As the Universe Turns - Chapter 1128
Chapter 1128 Heavenly Curtain
High up in the sky, Yan Liu was furious. He was not as calm as he had seen in the third layer of the sky. Even though Spiritual Energy was resisting the restriction, he could not be careless.
Xiao Chen Genuine energy instantly condensed his Void Spirit Qi to resist the flames in the clouds. Otherwise, even if he successfully ascended to the fourth level, his injuries would definitely not be small.
After about an incense stick of time, he finally reached the fourth level of Feng Yuntian. This level of Feng Yuntian was different from what he had imagined. The nearby area was deathly lifeless. As soon as he got up, he felt a heavy smell of blood.
Suddenly, Gu Mo appeared beside Xiao Chen, not knowing what to say to himself. “Oh … I smelled a bloody smell the moment I got up. Tsk tsk tsk, it’s not strange …”
“You’re awake?” Xiao Chen still stared at the flaming flames in the distance and said indifferently, “You didn’t even come out to take a look at the fierce battle just now?”
“Hmph” Gu Mo snorted coldly and said, “As I said, those juniors are not worthy of fighting with me. If I attack …”
“One palm can kill them … Alright, let’s go ahead and see what’s going on.” Xiao Chen stopped talking to him and moved towards the valley in front of him.
The valley in front of him emitted a deep aura of death and a thick aura of blood. When the time came, there were corpses everywhere in the valley, which was especially shocking.
“It’s not strange that no one has ever died in the heavens …”
Even though he saw the corpses lying in a mess in the valley, Gu Mo wasn’t surprised. He continued to say, “Brat, you haven’t seen the entire Feng Yuntian covered in blood hundreds of years ago. You were down there for so long before you killed a person. It’s like you’ve been through a family …”
Xiao Chen ignored him talking to himself and went straight to the valley. The blood on the ground had already solidified, but because of the extraordinary spiritual energy in the sky, these corpses hadn’t decayed yet. And these people should have died for about ten days.
“Kid, don’t look anymore. Let’s go.”
“Wait …”
Xiao Chen raised his hand and arrived in front of a corpse. There was no congestion on the corpse’s face, which meant that its internal organs were not shattered, and there were no other wounds on its body. Only a bloody scar appeared on its neck, but there was no blood flowing out of the wound.
“Oh? It’s interesting to seal your throat with a single sword …”
At this moment, Gu Mo also walked over. Looking at the corpse on the ground, he seemed to be interested. To be able to seal his throat with a single sword strike, even his primordial spirit would be destroyed in an instant. It was not easy, especially when the difference in cultivation wasn’t too great. Even a newcomer to the Saint realm might not be able to do so.
Of course, in the mortal martial arts world, it might not be difficult to seal one’s throat with a single sword. As long as the sword technique was fast enough, the opponent’s blood hadn’t flowed out yet, and he was already dead.
However, the cultivation world was not a mortal world. If he could seal his throat with a single sword, then it would mean that not only was his sword technique outstanding, but his strength was even more unfathomable. Furthermore, the most important thing was that there were countless sword techniques in the world today. Which sword technique could seal his throat with such a single sword technique?
“Kid, do you recognize which sword technique it is?” Seeing that he was silent, Gu Mo asked.
Xiao Chen didn’t say anything. He looked elsewhere and discovered that there was actually more than one such corpse nearby. There was only a wound on his neck. All of them had their throats sealed by a single sword. Who could have done this …
At this moment, he thought of someone. Could it be … Shen Cangming?
Back then, when he had suffered injustice, those people had been killed by a single sword sealing his throat, and the only sword technique used by this sword sealing his throat was the Jade Flute Sword Technique.
Shen Cangming must have secretly fought with his master back then. Adding on his extraordinary talent, it wasn’t difficult for him to get rid of the Jade Flute Swordsmanship.
If it’s not for Shen Cangming, then there’s only one person, Qianyu Nichang.
Could it be Qianyu Nichang?
But why would she kill these people …
Xiao Chen’s heart slowly became puzzled. After a long while, the twilight gradually closed. The entire valley suddenly became somewhat ghostly, especially the corpses on the ground. It made one’s hair stand on end.
At this moment, Gu Mo walked up and looked at the corpse at his feet. He said, “Kid, have you thought enough? If you think enough, then leave. If you want to get to the first level of the sky as soon as possible, don’t delay here.”
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Three days later, with the help of Gu Mo, Xiao Chen found the fourth level of Spiritual Energy gathering point and successfully went to the fifth level.
As for the fifth level, it far exceeded his expectations. The number of people on this level was at least ten times that of the third level. For some reason, there were so many people gathered in this level of heaven.
On this afternoon, Xiao Chen arrived at a valley filled with people. Looking around, he saw that there were many people in the valley. They were densely packed, and they were actually all human shadows.
“Why are there so many people here …”
Xiao Chen’s gaze narrowed slightly. There were countless people here than that day in the valley of the third heaven. It was somewhat strange. In the middle of the valley, there was a ray of spiritual light soaring into the sky. It was clearly the gathering point of Spiritual Energy leading to the sixth heaven.
However, this gathering place of Spiritual Energy was right in front of him, but no one went up, nor did anyone make a move. Instead, they looked panicked and terrified. This was even more strange.
Just as Xiao Chen was puzzled, all of a sudden, the people in the valley started to stir. They all pointed to the sky. On the other hand, more than a dozen figures had fallen from the sky. Indeed, they had fallen from the sixth level.
“What’s going on?”
Xiao Chen’s eyes narrowed, and his doubts grew even heavier.
In the blink of an eye, the dozen or so people had already landed. A few people died on the spot. There were still a few people who had died before they landed. Only two or three of them still had a breath left. However, it seemed that their internal organs had already been shattered. Their meridians in their bodies had been broken inch by inch. They could not be happy anymore.
“No, don’t go up … they, they’re up there … killing people …”
A man covered in blood struggled to speak. His entire body was seriously injured, especially his chest. He was actually pierced by a palm strike, and even half of his heart was shattered.
“What’s going on?”
At this time, a few people boldly rushed forward, while the rest were watching from afar, their faces as pale as paper.
“No, don’t go up … They kill whoever they see …”
As the blood-clothed man spoke with difficulty, fresh blood kept pouring out of his mouth. The faces of the people in the distance were deathly pale. It turned out that many of them had escaped from the sixth level. Unless they had the cultivation of a Quasi-Sage, no one would dare to go up again.
“Can you tell me what happened up there?”
Right at this moment, a cold voice sounded from outside. Everyone was stunned. Then, they turned around and saw a cold-looking white-haired man walking over. It was Xiao Chen.
“Uh, they, they’re killing people up there …”
The blood-clothed man said with difficulty. His injuries were too severe and he only had one breath left. At this moment, his consciousness had gradually become blurry.
Xiao Chen took a quick step forward and placed his palm on his shoulder. “Tell me,” he asked, “who is killing on top of him?”
“Heavens … Heavens …”
Even though Xiao Chen had crossed into Genuine energy, the man in blood was too badly injured to say anything. He kept repeating the word “Heaven”.
“Heavens?”
Xiao Chen frowned, but at this moment, the blood-clothed man slowly lost his breath. The other two who were still alive not far away had also died.
“Wait, what exactly is the heavens?”
Seeing that the blood-clothed man was about to die, Xiao Chen no longer cared so much. He controlled the life and death instant to maintain his life flame with a force of life.
“Heavens … Heavens …”
With this life force, the blood-clothed man slowly raised his head and looked at Xiao Chen. Finally, he said two words, “Heavenly Curtain …”
“Heavenly Curtain …”
Xiao Chen’s expression froze. He slowly withdrew his palm and lost his life force. The blood-clothed man in front of him also slowly closed his eyes.
Xiao Chen slowly stood up and looked at the sky shrouded in layers of dark clouds. It was the people from the sky …
He naturally remembered that when he went to invite Shui Hanyan the Healing Saint and Bu Yundian the Medicine Saint, someone came to stop him. It was the people from the Tent of Heaven.
As for the Heavenly Curtain, it was a very mysterious organization in the Spirit Ruins Realm. The world knew very little about it, and its leader, Mu Tian, had never appeared. No one had seen his true appearance, let alone his identity.
Wei Yang didn’t know why, but when she mentioned the Heavenly Curtain that time, she seemed to know more about this mysterious organization than most people.
Now, the people from the Heavenly Curtain had actually arrived in the clouds and winds, moreover … they were still killing people from above?