Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, who was kidnapped to another world

“…They’ve arrived.” Teng Kui, the strongest of the younger generation of the Yin Kui Sect, was about to speak when he saw two figures slowly descending from the sky.

"High altitude..." Looking at the two people falling from the sky, Mu Qianqian's voice was slightly hoarse, "Even a Nirvana Realm expert might not be able to do that, right?"

"...Perhaps, he has a way to shield the fluctuations of the Great Wilderness Ancient Stele." Wu Ci chuckled dryly. He had met Xiao Yan once and knew that Xiao Yan's age seemed to be about the same as his.

At the same age, he was only at the Lesser Completion of the Qi Creation Realm, while Xiao Yan and Lin Dong were already at the Nirvana Realm?

"Wait a minute, Lin Dong... could that person be from the Lin clan?" Suddenly, Mu Qianqian realized something.

While the three were chatting quietly, Xiao Yan, led by Lin Dong, landed on the flying spirit treasure of the Lin clan.

"Long time no see," Lin Dong nodded to Lin Ke'er, who was at the head of the group, and then his gaze swept across the crowd. "After we enter the Great Wilderness Ancient Stele, you can all work together. With the reputation of the Lin family, no one will be foolish enough to come looking for you."

The clan elder, who wanted to ask Lin Dong what his plans were, silently shut his mouth after sensing the peak Creation Realm fluctuations emanating from Lin Dong and Xiao Yan, which was considered an admission of Lin Dong's arrangements.

Although Lin Ke'er wanted to chat with Lin Dong for a bit, she silently shut her mouth after noticing that Lin Dong's expression wasn't good.

Following the Lin clan's initial arrival, the Qin, Huangpu, and Wang clans also arrived one after another.

Xiao Yan had no interest in these families. Lin Dong only raised his head when the Huangpu family arrived, and after realizing that the person was not the woman he had seen at the deepest part of the ancient tomb, he silently lowered his head.

'Nirvana? '

As Lin Dong looked at the people from the Huangpu clan, the woman from the Huangpu clan also turned her gaze to Lin Dong. She had noticed Lin Dong falling from the sky as well. 'No, judging from Sister Qingzhu's personality, someone who has broken through to the Nirvana Realm now wouldn't be of any interest to her, so... a Heavenly Talisman Master?'

After a while, as the ancient stele of the Great Wilderness trembled, everyone's attention was focused on the huge stele.

Gradually, the runes covering the ancient stone tablet began to fade...

"The seal on the Great Wilderness Ancient Stele is about to disappear!"

Upon noticing this scene, the entire Great Wilderness Plains stirred up, and countless gazes instantly burned with fervor.

"After you go in, is there anywhere you want to go?" After seeing the runes fade, Lin Dong opened his eyes and looked at Xiao Yan beside him.

"I guess... we'll check out this sect's herb area first?" Xiao Yan said after thinking for a moment. "What about you?"

There's a place I'd like to go...

After so much research, Lin Dong has basically confirmed that the location of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol is within the space inside the Great Wilderness Ancient Stele. However, when mentioning this, Lin Dong hesitated, unsure whether he should tell Xiao Yan about the existence of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol...

“Then let’s split up for now,” Xiao Yan nodded, not caring about Lin Dong’s hesitation. “Just don’t forget what our purpose is this time.”

"I won't forget..." Lin Dong chuckled dryly.

As Xiao Yan and Lin Dong talked, the runes on the ancient stele gradually faded. About ten minutes later, the last ancient rune finally disappeared completely.

hum!

As the last ancient rune dissipated, the massive ancient stele suddenly trembled violently. A vast amount of energy, like clouds, seeped out from the stele and swirled around its surface, slowly rotating to form a massive energy vortex hundreds of feet long!

The vortex spun, forcefully drawing in the elemental energy of this world. At the end of the vortex, darkness and cold filled the air, giving it an extremely mysterious feel.

"The ancient stele has been activated!"

As the energy vortex appeared, countless roars of ecstasy suddenly echoed across the plain. Instantly, the eyes of many turned bloodshot, and even their breathing became rapid.

Of course, it wasn't just them who became excited; even the forces of the four major clans, the Great Demon Sect, the Yin Puppet Sect, and other powerful groups all had their eyes burning with fervor.

"go!"

Lin Dong stared at the energy vortex, then suddenly waved his hand and charged towards it. Behind him, Xiao Yan and the Lin Clan's experts hurriedly followed.

Following the Lin clan, the other major forces also rushed out at the same time, all of them rushing into the energy vortex.

With someone taking the lead, the situation naturally descended into riots. A massive, dark mass of people surged out, like locusts sweeping across the land, and then frantically rushed towards the energy vortex.

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As Xiao Yan approached the Great Wilderness Ancient Stele, his gaze unconsciously returned to the black dots he had seen earlier. Then, as if sensing Xiao Yan's gaze, the black dots suddenly coalesced, forming an extremely strange smile on the surface of the stele...

Before he could even see the smile clearly, the attraction within the energy vortex captured Xiao Yan, teleporting him into the space inside the ancient stele.

On the vast and desolate land, all was silent. An ancient sense of vicissitude permeated the land, filling the entire space with a feeling of loneliness.

Suddenly, the space above the sky began to writhe, and then countless cracks appeared in the space. One after another, figures fell from the sky in a very disheveled state. Immediately, someone hurriedly activated their Yuan Power to slow down their descent.

Another spatial rift opened, and Xiao Yan fell from it. However, compared to the feeling of falling from the sky, it was the strange smiling face that suddenly appeared on the ancient stele that made him feel more uneasy.

'Those things…can this Great Wilderness Ancient Stele really suppress them?' Tens of meters of fiery wings unfurled from his back, suspending Xiao Yan in mid-air. '…Never mind, let's go check out the herb garden first.'

With a furrowed brow, Xiao Yan, knowing he was powerless to do anything, sighed inwardly. He looked around and spread his spiritual energy outwards, quickly pinpointing the approximate location of the medicine garden.

With a flap of his fiery wings, Xiao Yan's figure streaked through the air like a meteor, speeding towards the direction he sensed where the medicine garden might exist.

Below, countless people watched Xiao Yan streak across the sky with envy, but soon they had no choice but to deal with the various strange monsters that appeared in front of them.

On the other side, after entering the space inside the Great Wilderness Ancient Stele, Lin Dong quickly determined his location after a brief moment of confusion, and also roughly understood the location of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol.

Then, ignoring the passersby who seemed to be preparing to join him, Lin Dong rose into the air and sped towards his destination.

Chapter 239 Demon Corpse

A flash of fire streaked across the sky, then slowly slowed. Holding Xiao Yuan in his arms, Xiao Yan gazed into the distance, looking at the ancient architectural complex below—

The complex here is so vast it's breathtaking. As far as the eye can see, countless magnificent buildings stretch out in a line, reaching to the horizon, and a faint scent of medicine emanates from them.

“The spatial fluctuations are very strong…” Xiao Yan murmured. “It seems that in addition to the medicinal herbs in the complex, there is also a spatial barrier?” It slowly descended.

"Even Dou Sheng experts have plenty of methods to preserve medicinal herbs indefinitely," Yao Lao's voice echoed in Xiao Yan's mind. "The Reincarnation Realm experts of the Tianxuan Continent should have similar methods, so spatial barriers probably aren't necessary."

Xiao Yan understood what Yao Lao meant—spatial fluctuations might not necessarily be the location where medicinal herbs are stored; they could also be a prison used by experts in the Reincarnation Realm or the Wheel of Reincarnation Realm to trap external enemies, such as monsters like the Ghost General.

"The methods of refining medicinal herbs on the Tianxuan Continent are somewhat crude. Most of them simply involve piling up herbs to remove the parts of a high-grade herb that are difficult to absorb directly," Xiao Yan said slowly as he landed and looked up at the "Medicine Hall" plaque above the main gate of the complex. "Even if those monsters conquer this sect, they might not choose this place directly, right?"

It took Xiao Yan about half a day to arrive here. If it were any other powerful figure from the Great Yan Dynasty, even the Nirvana Realm patriarch from Lin Dong's family, it would take at least two or three days to get here. As a result, the buildings here remain intact, and even the outermost gate has not been opened.

'In fact, the buildings here aren't damaged at all...'

Stepping forward slowly, and after confirming that there were no traps or mechanisms in the vicinity, Xiao Yan pushed open the door. At the same time, he scanned the surroundings with his spiritual power, and found that all the buildings were intact and without any damage.

“That’s true,” Yao Lao emerged from the Bone Flame Ring, looking at the surrounding buildings with some emotion. “All the buildings are intact. If it weren’t for the fact that those ordinary items have been corroded by time and left only as dust, we might really think that this sect has not been destroyed.”

"Let's go find some medicinal herbs first," Xiao Yan sighed. "Before we came in, those black dots formed a strange smile on the ancient stele, as if they had regained consciousness or some of their power. Even though there have never been any problems before, it's hard to guarantee that this time will be the same."

"Hmm," the old apothecary nodded, having also noticed the creepy smile from before. "Try to find some high-grade medicinal herbs. Under normal circumstances, things like the Creation Martial Stele, which are related to the sect, won't be open for too long."

After scanning the buildings again, Xiao Yan nodded, lightly touched the ground with his toes, and darted away towards the direction where the medicinal fragrance was strongest in the complex.

This ancient architectural complex is very large. Even with Xiao Yan's speed, he still couldn't find the place with the strong medicinal fragrance after traveling for more than ten minutes. This shows how much effort the powerful person who controlled the Great Wilderness Ancient Stele put into building this place.

Along the way, Xiao Yan occasionally sensed some fierce auras, which seemed to be descendants of ancient demonic beasts. However, because Xiao Yan's aura was too strong, no foolish demonic beasts rushed in front of him. But when Xiao Yan sensed some lightning-attribute demonic beasts, he took a detour and found some food for Xiao Yuan.

After passing through a garden again, Xiao Yan suddenly stopped, turned his head, looked back in the direction he had come from, and frowned.

"You sensed it?" the old apothecary asked softly.

“Hmm, the same medicinal fragrance as the one in front is coming from not far behind,” Xiao Yan frowned. “Moreover, that location… is the place with the strongest spatial fluctuations that we can sense so far.”

Xiao Yan's face was gloomy. Along the way, he had sensed countless spatial fluctuations, but those fluctuations were too weak to pay much attention to. After all, even the spatial fluctuations in the medicine storage room of the inner courtyard of Canaan Academy were stronger than those.

"Shall we go take a look?"

"...Go!" After a moment's hesitation, Xiao Yan gritted his teeth, nodded sharply, and then turned and rushed towards that place.

About a minute later, Xiao Yan slowly landed on a rooftop, his gaze fixed on the front, where several strangely shaped withered trees stood—

The branches of the withered tree intertwined like vines, forming strange arcs as they extended and outlined themselves. From Xiao Yan's position, one would see that those strange arcs seemed to be trapping something with a human shape.

The intense spatial fluctuations and the increasingly rich medicinal fragrance emanated from the gaps between the withered branches.

After a moment's hesitation, he unleashed his full mental power, trying his best to avoid the withered branches in front of him while searching for the location of other spatial fluctuations.

A moment later, Xiao Yan withdrew his mental energy. Within the range that his mental energy could cover, there were six other locations besides the one in front of him that were emitting spatial fluctuations. Moreover, just like the strange withered tree branch in front of him, the spatial fluctuations in the other locations were also emanating from various dead plants.

“Teacher, it seems that this place wasn’t untouched by attacks,” Xiao Yan said in a low voice, “but rather that all the attacks were contained the moment they occurred.”

Upon seeing those strange plants, Xiao Yan finally understood why the buildings here had not suffered any damage, but the surrounding environment was just like when he entered this space, with yellow sand everywhere.

"Looks like I was right at the beginning," Yao Lao, who had also learned a lot through his spiritual power, chuckled dryly. "These spatial barriers are prisons..."

"Moreover, what they've trapped should be the disciples of this Medicine Hall..." Xiao Yan licked his slightly chapped lips and slowly uttered a sentence.

Based on the information available so far, Xiao Yan can roughly deduce a general idea—

When the ghosts attacked this sect with such monsters, in addition to the strong warriors who were equivalent to the Reincarnation Realm or the Samsara Realm who launched a frontal assault, there were also weaker monsters that had infiltrated various branches of the sect. These monsters either killed the sect disciples directly or assimilated them. As a result, not much vitality was shown within the Great Wilderness Ancient Stele.

However, when those weak creatures attacked this medicine hall, they suffered a Waterloo. Although they assimilated or controlled many disciples at the first moment, and even caused the area to become desolate, they were immediately controlled by the master of the medicine hall and sealed in a spatial prison.

If this sect ultimately wins a great victory, those assimilated disciples might be able to regain their human form. However, it is clear that this sect did not succeed in killing the attacking monsters; all they could do was seal them all away.

Then, as time went by, these disciples who should have been saved had completely turned into monsters who had assimilated them, and that medicinal fragrance... was perhaps bait used to lure treasure hunters like Xiao Yan.

Looking at the spatial fluctuations within the withered tree branch, Xiao Yan fell into deep thought.

"Teacher, I want to open this spatial prison." After a long while, Xiao Yan suddenly spoke up.

"You want to get information from those monsters about what happened back then?" After a moment of stunned silence, Yao Lao realized what was going on.

“Those who launched a direct attack on this sect should be experts at the Reincarnation Realm and the Samsara Realm, while those who infiltrated should be some Death Profound Realm or Life Profound Realm beings with special abilities,” Xiao Yan took a deep breath, popped a Qi-inducing pill into his mouth, and his aura surged. “Although I am no match for those at the Reincarnation Realm right now, as for those at the Death Profound Realm… I can still completely suppress them.”

"Be careful," Yao Lao nodded and returned to the Bone Flame Ring. "If it's not its match, you can use my power."

"I will."

After nodding heavily, Xiao Yan casually tossed Xiao Yuan out of his arms, saying, "Stay away. If a fight breaks out, I won't be able to take care of you."

Once Xiao Yuan was out of sight, Xiao Yan flew towards the spatial cage.

He raised his hand and slowly placed it on the spatial cage—

call out!

Almost the instant Xiao Yan released the spatial cage, a beam of black light shot out from within it. Had Xiao Yan not been fully prepared, this beam of black light could have easily knocked him back thousands of meters, even though his Yuan Power level had not yet reached the Nirvana Realm.

The overwhelming black light gradually dissipated, and in the center of that black light, a figure several meters tall slowly emerged, spreading out an extremely evil aura, like a creature crawling out of the depths of hell.

'really……'

Sensing the evil fluctuations that were almost identical to those of the Ghostly Generals he had encountered before, Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes. However, unlike the fragments of the almost crippled Ghostly General, the fluctuations emanating from the humanoid monster in front of him were clearly at the peak level of the Death Profound Realm.

A moment later, all the black light dissipated, and it was at this moment that Xiao Yan was able to see the true face of the humanoid monster before him.

His size was several times larger than that of an ordinary person, making him look like a small giant. His body originally seemed to have a bit of a bluish-green hue, which should be what he looked like when he used his body-refining martial arts or some other martial arts. But now, his bluish-green body was covered with black demonic patterns. These patterns wrapped around every corner of his body, and from a distance, it looked like countless insects were clinging to his body.

Sensing Xiao Yan's undisguised scrutiny, he slowly raised his head, his gaze, filled with an evil aura, meeting Xiao Yan's eyes.