Primordial Star Scripture

Ice-cold.

A coldness that pierces straight to the heart.

As soon as Ye Chen plunged into the Nine Nether Pond, the first sensation was that his entire physical body and mind and spirit were about to be shattered by an ice-cold feeling.

Only when Ye Chen invoked the Water Element Divine Arts, causing the Divine Pill Law Patterns of water element on the five apertures rotating pills within him to shine brightly and over five hundred faint blue water beads outside his body to spin continuously, did the ice-cold feeling begin to subside slightly.

Afterward, Ye Chen began to dive deeper into the Nine Nether Pond while taking in the sights of the pond.

In the waters, Ye Chen saw a glow of light shining upward from the bottom. Under this illumination, the water of the entire Nine Nether Pond appeared a vast expanse of white.

From the scrolls recording information about the Nine Nether Pond, Ye Chen knew that even some incomparably powerful mid-stage Heavenly Saints had entered the pond in the past, but many had perished within, and even those who managed to escape were severely injured by the chilling aura.

Even the late-stage Heavenly Saints from the Heavenly Sacred Palace, the Skyscraper Palace Master, had only managed to dive around thirty to sixty zhang deep before he could no longer continue.

It can be said that a depth of thirty to sixty zhang was already the furthest any explorer had managed to descend into the Nine Nether Pond.

But Ye Chen found that, after resisting the initial icy sensation with his Water Element Divine Arts, he seemed to dive deeper unabated.

Unknowingly, Ye Chen had already reached a depth of more than ten zhang and was still descending.

Ye Chen's depth of descent had even surpassed the Skyscraper Palace Master's past depth in the Nine Nether Pond!

"Water Element Divine Arts, indeed extremely useful against this freezing pond!"

"It's no wonder that the third chapter, the Taiyuan Chapter, of the Primordial Star Scripture, with one of the Five Great Divine Arts capable of devouring and refining all Five Elements Secret Treasures, is indeed able to resist the cold qi of the Nine Nether Pond!"

By the time he descended over twenty zhang deep, Ye Chen couldn't help but become excited.

At this rate, he might very well become the first person to unravel the secrets of the Nine Nether Pond!

It should be known that upon learning that the Nine Nether Pond might contain a supreme Five Elements Secret Treasure, Ye Chen speculated that relying on the Five Great Divine Arts he might be able to attempt to secure this treasure, but that was merely a guess.

Ye Chen had no absolute certainty that he could surpass many Heavenly Saints and enter the Nine Nether Pond.

And now, having actually arrived at the realms of the Nine Nether Pond, and truly diving to depths that even late-stage Heavenly Saint Realm beings couldn't, Ye Chen was naturally ecstatic!

Even if he ended up getting nothing from the pond in the end, Ye Chen had broken the record of all the adventurers who had explored the Nine Nether Pond before, becoming the record-breaking first explorer of the Nine Nether Pond!

Amidst his frenzy of excitement, Ye Chen continued to dive deeper into the Nine Nether Pond.

Thirty zhang.

Fifty zhang.

One hundred zhang.

Five hundred zhang.

The deeper he went, the more incredible Ye Chen found it.

Ye Chen hadn't anticipated that a mere hundred zhang wide pond would be so deep!

If it weren't for his tremendously strong powers, setting aside the frigid qi of the pond itself, the sheer pressure of such depth might be insurmountable for many.

"There is nothing but water here."

"It is feared that all the secrets of the Nine Nether Pond lie at the bottom."

"Just how deep is the bottom?"

Ye Chen gritted his teeth and continued towards the bright spot at the bottom of the pond.

This dive lasted for a substantial half an hour, and in the end, Ye Chen had descended over three thousand zhang, nearly ten thousand meters deep!

At this time, Ye Chen finally saw the bottom of the Nine Nether Pond.

When Ye Chen saw the bottom of the Nine Nether Pond, he couldn't help being greatly shocked.

Ye Chen had assumed he would find an invaluable Water Element Secret Treasure at the bottom of this pond, or perhaps some other treasure.

But when he actually looked at the bottom of this icy pond, ten thousand meters deep, he saw strands of vines emitting light, continuously dancing. The light shining above the Nine Nether Pond came from these glowing vines.

Even more bizarre were these dancing vines, which intertwined as they moved, forming a strange pathway filled with endless Divine Light!

The bottom of the ten-thousand-meter-deep Nine Nether Pond turned out to be made of these luminous vines, which had formed an extraordinarily strange pathway, leading to an unknown destination.

This scene was something even Ye Chen had not anticipated.

Just as Ye Chen was uncertain whether to enter this even more mysterious pathway of vines or to safely leave this mysterious Nine Nether Pond for good, a shocking change occurred.

He saw the glowing vines at the bottom suddenly burst into a blinding light, which did not scatter elsewhere but enveloped Ye Chen completely.

As the blinding light covered him, Ye Chen felt his entire Mind and Spirit being invaded by a strange force.

A mere few breaths after this force invaded, a peculiar voice that did not seem to belong to the Barbaric Wilderness Continent suddenly echoed in Ye Chen's ear.

This voice, resounding in his ears, directly converted into a language Ye Chen could understand, "Bone age sixteen, combat power of a Saint at this continent, meets first-stage selection criteria, Immortalize without killing."

Immortalize without killing.

These three faint words greatly alarmed Ye Chen's Mind and Spirit.

The moment these three words rang in Ye Chen's ear, he even felt that if he did not meet this so-called criterion, no matter how formidable he was, he would die at the bottom of the Nine Nether Pond!

"First-stage selection criteria? What in the world is this talking about?"

As Ye Chen reeled in shock, the glowing vines at the bottom, following the end of the strange voice, seemed to receive a command and surged toward him, coiling around him.

The speed of these vines coiling around him was incomparably fast, far surpassing even the speed of Feng Lun Heavenly Saint, whom Ye Chen had previously battled against by countless times.

Ye Chen instinctively wanted to dodge, but he simply couldn't; in an instant, countless vines had wrapped around him.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

This sudden change made Ye Chen cry out in alarm. With a thought, the killing forces of the three Divine Arts out of the Five Great Divine Arts he had cultivated—the Fire Element Divine Art "Heaven-Devouring True Fire," the Water Element Divine Art "Heavenly Origin Divine Water," and the Earth Element Divine Art "Earth Returning to Origin Art"—were unleashed, slashing furiously at these vines.

At the same time, Ye Chen also unleashed the Swordsmanship Divine Art "Great Five Elements Sword Light."

However, all of these methods, when applied to the vines no thicker than a thumb, failed to sever them. They didn't even leave a scratch on any of the vines.

"The Nine Nether Pond is indeed a place even late Heavenly Saint Realm beings cannot probe."

"Just these vines alone, their strength likely exceeds the Heavenly Saint Level!"

"This place certainly hides a major secret, it's probably more than just a valuable Five Elements Secret Treasure!"

Unsuccessfully slashing at the vines that bound him, without being able to inflict the slightest injury, made Ye Chen's heart race.

It wasn't until he saw that the vines that could easily kill him only wrapped around him without actually harming him, that Ye Chen's heart slightly calmed down.

Immortalize without killing.

Ye Chen knew that he must have narrowly escaped a death, the cause of which he utterly did not understand, because of the strange voice's declaration of not killing him.

What he would face next, however, Ye Chen had no idea.

Just as Ye Chen's heart had slightly calmed down, the vines binding him suddenly contracted, pulling him into the strange pathway within the vines.

Then, in an instant of flashing light, Ye Chen disappeared from the bottom of the Nine Nether Pond.

Ye Chen had completely entered the other end of the pathway, radiating with unfathomable Divine Light.