Imperial God Emperor - Chapter 1105

Chapter 1105



Chapter 1105 Giant under the Giant Tree

The disappearance of the anonymous Quasi-emperor and the incident that drove the eight prodigies insane must have been connected to this place . If even a Quasi-emperor had fallen here, great danger must have been present in this dimension .

Ye Qingyu did not dare to let his guard down .

He saw many skeletons wandering aimlessly along his way . They were like harmless sheep and were not offensive threats .

Aside from the herds of skeletons, he saw shadows drifting in the air like mist in another area . They looked like wandering souls, and their gaseous, vapor-like bodies were very thinly formed . It looked as though a single gust of wind would blow their bodies into bits . . .

No, the spirits of powerful martial artists are not like ghosts . They are already very faint and insentient, as if they had forgotten everything about their past life . They exist in a very strange condition, and they would most likely be unable to exist in the world of the living, much less sustain a gust of wind!

Ye Qingyu felt that it was extremely strange .

Further away, on the horizon, he could see something changing to a bright red color .

He walked about five hundred meters to where he spotted the change in color .

There were flowers .

Bright red flowers .

They were planted close to each other and there were so many of them that it looked like a sea of red to Ye Qingyu . They spread out so far that he could not see where they ended, and they seemed like a firestorm that was raging on quietly but giving off a cold and deathly aura that pervaded the air .

Upon careful examination, he realized that there were no leaves, only flowers on the stems of the plants . The bare stalks and bright-red flower petals made them look extremely bizarre .

"These are . . . Hurricane Lilies!"

Love is fleeting and ill-fated . A couple might be willing to take the next step forward at different periods of their lives, but our lives will always end in death . A lifetime of memories is no match for Meng Po's mind-erasing soup .

Legend had it that bright-red Hurricane Lilies would line the path to the Underworld . It took one millennium for them to bloom and another millennium for their leaves to wilt . The flower petals and leaves would never grow together and never meet . It symbolized the life and death of all living beings; neither cycle would ever intersect with the other . Ye Qingyu had once read ancient texts from the time where gods and demons roamed . There were some records about the Underworld in them, but they were incomplete . The great powers during that era did not believe in the existence of the Underworld as well . They thought that it was a place dreamed up by scholars and that it could not possibly exist .

During that ancient era, the terms "gods" and "demons" was merely used to describe more powerful beings in the world . They were all living beings, and there were no Death Gods in the world then . Even if there were, they were just people who had been nicknamed as such and were remembered as a "god" or a "demon" by future generations . Take Ye Qingyu's moniker as the Killing God for example . Perhaps, in times to come, people would classify him as a "god" or a "demon", but it most definitely did not mean that he was truly a deity or a demon .


This was the belief held by Ye Qingyu all this while .

Now, however, he had arrived in this mysterious land, and he felt extremely emotional upon seeing so many legends proven to be true .

However, he still did not believe that he was in the real Underworld .

Death is like a flame extinguished . It just symbolizes the expiration of one's life-energy and that one's body had stopped working . One's corpse would then turn into ash over time, so what was the point of becoming a ghost?

If people turn into ghosts after death, why haven't we been seeing them forever? Do they really become reincarnated?

Ye Qingyu thought as he continued advancing . He stepped on the Hurricane Lilies with no fear .

He was a living being and unafraid of ghosts or spirits . Even if he was walking on the so-called path of Hurricane Lilies which led to the Underworld, so what?

He continued walking for one hour and lost track of how far he had traveled .

A huge, silent and still river was blocking his path .

"This river is very similar to that one in the Reincarnation Hall of the Chaos Demon Emperor," Ye Qingyu said after observing . It was filled with rapid currents and capable of sinking even a goose feather . Upon closer examination, he realized that the water was reddish-yellow, and there seemed to be something floating inside it . There were so many of the things that it was an alarming sight to behold .

Is this the River of Forgetfulness?

The legends of the time of Gods and Demons spoke of the River of Forgetfulness . After death, spirits would pass by Ghost Pass, the Path to Hell, and then the river itself . After that, they were considered to have stepped into the actual Underworld .

Ye Qingyu grinned .

"There is no Underworld . Everything here checks out with the legends of the God and Demon Age, but the more they are alike, the more suspicious I am . The legends say that anyone who crosses the River of Forgetfulness will forget everything about their past life and become a wandering soul in the Underworld . I want to see if that's true!"

With his current level of cultivation and battle prowess, Ye Qingyu was completely unafraid of all these things .

He strode up quickly and stepped onto the surface of the river . His feet seemed to be rooted and he could not land . The surface of the river bubbled and rippled, as if it was boiling . Figures who looked like water ghosts rose out of the river . There were ranks of them, and they reached their claws out and swiped at Ye Qingyu .

"Scram!"



Ye Qingyu shouted .

Instantly, countless "water ghosts" were blown away .

He walked on the surface of the river, as majestic as a divine king who was walking into the Underworld . Sheer light emanated from his body and an icy aura surrounded him . Each step he took caused the river water in a thousand-meter radius to freeze up . No more "water ghosts" dared to drag him down into the water, and they kept away at a safe distance .

Two hours later, he crossed the River of Forgetfulness .

Eight shadows stood on the opposite end of the river .

"You've committed a grave sin by forcibly entering the Underworld as a living being . Kneel down and repent now!" One of the shadows spoke up . Its voice was as loud as rumbling thunder and carried a divine authority with it, as if it were speaking on behalf of Heaven and earth .

Ye Qingyu looked calm as he stepped onto shore .

"So, it's the eight of them . "

As he expected, the eight figures were the eight prodigies in the legends circulating around Heaven Connect City who had been driven insane after the weird incident in [Guanlan Mountain Manor] . They included the shadow of the Inugami and the voice of the Molo he saw earlier in the main hall of the manor .

The present condition they were currently in was a little strange .

This led Ye Qingyu to recall certain incidents in the ancestral tomb of the Dragon Humans . The aura of the eight prodigies was similar to some auras left behind in the tomb, and they were neither alive nor dead .

"Receive your punishment, sinner . "

The shadow of the Molo prodigy flickered and the long black spear in his hand shot toward Ye Qingyu at lightning speed .

Ye Qingyu blocked it with his sword .

Clink!

Sparks flew .

The shadow of the Molo prodigy was extremely strong, even a few more times stronger than the shadow who wielded a black saber that he had fought earlier in the main hall of [Guanlan Mountain Manor] . He was utilizing the magical abilities of martial arts that was unique to the Molos .



At the same time, the shadows of the other seven prodigies moved and surrounded Ye Qingyu .

A battle erupted .

Ye Qingyu tried to observe their physical conditions as he fought with them . They looked strange, as did their powers . Undeniably, the battle prowess that they were displaying now was many times stronger than that described in the legends .

Ye Qingyu used the maximum power of the Divine Emperor sword will, but he still could not suppress them . He was barely managing to keep up with them .

In the legends, the eight prodigies were all driven insane but survived their ordeal . They should still be with their respective clans and be cared for by their loved ones . Why are shadows that look like them present here, and why are they so powerful?

Ye Qingyu thought as he continued fighting .

The prodigies instantly retreated when Ye Qingyu began to channel the power of the [Life Sword Mantra] . They kept retreating as the sword energy amplified while screeching, as if they were extremely afraid of it .

Ye Qingyu did not kill them outright .

After defeating all of the eight prodigies, he continued advancing deeper into this realm that seemed like the Underworld . He dashed forward like a bolt of lightning and cut through the dark void .

The shadows of the eight prodigies followed behind him, but did not dare come too close to him .

After a while, Ye Qingyu stopped .

That was because he had caught sight of a wizened tree . The span of its branches was extremely huge, stretching out with a radius of about a few hundred meters . It seemed to shoot up high into the heavens, but it did not look too healthy . Only numerous dried-up and wrinkled-looking branches were left on it, and Ye Qingyu could imagine how wondrous it must have looked in its prime . Now, however, the branches were barren and it looked like the corpse of an ancient tree . It looked very bizarre . It was extremely tall and huge but was left with only branches and had turned into a fossil-like object .

There was still a little green to be spotted at the very core where its branches stemmed from, and there seemed to be a faint lifef orce circling around there .

Piles of yellowed leaves could be seen beneath the tree .

Ye Qingyu could not tell its type just by looking at it .

He instantly recalled the ancient parasol tree that grew on the mountain ridge at the center of the 18th district of the Black Demon Abyss . Likewise, it looked as if it was about to dry up, but in terms of size and amount of branches, the parasol tree was not even 1/10th that of this giant tree that stood before him now .

It was the first time he had seen such a huge tree .

Is this a mutant species from the God and Demon Age?

Or perhaps, this tree has some connection to this mysterious dimension?

There was a strange feeling in his heart .

He slowed down and walked carefully up to the tree .

Gradually, Ye Qingyu could feel a strange ripple of life .

This was the first time since entering this weird dimension that he had sensed the presence of a life force . He was shocked and slowed down even more . He released a little of his divine sense to observe his surroundings . Shortly after, he had some findings .

"This . . . "

He was instantly shocked by the information gathered by his divine sense .

He walked forward and went over to the trunk of the giant tree .

He could see a human sitting cross-legged on the ground . His size was as huge as the legendary giants, and his eyes were gently shut, while his palms were closed together and placed before his chest . His expression looked as gentle as that of a respectable monk . The tree was actually growing within his body, and its trunk was growing out from his neck . Countless entangled roots were growing in his body and had pierced through his chest, abdomen, and limbs, and they were absorbing the energy within him .

The scene was simply too bizarre and shocking to behold .

It seemed like the giant had been subjected to torturous punishment . The giant tree was planted in his body and had burst through his body . Now, it seemed to have assimilated itself with his body .

Ye Qingyu could feel that the life force he sensed earlier was emanating from the body of this thousand-meter-tall giant .

Is he actually still alive?

Ye Qingyu was extremely shocked .

Who was this human?