Chapter 1409: The Doomsday Altar! (1/2)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Wang Chong had come to the northwest purely to find the world's number one art, hoping to use the Origin Immortal Art to pacify the Stellar Energies in his body and cure his cultivation defect.
He had never imagined that he would find a symbol connected to the otherworldly invaders in this place.
Wang Chong's eyes unfocused as his train of thought traveled backward in time, turning up memories that he had long ago forgotten.
At that moment, Wang Chong recalled many, many things…
Those otherworldly invaders did not come from a single direction, but the most famous of their entrances, the one that allowed the most of them entrance into this world, was a spacetime fissure that An Yaluoshan had personally performed a sacrifice to open in the northwest. This entrance was known as the 'Doomsday Altar'.
This was the first entrance the otherworldly invaders used to enter the continent. Afterward, the otherworldly invaders opened up several more entrances in spacetime which they used to cross over.
Before the final battle, Wang Chong had led some of his men to that place and had seen with his own eyes that 'Doomsday Altar' that An Yaluoshan had constructed.
That vast altar had been sixty to seventy meters tall, and at the center of the altar, several massive inscribed stones had been placed, bloody red in hue and transparent like colored glass.
And on that most important stone, many summoning symbols of various styles had been carved. One of the seven most important mysterious symbols was exactly identical to the one he saw now.
No one had ever seen those seven symbols before, and no one understood what sort of energy they contained. However, it was obvious that these seven symbols were of paramount importance in summoning the otherworldly invaders.
”Just who was this Origin Immortal Lord? What was his relationship to those people? Why did he use the same symbol as An Yaluoshan when setting up this formation? Could it be…” Wang Chong muttered to himself, many ideas and theories in his mind.
The formation was still the formation, but it had taken on a completely new significance in Wang Chong's mind.
Crack!
Without any warning, Wang Chong suddenly lashed out with his palm, hacking down the stone pillar before him.
Boom!
The earth swayed as the stone pillar crashed down, and the entire Origin Immortal Formation shuddered.
”What's going on?!”
Outside the core of the formation, at around the fourth or fifth layer, the Righteous Alliance experts around Song Yuanyi raised their heads with fright and alarm in their eyes.
They had heard rumbling from the formation several times. It had come from the core of the formation each time, and each time, the formation grew stronger. But for some reason, the rumbling from the formation felt different.
”Alliance Lord, the formation's energy has weakened. It seems like someone has already reached the formation's core!” a Righteous Alliance Elder said.
”I wonder who it is? They must be incredibly formidable to so quickly reach the core of the formation. This sort of strength truly can't be underestimated!” a different Righteous Alliance Elder added.
Song Yuanyi said nothing, only furrowed his brow, a pensive look in his eyes.
……
Buzz!
Meanwhile, on the outer ring of the formation, the ground was quaking. The Demonic Emperor Old Man and the Formation Elder stood side by side inside a stone formation the Formation Elder had just set up, similarly looking toward the center of the formation.
”The formation's power has weakened. The kid has probably reached the core,” the Formation Elder suddenly said.
The Demonic Emperor Old Man nodded, his face emotionless.
”You're not even a little bit worried?” the Formation Elder asked.
The Origin Immortal Formation was fraught with danger, and Wang Chong was liable to trigger his cultivation defect at any time. The Demonic Emperor Old Man was just a little bit too calm.
”Not worried!” the Demonic Emperor Old Man nonchalantly said, his face as placid as an ancient well.
The Formation Elder was infuriated by this display.
”Zhang Wenfu, just what sort of master are you trying to be!? Have you forgotten that the kid determined that there's probably some hidden faction at the center of the formation? Those people might show up at any time.”
”I know.”
”You know, but you're still so calm?” the Formation Elder angrily said. For a master to be so unconcerned when their disciple was venturing into danger was to be no master at all in his view. If not for the fact that he was no match against Zhang Wenfu and rather feared him, he would have long ago seized Wang Chong to be his own disciple.
”I know what you're thinking…”
The Demonic Emperor Old Man's eyes were fixed forward, his calm expression brimming with resolve.
”It's not that I don't care about him. But he is my disciple, so I believe in him!”
Buzz!