Chapter 1 Ancient God Bird

The Chongming Bird, an ancient divine bird, has eyes with double pupils, a cry like a phoenix, and can drive away demons, expel ghosts, suppress beast plagues and all evils, and intimidate chīmèiwǎngliǎng (魑魅魍魉, mountain demons and water sprites).

The Chongming Li family of Li Hanshan inherited the bloodline of this divine bird, passed down to this day.

Just as the Yala blood within Su Zhou allowed him to easily sense the surrounding dragon species, Li Hanshan's divine bird blood could also sense the bloodline of the Golden-Winged Great Peng bird responding in the distance. Although they were ancient rivals, they were also part of the nine chicks guided by the ancient phoenix.

However, since the Zhengguo (正国, Righteous Nation) officials had already guessed that there might be a Golden-Winged Great Peng bird in the ruins before entering, Li Hanshan didn't say anything when he sensed the other party. This was also his habit; he wouldn't speak recklessly unless it was absolutely necessary.

But now, from the distant central five mountains, there came a series of auras sufficient to stimulate his bloodline awakening, transmitting a lineage memory with the name 'warning'!

That was the aura of Five-Colored Divine Light!

"There's a peacock... not an ordinary peacock, but a 'Divine Bird Peacock'!"

Speaking consecutively after a long silence, Li Hanshan rarely looked solemnly towards the center of the Kunlun Secret Realm at midnight, and said, "Its strength is very strong, let's hurry up and meet up!"

At the same time, in the central area of the Kunlun Secret Realm.

Within the sealed hall located at the foot of the central five mountains, on the rocky ridge, dim light was born.

The tiger claw seal, already stained with darkness and covered with strands of strange runes, had lost most of its effectiveness at this time, and at the end of the increasingly active black giant cave, came a faint sigh.

"Garuda, ah, Garuda, you are truly useless."

The emotion in this voice was truly regrettable, extremely disappointed and exasperated: "When did even a golden-winged bird with the same name as me lose to the dragonborn? Garuda, is your title of divine bird fake?"

It could be seen that with the sound of this voice, the seal that Garuda had opened before, releasing a batch of fierce beasts, began to crumble inch by inch along the previous lines under the spreading dim spiritual light. The voice, as if from a distant other side, became clearer and clearer, brighter and brighter, like the song of a phoenix.

"The method by which you cracked the Kunlun Secret Realm's authority was taught by me, and the formation knowledge and rune common sense to open the seal were also taught by me. If it weren't for the remaining power of the Nine Spirits Golden Mother to suppress it, we would have broken the seal long ago and come to this world."

"And now, the time has come."

As the voice fell, a rumbling earthquake was heard from the depths of the silent hall. It seemed to come from a secret place under the Nine Hells, shaking the divine mountain and the earth: "The Kunlun Realm, one of the three thousand blessed lands directly connected to the Immortal Realm, the ancestral land of those damned demon gods, will now belong to us!"

"Rumble!"

Whether it was Su Zhou and his party rushing to the vicinity of the divine mountain, or Tang Yuan and the others, the Qin Xing Academy team, who were approaching Su Zhou, or even the spiritual beasts, insects, and birds living in every part of this vast secret realm, all heard a buzzing sound as if from the deepest part of the world.

And at this time, a black-red bright beam of light spurted out from the black giant cave, penetrating the hall and straight into the sky!

The pitch-black night was split by a line, and a black-red light pillar full of blood energy stood between the heaven and the earth!

Even outside the Kunlun Secret Realm, on the Kunlun Mountains of Zhengguo, the secret realm gate that had been closed and was being urgently opened by the technical personnel of the Dao Ji Bureau (道纪局, Dao Records Bureau) began to shake violently, causing the clouds to roll.

All the spiritual beasts and birds collected in the camp all turned from their previous anxiety and restlessness to fearfully bowing their heads, instinctively giving up resistance and submitting to the pressure of this true king—unlike the Great Peng Golden-Winged Bird's dragon-hunting strength, the bloodline of the 'Divine Bird Peacock' inherited the majesty of the divine bird king, the Phoenix!

One of the most powerful divine birds, the avian king from the ancient Beast God Realm, finally seized the opportunity after a long wait, shattered the seals of the old immortal gods, and obtained the key to a wider world—so it let out a long cry, wantonly venting its joy!

"It's very similar to the fluctuations when the secret realm was opened... this is a sign of the connection between the two worlds!"

Inside the secret realm, after crossing a hill and looking far into the distance, seeing a corner of the sealed hall, Su Zhou exhaled a breath—he was most sensitive to this strange space-time fluctuation, followed by Garuda, who was frequently in contact with the seal.

Noticing the rising black-red light pillar, its face changed suddenly: "Impossible, I clearly maintained the integrity of the seal, how did it break it?!"

"As expected? Those fierce beasts you brought before were released by opening the seal, right? Tsk, this is giving them a chance. Don't leave any chance to these sealed guys, otherwise they will definitely find a way out, just like you can't use a door crack to block a cockroach."

Now was not the time to accuse Garuda of being too young and naive. Amidst Yala's angry rebuke of 'What are you implying, you little brat?', Su Zhou narrowed his eyes slightly, sensing the aura in the distance: "Its strength is only at the high-level of the Extraordinary Realm. This light pillar is just a ritual, with a lot of pure power, but it can't be used for combat. Sigh, why aren't any of these people stupid? It would be great if they were a little stupider."

Saying this, he shrugged and said to the two people beside him who were still watching the black-red light pillar, "Let's go, now that the door is open, let's block it again."

However, as if in response to Su Zhou's words, the crimson light pillar no longer probed straight towards the sky, but contracted and fell, turning into countless streamers like umbrella ribs, falling to the ground and forming a semi-circular huge shield, firmly protecting the sealed hall in the center, covering the nearly metal-like rocky mountains and everything in it within a few kilometers around it.

This world-breaking formation, created by sacrificing the lives of more than 100,000 'servant species' from the other world, had the ability to guard the teleportation port, and the duration was enough to stabilize the two-world passage to the point of being indestructible.

Su Zhou and his party, who rushed to the side of this black-red translucent shield as quickly as possible, naturally wouldn't have any other nonsense.

Faced with this shield, their first thought was to concentrate their strength and prepare to blast a hole in this great formation.

"My spiritual power recovers quickly, I'll try first."

Boom! Thunder sounded, and blue currents gathered, scurrying in all directions. Spiritual power rose in the air, and even tiny lightning could be faintly seen flashing in the air.

The moisture in Su Zhou's body was evaporated by this overly violent thunder light, rising a large white mist above his head.

But, just as Su Zhou held his breath and concentrated most of his spiritual power to condense a thunder spear that even the Demon Emperor's dragon horns could barely withstand, and shot it out with the violent sound of tearing the air, the result was not satisfactory.

Boom!

The blue thunder light brought a long-lasting light mark in the eyes of the crowd watching this scene. In the dazzling flash, a circle of ring-shaped shock waves, accompanied by the high heat of the thunder, destroyed all the surrounding flowers, plants, and debris.

However, the black-red shield was unusually solid. Hit by Su Zhou's thunder spear, which could probably electrocute an unresisting Golden-Winged Bird to the point of being half-dead, or even kill it in seconds if he was lucky, it only twisted and shook slightly, vaguely appearing a small hole that could only fit a fist through, and then rapidly healed completely within a few seconds.

"This magic array is so hard."

Seeing that what could be called his current peak thunder technique had failed, Su Zhou couldn't help but frown, and even the one person and one bird beside him didn't know what to do—Bai Canglang immediately gave up his idea of ​​shooting a special bullet, his attack power was not as good as Su Zhou's thunder spear at all, and condensing all his spiritual power would be a waste of effort.

And Garuda was naturally the same. Its demon true form's full blow was probably going to be inferior to Su Zhou's charged blow by half, let alone this little time, its spiritual power hadn't recovered half yet.

Although, the three fell into distress.

But in fact, the existence on the Beast God Realm's side was even more shocked.

"How is this dragonborn's output so high?! It can actually slightly penetrate the great formation?!"

As the black giant cave in the hall slowly expanded, the power that could be conducted through it also became higher and higher. The clear peacock cry also became clearer and clearer, and it carried a trace of incomprehension: "Even with the path of Lei Ze, and cultivating thunder magic together, it is basically impossible to have this kind of output at the 'general level'..."

The Beast God Realm's rank division is similar to that of the ancient demon god system, both are 'soldier, general, king, god', and the highest 'Great Sage' realm. The Extraordinary Realm is the advancement of a demon general, and another step up is the demon king, the overlord of a race... but races like the dragon and phoenix, who are born extraordinary, are different, their kings are in the demon god realm.

Of course, with the decline of spiritual energy, and its subsequent recovery, there are no higher-level existences in the Beast God Realm now. Even the king of a race is only in the Extraordinary Realm. Now seeing Su Zhou's output, he couldn't help but be surprised: "If it had this kind of power, then Garuda's loss wouldn't be unjust. I underestimated it. After all, even with natural restraint, it still needs to be at the same level. Facing this kind of alien, it's amazing that it can last so long."

"But facing me, it's your bad luck."

Thinking like this, at the end of the black giant cave, two five-colored glazed plumes vaguely lit up, constantly rotating in the order of blue, yellow, red, black, and white, revealing an endless mysterious aura.

Not only the people in the secret realm reacted to this, but outside the secret realm, around the Zhengguo ruins exploration camp that was closed outside the secret realm, several fully armed military units had arrived.

[An alien space-time reaction has appeared inside the Kunlun Secret Realm. It can be almost determined that it is an otherworld passage]

Whether it was Yan Sheng himself, or the voice of the artificial intelligence imitating him, was ringing in the conference hall. The many decision-makers present all had deep eyes and frowned tightly: "Otherworld invasion? I didn't expect things to suddenly become so serious—how is it going, when will the secret realm passage be opened?"

"Uncertain."

The one who answered was Jiang Sheng. He was observing the data of the Dao Records Bureau cracking the space-time gate, but looking at his expression, the progress was obviously not smooth: "The space-time data inside the secret realm is changing very complexly, we cannot stably open the teleportation gate—but give me an hour, and it shouldn't be a problem to just teleport the people inside out."

"It's good that people can be teleported out, let the secret realm be temporarily given to them—when the secret realm gate reopens, if there is really no way to take it back, we can just drop a hydrogen bomb."

The one who spoke was Bing Sheng, who had rushed over. He was an old man without hair and with snow-white eyebrows. Sitting beside him was the equally old Jun Sheng. The two were responsible for strategic weapons and special strike forces, and conventional combat forces, respectively, and what he said was extremely in line with the characteristics of his management scope.

However, this sentence was not a joke. The Thirty-Six Sages Central Committee was serious.

If the Kunlun Secret Realm was occupied by alien beasts similar to those of the Europa Alliance, even if they were beasts without intelligence, they might accidentally acquire many demon god inheritances within it—rather than benefit others, it would be better to just blow it up, anyway, there were so many demon god inheritances, and they were all mountains, there would always be quite a few left.

As the orthodox inheritor of the Kunlun Secret Realm, rather than having others steal the things left by their ancestors, it would be better to just smash it.

Of course, this situation was based on the premise that there was really no way to take it back, as long as there was the slightest possibility, the Zhengguo side would not do such a prodigal thing—saying it was just to strengthen their determination and momentum.

"What is the internal situation?"

Shu Sheng was asking about communication. The communication system of the exploration team was specially made, and it was not an electromagnetic signal, but a certain improved communication magic array. In theory, as long as there was spiritual interaction between the two worlds, information could be transmitted across different space-times.

"We are trying to connect..."

Within the secret realm, Su Zhou had already sensed that the exploration team led by Tang Yuan and others had approached him and the others.

But they still hadn't found a way to pass through this barrier.

After trying various methods, whether it was condensing power into a thunder drill to drill through, or digging deep into the ground to see if they could bypass it, Su Zhou found that this suddenly appearing formation was truly complete and extremely strong.

The black-red great formation transmitted a thick life spiritual energy, which was often called blood energy. It was the non-attribute spiritual energy that was most closely connected with the soul and spirituality, residing in the human body. Its characteristic was that it was extremely inert, and hardly reacted with other spiritual energy. It was the most stable material for various great formations, and would hardly be affected by any situation.

This blood energy great formation, which required the lives of at least tens of thousands of people to condense, could probably only be hard-pushed if you wanted to pass through it—but Su Zhou felt that even if he released the remaining 50% of his power and used his own fire-attribute spiritual power to strengthen himself, unleashing his strongest explosive force, he probably wouldn't be able to really blast it open.

"Yala, Yala, what do you think? How can I get through this barrier?"

Without passing through this barrier, there would be basically no way to reach the control room in the central mountains, and there would be no way to master the authority of the Kunlun Secret Realm. Su Zhou asked Yala in his mind, but the snake spirit did not reply.

However, after confirming that Yala really didn't pay attention to him, Su Zhou immediately understood: "Yala doesn't reply to me, which means that with my abilities, or the conditions present, it is possible to pass through this barrier. Not answering itself is actually a kind of answer."

With this thought reminder, Su Zhou immediately thought of one thing that could indeed allow him to pass through the barrier.

"It's just, it's a bit dangerous."

Before Su Zhou could formulate the still unconfirmed thoughts in his mind, suddenly, behind the barrier, there were violent fluctuations again.

In the sealed hall that had been completely shrouded in blood-red light, all kinds of alien beasts with blood-red eyes, tall and stout bodies, began to pour out!

Among the vast rocky ridges at the foot of this mountain, black groups of beasts were surging out of the ancient hall in an endless stream. They roared and galloped out, crushing the ancient cyan jade road full of dust and dirt, setting off bursts of dust.

From a distance, it looked like a pool of ink spreading in all directions, turning into a jet-black color that permeated the surrounding earth.

And among the gushing groups of beasts, there was a divine and huge peacock, with long feathers all over its body in blue and white colors, like jade, walking out of the deep shadows of the hall. Surrounded by the groups of beasts, it appeared in everyone's field of vision.

This was a divine bird that could be called beautiful and majestic. Compared to the original form of the Golden-Winged Great Peng bird displayed by Garuda, it was not too tall, only close to five meters high, and the wingspan was only about ten meters.

Its aura and pressure far exceeded that of Garuda, who was young like a child—and the two colored plumes behind it, overflowing with colored light, further set off its extraordinary aura, carrying a terrifying power originating from the ancient times.

"Garuda, you are really embarrassed."

A clear cry came from afar. Just hearing it, Garuda knew that this huge peacock divine bird was the voice of the high-level of the Beast God Realm that had been communicating with it at the end of the black giant cave: "How is it? After seeing the barbarism and ferocity of humans, do you intend to turn to my Beast God Realm?"

Saying this, it turned its head and looked at Su Zhou and the others who had fiery eyes and were licking their lips, and said rather indifferently, "As for you humans with divine blood... um, although it's stinky, at least the bloodline is useful."

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