Nine Realms Sword Emperor-Chapter 1385 - 1386: Nine Mysteries

Red Fire Ridge is shrouded in Heavenly Fire all year round.

It is said that Red Fire Ridge has existed since the Burial Immortal Continent was first opened, and although there are many treasures and fire-element sacred medicines, very few truly dare to venture in.

After all, even Ancient Emperors have a chance of falling under this Heavenly Fire.

Earlier, Chu Fengmian was able to easily annihilate two Ancient Emperors by leveraging the power of Red Fire Ridge, weakening their strength by at least thirty percent.

Currently, as Chu Fengmian is in Red Fire Ridge, this Heavenly Fire serves as a barrier comparable to the Heavenly Human Realm.

If one were to find a safe place within the Burial Immortal Continent, Red Fire Ridge would certainly be one of them.

With this in mind, Chu Fengmian decided not to leave hastily. Instead, he entered a cave and took out a roll of silk cloth.

With the silk cloth in hand, Chu Fengmian carefully observed it for the first time; it seemed to be an ordinary piece of silk cloth. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Yet it contained the power of the Heavenly Human Realm, enough that even an Ancient Emperor would struggle to tear it apart.

Chu Fengmian fiddled with it but found nothing, so he closed his eyes, concentrated his spiritual sense, and immersed it into the silk cloth.

Once his spiritual sense entered, Chu Fengmian saw countless ancient texts, which must have existed for at least hundreds of thousands of years.

Fortunately, Chu Fengmian had previously read many ancient books, enough to understand the words on it.

"Jiu Xuan?"

Chu Fengmian looked closely and found that the silk cloth’s most important two words, seemingly related to it, were "Jiu Xuan."

This should be the name of the silk cloth.

As for its content, Chu Fengmian found that a large part was missing, and the silk cloth he obtained was only a fragment.

"Who is this Jiu Xuan? Could it be the person who wrote this silk cloth? The records seem like a Martial Technique, yet far more intricate..."

Chu Fengmian was puzzled as he examined the silk cloth, when he suddenly felt a wave of spiritual energy emanating from his space ring.

"What’s this?"

Chu Fengmian opened the space ring, searching briefly, and discovered that this spiritual energy fluctuation came from a treasure map that once belonged to the young master of Solar Flame.

The spiritual energy on that treasure map matched exactly with the silk cloth before him.

"Does this treasure map record the treasure of Jiu Xuan?"

Chu Fengmian’s eyes flickered.

He roughly guessed that the treasure or residence of Jiu Xuan might soon emerge.

In the Burial Immortal Continent, many high-level treasures have precursors manifesting before their emergence, which could be spiritual artifacts, keys, or even just an ordinary stone.

Only martial artists or demonic gods who obtain these precursors are truly qualified to vie for the treasure.

Without them, no matter how strong one’s strength is, there’s no right to contend for the treasure.

The treasure map from the young master of Solar Flame counts as one, and so does this piece of silk cloth.

This silk cloth is evidently incomplete, torn into many parts. In the Burial Immortal Continent, there must be others who have obtained parts of this silk cloth.

To understand what’s truly recorded on this silk cloth, Chu Fengmian needs to obtain the other parts of it.

"When the treasure is about to open, this piece of silk cloth should have a significant role."

Chu Fengmian studied it a bit more and then placed both the silk cloth and the treasure map into his space ring.

This silk cloth is only a partial fragment, and Chu Fengmian still needs to obtain the other parts to truly understand its contents.

However, even as a fragment, the Martial Techniques recorded on the silk cloth are unmatched by any Martial Techniques known to Chu Fengmian.

Even heavenly-level Martial Techniques are mere child’s play compared to what is recorded on this silk cloth.

The Heavenly Human Realm is a realm entirely different from the Emperor Sovereign Realm. The Heavenly Human Realm is far beyond what Chu Fengmian can touch now.

Only by reaching the peak of the Nine Tribulations Ancient Emperor can one hope to even glimpse the Heavenly Human Realm.

Chu Fengmian put away the silk cloth and the treasure map, and with a thought, a beam of light flew out from his body.

This beam of light was the Ancient Bronze Gate, which had shrunken from its original hundred-meter size to two or three meters in front of Chu Fengmian.

For spiritual artifacts of this level, they can shrink to minuscule sizes or expand to thousands of meters in an instant; however, the size of around a hundred meters is its true size, capable of unleashing its fullest power.

If it’s made too large or small, it will affect the power of the Ancient Bronze Gate.

This Ancient Bronze Gate, just suppressed within Chu Fengmian’s body, was being depleted by the Swallowing Heaven Secret Technique of its power.

Now, any traces left by the Ancient Emperor of Tongmen had been erased, and the Ancient Bronze Gate had become a truly ownerless object.

For Chu Fengmian, most spiritual artifacts hold no significance to him anymore.

Currently, Chu Fengmian possesses between eighty to a hundred heavenly-level spiritual artifacts, but they are of no use, so he can’t be bothered with them.

However, this Ancient Bronze Gate is different. When the Ancient Emperor of Tongmen activated it, it nearly fractured Chu Fengmian’s flesh.

Though Chu Fengmian is only in the quasi-emperor realm, in terms of physique, even Eight Tribulation Ancient Emperors or Nine Tribulations Ancient Emperors may not surpass Chu Fengmian’s body.

A semi-immortal body, once shattered, last occurred when Chu Fengmian forcibly executed the second form of the Ancestor.

But this time, under the Ancient Bronze Gate, Chu Fengmian’s body was nearly broken.

Even more so when the Ancient Emperor of Tongmen pursued Chu Fengmian across Red Fire Ridge, having already exhausted a great deal of spiritual energy and only appearing before Chu Fengmian with seventy percent strength.

Even with just that seventy percent, using the Ancient Bronze Gate, it almost shattered Chu Fengmian’s body. Had the Ancient Emperor of Tongmen used his full strength, Chu Fengmian’s body might have been obliterated.

The semi-immortal body Chu Fengmian now has is the foundation allowing him to perform numerous Martial Techniques and swordsmanship.

If he lost his body, even if Chu Fengmian could reform it, his strength would drop by at least ten percent.

If he had known how powerful the Ancient Bronze Gate was beforehand, Chu Fengmian might not have rashly attacked the Ancient Emperor of Tongmen.

Fortunately, the Ancient Emperor of Tongmen was not strong enough to fully wield the Ancient Bronze Gate.