604: Chapter 604

The news of the Immortal Road opening first spread from the edges of the Nine Great Heavenly Continents.

At first, no one believed it.

A Loose Cultivator sitting in a teahouse heard the table next to him mention the Luo Yun Heavenly Abyss and thought it was just drunken babble.

"That place is somewhere even the Great Emperors are unwilling to linger, so how could the Immortal Road possibly appear there?"

He finished speaking and lowered his head to drink.

But before half a day had passed, the ancient Teleportation Array outside the city suddenly lit up.

A convoy from an ancient clan, which hadn't appeared for ten thousand years, set off directly in the direction of the Luo Yun Heavenly Abyss.

Another day passed, and more people couldn't sit still.

Some emerged from death seclusion without even changing their clothes, raising their hands to tear open the Void Realm.

Some rushed back from the Forbidden Ground, not even glancing at the younger generation of their clan, just dropping a single sentence.

"Go to the Luo Yun Heavenly Abyss, quickly."

The Immortal Road—these two words carried too much weight.

In the ancient history of the Nine Great Heavenly Continents, it had only appeared twice.

The first time it appeared, the era was still chaotic.

Back then, the Heavenly Emperor was merely a limit that very few could touch, and the talk of immortals had only just been unearthed from an Incomplete Manual.

The Immortal Road had not fully manifested.

Yet, even that one time, many people saw the end of the road.

From then on, Pseudo-Immortals began to appear.

The second appearance was even more terrifying.

The Pseudo-Immortal ancestors of the ancient Imperial Sects had almost all mobilized, and even those old monsters who never showed their faces on ordinary days had crawled out of their coffins.

That time, one person walked forward carrying a broken sword.

No one knew where he came from, nor did anyone know where he eventually went.

It was only known that he had once pushed back several Pseudo-Immortal ancestors on the Immortal Road in one go.

Then, the person vanished.

Some said he died on the road.

Others said he truly stepped into it.

No one could verify the truth.

But from then on, the Immortal Road never appeared in its entirety again.

Until today.

Luo Yun Heavenly Abyss.

These four words instantly shocked the entire Nine Great Heavenly Continents.

In a tavern, an old Cultivator put down his teacup, his fingers trembling.

"It is truly about to open."

Someone next to him asked.

"Where is it opening?"

The old Cultivator stared out the window and spat out four words.

"Luo Yun Heavenly Abyss."

"Isn't that place a Forbidden Ground?"

"It is a Forbidden Ground, but it is also the last piece of the old era that hasn't been thoroughly overturned."

He paused and added another sentence.

"If the Immortal Road truly appears, it will only be there."

Just as he finished speaking, an ancient war chariot flew over the city.

The person standing on the chariot did not restrain their Imperial Might in the slightest.

All the top forces were heading to the same place.

Ten thousand Daos gathered.

At the edge of the Luo Yun Heavenly Abyss, it wasn't even dark yet, but it was already full of people.

Ancient flying palaces hung in the sky like mountains floating in a sea of clouds.

The war chariots of the Imperial clans swept across the sky, their wheels crushing the Void Realm and leaving long cracks behind.

The Flying Boats of the great sects lined up, the ancient flags on their prows snapping in the wind.

Further away, there were some old monsters who had never shown their faces to the outside world.

They did not make a big display, nor did they reveal their true forms, but by slightly releasing a bit of their aura, they suppressed the surrounding Saint Realm experts and Venerables, making them afraid to even lift their heads.

In the deeper Void Realm in the shadows, there were even heavier things.

Above several high heavens, the space hadn't even fully closed, as if it were constantly being pressed by something, always leaving an invisible seam.

Qin Yun and his two companions also arrived.

All three had changed their faces and suppressed their auras, mingling at the very edge of the crowd like three inconspicuous stones.

If they hadn't been close, no one would have taken a second look.

Gu Zhan stood on the left, his expression calm.

Chen Yang stood on the right, his demeanor more natural than his.

"I have some impression of this place."

"I came here once back then, but I didn't go too deep."

"There weren't so many people back then."

Qin Yun did not speak.

He stood behind the crowd, his heavy pupils already quietly opened.

Every scene before him was dismantled in his line of sight.

Which people were staring at the entrance.

Which people were checking the background of others.

Which people were hiding in the Void Realm without showing their faces.

Which auras were Emperors, and which auras were heavier than Emperors.

He saw it very clearly.

This was not a simple fight for the road.

This was the first time the trump cards of all parties in the Nine Great Heavenly Continents were placed so directly on the table.

By the side of the Luo Yun Heavenly Abyss, there was a Stone Tablet.

The Stone Tablet was very old, so old that its edges had been weathered white by the wind.

There were not many patterns on the surface of the tablet, only some carved words.

Ye Yun.

Below, there was a long string of words recording the deeds this ancient powerhouse had performed.

Qin Yun stood in front of the tablet for a long time.

He just looked at those two words.

His finger lifted, then fell, and finally, he just touched the surface of the tablet very lightly.

After a while, Chen Yang said in a low voice.

"This tablet is not simple."

Gu Zhan nodded.

"The person who could carve their name on this, while they were alive, must have at least blocked a great catastrophe for this world once."

Qin Yun withdrew his hand and did not reply.

He just stood in front of the tablet, looking for a while longer.

The Heavenly Abyss was right behind the tablet.

It was a crack that truly looked like a wound.

It was too big.

Bottomless.

Standing on the edge looking down, one could see nothing, only feeling a chill rising from the deepest part of the ground.

It was as if below was not an abyss, but another world.

Or perhaps, it was originally a broken opening of the old world.

As time passed, the space above the Heavenly Abyss began to make faint sounds.

At first, no one noticed.

Until the first ray of light seeped out from that crack.

It was very faint.

Yet it made everyone in the venue lift their heads at the same time.

The second ray, the third ray, more light began to seep out.

The light was not falling down.

It was overflowing from inside the Heavenly Abyss itself.

The outline of a road began to slowly emerge above the crack.

There were no bricks, no stones, no railings on the road surface.

There were only layers of overlapping ancient light and shadow, as if drawn stroke by stroke by someone over countless years.

The Immortal Road.

The true Immortal Road.

The scene was silent for a split second.

Then, with a boom, the whole place exploded.

"It's out!"

"The Immortal Road has really appeared!"

"Look over there, the road surface is becoming solid!"

Confused voices arose everywhere.

Many people's eyes turned red directly.

Some young Prodigies had chaotic breathing, their hands trembling.

Some Old Ancestors closed their eyes on the spot, only to open them violently the next moment, as if afraid of missing a single instant.

There were also several Heavenly Emperors who could no longer sit still.

They might not be the strongest batch of people.

But they knew that even if they could just touch the edge of this road, perhaps they could push forward one more step.

Further away, some old monsters who had lived for who knows how many years also began to appear.

Some walked out of ancient coffins, their bodies still carrying unscattered Death Qi.

Some woke up from stone statues, their eyes half-open and half-closed, as if they had just awakened from deep sleep.

Some stood in a split Void Realm, with Dao patterns swirling around them.

These people were not in a hurry to step forward.

They were waiting.

Waiting for the people in front to test it first.

And also waiting for that road to completely turn from virtual to real.

Qin Yun still didn't move.

Chen Yang didn't move either.

Gu Zhan even less so.

Qin Yun's gaze had been watching the road above the Heavenly Abyss.

The road was becoming clearer and clearer.

One could even see that at the front of the road, there was a faint layer of deeper white light, as if leading to some place that did not belong to the Nine Great Heavenly Continents.

"Immortal Realm?"

Someone whispered in loss of voice.

No one answered.

Because no one knew.

It was at this moment that two extremely faint auras suddenly came from both sides of the ancient road.

The Heavenly Emperors and Great Emperors who were still excited suddenly changed their expressions.

"Who is above there?"

"Not our people."

"That is..."

Before the words were finished, the depths of the Heavenly Abyss suddenly darkened.

The next moment, a hand slowly reached out from the depths of the Heavenly Abyss.

It reached out from the abyss and gripped lightly.

Just under that grip, the several Great Emperors and Heavenly Emperors who were charging at the very front froze simultaneously.

Their Imperial blood and Divine Souls exploded together, and before they could even let out a scream, their entire beings disappeared from in front of the Heavenly Abyss.

The rest of those who were originally charging forward stopped instantly.

The several Great Emperors nearby reacted the fastest, burning their Origin desperately to retreat.

They escaped very miserably.

And they escaped very tragically.

Their robes were all torn to shreds, half of their bodies were collapsing, and they coughed blood all the way back into the crowd, their faces full of terror.

The scene fell into a deathly silence.

Just a moment ago, it was boiling, but at this moment, it was terrifyingly quiet.

That hand did not strike a second time.

It just stopped at the edge of the Heavenly Abyss, as if it had just casually swatted away a few bugs.

A moment later, it slowly retracted.

The abyss darkened again.

As if nothing had happened.

But the pool of Imperial blood and shattered Divine Souls on the ground would not lie.

The Immortal Road was still hanging above.

But no one dared to be the first to walk forward again.

Qin Yun stood in the distance, his gaze sinking.

He stared at the direction where that hand disappeared, not moving his gaze for a long time.

Gu Zhan said in a low voice.

"This place is deeper than we thought."

Chen Yang also stopped joking, his eyes heavy.

Qin Yun did not turn back.

He just looked at the depths of the Heavenly Abyss, his eyes sinking little by little.

This hand, he was very familiar with it.