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The interior of the Vermilion Bird Tomb is divided into two areas: an inner and an outer area.

There are many teleportation arrays located in the outer area.

Those who wish to enter the tomb only need to find one of the teleportation arrays to access the inner area.

At the very center of the inner area stands a sacred mountain, the tomb of the first Vermilion Bird, Ye Wuyou, and the location of the Star Crystal.

Wang Lin's purpose in this trip was not the Star-Cultivation Crystal, but his and Li Muwan's life souls.

Unfortunately, his life essence was inside the Star Cultivation Crystal, and to extract it, one had to obtain the Star Cultivation Crystal first.

After Zhu Chen and his group entered the Vermilion Bird Tomb through the teleportation array, they were immediately randomly dispersed to various corners of the outer area.

Fortunately, they have a chat group, so even if they are separated, they can still keep in touch at any time.

After Zhu Chen entered, he was teleported to an extremely desolate plain.

Scattered across this plain are numerous Soul Beads; looking around, there are millions in this area alone.

The aura emanating from these life-soul beads was extremely weak; they must all be the life-souls of mortals.

However, occasionally a few cultivators' life souls with slightly stronger auras will appear.

There were many cultivators nearby searching for their own life souls within those life soul beads.

Although there is no risk of the Vermilion Bird Tomb collapsing this time, the souls of everyone are hidden here.

Once the life soul is destroyed, no matter how powerful the cultivator is, they will die instantly.

Therefore, all the cultivators who entered the Vermilion Bird Tomb were desperately searching for their own life souls.

Only by finding their own soul can they prevent their lives from being controlled by others.

"Come play with me..."

Just as Zhu Chen looked around, a huge spiritual entity suddenly materialized and appeared before him like a ghost.

"roll!"

Zhu Chen knew what this spirit was, so he quickly pointed a finger, and a dazzling beam of light shot out instantly, blasting the spirit into pieces.

The next second, a life soul bead with a slightly stronger aura appeared in front of him.

However, this Soul Bead shattered as soon as it appeared.

Zhu Chen glanced at the Life Soul Pearl and then turned to leave.

But at this moment.

"--boom!"

A terrifying aura of pressure suddenly descended from the sky, instantly immobilizing all the cultivators on the plain.

Immediately afterwards, a burly man dressed entirely in blue appeared like a shooting star and crashed directly in front of them, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Zhu Chen looked up and saw that the burly man with blue skin was not a member of the Immortal Remnant Clan, but a giant demon.

The opponent's cultivation level was at the early stage of the Nascent Soul Transformation realm, with abundant blood energy throughout his body, making him extremely powerful.

The cultivators who were searching for soul fragments on the plains all showed fear on their faces when they saw this big man.

"It's actually the patriarch of the troll race! What's this guy doing here?"

"Weren't all these infant-transformation monsters supposed to go inside the Vermilion Bird Tomb? Why are they showing up here again?"

"Damn it, is he planning to kill me and steal my treasure?"

Terrified voices came from the crowd.

No one expected that the patriarch of the troll race, who possessed the cultivation level of the early Nascent Soul stage, would actually stay here.

You should know that the other Nascent Soul stage monsters all went inside the Vermilion Bird Tomb to compete for the Star Cultivation Crystal.

Those still searching for life souls in this outer area are mostly Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation cultivators, as well as immortal remnants of the same level.

"I'm giving you all a choice: either help me find the souls of my clansmen, or die..." The troll patriarch glanced at the cultivators in the arena with disdain and spoke slowly, his tone full of impatience.

Most of the cultivators on this plain were at the Nascent Soul stage, with very few at the Deity Transformation stage. Faced with the powerful coercion of the Giant Demon Ancestor, although they were extremely unwilling, they dared not show the slightest intention to disobey.

"Ancestor Troll, if we help you find the souls of your troll clan members, will you let us leave?"

An elderly man in the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm clasped his hands together, bowed deeply to the Giant Demon Ancestor, and respectfully inquired.

"Just do what I told you to do, stop with all the nonsense!"

The troll ancestor stretched out his hand and conjured a giant palm, which crushed the Nascent Soul elder in front of everyone.

Then, he looked at everyone in the arena with a cold gaze and threatened, "I have left my divine consciousness on you. If you want to live, you must exchange it for the life souls of my clansmen. Remember, one life soul for one life, or you will die."

After uttering this harsh remark, the troll patriarch prepared to leave.

But the moment he turned around...

A figure, however, withstood his Nascent Soul stage pressure and left the place before him.

"Where did this junior come from? Leave him here, old man..."

The troll patriarch formed hand seals and decisively unleashed a massive battle axe, cleaving it down towards Zhu Chen.

"court death."

Zhu Chen turned around and shook hands.

As an astonishing surge of spiritual energy gathered, a dragon's claw, capable of blotting out the sky, suddenly materialized between heaven and earth.

The dragon claw grabbed the giant axe, and then, in full view of everyone, with overwhelming force, pushed the giant axe directly in front of the giant demon ancestor.

"--boom!"

"--Bang!!"

"--Bang!!!"

A series of earth-shattering sonic booms exploded in the void.

As the aura surged, terrifying energy fluctuations swept across a hundred miles, blasting all the surrounding cultivators away.

"What kind of divine power is this that can repel our clan's most treasured artifact?"

The troll patriarch was shocked and hurriedly activated his magic to intercept the Heaven-Opening Axe, trying to block Zhu Chen's dragon claw attack.

However, the dragon claws came with overwhelming force, and the little bit of magic power he gave to the Heaven-Opening Axe was completely inadequate and could not stop them at all.

Seeing that the dragon claw was about to grab the Heaven-Opening Axe and crash into him, the Giant Demon Ancestor immediately manifested his Dharma body without saying a word, transforming into a giant thousands of feet tall.

"Break it for me!"

He gripped the Heaven-Opening Axe with one hand and once again slashed at Zhu Chen with all his might.

The remaining power of the True Dragon Claw finally dissipated at this moment.

Upon seeing this, the troll patriarch was overjoyed.

"Our ancestors once used this axe to cleave the heavens and earth, and killed two Nine-Leaf Spellcasters of the Immortal Remnant Clan. It is your good fortune to die by this axe!"

The troll patriarch roared.

He poured all his magical power into the Heaven-Opening Axe, causing the axe, which had previously lost its luster, to once again unleash an astonishing aura.

"You dare call yourself the creator of the world with that broken axe? Do you even deserve it?"

Zhu Chen took a step forward, and his figure instantly teleported in front of the Giant Demon Ancestor.

Then, he slowly raised his hand and, to the disbelief of the troll patriarch, directly grasped the heaven-cleaving axe that had been cleaving down.

The troll patriarch held the axe in both hands and pressed it down forcefully, but the Heaven-Opening Axe seemed to be welded in Zhu Chen's hands at this moment. No matter how hard the troll patriarch tried, he could not budge it in the slightest.

...(End of chapter)