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Chapter 500 - 254: Sumeru and Senluo, Nine Netherworlds Below the Yellow Springs
The eerie fog swirled around, with a faint light flickering between heaven and earth, and a chill emanating from the soul spread in the air.
In front of him stood an enormous structure; the towering walls soared into the clouds, directly rising between heaven and earth. Waves of ghostly mist surged, and in the distance, a massive ancient bridge loomed obscurely within the fog.
If one paid close attention, the bridge would suddenly vanish, as if it were just an illusion.
Yet, when observed unintentionally, it would be found silently suspended there, unmoving.
Senluo Hall!
Zheng Yi immediately recognized it. The tall city gates reached into the clouds, and above the entrance, three large characters emanating with awe-inspiring and terrifying aura were inscribed.
"Senluo Hall? Could it be that the Yellow Springs River is below?!"
He looked at the three characters on the city wall with some astonishment, observed them for a while, and then turned his head to survey the distance, vaguely seeing a murky yellow river hidden within the dense ghostly mist.
The winding, murky yellow river appeared like a hidden yellow dragon within the thick fog, and at any moment, it could soar into the sky, with an overwhelming pressure imprinted on his mind.
Under the towering Senluo Hall, the heavy doors opened slightly, and Zheng Yi slipped through the crack, gradually disappearing into the interior.
...
Senluo Hall, Yellow Springs River.
Worry-free sigh, form and self vanish!
As Zheng Yi descended step by step towards the depths of the Yellow Springs River, he increasingly felt a sense of eeriness, with an inexplicable emotion swirling in his heart, as if he had truly crossed the path of life and death, walking backward along the Dao of the Netherworld.
Upon the downward path, resembling an abyss, there was always no end in sight.
The winding Yellow Springs rushed forth, creating a serpentine terrain, as if an ancient Yellow Springs dragon was slumbering here, and the roaring sound of the Yellow Springs River was its snoring.
But as he continued walking, Zheng Yi felt more and more familiarity.
Aside from the Yellow Springs River’s chilling aura that did seem to connect from the Nine Netherworld Hell to the Mortal World, the most significant discovery was that along the winding Yellow Springs, it unmistakably appeared as a gigantic Array embedded in the earth’s depths.
This feeling came in part because Zheng Yi’s Blood Talisman Treasure Body was inherently sensitive to arrays and talismanic techniques, and as an Array Master Level figure now, he could perceive it too.
Having read through the Daoist Scripture left by the Divine Thought Ancestor, he expanded his coverage using the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Divine Thought Celestial Strike Technique, with the powerful spirit of the Core Formation Stage, extending into the depths of the Yellow Springs, discerning some clues.
However, the person who arranged this took advantage of the great momentum of the world, integrating the winding Yellow Springs as if using the canvas of heaven and earth, painting with the terrain of the Sumeru Forest Cave Heaven, transcending Zheng Yi’s imaginable realm.
Therefore, while he could recognize the difference and specialization here, amidst the rolling torrent, he could only proceed against the Yellow Springs to see what the end might hold.
An inexplicably opened Void Gate, leading to an abyss-like end.
Zheng Yi felt that the version he accessed seemed different from others.
This made him more anxious and cautious.
Along the way, various cold and humid mists pervaded the air, and with each step downward, he felt as though he was being enveloped by the water vapor.
The more terrifying aspect was the eerie cold aura, which seemed to penetrate through the skin, deep into the bones, infiltrating the marrow, inducing an extreme chill as if it would freeze his Divine Soul.
Even with Zheng Yi’s current cultivation strength, he could not withstand it.
He avoided delving into the Yellow Springs River Water, perceiving that this section of the Yellow Springs River wasn’t merely textual but genuinely seemed like a portion of Yellow Springs River Water, wielded with great magical power from the Nine Netherworld Hell, containing the sinister Power of the Netherworld.
This was a mysterious power he had never encountered before.
Below, there were obvious traces of human excavation, with a long stone embankment directly leading downward into an endless dark depth that could not be discerned by naked eyes.
The cold aura grew ever more intense as he ventured deeper.
It felt as though a terrifyingly enormous beast in the dark depths was continuously exhaling, breathing, sending gusts of chilly winds rippling through space, heightening the spooky atmosphere spiraling in the air, leaving an immense sense of horror.
"Sumeru stands for Yang, Senluo for Yin, yet this hellish Yellow Springs River runs throughout?!"
"Could it be that my path differs from others? Due to the Heaven-Cutting Vine’s influence, rather than opening the upper Grotto Heaven’s Sumeru Palace, it led underground into this Senluo Hall..."
At this point, Zheng Yi realized that some deviation seemed to occur during the transmission process, leading him underground.
Due to the interference from the Golden Key’s transmission and the Heaven-Cutting Vine, Zheng Yi wasn’t sure where he ended up.
After all, the Divine Thought Ancestor initially came here when only at the Purple Mansion Realm, and finding a Heaven-Cutting Vine map clue was already fortunate.
The site marked on the map was merely one normal location within the Sumeru Forest Cave Mansion, and the hidden Secret Realms within were not known to everyone.
As mentioned by the righteous sect cultivators from the Little Five Elements Sword Sect and Brahma Heaven Temple, they painstakingly gathered the golden key fragments to enter the Secret Realm within this Cave Mansion.