After a long journey, nine enormous Dragon Corpses pulled an Ancient Bronze Coffin across to the other shore of the stars, arriving at the Big Dipper Burial Emperor Star!
The Desolate Ancient Bronze Engraving bloomed with Divine Radiance, canceling out the impact. The bronze coffin overturned onto the ground, and a bright world unfolded before them.
"This is wonderful! We've finally escaped that darkness and desolation and reached such a beautiful sacred land."
"We don't have to live in fear anymore!"
Many people cheered, and some even wept with joy. After enduring a series of hardships, they had finally arrived in a vibrant, natural world.
The journey here had been fraught with peril. If Lin Yu had not led them, at least half of them would have died.
"Don't celebrate too soon. We're still far from being out of danger!"
Lin Yu shattered everyone's joy.
Following the direction of his finger, the crowd looked over and immediately turned pale with terror. A Golden-Winged Great Peng, its entire body gleaming gold, spread its wings through the sky while clutching a giant elephant in its talons, soaring into the heavens and roaming between heaven and earth.
The sight instantly petrified everyone. They stood there completely stunned.
"I... I'm not seeing things, am I?!"
After seeing that scene, even the usually carefree Pang Bo began to stammer.
"Have we somehow wandered onto the set of the Primordial Era?"
Once they calmed down, everyone had no choice but to consider that question.
Seeing that Ye Fan also looked troubled, Lin Yu could not help silently complaining to himself:
The two residents here—one is your sister, and the other thinks you're his little brother. Isn't coming here basically like coming home? Why do you look so troubled?
Of course, he could not say that aloud. The little sister in the abyss was still often not quite lucid, while the other Great Accomplishment Saint Body would surely turn his gaze this way upon seeing another little brother with the same bloodline!
He then turned to look at the abyss. Nine great mountains surrounded it, like a road leading to the Hell Yellow Springs. It was dark and unfathomable, enough to make one shudder.
"Rumble..."
The nine enormous Dragon Corpses and the Ancient Bronze Coffin crashed down into it. After that, there was not the slightest sound, as if they would never reach the bottom.
After searching around, the group found a stone stele inscribed with the words "Desolate Ancient Forbidden," confirming that this was indeed no safe place.
"Have you noticed? There don't seem to be any birds or beasts nearby. It's too quiet!" Wang Ziwen was thoughtful and meticulous, and he keenly noticed the anomaly.
"That's true!" Everyone nodded in agreement.
The place appeared to be filled with blooming flowers, lush grass, winding vines, and verdant trees. On the surface, it brimmed with life and tranquility. Yet upon closer inspection, they discovered that the silence all around them was strangely unnatural. There was not a trace of any animal.
Across the vast mountain, they could not hear birds singing or wild beasts roaring. They could not even find any sign of ants or insects moving about. The quiet was almost deathly.
"It seems we need to stay alert. We can't let our guard down," someone suggested, earning everyone's approval.
At that moment, someone's stomach growled with hunger. The group realized that they had not eaten for a long time, so they could only set aside their worries for now and begin searching for food.
"I'm a little hungry too. Yezi, Daoist Lin, let's go find something to eat together." With that, Pang Bo pulled Ye Fan and Lin Yu along as they wandered around the mountaintop, hoping to find some wild fruit to fill their stomachs.
"There's a spring pool over there." Before long, Pang Bo made another discovery.
Several old vines as thick as water buckets wound around an open patch of ground several dozen meters ahead. At the center was a spring pool roughly one meter across. Spring water burbled within it like sweet Divine Spring water, carrying an aura of vitality.
Beside the spring pool grew more than a dozen small trees over half a meter tall. Their leaves were broad and lush green, shaped much like human palms. From afar, they looked like little people with several arms standing there.
At the top of each small tree hung a bright red fruit. They resembled cherries, yet each was as large as a chicken egg, vivid in color and highly enticing.
The three hurried over. Before they even drew close, the rich fragrance of fruit rushed into their nostrils, nearly making them drool.
"It smells amazing. I've never seen fruit with such a rich fragrance," Pang Bo exclaimed.
"The fragrance is certainly tempting, but could it be poisonous?" Though Ye Fan was also drawn in by the scent, he remained wary.
After saying that, Ye Fan reached out and picked a bright red fruit, holding it in his palm as he examined it. The fruit was crystal clear, as if carved from red jade, and gave off a captivating luster that made one want to take a bite.
At that moment, Pang Bo could not resist picking a bright, translucent red fruit as well. He said impatiently, "I can't take it anymore. This fragrance is too tempting. I really can't hold back—I'll taste it first."
Lin Yu also reached out, picked a fruit, and put it into his mouth. He knew full well that this was the fruit of the Nine Wonders Immortal Medicine, something rarely seen even in the entire universe.
Although it had been brutally dismembered by Empress Ruthless and divided into nine, each Sacred Fruit possessed its own unique miraculous effect. They could greatly increase the potential of the human body and were especially beneficial to his cultivation of the Divine Elephant's Prison Technique.
Otherwise, at his current rate of cultivation, who knew how long it would take before he successfully opened up a bodily particle.
The instant the crystalline, gleaming red skin burst in his mouth, a rich, fragrant aroma instantly spread out, rushing into his five viscera and six bowels before circulating throughout his body.
As soon as the fruit entered his body, it transformed into incomparably vast energy that coursed everywhere within him, seeking to break through every restraint.
Lin Yu immediately sat cross-legged and activated the Divine Elephant's Prison Technique, attempting to fully refine the medicinal power of the Divine Fruit.
In this universe's cultivation system, they followed the path of Taking the Body as a Seed left behind by the Desolate Heaven Emperor. Its core lay in absorbing external resources into the human body and transforming them into bodily potential through the body's endless gateways.
By continuously opening these mysterious gateways, one released the potential hidden within the body's secret realms. Each time one cultivated a new secret realm, the body's potential increased by another measure, eventually reaching the supreme realm where the human body stood shoulder to shoulder with the Great Universe.
The Divine Elephant's Prison Technique, meanwhile, was a unique and complete cultivation system. It regarded the human body as a collection of eight hundred forty million particles.
As long as a cultivator continued devouring energy, the life form of the body's particles would continually evolve. The giant elephant was the infancy stage, transforming into the dragon elephant; the dragon elephant was the youth stage, transforming into the primordial elephant; the primordial elephant was the prime stage, transforming into the Divine Elephant. This was perfection. At the Great Accomplishment stage, a cultivator could transform into as numerous as Ganges sands of chaotic primordial embryos, reaching the transcendent realm where one person was the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
Lin Yu quietly circulated his technique, refining the Sacred Fruit with all his focus. Gradually, the true energy within him grew fuller and fuller, about to break through some limit, with an intense urge to burst from his body. He understood that the perfect opportunity for a breakthrough had likely arrived.
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