Ancient Dao Lake, Ancient Dao Lake.
In this land of great opportunities within the Barren Forbidden Land, the opportunity in Ancient Dao Lake had finally appeared: a mass of Primordial Dao Source containing Dao Patterns.
An opportunity like this was enough to draw countless people into a scramble for it.
Yet the surroundings were utterly deserted.
Suddenly.
Steady, powerful footsteps echoed along the mountain path.
A peerlessly handsome young man with black hair, dressed in white with an ornate ancient sword hanging at his waist, approached slowly. His eyes blazed like torches as he stared straight at the Primordial Dao Source.
The newcomer was none other than Chu Kuangren.
He looked at the mass of Primordial Dao Source, the corners of his lips rising. "Absorbing this mass of Dao Source would yield more than everything I've gained over the past half month."
He glanced around but saw not a single soul.
"Come on, let me see what sort of gifts you've prepared for me." Chu Kuangren smiled faintly.
The instant his words fell, a vast number of runes suddenly appeared in the surrounding void, completely encircling him.
Runic light flowed, and a terrifying pressure shrouded the surroundings.
"Runes? Heh, the Land of Runes."
Chu Kuangren recognized the surrounding runes at a glance.
Previously, he had fought Zi Wuji with runes and obtained a Myriad Runes Catalog from him. It recorded many runes, and he had studied it, mastering every rune within.
He recognized all these runes.
Boom, boom, boom...
Runes filled the sky, and all manner of energy fluctuations erupted!
Flames and frost, blades of wind and swords of rain swept toward Chu Kuangren with such tremendous force that the entire thirty-thousand-meter peak shook.
Yet Chu Kuangren stood motionless. With a stir of his psychic power, the surrounding spiritual qi