Shrouding the Heavens: Those Years as the Female Emperor's Strictest Master

Using that ancient stele as a reference, this was most likely where the Desolate Forbidden Land would stand in later generations.

The "Immortal Ascension Road" of the Post-Ancient Era would also open nearby.

Over the past two years, fragments of memories from cultivating during his Second Life, as well as from his previous life, had occasionally awakened in his daily dreams.

He had come to realize something.

The established course of this world had already changed. Everything had begun with him, this Variable.

The origins of Scarlet Glow River and the reason that ancient stele stood here seemed to confirm his realization.

Would the Desolate Forbidden Land still appear in the future?

For no reason at all, such a thought surfaced in Tan Lin's mind.

But in the next instant, he thought of his physique in this life.

He felt as though an invisible hand was trying its utmost to shift the threads that had deviated from their paths back into place.

Could this Desolate Forbidden Land be destined to fall upon him?

Would he become the first Desolate Lord?

Whoosh...

The thought had only surfaced for an instant before Tan Lin extinguished it himself, finding it absurd.

There was no need for him to scare himself with wild associations.

At this moment, Xiang Li had already finished recounting that ancient secret. Following Tan Lin's gaze, he looked toward the dark-red rock walls.

They were not ordinary crimson rocks.

Countless shattered Great Dao patterns, invisible to the naked eye, were imprinted upon those rock walls. There were also traces of scarlet blood that had seeped into the stones for endless ages yet still gave off a lingering radiance.

That was the blood of a Great Accomplished Indestructible Golden Body...

"Get ready. Follow me."

As he spoke, Xiang Li swept his