He paused, his smile becoming more meaningful. “When he has trampled all his enemies, when he is grateful to us and completely unprepared, that is the best time for us to move.”
The void passage slowly closed behind them, and the last rays of light from Seventeenth Heaven were swallowed by the space crack.
David and Jiang Xuelan were enveloped by the power of space, passing through layers of spatial barriers at an unimaginable speed.
The surrounding light and shadows were constantly distorted, sometimes like a dazzling galaxy, sometimes like a deep abyss, and sometimes like countless fragmented images.
The images were fragments of various worlds that passed along the space journey: some were green mountains and clear waters, some were mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and some were desolate starry skies.
Jiang Xuelan gripped David’s arm tightly. This wasn’t his first time traversing the void passage, but this time was different. This time, there was no clear way out, no Qingqiu to open the door for them on the other side. They forcibly entered an unknown world, following the spatial trajectory of a fleeing envoy.
The spatial turbulence in the passage was several times stronger than before, and each turbulence contained enough destructive power to tear a True Immortal Realm cultivator to shreds.
David was surrounded by purple chaotic power, forming a semi-transparent light shield that protected the two of them.
That spatial turbulence, which was strong enough to tear apart a True Immortal Realm cultivator, crashed into the light shield and vanished silently, without even causing a ripple.
Chaos inherently contains a source of spatial law; in the face of the power of chaos, this spatial turbulence was nothing more than a small stream returning to its origin.
His purple eyes remained fixed on the fading golden trail in front of him, the spatial trail left by the fleeing envoys, which also served as their navigation line.
“We’re almost there.” David’s voice sounded calm, as if he was talking about something trivial.
As soon as the words left his mouth, suddenly a dazzling white light exploded in front of him.
The light was like a blazing sun, illuminating the entire void passage.
After that white light, a gap appeared at the end of the passage; it was the way out, and also the gate to Eighteenth Heaven.
The two of them came out of the gap and landed in an unknown land.
Beneath their feet lay dark red sand, a color that came not from natural ocher, but rather a dark brown formed from being submerged in countless drops of blood.
The sand was mixed with countless bone fragments and metal shards, which produced crunching sounds when stepped on.
The air was filled with an ancient and pungent stench, the stench of flesh and blood that had rotted for tens of thousands of years, permeating into the ground, into the air, into every inch of space.
Looking into the distance, the entire barren land stretched as far as the eye could see, devoid of any vegetation or living creatures.
Only jagged rocks and large skeletons littered the ground.
Some of the skeletons resembled the skeleton of some kind of giant beast, with a single rib tens of feet long, sticking out diagonally from the sand, its surface covered in moss and cracks.
Some of them are humanoid, but several times taller than ordinary people, with dark golden bones. Tens of thousands of years of exposure to wind and sand have only reduced their luster, but not eroded their shape.
The dark golden skeletal figure remained in a fighting stance, arms raised high, the weapons it once held had now become dust, but its fighting spirit seemed to still be hardened within its bones.
The sky was dark purple, even more purple than the sky in the seventeenth heaven.
Three blazing suns hung high in the sky: one golden, one silvery white, and one crimson.
The rays of the three blazing suns intertwined, dyeing the entire barren land in a majestic yet sinister color.
The air here contained spiritual energy several times richer than on Seventeenth Heaven, but this spiritual energy was mixed with an indescribable and violent aura.
That was the lingering killing intent, left behind by countless powerful figures who had fought here for tens of thousands of years, that had fused with spiritual energy.
“Here…” Jiang Xuelan looked around, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes, “What happened here?”
“Ancient battlefield”.
David’s divine sense had spread in all directions, and the power of chaos turned into invisible ripples, covering an area thousands of miles in radius. “The scale is very large, and the cultivation levels of the participants are also very high. The owners of these skeletons were at least at the Golden Immortal realm or above when they were alive.”
His divine sense continued to probe the depths of the barren desert, where he sensed some extremely ancient auras in the deepest part of the desert.
These auras appeared and disappeared alternately, like a giant whale occasionally appearing from the bottom of the sea, each appearance causing the laws of space to tremble.
Those were the remains of a mighty creature that perished here tens of thousands of years ago. They had merged with the space cracks of the barren land, hovering between life and death, neither attacking nor disappearing, and thus fell into an eternal slumber in this forgotten land.
“There is no threat at this time.”
David retracted his divine sense, “But their existence will affect the stability of spatial laws. Fighting here, we cannot tear space at will, because spatial cracks may trigger a chain reaction and awaken something that should not be awakened.”
Jiang Xuelan nodded and took those words to heart.
“Come on, let’s find a place to stay first,” David said as he walked forward, followed by Jiang Xuelan behind him.
FAQ NovelQ: What is the significance of the Great Luo Golden Scripture?A: The Great Luo Golden Scripture is described as the ultimate inheritance of a Taoist sect lost for tens of thousands of years, making it an incredibly valuable and sought-after item.Q: Why is Wu Heng contacting his brother Wu Yuan?A: Wu Heng is contacting his older brother, Wu Yuan, who presides over the Void Merchant Guild in the Eighteenth Heaven, to enlist his help in intercepting David and securing the Great Luo Golden Scripture.The chase is on, and the Eighteenth Heaven is poised to become a critical battleground.
FAQ Novel
Q: What valuable artifact is central to the pursuit in this chapter?
A: The Great Luo Golden Scripture, a supreme Daoist inheritance lost for tens of thousands of years, is the highly coveted item at the heart of the current events.
Q: Why is the Void Merchant Guild using a costly communication device?
A: The Void Merchant Guild is utilizing its ancient, expensive cross-sky communication network to relay vital intelligence about David and the Great Luo Golden Scripture to Wu Yuan, indicating the extreme importance of the information.
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