Lu Chen and Ah-Tu barely avoided the terrifying rain of fire from the Primal Chaos Abyss. It could be said that they had a narrow escape from death. Without any hesitation, they left the area. They could not go to the Great Snow Mountain either. It was a dangerous place that was on par with the Abyss of Chaos. Even if they went there, they would most likely die.
As for the remaining path, they did not have many choices. On one side was the boundless desert, while the other was to walk back along the rocky beach and look upstream of the river.
After much thought, Lu Chen finally decided to turn back and walk upstream. If this river was the Longchuan River, they might have a chance of finding their way back.
As for the seemingly vast wasteland, it was too easy to associate it with the Broken Spirit Sand Sea that was on par with the Abyss of Chaos and the Great Snow Mountain. Although Lu Chen could not be sure that it was that place, if the Abyss of Chaos and the Great Snow Mountain had both appeared, it would not be strange for the Broken Spirit Sand Sea to appear as well.
In this strange and unpredictable region, danger lurked everywhere. If they wanted to survive, they had to be careful. Even so, Lu Chen did not have much confidence that they would be able to walk out of this dangerous place.
They slowly approached the river and began to swim upstream. At the same time, Lu Chen carefully maintained a distance from the river. He would only approach the river when he needed to feed on the fish in the river. Just like that, they walked for a few days without encountering any accidents.
Although this was a good thing, Lu Chen still felt a little strange. It was hard to say if he had not been to the Great Snow Mountain, but the Abyss of Chaos that he had seen was an incomparably strange and dangerous place. It was very much in line with the legendary core zone of the Disorienting Lands.
However, the legends also said that the Disorienting Lands was dangerous to the point where "danger lurks every three steps and danger every five steps". Not to mention ordinary people, even Yuanying Zhenren would have to be on high alert to deal with it. However, he had been walking here for a few days without encountering any danger. This was a little strange.
Something did not seem right?
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During this period of time, he was suddenly in this dangerous place. Naturally, it was because when he hid in the seed, he was somehow swept here by the river. Lu Chen originally thought that he would be able to find some clues to return after walking upstream for a few days, but now he realized that he might have been wrong.
Although he didn't remember staying in that mysterious tree hole for too long, at least with the gluttonous Atsu around, the food wouldn't last that long. But now, after walking for several days, Lu Chen found that the surrounding scenery did not seem to have changed at all. It was still a river and a desolate plain.
Come to think of it, it was probably only when it was at the bottom of the Dragon River that the tiny seed was instantly washed far away by the rapid currents. That was how it managed to arrive at the Abyss of Chaos in this period of time.
With this uncertain guess, Lu Chen and Atsu walked for a few more days. About nine days after they left the Abyss of Chaos, they finally noticed something unusual.
There was no change in the surging river, nor in the vast wilderness. However, in a patch of yellow sand ahead, Lu Chen saw a corpse that had decayed beyond recognition.
The skeleton buried in the yellow sand looked a little scary, but after discovering it, Lu Chen's spirits were lifted and he was very happy. No matter what, the appearance of a skeleton meant that someone had been here before. To him, this was equivalent to a timely piece of news.
The skeleton was extremely decayed, and most of it had been weathered into sand. Even the sturdiest skull had decayed in many places. However, after careful observation, Lu Chen quickly frowned and a strange look flashed across his eyes.
This skeleton that had died at an unknown time looked like a human, but Lu Chen saw a broken fang near the jaw. He was shocked because it was impossible for a human to have this.
This dead person was a barbarian.
Atsu walked to Lu Chen's side and raised its head to look at him. Lu Chen straightened his body. After a moment of silence, he said to Atsu in a low voice, "Let's go, let's go forward and take a look. I hope … my guess is wrong. "
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At this moment, Lu Chen was guessing in his heart. He did not say anything, and Atsu had no way to ask. Of course, although Atsu was now a Holy Beast, it still did not know the human language, so it could not ask.
The two of them stepped over the skeleton and continued forward. The dry wind blew from the wilderness and blew up a patch of yellow sand, drowning the hideous skeleton.
The discovery of this skeleton was like a watershed. From this day onwards, the direction that Lu Chen and Atsu were moving in began to change. Grass and trees began to appear on this piece of land. Although they were sparse and did not form a forest, it was clear that the situation was slowly improving. The aura of life began to thicken in this piece of land.
Later, Lu Chen actually saw a small oasis formed by a small forest in the desert. There were some small animals there, but they were not Daemonic Beasts. They looked a little strange and seemed to be very different from the creatures in the Divine Central Continent. At the very least, some of the beasts in this place looked very weak.
Lu Chen caught two beasts that looked similar to wild rabbits as a way to improve his and Atsu's meals.
It was unknown whether it was because no one had come here for a long time, but these weak beasts did not seem to be able to resist. However, Atsu seemed to have no interest in the meat of these weak beasts. It used its mouth to pull Lu Chen's clothes and dragged him toward the river. It looked like it wanted to eat the fish in the river.
Lu Chen was also helpless. In the end, he could only help it catch two more beasts to deal with it.
After that, they continued to move forward. Lu Chen had a feeling that the change he was looking for might be right in front of him. However, this change came very quickly and was also very big, so much so that Lu Chen was somewhat unprepared.
On the second morning after he left the small oasis, he and Atsu were still walking upstream in a desolate wasteland when they suddenly heard a strange noise coming from the desert in the distance.
The sound was unusually desolate and tragic, and the tone was boundless, as if it was recalling an ancient epic to the heavens. However, Lu Chen's expression immediately turned ugly because he felt that the voice was a little familiar.
After thinking for a moment, he felt that this voice was similar to the voice of the old shaman he had heard in the battle with the barbarian tribe in the mountain ridge next to the Evil Python Valley.
This discovery made him look a little solemn. He informed Atsu, and then quietly ran toward the source of the sound.
There was a big sand dune about a hundred feet in front of them. Lu Chen and Atsu ran in that direction. As they got closer, more and more sounds came.
It was like the howling of wild beasts, the blood-boiling sound of war drums, the crazy roars, and the roars seemed to be mixed with a bit of majesty.
They climbed up, and then when they reached the top of the sand dune, they quietly poked their heads out.
A battlefield appeared in front of them. It was a fierce battle involving hundreds of people. It was fierce and bloody, crazy and tyrannical. It was unfolding in front of them without any warning.
About a hundred feet below the sand dune, all the warriors on the battlefield were tall and burly barbarian warriors with tusks in their mouths. Most of them were bare-chested, and they were holding weapons made of huge stones in their hands. They were fighting in a violent manner.
This battle seemed to be halfway through, and it had reached the most intense moment. Both sides were in a killing frenzy. Blood flowed everywhere, and corpses were everywhere. It was unknown how many barbarians had been decapitated, and their limbs were severed. The scene was extremely bloody.
Atsu let out a low growl, and it seemed to be a little nervous. Lu Chen gently patted its head, but his expression didn't look good either.
He turned his head and looked at the road they had come from, and the unusually long and wide river. He was speechless for a moment. Such a fierce battle between barbarians must be a war between two big tribes, and it was impossible for such a situation to happen in such a dangerous environment like the Chaotic Land.
He secretly smiled bitterly, with a bit of self-mockery, he whispered to himself, "I've actually been washed to the Southern Wilderness …"
Yes, it was very likely that Lu Chen and Atsu were in the Southern Wilderness, where only the barbarians lived. The Great Snow Mountain and the Abyss of Chaos he had seen were all real. But what was different from what he had imagined was that he and Atsu were now on the other side of the most dangerous area in the Chaotic Land.
Perhaps, he was the first human to set foot in the Southern Wilderness in thousands of years?
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Of course, this wasn't something to be happy about. The Southern Barbarian Territory had been separated from the Chaotic Lands for thousands of years, and there were almost no humans here. Moreover, if the legends were true, there were many barbarians who had the vile habit of eating human flesh.
Similarly, if this was the Southern Wilderness, it could finally explain why the spiritual power of the five elements was so abnormal that it almost crippled Lu Chen's cultivation. On the other hand, the power of the black flame in Lu Chen's body was not damaged at all. It was probably because this power originated from this place.
He smiled bitterly in his heart, and also had a headache about how to survive in the future. But with a loud roar, Lu Chen's attention was quickly drawn to the battle.
He saw that at the back of one of the barbarian tribes, there seemed to be someone who was finally dissatisfied with this bloody and indecisive war. Then, a barbarian dressed in black and looking like a priest walked out.
He raised his hands to the sky, and loudly chanted an incantation. After a while, a magic tool appeared in his hand, which seemed to be a piece of yellow wood.
Then, as he chanted the incantation faster and faster, the yellow wood began to light up with runes, and a strong spiritual power began to fill the air.
Totem power?
Lu Chen's expression immediately turned solemn. This scene was very similar to that of the barbarian tribe he had seen in the Disordered Land. He just didn't know if the effect of this priest's spell would be the same as that of the old priest's.
Lu Chen stared at that side, his eyes shining.
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