This had happened without any warning.
It was as if a meteorite had suddenly crashed down on you while you were eating at home.
The disaster had come too suddenly. If you had been a step too late, you would have obtained the stone slab and come into contact with the truth.
But it was too late. One careless move and the whole game would be lost. This was the current situation.
Even Hai Changjin, Yu Qiuyu, and even Yan Li had not expected this outcome.
Yan Li could no longer see the others.
Without a doubt, Eastern Zhou had become a second Heaven Pit. He felt that this "Heaven Pit" was deeper than an abyss, as if he would never reach the bottom.
He kept falling, but he never reached the bottom.
Why was it like this?
Could it be that he had not failed the mission in this situation?
No matter how powerful a cultivator was, unless he could fly, he would undoubtedly be smashed into meat paste if he fell from such a height.
But he had not been smashed into meat paste. Moreover, based on the speed at which the ground was collapsing, his falling speed should have long since caught up to the wreckage on the ground, but there was not even a wreckage. It was as if the entire Eastern Zhou had been swallowed by some unknown existence.
No failure meant that there was still a chance.
He forcibly extricated himself from his depression, emptied his mind, and began to think carefully.
But thinking could not change the situation. If he could think of the crux of the problem, he would have completed this mission long ago.
He could not think, but he might be able to recall.
According to Yu Shenji's hints, both overtly and covertly, the truth seemed to be hidden in the details.
He carefully recalled his conversation with Yu Shenji.
A light suddenly flashed in his mind. He still remembered Yu Shenji's meaningful smile that had puzzled him.
Yu Shenji's original words had been "the truth is in your hands."
At that time, he had been holding that small token token with a dragon-shaped carving. The first thing he thought of was that the token token was incomplete. Incomplete things naturally needed to be repaired. Otherwise, how could he obtain the complete truth?
With the appearance of the second stone slab, he was even more certain of his guess, which was why he had not doubted the so-called truth.
Now, it seemed that this was not the case at all.
He took out the token token and carefully examined it.
After a while, his heart suddenly shook as if he had understood something.
The content of the second slate was actually not important, but it made them speed up their search for the slate. In order to strive for the top, they would have done it even without its reminder. As for the token formed by the second stone slab, although the dots could be seen clearly, they looked like dilapidated walls. However, the tiny dots could only express the charm, and of course, they couldn't depict the true appearance of the dilapidated walls.
Now that he took a closer look, he realized that he had taken it for granted.
Because of his preconceived notions, he always thought that the dragon below referred to the dragon vein. In addition to the message that the dragon vein's power had been abused, he thought that the content carved on the token was about the formation of the giant sinkhole.
But what was the point of that?
What was the point of the token?
Therefore, the dragon below should be the world itself. The world was struggling in agony. The things that were falling bit by bit were not broken fences and broken walls, but fallen stars.
Thinking about it carefully, there was no reason for this world to exist.
Take the Venomous Snake Forest for example. It was a place where Star Fall Beasts ran rampant, but the natives acted as if they had never encountered them before. They didn't know what cultivation was, and most of them would die when they encountered Star Fall Beasts. How could they reproduce?
Since it was fictitious and did not exist from the beginning, then the so-called slate, the so-called truth, were all illogical things.
And all the truth was actually the truth in front of him.
What was the truth in front of him?
Yan Li closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he had already stopped falling, as if he was standing on the real world.
The real world was dark, cold, desolate, and endless.
Below his feet was an endless stretch of barren stone mountains. At a glance, there was not a single plant growing within a radius of tens of thousands of miles. The ground was crisscrossed with huge scars, dry and cracked, without any vitality to speak of.
In the sky, there were only a few stars that should have been shining high in the sky. The few that remained were already very dim, as if they could fall at any time.
This was a world of death.
Pain, sorrow.
"Where is this?" Huang Shaoyu's voice sounded.
Only then did Yan Li break free from the desolate atmosphere, and found that Huang Shaoyu and the other two were here. It seemed that the people in his group had been "spared".
"This is the truth," Yan Li said.
"The truth?" Huang Shaoyu said in shock. "What kind of damned place is this? Truth? I think it's more like the domain of demons."
"This is the truth that we are pursuing." Seeing the confusion on the other two's faces, Yan Li had no choice but to explain in detail. "This is the true content that the token is trying to express."
"A destroyed world?" Lianhai Changjin looked around and felt an indescribable shock. "How could this be? Could it be a metaphor for something?"
"I don't know." Yan Li said. "But if it really has something to do with the Dragon Vein, then it is very likely related to the origin of talismans."
Everyone could not help but fall silent.
In the end, it could not escape the word "talisman".
And the Secluded Garden itself was actually made of talismans. Then how could its birth be explained? Could it also be considered a type of abuse of the Dragon Vein's power? Wouldn't they, the participants of the trial, become accomplices in the destruction of the world?
A series of associations circled in everyone's minds.
"That's not right!" Huang Shaoyu suddenly said.
The three looked at him, thinking that he had some brilliant idea. "What's not right?"
"Why are we still here?" Huang Shaoyu did not disappoint this time. "If we have already found the truth, why is there no notification of completing the mission? Are we going to be trapped here forever?"
Yan Li thought for a moment and shouted, "Yu Shenji, what's going on?"
However, Yu Shenji's voice did not sound in his mind.
"Who are you talking to?" Huang Shaoyu said sympathetically. "Could it be that the mission is too difficult and burned your brain?"
Yan Li rubbed his forehead and said weakly, "No one will think you're mute if you don't speak."
"The third stone slab," Yu Qiuyu suddenly said.
Lianhai Changjin's eyes lit up. She clapped her hands and said, "That's right. Although we have already found the truth of the world, the collection of stone slabs is not complete. There is definitely something missing."
"Where are we going to find the stone slabs now?" Huang Shaoyu looked around and said blankly, "If we can't find the stone slabs, will we be trapped here forever?"
"No," Yan Li said.
"How do you know?"
"Look."
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