Han Zheng's speculation gave Yan Xuankong a feeling akin to sudden enlightennt.
Of course, such a thought would only occur to Han Zheng, after all, no one else had experienced such a thing.
"Young fellow, that's a pretty bold idea, but it's indeed possible.
However, thinking about these things is useless now, even if there truly are secrets to becoming a god inside, you can't uncover them yet. First, you need to form the dao seeds," he said.
"And even forming the dao seeds and nourishing the Dao Fruits within the Divine Soul is not such a simple step.
Although I don't know how to do it, just from looking at those classics, I know that the process is also very arduous."
Han Zheng nodded; he obviously understood that thinking about all this was useless for the mont.
What Han Zheng needed to do now was to find Su Wuming.
According to his mory, the tomb chamber of the Divine Envoy shouldn't be too large. It should be circular, and he should be able to find Su Wuming just by walking around it.
After wandering the tomb passageway for about half an hour, Han Zheng walked into a dead end but discovered a chanism on the wall.
Upon triggering the chanism, the wall in front of him suddenly opened.
The next mont, a long spear, bristling with an intense evil Qi, suddenly thrust at him.
Han Zheng drew his sword to block the spear and said with a smile, "Brother Su, why do you resort to violence as soon as we et?"
The one who had lashed out was none other than Su Wuming.
"Brother Han, are you okay? The wall suddenly opened, and I thought so demons had co out."
Su Wuming exposed a rare expression of surprise on his face.
He had truly been flustered when Han Zheng suddenly disappeared.
A perfectly fine person just vanished right before his eyes; it was a bit too horrifying.
Su Wuming had great confidence in Han Zheng's strength; even if Han Zheng now said he was going to kill a few Demon Lords, Su Wuming wouldn't worry about him.
But this place was full of unpredictable dangers, and one simply couldn't explain it with the common sense of Martial Arts; hence, Su Wuming also feared that Han Zheng would encounter so accidents.
After Han Zheng's disappearance, Su Wuming wished to enter the inner part of the tomb to search, but he found that the path ahead was a dead end.
Su Wuming wanted to violently blast through the surrounding walls, but he found that the walls contained an Array, and they couldn't be destroyed by force.
Just as Su Wuming was unsure what to do, Han Zheng suddenly appeared.
"Brother Han, what happened to you suddenly vanishing? Did you encounter any dangers?"
Han Zheng shook his head and said, "It can't be called a danger, more like a trial, I guess."
Speaking of which, Han Zheng roughly told Su Wuming what had happened, but he hid the matter about the dao seeds.
It wasn't that Han Zheng didn't trust Su Wuming; he believed that even if Su Wuming saw the dao seeds, he would choose to let him have them.
But the dao seeds were, after all, a sensitive matter, and if others knew about them, it could lead to big trouble.
"So the Jade Pendant has already been sent back, does that an our mission here is completed?"
Han Zheng nodded, "If there are no accidents when we leave, then our mission can be considered complete."
At this mont, Su Wuming suddenly thought of sothing and blurted out, "Brother Han, after you disappeared, I suddenly noticed so slight changes in the mural. The funeral procession seed to have one more person, and it looks very much like you.
However, I couldn't conclude that you would be in the mural, so I didn't pay it much attention."
Han Zheng approached the mural to have a look and sure enough, there was an additional figure in the funeral procession. Although it was sowhat blurred and distorted, upon careful examination, one could see that his attire was distinctly different from the others.
Looking closer, he seed to be wearing the Demon Cleansing Departnt's Purple Gold Sky Wolf Armor!
For a mont, Han Zheng even wondered if he had actually traveled back to the Ancient Tis, otherwise why would his likeness appear in the mural?
His figure was not abruptly or artificially inserted into the painting; the brush strokes and traces blended in as if they had also weathered untold years, appearing mottled and desolate.
Yan Xuankong said, "Stop guessing, it doesn't matter anymore since you've co out, whether it's true or false."
Han Zheng didn't dwell too much on it and took it as nothing more than a pipe dream.
Pulling Su Wuming along, the two of them retraced their path back.
However, the whirlpool that had dragged them down had disappeared, and now they could only swim out of the underground river while ascending on their own.
Although they didn't know if they were in the deepest part of Smoke Wave Lake, continuing to ascend certainly ant they had a long way to go.
The inability to breathe wasn't a problem; with Han Zheng and Su Wuming's strength, it wasn't just for an hour or two without breathing—they could stay underwater for days and nights without any issues, given their robust vitality.
The real problem was that they had lost the direction they ca from.
The whirlpool that pulled them into the underground river wasn't straight but twisted and spiraled, so they had no idea if the ground above their heads was still their previous location.
But now, the small boat they had left behind had been crushed by the giant beast in the water, leaving them without even the only landmark.
After a mont of contemplation, Han Zheng and Su Wuming still decided to swim upwards directly, reasoning that it was best to reach the surface first and then find the right direction.
The two swam out of the underground river, and darkness enveloped them again, like an unfathomable abyss.
There were many strange and enormous beasts in the lake; so were highly aggressive, while others ignored Han Zheng and Su Wuming as if they were re ants.
Previously, Han Zheng had thought that the giant beasts in the lake had mutated due to so force.
However, after experiencing the Divine Envoy's mories, Han Zheng realized that these lake giants were the sa behemoths that once road the earth during Ancient Tis.
It was just that the special water environnt of Smoke Wave Lake had allowed them to survive for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years without extinction.
Han Zheng and Su Wuming dodged their way to the surface of the water, where they were greeted by a vast expanse of white fog.
"Brother Su, do you rember which way is the shore?"
Su Wuming shook his head and said, "I have no sense of direction; I can't tell east from west."
Han Zheng looked at Su Wuming with a speechless expression, "If you can't tell east from west, how did you find your way to your destinations during missions?"
"It's simple, I just determined the direction from the main gate of the Demon Cleansing Bureau headquarters, then moved straight in one direction."
"..."
Simple and straightforward, that seed to have no issues.
Of course, Han Zheng wasn't much better than Su Wuming. Strictly speaking, without any points of reference, Han Zheng was also directionally challenged.
"Let's just pick a direction and try it. If the fog begins to thin, it should be the direction of the outer edges of Smoke Wave Lake; otherwise, we'll imdiately turn around."
Su Wuming nodded and followed Han Zheng, randomly treading water in one direction.
Fortunately, their luck wasn't bad; they had chosen the right direction. The fog around them began to thin, and they could gradually see the bottom of the lake, which was no longer the unfathomable depths of Smoke Wave Lake.
However, they still couldn't distinguish directions on the lake and could only decide to go ashore first.
Just then, the sound of intense fighting suddenly ca from ahead.
Han Zheng and Su Wuming approached and saw a group of Xuanjia Guards from the Demon Cleansing Bureau besieging several Great Demons.
The Xuanjia Guards, who were mostly younger, yet all had the Cultivation of the Xuan Gang Realm, were dressed in Purple Gold Sky Wolf Armor.
Han Zheng and Su Wuming exchanged glances, concluding that these people probably weren't from Southern Mountain.
Within the Southern Mountain Demon Cleansing Departnt, young Martial Artists who had reached the Xuan Gang Realm at such an age were few and far between, and they would recognize them.
At that mont, one of the Great Demons, resembling a huge python with a twisted horn on its head like a Jiao but not quite, went berserk and tried to escape desperately, sending several Xuanjia Guards flying.
The Great Demon, boiling with Demon Energy, roared furiously as it ca before Han Zheng and Su Wuming, "Get out of the way! All of you, get out!"
Han Zheng drew the Heavenly Demon Dance from its sheath, and a slash of the blade fell. In an instant, the Great Demon's head dropped, blood spurting out and staining the lake water red.
[Killed a late-stage Xuan Gang Realm Great Demon, obtained 5,000 Demon Essence.]
Han Zheng was sowhat surprised; he hadn't expected this Great Demon to be in the late stage of the Xuan Gang Realm.
Still, it was also due to those Xuanjia Guards exhausting its strength that Han Zheng could slay it with a single strike—not an easy task otherwise.
At this point, that group of young Demon Sweeping Captains had also dealt with the other Great Demons. One of the young Captains saw Han Zheng and exclaid with surprise, "Brother Han! It's you!"
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