Chapter 80 - Temple of the West Barren (1/2)

We've left the moon for half a month or more, they've probably already forgotten about us , Zhong Yue thought in an attempt to comfort himself.

The teleportation portal was in the palace itself, Xin Huo went in and activated it. Not long later, the energy from the sun gushed in and raised the temperature of the air in the palace.

Just right when Zhong Yue was thinking that he might be turned into roasted meat, a ray of light flashed, it wreathed around and launched him towards the moon far away from his previous position.

Zhong Yue turned and looked back, the moment he was flung out, the majestic palace on the surface of the sun started crumbling into pieces and was engulfed by the sun.

Xin Huo used up three godly treasures in order to allow me to manifest this spirit and become a Qi Practitioner, I owe him a great deal….

The three teleportation portals used up three godly treasures, they were all meant for the next Xin Huo inheritor and yet, Xin Huo used it on Zhong Yue who was not even the pureblood inheritor Xin Huo was looking for. His heart grew heavy with debt and gratitude whenever he thought of the sacrifices Xin Huo made for him.

This round of teleportation took him 15 minutes, where he ended up at the Moon Palace on the moon.

"The teleportation portal under the volcano was depleted of energy when we activated it, it has turned into a pile of useless rock, although it doesn't function as a teleportation portal anymore, it can act as a beacon to guide our teleportation back!"

Xin Huo quickly hovered around the teleportation portal in front of the Moon Palace and said, "We will now commence the teleportation, but they might be able to locate your destination, hence, we will have to destroy this teleportation portal right after we've teleported away!"

Before the words finished exiting his mouth, the ground beneath Zhong Yue started quaking, the magnitude of the trembling magnified in vigor as if there were a humongous beast trying to crawl a way out of the ground!

Xin Huo quickly activated the stone tablets as the ground quaked even harder, Zhong Yue's heart could not help but thump heavily; obviously, someone had awakened the godly totem spirit in the middle of the moon and it was trying to find a way out to him!

He can clearly tell that the godly totem spirit was getting closer the moon's surface!

"Quick!"

Finally, Xin Huo activated all of the stone tablets, they proceeded to draw in the moonlight as they shimmered brightly. The stone tablets redirected the moonlight and illuminated the core of the array formation, forming a crystal clear mirror made of moonlight.

Zhong Yue stood on the middle of that mirror, he was on the verge of vanishing.

Right at this moment, the moon's surface quaked violently and at almost the instant when he was teleported away, a huge fissure ruptured the floor of the the Moon Palace and a shaggy paw extruded out from the middle of the moon as it tried to grab on him!

The shaggy paw extruded out hundreds of thousands of feet away from the ground, it was like the highest and tallest mountain of the moon. The huge paw casted a shadow that darkened the entire stone tablet teleportation portal!

The final stratagem devised by Xin Huo was triggered, and the stone tablets teleportation portal started crumbling. The entire assembly of stone tablets that had hitherto scraped the sky at thousands of feet tall disintegrated into stone powder. While in the middle of the teleportation portal, Zhong Yue's figure started to slowly fade away, finally disappearing into thin air.

"KRONG!!"

The paw's owner was clearly enraged, the moon's surface trembled in from the vibrations induced from its ferocious roar as the paw clenched tightly and crushed the stone tablets teleportation portal into pieces. The shaggy paw then retracted back into the moon; the ground quaked and the fissure closed, all traces of the paw were covered in dust as the moon fell back into an eerie silence.

The next moment, Zhong Yue appeared right in the teleportation portal under the volcano, his heart was still palpitating in fear.

That entity that stole the moon's core, the godly spirit in the middle of the moon, he was still awakened by his descendants; if it was not for Zhong Yue having escaped quickly, he would have been dead by now!

On the ground, I suppose that no one will be able to notice what had just happened on the moon? Who would ever have thought that the moon's core was stolen away and supplant by the spirit of a god?

Zhong Yue pressed down the shock in his mind, and as he thought to himself, From the shape of the paw, it didn't look like that of a human's, could it be a monster god? But if the monsters had a god with them, I'm afraid that Swords Gate would have long been obliterated? In addition, when my psyche went through the moon's surface, the aura exuded by the god was saintly and holy, definitely not of the monster race … so it seems like Xin Huo was right, that god was one from the celestial race….

The celestial race!

The god hiding in the moon was from the celestial race, and his spirit wasn't truly awakened by itself, but rather, it was his descendants that forcibly controlled it. The latency that would arise from that was most probably what allowed me the time and opportunity to escape.

Zhong Yue thought in his heart, Whoever controlled it, must be the ones worshipping it. That said, it appears that this planet isn't the exclusive domain of the humans, demons and monsters – there is also the celestial race.

The array formations in the volcano were drained of its power and were petrified into stone. Zhong Yue flew all the way up to the vent of the volcano. As he flew up, he noticed that inside of the volcano was cold and windy, devoid of its previous infernal heat, signifying that the volcano had gone dormant. The monsters had also retrieved all the treasures used to crack the seals, and on the insides of the volcano were scrawled the marks of intense combat.

It was evident that this was the stage of a bone-rattling battle, which had concluded not too long ago as evidenced by the blood that was still fresh and glistening with a crimson glow against the light.

The Swords Gate's four successors and the monster ace cultivators? I wonder how it went? Did they manage to kill the two island lords, and have they left Gu Xia City safely?

The opening of the volcano's vent was once again sealed away by the monsters, just right when Zhong Yue was cracking his head in figuring a way out, a tunnel suddenly appeared in the corner of his eyes; he then walked into it.

Not long after, he was out of Gu Xia City. He pondered deeply, wondering curiously about who dug the tunnel. Little did he know that the Swords Gate four successors had trapped all of the Gu Xia City monsters in the volcano, leaving them at their mercy as they were almost completely annihilated by the four of them. Left with no other options, the monsters were forced to dig out a tunnel as they sought out an escape route.

Let's go back to my territory, the Falcon Ridge, I'll settle some matters and then return to Swords Gate! Zhong Yue strode forward and left, he headed back to his own territory in the monster land, the Falcon Ridge.

Somewhere in the West Barren, a deep sigh came out from a majestic and holy temple, "He has escaped…."