High-Level Martial Era - Chapter 893

Chapter 893: Chapter 455: Battle of the Ancestral Realm
 

Li Yuan advanced along the Sky-reaching Path, and before long, he quietly noticed that Jing Kui, Dong Pan, He Feng, and the others who had accompanied him had disappeared without a trace.

Even the vast Jue Xing Ancient City below had become blurred.

On this ancient, blue stone path, only he remained.

“Starry Sky Nine Passes, it should be starting now,” Li Yuan mused.

As a Demigod Saint Heir, Jue Xing Ancient City had already passed on countless pieces of information accumulated over billions of years to them.

Thus, Li Yuan was very clear about the process of the battle in the Ancestral Realm.

The first pass is to step onto the Sky-reaching Path, which only a Demigod can do.

The second pass is the Starry Sky Nine Passes, which requires sufficient strength to break through; this is the preliminary selection.

As Li Yuan pondered,

“Trialist, the Starry Sky Nine Passes hold the danger of life and death. If you feel the trial exceeds your limit, immediately return. Forcing your way through will endanger your life,” a message was directly transmitted into Li Yuan’s mind.

The next moment.

“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”

On the path ahead, the originally tranquil void suddenly shook violently, followed by a flock of bird-like creatures resembling crows bursting out of nowhere.

These black birds, swift as lightning, swooped toward Li Yuan with a screeching sound.

“[Target life, Life Level 42, killing can harvest Spiritual Nature Nourishment],” Li Yuan employed Divine Palace Exploration immediately, and the results made his eyes flash with surprise.

Are these real living creatures?

This shouldn’t be!

According to the information from Jue Xing Ancient City, all the trials encountered on the Sky-reaching Path should only be condensations of the Ancestral Realm Origin Power, so how could they harvest Spiritual Nature Nourishment?

But there was no time for Li Yuan to ponder anymore, as the black birds came rushing madly at him.

“Vanish!” With a slight shift in his gaze that turned eerily dark, an invisible fluctuation shot out from Li Yuan.

If the Divine Palace Exploration showed they were real life forms, they should have souls.

“Boom~” As if struck by a heavy hammer, Li Yuan’s Soul Attack directly shattered the soul cores of these black birds.

Puff~ Puff~ Puff~ The dozens of awe-inspiring, Demigod-level birds dissipated in an instant.

“[Slain Fourth Rank life form, harvested Spiritual Nature Nourishment]”

“[Slain Fourth Rank life…]” A series of notifications flashed on the panel of the Divine Palace.

This made Li Yuan even more baffled.

“It’s really strange, judging from the way these Demigod-level birds vanished, they seem similar to the Divine Fire Warriors I encountered in the Divine Fire Hall, clearly energy constructs,” Li Yuan thought to himself, “And Divine Fire Warriors are impervious to soul attacks and are not real living beings.”

“These birds, when they rushed over just now, had eyes full of Spiritual Light, why would they possess such Spiritual Nature? Could they actually be real life forms?” Li Yuan pondered.

Can a mere gathering of pure energy also constitute a life form?

“Ancestral Realm.”

“Who knows what other secrets it holds,” Li Yuan mused, without delving too deeply and continued to move forward along the Sky-reaching Path.

Not long after, the second wave of Demigod-level birds appeared, their aura noticeably stronger.

Still, they were all annihilated by a single glance from Li Yuan.

…

In this manner, wave after wave of Demigod-level Exotic Beasts emerged, with increasing difficulty, but with Li Yuan’s strength, he naturally swept them all away with his Soul Attack.

Without lifting a hand.

The only thing filling him with doubts was that, under his Divine Palace Exploration, all nine waves of Exotic Beasts that appeared were all identified as ‘real life.’

Upon annihilating the ninth wave of Demigod Exotic Beasts.

“Congratulations, combatant, for passing the Starry Sky Nine Passes,” a gentle voice suddenly rang out in Li Yuan’s mind: “You are about to enter the Ancestral Realm. Before the battle in the Ancestral Realm commences, please choose a name for yourself.”

“Jue Xing Xu Yuan,” Li Yuan responded directly.

In the Battle of the Ancestral Realm, every combatant had to choose a code name for themselves; this was an ironclad rule… and according to the orders from Jue Xing Ancient City, all members of the Divine Fire Hall should adopt the naming convention Jue Xing + their real name during the event.

This was to prove the might of Jue Xing Ancient City, the ‘Number One Power of Heaven and Earth.’

“Jue Xing Xu Yuan, welcome to the Ancestral Realm,” the gentle voice rang out.

Whoosh!

An invisible force enveloped Li Yuan, who, unable to resist, vanished instantly from this ancient path.

The scenery changed.

“A wilderness?” Li Yuan only felt an unmatched power descend upon him, and he had already arrived on a desolate plain.

Looking out, the land stretched endlessly, with mountain ranges sprawling across.

“Is this the Ancestral Realm?” Li Yuan wondered to himself, as there were as many as nine suns in the sky.

Sunlight covered the land.

“I can no longer connect with Brother Jiang Yuan from Jue Xing Ancient City,” Li Yuan thought to himself, “And the soul connection with Little Ice seems to be temporarily unusable as well.”

“Can’t leave this place either?”

As Li Yuan tried, he found that he could not move beyond the three-meter area surrounding him, as if an invisible barrier imprisoned him there.

This was because the Battle of the Ancestral Realm had not truly begun.

The Sky-reaching Path would last ten days! Those who enter first must wait quietly for ten days.

After ten days, when the Sky-reaching Path dissipates, the Battle of the Ancestral Realm will truly begin.

Hum~

Suddenly, a flash of light appeared, and a faint purple token, emitting a somewhat mysterious aura, materialized before Li Yuan.

“Whew!” Li Yuan reached out to receive the token.

As soon as his fingertip touched it, the token transformed into a stream of purple light that wound around Li Yuan’s wrist.

At the same time, it formed a vague connection with Li Yuan and a Spiritual Imprint was established.

The bonding was complete.

“Truly marvelous,” Li Yuan mused, concentrating slightly and sensing a wealth of information contained within the luminous wristband.

It was all about the rules of the Battle of the Ancestral Realm.

“Each combatant will receive a ‘Boundary Order,’ inside of which is infused with three ‘Transmission Energies.’ In any encounter with life-threatening danger, activating the Transmission Energy will ensure your survival,”