MIGHT AS WELL BE OP

Chapter 1297: Ancient Behemoths

The next morning swiftly came as the day to enter The Sleeping Hollow finally arrived. Anthony was already awake, as the Chaos Betroth had told them to meet her at the staircase by 8 a.m. today.

Arriving there, Chaos Betroth nodded at everyone, her eyes moving between each of them as though making sure they were all in top-tier condition. But the Coachman was nowhere to be seen, and Anthony suspected that Chaos Betroth had simply transferred the man into her space ring.

”Let’s move,” she stated, then jumped over the staircase rail as there were simply too many cultivators occupying the staircase.

Landing, Chaos Betroth checked out of the Inn, as today was their last day here. Stepping out of the Inn, Anthony and everyone else were met with a grand sight, as the entire landscape and airspace were filled with millions upon millions of people.

Although people weren’t allowed to fly, that Law didn’t apply today. Some flying Monsters dragging carriages behind them could be seen soaring through the air, some people had grand aircraft, while some simply flew on the backs of their own Beasts. Others simply flew naturally with their own bodies, their figures moving through the vast airspace with varying degrees of speed and elegance.

One could only ask, if the River Of Night took a million Origin Essence Stones per head, then how much did they make? After all, the number of people here was over a hundred million at minimum. The sheer number of cultivators gathered within the River Of Night Territory was almost incomprehensible, making the entire place resemble a massive moving city suspended between the earth and sky.

”Follow me,” Chaos Betroth stated as she immediately shot into the air, dodging various people and their means of transportation. Anthony and the rest of the Above disciples followed behind her with calm ease.

The moment they reached a certain distance with enough space, Chaos Betroth waved her hand, and a grander ship, far bigger and more expensive than the one they used for their journey twelve days ago, appeared. Obviously, the Null Sect wasn’t about to appear cheap or poor to anyone, especially with the countless powerhouses and organizations gathered here today.

And with that, the ship began to float forward ever so slowly. Due to the outrageous amount of people present, Anthony was experiencing traffic in a Cultivation world, not just any traffic, but air traffic. The situation was so congested that even powerful cultivators had to slow down and navigate through the countless people, beasts, carriages, and flying vessels occupying the skies.

As they approached The Sleeping Hollow, Chaos Betroth began to speak.

”I know you already handed your things to The First Core Elder, but if there are things you don’t want falling into the hands of your enemies, then you can give them to me to hold. Then, when you return, I will give them back,” she stated, her tone flat and almost completely devoid of emotion.

The Above disciples looked at each other, none of them moving, as they had all left everything that was above a certain grade behind. Although Chu Feng had a cultivation manual that was even Above the Genesis Grade, cultivation manuals could be taken into The Unground Tomb. After all, they didn’t grant an instant boost in power, nor did they directly help in battle, so Chu Feng could take it in.

(Manual/Technique/Arts level: Earth Grade, Heaven Grade, Saint Grade, Origin Grade, Genesis Grade)

(Laws: Minor, Greater, Unique, Universal)

As for Chu Feng’s sword, he still didn’t move, as though he had a way to bypass The Sleeping Hollow’s restrictions. After all, a weapon would restrict his entry, and yet Chu Feng appeared completely unconcerned.

Anthony simply gazed at him for a split second, then said nothing.

The Chaos Betroth, seeing nobody move, simply nodded her head in pure boredom.

Soon, they arrived at The Sleeping Hollow, and Anthony had to say, it wasn’t what he had expected. He had expected that something like a huge rift, or a tear in reality, would exist before everyone. But it wasn’t that.

The Sleeping Hollow... or The Unground Tomb, true to its name, was a gigantic pitch-black hole that was carved into the earth itself, its size an outrageous 2 kilometers in diameter. Nothing could be seen if one looked into it. One didn’t walk into it; rather, one jumped... they jumped into their doom.

’This is less like an Unground Tomb and more like an Abyssal Maw that just swallows people,’ Anthony mused to himself.

Although Anthony was joking around, not everyone was. Various geniuses wore frowns on their faces that they tried to mask. Why? They all had a bad feeling about what they were staring at, after all, none of them had expected a gigantic hole of nothingness. And not just that, from this immense Abyssal Maw, the Law Of Death hummed into the air as though informing everyone present that they should be ready for death the moment they entered.

”Shouldn’t we measure the depth of such a hole before we jump in? After all, we could all be jumping to our deaths if restrictions on flight were actually established,” Lora Vake stated with a minor frown, her brain already accounting for restrictions on flight.

She was truly a smart woman.

”Nobody would,” Lawrence spoke, ”anybody who does risks being seen as a coward by everyone gathered here,” she stated.

Her words were clear; everyone would enter without any form of heads-up or information. But the good thing was, they weren’t at the forefront. They would wait to see how things went, after all, those at the front would have to go first. If people jumped to their deaths, they would know; if they didn’t, they would also know.

As for how they would know... various Organizations usually linked the vitality of their geniuses to various burning talismans. Once the burning talisman burned to ashes, it meant the disciple was dead.

Even Chaos Betroth had the talismans of all the Above disciples here, aside from Anthony’s.

But nobody had moved forward yet, as though they were all waiting for something. As Anthony was wondering why there was such a delay, an enormous presence suddenly pressed down upon the River Of Night Territory itself.

Various people in the sky were immediately shot down from the air. Their bodies moved against their own will as though they were being controlled. Various Organizations and cultivators fell with a boom, their bodies slamming into the ground as the overwhelming pressure forced them down.

The grand ship Anthony and the rest were standing on shook violently, the metal bending as though it were mere wood. It was about to shatter as the pressure pressed down upon them too.

Chaos Betroth’s Universal Law Of Chaos hummed as she covered the entire airship in Chaos, but it was useless. After all, the source of the oppression was a being above the Progenitor Rank, an existence whose mere presence was enough to suppress countless cultivators without even needing to intentionally target them.

Seeing the Chaos Betroth struggle, the Unique Law Of Severance hummed from Anthony’s body. He was merely using it as a cover as he used the Authority Of Severance to sever the effects of the presence upon the entire airship, hence saving them.

And with that, the Null Sect became amongst the few who remained in the sky, as only those who possessed Eternal Apex within their forces remained floating while everyone else remained on the ground. The difference in strength was made painfully obvious.

Anthony, Chu Feng, Jerry, and the rest of the Above disciples finally looked upwards towards the source of the commotion, and above them stood a literal behemoth in every sense of the word. Its wingspan alone blotted out the sun itself, casting an enormous shadow over everybody.

It didn’t need to be said; some Ancient or Immortal Organization that was amongst the top-tier powerhouses within the Sathor Grand Region had arrived, and in style as well. The sheer size of the creature was enough to make countless cultivators understand that whatever force had arrived was not one they could casually even gaze at.

”They are here,” Hillary stated, his voice shaking a bit.

But the moment those words left his lips, more pressure pressed downwards as more forces riding on Ancient behemoths arrived, their enormous bodies emerging through the sky one after another as the already overwhelming atmosphere became even heavier.