Chapter 778
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Chapter 778 . 1 [Land of Training?]
Because the ancient ruins were extremely dangerous, the three major groups, the Eight Desolations, the Snow Plains and the Battle Song were all actively recruiting helpers .
It wasn’t just Lord Ling Yun and Tu Hai .
Heaven Rankers were still continuously arriving at the Snowfield Camp .
Therefore, the plan to form large exploratory groups before venturing into the ancient ruins was still in the preparation phase and the actual exploration was scheduled for about a month later, maybe even even longer . Of course Yue Yang would definitely not wait for them, moreover he believed that the people from the Central Palace Hall would not wait that long either . The treasures in the ancient ruins were of course on a first come first serve basis and since Yue Yang had made his way here, he would definitely not allow for these treasures that he had reserved for himself to be taken away by other people .
He got Lord Ling Yun and the others to stay behind while Yue Yang himself went out to scout for more information .
According to the information that Fatty Hai and the others had obtained back during the day, under the cover of the night, Yue Yang quietly made his way towards the distant ancient ruins .
Surrounding the entrance that led to the ancient ruins which had previously been hidden inside the mountain range, there were griffin knights of the Central Palace Hall stationed everywhere, furthermore there were a number of teams patrolling around as well . The three major groups, namely the Eight Wilderness, the Snow Plains, and the Battle Song had also stationed a small number of people nearby, supervising each other at the entrance . These 3 small teams were all led by a Heaven Ranker respectively .
With Yue Yang’s current strength and talent for disguise, it would simply be impossible for any of the people on guard to detect him, unless there was a hidden Heaven Realm expert with strength of a Divine Innate around . However out of prudence, Yue Yang still stayed at the periphery of the entrance for more than ten minutes, and used his phantom to hide into the darkness to explore the surroundings . Only when he was certain that there were no experts from the Central Palace Hall hiding anywhere did he summon Hui Tai Lang and slipped through the guards . The surrounding guards, regardless those on patrol or stationed at the entrance, none of them felt Yue Yang passing by, if it were any other Heaven Ranker, they might have felt a gust of wind, but Yue Yang, who was wearing the “Flash” half-Divine ring was so fast that even Yue Yang himself was surprised by it .
With a single thought, he vanished and reappeared thousands of meters away .
The entrance that was guarded heavily was actually not a real entrance, but just a passageway set up by the Central Palace Hall .
The real entrance to the ancient ruins was a square .
There are numerous statues situated all over the square, there were statues of all races and each was marked with information about the life of the owner .
Despite the different levels of strength, these statues all had one thing in common, and that all of them had at least successfully passed 3 levels .
Inscribed on an obelisk located right at the center of the square were the words, “The world inside is not simply a treasure trove, but a testing ground for the experts of today . ”
Inside, it’s divided into ten levels . For every level passed, a certain reward is earned .
If you pass three levels, you will be recognized as a qualifier . Regardless of race or status, if you fail to pass the first three levels, you will still be considered as unqualified .
If you manage to pass all the levels, after the trial you will be rewarded with a treasure that can change the fate of a warrior in the Heaven Realm…
“”Change the fate of a Heaven Ranker?” Could it be, could it be God’s blood?” At this moment, the one standing in front of the obelisk and sighing repeatedly was not Yue Yang but another uninvited guest . This man, who came earlier than Yue Yang, had recorded all the information on the statues that identified as belonging to the Central Palace Hall, and was now standing in front of the obelisk and laughing smugly: “When the others are still vying against each other in the Central Palace Hall and are unable to free themselves to come here, I have come . Haha, this is fate . My destiny will start to change at this moment, if I grab hold of this chance, in the future I will no longer be a mere Deputy Palace Lord who has to lick others shoes, but I will become a Palace Lord, even a Grand Palace Lord! As long as I get that drop of God’s blood, those guys who have been acting all high and mighty, watch how I will trample them underfoot . Six thousand years have passed; my chance has come once again, this time, I definitely won’t miss it again!” , “……” the figure of six thousand years allowed Yue Yang to sharply capture a bit of information .
Perhaps, this guy had something to do with the Battle of the Heaven Realm back in the days of the Prison Emperor .
How else would his past opportunity happen to be precisely 6,000 years ago as well?
After careful observation by the wise eyes of Yue Yang, he realised that this guy in front of him was not the man who shone like a god who had appeared after the destruction of Rizhao City that day, but someone else . Compared to that man, the man in front of him looks somewhat similar and has a similar aura, but his strength is far from him and he does not have such an egotistical aura, he just tries to imitate that man who shone like a god .
The man who claimed to be a Deputy Palace Lord was still cautious, he radiated a dark energy wave and skillfully scanned his surroundings .
Only when he confirmed that there was no one around him did he confidently step towards the glittering teleportation array that was also located in the center of the square .
Only after he entered the teleportation array and teleported away did Yue Yang emerge from the darkness .
With Hui Tai Lang trailing behind him .
The teleportation array started up again .
The two of them, Yue Yang and Hui Tai Lang, instantly teleported to a strange world .
In this world, there are countless powers of law at work, Yue Yang had never sensed a place that was governed by so many powers of law before, and if he was not in a dangerous situation, he would have tried to carefully observe the power of laws here, hoping to glean of some useful information that could help him to gain enlightenment in his own power of law .
There was a huge stone monument at the other end of the teleportation array .
Above, apart from the words, Rain Valley .
There were also a dozen or so lines of Heaven Runes, stating the rules that those who entered must follow .
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When Yue Yang saw this, he immediately rejoiced . For it was only now that he understood that this ancient ruin was not created to deliberately kill warriors below the Heaven Rank, but was rather a special kind of trial . For the first batch of explorers who had entered, none of them were well versed in Heaven Runes and were unable to read the restrictions, therefore breaking the rules here and were hounded by the power of laws that governed this place . In this Rain Valley, apart from being not allowed to fly, they were also prohibited from summoning their monsters .
Any warrior who tried to fly would fall hard to the ground, and the higher he flew, the harder he would fall .
Any warrior who attempted to summon any beasts would be attacked by three replicas of the summoned beasts… This restriction on summoning, could be said to be a special kind of training, only a person with the highest confidence in themselves and their war beasts would dare to summon a war beast in this Rain Valley .
It was a pity the mercenaries who entered earlier didn’t know how to read the Heaven Runes, what a tragedy .
What probably had happened would be, as soon as they came in, they summoned their own war beasts, and after seeing that clones of their summoned beast had come to attack them, they would most likely have summoned their strongest war beast to fight .
Such an outcome would undoubtedly be even more tragic then suicide, what’s more the first batch of mercenaries to enter were all unaware of the law that forbade flight, they would most likely have chosen to fly into the air during critical moments to escape, but the higher they flew, the harder they fell, accelerating their impeding deaths .
Six kilometers away, that Deputy Palace Lord was striking out with a bit of annoyance, slaying three Heaven Rank Golden Flying Dragons .
Although the three Heaven Rank 1 Golden Flying Dragons were easily killed, they were all duplicated shadows produced by the power of law, and had no corpses at all, turning into phantoms upon death and disappearing . As soon as the Deputy Palace Lord who had summoned the Golden Flying Dragon to be his mount finished killing the 3 clones, three more Golden Flying Dragons appeared on the horizon and flew towards him, they were exactly identical to the ones he had just killed .
In this Rain Valley, as long as the summoned beasts were still present, then the law will never stop replicating clones to attack the summoner .
When Yue Yang saw this, he had a hard time holding in a sudden urge to laugh crazily .
Again, it was the lack of knowledge that was to blame .
Not being able to read the Heaven Runes, not knowing the true meaning of the inscription on the obelisk, the result would be this wretched situation……
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Chapter 778 . 2 [Land of Training?]
On the wall of the main hall in the Changnet Vine Library, there was a phrase written on it: “Knowledge is more powerful than a sword!
If the Deputy Palace Lord and the former mercenaries knew the importance of knowledge, if they knew how to read the Heaven Runes, their outcome would very likely not be so tragic . Of course, the Heaven Runes were not something anyone could learn . Tens of thousands of years ago, it may have been a popular language, but today, Heaven Runes have almost vanished from the Heaven Realm, and could only be found in the hands of powerful people above the level of Country Lords . Even amongst the Country Lords of the Heaven Realm, apart from the minority like the Lionheart King, it is estimated that not many people would dare to say that they were proficient with the Heaven Runes, including the wise Lord Ling Yun .
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Overemphasised on strength, not on knowledge .
Similar incidents had happened in the Tong Tian Tower and there were records regarding it, but yet in the Tong Tian Tower of today, not many people had mastered the Heaven Runes .
After being repeatedly attacked by the clones, the Deputy Palace Lord still did not realize that he could not summon any of his war beasts, instead, he felt that some kind of power was playing tricks on him, using the phantoms of his own war beasts in order to deplete his strength .
In a fit of rage, he punched his own golden flying dragon to death .
He didn’t even want his mount anymore .
As a result, the golden flying dragon clones that were constantly coming to attack him really stopped, which made him secretly feel proud in his heart . .
From time to time, the Deputy Palace Lord would fly high into the sky and then descend sharply . He didn’t know the reason and thought that the gravity here was particularly weird, feeling that the erratic gravity was at times high and at times low, making it hard to control his flight, but it never crossed his mind that he wasn’t allowed to fly at all in the first place . As a noble Deputy Palace Lord that was respected by many, it had never deigned upon him to walk with his feet, he would not be like Yue Yang who was running at full speed with his legs but would continue to flounder in the air like a rodeo performer, constantly zig-zagging up and down in the sky . He would fly up with all his might, then fall back down and try to stabilise himself before flying back up again, constantly repeating this set of actions . Hui Tai Lang was laughing so hard that he was on the verge of rolling all over the ground, how could it be that this guy’s intelligence was even lower than him by such a large margin?
In the sky, a thunderclap sounded, immediately followed by a torrential downpour .
The rain was so heavy it was like arrows .
To the extent that it hurt when the rain pelted on the body .
Yue Yang and Hui Tai Lang calmly followed after that arrogant Deputy Palace Lord, and when that Deputy Palace Lord left the main path, the two of them started to bet on how many seconds before that guy would be blown back to the main path by the power of law… Here in Rain Valley, it was absolutely impossible to leave the main path, otherwise, one would be punished by a lightning blast .
Boom!
No matter which direction he flew to, regardless to the left or to the right, he would be struck by lightning, forcing him to return to the main path .
After his head had been blasted by lightning until it was smoking, he finally understood that anywhere outside the main path was forbidden land and that he could not leave the main path, not even to circle around .
Hui Tai Lang laughed until he had muscle cramps all over his body and had to stuff his paws hard into his mouth to block out the unsuppressable laughter . In this Rain Valley, every puddle of water were traps, some of them may be harmless and would just sink the foot stepping on it into a pit of sludge: but some were not harmless, some had mud monsters that would not die, dragging their prey deep into their mud holes to slowly feed on them; while others contained an unknown poisonous saliva trap, once a foot stepped into it, the foot would be poisoned .
The Deputy Palace Lord continuously used a cleansing beam to disperse the toxins that were on his body .
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While cursing darkly .
No wonder the mercenaries below the Heaven Rank all died in less than ten minutes, even somebody as powerful as himself was forced into such a woeful predicament .
It’s a good thing no one saw this mess, otherwise he would have lost all his face! The Deputy Palace Lord would continuously stop to expel the toxins from his body or to freeze an undead sludge monster into ice, then tidy his clothes and restore his stately looks before continuing to bounce up and down on his journey forward . Yue Yang had many chances to strike, however, he did not want to take out this Deputy Palace Lord for the time being .
It’s better to have such a shield in front of you than to have to test everything yourself!
The most important point is “The Palace Lord is here, but where is the Palace Lord?
Although he was not one hundred percent certain, Yue Yang guessed that there were people in power who were stronger and more greedy for power that had come in long ago, they might even be somewhere ahead……
Killing a Deputy Palace Lord might not count as something too serious, but if he was able to kill a Palace Lord… damn, even thinking about it would make him feel excited . How many Palace Lords are there in the Central Palace Hall? For the time being, the Grand Palace Lords and the Supreme Lord of the Divine Hall were off limits, even if they were standing in front of him right now, he would probably not be able to beat them, but he might have a chance of beating a Palace Lord who was one rank lower! “Hui Tai Lang, this time you must try to put in more effort, if things go wrong, I won’t let you go!” Yue Yang warned Hui Tai Lang not to take it lightly, even a Deputy Palace Lord was no easy opponent, not to mention if there was really a Palace Lord waiting for them in front, if they did not go all out, things would be difficult!
“Meow!” Hui Tai Lang stood up on his hind legs and patted his front paws onto his chest, showing Yue Yang his determination and promising to complete the mission!
On one side the master and servant pair were discussing their future actions, while on the other side, that unlucky Deputy Palace Lord…
Had fallen into another trap!
He was usually cunning and wise, but suffered greatly under the combined terrain and restrictions in this Rain Valley . Restricted from normal flight by the power of law, he was left with no choice but to bounce . Although he was able to accomplish this by relying on his brute strength, the punishment that was meted out to him was in no way light .
Yue Yang had also noticed this, in the Rain Valley, it was allowed for those who entered to challenge the power of law here, unlike the prohibitions in the Tong Tian Tower, once infringed, it would bring about a destructive punishment, or forced movement restrictions, preventing any movements . However, the power of law here was more like an encouragement in disguise, allowing those who enter to challenge it, as long as they possess sufficient strength .
If this place is used for training, it would no doubt be very suitable .
Could it be that this was the Gate of Life and Death that was set up by the ancient Heaven Rankers of the Heaven Realm?
Was this the place the ancient Heaven Rankers used to test and gain recognition for their strength?
Yue Yang’s mind immediately thought of a possibility, and once this thought was stuck in his mind, the more it urged his curiosity . The Tong Tian Tower had the Zodiac Palaces, the Gate of Life and Death and so on, what would the training grounds of the Heaven Realm look like? …