Perfect World - Chapter 554 - Chapter 554: Chapter 554 Southern Meteor Divine Mountain

Chapter 554: Chapter 554 Southern Meteor Divine Mountain

The mountain was vast, entirely black, with over a dozen ancient tombs on its peak, burying the deities of ancient times.

“Are they all dead?” Xiao Tian asked softly.

“There were two beings that survived to modern times, but they too couldn’t withstand it and passed away several years ago, buried here. If you had come earlier, you might have been able to meet them,” the old man said, grinning.

His head was full of white hair, his skin was dark and shriveled, and he was missing half his teeth, his gray robe full of an ancient aura as if it had been washed over by the long years.

Shi Hao didn’t dare to underestimate him, remaining on guard. He knew this elderly man was truly extraordinary. If careless, one could easily capsize here.

“Are you one of the ancient deities?” he asked calmly.

“How could that be? With such a lengthy passage of time, who could endure it? If I were, I would’ve long been lying in these burial mounds,” the old man denied, shaking his head.

Xia Youyu didn’t believe it; her powerful instincts convinced her that this old man’s cultivation was extremely high, surpassing hers, and that his spirit had merely dissipated, which is why there was no horrifying pressure.

Xiao Tian, Zhou Yuhao, and the others felt the same, a sense of alarm when facing the old man.

“Older than my lifespan, a real old demon,” said Xuan Turtle, standing upright beside them, appearing as though carrying a big black pot on his back.

At these words, everyone grew more vigilant, sensing the old man’s extraordinary nature even more.

The old man, holding a Qingmu staff, smiled wryly and said, “After three great calamities, there remains one undying being patrolling the heavens, hunting those who ignite divine flames. If I were extraordinary, could I still be alive?”

“You are too modest. It is precisely because you survived that it speaks of your strength and terror,” Shi Hao spoke.

“What, really that powerful?” Xuan Turtle, ever tactless, upon hearing this, whooshed behind Shi Hao, not daring to make another sound.

The others also felt a chill, their hearts heavy.

“Little friend has an eye like lightning. I only wish not to be noticed. Since you’ve seen through, I’ll not conceal it any longer; indeed, I once had an extraordinary cultivation and had ignited the divine flames.”

“Igniting divine flames?” Yan Xin exclaimed, shocked. This old man truly was formidable. Was he really a surviving deity from ancient times?

The old man chuckled and said, “There are many false gods in the world, not as many deities as one might think. I was merely lucky, having achieved some fortuitous breakthroughs.”

He spoke truthfully. He was a descendant of a powerful individual from the Southern Meteor Divine Mountain, not an ancient himself but had lived through extensive ages until this very life, his body withered and the divine fire extinguished.

He displayed no hostility, very much at ease.

“After becoming a god, can divine fire still extinguish?” Xiao Tian asked, a question many harbored.

“Of course, as years pass, one’s physical condition declines, everything goes downhill, everything dries up, including the divine flames,” the old man sighed.

He gave an example of the old crawling vines from the Heaven Mending Pavilion which had been incredibly powerful in its day, awe-inspiring throughout the ancient era. Living to the present, what could it do? It still lost its vitality, slowly withering, its cultivation greatly diminished, and the once blazing divine flames were now like a candle in the wind, less powerful than someone who had just ignited divine flames.

At that state, compared to a Venerable One, there wasn’t much advantage left.

“It is truly disrespectful; today, to meet a True God who, after three great calamities and the onslaught of immortal beings, remains unharmed, I’m impressed!” Shi Hao said.

“What True God am I now, with even the divine fire extinguished,” the old man shook his head and bitterly smiled.

He had not hidden his actions, choosing to voluntarily extinguish his Divine Fire and revert to an ordinary existence amid the great catastrophe. Moreover, he endured a significant loss of cultivation, descending to the level of an Imperial Titles Strongman.

The crowd was amazed but couldn’t help but admire the elder’s audacity. If it weren’t for such drastic measures, how could he have escaped disaster, rather than being captured or killed?

All cultivators aspire to ascend higher, yet he had the courage to sabotage his own cultivation.

“Senior, have you recovered to the Venerable Realm now? I fear there might even come a day when you rekindle the Divine Fire and reign supreme once more,” Shi Hao said.

“I consumed a stalk of Divine Medicine, barely surviving, and managed to ascend to the Venerable Realm. Yet, to ignite the Divine Fire again in this lifetime seems hopeless. Relighting it after it’s been extinguished is ten times more difficult. Besides, I’m already bloodless and old, lacking the energy,” the elder shook his head.

“May I ask the senior’s great name?” Xia Youyu asked.

“Call me Southern Meteor. I was born on this mountain and will die on this mountain. Let the mountain be my namesake,” the elder sighed.

Everyone looked intrigued; Southern Meteor Divine Mountain had been renowned since ancient times. Was the elder mirroring the sunset of his life, reminiscing, or was it pride?

“Senior, why wait here for me? What is your purpose?” Shi Hao asked.

“I know why you came, but that person is already dead,” the elder said, producing a unique Crystal Stone that recorded some scenes from the catastrophe era.

The strong from the Southern Meteor Divine Mountain once went to Heaven Mending Pavilion for a great battle and returned wounded. When the great catastrophe arrived, they couldn’t escape disaster and were captured.

“If the feud with Heaven Mending Pavilion ends this easily, it seems all too simple,” Shi Hao said gravely.

“This Divine Mountain only has a few old, weak, and sick left. The Divine Hidden Land will be quiet, long past its decline. Young friend, please look, do you wish to trouble them?” the elder said, extending a hand to clear the mist, revealing several giant mountains ahead with living beings moving about.

Shi Hao glanced and realized that it was true, the place had declined with no formidable experts left.

Moreover, the mightiest who had acted back then had met their doom, and he felt it improper to unleash his wrath here, according to the elder’s words, as it was not the will of the Southern Meteor Divine Mountain but merely that man’s personal action.

“Let’s go!” Shi Hao had no desire to unjustly slaughter the innocent.

Xiao Tian and others sighed lightly. Their enemy clearly had met their end, yet why were their spirits still so dampened? Primarily because no matter what, the people of their sect could not be revived.

“I notice, young friend, you wear the Undying Golden Body Battle Clothes. I have a piece of Phoenix Pattern Stone here that I wish to give you, perhaps it might be of use when fused into your garment,” the self-proclaimed Southern Meteor elder suddenly spoke.

“Hmm, this is…” Shi Hao was surprised, taking it and observing that the stone was uniformly crimson, roughly the size of a fist, with many marks resembling phoenix feathers.

This type of stone, rare and extremely precious in nature, could induce transformation or even nirvana in Treasured Artifacts by merging, simulating the rebirth akin to a phoenix rising from the ashes–it was truly magnificent.

It can be said that even in the higher realms, such a strange rock is an invaluable treasure, rarely unearthed even in thousands of years.

“Thank you, senior!”

In the end, they departed in this manner; the anticipated battle never occurred, leaving them wistful. Even though Shi Hao had acquired an extraordinary treasure, he too sighed.

They then hurried towards Yishan, another formidable Forbidden Land where the area’s strong once served as Guardian Spirits of ‘little Western Heaven’.

Regrettably, after the great catastrophe, vegetation was sparse and the land scorched, evidently having experienced an unimaginable great battle.

There were still living beings here, but no Venerables, nor anyone who had ignited Divine Fire, all having been suppressed during the great catastrophe, none escaped.

“It’s a pity.” Shi Hao shook his head, staring at the mountain range, lost in thought. In the past, few could ascend here, not even the Venerables.

But now, there wasn’t a spot in the mountains and rivers below heaven that he couldn’t reach; he understood everything thoroughly.

“You should sigh that life is indeed as lonely as snow, don’t you think it’s boring now that there are no opponents in the Lower Realm?” the Female War God asked with a smile.

“It’s not funny at all.” Shi Hao shook his head.

Seeking revenge was pointless, the mighty Yishan no longer what it was once, and the Sacred Entity that had intervened was no longer in this world.

Was there really no expert left in the Lower Realm? Shi Hao thought about this question, his pupils flickering and his divine light surging as he looked towards the sky, pondering for a long time.

“Enemies all dead, it also saves us the trouble, there’s nothing bad about it; this presages that our Heaven Mending Pavilion will flourish, henceforth we will strive to rebuild!” Xiao Tian said.

“Little Stone dominating the world, sweeping all enemies, we, on the other hand, will rebuild the Heaven Mending Pavilion, isn’t that great?” Xia Youyu also smiled.

With their comments, everyone’s spirits were lifted again, casting aside their sense of loss.

“Hope so!” Shi Hao muttered to himself. If nothing unexpected happened, he would take the Sky Ascension Path and leave the Lower Realm.

The last stop, Xiling Beast Mountain.

If one were to ask where in the wasteland the yin energy was the strongest since ancient times, this place was absolutely the most fitting.

It was a vast burial ground known as Xiling, burying not ordinary people or ordinary cultivators, but primordial fierce beasts and Divine Birds.

Over the long years, countless powerful Ferocious Beasts and Divine Birds were buried here, forming a vast necropolis.

If traced back, it reached up to Primeval Times, when the giant Peng bird was still alive, commanding the world, and the Ten Fierce Beasts had also shown themselves.

That ancient past saw many great battles, within caged spaces and with the higher realms, where the strongest creatures fell in countless numbers, all buried here.

These Ferocious Beasts were divine, including Divine Kings and Celestial Gods, powerful enough to make one tremble, unimaginable, any one of them if alive today, could swallow the wastes whole.

Moreover, in later generations, some Ferocious Beasts and Divine Birds that fell also chose to be buried here.

Over time, this place grew heavily suffused with yin energy, akin to an underworld.

And the creatures that once guarded the necropolis, as the years changed, their descendants grew into a force to be reckoned with, establishing the “Beast Mountain” faction.

This is the origin of the Xiling Beast Mountain!

As they got closer, this mountain range looked very special, like fields of giant burial mounds, all the mountains were like this, vast and boundless.

“There’s no yin energy.” Zhou Yuhao frowned.

Arriving here, Heaven and Earth were clear and bright, the sun hung high, and there was plenty of sunshine, feeling none of the chill.

“Yes, this place is very strange. It is said that sometimes it has overwhelming yin energy, incomparable, but most of the time it has even more Yang Energy than the outside world,” the Female War God explained.

Inside the mountain range, the vegetation was lush, old trees soared to the sky, all had lived for thousands of years, even many for over ten thousand years, massively thick.

“These trees have not turned into spirits, which is quite rare,” Xia Youyu said.

“Is that Beast Mountain over there?” Xiao Tian pointed to the side.

Next to Xiling was a mountain peak brimming with Spiritual Energy, purple aura rising like a dragon ascending to heaven, constantly flowing out, clearly a sacred land for cultivation.

“Next to some hellish places one often finds pure lands, the profound mysteries of Heaven and Earth Fortune are incomprehensible,” Yan Xin remarked.

Shi Hao and the others ascended Beast Mountain, finding only “small fries”; the mountain’s powerful had all avoided, having heard of the Tuoba family’s fate.

“They fled into Xiling!”

“Let’s go in!”

Finally, they stepped forward, walking towards the mounds of earth, entering this strange land.

“Boom!”

After walking ten or so miles, the world suddenly transformed, startling everyone, everything had changed.

“This is…” they were shocked.

The hills disappeared, before their eyes was a desolate land, filled with countless Ferocious Beasts, Divine Birds striking the sky, the scene was astonishing.

“Whoosh…”

A fierce wind blew, high above, a Golden-Winged Peng soared across the sky, its wings like clouds hanging from the sky, covering the heavens, densely packed with characters, terrifyingly formidable.

On the ground, a Pi Xiu accompanied by endless blood light, leapt from one mountaintop to another, then sprang up, actually attempting to kill the Golden-Winged Peng.

In another direction, a black Zhen Biao roared, causing the three bright moons in the sky to suddenly drop two!

Further away, a thousand-handed creature radiated light, sitting beneath a mountain wall, feeding a giant pure-blooded white tiger with flesh.

To the west, a Zhuyan using an iron rod stabbed towards the high heavens, shattering the sky, striking down mighty Divine Spirits!

“It’s an illusion, this isn’t real!” Xiao Tian said.

On the ground, a Flame Python crawled by, its massive body with a bang, brushed past Xiao Tian, sending him flying in one strike, nearly killing him.

Shi Hao was startled, immediately gathered everyone, unleashed divine might, protecting them.

The Xuan Turtle was horrified, saying, “This… might not be an illusion, the legend might be coming true, this place has already evolved into a real world!”

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“What?” Even the Female War God couldn’t help but cry out in shock.

This place was too terrifying, like the ancient world of Primeval Times, countless races coexisting, humans and gods together, powerful creatures everywhere, competition fierce.

“Ah?!” Shi Hao was shocked, feeling something in his body vibrating; he quickly reached out with his Divine Sense, and his heart suddenly trembled fiercely.

They were two pieces of lustrous white bones, slightly glowing, as if calling out to something.

“Primal True Solution?!” His body shook. (To be continued… If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at Qidian. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.WebNovel.)