I can find treasures in my dreams.

The hidden realm of the sunken sand abyss.

As dawn approached, an impenetrable stillness permeated the world. The collapse of the Blood Sea Sanctuary began abruptly in this profound tranquility.

The enormous lotus flower supporting the secret garden still floats steadily in the center of the crimson blood pool.

Yang Donglin, Liwen, and Zhou Furui stood side by side on the lawn of the garden, their eyes fixed on the area around the blood pool, witnessing the entire heart-stopping collapse.

"Boom-"

A muffled, ethereal clap of thunder suddenly echoed within the shelter.

The sound was not like the deafening roar of ordinary thunder; instead, it was like the heartbeat of an ancient behemoth, making people inexplicably uneasy.

The moment the thunder struck, the previously calm blood pool suddenly contracted, the level of blood dropping several inches before violently rebounding in the next second, creating towering waves of blood.

Immediately afterwards, the blood pool began to boil completely.

Countless bubbles surged wildly from the bottom of the pool, bursting and splattering blood droplets everywhere, like boiling lava.

Even more terrifying, from the thick, bloody mist swirling around the edge of the sea of ​​blood, twisted black shadows suddenly emerged.

They were countless monsters that seemed to be formed directly from blood. Some had multiple heads with exposed fangs; some had limbs as thick as pillars with sharp claws that gleamed coldly; and some had hunched backs with tattered fleshy wings on their backs.

Deep within the blood mist, a gigantic outline could be vaguely seen writhing, clearly concealing a terrifying being far larger than these small monsters.

Another moment passed.

The surrounding blood mist began to churn, and a vortex several meters in diameter suddenly opened slowly in the very center of the monster horde.

A bright light shone from the vortex, and the outline of the Gobi Desert was faintly visible within it. Based on experience, this was clearly the only exit from the shelter.

Livin couldn't help but curse, "Damn it!"

The exit just happens to emerge from the monster horde; this deliberate arrangement perfectly showcases the malice of the death game.

The Moon Spirit Warrior had already put on her silver-white armor again, completely concealing her exquisite curves and revealing only her taut, pretty face.

Holding a longbow, her silver eyes were fixed on the surging horde of monsters. Her fingertips rested on the bowstring, and the star and moon runes on her armor glowed faintly.

The warning from the power of the Soul Moon made her extremely worried. She could clearly sense that many monsters had reached the warrior level, and it would be extremely difficult to break through them by force alone. There was a good chance that someone would die here.

Zhou Furui, standing to the side, was breathing rapidly, his heart pounding wildly.

There wasn't such a big commotion when I left the shelter a few days ago, which shows that the difficulty has indeed increased dramatically after the death game entered the next stage.

In stark contrast to the tension of the two men, Yang Donglin remained calm and composed, saying in a steady tone, "You can just stand there and watch; you don't need to lift a finger."

With a thought, the gilded soul card album appeared out of thin air, emitting a faint golden light.

next second.

A miraculous sight appeared!

A semi-transparent, illusory frame appeared out of thin air around the secret garden, precisely "framing" the entire garden, along with the three people and the lotus flowers within it.

The frame trembled slightly, accompanied by a faint buzzing sound, and the framed area began to rapidly "peel off".

This is not a displacement in the physical sense, but rather a detachment from the dimensions of this space.

Livin's eyes widened in shock.

She could clearly see that her body, Yang Donglin and Zhou Furui beside her, and even the lawn under her feet, the flower bushes beside her, and the wooden house behind her, all instantly became two-dimensional.

It's like being painted on an invisible canvas, losing its thickness and leaving only a clear outline.

This unique perspective allows her to see the front, side, and even back of the garden simultaneously, as if the whole world has been flattened.

She suddenly realized—the Secret Garden had been transformed back into a card, and she and her companions had temporarily become part of this card.

Amazing!

Livin couldn't help but admire her in her heart.

at this time.

The monsters sensed something was wrong and launched a coordinated attack towards the Secret Garden.

They suddenly opened their ferocious mouths and spat out streams of scarlet blood, densely packed and overwhelming, surging towards the two-dimensional garden like a torrential rain.

Livin almost stopped breathing while watching.

She secretly assessed that if she were to face such a fierce attack alone, her chances of survival would be no more than one in a thousand.

A moment later.

A torrential downpour of blood arrows has begun.

The blood arrow passed right through the two-dimensional garden the moment it touched it, as if the two were in completely different dimensional spaces.

"call!"

Livin let out a long sigh of relief, her heart finally settling back down.

She then fully understood that the Secret Garden was not only a portable safe house, but also an unimaginable defensive artifact.

Once you enter card form, you can avoid all damage from attacks in this dimension.

With her knowledge, she naturally understood that this was an extremely sophisticated spatial technique, probably surpassing the level of a knight, and most likely related to a Venerable.

The Moon Spirit Warrior stole a glance at her master's profile and muttered to herself, "You must be a descendant of His Majesty the Venerable One. I'm afraid that even among the Venerable Ones, this one is an extremely powerful being."

"Om~"

A strange buzzing sound rang out.

The two-dimensional secret garden began to shrink rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it shrank into a palm-sized illusory card, on which the outlines of the garden and the three people were clearly printed.

From Livin's perspective, the already enormous monsters instantly grew hundreds of times larger, resembling menacing little mountains surrounding her.

Yang Donglin waved his hand lightly at the card, his tone still indifferent: "I'm leaving."

The words fell.

The illusory card transformed into a dazzling streak of light, moving at incredible speed, instantly piercing through the dense horde of monsters.

The monsters instinctively tried to intercept the card, but compared to the card, their movements were as slow as snails, and they didn't even touch the edge of the card.

This moment.

Livin could clearly hear the monsters' roars filled with anger and resentment.

next second.

Livin felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, followed by a blinding flash of light.

She unconsciously closed her eyes, and a feeling of dizziness from the spatial shift occurred in her mind.

When the Moon Spirit Warrior opened her eyes again, the familiar Gobi Desert landscape appeared before her.

The pristine white sky and the jagged rocks scattered across the ground reminded her that they had successfully escaped the Blood Sea Sanctuary.

Yang Donglin took the first step forward, and his body instantly transformed from a two-dimensional form back to a three-dimensional form, standing steadily on the ground of the Gobi Desert.

Livin quickly followed her master's example, carefully taking a step forward. Her combat boots landed with a "thud" on the solid rocky ground.

Zhou Furui also took a step forward. After he fully transformed into his three-dimensional form, the gilded soul card album opened automatically, and the Secret Garden cards quickly flew into the album, which then disappeared.

Yang Donglin looked into the distance, his tone tinged with urgency: "Our core mission today is to find the Jade City, which the Cangfei civilization lost in the secret realm."

“From today onwards, the dangers in the Gobi Desert will escalate exponentially. Based on my assessment, at least three super sandstorms will break out today, each of which could be fatal.”

For him, finding the hundreds of thousands of missing people in Emerald City was not only related to his father's cross-domain portal plan, but also a crucial step for the Azure Civilization to break the crisis in the secret realm. He could not afford to make any mistakes.

Yang Donglin emphasized, "We don't have much time left to travel, we must seize every minute and every second."

When the words "every minute" were mentioned, the mechanical components of the Tiangong-9 battle suit began to hum rapidly, propelling the suit forward like an arrow released from a bow, covering an astonishing thirty meters with each step.

at the same time.

The modules on the armor's shoulders popped open gently, and two palm-sized black drones roared into the air. After their wings unfolded, they became two afterimages and quickly flew off in different directions to scout ahead.

Liwen and Zhou Furui didn't dare to delay and ran after her.

The Moon Spirit Warrior's silver-white armor gleamed coldly in the morning light. As she chased after him with her long, slender legs, she couldn't help but steal glances at Yang Donglin's armor ahead, her silver-gray eyes filled with obvious envy.

Although her time with the armor was short, she had already gained a deep understanding of its ingenious uses.

Just like this long-distance raid, Yang Donglin and Zhou Furui are inside their armor, which allows them to conserve energy by using the armor's power and resist the sandstorms of the Gobi Desert, making their journey comfortable.

He could only rely on his own warrior physique to keep moving his legs, which he could sustain for a short time, but for a slightly longer time, it would be a great burden on his strength and stamina.

"Woo~"

The wind in the Gobi Desert is getting stronger.

This is another obvious change; just a few days ago there was only a gentle breeze.

After running for fifty kilometers, the Moon Spirit Warrior was already noticeably panting.

Yang Donglin glanced at her through the panoramic view and uttered two words: "Come on up!"

With a few clicks, a rack unfolded at the rear of the armor.

Livin paused for a moment, but she didn't hesitate. She leaped up lightly and landed steadily on the rack.

This rack, originally designed for carrying large items, came in handy at this time.

Half an hour later.

The two armored vehicles raced for nearly 300 kilometers in one go.

Just then, Zhou Furui's voice suddenly came through the communication channel, with obvious solemnity: "Lieutenant Colonel Yang, the drone I launched has discovered the remains of a victim 30 kilometers to the left front."

He paused for a moment, then added, "To be precise, there was only one head."

Zhou Furui immediately operated the armor interface and shared the footage transmitted back by the drone.

Considering that Livin was not wearing a panoramic helmet, he also projected a light screen to clearly display the images of the victims.

On the light screen.

A bloodied head lay forlornly embedded in a pile of rubble, the blood not yet fully congealed, gleaming eerily dark red in the morning light.

Its head was not human-shaped; it was several times larger than the head of an ordinary Azureman, and had a pair of curved, dark golden horns on top.

The surface of the horns is inlaid with tiny, colorful crystals and carved with intricate spiral patterns, clearly a meticulously crafted decoration. This small detail suggests that the level of productivity was not low.

The head's eyes were wide open, with lingering fear in its pupils. The whites of its eyes were bloodshot, and dark red bloodstains even formed at the corners of its eyes, as if it had endured extreme pain before dying.

"hiss--"

Livin gasped.

She stared intently at the head in the light screen, and solemnly declared, "The power of the Soul Moon tells me that this is a low-level knight!"

Yang Donglin's gaze swept across the light screen, and he said in a deep voice, "The blood has not completely dried up, so the time of death is not long. It is highly likely that he failed when trying to break out of the shelter, and his body was torn apart by the monster. Only his head was carried out of the exit by the chaotic energy."

Livin remained silent upon hearing this.

A dignified knight, a pillar of any civilization, perished at the sanctuary's exit, his body never to be found.

This secret realm game has become so cruel as to be outrageous.

She couldn't help but glance at Yang Donglin beside her, feeling a strong sense of relief: if she hadn't met this powerful master, she probably wouldn't have lasted more than a few days with her high-level warrior strength.

*
The Longyue World Domain.

Longyue Thirty-One World Group.

The night sky of the Moon Spirit Civilization was still shrouded in the bright moonlight.

Above the altar atop the Moon Spirit Temple, the "Eye of the River of Time" card floated in a halo of light, its shimmering reflection echoing the bright crescent moon above, radiating a tranquil yet profound energy fluctuation.

Her High Priestess Pina stood silently on the surface of the River of Time, her moonlit veil fluttering without wind, yet unable to conceal the solemnity between her brows.

This solemnity was several times more intense than when Livin witnessed the head of the knight, and one could even faintly see the lingering fear.

just now.

Under Yang Fan's guidance, His Majesty wandered through the river of time for a long time.

She saw ancient ruins, extremely dangerous places, and countless unknown and shocking secrets, which flooded into her understanding like a tide, completely overturning her perception of the world.

What left this mid-level Venerable speechless for a long time and deeply shaken was the last image that appeared in the river of time.

This was an unbelievably huge skull.

The skull is an eerie dark green color, with a surface that seems to be covered with a solidified eerie light. Its overall outline is vaguely similar to a human head, but its size is an appalling "hundred-kilometer level".

The head, measured in units of hundreds of kilometers, floats silently in the dark void, exuding an overwhelming and oppressive aura even from the image alone.

Even more bizarrely, the eye sockets of this skull are not the eyes of ordinary creatures, but rather have as many as five deep eye holes.

Within its eye sockets burned a raging green flame, which was not leaping but rather like solidified magma, exuding a terrifying aura that could devour the soul.

Just by gazing at that green flame in the image, Binas felt her primordial spirit violently turbulent uncontrollably, as if it were being pulled and torn apart by the flame.

Alarm bells rang in her mind, and she almost instinctively looked away, a cold sweat breaking out on her back.

She dared not imagine whether her Venerable Spirit, which had been tempered and refined through countless trials, would collapse and dissipate in an instant if she were to see the true form of this skull with her own eyes and face the five clusters of burning green flames.

This ruler, who had governed the Moon Spirit civilization for hundreds of years, felt an overwhelming sense of insignificance at this moment.

Before this colossal skull, her pride in her Venerable Strength and her authority over a civilization seemed utterly laughable.

Compared to this being, she was nothing more than a slightly stronger ant; the other party could annihilate her with a single thought.

In addition, this skull has another unforgettable feature.

In the central region of the skull, a huge hole with a diameter of more than ten kilometers was clearly visible.

The edges of the hole were jagged and covered with jagged cracks that spread out like a spider web, covering most of the skull.

Clearly, these are not traces formed by natural decay; they are more like wounds left by a direct impact from some kind of destructive force.

In fact.

What Pina saw in the river of time was not a single scene, but an extremely tortuous and dangerous investigation record.

Since the mysterious appearance of the Sand Abyss Secret Realm in the Primordial World, Yang Fan has never been idle.

He created several clones, which infiltrated the perilous Black Sand Sea of ​​Death, traversing many dangerous places that even Venerables dared not easily set foot in.

With the incredible ability of the "Eye of the River of Time" to travel back in time, he started with tiny clues such as a few fragments of ancient energy and a wisp of eerie aura that lingered in the air, and painstakingly unraveled the mystery, uncovering a secret that would shock all the Venerables.

At this moment.

Pina took a deep breath, suppressing her turbulent emotions, and looked at the blurry figure not far away. Her voice trembled slightly as she asked, word by word, "Them?"

The "He" mentioned here is clearly a supreme being who governs the laws of heaven and earth and can destroy the world at will. He is a forbidden monument that all the venerable ones of civilizations look up to—an ancient god.

Yang Fan stood in the moonlight, his blurry figure nodding slightly: "Yes, what you see is the source of the birth of the Sunken Abyss Secret Realm."

He did not mention the name of the ancient god.

Even for a Venerable One, if one's strength is insufficient, learning the true name of an Ancient God will only bring disaster upon oneself.

Yang Fan gazed at the full moon in the sky and said softly, "Personally, I feel that the secret realm's frantic attacks on various civilized worlds, dragging countless people into the perilous Gobi Desert, are not a hunt, but a cry for help." (End of Chapter)