Poison God's Heritage

Chapter 590 Power

"What do you mean," the Lord of Lords replied as he too was scanning the tunnel hundreds of times in the span of seconds.

"There isn't even an issue in the tunnel," he said.

"Then how did we miss him?" asked the Lord of Lords.

"No, not having an issue is an issue in itself," he said.

The Lord of Lords frowned, "I'm not the best when it comes to Spatial Laws, but even I am failing to understand how that makes any semblance of sense."

"This is a dimensional tunnel that was made millions of years ago, do you think it is capable of remaining intact without any disturbance just by being left alone? It's carved and made using human understanding of law, and it cannot be perfect, yet, here look at it, not a single issue all throughout the tunnel," he said.

The Lord of Lords thought for a moment but failed to come up with a reasonable explanation to the words of his friend.

"You're right, then that means that someone was actually taking care of the tunnel when we weren't looking," he said.

"Indeed, someone tampered with it, to the point that it's functioning perfectly all from the start to the end. But, if it's perfectly fine, where is Shen Bao?" asked the Lord of Lords.

"I think I know," the Wisest Sun said, "It's actually stupidly simple," he said as he rubbed his chin.

"You have an idea?" asked the Lord of Lords.

"Yes, but we'll need to leave the tunnel first, we can investigate from the Vast Expanse," he said.

"The two of us will cause the Vast Expanse to collapse if we stay too long," said the Lord of Lords.

"I wouldn't have cared, but since Shen Bao's companions are still in the Vast Expanse, we'll have to proceed carefully, we'll have little time to investigate, about ten breaths of time before the Vast Expanse starts fracturing, we'll need to be fast," he said.

The Lord of Lords nodded and the two of them then proceeded and left the tunnel toward the Vast Expanse. 

The moment they were out, they felt their energy rippling as if resonating with the Vast Expanse. The two massive puppets immediately knelt down toward the two.

"Hurry, we don't have much time," said the Lord of Lords as he began waving his hands, creating a gigantic barrier around them and the gate.

The Wisest Sun then spread his divine sense all over the gate, his eyes flashing from left to right top to bottom in incredible speeds enough that his irises made it look like he had no whites left in his eyes from how fast they moved.

Three breaths worth of time is all it took, "Got it! Let's leave!" he said and the two instantly left back into the tunnel.

For the two of them it was nothing but three breaths of time, but for the people of the Vast Expanse, the moment the two Suns appeared, the entirety of Qi in the vast expanse began shaking and shuddering resonating with them as if a child had found its parent, the Qi was about to start moving toward the two but thanks to the barrier that the Lord of Lords created, the Qi failed to locate them.

Spatial rifts were on the cusp of forming but they soon died down, and the people of the Vast Expanse, for three breaths of time felt the very end of the world and the revival of it at the same time.

The physical appearance of the two suns had galvanized the Qi of the Vast expanse to such a degree that more of it started conflagrating and rejuvenating itself. Just their presence allowed the quality of Qi of the Vast Expanse to experience a massive growth and evolution.

And that evolution will undoubtedly allow many people to understand more about the world itself, enough that it shortened the duration for the people who wanted to reach the emperor realm from thousands of years to mere hundreds.

That was just by the two's appearance for three breaths worth of time.

Once inside the tunnel the Wises Sun sighed, "We've been duped," he said.

"What do you mean?" asked the Lord of Lords.

Remember our appearance the last time when we were checking up on Shen Bao, someone had managed to notice it, and realized we were after something. They probably figured out that we were after Shen Bao and they kidnapped him form us," he said.

The Lord of Lords brows raised, "It's been a long time since someone coveted something I wanted," he said.

"You must hate that feeling," said the Wisest Sun.

"No, I actually like it, since too many people had given me a wide breath due to my old temperament, someone daring enough to cause me anger, anger… something I haven't felt in a very long time…"

"Don't go on destroying dimension on me, we still need to find Shen Bao, anyway whoever tried to kidnap him actually failed," said the Wisest Sun.

"Oh really?" asked the Lord of Lords.

"Yes, they seemed to have gotten interfered with. The gate had two tunnel passages instead of one, follow me," the Wisest Sun said as he moved his hand and a portion of the tunnel collapsed opening into a new region that the two of them never saw before.

It was a dark area, with nothing in it. Absolutely nothing but a golden speck of light so far away.

The two of them flew forward toward the speck of golden light that began growing bigger and bigger the closer they got.

Arriving they finally found the celestial city that Shen Bao had spent some time in.

The city looked like a wreck, but there was not a single living soul in it.

"Hmm, remains of a Heart Demon, a powerful one…" the Wisest Sun said as he came down and touched the black sludge on the ground. "It looks like it died recently, damn I can't probe its memories for information," he said.

"This is in my expertise," said the Lord of Lords as he slapped both hands together in a prayer motion. A wave of bright purple energy shot out all around the Lord of Lords and instantly scanned through the entirety of the celestial city. 

"Gather!" he ordered, and the sludge as if pulled by magnetic force was extracted from all over the celestial city morphing and shaping itself into tens of thousands of faces that portrayed many of the human emotions.

Anger, sorrow, despair and more. There was not a single happy face in the mix.

"Refine!" he ordered and the globe was pressed upon by the purple energy, fusing into itself. Shrinking and shrinking until it was not bigger than a pill.

"Tell of your secrets foul soul," spoke the Lord of Lords.

The pull then manifested a jaw and began speaking. Explaining its origin, the reason of its existence, and what killed it. 

And in the process, the Lord of Lords and the Wisest Sun could do nothing but sigh.

"The Darkest Sun had such a secret… I always wondered why they outright destroyed an entire branch of their sect, it seems he was threatened." The Wisest Sun said.

"It's all because my friendship with the side branch's patriarch. At least that boy Tian Fu is still alive, I thought he had perished alongside their whole branch." The Lord of Lords said.

"Sadly the memories of this corrupted Heart Demon ends right as it was expunged by Shen Bao we have no knowledge of their whereabouts now," said the Wisest Sun.

"Indeed," replied the Lord of Lords before his head snapped in a certain direction, a wide grin appeared on his face.

"What? Did you find them?" the Wisest Sun was about to spread his divine sense in the direction that the Lord of Lords was looking at.

"Yes, they're in the Beyond already, HAH!" 

"How would you know?" asked the Wisest Sun.

"My pagoda, it opened in the Beyond, now it's able to use the Origin Qi of the Beyond it's able to send me signals now. He lives… wait… this is not good," the Lord of Lords said.

"We need to hurry, or there will be a bloodbath," he added.

"What's wrong?" asked the Wisest Sun as he rapidly opened a portal.

"Those fools! They opened my pagoda in the lands of the Laughing Slaughterer!"

The Wisest Sun's eyes opened wide "They're not even branded! Hurry! We must go!"

***

After sighing and ignoring his comment. I stood up, "We need to head out now, we're disguised and out of the chase but you can never know what could happen after," I said.

And just as I finished my words, the skies above us rumbled and trembled. Power, so much incredulous and unproportionable destructive power echoed above us. 

It was so much that the very will to exist seemed to seep out of me.

For the first time in my entire life had I seen such grave and grand despair. It was enough to make a man's hair grow white due to the sheer terror and power behind this power. And that power was coming toward us, at an incredible speed.

"What in heaven's name is that," Shen Fu muttered.

all I could say was "... we're fucked."