374: Chapter 374 The Root of the Holy Land! Yaochi Xinhai Runs Away from Home!

"Rumble!!!"

An even more terrifying and muffled roar echoed from the deepest depths of the Yaochi Forbidden Zone!

That sound was no longer just an explosion; it was the sound of the entire space and the very earth being forcibly torn and uprooted from the world's tectonic plates by an indescribable, brutal force!

The tens of thousands of Disciples and Elders of the Yaochi Holy Land all widened their eyes in absolute horror, staring fixedly at the Forbidden Zone, their very breathing coming to a halt.

The next second...

They witnessed the most absurd and shocking scene of their entire lives, one they would never forget.

They saw the Yaochi Heart Sea—which occupied the core area of the Yaochi Holy Land and was hailed as the Root of the Holy Land and its eternal Foundation—actually... actually being uprooted from the Yaochi Holy Land's map by an invisible force, along with the incredibly heavy mountain range and crust beneath it!

That vast body of water and the sky of Law floating above it abruptly suspended themselves as a whole in mid-air!

Below, a bottomless, massive abyss crater was revealed, still belching forth the baleful fire of the earth's meridians!

Countless spiritual peaks and medicinal fields that originally sat around the Heart Sea had now become part of the abyss!

"My three-thousand-year-old Nine-Cycle Soul-Returning Grass!" An Alchemy Elder with hair and beard as white as snow saw his life's work, his medicinal garden, vanish into the edge of the crater. His eyes rolled back, and he spat out a mouthful of old blood from sheer rage before falling unconscious.

"Halt! Such behavior violates Rule 1,300 of the sect! I command you to return to your position immediately!" An Elder from the Hall of Law Enforcement subconsciously summoned his Magic Treasure and shouted sternly at the "land" flying in the sky. He only realized how ridiculous his actions were a moment later, his old face turning the color of pig liver.

"I... I'm not dreaming, am I?" A young Disciple pinched himself hard. The sharp pain told him that everything before his eyes was real.

"The... the Heart Sea... grew legs and ran away?" another Disciple muttered with his mouth agape, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.

At this moment, tens of thousands of Cultivators in the entire Yaochi fell into a bizarre state of collective chaos and petrification.

Their worldview and their understanding of cultivation were shattered into pieces before this scene.

The Foundation of the Holy Land... actually ran away from home on its own?

Who the hell would believe this if it were told to them?!

However, an even more inconceivable and hair-raising sight was yet to come!

Under countless horrified gazes, the ten-thousand-mile-wide Yaochi Heart Sea floating in mid-air actually began to... shrink!

Yes, shrink!

That vast body of water, that sky of Law, and even the silver light cocoon wrapped in the center were all collapsing inward frantically in a way that defied all common logic of the world!

It was as if an invisible giant hand was kneading this piece of heaven and earth into a ball!

The ten-thousand-mile body of water turned into a thousand miles, a hundred miles, ten miles in an instant... and finally!

Under the completely numb gazes of the tens of thousands of Yaochi Disciples...

The entire Yaochi Heart Sea, along with Ling Qingzhu inside, actually... actually turned into a single drop!

A crystal-clear drop of water only the size of a thumb, which seemed to contain the Profound Truth of the birth and death of endless space-time and galaxies!

That drop of water floated quietly in mid-air.

It looked so tiny, so fragile.

But the aura it emitted caused all the Saints, Saint Kings, and even the Great Saint-level Elders present to feel a shudder and... a sense of submission originating from the deepest parts of their Souls and Bloodlines!

It was as if it wasn't a drop of water...

But more like an Incarnation of the entire Origin of Law!

*Gulp.*

Someone swallowed hard, breaking the deathly silence.

And at that moment...

"Crack!!!"

A crisp sound, like the Heavenly Dao wailing in grief, came from above the Nine Heavens!

Above the sky of the Yaochi Holy Land, the azure heavens actually cracked open like a mirror shattered by a god's spear, revealing a massive, pitch-black Void Realm rift!

Inside the rift was a terrifying Void turbulence violent enough to instantly shred everything!

One could vaguely see the wreckage of countless broken worlds, and even the corpses of ancient gods and demons floating within!

It was an absolute passage of death leading to an unknown dimension!

*Whoosh—!*

The moment the Void Realm rift appeared, the drop of water formed by the entire Yaochi Heart Sea seemed to hear a mother's call, finding its ultimate destination.

With a slight tremble, it turned into a brilliant silver stream of light, trailing a long plume of flame like a meteor surging upstream towards the unknown and destiny!

There was no pause!

There was no hesitation!

It dove straight into that pitch-black Void Realm rift!

Then, under everyone's stunned gazes, the massive Void Realm rift slowly closed and eventually vanished.

As if it had never appeared.

The sky regained its calm.

The wind stopped too.

The entire world fell silent.

All that remained was... the bottomless, massive crater in the center of the Yaochi Holy Land, still emitting wisps of black gas.

And the tens of thousands of Yaochi Disciples and Elders standing at the edge of the crater, completely dumbfounded like clay and wooden statues.

Home... seems to be... gone?