158: Chapter 158 Humanity will enter a new era

"Song Yiqing??"

When the Great Elder heard these words, his expression became visibly uncontrollable.

"Yan Ningrui!! Tell me!! Quickly!!"

"No comment!"

When Yan Ningrui saw the Great Elder's expression, his originally uneasy heart gradually began to calm down.

At least from the current situation, the result was still on the side of humanity.

However, upon hearing his answer, the Great Elder was clearly enraged to an uncontrollable degree.

"Hehehehe, no comment? You actually dare to say 'no comment' here?

What a performance! Yan Ningrui, why didn't I see that you were such a drama queen before?

Do you really think I don't know what you're thinking?

Let me tell you the truth,"

As he spoke, he returned directly to his high-backed chair and glared at Yan Ningrui, saying,

"During the Devouring Phase, the power of the Forbidden Land is recovering, and simultaneously, the consciousness of the Forbidden Land is also recovering.

You should understand what I mean by this."

"..."

Yan Ningrui looked at him and said in a heavy voice,

"You people are truly mad! Awakening the Forbidden Land—are you really so certain that Penglai won't be destroyed because of it?"

"Hahahaha!"

The Great Elder burst out laughing.

"Destroyed? How could it be destroyed? By what? Penglai is immortal!!

We are the existences chosen by the Forbidden Land! Penglai will become the last pure land in this world.

Well? Yan Ningrui, don't you want to live?

Or do you just want to die?"

"Live?"

Hearing his words, Yan Ningrui couldn't help but laugh.

"Hehehe, you lot believed Old Man Wei's words and turned yourselves into something neither human nor ghost; you call that living?

If that's the case, I would rather die than submit!!"

"Good!"

The Great Elder said coldly,

"Then I'll see just how unyielding you can be!"

As he spoke, sets of torture instruments began to be brought out.

Then, the Great Elder added as if to remind him,

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, regarding the Second Forbidden Zone, we also tampered with it a bit.

Killing the Black-faced Living Buddha is not the ultimate way to break the situation."

"What did you say?"

Yan Ningrui was startled, and a faint sense of unease began to rise in his heart.

...

Meanwhile,

On the livestream screen,

After Song Yiqing had the Queen Zongzi kill the Black-faced Living Buddha, his first thought was to escape,

Rather than go deeper.

Because the entire Forbidden Land was collapsing, and the situation that had occurred previously in the Taklamakan Desert did not happen here.

There was no path leading to the Third Forbidden Land here!

"Run!!"

Song Yiqing suddenly shouted. In the next second, he performed Dust with Light and disappeared from everyone's sight at an extremely high speed in an instant.

"Eh, eh, eh, eh??"

Fatty looked at the disappearing figure in a daze and said anxiously on the spot,

"Holy crap!! Holy crap! Lord Song, that's not how you play this!! Lord Song!!"

No matter how he called out, Song Yiqing had no intention of turning back at all.

The next second, the Queen Zongzi sprinted over from behind with her long, slender, pitch-black legs.

At the same time, a low, raspy, and eerie voice came from her abdomen,

"Song Yiqing!! Don't you run!!"

"Oh my god!"

Fatty was also startled and was about to dodge,

But the Queen Zongzi directly grabbed him, Hu Bayi, and the others, taking them all along.

As for Zhang Qilin and Wang Xianzhi, there was clearly no need for that.

After their full power erupted, the speed they produced was also quite considerable,

Not being much slower than the Queen Zongzi at all.

...

The bullet chat area:

[What's going on? Why are they running straight out? Normally, shouldn't they keep going deeper inside??]

[Exactly! Isn't the boss already dead? Why run! It should be time to go to the Third Forbidden Land, right?]

[Yeah! This, this, this... what on earth is happening? Could it be that some other trouble has cropped up?]

[Hey, hey, hey!! What's really going on? According to what was said before, they should be able to go to the Third Forbidden Land now, right?

Lord Song! Don't mess around!]

[If they don't go to the Third Forbidden Land now, and this Black Sand Great Buddha Temple collapses,]

[Won't it be GG again!]

[Do you think there's a possibility that there's simply no way to go to the Third Forbidden Land?]

[Holy crap! That possibility is very likely! Otherwise, there'd be no reason to run away!]

[Damn it! This Forbidden Land is truly ever-changing and extremely dangerous! Run! Run!]

The viewers in the livestream room were shouting frantically.

Inside the Xue Group Research Institute,

Wen Xiuya was also monitoring the situation in the livestream room at all times.

When she noticed that Song Yiqing chose to run away instead of continuing deeper,

She also gradually began to realize that something was wrong.

"Wait... running away? Is it really like the viewers said, that there's no way to go deeper?"

Amidst her doubts, she immediately began to pull up the particle fluctuation data from the Queen's Palace.

Then she pulled up the particle fluctuation data from just now.

When a Forbidden Land begins to collapse, the particle fluctuation patterns are similar.

But as Wen Xiuya looked closer, she also detected a hint of strangeness.

"Wait, why does this Black Sand Great Buddha Temple feel like it's missing something?

Could it be..."

The heart scepter that had appeared inside the coffin in the Queen's Palace earlier immediately popped into her mind.

"The heart scepter? Yes!! It must be something similar to that!"

In just an instant, Wen Xiuya had figured out the cause and effect.

She then quickly began to send messages in the livestream room.

It wasn't that she wanted to betray the Xue Group, but rather, in Wen Xiuya's view,

For this experiment to proceed deeper, it was essential for Song Yiqing and the others to enter the Third Forbidden Land.

Only by collecting more intelligence could the secret of the Forbidden Land's formation be unlocked.

What kind of plan the company had didn't matter to her.

She only wanted to solve the mystery of how the Forbidden Lands were formed!

At the same time, Wen Xiuya looked at the biological experiment for potion no. 3 that was being conducted nearby.

"If this succeeds, humanity will enter a new era."

...

On the livestream screen,

They had already sprinted from the Mahavira Hall to a side hall.

However, the Mongoose Gate that Song Yiqing had previously slashed to pieces had now vanished without a trace.

Everything here was being altered by some majestic power,

Causing everything to undergo earth-shaking changes.

But Song Yiqing quickly formed hand seals with one hand, using Feng Shui Secret Arts to search for the true exit.

The moment he locked onto the direction,

Six Flying Swords instantly shot out!

Boom!