Han Li felt his ears buzzing and ringing, as if countless strange sounds were drilling into his brain. He felt as if he were drunk, the world spinning around him. Not only did he lose all his senses, but his vision went completely black, and he couldn't even move his thoughts.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but suddenly he felt his body come to an abrupt halt, and then he began to sink downwards.

There was a muffled "thump."

Han Li felt his body slam heavily onto a hard surface, and a sharp pain shot through half of his body.

Fortunately, his body was incredibly tough. Although he felt pain, he wasn't injured, which relieved him.

The fall, however, had restored his consciousness and senses, and his vision cleared.

Han Li looked around, slightly taken aback.

He saw a yellowish-brown ground, with countless black and yellow stones of various sizes scattered everywhere. All around him stretched an endless wasteland, as if he were on a boundless, desolate Gobi desert.

The sky above was a strange yellowish-brown, as if covered by a thick layer of yellow clouds. Within the clouds, he occasionally saw a thin, white light flash, resembling white lightning.

The yellow clouds above him swirled, vaguely forming a vortex that was rapidly dissipating, as if he had fallen from there.

Han Li slowly stood up and looked around.

The surrounding desert was desolate and empty, with only him present. There was no sign of anyone else.

"Could this be the Great Ruins? It's not that different from the outside. I wonder where the others have fallen," Han Li muttered to himself.

Just as he was about to move, a look of surprise appeared on his face, and he looked towards the surrounding void.

Strands of Yuan Qi fluctuations were present in the void here. This Yuan Qi was different from the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, and even from demonic Qi. Instead, it was very similar to the power of the stars, and it was quite dense.

Perhaps because of the nourishment of this power of the stars, some moss-like white plants grew in the cracks between the stones on the ground, making it no longer a lifeless, barren land.

A strange light flashed in Han Li's eyes, and a thought suddenly arose in his mind. He silently activated the Heavenly Fiend Prison Suppression Skill (Tian Sha Zhen Yu Gong).

The power of the stars nearby immediately gathered and merged into his body.

Moreover, a large amount of the power of the stars gathered. The speed at which he absorbed the power of the stars at this moment was no slower than when he usually refined beast cores.

A look of joy appeared on Han Li's face. He was now seventy or eighty percent certain that he was indeed within the Great Ruins. Only in a secret realm like the Great Ruins could such a dense power of the stars exist.

Only in this kind of environment filled with the power of the stars could treasures like Heavenly Scale Meteorite Crystals and Sulfur Flame Blood Clouds be born.

Although his body was not injured at the moment, he felt somewhat tired and weak. Since there was no danger here, he did not set off immediately, but sat down cross-legged on the spot, absorbing the power of the stars to recuperate.

In the blink of an eye, half a day had passed.

When Han Li opened his eyes again, he was refreshed and fully recovered.

Not only that, but a Mysterious Aperture (Xuan Qiao) that he had been trying to open for many days was restless, showing faint signs of opening.

The power of the stars here seemed particularly useful for opening new Mysterious Apertures. He only needed to spend some more time cultivating, and this Mysterious Aperture would definitely be opened.

Despite this, Han Li did not plan to continue cultivating here. He got up and looked around again, his gaze quickly settling on a direction to his right.

The situation in all directions around him was exactly the same, except that in the distance on his right, he could vaguely see one or two shadows flashing by. However, the distance was too far, and he couldn't see them clearly.

The spatial pressure within the Great Ruins was even stronger than that of the Icefire Mountains. The distance that his divine sense could spread was reduced again, to only a dozen miles, not even as good as his eyesight.

Although he didn't know what was there, at least it was something different.

Han Li moved and rushed towards that direction.

After a while, the shadows in front gradually became clearer. They were short mountains, dozens of feet high, connected one after another, forming a continuous mountain range that stretched to the end of his vision.

These mountain peaks were all black, vaguely emitting rays of black light. They did not seem to be ordinary rocks, and the ground gradually changed from a Gobi desert to hard mountainous terrain.

Many white plants also grew on the ground here, making the environment look less monotonous.

Han Li arrived in front of the black mountain range, stopped, and did not rashly enter. Instead, he released his divine sense to investigate the movements of everything around him.

Everything within the Great Ruins was unknown, and he dared not be careless in the slightest.

He carefully investigated with his divine sense and did not find any danger in the mountain range ahead. Only then did he step forward.

He walked forward for half a day without encountering any danger.

However, the nearby mountain peaks became taller and taller, reaching hundreds of feet, but the gaps between the peaks became wider.

After walking for a while, Han Li suddenly let out a soft "hmm" and quickened his pace forward. After a moment, he arrived near an exceptionally tall mountain peak.

This mountain peak was entirely black, straight and towering into the clouds, like a black pillar of heaven. Its top was actually submerged in the clouds, and he couldn't see the top.

At the foot of the mountain, nestled against the mountain, was a cluster of gray-black palace buildings, occupying a very large area, stretching to the end of his vision. Unfortunately, most of them had collapsed.

However, from the towering palace ridges and exquisite mural reliefs, one could vaguely feel the magnificence and splendor of the palace in its heyday.

He looked at the palace complex in front of him for a few moments, activated the Myriad Aperture Emptiness Art (Wan Qiao Kong Ji Shu), concealed his aura, and carefully stepped inside, while releasing his divine sense to investigate the surrounding movements.

After walking forward for a moment, Han Li raised an eyebrow, dodged behind a long palace wall, walked along the wall to the end, and carefully looked ahead.

A series of heavy footsteps came from ahead. In the ruins not far away, a yellow puppet, several feet tall, was walking slowly, occasionally turning its head to look around, as if it were patrolling.

The puppet's appearance resembled a long-armed giant ape, wearing a heavy armor, which was mostly broken. The body under the armor was also covered with decaying cracks. It held a worn-out serrated battle blade in its hand, looking as if it had spent countless years in the river of time.

Although the armor and battle blade were weathered and broken, they still faintly shone with white light, emitting strands of star power fluctuations.

"Star Weapons?" Han Li's eyes flashed as he looked at the giant ape puppet's armor and battle blade.

He pondered for a moment, stopped activating the Myriad Aperture Emptiness Art (Wan Qiao Kong Ji Shu), and his figure shot out from behind the wall, flashing and pouncing behind the giant ape puppet.

The giant ape puppet suddenly turned around, let out a low roar, raised the battle blade in its hand, and was about to chop down on Han Li's head.

However, before its arm could chop down, a white light flashed, and the giant ape puppet's head flew into the air, its body and head separated, and its raised arm froze in place.

With a "boom," the giant ape puppet's huge body crashed to the ground.

Han Li's figure floated down lightly from mid-air, landing beside the giant ape puppet.

The puppet was so badly damaged, yet it could still sense his attack and react. If it were in its prime, its strength should be quite powerful.

He picked up the serrated battle blade. The entire blade was made of a milky white material and had weathered a lot. On the blade, he could vaguely see patterns of runes, faintly flashing with light.

"Huh!" Han Li looked surprised.

The runes on the blade were very similar to the star runes that Lady Six Flowers had taught him.

"Isn't it said that Lady Six Flowers' star restriction is her own creation? Could it be a coincidence?" Han Li thought to himself.

His gaze then shifted to the puppet's armor and quickly stopped on a star rune.

This star rune was exactly the same as a "Connecting Star Rune" that Lady Six Flowers had taught him. The subtle changes were also exactly the same, which was impossible to be a coincidence.

Han Li chuckled to himself. The puppets here seemed to have existed for hundreds of thousands of years, far longer than the time when Lady Six Flowers created the star runes.

Perhaps Lady Six Flowers' star restriction was obtained from this Great Ruins. He just didn't know how she obtained it.

He waved his hand and threw away the battle blade. Although the blade still emitted some star power fluctuations, it was on the verge of collapse and unusable.

Han Li did not stay here and continued forward, soon arriving at the depths of the palace.

The palace buildings in the depths were relatively well-preserved, but unfortunately, this place seemed to have been looted, and there were no precious treasures left.

He searched all the way, but found nothing except for a few ordinary mineral materials.

However, along the way, he encountered many more puppets.

He did not entangle with these puppets. He avoided them if he could, and if he couldn't avoid them, he directly attacked. These puppets were weathered and damaged, and their strength was greatly reduced, so they didn't take much effort for him to defeat.

After walking forward for a while, Han Li stopped.

The view ahead suddenly became wider. A tall, silver-gray building appeared in front, seemingly an altar in style, surrounded by the surrounding buildings like stars surrounding the moon.

The altar was built with rough and huge silver-gray boulders, which looked exceptionally strong. In fact, it was indeed so. Many of the nearby buildings had weathered and collapsed, but this altar only had some mottled walls, and the rest was basically intact.

Han Li looked at the building in front of him, his gaze resting on a plaque hanging at the entrance of the altar, on which were written the three large characters "Ye Sha Palace" in Xuan script.

The altar door was open, and he could only see a few feet away. The deeper area was shrouded in darkness, and the door was like a huge mouth, swallowing everything that entered.

On the walls inside the altar, he could vaguely see patterns of star runes, emitting a power of restriction, and his divine sense could not probe inside.

Han Li's eyes lit up at the sight of this.

This altar was so well-preserved and also had restrictions, so there must be something inside, not just an empty shell.

However, he couldn't rashly enter. He spread out his divine sense and carefully investigated the surrounding environment. He didn't find anything unusual, so he felt slightly relieved. His figure flickered and appeared at the entrance of the altar hall.

Gusts of cool wind blew out from the door, brushing his body. The wind contained a trace of coldness, which, although not strong, faintly had a feeling of penetrating into the bone marrow.

Han Li frowned slightly, but he did not retreat. He stepped towards the hall.