The starry gate closed and Ye Fan disappeared from this world. He had slain the Heavenly Prince, who was unrivalled among his peers, and defied the heavens to slaughter an ancient saint, leaving behind an immortal legend.
"Master!"
Ye Tong shouted towards the dimming altar. His voice echoed in the air, but his figure was nowhere to be seen. That place was completely silent.
During these decades, Ye Fan had stirred up endless storms. The entire ancient star was filled with the legend of the saint physique. Even after he had disappeared for many years, people still found it difficult to forget.
"The path to the strongest, the most powerful trial in human history. I might know how to get in …" The ancient saint who had descended from the outer realm said.
"Oh, I hope you can guide me, sir," an ancient race lord said.
"What do you want to do? Do you want to participate in the trial as well?"
The ancient king said, "The path to immortality is about to open. As an ancient saint, I don't have such thoughts. I just want to send a few of my descendants and try my luck."
"There's no need to think about it. Ordinary people would only be throwing their lives away. Unless ancient princes go, they can only die." The outer realm saint sneered.
"Is that so? Perhaps I can consider it. I think some people are willing to go, such as the Golden Princess, Huangxu Dao, and the Dragoness of the Nest of Ten Thousand Dragons. Apart from that, most of the ten thousand ancient races came from the outer realm. Perhaps they can find the way home and return to their ancestral land! "The ancient saint's eyes flickered.
…
Although Ye Fan had left, the entire ancient star was filled with legends about him. During these decades, he had killed saint children, divine children, and slaughtered ancient princes. His fame spread far and wide.
Many people believed that this was a path of no return. Once one stepped onto this ancient path, it was possible that they would never be able to return. This time, it was the final wave of his fame that would never appear again.
A cold wind blew over. The desolate ancient star finally had a trace of movement, breaking the deathly silence. Yellow sand was everywhere. Ye Fan gazed into the distance and saw only desolation.
Especially at dusk, it was dark everywhere. The heaven and earth were yellow and incomparably dusky. There were no signs of life at all.
He had abandoned prosperity, left his homeland, and bid farewell to his old friends. He had stepped onto the path to the strongest. There was no longer the clamor of the mortal world. Now, there was only loneliness.
He had already advanced for half a year, going from one ancient star to another, tirelessly repeating the monotony. Even now, he still hadn't encountered a single creature.
The boundless sky was dark and cold. Just like that, he traversed without end. He didn't even know how far away he was from Big Dipper. Perhaps he wouldn't be able to return in this lifetime.
Half a year ago, when he walked out of the Five-Colored Altar, he found a small altar on that ancient planet. It was a one-way teleportation, just like the path from Hangu Pass on Earth.
He didn't have a goal, so he could only follow the ancient road that had been paved by the ancients. He didn't know the starting point, and he didn't know the ending point.
This kind of journey was extremely lonely. There was no one to talk to. Far away from the vanity of the world, one could only cultivate in solitude.
"In the strongest trial in history, three people with Divine Physiques died. Wu Shi and Emperor Qing also walked through it. I am following in their footsteps. I must reach the end!" Ye Fan muttered to himself.
The wind became stronger. Yellow sand filled the sky, covering it. He opened his Heavenly Eyes. When the sand flew into the sky, some snow-white skulls appeared in the desert.
He walked over and squatted down to carefully observe them. He discovered that they belonged to an unknown race. They had died tens of thousands of years ago, but their skulls were still very sturdy and had a flowing luster.
Ye Fan released his powerful divine sense and carefully searched the entire ancient planet. Finally, he found a clue.
There were some words engraved on a bone arm. They were almost obliterated by the passage of time. They were ancient characters of the human race. It was said that this was the trial gate. After stepping out of it, the true tribulation would begin.
"Is this the beginning?" Ye Fan muttered to himself.
The ordeal had already begun. It took him a full half a month to find the small one-way teleportation altar on this ancient planet.
Some of those white bones belonged to the ancients who had lost their lives because they couldn't find the heavenly road. They had exhausted their vitality and died here.
"Buzz!"
With a flash of brilliance, he stepped onto the true trial road. He muttered to himself in the void passage, "I'm looking forward to the road ahead!"
Before long, an oppressive and heavy aura assaulted his face. Ye Fan rushed out of the star gate and arrived in a mysterious world.
Bang!
A bone blade hacked over with a ferocious momentum. It was enough to shatter a great mountain. The moment Ye Fan left the star gate, he encountered an attack.
"I really won't be lonely anymore. I've finally met a living creature!" He encountered an enemy attack, but he wasn't angry. On the contrary, he was pleasantly surprised. He had had enough of the monotony and loneliness.
"Pa!"
Ye Fan snapped his fingers and smashed the bone blade on the spot. He then swung his right leg and swept it out. A snow-white skeleton in front of him collapsed. It couldn't resist the power of the saint physique.
"What kind of world is this? Is this the most powerful trial ground in history?"
Ye Fan looked forward and couldn't help but frown.
There was an aura of death everywhere. There was no light, but it wasn't very dark either. The surroundings were dusky with black mist lingering about. It was as if he had arrived in a country of death.
Thick leaden clouds pressed down on the sky like a mountain, covering every inch of space and completely covering this world. There was no sunlight, moonlight, or stars.
This was a black and white world without any dazzling radiance. It was like the darkest evening. The bones on the ground were piled up to an unknown depth, and there was bone powder everywhere.
Just how many people had died to create such a terrifying scene?
Ye Fan didn't know. He couldn't see a single creature with flesh and blood. There were only white bones moving about in the distance. Ghostly flames flickered in their skulls, making them look gloomy and demonic.
"What kind of world have I arrived in?"
He walked very far, but the ground was still covered with white bones. It was difficult to see the end. In the end, he broke through the sky and flew over many mountains and rivers, but all he saw was a vast expanse of whiteness!
Ye Fan couldn't help but shiver. This was too terrifying. Even if this was an ancient star with life, there shouldn't be so many skeletons after it was completely destroyed. How were they formed?
Hong!
Suddenly, a streak of dark light shot over, shattering this sky dome. It was as if a sea hacked over. This was a black-colored ancient spear that contained a bit of undying divine force.
Ye Fan was alarmed. He quickly moved out of the way. In the distance, a black figure stood on a mountain of bones. It roared towards the heavens, its voice different from the other white bones. It was deafening.
In the surroundings, many white bone creatures knelt down together, prostrating themselves in worship. They were all trembling with fear, suppressed by the power of his sea of consciousness to the point where they couldn't budge an inch.
"A Dao Severing Expert produced a divine sense in white bones. Is this a miracle of life?" Ye Fan stared at all of these withered bone creatures.
Life was the world's greatest miracle. It couldn't be understood, couldn't be established, full of mysteries.
That creature whose entire body was pitch-black, bones like black jade stared at Ye Fan, full of hostility. It rushed into the heavens, the ancient spear in its hands thrusting over again.
Dang!
Ye Fan struck out, shattering the ancient spear. Then, with a ka pa sound, his neck was twisted apart, and his head was removed in a clean and efficient manner.
"King!"
All around him, in the endless land of white bones, all of the creatures knelt down, all of them trembling. They released divine sense voices towards him, loudly calling him king.
"This mysterious world, this country of trials, I want to see clearly."
Ye Fan swept his eyes over the surroundings, looking at those bone spirits that were prostrating themselves in worship. His mood was calm. He descended on a mountain of bones, extracted the ghost flame from within the black skull, and began to carefully observe it.
Strand after strand of threads interweaved, forming this leaping 'ghost flame'. To be more precise, it wasn't a flame, but rather a life imprint, a chain of order!
This made Ye Fan's mind tremble. He opened his Heavenly Eye to observe, and every strand of flame became a divine law of order, appearing in his eyes.
"This is the damaged profound mysteries of life!"
He was greatly moved. He immediately sat cross-legged on the white bone mountain, not moving for an entire day and night. Was this created by someone, or was it naturally formed?
The divine chains of order interweaved, and the domain spread, turning into a ball of ghost flame, turning into a living body. Was this the process of the birth of living beings?
Who was controlling all of this?
It wasn't the same as a human's sea of consciousness, and there were still great differences. This kind of life form was very special. He carefully dissected the divine chains of order, and finally understood many profound mysteries, greatly enlightening him. His understanding of life deepened considerably, and he linked it with the secret character. He pondered for a while and comprehended the dao for a long time.
Was this the arrangement of the predecessors, or did he just happen to encounter such a strange bone spirit along the way?
"Eh, there's an unfathomable supreme existence within the sea of bones in the deepest depths of this kingdom of death. It even caused this Blackbone Physique that's a Dao Severing Body to be terrified and never dare approach it. Exactly how formidable is it?"
Ye Fan was astonished. With a thump, he tossed away the black skull, leaving it to fend for itself, and no longer paid it any attention.
He flew forward, and in the end, he would encounter an especially powerful bone spirit every time he passed through a large area. However, they couldn't injure him, and he passed through more daunting than dangerous.
Before long, he saw the black mist that overflowed into the heavens in the distance. There was a huge towering stone tablet, and the surroundings were faintly discernible. There were many soul shadows that were like specters. This was another kind of life form. They had no thoughts, no emotions, and were ignorant as they wandered aimlessly in this place.
"These are the ghosts that mortals speak of. They're just a part of the magnetic field. Why are there so many of them in this area? But they don't have intelligence."
Ye Fan approached and arrived in front of the huge stone tablet. He carefully observed the ancient words on it. They were carved in the Primordial Divine Script, and there were only four large words. They were bold and powerful, and they read: Death to those who enter!
This was a type of warning, and even more so a type of deterrence. Standing in front of this stone tablet, there was an earth-shattering killing intent surging over. It made people feel like duckweed in the sea, and they could be destroyed at any moment by the waves.
"There are white bones everywhere, and even the mountains are piled up from them. It's rare to see a huge tablet, yet it's so intimidating!"
Ye Fan was astonished, because even he felt an enormous pressure. His heart was oppressed, and one could imagine just how terrifying the one who carved these words was.
There were many enormous bone fragments at the side, and every single one of them was over ten meters in length. In this world of death, there were all types of creatures' bones, and it was impossible to identify all of them.
"There are words here as well!"
Ye Fan discovered that these were human words, and there were quite a few of them. They were written as a warning, informing those who walked on the most powerful path of training in history that they had to be careful and not enter this place. There was great danger, and this was something that the ancestors had learned through their bloody lessons!
Weng!
Suddenly, a streak of immortal light streaked across the distant sky. It was dazzling, holy, and flawless. It tore apart the dark clouds and scattered down onto the great earth.
Aohou...
Many bone spirits roared in all directions, and they were all terrified. Under the immortal light, countless white bone creatures were turned into fine powder, and they were completely purified.
"What is that?" Ye Fan was shocked.
Roar!
When the immortal light tore apart the dark clouds and scattered down, an enormous roar that made one's soul feel like it was going to split apart sounded from the center of this restricted region. It was incomparably terrifying, and it was as if the entire world was going to collapse!
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