Chapter 1009 Strange Cave

Click!
There was a sudden slight crisp sound under Zhang Qian's feet.

"careful!"

The World Tree cried out anxiously. Zhang Qian looked down and his pupils shrank immediately. He saw that he was standing on a rotten sword with only half of it left.

The broken sword was originally covered with rust, but after Zhang Qian stepped on it, the thick rust fell off, revealing the sword body shining with cold light inside.

What is strange is that after billions of years of decay, the sword body is still shining without the rust covering it. What is even more incredible is that because the rust has fallen off, the moment the broken sword body appeared, it burst into a burst of sword light that makes people's skin cold.

And Zhang Qian's foot was stepping on this ball of sword light.

Bang!
His shoes instantly turned into ashes, and the sharp sword light flashed and enveloped Zhang Qian along his feet.

hum!
The Xuanhuang Pagoda appeared, shedding thick Xuanhuang Dao Qi, barely resisting the invasion of the sword light. Even so, these sword lights that had existed for billions of years cut deep marks in the Xuanhuang Dao Qi, and it took a long time to recover.

"Such sword intent!"

Zhang Qian frowned, and after using the Xuanhuang Pagoda to block the sword light, he sensed a sword intent emerging that was no less powerful than that of the Sword-Devouring Ancestor.

"The owner of this broken sword was also a sword cultivator who had reached the realm of One Sword to Establish the Dao, and his sword realm was even stronger!"

Zhang Qian thought of it immediately.

At this time, a strange thing happened. The sword light that burst out, under the blessing of inexplicable sword intent, did not dissipate for a long time. After failing to break through the defense of Xuanhuang Dao Qi, the sword light flew straight to a ruined sacred mountain in front of it at an incredibly fast speed, as if something there was attracting it.

"Follow up and take a look!"

The World Tree called out, and the two of them carefully followed the sword light.

Along the way, Zhang Qian looked at the ground carefully to avoid stepping on any rotten divine weapon again and causing any accidents.

As time passed, the sword light gradually became invisible. Just when Zhang Qian and the World Tree wanted to speed up to catch up, the sword light in the air suddenly turned and fell straight to a sacred mountain below, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Rumble!
Suddenly, the sacred mountain where the sword light fell shook violently, making a rumbling sound, and Zhang Qian felt that the ground beneath his feet was shaking.

The location of the secret place that the Great Xia Immortal Emperor had calculated was not far behind this sacred mountain.

When the two arrived at the foot of the sacred mountain, they looked up and saw that the mountain was covered with jagged rocks and was barren and lifeless. The top of the sacred mountain was a slope, smooth and flat, as if it had been cut out by someone using a peerless swordsmanship.

The terrifying thing was that a trace of sword intent would occasionally emanate from that flat slope. The sword intent was very faint, but no matter whether it was the World Tree or Zhang Qian, the moment they sensed this sword intent, their faces changed drastically.

The sword intent went straight through their souls. Although it was not directed at the two of them, it made their true spirits tremble. The sword intent seemed like the supreme existence, the original existence, a great force that suppressed all sword methods and even all laws.

"Daluo?"

Zhang Qian guessed that such a terrifying sword intent could only be possessed by a great being who had achieved the status of a Golden Immortal through swordsmanship.

After waiting for a while and seeing that there was no other reaction to the sword intent emanating from the sacred mountain, the two of them boldly walked into the mountain.

"There are so many ruins. Could this have been a supreme sect in the past?" Zhang Qian saw countless ruins in the mountains. After so many years, these ruins already showed signs of petrification. Judging from the scale of these ruins, the grandeur and magnificence of these buildings were beyond imagination.

"The Thirty-three Heavens are the thirty-three layers of the infinite heaven and earth. These heavens and earth should have been like fairyland, with palaces everywhere and sacred mountains everywhere. I believe there is no shortage of spiritual energy. Why did this fairyland become a ruin?"

Zhang Qian was secretly curious. The boundless world where he and the World Tree were located was the eighteenth heaven. This was a world even larger than the Great Thousand Worlds, and there was no end in sight. The Thirty-three Heavens were thirty-three infinite worlds connected together, which were equivalent to the size of thirty-three Great Thousand Worlds.

Who was the person who built this place in the first place?

Being able to build such a magnificent heaven among all the heavens and myriad worlds, the original owner of this place might be more terrifying than the Golden Immortal.

"Look!"

The World Tree suddenly stretched out its hand and pointed. Zhang Qian looked in the direction indicated and saw that there was a huge dark hole on the top of the flat mountain. The hole was not visible at the foot of the mountain at all. The two of them could only see it clearly when they walked to a position close to the halfway point of the mountain.

"The sword light just now must have fallen into that cave. I don't know what's inside."

The appearance of the strange cave on the top of the mountain immediately made Zhang Qian and Shijieshu think about it. Zhang Qian even thought about the treasure.

Half an hour later, the two finally reached the edge of the mountain top. Standing next to the sloping mountain top, the huge cave was clearly visible, but at first glance there was only darkness and nothing.

Zhang Qian glanced at the World Tree and picked up a piece of gravel from under his feet.

Woohoo...!
Zhang Qian threw the stone hard, and it made a sound of breaking through the air and fell towards the cave.

When the stone fell into the cave, Zhang Qian hurriedly concentrated and listened, but after waiting for a long time, no sound came out, as if this cave was a bottomless pit.

"Strange, why didn't you respond?"

As soon as Zhang Qian finished speaking, the sacred mountain under his feet suddenly shook violently, as if the entire sacred mountain came alive.

The two flew into the air, not daring to fly too high. Looking carefully, they saw that the dark cave was shaking with the sacred mountain, and some cracks appeared around the cave entrance, spreading like a spider web.

This was nothing, but after a while, from the spreading cracks, traces of strange black water, which was so dark that it was shiny, gradually seeped out.

The black water is seeping and flowing along the cracks, but at a slow speed.

Dangdangdang...!
Suddenly, the looming sword intent in the sacred mountain made clear sword sounds. The sword sounds were very rapid, and along with the sword sounds, the sword intent that suppressed everything suddenly condensed. The sword intent that was originally scattered on the entire slope of the mountain top condensed into a shadowy thousand-foot-long divine sword.

The divine sword stood in the void, looking extremely illusory, as if it could be blown away by a gust of wind. However, as soon as the sword shadow appeared, the entire area around the sacred mountain was suddenly filled with a terrifying murderous aura.

Zhang Qian and the World Tree's bodies swayed, and they were unable to maintain their positions in the air. In an instant, they were suppressed to the top of the mountain by the pressure of the sword shadow. Not to mention that Zhang Qian's immortal body trembled violently under the pressure of the sword. At this moment, he felt as if countless thousands of feet high sacred mountains were pressing down on him. The incredible force made it impossible for him to even stand!

Clang...!
The sharp sword sound rang out again, and the tip of the ten thousand foot sword turned. The overwhelming sword pressure dissipated and all condensed on the tip of the sword, and the tip of the sword was aimed at the black water seeping out from the cracks in the cave.

Dong Dong Dong...!
Suddenly, there were loud collisions and roars. The sword light that Zhang Qian had stepped on flew out of the cave. Behind the sword light, a stream of extremely dark water rushed out. The water seemed extremely viscous and shiny black. The sword light and the black water kept colliding and fighting, making a loud noise that shook the void.

(End of this chapter)