Chapter 94: The Mountain Treasure Appears | Vermilion Bird, Qiongqi, and Zhu Yan Shock Douluo!
As Liu Shen's cold voice fell, her crystal-like jade finger never actually touched the ground. She merely pointed through the air.
"Buzz!"
There was no earth-shattering explosion nor clouds of dust rising into the sky.
Yet at this moment, the void within tens of thousands of li seemed violently clenched by an invisible hand, releasing a harsh, twisting sound that made one's teeth ache.
Immediately after, the land beneath that barren mountain began to crack apart silently.
Strands of visible Great Dao runes surged wildly from deep underground like golden dragons, as if something below was resisting, struggling, and unwilling to emerge at the wrong time.
But Liu Shen's will was the decree of heaven and earth itself.
Under that single finger, all laws vanished, and order was reorganized.
"Crack!"
Finally, accompanied by a crisp sound like an eggshell breaking, an indescribably vast and ancient aura leaked from the earth's cracked fissures.
That aura was unimaginably ancient. Though it was only a trace, it seemed to contain the chaotic essence of creation itself, instantly piercing the clouds.
It then transformed into a ripple invisible to the naked eye, sweeping across the entire Great Wilderness at a speed beyond time itself, even spreading toward distant ancient kingdoms.
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At the Same Time, The Far Western Region of the Great Wilderness
This was a notorious forbidden land within the Great Wilderness.
Ordinarily, not even a shadow of a human could be seen here. Even ancient pure-blooded creatures would detour around the area, fearing contamination by the slightest trace.
There were no green mountains or flowing rivers.
As far as the eye could see, there was only endless pale white.
But it was not snow.
It was bone.
Boundless skeletons covered the earth, stacked to an unknown depth.
There were giant serpent spines hundreds of zhang long, stretching across the ground like winding mountain ranges.
There were bird skulls as large as houses, their eye sockets hollow and empty.
There were even the remains of powerful human cultivators. Though tens of thousands of years had passed, their bones still emitted a faint jade-like glow, proving that they had once been kings or marquises in life.
At this moment, cold winds howled through the wasteland, lifting bone powder into the air like drifting white mist.
Mournful wails echoed like a procession of ghosts in the night, sending chills down the spine.
Deep within this ocean of bones stood a massive cavern.
The cave descended endlessly into darkness, eerily silent.
Until that wisp of aura from the Mountain Treasure arrived.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a heavy heartbeat echoed from the depths of the pitch-black cavern.
This single heartbeat weighed like ten thousand mountains. The bone-covered land within a hundred li of the cave entrance trembled violently, and countless small bones instantly shattered into powder.
Then—
"Shua!"
Two dazzling beams of golden light abruptly lit up in the darkness.
They were eyes.
Wild and domineering, capable of devouring heaven and destroying earth.
As those eyes opened, the golden beams pierced through the darkness of the cave and shot straight toward the sky, blasting a massive hole through the heavy lead-colored clouds above.
"Rumble…"
In the next moment, a colossal figure slowly rose from the darkness.
Illuminated by the golden light, the countless beings of the Douluo Continent watching beyond the sky screen finally saw the creature's true form.
It was a divine ape whose entire body was covered in golden fur, as if cast from molten gold.
It had not used any heaven-and-earth transformation technique, yet its towering aura was thousands of times more terrifying than the previous Demon Ape.
Every single strand of its fur glowed with mysterious runes, as though each hair alone could crush a mountain.
"ROAR!!!"
The golden divine ape roared toward the sky, battle intent surging!
"The Mountain Treasure… is mine!"
Boom!
In the next instant, the white bone land beneath its feet collapsed violently, and the entire Abyss of Ten Thousand Bones trembled.
With a flash of golden light, the divine ape had already turned into a bolt of lightning, charging toward where the Mountain Treasure had appeared.
Wherever it passed, mountains collapsed, and ancient trees turned to ash.
A massive road a hundred zhang wide was forcibly carved across the Great Wilderness by its rampage.
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Meanwhile—Fire Nation, Deep Within the Ancestral Land
Before the eyes lay an endless ocean of magma.
Scarlet lava churned like boiling water. Every bursting bubble released a terrifying heat that suffocated the surroundings.
The temperature here was outrageously high, and space itself remained constantly twisted, as if even the laws of the Great Dao would melt here.
At the center of the magma sea stood countless crimson totem pillars, each engraved with complex patterns of divine birds.
"Glug… Glug…"
When the aura of the Mountain Treasure reached this place, the previously violent magma sea suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
Then the thick lava slowly parted to either side, revealing a bottomless crimson abyss.
At the same time, a pair of enormous pupils slowly opened.
Those eyes were enormous. Each one shone like a blazing sun, radiating scarlet divine light.
Flames burned within them, and stars seemed to fall with every shift of the gaze.
"So… it has finally appeared."
An ancient divine thought echoed through the sea of fire, sending countless magma waves surging skyward and turning into a rain of flames.
"Splash…"
Accompanied by a strange sound, the colossal being beneath the lava began to rise.
Even though only a tiny portion of its body emerged, the people watching the sky screen felt their eyes nearly blinded by the brilliance.
A crimson wing broke through the lava, covered in countless layers of flame runes. Every rune evolved the ultimate mysteries of the Dao of Fire.
Then, it gently flapped its wings.
With a thunderous boom, the underground world erupted, with magma waves rising tens of thousands of meters into the air.
"Since it has appeared, fate has brought it forth."
"This object shall belong to my Fire Nation!"
The next moment, a small crimson bird phantom surrounded by Nanming Lihuo (Southern Bright Flame) separated from that enormous body.
With a single flap of its wings, it pierced through ten thousand li of earth, transforming into a crimson rainbow that shot straight into the heavens.
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Great Wilderness, Extreme Northern Region
Within a deadly land shrouded in black mist year-round.
This was a massive burial ground.
Black mountains pierced the sky like swords, and every peak was covered with hanging corpses of countless creatures. Some were dried husks, others still dripping with blood.
On the tallest solitary black peak crouched a terrifying, ferocious beast.
It resembled a tiger but possessed a pair of black flesh wings that could cover the sky.
Its fur stood upright like steel needles, and its claws were enormous and razor-sharp. Even resting casually on a stone, they easily pierced into the mountain rock.
A pure-blooded ferocious beast.
Qiongqi!
At that moment, it was absorbing the essence of moonlight. With every breath, the life energy of plants within a hundred li was forcibly drained, instantly withering.
But the moment the Mountain Treasure's aura arrived—
"Shua!"
Qiongqi suddenly stood up. A terrifying, ferocious light erupted within its green, glowing beast eyes.
There was no hesitation, no deliberation.
With a deafening roar, Qiongqi's wings suddenly spread.
Its enormous body vanished instantly, leaving behind a torn black spatial rift.
Wherever it passed, black mist surged, and a murderous aura soared.
Countless birds and beasts along its path did not even have time to scream before the terrifying fluctuations from its body crushed them into blood mist, which it inhaled in a single gulp.
Where it passed, grass would not grow.
All living things were annihilated.
End of Chapter