The Red Land stretches endlessly up the hills, and on top of these hills are continuous mountain ranges. The limestone mountains are devoid of any greenery, and the howling wind blows, causing the long-weathered stone walls to crumble and fall.
The stone wall plunged into the endless abyss below, and only after a long time did a series of long, eerie sounds echo from it. The precipitous cliffs connected to the clouds, and were perpetually mingled with rain and dew.
The monsoon is blocked here, and countless water vapors condense from the cliffs. The water vapor in the clouds turns into raindrops, which flow down the mountain range and gather among the mountains.
No one knows how long the rain lasted, only that these tiny raindrops transformed the narrow, muddy path into a wide river valley.
The surging river, carrying countless silt and sand, has been flowing ceaselessly from west to east for thousands of years. The rumbling sound echoes in the water, and countless stubborn rocks are swept into it, embarking on a long journey as the river flows.
As the river flows through the valleys, the churning water takes on a dark red hue. Rivers are supposed to be the source of life, but this murky water is devoid of any vitality.
The winding river channel looks as if it was carved out by a giant's bare hands; its unconventional style makes the river channel look somewhat ferocious on the land.
The roaring river surged across the land, yet no living creatures existed in the entire world. The winding river eventually sank into darkness.
In the darkness, countless water vapors rose, and thick clouds condensed here, drifting and scattered across the sky, carried away by the monsoon.
Everything repeats itself endlessly in the world. For countless years, the world seemed to be nothing but deathly silence, but everything that repeats itself on this land has meaning.
Life is born only in Extremis, and the mystery between life and death unfolds only in the repetition of each other!
On this desolate land, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is almost imperceptible. The absence of blessed lands means the absence of a great sect with a thousand-year-old lineage, and the absence of lineage means the absence of profound heritage.
Spells and supernatural powers will decline once they lose the power of Magic Power, and weapons and treasures will decay once they lose the nourishment of spiritual energy.
Just as heroes of the past will sink into obscurity, and immortality will decay within, without abundant sources of spiritual energy and the potential for growth, the weak in this world can only await their own demise.
The Land of Exile!
Xu Long was suddenly shocked. As the name suggests, this place was a wasteland, a place that was not protected by the heavens and was not blessed by the Heavenly Dao.
This is a Extremis place, where there are no naturally growing paradises or giant spiritual veins that have grown for thousands of years; there is only Eternity day and night, and no calendar or seasons for counting.
Without any plot support, character information, or even any background details, Xu Long felt an uneasy feeling about finding the Ancestral Spirit in this desolate world.
The thin spiritual energy here didn't leave a good impression on him. He was a big consumer of Spirit Stone, and without enough spiritual energy to replenish himself, he would only have a high start but a low finish. Did he have to go and rob another wave?
As Xu Long's mind raced, his will solidified in the air, and with a "whoosh," a Divination Talisman instantly ignited in front of him.
The burning talisman seemed to convey some message; the flickering firelight illuminated Xu Long's face, making it impossible to discern his emotions.
The immense will continued to soar into the distance. The Vulture King below seemed to have discerned a direction, and a huge gust of wind rose from the clouds after its wingspan blotted out the sky.
When Xu Long first entered the Land of Exile, he encountered two powerful energies that threatened him, but he narrowly escaped them. Now that he has gotten rid of the threat, he must begin searching for the Ancestral Spirit in the world.
The Divination Talisman Xu Long is drawing now naturally cannot trace the information of the Ancestral Spirit, something that even the Main God did not tell Xu Long.
He had no choice but to settle for second best, first finding cultivators on this vast land, and then slowly gathering enough information to deduce the background of this world.
Since the Ancestral Spirit needs someone to save it, it certainly can't run away on its own, so Xu Long can slack off as he pleases and doesn't need to rush to complete the mission.
Xu Long was also quite wary of the ancient energy beneath the crack in the spatial barrier. What kind of being could possibly rival the World's Origin Will?
Suppressing his unease, Xu Long, amidst the clouds, continued forward, carrying the information from the talisman. The valley before him, once Red Land, gradually began to show signs of green.
Fearing that he might miss the information in the talisman, Xu Long urged the Vulture King to travel at full speed. After the Vulture King spread its wings several times, Xu Long finally emerged from the clouds and found himself in the boundless Red Land.
Seeing the patches of green among the mountain peaks below, Xu Long felt as if he were traveling between two worlds, the thick clouds unable to obstruct his view at all.
After passing through the desolate, barren Red Land, the roars of beasts finally echoed from the valley below, and life finally appeared amidst the deathly silence.
"Roar!"
An angry roar echoed through the valley, the fury in its voice reaching the sky, causing birds and beasts on both sides of the mountain to take flight in terror.
There is a huge cave in the valley below, hidden in a muddy area between the river and the mountains. It is so well hidden that you would hardly notice it if you didn't look carefully.
Outside the cave stood a ferocious beast with bared teeth and a menacing expression.
It was covered in scales, had a long snout and pointed cheeks, and unusually long forelimbs. It was half-crouching and half-standing outside the cave. Its two hind legs were shorter than its forelimbs but extremely thick. Its small eyes beneath the scales were now blood red.
It stood angrily outside the cave, blocking the entrance with its body, its breath coming in hot gas, and the sharp claws on its forelimbs gleaming with a chilling light.
On the muddy ground in front of him lay a large piece of flesh that reeked of blood and gore, with streaks of blood at the corner of its mouth. Someone had deliberately lured it with fresh flesh and gore outside the cave, and once it entered the cave, it discovered that an ambush had been laid outside.
At this moment, hidden stakes were scattered all around the ferocious beast. Although it was mindless, it knew that it had been ambushed, and the flesh and blood in front of it could no longer attract it.
The cave behind it had to be defended with its own body, but the ever-approaching presence from all sides left it in a dilemma, and the bloodlust in its eyes almost turned into burning rage.
" Ma Fang, you go and set up the ambush first. Li and Xu, go and probe the area, try to hold off the Desolate Beast. Two Lin Brothers, prepare everything last. Here are your Spirit Stone. Everything proceeds according to plan!"
A steady and powerful voice transmission rang in their minds. The cultivators lying in ambush on all sides had different expressions. When they heard the words "Spirit Stone," their eyes lit up, and they immediately focused their attention on the Desolate Beast in front of them.
When Li and Xu, who had been named, appeared from among the mountain peaks, a pair of blood-red eyes instantly locked onto them. The Desolate Beast standing in front of the cave let out an angry growl, sensing the threat from the cultivators.
But Li and Xu continued walking towards the Desolate Beast without stopping. Their eyes were filled with caution as they locked onto the Desolate Beast with their divine sense. A fleeting afterimage flashed in their blood-red eyes, and the cultivator was already in front of them.
A flash of cold light appeared, and a long, sharp claw rang out with a metallic clang. A sword appeared above the head of the cultivator surnamed Li, blocking the way, and the Desolate Beast's claws, carrying a foul stench, struck the sword.
The cultivator surnamed Li's expression instantly hardened. He then bent over and escaped from the claws. The cultivator surnamed Xu, who was behind him, had already reached behind him, his ring-mouthed blade already at the Desolate Beast's ribs.
Caught between a pincer attack and with no chance of escape, the Desolate Beast had no choice but to retract its forelimbs and curl up its body, instantly transforming into a sphere in front of everyone. A clang of metal rang out in the valley, and the ring blades struck the Desolate Beast, emitting a spark of fire.
The spherical Desolate Beast was covered in thick scales, and the weapon in the hands of the cultivator surnamed Xu failed to harm it in the slightest. At this moment, everyone's expression changed slightly.
As if he had anticipated this, the cultivator surnamed Xu quickly dodged to the side after his attack, and the spherical Desolate Beast rolled like a boulder through the valley.
The cultivator surnamed Li ahead felt a sinking feeling in his heart, a struggle flashing in his eyes. As the spherical Desolate Beast drew closer, he gripped his sword and began to channel his magical Magic Power.
The Xu-surnamed cultivator on the side also circled around to the Li-surnamed cultivator's side. Seeing that the situation had changed, the two began to circulate their magical Magic Power, and the weapons in their hands were already emitting a cold light.
The rolling spherical Desolate Beast carved a deep trench in the ground, causing the banks of the valley to tremble. The sense of danger instantly entered the two people's consciousness. After exchanging a glance, they each took a step forward and actually rushed towards the rolling Desolate Beast.
The moment the Desolate Beast's body left the cave entrance, the Two Lin Brothers behind it immediately rushed out.
Their figures appeared at the cave entrance like ghosts, chanting incantations as if performing a spell. A loud, immature roar suddenly echoed through the dark cave.
A surge of energy, mixed with sound waves, emanated from inside the cave, causing the entire mountain to tremble.
But the two at the cave entrance dared not stop; their brows furrowed deeply, and their incantations grew faster and faster.
Magic Power burst forth from the tip of his tongue, and as he uttered the incantation, a Power of Laws manifested in the void, giving the impression that his words were law.
The Desolate Beast inside the cave could clearly not withstand this spiritual disturbance; it roared furiously inside the cave.
The billowing dust filled the air around the cave, and a rapid rustling sound came from inside, as if the rocks on the cave walls had been rubbed off by something.
A hint of tension flashed in the eyes of the two people at the cave entrance. Then, one of them chanted a spell, while the other stretched out his five fingers in front of the cave entrance. He made a seemingly random horizontal and vertical stroke with his fingers in the air, Magic Power condensed into a simple net at the cave entrance.
At that moment, a foul gust of wind suddenly swept up from the cave, as if a ferocious beast was about to burst out of the dark cave and devour its prey.
The two men stood outside, neither hiding nor avoiding the danger, their brows furrowed. When the foul wind dissipated, the cub was still nowhere to be seen, but a strong, earthy smell had already assaulted their senses.
The incantation he uttered was as dense and rapid as a torrential downpour of pear blossoms. In a flash, the large net at the cave entrance was shattered in an instant, and those nearby had been waiting for just that moment.
He suddenly stretched out his left hand at the cave entrance, and a copper ring on his wrist emitted a faint, earthy-yellow light as it settled in mid-air. As the copper ring settled in the air, it headed towards the large net at the cave entrance.
It appears as if the copper ring is moving, but it is actually an illusion created by a hand momentarily extending from inside the ring.
After the light shone on the copper ring, the originally small copper ring instantly expanded several times its original size when it came into contact with the large net. After a dark shadow shattered the large net, it appeared to have voluntarily crawled into the copper ring behind the net.
The copper ring shrank rapidly in mid-air, and the shadowy young beast finally stopped moving, revealing a faintly glowing copper ring around its neck.
The incantation being chanted by the person next to them suddenly stopped, and they looked at each other, seeing a relieved smile in each other's eyes.
After being captured, the young beast seemed to be bound by copper rings, no longer showing its ferocity, and its gaze towards the two people at the cave entrance held a hint of fear.
It wanted to retreat back into the cave, but the copper ring around its neck shone faintly, and the flowing Magic Power made its soul tremble. It kept howling at the two people in front of it, completely losing its previous furious appearance.
The mournful cries naturally reached the ears of the spherical Desolate Beast. Upon hearing the cries of the young beast, it stopped rolling its body for a moment and stood up instantly in the valley. Its massive body caused the area in front of Li and Xu to darken instantly.
But there was no way to retreat at this moment. The two gritted their teeth and poured their Magic Power into the weapons in their hands. The sharpness that emanated from them was completely different from before. Two sharp beams burst out from in front of the Desolate Beast.
A savage glint flashed in his blood-red eyes. Ignoring the approaching sharpness, his two claws slashed fiercely at the two men, the cold light gleaming on them sending chills down one's spine.
After two clangs, Li and Xu's advancing figures stopped abruptly, the sharp edges of their weapons flashing and making a deafening sound between their claws.
"Imperial Edict!"
Suddenly, a loud shout came from above, and a fierce aura descended from the sky, a cold glint flashing on the huge blade.
With a loud "thud," the sound of a sharp weapon piercing the beast's belly rang out, and the Desolate Beast's forward steps suddenly halted, a look of pain flashing in its blood-red eyes.
Taking advantage of the moment when the Desolate Beast's attack faltered, Li and Xu, who were blocking from both sides, deftly twisted their weapons amidst the Desolate Beast's claws, escaping the previous crisis in an instant.
The weapon that had just pierced its belly did not stop for a moment, and now a straight and hideous wound appeared from the chest to the abdomen of the Desolate Beast covered in scales.
Seeing their chance, Li and Xu raised their weapons to deliver another blow to the Desolate Beast. With two crisp clangs, the weapons rang out as they struck the beast's thick claws.
After exchanging glances, the two quickly dodged to the side. The attacking claws missed their target, but the Desolate Beast did not change its stance. Instead, it used its claws to press against the blade on its abdomen, using the strength of its upper limbs to prevent the massive blade from penetrating further into its belly.
The powerful figure opposite him suddenly felt increased pressure, but fortunately he had anticipated this. When the Desolate Beast pressed down on the blade, his arm bulged, his face turned red, and the weapon he was holding suddenly retreated.
This move was extremely clever, avoiding a head-on confrontation with the Desolate Beast.