118: The Secret of Bronze Fragments

The Qingyun Sect was flourishing with unprecedented vitality.

The three “new policies” personally decreed by Lin Ye were like the most potent stimulant, completely reactivating this ancient Sect that had been dormant for centuries!

However, as the creator of all this, Lin Ye once again vanished from everyone's sight... Inside a secret chamber at the deepest part of the Immortal Cave on Luoyun Peak.

Lin Ye sat cross-legged.

Before him, quietly suspended, was that palm-sized, dark-green, irregular bronze fragment.

He stared at it, his eyes filled with endless exploration and... confusion.

Ever since he obtained this mysterious fragment, which resonated with his System, from the Dynasty's treasure vault, he had been studying it incessantly.

But he soon discovered that this seemingly unremarkable fragment was an impenetrable “insulator”!

He tried to probe it with his vast spiritual power, which had already reached the Treasure Body Realm.

However, the Heaven Burning True Fire, powerful enough to split mountains and rocks, vanished like a mud ox entering the sea the moment it touched the fragment's surface, without causing the slightest ripple.

He then attempted to communicate with it using his powerful Divine Thought, which was capable of shattering Dharma Body Realm projections.

But the response he received was still... dead silence.

He even emulated scenes from storybooks, pricking his fingertip and dripping his vital blood onto it.

But his vital blood, imbued with the supreme Divine Might of the God-Demon Prison Suppressing Body, merely slid slowly off the fragment after contact, without causing any abnormality.

It was as if it were a complete and utter... piece of ordinary iron.

“I refuse to believe it.”

Lin Ye slowly exhaled a turbid breath, a hint of stubbornness flashing in his dark eyes.

He knew that conventional methods were useless.

“System!”

With a thought, the pale blue, technologically advanced panel appeared.

“Analyze it for me!”

[Command confirmed! Unknown homologous substance detected...]

[Deep analysis function activated...]

[Warning! Analyzing this substance will consume a massive amount of the host's Divine Soul power and spiritual power! Continue?]

“Continue!”

Lin Ye did not hesitate!

Buzz—!!!

As his command was issued, an indescribably terrifying suction force erupted from the pale blue System panel!

Lin Ye felt as if his entire Divine Soul was instantly drained! His vast Dantian Qi Sea, moreover, poured into the System like a floodgate opened, rushing in frantically!

And the invisible, ethereal blue light projected by the System, after receiving this immense energy replenishment, instantly became dazzlingly bright! It transformed into an extremely fine energy beam, fiercely piercing into the bronze fragment suspended in mid-air!

“Sizzle... crackle...”

The previously unremarkable bronze fragment trembled violently the moment the beam pierced it!

Its already mottled surface slowly revealed layer upon layer of mysterious runes, filled with endless profundity and an ancient aura!

Those runes were so ancient, and so... complex! As if they did not belong to this world!

And on Lin Ye's System panel, lines of data streams filled with unknown code cascaded like a waterfall, frantically... refreshing!

[Deciphering ancient Divine Script... Progress 1%...]

[Space Law fragment detected... Analyzing...]

[Time Law remnant detected... Analyzing...]

[Warning! host's spiritual power reserves are insufficient! Divine Soul power is about to be exhausted!]

“Pfft!”

Lin Ye suddenly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood! His previously rosy face instantly turned ashen white!

He felt as if his entire body was going to be completely... sucked dry by this terrifying analysis process!

“Take it!!!”

He roared, summoning all the Cultivation resources he had obtained, piling them up like a small mountain!

“Burn for me!!!”

Boom!!!

The mountain of Top-Grade Spirit Stones and millennium Spirit Medicines instantly ignited simultaneously, transforming into a vast ocean of energy that surged frantically into his body, only to be ruthlessly extracted by the System!

[Received massive energy replenishment... Analysis progress... 50%... 80%... 100%!]

[Ding!]

[Analysis complete!]

When the System prompt, like celestial music, finally sounded deep within his crumbling Divine Soul, Lin Ye, as if all his bones had been removed, instantly collapsed onto the cold stone bed, gasping for breath.

But in his previously dimmed eyes, an unprecedented, brilliant light erupted!

He stared intently at the pale blue System panel!

He saw golden characters, translated from the most ancient Divine Script, filled with endless shock and subversive information, slowly appearing in the center of the panel!

[Item Name: Key to the Void God Realm (Fragment) (1/2)]

[Item Origin: A token created by an unknown ancient Heavenly God to select a Legacy holder.]

[Item Function: Collect all fragments to break world barriers and open the only passage to the ultimate ancient Trial Grounds—the “Void God Realm”!]

Void God Realm?!

When he saw these three words, Lin Ye's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of a needle tip!

[“Void God Realm” Information Summary:]

[This is an eternal Trial Grounds, independently opened by the fallen Heavenly Gods and Demons after the ancient Divine Wars, using their immortal Divine Kingdoms as its Foundation, existing outside the Myriad Worlds!]

[Within it, there is a “Dao Comprehension Holy Land” where time flows a hundred times faster than the outside world!]

[There is the “Abyss of Fallen Gods,” where ancient Divine Weapons and supreme Divine Arts are buried!]

[And even, hundreds of millions of Prodigies from different worlds, different planes, and different civilizations!]

[There, the Dharma Body Realm is merely the starting point, and a Demigod is not the end! Only true, supreme Prodigies, capable of dominating an era, can emerge victorious and seize the ultimate... opportunity to become a God!]

Boom!!!

This summary, filled with endless shock and temptation, was like a world-creating thunderbolt, fiercely striking Lin Ye's spiritual mind!

He was struck by lightning, completely frozen on the spot!

Void God Realm... Myriad Worlds... hundreds of millions of Prodigies... opportunity to become a God... A series of words filled with endless magic, like the sharpest carving knives, completely shattered his small worldview, which had been confined to the “Tiannan Dynasty”!

He finally understood.

It turned out that the world he was in, this so-called “Tiannan Dynasty,” this so-called “Seven Sect Martial Gathering”... was merely a tiny, insignificant... speck of dust among the Myriad Worlds!

An indescribable complex emotion, mixed with “insignificance,” “shock,” and endless “ecstasy,” surged like the most turbulent waves, one after another, frantically impacting his mind!

“Hahahaha... Hahahahaha!”

He suddenly burst into loud laughter, his laughter filled with endless exhilaration and... heroic spirit!

So, this was the true face of this world!

This was the true starting point of his AFK journey!