"A place not to be trifled with? What do you mean?"
Ye Feng frowned, looking at Jiang Si Shan with evident confusion. It was the first time he had seen such a shocked expression on Jiang Si Shan's face. He hadn't even reacted like this when they encountered various difficult crises in the City of Despair.
"This is... the ruins of a battle between humans and gods!"
"The legendary world-ending war... it's real!"
Before Jiang Si Shan could answer, Xue Yu Li chimed in.
"A battlefield where humans and gods fought? A world-ending war?"
Ye Feng looked at Xue Yu Li, puzzled.
"I... I'm not very sure... I've only heard some old seniors from Dune, and powerful passing explorers, speak of it..."
"There was a war between humans and gods in this world... but I always thought it was just a story..."
Xue Yu Li, it seemed, wasn't very knowledgeable either.
"This..."
Ye Feng furrowed his brows slightly and turned his attention back to the holographic projection beside him. He guessed that this projection, which appeared under the sunlight, likely recorded what happened in this ancient battlefield.
In the great battle between humans and monsters, it was almost a one-sided slaughter of humans by monsters. Humans fell in droves... Just as humanity was on the verge of complete annihilation, the void suddenly distorted, and a middle-aged man in a gray-white long robe instantly appeared. With a palm strike, he sent a bull-headed monster, adorned in black rune armor, the leader of the monster pack, flying far away.
From the void behind the robed man, several figures with pure white wings on their backs, clad in silver armor, and dressed similarly to Ling Xi, joined the fray.
"Angels? Winged race?"
Ye Feng was perplexed seeing this. During the battle, an angel hurled its Angelic Blade at a Cerberus, piercing its head and pinning it to the ground.
"No wonder I found an Angelic Blade in that Cerberus's skeleton earlier!"
Holding the silver Angelic Blade in his hand, Ye Feng suddenly understood. The holographic projection seemed unstable, distorting intermittently, making it impossible to see many details of the battlefield.
Eventually, due to unknown events, the battlefield fell silent. Runes flashed on the ground around the battlefield, and a circle of flames erupted from the earth, soaring into the sky.
"I never imagined that the super sandstorm area was initially an endless expanse of flames, and it seemed to be man-made," Xue Yu Li said with a sigh.
"This temple must have been built to commemorate that great war!" Jiang Si Shan, who had finished reading the inscriptions on the temple walls, spoke up. "The angels we know of should be the Winged race that the human powerhouse brought... Something else must have happened on this battlefield afterward, but it wasn't recorded..."
"And the writing on the walls became increasingly hasty towards the end, as if the engraver was in a great rush. I wonder what this temple experienced back then..." Jiang Si Shan's expression was grave.
"Si Shan, you know about angels too?" Ye Feng asked Jiang Si Shan with surprise.
"Yes," Jiang Si Shan nodded. "I heard some elders in my family talk about it when I was young. I always took it as a story... I never expected..."
"Right, Si Shan, do the inscriptions on the wall mention who that human powerhouse was?" The face of the middle-aged man in the gray-white robe in the holographic projection was too blurry to discern. Ye Feng inquired.
"I don't know," Jiang Si Shan shook his head. "The wall is damaged, and some of the inscriptions are destroyed. I could only decipher some of it, and some I couldn't understand at all!"
"However, one name did appear on the temple wall, and I've heard this name before when I was very young!" Jiang Si Shan added at the end.
"What is it?" Ye Feng asked with curiosity.
"Wu... Shen!"
Jiang Si Shan took a deep breath and slowly uttered two words.
"What?"
"Wu... Wu Shen?!"
As soon as Jiang Si Shan finished speaking, Xue Yu Li's voice trembled, her expression one of utter shock.
"You've heard of this name too?" Both Jiang Si Shan and Ye Feng looked at Xue Yu Li with questioning eyes.
"Ragnarok!" Jiang Si Shan and Xue Yu Li exchanged glances and uttered the same words.
"Ragnarok? What's that?" Ye Feng was even more bewildered.
"The legendary war between humans and gods... The strongest among the gods were known as the Twelve Olympians, Ares the god of war, Apollo the sun god, Poseidon the god of the sea, Hades the king of the underworld..."
"Countless human powerhouses were no match for these gods, who could only be described as impossibly powerful... Just as almost everyone fell into despair, someone stepped forward... He... alone ascended the divine palace to face the Twelve Olympians..."
"The Battle of the Divine Palace... those once invincible gods fell one by one..."
"Ares's spear of war was broken... Apollo's 'Blazing Sun' fell... Poseidon's domain ceased to surge... This was Ragnarok..."
"And the one who accomplished all this, he was Wu Shen!"
"The legend who once saved all of humanity!" Xue Yu Li swallowed and slowly explained.
"This..." Even Ye Feng, who had experienced many strange things and considered himself well-traveled, felt goosebumps rise at Xue Yu Li's words.
"Ye Feng, this situation might be getting complicated!" Jiang Si Shan said to Ye Feng at this moment.
"Complicated?" Ye Feng turned to look at Jiang Si Shan, frowning.
"The Bald Gang and the Skull Society coming to this place... their motives are probably not as simple as they appear!"
"The Skull Society is a faction of Brad Base, and behind Brad Base lies the mysterious Dark Holy Cult..."
"The Bald Gang also has the shadow of Mech City behind them..."
"Their interest in this super sandstorm area is definitely not just for the Arcane Raw Stones brought out by the storm," Jiang Si Shan's expression was extremely serious.
"Skull Society and Dark Holy Cult?" Ye Feng had learned from a secret chamber in the Skull Society's base in Weapon City that they were subordinates of Brad Base. He hadn't expected there to be someone behind Brad Base. However, Ye Feng wasn't surprised by the relationship between the Bald Gang and Mech City, as he had previously learned from Xue Yu Li that Mech City was the primary supplier of aviation fuel for the Bald Gang!
Having suddenly obtained so much shocking secret information, everyone's mood became rather heavy. Even Xue Yu Li hesitated whether to continue searching for the clue of the Regenerative Wood.
"Beep~ Notification: Detected..."
Suddenly, Ye Feng heard the system prompt, which he hadn't heard in a while.
"What the hell? Detected what? There's no location information either!" Ye Feng waited for a long time, but the system remained silent. He muttered to himself.
"Beep~ Notification: Detected... 3 meters ahead and to the right!"
To Ye Feng's surprise, the system did give another notification this time, with directional information, but still didn't specify what was detected.
"Beep~ Notification: Detected... ahead and to the right..."
"Beep~ Notification: Detected... to the right..."
"Beep~ Notification: Detected... for..."
...
Following this, the system gave a string of notifications and then fell silent, as if its energy had been depleted.
"What's going on?" The system's barrage of notifications left Ye Feng completely bewildered.
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