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Two days later.
As the first rays of dawn spilled across the horizon, breaking through the darkness shrouding the mountains, the once silent range suddenly erupted with commotion.
The air was filled with the roaring sound of people tearing through the sky. Countless figures shot toward the mountain range's center like a swarm of locusts, streaks of light cutting through the morning mist.
On a high peak, Wei Yang's group of six had already finished their preparations and stood at the cliff's edge, watching the countless figures rushing ahead.
They couldn't help but shake their heads.
For the sake of the Ancient Ruins, these people were truly throwing their lives away. After this expedition, how many of them would actually make it out alive?
In the eyes of those at the Dou Zun level, the vast majority of these people were nothing more than cannon fodder. Let alone Dou Zongs—there were even plenty of Dou Huangs and Dou Wangs among them.
A ruin related to a Dou Sheng… was simply something these people possibly hope to meddle in such things. Who really believed they could get lucky here? If you can't even withstand a bit of the aftershock, what business do you have joining the crowd?
"Let's go."
With a flick of his sleeve, Wei Yang's body turned into a streak of light, shooting toward the mountain range's center. Xiao Yan and the others quickly followed.
At this moment, the Bone Beast Mountain Range was alive with heat and frenzy. Under such overwhelming human presence, even the eerie coldness unique to this place had been forcefully dispersed.
On their way toward the center, Wei Yang, with his sharp perception, sensed many faint yet powerful auras awakening in the surrounding peaks.
Those dormant presences that had been hidden for a long time now stirred, turning into rainbow-like streaks of light that darted out of the forests one after another. With the group's speed, it took only about ten minutes for them to approach the mountain range's heart.
Up ahead, a patch of distorted and hazy space came into view. The group slowed down slightly and landed atop a towering tree. As soon as they steadied themselves, A Da waved his sleeve, sending out a gust of cold wind that swept away the dozen or so people already standing on the tree.
Those people, initially showing anger on their faces, quickly turned pale when they caught Ah Da's chilling gaze.
Dou Zun!
Not someone they could afford to provoke—time to scram!
Wei Yang merely smiled faintly at Ah Da's domineering display and didn't say anything. Standing atop the tree, his gaze swept ahead. Before them lay a vast basin spanning thousands of miles.
The ground was completely covered with countless skeletal remains. From the edge of the basin, looking into the distance, all one could see was a boundless sea of bones—white and blinding, sending chills down the spine.
How many magic beasts must have died here to form such a horrifying sight?
Around this ocean of bones, dense crowds of people stood, their fiery gazes locked onto the distorted space hovering above the bone sea's center. The moment that spatial seal dissolved, this endless tide of people would surge forward like a storm.
"Have you explored this place before?" Wei Yang asked softly, glancing at Xiao Yan beside him after a brief moment of sensing the area.
Xiao Yan's sharp eyes scanned the bone sea below as he shook his head. "I only scouted the outer perimeter last time. Before I could go deeper, I was blocked by the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan's experts."
Wei Yang's gaze swept across the bone sea again but found nothing unusual. After a moment of thought, he said, "If there's any place where the Ten Thousand Beast Flame is most likely to appear, it would be within this basin. But my Heavenly Flames aren't sensing any kind of flame aura here. Either it's being concealed very well—or the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan has already moved it elsewhere."
"The latter seems more likely." Xiao Yan shrugged.
Wei Yang nodded.
After all, this was the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan's territory, and with the Ancient Ruins about to emerge, if there really were a Heavenly Flame here, there was no way they wouldn't know about it beforehand.
As they chatted idly—
Bang!
The entire sky and earth suddenly rippled with a faint tremor.
Countless gazes instantly turned toward that patch of twisted space. There, waves of distortion began to ripple out—like circles spreading across a disturbed lake. Many people's breathing grew rapid and uneven.
The Ancient Ruins… were finally about to see the light of day again.
Hua la la~
The twisted space churned violently, producing a sound like crashing tides. As the sound spread outward, the fluctuations in that area became even more intense.
Hu~
As they watched the energy seal growing thinner and more illusory under the trembling waves, countless pairs of eyes around the basin slowly turned blood-red. Even their breathing became heavy and ragged.
Feeling the frenzied excitement sweeping through the crowd, Wei Yang and the others exchanged glances and lightly shook their heads.
These people had gone mad.
Opportunities might be precious, but you still needed to live long enough to enjoy them. Even if someone managed to seize a treasure and escape the ruins by sheer luck—would they really make it out of the Bone Beast Mountain Range alive? Out of the Beast Region?
Did they really think the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan's massive presence was just for show?
Without sufficient strength, any treasure in your hands would only hasten your death. Unless, of course, you could take it without anyone noticing.
Xiao Yan let out a quiet sigh in his heart.
Wasn't living peacefully well enough? Why rush to throw yourself into this muddy water?
If not for the Soul Baby Fruit, he would never have come to such a place—especially not alone.
Ignoring those who had clearly lost their sanity, Wei Yang narrowed his eyes, fixing his gaze on the increasingly distorted space. Amid the strange rushing sounds, he could feel a terrifying energy surging within.
That energy was violently unstable—like magma that had been trapped deep underground for countless years, now on the verge of erupting in a furious outburst.
Hua la la~
Another strange rushing sound echoed.
The twisted space suddenly froze.
Then—
Boom!
With a muffled explosion, the distorted space shattered like fragile glass, breaking apart into countless shards of space.
"The Ancient Ruins have opened! Charge!"
The instant the space seal exploded, countless figures around the bone sea went wild. Their eyes flushed red, and hoarse, greedy roars burst from their throats. Then, like a plague of locusts blotting out the sun, they surged madly toward the center of the bone sea.
"Retreat!"
Unlike those who charged forward blindly, Wei Yang and the others' expressions changed slightly the moment the space shattered. In a flash, their figures blurred and shot backward at full speed.
All around them, the figures standing atop the giant trees also retreated in haste—clearly, they too had realized something was wrong. And just as Wei Yang's group withdrew—
The countless fragments of the shattered space seal trembled briefly.
Then—
BOOM!
A violent burst of spatial energy erupted outward like a storm, spreading in all directions. Even Dou Zun experts felt their hearts tremble with fear.
"No—!"
Those who had rushed in first—those so-called smart ones—were the first to be hit. In an instant, before they could even scream, their bodies were shredded and devoured by the raging storm of spatial fragments.
Miserable screams echoed endlessly across the sea of bones.
In the blink of an eye, the swarm of figures that had once filled the sky was completely wiped out. It was as if heaven and earth had been instantly swept clean.
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