My Informative Cultivation Life

"Alas, you should not have come here; all is fated!" the gaunt, black-robed elder shook his head and sighed lightly.

"Ancestor, we did not wish to come here either; it was an accident, an accident. Please show us a clear path and let us out!" Ba Kui, the elder, cried out in lament, looking very pitiful, and it was not clear whether he was truly afraid or just pretending.

"Alas!" the elder sighed, without ever glancing at them from the beginning to the end.

"Ancestor, please show us a clear path!" Ba Kui, the elder, implored with a trembling voice.

"Once you have entered this place, there is no turning back. Move forward, and perhaps you will find an unexpected chance at life, a path to survival," the elder ceased his sighing and said slowly.

"Where ahead might we find a path to survival? Please enlighten us, Ancestor," Ba Kui, the elder, asked in a low, respectful voice.

"Ancestor..." Just as Ba Kui, the elder, was prepared to ask again, Yang Ji spoke in a deep tone, "Brother Ba, ask no more; this too, is a 'Time Echo'."

With that, he took two steps forward and reached out to touch the black-robed elder, only to find his hand passing right through as if through air.

"This... really is a 'Time Echo'... Is he also an illusion left behind in the River of Time?" Ba Kui, the elder, was somewhat surprised and uncertain, shaking his head, "No, no, if he is an illusion... then why do I feel as though he is waiting for us?"

"Brother Ba, are you aware of divination?" Yang Ji asked slowly.

"Divination? You mean to say, he foresaw our arrival here and left an illusion a million years ago to wait for us?" Ba Kui, the elder, was greatly shocked, "What kind of powerhouse would be capable of doing such a thing?"

"If I am not mistaken, this predecessor should be the Ancestor of the Life and Death Immortal Sect, the Life and Death Daoist! I have seen him in the fragmented memories of the senior, Jian Wushuang; he is indeed a powerhouse at the Quasi-Immortal King Level," Yang Ji stated in a heavy voice.

"The Ancestor of the Life and Death Immortal Sect, the Life and Death Daoist?" Ba Kui, the elder, was greatly astounded and then, furrowing his brows, said, "The Life and Death Daoist said that we should not have come here; could there be great peril ahead?"

"Perhaps that is the case!" Yang Ji nodded solemnly, finding the situation had gone beyond his expectations.

"Elder Ba Kui, Brother Yang, what shall we do now?" The Red Dust Immortals looked to Ba Kui and Yang Ji; the two of them were the most powerful there, being True Immortals of immense might, capable of easily crushing other Red Dust Immortals.

"What else can we do? The Life and Death Daoist said that once we've entered this place, there is no turning back. We can only move forward to seek a sliver of chance at life!" Elder Ba Kui's face was solemn, "I hope that the Ancestor had already subdued everything in his time; let us go!" Enjoy more content from My Virtual Library Empire

Everyone felt it all too incredible; a figure from a million years ago had predicted today's events and had even left behind an illusion waiting for them, it all seemed too supernatural.

Having no other choice, they braced themselves and walked forward.

After walking for a while, some faint, dim light began to appear at the end of the corridor.

Unknowingly, the group had reached the end of the corridor, and the view ahead gradually opened up.

A vast expanse of desolate and dead land entered everyone's field of vision.

The dim light, the barren and broken ground scarce with even weeds, was imbued with an air of deathly stillness, decay, and chilliness; it truly was a land of death!

The group slowly walked out of the corridor and stepped onto the dead land.@@novelbin@@

At first glance, the dead land was silent, the trees without leaves, all presenting a half-decayed appearance as if drenched in acid rain, permeated with the aura of death.

The trees in the forest were sparse, the gloom most profound, entwined with an eerily chilling atmosphere.

The soil beneath their feet was grayish-black, emitting a rotten smell unique to old woods, which was particularly offensive.

A glance revealed many small marshes on the ground, shrouded in a thin mist, and within the black sludge, besides decomposed branches, there were also skeletons.

This place was full of putrid and foul tones.

Everyone's brows were furrowed, their mood quite heavy.

"Elder Ba Kui, what shall we do now?" They looked towards him.

"Brother Yang, what is your view?" Throughout the journey, Yang Ji was the most composed, and Ba Kui faintly felt his extraordinariness; thus, he sought his opinion now.

"Let us take it one step at a time," Yang Ji said in a deep voice.

"Did you hear that? Take it one step at a time, keep your eyes peeled, understood?" Elder Ba Kui spoke gruffly, sweeping a glance over everyone.

"Yes, Elder!" All the Red Dust Immortals nodded and slowly proceeded forward.

Not long after they walked on,

a grandiose complex of buildings came into view on the distant land, a series of dilapidated palaces forming a continuous stretch.

A thin mist floated around the palaces, which were utterly silent inside, and the group of buildings seemed like crouching beasts, oppressive to the heart.

"Palaces? What place is this?" Elder Ba Kui was moved, activating his magical eyes to look around.

"Look inside, why are there so many Death Spirits? Are they in a great battle?" someone suddenly called out in a low voice.

"That's..." Everyone looked and saw that within the palaces, a great number of Immortal Armored Soldiers and disciples of the Life and Death Immortal Sect were engaged in fierce battle, with lives perishing at every moment.

"Those are not Death Spirits, but the same kind of 'Time Echoes' we encountered in the corridor. It seems that the Immortal Armored Army had invaded the Inner World placed by the Life and Death Daoist," Yang Ji said in a heavy voice.

"What? Brother Yang, you're saying... this place is the Inner World of the Life and Death Daoist?" Elder Ba Kui was astounded.

"Precisely!" Yang Ji nodded.

"This place is filled with carnage, shrouded in death, not a good omen!"

"How unlucky we are, having followed the Immortal Artifact into this place."