Martial Arts? Sorry, I am better at Thunder Spell!-Chapter 444 - 249 Thunder Dragon Sky Seal (Please subscribe! Please vote monthly!)_2

Chapter 444: 249 Thunder Dragon Sky Seal (Please subscribe! Please vote monthly!)_2

Professor Cao, Professor Zhou, and the others continued on their journey.

They traversed the corridor.

From this new corridor, no more murals appeared.

It seemed that the legend of Sima Pi ended once they entered the Immortal Road.

Perhaps the ancients who painted those murals had also no clue about what Sima Pi encountered after he entered the Immortal Road.

They passed through the corridor.

Suddenly, the space in front of everyone opened up.

An unprecedentedly massive soluble cave appeared before them.

This underground soluble cave was like nothing anyone had ever seen before; was the Zombie soluble cave that could accommodate tens of thousands of coffins large enough?

But compared to this place, it was still inferior.

Here, the space was at least ten times larger than the Zombie soluble cave that Professor Cao and the others had seen before!

It was hard to imagine that beneath the old forests of the Yunnan deep mountains, there could be such an enormous space in the Underworld.

But that was not the most unimaginable part.

What really made everyone gasp in shock

was the magnificent underground palace standing in the midst of this enormous cave.

No one knew when this underground palace was built.

It was of immense scale.

The entire structure was greyish-white,

appearing extremely ancient.

But upon closer inspection, remnants of immortal essence could still be sensed.

Professor Cao couldn’t help but say, "Could it be that immortals really lived here before? Is this palace, the travel palace of immortals?"

An underground palace of this size existed in the Underworld.

Was it really possible to be made by human hands?

Professor Cao didn’t believe it.

The environment in this Underworld was extremely harsh.

Even though humanity had created countless miracles that astonished the world,

like the pyramids, the Great Wall, and the Terracotta Warriors,

Professor Cao still didn’t believe that mere mortals could build such a massive scale underground palace.

This palace was outrageously large.

It was much larger than even the largest Hu Fu Pyramid.

The Ancient Egyptians built the Hu Fu Pyramid for Pharaoh Hu Fu,

a feat that reportedly used 2 million massive stones.

Then this underground palace would have required at least 4 million stones to be built.

That’s almost the equivalent of two Hu Fu Pyramids.

And don’t forget, the Hu Fu Pyramid was built on the surface world.

The construction difficulties between the two were worlds apart.

Also, the craftsmanship of this palace was exquisitely delicate, incomparable to the Hu Fu Pyramid.

Its technological and craft level was thousands of times higher than that of the pyramids.

The resources and labor required to construct this World of Underworld were astronomical.

This workload was possibly much greater than the combined efforts of the Qin Emperor in connecting the Ancient Great Wall and Emperor Yang of Sui in digging the Grand Canal.

Professor Cao and the others didn’t believe this project could be achieved by ancient commoners.

With the ancient level of technology and labor, it was simply not possible.

And even if it was possible,

it wouldn’t have been left without a trace in history.

Which Emperor could have managed it?

How much resources and labor were spent?

None of this even hinted at in historical texts.

When the Qin Emperor built the Great Wall and Emperor Yang dug the canal,

the enormous labor forced many civilians to rebel.

The workload of this underground palace was even greater than that of the Great Wall and the canal.

It was impossible without any records!

Considering all possibilities, Professor Cao and the others speculated.

This palace was not made by humans.

It was very likely the work of immortals.

To verify this speculation,

Professor Cao and his team approached the palace.

However, what they found eerie was,

as they got closer to the palace, Professor Cao and the others bizarrely felt an inexplicable pressure growing heavier.

First to succumb were Professor Zhou and Professor Cao.

Both were quite elderly,

their physical fitness inferior to younger people.

This place had a mysterious and horrific pressure.

The two old professors were the first to succumb under this pressure, halting their steps.

If they proceeded further, they could be crushed until they spat blood.

Next to be forced to stop were many of the young students from the research institute, a few poachers, and Bu Nu and Ada, two Hunter guides.

Ultimately, they were ordinary people.

Under such tremendous pressure, they couldn’t go much farther

and stopped where they were.

Only Ye Jiuyun, Li He, and some highly fit paramilitary personnel continued moving forward.

But soon after, even Li He and the paramilitary personnel couldn’t withstand it any longer.

They too stopped,

reaching their limits.

The last one biting down and pushing forward was Ye Jiuyun.

At this moment, he was the closest to the palace.

Less than ten meters away, he could almost touch the stairs of the palace.

Ye Jiuyun saw that on the palace stairs, seemingly scattered around,

were knives, swords, books...

They lay in disarray on the ground.

And anyone could guess that in such a wondrous place, the items present couldn’t possibly be ordinary.

Perhaps, they were keys to immortal cultivation!

Ye Jiuyun gritted his teeth; having come this far, he couldn’t return empty-handed.

He took several more steps.

Until the pressures of the Void suddenly overwhelmed him, making his head reel and body sway, forcing him to stop and recover.

At this moment, Ye Jiuyun had reached directly in front of the palace.

He looked up, the palace stairs stretching upwards like a stairway to heaven,

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Ye Jiuyun realized that it was probably impossible for him to ascend.

The closest treasures to him included a yellow Divine Sword scattered on the stairs, two unnamed books, and a brass-colored ring.

Ye Jiuyun bent down and picked up the two books and the ring from the ground.

After a quick examination, his face lit up with ecstasy.

As he had expected.

These were indeed big opportunities!

The two unnamed books turned out to be records of the Immortal Cultivation Method.

And the brass-colored ring contained a universe within, storing numerous treasures.

These would be very useful for Ye Jiuyun’s cultivation.

After taking these three treasures,

Ye Jiuyun turned his attention to the final treasure closest to him – the yellow Divine Sword.

The Divine Sword was said to be close.

But not too close.

The two unnamed books and the brass-colored ring.

Were just on the lowest three steps closest to him.

Ye Jiuyun could reach them with one stretch of his hand.

But the yellow Divine Sword was slightly farther.

On the tenth step.

Ye Jiuyun wasn’t sure if he could climb to that spot.

After all, the pressure here was too great.

Ye Jiuyun tentatively stepped on one stair.

Instantly, an unprecedented horrific pressure washed over him.

Ye Jiuyun spat out a mouthful of old blood, suppressed by the pressure.

The terrifying pressure here was beyond the limit of what normal people could endure.

Ye Jiuyun, at most, was a stronger-than-average Martial Artist but still an ordinary person; enduring here for such a long time was already quite an achievement.

And he still wanted to snatch the yellow Divine Sword from above the tenth step.

It was to say, extremely difficult.

But he didn’t want to give up.

Because he could see that the yellow Divine Sword on that step was intact.

Definitely of much higher quality than the broken sword and damaged blades he had previously found in the Nine-Headed Black Bird’s chamber.

If he could secure that yellow Divine Sword, he would benefit immensely.

With determination in his heart,

he decided to surge up in one go, even if it meant sustaining severe injuries to secure that yellow Divine Sword.

With this thought, Ye Jiuyun took a deep breath.

"Here goes nothing!"

He stepped forward, beginning to forcibly ascend the steps of the divine palace.

However, as the saying goes, aspirations are full, but reality is very skeletal.

Ye Jiuyun had good intentions of risking severe injuries to reach the tenth step and secure the yellow Divine Sword.

But reality quickly slapped him in the face.

That slap brought Ye Jiuyun to his senses.

Because he simply wasn’t qualified to reach the tenth step.

After continuously stepping up three steps,

he couldn’t even reach the fifth step.

The horrific pressure instantly multiplied by more than ten times.

Ye Jiuyun was overwhelmed by the pressure, instantly like a kite with its string cut, sent flying by the tremendous force.

His body violently expelled blood as he soared through the air.

He flew dozens of meters, crashing heavily onto the ground, severely injured, his body bruised by the terrifying pressure of the steps, looking extremely horrifying.

Ye Jiuyun chuckled bitterly in his mind.

It seemed he had been too hopeful!

Even willing to endure severe injuries, he still wasn’t qualified to reach the tenth step?

He couldn’t even reach the fifth step, already meeting his limit.

He had even thought about recklessly trying to take that yellow Divine Sword.

Now it seemed, it was nothing but a foolish dream.