Chaos Dao Sheng Jue

Chapter 1535 The Strange Altar

In the scene, Lu Chen, Gu Feng, and Ye Rushuang are roasting beef in a desolate wilderness. It is the first time Lu Chen has been with Ye Rushuang when he first participated in the Canglan Secret Realm.

There's also a scene of Lu Chen engaging in passionate lovemaking with Ye Rushuang and Zhou Hongfu in an unknown valley. This also marks the moment Lu Chen loses his virginity.

These fragments of reincarnation! Although they are only experiences from this lifetime, they are enough to prove that the power of the abyss of reincarnation can directly reach the deepest part of the soul!

Just then, a commotion came from the direction of Shimen.

The stone door, which had been closed, was suddenly forced open from the outside by a tremendous force!

A figure squeezed in from the side—it was Fang Xinyi!

At this moment, she was enveloped in a silvery-white radiance, and the reincarnation mist was neutralized and purified by the power of life as soon as it approached. But even so, her face was very pale, and she was obviously struggling to hold on.

"Lu Chen!" Fang Xinyi exclaimed when she saw Lu Chen on the disc and rushed over without hesitation.

"Don't come any closer!" Lu Chen quickly stopped them, "The power here will pull at your soul!"

But it was too late.

The moment Fang Xinyi stepped into the circle, an even stronger pulling force descended upon her.

She groaned, her body swaying as she nearly fell. The light of the Azure Wood Longevity Technique fluctuated violently, the silvery-white light points flickering like candle flames in the wind.

"I...can handle it!" She gritted her teeth and took one step at a time as she approached Lu Chen.

Five zhang, three zhang, one zhang...

Finally, she grabbed Lu Chen's arm.

The two powers instantly connected. Lu Chen's divine essence seemed to encompass all things, while Fang Xinyi's life force nourished everything; the two powers produced a wonderfully complementary effect.

Lu Chen's divine essence helped Fang Xin resist the pull of the power of reincarnation, while the power of life stabilized Lu Chen's soul foundation, which was beginning to waver.

In an instant, both of them felt the pressure around them decrease dramatically.

"How did you get in?" Lu Chen asked, both anxious and angry. "Where's Nezha?"

Fang Xinyi was panting, but her eyes were firm. "We can't let you take the risk alone. Besides... I feel that the power here has a special effect on my Green Wood Longevity Technique."

The cycle of flourishing and decay, the teetering on the brink of life and death—this is precisely the key to my next breakthrough in my cultivation technique.

Looking at the determination in her eyes, Lu Chen knew he couldn't persuade her anymore.

At that moment, the disk's rotational speed reached its peak.

The Yin Mirror erupted with an unprecedented deep blue light, and the entire Yin fish pattern lit up completely. The opposite Yang fish, though still incomplete, also lit up with a faint but stable incandescent white light.

The first stirrings of Yin and Yang!

Although it's incomplete, at least it's starting to "move".

From the center of the disc, a beam of eerie blue light suddenly shot upwards from the mirror's surface. The beam pierced through the gray mist and shot straight into the sky above the abyss.

Where the beam of light shone, the fog began to dissipate, revealing a breathtaking scene: the abyss was not bottomless.

About a thousand feet below, there was a huge, dilapidated altar. The altar was made of obsidian and was as large as a city.

In the center of the altar, there is a distinct, oddly shaped groove.

Around the altar, countless enormous skeletons were scattered. Some were humanoid, some were animaloid, and some were simply indescribable.

The smallest of these skeletons was ten zhang tall, and the largest was comparable to a mountain. They remained in the postures of their last moments before death, some fighting, some kneeling, and some howling to the sky. What they had in common was that they all faced the center of the altar, as if they were guarding it or worshipping it.

"Is that... the core of the forbidden area?" Fang Xinyi murmured.

Lu Chen did not answer; his gaze was drawn to a mural on the edge of the altar.

Despite the great distance and the dilapidated state of the mural, he was still able to make out the content of the mural.

Countless gods and demons surrounded the altar, pouring their own "Tao" and "power" into it. And above the altar, a blurry outline was taking shape.

The shape of that outline... resembles a tree.

A giant tree rooted in the void, its branches and leaves reaching into countless worlds.

Chaos Tree?

Lu Chen was deeply shaken. Could it be that someone attempted to cultivate the Chaos Tree in ancient times? And this altar, could it be used to... repair the world?

He remembered the old Taoist priest's instructions and the method he was looking for to repair the Divine Domain.

All the clues seemed to point to that place.

"We must go down," Lu Chen said in a deep voice.

"How do we get down?" Fang Xinyi looked into the abyss. "The power of reincarnation here is too strong. If we jump down directly, our souls might be torn apart halfway down."

Lu Chen pondered for a moment, then his gaze fell on the disc beneath his feet.

"Perhaps... it is an 'elevator' in itself."

Lu Chen tried to inject his divine essence into the disc, not to resist its rotation, but to... guide its direction.

Sure enough, with Lu Chen's intervention, the disc's rotation began to slow down, and then slowly... it sank downwards.

The disc carrying the two people passed through the gray mist and descended towards the altar at the bottom of the abyss.

The deeper one goes, the stronger the aura of reincarnation becomes. The oppressive power emanating from those skeletons, even across millennia, still sends shivers down one's spine.

Lu Chen saw that many of the skeletons still bore the marks of battle: cracks from sword cuts, charred marks from spells, and... some kind of pitch-black, seemingly all-consuming traces of erosion.

Those wounds are very similar to those caused by shadows in the illusion.

So, did these ancient gods and demons also die in that war against the shadow?

The disc stopped abruptly when it was still a hundred feet away from the altar.

It wasn't that Lu Chen controlled the stop, but rather that it was blocked by some kind of invisible barrier.

“There’s a barrier,” Fang Xinyi sensed. “A very powerful barrier, combining the laws of space, time, and reincarnation. Forcibly breaking through it might lead to unpredictable consequences.”

Lu Chen frowned. Had they come this far only to fail at the last hurdle?

Just then, the Yin Mirror in Lu Chen's hand emitted a faint blue light once more. The light projected onto the barrier, and a complex network of runes appeared on its surface. At the center of the network, there was a distinct gap—a gap shaped exactly like the Yin-Yang Mirror itself.

“As expected, a complete Yin-Yang Mirror is needed.” Lu Chen understood.

But Yang Jing is currently in Gu Tingyuan's hands, far, far away. What to do?

He suddenly remembered the mouthful of blood that Nezha had sprayed onto the Yangyu pattern.

The vitality contained in that blood, though faint, is indeed a yang, generative force.

Maybe...we could give it a try?

Lu Chen looked at Fang Xinyi: "I need your help. Infuse all your life force into the Yang Fish part."

"All of them?" Fang Xinyi was taken aback. "Then what about my protective gear..."

"I will protect you," Lu Chen said earnestly. "Trust me."

Eyes facing each other.

Fang Xinyi saw the determination and... a hint of pleading in Lu Chen's eyes. She took a deep breath and nodded: "Okay."

Fang Xinyi closed her eyes and activated the Azure Wood Longevity Technique at full power. Instead of protective silver-white light spots, the purest and most primal life force surged from her body, transforming into a silver-white pillar of light that poured into the cracks in the disc-shaped yang fish pattern.

The next second, Yangyu shone brightly!

Although still incomplete, its brightness increased tenfold in an instant! The blazing white light and the ghostly blue light of the Yin Fish merged to form a complete beam of Yin and Yang light, which shone directly into the gap in the barrier!

The barrier trembled violently, and the breach began to slowly melt.

It doesn't break, but rather melts away like ice and snow meeting the sun.

efficient!

Fang Xinyi's face paled visibly. Her life force was rapidly depleting, and her body began to tremble slightly.

"Hold on!" Lu Chen placed one hand on her back, continuously channeling chaotic power to help her stabilize her foundation.

Three breaths, five breaths, ten breaths...

Finally, the gap in the barrier melted, creating an opening large enough for two people to pass through.

"It's done!" Lu Chen shouted, picked up the almost exhausted Fang Xinyi, leaped off the disc, passed through the gap in the barrier, and landed steadily on the steps at the edge of the altar.

Almost the instant they landed, the gap in the barrier above rapidly closed...