Chapter 2367: Terrible News

"When I first entered this Secret Realm, it always retained the state of Long Longcheng after its fall, frozen like a painting." Although he had come twice, He Lingchuan also looked left and right, "What did it look like when I last left? Now it still remains as it was."

The southern gate square was very open, with no plants blocking the view, Zhu Xiuer immediately saw the shattered stone carving beneath the southern city gate, and pointed her forefoot there:

"Did the black dragon statue already break when you last came?"

In the actual ruins of Long Longcheng, this stone carving was properly attached to the high wall behind the city gate; but in the Secret Realm, it lay shattered on the ground, the huge dragon-body stone carving broken into several pieces, and two blood-red wild lilies had grown in the ferocious dragon's mouth, swaying in the wind.

He Lingchuan also stared intently: "I should say, before I first left, I personally witnessed its breaking."

When he first entered the Secret Realm, he successfully activated this black dragon statue. But what was attached to the statue was not the dragon deity itself, nor the city guardian beast, but the consciousness left by Zhong Shengguang!

After killing Sun Fuping and Nian Songyu, it seemed its mission was fulfilled, it sent the broken sword to He Lingchuan, and then itself fell to the ground and shattered.

He Lingchuan walked to the edge of the statue, bent down and lightly pressed the dragon's head. The stone carving lay prone, unchanged in the slightest.

So, what has changed here?

Dong Rui asked him: "What are we looking for?"

"Strictly speaking, this Long Dragon Secret Realm neither exists in the present world, nor does it completely exist in the past——"

"——it is the boundary between the virtual and the real."

Previously, when He Lingchuan came here, he was still somewhat naive, but with the enrichment of his life experience, especially after experiencing the Battle of Overturned Sea and becoming the sole victor, his understanding of the Long Dragon Secret Realm has also improved.

"The problem with the Great Vessel Vessel likely manifests in the Long Dragon Secret Realm." He looked left and right, "So, I must find the unusual within the Secret Realm."

"Er." Dong Rui scratched the back of his head, he and Zhu Xiuer were here for the first time, to them, everything here seemed unusual.

He Lingchuan thought for a moment: "Come with me."

His first visit was to the tomb of Zhong Shengguang and the Red General.

The first time he entered the Long Dragon Secret Realm, he had already paid respects to Zhong Shengguang and offered wine.

The wine cup used then is still placed before the tomb, merely stained with a little dust.

However, although the tomb is intact, the stele now has an additional crack one finger wide, extending from the top to the bottom.

He Lingchuan reached out to touch this crack, frowned and said: "When I last came, it had not yet cracked."

"Perhaps the He surname also tried to dig up Commander Zhong's tomb and broke it."

He Lingchuan shook his head: "Whatever he did, I know it all clearly. He Jing never touched this tomb."

This is wrong, this is very wrong.

"Time here should be still, almost nothing in the Secret Realm changes, unless there is external intervention." For example, the two entries by the He family father and son both had effects on parts of the Secret Realm.

After they left, what happened in the Secret Realm?

Why did Zhong Shengguang's tombstone crack open?

Arriving at the Red General's tomb mound, Zhu Xiuer pointed at the grave pit and asked: "Was the Red General's tomb robbed?"

The mound had been dug open, the method quite rough, but inside was empty.

"This is the Red General's clothes-and-crown tomb." He Lingchuan sighed, "The last time I came, Heavenly Palace Cloud Envoy He Jing sent people to dig open this tomb, wanting to find the Great Vessel Vessel."

As a result, He Jing had just died when the Three Waters True Person appeared, He Lingchuan used the Red General's battle armor to defeat him, the Secret Realm then receded, leaving him no extra time.

Speaking, He Lingchuan took out an iron shovel from his storage ring and filled the nearby soil back into the pit.

Zhu Xiuer also said: "The Red General is an unparalleled hero, these people have not a shred of respect, they deserve to be killed!"

After saying this, it enlarged its body, waved its eight legs, and helped He Lingchuan refill the tomb soil.

Its speed was not just eight times He Lingchuan's, but only a dozen breaths' work, and the tomb mound was restored to its original state.

Just then, a few clattering sounds came from not far away, as if some heavy object had fallen.

Before He Lingchuan could speak, Dong Rui's newly summoned Sixty-Six had already leapt over.

After a while, it returned to report:

The long section of wall base behind the forest had collapsed.

The wall collapsed? He Lingchuan frowned, his brows knitting, and hurriedly ran over.

The Red General's tomb is separated from the city wall only by a small grove. He Lingchuan ran out of the grove, just in time to see the city wall clatter and collapse again in a large section.

This is the outer city wall of Long Longcheng, although not as majestic as the southern gate, it is also not something ordinary siege weapons can destroy. Long Dragon Army themselves once tested it, using special weapons to attack the city, fighting all day still only resulted in a few dozen white specks.

Now it stands properly here, how could it suddenly collapse on its own?

A shadow flashed across He Lingchuan's heart.

Just then, a relay station ten zhang away from the wall suddenly also collapsed, its pillars and beams could not support their own weight, the tiles clattered a few times, and all fell to the ground.

Sixty-Six went over, circled once, returned and shook its head at Dong Rui:

There were no signs of life inside, nor any traces of human destruction, it collapsed by itself.

This is the first stop entering the city from the East Gate. In the Long Dragon world, He Lingchuan does not know how many times he has brushed horses here, he knows the base pillars are as thick as two people's embrace, and are made of iron-wood fished up from the water bottom, even if one hacked with swords and blades all day, they could not be chopped through.

City walls, relay stations, how are they all like building blocks?

It seems there is an invisible pair of big hands here, pushing wherever, and wherever it pushes collapses!

He Lingchuan stood up and looked around, just as an ominous idea rose in his heart, Dong Rui had already spoken for him:

"Could it be that this entire Long Dragon Secret Realm is collapsing?"

The Long Dragon Secret Realm originally was the model of post-war ruins, east collapsed, west sunken, buildings incomplete, plus He Lingchuan's two entries involved battles with different opponents, causing considerable destruction to the terrain and buildings here, so he finds it hard to distinguish whether the surrounding ruined buildings were originally like this, or only collapsed in recent years.

If the Long Dragon Secret Realm has been slowly collapsing, this is absolutely an utterly terrible piece of news!

For it exists within the Great Vessel Vessel, the boundary between the virtual and the real, or rather, the connection.

What will happen if the Long Dragon Secret Realm completely collapses?

He Lingchuan has seen in the sea of consciousness of Qian Huan, and in the Long Longcheng manifested by the Great Expansion Heaven Pearl, the model of this ancient city completely collapsed.

He absolutely does not want to experience it a second time.

After the city wall collapsed, Dong Rui stood by the wall hole, peeking left and right, at this moment he turned his head and said to them:

"In the distant outside, there is a forest drifting with red mist, gloomy and gloomy."

Lin Zi? Red mist?

He Lingchuan was startled, took big steps to his side, and looked outward.

"That's the direction of Mingsha Forest!"

But the terrain of that valley seemed somewhat familiar, and the drifting dark red mist also felt somewhat familiar.