Chapter 1237

Tsk tsk, I didn't expect there to really be a sealed space here. Moreover, from the looks of it, it seems that during the time this continent has been sealed, I'm not the only one who knows this news.

And while Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er were chatting, Lin Feng, after flying for nearly a full day, finally arrived at this seal's entrance according to the map left by the Golden Core Patriarch.

However, when Lin Feng reached this place, he immediately saw on the ground many skeletons that had turned a soil‑yellow colour, lying in various messy postures, half‑buried in the dirt.

Seeing this, Lin Feng immediately frowned slightly and muttered to himself: 'Looking at these skeletons, they all bear wounds to some extent. If I'm not mistaken, these people also wanted to enter this sealed continent, but lacking a way to open the seal, they were killed by the seal's backlash when they tried to forcefully break it.'

Thinking of this, Lin Feng's eyes narrowed slightly as he gazed at the dark canopy before him and the starry sky outside.

As he knew, the Dou Qi Continent is not round like Blue Star, but an irregularly shaped landmass.

Moreover, outside this continent, many Dou Saint experts have gone to probe and found that beyond the continent lies an endless, vast universe.

There, the environment is countless times more dangerous than the depths of void within the Dou Qi Continent.

According to those experts' exploration experience, as soon as a living being leaves the protection of an invisible shield surrounding the Dou Qi Continent, it will immediately feel an extremely strong pressure and tearing force.

And the farther you are from the Dou Qi Continent, the stronger this pressure and tearing force become; eventually, even Dou Saint experts cannot withstand it and are torn to pieces.

Faced with this situation, over time, hardly anyone dares to recklessly go outside.

After all, leaving the Dou Qi Continent, nearby areas are still okay—you can absorb some leaking Dou Qi from the continent—but far out, you cannot replenish any Dou Qi at all; you must rely on your own means to supplement it or simply endure it head‑on.

'This seal is truly formidable; even with my current strength, I cannot detect the slightest trace of it.'

Gazing at the 'universe' before him, Lin Feng couldn't help but feel a jolt of astonishment.

However, thinking that this seal has existed for several thousand years without anyone discovering or breaking it, Lin Feng felt it was quite normal.

As for these skeletons below, judging by their degree of weathering, many are not from the same era of experts.

This alone is enough to prove that, before he learned of this sealed continent, many people already knew this news.

'However, judging from these corpses, this seal is a bit dangerous—Dou Saint experts die this easily right at the seal's entrance.'

As he spoke, Lin Feng's gaze swept over those skeletons below and finally settled on a few of them.

'Come!'

Then he lightly waved his hand, and the space rings beside those skeletons were instantly sucked by an attraction, flying to Lin Feng's side and landing in his grasp.

And at the moment he took hold of this space ring, a soul power swiftly penetrated it and began to search through its interior space.

'Huh, these people are interesting—alchemists and experts of this grade all want to get in. Could it be that this continent actually contains something extraordinary?'

After a rough sense of what was inside these space rings, Lin Feng's expression suddenly changed, and he then looked in astonishment at the 'universe' before him.

'Forget it, let's go in and see; staying here and thinking more won't help at all.'

Thinking of this, Lin Feng immediately stored these space rings in his collar, then, after recalling the method to open the seal recorded on that map, he extended both hands and began forming hand seals.

As he formed the seals, a faint silver light suddenly rose from his palms.

'Open!'

The silver light flared, and the former suddenly shouted, allowing him to quickly extend both hands.

'Whoosh!'

He extended his palm, and a silver light suddenly shot from Lin Feng's palm, instantly merging into the universe before his eyes.

Hum!

In the instant that silver light merged into the black space before him, the originally tranquil space immediately rippled with wave after wave.

As these transparent waves spread, the space before Lin Feng gradually cracked open a fissure.

Boom!

The space split open, and in an instant, streams of ancient and desolate aura poured out, causing Lin Feng's mouth corners to uncontrollably curl up wildly.

"Then let me see what kind of scene this ancient continent truly is."

As he spoke, Lin Feng no longer hesitated, his body darting forward and swiftly plunging into the spatial crack.

Mountain ranges layered upon layers, like green waves stretching toward the horizon, resembling a primordial fairyland untouched by worldly dust.

The richness of energy here caused the wandering energy between heaven and earth to condense into endless mist that drifted slowly in the air, leaving one astounded.

However, upon looking around, one could see that atop the uneven mountain peaks grew countless top-tier medicinal herbs that would drive outside alchemists mad, each emitting a faint glow.

Some of these herbs resembled lotuses, blooming on the sheer cliffs of the peaks, pure as snow; others grew amidst the dense forests, entwining ancient trees, with faint blue light glimmering between the vines.

Although these herbs varied in form, without exception they all exuded an intoxicating medicinal fragrance.

These medicinal fragrances continuously diffused, gradually gathering in the sky, eventually forming a thick mist that shrouded the mountain peaks, blocking out most of the sunlight.

"What rich heaven and earth battle qi! According to the memory image of a previous Golden Core master, this place was almost a barren wasteland, a thousand miles of red earth. I never expected it to have changed so drastically, becoming a blessed cave-heaven!"

Standing within the mist atop a mountain peak, Lin Feng gazed at the endless verdant mountain ranges before him, the various spiritual herbs covering the hills, his eyes bright and his face full of awe.

Having cultivated to this point, he had visited many blessed cave-heavens, but nowhere possessed such rich energy!

Of course, he was referring to ordinary places on the continent; some special regions are exceptions.

"However, it has been slightly over ten thousand years since those ancient powerhouses sealed this land, and such a long time is enough to bring about tremendous changes to this continent."

Thinking of this, Lin Feng couldn't help but shake his head.

When they originally sealed this continent, those ancient powerhouses likely never imagined that after sealing it, the battle qi continent would weaken over time and become what it is today, and that the information about this continent's sealing would almost vanish together in the river of history.

And at the moment his words fell, the former figure flickered, disappearing from the sky in an instant and appearing on the ground of the lower mountain peak.

Having reached the ground, Lin Feng immediately walked up to a deep blue vine hidden beneath the surrounding towering trees.

"Mysterious Spirit Vine, it prefers shady, damp places, growing about a centimeter per century; this Mysterious Spirit Vine is about fifty centimeters long, indicating it is a top-tier spiritual herb that has grown for roughly five thousand years. If placed in the outside world, it would be a treasure that even those ancient clans would fight over."

Gazing at the unassuming deep blue vine before him, Lin Feng rubbed his chin with his palm, pondering.

Having received the inheritances of several ninth-rank alchemy masters and read numerous related texts, he could naturally recognize these herbs with ease.

However, precisely because he recognized them, Lin Feng's surprise only grew stronger.

The appearance of this heaven and earth truly exceeded his imagination.

Before this, he thought that even if this place recovered, it would likely be as barren as the Northwest Continent.

But he never expected that this heaven and earth, compared to the outside world, was more like a blessed cave-heaven.

However, right after that, he flashed his figure and appeared on another mountain peak several hundred li away.

Looking at the two green leaves about half a person tall in front of him, the white flower on the green stalk that grew together with the leaves from the root, Lin Feng exclaimed in surprise: "Tsk tsk, this thing, I remember it's Green Leaf White Orchid. This thing has extremely harsh growth conditions; not only does it need at least three thousand years to bloom once, but it also requires the surrounding heaven and earth energy to be rich, as well as the feces of the extinct crustacean creatures for fertilization."

Upon saying this, the former's face suddenly changed drastically, and his sharp voice said: "Oh no, there's an ambush!"

At the same time, feeling frightened, Lin Feng immediately pushed his movement to the limit, instantly turning into a fleeting streak of light that shot toward the sky.

"Boom!"

However, at the exact moment the former left the ground, two black shadows suddenly burst through the thick soil beneath where he had been, violently colliding together at the spot where Lin Feng had been standing.

"Bang!"

The two black shadows slammed into each other, and in an instant, the terrifying force they generated shattered the space within a radius of a thousand zhang.

Moreover, seeing that his attack missed, the ambush attacker did not pause; his huge body immediately burst out of the soil and continued his assault on Lin Feng above the horizon.

"Hmph!"

Lin Feng saw the opponent entangling without cease, and he let out a cold snort; his battle qi surged within, then he swiftly raised his palm, and at the moment the black speck appeared, he fiercely struck the void.

As the former moved, in an instant the black speck in his hand expanded at extreme speed, and in the blink of an eye it appeared a thousand zhang away! "Boom!"

However, what surprised Lin Feng was that, after those black light rings sucked in the huge black shadow, he saw the opponent's body tremble; the Great Heaven Creation Palm he had unleashed stalled for a moment, then was directly shattered into countless black fragments that drifted down from the sky that had just regained its light.

"Holy shit, an Eight-Star Dou Saint–level magic beast!"

Seeing his battle technique shattered by a casual shake from the opponent, Lin Feng panicked, alarm bells ringing in his mind, and his body instinctively shot backward.

"Crack!"

As his front foot had just retreated, a pair of slender black shadows appeared at the spot where he had been standing, and then they clamped down fiercely.

According to Lin Feng's estimate, the force unleashed by this blow would likely snap even a Seven-Star Dou Saint in two on the spot.

As for Lin Feng, after seeing this terrifying scene, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat and cursed inwardly.

After all, who would have thought that merely coming here to check things out would result in being ambushed by such a formidable enemy?

Meanwhile, while cursing silently, he also didn't forget to lift his head and look ahead at that black shadow.

Lifting his head, he saw a beetle entirely pitch‑black, with no other color, its body huge—several thousand zhang in size—appearing in his field of view.

"This is a Titan Black Shovel Armor?! Holy shit, isn't this thing supposed to have gone extinct hundreds of millions or billions of years ago? Why is it appearing in a continent sealed for less than ten thousand years?"

Upon seeing this huge beetle, Lin Feng, after a momentary lapse, recalled its information from his memory and was instantly scared out of his wits, feeling utterly terrible.

Strictly speaking, the Titan Black Shovel Armor is not a magic beast but a type of crustacean.

Of course, what shocked Lin Feng wasn't that; rather, this crustacean is an extremely ancient organism in the evolution of Dou Qi Continent's species, a living fossil among its beings.

Because, if you trace back the magic beasts of today's continent, over eighty percent are descendants of some kind of crustacean.

It is the result of certain crustaceans having to change themselves in order to adapt to some environment or evade pursuit during their evolution.

After possibly several million, or even tens of millions of years, or longer, they successfully underwent a great transformation, becoming the magic beasts of today.

Even the Primordial Ancient Dragon, one of the most ancient magic beasts today, is said to be descended from a crustacean somewhat resembling today's dragons.

This can be seen from the sturdy scales on their bodies.

Of course, after reading the life story of that Golden Core Master and some of his collected ancient texts, Lin Feng thought it more likely that this crustacean died out because it could not adapt to the Dou Qi concentration after several major declines of the Dou Qi Continent.

"Damn it, if it were any other magic beast I could at least rely on my Dragon‑Phoenix Bloodline or attack according to its traits, but I really have no idea what tricks this thing has!"

Seeing the Titan Black Shovel Armor, Lin Feng instantly grew anxious, scratching his head in vexation.

I just wanted to see what the continent of the Dou Emperor era looked like; who would have thought that as soon as I entered, I would be ambushed by an Eight-Star level magic beast.

Even worse, the creature that ambushed him turned out to be an ancient ancestor-level species of the Dou Qi Continent.

He had only seen a few words about this thing in an ancient book stored by a Golden Core Patriarch, except for knowing that such crustacean creatures grow extremely slowly and need to absorb a large amount of tree-type spiritual plant essence during their growth.

As for any other information, he knew nothing at all!

If he had to say, he also knew that due to the great decline in Dou Qi concentration on the Dou Qi Continent, most tree-type spiritual plants with stricter Dou Qi requirements consequently perished.

Thus, those crustacean creatures that lived by feeding on tree-type spiritual plants were basically forced to evolve to adapt to the current environment, becoming magic beasts that prefer to eat herbaceous spiritual plants.

Boom—

Just as Lin Feng was panicking and turning in circles, the Titan Ink Shovel Armor would not give him time to think; seeing that one strike didn't work, it immediately angrily opened its elongated upper jaws and charged wildly at Lin Feng.

Upon seeing this, Lin Feng was so frightened he almost pissed his pants, and immediately turned and ran without thinking.

After all, although he had many tricks, compared to this Eight-Star Dou Saint level magic beast ancient ancestor, he was still far inferior by an unknown amount.

However, his idea of escaping was doomed to fail; just as he was fleeing, the Titan Ink Shovel Armor suddenly emitted a burst of black light from its body.

Then its colossal body, which could be called a giant, instantly broke through the surrounding space at an unimaginable speed and came charging at him.

Holy shit, Xiao Ling, protect me!

Upon seeing this scene, Lin Feng was instantly scared to the point that cold sweat drenched his back.

After all, with an impact of that magnitude, if he were to take it head-on, his whole body would probably instantly explode into a ball of blood mist; how could he not be afraid?

Master, I'm here!

And upon receiving his command, Xiao Ling immediately burst out from within his body; then, as she waved her small hand, the rich Dou Qi of the surrounding heaven and earth frenziedly poured into her, and a gorgeous fire lotus instantly appeared before her.

Immediately afterwards, she grabbed that fire lotus, her delicate body quickly spun a few times in place, and then she fiercely flung it toward the Titan Ink Shovel Armor.

Boom!

In the next instant, the fire lotus was struck by the gigantic insect thousands of zhang tall, instantly exploding; its energy, in that moment, all rushed out and transformed into a huge mushroom cloud tens of thousands of zhang tall.

Meanwhile, as the mushroom cloud rose, a ring of surging shockwave immediately spread out, vaporizing everything within a radius of ten thousand li into nothingness.

Bang!

Amidst the spreading shockwave, Lin Feng, who had at some point summoned the Wings of the Celestial Phoenix, suddenly shot out from within, not looking back as he sped full throttle toward the front.

Furthermore, with the speed and agility of the Celestial Phoenix augmented by the Fury Dragon Flame Speed, his speed at this moment had reached an astonishingly terrifying level.

Even a Seven-Star Peak Dou Saint arriving here could only eat his dust behind him, anxiously watching his retreating back.

However, while fleeing, Lin Feng also did not forget to praise inwardly: 'Xiao Ling, well done! Now I have time to escape!'

Looking at the terrifying attack behind him that could heavily injure a Seven-Star Dou Saint, Lin Feng instantly couldn't help but feel a hint of joy.

And upon hearing the praise from the former, Lin Feng felt equally delighted, yet also helplessly reminded: "Master, you'd better be careful; just now, to block that big guy, I directly used all my energy. I can't fire another fire lotus like that now—you'd better leave quickly."

"Okay."

With rich combat experience, he naturally wouldn't make such an arrogant mistake, after all he didn't believe that fire lotus could kill that Titan Ink Shovel Armor of Eight-Star Dou Saint level.

And while responding to Xiao Ling, as Lin Feng's body was gradually covered by soul power, he also instantly changed direction, his form shooting at extreme speed toward the valley far off covered by dense forest.

Then, in just a few flashes, the former's figure vanished within that dense forest, unknown where he went.

"Boom!"

However, at the instant the former's aura vanished, within the mist produced by the exploding fire lotus, a suddenly erupted aura of overwhelming power that inspires despair.

Then only saw a black-shelled beetle thousands of zhang tall, its body enveloped in a layer of blood-red light, appear in an instant where Lin Feng had vanished, raising its pair of slender upper jaws and continually charging back and forth, emitting angry cries, trying to locate the vanished former.

And in the frenzy of the Titan Ink Shovel Armor enraged, any mountain range it touched, regardless of size, instantly shattered into countless fine powder upon contact, this terrifying power making one's blood run cold.

"Holy shit, this beetle is so fierce; I'd better get away quickly."

As the former wreaked havoc, Lin Feng, his body wrapped in soul power and hiding behind a stone in the void, instantly felt his hairs stand on end, thinking of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, fleeing as the best option.

After all, he couldn't afford to provoke him; could he not even escape?

"Boom!"

However, just as the former was about to flee, the Titan Ink Shovel Armor in the distance, upon colliding with a low-profile mountain peak only a few hundred zhang tall—while the surrounding peaks rose to tens of thousands of zhang—found that the peak was extremely inconspicuous and not only wasn't half-destroyed like the previous ones,

Instead, the mountain peak suddenly emitted a thick green light, a massive force erupted instantly, hurling the huge Titan Ink Shovel Armor thousands of zhang away, then slamming it belly-down hard onto the ground!

As for the Titan Ink Shovel Armor already in a rage, after being suddenly flung away, it instantly became even more ferocious.

Even the red light on its body deepened a notch at this moment.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

In the next moment, it swiftly flipped back, and then its six legs, agitated and uneasy, jumped wildly on the ground; with each jump, even if the Titan Ink Shovel Armor exerted no force, the simple tapping action still allowed its three pairs of sharp little legs to dig deep into the earth by dozens of zhang.

Then it raised its huge upper jaw toward the sky, and with all six legs working together, it instantly turned into a huge black shadow that slammed fiercely into the small hill emitting a green light.

Hum

Seeing the opponent attack again, the mountain peak's surface light suddenly flared, and then a plant phantom, whose purple leaves were no less than those of the Titan Ink Shovel Armor's green leaves, condensed amidst Lin Feng's stunned expression.

Afterward, the plant phantom's purple blossom swayed slightly; in an instant, a large amount of powder drifted out from it, then quickly gathered in the sky, forming a purple powder river that enveloped the Titan Ink Shovel Armor charging forward with its huge upper jaw. (End of chapter)