Lord of the Desert

Chapter 503: Celestial Conjunction
The distance was a hundred meters and the fog was dispersing.

With unpredictable gentleness and malicious silence.

Hong Fan's exposed skin felt wet, and the collar of his shirt gradually became damp.

Water is the source of all life, and the infiltration at this moment is like some kind of interaction across time and space.

Who to interact with?

Or what are you interacting with?

Everyone kept their lips tightly shut, trying to figure out the answer.

"You are afraid."

Hu Lumen revealed the truth, which attracted many angry glares.

"There's no need to be so afraid..."

A wave of forest waves rolled by, covering up the human voices.

Everyone was very solemn.

Only the pacification envoy of the Overwatch Council seemed relaxed, as if he had wanted to return here for a long time.

"You should have heard before you came that after entering Zi Wuchang, you have to find the door to get out."

Hu Lumen stretched out his hand and waved away the purple threads that were floating in front of him.

Hong Fan nodded, as if he sensed excitement in the other person's voice.

"This 'gate' doesn't refer to a door in the literal sense, but rather to the end of a journey."

Hu Lumen walked up to the crowd with his hands behind his back and said.

“The first time I entered Zi Wu Chang, I experienced a cave environment deep beneath the earth.

The narrowest part is not as wide as an adult's arm, and the widest part is wide enough for elephants to run. Fortunately, there was another earth-based warrior who went in with them, who was able to widen the road easily. If they went all the way up along the cave, the last door would lead to the light leading to the surface.

The last time I entered Zi Wu Chang, the environment was filled with many winding tributaries, and the gate was an outlet to the sea 700 miles away."

Hong Fan frowned slightly, as if thinking about something.

"There are many other environments recorded by the Supervisory Council: the void with chaotic magnetic field directions, the boundless ocean, and the interior of the endlessly connected white buildings..."

Hu Lumen expressed his feelings while giving examples.

If Hong Fan had heard about such a magical experience in Shenjing, he might have been fascinated, but now he just felt weird and nervous.

"In short, Zi Wuchang's door may be outrageous, but just put your heart at ease. Hu is here and will definitely bring you out."

Hu Lumen said to Hong Fan confidently.

"Come on, stand closer, or we'll disperse after we get in."

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Walking into the thick fog is like participating in a game of hide-and-seek.

Every time Hong Fan took a step forward, the world took a step back.

At five meters, the birds’ singing disappears; at ten meters, the sound of the forest waves cannot be heard.

Twenty meters later, Hu Lumen, Lai Huazang and others got lost one after another, leaving only the lonely animal trails in the forest to swallow their footsteps.

The mist thinned along with the sound and light.

Only darkness floats in the void.

"Hulumen?"

Hong Fan shouted, stepped on empty air, and fell through the world.

Time suddenly becomes incapable.

Like a stone hitting a spider-web-like boundary curtain, his thinking became dulled in the collision and he lost more and more acquired concepts.

New or old, big or small, light or heavy, soft or hard...

Finally, only the original spirituality remains, which becomes the origin of omnipotence.

The spirit recombines with thoughts to produce images.

Memory explosion.

The world unfolded a second time, and Hong Fan watched greedily.

He saw human skeletons embedded in mountains, monster remains filling lakes, giant trees piercing rain clouds, and planetary buildings that changed the landscape.

Metallic meteors splashed across the dense atmosphere like water, smashing the giant beasts formed from the black cloud reefs.

There is a dragon at the top of the field of vision, and its breath of destruction echoes through the stellar storm in the deep sky...

Endless information washed over Hong Fan's mind, and finally flowed away like sand through his fingers and was forgotten.

Perception returns.

The light radiates on the cheeks and the body feels warm.

I opened my eyes and the vision was clear. There were two orange suns the size of needle tips in the light blue sky, and there were two shadows in different directions under my feet.

Hong Fan found himself standing in a desolate and gloomy wilderness, with some strange black plants scattered on the ground.

The leaves are curled and narrow, with a thick cuticle and sunken stomata, and the stems are fleshy.

Very typical arid climate characteristics.

"Everyone is here, how do you feel?" Hu Lumen's voice came from more than ten meters away.

Hong Fan then regained his sense of identity and purpose. He glanced around and saw that all his twenty-five companions were standing separately and in good condition.

"Not bad. The oxygen content here is very high, and the innate spiritual energy is also abundant."

He took a deep breath, felt the state of his tissues and organs, and replied.

Hong Fan then spent a few minutes talking to everyone, observing their facial expressions during the conversation and confirming that everything was normal, and he felt a little relieved.

The eastern sky was filled with gray rain clouds.

The field was in full view, with scattered clusters of iron-colored plants and purple-red hills in the distance.

"There is no danger for now. We are lucky."

Hu Lumen laughed.

"See that hillside to the northeast? That's the high point nearby. Let's go there first."

Hong Fan gave the order.

The team moved forward on foot, and everyone walked lightly.

Too light.

"wrong."

Hu Lumen suddenly stopped.

The people around him looked at him in confusion.

"There's something wrong with gravity."

Hong Fan also spoke, using the wrong words in his anxiety.

"What I mean is that the magnetism is undergoing a slight and continuous change."

He had long felt that the air flow was disordered and the refractive index of the atmosphere in the distance was not right. He simply thought that Zi Wuchang was a world of his own and could not be speculated on using common sense from Dahua.

But the intensity of change is increasing rapidly.

After a few breaths, everyone heard the sound of flames in the wind. The already thick clouds continued to press towards the east, and the exposed sky turned from light blue to pink.

"It's getting dark so fast!"

Lai Huazang pointed to the east.

Everyone looked as they were told and saw a huge dark object moving in the cracks in the clouds, crossing the sky at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Fear solidified into reality, freezing everyone's steps.

The dark optical volume expanded rapidly, soon revealing an astronomical spherical outline, like a whole piece of suspended marble.

"what is that?"

Xu Ziang looked at the icy blue reflective texture on the surface of the celestial sphere, and his voice couldn't stop shaking.

"That's the atmosphere of another world..."

Hong Fan murmured.

The eastern one of the two suns has been obscured, while the other has expanded to the size of a soybean and visually distorted into a ring shape.

This is the Einstein ring phenomenon caused by the bending of light in a strong gravitational field.

"What do you mean?"

Xu Ziang's Adam's apple rolled, and he was confused and puzzled.

"I don't know how to explain this to you."

Hong Fan's mind was distracted and his hands were full of sweat.

In the afterglow, the edge of the planet was emitting a faint blue brilliance.

The rumbling sound of the earth subsided temporarily, replaced by a real vibration underfoot.

"I'll go to a higher point to observe first, you guys retreat!"

He couldn't help but shout out orders and flew to the top of the hill at high speed. Behind him was the Hu Lumen who followed him without paying any attention to the orders.

The top of the slope is about three hundred meters above sea level.

Above the mountain, the ice-blue planet occupied one-fifth of the sky.

The distant wind blew past with ice and snow, and the temperature dropped as fast as jumping off a cliff.

"The celestial spheres are in conjunction."

Hong Fan took a deep breath.

Looking down from a high vantage point, he witnessed the forest dozens of miles away splitting apart from north to south, and the flaming mountains in the distance silently collapsing.

"Is this the outrageousness of Zi Wuchang?"

Sand flows around the Star God's feet.

For the first time, Hong Fan felt that the destiny star was so active, as if responding to his call.

(End of this chapter)