Chapter 726

The red lotus entered the chaotic cave first, only to see that in the boundless darkness, a beam of light shone from the end, gradually extending a path in the dark void, leading to the Return to Ruins at the end.

Those various phantoms of secret realms were the illusions reflected from the end!

The Karmic Fire Red Lotus flew into it, resembling a blooming lotus flower on this path of light.

Across the path formed by the dim light, one could vaguely see that outside the channel's barrier were countless spatial turbulence flows, within which there was no concept of direction, distance, etc.; stepping into it, one would not know where they would appear in the next instant.

It seemed that if one wave of those turbulence flows were to strike, it would drown them.

On the ancient Longcheng that followed behind, a divine light flashed in the eyes of an ancient dragon, looking at the light source reflected from the Return to Ruins, and suddenly said: "We are still far from the Return to Ruins here; in the spatial turbulence, nothing can be positioned."

"If we are swept into it, we might be together one moment, and separated by hundreds of millions of miles the next; it is a place where even Primordial Spirit True Immortals can easily get lost!"

"Now that we can head to the Return to Ruins, it is all thanks to this mirror light reflected from the Return to Ruins. If I am not mistaken, this light should be reflected by the Dew-Bearing Gold and Silver Plate..."

"Then by following this light down, we should be able to find the Dew-Bearing Plate!"

On the ancient Longcheng, an extremely old, blind true dragon suddenly had purple-gold divine light bloom in its gray-white eyes, looking toward the source of this beam of light.

It only took one look and was horrified, saying: "Sure enough, the Dew-Bearing Plate has fallen into the secret land of the Return to Ruins!"

"This secret land is wondrous beyond words; I see it established on the back shell of a golden turtle, gathering the endless creation of the Return to Ruins; it is a place of turtle-hiding!"

"Those worlds that fell into the Return to Ruins contain more than hundreds of millions of dragon veins; although most have already been annihilated by the Return to Ruins, dragon qi is an inconceivable existence. After passing through the tribulation, they can instead transform. Now, it seems there are a thousand heavenly dragons descending to nourish that piece of turtle-hiding land..."

"Our Hong Hong Sihai Long Gong only has nine dragons gathered! This place is actually a grand formation of a thousand dragons, ten thousand dragons worshipping! It's just that..."

Seeing that incredibly old dragon suddenly speak, even that Primordial Spirit Long Wang attached great importance to it.

This was a master of geomancy for the Dragon Clan, a true dragon formed from a remnant dragon vein nurtured within the earth's veins. It was born knowing yin and yang, understanding feng shui, and now, after countless generations of studying the secret techniques of the Dragon Clan and surveying the sea areas of the cosmic realms, it had already become a grandmaster!

Those two blind eyes were divine eyes; because it had seen through too much of heaven's secrets, it was envied by heaven and blinded by divine light sent from heaven at the moment of its birth.

Now, it relied entirely on the pupil techniques and supernatural powers passed down by the Long Gong to temporarily stimulate a fraction of the remaining power of its divine eyes.

"Just what? Old Dou Dou Xiayan One, speak..." the Long Wang asked solemnly.

That blind old dragon hesitated, feeling its blind stick. Its eyes were punished by heaven, so even its spiritual sense was chaotic. Although its cultivation was extraordinary, it had always been protected by the Dragon Clan in the Long Gong because it had no combat power. If it didn't use its life to open its divine eyes, it was afraid that even mortals could come and go freely under its eyelids.

"It's just that this turtle-hiding land gives me a very immature feeling, still in the stage of swallowing the creation of the Return to Ruins. If it can pass through countless tribulations and transform from turtle-hiding to a latent dragon trend, it will be an extraordinary heavenly realm divine soil; and if it were to..."

It spoke up to here, and even it couldn't believe it itself!

"Hehe... this matter is mostly impossible! I'll just say it for now. The myriad worlds swallowed by the Return to Ruins are vast and mighty, already countless in number, and the creation within is already boundless. Perhaps... it can already nurture the prototype of the cosmos!"

"What!"

The Primordial Spirit Long Wang suddenly stood up, raising the ancient Longcheng to suppress all auras.

It immediately asked anxiously: "Is the Old Dou Dou Xiayan One saying that the secret realm has the potential of the cosmos!"

"It's difficult! How difficult it is to achieve the cosmos; world promotion is ten thousand times more difficult than our own cultivation, and furthermore, it was born in a place of extinction like the Return to Ruins."

"Its creation is just beginning to condense and is still very immature, but such creation conflicts with the essence of the Return to Ruins. Now that it is turtle-hiding, there is still the descent of human tribulations for us; once it turns into a latent dragon in the abyss, I'm afraid it will provoke the counterattack of the Return to Ruins!"

"This kind of land of creation must be shattered hundreds of millions of times. After countless ages, when the Return to Ruins has swallowed more than half of the cosmic realm sea and the world is heading toward its end, only then, because the most terrifying extinction tribulation at the center of the Return to Ruins is the weakest, will it truly condense creation and nurture the true prototype of the cosmos!"

"Even so, this is an extremely important piece of news!" the Long Wang said solemnly.

"The myriad worlds are nothing but constant sand rising and falling; only the cosmos remains constant and unmoved! Dao, Buddha, and Demon are collectively called the three religions because they have opened up their own cosmic worlds! Even though the Demon Path has suffered countless blows, it has never fallen into such a decline as our Dragon Clan, because it has the protection of the Nine Heavens and can always recover its vitality!"

"When our Dragon Clan was at its peak, under the leadership of the Ancestral Dragon, we once dominated the Hong Hong Sihai and even vied for the Primordial, ruling all post-heaven living beings! But once the Ancestral Dragon left, it was like the tide receding, sand rolling; now we can only rely on the old lands of the Hong Hong Sihai to survive and retain a trace of vitality."

"If we could occupy a cosmos, why worry about the Dragon Clan not flourishing?"

The blind old dragon shook its head incessantly: "This is not the time for this heaven to be nurtured. This secret land is just a fleeting creation within the Return to Ruins and will sooner or later be annihilated by the tribulation. We can just go and seize a few points of the creation nurtured within it; don't ever have the idea of occupying the secret land! Even if our Dragon Clan exhausted all our strength and brought out the legacy left by the Ancestral Dragon, we couldn't protect it!"

"Even if suppressed by the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, it can only suppress it for tens of thousands of years. After fifty thousand years, even the Ancestral Dragon Pearl will be worn away by the Return to Ruins!"

"Unless, unless there is a spirit treasure stronger than the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, or even one that is indestructible through eternal tribulations, can it truly nurture the prototype of the cosmos... but how is this possible!"

The blind old dragon spoke up to here and suddenly shook its head.

The old Daoist also squinted his eyes and stared at that mirror light. He saw rolling Xuanhuang qi dropping toward that secret realm, as if the Return to Ruins were extracting the creation of the myriad worlds to irrigate it!

But the old Daoist knew that this creation was ultimately temporary. The Return to Ruins was terrifying and peerless, like a great millstone, grinding away the infinite worlds of the myriad worlds. This secret land was just like a piece of debris floating in a tsunami vortex, and it would eventually be shredded!

It was impossible for it to take root and grow into an island at the center of the vortex.

But he saw a terrifying demon shadow with three heads and eight arms from that mirror light...

The demon shadow sat on a lotus flower; one head resembled white bone, currently miraculously regenerating flesh and blood; one head resembled a Nine Heavens Demon God, supporting four arms, operating the Return to Ruins like a turning wheel; the last head was a youth, stepping on a lotus flower, his eyes clear, his front hands holding a bright pearl, his back hands lifting a red silk that overturned the sky, resembling a blood river running through the Return to Ruins, one hand holding a fire-tipped golden spear laid across his half-crossed legs!

This figure reflected in the mirror light seemed to be just a glance from the old Daoist's distraction, yet it made the hair all over his body suddenly stand on end...

"Huo!"

The old Daoist retreated several steps in horror, and was pulled by Xiao Yu: "Old Daoist, what's wrong? Could it be that you saw your old mistress..."

"Don't speak yet!" The old Daoist raised his hand to stop him and continued to stare intently, but after being interrupted by Xiao Yu, he could no longer see any abnormality, as if that scene just now was just an illusion...

"So fierce!"

"This place is so fierce!"

The old Daoist said with lingering fear; if the Green Ox were here, it would definitely treat him as a soulmate.

"Didn't the Wind-Hearing Tower mention it? The Return to Ruins is the place of the end of the myriad worlds; of course, it's fierce..." Xiao Yu laughed.

The old Daoist shook his head solemnly: "I'm not saying the Return to Ruins is fierce, but that our destination is fierce. Beneath that great creation, it nurtures a kind of indescribable ferocity; that is the great miraculousness of death and rebirth, the great extinction of operating the Return to Ruins, and the great wisdom and great obsession of smiling while holding the pearl!"

Standing on the lid of the alchemy furnace, Dan Gu Chenzi walked along the edge of the light beam, letting those spatial turbulence flows permeate in and spin the furnace beneath him, yet he saw the alchemy furnace remain unmoved, not fearing the spatial turbulence at all.

He just laughed: "I'm afraid we are about to enter the Illusion Sea ahead!"

"The Illusion Sea actually has another name, called the Vital Energy Tribulation! It is the process of the boundless vital energy falling into the Return to Ruins, slowly perishing amidst the tribulation. Therefore, those illusions are transformed from the spiritual qi of many worlds, within which many good things will condense. In the past, before the Illusion Sea was beaten into the Chaotic Star Sea by the Immortal Qin Heavenly Court, my Tushita Palace often searched for spiritual materials for alchemy here..."

"Although the outer illusions are dangerous, they are ultimately just transformed from spiritual qi. The vital energy within has already begun to perish, transforming into various terrifying disasters, filled with Corrosive Immortal True Water, Infinite Wind Malevolence, Red Lotus Karmic Fire, Decay Tribulation Defeated Stone, etc."

"Turning that place into a scene of doomsday!"

"You all need to be careful and more careful; don't leave my Valley Immortal Furnace by even half a step!"

As the crowd advanced with difficulty along the light beam amidst the void storms, even though the light beam reflected from the Return to Ruins secret land by the Dew-Bearing Plate solved the biggest problem of losing direction in the void storms.

But these void storms that were stirred up from time to time could still easily wear down Nascent Soul cultivators!

Even if a Soul Transformation fell into it, without being able to find the direction, they might not necessarily be able to persist for a few days.

The Riven-Mountain Dragon Whale ridden by the Northern Pole Great Brightness Palace became increasingly uneasy; this giant beast, comparable to a Primordial Spirit, let out a long, mournful cry, continuing forward reluctantly...

And at this moment, the void turbulence on both sides finally changed its appearance, resembling spiritual light floating like seawater.

Giant waves wrapped around countless spiritual lights, turning into layer upon layer of illusions.

It seemed that once the spiritual light moved, illusions would be derived, turning the spiritual light into a mirage; it's just that this mirage contained the Great Dao and spiritual qi of the myriad worlds, wondrous and boundless, not comparable to ordinary mirage qi!

A giant Kun shook its head and wagged its tail, swimming freely in the Illusion Sea; it had the clear and spiritual wood of cloud smoke on its head, swimming side by side with everyone curiously.

It even greeted everyone in a friendly manner!

"Yi!"

On the Penglai starship, that Soul Transformation cultivator stared at the cloud-smoke wood on the giant Kun's head, unable to help but hesitate, reaching out a true qi giant hand, fishing toward the giant Kun, suddenly making a move against it!