As he reached one hand into the Space Barrier and sensed that the heat had subsided, an uncontrollable fervor and anticipation flickered in Lin Ming's dark eyes, burning like flames.
After enduring countless hardships and traversing endless lava, he finally arrived before the legendary portal. Lin Ming felt no hesitation or fear, only a resolute determination to break through all obstacles!
So, Lin Ming took a sudden step forward, his body moving without the slightest hesitation, and resolutely stepped into the ripples that looked like magma but were actually Space Barrier!
"Laugh!"
It felt as if I had passed through a curtain of icy water, or as if I had broken free from some kind of viscous restraint. As my entire body stepped into that mysterious space, the endless rumbling of flowing magma that had filled my ears, and the omnipresent burning sensation, suddenly stopped, as if wiped away by an invisible hand.
An extreme silence, like a tidal wave, surged in and instantly engulfed Lin Ming.
What appeared before his eyes was an endless space that seemed to stretch to the horizon, somewhat dark and silent.
There is no distinction between up, down, left, or right here; there is no light of the sun, moon, or stars; there is only an eternal, deathly silence, as if even time itself has frozen.
This space, how many years has it remained silent? Hundreds of years? Thousands of years? Or even longer?
The entire space was permeated with an intense, ancient, and weathered atmosphere. The historical dust flowing in the air seemed to be telling a forgotten, ancient Secrets.
Lin Ming's gaze, filled with both vigilance and curiosity, slowly swept across the empty and dark space.
As far as the eye could see, there was only emptiness and nothingness. There was nothing strange about it, no pavilions or towers as one might have imagined, no Treasure Hoard piled up with dazzling light. There was only endless darkness and silence, as if this place was just an abandoned, empty graveyard.
His brow furrowed slightly, the excitement in his heart subsided a little, replaced by a cautiousness in the face of the unknown.
Although he possessed memories of the original work, Lin Ming, being cautious, did not recklessly wander around. Instead, he spread his Soul Power like a spider web, maintaining a steady pace as he carefully moved forward in this seemingly endless Void Space.
Each step he took created only a barely perceptible ripple in the air beneath his feet, which quickly returned to calm.
Flying through this empty space that evoked feelings of insignificance and loneliness, after about half a cup of tea's time, Lin Ming's steady pace suddenly came to a halt!
His gaze, as if drawn by a magnet, was fixed on the distant, deep darkness ahead.
There, faintly, a ray of light appeared!
The light was not strong, even somewhat faint, but in this boundless darkness, it stood out like a lighthouse!
It radiates a constant, ancient, rather than restless, energy, light, as if it has existed there since time immemorial, quietly awaiting the arrival of those destined to find it.
Gazing at the ball of light stubbornly flickering in the darkness, Lin Ming's heart began to pound. He knew that this was the place countless people dreamed of.
Therefore, Lin Ming stopped flying slowly and instead increased his speed, transforming into a streak of light and flying swiftly towards the direction of the light.
As he gradually approached the ball of light, the specific details within it became clearer and clearer to him.
That wasn't some wondrous object radiating precious light, but rather... a door!
A colossal Stone Door, tens of thousands of feet high, seemingly connecting heaven and earth!
The Stone Door stood quietly in the vast, dark void, its entire body displaying a Chaos gray-white color. Its material was neither stone nor jade, and it was covered with mottled traces left by the passage of time, as well as some indistinct ancient patterns that contained profound Supreme Principle.
It stood there quietly, as if it had existed forever, transcending the passage of time.
An indescribable, ancient, and primal aura, like the breath of a slumbering Giant Dragon, slowly emanated from it, rippling through this desolate world, bringing a sense of pressure and awe from the depths of the soul.
Before the Stone Door, there was an equally vast and unimaginably large Blue Stone plaza, which stretched to the horizon and merged with the darkness.
Lin Ming, however, remained a considerable distance from the ancient Stone Door. He stared blankly at the strange landscape that had suddenly appeared in the dark space, and for a moment, he was speechless, a feeling of insignificance welling up from the bottom of his heart.
Standing before such a magnificent and awe-inspiring Stone Door, which seemed like a miracle, Lin Ming felt like an ant standing at the foot of the mountain looking up at the sky. Unconsciously, a sense of instinctive awe for the unknown and for the great creation surged in his heart.
This is not fear, but a profound respect for something that transcends the limits of our own understanding.
Lin Ming's gaze, filled with awe and inquiry, slowly swept over the enormous Stone Door, finally settling on Stone Door top, a position that seemed to touch the limit of the "sky" in this space.
There are four ancient characters there, which are not engraved, but rather appear to have been formed naturally, blending seamlessly with the Stone Door itself.
The moment Lin Ming's gaze finally clearly fell upon those four characters that seemed to contain the ultimate truths of heaven Supreme Principle, his pupils suddenly contracted, becoming as sharp as needles! At that moment, his heart also began to pound uncontrollably, like a drum beating loudly!
Those four characters, written with vigorous and ancient Dragon Snake, exude a majesty that transcends all things.
"Ancient Emperor's Cave!"
The ancient script does not appear overly ornate or dazzling; however, it is precisely in this plainness that it contains an endless majesty that reigns supreme over heaven and earth!
These four simple words seem to represent the ultimate power of this continent, and the dojo of a supreme being!
"Finally found you..."
Gazing at the four ancient characters that seemed to weigh a ton, the smile that Lin Ming had suppressed for so long suddenly widened, eventually turning into a whisper filled with emotion and a sense of accomplishment.
All the hardships and adventures seemed to have been rewarded at this moment.
Upon arriving here, Lin Ming was certain that no one, including the powerful members of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, could sense Zi Yan's presence anymore. The time was ripe.
Without further delay, Lin Ming moved his mind, causing the space around him to ripple slightly. A petite purple figure was carefully released from the safe space within his own Inner World.
As soon as Zi Yan came out, she looked at Lin Ming, who was safe and sound beside her, and a look of relief and joy immediately flashed in her large, amethyst-like eyes.
At this moment, Zi Yan subconsciously wanted to speak, but when she followed Lin Ming's solemn and shocked gaze, her mouth instantly opened into a circle. She was as if she had been frozen in place, so shocked by the towering Stone Door standing in the endless darkness that she could not speak!
The immense visual impact made her, who possessed the Ancient Void Dragon Royal Bloodline, feel unprecedentedly insignificant.
However, Zi Yan's shock at the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion did not last long.
Because in the very next moment, almost simultaneously, a bone-chilling coldness swept through both her and Lin Ming's hearts!
The feeling wasn't a drop in temperature, but a chilling sense of being watched by a apex predator, as if something had silently opened a pair of enormous eyes in the darkness, coldly and emotionlessly observing these two uninvited guests.
At the same time, deep within Zi Yan's dormant bloodline, a strange feeling stirred within her, rippling uncontrollably like a lake surface tossed with a pebble.
It was a complex, throbbing feeling that was both familiar and strange, both longing and tinged with a hint of instinctive fear.
Sensing the sudden chill and the gaze directed at them, Lin Ming knew perfectly well that this was the Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun, Zi Yan's father, who had been trapped here for ten thousand years, staring at the two of them!
In response, Lin Ming's eyes narrowed suddenly. Instead of backing down, he slowly lowered his head and cast his gaze down at the even deeper, dark void below, which seemed capable of swallowing even light.
At the same time, he flicked his finger, and a pillar of fire, condensed with the Flame Power, shot out from his fingertip like Signal Flare in the darkness!
"Call out!"
A burst of firelight suddenly erupted in this ancient, dark space, dispelling the darkness in a small area and briefly bringing light.
Lin Ming and Zi Yan's gazes followed the direction illuminated by the firelight, looking eagerly in that direction.
However, the moment the firelight illuminated the scene below, their gazes suddenly froze! Their pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints in an instant!
They stared blankly at the space below illuminated by the firelight, their blood seemingly frozen solid, a chill running from their tailbone straight to the top of their head!
"This is..."
In the eerily silent space, Zi Yan looked down at the scene below, feeling her scalp tingle and an indescribable fear and shock gripping her heart.
The dazzling firelight tried its best to illuminate this corner of the space that seemed to have been dark for thousands of years. However, compared with the faint warmth brought by the leaping firelight, Zi Yan couldn't help but feel a chill rushing through her body. She subconsciously clung tightly to Lin Ming beside her, her small hands unconsciously grabbing the hem of his clothes.
The source of that chilling feeling that made her feel as if she had fallen into an ice cellar was... a colossal creature located in the boundless dark space below!
This mysterious creature was entirely purple-gold in color, with cold and hard scales tightly covering its indescribably enormous body. Each scale seemed to have been forged a thousand times, shimmering with a cold metallic luster. A sense of strength, like ancient steel, arose spontaneously, as if it itself were a Divine Creation that had undergone the baptism of endless years.
That was... a creature whose body was indescribably enormous!
It sat silently in the dark void, motionless, as if it had become part of this space, merging with the darkness.
Lin Ming and his companion instinctively followed its purplish-gold body, trying to get a full view of it. However, when their vision was blocked by the endless darkness in the distance, they still couldn't see its end...