Chen Qing's figure flickered through the Inner Perimeter.
By now, the various Golden Court tribes had drawn in their forces, all gathering around the two Fifth-Turn Great Lords, Gu Li and Fei Li. Finding another target to hunt had become harder than climbing to the heavens.
Rather than lie hidden in the dark and wait, he might as well first take a look at the heart of the ruins.
With that thought, Chen Qing increased his speed by another thirty percent. Avoiding several waves of experts along the way, he soon arrived at the boundary between the Inner Perimeter and the core.
The deeper he went, the more stagnant the air around him became.
The ambient essence between heaven and earth had thinned to the extreme. Only a rich medicinal fragrance, mixed with a faint scent of blood, slipped into his nose and mouth.
Even with Chen Qing's current tenth-layer Dragon Elephant Prajna Vajra Body, inhaling that aura made his Meridians faintly itch and tingle.
He hurriedly circulated his True Origin, forming a barrier before his mouth and nose, while his steps slowly came to a halt.
When he looked up, the colossal pill furnace standing like a mountain at the end of his sight finally came fully into view.
Previously, from the outer perimeter and the Inner Perimeter, separated by dozens of miles, he could only make out the pill furnace's hazy outline and sense its towering grandeur.
But now, standing at the edge of the core and facing this monstrous thing head-on, Chen Qing truly understood what shock was.
The pill furnace was far more than a hundred zhang tall. Though nearly half of its body had collapsed, the remaining portion still sprawled across the very center of the ruins like a mighty city.
Countless lifelike relief carvings