185: Chapter 185 Ancient Emperor of Divine Land, Decree to Suppress the World
Just as Xia Xuanyuan, filled with determination, was prepared to make a final desperate stand for the Legacy of the Yanlong Empire...
Yanlong Empire, Sha Prefecture.
This was one of the birthplaces of the Yanlong Empire, where the heavy history of human Ancestors from countless ages ago lay buried underground.
At this moment, continuous drizzling rain shrouded the desolate Loess Plateau.
Rumble!!
The earth suddenly began to tremble violently without any warning.
This tremor did not come from the eerie descent of the Nightmare World, but originated from a resonance deep within the heart of this vast land!
In the heart of Sha Prefecture, there was a massive ancient tomb that had been listed as an eternal mystery and had never been excavated.
At this instant, a bottomless, giant crack split across its burial mound's surface.
Crack! Crack!!
The tooth-gritting sound of heavy friction echoed from deep underground.
That bronze tomb door, weighing tens of thousands of tons and sealed for several epochs, actually slowly swung outward without anyone pushing or pulling it!
An extremely ancient, weathered, yet overbearingly peerless aura of Law surged out from the depths of the tomb chamber.
In this aura, there was none of the nauseating stench and madness of the Nightmare horrors.
There was only a supreme majesty that had weathered the baptism of time yet still sought to suppress all eternity!
Whoosh!
A gust of yin wind blew out from the tomb passage.
Following that, in the dim curtain of rain, a tattered robe covered in dust and dried black blood slowly floated out from the depths of the tomb door.
That was... a Dragon Robe!!
It fluttered in mid-air despite the lack of wind, snapping loudly.
The Dragon Robe, which was originally dim and looked like a rag, underwent an extremely terrifying transformation the moment it rose into the air!
Buzz!!!
Ten thousand feet of golden light burst forth from every thread of the Dragon Robe like swords tearing through the darkness!
The mud and black blood staining the robe vaporized instantly.
In their place were nine Five-clawed Golden Dragons condensed from the purest power of Law!
These nine golden dragons seemed to come alive, swimming frantically across the surface of the Dragon Robe and letting out earth-shaking roars.
An earth-shattering, terrifying Law swept out from Sha Prefecture as its center, crashing across the entire Dongsheng Continent!
At this moment.
Whether it was the ancient taboos wreaking havoc in Qing Province or those Nightmare horrors that had just crossed the "portals" to descend into reality...
All of them felt a conceptual suppression under this overbearingly peerless Law!
Then.
A grand, majestic voice, filled with endless tragedy and determination, faintly echoed across every inch of the sky over Dongsheng Continent!
This voice did not belong to anyone in the present world.
It crossed the endless river of time, carrying the aura of a ruler of the world, and forcibly descended into the minds of all living beings and horrors.
"Shenzhou... faces calamity again."
The voice was low, as if carrying the vicissitudes of seeing through the ages, yet it contained a heavenly might that could not be provoked.
"I!"
"Am willing to burn my last remaining thoughts..."
"To seal the ten thousand gates!!!"
Boom!!!
Following that thunderous roar.
The Dragon Robe blooming with endless radiance in mid-air suddenly ignited with raging golden flames!
That was a heroic sacrifice, burning the Origin of Law and the last trace of its existence!
In the golden flames, the Dragon Robe quickly transformed into a rain of golden Law light that filled the sky.
This rain of light defied the Laws of physics, surging toward the nine heavens and turning into a giant golden net that covered the sky and sun, tightly shrouding the entire Dongsheng Continent.
"Shenzhou Continent..."
"Within ten days..."
"All gods shall stay away!!!"
As the last four words fell, an earth-shattering phenomenon of dragon roars and tiger howls faintly emerged across the entire sky of Dongsheng!
The illusory shadows of giant golden dragons and the fierce spirits of white tigers tumbled in the clouds, releasing a terrifying aura that suppressed all evil.
This Law was overbearing to the extreme.
It did not matter what your status was or which layer of the Nightmare World you came from! All would be affected by it!!
...
Qing Province, edge of the Kunlun Ruins.
In the inverted and chaotic Void Realm, the mysterious youth carrying the broken sword suddenly stiffened.
He abruptly looked up, and those eyes that were always calm like an Ancient Well, as if they could see through eternity, were now trembling violently.
Two lines of clear tears slid uncontrollably from the corners of his eyes, dripping into the mountain of corpses and sea of blood beneath his feet.
"Your Majesty..."
The youth's whole body trembled, his voice hoarse beyond recognition.
With a thud, he fell heavily to his knees on the muddy ground of flesh and blood.
Facing the direction of Sha Prefecture, he kowtowed deeply.
"It is His Majesty's hidden hand..."
The youth's choked murmurs were instantly swallowed by the howling eerie storm around him.
His kneeling back exuded a sense of sorrow and desolation.
...
Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore.
Inside the dark and cold main hall of the Rebirth Temple.
The chaotic black light around Lin Chuan surged violently for a moment when that Dragon Robe Law swept past just now.
Not only that.
On the panel deep in his consciousness, an eerie prompt flashing with golden light suddenly popped up:
[Unknown high-level Law outbreak detected!]
[Information parsing...]
[Parsing successful.]
[Warning: Revival of an ancestral emperor's remnant thought detected! This remnant thought has burned itself to transform into an absolute sealing Law!]
[The Terror Resurgence progress of Dongsheng Continent has been temporarily and forcibly suppressed!]
Looking at this cryptic prompt on the panel, Lin Chuan's consciousness fell into extreme coldness and rationality.
Ancestral emperor?
Was that ancient existence who called himself "I" a certain emperor recorded in human history, or a Dominator of some lost epoch?
Lin Chuan did not delve into the identity of this Your Majesty.
He only cared about how this change in Law would affect his subsequent evolution and plans.
The [Peeping] Law spread silently.
Lin Chuan's consciousness instantly covered the edges of the entire Dongsheng Continent.
He clearly "saw" that...
As that golden rain of light fell across the sky...
In various parts of Dongsheng Continent, those Void "portals" that connected to the third layer of the Nightmare World and were constantly pouring out horrors...
Were actually being forcibly closed under an irresistible force!
Those S-rank and SS-Rank Taboos that were stuck in the cracks of the doors and desperately squeezing toward reality...
Were all instantly ignited by the golden Law flames, retreating amidst shrieks of agony.
Not only that.
Lin Chuan even more keenly sensed that this giant golden Law net covering Dongsheng Continent had extremely strict status restrictions.
Existences exceeding sss rank seventh tier!
In other words, those terrifying giants honored as "Dominators"!
Under the suppression of this Law, they were completely isolated outside of Dongsheng Continent!
The Dominators in the Nightmare World were temporarily unable to descend upon this continent by any means.
And in the Real World, if there were taboos exceeding sss rank seventh tier, they also could not forcibly enter Dongsheng Continent from the outside.
At this moment, Dongsheng Continent had become a giant, locked "protected zone."
"Ten days..."
Lin Chuan's thoughts drifted.
The absolute sealing obtained by burning this Dragon Robe, though overbearing, was after all water without a source.
According to the panel's deep parsing, the power of this Law could only be maintained for ten days at most!
After ten days, the golden net would shatter, and the great era would descend in an even more tragic manner.
Moreover, the most critical point was...
This protection was limited only to Dongsheng Continent!
The distant West Continent, Southern Continent, Red Continent...
Those places did not have the protection of the Dragon Robe.
The portals in those places remained wide open, and even because of the blockade of Dongsheng Continent, more Nightmare taboos were flooding toward the other continents!
The outside world was accelerating into a true purgatory.
Thinking of this, Lin Chuan felt a strong sense of urgency for evolution.
The ten-day sealing blocked the descent of Dominators above sss rank seventh tier.
But for him, this was also a restriction.