The white mist ahead gradually dissipated, as if an invisible force between heaven and earth had driven away the fog shrouding this place.
As Lin Bai and Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing walked side by side through the white mist, the world before them left Lin Bai utterly astonished. It looked nothing like a world beneath the earth.
Ahead, beneath the shroud of darkness, lay a boundless stretch of towering mountains and overlapping ridges. Each mountain rose impossibly high, like enormous swords thrust into the ground, radiating an imposing yet eerie aura.
This was actually an underground mountain range!
Although darkness enveloped the surroundings, the outlines of the mountains could still be seen, along with the glowing plants, ores, and other things that occasionally flickered within them.
Before Lin Bai and Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing lay an ancient road roughly thirty zhang wide, paved with black stone bricks. It stretched all the way into the mountains, vanishing into the darkness.
On both sides of the black ancient road were signs of decay and ruin, as though an invisible force were corroding everything around it.
What was strange, however, was that the stone bricks on the ancient road remained perfectly intact, without suffering the slightest damage.
Seeing this, Lin Bai guessed that this road was the so-called Emperor's Path spoken of by the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's martial artists—the ancient road leading to the Holy Lord's Mausoleum.
"The Holy Lord's Ancient Road is nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine zhang long. It was personally forged by the predecessors of our Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, and contains an extremely strange power."
At this moment, dozens of martial artists stood behind the Holy Lord's Ancient Road, including Shi Renshan, Yao Daogu, Zhao Fengxia, Liu Huan, Li Siyuan, and Li Guxian.
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