Chapter 1781 - Last Year at This Door (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Zhang Ruochen could not escape whatever he needed to face, after all.

Yueshen sent him out of the Celestial Court and unlocked the Qiankun Realm’s seal within his Sea of Qi.

He conjured a spiritual avatar and entered the Qiankun Realm, arriving at the Central Shengming Empire’s imperial burial grounds. Then, he appeared before a large tomb.

Before Zhang Ruochen left the Kunlun Realm, he had moved the imperial tombs and imperial ancestral halls into the Qiankun Realm.

Now, he was standing before a tombstone.

The words, “Tomb of the Empress” were engraved on the tombstone.

Eight hundred years ago, Emperor Ming had told him that his mother was buried in the Tomb of the Empress, and Zhang Ruochen had always believed those words.

Now, however, he needed to verify it himself.

Zhang Ruochen stood in place for a long time and took a deep breath before he released his spiritual power. It spread all across the tomb to explore it.

To do so was disrespectful to his late mother, but he needed to know the truth and did not want to be kept in the dark.

A moment later, Zhang Ruochen retracted his spiritual power as a bitter and mocking smile appeared on his face. He laughed. “Haha, it turns out that Chi Yao was not lying to me. It really is an empty tomb.”

Immediately after, Zhang Ruochen screamed in agony. “Father, why did you lie to me?! Who is my birth mother? Why have you deceived me? Hahaha!!”

Zhang Ruochen found it very difficult to accept the fact that the Blood Empress was his birth mother.

The Immortal Vampires were synonymous with evil, destruction, and slaughter. They drank the blood of living beings to enhance their cultivation and constantly pillaged. Their greed was insatiable.

This race simply destroyed one civilization after another.

Once they destroyed all civilizations, they would eventually die off themselves.

Zhang Ruochen was repulsed by the vampires, and he hated them. But now… an Immortal Vampire was probably his mother. What kind of joke was this?

At some point, Yueshen had also entered the Qiankun Realm, and she appeared beside Zhang Ruochen. Her beautiful star-like eyes were fixed on the imperial tombs, and she said, “The ancestors of the Zhang Clan are far more than this. Many powerful characters are not buried here.”

Zhang Ruochen managed to control his emotions and gradually calmed down. He use Heaven’s Eye to observe the imperial burial grounds.

The gravesite was one of the most important grounds for the Zhang Clan, and it had been laid with the inscriptions of a Supreme Saint.

In the past, when Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation level was still too low, he had visited some areas of the imperial burial grounds and did not understand a lot of it. Even the relocation of the imperial tombs had originally been carried out by the Guardian Dragon Pavilion.

Now when Zhang Ruochen observed the imperial burial grounds, he was slightly shocked to discover that there were as many as nine tombs that radiated the aura of a Supreme Saint. Even though the Supreme Saint ancestors were dead, their auras were still potent and constantly flowing out of the tombs.

“I heard my father said that the imperial burial grounds were only created after the establishment of the Central Shengming Empire,” Zhang Ruochen said. “Our ancestors were not buried in the burial grounds.”

Clearly, the Zhang Clan’s history was far beyond the Central Shengming Empire’s.

“So that is how it is.

“This place should have had a G.o.d buried in it!” Yueshen said.

A name that made all descendants of the Zhang Clan proud filled Zhang Ruochen’s heart. “Mistress Yueshen, are you referring to The Immovable Wisdom King?”

Yueshen shook her head and said, “The era of The Immovable Wisdom King is too far back. Even I have not met him before. But during the end of the Middle Ages, the Zhang Clan gave birth to a G.o.d called the Crowns.n.a.t.c.her. It is said that he fought against a G.o.d and perished in the stars. His divine body was later brought back to the Kunlun Realm by the descendants of the Zhang Clan.”

In Yueshen’s opinion, once the corpse was brought back to the Kunlun Realm, it would be natural for it to be buried within the Zhang Clan’s imperial burial grounds, hence why she said that.

Zhang Ruochen frowned and responded, “I once read an ancient tome that mentioned another ancestral land belonging to the Zhang Clan, but it was destroyed at the end of the Middle Ages. As for where that ancestral land was, no one knows!” Yueshen had seemingly lost interest in the imperial burial grounds and turned around to walk out. “It is extremely perilous to go to the Kunlun Realm now. I have inscribed a Divine Mark on you. Perhaps it could be of some use to you.”

“A Divine Mark!”

Zhang Ruochen’s eyes lit up as the haze in his heart was swept away.

In the past, Zhang Ruochen would become quite envious whenever he saw other scions of G.o.ds with Divine Marks on them.

After all, a body with the protection of a Divine Mark was similar to an Unbreakable Body, and he would not be easily killed.

Now that he had the Divine Mark, even if he were to meet elites like the Fane of Truth’s Ten Divine Scions, he would still have a chance to escape.

That was great!

As expected of Yueshen, the more he looked at her the more G.o.dly she appeared.

Zhang Ruochen roused his Saint Qi and activated the Divine Mark. Right after that, a series of white circuit lines appeared and covered every inch of his skin, generating a faint chill.

Very soon, the smile on Zhang Ruochen’s face froze because he felt a cold surge between his legs as they were intertwined with fine circuits.

“This…”

An unspeakable feeling manifested in Zhang Ruochen’s heart.

Yueshen’s voice rang out in Zhang Ruochen’s ears once again as she said, “The Divine Mark has not only been placed on your skin, but also in your Sea of Qi. It will seal off the Qiankun Realm’s power and prevent it from seeping out of your Sea of Qi.”