Chapter 221: The Plane Passage!
"Hahaha! Gu Yuan, the Ancient Emperor's Mansion is about to emerge! You're too late!"
Facing Gu Yuan's attack, Hun Tiandi let out a great laugh. With a single punch, he shattered the void, directly and forcibly receiving Gu Yuan's palm head-on.
Hearing Hun Tiandi's words, Gu Yuan's expression also darkened slightly. His gaze flicked down towards the magma sea below, and indeed he saw that the whirlpool on the surface of the magma sea had abruptly expanded over tenfold in size!
Within the underground space, a look of pleasant surprise suddenly flashed in Zhu Kun's eyes. He then turned a gentle gaze towards Zi Yan beside him and said softly, "Zi Yan, those fellows are about to arrive. You hide to the side first."
"You all as well—be careful," Zhu Kun finished, then looked at Medusa, Qing Lin, and the Little Medical Fairy, who were accompanying Zi Yan. A kind and genial smile also appeared on his face.
Zhu Kun wore a smile, but inwardly, he had already cursed Jiang Yun bloody. That brat Jiang Yun was simply lawless. He, the father-in-law, still had to look after the brat's women. Were it not for Zi Yan's sake, he would definitely teach that stinking brat a proper lesson.
Zi Yan nodded, unable to resist adding a reminder, "Alright. Don't forget our plan. Just put on a show. Xiao Yun's intention is to let the Emperor-grade Prototype Pill fall to Hun Tiandi. Our target is the Emperor's Origin..."
"I know. Rest assured, although your father conducts himself with integrity and openness, I still possess this tiny bit of acting skill," Zhu Kun chuckled mischievously, a sly grin flashing in his eyes. Clearly, he was not quite the honest man he claimed to be.
Without anyone knowing quite how he did it, his entire figure vanished from Zi Yan and the others' sight.
Seeing that Zhu Kun had hidden himself, Zi Yan also led the three women into concealment. When it came to mastery of spatial force, as the supreme Dragon-Phoenix, although her strength was not equal to Zhu Kun's, she was not far behind him either.
At this moment, if one looked down from a bird's-eye view, one would discover that the underground magma world was dotted with enormous mountain ranges rising and falling. Looking closely, they seemed to be... shaped like dragons.
"Rumble—"
As the whirlpool expanded, giant magma fire pillars, a full thousand zhang in size, suddenly erupted overwhelmingly from the surface of the magma sea. Quite a few people on both sides were caught in the blast. Such high temperatures and impact force directly caused casualties on both sides.
Watching the magma sea surface churn with towering, shocking waves, the wild joy in Hun Tiandi's eyes grew thicker and thicker. He could feel the Tuo She Ancient Emperor's Jade in his hand suddenly become strangely scorching hot.
"Whoosh!"
A magma tidal wave, a thousand zhang high, suddenly surged up, then viciously slammed back down. As droplets of magma splattered across the sky, the speed of the rapidly spinning magma whirlpool gradually began to slow.
As the rotation speed slowed, the surface of the magma sea began to bulge with an enormous mass of magma. The crimson magma rapidly spread outwards. As the magma dispersed, an ancient stone gate, towering between heaven and earth, slowly rose from within the magma under gaze after gaze full of fervent heat.
Upon the stone gate, magma swiftly receded. An ancient, primeval aura instantly filled this stretch of heaven and earth. Under that aura, all living things fell silent. Even experts as powerful as Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi couldn't help but feel a jolt in their hearts.
It was an aura that transcended this very stretch of heaven and earth!
Countless gazes across the world converged on the ancient stone gate. Finally, all these gazes froze upon the four ancient characters above the gate.
"Ancient Emperor's Mansion!"
Hun Tiandi's eyes shot forth astonishingly bright light at this moment. Even with his composure, witnessing these four characters he had pursued for over a thousand years with his own eyes, he couldn't help but feel his heart surge with emotion.
"Finally... found you..."
Nihility Devouring Flame murmured to himself. Finally, he couldn't help but roar with mad laughter towards the heavens. His laughter boomed like thunder, echoing across the sky.
"So this is the legendary Ancient Emperor's Mansion..."
At this moment, the members of the three clans were also somewhat dazed. They stared blankly at the ancient stone gate quietly standing upon the magma. The aura upon it made them understand that this was no false illusion, but the genuine article left by a true Dou Di!
Complex expressions now surfaced on their faces. For the sake of this Ancient Emperor's Mansion, the eight ancient clans had clashed chaotically more than once.
By now, three of the eight clans had already perished. The Xiao Clan existed in name only, with only Xiao Yan having somewhat risen again.
It could be said that this was the root of all chaos on the present Dou Qi Continent.
The enormous ancient stone gate stood upon the magma. Beneath its colossal size, everyone appeared exceptionally minuscule. In their eyes, this stone gate was like a world of its own, exceedingly profound and abstruse.
In the sky, Hun Tiandi took several deep, deep breaths before finally suppressing the surging emotions in his heart. Then, he slowly raised the Tuo She Ancient Emperor's Jade in his hand. Upon the ancient jade, a faint, shimmering light seemed to flow.
As the ancient jade flickered with luster, upon the tightly shut ancient giant gate, light also seemed to flicker. The ancient gate, sealed for ten thousand years, seemed to show signs of opening...
Seeing this, Hun Tiandi was overjoyed. He called out to Nihility Devouring Flame, "Nihility, let's enter quickly!" The two swiftly landed before the stone gate, their gazes filled with irrepressible excitement.
"Think opening the mansion will be so easy?"
Seeing this, Gu Yuan also sneered coldly. His figure moved once more, clinging to Hun Tiandi like a shadow. However, after exchanging several blows, Hun Tiandi suddenly sensed the "outwardly impressive but inwardly empty" power in Gu Yuan's palm.
Gu Yuan's strength and his own were originally evenly matched. If the former was determined to tie him down, he truly wouldn't be able to divert his attention.
But now, he indeed felt a sense of... ease.
Looking at Gu Yuan, a cold sneer flashed through Hun Tiandi's eyes. After exchanging several more blows, sure enough, he forced Gu Yuan back with a single move and shot towards the grand entrance of the Ancient Emperor's Mansion.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he raised the ancient jade in his hand. A dazzling pillar of light shot forth violently. This pillar of light streaked down from the sky and then beamed straight onto the ancient stone gate.
"Boom!"
As this pillar of light beamed down, the ancient giant gate, sealed for ten thousand years, faintly showed signs of movement. Traces of cracks and light emerged.
The cracks grew larger and larger. With a creaking, grinding sound, the ancient stone gate finally began to slowly part to either side.
The instant the ancient stone gate began to open, an ancient fluctuation, originating from the distant past, swept forth. The rippling energy wave struck the Hun Clan experts like a heavy blow, directly throwing their formation into disarray. Some whose strength was insufficient were even forced back beyond ten thousand zhang.
"Careful!" Seeing the army's formation scattered and broken by the blast, Xiao Yan hurriedly steadied his own figure and called out a warning in a deep voice.
"The Ancient Emperor's Mansion is about to open..." Gu Yuan said in a low shout. His gaze was locked tightly onto the slowly opening ancient giant gate. His palms were slick with sweat.
"This damned thing... is it finally about to open..."
Beneath the magma whirlpool, Zhu Kun watched the stone gate from his hidden vantage point. He stared somewhat dazedly at this scene. Trapped within that space for so long, he had tried countless methods to open the mansion, all ending in complete failure. But today, he too finally witnessed this sight.
"Rumble!"
The ancient fluctuation grew increasingly intense as the stone gate opened. In the sky above, there were already very few Hun Clan experts left who could remain standing. The crack in the giant gate also grew wider and wider. Finally, with an earth-shaking boom, it swung completely, utterly open.
"Bang~~~"
The moment this ancient stone gate fully opened, a fluctuation as if transmitted from the primordial era itself abruptly surged forth violently. The entire magma sea area exploded with towering, shocking waves. The earth trembled, splitting open countless abysses, each thousands of zhang deep.
The primordial pressure swept forth. Within a hundred li radius of the ancient stone gate, almost only the top-tier experts of both sides remained suspended in the air. Everyone else had been forcibly blasted away.
"Buzz!"
Upon the ancient stone gate, strange ripples suddenly appeared. Then space distorted. Within the giant gate, what seemed like a transparent passageway condensed into existence.
"Go!"
The moment that transparent passageway took shape, Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame shot forth almost simultaneously.
"We absolutely cannot let Hun Tiandi obtain the secret of becoming a Dou Di!" Seeing this, Xiao Yan and the others exchanged glances. Accompanied by a low roar, they braved that dense, heavy pressure and directly charged into the passageway like shooting stars chasing the moon. Behind them, the experts of both sides also filed in...
"Finally... it's complete."
A soft sigh echoed through the silent, dark world.
"The Holy Son's talent is exceptional. His mastery over the path of arrays is also breathtaking!" Leighton looked at the young man who had just opened his eyes and couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
He wasn't deliberately flattering Yun Yi by saying this. Seeing what Yun Yi had accomplished during this period, it was a heartfelt exclamation from the depths of his being.
In that dark void, an ancient array, towering, colossal, and seemingly endless, had materialized. The array was so abstruse that a single glance caused one's Dou Qi to seethe, showing signs of losing control.
Row upon row of intersecting light lines completely obscured what lay behind the array. However, faintly, it seemed to be a curtain of primal chaos light as well. Further outside, countless colossal figures radiating an evil aura stood in dense formation.
They were blocked by that curtain of primal chaos light, utterly unable to invade even a sliver.
"Have all the personnel been assembled?" Yun Yi spoke expressionlessly, as if he hadn't heard the other's flattery at all.
"Reporting to the Holy Son, all clansmen who could make it have arrived. If this plane's strength is as the Holy Son described, then right now, we are already fully capable of conquering this continent!" Leighton straightened his expression and answered solemnly.
Hearing this, Yun Yi nodded. He then raised his head to look at the grand array operating in the sky and spoke in a deep voice, "Then... let it begin!"
As his voice fell, Yun Yi raised his hand. A black beam of light abruptly shot forth, blasting onto a certain node of the grand array...
"Rumble—"
As the grand array began to operate with a thunderous roar, the surrounding evil qi suddenly began to tremble violently. Endless streams of evil qi converged towards the center of the array.
Suddenly, a demonic shadow, so vast it seemed to have no visible end, slowly rose to its feet.
That demonic shadow crawled out from an endless abyss. Its head touched the sky, its feet trod the earth. As demonic qi pervaded the air, it seemed like the emperor of all demons.
"Death Ray!"
As an icy voice, as if from the Nine Serenities, rang out, within the mouth of the colossal demonic shadow, a pitch-black ray of light abruptly condensed...
"Swoosh—"
A light pillar so enormous one couldn't see its end shot into the clouds, pierced through the firmament, and hurtled straight towards the distant location where the plane's seal was situated.
"Boom—"
In the next instant, the annihilating light pillar streaked across the dark void, finally colliding viciously against that ancient, primal chaos light curtain, like ten thousand meteorites striking at once.
The massive explosion was clearly visible from anywhere on the Dou Qi Continent. Yet, when people raised their heads to look at the sky, they merely scratched their heads in puzzlement, not knowing what this strange phenomenon signified.
Buzz!
Even separated by an extremely vast distance, at the instant of impact, quite a few attentive individuals could feel this stretch of heaven and earth faintly tremble. The energy between heaven and earth all scattered and fled in disarray.
Under the impact of the annihilating light pillar, the primal chaos-colored light curtain upon the Dou Qi Continent abruptly split open, revealing a rift that seemed to stretch beyond sight. Rolling demonic qi surged through that rift, pouring towards the Dou Qi Continent.
"Hahaha! Dou Qi Continent, welcome the arrival of my clan!"
Watching Leighton beside him, who seemed to have gone mad with fervor, Yun Yi merely gazed with deep, profound eyes at the sky of the Dou Qi Continent...
A faint mist shrouded this peculiar space, rendering the entire realm hazy and indistinct. This space was utterly silent. Its appearance was as if it had been quiet and still for tens of thousands of years.
Within this boundless, hazy space, a landmass floated. It hovered in space without any visible support, like an castle in the air.
"Rip~~~"
The space, lonely and desolate for ten thousand years, was suddenly shattered from its peaceful state. An enormous spatial passageway materialized. One figure after another shot forth violently from within, finally all landing upon that stretch of land.
"Let's not delay. Move..."
After landing, a look of reminiscence flickered through Nihility Devouring Flame's eyes. Within his gaze faintly stirred some peculiar emotion. He spoke in a low voice, then took the lead, shooting off into the distance at furious speed. Hun Tiandi and some Hun Clan experts also hurriedly followed.
Several breaths later...
The figures of Gu Yuan, Xiao Yan, and the others landed. Their gazes immediately swept around urgently.
"This is the Ancient Emperor's Mansion?" Gu Yuan and the others carefully examined their surroundings. They solemnly discovered that the range of soul power detection here was sharply compressed. Even the Emperor Realm souls of Xiao Yan and Gu Yuan could only maintain a range of a thousand zhang.
"Where are Hun Tiandi and the others?!"
Not finding any traces of the Hun Clan, the crowd immediately grew anxious and began searching everywhere. But the Ancient Emperor's Mansion was so unimaginably vast. Without knowing the way, finding someone was harder than searching for a needle in the sea.
"I know the way. Follow me!" Just as everyone was at a complete loss, once again it was Xiao Yan. His eyes revealed faint traces of primal chaos light. He looked at the crowd and spoke in a deep voice.
Without further explanation, Xiao Yan took the lead and rushed in the direction Hun Tiandi and his group had just advanced. Behind him, Gu Yuan and the others, after a moment of stunned surprise, quickly followed.
Two waves of people sped with all their might across this vast, seemingly endless landmass. Like a meteor shower, they swiftly streaked across the sky.
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Thanks for reading the chapter!
I started a new translation and I would be very happy if you decided to check out my new translation for a rather rare fandom. It's a crossover based on Mondaiji (Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They?)
This story has a somewhat similar style to my other translation for this fandom (same author, after all), but it's completely different from any other fanfic I've come across for this fandom! It's set thousands of years before the original novel/anime, and the MC literally plays a part in shaping the backstory of this world. I really enjoyed it—hope you will too!
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