184: Chapter 184 The Eight Hundred Miles of Bone Forest: The Great Terror Descending into Reality
Facing the mysterious youth's warning, Lin Chuan, inside the Rebirth Temple, remained unfazed and ordered the six taboos of meishan to continue forward.
Watching the receding figures of the six taboos of meishan,
the youth stood silently in place, making no move to stop them, but a meaningful glint flashed in his eyes.
Then, his figure gradually faded within a swirl of distorted gray mist.
As if he had never appeared there at all.
...
As the six taboos of meishan ventured deeper, the sights of the Kunlun Ruins became increasingly bizarre.
The space ahead could no longer be called a "world."
Instead, it was a ruin of rules, completely shredded and frantically kneaded back together.
Gravity lost its meaning here.
One foot of the six taboos of meishan stepped on a pale mountain of bones, while the other hovered in mid-air.
Solidified drops of black blood floated around, each containing dense, eerie entities wailing in agony.
The boundary between heaven and earth was completely erased.
Through the vision of the six taboos of meishan, Lin Chuan quietly observed everything.
Above the firmament.
Within that tattered scroll that blotted out the sun, three terrifying taboos looked down upon everything.
A three-headed, six-armed monster with blue-black scales opening and closing, exhaling malevolence.
A dried corpse like a bamboo pole, with thick black blood flowing from its eye sockets.
And then there was the giant beast with a rotting pig's head, still continuously swinging its rusty rake.
These three ancient existences that had broken free from their Seals possessed extremely terrifying auras.
But strangely,
they only circled and gazed in the sky.
They did not rashly leave the area of the Kunlun Ruins.
It seemed that at the edge of the Kunlun Ruins, or in the deeper shadows... a Great Horror was hidden that even these ancient taboos deeply feared!
Therefore, they dared not leave, nor did they even dare to move recklessly!!
Was it the Xingtian Taboo that had turned into a sculpture? Or was it some other existence?
Lin Chuan kept guessing.
He did not know the true answer to any of this.
While thinking, his gaze bypassed those three taboos from the scroll and cast toward the deepest part of the Kunlun Ruins.
There, surrounded by an endless sea of corpses and blood,
stood a massive, ancient Bronze Palace covered in mottled copper rust.
The palace gates were tightly shut, exuding a sense of deathly silence as if an entire era had been buried within.
Thump!
Thump! Thump!
Bursts of extremely muffled impact sounds came from inside the Bronze Palace.
This sound had fallen silent for a while.
But now, the banging was more intense than ever before!
It was as if something was about to smash through the palace gates and fully descend!
With every impact, the inverted space-time of the entire Kunlun Ruins trembled violently.
Inside the Rebirth Temple, the light of Chaos flickered around Lin Chuan.
His thoughts were also racing.
"The door..."
The thing behind the door that the mysterious youth mentioned was awakening.
And the "door that does not exist" that the Pharaoh of The Unrotting Outer Court asked him to find.
Did they all point to this Bronze Palace where the banging continued?
No! That's not right!
It couldn't be that simple.
Lin Chuan was not impatient; instead, he had the six taboos of meishan slow down and continue to move stealthily.
While the six taboos of meishan continued to delve deeper into the Kunlun Ruins,
across the various provinces of the Yanlong Empire,
the trend of the Terror Resurgence had worsened to a suffocating degree.
The borders of Qingzhou, and even several provinces adjacent to it, had been completely blockaded by the Yanlong Empire.
Lines of defense constructed from high-level taboo items tightly surrounded the lands of several provinces.
However, facing all this... the eyes of most ordinary people revealed an unmaskable despair.
Inside the meeting room of Bureau 749 in the General Base City of the Yanlong Empire.
The lights in the meeting room were dim, and the atmosphere was oppressive and heavy.
On both sides of the long conference table sat over thirty figures with solemn expressions.
These people were all the current mainstays of the Yanlong Empire, and almost every one of them was an S-rank Taboo Master!
Any one of them, if sent out, could guard a whole province.
But at this moment, the fatigue and terror on their faces could not be hidden.
At the very front of the conference table,
Xia Xuanyuan sat upright, his expression stern.
"Everyone..."
Xia Xuanyuan's raspy voice broke the deathly silence of the meeting room.
"The situation has reached its most dangerous moment."
As he spoke, he slowly took out a stack of documents and slammed them heavily onto the table.
"Over the past half month, 'Portals' have been appearing throughout the Empire..."
"Some small Portals... have even opened completely."
"The weird entities and ancient taboos from the Third Layer of the Nightmare World are swarming into the Real World in large numbers!"
Xia Xuanyuan's words were like a heavy hammer, striking hard against everyone's hearts.
An S-rank Taboo Master who had lost an arm spoke bitterly:
"Elder Xia, we can't hold on much longer."
"With our current strength alone, we are already stretched thin just dealing with the weirdness reviving in reality."
"Now that the weird taboos from the Third Layer of the Nightmare World are constantly descending, we..."
The one-armed Taboo Master didn't finish his sentence, but everyone understood what he meant.
The meeting room fell into a deathly silence.
No matter how deep the Yanlong Empire's foundation was, it was gradually becoming unable to sustain itself!
Humanity's line of defense was collapsing on all fronts.
Just as everyone was silent,
Sizzle!!
The lights in the meeting room suddenly flickered violently, turning a piercing blood-red.
Immediately after, a highest-level alarm echoed throughout the meeting room.
Bang!
The door to the meeting room was suddenly pushed open.
A Bureau 749 intelligence officer, covered in blood and looking terrified to the extreme, stumbled in.
"Director Xia... Daoist Tianji..."
The intelligence officer's voice was trembling.
"Something has happened... something terrible has happened!!"
Xia Xuanyuan stood up abruptly, his hands gripping the table tightly: "Speak!"
The intelligence officer swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva and reported in a blurred voice:
"To the west... in the desert west of the Empire..."
"A mountain ridge... piled with the bones of countless living beings has suddenly descended!"
"According to the detection, that Bone Ridge... stretches for a full eight hundred miles!"
An eight-hundred-mile Bone Ridge!
In the meeting room, all the S-rank Taboo Masters gasped sharply.
What kind of terrifying scale was that?
"My intelligence team risked their lives to send back the final footage..."
The intelligence officer tremblingly took out a tablet and projected it onto the large screen in the meeting room.
In the footage was a dim, distorted sky.
On the ground, white bones were piled high like mountains, forming a pale giant dragon eight hundred miles long.
Skulls formed ridges, and bones made a forest.
Human hair was woven into matted sheets, and human skin and flesh rotted into mud and dust!
Within that eight-hundred-mile Bone Ridge, one could vaguely see countless massive, deformed taboo figures wandering.
It was like a Demon Ridge from mythology had descended into the human world in the flesh!
That was an absolute land of death, a terrifying meat grinder for Mortals and ordinary taboos!
"SSS-rank... no, there are definitely existences beyond SSS-rank entrenched inside..."
Sitting next to Xia Xuanyuan, Daoist Tianji stared fixedly at the screen, the horsetail whisk in his hand trembling slightly.
However, the bad news was far from over.
The intelligence officer took a deep breath and continued:
"Also... to the south!"
"That 'Mysterious Ancient City' located at the junction of our country, the Shaven Empire, and the Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore..."
"is expanding frantically!"
"Its expansion speed is more than ten times faster than before!"
"The rule-based haze emitted by the ancient city has completely enveloped three provinces in the northern part of our country."
"Tens of millions of civilians are being dragged into that Dead City..."
To the west, an eight-hundred-mile Bone Ridge has descended!
To the south, a mysterious Dead City is devouring everything!
Plus the out-of-control Kunlun Ruins in the heart of Qingzhou...
The Yanlong Empire had almost fallen into a desperate situation with no way out.
The entire meeting room was so quiet that only heavy breathing could be heard.
Despair, like a maggot on a bone, crawled into everyone's hearts.
The building is about to collapse; who can save it from falling?
Xia Xuanyuan closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
When he opened his eyes again, the fatigue in them had been replaced by a resolute ruthlessness.
"Pass down my orders!"
Xia Xuanyuan's aged voice was resonant at this moment, like a great bell.
"Effective immediately, the Yanlong Empire will enter a state of highest-level emergency!"
"Abandon all non-essential lines of defense, consolidate our strength, and defend the core survival zones to the death!"
He paused, his gaze sweeping over everyone present.
"Immediately activate the highest-level international communication channel."
"Contact the high-level officials of the Shaven Empire..."
At this point, Xia Xuanyuan's gaze became incredibly complex.
"And..."
"Contact the Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore!"
"Tell them that the survival of humanity depends on this one move."
"The Yanlong Empire requests to discuss a counter-strategy with the 'True Buddha' behind them!"