Chapter 604
Who is this being stronger than the heavens?
Xiao Yu shook his head: "What a pretentious guy."
Everyone was speechless at this guy's antics. He was such a show-off, and then he just ran away like that?
At this moment, the old man guarding the tomb warned, "Be careful. Although that thing has retreated, its aura is very strong. It can come and go freely in front of so many of us. It is no pushover."
"Yes, I understand."
Chen Bei and the others nodded. They were just saying it, but they knew in their hearts that the thing was not simple.
The group continued onward, the canyon growing deeper and the darkness thicker.
After walking for a while, more than twenty dark figures suddenly emerged from the darkness ahead.
Each dark figure was as tall as a mountain, with a ferocious appearance; some resembled giant beasts, some humanoid figures, and some a swirling cloud of mist.
Their eyes glowed with an eerie green light in the darkness, like will-o'-the-wisps, silently rushing towards the crowd.
More than twenty celestial beasts launched an attack simultaneously, like more than twenty black lightning bolts shooting out from the darkness.
These things are very powerful, a group of strange-looking creatures, some with wolf heads and lion bodies, some with chicken bodies, human faces and dog feet, and others with multiple heads, but each head is a different kind.
Moreover, this thing is very powerful, all of them are at the Heavenly Rank. It's just that Chen Bei and his group are very strong, otherwise, a typical Heavenly Rank would suffer heavy losses if they were ambushed.
The battle ended quickly, leaving behind the remains of celestial beasts scattered everywhere, with black blood flowing on the dark earth.
Chen Bei shook the black blood off his fist and frowned, saying, "These things look really strange. There are wolf heads and lion bodies, chicken bodies, human faces and dog feet, and those with several heads, each head looks different."
Xiao Yu crouched down, poked at the corpse of a celestial beast with a twig, and circulated the power of water and fire in his palm. After sensing it for a moment, he said with a solemn expression:
"A place that can raise so many Heavenly Rank monsters is definitely not simple. These Heavenly Beasts have mixed auras, as if they were forcibly brought into existence by something, rather than growing naturally."
Pizi Long peeked out from Chen Bei's shoulder, looking at the black blood on the ground.
"In all my years of life, I've never seen a monster like this. It looks like several kinds of demonic beasts were randomly pieced together and then raised with evil magic. A place that can produce something like this is definitely not a good place."
Golden light shone in the baby dragon's eyes as it swept across the depths of darkness: "There are more things in the darkness, but they dare not come any closer."
The old man guarding the grave didn't speak. He leaned on his cane, his gaze fixed on something deeper, on the faint outlines in the darkness.
Those silhouettes were silent and enormous, like a group of giant beasts crouching in the darkness.
He paused for a moment, then looked away, his voice hoarse: "Let's continue, let's go see what's going on."
"Um."
Everyone nodded, curious about what was inside.
After walking for a while, the yin energy ahead became increasingly dense, and the evil energy of heaven and earth gathered in one place. In the very center of the valley, an extremely strange and desolate place appeared.
The land was pitch black, barren of any vegetation, and so dense with deathly energy that it was impossible to dispel it. In the very center stood an ancient and massive earthen mound, its body shrouded in a grayish-white aura of death, exuding an ancient desolation and supreme malevolence.
A broken stone tablet stands in front of the grave, its surface engraved with a few ancient and obscure characters, their lines weathered and timeless.
The characters look as if they were written in blood, or as if they were carved by the Great Dao itself; they are extremely ancient and mysterious.
Chen Bei stared at it for a long time, but still couldn't recognize it: "What...what character is this?"
The old tomb keeper stepped forward, his cloudy eyes falling on the ancient characters on the stone tablet. The moment he saw them clearly, his aged body trembled violently, his ancient staff nearly slipping from his grasp. Utter shock surged in his eyes, and he uttered a stammering, incredulous voice:
"This is the tomb of the heavens."
Upon hearing this, Chen Bei's pupils constricted sharply: "What? The Tomb of Heaven? Heaven is buried here?"
"The Tomb of Heaven!"
These three short words resounded like thunder in everyone's ears!
All the powerful warriors present shrank their pupils, their minds reeling, their faces filled with disbelief.
Rogue Dragon's eyes widened, and his voice trembled: "The Tomb of Heaven? Did I hear that right? This place is where a heaven is buried?"
Its tail was held straight. "I used to think the sky was something high above, something ethereal and intangible. I never imagined it had a grave? And that it could be buried here?"
Everyone was quite curious; they didn't know that these things could have graves too?
Chen Bei turned his head, looking back in the direction he had come from, then at the massive tomb, and whispered, "Could it be that what that guy said earlier... was really true? Was it really the heavens?"
The old man guarding the tomb was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "It's possible. Perhaps the remnant soul of the heavens hasn't completely dissipated. Even if only a wisp of that soul remains, it can still condense into consciousness."
The crowd was filled with emotion and continued to move forward with awe. Beyond the Tomb of the Azure Sky, at the end of their sight, one after another, colossal tombs, no less majestic than the ancient tomb of the Azure Sky, stood in the dark valley.
The Tomb of the Yellow Heaven, the Tomb of the Netherworld Heaven...
One after another, the celestial tombs, engraved with names, stand silently, exuding an aura of death and dominating the ages.
One grave, one day; one mound, one spirit!
The entire valley was a shockingly ancient cemetery where all the heavens and the earth were buried!
Xiao Yu was completely stunned, and blurted out, full of confusion:
"What's going on? Why have so many celestial beings fallen and been buried here? Who on earth has the ability to slay all the celestial beings and bury them in the earth?"
The eerie, deathly silent dark canyon and the ancient, eternally sleeping celestial tombs combined to create a strange and oppressive atmosphere that enveloped everyone present.
The doubts deepened, especially after everyone saw the Tomb of the Netherworld.
The Dharma Ancestor frowned and said, "This Netherworld Heaven was clearly killed by the Chen Ancestor himself, so why is its tomb here? The Chen Ancestor never built a tomb for it."
Chen Bei said in a deep voice, "So these tombs weren't built by the killers, but by someone else who collected them all and buried them in the same place... This in itself is an extremely strange thing."
The rogue dragon shrank in fear and nestled on Chen Bei's shoulder, its tail taut.
"The more I think about it, the more creeped out I get. To collect all these days and bury them—whoever does something like that is definitely a ruthless character. And what's the point of building these tombs? Could it be that they're trying to resurrect these days?"
Everyone felt a chill run down their spines. Resurrecting the Heavens? What kind of concept was that? Could it really be done?
"Could these celestial tombs have been established by the Heavenly Dao?" someone asked.
These words were met with agreement from many of the powerful figures present.
The ancient Buddha, with hands clasped in prayer, emitted a faint radiance and spoke in a deep voice:
"The Heavenly Dao controls all order. Several of its subordinates have died in battle one after another. If we can build a tomb to lock their souls and preserve their original essence, it would indeed be in line with the Heavenly Dao's style of doing things."
The possibility of Tian coming back to life has left everyone feeling somewhat heavy-hearted.
"Let's keep going," the old tomb keeper said, his voice hoarse. "Perhaps the answer we're looking for lies deep within this cemetery."
The group continued onward, and the deeper they went, the heavier the sense of oppression became.
An indescribable atmosphere permeated the air, carrying with it an ancient sense of desolation and vastness.
The oppressive force between heaven and earth also increased exponentially. After traveling dozens of miles, a giant ancient tomb suddenly came into everyone's view.
What's terrifying is that this tomb is several times more magnificent than the major celestial tombs!
The entire tomb is not made of ordinary rock and soil, but is cast from the eternally indestructible Chaos Divine Rock.
The tomb body emanated a peaceful divine light that blended black and white, unlike the other great heavenly tombs which were filled with malevolent energy.
Yet it possesses an unparalleled aura that overlooks everything, and the tomb's surface is covered with intricate and vast patterns, each of which draws upon the energy of heaven and earth.
Pizi Long poked his head out from Chen Bei's shoulder, his dragon eyes filled with shock: "Good heavens, what kind of tomb is this? It's even bigger than those Heavenly Tomb tombs! What could be buried in here?"
This is what everyone is curious about: what is stronger than the heavens above?