"You, and Zhu Pan, just you wait."
"Once I recover, I will definitely make you—"
Before he could finish, Chen Zhou had already summoned the Bone Altar.
The altar was constructed from countless bones, and at its peak, a massive vortex slowly rotated.
Countless pitch black chains extended from the vortex, piercing through the air and directly into Qing Lu's divine sense. They then tightened and began to pull forcefully.
Qing Lu's divine sense was dragged bit by bit from the Ghost Domain, moving toward the Bone Altar.
Chen Zhou smiled. "Sure, please be sure not to let Lord Zhu Pan off. Do your best to take your revenge on us."
"But before that..."
"Please go to hell first."
The chains gave a sudden pull.
Qing Lu's divine sense was dragged entirely into the vortex of the Bone Altar.
The altar slowly closed.
At the moment the final wisp of azure light vanished into the altar, Qing Lu felt a terrifying power crush his divine sense, a power that completely transcended all the rules he knew.
Ancient, vast, and indescribable.
It was like an existence from another dimension, looking down coldly upon everything.
What kind of power was this again?
When did that old thing Zhu Pan master such a terrifying law?
Qing Lu could not understand it.
But his consciousness no longer allowed him to think further, as his last trace of awareness was completely crushed and absorbed by the altar.
The Bone Altar slowly closed.
The system notification sounded in Chen Zhou's mind.
【Well done! You have successfully sacrificed a wisp of a pseudo god divine sense that disrupted the orthodoxy of heaven and earth.】
【Your Divine Path Authority · Cloud Sea Resplendence (Incomplete) has been completed.】
【New Ability — Retrograde: You can not only block all divination and prying and cause backlash to the one prying, but you can also follow the causal lines to reverse pry into some of the diviner's information.】
【New Ability — Glimpse of Heavenly Secrets: When you and your believers perform the first active divination or deduction on a certain target, you can be immune to one instance of karmic backlash.】
Chen Zhou looked at the system prompts, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly.
The authority of Cloud Sea Resplendence had always been very useful. Now that it was completed, he could not only hide but also take the initiative to attack.
As long as someone dared to perform divination on him, he could follow the causal lines to reverse pry into their information.
This was far more useful than simply obscuring the heavenly secrets.
Moreover, the ability to immune one instance of karmic backlash was also a good thing. This was perfect since he had just recruited the Mingchan clan. Chan Yi was so useful; he would have to cultivate him more in the future.
As Chen Zhou was thinking, two more system prompts popped up.
【You obtain a giant Sky Mending Stone that has lost its divine power. Please explore the Eternal Scars below for specific effects and more rewards.】
...
【You obtain an Earth Grade special building blueprint: Wenxin Hall.】
Chen Zhou was stunned for a moment, then looked at the massive colored stone above the ley line.
Sure enough, the giant stone was slowly disappearing, turning into a stream of light that entered his system space.
Chen Zhou curled his lips.
As expected, it was the Sky Mending Stone he had already seen several times. This thing was originally his spoils of war, yet the system was issuing it to him again as a reward.
It had to be said that the system was truly stingy.
But it was better than nothing.
Chen Zhou withdrew his thoughts and looked at what was left after the giant stone disappeared.
Beneath the stone was a massive crack.
The crack was an irregular, long strip with jagged edges, as if it had been forcibly torn open by something.
The ley line flowed downward along the crack. Emerald green light flowed within the fissure, but it was soon polluted by a layer of gray black filth energy, turning into a sickly dark green.
The filth energy was so thick that even the air became viscous, and every breath felt like his lungs were burning.
The crack was like a scar, a scar growing on the ley line—ugly, hideous, and emitting the scent of decay.
The Eternal Scars.
And at this moment, without the suppression of the Sky Mending Stone, a dense surge of filth energy erupted from the crack, rushing straight at Chen Zhou's face.
Chen Zhou frowned, his Ghost Domain automatically expanding to isolate the filth energy.
But the souls of the sacrifices were not so lucky.
They had just been released from Wan Xiu's body and had not yet found a place of return when they were polluted by the filth energy.
Their souls began to twist and deform. Their originally blurry faces became even more hideous, and they let out shrill, miserable screams.
The Plague Rat's expression changed, and it quickly expanded its own Ghost Domain.
Dark green mist surged from its body, enveloping those souls.
Then, it performed Great Plague Heaven.
"Quiet down for Lord Rat!"
The Plague Rat shouted in a low voice, and Great Plague Heaven operated at full power.
The filth energy was drawn out of the souls bit by bit, merging into the Plague Rat's Ghost Domain.
The Plague Rat's body jolted violently, and its face turned pale.
The polluting power of the filth energy was too strong; even it found it somewhat difficult to bear, but it gritted its teeth and held on.
"Damn, this stuff is really potent..."
The Plague Rat continued to extract the filth energy while cursing, the veins on its forehead bulging.
After a long while, it finally cleaned the filth energy from within those souls.
The Plague Rat breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from its forehead, and turned to look at Chen Zhou.
"My lord, this rat wants to go down and take a look."
Chen Zhou raised an eyebrow. "Down there?"
The Plague Rat nodded. "This rat's plague origin is guiding me. There is something down there that has a deep connection with this rat."
"It might be that thing the old man Purity and Filth mentioned... what was it called again..."
It scratched its head and thought for a good while.
"Right, the Heart of Myriad Filths."
"To cultivate the Way of Plague, one must master the Heart of Myriad Filths. My lord, this rat won't die now anyway, so let me go down and take a look."
Chen Zhou was silent for a moment, then nodded.
"Fine."
He turned to look at Lian.
"Take the souls of the sacrifices up first and meet with Wu Gou."
"I will go down with the Plague Rat to take a look."
Lian looked at Chen Zhou with concern. "My lord, please be careful."
Chen Zhou waved his hand and leaped into the crack.
The crack was very deep.
So deep that Chen Zhou wondered if he was falling toward the earth's core.
Everything around was pitch black, with only the residual emerald green light of the ley line flowing on the rock walls like glowing snakes, twisting as they crawled downward.
The filth energy grew thicker and thicker.
It was so thick that even Chen Zhou's Ghost Domain began to make a piercing scraping sound, as if countless fingernails were scratching on glass.
He frowned and increased the output of death qi, and the Ghost Domain stabilized once more.
The Plague Rat followed behind, operating Great Plague Heaven at full power to draw away the surrounding filth energy bit by bit.
Its face grew paler and paler, but its eyes grew brighter and brighter.
"It's close..."
It muttered to itself, its voice carrying a sickly excitement.
"This rat can feel it, right below... very, very close..."
Chen Zhou did not speak, he only accelerated his descent.
After an unknown amount of time, light finally appeared below.
Chen Zhou activated his Ghost Domain to slow his descent and landed steadily on the ground.
The Plague Rat followed and landed, its legs going soft as it almost fell over.
This was a massive underground space with no visible boundaries, and gray white light flowed all around.
Beneath their feet was gray white stone ground, covered in fine patterns like a massive map.
Countless tiny points of light floated in the air, gray white in color, dancing like fireflies.
But looking closely, one would discover that those were not points of light.
They were spores.
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