What does this mean?
He couldn't help but tremble in his heart, feeling as if he was about to touch some ancient truth of the Three Realms.

Why is there no time in the Three Realms at this time? Why can Qingming Tianzun reverse time? How did all this happen?
What is her origin?
Why are the Three Realms also called the Lost Land?
Kong Xuan couldn't wait to sense it carefully, and then his mind became dazed and all the scenes disappeared.

There were other sacred texts engraved inside the skull. What he had just seen were only some scales and claws. If he could see them all, perhaps he would be able to resolve the doubts in his heart.

But there seemed to be an invisible force that separated time and space, blocking his sight and senses, making it difficult for him to continue watching.

Kong Xuan came back to his senses and discovered that both the Immortal Sword and the Impermanence Bell had become dim, as if they had consumed a great deal of their energy.

"click"

Kong Xuan's expression suddenly froze. He heard a sound coming from inside the coffin and was immediately horrified. What happened in there? Was something trying to get out by itself?

Could it be that the skull is still alive and wants to come back to life?
Or maybe something strange happened to the skull, and new life was born from the corpse?

Thinking of this possibility, Kong Xuan's scalp broke out in goosebumps and felt numb. The origins of Qingming Tianzun were too ancient and mysterious. He inexplicably felt a little frightened and uneasy.

"Crack"

This time he heard it very clearly. The voice came from the coffin and his expression became serious.

Things have developed to this point and it is impossible for him to leave easily. The coffin contains a big secret. More importantly, this place is a turbulent void. Once he leaves, it will be difficult to find him again.

The coffin seemed to have a secret power that could isolate time and space, making time stop and swallowing up everything, eliminating the fate of life and death.

He took a deep breath, circulated the five-colored divine light, nourished the Immortal Sword, and his eyes gradually became cold.

"buzz"

A strange sound, like a monkey's cry or a baby's crying, was heard, with a terrifying momentum. A vicious and evil thought drilled into Kong Xuan's head, wanting to cut him open.

"boom!"

The five-colored rays of light that protected his body shook violently, as if he was hit by a hammer weighing billions of pounds. Kong Xuan almost flew sideways into the turbulent flow of the void and retreated hundreds of feet.

If it weren't for the dim light emitted by the Immortal Sword, which cut off the turbulence in the void, and the shaking of the Impermanence Bell, which froze time and space, he would have been in terrible danger.

There was actually a living creature in the coffin.

The burial ground of the Heavenly Lord, which has existed for hundreds of thousands of years, and the coffin that buried the ancient Heavenly Lord's corpse, actually gave birth to living beings. What a horrible thing this is.

The most important thing is that the aura emitted by this creature is very ferocious and evil, and it is definitely not a good thing.

"boom!"

Kong Xuan heard a sound like grinding teeth. The ancient bronze coffin was shaking, as if a terrifying creature was banging against the lid of the coffin from inside and trying to crawl out.

Click! Click! Click!
The sound was extremely harsh, as if a living creature was tearing the coffin with its sharp claws.

Soon, a crack appeared in the ancient bronze coffin, and black flames gushed out like a tide. It was clearly fire, but it was extremely sticky, and even the void was distorted by the burning.

It has to be said that this black flame was extremely shocking, and it even caused the five-colored divine light that protected Kong Xuan's body to burn.

"I want to see what it is!"

His expression became increasingly colder, the immortal sword in his hand hummed, and the bell made a crisp sound, freezing time and space.

A five-colored halo circulates above the blade, constantly accumulating sharpness.

When the creature in the coffin appears, he will be met with a shocking blow.

boom! boom! boom!
The creature in the coffin was banging more and more violently, accompanied by sharp and piercing roars that made people's scalps numb. (End of this chapter)