You looked at the black mist swirling before you. You knew that once you passed through it, you would reach the Barren Wasteland.
Seeing you disappear into the mist, Chu Wudi gritted his teeth, but in the end, he still gave up on entering the Barren Wasteland.
No one knew how long the Barren Wasteland had existed in the Canglan Realm. Some even claimed it had come into being before the realm itself.
From ancient times until now, not a single person or Sinister Worm that had entered had ever made it out alive.
Watching the Great Void Sword Fragment that had been within his grasp fly away just like that, Chu Wudi threw back his head and roared.
Still unwilling to give up, Chu Wudi steeled himself and flew straight into the black mist. He was betting that you wouldn't truly enter the Barren Wasteland, but were instead hiding somewhere in the fog.
You didn't know how long you had been flying through the black mist. Then you felt your cultivation being suppressed, from the late Spirit Transmutation Stage all the way down to the great completion of the Nascent Soul Realm.
At that moment, you opened your eyes and found that the black mist had vanished. You had entered the Barren Wasteland.
A dead mountain stood before you. The soil underfoot was black as ink, and an aura of death drifted across the ground.
Just then, Chu Wudi's terrified voice came from behind you.
"My cultivation! Where did my cultivation go?"
After passing through the black mist, Chu Wudi stared at his body in terror, then angrily berated you.
"You little ant! You think you can beat me just because we're at the same cultivation level?"
As soon as the words left his mouth, Chu Wudi gathered the spiritual power in his body, preparing to unleash a divine ability.
Seeing this, you were just about to take out the Great Void Sword and strike back when you noticed something strange.
Chu Wudi's hair had been completely black just moments ago, but in the blink of an eye, a tenth of it had already turned white.
Chu Wudi, not far away, noticed something wrong with himself too. He immediately abandoned his attack and, after leaving you with a final remark, flew toward the black mist in a panic.
"Little ant, I'll wait for you outside. If you've got the guts, don't come out!"
Chu Wudi gave up on killing you for the time being and turned to flee this Dead Land.
Watching this, you furrowed your brows. By the last moment Chu Wudi was still within sight, his hair had turned completely white.
You tried to gather spiritual energy and cast the Great Void Technique. But the moment you began, you felt your lifespan rapidly draining away.
A strand of your black hair turned white.
You couldn't help but feel relieved that you had cultivated the Azure Emperor Longevity Art. Your lifespan was more than ten times that of an ordinary Spirit Transmutation Stage cultivator.
Even so, at the rate your lifespan was draining in the Barren Wasteland, you wouldn't last long.
The only way to slow it down was to avoid using spiritual power.
But there was another problem: without spiritual power, you couldn't fly out of the black mist.
You had only flown a short distance just now, yet you had seen Chu Wudi's hair turn completely white and nearly all his lifespan drain away.
Now you were trapped in a dead end.
If you turned back, you might run out of lifespan and die halfway there. If you pressed on, you had no idea what other dangers lurked in the Barren Wasteland.
After weighing the risks, you decided to venture deeper into the Barren Wasteland.
Now you finally understood why almost no one had ever made it out of the Barren Wasteland alive.
Even though Chu Wudi had only just set foot inside, the rules here made it very difficult for him to survive the journey out.
Since death awaited you either way, you decided you might as well take your chances and press on.
You set off toward the dead mountain in the distance.
In the Barren Wasteland, you lost all sense of time. There was no day or night here, only eternal gloom.
After walking through the Barren Wasteland for ten whole years, you finally reached the dead mountain you had seen.
But you had no idea that ten years had passed in the Barren Wasteland. It felt as if only a few months had gone by.
Looking at the dead mountain before you, you stepped straight into it without hesitation. You didn't notice that even more of your hair was beginning to turn from black to white.
Another ten years passed. Though you couldn't use spiritual power in the Barren Wasteland, that meant you could go without food for a long time.
You had spent ten years walking the mountain path, yet you hadn't even reached halfway up.
But you discovered that behind this dead mountain stood many more, of various sizes. Together, the dead mountains formed a mountain range.
You had entered the Barren Wasteland fifty years ago.
You now looked old and haggard, with a scraggly beard and a head of white hair.
Yet you noticed none of this. Your eyes were clouded, and there was only one conviction in your mind.
That was to keep walking and find a way out of the Barren Wasteland.
As for what you were looking for, or what that way out might be, you had no idea. You simply wandered aimlessly, like a walking corpse.
You walked for another fifty years. It was now your hundredth year in the Barren Wasteland.
By now, you had forgotten who you were and what you were looking for. After breathing in vast amounts of Death Qi, you had become nothing but a corpse.
That day, you came to a huge Bronze Ancient Coffin and stared at it with lifeless eyes.
A ripple came from inside the Bronze Ancient Coffin. In an instant, your eyes regained their lucidity.
You stared at the scene before you in shock, your eyes filled with disbelief.
You didn't know how you had made it here. You remembered being hunted by Chu Wudi and forced to flee into the Barren Wasteland.
Then you had kept pushing deeper into the Dead Land in an attempt to escape. After that, you remembered nothing.
When you turned to flee, you found that your body no longer obeyed you.
You lowered your head and looked at your shriveled hands. The skin on your arms was so wrinkled it was barely recognizable.
You looked nothing like a young man. Instead, you looked like someone drained of life and on the verge of death.
Seeing those hands filled you with a dreadful foreboding. You hurriedly took out an ancient mirror.
In the mirror, your eyes were sunken and shriveled, your eye sockets hollow, and your face deathly pale.
Your once jet-black hair had turned completely white.
"How could this happen? Don't I have the Azure Emperor Longevity Art?"
"How long have I been in the Barren Wasteland? Why is my lifespan almost gone?"
Bang!
Another tremendous boom came from inside the Bronze Ancient Coffin before you.
The next moment, your vision went black, and you breathed your last.
You were dead!
Ding! Simulation ended. Choose one of the following rewards. 1: Late-stage Spirit Transmutation Stage cultivation from this simulation 2: Fourth-grade Alchemist cultivation 3: All the spirit stones remaining from this simulation 4: All the true insights from this simulation 5: Talent from this simulation: Sword Skill Mastery 6: Great Void Sword Fragment ×1 7: Man and Sword as One Realm!
Before you continue