The buildings in this deserted city, though as ancient as those in the mortal world’s dead city, have a similar architectural style.
However, the layout of the houses inside is very different.
Walking on the desolate streets, a somber atmosphere perates the entire dead city. With each step Chen Nan takes, the clear sound of footsteps echoes throughout the street, becoming the only lody in Heaven and Earth.
"Roar!"
Suddenly, a powerful shout is heard, as if a barbaric beast is roaring, resounding throughout the entire dead city.
Chen Nan clearly senses the imnse power contained behind this shout. To avoid unnecessary trouble, he slowly flies into the air, silently heading in the direction from which the ’om’ sound ca.
Passing over houses, looking at the empty streets and alleys below, devoid of people, Chen Nan feels a familiar sense about the place.
The architecture here is incredibly similar to the style of the dead cities in the mortal world.
Whether it’s the dead cities in the Tao Realm or those in the mortal world, they should have existed in Ancient Tis. After all, with the sealing reinforced after the ancient war, the worlds of the Four Extres beca almost isolated, making it more unlikely to build such similar cities.
Chen Nan flew another two to three miles forward, feeling very close to where the ’om’ sound originated.
But just then, a beam of white light rushed in from behind, blocking Chen Nan’s way.
Lu Yuanqiao pointed at Chen Nan, sneering, "You’ve killed people from my Tianyuan Sect; this is an unforgivable cri. But if you reveal your true identity, perhaps I can spare your life."
The fact that Chen Nan was able to enter the dead city puzzled everyone present, including Lu Yuanqiao.
Chen Nan helplessly stopped, looking at Lu Yuanqiao ahead. He said calmly, "I won’t hide it from you; my surna is Zu, and my na is Ancestor."
Lu Yuanqiao’s face turned cold in anger, "How dare you insult !"
"My real na is Ancestor. My parents gave this na; I can’t do anything about it," Chen Nan said earnestly.
Lu Yuanqiao frowned and said, "Then explain your identity. Why do you know the First Spell of the Six-character Great Brightness Mantra, and how can you open the gates of the dead city unhard by the Destructive Light?"
To create an aura for himself, Chen Nan started bluffing, "Because the city lord of this dead city back then was my master."
"Who is your master!?" Lu Yuanqiao asked in shock.
Chen Nan feigned mystery, shaking his head and saying, "My master was an expert from Ancient Tis, and before he left, he instructed that he didn’t want anyone to know his identity."
Lu Yuanqiao, half-believing, said, "So the First Spell of the Six-character Great Brightness Mantra was taught to you by your master?"
"Of course," Chen Nan replied.
Lu Yuanqiao began to believe sowhat. After all, for Chen Nan, at just over twenty years old, to possess such cultivation would be difficult without an expert’s guidance.
The most convincing part was Chen Nan’s ability to open the city gates and enter the dead city!
Soone like him having a master from Ancient Tis is credible enough. Lu Yuanqiao said, "Ancestor, since you have told the truth, I won’t hold a grudge for you killing my sect mbers. How about forming an alliance with the rest of my Tianyuan Sect and advancing together?"
Chen Nan was well aware that Lu Yuanqiao rely wanted to rely on him to safely explore the dead city.
After all, in his eyes, Chen Nan was the disciple of the city lord of this dead city.
Chen Nan shrugged, "Whatever."
After speaking, he exuded an aloof deanor, putting on the airs of the young master of the dead city, and turned to fly forward.
Lu Yuanqiao waved his hand towards the Tianyuan Sect disciples behind him, quickly chasing after Chen Nan.
But unexpectedly, when Chen Nan unleashed his full speed, Lu Yuanqiao couldn’t catch up, nor could the other Tianyuan Sect disciples who were even further behind.
Before long, Lu Yuanqiao was left far behind by Chen Nan.
"This Ancestor is indeed worthy of being the disciple of an ancient powerhouse, possessing such extre speed."
Lu Yuanqiao muttered to himself, although he found Ancestor’s na strange. But if that’s what he was nad, what could he do?
"Hurry up, if we follow Ancestor, we’ll be absolutely safe," he urged the other disciples.
Everyone looked peculiar.
They thought, Ancestor? What kind of na is that? Could Brother Lu genuinely not be played?
Besides the followers of the Tianyuan Sect, everyone else who had heard of this person nad Ancestor being the young master of the dead city frantically chased after Chen Nan. They were convinced that as long as they kept up with him, they would surely be safe and might even receive other benefits.
Among these hundred people, so were experts at the Tongtian Second Layer, yet even they couldn’t match Chen Nan’s Dual World Extre Speed.
Not long after, this hundred-strong force arrived at the western part of the dead city.
Everyone landed because Chen Nan was ahead, already landed on the ground.
In front of Chen Nan stood several stone steles.
On these steles were inscribed mysterious runes, which Chen Nan was studying. Seeing this, everyone rushed over to observe the runes on the steles.
Everyone shared the sa thought; they believed that the carvings on these steles were certainly supre techniques.
"Om..."
Suddenly, Heavenly Sound reverberated, causing all the steles to shake.
Everyone shuddered, while their conscious seas were shaken, except for Chen Nan, who remained motionless. In his conscious sea, two Heavenly Sounds echoed, rapidly growing his spiritual power.
A mont later, everyone cald down and looked at Chen Nan. Soone asked, "Young Master Zu, what’s happening?"
As the disciple of a master, the young master of the dead city naturally had to maintain an aloofness.
Chen Nan didn’t even look back. After so ti had passed, he calmly uttered, "No problem."
anwhile, he was sowhat puzzled.
If people knew that the sound ’om’ was the First Spell of the Six-character Great Brightness Mantra, why did no one know this ’hong’ sound when it was emitted?
Could it be that they only knew the first character of the mantra, but not the other six characters?
The ’hong’ sound continued emanating, honing Chen Nan’s spiritual power. At the sa ti, Chen Nan felt that the runes carved on the stone steles before him seed to connect between each piece, as if together they ford a complete illustration.
Chen Nan committed to mory the illustrations on the five stone steles, then using his imagination, pieced them together in his mind.
The image appeared before him, though still lacking one corner, yet it stirred a feeling of déjà vu in Chen Nan.
After a mont of recollection, Chen Nan’s eyes lit up—
The broken stele from Sky Sword Mountain!
The material of the five stone steles before him was exactly the sa as the Heavenly Descending Broken Stele from Sky Sword Mountain!
And when these five illustrations were pieced together, if the missing corner were supplented with the broken stele, they would perfectly create a complete Qi Cultivation Diagram!
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