Duan De froze, but the inviolable will in his mind kept intruding upon him, proving that everything that had just happened was real.
"Damn it, when will you get out of this Celestial Venerable's head? You could at least have given me some Holy Fruit first. So stingy, with all those sacred trees."
"When you finish your task."
A voice echoed in his mind, as though answering him.
"The Void God Realm! What the hell kind of place is that? Let me take a good look."
Holding the Ancient God Jade Talisman, Duan De sent his divine sense into it. His spirit left his body and took tangible form, and a golden road stretched out to receive him, like a tunnel through the void leading somewhere unknown.
A moment later, Duan De stared in a daze at a world of towering ancient mountains, countless altars, and divine islands lying hidden, illuminated by moonlight that filled the sky. There was no sun, yet it was scarcely dimmer than daylight.
"Boundless Celestial Venerable! The Void God Realm, such a familiar place. This truly is a land of supreme fortune. Could that person in the Land of Ancient Gods be a legendary Immortal?"
"Good heavens! My cultivation might be suppressed, but the Dao resonance here is even richer than in the Immortal Mausoleum of the Great Emperor."
Walking through the Void God Realm felt like walking through an Immortal Ancient Secret Realm. Duan De could no longer describe what he felt.
Over all these years, he had robbed countless graves, yet he had never seen a world like this, where spiritual bodies descended and walked about like real people.
Several names on those stone steles shocked him even more.
Much later, looking at the Bone Talisman bestowed upon him by the Void God