After adjusting themselves to their peak condition, the two continued their journey. They crossed the scorching crimson desert and arrived at the ruins of a city.
This had once likely been an immortal city. Now, most of it lay buried beneath the sand, and an air of desolation hung over the place.
Ji An sensed the characteristics of the spiritual energy in this region and said gravely,
"The Fire Element Spiritual Energy is extremely violent, chaotic, and disordered. This is highly abnormal."
Yu Heng Sanren nodded. "What you say is correct, Fellow Daoist. The problem lies within this planet itself.
"The magma in its depths has lost its restraints, and Fire Element Spiritual Energy has leaked into every corner of the planet. From then on, this place was no longer suitable for low-level living beings to survive.
"Not only that, as the spiritual energy continues to dissipate, the grade of the Spirit Veins keeps declining.
"This should have been the most prosperous place in the past, but under such constant blood loss, it could not escape the fate of abandonment.
"Mortals died in great numbers, and the various cultivator factions lost their influx of fresh blood. In the end, they too had no choice but to leave."
He had specifically consulted the previous Star Maps and discovered that this place had still maintained its prosperity a hundred thousand years ago. Now, only broken walls and shattered ruins remained to recount its former glory.
As the magma within the planet cooled, the planet would eventually die completely, break apart, and scatter into the starry sky as dust.
The two continued flying, passing through the city ruins before arriving beside a pyramid-shaped structure.
It was built from black stone, and the portion exposed above the sand stood roughly thirty zhang high.
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