Chapter 2435 Mark of Battle

One, ten, fifty...

Scarlet bolts appeared and kept increasing in numbers. Some were as thick as young but intimidating dragons while some were as thin as swords, none of which emitted any sound or aura.

Such a scene was extremely spooky.

Lin Xun’s hair instantly stood up, and he immediately fled.

Bang bang bang!

Defending him from all sides, the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron was viciously struck again and again. It rumbled violently, as if the attacker was a huge hammer in the hand of a god.

Lin Xun was rattled to the point he almost coughed up blood. His face sank, and without any hesitation whatsoever, he ran like crazy using every bit of his strength.

Looking from afar, one would see a dense patch of blood-colored bolts. Like a swarm of sharks who had smelled blood, they madly chased after Lin Xun and bombarded him. On his sword cauldron, eye-piercing lightning sparks continuously splashed.

A while later.

The scarlet lightning storm that had emerged from the black mist finally disappeared.

Lin Xun's face was slightly pale while his eyes carried a grave color, looking as though he had just survived a calamity.

The power of that blood-colored lightning was far too bizarre and terrifying!

The green sparrow revealed an odd expression, “That was the Asura Blood Lightning, one of the Six Yin Lightnings. Even Ninth Realm Ancestors would suffer if caught in its siege.

“But from what I know, it has only appeared a few times in these countless years. Only once in a blue moon you’d hear about someone running into it. Who would have thought that it’d happen to you...”

Lin Xun raised a brow, “So, my luck is pretty good?”

The green sparrow snorted out a laugh, “I'm afraid that only an unlucky guy like you would think so.”

Lin Xun also burst out laughing, “At least, other people never have the chance to see with their own eyes what the Asura Blood Lightning looks like. As far as I'm concerned, it makes this trip worthwhile already.”

The green sparrow teased, “What about the Animal True Lightning then, you wanna see it too?”

Lin Xun's face darkened. He shook his head decisively.

Next, he continued to travel for around seven miles and finally saw the broken stele that the green sparrow had talked about.

On one side of the Yellow Spring Road, the slanted, three-foot-high stele stood in tumbling mist. It was black as ink and mottled with traces of time.

On the center of the stele, the strange inscription of the word ‘Yama’ was faintly visible.

Lin Xun asked, “That mysterious forbidden area is further in from this stele?”

The green sparrow nodded, “Do you really intend to go there?”

Lin Xun's eyes glinted. “There's no harm in giving it a try, and I’ll just flee the moment the odds are against me.”

Right now, his most powerful card was Time Stopping, but he would not resort to it unless it was a matter of life and death.

Or else, if someone saw him using this skill, it would definitely lead to unpredictable problems.

After all, Time Stopping originated from the Grand Abyss Heaven Devourer innate talent, which wasn’t a secret to many people in the Eternal True Realm!

Once it was seen and word of it got out, the Luo Clan would probably find him very quickly.

Besides Time Stopping, Lin Xun had other powerful cards up his sleeve, but none of them could threaten an Ancestor of a Path.

This gave him a sense of crisis.

He was certain that in this Great Thousand Battle Domain, there would definitely be terrifying existences of such caliber!

Therefore, if he was able to collect some extinguishing law fire, then it would be equivalent to having a card that could intimidate an Ancestor of a Path!

This was the reason why Lin Xun wanted to try his luck in that mysterious forbidden area.

The green sparrow's voice also became serious, “Then you have to be careful.”

There were many mysterious forbidden zones in the Great Thousand Battle Domain, and regarding the one they were heading to, there had been very few people who dared to go there since time immemorial!

Lin Xun nodded. He operated his cultivation to the maximum, and then summoned the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron. Finally, he started traveling in a specific direction from the Yama Stele.

The whole world was permeated with black mist, so quiet that even the wind made no noise.

Even with the All-Seeing Eye activated, Lin Xun could only see up to ten thousand feet away.

As he gradually went deeper, an indescribably oppressive and throbbing feeling surged through him, causing his muscles to tense up.

It was as if the depths of the dark mist was hiding something deadly.

Lin Xun's expression grew somber. He moved step by step, not daring to speed recklessly at all.

The dim purple sun quietly took cover in the clouds.

At some point, a blood-red moon had quietly appeared in the dark and foggy sky, radiating a demonic light.

When Lin Xun glanced up at it, his heart inexplicably shuddered.

All of a sudden,

swish swish swish...

One after another black dots appeared under the scarlet moon in the sky until they formed a dense pack. Within a few breaths, no less than a thousand had gathered.

Looking closely, each dot was actually a malicious ghost condensed from black mist, with a stark-white face and deep-red eyes!

At the center of them, a huge skull shrouded in a blood-red glow was suspended.

The skull was crystalline white and as big as a hill. Its teeth resembled sharp spearheads. In the two hollows where the eyes were supposed to be, there were two ghostly green flames that rushed to the sky, dyeing the void with a bleak green luster.

The moment this skull appeared, the surrounding malicious ghosts kowtowed toward it while issuing incomprehensible and screechy ‘keke’ noises from their mouths. Those noises disturbed the atmosphere and sent chills through anyone who heard them.

These ghosts were conducting a ritual honoring the moon!

Lin Xun's expression was unprecedentedly grave. The eerie scene gave him the urge to turn and leave.

“Ghosts celebrating the moon... This is an omen of great evil...” transmitted the green sparrow, its voice also permeated with fright.

According to rumors about the netherworld of the last epoch, this event often signified the imminent birth of a Ghost Emperor!

This was something extremely sinister as the appearance of a Ghost Emperor meant that a great calamity would befall the netherworld.

This was virtually a sign that had been passed down in the netherworld since the beginning of time. It went hand in hand with the saying: ‘Disasters accompany the emergence of a Ghost Emperor.’

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In the sky dome, the over one thousand malicious ghosts were suddenly set ablaze with green fire. Seemingly self-burning, their forms crumbled into strands of abundant netherworld power that surged into the mouth of the huge skull at the center.

The scene felt like a sacrificial ritual. They were sacrificing their own power to that skull!

At the same time, the scarlet moon in the sky dropped down a thick pillar of blood-red light directly at the huge skull.

In the blink of an eye, the whole region was submerged in waves of boundless blood-red netherworld power, and at the center of it all was none other than that skull.

It was swallowing this power and undergoing a shocking transformation!

“Run!” the green sparrow urged as it realized that the situation wasn’t good.

Lin Xun nodded.

Right at this juncture, however, a radiant black and white jade book swiftly swept out from the depths of the mist, heading straight toward the red-glowing skull.

Whoosh~

The jade book released two divine rays of light, one black and one white. They appeared dream-like and profound.

Seeing this, the skull emitted a savage and chilling voice, “King Qinguang, the destruction of the epoch is near, and the netherworld will eventually cease to exist. Why are you still trying to stop me?”

The skull then spewed out a scarlet haze, which collided with the black and white rays.

KABOOM!

In a deafening noise, the black and white jade book buzzed and collapsed into a rain of light.

Soundlessly, an illusory figure walked out from the black mist. It was magnificent, wearing an emperor crown and a black robe.

Lin Xun looked over, and the first impression he got was that the figure’s eyes seemed to be able to reflect everything in the universe: the world, the sun, the moon, and the stars. They accommodated all heavens and derived unfathomable foresight!

The simple look subjected Lin Xun's spirit to a suffocating pressure.

However, the majestic figure did not seem to notice Lin Xun. He only stared at the red-glowing skull and indifferently said, “Even if the epoch is destroyed, a fiend like you still is not allowed to disturb the order of the netherworld.”

The skull laughed, “Who’s going to stop me? Just you?”

The next second, more figures emerged from the mist one by one. Their appearances varied, either strange, scholarly, formidable and intimidating, or calm and relaxed, but they all had one thing in common: their auras were powerful to the extreme and could not be doubted!

That skull seemed frightened as it hissed, “King Songdi, King Chujiang, King Biancheng, King Taishan... Are you serious? All ten Yamas coming out together, just to prevent my metamorphosis?!”

As if going berserk, it roared, “But have you thought about it, this epoch has come to an end, already stepping into its collapse! Even if you successfully stop me now, you all will still die in the final destruction!”

Its voice echoed through the heavens and earth, dispersed all the clouds in the area, and caused the black mist to tumble violently.

Lin Xun felt his head buzzing and his eyes dizzy, as well as a pain that almost caused him to cough up blood.

Meanwhile, the answer to the skull’s question was a joint attack from the ten Yamas.

The ten magnificent figures each took a direction, either holding a jade book, a sword, a flag, a copper furnace, or a big faded yellow seal...

“Suppress!”

“Restrain!”

“Bind!”

“Trap!”

“Stamp!”

“Kill!”

...

One divine sound boomed after another like orders given by gods, shaking the region.

Rumble~

All sorts of powerful treasure light covered the sky, reflecting endless horrifying phenomena: a sea of blood, the six paths suppressing souls, the Sea of Forgetfulness full of sufferings, the other shore sinking...

Lin Xun's eyes immediately tingled as he trembled to his core. It was as though the world had abandoned him, and he could no longer see or hear.

An unknown time later, he gradually came out of that blank state and back to his senses. His vision also regained clarity.

When he looked at the field, he was stunned to find nothing besides the mist. Silence was filling the heaven and earth. The scarlet moon was nowhere to be seen in the sky.

It was as if the scene just now had only been an illusion.

“The mark of battle...” Lin Xun instantly realized that what he had just seen was not an illusion, but instead was truly an appalling battle that had taken place in the last epoch.

What he had seen was merely a fragmented mark left behind by that battle!

Arriving at this conclusion, Lin Xun's heart became more and more unsettled.

Endless years had passed since the destruction of the previous epoch, but in this mysterious forbidden area, he had accidentally peeked into a battle that could be called supreme and terrifying!

Although it was only an excerpt, it was enough for one to see how powerful the ten Yamas in charge of the netherworld back then were!