Chapter 813

Long Chen enters Demon Devil Cave. Inside he finds another nine star mural.
== Past Wangu Road ==
Looking below the carvings, he saw a splendid, glorious construction.
It was in the shape of a huge cross. There were immense castles, tall towers, and glorious palaces. There were rivers flowing throughout, lakes sparkling like jade, and even islands that were sprinkled about like stars in the sky.
"This... this is the original Immemorial Path?"
Long Chen was amazed. This carving was an imitation of the Immemorial Path. Compared to the splendor from back then, the current Immemorial Path could truly be described as ruined.
Relying on this imitation, he looked toward the edge where he saw the gate. That was the gate with the image that Long Chen had so painstakingly used the primal chaos bead to record (Mysterious Rune).
But in the imitation, that image was too indistinct. He could only tell that it generally looked the same as the image he had recorded.
Just what had happened for the glorious Immemorial Path to end up in its ruined state? Long Chen saw that the palaces he should have seen on the way were all gone now. They were either crumbled or had fallen into the abyss.
Looking at the Immemorial Path in its golden days, Long Chen felt uneasy. It seemed the current cultivation world was in a truly broken age compared to back then.
The current Immemorial Path was in ruins. Looking at the carvings, he saw that the true trials had been those castles and towers. Those had been the true, main trials.
As for the trials marked on his map, those were further away from the main path. That meant that the true trials had already disappeared. To put it frankly, it was like a bowl of pork-bone soup with no more meat, bone, or noodles. All that remained was a single drop of broth.
In the current cultivation era, all the experts were going all-out fighting over that one drop of broth. Just thinking of that made Long Chen feel sorrowful. Had the world truly declined to such a point?
Just what had happened to this world? What had happened to that glorious golden age for it to become its current state?
Were the legends true? In that era, had people been capable of cultivating to immortality and godhood? Were there truly secrets to becoming an immortal or god within the Immemorial Path?
He carefully looked at the carving again. He confirmed that it wasn't as strange as the rune he had recorded with the primal chaos space and he continued onward. The entrance to the true trial was there.
== Enter the Trial ==
The entrance was a stage covered with immortal characters. After going to the Xiao tribe, Long Chen had learned much about the immortal era, and so he recognized more immortal characters now.
Each one of these immortal characters was circular, and they were transportation formations. As long as someone stepped onto them, it would activate and send them to the trial. The different immortal characters represented different levels of the trial. He also now recognized the character representing the peak trial.
"Since there's no danger to my life, I'll naturally choose the peak level." Long Chen smiled and directly walked over to the strongest immortal character.
There was a total of eight levels, and Long Chen picked the hardest one. Taking out the jade plate the old tribe leader had given him, he pressed it onto the immortal character. The jade plate immediately began to merge into it, and the immortal character began to shine. Long Chen's body tightened, and he found himself inside a cavern.
The cavern was sealed and square-shaped. The ground was lined with bricks. It looked just like a dueling arena, and there was a carving of a lifelike giant ape on the opposing wall.
Buzz.
Long Chen had just entered when that wall lit up. It was like daytime in the cavern.
A heaven-shaking roar rang out, shaking Long Chen's ears. He jumped in shock.
== Cultivation Progress ==
Although he had reached the tenth Heavenstage of Xiantian, there were still three levels until Sea Expansion. As for Xue You, Huang Junmo, and the others, they had already reached the peak of Xiantian. They could already touch the barrier, or their auras wouldn't be so strong.
They might reach half-step Sea Expansion at any time. Furthermore, Long Chen had found that those like Xue You and Huang Junmo who were innate rank three Celestials were now capable of suppressing him with their Heavenly Dao runes.
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