The corridor was longer than Long Haochen had expected it to be. The deeper he travelled, the more obvious the coldness became, to the point where he needed to activate his spiritual energy to protect himself.
A warm aura expanded from his chest. Warmth, coupled with the aura of life, filled his entire body. It only circulated through his body once and Long Haochen could no longer sense the coldness anymore.
He could not help but smile. This was Ye Xiaolei’s power. Ever since Ye Xiaolei had fused with him and become his intelligent spiritual stove, she had been sleeping. However, Long Haochen could clearly sense the changes to his body after fusing with Ye Xiaolei. When he sensed that a brand new heart had grown under the power of the Heart of Eternity, he suddenly realised that the original Heart of Eternity had not truly revived him.
Perhaps, the Heart of Eternity could continually sustain his life, but without a heart, he was not a real human? From a certain perspective, he was no different from being an undead, just a special undead with the Light God Domain.
However, after his heart had regrown, Long Haochen could clearly sense that Ye Xiaolei’s power had fused perfectly with the Heart of Eternity. Not only did he possess a new heart now, it was much more powerful than before as well. However, what he found strange was that his heart had evolved, but the boost to his spiritual energy from his Heart of Eternity had vanished. His internal spiritual energy was around five hundred to six hundred thousand, but that did not include the ninety thousand that came from the Heart of Eternity.
The coldness did not affect him, so Long Haochen sped up his pace. Indeed, he never treated the Eternal Heroes as a threat in the first place, not only because of his trust in them, but due to his self-confidence as well. With his current cultivation, the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation and Haoyue, he had complete confidence in himself even when he faced against the Demon God Emperor.
After walking for almost three hundred meters, he finally arrived at the end of the corridor. An arched gate appeared before Long Haochen.
The gate had two panels, with many people sculpted on them. At a closer glance, it seemed like the battle between the humans and demons back then, while two simple words were written on the gate. They were ‘Eternal Heroes’.
Many of the markings on the stone gate had already become mottled, which showed its age. Despite the quality of the material, the passage of time still left behind a clear trace.
In order to protect the alliance, these Eternal Heroes had slumbered here for six thousand years! Even if they spent most of their time asleep, there would always be times when they awoke. They had to endure the darkness and loneliness here. Compared to them, were his contributions of any significance?
When he thought up to there, Long Haochen could not help but bow deeply towards the words written on the stone door. At the same time, he secretly made up his mind that no matter how difficult it was, he had to rectify the existence of these sixty-three Eternal Heroes.
Upon standing up straight once more, he slowly lodged the sacred mountain insignia into the only depression in the stone gate.
It fit perfectly. He could not help but admire the craftsmanship of the person who made all of this.
Ding!
A long, crisp sound rang out, just like someone had struck a bottle made out of magic crystal. The pleasant sound echoed through the corridor as a strange feeling cleared Long Haochen’s head.
Afterwards, the gate began to shine with a deep, green light. Only the sacred mountain insignia remained colden. The gate slowly slid apart to the two sides.
The stone gate was probably a meter thick. It had already existed there for several thousand years, but it opened with such ease. Without a doubt, not only was the gate crafted with great skill, there were magic arrays engraved within as well.
An aura at least ten times colder than before surged forth, immediately colliding into Long Haochen’s body. Surprisingly, the air inside was not foul at all. It was just extremely cold. The coldness even froze Long Haochen’s breath.
Before him was a pitch-black cavern. No matter how great Long Haochen’s cultivation was, it was impossible for him to see anything in a completely pitch-black place without any source of light. However, he did not light up flame this time. Instead, he bowed politely and said, “The Divine Knight of Glory and Leadership, Long Haochen, of the Knight Temple pays respects to the predecessor.”
He did not take a single step into the pitch-black cave. His voice was filled with respect from the bottom of his heart.
His voice echoed in the cavern and corridor. Perhaps due to being too closely spaced, his voice echoed for quite some time.
Long Haochen continued to bow. He showed no intention of changing his posture, maintaining it steadily and quietly. These seniors who had laid down their lives for the alliance and then endured six thousand years of loneliness were definitely worthy enough for him to do that.
“I’vm very curious why a young man’s come, but your two gestures of respect has given me a great impression of you.”
A rather strange voice appeared from the cavern. The voice seemed rather stiff. It would halt slightly every two or three words, which was why it seemed strange.
Long Haochen slowly stood up straight and struck his left chest with his right first, performing the knight’s salute once more, “For the sake of the alliance, for the sake of mankind, the predecessors have done many things. It only makes sense for me to show respect.”
The stiff voice rang out once more, “Did you just say you’re the Divine Knight of Glory of Leadership? Where’d that kiddo called Yang Haohan go? He seems to be nearing a hundred years in age. Has he died to the hands of the demons? If I recall correctly, he should be the Divine Knight of Defence and Planning.”
Long Haochen said, “Temple head Yang isn’t dead. He’s just handed me the right to communicate with the seniors.”
The voice grew slightly more serious, “Looks like something’s happened to the alliance. It’s the first time that a Divine Knight of Glory and Leadership has appeared for the Knight Temple, and there’s a special case where our existence has been passed down without someone passing away. Tell me, why have you come this time? Hmm, hold on. Before you tell me, prove to me your status as a divine knight. From your brimming vitality, you should be in your prime. Has the Knight Temple gained a genius it’s never seen before?”
Long Haochen said politely, “Junior’s name is Long Haochen. I will be twenty-six in three months’ time. What I inherited is the power of the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation out of the six great divine thrones.”
“What?” The stiff voice suddenly became elated. Afterwards, Long Haochen felt a tremendous pressure. The pressure did not push him outwards. Instead, it pulled him in.
However, Long Haochen remained standing there without moving at all. He did not even unleash his spiritual energy outside his body.
Scrape, scrape… A strange sound rang out and a green flame lit up near Long Haochen.
The flame did not burn particularly brilliantly, but Long Haochen did find that it was rather difficult for his eyes to adjust now that light had suddenly appeared in this pitch-black place.
The green fire had appeared in someone’s hand. The person stood over two meters tall and he was extremely skinny. His grey robes were tattered in many places, revealing his ashen skin.
His eyes moved about stiffly as a grey light seemed to flash through them.
He was not a human. More correctly, he should have been a zombie. However, his body was maintained very well, without any part rotting.
He slowly approached Long Haochen. The scraping sound from before came from when he walked. His movements were very stiff, while his knees could no longer bend. As a result, he walked very slowly. However, Long Haochen could sense that this corpse was filled with an aura of danger. He had drawn this conclusion through his sense according to his cultivation.
In terms of age, he remained the same when he had died as he had been turned into a corpse, so around fifty to sixty years old. He did not appear to be too old. Any other person would have probably begun to scream in fright if they came across a zombie in such a dark cavern. However, when Long Haochen saw him, he only showed even more respect.
“Hello, senior.”
Long Haochen bowed politely.
“Let me see the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation, the zombie said excitedly.
After a slight hesitation, Long Haochen said, “Senior, this might not be the most appropriate place for me to do that. I’m afraid of affecting the slumber of the other seniors here. I might even end up having them.”
The light element hidden within the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation was so powerful that once the supra divine tools powers were unleashed here, it would be highly likely that these Eternal Heroes would be harmed no matter how powerful they were!
However, the zombie smiled instead.
“Kakaka, young man, are you thinking your powers of light will harm us? Although I hate how I am right now very much, I just say that the necromancer who created the Scroll of Spiritual Transformation is the greatest genius I know of. Not only did his scroll turn us info undead, it’s retained the element of our powers when we were still alive. Do you think that as the founders of the six great temples, any of us would possess the darkness element?”
Long Haochen gained a new recognition of the Holy Necromancer, Slumbering Calamity Elux. No wonder the Scroll of Spiritual Transformation was labelled as a supra forbidden spell!
“If that’s the case, please be careful, senior.” Long Haochen took a few steps back and his eyes lit up first.
A gentle, golden light appeared in his clear eyes. Afterwards, a holy aura filled with dignity immediately expanded from him. A huge silhouette of light appeared behind him, except in the narrow corridor, the silhouette of the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation was unable to appear properly.