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Chapter 410: Chapter 235: Thirty Thousand Years of Waiting

According to the Tier 4 Undead Race Great Monarch, this Void Thunder Layer was located between the void and the Demon Realm. If it was overstimulated, something bad would happen.

Now he understood. That "something bad" was the closing of the vortex passage.

’So these two guys lured me to the Void Thunder Layer to threaten me.’

’Or even to trap me in the Void Thunder Layer to die?’

So much for their plan.

The Void Thunder Layer had been stimulated by an external force and had really sealed the vortex exit!

Both sides were now trapped in the Void Thunder Layer, floating about uncontrollably.

Gu Zheng was fine. Protected by his Silent Extinction Thunder Realm, he hadn’t been injured in the slightest.

The two Tier 4 Undead Race Great Monarchs, however, were not. As they drifted about, they had to endure the baptism of the thunderstorm. Their black mist scattered and dissipated, and their green light dimmed and flared.

Their power was being rapidly consumed.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

A dense thunderstorm raged wantonly through the turbulent void.

This went on for the time it takes an incense stick to burn before it finally began to subside.

Once the turbulent void vanished and the space more or less stabilized, the dense thunderstorm reverted to ordinary lightning.

Gu Zheng quickly took control of his Thunder Realm and charged toward the Tier 4 Undead Race Great Monarchs.

However, the two Tier 4 Undead Race Great Monarchs, despite their grave injuries, were aware of the threat. They immediately plummeted, bursting into a sprint downward, and rushed out of the Void Thunder Layer into an unknown space.

Gu Zheng sensed their movements and locked onto their destination.

He paused, temporarily giving up the chase. Instead, he shot upward to try and find the vortex exit passage.

As expected, the vortex passages that had led down from the abyss were all gone.

The connection to that space was completely severed!

No matter how unwilling Gu Zheng was, he had to accept it.

He had pursued the Tier 4 Undead Race Great Monarchs all the way down here and hadn’t encountered any real danger, but now he was trapped.

The passage was closed. He couldn’t return to the Demon Realm, let alone the mortal world.

This wasn’t something he could solve just by slipping into the void.

Standing within the thunder layer, Gu Zheng pondered for a moment. He didn’t lose heart. Controlling his Silent Extinction Thunder Realm, he absorbed the falling bolts of lightning and charged downward as well.

In one breath, he burst out of the Void Thunder Layer, following the two Tier 4 Undead Race Great Monarchs into the unknown space.

The fluctuations at the entrance to this unknown space were extremely violent.

Evidently, the terrifying power from just now had been released from this space, triggering the riot in the Void Thunder Layer.

Gu Zheng followed the chaotic fluctuations and passed through an invisible membrane.

SWOOSH!

A frozen world of blue and white instantly filled his vision.

The sky was gloomy, with no sun, moon, or stars in sight.

Nearby, various ice sculptures were scattered everywhere, and the ground was a thick layer of ice.

In the distance, massive icebergs towered, so tall they pierced deep into the void.

In the air, streams of Cold Ice Qi were almost tangible, visibly swirling and coalescing into a cold wind that howled and blew.

The terrifyingly low temperature frantically assaulted Gu Zheng’s Silent Extinction Thunder Realm the moment he emerged.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

CRACKLE! POP!

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Frost condensed, shattered, and fell, only to re-form again in mid-air.

Gu Zheng immediately retracted his Silent Extinction Thunder Realm and switched to his Water Dominating Domain.

Although the Water Dominating Domain wasn’t a Frozen Domain, it could still resist the encroaching Cold Ice Qi from the air. It even absorbed this Ice Cold Power, converting it into Water Dominating Water and continuously increasing its Domain Power.

In other words, he could maintain the Water Dominating Domain indefinitely without expending any of his own energy.

SHHH... SHHH...

A translucent, light-blue sphere slowly revolved with Gu Zheng at its center.

Gu Zheng floated over the ice, holding the Demon-Seeking Pot as he searched for the two Tier 4 Undead Race Great Monarchs.

He couldn’t rest easy as long as those two weren’t completely dead.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

A bone-chilling wind swept around him.

Gu Zheng followed one direction and searched for over ten li, but he didn’t find the Tier 4 Undead Race Great Monarchs.

He then changed direction and searched for over ten more li, but still found nothing.

He changed direction again. After flying forward for ten li, he still hadn’t found the two Tier 4 Undead Race Great Monarchs, but his Five Orifice Divine Techniques did spot a person.

Using his Thousand-Mile Eye, he saw a middle-aged man, nearly six feet tall, by an iceberg several thousand meters to his front-left. The man wore a skirt of animal hide, his arms, shoulders, and thighs bare. He was flying at a low altitude, glancing left and right from time to time as if searching for something.

’The Ice Cold Power in the air is this terrifying, yet he’s completely unaffected?’

Gu Zheng focused his vision and examined the middle-aged man closely, discovering that his skin was different from an ordinary person’s.

It was a translucent, ice-blue color. His blood vessels were also different, appearing white, and his muscles and tendons were much the same.

As a result, it was impossible to notice without looking closely.

’A Demon Fiend?’

’No.’

’The Demon-Seeking Pot isn’t reacting!’

’If he’s not a Demon Fiend, then what is he?’

Gu Zheng stopped and activated his Eyes of Golden Flame to scan the man.

’...A human?’

Under the gaze of the Eyes of Golden Flame, he could see the man’s original form.

This middle-aged man, whose flesh and skin were so different, was actually a human!

Just as Gu Zheng was observing him from a distance, the middle-aged man seemed to sense something. He abruptly looked up in Gu Zheng’s direction.

The next moment, a fanatical, joyous surprise erupted from his black-and-blue eyes.

SWOOSH!

The cold wind tore apart as the middle-aged man broke through it, rushing before Gu Zheng.

"Three Eyes, Bo Xiu, pays his respects to the great one!"

Before Gu Zheng could speak, the middle-aged man performed a grand salute, bowing and bringing a clenched fist to his chest before lowering it to his abdomen.

Gu Zheng watched the entire process, recalling something he had once read in an ancient text.

An ancient rite.

The man was performing a grand salute from the Ancient Times.

’Ancient Times?’

"...You’re called Three Eyes Bo Xiu, and you know me?" Gu Zheng used Divine Strange Sound Transmission.

The middle-aged man had also used Divine Strange Sound Transmission.

This form of communication, which went directly to the mind, was not bound by language.

"Replying to the great one, Three Eyes is my clan name. My name is Bo Xiu," the man replied, straightening up with an excited smile. "As for knowing you, great one... yes, we know you! We four races have been waiting for you for thirty thousand years! For thirty thousand whole years, we’ve been trapped in..."

"Wait!"

Gu Zheng raised a hand to interrupt, transmitting via Divine Strange Sound Transmission, "What did you just say? Thirty thousand years? You’ve waited for me for thirty thousand years!?"

"...The great one may not believe it, but it is the truth." Bo Xiu took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down before answering seriously, "This space is actually also a Spirit Realm. Thirty thousand years ago, our ancestors from the four races stumbled in here from the outside world while fleeing Demon Fiends. But the entrance never reappeared, and the space was affected by a mutated ’Pupa Pool,’ which continuously releases Ice Cold Power. This in turn affected our four races. Our numbers dwindled from several hundred at the start to just over a hundred now. More than half froze or starved to death, and those who survived all mutated."

As he spoke, Bo Xiu extended his left hand, opening his palm to reveal a completely blue eye. "This is my third eye. The origin of our Three-Eyed Race is that every one of us has three eyes."

"Mm."

Gu Zheng nodded and asked, "What does this have to do with me? Also, you seem to have known I would appear here. Was I the one you were looking for just now?"

"Yes!"

Bo Xiu nodded eagerly. "The great one might not believe it, but we knew as early as twenty thousand years ago that you would enter this space today. This was a prophecy obtained by an ancestor of the Hidden Spirit Race through Celestial Secret Deduction! It took two hundred years, and in the end, he sacrificed his own life for it!"

"The prophecy mentioned that we needed to gather the power of the four races today and unleash the ’Godslaying Spear.’ Then, the great one would enter this space from the outside world and lead us away from here!"

"We waited for twenty thousand years, and finally, today has come! Adding the ten thousand years our ancestors waited before that, our four races have been waiting in this ’Ice Prison’ for a full thirty thousand years! Thirty thousand years! We’ve finally waited for the great one’s arrival and have a chance to leave! Haha~"

Bo Xiu’s whole body trembled with excitement as he laughed boisterously.

Gu Zheng, however, fell silent.

’Celestial Secret Deduction?’

’A prophecy?’

’A thirty-thousand-year wait?’

’All just to wait for me to arrive?’

’Fine. The Celestial Secret is profound and unpredictable. It seems the prophecy really came true.’

Perhaps there truly was some unseen guidance at play. Gu Zheng had chased the Tier 4 Undead Race Great Monarchs, entered the Void Thunder Layer on this very day, and then, because of the "Godslaying Spear," the vortex passage had been severed, causing him to end up in this space.

’But...’

’I can’t even leave myself. How am I supposed to lead Bo Xiu and the others out of here?’