Half-Step Heavenly Master, Ancestor Wang Lao

The Yin soldiers were borrowing the road, like a terrifying army with a complete organization and perfect discipline.

An endless, eerie black sea surged in from the horizon, eroding all things. Its cold and sinister aura clung to people like maggots to bone, freezing them to the core as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Not good! The Yin soldiers are borrowing the road—they've come to block his path!"

As a contemporary Source Earth Master, Elder Wu Hong suddenly recalled an old secret.

In his later years, the fifth-generation patriarch Zhang Lin had encountered misfortune and behaved strangely. He had once ventured deep into the Divine Ruins restricted zone in search of something, where he happened upon Yin soldiers borrowing the road.

When the ancestor of the Source King Lineage had attempted to break into the realm of a Source Heavenly Master, on that eerie and mysterious night, a sea of Yin soldiers had also suddenly appeared outside the Ancestral Land, which was protected by countless layers of source formations.

All signs indicated that Yin soldiers borrowing the road might be a calamity exclusive to Source Heavenly Masters.

Seeing that Ye Fan was about to succeed in overcoming the heavenly tribulation to become a Source Heavenly Master, Heaven and Earth had sent down another ordeal to test his senior brother—or at least, that was what Elder Wu Hong believed.

Yet Source Heavenly Masters usually encountered misfortune in their later years. The fifth-generation patriarch had been like that, and so had the ancestor of the Source King Lineage. Why was the Eastern Saint facing this in his prime?

"The sacred blood of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body can awaken the strongest heroic spirits of the human race..."

Gai Jiuyou suddenly uttered a seemingly random sentence.

Wu Hong shuddered violently,