Prehistoric: The female saint Shiji, brilliant and talented

Shi Ji reached out and pulled out the huge beast carcass.

His first focus was on the pair of wings that contained a rich power of the void—the Void Wings.

These wings are formed from the Void Beast King's innate divine power, and are a rare spatial treasure in the world.

He carefully peeled off the Void Wings, then circulated his cultivation technique and began to refine them.

Because he had already come into contact with and had a preliminary understanding of the laws of space and time, which was extremely compatible with the attributes of the Void Wings, the refining process went unexpectedly smoothly.

The enormous bone wings gradually shrank, turning into streams of light, and finally merged into Shi Ji's back, becoming one with his own Dao foundation.

With a slight thought, a pair of translucent wings of light, shimmering with silver-gray spatial ripples, unfolded from behind Shi Ji.

With a gentle flap of its wings, ripples spread through the surrounding space, as if it could tear through the void at any moment and travel through time.

"What a wonderful feeling... as if I can traverse spatial distances with just a gesture."

A satisfied look appeared on Shi Ji's face.

The value of these Void Wings far surpasses that of ordinary magical artifacts.

Next, he began to refine the essence blood left behind by the Void Beast King.

The essence blood was like mercury syrup, containing astonishing life energy and fragments of spatial laws.

As the essence blood was gradually absorbed, Shi Ji could clearly feel that her physical strength was increasing and her perception of spatial power was becoming more acute.

More importantly, this immense energy transformed into a vast source of life, greatly replenishing and extending his lifespan!

Upon internal observation, he estimated that his total lifespan had already exceeded 30 million years!

Such a long lifespan is enough to support him to cultivate to the Great Emperor realm at a leisurely pace, and even to break through to a higher level.

However, after breaking through to the Emperor realm, Shi Ji did not rush to challenge the Great Emperor realm.

He felt that his cultivation level had risen too quickly. Although his power had surged, his foundation seemed to be slightly unstable.

The realm of the Great Emperor is an insurmountable barrier on the path of cultivation, requiring a deeper understanding of the laws of heaven and earth, and the complete perfection of one's magical power, divine soul, physical body, and Dao heart.

If one rashly attempts an attack and fails, the consequences could range from severe injury and a drop in cultivation level to damage to one's Dao and ruin one's future.

"The way of cultivation is a balance of tension and relaxation."

Today's consecutive breakthroughs are already a stroke of luck; the focus should be on consolidation.

"Once I have thoroughly solidified my Emperor realm, further deepened my understanding of the Dao of Time and Space, and accumulated sufficient strength, it will not be too late to aim for the Great Emperor realm."

Shi Ji had already made up her mind.

He knew that only by taking steady and solid steps could he achieve long-term success.

Therefore, he suppressed the urge to immediately advance to a higher realm and decided to spend some time consolidating his current cultivation, familiarizing himself with the power he had just acquired, especially the use of the Void Wings, while continuing to comprehend the profound and mysterious Dao of Space and Time.

In the process of completely refining the Void Beast King, Shi Ji not only absorbed its vast essence and blood energy, but also forcibly stripped away and devoured some of the soul fragments containing the Void Beast King's original memories before its soul was annihilated.

These fragments of soul, like shattered stars, are scattered throughout Shi Ji's sea of ​​consciousness, requiring him to expend his mental energy to slowly refine and absorb them.

This process is both dangerous and full of opportunities.

The danger lies in the fact that if one's mind is not firm enough, one may be corrupted by the remaining will of the Void Beast King; the opportunity lies in the fact that these soul fragments not only contain pure soul energy that can nourish and strengthen Shi Ji's own primordial spirit, but also bear the Void Beast King's innate understanding of spatial power.

Although these insights were fragmented and incomplete, and leaned towards the instinctive use of demonic beasts, for Shiji, who was just beginning to explore the realm of space-time, it was tantamount to opening a new window, allowing him to understand the "void."

This concept has gained a more intuitive and profound understanding.

He needs time to integrate these insights with his own understanding of the "Way of Time and Space".

They corroborate and integrate with each other.

Time flies, and before they knew it, Shiji had been trapped on this strange planet for three months.

During this time, he consolidated his cultivation at the Emperor level, familiarized himself with the newly acquired Void Wings, and tried to find a way to leave this place.

He traversed hundreds of thousands of miles around, finding mostly desolate and lifeless landscapes. Occasionally, he would discover the ruins of ancient sites, but he could not find any clues about interstellar routes or teleportation arrays.

This planet is like a giant cage, isolated by an invisible force.

Shi Ji has suspected more than once that some unparalleled power has set up a global blockade here, or that the planet itself is enveloped by some kind of naturally formed array, making it isolated from the outside world and difficult to cross.

This feeling of having nowhere to escape made Shi Ji, who was used to traversing the starry sky, feel extremely depressed and vigilant.

On this day, he was exploring a desolate mountain range, trying to find any ancient documents or clues that might exist.

Sudden--

"Boom!"

The entire earth trembled violently without warning, as if some enormous creature was turning over underground.

The sky also changed color, and the originally gray sky was torn open with countless hideous slits!

Those were not ordinary spatial rifts, but wormholes that were constantly rotating and emitting chaotic suction!
“Buzz buzz—!”

The chilling sounds of flapping wings and hissing surged out of the wormhole like a tidal wave!
Immediately afterwards, countless ferocious insects of various shapes and sizes surged out of the wormhole like a flood bursting its banks!

These insectoid individuals possessed formidable auras, with the vast majority radiating terrifying fluctuations comparable to those of human emperor-level cultivators!
Their target was clear; their scarlet compound eyes instantly locked onto the only living creature in the mountains—Shiji!
"Emperor-level Zerg!"

And there are so many of them!

Shi Ji's expression instantly turned extremely solemn, and a strong sense of crisis welled up in her heart.

Such a massive swarm of insects would likely force even a true Celestial Emperor to temporarily retreat!
Without the slightest hesitation, his mind raced, and he immediately activated his initial understanding of the Dao of Spacetime. His figure became blurred as he attempted to merge into the surrounding spatial fluctuations and perform a short-distance spacetime jump to avoid the direct impact of the insect swarm.

In the brief instant of the time-space jump, his consciousness resonated faintly with the river of time, and blurry scenes seemed to flash before his eyes: he saw different eras, different creatures encountering similar insect swarms on this planet, and then being mercilessly submerged and devoured... This region seemed to be a slaughterhouse that opened periodically, or rather, a forgotten wasteland!
By using time-space jumps, Shiji narrowly escaped the insect swarm's attack time and time again.

However, these Emperor-level ferocious insects seem to possess some extraordinary tracking ability. They can not only accurately predict the location of Shi Ji's appearance, but their attacks also seem to be able to interfere with the fragile spacetime network.

The spacetime jumps in Shiji became less smooth, and the distances became shorter and shorter.

Finally, after a failed jump, Shi Ji was forced into an ancient stone temple perched on a cliff.

He had just rushed into the main hall when the seemingly ordinary stone door behind him suddenly burst open with a loud bang.

It shut off automatically with a thud, and no matter how much he tried to activate his magic power, he couldn't budge it in the slightest!
Ancient restrictive runes flowed above the stone gate, exuding an aura of indestructibility.

Outside the hall, swarms of ferocious insects blotted out the sky, frantically pounding against the stone walls and doors, producing a sickeningly loud "thump-thump."

Loud noise.

Inside the hall, he was temporarily safe, but it had also become a prison that confined him.

"We must break the restriction as soon as possible, otherwise once the stone palace's defenses are breached, it will be a certain death situation!"

Shi Ji forced herself to calm down, walked to the stone gate, carefully scanned the complex restrictive runes with her divine sense, and constantly calculated and deduced with her hands, trying to find the weak point of the restriction or the way to open it.

However, the restrictions on this stone gate far exceeded his imagination; its complexity and antiquity seemed to originate from some extremely distant lost civilization.

No matter how he deduced it, his divine sense probed into it as if it were a mud ox sinking into the sea; the restriction itself remained completely still, without any flaws to be found.

Time was of the essence, and Shi Ji decided to force his way in. He took a deep breath, and his Emperor-level magical power surged forth, gathering in his fists and palms.

"boom!

boom!
boom! "

Several violent attacks slammed into the stone gate in succession. The powerful force, capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks, only caused the stone gate to tremble slightly, without leaving even a trace.

The restrictive light flowed, easily absorbing or deflecting all attack energy.

Shi Ji's face turned ugly.

He realized that with his current strength, it was impossible for him to forcibly destroy the restrictions on the stone gate.

Perhaps, only when he advances to the Great Emperor realm, or even higher, will there be a sliver of a possibility.

"We can't just sit here and wait to die!"
Since this path is blocked, there must be other ways to leave this planet!

Shi Ji muttered to herself, suppressing the anxiety in her heart.

He tried to contact his spirit beast companion through a soul contract, but found that his companion seemed to be in a deep slumber and did not respond to his calls.

Left with no other choice, Shi Ji took out a tattered ancient scroll from her storage magic treasure.

He found this by chance in some ruins on the planet. It depicts the general topography of the planet and marks several extremely ancient place names, such as "Ancient Star Continent".

"Nine Realms"

and so on.

The area he had previously explored only represented a small fraction of the entire planet.

According to the scroll, there are still several areas he has not yet explored. The most eye-catching of these is a marker located in the far south of the planet, next to which is written in ancient divine script: "Immortal Ruins".

Two words.

"The Immortal Ruins... Legend has it that they were formed from fragments that fell after the ancient Immortal Realm shattered. They are occupied by endless evil spirits and demons, a forbidden zone for living beings, where even time itself is cursed..."

Shi Ji recalled the records in some ancient books and felt a chill in her heart.

The scroll contains information about "Immortal Ruins".

The records are vague, but the level of danger they represent is beyond doubt.

However, he is now trapped here, surrounded by swarms of insects, and conventional methods seem ineffective in leaving the planet.

This is marked "Immortal Ruins"

What may seem like an extremely dangerous place might actually hold unexpected clues, or even the only hope of escape.

After all, the most dangerous places often come with the greatest opportunities.

Having made up her mind, Shi Ji stopped worrying about the restrictions on the stone gate.

He carefully studied the route on the leather scroll and noted down "Fairy Ruins".

The approximate location of the possible location.

Then, he began searching for other exits or secret passages within the stone hall.

Since the main entrance is blocked, the builders may have left other ways to survive.

Persistence pays off. After a careful search, he discovered a tiny teleportation array pattern, almost integrated into the wall, behind a mural in a corner of the stone hall.

The array's energy is nearly depleted and extremely unstable, suggesting it's a one-time, one-way teleportation array with an unknown destination.

"Let's take a gamble!"

Shi Ji didn't have many options. He took out several precious space spirit stones, embedded them into the array eye, and carefully activated the array patterns.

"Buzz——"

A faint light flashed, and Shi Ji's figure disappeared from the stone hall.

After an unknown period of chaotic spatial teleportation, when Shi Ji's feet finally touched solid ground again, a chilling, decaying, and malicious wind rushed towards him, causing him to shiver involuntarily.

He looked up and saw a desolate land stretching as far as the eye could see.

The gray sky hung low, devoid of sun, moon, and stars, only eternal silence.

The earth was dark brown, cracked, and covered with white bones, some humanoid, others of strange beasts, piled up like mountains, covering the entire landscape.

A biting, eerie wind howled past, whipping up bone dust from the ground and emitting a mournful wail like the cries of countless wronged souls.

The sound of.

The atmosphere here seems to gather all the negative energy in the world, making one's soul tremble involuntarily.

"Is this... the Immortal Ruins? It truly lives up to its reputation."

Shi Ji looked solemn, circulating her magic power to protect herself, and cautiously surveying her surroundings.

He moved cautiously across the plain of bones, the broken bones beneath his feet crunching under his feet.

The crisp sound was particularly clear in the deathly silent environment.

The deeper one goes, the denser the malevolent energy in the air becomes, even forming a gray mist that obstructs sight and spiritual perception.

Suddenly, his gaze was drawn to a strange pile of bones in front of him, made up of countless skulls.

What made his pupils shrink even more was that atop the pile of bones, there was a skeleton dressed in tattered ancient clothing, mechanically grabbing pieces of bone beside it and stuffing them into its already bloodless jaw, making a "crunching" sound.

The sound of chewing!

"Skeletons...acting on their own? Are they remnants of their obsession, or undead creatures created by some kind of evil magic?"

Shi Ji was horrified and instinctively stopped in her tracks, becoming fully alert.

Seemingly startled by the presence of a stranger, the body that was "eating"...

The skeleton suddenly stopped moving, and from its empty eye sockets, a soft "plop" echoed.

With a snap, two clusters of eerie green flames ignited, staring intently at each other.

They settled in Shiji!

"Jie——!"

A piercing scream that could shatter eardrums rang out from behind the skeleton!

A white shadow, moving with ghostly speed, shot out from behind the pile of bones!

It was a woman with disheveled hair, dressed in an ancient wedding gown. Her body was highly decomposed, exposing some of her bones, but she was shrouded in a tangible and intense aura of malevolence. Her ten fingernails were black and long, sharp like blades, aimed straight at Shi Ji's face!

"not good!
It's a corpse demon!

Shi Ji reacted with lightning speed, retreating rapidly while simultaneously unleashing a palm strike. Her blazing magical power transformed into a fiery palm print, meeting the female corpse head-on. (End of Chapter)