Chapter 444 Busy

It’s getting better, everything is getting better!

Once the temple is opened, the holy dynasty will come into being!
Now that the temple is here, won’t revival be achieved?
After experiencing a long period of ups and downs and hardships, Lord Wuyou and his men stood on the deck, gazing at the scenery within the rift.

In the wind blowing on my face, my clothes fluttered, and I felt a sense of pleasure as if I was riding a horse in the spring breeze.

Unfortunately, there is no Chang’an and no flowers in sight.

Only the world seems frozen in the apocalypse…

In the vast rift where endless clouds rise and fall, countless pieces of soil, rocks and debris are floating in the vast void. In the midst of the mighty wind, the debris remains motionless.

Bolts of lightning crisscrossed the void, and seemed to be stuck in that moment forever, eternally solidified in mid-air, as if cast in iron.

Strands of sparks burst out from the electric light, hovering in the air, bringing scattered light.

The world is upside down.

At this moment, above the sky, there was a strange and turbulent deep sea, like a phantom, looming in and out of sight. But it exuded a chilling atmosphere that made people subconsciously want to stay away from it.

And in the deepest part of the disturbed sea of ​​dark clouds below, countless specks of phosphorous rain rose from the abyss, passed through countless ruins, and fell into the deep sea above.

Like a dream, so gorgeous.

Lord Wuyou looked behind him and one of his subordinates immediately opened the cage and released a group of birds caught from the sea.

In an instant, shrill cries followed one after another.

The moment they flew off the deck and entered the rift, all the birds scattered like headless flies, flying crookedly or falling.

Some were inexplicably exploded into a ball of bloody mist and meat paste, while others accidentally rushed into the thunder and were instantly turned into ashes by the solidified thunder.

Others crashed into the strange phosphorescent flames rising from the abyss. Those wisps of light that looked like sparks danced in an instant, surrounded them hungrily, and drilled into the bodies of the birds. Then, they exploded with a loud bang, turning into more phosphorescent flames, and pounced on all other living things.

Some even headed straight for the deck.

Snapped.

Wuyou Gong bent his finger and the phosphorescent fire exploded out of thin air, then split into countless smaller phosphorescent lights, floating in the air like snow and spreading everywhere.

He was blocked outside by Tianyuan’s repulsive force.

Only the hissing sound continued to be heard. On the deck, everyone’s expression changed slightly, including Shehri, and everyone took a step back.

Tianyuan’s repulsive field was actually corroded, as if it was burning. Some phosphorescence was wriggling and moving inward, but soon it went out.

For a moment, everyone was silent and held their breath.

Even if safe and sound.

But at this moment, within the rift, the number of phosphorescent fires is more than tens of thousands?
It’s endless!
If you provoke me…

“Go around it and don’t confront these ghosts head-on.” Lord Wuyou’s face darkened slightly. Although he suffered a slight setback, he was not discouraged.

After all, it was once an imperial temple. How could there be no danger at all?

At this moment, the giant ship above the sea of ​​clouds shrank further. Under the command, it carefully avoided the phosphorous fire and circled around it.

But even if you take a detour, you still can’t avoid the crisis hidden in the dark.

There was nothing in some places, but when the boat passed by, a big hole appeared silently, as if it had hit an invisible knife.

There were also those who were walking peacefully, but a breeze blew from afar and blew onto the deck. The unlucky people who were swept by the breeze were suddenly frozen in place and turned into ashes.

The threat from tangible objects is secondary, but it is already worrying, and this crisis without any warning is truly terrifying.

What’s more, the countless huge ruins and building fragments were like a maze, and there was no way out.

The only thing he could rely on was the ancient document in Lord Wuyou’s hand.

The moment the document stamped with the seal of the former empire entered the rift, it flew out of the hand, rose up, and turned into a ray of phantom light. Regardless of whether they could keep up or not, it led the way in front.

They could only try their best to keep up, and several times, they were almost left behind and completely lost because of trying to avoid danger.

And when the giant ship finally passed through the maze of thunder, phosphorescent fire and even countless debris, and “docked” on the largest island, everyone was sweating profusely, as if they were in another world.

Lord Wuyou’s expression became increasingly solemn.

Just by entering the door, the treasure ship that had been built with the efforts of countless generations of ancestors was on the verge of being scrapped and had cracks everywhere.

Fortunately, they finally got ashore!

After repeatedly confirming that there was no danger, they finally reached the center of the Rift in a place that looked like a port, and climbed up to the top of a “mountain” that seemed to rise from the sea of ​​clouds!
One can vaguely tell how magnificent the entire “mountain” was when this rift was once a complete piece, and it was probably enough to occupy the entire rift.

Countless buildings are lined up one after another, rising layer by layer, guarding the solemn temple on the top of the mountain, which is enough to make anyone who comes to see it feel awe when looking up.

Compared with this spectacular sight, human existence is so insignificant that it is not even as big as a speck of dust.

However, after experiencing earth-shattering changes, only one tenth of its former size remains, and the buildings are dilapidated and old, not to mention the human habitation.

Only a strange empty city remained.

“Don’t worry, this is where the audience entered the city in the past. We have the documents, so it won’t cause any danger.”

Lord Wuyou waved his hand, took back the document hovering in front of the huge archway, and was the first to step onto the ground, safe and sound.

At this moment, only half of the square was left. All the outsiders looked up and looked at the magnificent archway that was hundreds of meters high. Even the many decorations that were still breathtakingly luxurious after going through so much vicissitudes of life, they couldn’t help but hold their breath.

It feels like I have arrived at the hometown of giants.

Big, too big, disturbingly big.

Everything you see, whether it is the floor tiles under your feet, the stone carvings on the square, or even every building, is incredibly exquisite.

Even the joints between the stone bricks are plastered with dazzling gold, and the stones underfoot are engraved with intricate floral designs. After four or five hundred years, they are already covered with dust, but they still have a breathtaking beauty.

I don’t know how many people have gone through so much time, devoted all their efforts and energy, and never tired of beautifying every detail, treating this as a great work that will last a lifetime and continue for dozens of generations, and giving everything.

In the end, only a few bricks at the entrance of this temple were built…

Although I have never witnessed the heyday of the Eternal Empire, the luxury and material resources at this moment are enough to make people tremble instinctively.

Just being able to restrain yourself from picking up two bricks is already a commendable achievement.

Mainly because I’m afraid of death…

Who knows what consequences will be caused after it is picked off?
Moreover, the countless buildings in front of him had already become a mess, like a twisted Rubik’s Cube, all messed up and pieced together in a mess, and even changing at a speed visible to the naked eye in the eyes of outsiders…

The disordered and distorted Tianyuan power has already penetrated every corner. If you get sucked in without paying attention, no one knows what will happen.

After all, there are clear precedents before everyone…

The ‘indigenous people’ of this place!
Between the broken and twisted buildings, on the roads, and even behind the cracks and windows, vague human figures can be seen.

It was as if it had detached from the ground and replaced the shadow of the original body.

Flickering and twitching, appearing and disappearing.

Some sat there, motionless, some were crawling around twisted and twisted as if dancing, and some appeared and disappeared without warning.

It’s like a silhouette of what once was here.

Others… were like people hanging themselves, breaking away from the ground, suspended by black threads, rising up to the sky, and falling towards the strange and dark deep sea above their heads.

As it sways in the wind, faint laughter and praises can be heard coming from the wind, echoing continuously.

“This…what exactly is this…”

In the crowd, a sinner dressed as a monk with one arm bare felt a sharp pain in his eyes just by taking a look at the scene.

The pair of light golden eyes couldn’t help but shed tears of blood, and then everything went dark, and nothing could be seen.

He wailed in vain, hunched over into a ball.

He wanted to reach out for help, but the people around him dispersed cautiously. Even when his companions wanted to help, they were separated by Wuyou Gong.

Until the wailing suddenly stopped, the body had shriveled up into a ball, as if the life and blood had been drained out by an invisible object. At the moment of death, he actually assumed a posture of bowing and worshiping.

Snapped!
With a crisp sound, something began to wriggle under the naked back, tearing the corpse apart. The dead man’s face, with a strange smile, actually rose from the crack in the back.

Then, in the stunned eyes of everyone, fluttering tentacles stretched out from under his face…

A strange human face like a jellyfish, with a happy smile, slowly rose into the sky, without even looking back at its former body. It laughed devoutly and blended into the hymns and praises in the sky.

“Master Wuyou, what’s going on?” The leader of the monks frowned, “Didn’t you say it’s safe here?”

“Seek death!”

Lord Wuyou glanced expressionlessly at the evildoers behind him who were not his subordinates: “I warned you, don’t look around, don’t touch anything!

Are you the only ones who have the Ether Eye?”

Finally, he warned: “The importance of the temple is as great as that of the imperial palace. Do not overstep your authority in any way. Do you understand?” For a moment, everyone was silent and had no objection.

There was no other way. The tower contract had already been signed. Moreover, without Lord Wuyou leading them, they would probably all die here and would not be able to get out.

Even Lord Wuyou, who was walking in the front at this moment, felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy.

I bypassed many afterimages, identifying the words and signs on the road, and hesitated from time to time, even walking a distance on a road and then turning back without any warning.

It took a long time to walk through just a few streets.

Under the strange power of the temple, not only gravity and rules, but even time seemed to be distorted.

Amid the exclamations, someone looked up at the other fork in the road, shocked.

But he saw another group of people walking out from the road over there without noticing…their appearance and clothing were clearly the same as they were a quarter of an hour ago!
Unfortunately, someone accidentally stepped out of the boundary and stepped on the steps of a building. In an instant, half of his body was gone, crushed into a ball of rotten meat by an invisible force!
Even the laws of Tianyuan are entangled in it, making it difficult to recover.

But even so, Lord Wuyou’s expression became more and more excited, and as he approached the temple on the top of the mountain, his eyes became gradually fanatical.

Temple worship…

The empire’s temple of worship!
All the specifications are modeled after the Imperial Palace, and all the structures and equipment are designed for the emperor’s mausoleum!

It can be said that this is a tomb.

However, the person buried here is not the emperor, but the enemy that the entire country had to fight against during the heyday of the Eternal Empire!

Mobilize the power of the world and use all means to completely annihilate the enemy. Even all records must be completely erased, and all traces must disappear from the world!

Even if the opponent is so powerful that it is difficult to grind his bones and scatter his ashes even after death, a temple must be built to suppress him, and the enemy’s corpse must be trampled forever under the empire.

Even, turn them into one of the fulcrums of Tianyuan Tower…

The Tianyuan Tower that once controlled the entire world could not have had only a single main body. It can even be said that its main body was the empire that covered the entire Middle-earth and controlled the world!
If it could succeed, then the world today would probably still be under the control of the empire, and it would truly become eternal!

Unfortunately, after the mission was almost accomplished, the Tianyuan Tower broke in half, and even the emperor fell into the world along with the broken tower, creating the current vortex.

In the ninety years of chaos that followed, the world was once again engulfed in destruction.

The so-called eternal glory disappeared without a trace in just a dozen years. The bones of the nobles were crushed in the streets, the inner treasury was burned to ashes, and under the counterattacks from all sides, the emperor’s direct bloodline was completely cut off.

Many treasures and inheritances were scattered everywhere before they could even be collected.

The branch of the royal family that inherited the Worry-Free title from their ancestors luckily changed their appearance, escaped the disaster, and even re-established their foundation in the Thousand Islands and Middle-earth. They relied on the assets of the former empire, and even the secret that was enough to revive the empire!
Before the Tianyuan Tower was completely completed, the emperor had already secretly issued an edict – even if his great cause failed, it left a chance for future generations to revive.

On the day when the Tianyuan Tower was broken, guards secretly brought the seal of the country to the temple, completely locked the door of the temple, and waited for the right time.

Unfortunately, with the collapse of the Tianyuan Tower, this place, which served as a fulcrum, was also disturbed and became unrecognizable.

The royal family is dying out, and the inheritance of the titles of Changle, Anguo, Wuyou, etc. has also been replaced by new people… The true blood is so thin that even the door can hardly be opened.

If we really talk about bloodline, none of them are as pure as the artificial humans in the Nanlu Empire today!

But what does it matter?
Who doesn’t have royal blood these days? Even back then, there were probably more people with royal blood than dogs on the street.

The average reign of emperors throughout history was three hundred years. They had countless concubines and hundreds of children and grandchildren. This scale could be described as being pure and aloof.

Even the records of the royal family only cover two generations.

Moreover, the inheritance of the throne is never based on the order of bloodline, nor is it based on closeness. Bloodline is just a threshold, and it doesn’t matter whether it is rare or not. As long as one has talent, he can get the position of emperor!

As long as one can be recognized by the Seal of the Nation, who dares to say that they are not a direct descendant? !

With the seal of the country in hand, one can control the Tianyuan Law left over from the empire, activate the half of the Sky Pillar that remains from the former empire, control all the fulcrums, and even the opening and closing of the vortex is just a matter of thought!
Imagining the scene of himself rebuilding the empire and ascending the throne as emperor, Duke Wuyou’s face was filled with joy and he could hardly hold back a soft hum.

But then, his expression suddenly changed!
A shrill scream suddenly rang out.

As they marched in silence, the flickering shadows on the streets on both sides changed without warning, and a strange, wriggling shadow suddenly leaped forward while crawling.

I touched the fluttering corner of one of the people’s clothes…

In an instant, the crawling shadow suddenly retreated as if it had been electrocuted, opened its mouth, and screamed loudly. The shrill voice carried a strange power that made people’s eyes go dark.

Amid the screams, all the afterimages seemed to be awakened. They suddenly turned around and looked towards them. On their vague faces, pairs of scarlet eyes lit up.

The shadows of the corpses hanging in the sky, pulled by the black lines, laughed loudly and danced as if they were infected.

The evil being whose clothes were touched was a hunchbacked old man. His face changed drastically and he twitched violently. He felt that some strange power was locking onto him and he could no longer control it.

In panic, he ignored Lord Wuyou’s orders and instinctively turned around and ran away.

“idiot!”

Lord Wuyou was furious, but it was too late.

Because strands of pitch-black silk threads had risen from the bricks and stones below, wrapped around the old man’s body, and penetrated into his soul.

“Ho… ho ho…”

In the eyes of everyone’s shock, in just a few seconds, the old man had lost all the color on his body. Even his body and soul turned into a dark shadow, being pulled by the black line and hanging upside down in the sky…

It wasn’t just the old man. At this moment, all the shadows were like a hornet’s nest was poked. They swarmed up, squirming and twisting, searching carefully.

Check carefully.

Any outsider who dares to violate the law without an imperial edict!
The shadow of the old man who had just hung in the sky was actually screaming, and a pair of scarlet eyes lit up and looked towards them.

Shake it, point it out!
Rapid rebellion…

“Everyone, don’t do anything!”

In the chaos, Duke Wuyou Duan Ran roared: “Come closer to me!”

Sheheri stuck to him without hesitation, and the others also rushed to surround Wuyou Gong, wishing they could make him strong.

But the big man was of no use, as the shadows were getting closer and closer, and the crowd began to become chaotic again.

In the crowd, Lord Wuyou finally opened the brocade box in his arms, and carefully took out something that looked like half a rusty and broken iron rod.

With the infusion of spiritual essence and the transformation of the Tianyuan Law, the broken iron rod actually stretched out rapidly. A faint light extended from the broken ends, forming a gorgeous and majestic ceremonial staff.

Suddenly, knock it to the ground!

Suddenly, golden ripples spread out, covering everyone present. The moment the ripples touched, all the strange shadows stopped in place.

Then, without thinking, he knelt down and kowtowed in worship!

They were intimidated by the ceremonial weapon held by the former imperial guards and dared not offend it.

But unfortunately, the light is flickering and difficult to sustain.

Disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye…

However, the dense shadows around were still lying on the ground, constantly kneeling devoutly, with no intention of dispersing at all.

As the ceremonial light dimmed, there was a tendency for a faint scarlet tint to reappear on the face of the shadow farthest away.

“Mr. Wuyou, what should we do?” Someone was terrified, “How about…fly over there?”

“Are you looking for death?!”

Lord Wuyou was so angry that he laughed: “Sacrificing to the temple is the same as the emperor’s mausoleum!
“Within three hundred miles of the Emperor’s presence, anyone who dares not to bow will have his feet chopped off and his eyes gouged out; anyone who dares to peek at the Emperor’s face will be beheaded; anyone who dares to rise or fall without the Emperor’s order will have his entire clan exterminated!”

The proposer froze for a moment, then became confused: “What should we do then?”

“……Walk!”

Lord Wuyou’s expression twitched as he squeezed out a word from between his teeth, and then warned, “Follow me, walk slowly, and don’t alarm those ghosts again, understand?!”

Having said that, he rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs, held the ceremonial guard, and lay sideways, like a turtle, looking for a place to stay between the countless kneeling shadows, and climbed over them in a panic.

Behind him, everyone was watching this scene, their faces twitching, their heads lowered, and they lined up, carrying boxes and supplies, and began to follow closely to form a long winding dragon…

“Hmm? What’s the commotion?”

At this moment, halfway up the mountain where the temple was located, in a large hall of unknown purpose, Ji Jue turned around in confusion, looking towards the direction where the scream came from, but could see nothing.

Soon, he withdrew his gaze without any interest, flipping the skewers on the grill with one hand and sprinkling cumin and chili with the other hand. He still did not forget to look back and continue the previous topic with his new local friend: “Hey, let me tell you, the grandfather of our old empire is the real grandfather… This is the taste, authentic!”

Unfortunately, the shadows around him didn’t react at all no matter how he pushed and hugged them. He was so noble and cold.

On the contrary, after hearing the screams, they immediately jumped up as if they had taken medicine, and rushed out in droves… leaving the enthusiastic tourists aside and paying no attention to them.

I can only say that the local gangs are very rude.

“Get busy, get busy”

Ji Jue sighed, shook his head regretfully, and took a bite of the sizzling skewer of meat, “Busy, all busy…”

It’s better to be busy.

(End of this chapter)