324: The flawed jade is the king (sixty-three).

With the descent of a will, an invisible force of teleportation began to envelop this world.

The figures of all the Prodigies, regardless of their cultivation base, began to turn illusory.

Buzz— The force of teleportation suddenly intensified.

The scenery before them began to distort and elongate.

Wang Yun felt his body become light, and his whole world started spinning.

It was not a pleasant sensation.

Even with a Physical Body at the Saint Realm, he felt a slight wave of dizziness.

Then, everything went black... an unknown amount of time passed.

Perhaps it was a mere instant, perhaps several days.

When Wang Yun's feet touched solid ground again, a humid, decaying, and dense Demonic Qi rushed toward him.

"Cough, cough."

Wang Yun waved his hand, dispersing the thick gray-green mist in front of him.

He looked around.

This was an extremely primitive jungle.

Ancient trees reached for the sky, each hundreds of zhang tall, their canopies blotting out the sun.

On the ground, thick layers of decaying leaves had accumulated, with unknown venomous insects scurrying through them, making a piercing rustling sound.

The air was thick with the scent of danger.

"Such dense Demonic Qi, but it's not the Demon Court of the Northern Plains."

Wang Yun made an instantaneous judgment.

The Northern Plains were cold and dry; while the Demonic Qi there was also heavy, it was of a fierce and domineering nature.

The aura here, however, was cold, eerie, and filled with potent toxins and miasma.

"Southern Border."

Wang Yun uttered those two words.

Within the Five Domains, only the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains of the Southern Border were a true forbidden zone for the Human Race.

It was a paradise for venomous creatures, Gu insects, and various bizarre Yao Races.

"Quite the stroke of Luck."

Wang Yun gave a self-deprecating smile.

"Did the random teleportation of the Ancient Starry Road treat me like takeout and deliver me straight into a Yao Beast's mouth?"

Despite his complaints, there was no fear in his heart.

He had to be joking.

Who was he now?

A generation's Supreme Body, a Second Lotus Saint Realm, and the ultimate winner of the Ancient Starry Road.

Even if some old monster truly hid within these Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, as long as it wasn't a Great Saint reincarnated, no one could stop him if he wanted to leave.

"Since I'm here, I might as well make the best of it."

"It just so happens that certain specialty divine medicines of the Southern Border have miraculous effects on consolidating one's Saint Realm cultivation base."

Wang Yun restrained his powerful Saintly Might, disguising himself as an ordinary Heavenly God Realm Cultivator.

Just as he was about to step forward and scout the surroundings—

Roar—!!!

A massive dragon roar exploded from deep within the jungle without warning.

The sound waves rolled out like a physical shockwave, instantly shaking the leaves off ancient trees for a hundred miles around and causing countless weak venomous insects to burst on the spot.

Even the ground beneath Wang Yun's feet trembled violently several times.

A terrifying and frenzied pressure swept over him.

Wang Yun raised an eyebrow.

"A Quasi-Saint Great Yao?"

He clearly sensed the intensity of this aura.

In the Southern Border, a Quasi-Saint level Yao Beast was a regional hegemon, the king of these Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Wang Yun rubbed his ears.

He had no intention of taking action.

He was about to use a Void Realm Technique to leave silently.

Suddenly.

Buzz!

An obscure, hidden, yet extremely precise fluctuation of Daoist Magic suddenly appeared.

This magic came incredibly fast.

"Hmm?"

Wang Yun's heart stirred.

With his cultivation, shattering this magic would take nothing more than a thought.

But he didn't move.

Even though his Heart Heavy Pupils were temporarily unusable, he sensed that this magic carried no killing intent.

Not only was there no killing intent, but it was filled with... a desire to protect?

The moment the magic took effect.

Wang Yun felt his unique scent as a member of the Human Race being completely isolated.

In its place was a "natural" aura that blended with the surrounding rotting leaves and damp soil.

"Someone is helping me?"

Wang Yun was somewhat surprised.

In the depths of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, a forbidden zone for humanity, there was actually someone who would help a total stranger from the Human Race?

"How interesting."

Whoosh— Above his head, a fierce wind howled.

That Quasi-Saint level Demon Dragon's massive body flickered in and out of the clouds, its terrifying Divine Thought carefully scanning back and forth across this jungle.

It seemed to be searching for prey, or perhaps simply patrolling its territory.

Had it not been for this magic's concealment, Wang Yun's Human Race aura—which, though restrained, was still out of place—would have definitely been discovered instantly.

Of course, being discovered wouldn't have mattered; if this Demon Dragon were blind enough to attack, Wang Yun would simply slaughter it.

The Demon Dragon's Divine Thought lingered on Wang Yun's location for an instant but quickly moved away.

It found nothing unusual.

Roar— With another long cry, the Demon Dragon swung its massive tail, stirring up a foul wind that filled the sky as it flew into the distance.

Only when the Demon Dragon's aura had completely vanished from his perception range—

—did Wang Yun hear a rustling sound from the bushes not far behind him.

Then.

An old, weak, and resentful voice spoke.

"Cough, cough... cough, cough, cough!"

"You junior... your Luck really isn't ordinary!"

"If this old man hadn't happened to be passing by and holding a 'Withered Wood Breath-Concealing Talisman,' you'd have already become that long worm's waste!"

Accompanied by violent coughing.

A withered hand pushed aside the thorny bushes.

A tattered, wounded, and disheveled old man limped out.

He looked truly wretched.

The original color of his long robes was no longer visible; they were torn everywhere by sharp claws, and the exposed skin was covered in crisscrossing scars, some still seeping blood.

He looked like a wild man.

As the old man walked, he grumbled and cursed.

"Young people nowadays really don't know the immensity of heaven and earth!"

"With just this bit of meager cultivation, you dare to barge into the core circle of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains?"

"Are you tired of living, or do you think that Quasi-Saint Demon Dragon has recently turned vegetarian?"

He walked up to Wang Yun. Though his words were harsh, his cloudy old eyes held no malice, but rather a hint of concern, like one frustrated by a youngster's lack of sense.

He looked Wang Yun up and down, and seeing him unharmed, he finally sighed in relief, slumped onto the ground, and began to pant heavily.

"Consider yourself lucky... whew... I almost let these old bones of mine be finished off here too."

Wang Yun's expression shifted slightly as he looked at the unkempt old man.

In the eyes of an ordinary person, this was just a destitute and heavily injured old man.

But with Wang Yun's Saint Realm cultivation, he saw through the old man's level at a glance.

A Heavenly Venerate. This old man was a Heavenly Venerate.

A genuine Heavenly Venerate powerhouse had actually managed to get himself into such a state in the deep mountains of the Southern Border?

This made no sense.

A Heavenly Venerate was a foundational existence even within Immortal Powers, a pillar capable of suppressing the Luck of an entire domain.

Why would such a figure fall into such a pathetic state?

Was it to hide from some terrifying enemy?

Or perhaps... he had ventured deep into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to hunt a powerful Yao Beast for its true blood to temper the Physique of some junior in his Family?

Could the excited dragon roar of that Quasi-Saint Great Yao from earlier be related to this man?

If any outsider were present, they would surely cry out in shock.

Because Wang Yun's face and this old man's face were actually sixty percent similar.