Chapter 108: The Celestial Rabbit (Seventh Watch)

  "Follow me!" Tang Yan reminded Du Yang and Xu Yan, and quickly ran out.

  All the way east, dodging massive boulders that could fall at any moment, the three of them leapt and bounded across the rugged ruins. From time to time, people would emerge from the rubble nearby, but no one paid attention to these three mine slaves, who were all still in shock, looking around nervously at the apocalyptic scene.

  Tang Yan rushed out for a full four or five hundred kilometers and finally arrived at the edge of the ruins.

  Looking back, the dust rolled over, as if it were an endless ocean rushing forward. The boulders fell like a meteor shower destroying the earth, and it seemed as though the entire world was collapsing. The corpses of demons and warriors could be seen everywhere.

  But after leaving the ruins area, the world in front of them made the three people a little dazed.

  The endless land is filled with a bleak whiteness, all sand and withered wood, as far as the eye can see; the sky stretches out in a vast grayness, without clouds or light, extending to the end of the boundless world.

  On the vast land, ancient trees can be faintly seen, some are thin and twisted, swaying in the wind, others stand upright, majestic like mountains, but all of them have lost their color, all the ancient trees are dead.

  Silence! Deathly silence!

  No breath of life!

  On the vast grayish-white land filled with sand and gravel, occasionally some dilapidated stone pillars appear, standing alone as if there used to be magnificent palaces that have collapsed and weathered over billions of years, leaving only these pillars standing silently, reminiscing about their past glory.

  Uh-uh! The black girl showed a restless mood, her body was covered with black electric sparks, and she felt an enormous threat.

  "What kind of place is this? Why do I feel like my whole body is covered in goosebumps?" Du Yang had never felt this way before, a chill that emanated from his very soul, a cold palpitation, a cold scalp numbness.

  It seems like a land of death ahead, one step in and you may never come out.

  "It's indeed an underground world, but the area... is too vast!" Xǔ Yàn's face looked equally unpleasant, having sprinted for hundreds of kilometers, and still unable to see the end in front of him. Just how big was this place?

  "Keep going, eastward!!" The blood doll urged again.

  "Will there be danger?" Tang Yan hesitated, as if in front of him was an unreal world.

  "Listen to Lao Zu's words, hurry up!"

  "Tell me first what this place is and what you felt?!"

  "Let you go!!" The Blood Doll suddenly let out a sharp roar, its body bursting with blood thorns, and the air was stirred up by a huge wave.

  ROAR!! The golden tiger and golden butterfly on the edge of the energy ocean burst forth with dazzling light, enveloping the entire energy ocean and suppressing the violent resentment. The deep golden chains shone brightly for thousands of meters, tightly binding the Blood Doll. The golden light seemed to have a strong corrosive effect, causing the Blood Doll to let out a mournful scream as its body rapidly withered away.

  Tang Yan's body shook violently, and he knelt to the ground with a thud. His face turned deathly pale, and large beads of sweat rolled down from his forehead.

  "What's wrong?" Du Yang was startled and quickly came over to support her.

  "Go!! Old Ancestor, I may not be able to kill you, but I can cripple you! At worst, we'll die together!" The Blood Doll let out a brutal roar, its body bursting with blood halos as it frantically struggled free.

  Moods change suddenly! When being obedient, it's like a child, but at this moment, the furious anger surges with a terrifying murderous intent.

  Tang Yan's Qi Hai surged violently, affecting the circulation of spiritual energy throughout his body. Even the misty infant was shaken, showing signs of losing control. The killing intent of the Blood Doll made him feel icy cold all over.

  A sudden chill ran down his spine!

  "I'm going! I didn't say I wouldn't go!" Tang Yan growled under his breath, comforting the blood doll as he struggled to get up.

  "Continue east, this is a land of death, but also a treasure land, go, go, go!!" The blood doll calmed down, but the severe cruelty never dissipated, staring dead at Tang Yan.

  "Nerve disease!!" Tang Yan cursed in his heart, took a few deep breaths to calm down the surging blood: "You two stay here, I'll go take a look and come back soon."

  "Hey, what are you up to again? Something's off in there!" Du Yang pulled back Tang Yan.

  "Don't worry, I've got this under control. You guys wait here and don't go far." Tang Yan put Hei Niu on his head, clenched his fists, and carefully walked towards the grayish-white world.

  "Shall we go together?" Du Yang asked Xue Yan. In this mysterious and unfamiliar place, he couldn't let Tang Yan act alone.

  Xu Yan remained in place, vigilantly gazing ahead. A strong sense of danger, as if substantial, filled the space, making him feel extremely uneasy. He hesitated for a long time before taking his first step.

  Three people headed east, their speed increasing constantly. As they walked, however, they gradually lost their sense of direction. Looking around, the sky and earth were all grayish-white, endless and monotonous.

  "This is... this is a tree?!" The three men passed by an ancient tree, its sturdy roots tightly grasping the earth, with just one root being thicker and more robust than Tang Yan. The massive trunk was hundreds of meters tall, stretching all the way to the sky.

  It's entirely imaginable how overwhelmingly dominant it once was, possibly possessing a spiritual nature.

  "How many years must such a giant tree have grown?" Tang Yan was deeply shocked and moved, stretching out his hand to touch the ancient bark. Suddenly, a deafening sound echoed in his mind, and a shocking scene appeared before him!

  Across the vast expanse, clouds and fog churned, billions of lightning bolts ravaging everything in their path. Countless lives trembled with fear under the wrath of heaven, only to be destroyed one after another. Yet... amidst the dark skies and beneath the brutal lightning, a colossal ancient tree stood tall, its massive branches swaying defiantly against the heavens, stirring up wave upon wave of terrifying energy.

  Du Yang and Xu Yan both ran into the ancient tree, and the same scene appeared in their minds. After a long time, the three of them shook violently and were bounced back fiercely. They looked at each other, their faces full of shock.

  What a terrifying scene! This ancient tree had actually once defied the heavens?

  What era is this? Could it be... ancient times?!

  This thought flashed through their minds, and the three of them shivered simultaneously. Leaving the ancient tree behind, they continued forward, occasionally passing by some other ancient trees that were extremely massive. Every time they touched one, they could feel a special scene unfolding before them, without exception, it was always a shocking depiction of the trees withstanding the ravages of heaven and earth.

  What kind of place is this?

  What happened before?

  Why is it deeply buried thousands of miles underground? And why did the whole body wither and die?

  Gradually, the three people entered the deepest part of this vast world and found a crumbling stone pillar between two ancient trees that seemed to pierce the sky. This place was once a small altar, but after endless years, it had weathered away, leaving only one bare stone pillar. Underneath the pillar, a shattered beast skeleton was nailed.

  Their fingertips touched the stone pillar without any reaction, but when they came into contact with the demon beast skeleton, a shocking scene appeared once again.

  A vast mountain range, bare and without any vegetation, stretching as far as the eye can see, a desolate landscape.

  Suddenly, a massive mountain range violently shook, with a deafening roar, the entire giant mountain completely collapsed, and from inside it struggled out a black savage bull with two huge claws! The bull was as massive as a mountain, its body covered in steel-like scales, its two ferocious claws like eagle talons, flashing a chilling cold light.

  The black ox let out a mighty roar, the desolate mountain range trembled with it, its momentum was vast and its power astonishing, its two sharp claws seemed to be tearing heaven and earth apart.

  Tang Yan and the other two felt their blood boiling over, and hastily retreated from the skeleton.

  As they continued to move forward, they saw more skeletons. Every time they touched one, a picture appeared: eagles that blotted out the sun, blue pythons churning in rivers and oceans, spiders with bodies of pure gold, and humanoid monsters with wings growing from their backs.

  All were nailed under stone pillars, no matter how grand and terrifying they were in life, now only a few shattered bones remain.

  "Huh? What's this?" As they walked, they inadvertently noticed a special situation. Between two towering ancient trees, there was also a dilapidated altar, and the same stone pillars, but unlike before, under the pillars wasn't a messy skeleton, but rather... a palm-sized stone rabbit curled up!

  "What's special about this rabbit?" Tang Yan and Xu Yan successively stretched out their hands.

  "Wait, don't touch." Du Yang suddenly stopped their movements, pointing to the ancient tree beside them: "Look at their color, some have turned white, they've petrified!"

  Petrification? Tang Yan and Xu Yan carefully examined it, no mistake, the two ancient trees that pierced the sky were all petrified, including roots and branches, covered with cracks under the erosion of time. If Du Yang wasn't a spiritual vein who could sense petrification, they really wouldn't have discovered it.

  "Dark heavens!! It's Tian Tu!!" Blood Doll suddenly exclaimed, with intense shock flashing at the bottom of her eyes.

  "What is Tiangou?"

  "A legendary ferocious beast, a million years ago, there was an extremely terrifying monster, wherever it appeared, would trigger unprecedented disasters, everything around it would turn to stone. According to legend, the strongest Tian Tu can petrify a giant city of millions in an instant, regardless of strong or weak, old or young, all will become its collected art pieces."

  PS: Seventh update is here!! We'll continue to explode tomorrow!! Each commander, alliance leader, will take turns exploding! Little mouse thanks brothers and sisters for their support!