What Is This Place?

The purple aura dissipated, and thick purple smoke billowed from the wound of the body that had been cleaved in two by the Zhanmadao, shooting into the sky like a pressure cooker exploding with a hissing sound.

Crackling sounds emanated from the body's dantian and skull simultaneously. Purple energy churned in the air, fading from a deep purple to a transparent gray within a few breaths.

The Qi within a radius of a thousand miles surged violently and erratically, causing various tornadoes and earthquakes to occur continuously. Dark clouds loomed overhead, torrential rain poured down, vegetation withered, and a thin layer of Gray Fog rose on the horizon, obscuring thunder and starlight.

The body remained stiff and motionless, with purple energy emanating from its dantian and shattered soul. As the purple energy dissipated, the person withered instantly, transforming from an adult into a dried-up corpse.

Countless strange phenomena appeared, and the heavens and earth wept. A Violet Palace Adept had fallen.

He fell victim to Song Shige's blade.

Song Shige glanced at the mummified corpse, then at the strange phenomena still fermenting around him, and frowned.

"This is truly strange. The deaths of those who killed Violet Palace before were all simple and uneventful. How could this one exhibit such a massive phenomenon? Are the cultivators of the Central Continent more noble?"

"Who knows? I've never heard of any unusual phenomena associated with the death of Violet Palace Adept, only with the death of Golden Core Dao Lord." Fu Li dusted off his hands. "I suspect this is newly established, maybe it's Heavenly Dao's way of preventing us outsiders from killing too many local Violet Palace Adept."

Fu Li shrugged, then suddenly he and Song Shige looked up at the distant mountain peak that pierced the clouds.

There were two figures on the mountaintop, standing there motionless, as if waiting for them.

Soon, on a beautiful, towering mountain peak, Song Shige and Fu Li disembarked from the Magic Vessel and met Ye Zizhen and Brutus.

Fu Li saw the blind squad, he couldn't help but laugh.

Where are you going?

Ye Zizhen asked first.

Shouldn't you know better than us?

Fu Li somewhat puzzled. He knew Ye Zizhen; they had interacted once in Survival Game, and he knew that this person always spoke in a mysterious and eccentric manner. However, they had never met in this Dungeon.

"This Dungeon has no Future," Ye Zizhen explained simply.

"We're going to Dieyi Daojun's dojo. The Scholars mentioned that we should gather near the political center, but we haven't found any information about it in the capitals of the mortal kingdoms we've traveled through. So we're going to check out Golden Core Dao Lord's dojo," Song Shige replied.

After their reconstruction, Song Shige and Fu Li felt they could finally see the power of the Golden Core Dao Lord. Even if they couldn't defeat him, they should be able to escape. Moreover, Fu Li especially wanted to visit Dieyi Daojun temple, which happened to be located in the Divine Firmament Heaven’s Gate.

If you can't find it in the mortal realms on Earth, surely you can find it in the nearest Heaven’s Gate on the Central Continent, the center of the world.

"That's most likely up there. The Yin-Yang Plan was transported in yesterday, so there are probably quite a few Survivors inside."

Ye Zizhen nodded in agreement, then turned around and looked at the eastern horizon.

The sky in that direction was naturally darker than in other places, as if it were covered by a layer of gray cloth.

"We come from the Eastern Wilderness, where the struggle for Survivor is even more brutal than here. Most of the survivors fled to the Central Continent, and most of the Dao Lords have disappeared."

"Why?" Song Shige frowned, recalling the unknown Golden Core Dao Lord he had encountered earlier when he first entered the Central Continent, who had attacked several Violet Palace cultivators.

"I heard that the Demon Insects from the two capitals are preparing to Corrosion the world. The Eastern Wilderness has already fallen, but we ran away early and didn't encounter the main force," Ye Zizhen said.

"What is the strength of the Demon Insect?" This was what Song Shige was most concerned about.

"They're extremely weak, but their numbers become terrifying," Brutus, who had been AFK, replied.

"Wait a minute, I'd like to ask what the Two Capitals are. Are they the capitals of the Demon Clan?"

Fu Li sensed something was wrong and raised his hand to ask.

I wasn't talking about a place name.

As Ye Zizhen finished speaking, all four of them fell silent.

The atmosphere was quite somber for a time.

"Could you help me confirm how many are in the two capitals?" Fu Li's lips twitched.

"Two hundred trillion lives," Song Shige replied.

Back when Su Luo was in the third Continued Battle within the star system, the number of Devil Zerg, who were most likely to accumulate numbers, was at its peak, it was less than one Jing. This was even after accounting for a large number of low-level, meat-eating Zerg.

"This is insane!" Fu Li's voice rose several octaves. "Can this world even hold so many living beings? Just the sheer number of them guarantees that the strength of the underlying units will be at a certain level. Are the resources in this world really enough to support so many lives?"

A mountain breeze blew from the summit, carrying the moisture of the sea of clouds and the scent of the distant forests. The other three did not answer.

Fu Li was utterly shocked and continued to complain:

"The human population in this world is estimated to be between 100 billion and 200 billion. Let's say 200 billion. That means we Survivors only need to fight against 200 billion local creatures, which is quite simple."

The four boarded the Magic Vessel and exchanged information. Song Shige emphasized the Rainbow Badge Survivor named "Lan Cijiu" and the movements of [Shi].

"Shi followed him. While Lan Cijiu's direct combat strength might not be very strong at the Rainbow Badge level, his methods are extremely diverse, even somewhat idealistic; his Talent is likely information- Talent."

Song Shige hesitated for a moment halfway through his sentence.

"I feel... in some ways, he understands me better than I understand myself."

Fu Li to the side, expressed his full agreement.

"He could tell at a glance that I was a talented person who wasn't being recognized. He even knew that I had been caught smoking in the exam hall during the college entrance exam, which caused me to underperform and only score 300 points."

"It's like a ghost, watching me even when I'm eating, sleeping, or using the catheter."

Ye Zizhen frowned, ignoring Fu Li's outrageous remarks, and immediately suspected that it was a time-based Talent.

"No, just because I can't use it doesn't mean others can't use it either, at least not in this Dungeon. Or maybe it's Rewind- traveling instance..."

"After all, it's Rainbow Badge, so nothing's unusual about it, but I feel it's more incredible than we imagined."

Song Shige stopped Ye Zizhen's guess and then steered the Magic Vessel to accelerate wildly.

"This way, we can reach the Divine Firmament Heaven’s Gate before dawn. Originally, we planned to infiltrate, and we had all the methods prepared, but with the information you provided, we don't need to be so cautious."

As he spoke, Song Shige gestured to Fu Li.

Fu Li understood, took out a remote control, and pressed the button.

A female cultivator at the Violet Palace Mid-Stage emerged from the next room, her body trembling as she bowed to Fu Li.

Ye Zizhen and Brutus turned to look at Fu Li, but the sight of the two blind men with black cloth wrapped around their heads made Fu Li lose his composure again.

Brutus was somewhat puzzled.

No, this guy's style... it seems to fit Perfect into the current skill level?