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Chapter 637: Chapter 637 Immortal Grave Chapter 637: Chapter 637 Immortal Grave “Immortal Grave…

have we arrived?”
Ahead, a hazy scene unfolded, with sacred radiance shimmering and lightning surging, surrounded by layers of mist, making the place blurred and mysterious.

Just a few miles away, a colossal grave mound, tens of meters high, sat there, with the Tianhe river flowing into it, disappearing without a trace.

Of course, the sight was quite obscure, not distinctly visible due to the intertwining of Curse Runes, sacred light, and thunder, which obscured the view.

But it was certain, they were about to reach their destination.

Beside Shi Hao, there was also a Taotie, its massive body covered in shimmering purple scales with strong blood vigor; the horns on its head somewhat resembled those of a Dragon Horned Elephant, but also resembled bifurcated ram’s horns.

It felt as if it had seen a ghost, somewhat disbelieving that it had actually seen the Immortal Grave!

The Taotie’s heart felt a sense of dread; it and its tribesmen had traveled a hard path, enduring many hardships with the Evil-warding Divine Bamboo and had not reached this place.

This young one did not often reveal his Divine Treasures, so why was he able to resist the curse and arrive here?

It speculated that Shi Hao must have an Evil-warding Divine Relic, otherwise how could he resist the curse and manage to gradually dissolve the curse on it over the past two days.

Thinking of this, the Taotie felt a surge of anger, as the other party’s action was aimed at…

eating it!

The Taotie went crazy with rage, as this was a humiliation.

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The strongest aspect of their clan was the ability to devour everything, and once cultivated to the extreme, even the natural laws of Heaven and Earth could be devoured.

It has always been them who ate the strong from other races, but now the tables had turned, someone wanted to eat it!

The Taotie belonged to one of the strongest clans in the higher realms, unmatched in battle, a clan that made all immortal dao lineages dread and hesitate to provoke.

Moreover, an ancestor from the Primordial Times of their clan was still alive, striking awe across the Three Thousand States!

Shi Hao noticed its change in behavior, paused, and gave it a glance; he too had to prepare, as walking here, the curse became denser, requiring him to adjust to optimal condition.

The Taotie was also regulating its breath, aware that the other party wouldn’t spare it, but it refused to accept this; it had once left its name on a God Stele left by the Demon Lord, and its ranking was not very low.

Perhaps if it knew that Shi Hao’s power ranked first on the God Stele, it wouldn’t have thought this way.

“Roar…” the Taotie made its move, attacking first, as it had a premonition that Shi Hao would not take it to the Immortal Grave but resolve it here.

Endless blood energy surged like a raging river and sea; the Taotie was truly powerful, this young pure-blooded creature swung its sharp claws, causing even the void to dim.

Bang!

Shi Hao raised his hand, striking with his palm and fingers, clashing against it, causing the Taotie to roar uncontrollably, its sharp claws actually oozing blood.

So powerful!

A chill rose in the Taotie’s heart, their clan’s physical bodies were tough, incomparable to ordinary clans, yet this was a member of the human race, but so formidable.

It opened its huge bloody mouth, capable of devouring everything, and a black hole appeared in mid-air, engulfing Shi Hao’s True Body.

“Human, you will die!” the Taotie fought desperately, using the Great Divine Power of its clan, frantically burning its divine essence, with many Divine Radiance lighting up in the black hole, constructing natural laws, trying to refine Shi Hao.

“Boom!”
Shi Hao stepped forward, his whole body bursting with electric light, and threw a punch out, breaking through the black hole, walking out.

The Taotie coughed up blood, stumbled backward, displaying a face full of disbelief—was its precious technique so easily broken?

“I refuse to accept this!”
These past two days, it was a torment and a humiliation, because the other party helped it dissolve the curse without even sealing it, clearly fearing neither its escape nor resistance.

Its eyes revealed a fierce light, as a descendant of the Heaven Rank Primeval fierce beasts, how could it become someone else’s food?

“Unleash the power of the seal!”
Taotie roared, chains formed by characters emerging one after another within its body, binding its bones and flesh like divine chains.

“Crack!”
In an instant, these chains shattered, and a surge of wild character light soared into the sky.

At the same time, Taotie spat out a mouthful of divine blood, severely wounded, but its strength was surging, much stronger than just a moment ago.

This clan had a secret technique.

During cultivation, they constructed characters, accumulated divine power, and suppressed their own bodies.

At a crucial moment when breaking through to a higher realm, they could release this build-up and break through successfully.

Shi Hao was surprised and said, “I underestimated you; this doesn’t disappoint me.”
“My suppression was in preparation for igniting divine flames.

Now, I’ve destroyed my foundation, and you will pay the price!” Taotie bellowed.

Its vigor was overwhelming, ferociously charging forward, its body adorned with dazzling symbols.

Every motion it made caused the void to tremble with a loud rumble.

This time, it clashed with Shi Hao for dozens of rounds, growing fiercer with each exchange and, ultimately, breaking through a hundred rounds in full eruption.

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“So strong?” Shi Hao was astonished, finding it worthy of being a legendary Taotie.

However, these words sounded ironic to Taotie; it roared deeply, “As a young supreme of the Taotie Clan, no one has dared to belittle me like this!”
It opened all its pores, blood oozed out, it burnt its own body in complete frenzy, and fought desperately against Shi Hao.

A thought crossed Shi Hao’s mind.

There was a young supreme in the Taotie Clan, known for pushing through hundreds of clans unbeaten.

He had heard of him, but since they were already enemies, he couldn’t let go of the strong opponent in front of him.

“Let’s end this!” Shi Hao said coldly.

He did not want to delay any longer; he needed to bring himself to the optimal condition, approaching the Immortal Grave.

The Taotie, having broken the chains of order within and unleashed the seal, indeed increased its strength manifold and battled fiercely with Shi Hao for a hundred and fifty rounds before being killed by a bolt of lightning.

In its stubbornness and ferocity, Taotie leaped forward; eventually, its gaze dimmed, and it fell down.

“It’s a pity, the devouring divine technique of the Taotie Clan cannot be obtained.” Shi Hao shook his head, knowing that disciples of such powerful clans carried prohibitions insider their sea of consciousness.

If outsiders attempted to probe, they would explode.

At the instant of Taotie’s death, its Primordial True Bone also shattered.

Shi Hao sat down cross-legged, tranquilly adjusting his breath, readying himself to be in the best condition before taking out the Pill Furnace and temporarily placing those precious medicines in the Heaven and Earth Pouch.

Using precious symbols, he gathered the moisture in the void, turned it into liquid, washed the meat of Taotie, and finally put it into the Pill Furnace, beginning to stew it with his personal Dao Fire.

“It’s a pity I didn’t find my grandfather; otherwise, we could’ve had a great feast with Taotie meat here,” Shi Hao mused.

He had never tried Taotie meat before, but seeing the glistening meat quality and the splendid radiance in the Pill Furnace, he knew it was a nourishing delicacy.

This Heaven Rank Ferocious Beast was among the best of pure-blooded creatures, every part of it a treasure, known as a grand medicinal flesh!

“Truly delicious!”
Hours later, Shi Hao began to eat heartily, his mouth gleaming with light, the meat extremely tender, melting immediately upon entering his mouth, with a particularly special fragrance.

“So tasty, truly a delicacy of the human world!”
Shi Hao was utterly intoxicated; the tender and delectably indescribable Taotie meat indeed ranked as a rare delicacy.

Unfortunately, there was no wine, or else he would have indeed liked to indulge in a few drinks.

The Pill Furnace, though small, only as high as a fist, could accommodate the enormous Taotie within, its inner essence roiling, the essence of the grand medicinal flesh thoroughly stewed within.

Shi Hao gobbled up the meat.

Though he usually appeared refined, he now turned into a glutton, devouring nearly half of the Taotie, his body radiating holy light.

Towards the end, he could no longer suppress it, every pore of his spraying forth divine power – a sign of over-nourishment, but still, he had no intention of stopping.

Because the path ahead was extremely dangerous, filled with intense Curse forces, he needed to let his Divine Power boil over, reaching the utmost limit, using the essence of Taotie’s flesh to accumulate and build momentum.

“Ready!”
Shi Hao muttered to himself, having consumed half of the Taotie’s head.

“Boom!”
Shi Hao took a step forward, walking towards the front.

His Divine Power surged, forming a sphere of light around him, resisting the Curse.

The next few miles were extraordinary.

Every distance he covered, the power of the Curse doubled, suffocatingly so, and even someone as strong as Shi Hao struggled desperately.

“We’re almost there.”
Just one more mile left, but the Curse intensified like a downpour, overwhelming and drowning him.

The source of the Curse was this ancient tomb!

Thus, the closer one got, the more unbearable it became, and the pressure increased in proportion to one’s cultivation level, meaning those with higher realms suffered even more.

Divine Striking Stone, Emperor Butterfly were all taken by Shi Hao into his Qiankun Bag, placed inside his cave, leaving only him to face it alone as he approached the great tomb.

One step, two steps, three steps…

Shi Hao was dripping with sweat, his bones creaking as if they were about to shatter.

Having consumed half a Taotie’s head, his Divine Power boiled, and he felt exhausted.

The final mile took him three days and nights.

During this time, he sat down several times, struggling, fighting the Curse.

“Crack!”
In between, lightning after lightning struck down terribly.

Sometimes it hit him directly, splattering blood, capable of damaging his body.

This place was misty with Spiritual Energy intertwined with lightning, densely imbued with the Curse, and Thunderous Force containing faint traces of Immortal Dao Aura.

Just a few dozen steps left, but Shi Hao could hardly hold on any longer.

The pressure was immense, the Curse seemed insoluble, his body showed signs of shattering, and his spirit was severely depleted.

“This is a cultivation journey…” Shi Hao muttered to himself, calming his mind, sitting here to resist, viewing it as a form of life and death tempering.

The change in mindset made him composed and clear-headed.

He saw this as a form of forging, transcending himself, feeling the force of lightning in the void.

Step by step, those last few dozen steps took Shi Hao another three days, finally reaching the vicinity of the large tomb.

It was made of yellow earth, existing for endless years.

A great river flowed directly into the tomb.

This place had endless characters flashing, expressing a terrifying aura of the great road.

A barren tomb was a kind of road!

That was Shi Hao’s feeling.

Upon arriving here, such a thought occurred to him.

Perhaps the real great fortune referred to this tomb.

Here, the entire ancient tomb followed a set of rules, occasionally emitting characters, and also bursting with lightning, piercing through the ninth level of heaven.

“Did an Immortal really die here, buried in this tomb?” Shi Hao murmured to himself, drenched in sweat, painfully sitting in front of the tomb, enduring tremendous pressure.

He took out his Dual Pupils, pierced through the fog, looked through the lightning, and observed everything about the Immortal Grave.

“That is…” His eyes widened, startled as he looked at the very top of the tomb head.

There was a bright red, vivid blood with an immortal aura, filled with vigorous vitality, translucent red, crystal clear as jade.

“Is this the blood of an Immortal, or the blood of a Demon Lord?” Shi Hao’s voice trembled slightly, his emotions stirred, his fists clenched tightly.

Yet, he knew he could never reach it.

The ancient tomb was a kind of road, perhaps representing the Immortal Dao, or perhaps containing the supreme natural laws of the Demon Lord; it was absolutely impossible for him to ascend it.

He tried it out and sacrificed a Magic Artifact, but as soon as it came near, it was ground into ashes by those lit-up symbols.

“I won’t ascend the Immortal Grave; I’ll just sit here, perceive the dao of this place, and understand its laws here!”
Shi Hao made a decision, struggling against the Curse with all his might while calming his mind to comprehend the “Dao of the Immortal Grave.”
In those initial days, Shi Hao was in extreme pain, enduring a torment akin to being ground to dust.

The Curse invaded his body; lightning struck him, covering him in blood, his flesh dim and lifeless.

Finally, he slowly adapted and showed some improvement, occasionally catching traces of the Dao from this place to contemplate.

Half a month later, Shi Hao was delighted; he had finally sensed it—there was a lot of Thunderous Force here, and he could now trace their paths.

“Immortal Dao Aura…”
Shi Hao gained insight, closed his eyes, sensed those fragmented runes, and then saw vision after vision of marvels, which were the transformations of lightning, profound and unfathomable.

“Lightning—it has life, turning into plants with vigorous vitality.”
Shi Hao murmured, this was his insight, that lightning was not only a destructive force, but it also showed vitality here, which he had captured.

Then, he saw lightning transform into the land—a piece of earth, both swift and vast.

Next, he saw it become rivers, with lightning transforming into liquid, turning into marshes that flowed across the world.

“Clang!”
A metallic tremor sounded, and the lightning in the world condensed into various metallic weapons, forming War Spears, Heavenly Halberds, and giant halberds, their might overwhelming.

Lightning could also be as sharp as metal.

On the Immortal Grave, runes continuously changed, demonstrating various profundities, making Shi Hao utterly immersed, deeply engaged in the process.

It was clearly lightning, but Shi Hao saw the most basic elements of the world—plants, earth, water, metal, fire.

“Boom!”
Finally, several different types of lightning collided, actually emitting wisps of chaotic mist, that thunder was terribly boundless, filled with Immortal Dao Aura.

Shi Hao gained a great amount of insight; his lightning style precious technique had improved significantly, and before he knew it, a month had passed.

Just one session of gaining insight had taken a whole month, which would surely astonish anyone if word got out, as the state of enlightenment was meant to be brief.

“I see the path now and know how to cultivate the dao of lightning,” Shi Hao whispered, this month of enlightenment allowed him to witness the most basic changes in the dao of lightning, incredibly precious.

“Boom!”
The next moment, flames erupted around Shi Hao’s body, carrying a destructive aura, fiercely blazing.

“I have now mastered a basic transformation of the dao of lightning—flame, accompanying destruction, signifying intensity, and also brightness.”
Indeed, flames seemed to dance around him, but in reality, it was lightning, it was electricity, yet it flickered and burned like flames, overwhelmingly powerful.

Without a doubt, the profundities of the dao of lightning he now possessed were much stronger than before, closer to lightning and electricity, with lightning transforming into flames enveloping him.

Shi Hao stood up; after mastering a basic yet profound transformation of the dao of lightning, he seemed to have formed some sort of connection with the Immortal Dao Thunder of this place, and the curse weakened significantly for him.

He moved around the great tomb, wanting to see what else was in other positions.

“Grass and trees containing precious Thunderclap Runes!”
Shi Hao was astonished; on another side of the great tomb, he saw some plants—exotic grasses, low trees, fresh buds—all accompanied by electric light, containing Mysterious Runes.

(To be continued.

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