LRAB Chapter 123 The First Signs of Chaos
Chapter 123 The First Signs of Chaos
The Endless Abyss, the Second-Tier World.
Having just survived the divine tribulation, shed its sacred body, and forged a divine form, its body was enveloped in divine light, and thirty blood-red stone carvings floated in the void, intertwining to form a vast and boundless divine domain.
A sound of space shattering suddenly rang out, tearing apart the vast void, and a tall, peerless, and strangely handsome young man stepped across the air.
His back was outstretched, and fourteen pairs of golden blood wings spread out in layers across the void. The wings were covered with divine patterns, which suppressed the surrounding abyssal malevolent energy and the annihilating gale.
He was none other than Huang Qiming, the youngest son of the chieftain of the Huangtian tribe, who had been secretly sent to the Kunlun Realm by the God of Fortune and Prosperity to lie low and undergo training.
Huang Qiming's cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds, reaching the peak of the Taiyi Realm. Even if he were to return to the Huangtian Tribe in the Hell Realm, he would still be considered a top figure.
His gaze was deep as he carefully examined the Blood Queen after she became a god, his eyes brimming with deep admiration and satisfaction.
As the daughter of the Blood God of War, the Blood Queen naturally possessed unparalleled talent, ranking among the best in the universe. After enduring hundreds of years of arduous cultivation in the abyss, she finally broke through the shackles of the divine realm, escaped the chains of the mortal world, and achieved the status of a true god.
Gazing at the familiar figure before her, the Blood Queen's newly stabilized divine heart was instantly overwhelmed by events from hundreds of years ago, countless unforgettable scenes surging through her mind, vivid in her memory.
Hundreds of years ago, at the beginning of the chaos in Kunlun, Chi Yao's hair was stained with blood in her boudoir. The Holy Crown Prince Zhang Ruochen was killed by Chi Yao, and the tragic news spread throughout the Holy Imperial City.
At that time, she was trapped in the endless abyss amidst the encirclement and suppression of many great saints in the Kunlun Realm. However, upon learning the news, the pain of losing her son consumed her heart and bones, causing her to disregard life and death.
Despite being relentlessly pursued, she fought her way through the blockade of several Great Saints from the Kunlun Realm, returning to the Holy Bright Palace and risking her life to retrieve Zhang Ruochen's cold body.
Her beloved son died, and as a mother, she couldn't accept this ending.
In order to defy fate, she did not hesitate to burn her own primordial essence and blood at the peak of demigodhood, forcibly activating the forbidden technique of summoning souls.
This technique can reverse life and death, peer into the netherworld, and manipulate reincarnation. It is a forbidden art that heaven and earth cannot tolerate, and even true gods dare not touch it lightly.
At that time, the Blood Queen was only at the peak of the demigod realm. Her attempt to force her way through was ultimately futile.
Despite her depletion of vital essence, she was still unable to summon back even a wisp of Zhang Ruochen's remnant soul. Not only did the soul-summoning attempt completely fail, but a terrifying backlash from heaven and earth descended upon her, shattering her foundation, severely injuring her physical body, and dissipating her vital essence, nearly causing her to die completely and her soul to be scattered.
With her path blocked and her beloved son unable to return, the Blood Queen, trapped in a desperate situation, carrying her son's cold body and filled with endless despair and obsession, ventures alone into the deepest, most treacherous abyss, seeking only a sliver of hope for survival.
Deep within the second layer of the Endless Abyss, in the Crimson Forbidden Zone, stands an ancient and weathered crimson altar.
This was the place hundreds of years ago.
At that time, Huang Qiming was sitting cross-legged atop the altar, comprehending supernatural powers, tempering his foundation, and cultivating in seclusion. When the Blood Queen, covered in blood and on the verge of death, burst into the place, he suddenly opened his eyes, and his fourteen pairs of towering golden blood wings abruptly retracted, suppressing the blood energy that filled the sky.
Blood Queen knelt on both knees, her magnificent robes stained with blood, her peerless face streaked with tears. She tightly held Zhang Ruochen, pale and lifeless, in her arms, her voice hoarse and tearful, each word piercing her heart: "Uncle Qiming, I beg you, save my child!"
That scene of despair and sorrow remains as vivid as ever, even after hundreds of years.
When Huang Qiming saw that her origin was exhausted, her Dao root damaged, and her life force teetering on the brink of death, he frowned, feeling both angry and pitiful. He dared not delay and immediately raised his hand to summon the Yellow Heaven Blood Tablet. The blood essence of living beings poured out, transforming into a sky full of crimson light, which continuously flowed into the Blood Queen's body, repairing her shattered physical body, stabilizing her broken Dao foundation, and continuing her dying life force.
After examining the blood, Huang Qiming, severely injured and exhausted, looked grave and rebuked him in a deep voice, his tone full of helplessness: "How foolish you are! The method of summoning souls is a taboo in the universe, reversing the cycle of reincarnation, disrupting life and death, and violating the fundamental laws of Heaven!"
"With your demigod cultivation level, recklessly activating this power is simply courting death! If it weren't for your son's low cultivation, the backlash from the power of heaven and earth would have already annihilated you, body and soul!"
At that moment, the Blood Queen had completely lost her composure, her mind utterly consumed by revenge and obsession. She had no other thoughts but to bring Zhang Ruochen back to life. She kowtowed heavily, her forehead bleeding, her words resolute and powerful: "As long as my child can be brought back to life, Qingyin is willing to bear any cost! I beg Uncle to help!"
Looking at her obsessive and crazy appearance, Huang Qiming sighed inwardly.
Blood God of War is a prodigy nurtured by the Undying Blood Clan and will become the future patriarch of the Undying Blood Clan. Blood Queen is her daughter, and she is also quite talented. If she is allowed to go insane and despair today, the Yellow Heaven Tribe and the Blood God of War Clan may break apart and become mortal enemies in the future.
Left with no other choice, he could only sigh in resignation, "Fine, today I will make an exception and defy the heavens to forcibly summon the soul. Afterwards, I will make the Blood God of War repay me double for all my losses!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Huang Qiming unleashed his full cultivation power. The immense divine power of a Taiyi Realm Great God swept across the entire blood-red altar, and countless blood-red Dao patterns rose into the air, drawing upon the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
He poured all his cultivation, which had reached the peak of the Taiyi Realm, into the Soul Summoning Technique, sweeping through the heavens and the netherworld again and again. But no matter how he summoned divine power and sensed the soul, the void remained empty, and he could not find even a trace of Zhang Ruochen's remnant soul.
The eerie emptiness suddenly filled Huang Qiming, who was accustomed to witnessing the secrets of the heavens, with a sense of unease.
When an ordinary cultivator dies, their remnant soul will remain in the world. It will either fall into the underworld or wander in the void. It is impossible for it to completely dissipate and leave no trace.
With this thought in mind, he no longer hesitated and began to manipulate the Dao of Destiny, attempting to deduce Zhang Ruochen's fate and uncover its secrets.
But at the very moment when the power of fate touched the secrets of heaven, the world changed drastically!
The river of time suddenly appeared, rushing, roaring, churning, and boiling in the endless abyss of space.
The torrent of time sweeps back through the ages, with endless fragments of time and chaotic currents of spacetime raging in all directions. A holy sword light, piercing through eternity and unparalleled in its sharpness, bursts forth from the deepest part of the river of time!
The sword light was condensed and pure, without a trace of smoke or fire, yet it contained the supreme power to sever cause and effect and end the years!
"Pfft!"
Huang Qiming had no time to activate his divine powers for defense or open his Dao Domain to resist, and was caught off guard by the sword light of time striking him head-on.
His vast divine body trembled violently, his divine blood gushed out for thousands of miles, and he was struck as if by a heavy blow. He was sent flying backward for thousands of miles, crashing into countless abysses and mountains. His divine soul was injured, his foundation of Dao was shaken, and his injuries instantly became extremely severe!
He struggled to his feet, gazing up at the ceaseless flow of time, his eyes filled with utter shock and horror, and he exclaimed in disbelief, "How is this possible!"
"Qingyin, you are no ordinary child. His karmic secrets have been completely obscured by an unparalleled power! Even with my mastery of the Dao of Destiny, I could not glimpse even a trace of these secrets. In fact, I suffered a backlash from afar, severely damaging my soul. With my current cultivation level, I am afraid I am powerless to help you with this matter."
These words shattered the last hope of the Blood Queen.
She trembled violently, as if her soul had been forcibly ripped from her body, and all her strength vanished instantly, causing her to collapse limply onto the blood-red altar.
Even Huang Qiming, a powerful expert at the Great God Realm who is well-versed in the Great Dao of Destiny, was helpless. Could it be that her Chen'er has truly perished and there will be no day when they meet again?
Utter despair swept over her entire body; she was ice-cold, her life force nearly extinguished, and her thousand-year-old Dao heart on the verge of collapse.
Looking at the heartless, bloodied figure, Huang Qiming remained silent for a long time before finally speaking: "Come with me. I will take you to see the Ancestor. His cultivation is extraordinary; perhaps he can see through this mystery."
Deep within the blood-red altar, a thick spatial barrier was broken open, revealing a vast and boundless underground cavern.
In the center of the cave, a colossal, blood-red corpse, covering hundreds of millions of miles, lies horizontally. The corpse is incorruptible and its blood energy gathers into a sea. Seventeen pairs of layered golden wings stretch out from its back!
The seventeen pairs of blood wings are the symbolic emblem of the Undying Blood Clan's supreme powerhouse in the Boundless Realm. It turns out that a powerhouse of the Undying Blood Clan in the Boundless Realm is hidden in the Endless Abyss!
Huang Qiming bowed deeply, his attitude extremely respectful: "Uncle, I apologize for disturbing you! I have a difficult matter to ask of you."
In the void, the blood-red corpse trembled incessantly, and a deep, ancient voice slowly resounded: "No need for formalities. I am aware of your every move outside. Since you are Xue Jue's daughter, you are one of my own, and I will not stand idly by."
Before the words were finished, a solid, dark divine figure flew out from the blood-red giant corpse, hovering in the void, its divine power vast and boundless. It raised its hand and grabbed Zhang Ruochen's cold body in mid-air, moving it to the center of the cave.
Boundless power poured down, and countless threads of cause and effect crisscrossed, intertwining the past, present, and future, causing the entire river of time to surge and tremble once more.
Despite the divine shadow's full power of spellcasting, it still could not find any trace of Zhang Ruochen's soul, as if this young man had never existed in the world.
The divine shadow grew increasingly curious, so it unleashed its full power, forcibly tearing through the fog of heavenly secrets in an attempt to uncover the truth!
"Boom!"
Just as he was fully focused on exploring Zhang Ruochen's destiny, endless destructive divine lightning suddenly rose in the void, causing violent ripples in spacetime, and a faint, illusory figure manifested from the void of time.
Clad in a cassock and wielding a long sword, his eyes were filled with both compassion and resolve. With a single stroke, he cleaved through eternity! A clear, cold celestial voice echoed throughout the heavens, each word resounding through the abyss: "Yuan Hui Zhan!"
Upon seeing this, the dark figure's expression changed drastically, and a storm of shock surged within him. He could no longer continue to deduce the secrets of heaven and focused all his energy on escaping and dodging!
Even so, he was still affected by the sword light that transcended the ages; his divine figure shattered violently, dimmed and became illusory, almost completely annihilated.
After a long while, Shenying barely managed to steady himself, his voice filled with lingering fear and heartache: "It was that old man Sumeru! I've truly suffered a huge loss this time!"
"Yuan Hui Zhan! Even at my peak, I might not have been able to withstand this attack! Fortunately, the opponent was just a phantom left in the river of time, otherwise I would have been annihilated today! With just one sword, he cut off tens of thousands of years of my lifespan. What a terrifying time sword technique!"
Still shaken, Shenying turned to look at the stunned Xuehou and said in an extremely solemn tone, "Girl, you don't need to despair."
"The fact that the old man Sumeru could seal away the secrets of heaven is enough to show that your son's demise is probably related to a huge game. Otherwise, the old bald monk Sumeru wouldn't have intervened to conceal your son's secrets."
"With the Old Man of Sumeru secretly protecting you, your child should still be in the world, but in a hidden dimension unknown to anyone."
After speaking, the ancestor raised his hand and waved it, and an ancient and heavy coffin, interwoven with red and white, appeared in mid-air and floated in the void.
"This is the Azure Blood Coffin! It was forged using the Azure Blood Soil, a treasure of my Blood Clan, as the main material, supplemented by several other supreme life treasures. A body placed within it can be preserved for eternity, uncorrupted by time!"
"Place your child's body into the coffin, nourish and seal it with your own lifeblood. When fate turns, you and your child will surely be reunited!"
Upon hearing these words, the dying Blood Queen, on the verge of death, finally had a glimmer of light rekindled in her lifeless eyes.
With trembling hands, she solemnly accepted the Heavenly Blood Coffin and carefully placed Zhang Ruochen's body inside. With her own blood, she sealed the coffin layer by layer, and from then on, she guarded it day and night, never leaving its side.
She has endured hundreds of years of hardship in the abyss, through the changing seasons and the passing of rain, snow, wind, and frost. She has cultivated diligently to break through to the level of a true god and embark on the path of divinity, but her beloved son in the coffin remains asleep and unawakened.
Endless protection and loneliness, accumulated longing and pain, all eventually transformed into an overwhelming hatred that gnawed at the heart!
Having successfully broken through to the Divine Realm, his Divine Heart is now stable, and all the past bloody grudges and grievances surge into his mind.
The relentless encirclement and relentless pursuit by Qingdi and others back then drove her to the brink of despair, and her daughter Chi Yao even murdered her own child, destroying all her happiness.
The separation of mother and child, and a century of loneliness, are all thanks to the Chi family!
The Blood Queen's eyes were bloodshot, and a boundless crimson killing intent emanated from her body, surging into the abyss for thousands of miles. The thirty crimson divine tablets trembled violently, their killing intent boiling over the heavens. A chilling hatred resounded from the depths of her heart: "Azure Emperor! Chi Yao!"
"All the suffering, separation, and pain my son and I have endured! I will make your Chi family pay a thousandfold in blood for your crimes!"
Completely blinded by her extreme obsession with revenge, the Blood Queen no longer cares about any gains or losses, nor does she fear any danger. Now, she only wants to break out of the endless abyss, storm Kunlun, and massacre the Chi family in the court to avenge her son!
His divine light surged, and his crimson divine wings unfurled, transforming him into a streak of crimson light. Ignoring the spatial turbulence in the abyss, he hurtled straight toward the exit of the endless abyss!
Seeing her consumed by resentment and unable to quell her obsession, Huang Qiming immediately urged her in a deep voice, "Qingyin! Calm down! Don't be impulsive! The situation in the Kunlun Realm is currently unpredictable and far more complex than you imagine. Going there rashly will surely lead to disaster!"
But at this moment, the Blood Queen was filled with hatred and wouldn't listen to a word of advice. Her speed increased even more, and she disappeared into the end of the abyss in an instant.
Huang Qiming shook his head helplessly, gave a bitter smile, and looked worried.
Just then, the void around them churned violently, and a long river of blood gushed out from the nothingness, condensing into a towering, blood-red figure in mid-air.
This person was clad in ancient blood armor, with a deep and distant aura, and boundless divine power hidden around him. He was Huang Qiming's uncle, the Blood Clan's Boundless One who was lurking in the endless abyss. His identity was Huangshan God Venerable, the younger brother of the Great Chieftain of the Huangtian Tribe.
He was the youngest Boundless Realm prodigy of the Undying Blood Clan, second only to the Ice Emperor, possessing unparalleled talent and awe-inspiring presence throughout the heavens.
During the war between Hell and Kunlun Realm, he encountered Biluozi, the strongest being in Kunlun Realm. He was severely injured by Biluozi's supreme Dao techniques, which shattered his Dao foundation and nearly caused his death and the dissipation of his Dao.
Fortunately, he had a great opportunity. In his early years, he obtained a large amount of White Blood Soil, which allowed him to barely protect his remaining body from destruction and lie dormant in the endless abyss, barely surviving.
If Huang Qiming hadn't mistakenly entered the abyss three hundred years ago and awakened his dormant remnant soul consciousness with the Yellow Heaven Blood Tablet, he would have been devoured by the evil spirits and demons lurking in the abyss long ago.
Huangshan God looked in the direction where the Blood Queen had left, a smile flashing in his eyes, and slowly said, "This girl has a fierce and stubborn temperament. As expected of Blood Absolute's daughter, even her vengeful nature is exactly the same."
Huang Qiming said worriedly, "Uncle, should we stop her? She has just broken through to a higher realm, her foundation is not yet stable, and her murderous aura is too strong. If she encounters misfortune in the Kunlun Realm, we will not be able to explain to the Blood God of War, and it will be a huge loss for our clan!"
The God of Huangshan slightly raised his hand, stopping Huang Qiming's words. His eyes were deep, revealing the secrets of eternity: "No need to stop her. Let her go and explore."
"Becoming a god at a young age, one is arrogant and has too deep an obsession. Only by suffering setbacks and hardships can one calm one's mind and shed one's violent tendencies."
"Although I cannot see through the old man Xumi's scheme, I am certain of one thing. Since someone like Xumi personally intervened to seal the secrets of heaven, her son is definitely not ordinary. As long as he is in the Kunlun Realm, Qingyin will not encounter any accidents."
He looked up and gazed in the direction of Kunlun Realm, his eyes filled with solemnity: "You must know that Kunlun Realm is still covered and firmly sealed by the last layer of divine power of the Holy Monk Sumeru."
"Back then, when Sumeru burned his Buddha body to protect Kunlun, the remaining Great Dao seal contained supreme power that connected all the ancient divine arrays that Kunlun had accumulated over millennia. Even those at the Boundless Realm who rashly forced their way in would face terrifying backlash!"
"Now that the seal on Kunlun is loosening and about to be broken, it is the moment when the residual divine power of Sumeru is most active. No one in the heavens dares to easily touch its edge, because Sumeru's Yuanhui Slash is no joke."
He paused, his gaze falling into the depths of the abyss, and slowly said, "Back then, I was severely injured by Biluozi, and my Dao was damaged. I had no hope of surviving the Yuanhui Tribulation. Fortunately, the Dark Blood Vine at the bottom of the abyss is about to mature. Once it is fully formed, I can use its essence to repair my Dao foundation and return to my peak."
"When the divine power of Sumeru dissipates and the passage opens, I will take you back to Hell!"