Noah opened a portal and made his way to a port city before boarding a ship that took him to the islands of the blue sea.
"The ruins should open soon..."
Sitting cross-legged in an inn room, he simply waited for the days to pass until one day a whirlpool formed in an area near the harbor.
Noah sealed his aura to the sixth level of the transcendent rank before going out to watch the drama.
A large crowd gathered at the site as a man spoke to them all.
"All of you gathered here now should be aware of the incident that just occurred, my seven family alliance has no intention of hiding anything here!
As such, I am here to inform you that down below, some ancient ruins have appeared!
After lengthy negotiations, my alliance of the seven families has decided to make a proposal to all of you...
My alliance of seven families will coordinate an exploration of the ancient ruins below!
If any of you wish to join us, we will conduct a search and organize you into teams.
If we discover any benefits there, my alliance of the seven families and all who participate in the exploration will share them equally!
But this old master must first remind you that the situation inside these ancient ruins is unknown, where there are benefits, there are also risks, those friends who want to work together with my alliance of seven families must be aware of this point, if any of you suffer injury or die, that will be your sole responsibility!"
Noah followed the crowd and registered his name and his cultivation level of the sixth rank immortal ascension cultivation.
The man who spoke earlier stood in front of the people who registered to enter the ruins and introduced himself.
"This elder is Hai Wang Gu, a protector of the Hai family of the seven family alliance, by this seabed, this elder will guide you.
May the heavens give us good fortune. let's go!"
The man manipulated a magical device that caused the surrounding water to part, revealing the ruin at the bottom.
The crowd descended into the ruin and began to explore the area.
Noah blended into the crowd and followed them through the tour.
After passing through several rooms, the group came to a room with a golden orb covered by a protective barrier.
The man leading the group met another man and asked.
"Brother Cheng, what is going on here?"
"Wait a moment, when everyone has gathered, I will explain."
After waiting a while, the man spoke.
"Well, it seems that no one else is coming."
"Brother Cheng, can you explain what is happening now, why did you suddenly call us all here?"
"Of course! It's because of that artifact!
The power of this artifact cannot be measured, and its function is also completely unknown.
When my team first arrived here, we discovered that there was an invisible barrier preventing anyone from approaching.
However, with only the strength of my Cheng family's team, we can't break through this barrier, so I decided to ask everyone nearby to help us!"
"Brother Cheng, there is no problem with us working together, but there is only one artifact.
After we break this barrier, who gets the artifact?"
"Everything is open for discussion.
Behind this sphere of light is a great secret!
If my guess is correct, this place should be of great importance to the ancient sect that once stood here, otherwise, an artifact of this grade would not have been placed here.
As long as we break through the barrier in front of us, there will definitely be gains for all of us."
After hesitating for a while the Hai family member agreed and the two groups joined together to start destroying the protective barrier.
A few minutes later, the protective barrier was shattered.
Before anyone could celebrate, a force wave came out of the golden orb and dragged everyone's souls forcibly into a strange dimension.
Noah could resist but he didn't do that, instead, as soon as he appeared inside the place, his spiritual aura exploded and he conjured two swords using pure spiritual force.
The first was a saber that burned with yang flames, belonging to his conflagrated spiritual sea while the second weapon was a sword bathed in golden lightning.
With yang fire in one hand and celestial thunder with the other, Noah fully released his cultivation of the third transcendent order before pouncing on the biggest threat for now, the two cultivators leading the two teams.
It took him just one attack with each weapon for both of them to die.
The energy of their souls was swallowed by the strange space in the place before it was distributed to everyone's souls.
Noah did not stop to analyze this phenomenon and instead continued killing.
Seeing the man who kept slaughtering in his wake, the others had no choice but to join in to try to stop him.
Half an hour later, Noah looked at the last remaining survivor.
"Little saint, choose now, either transfer your divine abilities to me or die right here."
After a long internal struggle with herself, the young woman relented and summoned a sphere of golden light.
Noah swallowed the sphere directly and knowledge about nine soul abilities entered his mind.
Noah executed each of the abilities to make sure they were right before flying towards some golden characters in the sky.
Sitting cross-legged, he began to refine the characters.
Half an hour later, he gained control over this artifact.
The artifact was called Soul Battle Hall and its main function was to force souls to leave their bodies to have a spiritual battle.
Noah and the young saint from the sacred land of the nine heavens left the soul Battle hall and Noah picked up the golden orb, leaving the saint recovering while he explored the place.
He found what he wanted in one of the halls, a mid-ranked saint grade pill that increased soul strength.
Pocketing the pill, he entered a room where a corridor of emptiness was located.
Hiding his aura, he entered the void corridor and exited into a forest.
Using his blink ability he obtained in the stellar storm, he moved several kilometers away from the place before hiding.
Taking out the magic gourd, he pulled out the three holy rank demons and their bone clone from inside.
Lin Fei and Hua Mo's first holy rank auras exploded before Li Rou unleashed her second holy rank aura.
In a palace in the center of this small pocket world an old man sitting on a throne suddenly stood up and looked at the three demonic auras coming in his direction.
Although the man was a saint of the second rank, he was overwhelmed by the trio who activated their demonic marks and in less than ten minutes left the man incapacitated.
Noah's bone clone began carving a strange matrix into the ground and five minutes later, placed the second rank saint in its center before slitting his throat.
The matrix glowed an eerie blood-red color before it began to decompose the man's body and soul, turning him into a pool of blood.
The three saint rank experts took it upon themselves to capture all the remaining divine sun clan members before throwing them into the pool of blood.
When the last cultivator was consumed by the pool of blood, Noah's bone clone plunged directly into the array before its body generated a devouring force that sucked all the life energy from the pool while new organs and muscles grew around its skeletal body before the skin formed, causing it to take on an appearance exactly like Noah's.
The bone clone felt his power for a moment before smiling.
"Holy rank of the first order."
Although his level did not reach second rank saint despite devouring a second stage saint and hundreds of transcendent and lower realm cultivators, the quality of his energy was many times higher and his power level was much higher.
"Now I should take care of my second target."
Noah put the four of them back into his magic gourd before heading to a gigantic golden-leafed tree.
Sitting cross-legged in front of the tree, Noah poured his yang energy into it and felt how the tree had a half-formed semi-consciousness.
As the days passed, Noah continued to feed the tree with his Yang qi while helping the being's consciousness to develop.
Because he was feeding and caring for it during this time, the embryonic tree consciousness thought of Noah as a relative.
Five days later, the divine yang tree's consciousness was fully formed and it began to shake its branches.
Noah calmed it before communicating that they would soon be leaving this place.
Tucking the tree into his magical gourd, Noah left it next to the yin-yang ginseng, which began to jump up and down at the sight of its new playmate.
Noah opened a portal and returned to the islands of the blue sea before flying in the direction of the holy land of the nine heavens and waited on the periphery.
Half a month later, the protective barrier covering the entire holy land suddenly broke, which alarmed the other forces secretly guarding the holy land.
Noah transformed himself into a mole and traveled through the underground until he reached beneath the place he sought but did not emerge from his hiding place but waited until he heard the sounds of fighting coming from underground and transformed again before secretly slipping into a space corridor.
The holy tomb was a pocket space where all the holy masters of the holy land were buried along with their belongings.
Noah looked at the large number of coffins and his eyes sparkled.
The first thing he picked up was a black ring embedded in the finger of one of the corpses.
This ring was the ring of the holy master, with which one could control the matrices of the holy land.
Because there was no one to control them, the matrices ended up breaking.
Noah put the ring on his finger and it tried to absorb a fragment of his soul.
Noah blocked it thanks to the soul-warming lotus but suddenly, a large number of remnant spirits gathered around him and started tempting him to become the holy master.
Noah simply activated his demonic eye and annihilated them all.
He then proceeded to loot all the other coffins before opening the last coffin, in which rested a skeleton with a porcelain bottle in its hands.
"The blood of the demon god."
Noah opened the bottle and swallowed the drop of blood straight down.
An explosion of energy coursed through his body as the drop of blood merged with his own blood and began to generate more golden blood.
Noah's consciousness was pulled into an illusion in which he saw a fierce battle occur between the demon god and the first holy master.
When the battle ended, information about a soul clone technique entered his mind.
This technique was much more refined than his own cloning technique but its only flaw was that only a single clone could be created and it would take a long time to create a new one if the old one died.
"Hmmm, I can try mixing the two techniques later."
Noah opened his eyes and examined his body, noticing how 30% of his blood had already turned to golden blood.
Stepping out of the pocket space, he tossed the holy master's ring at the entrance before teleporting back to the blue sea islands before catching a boat.