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Chapter 167 Three Worlds, Three Routes (Please Subscribe)

The Chibo Palace is vast and magnificent.

As soon as they entered, Xia Mangqing and his companions saw two enormous black corpses, each 108,000 feet tall, exuding a powerful aura that startled them.

"What a pity."

Xia Mangqing sighed inwardly. This was the Black-Clad Emperor, but unfortunately, the core of the Black-Clad Emperor's body was destroyed and could not be reused.

Otherwise, the two black-clad emperors would be incredibly valuable, enough to exchange for countless treasures.

At this moment, the spirit Pu Luo also appeared, pointing ahead and saying, "Those three passages lead to three different places in the Crimson Wave Palace. Each of them contains a Cave-Dwelling Jade Talisman. You few arrived first, so you have gained an advantage."

"However, I must warn you that obtaining the Cave Nether Jade Talisman is not so easy; one wrong move and you could lose your life."

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"As for the other parts of the Crimson Wave Palace, you can explore them as well. You might have a chance to obtain the fruits within the Crimson Wave Palace. Of course, the difficulty of obtaining the fruits is no less than that of obtaining the Cave Sea Jade Talisman."

After the spirit Pu Luo finished speaking, Xia Mangqing and the others entered.

There were three passages. Xia Mangqing chose to go with Ji Ning and Jiu Chen and entered the right passage. In fact, this stage didn't have much impact, and the difficulty was the same for both.

Shortly after entering the passage, they arrived at a spatial corridor with divine trees growing on both sides, bearing divine fruits. However, they could not touch them and needed to borrow tokens to pick them.

Further ahead were numerous armored soldiers, and as they approached, twenty or thirty of them surrounded them.

"Blast them out of the spatial corridor."

After a short while, Xia Mangqing spoke.

These armored warriors weren't particularly strong, equivalent to a second-level Dao Lord, but there were many of them.

"Ji Ning, you've just entered the third step of Dao Lord, so please focus on comprehending it carefully. I'll go ahead first." After informing Ji Ning of the method to defeat the armored warrior, Xia Mangqing transmitted his voice to him.

"Alright, please be careful, senior."

Ji Ning nodded. He knew very well that Xia Mangqing was not interested in the Dongming Jade Talisman. In fact, he was the same way, because Xia Mangqing had told him some things and knew that the Dongming Jade Talisman was useless to them when they reached the Dao.

At the same time, Xia Mangqing also told him that he should collect as many fruits as possible from the Crimson Wave Palace, which could be used to exchange for Dao-Merging Treasures in the future.

So Xia Mangqing went ahead without thinking too much. Of course, he still wanted to help Jiu Chen obtain a Dongming Jade Talisman. After all, Jiu Chen could have ignored the matter of Emperor Tianyi. If he hadn't helped him, he wouldn't have been poisoned by the Crimson Poison.

Helping Jiu Chen obtain a Dongming Jade Talisman cannot erase what happened before, but it can make Ji Ning feel a little better.

Therefore, he made a special deal with Xia Mangqing: if Xia Mangqing obtained the Dongming Jade Talisman first, he hoped to trade it to him for 0.

The Crimson Wave Palace has three layers of worlds.

The first layer of the world is planted with many divine trees and can be divided into nine major areas. There are also three spatial corridors filled with armored soldiers. You must pass through all of them to reach the second layer of the world.

The second layer of the world, where Xia Mangqing is currently standing, offers a glimpse into two other areas, which are the destinations of two other spatial corridors.

At this moment, Xia Mangqing stood in the enormous hall, where he could see rows of black pillars covered with numerous carvings: swordplay diagrams, saber techniques, flame illustrations, and images of deities.

Each pattern contains a profound artistic conception.

These are some methods left behind by the Sith, but Xia Mangqing didn't pay much attention to them. The methods here aren't actually that powerful. Once he becomes a Fourth-Step Dao Lord, there are billions of scrolls of inheritance to learn in the Qinghua Cave. There's no need to waste time here.

With this thought in mind, he looked ahead.

Ahead, six golden-armored generals stood, and further away were three crimson-armored generals.

On the throne at the farthest point sat a black-armored general, toying with a palm-sized piece of jade in his hand—the Dongming Jade Talisman.

"Congratulations, Daoist Qingxuan."

The figure of the spirit Pu Luo appeared: "Without relying on the treasures of the universe, your speed is in no way inferior to that of the Wine Saint. You are indeed extraordinary."

"You flatter me," Xia Mangqing said with a faint smile.

Realm Spirit Pu Luo smiled, then pointed to the divine generals in front of him and said, "Whether you want to obtain the Cave Nether Jade Talisman or enter the third layer of the world, you need to defeat them. Of course, they are all puppets. The core of the rune in the center of their chest is their vital point. As long as you hit it, they will admit defeat."

"Understood."

Xia Mangqing walked forward, and immediately the six golden-armored generals moved at the same time, each holding a golden halberd, and charged forward.

"Defeat!" With a thought, Xia Mangqing unleashed a chaotic Yin-Yang eruption. The two energies clashed and raged, unleashing a power capable of annihilating all laws once they collided.

This is a profound mystery comprehended in the Yin-Yang Heaven. After advancing to the third level of the ultimate Dao, it manifested the power to annihilate all things.

However, since entering the first layer of the world, techniques such as world projection and domain secrets have been prohibited. Therefore, when he used Chaos Yin Yang, he did not transform it into a domain. Instead, he used the Yin Yang annihilation method to envelop the six golden-armored generals.

Bang bang bang————

Six explosions rang out in succession, and the six golden-armored generals who had just rushed over were all sent flying backward. The six golden-armored generals were shocked and looked at their cores in disbelief.

In that instant, Xia Mangqing precisely controlled the area where the Yin and Yang energies erupted, simultaneously striking their core.

The speed was too fast and the methods too unpredictable; they had no time to defend themselves and were completely defeated.

"We were completely defeated in just one encounter?"

"What a brilliant move!"

The six golden-armored generals sighed, their gazes towards Xia Mangqing somewhat complicated, but they still withdrew, because according to the rules, they had already lost and could not continue to fight.

"You're quite impressive, defeating those six idiots in a single exchange," a red-armored general sneered.

"You're the idiot."

"The six of us will team up and beat you until you beg for mercy."

The six golden-armored generals immediately started cursing.

The three crimson-armored generals laughed, then said to Xia Mang, "Come on, let's see how long it takes you to defeat the three brothers!"

"It won't be long."

Xia Mangqing laughed, and in the next instant, he suddenly charged out, his speed instantly breaking through the Heavenly Dao limit by a hundred times.

"Wow, that's fast!"

One of the red-armored generals was amazed, but not afraid, because they were puppets and could not win against them by sheer speed.

"roll!"

A red-armored general roared and swung a short stick at Xia Mangqing, while two others followed suit, aiming to kill him.

when!

But at that moment, Xia Mangqing manifested three heads and six arms, pointing his fingers as a sword. As the sword light erupted, it also incorporated the power of chaos and destruction, as if creating the world and destroying the heavens and the earth.

boom!

The red-armored general was blasted away by the six sword fingers. As for the attacks of the other two generals, Xia Mangqing neither dodged nor blocked them, but in the end, he was completely unharmed!

"An immortal body?" The other red-armored general's expression changed, but it was too late. The general who had been blasted away had been hit in the core and could no longer attack.

The three Crimson Armored Generals needed to coordinate perfectly to unleash their truly terrifying combat power, but Xia Mangqing took the initiative and attacked desperately from the start. Relying on his immortality, he withstood the damage and defeated one of the Crimson Armored Generals in one strike.

"defeat!"

The next instant, without the slightest hesitation, he transformed the chaos into boundless sword light and blade radiance, seemingly intent on severing and destroying everything, enveloping the remaining two divine generals.

No matter how desperately they resisted, they were ultimately no match for the enemy, their core was struck, and they were defeated.

"That's a crazy way of playing."

"But I must say, it's very effective!"

"Haha, you three are supposed to be so great, aren't you? You don't seem that much stronger than us."

As the divine generals spoke, the three red-armored divine generals looked extremely ugly. They snorted coldly and retreated to the side without saying a word.

The black-armored general sitting high above slowly rose and walked towards Xia Mangqing: "You are very powerful, but if it's just the techniques you just displayed, it's far from enough to get past me."

"Of course, you can now use world projection, domain secret techniques, and so on. If you have any other trump cards, use them."

Xia Mangqing nodded, and at the same time, the world projection pressed down. Even the Black Armored General was somewhat surprised by the intensity. His strength was comparable to that of an ordinary Holy City Lord, but he still felt some pressure when facing Xia Mangqing's world projection.

"Unfortunately, it's still not good enough for me."

The black-armored general instantly drew his battle sword.

wow~

A stunning and terrifying black blade of light flashed across the sky in an instant, moving at an unimaginable speed. Almost as soon as the sword was drawn, the blade of light was already in front of Xia Mangqing.

Swish!

However, just as the blade was about to touch Xia Mangqing, his figure suddenly vanished.

"Huh? Where did you hide?"

The black-armored general's expression changed; he couldn't sense Xia Mangqing's presence at all.

boom!

But in the next instant, a restrained sword light erupted, piercing through his defenses and striking his core.

"What?" The black-armored general was stunned. "I lost? I lost so quickly?"

He was very indignant. He was confident that he could kill Xia Mangqing with a single strike, but he couldn't even detect Xia Mangqing, let alone hurt him.

"Can I proceed to the third layer of the world now?"

Xia Mangqing looked at the black-armored general and asked.

"—Hmm." The black-armored general snapped out of his daze, still somewhat unwilling, but he still said, "Standing beside that throne, you can proceed to the third layer of the world."

Xia Mangqing nodded, then walked straight over without even glancing at the Dongming Jade Talisman.

boom!

A powerful aura emanated from the throne, enveloping Xia Mangqing, and then he vanished from the spot.

In the third layer of the world, Xia Mangqing's figure appeared.

Beneath its feet lay a desolate, rocky landscape, and ahead lay a bottomless abyss, connected to another rocky landscape by a seven-colored chain.

On that rocky land, one can also see a black and gold talisman with eight ridges, bearing a strange symbol that, though unfamiliar, has an understanding of its meaning.

"Three—" Xia Mangqing said. This token is proof of picking fruit. As long as you have the token, you can pick all the fruit in the corresponding area.

The route in front of him had three command tokens: "three", "five", and "eight". Of course, besides this route, there were two other routes in the third layer of the world.

These correspond to the three command symbols "one", "four", and "nine" respectively, and the three command symbols "two", "six", and "seven".

In general, the three tokens on each route are of roughly the same total value, but their rarity varies greatly when viewed separately.

For example, the Cold Flame Cauldron Fruit of the Ninth Token is enough to make all six major forces fight over it. That's why Xia Mangqing ultimately chose the "149" token route.