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"Its entrance is hidden within this sacred Fusang tree!"

This is an answer that is both surprising and reasonable.

If the existence of the Fusang Divine Tree was to stabilize the seal on Chi You and purify his demonic nature, then there is no safer method than taking root directly on Chi You's grave.

The High Priest of Mount Shu stopped beneath the Fusang Divine Tree, his steps steady, without taking another step forward.

He raised his eyes to gaze at the towering divine tree that had been rooted in Mount Shu for millennia and guarded the seal of the Abyss of Yu. Its branches and leaves swayed gently, faintly exuding divine power. The tree was free from gloom and malevolence, and its expression was solemn and melancholy. He slowly spoke, "We, the people of Mount Shu, have guarded the Abyss of Yu for generations, yet we have never been allowed to enter it. Therefore, today, only you can go forward."

This is the ironclad rule established in ancient times.

The Shushan tribe are the guardians of the abyss, yet they are also those who are sealed and isolated from the outside world, forced to remain in their solitude for a thousand years, yet they cannot transgress the rules in the slightest.

This is their mission, but it is also their cage.

As long as Yu Yuan is still alive, they must send people to guard this mountain.

Xu Qing nodded slightly, without saying anything more.

Immediately afterwards, the high priest took a few steps back, and then waved his staff. As the magical power surged, ripples flew from the staff and landed on the Fusang Divine Tree. The several intertwined roots of the Fusang Divine Tree slowly opened up, revealing a passage that could only be traversed by one person.

"Go." The high priest spoke in a deep voice, looking at Xu Qing with a complicated gaze. "Beneath the roots of the divine tree lies the entrance to the Abyss of Yu. Layers of seals have blocked it for countless ages, and only the goddess's token can open it. Since you are someone the goddess has approved of, and she has even given you the Goddess's Tears, you should be able to step into it."

Xu Qing said no more, turned around and strode straight toward the towering Fusang Divine Tree.

The closer one gets to the sacred tree, the stronger its divine aura that purifies all things becomes.

Then, Xu Qing looked at the passage that opened up from its root system.

You can see things more clearly when you look at them up close.

The passage sloped downwards, deep and boundless, pitch black, as if a colossal beast, dormant for millennia, had opened its jaws to devour all light. Gusts of cold wind blew up from the depths of the earth, carrying a faint yet incredibly violent ancient demonic energy. Even with the layers of divinity from the Fusang Divine Tree blocking the way, it still sent chills down one's spine and made one's mind tremble.

This is the entrance to Yu Yuan.

Without hesitation, Xu Qing stepped into the dark passage.

The moment his foot landed, the roots of the divine tree behind him slowly closed up, restoring it to a seamless state and completely isolating it from all divine light from the outside world.

In an instant, the entire world was plunged into extreme darkness and silence, but Xu Qing remained expressionless. At his level, seeing in the dark was not a difficult thing to do.

Not to mention, after stepping into this passage, some things in his arms began to emit a warm glow through his clothes. This glow was golden in color and not particularly dazzling, but it illuminated the area three feet in front of Xu Qing.

It originates from the Dragon Soul!

Since arriving at Mount Shu, the Dragon Soul has been in a state of constant activity.

For the people of Shu Mountain, Yu Yuan is a prison; for things like the Dragon Soul, isn't it also a prison? Only after all these historical issues are resolved can they completely give up on paying attention to this world.

The passage winds downwards with an extremely steep slope, as if leading straight to the deepest depths of the underworld.

As they ventured deeper, the surrounding air grew increasingly cold and oppressive, and the latent, violent, and demonic aura intensified. Layer upon layer of chilling, malevolent energy washed over them. If an ordinary expert were to step into this place, they would instantly be corrupted by the demonic energy, lose their senses, and become mindless, ferocious puppets.

Fortunately, Xu Qing possessed the purifying power of the Dragon Soul and was protected by the Tears of the Goddess. His body formed a pure domain, and all demonic energy that approached him would be instantly dissolved and disintegrated, unable to shake him in the slightest.

After walking about a hundred feet, the path ahead was suddenly completely blocked by an ancient runic barrier that ran across the passage.

The barrier was entirely dark gold, covered with dense ancient divine patterns. The patterns were interwoven and orderly, exuding a powerful and heavy sealing force. It was the first Yu Yuan restriction personally set up by the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden.

This seal transcends the limits of mortal martial arts; even the most powerful experts in the world cannot budge it in the slightest when they unleash their full force.

This is also the fundamental reason why, even though the Shushan people know where the entrance is, no one has ever been able to step into the Yu Yuan.

Xu Qing simply stared at the seal before her, her eyes completely unmoved.

In the previous spiritual world, the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden transmitted a lot of information to him, making him understand many things. The Goddess's Tear was never just a simple sacred object of Mount Shu, but a key to the Yu Yuan seal left by the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden, the only medium to open this forbidden land.

However, not everyone can activate this key.

Only those personally recognized by the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden can activate the hidden power within and unlock the layers of divine seals.

Xu Qing's palm twitched slightly, and the Goddess's Tear slowly floated up, its soft golden light reflecting on the rune barrier.

In an instant, the ancient divine runes on the seal lit up, echoing the light of the Goddess's Tears. The originally indestructible restriction began to slowly melt and disintegrate.

Those mysterious and intricate ancient patterns, like flowing water, faded away, unlocking layer by layer and gradually dimming.

Boom!

After a low, muffled thud, the first divine seal that had blocked the way completely vanished.

The road ahead suddenly opened up.

Xu Qing withdrew the Goddess's Tears and continued to move forward steadily.

As the journey continued, second, third, fourth... countless ancient seals appeared one after another, some as rune barriers, some as divine chain locks, and some as illusions and illusions. Each layer was more mysterious and more solid than the last.

These layers upon layers of restrictions are a series of interconnected seals set up by the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden to prevent Chi You's demonic nature from leaking out. They are interlocked and tightly linked, and the sealing power has spanned thousands of years, reaching an extreme level of stability.

However, because of the Goddess's Tears, when Xu Qing passed by, one of the seals automatically opened, allowing Xu Qing to step into it.

As more and more seals were passed through.

Xu Qing increasingly realized how terrifying Chi You was in the past, and how much the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden valued him.

According to the theatrical version, Chi You wiped out an entire era of people, slaughtering millions of lives with the Chi You Sword.

Of course, this world is different from the theatrical version.

But after slaughtering so many living beings, the Chi You Sword devoured the essence, blood, and souls of all living beings, and then fed back to Chi You himself, which indeed strengthened him to an extremely terrifying degree.

Yinglong defeated Chiyou, but was unable to kill him completely.

This can be seen from the many seals set up by the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden.

However, strength is relative.

To ordinary people, Chi You in the past had indeed reached a non-human level, but to true gods, he was nothing special.

The Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden was not incapable of completely annihilating Chi You.

Yet, out of so-called pity, they spared Chi You a sliver of hope, hoping that he could find liberation over the long years.

As for whether such a practice is fair to the ordinary people who died at the hands of Chiyou in the past?

Of course it's unfair.

It makes no sense that they all died in vain, while Chi You still has a glimmer of hope.

However, for deities beyond the realm, the principles of fairness, law, and reason found in the human world are difficult to apply to them.

To put it simply, local laws have no jurisdiction over deities from other places.

Not to mention, deities like the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden possess immense power that reaches the heavens and the earth. From the perspective of life, they are not on the same level as ordinary mortals.

Even if all living beings were to die, they would not care at all.

Or rather, they only care about those they value.

For the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden, Chi You was the first human she encountered when she descended into this world, and naturally, Chi You was the one she valued.

Numerous thoughts flashed through Xu Qing's mind as he continued forward.

After traveling for an unknown amount of time through the deep, silent underground passage, the last seal slowly melted away under the light of the Goddess's Tears, and the path ahead became completely clear.

Xu Qing took a step out and finally entered a brand new and special space.

This space is not vast, about the size of an ordinary room, but it has no orderly appearance sculpted by human hands. The rock walls are uneven, twisted, and jagged, and the four sides of the stone walls are rough and cold, exuding an ancient and wild atmosphere.

Above the dome, countless fine roots of the Fusang divine tree penetrated the rock layers and hung down into the entire space. Specks of golden divine light flowed over the thousands of roots, holy, warm, and endless.

In the very center of the space, a stone altar, resembling an ancient mausoleum, rises up, with a wisp of pitch-black demonic energy swirling around it.

One gold, one black; one holy, one demonic—two diametrically opposed forces have been locked in a stalemate for eternity, constantly clashing and resisting each other within this small space.

Xu Qing instantly realized that the source of the violent demonic energy that had permeated and spread throughout the underground passage was this place.

After millions of years of relentless purification and cleansing by the Fusang Divine Tree, the monstrous demonic tide that once threatened to overturn heaven and earth and annihilate all living beings has long been worn away.

Today, only a faint remnant of the demonic power remains here.

But this seemingly insignificant wisp of remnant demon suddenly unleashed boundless ferocity the moment Xu Qing's gaze fell upon it!

boom!

Endless crimson illusions instantly swept across the entire space, flooding into Xu Qing's sea of ​​consciousness.

Mountains of corpses piled high, seas of blood gushing forth, skeletons stretching for miles, flames of war raging across the heavens, countless lives wailing and howling as they were annihilated on the spot—scenes of brutal and gruesome ancient warfare unfolded before our eyes.

That was the ultimate ferocity of Chi You, who slaughtered living beings and stained the world with blood; it was the endless sins and violence that settled in the source of demonic nature.

Even though Xu Qing possessed a resilient mind and a vast spiritual power far surpassing that of ancient and modern times, he was still shaken and his Dao heart trembled when faced with this despairing killing intent that transcended millennia.

This kind of bloodthirsty obsession, deeply rooted in the soul, is enough to cause even the world's top experts to instantly collapse their Dao heart and fall into madness and depravity.

Xu Qing gritted his teeth and focused his mind, concentrating all his energy to solidify his own foundation, forcibly suppressing the chaos in his sea of ​​consciousness, resisting the erosion of the blood-red illusions, and preventing himself from being devoured by the ancient evil spirits.

Just as his mind was under pressure, two warm forces suddenly erupted at the same time!

The dragon soul in his arms surged with golden light, and the mighty ancient dragon power swept across the land, purifying all things. The goddess's tears floating in front of him also radiated the ultimate holy divine light, and the divine torrent swept across the sky.

Two beams of holy light intertwined and merged, instantly filling the entire stone chamber and fiercely washing away and annihilating the blood-red illusions that filled the sky.

Those hideous and terrifying phantom images of mountains of corpses and seas of blood melted away inch by inch under the cleansing of holy light, and the restless demonic nature was instantly suppressed and calmed down.

Almost at the same time, another strange event occurred at the summit of Mount Shu!

The sacred Fusang tree rooted on the mountaintop suddenly trembled violently, and its dormant trunk and branches burst forth with endless brilliant golden light once more, soaring straight up and breaking through the clouds, like a blazing sun hanging high in the mortal world, dazzling and awe-inspiring in all directions.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth surrounding the entire Shu Mountain was forcibly drawn and gathered by the divine tree, causing the wind and clouds to reverse and the overall situation of heaven and earth to be in turmoil.

Deep within the abyss of Yu, the blurry demonic shadow that had been sealed and suppressed finally clearly sensed that the end was near and the end was nigh.

It stirred, twisted, and churned, with endless dark demonic energy surging wildly. It used its last remaining strength to violently crash into the surrounding sealing barriers, struggling with resentment, endless hatred, and overwhelming violence, trying to break free of its confinement and return to the world.

The divine nature of the Fusang Divine Tree, the ancient dragon might of the Dragon Soul, and the primordial holy power of the Goddess's Tears instantly merged and linked together, forming a boundless cage of holy light that tightly enveloped the entire Yu Yuan Forbidden Land.

A vast and powerful torrent of force crashed down, colliding violently with the frantically struggling demonic shadow!

Boom!!

An invisible shockwave surged wildly within the abyss, causing the entire underground space to tremble violently.

At this moment, Xu Qing was completely enveloped in endless holy light, becoming a mere bystander.

This battle between good and evil, the clash of gods and demons, has already transcended the limits of mortal martial arts. He has no way to intervene or interfere, and can only passively endure the pure power that is sweeping in from all directions.

Endless divinity, dragon power, and the origin of heaven and earth flowed continuously through his pores into his limbs, meridians, and dantian, washing away the shackles of his martial arts, refining his cultivation foundation, and cleansing the origin of his soul.