Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension-Chapter 339 - 255: True Dragon, Chi Demon Banner, and Sudden Changes

Chapter 339: Chapter 255: True Dragon, Chi Demon Banner, and Sudden Changes

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They were so disoriented because, at the northern side of the great hall, there was a gigantic seated giant.

This giant was merely sitting yet was thirty feet tall, with a face as dark and ghostly as a ghoul, fierce and gruesome in appearance. However, its flesh was golden, appearing fully luscious and lifelike,

If you didn’t look at its head, this bizarre giant appeared very majestic and solemn, but the boundless murderous aura constantly emanating from its body was utterly terrifying.

It was peculiar that there was a big hole in the giant’s forehead, looking as though something had burrowed out from it.

“Ghost Chi Clan! This is… a Great Chi Jian!”

Just as everyone was utterly frightened, Wei Yong’an, the Golden Core Ancestor of the Wei Clan, suddenly cried out in horror.

“What? This ghost-faced giant is actually the legendary extinct Ghost Chi Clan. How can such a ferocious being like Great Chi Jian perish here unknown and unnamed?”

Those who had never heard of it were utterly clueless, while those who knew the reputation of the Ghost Chi Clan immediately turned pale, including Zhao Sheng, whose expression slightly changed.

They had only read about the Ghost Chi Clan in exceedingly secret scrolls, yet never imagined they would see the remnants of a Great Chi Jian’s golden body in these ruins, which was incredibly hard to believe.

The Great Chi Jian could capture and kill True Dragons and slay Divinity Transformation True Monarchs, a supremely ferocious creature.

Now, few in the Cultivation World knew that the Ghost Chi Clan, to which the Great Chi Jian belonged, once were the darlings of the Heavenly Dao and also the domineering leaders of the Tianzhu Realm, their status no less than today’s Human Clan.

Twenty thousand years ago, the Spirit Clan seized the Tianzhu Realm. Due to the oppression by the Spirit Clan, the Ghost Chi Clan secretly aided the weaker Human Clan to summon the ancient Human Race of the Taiyi Spirit Realm.

From then on, the war between the Spirit Clan and the Human Clan spread throughout the Tianzhu Realm.

In the battle to seize the realm twenty thousand years ago, it eventually resulted in the Human Clan’s victory, and they became the new rulers of the Tianzhu Realm.

Had the Qing Chi Clan complied and honestly accepted the Human Clan’s dominance in the Tianzhu Realm, they wouldn’t have ended up with their entire clan exterminated.

But how could a former overlord submit to others? Thus, in the years that followed, the Ghost Chi Clan repeatedly rebelled, continually sparking wars.

By ten thousand years ago, after countless defeats over ten thousand years, the power of this clan could only shrink to a corner of the East Demon Continent, nearing the brink of extermination.

However, even on the brink of extinction, the entire Ghost Chi Clan still failed to repent, ultimately attracting a cataclysmic disaster.

Ten thousand years ago, the Ghost Chi Clan repeated their old trick, using the Ten Thousand Spirit Blood Sacrifice Array as a lure and the Nine Demon Banners as a tool, harnessing the power of the Nine Stars Alinement to blast open a ten-mile-long space-time rift, eventually leading to an invasion by the Netherworld Ghost Realm.

This was the cause of the first great war between two realms ten thousand years ago.

The outcome needs no further mention—the Netherworld Ghost Realm was eventually repelled, and the Ghost Chi Clan was annihilated, becoming a taboo of the Human Clan to the extent of erasing all traces of their existence.

While browsing the secret scrolls of the war between the two realms, Zhao Sheng also learned a bit about the Ghost Chi Clan.

According to his knowledge, the Great Chi Jian held an unsurpassed status within the Ghost Chi Clan.

A force of the Absolute Peak in the Tianzhu Realm like it could not possibly have gone unrecorded in the great war between the realms ten thousand years ago.

Yet strangely, this Great Chi Jian truly had no records as if it appeared out of nowhere.

The only possibility was that it had fallen before the great war between the two realms had even started.

Zhao Sheng thought more deeply, noticing that the style of this palace was completely different from that of the Tianzhu Realm, yet, paradoxically, its owner was a Great Chi Jian.

It was indeed very peculiar!

Could it be…

As he was lost in thought, after the initial shock, everyone in the great hall gradually calmed down, their hearts sinking simultaneously, realizing they were now in big trouble.

The news of the Great Chi Jian’s remnants being here would definitely cause a huge uproar, and the emergence of these ruins would inevitably be impossible to conceal.

What was more troublesome was that such Divinity Transformation Level ruins often contained immense treasures.

Once involved, the risk would be greater than anything.

Let alone the fact that their Foundation Establishment strength could hardly bear it, even Golden Core Masters would not fare well.

A small mistake could lead to death and the annihilation of their clans!

If there weren’t many people here, they would definitely be… silenced!

All cultivators who had reached the Foundation Establishment were no fools, and the perilous consequences of this situation were clear after a little thought.

It was exactly because the consequences were so easily anticipated that, after a brief reflection, everyone’s expressions grew immensely solemn, and their moods became unusually tense and uneasy.

This turn of events was far beyond what Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators could handle.

In fact, some astute Foundation Establishment cultivators had already subtly distanced themselves from the Golden Core Masters.

Just then, someone looked up, and suddenly their eyes widened with a face full of horror as they exclaimed, “Look… what is that?”

“Ah!”

“Dragon… a Five-clawed True Dragon!”

Everyone followed the sound and looked up, involuntarily gasping in unison.

Above them was a slender, immensely large True Dragon skeleton, embedded in the dark palace walls of the great hall, with antler-like horns, a humpbacked head, and five claws, stretching over a hundred feet long. The entire skeleton appeared ominously purple, with purple fog continuously seeping from the bones, forming a thick layer of purple mist around the skeleton—it was the poisonous gas naturally emanating from the True Dragon Skeleton.

“This truly is… a True Dragon skeleton! Antler horns, humped head, five claws, spine bones count to eighty-one, it must be at least Tenth Rank!” someone exclaimed, their face full of disbelief as they shouted.

Although the True Dragon skeleton was long dead, it was still so terrifying. One could only imagine how formidable this True Dragon had been in its day.