Several days later.
Eighty thousand li north of Hundred Saints City.
Outside the entrance to the Barren Heaven Secret Treasure on Green Grassland, an eerie aura hung in the air. The living creatures along the way had all been tainted and driven berserk; some ordinary sheepfolk had even become demonic.
"Hmm, why does this Barren Heaven Secret Treasure feel a little off this time?"
In the void, a Heavenly God Academy elder frowned.
"This aura is somewhat strange. Vice Dean Wu, could some mutation have occurred within the Barren Heaven Secret Treasure?" an elder from the Wang Family of the Northern Lands asked, his tone carrying a trace of concern.
The experts from the other major factions also grew slightly solemn.
Martial Madman of Heavenly God Academy shook his head. Though the Barren Heaven Secret Treasure nominally belonged to Heavenly God Academy, they had no way to sense what was happening inside.
They could only passively receive information from the Barren Heaven Secret Treasure.
"This eerie aura is far too faint to count for much. It can only affect ordinary living beings," said a quasi-Saint expert from the War King Family indifferently.
True eeriness carried great terror. Even Saints would not fare well if tainted by it. What lay before them did not even amount to one ten-thousandth of that.
"If the 'prodigies' of the Barren Domain are afraid, they may withdraw. The prodigies of our Barbarian God Continent fear no challenge."
An elderly man with grizzled hair, wearing an ox-head mask and bare from the waist up, his muscles bulging all over, spoke coldly.
He was the guardian of the Seven Martial Kings Beneath the God, Ox-Faced Overseer, escorting them to the Barren Heaven Secret Treasure.
"Hmph, you old ox-headed bastard, don't just spout big words. You defeated a