However, it was already too late.
That graveyard world radiated a dazzling brilliance, transforming into what seemed like a blazing sun that shone brightly throughout the entire Primordial Burial Ground.
At the same time, a mark flew out from the earth and plunged into Yuwen Yanri's chest.
After Chu Feng took off, the numerous experts of the Huangfu Heavenly Clan descended alongside him.
This allowed Chu Feng to quickly arrive right before Yuwen Yanri.
Yuwen Yanri had also sensed something wrong. He tore open his shirt and saw a massive symbol imprinted on his chest.
The symbol was black, covering his entire chest. It seemed almost alive, squirming faintly and pulsing with a rhythm that matched his heartbeat — yet was not quite in sync with it.
It possessed a life of its own.
"What is this?"
The Lord of the Divine Body Heavenly Palace was filled with panic.
If anyone was worried, no one present feared more for Yuwen Yanri than he did. This young man was not only the future of the Divine Body Heavenly Palace — he was his own grandson.
He had just merged with the Solar Flame Divine Body. This was supposed to be an occasion of immense joy. For something terrible to happen at a time like this — no one could accept that.
"Chu Feng."
Yuwen Yanri looked toward Chu Feng, his gaze carrying a hint of plea.
He himself was also in a panic.
"Is it a curse?"
Huangfu Zhantian also looked at Chu Feng and asked. They all trusted Chu Feng's judgment.
"Are you feeling any discomfort?" Chu Feng asked Yuwen Yanri.
"Not yet."
"Although it's on my body, I can barely sense it. It's as if it doesn't exist," Yuwen Yanri said.
Chu Feng had already begun his observation, but he could not discern much from it.
Just as Yuwen Yanri had said — it was right there before his eyes, yet when he probed it with his spiritual perception and observational techniques, it seemed as if it simply did not exist.
His own methods yielded no results, so Chu Feng activated the power of his Three Realms Divine Eye to examine the curse imprinted upon Yuwen Yanri.
But the moment he channeled the Three Realms Divine Eye's power, Chu Feng felt the space around him begin to shift. An invisible force pulled him into an entirely different place.
Now Chu Feng found himself in a boundless world of darkness.
Yet he could sense a pair of colossal eyes watching him from the distance.
The being was incomprehensibly massive, but it was so far away that Chu Feng could not make out any clear details. Even using his Heavenly Eye, he could only vaguely make out its silhouette.
This creature was so enormous that it dwarfed an entire world. It crouched upon the ground, and countless serpent-like tendrils writhed all around its body.
His first impression of it was that it was powerful — and evil.
"Were you not warned never to set foot in this place?"
"So it is true — mortals are always greedy."
A voice that shook heaven and earth boomed forth, as though the sound alone could annihilate everything.
But compared to the sheer force of that voice, what truly stunned Chu Feng were the words it spoke.
It actually knew that someone had warned Chu Feng not to enter this place.
"You know my sister?" Chu Feng asked.
Since it knew someone had warned Chu Feng against coming here, that someone could only have been Long Zhuoyan.
But how could it have known?
No matter how Chu Feng looked at it, this being's strength was incomparably terrifying — far beyond anything he could reach even at his absolute limit. There was no chance of victory whatsoever.
So Chu Feng deliberately brought up Long Zhuoyan's name.
After all, Long Zhuoyan was a formidable existence from the ancient era, and at her peak she had been equally terrifying.
He was hoping the being might spare him on account of Long Zhuoyan.
But who could have anticipated that when it spoke again, it paid no heed at all to Chu Feng's mention of his sister.
"The treasures of this place are not so easily claimed."