Jade Emperor Hall! The Grand Prefect!
You're the one who's in the mess!
Bull nose!
Upal practically roared it out!
Looking at the old Daoist priest in front of him, he wished he could slap him to death!
Despite his shouting, Upal obediently walked towards the palace complex!
The palace complex before us is faintly visible, magnificent and resplendent in gold, and looks quite beautiful.
However, as soon as they approached, the palace complex instantly turned into ruins.
The past glory seems to have vanished like smoke.
Even the large cauldron on the high platform was now covered in rust and looked like it was about to collapse!
Upal, who was nearby, glanced at it and couldn't help but turn back and say:
"Where am I? Something looks weird..."
The old Daoist priest remained silent after hearing this.
Looking at the palace ruins and rubble before him, his face was filled with emotion.
While pondering on this unnamed mountain, he actually sensed a trace of an old friend!
Without making a sound, he shook his head slightly, then walked step by step through the palace ruins.
As can be seen with the naked eye, these once magnificent palaces, adorned with dragons and phoenixes and glittering with gold, are now nothing but ruins!
The ruins were overgrown with weeds and littered with rubble.
The old Daoist priest, who was walking along the path, stopped when he saw a plaque.
Upon closer inspection, the plaque was covered in cracks.
Over time, the writing on it has become blurred and illegible.
The only recognizable characters are two: Jade Emperor!
"Jade Emperor..."
Seeing this, Upal picked up the plaque and glanced at it a few times, saying:
"Could this be the Jade Emperor?"
"The Jade Emperor Hall!" the old Daoist priest chuckled.
"In the south there is the Heavenly Gate, in the north there is the Jade Emperor, Cangwu is the Emperor... I never expected... even the Jade Emperor would be captured!"
After saying this, the old Daoist priest continued walking forward!
His eyes gleamed as if he had discovered something!
Upon seeing this, Upal quickly followed after them!
Another day has passed.
Lin Chen looked at the octopus tentacles in front of him, a hint of greed in his eyes.
It is believed that the Evil God Clone's strength increased dramatically after devouring the octopus's tentacle flesh.
Compared to devouring the flesh and blood of those monsters, this octopus tentacle meat is clearly more cost-effective!
Thinking of all this, Lin Chen drew his sword and slashed without the slightest hesitation!
Click, click!
With each slash, chunks of bloody octopus meat fell to the ground!
Upon seeing this, the Evil God Clone immediately pounced.
Despite his physique being that of an eight-year-old child, he exuded an aura of Marquis-Ranked Immortal!
After devouring this flesh and blood, its strength surged once again!
Upon seeing this, Lin Chen instinctively increased the speed of his sword swings!
Upon seeing the stark white bones on the octopus's tentacles, he decisively turned and fled with his Evil God Clone!
Rumble!
Shortly after it left, black mist instantly emerged from the octopus's tentacles!
Visible to the naked eye!
Everything around the black mist instantly turned to dust!
This caused Lin Chen, who was avoiding the view, to see it, and a smile appeared in his eyes.
Having figured out the monster's habits, he turned and flew off in the next direction!
Flying, flying...
Suddenly, a very familiar behemoth appeared ahead!
Upon closer inspection, this enormous object appears to be circular.
Its size is so large that it can hardly encompass the entire star field.
That octopus tentacle just now pierced right through the ring!
Around this circular building, there were all sorts of spaceship wreckage!
The sheer number of impact boulders has created an area resembling a meteorite belt.
Upon arriving here, Lin Chen saw this and murmured to himself:
"The Judgment Prefecture..."
That's right!
This is the renowned Judgment Prefecture!
Normally, the Judgment Prefecture is hidden in the Virtual Universe, and ordinary people can't see its true face at all.
After the entire universe split apart, the Virtual Universe also exploded and subsequently disappeared.
The Judgment Prefecture, hidden within, was naturally exposed as well!
Judging from the appearance, it seems there has been some unrest here!
Lost in thought, Lin Chen shook his head slightly and immediately led his Evil God Clone into the room!
Upon closer inspection, the interior of the Judgment Prefecture is enormous.
Its scale is comparable to that of a star field!
And this is only the surface scale.
If the Judgment Prefecture had not been damaged, the virtual space it contained would have been comparable to the entire Apocalypse Universe!
This is also the source of the Judgment Prefecture's great confidence!
It's a pity that even such a powerful civilization could not escape decline in the end!
Thinking and thinking.
Lin Chen quickly flew to the inner area of Judgment Prefecture.
Visible to the naked eye!
This place is littered with corpses, numbering in the hundreds of millions.
Judging from their clothing and appearance, the corpses were all followers of the Judgment Prefecture!
For some reason, they suddenly died here!
Upon closer inspection, these corpses appear dried up, resembling mummies.
Despite witnessing this scene, Lin Chen remained fearless.
Just as he was about to leave, a glimmer of multicolored starlight suddenly appeared from the depths!
Surprised, Lin Chen was stunned for a moment, then immediately released his Psychic Domain to crush the enemy!
With a terrifying surge of mental energy, that area was instantly brought under control!
"It's you... Lin Chen..."
Immediately afterwards, an aged voice rang out.
In Lin Chen's sight, a multicolored flame appeared out of thin air!
Grand Master!
"Who are you?" Lin Chen's eyes flashed coldly after sensing the aura emanating from the other party!
His intuition told him that this guy was no ordinary person!
The Grand Master did not respond upon hearing this.
His body was so weak that he was like a candle in the wind, about to die at any moment.
"I am the head of the Judgment Prefecture... It's normal that you don't recognize me... But I... do recognize you..."
After a long silence, the Grand Master spoke.
Grand Master!
Upon hearing this, Lin Chen's eyes were filled with shock!
As everyone knows!
The Judgment Prefecture's strength is entirely due to the contributions of powerful figures throughout history.
Among them, the most powerful and the most mysterious are naturally the successive lords of the manor!
However, when Lin Chen came into contact with the Judgment Prefecture, the one in power was the Asura Overlord!
However, the so-called Lord of the Manor has never shown up!
"You are... the Lord of the Judgment Prefecture... why are you here?" Lin Chen asked.
"If I remember correctly, now that the Lord of Asura Hall has become the Overlord, you shouldn't have ended up like this, right?"
The Grand Master remained silent upon hearing this.
Looking back on his life, it all seems like a joke.
Now that we've fallen to this state, it's entirely our own fault!
"The Asura Overlord... this kid is the most cunning and intelligent person I've ever met. It was the wisest choice for the Judgment Prefecture to fall into his hands!"
The Grand Master, amidst flickering flames, spoke in an ancient voice:
"However... he was born at the wrong time! This guy has reached the pinnacle, but unfortunately he encountered the wrong era. Even though he broke through to the Overlord level, he also encountered the strongest Great Annihilation enemy, and it was unprecedented. So I don't have high hopes for him!"
I suggested a different approach, but Asura didn't support it or even understand it, so we disagreed and eventually went our separate ways! I originally thought that bringing my followers into the Virtual Universe would avoid most of the dangers, but who knew the enemy would be so terrifying..."
Upon hearing what the Grand Master said, Lin Chen's eyes showed a hint of doubt.
Without making a sound, he pointed to the hundreds of millions of corpses behind him and said:
"How did these people die?"