Chapter 535

Chapter 535: Undying Curse

Prime Minister Turtle clearly knows some ancient secrets. Li Hui humbly asks, “There’s a Nine-Headed Worm in the hall; what are those massive figures outside? They make the Traveling Realm Great Powers hesitate, instantly exploding their External Transformations to sever connections upon seeing them.”

“What else could it be? It’s the Curse of the Undying! It’s two levels stronger than the normal Undying Curse. Unless one reaches the Late Stage of the Traveling Realm, once the curse is unleashed, you’ll have no burial place!”

Prime Minister Turtle continues, “However, this Undying Curse seems a bit off. If it was intact, the Nine-Headed Worm would have long turned into a puddle of black water; how could it still be here today?”

“What exactly is this Yuan Chen Heavenly Mansion?” Li Hui feels a bit confused.

Prime Minister Turtle laughs, “The Heavenly Mansion is just that! A floating cave in the sky. As for the name Yuan Chen, the twelve Yuan Chens of Daoism are the following: Gong Cao, Tai Chong, Tian Gang, Tai Yi, Sheng Guang, Xiao Ji, Teleportation, from Kui, He Kui, Deng Ming, Shen Hou, and Da Ji. Looking around at this layout, this Heavenly Mansion should correspond to the Yuan Chen from Kui, responding to the second star of the Big Dipper, so there should be twelve such Heavenly Mansions!”

“What? There are actually twelve such Heavenly Mansions?”

“Don’t be surprised. There are twelve islands on the sea. By the way, you cultivators call them continents; previously, each continent should have suspended a Heavenly Mansion. I don’t know if they are still there, but one has definitely fallen here. Hehe, compared to the Crystal Palace I remember, this kind of cave can be tossed into the trash!”

Li Hui is once again taken aback, quickly transmitting, “Jia Yi in the eastern wood, Bing Ding in the southern fire, Wu Ji in the central earth, Geng Xin in the western metal, Ren Gui in the northern water, and the Nine Maangs and Extreme Huans, that makes a total of twelve continents. But Extreme Huans is very mysterious; it’s hard for outsiders to reach. Do you know its exact location?”

“Extreme Huans?” Prime Minister Turtle responds, “A long time ago, I could see all twelve islands when I looked up. The Extreme Huans you mentioned should be the Extreme Void Island, which follows a specific trajectory. It’s not hard to find!”

“Look up to see the islands?” Li Hui is momentarily stunned, quickly realizing, “You come from the Heavenly Realm?”

Prime Minister Turtle speaks candidly, “You call it the Heavenly Realm; we call it the Moon Sea, and a corner of the Crystal Palace is within the Moon Sea.”

“Is the Moon Sea the same as the current dark moon? You must know what happened in the Heavenly Realm!” Li Hui nearly exclaims, previously having never imagined Prime Minister Turtle would know such deep secrets.

“I don’t know. I have the ability to attract good fortune and avoid disaster. If it feels wrong, I escape by the skin of my teeth. Hehe, otherwise, I would have died long ago and wouldn’t still be alive today. Honestly, the dark moon isn’t significant; this little tribulation isn’t worth me running away. There must be other disasters coming.”

“You don’t even know? Since the Crystal Palace is above the dark moon, you must know how to reach the Heavenly Realm. Otherwise, you wouldn’t encourage me to search for the Crystal Palace.” Li Hui suddenly looks at the world from a broader perspective, realizing his thoughts and insights have multiplied.

“Wait until you have the strength to help me face tribulation again—not a partial concealment but a complete tribulation—then I should be able to recover most of my memories! Right now, my memories are chaotic and disorganized; I can’t recall anything.”

Li Hui senses that this creature is hiding something, but considering what kind of tribulation it is, he doesn’t want to experience it again, so he decides to set this matter aside for now. It’s hard to say whether he can explore the dark moon in his lifetime.

Outside the hall, a fierce battle rages on. The Undying Curse clearly holds the upper hand, and amidst the rumbling sounds, it tears a long narrow crack three feet wide in the hall.

“How fierce! With so many guards attacking, how could…” Just as Li Hui is observing, he sees the Nine-Headed Worm on the Golden Luan throne trembling as it raises its head. All its massive heads open their eyes, and in an instant, eighteen balls of red light soar into the air.

These eighteen balls of red light are eighteen eyeballs, fluttering out of the hall to duel with the massive figure. Prime Minister Turtle shouts, “What a chance! Right now, it can’t see us and is too preoccupied; there’s no need for me to say more about what to do!”

Li Hui recognizes the opportunity and releases a layer of lightly dark energy.

As the dark energy spreads throughout the hall, he suddenly yanks everything into his wooden turtle ring, except for the Golden Luan throne occupied by the Nine-Headed Worm, which he doesn’t dare to touch.

The Golden Luan throne has been contaminated by the Nine-Headed Worm for many years, transforming it into a rare treasure of the demonic sect! If he sacrifices it at the Snake’s Mouth, he could certainly obtain considerable talisman power.

Li Hui, feeling bold, hurls forth his time Dragon Claw, grabbing a mass of red light from the Golden Luan throne. The silver snake devours it eagerly!

During the grabbing process, he inches closer to the crack opened by the Undying Curse.

Now that he thinks about it, Old Li’s knowledge of this hall likely comes from others’ accounts. Even if he had once entered the Yuan Chen Heavenly Mansion, it would have been after the high-level demon cultivators of various sects had deciphered it, and it was opened many years in advance; it was a different situation altogether.

“Perhaps when the Yuan Chen Heavenly Mansion opened, the Nine-Headed Worm and the Undying Curse had already determined the outcome, and it definitely wasn’t as dangerous as it is now.” Li Hui suddenly stops, only a dozen steps away from the crack that the Undying Curse tore open. Who knows if those terrifying massive figures outside have any way to get in? He must not get too close; if something goes awry, he can adapt to the situation.

“Hu, hu, hu…” The fog rushes inward through the hall’s crack, and within the fog appear countless shadowy figures, gazing back as if separated by an abyss, filling Li Hui’s heart with a profound great terror.

Prime Minister Turtle warns, “Be careful. Release your dark energy to cover yourself. This is the other side of the Undying Curse; sometimes just a glance can lead to an undignified death.”

Li Hui quickly draws a circle on the ground, encircling himself with dark energy.

As he covers himself, countless figures suddenly turn to look in his direction, seemingly noticing something. But upon closer inspection, they find nothing unusual and give up!

“That was close!” Li Hui feels a lump in his throat when he sees six balls of red light return from outside the hall, swirling around the Nine-Headed Worm and buzzing loudly, stirring up towering demonic flames.

“Boom, boom, boom…” The ground shakes and the hall’s ceiling starts to collapse.

At some unknown point, obscure, indescribable whispers resonate in the depths of fate; this is the most terrifying and troublesome curse assassination. Li Hui feels as if he is a small weed in a storm, swaying left and right with the wind.

Suddenly, the Nine-Headed Worm stands up, the Golden Luan throne beneath it erupts with demonic flames, driving away the curse. Each time a wavy black line appears on its body, it immediately destroys an outer guard to negate the curse’s power.

The battle drags on, and the Nine-Headed Worm seems extremely terrified as it summons all of its eyeballs to orbit around itself.

At this moment, a white skeleton appears in the center of the hall.

Li Hui finds it incredibly strange, as it is clearly a skeletal figure, yet from the back, it resembles a dignified woman dressed in ancient clothing.

“Undying Curse!” Prime Minister Turtle exclaims internally, “Don’t move! Absolutely don’t move; I have veiled your living presence. Right now, you are not alive…”

The Nine-Headed Worm roars, not realizing that a crack has formed beneath it on the throne. As it unleashes its demonic power, the crack slowly begins to expand.