49: Chapter 49 Ruins

Flames burned fiercely on the corpse of the ancient tree guard. After making sure there were no more threats around, Muxi breathed a sigh of relief.

She stayed in place, directing her believers to gather spiritual objects while waiting for Fang Yun to return.

However, as time ticked by, Fang Yun's figure was still nowhere to be seen. Muxi felt a vague sense of worry in her heart, "Could something have happened?"

On the other side, Fang Yun, who had been chasing a giant bear and accidentally triggered a restriction, found himself in an unfamiliar area. He looked around vigilantly.

Desolation, an endless expanse of desolation at a single glance.

The sky was shrouded in endless gray clouds, and the surface of the earth was full of cracks, as if it had experienced an extremely tragic battle.

The mountains had been destroyed by some huge force, and the mountain bodies had long weathered away, leaving only huge ruins.

Fang Yun had ten thousand questions in his mind, "Weren't I taking an assessment in the secret realm? Where the hell did this send me?!"

Finding that there was no danger around, he tried to communicate with his divine kingdom and discovered he could still connect to it, prompting him to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Eve, what is going on here? Could this be another secret realm?"

Eve seemed a bit unclear about it as well, guessing with puzzlement,

"Master, I have never seen this kind of situation either. The spatial structure of a secret realm is extremely stable. Logically speaking, it is impossible for another secret realm to exist within a secret realm. This simply does not conform to the basic spatial laws of a secret realm."

"However, this place looks very much like the environment of a secret realm space, and Eve doesn't understand it either."

Fang Yun fell silent. Since things had already happened, obsessing over what place this was would be completely useless in changing his current predicament. It was better to think about how to find an exit.

Over the next few hours, Fang Yun chose the direction with the most severe destruction to move forward based on the degree of surface damage.

Along the way, the entire environment was silent, as if he was the only person left in the world.

Fortunately, Eve was chattering away in his mind to keep him company with small talk. Otherwise, staying in this completely soundless world all this time could really drive him crazy.

During his continuous advance, Fang Yun discovered many corpse remains. Judging from their shapes, they did not look like humans, but rather like some kind of alien race.

In addition to these remains, there were also many collapsed buildings, shattered stone tablets, and broken altars.

The style of these buildings was completely different from the civilization of the Human Alliance.

Fang Yun judged that this should be the ruins of some ancient civilization.

Not knowing how long he had walked, the architectural remains became more and more numerous. At the end of the barren expanse, Fang Yun finally discovered a building that had not collapsed and was still standing.

That was a bronze-colored grand hall. Having experienced the baptism of long years, its exterior had already become rusty and mottled.

The exposed parts of the grand hall were densely carved with mysterious patterns. Just by taking a glance at them, Fang Yun almost lost himself within them.

Frightened, he hurriedly looked away, panic-stricken in his heart.

"What on earth is this thing?"

Moving further forward, there were no longer any traces of architecture. It seemed as though this place was the last remaining trace of the entire civilization.

With no other choice, in order to find an exit, Fang Yun had no choice but to bite the bullet and step into this unfathomable ancient hall.

Stepping into the grand hall, Wang Xinrou signaled her believers to open all the boxes. The next moment, the dazzling radiance of spiritual stones illuminated the entire dim hall.

Coming into view were neatly arranged boxes of C-grade spiritual stones, which were of high value, with each box containing at least hundreds of spiritual stones.

Every single C-grade spiritual stone was worth thousands of faith points, and there were at least hundreds of such boxes here.

This was only the treasure within a single grand hall; presumably, several other grand halls similarly had treasures of this kind existing.

However...

She glanced at the man who was cleaning up the spoils of war in another grand hall—Ye Tian.

She couldn't help feeling a bit of a headache. When she led her believers to this resource point, Ye Tian had also rushed here.

The two of them exchanged no nonsense upon meeting and started fighting directly.

At the beginning, the magic storm released by the elemental spirits under Wang Xinrou quickly routed Ye Tian's beast totem believers, and she even thought this would be a one-sided victory.

But as the fight went on, the situation suddenly reversed. Another batch of believers capable of controlling natural elements suddenly appeared among Ye Tian's believers. Judging from Ye Tian's designation, these believers seemed to be called elemental totem believers.

After this batch of believers joined, Wang Xinrou began to find coping with them a bit strenuous.

In the end, after each side lost tens of thousands of believers, they chose to take a step back, and the two decided to evenly split the resources here.

Because they both realized that the other party was not a soft persimmon that was easy to handle.

Wang Xinrou looked at the believers who were searching for supplies and couldn't help spacing out a bit. "I wonder where Fang Yun is right now?"

On the other side of the secret realm, Su Qianqian, who shared the same S-rank talent as Wang Xinrou, wasn't so lucky. Her talent could only exert its power in the later stages.

Before her believers broke through to Tier 1 Extraordinary, she was currently no different from having no S-rank talent at all.

Fortunately, shortly after entering, she ran into Feng Hao.

Seeing Su Qianqian actively propose traveling together with him, Feng Hao immediately patted his chest in agreement.

His believers possessed the Berserker talent bonus, as well as the Berserk talent, and their combat power in the early stage was quite considerable.

However, they also ran into trouble at the primitive forest—it was a kind of devil vine that could absorb vital essence and spiritual power.

This caused heavy losses to Feng Hao's believers. After paying the price of more than ten thousand Barbarians believers, the two had no choice but to choose to retreat from this forest and detour.

If one looked down from above the entire divine kingdom secret realm, at this moment, most of the students were divided into two by that primitive forest.

Among them, the students who landed on the side of the primitive forest closer to the divine kingdom's core were undoubtedly lucky; they did not need to cross the dangerous forest.

They could directly reach the core area of the divine kingdom, and the points they obtained were naturally higher as well.

This portion of students close to the divine kingdom's core had already led their believers to start scavenging all valuable resources.

Supply warehouses, herb gardens, weapon warehouses—they let none of the resources go.

Cultivation technique pavilions, martial practice platforms, law-transmission halls, and other D-grade buildings of the cultivation civilization were constantly taken away by students, and even some rare C-grade buildings were included.

Everyone was frantically scavenging all supplies, except for Fang Yun.

At this moment, he had already entered the interior of the bronze grand hall, and the space inside was far more gigantic than he had imagined.

With a bronze dome hundreds of meters high, numerous murals were carved inside the grand hall.

Fang Yun looked at the murals near the entrance one by one.

The first mural depicted a humanoid creature whose whole body was composed of golden light clusters. Using his finger as a pen, he carved a rune in the void.

Subsequently, flames were born, and lightning descended.

In the second mural, countless golden creatures gathered together, seemingly kneeling and kowtowing to a presence of extremely revered status.

In the third mural, numerous golden creatures were fighting against black unknown monsters in the starry sky. With a wave of their hands, runes emerged one after another, erupting with immense might.

Several murals in the middle had been destroyed by battle, making it impossible to see their original contents clearly.

Fang Yun continued looking backward. In the final mural, only an empty grand hall remained.

At this moment, he suddenly realized—wasn't the grand hall in this mural the very same grand hall he was currently in?!

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"Thanks to the big shots who have been following this update all the way here, this chapter is dedicated to you! My writing skills are limited, so please bear with me. Thank you very much!"