3 6: Gu Yao, Gu Hua, Gu Zhen, and Gu Xing.
A few days ago, before Heaven-Demonizing Sovereign (Soul Emperor) casually shattered the restriction jointly sealed by the Gu Clan elders, he hadn’t cared at all about the possibility of the sealers discovering it.
As a Dou Di (God-tier practitioner) standing at the apex of the Dou Qi Continent, he possessed absolute confidence in his own strength and naturally did not worry about what these small fries might do upon finding the broken restriction.
However, he did not anticipate that his casual action, coupled with the weakening of his own strength, meant that the Emperor-realm restriction he had carved for the last bloodline of the Soul Clan was no longer completely secure.
“Should we notify Miss Xun Er?” Gu Yao suddenly asked, and then the four elders fell into a collective silence.
“Perhaps…
let’s not…” Gu Xing said tentatively.
“Gu Yao, I know your feelings for Miss Xun Er, but she…
she might…” “Say no more, I understand the meaning.
Let us depart now,” Gu Yao said in a low voice.
Immediately, the four Dou Sheng (Saints) rose at the same time and disappeared from the spot in a flash of light.
A few breaths later, the four elders appeared together at the transmission array of the Soul Realm.
“The restriction has been completely broken.
The restriction we left together cannot be broken by anyone below the level of a Dou Sheng.
Someone must have entered.” “Let’s go in and take a look quickly.” While speaking, the four elders activated the transmission array and instantly appeared on the transmission platform of the Soul Realm.
“Look at the sky!” “How…
how can this be?” The four elders were shocked to discover that the originally eternal blood-red sky of the Soul Realm had turned into blue sky and white clouds.
This mysterious change made the four Dou Sheng feel a sense of danger, and they simultaneously released their divine senses to scan the surroundings.
“The world energy here must have been altered by someone with Dou Sheng cultivation.
When we came last time, there was absolutely no such situation!” “Be careful, the opponent is definitely a Dou Sheng.” Among these four newly promoted young elders of the Gu Clan, Gu Xing was currently the highest, having reached the level of a 5-star Dou Sheng, while the other two were still at 3-star.
If an unknown high-level Dou Sheng were to appear suddenly, it was hard to say what the outcome would be.
“Someone is coming, be careful.” As they spoke, a member of the Soul Clan dressed in black flew through the air and landed a moment later.
The newcomer was the current patriarch of the Soul Clan, Soul Xing.
“Junior Soul Xing greets the four seniors of the Gu Clan.
May I ask what instructions the seniors have for this sudden visit?” Soul Xing cupped his hands and asked neither humbly nor arrogantly in the face of the four Gu Clan elders.
“We felt that the restriction we left on the Soul Realm was broken.
Who did it?” Among the four, Gu Zhen had the most fiery temper and asked directly without waiting for Soul Xing to continue.
“Senior, please forgive me.
Regarding this, this junior truly does not know.
This junior has only the strength of a Dou Zong (Ancestor); how could I know such things?” “You Soul Clan scraps, stop with the goddamn flowery nonsense.
If you don’t know, you don’t know.
Let’s go.
We’re going to their rat hole to check it out.” Gu Zhen did not give this lowly-cultivated Soul Clan patriarch any face.
He spoke with sharp words and directly interrupted Soul Xing.
Soul Xing lowered his head and pursed his lips without saying another word.
He knew deep down that any one of these four Gu Clan big shots could kill him in an instant.
The situation was stronger than the person; Soul Xing could only lower his head and walk back, enduring the humiliation.
In the blink of an eye, the four Gu Clan elders arrived before the restriction carved by Soul Emperor back then.
Gu Yao circulated his cultivation and reached out to tentatively touch it.
Seeing this scene, Soul Xing’s heart couldn’t help but skip a beat.
If the problem with the restriction were discovered, he and these 6,000 Soul Clan survivors would likely have no luck and all be finished here today.
Given the tension, Soul Xing was forced to speak in an attempt to fool them: “Senior…” “Shut up!” The Dou Sheng aura inside Gu Yao suddenly exploded, flipping Soul Xing several meters away.
“This restriction is wrong!!” “The restriction has definitely been rewritten recently!” As expected, Gu Yao discovered the traces of change in the restriction left by Soul Emperor back then!
With a squeeze of his hand in the air, the recently tossed Soul Xing was suddenly pulled before Gu Yao by an irresistible force.
“Speak!
What’s going on??!!!” The difference in power between a Dou Zong and a Dou Sheng was simply too vast.
Gu Yao directly locked the space around Soul Xing, and the immense pressure made it impossible for Soul Xing even to lift a finger.
“Ju…
junior does not know!” The locked-down Soul Xing struggled to squeeze out a few words.
“Then die.” As soon as the words fell, Gu Yao clenched his hand into a fist.
The tall Soul Xing, along with the locked space, was directly crushed!
Due to the vast difference in realms, Soul Xing had no room to fight back and died instantly, his path of cultivation ending then and there!
When Soul Emperor left the transmission jade slip, he also didn’t realize that the lowly-cultivated Soul Xing wouldn’t even have a chance to crush the jade slip in front of Gu Clan Dou Sheng.
Gu Yao, who had just pinched a “maggot” to death as if it were a common ant, continued to study the restriction left by Soul Emperor with the other three Gu Clan elders.
When they tried to break the restriction years ago, they found that this restriction array and the secret script writing were actually very simple, one could even say a bit crude.
Soul Emperor had been in a hurry to leave back then and only left this simplest restriction.
One either had to know the secret script or have the Soul Clan bloodline to travel freely through the restriction; otherwise, it could only be broken by brute force.
But at that time, even with the combined power of six Dou Sheng, they were unable to shatter the barrier.
After several attempts, they could only leave in frustration.
However, under the current inspection, Gu Yao was shocked to find that the protective power of this restriction had decreased by more than half, to only about a quarter of what it was before.
Gu Yao initially thought it was because of the passage of time and the natural decay of the array’s effect, but upon closer inspection, it wasn’t that at all.
This restriction could only be passed through by Soul Clan members from both inside and out.
At this time, there were no more Dou Di in the world.
Why would a restriction that even the strongest Dou Sheng of the age couldn’t break together suddenly weaken for no reason?
Gu Yao was truly puzzled.
Questioning that Soul Clan ant yielded no results; killing him was just something done in passing.
This ant, with only Dou Zong cultivation, didn’t even understand the methods of the restriction’s operation; asking him what changes had occurred would mostly be in vain.
The four Gu Clan elders looked at each other and collectively decided: while the restriction was significantly weakened, they would break it directly and wipe out the last of these Soul Clan survivors root and branch.
Meanwhile, the Soul Clan survivors inside the barrier were still unaware of what was happening outside.