Alchemy Master

Chapter 1030, The Betraying Giant Python

Translator: Silavin

*Whoosh!* Qin Yichen rode atop the giant python, swiftly shuttling through the cloud mist.

As they approached the Lunar Palace’s territory, only then did the giant python’s speed gradually slow down.

Qin Yichen furrowed his brow and glanced behind. For some reason, he constantly felt a sensation of being watched.

That feeling was just like being stared at by a venomous snake lurking in the shadows. It made him extraordinarily uncomfortable.

However, whether through his line of sight or his divine sense probing, he detected not the slightest anomaly.

“Maybe it’s just my imagination?” Qin Yichen murmured internally and cast his gaze forward. A celestial island wreathed in ice crystal water mist began to take shape at the edge of his vision.

Surrounding this island, water mist condensed like ice crystals, forming what seemed like a natural barrier guarding the Lunar Palace.

Gazing at these ice crystals, Qin Yichen’s expression couldn’t help but grow more solemn.

As someone who in his previous life had been able to sit at humanity’s round table as a Peak Alchemy Saint, he also knew something of the Lunar Palace’s origins.

According to legend, originally there had been no Lunar Palace here at all. This place had originally been a battlefield that had experienced brutal combat.

Across this vast battlefield, Ancestor Hongjun had slaughtered in all directions, massacring several million invading Foreign Races, among whom were no lack of Saints, and even supreme experts.

Moreover, because this massacre had been so exceedingly brutal, with several million Foreign Race members perishing within, their blood had saturated the battlefield spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometres. According to legend, because their vengeful spirits refused to disperse, they transformed this territory into a land of extreme Yin Energy!

Anyone who entered this territory, regardless of cultivation level, without exception would lose clarity of mind and walk towards the battlefield’s depths, ultimately transforming into an ice sculpture and dying inexplicably within, never to emerge again.

Finally, it was Ancestor Hongjun who took action, forcibly relocating a piece of territory and applying sealing reinforcements here.

Only then was this region filled with evil finally suppressed.

However, even so, beneath this territory, ice-cold evil energy continuously emanated outward. Over time, this territory became a place ordinary people dared not set foot in.

Eventually, it was the Lunar Palace’s Ancestor who perceived this territory’s special nature. By coincidence, she possessed the rare Ice Spirit Body, so she established the Lunar Palace here.

Therefore, among the three supreme Forces, Lunar Palace had the fewest members, and they were predominantly women, more aligned to Yin Energy, and also to the Ice Attribute.

As the years washed over it, the Lunar Palace’s origins had long been forgotten by the world.

However, everyone knew that to enter the Lunar Palace, unless one possessed a special Lunar Palace token for guidance, it was fundamentally impossible to penetrate the ice crystal barrier surrounding it.

Beneath that ice crystal barrier, legend held, lay a land of extreme Yin Energy and extreme evil. If one carelessly fell into it, even Saints had never emerged!

“Damn, I forgot to ask for a token.” Qin Yichen’s brow furrowed. This time upon emerging from seclusion, he had been somewhat impatient in rushing to the Lunar Palace. Looking at the ice crystal barrier ahead, only now did he remember this matter.

“Master, you do not need to worry. When I was at my previous Master’s side, he would frequently enter and exit the Lunar Palace, so I carry a token for entering and leaving the Lunar Palace.”

As if hearing Qin Yichen’s words, the giant python Moke beneath his feet spoke out.

“Oh? Amazing!” Hearing this, Qin Yichen’s heart lifted with joy, and he didn’t think much of it.

After all, what Moke said was not impossible. The Sword Feather Gate specialised in weapon forging, and some Yin Energy weapons were mostly crafted for members of Lunar Palace.

The Sword Feather Gate Elder uses Moke as a mount and frequently enters and exits this place. Moke carrying such a token would not be strange at all.

However, Qin Yichen did not notice that as his words fell, within the giant python’s triangular pupils, an unusual lustre flickered.

*Crash!*

Sure enough, upon approaching the ice crystal region, Moke’s giant mouth opened and an ice-etched token shot out, clearing a passage through the ice crystals ahead that emanated a freezing aura.

Immediately after, Moke flicked its giant tail, its form following closely behind this token, rapidly flying towards the Lunar Palace’s direction.

*Crash!*

Countless ice crystals drifted down from both sides of this passage. Through the passage, Qin Yichen could perceive that within the ice crystal barrier, there contained an aura of bone-chilling cold.

Beneath the sky full of ice crystals, Moke also carefully followed behind the ice token, its form shrinking to about a metre in size, as if afraid of being touched by the ice crystals.

Qin Yichen’s gaze could not help but look downward. Below, he saw a stretch of white mist, that ice-cold aura seemed as if it had frozen even the air itself. If an ordinary Martial Artist fell into it, they would likely transform into an ice sculpture in an instant, all life force extinguished.

This place truly served as a natural barrier for the Lunar Palace.

“Master, he has already entered the ice crystal region.”

A hundred metres away from Qin Yichen, within a great hall, a figure completely wrapped in black robes flashed inside and spoke in a low voice.

From the darkness of the great hall, a shadowy figure walked out. Hearing this news, it smiled faintly, its voice exceedingly obscure. “Since he’s seeking his own death, let’s finish him off as soon as possible.”

Hearing this, the black-robed person’s body trembled as he cried out in alarm. “Master, he’s under the Manor Master. If we eliminate him here, they’ll definitely trace it back to us!”

“You can rest assured. I won’t leave the slightest trace of evidence, and moreover, he will disappear without a sound. No one will ever trace it back to us.”

The shadow laughed coldly, its figure already vanishing into the darkness.

…

Within the ice crystal region leading to the Lunar Palace, the giant python in mid-air suddenly halted, stopping suspended in the air.

“Moke, why did you stop!?” Seeing the giant python halt, Qin Yichen’s brow furrowed as he asked.

“Master, I’m sorry.” The giant python beneath Qin Yichen’s feet murmured.

Hearing this, Qin Yichen’s heart jumped in alarm, and that uneasy feeling within him suddenly intensified.

*Whoosh!* The giant python’s body suddenly flipped over. Qin Yichen immediately felt the world spinning, head down and feet up. This giant python was actually trying to throw him into this region where even Saints who fell in would surely die!

“Moke, have you gone mad?!”

Qin Yichen’s palms transformed into claws, desperately gripping the scales on the giant python’s body as he roared out.

“Master, it’s not that I want to kill you. Please don’t blame me…”

The giant python’s voice sounded again. Immediately after, its body violently trembled, and a layer of scale skin actually peeled away from its body.

*Whoosh!*

The scales Qin Yichen gripped immediately fell away, and his form plummeted straight down.

“Damn it!”

Qin Yichen roared furiously. Not daring to be the slightest bit careless, he directly summoned his True Dragon Martial Soul, just about to soar skyward, only to discover that within this spatial region there existed a suppressive force that prevented him from executing his flight ability.

His form continued its unabated descent towards that land of extreme Yin Energy, extreme cold, and extreme evil.