Chapter 343: Darkness Descends (2/2)

Two corpses latched onto the bottom of the carriage. At this moment, both were blown away and rendered to smithereens.

The carriage began to move for the second time at an even greater speed.

“Princess, stop!” Yao Ji shouted again with an amused expression.

The carriage halted. Not even the eight dragon souls could pull it forward.

Corpse energy was surging from the bottom of the lake below the carriage. Several hundred battle corpses were pulling on it at the same time, so the princess couldn’t move forward.

“You are quite bold for daring to provoke me.” The princess took out her Queen’s Order.

Yao Ji smiled in response: “How could a lowly girl like me dare to provoke you, Princess? I’m only here to talk to you about a matter, but since you didn’t let me speak, I had no choice but to act and stop you.”

The princess asked: “What is it?”

“Our Yinvoid Cave wishes to help you leave your name on the tablet, Princess.” Yao Ji replied in a serious manner.

Luofu stared at her carefully for a moment before putting away the Queen’s Order.

Despite the brief exchange, the clever princess immediately understood the underlying meaning behind Yao Ji’s words.

Yinvoid wanted to support her for the throne.

A woman in charge of the world carried great significance for the Yinvoid Cave. In order to help her become an empress, the first step was to help her leave her name on the holy tablet.

“Darkness is here!” The moon has completely disappeared. The world turned so dark that one couldn’t even see their hands in front of them.

A cold energy echoed in the lake below. Even the sacred tablet that had been emitting a soft glimmer began to lose its light. The names engraved on the surface were also losing their brilliance.

In the darkness, the power of the tablet would fall by half, but so would the power left behind by the wise sages. This was the best time to leave one’s name on it!

“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”

All the cultivators used their full power and turned into flying rays that shot towards the tablet. This resulted in the names, that were left behind on the tablet, exploding with their own bright power.

The empress, Long Jiangling, shot out a powerful wave. The figure of the empress emerged with a deterring and royal presence.

No one could withstand a single move from her. All died to this first strike without exception.

The words “Nalan Hongtao”, the first clanmaster of the Nalan, also emerged and formed a majestic figure. With a single palm strike, he repelled seven supreme grand achievement God Base cultivators. All were grievously wounded with blood gushing out from their injuries.

Fo Canzi, a mythical character of the Buddhist doctrine, showed up as well with an ethereal figure. He looked especially kind and solemn. His opponent was a mysterious person who was also extremely strong. After twelve moves, this opponent ultimately fled.

***

Each cultivation level had its own wise sage guardian. Only by defeating these wise sages would one be able to step into the light of the tablet.

The guardian for peak God Bases was Long Jiangling because that was when she left her name on the tablet.

Grand achievement God Base was Nalan Hongtao.

Fo Canzi was the guardian of third-level Heaven’s Mandates.

The guardians were all legendary characters who were invincible in their respective eras. It was virtually impossible to defeat them at the same realm.

Therefore, the only chance was to use the lunar eclipse. Their imprinted power would be reduced by half. By defeating them in their weakened state, one would have a chance to leave their mark.

Feng Feiyun remarked: “Even if their power has fallen by half, the number of people who can take even one move from them is pathetically low.”

He was at grand achievement God Base so his opponent was going to be Nalan Hongtao’s avatar.

Hongtao, the first of the Nalan... His name had been carved on this tablet for more than ten thousand years. Countless grand historical geniuses had come to challenge him, but not one could defeat him to replace his name.

Not even in his fifty percent state…

If Feng Feiyun could actually defeat him, he would shock the world and become the top genius in the last ten thousand years of the Jin Dynasty.

[1] This exchange had to be translated awkwardly. Yao Ji gave a humble introduction like a commoner greeting a noble, hence “this girl”. Normally, I would leave it out, but due to the princess’ response, I had to keep it in. The princess is saying that there are no “girls” in the Yinvoid Cave — this can be construed in two different ways. First, a proper and well-taught commoner would give this humble introduction to a noble, so the princess could be saying that Yao Ji is not an innocent “girl”. Another way to interpret this is that since Yao Ji’s from a corpse cave, she’s sneering at Yao Ji for being part of this sect and that she is more of a corpse than a “girl”.