Chapter 1493: Ghost Path Ancient Treasury

Tianxue Realm, Night.

Above the ruins of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, a large command tent stood silently. The light from lanterns dispersed the darkness as numerous figures moved about.

Due to the total loss of power, the Tianxue Realm had been forced to abandon the deep-underground Tianxue Base and relocate all personnel to the surface. However, since surface buildings were still being rebuilt, they had to stay in temporary tents for the time being.

In an inconspicuous tent at the very center, Su Zhiwei, dressed in a white training suit, sat cross-legged with her eyes closed.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, she snapped her eyes open!

"This is..."

Su Zhiwei frowned, looking toward a certain direction in the Tianxue Realm.

After a brief silence, a voice spoke from outside the tent:

"Lord Red Dust."

"Hongxiu?" Su Zhiwei replied immediately, "Come in."

As the curtain was lifted, a black Law Enforcer trench coat swept in with a gust of cold wind. Hongxiu walked in, her expression extremely serious.

"Lord Red Dust, I sensed a wisp of... strange aura within the Tianxue Realm that does not belong to the Fourteen Divine Paths."

"You sensed it too?"

Su Zhiwei was a bit surprised. After all, the aura had flashed by and was very faint; ordinary Divine Path users would almost certainly not have noticed it... Hongxiu was a Tier 8 Asura, after all, and was extremely sensitive to such unfamiliar and threatening auras.

"Lord Red Dust sensed it too?"

"Yes..." Su Zhiwei paused for a moment, "If I’m not mistaken, that aura belongs to... the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury."

"Ghost Path Ancient Treasury? One of the four lost Divine Paths, the Ghost God Path?" Hongxiu asked in surprise. "But why would the aura of the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury appear in the Tianxue Realm?"

"The location of the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury is directly beneath the Tianxue Realm."

"What??"

Hongxiu was shocked.

The Ghost Path Ancient Treasury had been lost a very, very long time ago, even earlier than the Emperor Divine Path. Almost no one in this era knew its location... but Su Zhiwei was different. Before the Great Cataclysm, she had happened to encounter the Ghost Path in a town.

"The Ghost Path Ancient Treasury suddenly leaking its aura... could there be some change?" Hongxiu’s brow furrowed tighter.

Su Zhiwei looked again in the direction where the aura had drifted. After a brief moment of contemplation, she ordered:

"Take some people, we’ll go take a look."

……

"The Ghost Path Ancient Treasury is right under here?"

Jian Changsheng looked at a patch of unremarkable ruined land and asked suspiciously, "It doesn't look like anything special... Diamond, did you remember wrong?"

"Impossible. I’ve been here too many times to remember wrong," Sun Bumian replied with great confidence. "The Ghost Path Ancient Treasury is deep underground; you can't see any signs of it from the surface."

"Then how do we get down?" Chu Muyun asked.

Jian Changsheng replied as if it were obvious:

"Simple, just dig a hole and drill down."

"That’s you!" Sun Bumian rolled his eyes, "Only a brute would use that method... My Awakening Lion can tunnel through the earth and take you all down directly."

"Tch, so you can tunnel, big deal?" Jian Changsheng made a face at Sun Bumian.

"What about Heart? Why isn't Heart saying anything?"

Everyone looked behind them. A figure in an opera robe was standing in a corner, seemingly lost in thought.

Chen Ling stared at the ground in front of him for a long time before slowly speaking:

"It seems... a 'brute' has already gone down ahead of us."

“？”

The group walked forward in confusion, only to find a pitch-black hole in the ground. It was about half a meter wide, deep and bottomless, with wisps of chilling, eerie cold air drifting up from below, making them shiver involuntarily.

"Damn, someone beat us to it!" Jian Changsheng’s eyes widened. He felt the faint aura from within the hole, and his brow furrowed,

"Wait, this killing intent... why does it feel so familiar?"

"Someone got here first?" Sun Bumian rubbed his chin in surprise, "Besides me, is there actually someone else in this era who can accurately find the location of the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury..."

"I have a bad feeling about this," Chu Muyun said, frowning.

At this critical juncture, someone having entered the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury a step ahead of them was undoubtedly bad news for Chen Ling and the others. It meant they might not only have to guard against attacks from the Treasury itself but also be wary of this "first arrival."

Chu Muyun turned to look at Chen Ling:

"What now? Should we continue down? Or wait a bit?"

Chen Ling pondered for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly seemed to sense something and looked in a certain direction of the Tianxue Realm.

Under the dim sky, numerous figures exuding terrifying auras were flooding toward them like a tidal wave, as if they too had sensed the anomaly in the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury.

"It seems we have no choice," Chen Ling ordered without hesitation,

"Go!"

The Awakening Lion pendant on Sun Bumian’s wrist flickered. The next second, a massive Awakening Lion was outlined from the void, swallowed the group, and tunneled into the earth, disappearing without a trace.

A few seconds later, several figures landed in the vicinity one after another.

"The aura came from here."

Hongxiu’s gaze locked onto the dark pit in the ground, her brow furrowing deeper, "Such ancient killing intent... Which one from the Soldier Path Ancient Treasury has run out?"

Su Zhiwei glanced at the pit, her gaze seemingly piercing through the thick layers of soil to look directly at the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury deep below.

"Lord Red Dust, should we go down?"

"...No."

Su Zhiwei shook her head, "The Tianxue Realm is currently rebuilding; we should try not to cause extra trouble... Send people to surround this place and keep a constant watch."

"Yes."

……

The burning, seven-colored Awakening Lion traveled deep within the earth.

Beside them, a straight channel of killing intent leading to the center of the earth was like an invisible sword piercing the ground. The deeper they went, the more astonishing the killing intent radiating from it became.

Chen Ling’s gaze pierced through the body of the Awakening Lion, staring at that channel of killing intent, his confusion growing deeper...

Such ancient killing intent reminded him of the giant pits deep within the Soldier Path Ancient Treasury. Only a killing god of Bai Qi’s caliber could possess such power... But how could a killing god of that level suddenly appear here?

Who had awakened this killing god?

Just as Chen Ling was pondering this, the Awakening Lion seemed to hit a barrier. The group inside was jolted violently. Jian Changsheng lost his balance and slammed headfirst into Jiang Xiaohua’s chest, making a dull thud as if he’d hit a rock.

"Ouch!" Jian Changsheng rubbed his reddening forehead, unable to help but complain,

"What are you doing, Diamond? Do you even know how to drive a lion?!"

“……”

Sun Bumian’s voice echoed from inside the Awakening Lion:

"We’ve entered the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury."