Primordial Forbidden Land

Primordial Forbidden Land

The star map inside the Bronze Coffin began to light up bit by bit. One of the routes displayed was precisely the path Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin had taken, as well as its final Endpoint—the Big Dipper Star Domain.

At that moment, everyone suddenly felt the Bronze Coffin shake violently, as though the earth and sky were being overturned.

Those who had still been asleep jolted awake one after another.

"Are we reaching the Endpoint?"

"Where exactly will it be? A kingdom of gods, or the so-called immortal realm?"

"Will we get to see the immortal Buddhas of legend?"

Everyone was tense, yet filled with anticipation.

Zhou Tong also rose to his feet. He glanced toward the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body's Divine Thought and silently thought, That Evil Ghost actually didn't take the chance to attack?

But when he turned and saw the Buddha Artifacts within the Bronze Coffin radiating waves of Buddha Light, he immediately understood.

In the original story, the power within these Buddha Artifacts had nearly been exhausted when they killed the Little Crocodiles. But things were different now. Those Little Crocodiles had all been killed by Zhou Tong's trap, so the power contained within these Buddha Artifacts remained completely intact.

Thus, there was hardly any sinister aura inside the Bronze Coffin. It felt more like the halls of a temple. Naturally, the Evil Ghost did not dare emerge.

As the Bronze Coffin approached its destination, it began shaking more and more violently. Everyone immediately felt dizzy and disoriented. At the same time, a hazy curtain of light emerged from the coffin walls, offsetting the impact.

With one final deafening crash, the Bronze Coffin's lid was knocked loose and flipped onto the ground.

"Light! I can see light! A familiar world of light!!"

The moment the Bronze Coffin opened, everyone cried out uncontrollably. The fresh air even carried the scent of flowers and grass. It was clearly a bright world Full of Life.

No one could hold back any longer. They all rushed outside together.

They were standing atop a mountain peak, able to look out over the distant scenery. As far as the eye could see, mountain ranges rose and fell in endless succession. Strange rocks and ancient, vigorous trees covered the mountaintops, while old vines coiled through the mountains like horned dragons, brimming with vitality.

At the sight of this, all their previous grief and misery vanished at once.

A beautiful environment truly was the best cure for psychological wounds. Even among those who had wept bitterly before, a spark of passion for life appeared in their eyes.

But unlike the others' optimism, Zhou Tong's brows were tightly furrowed. He had sensed a strange force continuously draining his vital essence and life force, and it was growing faster and faster!

Moreover, this force that drained life force was tied to one's cultivation. The higher one's cultivation, the faster one's life force would drain away. Although Zhou Tong had embarked on the path of cultivation, he had no advantage over Ye Fan and the others.

As expected of the Primordial Forbidden Land. I need to find Divine Fruit and Divine Spring as soon as possible. Otherwise, even though I've begun cultivating, I probably won't last long! A sense of crisis rose within Zhou Tong.

It felt as though he had been tied down and forced to watch someone bleed him dry. It was terrifying. Anyone with weaker nerves might be scared out of their mind.

Ye Fan, standing not far from Zhou Tong, noticed his furrowed brow and immediately asked, "Zhou Tong, what is it? Did you discover something? Is this place dangerous too?"

At Ye Fan's words, several classmates who had been paying attention to Zhou Tong also looked over.

Zhou Tong said, "Unlike you, I had already embarked on the path of cultivation back on Earth. Although I had only just entered the door, my senses are completely different from yours. I can perceive things you cannot."

"This place is dangerous—more dangerous than Mars. It is constantly draining our life force. If we remain here, it won't be long before we're all finished!"

"What do we do?" Everyone immediately panicked upon hearing that.

Rumble!!

Before Zhou Tong could answer, the Nine Dragons and Bronze Coffin that had brought them here began to shake. Then they slid straight off the cliff.

Everyone broke out in cold sweat. If they had been even a step slower and failed to escape, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

After the dragon corpses and Bronze Coffin fell over the cliff, there was not a single sound. This shocked everyone even more. Who knew how deep that abyss was?

And now, without the Bronze Coffin and dragon corpses blocking their view, everyone finally saw the true landscape of this place.

Nine great mountains encircled a bottomless abyss. It looked like a Volcano—a bottomless volcanic crater.

"Are we standing on top of a volcanic crater?" someone asked in confusion.

"Little Tyrant, since you cultivate, can you see what's beneath the cliff?" Zhou Yi suddenly asked.

Zhou Tong shook his head helplessly. "Do you really think I'm that amazing? I only just embarked on the path of cultivation, and I've only just begun. Earth was purely in the End of Dharma era. I cultivated there for three years without achieving much. If you cultivated on this planet, you could probably catch up to me in just a few months."

At this point, Wang Ziwen asked curiously, "You keep talking about cultivation, but what exactly is it? Is it like in those novels—Qi Refinement, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and so on?"

Zhou Tong said, "Cultivation has five secret realms: the Sea of Wheels Realm, the Dao Palace Realm, the Four Extremities Realm, the Dragon Transformation Realm, and the Immortal Platform Realm. I'm only at the lowest Sea of Wheels Realm, and even within it, I'm at the very lowest stage. There's no point asking me more."

Zhou Tong said this without the slightest pressure.

He really was not deceiving them. Compared to a Great Emperor's Wheel Sea, his own Wheel Sea was indeed at the lowest level.

"I see..." Hearing Zhou Tong say this, the others fell silent, though excitement also rose in their hearts.

Zhou Tong had only just begun cultivating, yet he was already so formidable. Wouldn't they be able to gain such abilities too after a few months?

"Ah, look! What's that?" At that moment, someone spotted a Golden Eagle in the sky, clutching an elephant beneath its claws.

Only then did they truly realize that this world was no longer their old world, but a terrifying world straight out of myth.

The group chattered excitedly, completely setting aside Zhou Tong's earlier warning about their life force draining away.

Because they could not clearly feel their own life force slipping away, they naturally did not feel such fear. They merely thought Zhou Tong had been trying to scare them.

Besides, Zhou Tong himself did not appear particularly nervous, so naturally they stopped worrying as well.