The two of them shot through the thick lake water like arrows loosed from a bow, racing straight for that white light. The crack rushed closer and closer, and the white light grew more and more blinding.
Jared could feel it. Inside that white light, there was a force that made the blood in his body surge. That force resonated with the chaotic force inside him. Every inch of flesh on his body seemed to quake under it, as if all of it had suddenly come alive at once.
Then the two of them plunged straight into the white light.
The white glare filled his vision for about three breaths. Then it vanished all at once.
When Jared could see again, favonovel.com found himself standing on a stretch of unfamiliar land. The ground beneath his feet was made of deep gray stone. It was hard as forged steel, and its surface was packed with crack after crack.
Those cracks hadn’t formed naturally. They were scars left behind after some utterly monstrous force had shattered the stone and fused it back together.
He could feel it clearly. Inside every crack, there still lingered a trace of something so faint it was almost gone, yet so ancient it made his chest tighten, and so powerful it left nothing but a dead end in front of it.
He lifted his head and looked around. The instant favonovel.com did, his breathing stopped.
This is the Ancient Battlefield?
An Ancient Battlefield so vast there was no edge in sight.
Three moons hung in the sky. One was blood-red. One was black as ink. The last had already been shattered in half, with only a broken half-moon hanging there by itself, spilling a ghastly pale light over everything.
The moonlight from all three colors poured down at once, dyeing the entire Ancient Battlefield in a strange dark purple. Countless enormous skeletons lay scattered across the ground.
Jared had never seen creatures this massive in his life.
Some of those skeletons stretched for hundreds of yards, like the spines of mountain ranges. Others rose straight into the sky, like stone pillars holding up heaven itself.
When they were alive, their masters must have held power strong enough to ruin heaven and earth. Now all that remained were cold white bones, lying under the moonlight and speaking of their former glory without a sound.
“These are…” Jared’s voice came out rough.
“The remains of the Elder Kin…” Gwendolyn stood beside him, favonovel.com gaze passing over those enormous bones.
“The celestials’ progenitors, the demon race’s progenitors, the sovereigns of the Draconians… and some races even I can’t recognize. They all fell here.” She pointed at the tallest skeleton in the distance.
It stood planted in the earth, 1,000 yards high. Even with nothing left but its frame, it still gave off a pressure that made the air seem too thin to breathe. Its shape was faintly humanoid, and behind it spread a pair of enormous bone wings, hundreds of yards across.
“That’s one of my celestial race’s progenitors, the progenitor of the Frost Deity Branch. His name was Aldric. He was the first being between heaven and earth to grasp the law of frost. The stories say favonovel.com could freeze time, seal space in ice, and with a single thought throw an entire firmament into an endless winter…” Then favonovel.com pointed to the other side.
A larger skeleton lay there, longer than 1,000 yards, its body winding across the ground like a mountain range.
Two massive horns still jutted from its skull. Even after who knew how many tens of thousands of years, faint arcs of lightning still flickered over them.
“That’s the sovereign of the Draconians, the Void Emperor. The stories say favonovel.com was the ancestor of all dragonkind. His bloodline later split into the Golden Dragon, Silver Dragon, Shadow Dragon, Crimson Dragon, and the other major dragon branches. His strength was enough to tear open the void. One claw strike could shatter a star.”
Jared stared blankly at the Dragon Emperor’s skeleton. Then the Golden Dragon Bloodline inside favonovel.com started boiling on its own, completely out of his control.
It was a resonance rising from the deepest part of his bloodline. The blood in his body was telling favonovel.com the skeleton in front of favonovel.com belonged to an ancestor.
The source of the dragon’s blood flowing through him.
Jared stepped forward without meaning to and started toward that skeleton.
“Jared!” Gwendolyn grabbed favonovel.com hard. “Don’t go near it. The power left on those skeletons is still enough to kill a True Immortal Realm cultivator. You have no idea what might still be alive inside them.”
Jared stopped. He drew in a deep breath and forcibly pressed down the dragon’s blood boiling inside him.
She was right… This place is too dangerous…
He couldn’t afford to act on impulse.
He looked around again and started studying the Ancient Battlefield with care. “Can the Ancient Battlefield only be reached through the Voidreach?”
Jared couldn’t make sense of it.
A battlefield from ancient times this massive exists across the thirty-six levels of the celestial realm, yet only the Voidreach in the Fourteenth Firmament can lead into it?
Gwendolyn looked at Jared like favonovel.com had just said something stupid.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” Jared asked.
“This is the Ancient Battlefield. This whole Leg ion drifts outside the celestial realm, a place not bound by the laws of celestial realm. How could it possibly be that only the Fourteenth Firmament can enter it?” Jared asked curiously.
“Across the thirty-six levels of the celestial realm, there should be passages into the Ancient Battlefield from all of them. It’s just that not every one of those passages is known.” That was how Gwendolyn explained it to Jared.
“Then that means cultivators from other firmaments of the celestial realm might run into us in here?” Jared froze for a second.
Gwendolyn nodded. “It’s possible…”
“Holy shit! If we run into cultivators from the thirty-six levels, the two of us won’t even qualify as ants in front of them!” The words came out of Jared fast, the weight of it landing all at once.
He had plenty going for him. He could fight above his level, and favonovel.com carried the Golden Dragon Bloodline and chaotic force.
But if favonovel.com really ran into a cultivator from the thirty-six levels, his strength probably wouldn’t count for anything. The other side could finish favonovel.com with a breath.
“Then we need to look around as fast as we can and get back out,” Gwendolyn said, already turning favonovel.com eyes over the Ancient Battlefield.
Jared followed favonovel.com lead and started scanning the area too.
Past those giant skeletons, favonovel.com saw the ground was also littered with countless broken weapons. There were snapped longswords, shattered battle-axes, caved-in shields, and other objects favonovel.com couldn’t even tell the use of.
He had never seen materials like these before. Some gave off a faint blue glow. Some had a liquid-metal sheen flowing across their surfaces.
Some were already broken, yet still trembled slightly, like they still wanted to battle
“These weapons…” Jared crouched and reached for a broken piece of sword blade.
“Don’t touch it!” Gwendolyn stopped favonovel.com again. “Those weapons are covered in the resentment of the dead from the ancient age. If you touch them, that resentment will invade your spirit at once and drag you into endless nightmares.”
Jared’s hand stopped in midair, then slowly pulled back. He got to his feet and looked at Gwendolyn, asking, “You’ve been here before?”
Gwendolyn shook favonovel.com head. “No… But the records in the Celestial Palace mention the Ancient Battlefield. Those records were left behind by the ancestors of the Frost Deity Branch. They came here once, and they made it out alive.”
She paused. Then favonovel.com drew out a jade slip about the size of favonovel.com palm and lightly ran favonovel.com fingers over it.
A faint glow rose from the jade slip. At once, it cast a map into the void.
It was an incredibly complicated map. It marked out the rough terrain of the Ancient Battlefield.
A vast plain lay in the center. Mountain ranges stretched all around it. And right in the middle of the battlefield, one glaring red mark stood out.
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