The group flashed into the blue light, vanishing into this secret realm. Suddenly, their eyes brightened, and their vision gradually cleared. All of them were shocked. Before them lay a boundless expanse of five-colored auspicious clouds. Ancient buildings occupied a third of their view. This was no mere ancient ruin; it was an entire city sealed away.
After being stunned for several dozen breaths, Dian Wei and the others finally stepped into this ancient city. The moment they entered, they could still feel a relatively dense life force, the aura of living beings. But regrettably, though the entire city pulsed with vitality, not a single soul resided within.
"This city is preserved in such excellent condition. The ancient war of the gods did not touch this place. Where did the inhabitants of this city go?" Wang Yunxuan exclaimed, looking around in astonishment.
Everything before them was too mysterious and peculiar. It was as if in the previous moment, this was a city teeming with millions of lives, and in the next, they had leaped to this era, with life force still present but all existence seemingly evaporated.
Many buildings were still entwined with lush green vegetation. Strangely, however, it was as if some immense, mysterious energy had frozen these plants in their tracks, perfectly preserving them from the moment before.
As they ventured further, passing through this vast city, they were met with rows of majestic mountain peaks. Countless great rivers surged forth from the mountains, carrying the dense, profound spiritual energy of the peaks. With each ripple of the flowing water, bursts of energy shot out in all directions.
"What terrifying divine power must have been wielded to completely seal away a region while still preserving such rich spiritual energy?!"
"Such a grand undertaking by the Immortal Lord, and for the sole purpose of sealing the primordial spirit of the Candle Dragon? The scale of this sealed area is tens of thousands of times larger than the Blood Sea Suspended Coffin, the Northern Nether Sea, and the Candle Tomb!"
"If the other secret realm is the place where the Candle Dragon's primordial spirit is sealed, then what is this place we are seeing before us sealed with?!"
Standing on this land, several individuals were struck with awe. They had already confirmed that the Candle Dragon's primordial spirit was sealed in another secret realm. Then, for what purpose had the Immortal Lord gone to such lengths to seal away such an intact land, untouched by the war?
The ancient war of the gods had swept across the entire Three Thousand Dao Provinces, with countless battlefields, each terrifying to the extreme. Especially in the Eastern Remote Land where they were, the horrific battle centered around the Undying City had cost the shattering of dozens of Dao Provinces before it finally ceased.
Innumerable lives were lost, Dao Provinces crumbled. Cities like this, preserved so perfectly and untouched by the ravages of war, were almost nonexistent. For what reason did the Immortal Lord, with his great divine abilities, seal away this place, a remnant for the world to survive? Looking at the empty city, brimming with life, it was clear that before wielding his great power, the Immortal Lord had definitely transferred all the inhabitants of this place out before dragging this land into the grand formation for eternal sealing.
The group walked and stopped, discovering a considerable amount of ancient spiritual materials from the primordial era amidst these mountains.
Perhaps due to the Immortal Lord's sealing and isolation from the Great Dao, time did not flow here. These ancient spiritual materials remained permanently frozen from before the sealing.
Half an hour later, the group was greatly disappointed. From the city to the mountains, they had found no useful information. However, they had discovered the footprints 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 certainly know more than their aimless wandering here.
Just as they entered another grotto-heaven within the secret realm, the supreme heavens outside this sealed land began to churn with immense power. Even the leading elders of the eight great families in the Central Province, at the core periphery of the sealed land, were greatly shaken.
Essentially, within a single day, all the living beings of the Gu family perished. Following that, the Chu and Hong families met a similar fate, not to mention the destruction of forces like the Black Water Immortal Dynasty. Approximately half a day later, the Jian and Zhan families were completely annihilated, with the Hun and Jiang Zuo families having only two to three survivors each!
Within a single day, the beings who had entered the two core secret realms were almost entirely wiped out, with fewer than a dozen survivors.
Rumble!!
From the entrance of the sealed land, beings emerged intermittently. Most of them remained at the outer perimeter of the sealed territory. In a mere ten-odd days, the number of fallen beings below the Supremacy level was astronomical!
Within the void, an elder ancestor of the Zhan family was filled with rage. The forces invested by the Wang, Zhan, Jian, and Gu families into the sealed land now numbered only Wang Yunxuan, Wang Le, and Wang Zhuo from the Wang family; all others had perished.
This casualty rate far exceeded that of the Northern Nether Sea battle decades ago. The casualties of the Jiang Zuo, Hong, Hun, and Chu families were also immense. Inflicting a thousand casualties on the enemy while suffering eight hundred oneself, the extent of the damage was not important. What angered the Zhan family ancestor was that their remaining three family members were no match for the surviving members of the Jiang Zuo, Hong, Hun, and Chu families. From the current situation, their attempt to ambush the Hong family's four clans had failed.
Failure!
It meant that the Candle Dragon's primordial spirit might be unsealed!
A bloody battle engulfing the Three Thousand Dao Provinces was imminent. The Three Thousand Dao Provinces, which had been peaceful and quiet for nearly an era, were about to erupt, darkness would descend, and countless forces would be thoroughly reshuffled!
"What exactly happened inside?"
Zhan Qianshan, an elder of the Zhan family, gripped the three shattered jade slips in his hand, his eyes filled with undisguised terror. It wasn't just him; Jian Lan and Gu Xing were also extremely shocked. Beside them, Wang Fu cautiously glanced at the three intact jade slips in his hand. Of their four families that had entered the sealed land, only the three of them from the Wang family now remained.
Meanwhile, Dian Wei and the others, 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, as small as a human palm, covered this land. Dian Wei and the others walked forward for about three hundred li and came across a giant, withered tree. The tree was extremely tall, its top invisible. It had very few branches, no leaves, no flowers or spiritual fruits, only thirteen fist-sized, yellow spiritual orbs.
The number was not large, only thirteen!
Within each of these thirteen yellow spiritual orbs sat a vague silhouette, like the primordial spirit of a living being. They seemed alive, their chests rising and falling, emitting faint yellow starlight. Suddenly, the dense spiritual energy surged, and these thirteen yellow spiritual orbs pulsed with a terrifying aura. The firmament directly split open, unleashing lightning and electricity that tore through the thick clouds.