Roar!
The Golden-Eyed White Tiger let out a long roar. The rolling tide of black mist and ghosts filling the sky gradually receded, returning to the surface of the Gate of Hell and its walls. Amid flashing nether radiance, they once again transformed into engraved patterns and designs.
Immediately afterward, the towering Gate of Hell began to shake violently. A narrow crack opened at its center, and a thunderous rumble echoed throughout the Netherworld. The two massive gate panels slowly swung apart, revealing the deep, pitch-black darkness within.
The hundred thousand tombstones of the Undead Beast Graveyard trembled. All the undead beasts gazed toward the depths, the soul flames within their skeletal eye sockets flickering uncertainly.
The Gate of Hell had opened again.
Had another Super Monarch passed the Three Trials this time? Or had one of their peers advanced to the Emperor level?
Could it even be that visiting human mage?
On the other side, after seeing the descendant of Yulü withdraw its million ghost servants, Lu Jun also recalled the life force he had bestowed.
The towering Sphinx, Manjusaka, the Twin Fiends of Heaven and Earth, and all the other summoned creatures vanished from their positions, returning to their respective territories.
At the same time, he released his Ascension State. His aura returned to normal, and the magical energy of all eight Elements was nearly exhausted. Fortunately, under the nourishment of his four Calamity Elements and the Triangular Dimensional Mirror, it rapidly recovered to a usable level.
This time, Lu Jun had gone all out with every form of summoning at his disposal.
He had already begun to display the scale of a one-man army, a true undead calamity. The overwhelming strength of this swarm-based combat style left him highly satisfied.
Moreover, he still possessed the corpses and souls of three Forbidden Curse Mages—Su Lu, Keno, and Simmons.
If he could refine them into undead beings, they would likely touch the Emperor level. Joining forces to besiege an Emperor-class demon should not be difficult.
Staring at the opened Gate of Hell, Lu Jun pondered briefly before calmly stepping through.
After all, it was merely the Emperor level.
His skills gave him confidence.
As one of the contract lands for human Summoning Mages, the Undead Beast Graveyard should be considered an ally. There was no reason for it to casually kill its allies.
Before leaving, he did not forget to make an agreement with the descendant of Yulü.
In the future, whenever he summoned through the Ancient Magic Gate, he hoped the other party would lend its assistance.
The Golden-Eyed White Tiger agreed immediately.
The two had developed mutual respect through battle. It had always admired strength and was deeply curious about other planes. It longed to challenge powerful enemies from every realm, temper its cultivation, and ultimately ascend to the Emperor level.
Lu Jun could not help but sigh.
Ordinary Summoning Mages could not personally descend into the Summoning Plane. In order to summon even one or two Monarchs, they had to project their spiritual power into another world day after day, constantly communicating with and pestering their chosen summoned beasts until the creatures finally grew annoyed enough to agree.
Pang Lai and the National Beast were the perfect example.
The whole process was practically that of a desperate simp.
Unlike them, Lu Jun had directly beaten the demons into submission in person. When he returned to the Magic World, summoning assistance would be effortless.
At that moment, Lu Jun's vision blurred.
The sound of crashing waves echoed beside his ears.
When he focused his gaze, he discovered that he was somehow standing at the edge of a vast and boundless sea of blood.
The immense blood sea radiated a thick scent of blood.
In the distant center stood a ten-thousand-meter tombstone, majestic and imposing, creating a spectacular sight:
A tombstone suppressing a sea of blood.
Suddenly, a majestic gaze descended from the summit of the blood-sea tombstone, carrying immense pressure.
A Demon Emperor!
Lu Jun's expression became serious.
According to Manjusaka's description, every Emperor within the core region of the Undead Beast Graveyard had opened its own territory and remained in slumbering cultivation.
After reaching the Emperor level, their power resembled a Calamity Talent, transforming thousands of kilometers of land into unique secret realms.
This sea of blood belonged to the Blood Judgement Wolf Emperor.
However, after sweeping its gaze over him once, the master of this territory quickly lost interest and looked elsewhere.
Throughout history, there had been other beings who had passed the Three Netherworld Trials and entered the core region.
Seeing this, Lu Jun finally relaxed.
Recalling Tishenghua's location, it should be somewhere in the deepest part of this region where the Emperors lay dormant.
He then compared it with the location of the Chinese National Beast that Pang Lai had been communicating with day and night, the same Emperor that had first spoken when Lu Jun's consciousness entered the Undead Beast Graveyard while killing Su Lu.
To his surprise, the two locations completely overlapped.
"Interesting."
"Coincidence, or something else?"
Lu Jun had not forgotten the purpose of this trip.
Besides finding Tishenghua, he also hoped to form an alliance with an Emperor and gain access to a portion of its power.
Any Emperor would do.
However, considering both personal connections and strength, the Jiuzhou National Beast was undoubtedly the best choice.
He remembered it clearly from the original story.
With nothing more than a glance, it had completely annihilated the Supreme Monarch Yamata no Orochi.
Afterward, Lu Jun cautiously continued his journey toward his destination.
Along the way, he passed more than a dozen ten-thousand-meter tombstones and various wondrous landscapes, each concealing a supreme and mighty lifeform in slumber.
Nothing unexpected happened.
The journey was surprisingly smooth.
A short while later, he emerged beneath the sky of an eternal night.
Before him, two magnificent discs rose high into the heavens, radiating dazzling brilliance that pierced the darkness and swept across hundreds of kilometers with endless rays of light.
Lu Jun narrowed his eyes.
The two celestial discs hanging overhead were black and white respectively.
At first glance, they resembled a black moon and a white sun sharing the same sky, endlessly revolving around one another and bathing the region below in black-and-white radiance.
But upon closer inspection, they were not discs at all.
They were actually two enormous lakes suspended in the heavens.
Their surfaces were tranquil and motionless, smooth as polished jade mirrors.
The waters of the two lakes were formed from boundless Death Aura and Life Aura respectively. Endless energies of life and death surged outward, filling the surrounding void.
Indeed, Lu Jun had just exited another Emperor's domain.
Upon entering this region, he found that there was absolutely nothing in any direction except endless emptiness.
Together with the black moon and white sun, there existed an eerie and profound fluctuation.
The power of time itself was intertwined with life and death.
A living being's metabolism would alternately accelerate and slow down—at times flourishing with the vitality of youth, and at others decaying with the frailty of old age.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
Transcendent Power — Flawless Domain!
A layer of dark-silver immortal radiance erupted around Lu Jun and shot into the heavens.
The true intent of Space-Time circulated through it, manifesting the phantom image of an Ouroboros, its head and tail connected in a perfect circle.
A flawless crystalline paradise unfolded around him, shielding him from the invasion of the strange black-and-white radiance beyond.
He examined the wondrous sight before him and slowly uttered a name:
"Sun-Moon Pool of Time."
This was the blessed land in which Tishenghua was trapped.
It could also be called the Yin-Yang Pool of Time, or the Life-and-Death Pool of Time.
As Lu Jun contemplated the black moon and white sun, a strange expression appeared on his face.
This power of time was quite fascinating.
Through the energies of life and death, it regulated the rise and fall of a creature's vitality, thereby creating a form of temporal power through an alternative method.
It was a process that worked from the outside inward, perfectly aligning with the path he pursued.
It also provided inspiration for his future exploration of the ultimate fusion between Yin and Yang Reincarnation and the paths of Space-Time and Temporal Power.
However, now was not the time for cultivation.
Lu Jun released his vast divine sense, searching for traces of Tishenghua.
At last, in the center of the white sun suspended in the sky, he discovered a sacred azure lotus radiating purity and holiness.
Countless roots spread outward from it, continuously striking against the solar corona, yet it remained firmly bound in place, unable to move.
In contrast, the black moon beside it was completely empty.
"Strange. Such dense life force existing within the Undead Beast Graveyard doesn't make sense."
Seeing this, Lu Jun frowned and fell into thought.
When he had first heard of the twin flowers of good and evil, he had assumed it was a case of yang being born from the extreme of yin.
Now, however, after encountering the Sun-Moon Pool of Time, it seemed as though there might be some artificial influence involved.
Moreover, throughout his journey here, the primary attributes of all the dozen or so Emperors he had encountered were aligned with darkness.
Yet this place had abruptly given birth to a lake overflowing with life energy.
Something was clearly wrong.
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