High Martial Arts Era

Chapter 746 Vice Alliance Leader, Long Time No See
"Yes, Xiao Mu, don't worry. I will do my best to find out about your origins and secrets," Li Yuan said solemnly.

Li Yuan knew perfectly well that Xiao Mu had helped him all this time because he wanted something in return: to explore his own origins.

This is the obsession that Xiaomu has held for so many years.

Driven by this unwavering belief, he accompanied and helped the Supreme Lord of the Northern River grow from weakness to strength, and also asked the Supreme Lord of the Northern River to leave behind a precious treasure.

Now, he is placing his hopes on himself again.

However, Li Yuan was also well aware that the Northern River Supreme was so powerful back then that he had already obtained an Eternal Dao Weapon... His strength was likely that of the strongest being in the universe at that time.

However, even when the Supreme Being of the Northern River attempted to explore the secrets of the bronze coffin, he still faced the danger of perishing, demonstrating the mystery and peril inherent in the bronze coffin.

Li Yuan will not act rashly without sufficient strength.

Only by living can one possess everything; this is something Li Yuan has always kept in mind.

"The three treasures that Xiaomu prepared for me this time—the billions of cubic meters of Eternal Crystals and the Nine Imperial Guards—are all of great use right now," Li Yuan thought to himself. "As for the Life Source Sea Imprint, although I can't use it for the time being, its future value will be much higher. Even when I reach the Emperor Realm in the future, it should still be of great use."

Li Yuan felt deeply grateful to Xiao Mu and the Supreme of the Northern River.

Whoosh!Whoosh!
Xiao Mu and Li Yuan transformed into two streaks of light, soaring into the sky and flying out of this strange space... Then the space shifted, and they flew out from the ancient palace door that had only a crack open.

"Close it." The small tomb pointed in the distance.

"Rumble~" Countless secret patterns on the ancient and heavy palace door shimmered with dazzling light. Then, the palace door slowly pushed open until it closed completely, as if it had never been opened at all.

"It's closed."

“Without the corresponding authority and without the Dao Seal Secret Technique, only a Supreme Being with the strength to break through by brute force can do so.” Xiao Mu nodded with satisfaction: “However, if a Supreme Being wants to come to the Supreme Hall, they must first violently destroy the core of the Supreme Star City… This is something that the operation of the Immortal Heavenly Pillar rules does not allow.”

"Haha, in short, it's absolutely safe until Supreme Star City falls into decay and ruin," Little Tomb said.

Li Yuan nodded in agreement. Placing the treasure here would indeed be absolutely safe for at least two or three hundred billion years.

"Small grave".

"You want me to enter the Northern River Supreme Hall first, so you want me to obtain the Nine Imperial Guards and then bring them into the Hongying Supreme Hall, right?" Li Yuan asked.

“Yes.” Xiao Mu nodded.

"How about I send one of my true forms into the Hongying Supreme Hall?" Li Yuan pondered. "That way, even if I encounter some danger and perish, the other true form can leave with other treasures."

When Li Yuan ventured out, he was accompanied by two of his true forms.

It's to prevent valuable treasures from being lost.

After all, the loss of a true body can be recovered through cultivation, and the loss is within a controllable range... But the hope of finding lost treasures like the Abyss of Slaughter is very slim.

Li Yuan was confident.

However, given the methods left behind by a supreme being, it is still advisable to be cautious.

"No."

Xiao Mu said decisively, "The Nine Imperial Guards can not only withstand physical attacks, but also form a magic array to weaken soul attacks."

“In the Hongying Supreme Hall, no matter what dangers there are, the Supreme One has already perished… With the protection of the Nine Imperial Guards and your own strength, you shouldn’t lose your life.” Xiao Mu solemnly said, “At critical moments, it is better to self-destruct than to be controlled by the soul.”

“Soul control?” Li Yuan was immediately shocked: “Isn’t the supreme eternal path opened up by Supreme Hongying about spacetime, world, and all things?”

Li Yuan had also learned a lot of information about some of the deceased supreme beings from the Chaos God Emperor and the Cloud Moon God Emperor.

“The information you have is correct,” Xiao Mu said, “but what you don’t know is that these are just the three top-tier eternal paths that Supreme Hongying has taken in his fourth step.”

“Like the Dao of Heart and Weapon and the Dao of Reincarnation, Supreme Hongying successfully opened them after becoming a Supreme, but he did not reach the fourth step... The combination of many eternal Daos also makes him extremely skilled in soul techniques.”

"Absolutely the highest level in the entire universe."

"There were even other rulers of the Dark Realm who were secretly controlled by his soul... This shocked the entire universe." Xiao Mu sighed with emotion.

Upon hearing this, Li Yuan became even more astonished.

Soul control and domination? How terrifying is that?
Those at the Emperor Realm possess extremely powerful souls and wills; the soul attacks of other Emperor Realm experts can generally only affect the enemy's strength...

It is extremely difficult to briefly ensnare an enemy with an illusion. For example, Li Yuan, with the strength he has shown, has led many peak Emperor Realm experts to believe that it would be difficult to make their consciousness fall into his slumber in a short period of time.

Even more difficult is to annihilate the enemy's soul, which requires repeatedly destroying the enemy's soul essence.

The most difficult is soul control, which requires perfectly suppressing the enemy in an instant. After all, the controlled person will try their best to fight back... And once successful, soul control is equivalent to having an extra servant forever.

Li Yuan has cultivated all the way through his cultivation journey.

Low-level Quasi-Saints are rarely controlled by their souls, and Emperor Realm beings are even rarer... Native Emperor Realm beings in the Immortal World are usually only forced to submit, or controlled by powerful beings using the wonders of the Immortal Temple.

This is only an ordinary Emperor Realm cultivator.

Soul enslavement of a ruler? Li Yuan had never heard of such a thing.

“He only managed to enslave one ruler.” Xiao Mu said solemnly, “But even so, it’s terrifying enough… Although he was also the founder of the Honghe Universe Alliance, who can know what a dying man is thinking?”

“You must be wary of the methods he left behind,” Xiao Mu said.

"I understand." Li Yuan nodded. Xiao Mu's meaning was clear: he would rather abandon the nine imperial guards than fall into a desperate situation.

Of course, there was another option: to give up entering the Hongying Supreme Hall. However, the Ancient Universe Realm had already entered the Hongying Supreme Hall. Although Li Yuan could sense the existence of the Ancient Universe Realm, standing outside the hall, no matter how he summoned it, he could not call it back.

Compared to the Ancient Universe Realm, the value of the Nine Imperial Guards is far inferior.

"Then let the two true forms, along with all the magical treasures and the nine imperial guards, enter," Li Yuan said softly. "There's no need to hold back any tricks."

Li Yuan's two true forms carry treasures with them, the most valuable of which are the Ancient Universe Realm and the Nine Imperial Guards... If all of these are lost.

With only one true form remaining outside, it's no longer of much significance.

On the contrary, if the two true forms enter together, it will be easier to deal with any danger encountered.

"Li Yuan, I want to go in and take a look too," Xiao Mu said.

“Okay.” Li Yuan nodded. The Holy Spirit Body in the small tomb only contained a trace of consciousness. Even if it was destroyed, it could be re-cultivated in his inner universe.

Moreover, even if his inner world were destroyed, it would have almost no impact on the original consciousness of the small tomb, since his original consciousness originated from the bronze coffin and could not be harmed by external objects.

……

call!
Li Yuan waved his hand to put away the small tomb, then transformed into a stream of light and disappeared into the mysterious and unpredictable Hongying Supreme Hall.

It was the instant he entered the Supreme Hall.

"Boom!" The ancient palace doors, which had been shimmering with countless brilliant lights, suddenly slammed shut at an astonishing speed.

"Huh?" Li Yuan, who had just entered, also noticed the abnormality of the palace gate in an instant and was greatly alarmed: "The palace gate is closing?"

But he didn't have time to react.

hum~
An incomparable power instantly enveloped him, and then the space shifted, and he found himself in a magnificent and boundless palace.

The palace was magnificent and endless, stretching for tens of millions of kilometers, with purple divine pillars connected on both sides, engraved with countless mysterious patterns.

What shocked Li Yuan was the enormous bodies sitting cross-legged on both sides of the divine pillar. Most of them were humanoid creatures, but some resembled divine beasts, some resembled large fish, some resembled large trees, and some resembled mountain ranges... Each body exuded an extremely powerful aura and faintly possessed the eternal Dao rhythm.

"Emperor Realm?"

"All of them are at the Emperor Realm?" Li Yuan confirmed in an instant: "136 of them?"

Beneath the divine pillars on both sides of the palace stood a total of 136 true forms of Emperor Realm beings… Their auras were so intense that Li Yuan had the illusion that 'they were all alive'.

Especially some of the Emperor-level bodies, the sense of threat they posed to Li Yuan was even more terrifying than that of the Chaos God Emperor, and they were very likely beings at the Dominator level.

But Li Yuan could sense it more clearly.

These Emperor-level beings, including those super beings who are suspected to be rulers, should all be dead now... only their divine bodies have been preserved intact.

Even the essence of their souls was largely preserved.

"Who are these Emperor Realm beings? What did Supreme Hongying leave behind?" Li Yuan was filled with doubts. Then, a thought struck him: "Little Tomb, come out."

Whoosh! Li Yuan has summoned the small tomb.

"What is this?" Xiao Mu flew out and his gaze swept across the entire palace scene. He then showed a look of astonishment: "Bo Gu, Dong Xiu, Xu Hu... how come their true forms are all here?"

"It's not just them."

“Wei Qi, Bo Huang…” Xiao Mu’s gaze swept over the bodies of the Emperor Realm beings, and he uttered more than a dozen names in succession, which shocked Li Yuan.

because.

Every name Xiao Mu spoke of was once an Emperor-level powerhouse born in the Honghe Universe, including many peak Emperor-level beings and even Sovereigns.

"Little Tomb, do you mean that the Emperor Realm True Body of this palace... is the entirety of the Emperor Realm True Body in the Honghe Universe?" Li Yuan couldn't help but ask.

The little tomb was about to answer.

suddenly.

Whoosh! A golden light streaked across the end of the palace, followed by a figure in golden robes who slowly descended in front of Li Yuan and Xiao Mu. His face was chiseled, and his eyes were as deep as the universe, filled with a sense of oppression, making Li Yuan feel a deadly threat.

"Senior, may I ask how to address you?" Li Yuan asked politely, bowing respectfully.

But the golden-robed figure only glanced at Li Yuan before his gaze fell on Xiao Mu again, and he said in a low voice, "Vice Alliance Leader, it's been a long time. I didn't expect you to still be alive."

“Jin Yuan, I didn’t expect this either.” Xiao Mu’s aura was weak, but he was not afraid at all. He said with great emotion, “Supreme Hongying will entrust the affairs of the Supreme Hall to you.”

"This is because my master trusts me," the golden-robed figure said calmly.

“This is the Quasi-Saint of Heart Source.” The small tomb then pointed to Li Yuan: “Whatever Supreme Hongying left behind, I hope it won’t harm his life.”

"I'll do my best," said the figure in the golden robe.

"A Quasi-Saint of the Heart Source?" The golden-robed figure looked at Li Yuan again: "You were recognized by the master's token, so you should be the master's preferred candidate. But you are only at the God King Realm, so you should not have received the corresponding guidance yet."

"You shouldn't be here."

"But now that you've arrived, I must obey my master's orders. I hope you won't die here permanently," the golden-robed figure said in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)