Saint Sovereign of Nine Heavens

On an open space, six bodies were lined up, with Bai Shangfei's and Han Yue's dead bodies at the front.    

    

A tall and straight martial artist stood there, his face frosted over.    

    

"Senior Brother Chen!" Lin Shen stood in front of the martial artist, looking ashamed as he said, "It's all my fault. I didn't go with Senior Brother Bai and didn't expect such a result!"    

    

"Was the corpse delivered by Shen Yih?" Chen Daolin asked in a deep voice, as if his voice was squeezed out from the gaps between his teeth.    

    

"Yes!" Lin Shen nodded, "Including Chen Yu, it was Shen Yih who informed us of his whereabouts. We tried to persuade Senior Brother Bai, but he wouldn't listen! "    

    

"Send someone to contact Feng Xuan and Situ Lan!" Shifting his gaze away from Bai Shangfei's corpse, Chen Daolin said with a cold tone, "The others, follow me. Since Shen Yih dared to take in Zhou Tie, then he will have to pay the price. Today, this stone forest is destined to become a river of blood! "    

    

Lin Shen was slightly shocked hearing that, but in the end he just nodded silently.    

    

"Where is this place?" Yinn Zhen asked.    

    

"It's inside a rock. Ma Chun brought us here!" Chen Yu answered.    

    

"Ma Chun? "This kid!" Yinn Zhen grinned, but it caused his wound to hurt. He said, "It seems like he's hiding a lot of things from me!"    

    

Chen Yu nodded and asked, "How are your injuries?"    

    

"Much better!" Yinn Zhen said, "You, forget it, thank you for saving my life!"    

    

"It should be me thanking you!" Chen Yu said, "To be honest, I was surprised that you would make a move!"    

    

"It's a pity that I didn't help you much, but you did the opposite and saved me instead. We're even!" Yinn Zhen said.    

    

Chen Yu shook his head, "How can this be considered even? I really don't understand why you would help me! "    

    

Yinn Zhen was silent for a moment, then suddenly grinned and said: "It's just that I can't watch you fight against the seven Martial Cultivator of the Seventh Layer of the Heavenly Astral Stage's siege by yourself!"    

    

Yinn Zhen spoke very simply, but Chen Yu's heart was slightly shocked and his expression became complicated.    

    

When Bai Shangfei came chasing after him, Chen Yu didn't pay much attention to the number of people watching Shen Yih from the shadows. However, since Yinn Zhen had seen this, it was obvious that there were a lot of people watching.    

    

"Forget it, let's stop talking and quickly recover." It's not necessarily safe here. We have to leave as soon as possible! " Chen Yu said after a moment of silence.    

    

Yinn Zhen nodded, took out his Medicine Pill and consumed it before continuing his cultivation and recovery.    

    

Chen Yu also continued to cultivate the Blood Flame Tyrant Spell.    

    

Time passed. It was unknown how much time had passed in the darkness. While Chen Yu was cultivating and recovering, he suddenly thought of a problem while he was thinking about how long he could hide here.    

    

This space was inside the rock, but there was no light coming in. It was clear that this space was sealed beyond imagination, but after staying here for such a long time, Chen Yu found that he did not feel anything.    

    

Chen Yu observed the space. Compared to the size of the strange rock he saw before he came in, he knew that the space was at least half a meter thick on all sides. The lack of light also showed that there were no air vents on the walls.    

    

However, he didn't feel stuffy at all!    

    

"Could it be that there's another hole for the air to pass through?" Chen Yu thought about it and was surprised at his guess.    

    

Very quickly, Chen Yu stood up, channeled his Bloodfire Eye Technique, and began to search inch by inch in this sealed off space.    

    

Yinn Zhen was awakened by Chen Yu's question. After a brief explanation, he searched again and again. Finally, he found some clues on a corner of the space. At this location, there was clearly some weak air flow.    

    

This kind of weak flow of energy was something that ordinary people would not be able to detect, but towards Heavenly Astral Stage Warriors, as long as they had the heart, it would not be difficult to discover it.    

    

Chen Yu immediately felt around the area where the air was flowing.    

    

It didn't take long before Chen Yu touched a thin crack. His fingers couldn't use much strength. Chen Yu took out a dagger and pried open the stone slab, revealing the passage below. A thin wind blew in from the passage.    

    

"There really is a passage?" Yinn Zhen exclaimed in a low voice.    

    

"Stay here, I'll take a look!" Chen Yu said.    

    

"Okay, but be careful." Yinn Zhen said.    

    

Chen Yu jumped down the tunnel, and after falling only three to four meters, he landed on the ground. Looking through the Bloodfire Eye Technique, Chen Yu found that this passage started from the stone slab, and no one knew where it led to.    

    

Chen Yu couldn't help but wonder if Ma Chun knew of the existence of this tunnel.    

    

"The space inside the boulder is so dark that I can't even see my fingers. The stone slab that covers this tunnel is so tightly sewn together. Ma Chun doesn't cultivate the Eye of Darkness so he probably doesn't know about this place!"    

    

"This tunnel is very smooth, showing that it was man-made!" After Chen Yu walked about a dozen meters, he suddenly felt that he was very close to the hidden Spiritual Soul.    

    

After all, the existence of this passage was really too secretive, even Yinn Zhen did not know of it. According to the style of placing Spiritual Soul in the higher levels of Ruling Spirit Sect, the stone forest did not have any special environment, so if they wanted to set up a difficulty for the martial artists that were searching for Spiritual Soul, they could only start from the point of concealment.    

    

"If I find the Spiritual Soul, I really have to thank Ma Chun!" Muttering to himself, Chen Yu continued to move forward.    

    

Soon, a fork appeared in the tunnel in front of them. Chen Yu listened attentively. After hearing nothing, he chose the fork on the left side.    

    

After following the left fork for about 20 minutes, Chen Yu surprisingly found the road in front of him was dead.    

    

Chen Yu immediately looked up and found a stone slab on top of it.    

    

Chen Yu leaped up and used his knife to push the stone board away. Chen Yu climbed up to the edge of the exit and got rid of it. Unexpectedly, there was another space inside the boulder.    

    

There was nothing else in the space. Chen Yu looked up and saw traces of a stone cover.    

    

Since he couldn't hear anything outside, Chen Yu didn't want to open up the stone slab to check. He jumped down into the tunnel and moved the stone slab back to its original position. Then, he returned to the fork and chose another path.    

    

They walked along the fork in the road. After about ten miles, the fork appeared again. Chen Yu left a mark and casually picked a fork in the road. Soon, the fork came to an end.    

    

After opening up the stone slab at the end of the fork, Chen Yu surprisingly saw a glimmer of light.    

    

The faint light carried with it a trace of spiritual aura. From Chen Yu's senses, it seemed to be the aura of an earth spirit.    

    

"Spiritual Soul!" He discovered that the space above was unusually large, with a radius of seven to eight Zhang. In the center of the space, there was a stone platform with numerous runes on it, emitting a faint spiritual light. The light converged to form a ball of light that enveloped the stone platform.    

    

Within the ball of light was a fist-sized stone phantom. That phantom was pitch-black and floated within the ball of light, as if it was bound.    

    

"Hmm?" Chen Yu couldn't help but be shocked.    

    

Spiritual Soul with a stone elephant was really rare, Bloodfire Emperor had never seen such a Spiritual Soul before.    

    

Most Spiritual Soul were either in the form of birds and beasts, or plants, or objects. It was as if this form was a piece of stone that was extremely rare.    

    

"What is the use of these Spiritual Soul?" Chen Yu was momentarily confused. However, he knew that Bloodfire Emperor's memory was still incomplete, limited to what he experienced before he was 30. Therefore, he couldn't rely on Bloodfire Emperor's experience for everything.    

    

After a careful examination, Chen Yu suddenly felt that the rock looked like a stone egg, as if there was some sort of shape contained within the shadow.    

    

"Forget it, let's keep it for now!" After walking around the stone platform a few times and confirming that there were no other differences, Chen Yu thought of the non-elemental Star Soul in his body.    

    

With the Star Soul, Chen Yu had nothing to worry about. Even if the Spiritual Soul was useless to him, it would not harm him in any way.    

    

Normal warriors would need to consider their physique to fuse with Spiritual Soul, but for Chen Yu, there was no such thing.    

    

Chen Yu slowly extended his hand towards the white light binding the Spiritual Soul.    

    

His finger passed through the white light, but nothing happened. The white light originated from the runes on the stone platform, and was only aimed at the Spiritual Soul, not the martial artist that took it.    

    

The stone phantom still did not have any reaction, appearing as stiff and clumsy as a stone.    

    

Following which, Chen Yu activated the Star Soul in his heart and starlight started to gather between his fingers.    

    

Then, the stone phantom started to be covered by the starlight and slowly disappeared into Chen Yu's palm and into his body.    

    

The process of collecting the Spiritual Soul seemed to be extremely easy. Compared to many warriors who had to use their will to lure the Spiritual Soul and try repeatedly, Chen Yu had simply stored the Spiritual Soul into his heart through the Star Soul.    

    

Just like the previous times, after this stone-like Spiritual Soul entered Chen Yu's heart, it was suppressed by the starlight.    

    

The rune on the stone table quickly dimmed down.    

    

Chen Yu looked around the room and found nothing else.    

    

Chen Yu sat down cross-legged and focused his senses. He started to try and use the new Spiritual Soul.    

    

Starlight shone brightly in Chen Yu's heart. The stone figure floated in the starlight without any reaction.    

    

Towards this Spiritual Soul, the ever-victorious Star Soul seemed to be powerless.    

    

"Where did this Spiritual Soul come from?" Chen Yu frowned and thought to himself: "Do I have to fuse with a Spiritual Soul like an ordinary martial artist to nourish and strengthen it before I can use it?"    

    

Chen Yu continued to try and after more than ten times, the Spiritual Soul still did not have any reaction. Even when Chen Yu used his starlight to move it around his body, he still did not see any effect.    

    

After feeling disappointed for a while, Chen Yu decided to ignore him. He jumped down into the underground tunnel and returned to the fork to continue exploring.    

    

Following that, Chen Yu explored all the paths that did not have many tunnels, and there were no more results.    

    

Thus, Chen Yu returned to the original hiding place.    

    

"Well?" Yinn Zhen asked when he saw Chen Yu.    

    

"The tunnels connect to several stone spaces similar to this one!" Chen Yu said, "We finally have a way out!"    

    

Yinn Zhen nodded his head and said: "With your help, my injuries are recovering pretty well, but I still don't have the strength to fight. If you have any issues, you can leave on your own and I will continue to hide here to recuperate! "    

    

Chen Yu nodded and said, "It's time for me to leave, but I don't know what's going on outside!"