Chapter 928: Chapter 105: Nether River Ruins
“Duolu River… the former land of the Netherworld King…”
The heavily armored man sitting cross-legged at the center of the lake murmured these poignant words softly, and slowly stood up.
The invisible barrier around him started to disperse.
Jia Wei leisurely walked toward the lakeshore.
“Sir, the elders of the Holy Hall are all concerned about the safety of the Blessed Son. He is now deep in the dark domain, and it’s highly possible that he might be plagued by nightmares or face unknown dangers.”
The old servant bent forward and bowed, speaking cautiously: “It seems that… you are not worried?”
Jia Wei stepped onto the lakeshore, stood slightly still, and then exhaled lightly.
Turning to look at the crimson lake water that was slowly regaining its calm, the Great Knight of Light City said in a soft voice, “I understand Meng Xiao. He is the chosen one blessed by the Divine Throne; among millions, there may not be one with a will more resolute than his. This mission aims to destroy the remnants of the Netherworld King. No matter what dangers he encounters, I believe he will overcome them, slay them, and return victorious.”
The old servant was slightly taken aback.
“But that is… after all, the former land of the Netherworld King. Even now, the Divine Throne cannot contact him with spiritual power.”
Jia Wei turned his head, speaking calmly: “We’ve been watching East Continent all along – could he really encounter the actual ‘Netherworld King’?”
The wind blew through.
The light was all but gone.
Perhaps it was a prophecy from Light City far beyond, taking effect.
Meng Xizhou fell into the darkness, trying to ignite the “light” within his Zhenyue Robe, but found that… the Blessing Light that had accompanied him for over twenty years could not ignite at this moment.
This place held no light.
As if the rules had decreed it, he tried igniting other fires, but all attempts failed… Unlike the rules of Black Snow Mountain, where the condition for the descent of the [Gate] was to ignite a certain flame.
Here, the very act of igniting “fire” was forbidden!
“What is this place?”
He was forced to accept reality and then silently recalled the scene of his arrival… When a turbulent commotion erupted beneath the Black River, the already exhausted Gu Shen fled to the suddenly opened [Gate], and he followed closely but was ultimately one step too late.
At the last moment, the [Gate] seemed to close.
No… it wasn’t closed.
The place he reached now, and the one Gu Shen fled to, were not the same!
“There seemed to be a second person behind that [Gate]…”
Meng Xiao slightly furrowed his brows. He wasn’t sure if his intuition was right, but at the last moment, he seemed to sense the presence of a third Transcendent… In this Disaster Realm, no one else should be able to reach here.
Could it possibly be reinforcements sent by Osmond?
Even if it were Lu Zhe, it wasn’t likely he’d cross Black Snow Mountain so quickly…
A faint light suddenly appeared.
Meng Xiao’s breath caught as he unbelievingly looked down at his wrist, realizing that the source of the light wasn’t anything else but the Catastrophe Divination Bracelet, known only for absorbing light!
In this “light-forbidden” environment, the bracelet could actually break the rules!
This greatly surprised Meng Xiao…
In almost an instant, he infused his spiritual power into the bracelet.
Several images unfolded before his eyes—
The first image was of dark, fragmented river water and a black door standing at the riverbed.
This was the scene of chasing Gu Shen, but what the bracelet saw was far more than what he had. On the other side of the black door, a woman holding a knife stood.
Meng Xiao’s eyes darkened slightly as he finally understood that the extraordinary aura he sensed when entering the [Gate] came from her.
However, he couldn’t understand how Mu Wanqiu arrived at the Nether River before him.
He was closely following Zhong Yuan’s Team.
And this was the fastest and most direct route to Black Snow Mountain, a straight line. Mu Wanqiu’s mission location, if he remembered correctly, should be a branch of some remote river!
When Meng Xiao saw Mu Wanqiu, his mood suddenly tightened.
Summoning the “Light God’s Seat” in Black Snow Mountain was tantamount to tearing face with North Continent. He knew that by doing such a thing, he would certainly face the Empress’s reckoning… But he hadn’t expected the descent of the Divine Throne would end in failure.
If that’s the case, what he would face was more than just the Empress’s reckoning!
Now, the Transcendents in the Disaster Realm should all be pursuing him…
Mu Wanqiu’s presence here likely indicated that Investigation Corps Team Captain Lu Zhe was also here.
However, the bracelet provided an extended period of imagery, and there was no second person behind the dark door, only Mu Wanqiu… Meng Xiao’s tensed heartstrings slightly relaxed.
The worst fear did not come true.
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Even though she was a North Continent S-level, she was only a Third-Order Transcendent like Deep Sea…
At the bottom of the Black River, after the fierce battle with Gu Shen and being shot twice with arrows, Meng Xiao had completely curbed his previous arrogance.
He had to acknowledge.
He had never encountered a Third-Order Transcendent as fierce and deadly as Gu Shen… Though Mu Wanqiu was highly renowned in North Continent, in a life-and-death struggle with Gu Shen, she would probably be shattered by a single arrow.
This S-level from North Continent was not as troublesome as those from East Continent.
Next, Meng Xiao expressionlessly finished watching the first image reflected by the bracelet… He understood everything that happened during the pursuit at the riverbed.
It was Mu Wanqiu who saved Gu Shen at the last moment and then closed the [Gate] again, which resulted in him being here.
From Mu Wanqiu’s act of standing against me without hesitation…
It seems my summoning of the Light God’s Seat has been exposed.
This crazy woman truly has a merciful heart.
Pretending not to see anything, wouldn’t it be better?
Now… I have to kill Mu Wanqiu and Gu Shen together.
He licked his dry lips, and such a thought suddenly burst in his mind, then the bracelet reflected a second image, and from this moment, a strong sense of foreboding surged in Meng Xiao’s heart.
The second image was simple.
Then… within the boundless darkness, a pair of blood-red eyes slowly lit up.
This was the first time.
In the image, the bracelet gave a clear spiritual wave as an indication.
[“Do not… look directly…”]
The image abruptly ended.
Meng Xiao’s foreboding also peaked to the extreme.
He knew very well that the rank of his bracelet was extremely high, during a previous catastrophe divination, not even the Empress’s attic restrictions could block his malicious spying… and that was a deity-level figure!
He could actually see through the God’s forbidden matters.
The successful spying once made Meng Xiao’s heart subtly swell… the enormous, insurmountable chasm between the Divine Throne and the mundane was effortlessly crossed by him in another manner.
Furthermore, without paying any price!
But this time, the bracelet gave a clear instruction… was it hoping I wouldn’t bring disaster upon myself, not to look directly at the eerie blood eyes that might appear next?
Meng Xiao took a deep breath.
Braving his courage, he raised his wrist.
Because of the bracelet’s high rank, a faint glimmer of fire ignited in this obscure place.
The fire was weak but barely enough to dispel the darkness in front of Meng Xiao, allowing him to see the surroundings clearly… If one wants to leave here, one has to see some things clearly.
He couldn’t just remain submerged in the darkness forever.
From the previous image of the bracelet divination, Meng Xiao speculated that when Mu Wanqiu closed that [door], fate opened another [door] for him… and now he was trapped in this pitch-black place.
Gu Shen and they are highly likely trapped in another secret realm.
The distance between him and those two guys might not be far, there’s a high probability they’re in the same ruin, if his guess is correct, the relic where he finds himself now, should be the “Nether River’s Old Site” that Light City has long been investigating.
Back then, the Holy Judge Army was dispatched and, following the Divine Throne, went on to exterminate the Netherworld King, and experienced a tragic battle.
Ultimately, the Netherworld King was defeated, and the Nether River he painstakingly tried to refine was shattered into pieces by the Light God’s Seat, falling into who knows where…
Meng Xiao’s wandering thought processes abruptly returned.
His spiritual power was suppressed within his shell, leaving only that faint glimmer to attempt to find the “exit” of this black place.
After just a few steps, he collided with something hard.
He frowned and cautiously stepped back.
Then adjusted the angle of the fire.
In the darkness, the outline of some enormous entity gradually emerged… it was a decayed, skeletal remains of an unknown creature.
This skeletal remains, broken for who knows how many years and silent for how long, had nearly fused with the darkness.
What he had just struck against was the position of that creature’s chest.
If he had stepped closer, he might have been enclosed in its expanding ribcage.
Meng Xiao instinctively raised the fire…
The fire from the bracelet began to tremble instantly.
And the foreboding in his heart surged unexpectedly higher.
As the trembling increased when raised to the creature’s facial area, the faint flame stood no more and swayed to extinguish.
The whole world plunged into darkness, Meng Xiao arrived at the scene foretold by the previous catastrophe divination.
Next, at the head of that skeletal remains, two scarlet flames would ignite.
If not for having prematurely used the bracelet to see the guidance of divine disaster… his gaze would uncontrollably lock onto those blood eyes, and the ultimate outcome, needless to say.
In the darkness, the blood-red light burst forth.
But Meng Xiao’s breathing was remarkably steady, it only slightly disrupted before it quickly reclaimed its calm.
The blood eyes in the darkness gazed serenely at the extinguished Blessed Son before them.
Meng Xiao was calmer than the blood hue in the darkness.
He closed his eyes tightly.
Neither looking, hearing, nor pondering, nor thinking.
The bracelet had already provided a hint, this was the best way to deal with the calamity.
He reacted immediately in the most proper way.
Any who touch taboos must pay a price…
Even though Meng Xiao saw nothing nor spied, he still suffered a “backlash”!
With the gaze of blood eyes, an endless storm roared, resonating within Meng Xiao’s Spirit Sea.
A nightmare striking straight at the heart bloomed directly within his mind.
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