An Ultimate Martial Art

Su Ye took a deep breath and looked at his surroundings. The more he looked at it, the more confused he felt. This place gave him a very strange feeling. It was as if there was a sort of summoning within the depths of his heart, yet it didn't seem like it at all.    

    

He recalled the time he accidentally entered this place while he was fighting with the Jishen Palace Goddess. He wanted to find some clues, but he was disappointed as he couldn't find any clues.    

    

If there were no clues, then the only way to understand this place was to delve deeper into it.    

    

In front of him was only a single corridor.    

    

Since he was already here, he might as well leave. He was also a bold person, so he decided to just walk along this corridor.    

    

This corridor was a mottled ancient stone road, and on both sides were hard stone walls. On the stone walls, there were a few ancient runes that could still vaguely be seen even after experiencing the corrosion of time, but Su Ye was unable to understand the meaning of these ancient runes.    

    

Therefore, Su Ye did not stop and continued walking.    

    

At the end of the corridor, there was a ninety degree turn. After that, it was a series of twists and turns, passing by many smaller palaces. Su Ye had never had any substantial gains. Only when they had just arrived at the palace did they sense that mysterious call becoming clearer.    

    

Su Ye was a little surprised. Could it be that deep inside the underground palace, there was actually something that was summoning him?    

    

Just as he was thinking, Su Ye suddenly made a discovery.    

    

Following the pathway to the center of a palace, this palace didn't seem that different from the other palaces he passed by. It was completely empty and didn't have any special features, yet on the ground, there was a corpse sitting in the lotus position.    

    

With just a glance, Su Ye knew that this was a person who had already died a long time ago. Because of the corrosion of time, there were not a single strand of hair left on the corpse, and even the hard bones had more or less weathered to the point where it would only need a slight force of air to sweep over, and the corpse would immediately become dust.    

    

So much so that Su Ye had to slow his footsteps, afraid that walking too fast would cause too much air flow and destroy this corpse.    

    

"Eh, there are words?"    

    

Su Ye's eyes swept across the corpse and saw some crooked words on the ground to the right of it. The corpse's right hand was still holding onto a rusty dagger, and about the same amount of words had been carved onto the corpse by the dagger before it died.    

    

Su Ye was secretly happy, just as he was worrying about not knowing what kind of place this was, this corpse had actually left behind a message before dying.    

    

Su Ye immediately moved closer and stared at the words. The moment he saw the words, his heart skipped a beat, these words were actually the words of the bloody world's Mu Family.    

    

Therefore, this corpse was most likely the ancestor of the Mu Clan, who came from the bloody world. In other words, in order to search for the Gate of Ancient Mystery, the Mu Clan's people had all come to the Lucky World.    

    

It was just that this corpse seemed to be a bit of a tragedy. Even after working so hard, in the end, it still couldn't leave the Gate of Ancient Mystery, and instead died in this underground palace.    

    

Su Ye could not help but sigh, as his heart was also chilled. One must know that the path that he was walking on before, and even now, was actually repeating the path that the Mu Clan's ancestors were walking on in the bloody world. But the Mu Clan's ancestors had died in a foreign land for generations, trying to find the Gate of Ancient Mystery. How could they know that Su Ye wouldn't also die in a foreign land?    

    

With this thought, Su Ye felt some pressure in his heart. However, his willpower was strong and his obsession to leave the Gate of Ancient Mystery was strong. This little pressure was not enough to make him feel fear.    

    

He took a deep breath and started reading the words on the side of the corpse. He read every word carefully, not daring to make the slightest mistake.    

    

By the time he finished reading these words, Su Ye was already flabbergasted.    

    

According to the words, this corpse was indeed the ancestor of the Mu Clan, and it was even the extremely senior ancestor of the Mu Clan. He was the 23rd generation descendant of the Wood Emperor, Mu Ming!    

    

He was the first five generations of the Mu Family descendants born in the bloody world. In order to find the Gate of Ancient Mystery, he had to train his courage. After reaching the three thousand foot mark, he entered the Western Wasteland and embarked on the path of the brave. After going through the Guyang Continent's path, he went through a thorough soul cultivation and left the Guyang Continent, finally arriving at the Lucky World.    

    

Along the way, he had experienced many dangers. However, this crisis was nothing to Mu Ming. Instead, it helped him to gain a lot in the cultivation of his soul.    

    

Just when Mu Ming thought that he would succeed in finding the Gate of Ancient Mystery and the glorious footprints of the Ancestral Wood Emperor, he arrived at the Lucky World.    

    

He also discovered that the Lucky World was extremely peaceful and beautiful and he also felt that this world was unusually peaceful, to the point that he wanted to let people be born here.    

    

He was surprised, but like Su Ye, he sensed a sense of danger from it. Therefore, in order to uncover the mysteries of the Lucky World and find clues related to it, Mu Ming chose to keep a low profile and endure it. He pretended to be a person filled with reverence for the zhi-shen and wandered around the Lucky World.    

    

From beginning to end, Mu Ming had never fought with anyone, even the Jishen Palace's Goddess had never come into direct contact with him.    

    

However, during the journey, Mu Ming made a terrifying discovery. He discovered that this Lucky World possessed an extremely terrifying and mysterious power. This kind of power was soundless and invisible, existing in every nook and cranny, in the mountains and rivers, and scattered amidst the cool breeze.    

    

This kind of power quietly and stealthily influenced everyone's soul in a smooth manner. It could actually subtly make people develop a kind of fanatical worship and reverence for the mysterious zhi-shen, even if it preferred to die for no reason.    

    

Mu Ming called this power divinity!    

    

Mu Ming came to the Lucky World to find the Gate of Ancient Mystery in the first place, so he didn't really want to become the Lucky World's subject. Furthermore, he was a descendant of the Ancient Wooden Emperor, so even if he wanted to pay his respects, he had to pay his respects to the Ancestral Wood Emperor.    

    

Therefore, Mu Ming naturally didn't want to be affected by this divinity.    

    

Therefore, when Mu Ming discovered this divine force, he began to consciously resist its erosion.    

    

However, very quickly, Mu Ming was shocked to discover that this divine power could not resist at all, because the way it invaded was just too strange. It was truly invisible and formless, and even if his consciousness resisted, it still seeped into his inner world and quietly changed his inner heart.    

    

This was too scary.    

    

Especially with the passage of time, after Mu Ming stayed in the Lucky World for ten years, he discovered to his horror that his heart had actually changed by seventy to eighty percent due to this formless divine power. He even developed a kind of reverence for the mysterious zhi-shen like the people of the Lucky World, and if not for the strong and tenacious ego of a descendant of the Ancient Wooden Emperor in his bones, he would really have become a puppet of the zhi-shen under this change in divine power.    

    

That's right. In Mu Ming's eyes, every single person in the Lucky World was a puppet who had lost her will.    

    

Mu Ming was not willing to become this kind of puppet, so he looked for the Gate of Ancient Mystery more urgently, hoping to rid himself of the threat of this divine force as soon as possible.    

    

However, before he could even find the Gate of Ancient Mystery, he discovered that he was almost unable to hold on any longer. The pride as a descendant of the Wood Emperor was already full of holes due to the erosion of the zhi-shen's divinity. Once this pride was completely destroyed, he would completely become a puppet of the zhi-shen, and would no longer be obsessed with finding the glorious footprints of the Ancestral Wood Emperor.    

    

Panic filled him as he fled. He decided to give up his search for the Gate of Ancient Mystery s for the time being and find a place where the zhi-shen's divine power couldn't affect him. He would hide and expel the divinity that had invaded his inner world before continuing his pursuit.    

    

Search, search, flee, flee.    

    

Mu Ming suddenly discovered a group of underground palaces. He was pleasantly surprised to find out that this group of underground palaces also had a mysterious power that formed a barrier that blocked the zhi-shen's divine invasion.    

    

Therefore, Mu Ming hid in the underground palaces.    

    

At the same time, Mu Ming was also very curious about why this underground palace could actually block the zhi-shen's divine power. He even suspected that he would be able to find clues related to the Gate of Ancient Mystery within this underground palace.    

    

Following that, Mu Ming made the same choice as Su Ye and followed the corridor to explore the underground palaces.    

    

At first, he was the same as Su Ye. He walked along the corridor and passed through a large amount of palaces, but he did not manage to find anything. After three months, he accidentally obtained a golden book. On this golden page, there were ancient secrets related to soul cultivation.    

    

Mu Ming was overjoyed and immediately began comprehending the golden page. He quickly gained an unprecedented comprehension and impatiently started cultivating, he had a premonition that as long as he cultivated according to the secret technique contained in the golden page, his strength would quickly increase and he would no longer have to fear the mysterious zhi-shen's divinity. He could openly appear on the Lucky World and continue to search for the Gate of Ancient Mystery.    

    

The inscriptions on Mu Ming's corpse abruptly stopped here, and a blank space appeared at the back of the text.    

    

Su Ye had no way of knowing if Mu Ming had truly cultivated according to the secret technique on the first page of the golden book, and even more so, no way of knowing how Mu Ming died.    

    

Everything that had happened from the beginning to the end seemed like a huge tail, a crucial tail. It had become a mystery that no one could guess the truth from.    

    

As Su Ye's emotions churned, he could not help but feel a sense of indescribable depression, depression so deep that he felt like vomiting blood …