Lord Shenxiu

The sense of weightlessness suddenly struck!

Sun Yuan let out a scream, then quickly regained his composure.

Because he felt that the 'distance' of this fall seemed very long, yet also very short...

It was a very strange feeling; his extraordinary perception was continuously working, as if he had just touched upon a gigantic mystery.

Then... a feeling akin to a gentle electric shock spread through his body.

Sun Yuan felt as if he had passed through a layer of membrane, a mysterious boundary...

As if he had arrived in another space.

Bang!

He fell to the ground, seeing stars from the impact, but was not seriously injured.

"This feeling... it's not like a fall from a great height; rather... it's more like traversing..."

Sun Yuan murmured, turned over and got up, suddenly frozen in place.

Looking around, he saw countless star-like lights embedded in the ceiling of massive rock, bringing bits of brightness, resembling the night sky.

And below the starry sky was a towering and magnificent ancient city!

His current position was right on the city wall, from where he could look far and see crisscrossing streets and checkerboard-like houses.

From the main city gate, a wide avenue large enough for eight carriages to ride side by side stretched straight towards a grander palace...

But at this moment, the entire city was as if dead, silent, with no sign of life.

"An... underground city?"

Sun Yuan widened his eyes: "This might be the greatest archaeological discovery of the century... No, this is impossible... You can't build such a massive city underground! Could it be... I was really brought to another space by the power of a curse?"

"Could this place be... Emperor's City?"

He looked left and right, but did not see Zhong Shenxiu and the people of the [Longevity Sect], and sighed.

This Emperor's City was simply too large, a dozen people thrown in were like scatterings of pepper, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

"The key is still to find the people of the [Longevity Sect] first!"

In fact, Sun Yuan still didn't know what these cultists planned to find in Emperor's City: clues to Kunlun? The Immortal Elixir? Or... more books of spells?

"In any case, this must be stopped; otherwise, it would really create chaos in the world."

Sun Yuan got off the city wall, the ancient and black giant stones forming the wall left him deeply shocked.

"These city walls... not a single seam can be seen, could they have been carved from a single massive stone? The means of ancient magicians are truly astounding..."

He reached out, touching the pitch-black stone, suddenly feeling something.

Those pitch-black rocks were not ordinary dead objects; they seemed to have a unique life, even... a soul!

"Stones with souls? I must be going crazy!"

Sun Yuan stared at the city wall, his gaze suddenly freezing.

He saw more mysterious symbols on the city wall.

The same symbols he'd seen in the ancient tomb of the cultivator, the Blood Curse Gate, and even on the arm of that fake doctor from the [Longevity Sect]!

"Probably some kind of cultivation symbol..."

Sun Yuan thought as he walked into a street.

Tap tap!

It was unclear how much time had passed when suddenly footsteps sounded ahead.

Sun Yuan took a deep breath and saw a few men in black robes, with sullen faces, emerge from the opposite corner.

'Good, it seems the people of the [Longevity Sect] are also scattered...'

Those men in black were obviously startled by Sun Yuan, and the leader directly pulled out a black... firearm?!

Sun Yuan's pupils contracted, preparing to leap aside.

But in the next moment, that firearm didn't make a sound, as if it had misfired.

Click click!

Then, the two others behind the leader also took out firearms, all misfiring.

This was no coincidence; it was... inevitable!

"Is using firearms forbidden here?"

Sun Yuan shivered: "Sure enough... I've reached another space?"

He hesitated no more, instantly performing the 'Fish Swimming Curse'!

In this Emperor's City, the power of curses was not restricted at all, able to be used smoothly!

Moreover, Sun Yuan felt that after performing his 'Fish Swimming Curse', it seemed to merge with a force existing within the void, becoming more powerful and sinister!

Bang bang!

Among those men in black, aside from the leader, the others had no resistance to the curse and collapsed stiffly.

Not only that, from their heads emerged half-phantom souls resembling fish, swimming in the air.

Sun Yuan instinctively released his spiritual power, turning it into threads that hooked these souls.

In an instant, a feeling akin to using the Spirit Summoning Golden Bell surfaced in his mind.

It was even safer, and more desirable...

It was a hunger coming from the depths of the soul, making Sun Yuan involuntarily want to devour the souls of these people that had been hooked!

'So the 'Fish Swimming Curse' has this kind of transformation in its later stages... Devouring human souls for cultivation... are all curses such evil things?'

With immense willpower, Sun Yuan suppressed his inner desire and turned his gaze to the leader.

That person was sweating profusely, but his eyes were bright, suddenly biting his tongue, spitting out a vague incantation.

While the other was halfway through, Sun Yuan preemptively turned many threads of spiritual power into fish lines, directly penetrating the person's body, hooking out a 'fish'!

This fish was much larger than its peers, exuded a more enticing aroma, and its head was surprisingly human-shaped, letting out one final desperate roar: "The leader... Taiyi... will not spare you!"

"So the head of the [Longevity Sect] is codenamed Taiyi?"

Sun Yuan shrugged: "Perhaps indeed a strong figure... but if I can't beat him, I'll just run."

He never thought there was much glory in fighting unwinnable battles.

On the contrary, preserving a useful life is the best choice.

"However, Taiyi... Taiyi! I wonder what the connection is between this mysterious leader and East Emperor Taiyi?"

Sun Yuan speculated a little but felt it was probably just a codename.

If it were indeed such a great being, they wouldn't need to become the head of a mortal organization.

...

Several hours later.

After a series of battles, Sun Yuan had already defeated most of the [Longevity Sect] members, such as 'River Lord', 'Xiang Jun', 'Mountain Ghost', etc., arriving at the palace in the very center of Emperor's City.

There, a person dressed in a black, luxuriant robe with gold thread inlays at the edges was silently waiting for something.

Seeing Sun Yuan, he turned around, showing an excited expression: "You finally came!"