Chapter 12658 Hidden Dangers

Chapter 12658 Hidden Dangers

"Hehe, this way, my junior brother won't be able to find us."

He would think that all the strange phenomena and changes originated from me and had nothing to do with you.

Beneath the five-fingered stone pillar, the butcher grinned, but blood continued to flow from his shoulder, making his already weak and haggard face even paler.

"senior……"

Ye Chen wanted to go up and stop the bleeding, but he was stopped by the wave of his hand.

The butcher said, "I'm fine, I won't die, don't worry, Your Majesty."

"Well, time is short, I have to tell you some truths."

He glanced around and said, "Actually, this forbidden area is where the original Dao Embryo is located, and the body of the Dao Ancestor Wuzhong is buried underground."

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen was shocked and exclaimed, "The Dao Ancestor of No End!"

He remembered the entrustment of the Beginningless Dao Ancestor, who asked him to bring out the body of the Endless Dao Ancestor.

The corpse of the Dao Ancestor of No End is an extremely important secret treasure of the Temple of the End, and can be said to be one of the core divine objects. It is both a corpse and a Dao embryo.

Disciples of the Temple of the End can be resurrected from the Primordial Dao Embryo if they die!
The butcher chuckled and said, "The five-fingered stone pillar you see is the corpse of the Dao Ancestor Wuzhong. The extended hand is the corpse, but it is underground."

Ye Chen listened intently, trying to sense and capture the energy, but within the Eternal Silence Finger Mountain, there were numerous restrictions that prevented him from sensing the flow of energy underground, nor could he detect the aura of the Endless Dao Ancestor.

But the butcher's words were certain and in accordance with divine will, and there was no error in them.

The body of the Dao Ancestor Wuzhong is indeed buried underground!
The five-fingered stone pillar that Ye Chen saw was actually the palm of the Dao Ancestor Wuzhong!
The butcher continued, "The corpse of the Endless Dao Ancestor contains the Law of Endlessness. If one can wield it, it will greatly benefit one's cultivation, and one might even become a new Pillar God, a new Endless Dao Ancestor!"

"Hehe, my junior brother discussed with me the idea of ​​cutting up and eating the Dao Ancestor Wuzhong to share the divine power, but I disagree."

"That corpse is tainted with chaotic evil energy and is full of ominous signs. If you rashly devour it, you will only suffer a backlash and eventually become a monster."

"However, my junior brother refused to listen to advice, injured me and suppressed me here. He cut off the head of the Wuzhong Dao Ancestor and transplanted it onto his own body."

"Hehe, now he's really in for it!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen felt a chill run down his spine. He recalled the shepherd's appearance, his face rotting into a skull. Could it be that this was not his face, but the face of the Dao Ancestor of No End?

The Dao Ancestor of No End is already a corpse. If his head is forcibly transplanted, that head may rot into bones!

Ye Chen vaguely sensed a great terror and asked again:

"Where is your Grand Master, the Future Buddha?"

The butcher said, "The Grand Master is in seclusion and doesn't concern himself with this matter. He is also suffering greatly and can't find a way out."

The Temple of the End was born in response to the Dao, emerging from the fear of the beginning and the abyss, but its birth was mixed with too much chaos and variables from outside the world.

This resulted in almost all the high-ranking figures in the Temple of the End being corrupted by chaos, becoming mentally twisted and morbid; one could say they were all mentally ill.

The upcoming Divine Trial is intended to find a way to break through the current predicament among countless paths.

"The Grand Master ignored the matter. My junior brother ambushed and injured me, and then suppressed me. But he spared my life because of our past relationship."

"His desire to devour the entire corpse of the Dao Ancestor of No End is a pipe dream. He couldn't withstand the backlash from just transplanting a head."

The butcher laughed, as if mocking the shepherd's greed, which would bring about his own downfall.

A thousand thoughts raced through Ye Chen's mind. The entrustment from the Beginningless Dao Ancestor was to ask him to take away the corpse of the Endless Dao Ancestor. The corpse was right at his feet, but he could not make any rash moves.

"Now, the Dao Ancestor Wuzhong has lost his head, his body is mutilated, and he is generating even stronger chaotic evil energy."

“One day in the future, this corpse will fall into the abyss and become a celestial demon!”

"Last King, I only hope that you can save me before the Dao Ancestor Wuzhong falls into evil."

The butcher looked at Ye Chen with sincere and expectant eyes.

If we wait until the Dao Ancestor Wuzhong falls into evil and transforms into a celestial demon, then it will be too late.

Ye Chen paused for a moment, then said, "There will be a way to solve this."

The Divine Trial six months from now may offer a way to break through the myriad paths and challenges!

The butcher sighed. The blood on his shoulder wound gradually congealed, but he fell into an even weaker state, his eyelids heavy and he felt drowsy.

With his last ounce of strength, he said to Ye Chen:
"Let's go, my last king. Take this blood talisman with you; it will guide you out of this world."

"If I ever stray into evil in the future, you can stick this talisman on my forehead to awaken me."

His fingers trembled as he drew a rune in the air.

The runes condensed into a tangible talisman, which floated into Ye Chen's hand, the blood-red runes on it glowing faintly.

After giving Ye Chen the blood talisman, the butcher lowered his head and fainted completely.

Ye Chen wanted to treat him, but he was afraid that if he used magic randomly, he would violate the secrets of heaven and be discovered by the shepherd.

After thinking for a moment, Ye Chen placed some pills and herbs next to the butcher.

Then, he took the blood talisman given to him by the butcher and saw that the light emanating from the talisman pointed in a direction that should be the safe exit.

Ye Chen looked at the five-finger stone pillar. Beside the five fingers, there was another stone pillar, which was the sixth finger, and it looked quite abrupt.

This sixth finger is actually a fragment of the female yang goddess's limb, which is now being devoured by chaotic energy and is constantly turning black and purple.

Judging by its appearance, it won't be long before it rots into ashes.

"Do you want to take it with you?"

Ye Chen pondered for a moment, then looked around. The blood mist around him was still quite thick, obscuring the secrets of heaven.

However, if he takes away the remains of the female yang goddess, it will inevitably trigger the secrets of heaven and cause a huge commotion.

However, Ye Chen was unwilling to let him go empty-handed.

After thinking for a moment, Ye Chen still took the risk and made a move. He stretched out his right hand, and a black vortex of reincarnation appeared in his palm, sucking the stone pillar formed from the remnants of the female Yang Goddess and drawing it into the Reincarnation Graveyard.

As he took the stone pillar, a loud rumbling sound was heard, and the surrounding blood mist churned violently, with billowing smoke and dust.

"what happened?"

In the sky, the shepherd leaned on his staff, his eyes fixed on the ground below.

Through the thick fog of blood and chaotic mist, he couldn't see clearly, but he could hear the rumbling of the rocks.

He really wanted to go directly into the forbidden area to take a look, but he had transplanted the head of the Dao Ancestor of No End, and was now being corrupted by the backlash. If he were to step into the Eternal Silence Finger Mountain and resonate with the corpse of the Dao Ancestor of No End, it would be fatal.

"May the lost heavens return to clarity!"

After a pause, the shepherd struck his wooden staff, and a circle of crimson ripples spread out, instantly dispersing the blood mist of the Eternal Silence Pointing Mountain below. The chaotic mist was also largely dispersed, and the scenery of the forbidden area became clear.

"cough……"

He coughed violently, and his already hunched body became even more withered and short. Clearly, the spell he had just cast had come at a great cost to him!

When the weather at Yongji Mountain was clear and bright, the shepherd saw that only five stone pillars remained; the sixth pillar that had originally grown out was no longer there.

"Where did those remnants of light go?"

"Senior brother, did you devour it?"

The shepherd's expression changed instantly.

No one in the Temple of the End knew the origin of the extra stone pillar on Mount Eternal Silence; they only knew it was related to light and seemed to be a remnant of light.

These remnants of light fell not long ago; they are quite bizarre and strange, and some high-ranking members of the Temple of the End are studying them.

The Eternal Silence Mountain, which was already a forbidden area, became even more secretive and taboo after the fall of these remnants of light, and outsiders were strictly forbidden from entering.

Now, the remnants of light disappeared, and the shepherd suspected that the butcher suppressed below had risked swallowing them.

Devouring creations of light is extremely dangerous, for the Temple of the End was born from the fears of the beginning and the abyss.

In other words, the Temple of the End is an enemy of the Primordial Beginning and the Abyss!

If you consume things of light, you are likely to suffer a backlash!

The shepherd then suspected that an outsider had entered the Mountain of Eternal Silence and stolen the remnants of light.

But at this moment, he used a secret method to break through the maze, observed the situation, and saw no one.

……

"so close!"

Within the Eternal Silence Mountain, Ye Chen was hiding behind a large rock, transforming into light to evade the shepherd's detection.

At this moment, his physical form had completely disappeared, and his entire being had become a ray of light.

If the Eternal Silence Pointing Mountain were in a state of chaos, this ray of light would have been immediately exposed.

But at this moment, the shepherd cast a spell, and Mount Yongji also became clear. The light of the sky shone down, and Ye Chen turned into light, blending into the environment without revealing any clues.

The shepherd's ghostly eyes scanned the area carefully, but he couldn't detect anything unusual. He wondered to himself, "Could it be that I'm just being paranoid, and no one has broken in?"

Ye Chen dared not linger. Following the light of the blood talisman, he quickly arrived at a stone mountain with caves that connected to the outside world.

He moved with a flash of light and quickly followed the cave passage out of the Eternal Silence Finger Mountain.

After leaving the Eternal Silence Finger Mountain, Ye Chen immediately returned to the Illusionary Mirror Cave.

Inside the Illusionary Mirror Cave, Jing Liyue was already waiting for him. Seeing his safe return, she was overjoyed and said:
"Ye Chen, you're finally back! I was so afraid you'd been taken in by the shepherd..."

When she mentioned shepherds, there was a hint of apprehension in her tone.

"It's alright, nothing serious happened."

Ye Chen smiled and said.

What did you experience inside?

Jing Liyue inquired, hoping to use the Illusion Mirror Technique to peek inside, but could only see large swaths of chaotic mist and blood mist.

Forcibly clearing away the fog to spy would come at too high a cost and is unnecessary.

"Well……"

Ye Chen pondered, considering whether or not to tell Jing Liyue about the butcher.

Seeing Ye Chen's hesitant look, Jing Liyue said with some displeasure, "Are you afraid of revealing secrets? And who can possibly know my background?"

She opened her palm, and pieces of mirror flew out, reflecting all the light that shone into the Illusionary Mirror Cave.

Her illusionary mirror technique is extremely mysterious; it can reflect the secrets of heaven and prevent outsiders from prying into them.

Ye Chen also remembered that when he tried to peer into Jing Liyue before, he could only see a mirror light.

Putting everything else aside, her ability to conceal her secrets is truly first-rate.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen put aside his worries and said, "I saw the butcher..."

He then recounted all the events that had happened at Yongji Zhishan to Jing Liyue.

Upon hearing this, Jing Liyue was immediately taken aback and said, "So, besides the Shepherd, there is another Deputy Hall Master, codenamed Butcher?"

"And the Grand Master, is his name Future Buddha?"

Ye Chen said, "Don't you know?"

Jing Liyue shook her head and said, "I don't know. Some of the top secrets of the Temple of the End are difficult for outsiders to see, and even many of their own high-ranking elders don't know them."

"The Grand Master has been in seclusion for many years, and no one knows his true identity. As for the Butcher, it seems that he is hiding behind the scenes. His butcher's knife will not appear until the shepherd brings the lost lambs back. Otherwise, what if he scares the sheep away?"

She was incredibly intelligent and had already roughly guessed some of the hidden causes and effects.

After a pause, she added, "So it turns out that the body of the Dao Ancestor Wuzhong is buried under the Eternal Silence Mountain. I thought it was some ancient and mysterious existence."

"The Temple of the End had also kept this from me, only telling me that the body of the Dao Ancestor of the Endless Era was underground, but not specifying its exact location."

"From what you just said, the corpse has been contaminated by chaos, and the contamination is getting worse. This is a huge hidden danger."

In the beginning, the world was in perfect order. Although there was darkness, there was no foundation for the growth of chaotic energy.

However, as the Primordial Era and the Abyss declined, Chaos revived, and the symptoms of Chaos corruption became increasingly terrifying.

Now even the corpse of Wuzhong Daozu has been contaminated. If it is not handled properly, Wuzhong Daozu may fall into evil and become a wicked god, which would be extremely bad.

"What's your plan?" Ye Chen asked.

Jing Liyue smiled and said, "I don't have any good ideas. Let's see how the Temple of the End resolves this. The Trial of the Gods is getting closer and closer in six months, and it will definitely be an extremely crucial event."

"The path of the door can guide people to the right way. I just hope that this path is as magical as the legends say."

Ye Chen pondered for a moment, realizing that he couldn't possibly take away the corpse of the Wuzhong Dao Ancestor in a short time. Completing the original request from the Wushi Dao Ancestor was no easy task.

Even more dangerously, that corpse is in danger of falling into evil and becoming a god!

Shaking his head, Ye Chen stopped thinking about it. Now that he had obtained the remains of the female Yang God, he planned to integrate them into the Yang God Heavenly Pearl.

In this way, the aura of the female yang deity may be strengthened.

After greeting Jing Liyue, Ye Chen found a quiet room to cultivate in seclusion. Once his consciousness calmed down, he summoned the Yang God Heavenly Pearl.

The pure white beads, sacred and flawless, floated in the room, illuminating the entire room in a white haze. Even the tables, chairs, beds, windows, vases, and other objects were gradually turning white, about to completely turn into blank nothingness!

Seeing this, Ye Chen was speechless.

The holy light of the Yangshen Heavenly Pearl is indeed vast and magnificent. If it were to explode, it could probably turn the heavens and the stars, rivers and mountains into nothingness.

He used the laws of space to create a transparent spatial cube, trying his best to seal the Yang God Heavenly Pearl and prevent its white light from harming the surroundings.

The light emanating from the Yang God Heavenly Pearl was serene. Ye Chen could vaguely sense the heart of the female Yang Goddess, a gentle and compassionate state of mind. The female Yang Goddess was also trying her best to control the Yang God Heavenly Pearl and prevent its light from going out of control.

In fact, the entire Yangshen Heavenly Pearl was transformed from the heart of the female Yangshen.

However, this dzi bead also contains the light of the will of the Primordial Being!

Moreover, the foundation of the Primordial Being was far more solid than that of the Female Yang Goddess.

The female Yang Goddess is merely a creation born from the dream of the Yin Goddess, while the Primordial One was born from the Great Dao of Yin and Yang. Their authority and status are not in the same realm.

In at most three years, the primordial will will awaken.

At that time, he will break out of the Yang God Heavenly Pearl and be reborn, destroying the entire other side of the starry sky!

Ye Chen knew that it was absolutely impossible to stop Tai Chu from awakening.

What he can do now is to improve his cultivation level and strengthen his own power to cope with future crises.

Second, they sought allies and formed alliances to unite against the Primordial Beginning.

Third, to delay the arrival of the beginning, to endure as much as possible.

If Ye Chen can revive the Goddess Yang, he will gain a reliable and powerful ally!

To resurrect the female Yang Goddess, we must gather all her remains and fuse them with her heart!
Back in the Crimson Sea, when Ye Chen had just obtained the Yang God Heavenly Pearl, he promised Ye Xingcai that he would definitely find a way to help her revive her mother.

Ye Chen originally thought that the female Yang Goddess's corpse was lying quietly somewhere, waiting for him to dig it up.

But now it seems that things have taken a turn for the worse. The female Yang God's body is incomplete and scattered, with a severed limb falling into the Eternal Silence Pointing Mountain of the End God Temple.

As for the other mutilated corpses, their whereabouts are unknown.

"The remaining corpses should be in the Immortal Pool Paradise, right? It's a pity that the map that the Beginningless Dao Ancestor gave me can only be opened when you reach the Life Source Realm."

Ye Chen muttered to himself, then took out the map scroll that the Beginningless Dao Ancestor had originally given him. He unfolded it and saw that the scroll was still blank.

The Dao Ancestor Wushi concealed this with the law of cause and effect. Ye Chen must reach the Life Source Realm to break through this layer of cause and effect, glimpse the true secrets of the map, and thus discover the location of the Immortal Pool Paradise.