At the same time.
Gongyi Lingren, Wenren Jing, and the others had also successfully broken through the Silent Forest, fighting their way out of a horde of ancient beasts and obtaining a black bead.
Cultivators along the remaining seven paths broke through one after another, overcoming the second trial set by the ancient immortal. The hundreds of millions of cultivators who had been separated would soon gather once again.
However, the cost was steep.
Of the tens of millions of cultivators who had poured through the nine bone gates, less than half remained by the time they reached the true Ten Thousand Immortal Battlefield.
Those cultivators had either met tragic ends, been killed while fighting over secret treasures, or ended up in the mouths of ancient beasts...
In the outside world.
The mighty figures of the various sects did not feel much emotion upon seeing the bloody loss of lives.
After all, they had gone through the same process.
To construct a Perfect Foundation Establishment, to become a powerhouse of a region, or to attain the realm of a True Immortal—every single step was taken by treading upon the bones of countless living beings.
It all depended on whether one had the capability to bear it.
Countless cultivators had lost themselves to slaughter, falling into the demon path; countless others, with too much blood on their hands, had been destroyed under the heavenly tribulation.
In cultivation, the word "easy" had never existed.
“It's been over a month, and they've finally reached the Ten Thousand Immortal Mound. Whether they can obtain the immortal inheritance now depends on their luck and strength.”
Shen Shi took a sip of cola and ate some french fries, leisurely crossing his legs. His lazy and relaxed posture bore not even a shred of a Sect Master's dignity.
“It's about the same time we took back then,” Xiao Hongye said.
The flow of time inside the Ancient Immortal Realm was different from the outside world. One day inside was equivalent to seven days outside. Long Zitian and the others had spent five days inside, while Shen Shi and the others had waited outside for over a month.
During this period, many small sects had withdrawn one after another due to the death of their disciples. Among the sects that remained, even the weakest possessed an ancient freak.
However, compared to the ancient freaks of the great immortal sects, they were somewhat insignificant.
As the saying went, there were tiers even among geniuses.
This saying held true no matter where it was applied.
“Oh, they've arrived at the Ten Thousand Immortal Mound.”
In the light screen, the first team to arrive was the cultivators from Huoyun Mountain, followed by the forces led by Yinyang Valley. The two sides had arrived almost simultaneously, though Huoyun Mountain was about a second faster.
Inside the Ancient Immortal Realm.
The Ten Thousand Immortal Mound.
The gloomy and dark environment exuded an eerie chill. Countless remnants of stars had fallen upon the earth, and even several intact ancient stars had crashed here.
There was not a single blade of grass or tree here. There were only star fragments and black coffins arranged across the sky, the ground, and the remnants of the stars.
Desolate was an understatement.
“This is the place where ten thousand immortals discussed the Dao?”
The Yinyang Valley Holy Son looked at the desolate environment and couldn't help but show disgust.
According to rumors, the immortals had gathered here to discuss the Dao in order to compete for a certain supreme treasure. This subsequently triggered an unprecedented war, shattering mountains and rivers, plunging the sun and moon into darkness, and causing stars to fall. Countless worlds were torn to pieces due to this conflict, and the number of True Immortals who fell reached tens of thousands.
Later, the ancient immortal refined the entire battlefield, which was rejected by heaven and earth as well as the three thousand Great Daos, ultimately dissipating.
The Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter looked around, a trace of coldness flashing in her eyes.
This place was extremely ominous. She constantly felt as if some unknown entity was gazing at them, yet she could not detect any abnormalities.
“Hahaha, an immortal body!”
Suddenly, a large number of cultivators poured into the area. They opened the coffins without permission, pulling out bones that emitted golden light and bore secret runes.
“There's one here too!”
Someone pulled an ancient jade from a coffin and then extracted a treasure sword engraved with the patterns of a ferocious beast, shouting, “An immortal's soul-bound flying sword! I've hit the jackpot!”
“Secret runes!”
“This is a Foundation Establishment chapter secret technique!”
“A divine medicine that is normally impossible to find!”
In an instant, tens of thousands of coffins were opened by the swarming crowd, and all kinds of rare treasures inside were thoroughly looted.
Only the people from Yinyang Valley remained where they were.
They also wanted to go forward and claim a share, but they were stopped by the Holy Daughter.
“This place isn't right.”
Her ice-blue pupils could not see any issues, which was actually the greatest issue of all.
“What's wrong?”
“This place is an illusion. It's an illusion left behind by the remnant soul of an immortal!” the Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter said, her expression growing increasingly solemn.
Immediately after, the cultivators who had rushed forward began to slaughter one another over the treasures. All kinds of betrayals and backstabbings were playing out.
“It's mine! This is mine!”
Sshhhk!
A blade pierced through that person's heart. The cultivator behind him eagerly picked up the radiant holy medicine with burning eyes, his face filled with greed.
“Step aside.”
The Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter extended her arm to block her disciples, but a few of them could not resist the temptation and still stepped into the wave of slaughter.
“Elder, leave them. They brought this upon themselves,” the Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter said coldly.
The Ten Thousand Immortal Mound was the burial ground of tens of thousands of True Immortals. Likewise, it was a place where tens of thousands of True Immortal remnant souls gathered. The level of danger could easily be imagined.
In the outside world, the various mighty figures looked at the cultivators who were immersed in the dream, slaughtering one another like puppets on strings, and they couldn't help but cold-snort.
An immortal inheritance, an immortal treasure.
How could they be so easily obtained?
In the Ten Thousand Immortal Mound, a pair of eyes slowly emerged, gazing down at the slaughtering cultivators below. They were cold and heartless, as if devoid of all humanity.
“What should we do?”
The Yinyang Valley Holy Son frowned. The surroundings were bloody and violent, with cultivators tangled in a chaotic melee, hacking at each other without hesitation for the sake of secret treasures.
Even if it was their own loved ones or close friends.
“Commit suicide.”
The Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter had deduced the way to escape this realm.
“What?!”
“This is merely an illusion cast by a True Immortal's remnant soul. The number of people it can control is limited, so it gave up on a large-scale illusion. Instead, it distorted reality on top of the existing foundation, turning empty coffins into illusory immortal treasures,” the Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter explained.
The strength of a True Immortal's remnant soul was far inferior to what it had been in life, and it could not commune with heaven and earth to break the restrictions of this place. It could only choose this method to repair its soul.
And the ultimate result would be selecting the strongest individual to possess!
After saying this, the Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter slashed herself. Strangely, no blood flowed; instead, she turned into a beam of light and vanished.
Seeing this, the members of Yinyang Valley drew their blades and slit their throats one after another. Some quick-witted cultivators also followed suit and committed suicide.
As it turned out, the Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter's deduction was correct.
They woke up. They woke up inside the black coffins.
Bang!
With a palm strike, the Holy Daughter shattered the restriction before her and emerged from the black coffin. Looking around, she saw hundreds of black coffins of various sizes arranged about. At the very front sat an elderly man in a white Daoist robe, sitting cross-legged.
The old man's true appearance was undefeated by time, his body immortal. He emitted a faint fluorescence, transcendent and holy, completely detached from the mortal world. The aura of a True Immortal permeated the air.
However, there was no sign of life.
“A True Immortal body!” the Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter cried out in surprise.
It had long been recorded in ancient texts that those who attained immortality were undefeated by time, transcendent and holy, and immune to all laws. They were also known as Timeless Immortals.
The corpse before them had clearly been a true powerhouse of the immortal path when they were alive.
Bang! Bang!
Following the sounds of coffin lids popping open, the cultivators of Yinyang Valley and others woke up from the hundreds of black coffins.
“It seems this immortal powerhouse did not want everyone to come out alive.”
The Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter observed that only a few hundred people had emerged from the black coffins, deducing that the number of black coffins corresponded to the number of survivors.
“Haha, this is the true immortal treasure!”
“I knew it! How could an immortal treasure be so easily obtained by anyone?”
Several cultivators looked at the immortal corpse with its undefeated appearance. Spotting a square box cradled in its arms, they immediately rushed forward to seize the supreme treasure.
Just as they were about to succeed, a palm print from the Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter caused them to die on the spot, turning into human-shaped ice sculptures.
“There is no danger. It seems that just like the Starry Heavenly Ladder, only those who pass the trial can obtain recognition.”
The Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter withdrew her palm and looked coldly at the cultivators behind her. She said chillingly, “I advise you all to be sensible. This immortal inheritance belongs to Yinyang Valley.”
As her words fell, the aura of the Yinyang Valley elder flared up. Extending his hand, he instantly crushed the heads of several cultivators, making an example of them to strike terror into the rest.
Without the support of the larger crowd of cultivators, these few hundred people were truly not enough to withstand the slaughter of Golden Core Realm cultivators, especially when there were also two ancient freaks who were no weaker than the Golden Core Realm.
The Yinyang Valley Holy Daughter stepped forward, taking both the immortal corpse and the immortal inheritance into her possession.
Every part of an immortal powerhouse was a treasure; she could not possibly let it go.
Furthermore, the Ancient Immortal Realm had been opened many times, and the immortal corpses and treasures in many places had already been largely claimed by predecessors.
For Yinyang Valley to obtain a harvest just upon entering the Ten Thousand Immortal Mound was already considered excellent.
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