The Supreme Being Against Heaven

--Translated by likesnovel--

“Good!”

Tan Yun nodded before continuing in a firm voice,

“For tens of thousands of years, no disciple who entered the God Burial Abyss has ever gone deeper than 1,000,000 li.”

“That means the area within at least the first 400,000 li has probably already been searched countless times. Most of the valuable treasures there are likely gone.”

“Only by going deeper will we have a greater chance of finding heavenly resources and rare treasures!”

A sharp light flashed through Tan Yun’s eyes.

“We’ll head straight toward the 500,000 li region first. After that, we’ll slow down and begin collecting treasures as we continue deeper into the abyss.”

The moment he finished speaking, Tan Yun pushed the spirit boat to its maximum speed, turning into a streak of light as it shot into the endless darkness ahead.

ROAR! ROARRR!

Thunderous beast roars echoed from the mountain peaks on both sides.

Huge numbers of Level 2 demonic beasts — juveniles, mature beasts, and fully grown adults — charged madly toward the spirit boat.

However, their speed was nowhere near comparable to the top-grade spirit weapon-class spirit boat. They could only chase from afar, completely unable to catch up.

Even though it had only been a close call, most of the disciples aboard had already turned pale, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.

Before today, they had only heard rumors that the God Burial Abyss was filled with countless demonic beasts and endless dangers.

But now…

They had personally experienced that those rumors were not exaggerated in the slightest.

As the spirit boat continued rushing deeper into the abyss like lightning, the destructive force within the abyss became increasingly terrifying.

The disciples’ spiritual barriers began trembling violently, while everyone could clearly feel the spiritual energy inside their bodies draining faster and faster…

Inside the God Burial Abyss, there was no distinction between day and night.

1 day later, Tan Yun had already guided the spirit boat more than 500,000 li deep into the abyss before finally slowing down.

Even now, Tan Yun still refused to use spiritual energy to protect his body.

Naturally, he had his own reasons.

After entering the region beyond 500,000 li, the invisible destructive force assaulting him became even stronger.

Blood began seeping from the pores across his body, and his skin felt as though countless silver needles were piercing into him at the same time.

At this moment, the spirit boat was traveling at a speed of 30,000 li per day while the disciples continuously released their spiritual senses across several hundred li in search of heavenly treasures and rare materials.

“Senior Brother Tan! Wait!”

Suddenly, one of the alchemy disciples shouted excitedly.

Tan Yun immediately stopped the spirit boat.

That disciple leaped off the boat and appeared roughly 300 zhang to the east, quickly harvesting an 1,800-year-old spirit herb growing from the dark gray ground.

Afterward, he returned to the spirit boat with a face full of excitement while Tan Yun continued piloting the boat deeper into the abyss.

Over the next 2 weeks, the spirit boat traveled more than 800,000 li into the God Burial Abyss.

Along the way, Tan Yun stopped many times so the disciples could collect heavenly treasures and precious materials they discovered.

And finally, everyone truly understood what the phrase—

“Treasures are everywhere.”

—really meant.

Because within the God Burial Abyss, Level 3 to Level 6 spirit herbs were everywhere, as common as weeds.

Even Level 7 to Level 9 spirit herbs could frequently be found without much difficulty.

As for spirit herbs above Level 9, many of them were between 1,000 and 2,000 years old and appeared regularly throughout the abyss.

A Level 1 spirit herb referred to a spirit herb that had grown for 100 years.

Likewise, a Level 9 spirit herb meant a spirit herb that was 900 years old.

Within just half a month, Song Hong and Luo Fan even managed to capture a 3,000-year-old Dark Flame Spirit Lingzhi.

The reason it was described as “captured” was because the Dark Flame Spirit Lingzhi had already developed intelligence.

It could move rapidly underground, forcing the 2 of them to spend tremendous effort before finally catching it.

After half a month, the disciples gradually realized that there were simply too many spirit herbs above Level 6.

There were so many that even 10 storage pouches weren’t enough to hold them all.

As a result, everyone began discarding spirit herbs below Level 6 and kept only Level 6 herbs and above.

In addition, everyone discovered large numbers of spirit springs with various elemental attributes.

Even though they no longer needed them personally, they still collected every single one, planning to sell them to inner sect disciples for a huge profit after returning to the sect.

Of course, during these 2 weeks, Gongsun Ruoxi, Zhong Wu Shiyao, and the artifact refinement disciples had also gained enormous rewards.

They gathered massive quantities of rare ores, spirit steel, and precious forging materials.

Especially Gongsun Ruoxi.

With her exceptional artifact refinement skills, her Qiankun Ring was now almost completely filled.

As for Tan Yun, although he discovered dozens of fire seeds, most of them were merely spirit-grade flames.

They were practically useless to his Hongmeng Flame and Hongmeng Ice Flame.

Because of that, he kept all the fire seeds and gave them to Xue Ziyan instead.

Xue Ziyan possessed 5 elemental nascent souls — metal, wood, water, fire, and earth — making those fire-attributed flames extremely beneficial to her cultivation.

As the spirit boat traveled more than 800,000 li deep into the abyss, the destructive force within the God Burial Abyss became even more terrifying.

At this point, the skin across Tan Yun’s entire body had cracked open like blood-red spiderwebs.

Fresh blood slowly seeped from his face, neck, and every inch of his body.

Even so, he still refused to use spiritual energy to resist it.

Because he understood one thing clearly—

The more spiritual energy he used to resist the destructive force, the faster his spiritual energy would be consumed.

From the very moment he stepped into the God Burial Abyss, Tan Yun had already made up his mind.

No matter what, he would reach the deepest part of this abyss and find the other Hongmeng Divine Swords he once wielded in the past.

That was why he chose to endure the pain with his physical body first.

Only when he truly could not endure it anymore would he use spiritual energy to protect himself, giving his heavily injured body time to recover.

So right now, he absolutely could not waste spiritual energy recklessly.

Naturally, during these 2 weeks, Tan Yun had already explained this plan to Mu Mengyi, Zhong Wu Shiyao, and Xue Ziyan, repeatedly telling them not to worry about him.

Furthermore, throughout the past 2 weeks, Tan Yun and the others had narrowly survived hundreds of attacks from Level 2 Tribulation Crossing Realm demonic beasts.

Whenever those grotesque and terrifying beasts approached, the 100+ disciples at the 1st level of the Soul Refinement Realm would immediately unleash their pressure together.

The overwhelming aura terrified the demonic beasts so badly that they trembled before fleeing in panic.

Those beasts were not stupid.

On the contrary, they were extremely intelligent.

They knew perfectly well that charging forward would only lead to immediate death at the hands of those 1st-level Soul Refinement Realm cultivators.

In addition, Tan Yun and the others had also been attacked by several Level 3 demonic beasts in their growth stage at the same time.

But during that critical moment, the Golden Dragon Divine Lion suddenly expanded into a gigantic form.

The aura of a king among demonic beasts instantly frightened the attackers, causing them to tremble before fleeing in terror.

Without the protection of the Golden Dragon Divine Lion, many of them would likely have already died.

However, repeated attacks from early-stage Level 3 demonic beasts were still nowhere near as horrifying as the scene before them now.

After traveling more than 800,000 li into the abyss, the ground around them was now completely covered in skeletons.

Within the endless sea of white bones stood dozens of enormous piles of skeletons towering high above the ground.

Looking carefully, they realized those “mountains”…

Were actually formed from countless corpses piled together.

Across the dark gray ground covered with corpse mountains, faint traces of old blood could still be seen, creating an incomparably horrifying sight.

There was no doubt about it—

The God Burial Abyss truly was an endless treasure vault.

Everyone desperately wanted to continue deeper inside.

Even if they failed to obtain divine treasures, they still wanted to gather as many precious materials as possible.

But unfortunately…

Dreams were beautiful, while reality was cruel.

At this moment, Mu Mengyi, Xue Ziyan, Shangguan Bingbing, Huangfu Tingfeng, the elite disciples from every faction, and the 130 alchemy disciples at the 1st level of the Soul Refinement Realm had already lost 30% of the spiritual energy within their spirit pools.

As for the remaining 100+ disciples, nearly 50% of their spiritual energy had already been consumed.

“Senior Brother Tan! If we go any deeper, we won’t make it out alive!”

“Senior Brother Tan, nearly half of our spiritual energy is already gone!”

“Senior Brother Tan…”

At that moment, 120 alchemy disciples, 3 inscription disciples, and 5 artifact refinement disciples at the perfected Nascent Soul Realm all cried out simultaneously, their voices filled with fear and dissatisfaction.