"Chaotic Heavenly Hall Second Heaven—Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh?"
"How do we venture through here?"
Ye Chen looked at the words on the small tablet and then at the endless vast marsh stretching beyond sight, furrowing his eyebrows.
Here, he couldn’t see a single soul, nor did he know where the others were teleported.
Unlike the entrance to the First Layer of Heaven "Myriad Treasures Grotto" of the Chaotic Heavenly Hall, where there was a text prompt to find an Ancient Teleportation Formation to step into the Second Heaven of the Chaotic Heavenly Hall.
At the teleportation location of the Second Heaven "Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh," there were no instructions on how to proceed to the Third Heaven.
It seemed one had to explore on their own.
What Ye Chen didn’t know was that he had already delayed quite a bit of time inside the Myriad Treasures Grotto, and later spent additional time cultivating breakthroughs inside the Giant Mountain with Ning Xiaoxiao. He was among the last to enter the Second Heaven, apart from those who perished in the First Heaven.
The remaining challengers, nearly all of whom had arrived at the Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh before him.
Those challengers, having arrived earlier than Ye Chen, were also utterly baffled by how to navigate the Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh, leading everyone to begin their explorations from the respective points where they were teleported.
Each person’s circumstances varied dramatically.
Yet, everyone, whether as powerful as Hua Tianjue, Hongjue, or Yuan Qingzi, or other young talents who hadn’t reached even the Divine Master Realm, once stepping onto the black swamp of the Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh, were engulfed into the internal space of the marsh, beginning their separate spatial ventures.
Each space presented different challenges.
The true means of venturing the Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh was indeed its internal space!
Some Masters, upon being engulfed into the Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh, first entered a Treasure Land filled with extremely precious treasures. However, they could only take one, so reluctantly, the Master chose a powerful offensive treasure before entering the second space.
Some Divine Masters swallowed into the Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh entered a terrifying ice-sealed territory. Despite being a nine-layered Divine Master, once entered, they were immediately frozen in space, unable to move.
Even talents below the Divine Master Realm, upon entering the internal space of the Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh, directly encountered an endless slaughter crisis. Although the Demons encountered in this crisis weren’t too formidable, they were unending, depleting the talent’s Divine Power until finally being overwhelmed by the endless Demons, perishing in the space...
From the experiences of everyone teleported to the Second Heaven, the treasures inside the Second Heaven of the Chaotic Heavenly Hall were significantly better than those of the First Heaven overall, but the probability of encountering danger was also much higher.
In the First Heaven Myriad Treasures Grotto, only a small portion of people perished, but in the Second Heaven, as soon as it was entered, four or five people had already died within.
Everyone felt the distinctiveness of the Second Heaven.
Some even believed that if this pattern continued, the dangers of the Third Heaven would be even more terrifying, and possibly, even the strongest among them might not venture far in it.
This made those venturing through the Second Heaven ever more cautious, hoping to find more treasures while ensuring their safety.
Ye Chen was unaware of others’ experiences in the Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh.
Though still unsure how to navigate this Second Heaven, he wouldn’t stop there.
The bountiful gains from the Myriad Treasures Grotto allowed him to reach the Immortal Divine Venerable Realm, so naturally, he wished to gather more within the Chaotic Heavenly Hall.
With countless treasures and numerous means at his disposal, as well as powerful life-saving scrolls, Ye Chen had the confidence to explore this Second Heaven thoroughly!
After surveying the vast marsh before him for a moment, Ye Chen hesitated no longer, rising from the dry earth to fly ahead, to see what the marsh truly looked like.
The moment Ye Chen had just ascended a few dozen feet from the dry earth range onto the sky above the black swamp, he immediately felt an astonishing pull coming from below the black swamp.
This astonishing pull was so strong that even with Ye Chen’s power, it was hard to resist.
Ye Chen even felt that it would be hard to resist even with the power of a Cosmic Emperor level.
This shocked Ye Chen!
"Could it be that the true place to venture in the Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh isn’t above but beneath the marsh?"
As soon as this thought flashed across Ye Chen’s mind, the next moment, he was swallowed by a bubble of the endless black swamp of the Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh.
In the following moment, Ye Chen found himself in a massive temple.
The walls inside this temple were all burning fiery walls, and under the endless firelight, the entire temple appeared crimson!
To Ye Chen’s slight relief, the burning flames were not too intimidating in temperature, manageable with his strength.
This also allowed Ye Chen to more leisurely observe the temple he found himself in.
"Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh’s internal space?"
"It seems the Second Heaven of the Chaotic Heavenly Hall involves venturing through such internal spaces of the marsh."
"I wonder what can be found inside this temple."
Ye Chen’s mind raced as he quickly pieced together the situation he was in.
Just as Ye Chen was preparing to thoroughly search this Flame Temple to see what treasures lay within, a thunderous "rumble" echoed from the depths of the temple.
Ye Chen listened intently.
It sounded as if colossal footsteps were approaching slowly.
Having witnessed countless miraculous events, Ye Chen’s expression remained unchanged. He circulated his Divine Power to protect himself and looked toward the depths of the temple to see what might emerge.
After roughly a dozen steps, a massive Flame Giant, at least hundreds of feet tall, emerged from the dark passage deep within the temple.
This Flame Giant bore an uncanny resemblance to a human, with the only difference being its giant stature and a body composed not of flesh but of stone blocks, each unique and occasionally emitting flickers of flame.
What astounded Ye Chen were the special Divine Flames flickering from each stone on the Flame Giant’s body, whose value seemed in no way inferior to the Heavenly Forbidden Flame he possessed.
This left Ye Chen shocked.
After all, the Heavenly Forbidden Flame Ye Chen owned ranked second on the Extreme Heaven Divine Fire List, a flame coveted even by Divine Masters in the True Spirit Divine Kingdom, not to mention Sovereigns.
But upon reflection, Ye Chen felt at ease.
After all, the Chaotic Heavenly Hall was a Mysterious Place in the Primal Beginning Universe, and even the Cosmic Emperor might not have the fortune to enter here.
It was completely understandable for Divine Flames surpassing the Heavenly Forbidden Flame to exist here.
"What kind of Flame Giant is this, possessing so many Divine Flames!"
"If I could obtain even a few of its Divine Flames and merge them into the Heavenly Forbidden Flame, its power might greatly increase!"
Observing the Flame Giant before him, Ye Chen’s Divine Sense flickered in his mind.
As Ye Chen observed the Flame Giant, it also eyed Ye Chen.
But after a few glances, the Flame Giant snorted disdainfully and murmured to itself, "Just an Immortal Divine Venerable youth, yet he managed to transmit into my temple."
"I thought a powerful adversary could come for a good fight."
"Looks like my subordinates alone can take care of you!"
After some self-talk, the Flame Giant directly addressed Ye Chen, "Kid, your luck is truly unfortunate, entering one of the many death spaces of the Heavenly Chaos Great Marsh."
"There’s no treasure here for you, only a path of death and slaughter awaits!"
"Brace yourself to die here, kid!"
Finishing its words, the Flame Giant shook its body, shedding clusters of flames that transformed into fiery little figures.
These figures hovered in the air for a few moments before rushing towards Ye Chen to attack.
Hearing the Flame Giant’s words and seeing the attacking fiery figures, Ye Chen’s expression changed.
"It seems, I truly am unlucky!"
However, letting himself perish as the Flame Giant suggested was something Ye Chen would never accept!
Although Ye Chen sensed that the Flame Giant’s strength was roughly at the Overlord Level, he was confident in dealing with it. Even against a Cosmic Emperor-level opponent, with many cards up his sleeve, Ye Chen would never resign himself to death!
The attacking fiery figures were mostly only Sovereign Level, and Ye Chen felt no fear at all!
Seeing eight fiery figures charging at him, Ye Chen swiftly extended his hand, and instantly, his Heavenly Sword Divine Art was reinforced by the Starry Sky Earth Rotation Divine Technique and unleashed with great force.
The terrifying sword light swept towards the fiery figures like a storm.
The eight fiery figures before him had no means of resistance and were annihilated by Ye Chen’s Heavenly Sword Divine Art!
Ye Chen’s thunderous strike took the Flame Giant by surprise.
"Hmm? An Immortal Divine Venerable possessing such formidable power?! It seems that those who enter the Chaotic Heavenly Hall are indeed extraordinary."
After expressing its sentiments, the Flame Giant’s blazing eyes focused on Ye Chen, and its booming voice echoed towards him, "Kid, even though you exceed my expectations in strength, you still face a path of death here!"
The Flame Giant stopped unleashing fiery figures to attack Ye Chen and instead approached him directly with its main body.
"Prepare to die?" Ye Chen looked at the Flame Giant and sneered, "Your Divine Flames look quite good; you’d better prepare yourself to die!"
Hearing Ye Chen’s words, the Flame Giant seemed touched by a taboo and erupted in fury, "An Immortal Divine Venerable, so arrogant? Watch me refine you into my Ten Thousand Laws Flame, and let’s see how you gloat then!"
Enraged, the Flame Giant’s flames erupted from its stones skyward, enveloping its entire body in an endless blaze. Simultaneously, a Flame Divine Chain appeared in its hand, coiling towards Ye Chen to kill him!