The Fire Phoenix's silhouette gradually receded and entered the body of a young man.
This young man looked at the palace with a rather gloomy expression, thinking, "What's going on with that fella who bears the Extreme Yang Seal? Is he related to the Exalted Solar Luminary?"
He had originally obtained news of the underwater palace by chance. Before this, even the figures on the surface of the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory did not know about it.
But now, it seemed that there were still things that he didn't know about in the underwater palace.
Meanwhile, Yan Zhaoge had grasped this information.
The young man looked up at the upside-down sea above. "Time is limited. Lin Hanhua and the others should find out soon and rush over …"
He turned around and strode into the palace. Suddenly, he felt a pair of eyes staring at him.
"What else is in this palace besides the phoenix bone?"
The young man snorted, taking out a golden cup from his Shadow Shrinking Pouch.
He exerted force in his hand and crushed the golden cup.
The shattered golden cup transformed into streaks of light that formed a dazzling golden seal in the air.
The seal flew into the depths of the palace, and after a short while, the entire palace began to shake.
The seawater above the palace swirled and dispersed, forming a huge vacuum zone.
At this moment, many invisible vortexes formed in the space above the palace, and the bottom of the vortexes all connected to the inside of the palace.
In an instant, the palace gate seemed to split into thousands of pieces and opened in different directions.
After determining the direction, the young man chose a portal formed by a vortex and stepped into the palace.
After a short while, rays of light rushed out from the seawater above. It was Luo Zhiyuan, Kang Ping, and the others.
Some fled, some chased, each choosing a door and rushing into the palace.
Yan Zhaoge who had first entered the underwater palace was currently traversing the dark passageway when the passageway before him suddenly began distorting and changing.
For a moment, it was as if the heavens and earth were collapsing, and the entire place was collapsing.
The entire palace was twisted and deformed. The path in front of him shattered and then reformed, returning to the appearance of a palace.
In the next moment, it shattered once more before reforming once more.
Yan Zhaoge was able to stabilise his figure, but he helplessly discovered that the path before him was already no longer clear.
The Earth Devouring Burner was still accurately guiding him in the right direction, but the void in front of him had changed, and the path was no longer a path, making it hard for him to find a place to step.
When the palace finally regained its stability, the scene before Yan Zhaoge's eyes was already completely different.
Streams of golden radiance appeared, illuminating the originally dark passageway. However, as Yan Zhaoge walked within, he felt as if he was being obstructed.
Golden light wreathed, hindering his and the Northern Ocean Clone's footsteps.
"Is it because of that person?" Yan Zhaoge pondered, "From the looks of it, it is not just that sword box within this palace. There are also other things."
The other party was probably after something else, something related to it, or some treasures that could affect the palace.
While Yan Zhaoge had made use of the Earth Devouring Burner to seize the initiative earlier, the other side had their own unique methods as well, trying to regain some ground.
While his opponent might not be able to catch up, he had caused a change in the palace, delaying Yan Zhaoge's footsteps and fighting for more opportunities for himself.
"I'm still half a step faster now," Yan Zhaoge smiled.
Although the golden radiance hindered his footsteps, the changes in spacetime and the flickering golden light did not affect the Earth Devouring Burner from guiding him to his destination.
Yan Zhaoge continued following the guidance of the Earth Devouring Burner, heading deeper into the palace.
The further down he went, the stranger Yan Zhaoge felt. The passageway of the palace before him gradually changed in appearance, looking a little like flesh and bones.
He seemed to have entered the belly of a massive beast.
"This fella …" Yan Zhaoge frowned, feeling even more cautious.
The Earth Devouring Burner in his hand shook more and more intensely until it finally actually broke free from Yan Zhaoge's palm, flying towards the depths of the passageway.
Yan Zhaoge did not forcibly keep the Earth Devouring Burner, allowing it to leave his palm as he just sped up, chasing after it.
As he walked, Yan Zhaoge's nose twitched slightly as a dense stench of blood wafted over.
This stench of blood was brutal to the extreme as it emanated extreme malevolence and madness.
Whether it was in the Eight Extremities World or the World beyond Worlds, this was the first time Yan Zhaoge had encountered such a dense stench of blood and baleful qi.
Yan Zhaoge had never encountered such a stench of blood and qi even on a battlefield where corpses lay and blood flowed everywhere.
If one had to speak of dead people, how many hundreds of thousands or even millions would have to die for such a dense stench of blood to exist?
"It is not the blood of humans, but that of some extremely ferocious and tyrannical demon race." Yan Zhaoge narrowed his eyes into slits as he instantly understood, "This really is … there is actually really the corpse of a massive beast beneath this palace, with that Heaven Swallowing Sword Box being within its belly."
He pulled back the corners of his lips, "Such a dense stench of blood and baleful qi. This was an extremely powerful demon, definitely having dominated a region when it was alive."
Yan Zhaoge composed himself, instead heading straight for the source of the densest stench of blood and qi, heading straight for it.
The golden light within the passageway gradually vanished, only a great amount of blood and qi remaining.
Up ahead, at the end of the passageway, dense blood light lit up, its colour virtually turning black.
After Yan Zhaoge had entered, a massive pool of blood appeared before him.
The pool of blood was massive as it virtually could not be seen at first glance. Rather than calling it a pool of blood, it would be more accurate to call it a lake of blood.
While the stench of blood and baleful qi was so dense that it did not disperse, it was not like ordinary tainted blood that emanated a stench that would cause one to feel like vomiting.
The stench of the blood pool was extremely strange. There was a fragrance, a stench, a sweetness and a saltiness.
The various smells congregated together, instead causing one to feel that it was even more unbearable as it was just a simple stench.
Still, what Yan Zhaoge cared about the most was not the smell here. Instead, it was the blood water within that pool which actually rose and fell rhythmically.
As compared to the complexity of the smell, the colour of the blood water was extremely pure. It was not dark and heavy as it was instead bright, seeming as clear and bright as a bloodred crystal.
The blood water rose and fell rhythmically and steadily.
It felt like … a heart was beating.
At the centre of the blood pool floated a massive box that was completely jet-black with the words' Heaven Swallowing 'written on it.
This Heaven Swallowing Sword Box rose and fell rhythmically along with the rise and fall of the blood water at the centre of the blood pool.
The box was connected to numerous streams of bloodred light which fell into the blood pool.
Yan Zhaoge could feel spiritual energy being extracted from the blood pool in an endless stream before being supplied to the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box.
At this moment, the Earth Devouring Burner did not land on the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box as it instead hovered in mid-air above it, regaining its tranquil state.
After carefully observing his surroundings and discovering no abnormalities, Yan Zhaoge leapt up, flying towards that Heaven Swallowing Sword Box.
He kept the Earth Devouring Burner once more before landing on the top of the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box.
When the tip of Yan Zhaoge's foot touched the top of the sword box, he was instantly dazed momentarily. (To be continued.)
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