Chapter 231: The Gate of the Return Ruins

Inside Guixu Dian, it was empty and boundless.

Chen Mo stepped inside, only to feel that the hall was incomparably desolate, and he looked around.

Outside the palace, it was magnificent, and the palace built with gold and stone as materials radiated dazzling treasure light.

Yet inside this palace, there was none of the splendor of the outside world; looking up, the great hall was extremely high, towering for several hundred zhang.

However, the materials used to build the palace were all very simple and ancient bluestone, without any miraculous qualities.

There was only one point of specialty, which was that this bluestone was incomparably hard, regardless of Heavenly Law or the passage of time, sun, and moon.

This bluestone would quietly remain here, not changed by any external objects.

Chen Mo stepped forward, and in the center of this palace was a peculiar door.

This was an ancient bronze door, not very large, three zhang and seven chi high, and two zhang wide.

This ancient bronze door was three chi thick, with quite a lot of dark green verdigris on it, as if its power had not been activated for a long time.

Of course, regarding the specific reason, the Ruins Realm was also born because of the Mirage Sea invasion.

Because the rules of the Ruins Realm are often completely unexpected, and even contrary to common sense.

These people fell within the Return Ruins, and everything they carried that belonged to this era would also remain within the Return Ruins.

And those who dare to explore the Return Ruins and want to obtain supreme treasures must not be lacking in strength.

Some lone powerhouses or rogue cultivators do not wish to join factions, but also want to leave behind their own inheritance in the world.

But although the Return Ruins symbolizes ruin and extinction, where all things reach their end, there will no longer be any new changes.

Unlike the Mirage Sea, the Ruins Realm is a kind of anomaly produced by this world itself.

Otherwise, how could it exist without being destroyed by the power of the Return Ruins?

Besides this, many powerhouses of this era will also leave behind inheritances within the Return Ruins.

It is just that they still exist, and inside there are strange, extreme laws or Ruins Beasts.

Of course, in this era, such powerhouses are always in the minority.

They will choose to leave their own inheritance within the Return Ruins, in order to select a successor.

In short, the Return Ruins is a place full of opportunities and risks.

Later generations continue to explore, and can also obtain these treasures for their own use.

Furthermore, the Return Ruins is not completely stable and peaceful, with Guixu Storm, Ruins Beasts, and other living beings.

Added to the fact that it is a product of the previous era, it has no possibility of reaching an end in this era.

Yet within the Return Ruins, there will likewise be many things remaining.

Chen Mo reached out to touch the ancient bronze door; according to the information he possessed, as long as he pushed open the ancient bronze door, he could enter the legendary Return Ruins.

True nothingness is where even the concept of extinction does not exist.

Some are left behind by the supreme powerhouses of the previous era, and even after experiencing the power of the Return Ruins, they have not perished.

Chen Mo was not sure if there was some connection between the Return Ruins and the Ruins Realm.

Within the Return Ruins, all things are in a state of ruin and extinction, forever belonging to the moment just before they completely disappear.

As long as one does not actively step into it, the Ruins Realm itself will not erupt, and those with weaker cultivation will also be unable to see its anomalies.

Some people want to explore the Return Ruins and obtain these supreme treasures, so the risk is naturally not low.

Legend says that place is the remnant land of the previous era, the place where everything reaches its end.

Even if they considered that they would fall, their weapons and some particularly rare pills must have been carried with them.

The Return Ruins, a place of ancient legend.

Because he was not sure if there was a connection between the Return Ruins and the Ruins Realm.

And those treasures and weapons left behind by the previous era often possess great power themselves or are protected by an Array.

As long as these things can be taken out of the Return Ruins, they are all rare supreme treasures.

With Chen Mo's current strength, he has the power to protect himself even when facing a powerhouse of the True One Realm.

Chen Mo looked at the ancient bronze door before him, or rather, the Gui Xu Gate; he was not in a hurry to open the door.

It is just that because the Heavenly Law has further perfected, the power of these very strange Ruins Realms has been further suppressed.

But if there are certain bizarre rules, then using puppets or even living people might be completely unable to investigate them.

Whether there exist extremely bizarre creatures and rules there—if they were just powerful living beings, then that would not be a problem.

With Chen Mo's current strength, when facing some relatively weak Ruins Realms, he can completely ignore any rules, because his power is already stronger than that Ruins Realm.

The reason the Return Ruins has not completely ended and disappeared is because it only represents ruin and extinction, and not complete return to nothingness.

Because through the Return Ruins, any world can communicate and interact with others.

In fact, until now, many Ruins Realms still remain within the Cangxuan World and the Xuantian World.

The treasures truly contained within the Return Ruins are still those supreme treasures left behind by the powerhouses of the previous era.

Moreover, he could completely use puppets to go and investigate; if there were truly formidable living beings, at worst he would simply not enter the Return Ruins himself.

But the Return Ruins, as a land of the end that has existed since ancient times, is a ruin of the previous era.

Chen Mo dared not guarantee whether it would also undergo some kind of mutation due to the Mirage Sea invasion.

If that were truly the case, rashly entering the Return Ruins would inevitably be incomparably dangerous.

Chen Mo did not intend to rashly enter it at present; the previous battle had ended, and he had not yet had time to digest the resources he had obtained.

He would first digest these things, absorb them cleanly, and turn them into his own strength.

Then he would prepare to explore this Return Ruins; there was no need to go in person, he would first use the puppet refined by Ziyuan Daoist, and if it were safe, he would then dispatch the black scorpion to enter and explore.

After ensuring there was no risk of failure, he would then enter it himself.

In addition, there was one most important point, which was that the Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid was insufficient.

Pushing open the Gui Xu Gate and entering the Return Ruins also requires Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid.

Chen Mo currently has only a little over 20,000 drops of Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid remaining.

It seems like a lot, but considering he still needs to support his own cultivation, this quantity is not very impressive.

Every palace within the Heavenly Court Secret Realm has mysterious functions, but no matter what one wishes to do, it requires the consumption of Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid.

Chen Mo left this palace and returned to the Main Hall, taking out the two Mirage Spirits and the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Inverse Scale stored in his Storage Ring.

The two Mirage Spirits had fallen completely silent; the originally dim, cyan-gray stone eggs were now even closer to total lifelessness.

As for the White Jade Bone Fragment, which was in slightly better condition, it was also currently dim and obscure.

Only the golden-red dragon scale emitted a hazy, treasure-like light like flowing water, constantly resonating with the surrounding Heaven and Earth Power.

Chen Mo grabbed the scale, feeling the resonance between the Dragon Race bloodline within the scale and the heavens and earth.

Although the power within this Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Inverse Scale is primarily that of the Dragon Race bloodline.

The power contained within the scale itself can also be described as quite extraordinary.

Wisps of Dragon Race bloodline power were guided into his body by him; the Transformation Pearl operated continuously, absorbing these bloodline powers completely in just an instant.

The Transformation Pearl charges very quickly, and the bloodline power contained within this dragon scale is even more pure.

Although it has undergone countless Mortal Transformations, the power required for the Transformation Pearl to charge once is now quite substantial.

Yet the power contained within this scale, even after passing through countless years, remains vast and majestic.

The power consumed by Chen Mo for this charging session was merely two or three percent of the entire dragon scale.

Not only that, in the process of charging the Transformation Pearl.

Chen Mo also sensed the extraordinary nature of this Dragon Race bloodline; just by having the bloodline power flow through his physical body.

He could feel his physical body stirring, wanting to absorb and assimilate this power.

This was indeed somewhat unexpected; logically speaking, as a member of the Human Race, he should not be able to absorb these bloodline powers.

If one were to force an absorption, it would only alter one's own bloodline and turn one into a dragon-human.

But the mutation Chen Mo currently felt was clearly not that.

His physical body seemed capable of completely devouring and absorbing these Dragon Race bloodline powers.

If he could truly achieve this step, then there would be no need to use the Transformation Pearl at all.

Furthermore, he could make the best use of all the Dragon Race bloodline power and absorb it all completely.

Although the Transformation Pearl has wonderful uses, if too much of the same Heavenly Law is absorbed, it becomes difficult for it to exert its effect.

In other words, the Transformation Pearl only absorbs the most essential power, and the power absorbed each time is never repeated.

Because only the transformation of new power can allow his physical body to contain more Heavenly Law, advancing further toward the realm of sanctifying the body.

And Chen Mo's physical body now requires far more than just this power, especially his Small World, which needs too much Heavenly Law power to fill.

If he could directly refine the bloodline power within the golden-red dragon scale, it would be of great help to his subsequent cultivation.

It would greatly shorten the time spent on his painstaking cultivation to fill the Small World with laws.

Chen Mo once again drew a wisp of bloodline power into his body, but he did not rush to absorb it.

This wisp of Dragon Race bloodline power wandered through his body before he finally sent it into his Small World.

This is the safest method; if he were to have problems absorbing this Dragon Race bloodline power, it would take a long time to remove it later.

But the Small World is different; even if a problem really did occur, he could simply use other Heavenly Laws to annihilate this wisp of power.

The bloodline power entered his body, resonated with the other Heavenly Laws in Chen Mo's Small World, and was subsequently devoured and refined by him, turning into new law power.

This process was very smooth, and no abnormalities occurred.

Seen this way, he really can use this scale for cultivation.

Even so, Chen Mo still did not act rashly; he took out his Cangxuan Alliance Token and opened a Space Gate.

With the help of space power, he began to communicate with the Ancestral Spirit, asking it to search for all methods within the Heaven and Earth Profound Gate regarding the use of Dragon Race bloodline power.

Since he has the foundation of a world to rely on, there is no reason not to use it.

Methods for using Dragon Race bloodlines are indeed rare in this era, mainly because the Dragon Race is constantly dwindling, causing these methods to gradually lose their utility.

Therefore, the experts who originally established the Heaven and Earth Profound Gate did not deliberately leave behind these method inheritances.

But it is precisely because no one used these methods later that any that were preserved have been kept relatively intact.

Chen Mo looked at the Jade Slips sent by the Ancestral Spirit through the Space Gate; there are thirteen methods in total preserved by the humans of the Cangxuan World regarding the use and refining of Dragon Race bloodline power.

Seven of these methods involve devouring Dragon Race bloodlines to turn oneself into a dragon-human, in order to increase physical potential, cultivation aptitude, and lifespan.

The Dragon Race is different from the Human Race; the lifespan of the Dragon Race is naturally much longer, and even the lifespan of a dragon-human is far, far longer than that of an ordinary person.

Therefore, some humans would change their own bloodlines to extend their lifespans, turning themselves into dragon-humans.

The disadvantage is that using acquired means to become a dragon-human requires a high-quality Dragon Race bloodline, and there is a certain risk that the bloodlines will not harmonize, leading to the collapse of the physical body and the total destruction of the Martial Artist's cultivation.

So even though becoming a dragon-human has many benefits, it is not something everyone can easily achieve.

Moreover, if the bloodline is not pure, subsequent cultivation to ascend to the True One Realm will be much more difficult, and aspiring to the supreme realm is even more impossible.

Even in the ancient era, this method of becoming a dragon-human was only used by those with mediocre aptitude and comprehension.

True top-tier geniuses would never need to use such methods.

Among the remaining six methods, three are for refining and extracting Dragon Race bloodlines to be made into pills.

The bloodline power is then consumed by spirit beasts that can transform into dragons, such as golden carp or great pythons.

The Qi and Blood within the bloodline can also be refined into pills for Martial Artists to consume.

Chen Mo only gave these methods a rough glance and did not look at them in detail.

Among the remaining three methods, one is called the Dragon Blood Body Tempering Method.

This method allows one to bathe the physical body in Dragon Race bloodline power and devour it, causing the physical body to undergo a Mortal Transformation.

Through this method, a Martial Artist can refine the Dragon Race bloodline using their own human bloodline to enhance their own bloodline power.

But the prerequisite for practicing this method is that it has extremely high requirements for the Martial Artist's physical body.

For Chen Mo's current physical body, it can be called more than enough.

In addition, there is a method called the Heaven Refining Earth Transforming Method; this method is very simple, and there is no difficulty in practicing it.

It is just that the threshold is relatively high, and only Martial Artists in the Myriad Phenomena Realm can practice it.

It has only one function, which is to enable Martial Artists to refine heaven and earth treasures faster and replenish their own power.

Whether it is the bloodline power of the Dragon Race or other heaven and earth treasures, using this method can refine them faster and integrate them into one's own Small World.

Heaven and earth treasures that originally required one year to refine only need half a year after using this method.

This kind of improvement can be called quite considerable; as long as they do not encounter a bottleneck, by practicing this method, a Martial Artist can improve their strength faster.

The reason Chen Mo sought out these methods, besides wanting to practice them, was also to confirm one point.

That is, refining this Dragon Race bloodline power into the Small World next will not cause hidden dangers to his future cultivation.

Having collected the methods he needed, Chen Mo first put away the other two Mirage Spirits.

Carrying the Jade Slip and the golden-red Inverse Scale, he arrived inside the Hengyu Asking Dao Hall; the grand hall was still a scene of golden splendor.

With the fusion of the two Heavenly Court Secret Realms, the Creation Mechanism has been further improved, aside from the few newly born palaces.

The few palaces previously possessed within the secret realm have had their power raised to a higher level.

The Hengyu Asking Dao Hall can now adjust the flow rate between inside and outside to one to fifteen.

One day passes in the outside world, and it is already fifteen days inside the hall.

Of course, the Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid consumed to maintain this state is also more, requiring a full two hundred drops every day.

Chen Mo was not that anxious; there was no need to let the Hengyu Asking Dao Hall maintain this state, as the normal ratio of one to ten was sufficient for use.

The Zoudou Fazhe circulated, and the heaven and earth outside instantly slowed down.

Chen Mo took out a Putan and sat cross-legged, picking up that dragon scale; the surging power of the Dragon Race bloodline churned and rushed forth.

As these powers surged into his physical body, Chen Mo operated the method, using these bloodline powers to baptize his physical body.

He did not rashly attempt to multitask; the bloodline power that had baptized his physical body was then sent into the Small World to be transformed into the power of Myriad Phenomena Law.

Time passed continuously, and the bloodline power Chen Mo absorbed became more and more abundant.

However, compared to the power contained within this dragon scale itself, the amount he absorbed could not really be called much.

Three months of time passed in a flash, and the law power contained within Chen Mo's Small World finally became full.

And Chen Mo's physical body, after receiving the baptism of the Dragon Race bloodline, also underwent many profound changes.

(End of this chapter)