The tunnel was very deep and long.

The further down they went, the thinner the air became, and an ancient Aura, mixed with dust and decay, assailed them, chilling to the bone.

The torches on both sides were lit one after another as Zhou Feng walked, dispelling the darkness and illuminating the surroundings.

When Zhou Huai saw the scene at the end of the tunnel, even with his extensive experience, he couldn't help but feel a shock.

Below the main hall was an ancient dungeon of unimaginable scale.

Narrow passages crisscrossed like a dense spiderweb, and on either side of the passages were cells made of black metal.

However, there were no living creatures left in these cells.

Only scattered white bones covered the ground, and clusters of glowing, pale green ghost fires drifted everywhere in the air.

Zhou Huai recognized them at a glance.

These drifting ghost fires were not ghost fires at all.

Instead, they were powerful Souls!

They had been imprisoned here for an unknown number of years.

Their Physical Bodies had long since decayed into dust.

But their Souls, due to their power in life, had managed to survive to this day, transforming into these immortal vengeful spirits.

Zhou Huai was horrified.

What kind of existence could imprison so many powerful individuals here?

What kind of civilization was the predecessor of this ruin?

Zhou Feng, however, paid no attention to the surrounding scene.

He just walked forward with steady steps.

He was still muttering something silently, as if recalling a route map he had long since memorized.

This underground prison was simply a huge maze.

If one ventured in without a guide, they might never get out.

Zhou Huai silently followed in Zhou Feng's shadow, turning left, then right, passing through one almost identical passage after another.

After an unknown amount of time.

Zhou Feng's steps finally stopped at the end of a fork in the road.

He looked up, gazing ahead, and the face that had remained composed finally showed a look of ecstasy!

"Finally... finally found «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» it!"

"He really didn't lie to me!"

Zhou Huai followed Zhou Feng's gaze.

Ahead was no longer the oppressive prison corridor, but a very spacious circular area.

In the very center of the space, a platform several tens of meters high stood tall.

And on that high platform.

A huge object was quietly suspended there, emitting a terrifying Aura that seemed to suppress all ages!

It was a seal!

A seal of unimaginably huge proportions!

It was as large as a small house, carved entirely from a deep black, exotic stone, as if it could absorb all surrounding light.

The seal's body was densely inscribed with countless ancient and mysterious patterns; each pattern seemed to contain the ultimate truth of Heaven and Earth, and merely looking at it made one feel as if their Soul was being drawn into it.

And what was most shocking, most domineering and peerless.

Was that in the center of the bottom of the seal, two enormous ancient seal characters were carved with a powerful, commanding stroke!

Zhou Huai recognized those two characters.

Zhen Tian!

Boom—!

The moment he saw these two characters.

Zhou Huai felt as if his brain had been struck by a bolt of Nine Heavens Divine Thunder!

An indescribable, vast Divine Might erupted from the seal, as if to completely suppress this Heaven and Earth!

At this moment, not only Zhou Feng.

Even Zhou Huai, hidden in the shadows, couldn't help but become excited!

His deep eyes burst forth with an unprecedented fiery glow!

This Aura!

This feeling!

There was no mistake!

This was a true Divine Artifact!

Zhou Feng took a deep breath.

He tried his best to maintain a calm expression, attempting to appear composed.

But his slightly trembling hands betrayed the turbulent emotions within him at that moment.

Step by step.

He ascended an invisible staircase, slowly walking towards the high platform that exuded an Aura of suppressing all ages.

In the shadows, Zhou Huai's consciousness was racing.

Should he act now?

Should he directly snatch this Divine Artifact from him?

Once this thought arose, it grew like rampant weeds, impossible to suppress.

The pendulum of life was, after all, to be handed over to the state.

But this Zhen Tian Seal could truly become his own power!

And he could also conveniently destroy the Zhou Family's grand plan, which they had been plotting for countless years.

Killing two birds with one stone!

No.

Zhou Huai forcefully suppressed the impulse in his heart.

It was too simple.

If a Divine Artifact was so easy to acquire, it wouldn't deserve the title "Divine Artifact."

There must be another trap here.

He restrained himself, deciding to wait and see.

Indeed.

Just as Zhou Feng's toes touched the edge of the high platform.

Whoosh—!

A bone-chilling gust of cold wind swept in from the depths of the dungeon without warning!

The surrounding temperature seemed to plummet to freezing point in that instant.

The pale green Souls that had been drifting in the air, as if summoned by something, let out silent shrieks and frantically converged below the platform!

Countless ethereal green light points, like moths to a flame, merged into a single mass.

The light twisted and stretched.

Finally, before Zhou Feng, a gigantic blue human face slowly coalesced!

The features of that face were twisted and hideous, and a pair of enormous eyes burning with blue Soul fire stared wide open, fixed on Zhou Feng.

"I am the Imperial General, Song Chenghao!"

"By the command of my King, I guard this place!"

"Who are you? How dare you trespass into this Forbidden Land!"

The voice, like rolling Divine Thunder, carried with it a mighty Divine Might, exploding in this underground space!

Even if it was just a remnant Soul, the Aura emanating from Song Chenghao was enough to shatter the mind of any professional below level fifty!

Zhou Huai secretly congratulated himself.

He was right, after all.

This big guy clearly wasn't easy to deal with.

Zhou Feng, however, showed no trace of panic in the face of the giant blue human face.

He feigned composure, straightening his back.

"I have come by the command of my King to retrieve the seal!"

"The Zhen Tian Seal has been sealed for ten thousand years; it is time for it to see the light of day again!"

Song Chenghao's burning Soul fire eyes scrutinized Zhou Feng, his gaze full of suspicion.

"What year is it now?"

"Is my King... his venerable self, still alive?"

Zhou Feng seemed to have fully entered the role; the expression on his face became increasingly composed.

"Naturally."

"The key to opening this Interminable Cage is in my King's hands."

"If not for my King's instruction, how could I enter this place?"

As he spoke, Zhou Feng unhurriedly took out the golden key from his embrace.

The Aura of the owner of the Hall of Eternal Ages on the key could not be faked.

Zhou Huai watched from the shadows, curling his lips.

His words were full of holes.

Ten thousand years had passed, and things had changed; could this Soul still believe him?

In the end, a fierce battle was probably inevitable.

However, Song Chenghao seemed truly muddled in his senses due to sleeping for too long.

He carefully felt the Aura on the key.

"It does have my King's Aura..."

"I never thought that my King... truly found the secret of eternal life."

"To have endured through these long ages..."

After he finished speaking, his hideous blue face softened considerably.

Just as Zhou Huai was inwardly complaining about how easily this ancient general's Soul was fooled.

Song Chenghao changed his tone.

"Since you have come by the command of my King, then speak the secret command."

"Speak the secret command, and you may leave with the seal."

"We, who have guarded for ten thousand years, can also... return to our homeland."