Seeing Huo Yuhao's strange look, Snow Empress added: "Of course, Light and Dark Douluo didn't know the internal situation. The Spirit Transmission Tower's strong individuals above Super Douluo were scattered across different locations. Emperor Tian and I usually hold down the Extreme North and Star Dou respectively."
"At the Spirit Transmission Tower headquarters, the permanent individuals above Super Douluo were generally only the four Great Transmission Envoys and one Deputy Tower Master. At that time, the Deputy Tower Master was away on business. So to outsiders, there seemed to be only one Limit Douluo."
"However, Bear Lord and Red King had been invited there for some matters. And that Limit Douluo from the Ji clan, who didn't often appear in public, was also at headquarters in a sinecure role. Outsiders didn't know."
At this point, Snow Empress's expression became hard to describe. Her tone was strange. "At that time, Light and Dark Douluo took a Heaven-Tearing Claw from Bear Lord. Qianku Dicing gave her a staff strike. The Ji clan head's sword intent also landed on her. Red King and the four Great Transmission Envoys also acted... all in all, her injuries were not light. She was thrown out within a few minutes of entering. From that moment on, the relationship between the Spirit Transmission Tower and Shrek Academy became increasingly subtle."
"..."
After listening to Snow Empress's account, Huo Yuhao fell silent.
Were the Spirit Transmission Tower and Shrek just born incompatible?
Even after all that, Light and Dark Douluo had still barged into the Spirit Transmission Tower?
What — did you also want to slap "Vice Tower Master Qianku" across the face, the same as in the original?
Huo Yuhao was somewhat speechless. He shook his head inwardly and asked about what interested him. "You mentioned the Ji clan? Juechen's family has produced a Limit Douluo?"
Many of the founding members from ten thousand years ago had originally been members of Tang Sect. But in this era, the original work's Tang Sect basically never mentioned those names, nor was there any news of their descendants.
Had they declined, or had some problems arisen — no one knew.
He also wasn't sure whether joining the Spirit Transmission Tower could change the fate of their descendants. But if possible, he still hoped that the descendants of old friends had not fallen, that their glory continued.
"Yes, they have," the Snow Empress said in a low voice. "After all, they are descendants of the founding members. As long as they don't cross the line, they will always be taken care of.
A hundred years ago, someone named Ji Xuanqiu served as Tower Master in his youth. Later, in pursuit of the path of the sword, he stepped down and became an honorary elder, no longer involving himself in internal affairs.
However, Ji Xuanqiu's seniority even surpasses that of the Light and Dark Douluo. He is now approaching the end of his lifespan. As such, he has become one of the Spirit Transmission Tower's hidden pillars, living in seclusion. Because of your connection, he is relatively close to the Extreme North faction."
Huo Yuhao's eye twitched slightly."Hiding so many trump cards… who did you learn that from?"
Divine Artifacts, Limit Douluo allies — Snow Empress had lived quite an exciting life over the years.
"From you." Snow Empress smiled. "Of course, the main reason is that we don't need so many Limit Douluos out in the open. The Spirit Transmission Tower is already glorious enough. It's good to keep a few trick cards up our sleeves. The Eternal Clan also hid Qianku Qingfeng. Emperor Tian also has a First-Class God behind him. Who hasn't kept something hidden?"
"And what I've hidden isn't as much as the contingencies you've left."
Huo Yuhao smiled at this. "The little things from ten thousand years ago —I'm afraid they're useless in this day and age."
"That's not necessarily true..."
As they spoke, the two arrived home. The final words of their conversation dissipated into the darkness.
The next day, under the bright sun, Huo Yuhao, carried by Mu Ye's divine-grade mecha, flew toward the sea. The mecha's speed broke the sound barrier, emitting bursts of terrifying boom sounds.
At this speed, flying from Eastsea to Tiandou City would also take just over an hour.
The detection device carried inside the mecha could detect spirit power fluctuations within a certain range. But they had been flying for a long time, and the mecha's detection device still hadn't responded.
Sea spirit beasts — there were none left in the near seas...
Huo Yuhao's eyes flickered. He looked at Mu Ye in the pilot's seat. "Teacher — is it necessary to perform the secondary awakening in the sea?"
"Actually, it doesn't have to be done in the sea."
Mu Ye smiled. "The core of our sect's secondary awakening method is to press one's potential to the extreme limit, stimulating new potential through desperate circumstances. It doesn't necessarily have to be done in the ocean."
"It's just that the founder of the Body Sect
experienced a secondary awakening under the pressure of the deep sea, which has made this method of awakening in the sea a tradition of our sect. But it's not mandatory."
"However — there is one place very suitable for stimulating potential. After all, you're a freak. And now that sea spirit beasts have gathered in the deep sea, I'm worried that ordinary environment won't irritate you."
Mu Ye looked toward the distant ocean, the corner of his mouth lifting slightly. "That place is... the Abyssal Deep — one of the six deadly places."
Above the sea surface, fierce winds howled, dark clouds pressing down.
Huo Yuhao stood on the divine-grade mecha, his hair being torn by the salty sea wind, his robes flapping loudly. He stared at the strangely agitated sea area before him, his brow furrowed slightly.
Before him, the sea surface presented a huge vortex that the eye couldn't fully capture. The seawater was spinning and spinning sinking at an alarming speed, forming an abyss with no visible bottom. Waves dozens of meters high surged at the vortex's edge. Water splashed hundreds of meters into the air, only to be torn into fine mist by the fierce wind. The center of the vortex was as black as ink, as if it were a gateway to another world.
"The six deadly places — some of them formed naturally, others created later by external forces. The Abyssal Deep belongs to the latter."
Mu Ye also walked out of the Red-Grade mecha, looking at the Abyssal Deep before him, his gaze condensed. "Many years ago, special energy fell from beyond the sky into this sea area, turning it into a deadly place."
"Above the Abyssal Deep, there is a forbidden air realm — no one or any soul tool can fly. Inside the Abyssal Deep, the heaven and earth elemental forces of various attributes are repulsive — you cannot restore spirit power. Spiritual power and blood and energy force are also suppressed. If you stay inside for too long, you will turn into a dried corpse. It is a realm of death — no life likes to be there."
"A forbidden land." Huo Yuhao suddenly looked at Mu Ye. "This place is very similar to that."
Looking at Huo Yuhao with some surprise, Mu Ye praised him: "I didn't expect you to have knowledge of such things. This is usually information known only to powers with long inheritance."
In ancient times, certain regions, having angered the Divine Realm, had been subjected to divine punishment and were called forbidden lands. These places had been stripped of all possibility of life existence — even the heaven and earth elemental forces could not condense into form there.
But Skydream and the others, having received Elder Electrolux's explanation, understood the truth.
These forbidden lands had become this way because of the influence of divine power.
Divine power could simulate a small world, isolating the heaven and earth elemental forces. If a fragment of divine power remained in a certain place, it is equivalent to separating that piece of heaven and earth from the outside world, so the heaven and earth elemental forces naturally could not condense.
And the heaven and earth elemental forces were a necessary condition for biological survival. Without them, naturally, no life could exist.
"This deadly place has been explored by many Federation powers in cooperation. Back then, the Body Sect hadn't yet declined to its current state. We also got a share, which is how I know the secret secret of this place."
"Initially, people found some energy fragments here. But even after they were taken away, this place remained as it is. It probably won't be restored anytime soon. Those energy fragments have completely rewritten the rules here."
At this point, Mu Ye paused. Thinking that Huo Yuhao would eventually enter that level, he continued: "Once you reach a certain realm, you can sense the existence of the Divine Realm. But that induction suddenly disappeared many years ago. All the top lost all trace of the Divine Realm. And the timing of this deadly place's formation is very close to the Divine Realm's disappearance. So some suspect that the energy fragments should have fallen from the Divine Realm."
Huo Yuhao looked down at the ocean below. His expression was somewhat strange.
Coins dropped by the Divine Realm... so many.
Besides Demon Island, there was also a forbidden land created by the influence of divine power fragments.
Which deity did the divine power fragments left here before belong to?
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