Chapter 0556: Leaving the Tianchen Divine Temple
Elvis and Barbara both committed suicide, which was unexpected by everyone.
Susan glanced at the burial site where Elvis and Barbara were laid together with a complex expression, then also flew after the others, letting out a sigh.
Elvis was dead!
Barbara and the other rulers and gods were dead!
Yet, no one could feel happy.
Huang Long remained silent.
Time passed quickly, and a month later…
“Second brother, do you think Morri might have found the Supreme Divine Artifact on the first floor?” Huang Yi asked gloomily.
A month had passed, yet they still hadn’t found the Supreme Divine Artifact on the first floor.
Huang Long frowned. He had searched the entire first floor of the Tianchen Divine Temple without finding it—it was possible that Morri had already discovered it.
“If Morri has found the Supreme Divine Artifact, that would be troublesome!” Nia said.
The Supreme Divine Artifact on each floor served as the key to unlocking that floor. Without it, they wouldn’t be able to enter the next floor.
“Not necessarily. If so many of us couldn’t find it, how could Morri be that lucky?” Ork Nat said.
“Keep searching!” Huang Long mused.
Anyway, Huang Long was determined to find the Supreme Divine Artifact on the first floor. He believed there must be a way within the inner sanctum of the Tianchen Divine Temple to reach the Chaos Divine Realm.
The head of the Chaos Divine Dragon was in the Chaos Divine Realm!
Huang Long needed to merge with the power of the Chaos Divine Dragon’s head and use that power to sever his three corpses and break through to the realm of Quasi-Saint. In the Pangu World, Huang Long had been about to achieve this breakthrough when an accident occurred, causing him to be reborn in this other world. Thus, breaking through to the realm of Quasi-Saint held special significance for him.
So, Huang Long divided the group into three teams to continue the search.
Considering Morri’s strength, Huang Long assigned Nia and Humphert to lead the other two teams, with each team having around forty members. This way, even if they encountered Morri, they wouldn’t be in danger.
Three more days passed.
The Supreme Divine Artifact on the first floor of the Tianchen Divine Temple still hadn’t been found.
The Tianchen Divine Temple, located by a frozen lake in the far north.
This frozen lake wasn’t large, only a few miles across. Its water was light green, but upon closer inspection, one could see that the green color of the water differed slightly from that of the surrounding land. Within the green hue of the water, there was a faint white glow.
One day, a dark flash appeared, and a figure showed up above the frozen lake—it was Morri.
“Strange, even my divine consciousness can’t penetrate this frozen lake!” Mori muttered to himself as he arrived above the frozen lake, looking down at it. Then he slammed his palms together, causing the entire lake’s water to surge upward—ten zhang, fifty zhang, a hundred zhang, two hundred zhang, a thousand zhang! Just then, suddenly, a huge black shadow broke through the waves and soared into the sky, letting out a roar before attacking Mori. Startled, Mori saw that it was a python monster resembling a green dragon. This python was thousands of zhang long, its body covered in green scales. Most strangely, it had two tails, and in the middle of its forehead was a mysterious pattern—one that differed from both the Supreme God Seal and the Ultimate Divine Symbol. “Looking for death!” Mori snapped angrily, delivering a powerful palm strike. With a thunderous sound, his supreme divine power pierced through the green python, sending it flying backward with a loud crash. Huh! What Mori didn’t expect was that after being sent flying, the green python staggered, let out a hiss, its eyes glowing fiercely, and attacked him again. It wasn’t dead?! Mori was shocked. This two-tailed green python wasn’t only alive but could also fight back! Even if a ruler were struck by Mori’s attack, they would be seriously injured if not killed. Even Elvis would suffer severe injuries, yet this two-tailed python seemed only lightly hurt. Mori’s eyes gleamed as he watched the beast, now fully enraged, attack again. He channeled his supreme divine power and struck again, sending the green python flying. This time, it crashed to the ground, struggled a few times, and never managed to get back up. Mori flew over, approached the green python, and examined it closely. Yet he couldn’t identify what it was. After thinking for a while, he finally killed it and stored it in his space ring. Since this green python could withstand two of his attacks without dying, its defense was extremely strong, and its scales would make excellent materials for crafting supreme divine artifacts. After killing the green python and storing it in his space ring, Mori had an idea. He flew back above the frozen lake and parted the waves again. Given that this lake harbored such a green python, there must be something strange about it—perhaps a supreme divine artifact was hidden within. Even after parting the waves thousands of zhang deep, the bottom remained unseen. But at ten thousand zhang deep, suddenly, a green light shot up. Mori was stunned, then delighted, as he saw a green long sword embedded in the bottom. Naturally, this green long sword was the supreme divine artifact of the first layer—the key to unlocking the second layer. Mori reached out and seized the green sword.
“Hahaha!” Mo Li laughed heartily. Suddenly, his laughter stopped, and he looked into the distance, where a dozen or so dark dots were approaching rapidly.
“Huang Long!” Mo Li recognized the newcomers. His eyes narrowed, but at this moment, he wasn’t in a hurry to open the door to the second floor of the Tianchen Temple. He wanted to wait—wait for Huang Long to come and watch him enter the second floor with his own eyes, so he could see Huang Long’s helpless and disappointed expression.
Huang Long had come over because he sensed activity here.
“Mo Li!” In the blink of an eye, Huang Long and the others arrived. Seeing Mo Li, they were surprised.
Huang Long’s gaze fell on the green long sword in Mo Li’s hand, his eyes freezing.
“Hehe, Huang Long, how about it? Disappointed, right? The supreme artifact of the first floor is now in my hands!” Noticing Huang Long staring at the green sword, Mo Li sneered. Then, channeling the power of the supreme artifact, the green sword emitted green sword light that flickered erratically.
Susan, Huang Yi, and the others paled and all looked at the green sword in Mo Li’s hand.
They never expected that the supreme artifact of the first floor would still end up in Mo Li’s hands!
So, what should they do now?! Susan, Huang Yi, and the others turned to look at Huang Long.
Huang Long frowned.
Mo Li laughed heartily.
Just then, countless sword lights appeared out of nowhere and attacked Mo Li from all directions. But Mo Li was clearly prepared. Seeing Huang Long act suddenly, he sneered and swung his green sword with his right hand, releasing numerous sword energies that counterattacked in all directions.
Clang, clang, clang! The sounds of sword energies colliding echoed continuously.
“Farewell, Huang Long!” At this moment, Mo Li’s face showed mockery. As the green sword in his hand flashed, mysterious runes suddenly rose from it and circled around Mo Li. Instantly, Mo Li and those mysterious runes disappeared together.
“Did he escape?!” Huang Liang searched the surroundings.
Escape? To be precise, Mo Li had used the green sword to open the second floor of the Tianchen Temple and had already entered it.
Huang Long’s divine sense covered thousands of miles, and he frowned.
Susan also took to the air, scanning the surroundings.
“Second brother, what should we do now?” Huang Yi asked after a while.
Huang Long turned to Susan and asked, “Is there any other way to enter the second floor of the Tianchen Temple?”
Susan shook her head and said, “No.” Although she didn’t want to disappoint Huang Long, it was the truth. The three previous appearances of the Tianchen Temple had proven that only the supreme artifact of each floor could open the next one.
“What about the supreme artifacts from before?” Huang Liang asked.
The supreme artifacts from the past were also obtained at this Tianchen Temple.
“A hundred years later, the keys will lose their function, so the supreme artifacts from the first three times at Tianchen Temple couldn’t be used to open anything,” Susan said with a shake of her head.
Everyone fell into silence.
Not long after, Bog, Nia, and the others received a message via the Yellow Dragon Jade Talisman and rushed over.
When Bog and the others arrived, no one dared to speak; the atmosphere was somber. By the time they arrived, they already knew that Mori had found one of the supreme artifacts and entered the second layer.
“Brother Yellow Dragon, so what should we do now?” Nia asked after a while.
“Keep searching,” Yellow Dragon replied thoughtfully.
“Keep searching?!” Everyone was stunned. They looked at Yellow Dragon and then understood what he meant—perhaps there was more than one supreme artifact on this first layer?
But was that possible? In the previous three attempts, there had only been one supreme artifact per layer.
Still, no one said anything.
As Yellow Dragon had thought, there might indeed be more than one supreme artifact, and since there was still plenty of time left before the hundred-year mark—hundreds of years being but a blink of an eye for them—it was better to search more carefully.
So, they started searching again.
This time, since Mori wasn’t there, everyone split up to make the search easier.
Yellow Dragon told them to return here in three months. If they still couldn’t find it by then, there was no need to continue, as three months would be enough time for them to search every corner of the first layer of Tianchen Temple—further searching would be pointless.
Three months passed.
When everyone returned to the same spot, Yellow Dragon could tell from their dejected expressions that they hadn’t found anything.
“Let’s go back,” Yellow Dragon said, then flew toward the altar. The others quickly followed. Before long, Yellow Dragon and the others exited the first layer through the altar and returned to the main hall at the entrance.
Upon arriving in the hall, Yellow Dragon flew around to check every corner, but found nothing. In the end, he had no choice but to leave the hall with the others and head back to Tianchen Mountain.
As he broke through the red light barrier and stepped out of Tianchen Mountain, Yellow Dragon stopped in his tracks and turned to look back at the mountain.
“Brother Yellow Dragon, what’s wrong?” Li Yifeng asked, puzzled.
Yellow Dragon smiled and said, “This Tianchen Mountain is actually good material for crafting weapons.”
Everyone was stunned.
“What?! You can’t mean—?!” Li Yifeng exclaimed in shock, staring at Yellow Dragon with a strange expression, just like the others.
Huang Long smiled, opened his right palm, and slapped it toward Tianchen Mountain, sending a forceful impact toward it. Huang Long intended to break through the red light on the surface of Tianchen Mountain and simply take it away.