Hidden weapon!!
Gu Chen's heart tightened. He hadn't expected that the Great Immortal Ghost King would actually use his own body to create a magical artifact! And at this moment, even a low-level magical artifact was enough to pierce through his True Qi protection!
Caught off guard, by the time Gu Chen reacted, the bone spur had already reached him. In the nick of time, Gu Chen managed to turn to the side, but the bone spur still pierced his lower abdomen!
"Hiss--"
The bone spur pierced his abdomen and flew towards the distant mountain wall, exploding with a loud bang and causing a tremor!
This clearly demonstrates just how powerful this force is!
Gu Chen gasped, looking down at his abdomen where a wound the size of a thumb had appeared, revealing flesh and blood clearly!
Because of a moment of weakness, Gu Chen nearly lost his life! Clutching his chest, Gu Chen was furious. He mustered his strength, then quickly stepped forward, grabbed the Great Immortal Ghost King's body, and slammed it hard to the ground!
Suddenly, a cracking sound echoed in the space. The Great Immortal Ghost King's physical body was as if it had rusted and was already useless. It could not withstand Gu Chen's attack and lay on the ground screaming in agony.
Gu Chen straddled him, channeling his True Qi into his arms and unleashing a barrage of punches until he was reduced to a pulp, utterly lifeless. Only then did Gu Chen roll over, clutching his bleeding chest, and collapse to the ground.
Gu Chen was panting heavily. The injuries caused by magical artifacts and ordinary weapons were completely different, so he had to kill the Great Immortal Ghost King immediately and then heal himself! He took out a "Gu Chen Luo Heaven Pill" from his Emperor's Vein, swallowed it, and began to regulate his breathing.
Little did Gu Chen know that at the moment he killed the Great Immortal Ghost King, a momentous event was also unfolding in the Land of Heaven and Earth!
In a certain place in Huaxia, there is a pure land, said to be a special world independent of Earth.
The space inside wasn't small; the scenery was almost indistinguishable from what you'd see elsewhere in the region. At that moment, the previously cloudless sky was suddenly filled with rolling, dark clouds.
"Boom!"
Immediately afterwards, a bolt of lightning tore through the sky, followed by a deafening roar of thunder!
Deafening!
On a cliff in the far south of the Land of Heaven and Earth, there is a building that resembles a huge palace. Both sides are smooth rock walls, and the vertical mountain path leading up to it is shrouded in clouds and mist, with tens of thousands of steps!
This palace was jointly established by various powerful families and is a place where all the strongest people in this world are ranked!
It is called the Heaven and Earth Palace!
The Heaven and Earth Palace has existed for as long as the Land of Heaven and Earth! No one knows how the Heaven and Earth Palace was established, but since ancient times, people have guarded this place. Here, there are two lists. Any martial artist with a name and surname, as long as they meet the requirements, will have their essence blood dripped onto these lists, and their name will be recorded!
Being able to have one's name engraved on it is not only a symbol of honor, but also a deterrent of power!
In front of the palace stand two stone tablets, one tall and one short, exquisitely carved. One is a dragon, the other a tiger, facing each other and colliding, presenting a scene of dragon and tiger fighting! Each stone tablet is full of vitality, flashing with red light, covered with essence blood, and densely covered with names!
This is a nomination of the strongest individuals in the entire Land of Heaven and Earth, used to suppress the entire Land of Heaven and Earth!
As a bolt of lightning raged, the name at the top of the Dragon Ranking, which had been radiating a powerful aura of blood essence, suddenly dimmed!
"The number one on the Dragon Ranking has fallen!"
All martial artists whose names are on the Luo Heaven Twin Rankings are living beings. Once they die, the essence and blood aura on their names will automatically extinguish, making it easier for the Heaven and Earth Palace to record and transmit the information!
At this moment, the extinguished blood essence mark suddenly revealed the words "Wang Gui"!
Soon, several people ran out of the palace. Two of them wore straw hats and raincoats to shield themselves from the rain, while the other three ran out shirtless without even changing their clothes. When they saw the names on the Tiger Ranking fade and disappear, they exchanged glances and their faces showed horror!
"Something terrible has happened!"
After a deathly silence, an elderly man dressed in white finally looked up at the sky, his lips trembling, his voice filled with terror and trembling!
"Wang Gui is actually dead!"
"That Peak Revolving Illumination Realm Land of Heaven and Earth Realm expert who dominated the world for decades is actually dead!"
Who... who did this?
In the space, only the sound of raindrops falling on the ground and stone tablets could be heard, accompanied by the incessant rumbling of thunder all around, making it even more horrifying.
"No, we must tell the family about this immediately!"
One of the middle-aged men, wearing a straw hat, was the first to come to his senses and hurriedly returned to the palace to inform his family!
Seeing his movement, the other three people reacted and followed suit.
These four martial artists who hurriedly entered the palace were representatives sent by martial arts families from the Land of Heaven and Earth to guard the Heaven and Earth Palace. After discovering Wang Gui's death, their first thought was of their own families!
Before the stone tablet, only the white-robed old man who had spoken first remained. He tremblingly reached out and stroked the dim characters on the Dragon Ranking stone tablet, his face extremely pale!
He was the guardian of the Heaven and Earth Palace, a position passed down through generations, and he knew that what the representatives of those families cared about earlier was not the death of Wang Gui!
Rather, it was the so-called Great Dao Classic that had once stirred up bloodshed in the Land of Heaven and Earth after his death!
More than a decade ago, this book suddenly appeared, claiming to be able to directly reach the Great Dao, break through the limits of martial arts, and ascend to the other shore of immortality! In order to obtain it, the Land of Heaven and Earth was filled with fear and trepidation. Whether it was a powerful family or other weak ancient martial arts families, they all rushed to make a move, causing corpses to be strewn everywhere and people to be filled with panic!
If it hadn't ended up being obtained by Wang Gui, the strongest person on the Dragon Ranking at the time, this matter, if it had continued any longer, would probably have become the greatest calamity in the Land of Heaven and Earth!
But now, Wang Gui is actually dead!
"Wang Gui's strength has reached the Peak Grandmaster Realm, and he has a lifespan of at least a hundred years. He cannot have died naturally!" The white-robed old man's voice trembled as he looked at the rain curtain outside the cliff, as if he could see that distant future that would unleash a bloody storm!
"Chaos! Chaos! The Land of Heaven and Earth is about to descend into complete chaos!"
The Land of Heaven and Earth.
The Situ Clan.
Upon receiving the message from the Heaven and Earth Palace family envoy, Situ Jing, the head of the Situ Clan, couldn't sleep. He immediately summoned all the elders he could gather and brought them to the council hall!
"I just received a message from the Heaven and Earth Palace. Do you know what it is?"
Situ Jing, a refined man in his fifties, dressed in elegant robes, stood with his hands behind his back in the hall, his eyes brimming with barely suppressed excitement! Before the elders below could speak, he began, enunciating each word clearly and directly:
"Wang Gui is dead!"