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Two Golden Core ancestors showed off their power, skilfully avoiding the territory of the Spirit Transformation Stage demon beasts—not because they couldn’t defeat them, but because it was needless to seek trouble, as they reached the depths of the dense forest.
"Such thick fog."
What appeared before the two of them was a dense fog so thick they couldn’t see their own hands in front of them, as if walking through a reed bed, unable to see the path ahead, only able to walk by feeling.
"Ha!"
Meng Jingzhou let out a ’ha’, and with a swipe of his palm, a golden imprint shone brightly, taller than a person, with an astonishing palm wind. On a normal day, a single palm-strike like this could blow away a cultivator in the early stages of the Golden Core, yet now the palm imprint hit the fog and didn’t even stir up a wave.
Even the palm wind couldn’t disperse the fog before their eyes.
Lu Yang used his proud Spiritual Sense, but unexpectedly, it couldn’t extend out at all, disintegrating as soon as it touched the fog.
"I had heard that the fog was dense in the depths of the forest, but I didn’t expect it to be so strange, that even Spiritual Sense couldn’t penetrate it. No, it should be said that it’s decomposing the Spiritual Sense, right?"
During their training at Demon Suppressing Pass, both of them had heard that some parts of the dense forest bordering the Demon Territory were shrouded in thick fog, which never dissipated, even at noon.
"I originally thought that upon reaching the Golden Core Stage, this legendary fog would be nothing special. Now it seems I was thinking too simply. This might be the work of a Mirage King or some other demon beast."
Now that Spiritual Sense was unusable and their senses significantly weakened, their perception of the surroundings had decreased, making it easy to fall prey to a sneak attack.
The two did not dare to be careless, moving through the fog with utmost caution, trying hard to minimize their presence.
Actually, their worries were unnecessary. In the fog, just as they couldn’t detect an enemy, the enemy also couldn’t detect them; no one would choose to launch a sneak attack here.
"Could this be the anomaly Eldest Senior Sister spoke of?" Lu Yang suddenly recalled what Eldest Senior Sister had said before they set off.
"What did Eldest Senior Sister say?"
"Eldest Senior Sister told me there could be new discoveries at the border between the Central Continent and the Demon Territory. If I had any doubts, I could ask Third Senior Sister after seeing her."
"It must be the fog, then."
At that moment, Fairy Eternity awoke from her sleep. She had slept comfortably throughout the journey, and her strength had recovered quite a bit as well.
"Hm? You two, this is their territory, why is there a wall in front of you?"
Fairy Eternity woke up muddleheaded, rubbing her eyes while warning Lu Yang. If she didn’t warn him in time, he would walk right into the wall.
"A wall?"
The fog was too thick in front of Lu Yang for him to see anything.
"A very tall and big wall, I can’t see the end of it with just one glance... Wait, something’s not right!"
Fairy Eternity exclaimed softly, sensing something amiss.
No matter how strange the fog, it couldn’t obstruct her sight and Spiritual Sense; she could clearly see everything around her.
"What’s not right?" Lu Yang had seldom seen Fairy Eternity react so strongly.
The last time she had such a strong reaction was when she was clamouring to suppress him, only to be counter-suppressed by the Eldest Senior Sister who was summoned later.
"I’ll share my Spiritual Sense with you."
In the Spiritual Space, Fairy Eternity tapped Lu Yang’s forehead of his spiritual body, linking her Spiritual Sense with his. Temporarily, Lu Yang gained the vision of Fairy Eternity.
Lu Yang felt light-weighted, his vision boundless, as if he were a high deity, everything laid out before him, to be manipulated at will.
"What is this!"
Lu Yang’s face showed disbelief; before him was an unimaginably tall and thick wall, so vast that even with Fairy’s wide-reaching Spiritual Sense, he couldn’t see its end!
Fairy’s Spiritual Sense even reached beyond the fog, where Lu Yang saw bushes, towering trees, demon beasts running about, and tribes gathering—a scene of thriving life.
The most crucial thing was that the demon beasts Lu Yang could see were standing on the wall!
"Lu Yang, where are you?"
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Meng Jingzhou didn’t realize Lu Yang had stopped walking; he kept moving forward, then turned his head to find that the person beside him was gone.
Lu Yang was silent for a moment, as he had clearly seen Meng Jingzhou "walk" onto the wall.
The moment Meng Jingzhou touched the wall, he stood on it, forming a right angle with Lu Yang.
And Meng Jingzhou continued to walk forward, indicating that he was completely unaware of this!
"Don’t go any further, come back here!"
Lu Yang called out, and Meng Jingzhou turned around, puzzled, but since Lu Yang had called out, it must have been because he’d discovered something, so he took a few steps back to stand beside Lu Yang.
"What’s wrong?"
Meng Jingzhou was perplexed.
Lu Yang’s heart trembled. What his Spiritual Sense had observed, the process of Meng Jingzhou walking back and forth, made him realize something—the so-called solid wall before them was not a wall at all, but the Demon Territory!
The Central Continent and the Demon Territory were not on the same land mass but were two completely different continents, and these two continents were aligned vertically!
Lu Yang took a step forward, and through the eyes of his Spiritual Sense, the world spun around as he arrived in the Demon Territory.
Lu Yang stepped back to the Central Continent and shared his findings in full with Meng Jingzhou, who also fell silent for a long time after hearing them.
"It seems this is the ’new discovery’ Eldest Senior Sister was talking about."
"Who would have thought that the Central Continent and the Demon Territory were two completely different continents… Wait, why is it named the ’Central’ Continent?"
Lu Yang suddenly pondered another question.
Lu Yang had always thought that to the east of the Central Continent lay the Vast Eastern Sea, to the west the Golden Buddha Kingdom, to the south the Demon Territory, and to the north a frigid land, with the continent located at the center, hence the name "Central."
But with the Demon Territory and Central Continent vertically aligned, how could it be considered "central"?
Unless the other three places were also continents aligned vertically with the Central Continent!
Only if the Central Continent was completely enclosed by four other land masses could it truly be called the "Central Continent"!
"It’s definitely the work of an Immortal," Fairy Eternity concluded decisively.
"The work of the Ancient Nameless One?"
"Most likely."
The Ancient Nameless One hadn’t just refined the stars into a single continent, but five!
But no one knew what the purpose of the Ancient Nameless One was.
Refining stars into continents, which sounds impressive, is fraught with difficulties and not something that can be done just by talking about it.
If such an effort was put into refining continents, there must have been a purpose.
Lu Yang took a deep breath. Eldest Senior Sister had already anticipated this situation; that’s why she said to ask Third Senior Sister if there were any questions.
The reason she didn’t explain the situation of the continents before departing was probably that seeing with one’s eyes is far more shocking and makes a deeper impression than hearing a description.
"Most cultivators don’t know that the stars in the sky have already been refined, so it’s likely that very few people are aware of the continents being arranged this way."
They had encountered many high-level cultivators, none of whom had ever mentioned the state of the continents, indicating that this knowledge didn’t appear to have any impact.
"Let’s not think too much about it for now; we can’t flatten the continents anyway, so let’s not trouble ourselves unnecessarily," Meng Jingzhou said.
"Right."
Both of them nodded and took a step forward, moving to another continent.
There was also thick fog on this side of the Demon Territory; they kept walking forward until the mist gradually dissipated.
They had officially arrived in the Demon Territory.
