Temptation I

"As long as I can find even the slightest remnant from the original test experiment, I will be able to recreate the opening of the passage!"

The Perpetual Palace Master picked up his notebook and flipped through the various data formulas and calculations.

There is no hope left in this world.

But beyond that passage, free from White Pupil's constraints, lay an infinite future! Click. Just as she was carefully examining the calculation data, the electric sphere in the room suddenly flickered slightly, emitting a piercing noise.

"What's going on!?" She quickly looked up and approached, reaching out her hand. Her palm transformed into a silver metal cone.

The cone pierced the electric sphere, seemingly probing its internal changes.

"No! Something's changed!!"

The Perpetual Palace Master quickly walked to the room's exit and pressed his hand against the wall.

Suddenly a touchscreen appeared, and after quickly entering a row of numbers on the touchscreen, the door opened.

Outside was a vast hall enveloped in flesh and blood.

In the center of the hall stands a giant heart, over ten meters tall, that beats and throbs continuously.

At the bottom of the heart, like grapes hanging from a tree, hung more than a dozen human heads.

"Ah, isn't this our respected Lord Ra?"

"What kind of weird test are they conducting again??"

"Give up! You can't find the passage we're in. This world's ultimate fate is destruction! Hahahaha!!"

"I won't let you get the coordinates to open the passage. Give up, give up!"

The heads were still alive, constantly emitting laughter, mockery, and curses.

The Perpetual Palace Master, La, ignored these worthless heads.

Over the years, she has searched far and wide for clues and conducted numerous experiments in order to find a stable channel that can be kept open for a long time.

The results were all unsatisfactory.

These human heads were byproducts obtained from various channel experiments.

They come from different channels, from different worlds.

Their paths, which initially seemed full of hope, became increasingly fraught with peril with each exploration.

La discovered a horrifying result.

That is, all these channels of heads, the world behind them, the planet behind them, are in a slow process of destruction.

The destruction of most of the worlds beyond those passages was even more thorough than that of this Interaction Zone.

The world is heading towards extinction.

This conclusion was reached after countless tests.

The only thing she held onto was the passage that opened fifteen years ago, and the world behind it was full of life. This was the only hope she had ever held onto.

Walk to the door of another room.

A silver human face automatically appeared on the portal.

"Password," the human-faced figure asked.

"Eternal Silence," Ra replied.

The door paused for a moment, then parted from the center to both sides.

In the center of this room is a model that resembles a sand table.

The sand table simulates a bizarre city.

Towering buildings, dozens of stories high, crowds of people and traffic flowing like ants, and the golden sun silently shining on the earth.

To anyone in this Interaction Zone, the city's environment is like paradise, full of life, where one is never constantly faced with the Heavenly Light of destruction and despair.

And this is the information that La collected the moment that passage opened back then.

If Zhang Rongfang were here, he would immediately recognize that it was the city where he lived before he traveled through time.

"Such a vibrant world, yet it's occupied by these mortals who are like insects. What a waste," La said, gently stroking the simulated sand table. Her eyes were filled with longing.

With a flick of her hand, the sand table in front of her quickly changed, transforming into a topographical map of undulating mountains, Ping Yuan, and sandy land.

The topographic map is covered with a dense array of various blue and red dots.

One of the blue dots on the left side was flashing a faint white light, as if something unusual had happened.

"Could this be?!" La opened his eyes wide, staring intently at the point of light.

The rhythmic fluctuations were exactly the same as the channel fluctuations that occurred in the experiment fifteen years ago!

"I knew it! It's still there! It will definitely come out again!!"

Her eyes lit up with ecstatic joy.

***Under a massive black awning.

The ground beneath Zhang Rongfang's feet had completely turned into a dark red Blood Blanket.

Behind him, at the entrance and exit of the Interaction Zone, flesh and blood were writhing continuously, forming a dark red channel that pierced into the gray-black Sky Curtain at the bottom, connecting to the interior of the Interaction Zone.

One by one, the masters of the Heaven Character Division of the Human Immortal Temple slowly jumped out of the flesh and blood passage.

They gazed at the gloomy sky outside, their Upper Capital still bearing the marks of shock and solemnity.

This is normal. Anyone who suddenly hears about the Sky Curtain and the arrangement to leave the Sky Curtain will be completely dumbfounded.

Even the most imaginative person needs time to process the transition from hearing the truth to accepting it.

Not to mention those Great Ling masters whose imaginations are barren.

Hong Ye, who was leading the way, slowly walked to Zhang Rongfang's side and looked up at the dark, cloud-covered sky.

"Lord Dao, Ling Yuan Emperor has mobilized all the Grandmasters of the Empire to go here and explore the terrain, as you requested."

"Very good." Zhang Rongfang nodded slightly.

Even if he could explore the world beyond the Sky Curtain by himself, it would take him a very long time.

But if there are a lot of people helping, it's a completely different story.

Judging from the Evil Spirit Car that was devoured earlier, the main danger here comes from the Heavenly Light; the rest is not actually that strong.

The Evil Spirit Car's strength, lacking any martial arts expertise, relies solely on instinct like a madman, so it's at most at the Grandmaster level. Its main problem is the extremely troublesome nature of its malevolent aura.

But this is actually the easiest thing for him to solve.

With his current Final Ultimate Creature bloodline, after devouring the Evil Spirit Car from last time, he could easily differentiate and mutate a special outer shell that the Evil Spirit Car itself possessed.

He separated these shells and attached them to all the masters who came to explore the outside world.

This problem was then easily solved.

"Use this place as the center and explore all the surrounding areas. The diameter is approximately one hundred miles."

Zhang Rongfang instructed, "Our goal is to find the survivors here and obtain as much intelligence as possible about this formidable enemy."

"Yes." Hong Ye nodded solemnly.

As a research assistant, she was undoubtedly much more competent than White Scale.

"Next," Zhang Rongfang looked up at the sky.

"You wait here."

He possesses two distinct bloodlines, which naturally makes him act in ways completely different from others.

If someone at his level were still timid and hesitant, it would undoubtedly be tying their own hands and feet.

Immediately, Zhang Rongfang stepped out of the black shed area, and huge bat wings suddenly unfolded behind him.

Whoosh, whoosh! The bat's wings flapped continuously, stirring up air currents that spread outwards.

Suddenly, a large airflow spread out, and the huge reaction force propelled Zhang Rongfang upwards, sending him flying straight into the sky.

He wanted to test for himself just how powerful the Heavenly Light really was.

With the bat wings flapping continuously, Zhang Rongfang shot straight into the clouds like a blood-red arrow.

One hundred meters, five hundred meters, one thousand meters!

Two thousand meters, four thousand meters, eight thousand meters! Ten thousand meters!! He looked up and gazed upwards; the clouds were already close at hand, almost within reach.

He actually reached out and touched the thick, slowly drifting clouds in front of him.

The soft, cool clouds flowed through his fingers like water.

After a pause, Zhang Rongfang suddenly flapped its wings and soared into the dark clouds.

The thickness of less than two hundred meters vanished in an instant.

With a whoosh, he burst out of the gray sea of clouds and into a dazzling white Heavenly Light.

Beneath their feet lay a gray sea of clouds, and above them was an enormous, ever-expanding White Pupil sphere of light.

"I"

Zhang Rongfang stared at the enormous White Pupil that almost filled the entire sky above him.

Suddenly, I felt a sharp, needle-like pain all over my body.

He looked down at his own body.

But then, his entire body began to silently ignite with wisps of white flame.

Along with the flames came wisps of white smoke, as bright as silk.

He could feel his body temperature rising rapidly.

Five hundred degrees, eight hundred degrees, one thousand degrees!

Even here, it didn't stop. Although Zhang Rongfang's Ultimate Organism bloodline was rapidly adjusting his physique, forming a heat-resistant, heat-insulating shell on his body surface.

But it was to no avail.

The outside temperature continues to rise rapidly.

It quickly exceeded two thousand degrees and headed straight for three thousand degrees.

Zhang Rongfang's entire body turned bright red, and large amounts of white and black smoke drifted out from above his head.

His body temperature was still rising rapidly.

In just a few seconds, the temperature had risen to 5,000 degrees Celsius! This temperature is close to the surface temperature of the sun.

Zhang Rongfang's robes melted and turned black, some turning into dust and others vaporizing.

He opened his mouth wide, unleashing his full innate abilities.

The Energy Absorption capabilities of Ultimate Organism played a crucial role at this moment, helping him withstand the terrifyingly high temperatures.

But as the Heavenly Light shone through, his body temperature continued to rise rapidly.

Soon, her body temperature reached 6,000.

Finally, even his Energy Absorption capacity couldn't hold up, and Zhang Rongfang's entire body was almost completely charred black.

Hiss. His entire body, flesh and blood, along with his enormous bat wings, began to slowly turn into black ash, crumble, and drift away with the wind.

"Is this the maximum temperature I can withstand?"

On the ground, beneath the shed, a piece of flesh rapidly grew larger, expanded, twisted, and took shape, becoming Zhang Rongfang's figure.

He looked up at the direction in which he had just flown into the clouds, his expression solemn.

The temperature difference between passing through the clouds and not passing through the clouds was surprisingly large!

"Next, let's try Heavenly Light."

His gaze was fixed on the clouds.

Suddenly, beams of Heavenly Light descended from the sky and crashed onto the ground not far away.

One of the beams of Heavenly Light struck directly above this shed area.

Bang!

The entire shed shook as if it had been hit by something incredibly heavy.

Zhang Rongfang's eyes flickered, and under the watchful eyes of Hong Ye and the others, he walked out of the shed area step by step and stood under the pillar of Heavenly Light.

Hiss. His body temperature began to rise rapidly. It quickly exceeded two thousand degrees.

But that's all. Compared to the terrifying heat of 6,000 degrees Celsius above the clouds, the temperature on the ground here is much lower.