Primordial Star Scripture

Seeing the Three-Eyed Skeleton use "Soul Transformation" to possess the body of a mid-Heavenly Saint Realm youth and then fly directly out of the ancient forbidden area, disappearing from sight, Ye Chen was also astonished.

Ye Chen didn't expect that after hearing about the "Beiming Secret Tome," the Three-Eyed Skeleton would actually cease its deadly battle with him and simply leave like that.

However, this wasn't the time to ponder these reasons in detail.

Seeing that the Three-Eyed Skeleton had truly left, Ye Chen quickly turned to the nine great ice-sealed guards beside him, "Honorable predecessors, are you all unharmed?"

During the life-and-death clash with the Three-Eyed Skeleton, even though he had used the True God Talismans to exhaust ninety-nine percent of the Three-Eyed Skeleton's combat power, the Three-Eyed Skeleton was a genuine Four Tribulations True God expert, so Ye Chen was somewhat worried that the nine great ice-sealed guards had sustained serious injuries.

"Lord Ye Chen, we are unharmed."

"We're fine, just some minor injuries, a bit of meditation will heal us. Lord Ye Chen, are you unharmed?"

The nine great ice-sealed guards all shook their heads at Ye Chen with smiles.

Seeing that the nine great ice-sealed guards were unharmed, save for some minor injuries on Bing Shiwu and Bing Shiqi, Ye Chen was relieved.

He smiled gently at the nine great ice-sealed guards, "I am also unharmed. This place is very strange, and even though that Three-Eyed Skeleton has left, this is not a place to linger. Let's tidy up and prepare to leave."

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The nine great ice-sealed guards all nodded their heads.

After re-storing the nine great ice-sealed guards into the Ice Snow Jade Pendant, Ye Chen lifted his gaze to survey the surroundings.

Over seventy martial artists entered this enigmatic ancient forbidden land, and in the end, Ye Chen was the only one left alive.

Most of the martial artists didn't even leave a corpse behind. Of the three corpses that remained, they were taken away by the Three-Eyed Skeleton. Now, only the corpse of the late-Heavenly Saint Realm expert, whose True Qi was like true fire, and the corpse of the late-Heavenly Saint who had summoned the grey sparrow magic treasure, remained on the ground.

Ye Chen noticed that, aside from the bodies of the two men, the Three-Eyed Skeleton didn't take their belongings either. The grey sparrow magic treasure map that the late-Heavenly Saint had activated earlier, which had killed most of the golden wasps, was still lying on the ground.

Ye Chen didn't hesitate. With a divine sense induction, he collected the storage treasures from the bodies of the two Heavenly Saints and also took the grey sparrow magic treasure map. After making sure there was nothing else, he lightly pointed his finger, and two large holes appeared directly on the ground. Ye Chen then buried the corpses of the two late-Heavenly Saint Realm beings in the holes.

Next, Ye Chen's figure flew toward the small earthen temple, but upon entering, he found it completely empty. Presumably, even if there were originally treasures inside, they must have been completely looted by the Three-Eyed Skeleton.

Even the remaining golden wasps were nowhere to be found.

It was uncertain whether those golden wasps were a miraculous manifestation of the Three-Eyed Skeleton's True Qi or if they had been taken away by it when it left.

After seeing that there was nothing in the small earthen temple, Ye Chen returned outside and lifted his gaze to the two trees bearing Void Sky Quintessence Fruits.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

There were originally hundreds of fruits on these two trees. Some were picked by martial artists, and later, as the martial artists were killed, those fruits were incinerated by the combat power of the golden wasps.

Now, over a hundred Void Sky Quintessence Fruits remained on the two trees.

The Void Sky Quintessence Fruit is a miraculous treasure for harmonizing and comprehending the five Void Sky laws, and Ye Chen certainly didn't hesitate.

He reached out with a big hand, and the fruits began to shoot towards him.

Eventually, all over a hundred Void Sky Quintessence Fruits were collected by Ye Chen into the Ice Snow Jade Pendant.

After finding nothing else of use in the ancient forbidden area and worrying that the exit gap might disappear, Ye Chen didn't hesitate and directly flew out.

When he returned to the valley outside the ancient forbidden land, Ye Chen found that the Three-Eyed Skeleton that had flown out first was not there and had long since vanished without a trace.

There was only Ye Chen left in the entire valley.

Recalling the boisterous scene when he and over seventy martial artists had arrived there, with more than a dozen late-Heavenly Saint Realm experts among them, and now, the only one who truly survived was himself.

"These over seventy people died just like that, not even leaving behind the slightest ripple."

"Even I came close to dying in there."

With these thoughts, Ye Chen sighed and also felt a chill of fear.

Ye Chen also thought that with such events occurring here, other martial artists who did not get the clue to the ancient forbidden area wouldn't know, and likewise, he feared that similar dangerous expeditions and slaughters were happening elsewhere and that there were countless explorers dying in places unknown to him.

When the exploration of the Five Elements Mountain truly ended, out of the two to three thousand martial artists who entered, it was unknown how many would live to leave the Five Elements Mountain.

"This is the exploration of the Five Elements Mountain, indeed full of extreme danger, with life and death hanging by a thread."

After his reflections, Ye Chen's gaze became resolute once more.

A near-extinction adventure did not dampen Ye Chen's spirits.

Ye Chen knew that the path of martial arts cannot always be smooth sailing.

Only through trials of blood and fire can one continue to grow and become stronger, to walk farther and reach higher!

"The exploration of the forbidden lands on this Second Mountain has come to an end, and now it's time to look at the other realms of this Second Mountain and witness the manifestation of the five great Void Sky principles that the legends speak of!"

Ye Chen's resolute gaze swept across the broader regions of the Second Mountain outside the valley, and then his figure vanished completely from this hollow.

The next moment, he was flying amidst the giant peaks of the Second Mountain.

As he flew, Ye Chen's mind kept flashing back to his battle with the Three-Eyed Skeleton, and to that strange expression the skeleton had when it heard about the Beiming Secret Tome and the Sword of the Divine Artifact.

"It must be that the Three-Eyed Skeleton has a significant connection with the owner of the Divine Sword, which is why it ceased its life-and-death struggle with me after learning I received the heritage from the Divine Sword."

Ye Chen also recalled the Treasure Cave Key that the Three-Eyed Skeleton held in its hand at the end.

"It is rumored that every hundred years, five 'Treasure Cave Keys' would flow out from the Five Elements Mountain; I wonder from which occasion that Treasure Cave Key in the Three-Eyed Skeleton's hand came."

"Looking at its behavior, it seems it intends to venture into that Divine Heritage Cave."

Ye Chen further recalled that when they first encountered the Three-Eyed Skeleton, it immediately asked them about Jin Lieyang, the Saint Heir of the Xuanjin Continent.

"Could it be that Jin Lieyang is also acquainted with this Three-Eyed Skeleton?"

"I wonder if the two of them are friends or foes."

"This Three-Eyed Skeleton was originally a Four Tribulations True God, while Jin Lieyang, even as a Saint Heir, is only at the latter stages of the Heavenly Saint Realm. How could they be acquainted?"

Ye Chen had countless doubts in his heart, all still unresolved.

After thinking for a while, Ye Chen carefully remembered some matters, then he directly flew towards the site where the five great Void Sky principles originated in the Second Mountain.

On the left flank of the Second Mountain, there are five Holy Pools suffused with the five great Void Sky principles: the Metal Holy Pool, the Wood Holy Pool, the Water Holy Pool, the Fire Holy Pool, and the Earth Holy Pool.

Not far from these five Holy Pools are five colossal void caves, within which the endless five great Void Sky principles are being born, nurtured, grown, and destroyed.

Ye Chen even saw that those five colossal void caves seemed to lead to a higher small spirit realm, as if there was some inexplicable connection with the small spirit realm!

Ye Chen felt that the five great Void Sky principles seemed to be derived from a special gas in the small spirit realm, which was probably not the Five Elements True Qi, but somewhat akin to the Void Sky True God power of the Three-Eyed Skeleton.

After observing the five Holy Pools and the five void caves for over half a month, Ye Chen finally left the Second Mountain and set off for the Third Mountain.

In the deputy hall of the Ice-sealed Divine Temple, Ye Chen had been cultivating for three years within the time acceleration of a hundredfold, and the five great Void Sky principles he condensed in his rotation pill when striking at the rotation pill realm were starting to feel the touch of the breakthrough threshold.

Although he had only observed the origins of the five great Void Sky principles on the Second Mountain for over half a month, Ye Chen had gained an even more hazy sense of comprehension.

Now Ye Chen felt he was getting closer to breaking through from the early stage of the rotation pill realm to the middle stage.

He was just lacking the last bit of summarization and sorting out of the five great Void Sky principles to completely break through the countless days of contemplation!

In the Third Mountain, there lay the mysteriously profound "Five Elements Divine Temple," containing the insights and epiphanies of powerful explorers who had adventured through the Five Elements Mountain in past expeditions.

Ye Chen hastened to the Third Mountain, aiming to use these epiphanies to corroborate with his own, to launch a true assault on the middle stage of the rotation pill realm!

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While Ye Chen was rushing from the Second Mountain to the Third Mountain, at the mid-slope of the Third Mountain, which was even further back, already hundreds of Martial Artists had flown to a colossal divine temple on the waist of the Third Mountain.

This huge divine temple was the most precious site for comprehending the five great Void Sky principles in the Five Elements Mountain — the Five Elements Divine Temple!

One could see that this temple covered tens of thousands of zhang in area, and even more mysteriously, on the square outside the temple, stood eighteen ancient stelae, each surpassing a thousand zhang in height.

Looking up at these ancient stelae, one could see countless inscriptions etched by various hands.

And upon closer scrutiny of these inscriptions, one could feel the genuine power of the five great Void Sky principles coming to life within them!

At this moment, many people were sitting cross-legged beneath the eighteen giant ancient stelae, and yet others stood quite some distance away from the stelae.

Among them, several Martial Artists from the Barbaric Wilderness Continent were standing outside the stelae, their faces filled with indignation as they looked towards the twenty or so Martial Artists beneath the ninth stele in the middle, "This ninth ancient stele is rumored to record the most precious insights of the five great Void Sky principles; it is said that insights from three Void Sky True Gods were left here during their Heavenly Saint Realm days!"

"We were the ones who first claimed this ninth stele, but it was taken over by these people!"

"Detestable! It's so detestable! They want to gain insights, but don't we too?"

"They're just bullying us because the Barbaric Wilderness Continent doesn't have as many strong individuals as they do, or because no late-stage Heavenly Saints have come on our behalf!"

"They may have three late-stage Heavenly Saints, but our Skyscraper Palace Master alone is worth two of their late-stage Heavenly Saints. And there's also Ye Chen; I heard Ye Chen is accompanied by two senior helpers who are also late-stage Heavenly Saints. Just wait until the Skyscraper Palace Master and Ye Chen arrive, we'll make them pay!"