Chapter 127 - The Heritage of Monster God Ming King (1/2)

Zhong Yue then walked into the Monster God Ming King's palace and looked around. As he took a clear gander around the palace. He immediately frowned as the palace was completely empty, as if it was raided and looted by someone or as if it was a newly built and unfurnished abode.

"Seems like someone was ahead of us and that person looted this place."

Xin Huo observed the surroundings through Zhong Yue's vision and said, "I wonder who did this, the saint city lord or the big guy that crawled out of this realm."

"Should be the big guy that crawled out of this realm."

Zhong Yue gave it a thought and said, "The Saint City Lord was just a Rebirth Qi Practitioner, which means he was definitely not powerful enough at that time to destroy the seals left behind by the Monster God Ming King. But the opposite can be said to be true of that creature. It was already strong enough to kill the late Saint City Lord, that could only mean that it was already a huge figure during that time. It would surely have the capability to loot this palace. Besides, the big guy actually leveled both the Spirit Nurturing and Rebirth level great seals when it crawled out of this realm. With that horrifying power, I'm afraid that the creature's size had already reached the peak!"

Seals were categorized as lesser and greater seals. The seals on the stairs in front of the place were the lesser seals while those seals that covered the entire realm were categorized as greater seals.

The greater seals in the realm sealed the power of every level Qi Practitioners, sealing the entrance and exit for people from both outside and inside. If someone tried to breach or exit the realm by force, that person's existence would be completely erased regardless of their level!

And when the enormous creature escaped from the realm, he managed to destroy precisely those greater seals that enveloped the entire realm. As he crawled past the Black Mountain's secret realm, he vaporized the entire array of Spirit Nurturing and Rebirth level seals!

That was incredibly terrifying feat as even the monster's Saint City Lord wasn't able to destroy the third level greater seal – the Awakening level seal of the secret realm. It was not that he did not want to destroy the seal, but that he was incapable of doing so.

However, the power of the big guy could be easily seen as he managed to destroy two greater seals!

When King Teng and the others finally got past the final step and stepped foot safely into the palace, they cast complicated looks at Zhong Yue seeing as how they took almost a months time to arduously pass the hundred and eight steps, whereas Zhong Yue did not even need to stop to think, walking up the stairs just like that.

They could only think back to when they arrogantly lampooned by Zhong Yue before he stepped on the steps.

As soon as King Teng and the others entered the palace, they immediately split up and they each distanced themselves from one another to prevent from being attacked from behind. Although they worked together to solve the problems back then, they were still competitors, and there was no longer a need for them to continue their begrudged cooperation!

"They said that the Eastern Sea dragons are all incredibly wealthy and knowledgeable but this was my the first time witnessing it."

King Teng looked at Zhong Yue and said. He then looked around and he too frowned as he saw the empty Monster God Ming King's palace that had nothing in it anymore.

The other Qi Practitioners were also the same; they thought that the palace would be filled with precious treasures and they poured in great amounts of effort to get here. But things turned out to be far from what they imagined, making them reluctant to accept the fact.

"There are no more treasures in the palace, so where is the heritage of the Monster God Ming King?" murmured Yu Xuanji.

Suddenly, the palace trembled vigorously, causing everyone in the palace to lose balance and the palace started to disassemble itself, systematically from the roof to the ground, just like a programmed machine!

Before they could even react, the palace had already disappeared completely to be replaced by a huge stage. Luxurious-looking totem carvings also emerged from the ground and there were countless bronze pillars that supported the huge stage. Somewhere far away outside of the stage, there was also another stage standing with the support of the bronze pillars.

At some point even further away, there were also similar stages that emerged from the ground, which were linked together with pontoons!

"What is this?"

They stood on the first stage as a wall flew towards them before it landed in front of the stage.

Suddenly, totem carvings emerged on the surface of the wall and they started moving inside of the wall. After a few moments, a golden liquid started flowing out of the wall before turning into an eight-limbed celestial being – it was the image of the Monster God Ming King!

"Battle puppet?" exclaimed King Teng in shock as his face turned deadly serious.

Zhong Yue measured the battle puppet carefully and discovered that the totem carvings on the body of the battle puppet looked extremely similar to the totem carvings left on the wall on the Bashui Bridge by the Saint City Lord.

However, this battle puppet seemed like it had experienced a ferocious battle previously as it appeared to be worn and weathered while the third eye on its forehead was also destroyed, the golden liquid continued to flow out from there.

"The heritage of the Monster God Ming King is carved onto the battle puppet!" said the excited Qi Practitioners on the stage as they all looked at the battle puppet.

"Everyone…."

The battle puppet then flew up while a voice could be heard from its chest. For some reason, probably due to the immense length of time that the puppet was in existence, it sounded very blurry as it said, "Everyone… Ming King had orders from the … emperor to cordon the… heritage… in… this ruin… The heritage is...awaiting for...its rightful owner… Attaining the first level of Ming King Art… and proceed to… the second level… Have the… honor of seeing… the real form of Ming King…"

Although the battle puppet's speech was very choppy, everyone on the stage was all very intelligent characters. Everyone quickly understood what the battle puppet was trying to say. The Monster God Ming King stood sentry at this place at the behest of an expert that was seemingly crowned emperor. And when he felt that the fires of his life were coming to an end, he left behind his heritage, awaiting its rightful successor. Only those who had achieved the first level of the Monster God Ming King Art were able to proceed to the second stage and learn the second level of the art.

If one could achieve and understand the entire art, then that person could have the honor to meet the Monster God Ming King to obtain an even higher level of heritage!