Chapter 695
Seven Immortal Celestial Venerables
The headless corpse struggled violently!
Black mist surged around it, and countless strange patterns flickered wildly, trying to resist the annihilation of the Netherworld Dao!
but--
Useless.
The Netherworld Path is the ultimate order of death and return to nothingness.
Although this headless corpse was powerful, it had long since perished, merely a body controlled by a strange force. Before the Netherworld Path, it was like a snowman encountering the scorching sun, utterly powerless to resist!
The black fog gradually dissipated.
The eerie patterns gradually faded.
The headless corpse's struggles grew weaker and weaker.
finally--
That immortal corpse, which had existed for countless billions of years, was annihilated inch by inch by the erosion of the Netherworld Dao!
Its body, starting from its feet, gradually turned into ashes and disappeared into the world.
Then come the legs.
Then comes the torso.
Then it's the hands.
finally--
It was that headless neck.
When the last wisp of ashes dissipated, the space that it had ruled for countless years finally returned to peace.
Gu Qingfeng stood with his hands behind his back, calmly watching everything unfold.
The moment the headless corpse completely vanished—
A dazzling light emerged from where it had vanished!
It was a crystal the size of a fist.
The crystal is a deep, dark color, with countless mysterious Dao patterns flowing across its surface.
Those Dao patterns were not static, but flowed slowly like living things, each flow causing the surrounding void to tremble slightly.
Within the crystal, countless images could be faintly seen flickering—the birth and death of stars, the rise and fall of civilizations, the fall of powerful figures, and the collapse of the Great Dao.
That was the Great Dao that the Immortal Celestial Venerable comprehended during his lifetime, and the condensation of his life's cultivation after his fall.
Immortal Crystal!
Gu Qingfeng reached out and beckoned, and the immortal crystal gently flew up and landed in his palm.
The crystal was as warm and smooth as jade, and slightly cool to the touch. The vastness of the Daoist principles contained within it moved Gu Qingfeng slightly.
"good."
He smiled calmly.
The power of Dao contained in this immortal crystal is three times greater than that in the ancient god's forbidden zone.
Moreover, the two Daoist principles are completely different. If one can comprehend them, it will greatly benefit one's subsequent breakthrough to immortality.
He stored the immortal crystal in his storage space.
Then, his gaze fell to the side.
There, two blood-red divine swords lay quietly.
It was the very weapon used by the headless corpse.
Gu Qingfeng raised his hand and made a grasping motion, and two divine blades flew up at the same time, landing in his hand.
As soon as the blade was in hand, a surge of violent killing intent instantly welled up!
That was the killing intent accumulated from the countless lives this blade had slain over the endless years, enough to instantly shatter the mind of any being below the half-step immortal realm!
But Gu Qingfeng only shuddered slightly, and the killing intent instantly subsided as if it had encountered a natural enemy, no longer daring to act rashly.
He carefully examined the two divine swords.
The blade is long and slender, with a sharp edge and a thick back. Ancient runes are engraved on the hilt.
Its entire body is blood red, and the blood color is not acquired later, but is naturally formed - this knife is forged from a kind of extremely rare innate blood jade!
A faint, timeless Daoist aura flowed across the blade.
Those are the traces left by that immortal celestial being who nurtured it day and night, and they are proof of the grade of this sword.
"A half-step immortal artifact..."
Gu Qingfeng murmured to himself.
These two swords are of extremely high quality, having already broken free from the constraints of ordinary ninth-grade creation treasures, and can be considered as half-step immortal artifacts.
Although it is still far from being a true immortal artifact, it is enough to tempt any half-step immortal.
He nodded slightly and put the two divine swords into his storage space.
……
The moment the immortal corpse was slain, the heavens and earth of the Ancient Mine of No Life seemed to tremble slightly.
It was a tremor of liberation.
It was as if a ferocious beast that had been imprisoned for countless years had finally found peace; or as if a mountain that had been pressing down on all living beings had finally been completely overturned.
The moment the headless corpse vanished, the eerie aura that had enveloped the Wusheng Ancient Mine for countless years noticeably diminished.
The surging black mist gradually thinned, the man-eating eerie power slowly subsided, and the death and despair that permeated the world finally began to loosen.
Gu Qingfeng stood in the void, looking down at the Wusheng Ancient Mine below.
This ancient star, which once struck fear into the hearts of countless celestial beings, is now unrecognizable.
Rocks collapsed, the earth cracked, ravines crisscrossed, and the landscape was devastated. Those once majestic mountains are now ruins; those once deep mine tunnels have collapsed completely.
Strangely, despite the fierce battle and the fact that the immortal corpse had been killed, the Ancient Mine of No Life remained a dangerous place.
Gu Qingfeng could clearly sense that the aura of countless powerful beings still lingered in this world.
There were the lingering resentments left behind by the five supreme beings when they fell.
There are the despair and resentment left behind by countless celestial beings when they were buried.
There was the fragmented Daoist aura that dissipated after that immortal corpse was obliterated.
There are traces of the obsession left by that Taoist priest in green robes who has guarded the place for countless years.
These auras intertwined, converging into a new, more complex and bizarre force of rules that still shrouded this world.
They will not attack proactively, nor will they devour human life force, but if anyone dares to step in, they will still be impacted and affected by these residual Daoist auras.
For ordinary celestial beings, this place is still a perilous place where nine out of ten will die.
However, compared to the past, the threat posed by the current undeveloped ancient mines has greatly decreased.
The true source of the turmoil—that immortal corpse—has completely vanished.
Without its dominance and control, those lingering resentments and Daoist charms will eventually dissipate with the passage of time.
Perhaps in hundreds of millions of years, this place will become an ordinary ruin, with no trace of its former status as a supreme forbidden zone.
Similar to the forbidden zones of the ancient gods.
The Wusheng Ancient Mine has fallen out of the ranks of the highest forbidden zones.
From now on, only three of the five supreme forbidden zones will remain.
Gu Qingfeng withdrew his gaze, and his figure vanished into the void.
……
In the years that followed, Gu Qingfeng traversed the remaining three supreme forbidden zones.
First stop, the forbidden zone of purgatory.
It was a star shrouded in eternal divine fire.
On the surface of the star, raging flames have burned for countless billions of years. These flames are not ordinary fires, but fires of laws formed by the convergence of countless great laws.
The flames were hot enough to incinerate the void and melt the Great Dao; any living being that dared to approach would be reduced to ashes in an instant.
Deep within the forbidden zone of purgatory lies a half-destroyed body.
That was the remaining half of the body of an immortal celestial being who cultivated the Great Dao of Flames and perished.
The half-dead body lay across the deepest part of the flames, like a sleeping demon god, its body burning with an inextinguishable divine fire.
Within the flames, the faint phantoms of countless beings could be seen struggling, wailing, and dissipating—these were the endless beings devoured by this immortal celestial being in his previous life, imprisoned by his Great Dao, never to be freed.
The moment Gu Qingfeng stepped into the forbidden zone of Purgatory, the half-body awoke.
It has no complete consciousness, no memories of its previous life, only the madness and resentment accumulated over endless years.
It controlled the divine fire of the entire forbidden zone, transforming it into a raging sea of fire that swept towards Gu Qingfeng.
That battle lasted for seven days and seven nights.
In the end, the half-body was completely suppressed and obliterated by Gu Qingfeng using the Netherworld Dao.
It transformed into a crimson immortal crystal, lying quietly in Gu Qingfeng's palm. Within the crystal, the laws of fire could be faintly seen flowing, containing the Great Dao of Fire that the immortal celestial being had comprehended throughout his life.
The second stop: the Netherworld Forbidden Zone.
It was a strange star.
The surface of the stars is shrouded in eternal darkness, devoid of light and life, only endless silence and nothingness.
Living beings that step into this place will feel their life force slowly slipping away and their souls gradually dissipating, as if being pulled by some invisible force, step by step toward true death.
Deep within the Netherworld Forbidden Zone, a shadowy figure, entirely dark, dwells.
That was an immortal celestial being who cultivated the Great Dao of Death. After his fall, his divine soul remained undying, transforming into a strange phantom form.
It has no physical form, no flesh, only a dark, ethereal shadow that drifts slowly through the void.
Wherever the phantom passes, all life withers instantly, all light is extinguished instantly, and all existence returns to nothingness instantly.
The moment Gu Qingfeng stepped into the Netherworld Forbidden Zone, the illusory figure locked onto him.
It spread its arms, transforming into a vast black curtain, attempting to devour and assimilate Gu Qingfeng, reducing him to nothingness.
That battle was equally fierce.
In the end, the phantom was forcibly suppressed by Gu Qingfeng using the Netherworld Dao.
The collision of two forces of the same origin but different paths caused the entire forbidden zone to tremble violently.
The moment the phantom vanished, it transformed into a dark, immortal crystal, falling into Gu Qingfeng's palm.
Within the crystal, the laws of death could be faintly seen flowing, containing the Great Dao of Death that the immortal celestial being had comprehended throughout his life.
The third stop: Fallen Immortal Sea.
It was a vast ocean formed by the convergence of shattered laws of the Great Dao.
There were no stars, no continents, only an endless ocean flowing slowly through the void.
Seawater is not ordinary water, but a liquid Dao formed by the condensation of countless broken Dao laws.
In the seawater, countless broken Dao patterns, shattered laws, and annihilated Dao rhymes can be vaguely seen, slowly rising and falling over endless years.
Deep within the Fallen Immortal Sea, more than one being slumbers.
The remains of at least three immortal celestial beings slumber here.
Some are just heads, floating in the seawater, their eyes closed, as if they are asleep.
Some are just a section of their torso, lying across the depths of the sea, covered with strange crystals.
Some of them had only one arm left, floating on the sea surface, their five fingers slightly spread, as if trying to grab something.
These remains, from different immortal celestial beings, fell here over countless years and have long since merged into this Fallen Immortal Sea.
They have no complete consciousness, no memories of their past lives, only the madness and resentment accumulated over endless years, and the instinctive obsession to protect this sea area.
The moment Gu Qingfeng stepped into the Fallen Immortal Sea, the three broken bodies awoke simultaneously.
They wielded the power of the entire sea, transforming it into towering waves that crashed down upon Gu Qingfeng.
That giant wave contained the power of countless shattered laws, enough to instantly obliterate any half-step immortal.
That battle lasted for a full month.
Gu Qingfeng fought against three immortal remains in a single battle, creating an earth-shattering conflict.
He stood on the void, the vast and mighty Netherworld Dao manifested the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the Eighteen Levels of Hell, colliding wildly with the power of the laws of the three remnant bodies.
The entire Fallen Immortal Sea was turned upside down by this battle, countless laws were annihilated, and countless remaining traces were completely wiped out.
In the end, Gu Qingfeng suppressed and obliterated the three remains one by one.
They transformed into three immortal crystals, lying quietly in Gu Qingfeng's palm.
The three crystals are all different colors: one is dark, one is crimson, and one is deep, each containing different laws of the Dao.
Thus, all five supreme forbidden zones were flattened.
……
When Gu Qingfeng left the last supreme forbidden zone, his heart was filled not only with the joy of his achievement, but also with a profound sense of awe.
It wasn't because the battle was difficult.
It wasn't because of the large harvest.
Rather, it's because—
The immortal remains of those five supreme forbidden zones are not from the same origin.
In other words.
The immortal remains of these five supreme forbidden zones originated from different immortal celestial beings.
Gu Qingfeng stood in the void, recalling what he had seen and heard in these five supreme forbidden zones.
In the forbidden zone of the ancient gods, lies a severed immortal finger.
The ancient mine of Wusheng contains a headless corpse.
In the forbidden zone of purgatory, half a burning remains.
In the Netherworld Forbidden Zone, a dark, ethereal shadow appeared.
Fallen Immortal Sea, three different fragmented bodies.
Put together—
A total of seven Immortal Celestial Venerables!
Seven!
Even with Gu Qingfeng's composure, he was deeply shaken at this moment.
what does this mean?
This means that the ancient being who created this immortal secret realm once killed seven immortal celestial beings!
Seven immortal celestial beings who merged with the Dao through their bodies!
To know.
The Immortal Celestial Venerable merges with the Dao, and unless he perishes under the Immortal Divine Tribulation, he is theoretically an immortal and indestructible being.
They are one with the Great Dao; as long as the Great Dao exists, they themselves will be immortal.
To kill an immortal celestial being, one must not only destroy their physical body, but also sever their connection with the Great Dao.
How difficult is that?
It's as difficult as climbing to heaven!
Suppressing an immortal celestial being is easy.
Killing an immortal celestial being is as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Not to mention, he killed seven Immortal Celestial Venerables!
Gu Qingfeng took a deep breath to suppress the shock in his heart.
……
Several years later.
Gu Qingfeng returns to the ancient and sacred land.
Without alerting anyone, he returned directly to the ancient celestial palace.
The palace doors were closed, isolating it from the outside world.
In the Immortal Palace.
Gu Qingfeng sat cross-legged, his aura as restrained as a deep abyss.
Before him floated six immortal crystals, each emanating a different aura of the Great Dao.
Six different Great Daos, six different Daoist rhythms, converged here, causing the void of the entire Immortal Palace to slightly distort.
These immortal crystals are the condensation of the lifelong cultivation of the six immortal celestial beings after their fall.
Each one contains the immortal celestial being's understanding of the Dao, his perception of the laws, and his comprehension of the realm.
Any one of these would be enough to make countless supreme beings fight tooth and nail if it were to be brought out into the outside world.
If you can fully comprehend any one of them, it will be enough to take you one step closer to immortality.
At this moment, all six are gathered together.
Besides the six immortal crystals, several other treasures were floating in front of Gu Qingfeng.
The two blood-red divine blades of the Wusheng Ancient Mine.
A black divine spear obtained from the Fallen Immortal Sea.
The two swords and the spear were all near-immortal artifacts. (End of Chapter)