Chapter 920: The Last Imperial Shadow

Chen Ling was speechless.

He had thought Xuanyujun might be an enemy, thought he might have offended him somewhere in the past, thought he might be an execution machine focused solely on killing all [Emperors]... But he never expected that Xuanyujun, one of the Nine Lords, would actually tease him??

"You..." Chen Ling opened his mouth for a long time, not knowing whether to curse or laugh.

"I have to go, Director Chen." The smile on Xuanyujun’s face gradually faded. At this point, his features were no longer visible, and his whole body began to fade and disappear bit by bit,

"We will meet again in the future... By the way..."

"Say hello to Brother Lu for me."

As his voice fell, Xuanyujun’s figure disappeared completely without a trace.

Chen Ling had been wondering earlier why Xuanyujun’s body had become blurry, and he didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, he would disappear from the world... It seems that this Xuanyujun was also an existence that didn't belong to this timeline.

No wonder a Xuanyujun suddenly popped up out of nowhere and came specifically for the Ancient Treasury of the Imperial Path; it must have been an operation from the human realm side.

Chen Ling pondered slightly and figured out the cause and effect, but Xuanyujun’s behavior of "intimidating" him while still keeping track of time before leaving left Chen Ling unable to recover even now...

"Ji Xuan..." Chen Ling muttered to himself, "You just wait."

With the Ancient Treasury of the Imperial Path collapsed, Chen Ling didn't stay any longer, but stepped on [Cloud Steps] and fell toward the land of the Gray World.

……

THUD—!!

The Ancient Treasury of the Imperial Path, which had been suspended in the sky, was like a collapsing iceberg. Huge fragments fell slowly toward the ground below, crashing into the Gray World land with a deafening roar.

At this time, in the shattered "Dragon Leaping in the Abyss" layer.

A-Qian wrapped her arms tightly around Li Fu’s waist, while Li Fu gripped a beam stuck on the edge of a cliff. Beneath them was the empty high altitude, and the howling gale blew through the shattered world, their figures swaying precariously.

"Brother Li... I’m so scared..."

A-Qian was terrified by the doomsday scene before her, her face deathly pale. If she accidentally let go now, she would surely be smashed to pieces.

"Don't look down! Hold on a little longer!"

Li Fu’s eyes were bloodshot. His thin body erupted with unknown strength, dragging the weight of two people, climbing bit by bit through the beam onto the still-suspended palace ruins, and then lying on the ground, covered in sweat.

A-Qian was also so frightened that her limbs were weak. Before she could say anything, the fragment they were on suddenly fell toward the ground as if it had malfunctioned!

Screams echoed in the sky. Fortunately, this ruin didn't fall directly but occasionally hovered in the air intermittently. Finally, amidst a strong sense of weightlessness, the two of them and the ruin crashed into the land of the Gray World!

Rolling dust flew up. Under the lead-gray sky, a large number of ruin fragments like this were falling, like a thousand falling stars.

"A-Qian... A-Qian, are you okay?"

Li Fu felt the sharp pain in his back, as if his whole body was about to fall apart, but he still climbed up from the ground at the first opportunity, stumbling to search among the ruins.

Fortunately, he soon found A-Qian not far away. Luckily, the ruin had hovered in the air several times, so A-Qian wasn't seriously injured, just seemingly frightened unconscious by the weightlessness.

Confirming that A-Qian was safe, Li Fu finally breathed a sigh of relief...

Next, Li Fu found some other figures in the nearby ruins. Those were other young people who had also been drawn into the Ancient Treasury of the Imperial Path. They had originally been struggling to climb the path to the throne, but unexpectedly, the path shattered halfway, and then the Ancient Treasury of the Imperial Path collapsed and was destroyed.

Li Fu checked the breathing of these people. Most of them had fallen from the path to the throne and had directly lost their breath, but there were still a small number of lucky ones who survived.

"Over a hundred people entered the ancient treasury, and in the end, less than ten came out alive... They all say the Gray World is dangerous, and it really is." Li Fu shook his head bitterly.

Just as Li Fu was about to carry A-Qian and leave, a series of sounds suddenly came from the ruins not far away!

Li Fu turned to look, shock appearing in his eyes... He saw that the long-shattered palace remains and the ground full of stone fragments were all being drawn by an invisible hand, flying toward the front!

Stone by stone, they returned to their places, the shattered palace floor was perfectly restored, and above the originally shattered palace, a black palace was actually built out of thin air, from nothing!

"This is..." Seeing this scene, Li Fu had an unreal feeling like a dream.

In just over ten seconds, a magnificent and mysterious hall stood above the countless palace ruins.

The heavy door opened slowly toward Li Fu, and faint imperial might drifted out from it...

As if waiting for him to enter.

Li Fu stepped back instinctively. He had experienced too much in the Ancient Treasury of the Imperial Path and had an instinctive fear of these palaces... Approaching an emperor would not end well.

ROAR—

Low roars came from other directions in the Gray World, as if some monster was approaching here.

Li Fu, who was about to leave, stopped abruptly. He looked around at the gray world, hesitation appearing in his eyes... He had escaped from the Ancient Treasury of the Imperial Path, but then what?

Leaving the Ancient Treasury of the Imperial Path, the Gray World would only be more dangerous. Without the protection of the Holy Remains, he and A-Qian wouldn't be able to walk a kilometer before being eaten by disasters. He seemed to have survived a desperate situation, but in fact, he had just stepped into a more cruel dead end.

After frowning and thinking for a moment, Li Fu turned around and looked again at the mysterious palace that had opened its doors to him...

I don't know if it was Li Fu’s illusion, but the palace seemed to have guessed his thoughts, just opening its doors quietly, certain that he would definitely walk in.

After all, this was the only glimmer of unknown possibility in a desperate situation.

"...Forget it, anyway, this life hasn't belonged to me for a long time, there’s nothing to be afraid of."

Li Fu gritted his teeth, crossed the messy ruins, and stepped into the magnificent palace!

Just as he stepped into the palace, the heavy open door slammed shut with a roar, and the entire hall fell into pitch darkness...

Just as Li Fu’s heart jumped into his throat, a low voice slowly rang out from the darkness ahead:

"Unexpectedly, the last hope of the Imperial Path is a kid who can't bear the fate..."

Clusters of flames suddenly lit up from the darkness, paving a long road of flickering candlelight in the hall. And at the end of the road, before the tall throne, a blurry imperial shadow loomed.

Seeing that figure, Li Fu’s heart trembled!

You know, all the emperor remnants Li Fu had seen in the Ancient Treasury of the Imperial Path were incomplete, and some had even lost the ability to speak... But the one before him was not only more solid than other remnants, but could even communicate!

Who on earth was he??