Chapter 38: Chaotic Space (Second Update)

“Could it be that the Heavenly Fire Sealing Curse within her body has vanished?” Elder Mu’s voice trembled as he spoke.

“Impossible! The curse my mother placed in her body could not have disappeared so easily,” Bing Miaoguo snapped coldly, her body shaking uncontrollably.

She was consumed by hatred—yet confusion gnawed at her as well.

Damn it, how had that wretched servant broken through to the ninth level of the Frost Mystique Art?

It was absurd!

“But, Grand Princess, the Young Princess’s Frost Mystique Art has clearly advanced to the ninth level!”

“Silence!” Bing Miaoguo was so devastated that she lost control completely.

Elder Mu’s aged body quivered; he hurriedly clamped his mouth shut, not daring to utter another word.

“I refuse to believe I am inferior to that wretch!” Bing Miaoguo roared in fury, pouring her mystical power madly into the Frost Jade Hairpin, hoping to use it to shatter the barrier before her.

In front of them, countless green vines blocked their path.

They had no idea what attributes these vines possessed.

One thing was certain—this was a trick of the Demon Emperor.

Suddenly—

Boom!

The Frost Jade Hairpin exploded in Bing Miaoguo’s hand, reduced to powder.

“Aaah!” Bing Miaoguo screamed, her face deathly pale.

The hairpin was a priceless treasure of the Southern Domain City Lord’s Mansion, now destroyed by her own hand.

Elder Mu and the dozens of golden-armored soldiers looked utterly grim, their hearts twitching painfully.

“Grand Princess, let me try,” Zuo Xiangyu stepped forward, smiling serenely.

He produced a large banner, sweeping it toward the dense wall of green vines ahead.

From the banner surged a faint shadow—an Eastern dragon.

Boom!

The green vines exploded!

The barrier was breached!

“Let’s go!”

Zuo Xiangyu’s handsome face retained its cultured, gentle smile. “We must hurry. We cannot let that wretched Nalan Ruoshui get ahead of us.”

At that moment, Nalan Ruoshui was already close to the Demon Emperor’s stone coffin.

He had once tried to ally himself with Nalan Ruolan, but she had ignored him, and now resentment simmered toward Nalan Ruoshui.

Nalan Ruolan wielded a golden sword, sweeping aside all obstacles with pure strength—no tricks, only power.

“Something’s not right!” Nalan Ruoshui suddenly paused, gripping her golden sword, her gaze fixed on the Demon Emperor’s stone coffin ahead.

“Nalan Elder, what’s wrong?” asked a curious disciple of the Saint Sword Sect.

“We should be very close to the stone coffin, but it still feels distant to me,” Nalan Ruoshui’s face twisted in shock. “We have walked so far, yet it seems we have not moved a step closer… This feeling is bizarre.

The Demon Emperor’s tomb truly is sinister!”

“Nalan Elder, surely not. Let me try,” the Saint Sword Sect disciple volunteered, stepping ahead of Nalan Ruoshui.

“Be careful,” Nalan Ruoshui warned.

The disciple nodded, cautiously taking a step forward.

In the next instant, he vanished from sight.

Gone!

Obliterated?

“Ah!” Nalan Ruoshui and the other Saint Sword Sect disciples cried out, their hearts pounding wildly.

The disciple had disappeared right before their eyes, without even a scream.

None had seen what danger befell him—he took a single step, then was lost.

“This is a chaotic space!” The possibility struck Nalan Ruoshui, draining all color from her face. “Heavens, there are other spaces here. He’s entered another space!”

The Demon Emperor, in ages past, ruled the world, but he could not instantly wipe someone from existence without a trace.

There was only one explanation: the disciple had left their space, entering another.

No wonder the stone coffin always seemed far away.

“Damn it! The Demon Emperor’s stone coffin isn’t in our space!”

“Damn that immortal bastard! This is a trap set by the Demon Emperor, deceiving us all—we can never reach the stone coffin!”

The crowd erupted in uproar.

Everyone’s jaws dropped in disbelief.

They had toiled so long, only to be toyed with by the Demon Emperor.

The stone coffin was never in their space!

Nalan Ruoshui’s delicate body trembled. Thankfully, the Saint Sword Sect disciple had served as her shield.

Otherwise, she would have vanished herself.

All the forces present, including Bing Muer and her companions, stopped in their tracks, no longer daring to advance.

One more step, and they might be lost to another space, like the disciple.

“I can’t accept this!” Bing Miaoguo was on the verge of madness.

For her sake, the Southern Domain Prince had risked plunging the whole domain into chaos, exposing the location of the Demon Emperor’s tomb.

Yet now, they could not even approach the stone coffin.

“Grand Princess, let’s give up. We’ve labored in vain,” Elder Mu sighed in resignation. “A being like the Demon Emperor could make the entire Ten-Thousand Mountains his domain, nurture countless beasts to guard his tomb. Even if we pass through the mountains, we cannot easily obtain his legacy.”

The major powers withdrew from the Yin-Yang Path Diagram one by one.

Nalan Ruoshui of the Saint Sword Sect could only sigh and lead her disciples out as well.

Yet Bing Muer and her companions remained within the diagram, refusing to leave.

“Still unwilling to give up?”

“Just those few, thinking they can break the Demon Emperor’s Yin-Yang Path Diagram? Overestimating themselves—how ridiculous!”

Many jeered.

Of these six, two came from star-ranked sects, two from White Emperor City Lord’s Mansion, and two were outcasts from Southern Domain City.

Such a group was negligible.

“Huangfu Meng, didn’t you say that the top in Chen’s house contained the yin-yang principles of heaven and earth?” Nangong Ba asked Huangfu Meng, “Clearly, the top Chen made matches the Demon Emperor’s diagram. All this is within Chen’s grasp. What did you glimpse from the top?”

“I…” Huangfu Meng’s face was bitter. She shook her head. “The yin-yang principles contained in Chen’s top are too terrifying. With my abilities, I could not fathom its secrets.”

“Ah, I told you!” Nangong Ba sighed regretfully. “If only you had uncovered the secrets of Chen’s top, breaking this diagram would have been effortless.

How unfortunate—Chen had already given us the solution, but we failed to grasp it.”