Chapter 168 Strange Scenery

Hao Ren turned his head in embarrassment and indeed found that the entrance to the alien space had opened, and it had opened behind him—this unlucky entrance just happened to be stuck in this place, almost overlapping with the main entrance of the Parthenon Temple, and facing in the opposite direction...

In fact, Hespera had mentioned earlier that the entrance to the ruins overlapped with the entrance to the temple, but unfortunately, Hao Ren didn't pay attention.

"Is this the entrance?" Lily was the first to curiously jump over to observe. The entrance to the ruins was a mass of distorted, semi-transparent light film, with no fixed shape. It floated in the air like a water curtain projection. It was about three or four meters wide and connected all the way to the huge stone beams of the temple. From the light film, one could see a vague glimpse of the alien space. On the other side seemed to be a different kind of landscape. Lily curiously went around to the back of the film and found that nothing could be seen from behind—even the light film itself disappeared, and one could directly see the people on the other side.

Vivian casually threw a small bat inside, then nodded to Hao Ren: "Yes, it's a stable space inside, and it looks very wide."

"Let's go, let's go," Hao Ren rolled up his sleeves and took the lead in walking towards the seemingly unreliable light film. Lily followed close behind, jumping and skipping as she went in. Vivian and Nangong Wuyue pulled Becky in after them. Izhaks stood at the back of the line and let Hespera and Jean Lucas go first: "You go in, I'll guard the rear. Speaking of which, these altar arrays and stuff..."

"These people can just guard here," Hespera pointed to the several mages who were maintaining the ritual and the circle of expert guards standing around, "They are all experts in the blood clan, and there won't be any problems with them watching here."

Jean Lucas smiled at Izhaks, said nothing, and stepped towards the semi-transparent light film.

In the alien space on the other side of the light film, Hao Ren was staring blankly at the incredible scenery before him.

He stood on a towering mountain peak, with a wide area paved with broken stone slabs at his feet. The alien space actually had a clear and bright sky and a boundless sea of clouds, completely unlike the chaotic and ambiguous strange space he had initially expected. He saw layers of surging clouds floating not far in front of him, almost level with the open space at the foot of the mountain, as if he would fall into the sky with just a few steps forward. In this endless sea of clouds, one could see huge floating rocks—those rocks seemed to be fragments of collapsed mountains, of various sizes and shapes, floating in the clouds as if without gravity. And in the more distant sky floated even more amazing things: a Greek-style building that looked like a temple, with a clean white color and shape, much larger in scale than the Parthenon Temple. The building was no longer intact. One could clearly see that one side of it was jagged, as if half of the structure had been forcibly torn from the palace, and the remaining main body of the building floated weightlessly in the sea of clouds with other mountain fragments, slightly tilted, with a small part submerged in the clouds.

An endless sea of clouds, broken boulders floating in the air, and an aerial palace tilting and inserted into the clouds—this was the scene Hao Ren saw, shocking and challenging his worldview.

But it didn't have much of an impact. Anyway, he didn't have much of a worldview left by now.

"Is that the energy-rich zone?" Nangong Wuyue looked up at the sky and found streamers of colorful light floating in the higher, clear blue sky like ribbons. These streamers ran through the entire sky, constantly flowing and twisting like a river of light. She could feel an uneasy power in those rays of light: powerful, but distorted, seemingly completely out of control.

Becky also looked up at the sky curiously. She came from the Dream Plane, but she was also very strange about the exotic scenery in the sky: "What's that? Have you people in this wor... place researched the technology to color clouds? How bored are you?"

"There's definitely no such thing in the Dream Plane..." Hao Ren muttered to himself, while the data terminal was constantly reporting alarms in his mind while detecting the surrounding energy readings: "Warning, mixed radiation exceeds the standard, harmful to earthlings, but fine for you, warning, mixed radiation exceeds the standard, harmful to earthlings, but fine for you..."

Hao Ren took out the data terminal and shook it vigorously: "Why are you still alarming if it's fine! Can't you just stay quiet for a while?"

"Oh, the host is showing its presence. I haven't said anything for a while and I was almost forgotten..."

Hao Ren had just put away the data terminal when Jean and Hespera jumped in from the light film. Jean looked strangely at Lily, who was running around in the open space, not knowing what she was up to. Hespera looked proud and showed off to Vivian: "Lord Vivian, how is it? This place is amazing, right? Can you feel the surrounding primeval power? If this thing can be converted into magic power... no matter how many demon hunters come, they'll just be delivering food!"

Vivian frowned: "That's not right... it's not this kind of energy... These things are very dangerous. It's best not to touch them!"

"What do you mean?" Jean immediately stopped staring at Lily, and looked at Vivian in astonishment.

"Haven't you let other old ones see the situation here?" Vivian asked, staring at Jean.

Jean opened his mouth, his voice a little unsteady: "Uh... we invited the two seniors, Gunndar and Hesperus, but they weren't interested in this place. We haven't invited anyone else yet... The ruins were discovered not long ago, and I wanted to wait until I had explored the structure of this space before starting..."

"This is not the Mythological Era..." Vivian looked around, raised her hand and pointed to the most conspicuous palace in the distance, "Oh, that is indeed something from the Olympus family, but the environment here is not right. The primeval energy that fills the air is not a product of the Mythological Era either. They are more primitive and less controllable arcane energies... I feel very uncomfortable. Some kind of... some kind of trait of these energies disgusts me. Messing around with them will definitely not be good."

Hespera and Jean were stunned at the same time: "You're saying this isn't the power of the Mythological Era?"

Vivian said decisively: "No, even during the heyday of the Mythological Era, there wasn't this kind of power flowing around everywhere in the air. The environment back then was completely different."

The greatest expectation of the Supernatural for the "Day of Return" was to find the source of power from the Mythological Era in order to restore their own strength. Therefore, Hespera and Jean were overjoyed after discovering the active energy filling this space. They almost thought that this was one of the "Ancient Kingdom Remnants" that had collapsed and been sealed up at the end of the Mythological Era, but now, hearing Vivian's judgment, they were greatly disappointed. Jean began to silently ponder some things, while Hespera asked with a glimmer of hope: "Then it's still true that there's energy everywhere here, right? Although this isn't the energy form of the Mythological Era... it looks very powerful! It would definitely be beneficial to utilize it, and it's probably not inferior to true primeval power."

"Power of unknown origin is never a good thing!" Vivian's face was somehow getting more and more ugly, and her tone was very bad, almost scolding Hespera when she spoke to her, "Messing around with these things will lead to death sooner or later! You are not allowed to study anything here... absolutely not allowed to extract any energy from here, and even more not allowed to inject them into yourselves!"

Hespera was startled by Vivian's sudden series of scolding. Even Hao Ren couldn't help but pat Vivian on the shoulder: "Uh, calm down, it's fine if it's not allowed, you've scared everyone."

Vivian was stunned for a moment, and slowly returned to her usual gentle demeanor: "Oh... oh, right. I was too impulsive. Hespera, but I'm doing this for your own good. I feel that the energy filling this place is very dangerous... Although I can't remember when I came into contact with them, I must have suffered because of them. Perhaps... forget it, I can't remember."

At this time, Jean suddenly spoke: "Lord Vivian, have you calmed down? Then should we continue to explore the ruins?"

Vivian seemed a little confused, her eyes flickered a few times before she nodded as if waking from a dream, subconsciously casting an inquiring glance at Hao Ren: because the latter was closest to her at this time. Hao Ren confirmed that Vivian was okay, and then nodded: "Continue, I want to wander around inside—don't worry, I promise not to mess with 'your' things, I'm just looking."