150: The ancient Warcraft is about to revive

Xiao Yuwei seemed to see through Su Lei’s doubts.

She lightly tapped her fingertip, and the holographic projection switched, displaying the energy fluctuation spectrum around the stone platform.

“You guessed right.”

“It wasn’t discovered; it… appeared out of thin air.”

On the spectrum, the blue curve representing spatial stability suddenly plummeted at a certain point in time,

and then the stone platform, as if squeezed out of the Void Realm, directly descended into the depths of the desert.

The command center fell silent for a moment, with only the faint hum of the holographic projection.

“Don’t worry, I’ve already arranged for Zhao Wufeng and his team of four to go investigate.”

Real-time footage of Zhao Wufeng and the other three appeared in the holographic projection.

Thanks to the intelligence Chen Xuan and Ye Qingyun exchanged for their severe injuries, the four Grandmasters had already broken through the layers of traps in the periphery, and were now splitting into four paths to explore the interior of the ruins.

The screen suddenly shook violently—

“Watch out!” Zhao Wufeng’s roar exploded from the communicator.

The stone statues in the four corners of the hall suddenly came to life, their thick stone shells peeling off inch by inch, revealing bodies as black as ink within.

These monsters were humanoid but had six arms, each ending in sharp bone blades, creating afterimages as they moved.

Zhao Wufeng roared, activating his Profound Fiend Battle Body to its full extent, his skin instantly taking on a metallic sheen.

He neither dodged nor evaded, taking a bone blade slash head-on, sparks flying, and then counter-punched, blasting a bowl-sized hole in the monster’s chest.

Li Hanyi’s eyes were slightly closed, her Heaven-Building Concentration Art pushed to its limit.

Invisible mental blades pierced through the air, directly striking the monster’s head.

The monster’s movements instantly froze, its six arms twitching unconsciously a few times, then it crashed to the ground.

Zhou Tianyang formed hand Seals, and the Pure Yang True Fire condensed by his Heaven-Burning Blazing Sun Art transformed into a fiery tornado, engulfing the pouncing monster.

A spine-chilling roar emanated from the flames, and as black smoke billowed, the monster turned to ash.

Wang Yue was the most composed, his Protective Aura, condensed by the Mountain River Suppressing Prison Art, pressed down like a mountain.

With each step he took, the ground trembled, and the monster was actually forced to its knees, ultimately exploding under the terrifying Protective Aura’s crushing force.

After the crisis was resolved, the four immediately transmitted the images of the murals they had captured.

The ancient civilization experts in the command center quickly gathered in front of the main screen, their fingers flying across the virtual keyboard.

With the experience from the Kunlun Secret Realm, the deciphering work proceeded exceptionally smoothly.

“This is…” The chief expert suddenly gasped.

On the projection, a magnificent mural gradually became clear.

A Human Race expert clad in starry battle armor was engaged in a desperate battle with a monster resembling an octopus but with hundreds of eyes.

In the final image, golden flames ignited around the expert, sealing both the monster and himself within a colossal stone platform.

“Thirty thousand years ago, a Human Race supreme expert engaged in a life-and-death battle with an ancient Demonic Beast here.”

The expert’s voice trembled slightly, “The energy unleashed during the Seal was too powerful.”

“It completely transformed an area spanning thousands of miles into the Death Desert…”

Everyone fell into a deathly silence.

Xiao Yuwei’s pupils contracted slightly, and she instinctively looked at Su Lei.

The moment their gazes met, both understood the shock in the other’s eyes—

The Death Desert, was it actually a tomb burying ancient experts and Demonic Beasts?!

Xiao Yuwei withdrew her gaze, and when she turned to Su Lei, her tone softened a few degrees.

“Your most urgent task now is to focus on breaking through to the Great Grandmaster Realm.”

“Leave this place to me.”

The two looked at each other for a long time, then Su Lei nodded gently and returned to the secret chamber.

Sitting cross-legged, a colorful halo gradually appeared around him.

Time in the secret chamber seemed to freeze, with only the clear sound of energy rushing through his Meridians audible.

His consciousness sank into his Dantian, where a brilliant energy crystal slowly rotated, each rotation drawing in the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth.

Time, for him, seemed to cease to exist… Two weeks later, the stone door of the quiet room slowly opened, and a tall figure stepped out, bathed in the morning light.

The colorful Protective Aura swirling around Su Lei receded like flowing water, his skin glowed with a jade-like luster, and his every movement carried a naturally formed Dao rhyme.

Lin Qianqian, who had rushed over upon hearing the commotion, immediately felt a sense of disbelief.

“They said you’d be in seclusion for at least two months…”

Su Lei’s lips curved into a slight smile: “It’s merely retracing the old path I walked in the Trial Tower.”

Over the past month, he had completely transformed the insights gained in the Trial Tower into combat power.

His physique, tempered by lightning, had reached an unprecedented strength, his bone density comparable to stellar iron, and the colorful Protective Aura flowing through his Meridians surged like a great river.

Now, he was infinitely close to his Peak state during the second trial.

A wisp of colorful lightning flickered at Su Lei’s fingertips.

This seemingly gentle energy contained the power to split mountains and cleave Peaks.

Lin Qianqian couldn’t help but ask softly, “So, have you… become a Great Grandmaster now?”

Su Lei lightly clenched his fist, feeling the surging power within him, and murmured, “Still one last step…”

Although his physique and Protective Aura had both reached the Transcendent Realm, there was always a subtle barrier separating him from a true Great Grandmaster.

This was not just a gap in power, but also in the comprehension of the true meaning of martial Dao.

“What’s the situation like at the Death Desert?”

Lin Qianqian handed over a holographic report, “The ruins in the Death Desert have been completely secured, and the research team has moved in.”

The report showed that Xiao Yuwei had personally led a team to clear all threats within the ruins and established a military base in the periphery.

Most shockingly, they discovered the sealed ancient Demonic Beast and the remains of the expert who perished with it in the deepest part of the ruins.

“Depart immediately.”

...When Su Lei arrived at the ruins in the Death Desert, the sight before him couldn’t help but move him.

Around the colossal black stone platform, a modern military base had been established, with an energy shield isolating the raging sandstorm outside.

And in the center of the stone platform, a teleportation gate emanating an ancient aura quietly floated, its surface adorned with obscure and difficult-to-understand runes.

Xiao Yuwei stood before the teleportation gate, and seeing his arrival, she nodded slightly: “You’ve come at a good time.”

“This is the core of the Seal?” Su Lei gazed at the teleportation gate, sensing the immense energy contained within it.

Xiao Yuwei nodded slightly, handing him a data pad.

“According to the latest scans, the Demonic Beast is sealed a thousand meters beneath the stone platform.”

A huge biological outline appeared on the holographic projection, surrounded by dozens of energy chains.

“But the energy fluctuations emanating from these Restrictions are constantly weakening. Sooner or later…”

“It will break free.”

Xiao Yuwei brought up a set of data.

“We’ve studied all the murals and documents we could find, but we still can’t fully understand how the Seal works.”

At this point, her gaze suddenly sharpened.

“Now, there’s only one way to unravel this mystery… by entering this teleportation gate.”