Qin Renhuang just became an immortal, and you told me this is the prehistoric time

Ying Xuan's figure slowly landed on the square in the center of the ancient city. He casually glanced at the remnants around him that had instantly turned to ashes, and a hint of undisguised contempt appeared on his face.

"Among the dozens of descendants of ancient races, the strongest is only at the initial stage of the Immortal Platform, with a chaotic and impure aura and a pitifully thin life essence."

He muttered to himself, his tone carrying a condescending indifference.

"All of this combined is probably less than one-tenth of the essence of that Fiery Rock Demon Dragon from before. And you dare to make a fuss?"

For him, annihilating these ants didn't even require using the true power of the formation; a mere trace of "purification" power naturally emanating from the formation was enough.

The only thing that surprised him was that the bloodline of the silver-armored god youth, Eros, seemed to indeed contain a trace of extremely ancient and pure "divinity," which could be used as "ancient blood" to open the altar and make up for any possible bias in the ten types of blood he had collected before.

He stopped paying attention to these insignificant "dust" and strode toward the north of the square.

There stood an ancient altar, hundreds of feet tall, constructed entirely of some kind of dark golden stone!
The altar is pyramid-shaped with nine layers. Each layer is carved with dense, now blurred, ancient patterns and runes, seemingly recording the grand scene of creation, worship of all races, and sacrifices to heaven and earth.

But time is merciless; weathering and erosion have made these carvings mottled and fragmented, and in many places they have even completely peeled away, leaving only rough traces.

However, the altar itself still exudes a desolate, ancient, and strange aura that seems to connect with some lost "path" in the dark.

Ying Xuan arrived at the bottom of the altar.

With a wave of his hand, ten ancient bloodstains of different colors and powerful auras, some blazing, some icy, some heavy, and some light, flew out from his sleeve. These were the ten most powerful bloodlines he had collected earlier!
The ten clumps of ancient blood seemed to be drawn to the altar, automatically flying towards nine different locations on the altar and the center at the very top, slowly merging into the blurry carved patterns.

"Om-!"

The moment the ten clumps of ancient blood completely merged, the ancient altar, silent for countless millennia, suddenly trembled violently! On the surface of the dark golden boulder, the blurred carvings seemed to come alive, lighting up layer by layer! The light was not dazzling, but it carried an ancient charm that transcended time!
Immediately afterwards, at the top of the altar, a thick beam of light, mixed with ten colors but ultimately returning to a chaotic gray, shot into the sky, instantly enveloping Ying Xuan's figure standing in front of the altar!

Space twisted violently, and a powerful and ancient teleportation force suddenly erupted!
"Boom!"

After a muffled thud that seemed to come from ancient times, the pillar of light and Ying Xuan's figure vanished simultaneously. The light on the altar quickly dimmed, returning to its mottled and lifeless appearance, as if nothing had ever happened.

The ancient city of gold has fallen into eternal silence. Perhaps it will be another ten thousand years before new explorers or survivors accidentally discover and set foot in this deserted city.

……

Cold, dark, and deathly silent.

This was Ying Xuan's first impression after being teleported here. It was completely different from the scene outside the ancient mythical road, which, although broken, still contained fragments of stars, turbulent energy flows, and even living beings.

This place seemed like an absolute void, utterly forgotten, where time itself had frozen. There was no light, no sound, and even the basic concept of space seemed somewhat blurred. If Ying Xuan's primordial spirit hadn't been so powerful and his divine sense still so clear, he probably would have thought he had fallen into eternal nothingness.

It was so quiet. So quiet that he could clearly "hear" the slow flow of blood in his body and the steady beating of his heart.

"Is this... the true depths of the ancient mythical path?"

Ying Xuan felt a slight chill in his heart, and his divine sense, like the most vigilant tentacles, cautiously probed in all directions.

According to the Heaven-Covering Law, his cultivation level was only at the Fourth Extreme Secret Realm, which might make him just a "minion" in the eyes of many old monsters in this world. However, thanks to the powerful nature of his Earth Immortal-level primordial spirit and his keen perception of the laws, he could still barely "see" the situation within a certain range around him in this absolute darkness.

His divine sense swept across the area, but it remained empty. But soon, his mind jolted!
An “object” appeared about several hundred miles away from him!
It wasn't a living thing, showing no signs of life whatsoever. But its "presence" was incredibly strong! So strong that the moment Ying Xuan's divine sense touched its outline, it seemed to be slightly shaken by an invisible force!

That was a... corpse.

A corpse so enormous it defied imagination, one that even Ying Xuan felt his mind momentarily captivated!
Its length, roughly estimated by Ying Xuan's divine sense, exceeded... ten thousand zhang! What does ten thousand zhang mean? Ordinary mountains would appear as small hills before it! This was definitely not some illusion created by the "Law of Heaven and Earth" supernatural power, but a real, tangible physical form!
"The Law of Heaven and Earth consumes a tremendous amount of spiritual energy, and maintaining a size of at most a thousand feet is already its limit... This... this is actually the true form?!"

Ying Xuan's heart was filled with shock and disbelief. What terrifying life force and energy would such a massive true form have required to sustain it in its previous life? And how high must its cultivation level have been? Even calling it a Celestial Immortal or a Golden Immortal wouldn't be an exaggeration!
This ancient corpse lay silently in the dark void, having been dead for countless millennia. Its body still retained a largely intact form, though its surface was covered with a thick layer of gray dust that seemed to blend into the void.

It is difficult to determine its exact species; its outline vaguely resembles an ancient reptile magnified countless times, with some strange structures.

Ying Xuan dared not get too close with his divine sense, only sensing it from a distance. After a long time, he calmed down from the initial shock and keenly noticed another phenomenon—this seemingly absolutely lifeless void was not actually completely devoid of energy.

There was an extremely faint but highly potent energy of heaven and earth, like a trickle of water, seeping out from the void in all directions, and then... silently and continuously flowing towards that ancient corpse that was ten thousand feet tall!
It was as if the ancient corpse itself was a bottomless pit that devoured all energy, and even after dying for thousands of years, it still instinctively absorbed the nutrients around it.

This discovery caused a flicker of hesitation to cross Ying Xuan's eyes.

His primary goal in venturing into the depths of the mythical ancient road was not merely to explore or collect resources, but to find a top-tier offensive magic weapon that was rumored to be buried there—the Four Swords of Zhuxian from the Tongtian Sect Master!
"The Four Swords of Zhuxian are the pinnacle of offensive magic weapons! If I could obtain them and combine them with my Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Formation, one for offense and the other for containment, they would complement each other and their power would surely increase dramatically! At that time, even when facing a true immortal, I might not be without the power to contend with him!"

This is the core motivation for Yingxuan's visit.

However, the ancient corpse standing before him, which existed only on the outer edge of the ancient road, displayed a level of power it might have reached in life, as well as a strange devouring phenomenon that persisted even after death, which was like a bucket of cold water, slightly extinguishing some of his confidence.

"Such terrifying remains exist on the outskirts of the ancient road... what must the true core area be like? If the Four Swords of Zhuxian truly exist here, their protective power or the difficulty of obtaining them must far exceed my expectations..."

Ying Xuan couldn't help but feel a little worried. Although he had the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation and the Stone Gate Space as his trump cards, would they be enough to deal with the possible remaining restrictions or dangers at this level?

Just as he was weighing the pros and cons, a sudden "BOOM—!!!"

A terrifying roar, seemingly originating from the depths of the soul or from an ancient rift in spacetime, suddenly exploded in this deathly silence!

The sound came from the direction of that ancient corpse, which was ten thousand feet tall!
At the same time, an indescribable, terrifying wave, seemingly capable of tearing apart the heavens and earth and devouring everything, accompanied by a powerful and suffocating suction force, swept wildly in all directions from the ancient corpse as its center, like a black hole that suddenly burst forth!

Ying Xuan felt his body lighten, as if he had lost all weight in an instant. He was uncontrollably pulled by that overwhelming suction force and flew rapidly toward the ancient corpse!
The incident happened so suddenly that even with Ying Xuan's resolute will, he couldn't help but feel a tightness in his chest and a sense of tension swept over him. However, he forcibly suppressed the urge to immediately escape into the stone gate space.

His body was rapidly drawn closer to the ancient corpse, which resembled a miniature star, by the suction force. The massive, dark, and lifeless outline in his vision became clearer and clearer, and the sense of oppression it brought grew stronger and stronger.

However, as he rapidly approached, Ying Xuan desperately expanded his powerful divine sense, attempting to analyze the source and nature of this suction force. At the same time, his mind was closely connected to the stone gate space deep within his primordial spirit, ensuring he could enter it at any time to escape the calamity—this was his greatest source of confidence in daring to explore this place.

"With the stone gate space, even if we encounter an insurmountable danger, we can escape instantly."

This thought gradually made Ying Xuan's eyes firm again.

"Throughout the history of the world of Shrouding the Heavens, not every cultivator who entered the Mythical Ancient Road and gained anything surpassed my current strength. Since I have this trump card, why shouldn't I dare to explore it?"

"If we could also extract this ancient corpse into the array space and refine it..."

A bold, even somewhat crazy, idea flashed through his mind, but he immediately rejected it.

This ancient corpse is too strange; there are unknown risks involved in taking it rashly.

As the distance closed, Ying Xuan's divine sense became clearer.

He suddenly realized that the terrifying suction force did not seem to come directly from the ancient corpse itself! The ancient corpse was more like a... passive "transfer station" or "marker"?
His divine sense tried its best to penetrate the dense, impenetrable gray dust and distorted force field surrounding the ancient corpse, probing deeper into the source of the suction force.

Finally, behind the ancient corpse, in that absolute darkness that seemed to devour even divine consciousness, Ying Xuan "saw" a scene—

A colossal black hole, seemingly the center of the entire universe, radiating an aura that could end all things and reduce all paths to nothingness!
No, it's not a black hole in the conventional sense.

It's more like a spatial "wound," a "loophole" in the rules, a "nothingness" that devours all light, energy, matter, and even the concept of time! All the suction, all the terrifying fluctuations, seem to originate from there!

That ancient corpse, towering ten thousand feet tall, just happened to be lying across the path to that "nothingness," or rather, it was one of the "drifting objects" that were influenced by the power of that "nothingness" and absorbed there.

"I see……"

Ying Xuan suddenly understood and breathed a sigh of relief.

"This ancient corpse may simply be enormous by nature and of a special race. Its true strength in life may not have reached the level of a royal being, like the lord of a forbidden zone. The real danger and mystery come from something deeper...

This discovery not only gave him a clearer understanding of the dangers deep within the ancient road, but also somewhat dispelled the excessive fear he had caused due to the ancient corpse-like appearance.

He struggled to maintain his balance, resisting the increasingly strong suction, while his sharp gaze scanned the approaching ancient corpse. His mind was on high alert, ready to react to any anomalies that might erupt from the corpse or the deep "black hole." The adventure had only just begun.

Having determined that the ancient corpse, though terrifying in size, was essentially dead and did not seem to be some incomprehensible or insurmountable monster, Ying Xuan immediately made a decision. Danger might exist, but the opportunity was far greater! Leaving such a large piece of "fat meat" untouched was not his style.

His mind raced, and the black and white jade pendant at his waist instantly shone brightly!

"Om-!"

The Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation was deployed once again, but this time, it was not used for attack or defense, but to fully utilize its "storage" and "spatial isolation" characteristics!
A vast expanse of black and white light, like an inverted sky curtain, instantly covered a large area of ​​the void in front of it, enveloping the ancient corpse that lay in the darkness for thousands of feet, along with the space around it that was slightly distorted by the suction force!
With a flash of light, the spot was completely empty. Both the ancient corpse and the space marked by the array had vanished, as if an invisible giant hand had forcibly "dug" them away from this desolate void!

Immediately afterwards, Ying Xuan's figure transformed into a streak of light, desperately fleeing away from the deep "black hole" despite the still existing but seemingly vague suction force!

He flew for tens of thousands of miles until the devouring suction was so weak as to be almost imperceptible, and the surroundings returned to that absolute cold and deathly silence, before he stopped and breathed a little.

He did not immediately check the situation within the array space. Instead, he cautiously scanned his surroundings with his divine sense to confirm that there were no new dangers lurking. He then glanced back at the direction of the "black hole" that was still emitting a heart-palpitating fluctuation, and a trace of solemnity flashed in his eyes.

"That thing... is definitely not simple. The ancient corpse may just be one of the 'dust' that it absorbed."

Ying Xuan raised his assessment of the danger level deep within the Mythical Ancient Road once again.

"However, let's deal with this unexpected gain first."

He moved swiftly and entered the inner space of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation.

Upon entering the array space, even though Ying Xuan was mentally prepared, he was still taken aback by the scene before him.

In the central area of ​​the array space, between the previously empty "sky" and "sea," floated an indescribably massive, dark gray "mountain"—the very same ancient corpse, ten thousand feet tall! (End of Chapter)