Several individuals flashed into the blue light, vanishing into this secret realm. Suddenly, their vision brightened, and as their sight gradually returned, they were all stunned. Before them lay an boundless expanse, with five-colored divine light scattering everywhere. Ancient structures occupied a third of their view. This was no mere ancient ruin; it was as if an entire city had been sealed away.
After being stunned for dozens of breaths, Dian Wei and the others finally stepped into this ancient city. The moment they entered, they could still feel a relatively strong sense of vitality, the aura of living beings. However, it was a pity that despite the life force within the entire city, not a single living being was present.
"This city is preserved in excellent condition. The ancient War of the Gods did not affect it. Where did the beings within this city go!" Wang Yunxuan asked in shock, looking all around.
Everything before them was too mysterious and peculiar. It was as if in the previous breath, this was a city teeming with millions of living beings, and in the next moment, they had arrived in this era. Life force still lingered, but all things had vanished.
Many buildings were still entwined with numerous green plants. Strangely, it was as if they were blocked by some immense, mysterious energy, completely freezing these plants in their state from the moment before.
As they ventured further, crossing this vast city, magnificent mountain peaks came into view. Countless great rivers surged from the mountains, carrying the dense and profound spiritual energy of the peaks. As the river water churned, it exploded outwards.
"What terrifying divine power was required to completely seal away an entire region, yet still preserve such potent spiritual energy?!"
"With such a grand gesture from the Immortal Lord, was it truly just to seal the Primordial Spirit of the Candle Dragon? The scale of this sealed land is tens of thousands of times larger than the Blood Sea Suspended Coffins, the Northern Nether Sea, and the Candle Tomb!"
"If another secret realm is the place where the Candle Dragon's Primordial Spirit is sealed, then what is this place before us that has been sealed?!"
Standing on this land, everyone was greatly shocked. They had already confirmed that the Candle Dragon's Primordial Spirit was sealed in another secret realm. So, for what purpose had the Immortal Lord gone to such lengths to seal away this complete land, untouched by war?
The ancient War of the Gods had swept across the entire Three Thousand Dao Provinces, with countless battlefields, each terrifying. Especially in the Eastern Remote Land where they were located, the horrific war centered around the Undying City had cost the annihilation of dozens of Dao Provinces before it finally ended.
Innumerable lives were lost, Dao Provinces shattered. Cities preserved as intact as the one before them, untouched by the ravages of war, were extremely rare. For a place that could serve as a foundation for the world to remain, why did the Immortal Lord employ such great divine abilities to seal it completely? Looking at the empty city, with its abundant life force, it was clear that before the Immortal Lord unleashed his divine abilities, he must have transferred all the beings of this place out before dragging this land into the great formation for long-term sealing.
The group walked and stopped, and amidst these mountains, they discovered quite a few ancient spiritual materials from the bygone era!
Perhaps due to the Immortal Lord's sealing, which isolated it from the Great Dao, time did not flow here. These ancient spiritual materials were permanently preserved from before the sealing.
Half an hour later, the group was greatly disappointed. From the previous city to the mountains before them, they had found no useful information. However, they did discover traces left by Xia Xin Yu and Wang Zhuo. With that, the group once again traversed the sky, heading deeper. Xia Xin Yu and Wang Zhuo were beings from the ancient era and would undoubtedly know more than them simply wandering around here.
Just as they entered another grotto-heaven within the secret realm, outside this sealed land, the supreme firmament was in an uproar. Even the leading elders of the eight great families of the Central Province, at the core periphery of the sealed land, were all greatly shaken.
Within roughly a single day, all the beings of the Gu family perished. Following that, the Chu family and Hong family beings were successively annihilated. Not to mention the beings from forces like the Black Water Immortal Dynasty. After about half a day, all the beings of the Jian family and Zhan family were annihilated. Only two to three beings survived from the Hun family and the Jiang Zuo lineage.
Within one day, the beings who entered the two core secret realms were almost entirely annihilated, with fewer than a few dozen surviving.
RUMBLE!!
At the entrance to the sealed land, beings emerged from time to time. Most of them stayed at the periphery of the sealed land. In just over ten days, how many beings below the level of Supremes had perished!
Within the void, an ancestor of the Zhan family was filled with rage. The forces invested in the sealed land by the Wang, Zhan, Jian, and Gu families now only had Wang Yunxuan, Wang Le, and Wang Zhuo of the Wang family remaining; everyone else had perished.
This casualty count far exceeded that of the battle in the Northern Nether Sea decades ago. The casualties of the Jiang Zuo lineage, Hong family, Hun family, and Chu family were also immense. Inflicting a thousand losses on the enemy while sustaining eight hundred on oneself. The extent of the damage was not important. What angered the ancestor of the Zhan family was that the three survivors from their four clans were unable to resist the surviving beings from the four clans of the Jiang Zuo lineage. From the current situation, their attempt to intercept the four clans of the Hong family had failed.
Failure!
This meant that the Primordial Spirit of the Candle Dragon might be unsealed!
A bloody war sweeping across the Three Thousand Dao Provinces was imminent. The Three Thousand Dao Provinces, which had been peaceful and tranquil for nearly an era, were about to erupt. Darkness would descend, and countless forces would be completely reshuffled!
"What exactly happened inside?"
Zhan Qianshan, an elder of the Zhan family, clutched the three shattered jade slips in his hand, his eyes filled with undisguised fear. It wasn't just him; Jian Lan and Gu Xing were also greatly shocked. Wang Fu, standing beside them, cautiously glanced at the three intact jade slips in his hand. Of the four clans that had entered the sealed land, only these three from the Wang family remained.
At this moment, Dian Wei and the others, located within the secret realm's grotto-heaven, traversed the void. It took them an hour to leave the boundless mountains far behind. Ahead lay another endless grassland.
Grass, the size of a human palm, covered this land. Dian Wei and the others walked forward for about three hundred li and saw a huge, withered tree. The tree was incredibly tall, its top out of sight. It had very few branches and no leaves, flowers, or spiritual fruits. All it bore were large, yellow spiritual masses, about a zhang in size.
There were not many, only thirteen in total!
Within these thirteen yellow spiritual masses, a blurry figure sat cross-legged. It resembled a living being's primordial spirit. It seemed alive, its chest rising and falling. Little points of yellow starlight flickered. The dense spiritual energy that filled the air suddenly surged. These thirteen yellow spiritual masses suddenly emitted a terrifying aura. The firmament directly split open a huge gap, lightning raged, and the void crackled, shattering the thick clouds.