159: Chapter 159 The Dense Fog Forms a Formation, a Beacon for the Dominator's Descent

"Sigh..."

A long, weathered sigh squeezed painfully out of Song Changye's shriveled throat.

He reached out a withered finger, trembling slightly as he adjusted the old reading glasses on the bridge of his nose.

In his eyes, which had seen so much of the world's vicissitudes, there was no longer even the rigor of a scholar, only deep fear and wariness.

"You should know what the Pyramid symbolized in the ancient civilizations of the Idfu Continent."

Qin Yao's brow furrowed, and he said in a deep voice, "It's the tomb of a Pharaoh."

"Or... a spiritual altar used by ancient civilizations to communicate between the Realms of the living and the dead."

"Correct, it is a tomb," Song Changye's voice sounded like sandpaper rubbing together.

"But look closely at the structure of that tower, and the positioning patterns of those 'living dead' around it."

Following Song Changye's finger, everyone suppressed their inner discomfort and stared fixedly ahead.

"That is not a defensive line meant to prevent outsiders from intruding..."

At this point, Song Changye suddenly took a sharp breath, his voice carrying a hint of a tremor.

"It looks more like... a suppressing Seal to prevent the things inside from 'crawling' out!"

Hearing this, the followers beside Qin Yao shuddered violently.

To prevent the things inside from crawling out?!

They didn't dare imagine just how terrifying the thing sealed and suppressed within that black Pyramid was...

"Elder Ye, you mean..." Qin Yao's heart sank completely to the bottom.

"Based on my research into taboo studies over these past few months, combined with the distorted runes on this tower..."

Song Changye stared fixedly at the writhing black light on the Pyramid, his face as pale as paper.

"What is buried inside—or rather, suppressed—is a malevolent entity that transcends our dimensions of understanding!"

"Its Terror Level definitely exceeds that of an ordinary SS-Rank Taboo..."

"It even exceeds a low-tier Old Master!"

Song Changye took a deep breath and uttered a term that made everyone feel as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Lurking inside might be a high-tier SSS-rank Old Master..."

"Or perhaps, a true... Taboo Dominator!"

Dominator!

As soon as these three words were spoken, everyone present felt as if their breath had been cut off by an invisible giant hand.

In this post-apocalyptic world where even an S-rank Taboo could easily slaughter a city and an SS-Rank Taboo could wipe out a nation.

What did the existence of a Dominator-level entity mean?

It meant absolute despair! It meant the collapse of the Laws of physical reality! It meant an unspeakable, indescribable horror that could not be looked upon!

"Then... then shouldn't we leave quickly?!"

The follower whose body had begun to show bloodlines was almost at a breaking point, shouting in a hoarse voice.

"Leave?" Song Changye gave a tragic smile and shook his head powerlessly.

"I said just now, it's too late."

He slowly raised a withered finger, pointing at Qin Yao, then at himself and the others around them.

"The moment we stepped onto these yellow sands..."

"We were already completely marked and locked onto by the thing inside the Pyramid."

"Do you really think this is still the Idfu Desert of the real world?"

Song Changye looked around bitterly.

"This place is no longer the physical world."

"It is a Taboo Domain completely constructed by that malevolent entity using distorted Rule Power!"

"Impossible! I didn't feel anything unusual! This is just a desert!"

One of the followers on the verge of collapse cried out, his eyes bloodshot, his sanity completely consumed by fear.

He turned abruptly and sprinted madly back the way they had come.

"Stop! Don't go!" Qin Yao shouted sternly to stop him.

But the follower seemed possessed, unable to hear any sound at all. He ran desperately through the yellow sand, thinking only of escaping this nightmare-like Pyramid.

However, just as he had run less than a hundred meters, an extremely absurd and eerie scene occurred!

The space in front of him, like a mirror smashed by a heavy hammer, underwent violent folding and distortion.

"Ah!!!"

The follower let out a shrill scream that was beyond words.

Everyone looked on in horror, instantly feeling their scalps tingle and their stomachs churn with nausea.

The world behind that follower... was actually completely inverted!

The yellow sand that should have been beneath his feet carrying all things was now eerily suspended above the pitch-black 'sky'.

And the firmament that was once high above had sunk beneath his feet, turning into a bottomless purple abyss!

The yellow sand filling the air was violating all Laws of physical gravity, 'falling' frantically from bottom to top.

The moment the follower's body stepped into that inverted area, it was instantly torn apart by two opposing Rule Powers.

His upper body fell toward the purple abyss, while his lower body flew toward the yellow sand in the sky!

Blood and internal organs were pulled and floated eerily in the inverted Void Realm.

But even at this stage, he did not die immediately.

Under the distortion of rules, he could even watch his own intestines flying in the sky with his own eyes, his mouth letting out shrill, airy wails.

"This... this..."

The remaining followers' legs went weak, and they collapsed onto the coarse sand, their faces full of horror.

The way back was completely cut off.

Qin Yao did not speak. He clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging deep into the flesh of his palms, drawing blood.

He used the stinging pain to force himself to remain calm.

"Elder Ye, since it is a Taboo Domain, there must be loopholes in the rules to be found."

"What should we do to survive?"

Song Changye did not answer immediately.

He pushed up his reading glasses, his gaze fixed on the runes on the Pyramid that writhed like living creatures, scanning them continuously.

The more he looked, the more his body shook, and the more terrified his eyes became.

"Too terrifying... this is too absurd..."

He kept murmuring, as if he had seen something enough to overturn all cognition.

"Elder Ye, what exactly did you see?" Qin Yao asked anxiously.

"The arrangement of these runes..."

Song Changye took a deep breath of the air thick with the smell of blood, his voice becoming sharp due to extreme fear.

"They... are not just the native incantation rules of the Idfu Continent!"

"Qin Yao, look at the direction of those tangled lines that look like tumors..."

Following Song Changye's finger, Qin Yao saw a patch of crimson stone carvings on the tower that looked like internal organs.

"That is exactly the same as the flesh-and-blood mutation rules of the 'Fallen Light Court' in the West Continent that I saw on a damaged Taboo Item not long ago!"

"And over there..."

Song Changye pointed to the other side of the Pyramid.

"Those symbols that look like closed eyes nested within each other..."

"That is clearly the same source rule as the 'Emperor Eye' above the Star-Striped Nation on the Red Continent!"

Song Changye's words were like a sudden clap of thunder, exploding in Qin Yao's mind.

The flesh-and-blood corruption rules of the West Continent!

The Emperor Eye rules of the Red Continent!

Plus the ancient death taboo incantations suspected to be native to the Idfu Continent!

Three completely different ultimate horrors, each ravaging a different continent of the world.

At this moment, they were actually perfectly fused onto a single Pyramid!

What did this mean?

It meant that the ultimate taboos of these continents, in the extremely distant ancient times, even before the birth of human civilization...

Actually had some deep-level conspiracy and connection!

"Behind this... I'm afraid something incredible is involved..."

Song Changye's body trembled violently, as if he had touched the deepest, most horrific truth of this world.

"A grand scheme jointly laid out by those high and mighty Dominators!"

"I even have a deduction that the entire 'real world', from ancient times to the present, has only been a canvas for Them to smear as They please..."

"This Pyramid is the tomb that buries everything! It is also the... Beacon They use to usher deeper horrors into reality!"

As Song Changye spoke, on the other end of the world.

In the Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore, inside the dark and gloomy temple.

Lin Chuan sat upon the Lotus Pedestal.

His evil buddha golden body was wreathed in starlight shadows, occasionally emitting black light of Chaos, looking like an eternal evil god watching the change of eras.

Taboo Rule Power, centered on him, flowed and cycled through the Void Realm.

Through Qin Yao's perspective, Lin Chuan's will also fell upon that eerie black Pyramid.

"Inverted rules, mixed taboos, and... a Beacon of the abyss."

Lin Chuan's thoughts shifted, forming a vast Buddhist sound of rules that echoed faintly in the void of the Rebirth Temple.

He didn't care about the revival of a 'Dominator'.

But just now, as Qin Yao and the others drew closer to that Pyramid.

Lin Chuan discovered that the blood-colored handprint on his chest actually produced a very weak... resonance with the rule fluctuations emitted from within the Pyramid!

That resonance carried an extreme malice and an ancient calling.

As if it wanted to forcibly drag Lin Chuan's will into the bottom of that Pyramid, into the bottomless abyss.

"The blood-colored handprint left by that Mysterious Old Man can actually connect with the Dominator's Beacon far away on the Idfu Continent..."

Lin Chuan's heart sank slightly.

He increasingly felt that the palm strike the Mysterious Old Man had left on his chest back then was by no means as simple as a mere curse.

It was more like a key, or... a set of coordinates.

"Forget it, the secrets behind this are not something I can deeply peer into for now..."

Thinking of this, Lin Chuan cut off his Peeping of the Idfu Continent.

He did not choose to intervene in this matter.

The priority was not to explore unknown Dominators on a distant continent.

But to stabilize himself, completely digest the Peacock Holy Nation, and continue expanding the territory of the Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore.

As long as he had enough Fanatic Believers to provide a massive Power Of Will.

As long as he could push his Terror Level all the way to the rank of Dominator, or even beyond the Realm of a Dominator.

Whether it be the so-called ancient Dominators or the 'transgressors' mentioned by the Mysterious Old Man.

He, Lin Chuan.

Could deliver them all! Suppress them all! Devour them all!