Chapter 620 - Gate to Hades (1/2)

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A translucent linking realm seemed to appear through the mountain gate. A huge amount of ghost Qi was pouring out of the realm and sweeping toward the sect. Suddenly, the temperatures became icy. They heard an ear-piercing, ghostly scream coming from inside the translucent linking realm. Ghost Qi from Hades was different from regular ghost Qi. A place that only housed ghouls naturally contained an aura that would crush any soul.

Naturally, cultivators without an immortal body were not able to withstand the pressure. Almost immediately, all the cultivators apart from Shen Ying, Lonemoon and Yi Qing began to sway. Their faces drained of all color. Some of the Golden Core cultivators looked like their souls had left their bodies.

Lonemoon’s expression darkened. He immediately flew over and raised his hand, conjuring an array to seal the mountain gate. The ear-piercing screams finally stopped. All of their eyes cleared up, but their souls were visibly still unstable. Those with Nascent Souls were still holding up well, but the Golden Core cultivators were all spitting out blood.

“El… Elder?” Lu Lin forced her primordial spirit to stabilize. She looked up at the three of them in confusion. The other cultivators looked equally perplexed. “What just happened?”

Lonemoon lowered his gaze and scanned the entire group. “This is not something that you can deal with. Leave here at once!” He raised a single hand and conjured yet another seal, causing all the jade tokens on the cultivators’ bodies to raise up. He clenched his fist. Immediately, the jade tokens were reduced to powder. The great array that lay outside the Corroding Vacant Valley was activated.

“El-” Lu Lin called out, but did not make it in time to get the entire word out of her mouth. All the cultivators from the Dawning Pill Sect were sent out at once. Not one of them remained.

Yi Qing held Shen Ying close and flew over to join Lonemoon. He looked at the mountain gate that was still emitting ghost Qi. Frowning, he said, “This is… a realm gate!”

“Mm.” Lonemoon nodded. Of course, he had noticed the problem as well. “This should be the realm gate that leads to the Underworld.” And it looked like it had already been around for a long time.

“The mortal world naturally has the ability to attract ghouls. Why did someone bother to open a gate to the Underworld here?” This would seem even weirder if the person had set up this gate in the immortal realm or divine realm. But this was the mortal realm. Living things in the mortal realm would not be able to withstand the ghost Qi from the Underworld. What’s more, after mortals died, they would naturally go there. What was the point of setting up a gate to the Underworld here? And hiding it so purposefully up to using a Spatial Li as well?

“It looks like we’ll only find our answer by entering the Underworld,” Lonemoon said as he pointed to the mountain gate.

Yi Qing did not hesitate. He raised his hand and set up a defensive array around the three of them before walking right through the gate. The next thing they knew, they were in a whole other place. The darkness seemed to have deepened around them. It was almost as if they could feel it – it was icy and sharp and caused them to feel like something was possessing them.

Wait! This was not an illusion. There were indeed things sliding past them and trying to get into their bodies.

“Chef!” Lonemoon exclaimed. Both of them mounted their swords and flew out. Yet, that feeling continued to follow them. The darkness was formless and boundless. No matter where they went, they could not seem to shake that feeling off. What’s more, the God Power in their bodies felt like it was being attacked – a chill was piercing them right through to the bones.

“Let’s head upwards,” Shen Ying suddenly said.

Both Lonemoon and Yi QIng paused for one second before following her directions. They flew upward. The higher they got, the more darkness seemed to lift. The sky turned a certain shade of green, and the temperature rose slightly.

They looked down and saw a huge icy territory beneath them, that looked like it stretched on for eons. Everything below was black as far as they could see. And where they had emerged from was the center of that darkness.

This deep darkness seemed to cover the entire Underworld. Somehow, they felt like it was stretching toward the various small worlds as well. It was like…

“The plane’s source!” Lonemoon exclaimed, finally having figured out what this darkness was. He pondered for a moment. This couldn’t be right. “Why is it black?” They had seen the plane tree before – it was a huge, green tree. The source’s color should be the same as that of the plane tree. Like Chef’s gold, or his purple. This plane’s source should be green.