Since they couldn’t be the first to enter the Extreme of the Eastern Sea, they have to resort to other methods to enter.

Li Cangyan’s gaze becomes serious.

The mysterious flame told him that only in extremely unfavorable circumstances, in case he couldn’t be the first to enter the Extreme of the Eastern Sea and someone else took the lead, could he use this mysterious rune to activate the crimson flame mirror.

Before coming here, Li Cangyan thought it was a sure thing. But the shadow that flashed by just now wasn’t enough. He must obtain a divine power sufficient to allow one to ascend.

No, he must obtain the power that is enough to make one ascend.

After the ancient demon leaves, many creatures escaped from the abyss. It is said that entire sects have been invaded by the illusion seductress demon, causing people to indulge in sordid love affairs, and these are the demons that Li Canyan must exterminate.

To eradicate all demonic evil, this is the righteous path Li Cangyan has pursued his entire life.

Therefore, there is no other way. Li Cangyan quickly activated and intensified the red flame mirror by using his finger to pinch the spell, causing it to emit a stronger light and start rotating in the air. Its red light was like a pillar, glaringly reflecting the path in the deep sea.

The “key” in the lock began to rapidly rotate, forcibly searching for the unlocking position in the keyhole.

The entire barrier connected by the ancient stone began to tremble.

This ancient artifact has been at the bottom of the sea for tens of thousands of years, intimately fused with the ever-changing sea and the ocean floor. When it was forcefully pried, the entire Lost Sea began to be in turmoil.

The cries of distant sea beasts and the crowing of roosters became more piercing.

The Great Black Snake suddenly raised its head, hissing out its forked tongue.

No.

His forceful urging will destroy the underwater.

Li Cangyan remained unchanged, intensifying his efforts.

He must enter the extreme of the Eastern Sea.

Yao Yao leaned on the claw of Chong Yan, half of her body sticking out, carefully observing the spherical device.

In the structure of the hourglass, the flowing substance appeared to be both liquid and gas, emitting a faint fluorescence, floating within the transparent barrier.

Since ancient times, hourglasses have been used for measuring time, but here, there was only silence and emptiness, with no one around.

Whom is it counting time for?

Yao Yao tried to recall. In the original plot, after the male and female protagonists went through many dangers and reached the extreme of the Eastern Sea, the male protagonist did indeed obtain tremendous divine power, taking a half-step towards ascension and gaining the courage to exterminate demons and gods.

But this hourglass in front of her clearly wasn’t Chong Yan’s heart. So what power did Li Cangyan obtain?

She didn’t dare to jump down recklessly. She manifested a shallow golden spirit flow in her palm, attempting to cover it with her own spiritual power and sense it.

The surface of the hourglass was heavy and smooth, resembling the ancient stone, without any gaps.

It couldn’t be opened, nor did it show any response.

Last time, in the Naitian Secret Realm, Yao Yao obtained the Divine Meteor just by reaching out and touching it after the radiant sun appeared above her head.

But now, this hourglass showed no response. It was as if it was left here for someone specific.

Only the male protagonist, when he arrived here and obtained it, could unleash its power.

So from the beginning, everyone else was just running alongside. From the beginning, it was a scam.

Yao Yao looked up and glanced at Chong Yan.

Chong Yan had already transformed back into his human form, hovering in mid-air with her, silently watching all along.

Yao Yao transferred the spirit flow covering her to his hand, allowing Chong Yan to feel it too.

Chong Yan closed his eyes.

A gust of wind stirred in the pure white void, causing Chong Yan’s silver-white hair ends to gently sway.

Once again, he felt something familiar.

The forbidden time.

The flow under the sea was ten times faster than the outside world.

Because someone had been extracting time and the lifespan of spiritual beasts from the depths of the sea for countless years, reconstructing an undying divine soul for a person.

Gathering the power of the world, infusing it here.

With such offerings from heaven and earth, it could only remind Chong Yan of one person.

Because the Azure Dragon was the strongest God Sovereign, and the Vermilion Phoenix was the most revered Goddess Empress, it took them tens of thousands of years to conceive their eldest son, despite his frailty. He possessed the purest and most noble divine bloodline.

And he was merely a catalyzed demonic fetus, so his parents didn’t want to acknowledge him. However, Chong Yan now had the most important matter at hand, so he no longer cared.

However, at this moment, at the remote depths of the sea.

Standing here, he realized how great their love for his elder brother truly was.

“Chong Yan, Chong Yan.”

Yao Yao’s shallow golden spirit flow enveloped him, allowing him to feel the vision from the closed divine pupil.

He remembered his cold-blooded parents and elder brother once again.

Yao Yao grabbed Chong Yan’s sleeve and suddenly understood. All the power within this hourglass is for “taking.”

Because there is no spiritual energy in the deep sea, no cultivators would come here. Because the monsters in the deep sea don’t speak, don’t come ashore, they have been quietly taken for countless years.

So Little Black Snake had stayed here for a much longer time than she had thought.

Except for this device, Yao Yao couldn’t imagine how many other things they had set up in the entire world. Yao Yao held onto Chong Yan and said earnestly, “Let’s take it away.”

This power should never have belonged to Li Cangyan.

Chong Yan lowered his gaze and looked at her. “You use it.”

Yao Yao shook her head. “Do you know what will happen because of your parents’ actions?”

Chong Yan was taken aback. No one had ever asked him that. He didn’t know.

While releasing a powerful spirit flow to envelop the hourglass, Yao Yao struggled to lift it and said aloud, “You will be condemned by heaven and struck by thunder.”

So she was sure she didn’t want to do such an immoral thing. A really immoral thing.

Chong Yan stared at her in a daze.

However, heavenly condemnation and thunder were controlled by their gods.

So they wouldn’t be struck.

But…

“Okay,” he said.

Chong Yan raised his hand and gently held the enormous hourglass, preparing to shatter it.

Just then, the pure white surroundings suddenly began to sway.

The barrier at the extreme of the Eastern Sea started to become transparent, as if someone forcefully broke through it from the outside.

The icy sea began to emit a certain heat.

The sea trembled.

“Wait, Senior Li Cangyan, won’t this be dangerous?”

The red flame mirror intensified, the deep sea path rotated forcefully, and the ancient stone really started to appear, becoming weak.

However, the seawater around them grew hotter.

To stabilize everyone, Li Cangyan loudly declared, “Please believe that everything I have done is for the righteous path. My mission is to exterminate all demons in the world.”

The crowd hesitated slightly.

The escape of the ancient demons was indeed a fear that weighed on everyone’s minds. This was one of the reasons they risked their lives to obtain the heart of the demons.

A cold laugh sounded from the crowd.

Ji Rong had been waiting for him to open the extreme of the Eastern Sea but, looking around, he felt that something was amiss.

When he heard Li Cangyan foolishly extolling the heart of the demon, Ji Rong instantly drew his sword and attacked him.

“Use your brain. Are you really sure that the heart of the demon is here in the extreme of the Eastern Sea?”

Li Cangyan dodged by casting a spell, but his gaze froze.

“Jun Capital didn’t send anyone here,” Ji Rong said, scanning everyone on the deep sea path with his sword. “Did you see anyone from the Lan family?”

The Lan family was the lord of the Eastern Sea. If the heart of the gods and demons truly were here, how could they allow other sects to seize it?

“Yeah.”

“The Lan family members disappeared after the banquet.”

Li Cangyan was stunned. Suddenly, his mind spun, understanding many things.

The Lan family didn’t intervene because they knew that Jun had tacitly approved Li Cangyan’s seizure of this treasure.

But if this treasure wasn’t the heart of the gods and demons, then what power did the mysterious flame demand him to obtain?

Where did this power come from?

The seabed had no spiritual energy, only time flowing swiftly.

Li Cangyan suddenly looked at everyone present.

If he had smoothly entered the extreme of the Eastern Sea first, it would have been fine. But if it wasn’t part of the second plan to forcefully break through, then the flame had already known that many people would die here. That’s why the Lan family didn’t join them in going underwater.