Supreme Emperor of Swords

1075 Hades True Immortal

“What was it?” Ding Hao asked curiously.

Muhuang Tianshu sighed and gulped down the rest of the wine before he said, “It turns out that the current Heaven Sect is no longer what it used to be. A dark force has infiltrated the Four Great Families, and more hatefully, some ambitious people were willing to degenerate and colluded with this dark force…”

“Do you mean Muhuang Tianling?” Ding Hao guessed.

Muhuang Tianshu let out a long sigh and said, “Initially, I thought that although Fourth Brother was greedy for power and ambition, he was loyal to the family, and Eldest Brother was not enthusiastic about family management, so Fourth Brother could make up for it. However, I did not expect that his ambition had unknowingly expanded to the point that the whole family could not bear it. Perhaps, when Elder Brother decided to accept Ke’er as his personal disciple, instead of Muhuang Pin of Fourth Brother’s branch, it already dissatisfied Fourth Brother. Later, Elder Brother favored and protected Ke’er many times, which made Fourth Brother even angrier…”

Ding Hao did not say anything more.

It was hard to get why Muhuang Tianji had made his choice, but the reason why Muhuang Tianling had willingly abandoned himself to despair was probably not so simple.

Muhuang Tianshu continued, “Maybe at that time, or even earlier, dark force had quietly infiltrated Heaven Island. Fourth Brother became their target, and in the end, they successfully made him completely degenerate. Outsiders could not detect it, but in fact, the Four Great Families have been gradually out of control over the years.”

“What kind of dark force is it that can achieve this?” Ding Hao could not help but ask. The Heaven Sect had been operating in the Southern Wilderness for 10,000 years and was highly steady. It had experienced countless crises and remained still. It was definitely not an ordinary force, but it had been infiltrated by another party silently, which was quite horrifying.

A trace of shock, anger, and fear appeared on Muhuang Tianshu’s face, which disappeared soon. He said, “It’s a force from the void. It has existed since the Immortal Period. It’s like a ghost in the darkest and deepest place of time and space. If they don’t show up, you would never know their existence. But for tens of thousands of years, this force has had a profound impact. It can be seen behind countless holy wars and big events that have affected the fate of the whole continent. They are like ghosts, and they are everywhere.”

“Humph, old man, you made it sound so horrible just because you are cowardly, aren’t you? If that force is really so terrifying, it would have ruled the world long ago. Why would it still be hiding in the dark?” Evil Moon said disdainfully.

“Stupid cat, you know nothing.” Muhuang Tianshu said furiously, “In this world, only those ordinary people would pursue power and influence, and those who have been at the top would pursue immortality and invincible power. For those hidden in the dark, obtaining eternal life is their biggest goal.”

“They would like a ghost for eternal life?” The Fat Cat chewed a divine medicine and curled its lips with disdain. “What’s the point of striving for that? It would be worse than living.”

Muhuang Tianling wanted to retort, but he didn’t know how to oppose the Fat Cat for a moment.

Ding Hao ignored their bickering and continued asking, “What kind of existence is that force? How much do you know about it?” He suspected that the dark force mentioned by Uncle Tianshu had something to do with what he had seen in the sea of consciousness of the man with a broken hand and a golden hook.

Muhuang Tianshu said, “It’s called Hades. Supposedly, its overlord is the Hades True Immortal. It’s said that he has truly peeked into the profundities of immortality. There are too many legends about it. When I was young, I roamed many ancient ruins of the various great territories and once found some bits and pieces of clues related to the Hades True Immortal. It’s very likely that he’s related to the end of the Immortal Period all those years ago, and even the destructions of the Remote Period, Age of Teras, Ancient Era, and the eras in late antiquity.”

“Hades?”

Ding Hao was stunned and said, “I once heard of a mysterious sect in the Land of Divine Grace, which was called the Hades Ghost Sect. Is it related to the Hades True Immortal?” Ding Hao told Tianshu everything he knew about the Hades Ghost Sect in detail.

Tianshu shook his head and said, “I don’t know about that. According to what you said, the Hades Ghost Sect was just a branch of the Divine Palace of Sky and Netherworld in the past, which was replaced by God’s Palace in the Eastern Continent. With such strength, it should be far inferior to Hades, which is in charge by Hades True Immortal, and there’s no way that he would allow the God’s Palace to replace the Divine Palace of Sky and Netherworld.”

Ding Hao nodded.

“That’s true. It seems that Hades and the Hades Ghost Sect merely share similar names.”

But what Uncle Tianshu said today was absolutely shocking.

If his words were released, it would cause the entire continent to tremble.

Ding Hao guessed that these secrets would only spread among the Supreme Masters in the God Realm. Only those who had reached a certain level of strength would know about these. Ordinary people would not be able to come into contact with them at all. Tianshu had told him this because he was strong enough.

He was almost sure that the changes in God’s Palace were closely related to Hades. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have seen countless people, including the Fake God Emperor, with the same aura as the black figure, Tiansha, in the sea of consciousness of the man with a golden hook and broken hand.

After clearing his head, he said, “What does this have to do with Ke’er betraying Heaven Island?”

Uncle Tianshu said, “I don’t know much about this matter either. It is said that Ke’er had something that interested Tiansha. He wanted to take it by force. At that time, it was very likely that my eldest brother also noticed it. I didn’t know about the fights that went on. However, with my elder brother’s strength and scheming, he couldn’t have been defeated in the battle, but he did get defeated. Also, my fourth brother turned his back on us, which was also enough to show how terrible the enemy was. In the end, except for the Ximen family, almost all the other three families were controlled by that force. My eldest brother didn’t die, but Ke’er left Heaven Island alive and hid in Extermination Peak… When I came back, everything had been settled.”

Hearing this, Ding Hao felt even more strange.

“Did Ke’er have something on her that Tiansha was interested in?

“What could it be?

“I remember that back then, Ke’er and I were as poor as beggars, and we could not even fill our bellies. When Muhuang Tianji took Ke’er away, she only had a few thin clothes on her… Could it be that she got an opportunity and obtained something later?”

It had been an hour since Ding Hao and the Fat Cat entered the underground prison. Although he still had a lot of things to figure out, he was running out of time.

He said, “Let’s get out of here first. After dealing with Tiansha, we’ll be able to get to the bottom of this.”

Tianshu nodded and led the way.

This was the underground prison of the Muhuang family. As the Highest Elder of the Muhuang family, the profiteer was naturally very familiar with this place. When they went out, they were much faster than when they came. In less than half an hour, the group got back to the ground.

All of a sudden, deafening shouts swept over from all directions.

Ding Hao and the others soared into the sky and looked around.

Battlefields were everywhere on Heaven Island. Those experts who had been contaminated by the dark power were fighting with the experts of Extermination Peak, the Demon Clan, and the Four Great Families. The sky was ablaze with black flames, and the black flames almost covered the entire sky.

The Heaven Sect Garden remained the core of the battlefields.

Inscription chains meandered in the void like dragons. Colorful lights were partly hidden and partly visible, imprisoning the void space within a radius of hundreds of miles. They also isolated the aftermath of the battles inside the Heaven Sect Garden and shrouded the whole garden.

The God Realm masters who could decide the outcome of the war continued to fight a bloody battle.

“Hmm? Why are the ones of the Sea Clan of the Land of Divine Grace also here?” Ding Hao narrowed his eyes and suddenly saw the beautiful, milk-white, long-haired Mermaid Princess of the Sea Clan. She held the trident of the Sea God and joined the battles.

As expected, there were countless Sea Clan experts on the battlefield. There were Whaleton Warriors, Seahorse Knights, Shark Berserkers, Giant Prawn Swordsmen, and the elite formations formed by mandarin fish fighting against contaminated black figures.

They were friends, not enemies.

“Let’s finish Tianshu first,” Uncle Tianshu bellowed furiously, his entire aura changing.

He suddenly took a step in mid-air, slightly clenching his right fist in the void. In an instant, a powerful cyclone emerged in his palm, finally turning into a long, silver spear. The body of the spear flickered with silver inscriptions, and an extremely powerful and sharp aura emerged from his body.

The tip of the silver spear is like lightning, locking onto the black figure, Tiansha, in the distance.

When enemies saw each other, their eyes would blaze with hatred.

If it wasn’t for Tiansha, Muhuang Tianji might not have died, nor would Muhuang Tianling have fallen into depravity. All of this enmity was caused by that black figure, so Muhuang Tianshu would absolutely not hold back again.

This was the first time that Ding Hao had seen the profiteer really go all out.

The silver spear looked simple, but it contained a terrible destructive power that would make even a God Realm Master tremble.

Swoosh!

Tianshu gathered his Qi in his abdomen, took a step, and threw out the silver spear fiercely.

At practically the same moment, his entire body transformed into a silver-flowing light that charged out.

“Let’s fight too.” Ding Hao ordered Evil Moon and rushed into the battlefield.

As soon as they approached the battlefield, they heard an angry roar. A figure in the void was bombarded and sent flying, coughing up blood. His body was almost crushed while half of it was enveloped by black flames, and it seemed to be contaminated.

It was Ximen Guiying.

The God Realm Master of the Ximen family, who was famous for his killing, was good at close assassination. It was the easiest way to hurt the enemy while it would be easy for him to be injured. His attack power was strong, but his defense was weaker than that of an ordinary God Realm Master.

Swoosh!

A faint blue ripple came and covered Ximen Guiying, instantly extinguishing the black flames and healing his injury.

It was the Mermaid Princess that helped him.

Ximen Guiying nodded to express his gratitude and then looked at Ding Hao next to him. He whispered, “Be careful, this monster is very terrifying. He also snatched my family’s ancestral Divine Artifact. If he gets the Four Divine Artifacts, no one can stop him.”