Checking in for 100,000 Years

Chapter 372: Chapter 372: The Ruins Change, The Illusion of the Ancestor Dragon

THWACK!

With a slight flick of his hand, Ye Yun sent the Dragon Shadow Bug soaring into the distance.

He set up a restriction in front of him, isolating his Super Divine Dragon Breath, and immediately, no more Dragon Shadow Bugs rushed towards them.

The three of them continued their descent.

Now, they saw more and more wandering souls perpetually drifting in the Abyss.

When the three of them landed at the very bottom of the Abyss, Ye Yun noticed a damaged hall, beyond which lay a dismantled Formation.

Even though several million years had passed, the traces of the Formation still lingered.

The hall had long been reduced to a desolate ruin, but its scale could still be vaguely discerned.

In front of the hall was a desolate square, with not even a single wandering soul in sight.

Although the wandering souls in the distance roamed everywhere, not a single one approached the square, let alone dared to enter the ruined hall.

”This should be the place where the Ancestor Dragon sealed the treasure,” Ye Yun said softly after careful observation.

The Bloody Overlord Demonic Dragon sighed, ”Master, too much time has passed. There are no valuable clues to be found.”

”Yes,” Ye Yun nodded silently.

Indeed, there were no significant leads, but upon seeing such a desolate place, he could not help but feel a strange emotion welling up inside him.

Perhaps it has something to do with the Ancestral Dragon Bloodline within my body.

Anyway, since the wandering souls wouldn’t come in here, Ye Yun removed the restriction and walked slowly through the ruins.

From time to time, he would pick up a shattered piece of red stone and carefully examine it in his hand.

”Hmm?”

Ye Yun’s expression suddenly shifted slightly.

He sensed an exceedingly faint, bizarre energy from a fragment of red stone. It would have been very difficult to notice without his impressive ocular abilities.

He had never encountered such energy before. It was a strange, red energy.

However, it was so scarce that it was merely a few minuscule particles existing within the red rubble.

Any regular Cultivator would undoubtedly overlook it.

With a thought, Ye Yun immediately drew these tiny red particles out from the shattered stone.

These red particles floated before his eyes, so minute they were almost undetectable unless scrutinized closely.

”Master, what are these things?” Big Black Horse trotted over, curiously staring at these red particles. Even with his realm, he could not discern anything unusual about them.

”Can you tell what they are?” Ye Yun turned to the Bloody Overlord Demonic Dragon and asked with a smile.

”Master, I have no idea. Aren’t they just dust from the red stone?” The Bloody Overlord Demonic Dragon scratched his head and responded awkwardly.

”No,” Ye Yun smiled faintly but did not elaborate further.

It appeared that neither of them could detect the bizarre energy contained within these red particles.

This indicated that this energy was of an exceedingly high grade. Any Cultivator with an insufficient cultivation base was likely to mistake them for mere stone dust.

This discovery suddenly piqued Ye Yun’s interest.

His gaze remained fixed on the red particles as he attempted to deconstruct them, but he struggled to make any headway for the moment.

Just then, for reasons unknown, the wandering souls in the Abyss began flocking from every direction, quickly flying towards the square amidst the ruins.

The number of wandering souls grew rapidly.

Eventually, over a thousand wandering souls gathered, circling the outskirts of the square, yet still not daring to step onto it.

At this moment, however, these wandering souls seemed agitated, murmuring indistinct and incomprehensible words.

”What’s gotten into these wandering souls?” uttered the Bloody Overlord Demonic Dragon, completely taken aback.

After sweeping his gaze over the wandering souls, he found that seven to eight hundred of them possessed an Eternal Realm cultivation base. Such a vast number startled him.

”Could it be because of Master...” guessed Big Black Horse.

Hearing their conversation, Ye Yun looked up and chuckled.

He stopped observing the red particles before him and turned his gaze towards the agitated wandering souls outside the square.

At that moment, a faint light suddenly emerged from all around the bottom of the Abyss.

Within this faint light, scenes began to materialize.

Where the ruins once lay, a Seven-color Palace appeared, straddling the line between illusion and reality.

The Seven-color Palace was magnificent, like countless rays of rosy light, grand and brilliant.

The once-decrepit square was now enveloped in layers of vivid phantom images, seemingly restoring it to the Ancient Times.

On the illusory square now stood many Xuan Yin Moon Dragon Clan Members, each clad in golden armor and holding weapons, as if guarding the Seven-color Palace.

”Is it a mirage? Or a memory lingering from the Ancient Times?” Ye Yun exclaimed in surprise.

He looked again at the wandering souls around the square and noticed their fanatical expressions, their minds pulsing with intense energy fluctuations.

It seemed these energy fluctuations were causing the changes in this place.

For a moment, Ye Yun couldn’t quite grasp what was happening.

He decided to observe quietly and see what unfolded.

HUM...

The image wavered, and the Seven-color Palace, originally radiating multicolored light, suddenly dimmed.

The Palace trembled slightly, as if something within was about to emerge.

The Xuan Yin Moon Dragon Clan Members guarding the palace watched the drastically changing Palace, their expressions altering dramatically.

The next moment, a narrow crack suddenly appeared on the palace door where the Seal was affixed, and a red light, like a venomous snake, slowly oozed out from within.

As soon as this red light emerged, it rapidly dispersed, engulfing all the Xuan Yin Moon Dragon Clan Members on the square.

The Clan Members, one after another, showed expressions of horror and roared loudly.

Following this, a layer of fine red hair bizarrely sprouted from their bodies. The red hair was unsettling, emitting a faint, eerie red glow.

These individuals all collapsed to the ground, rolling around in utter madness. The red light, like a serpent, constantly leaped outward, as if intending to attack more Xuan Yin Moon Dragon Clan Members.

Just as the situation reached a critical juncture, a beam of black light descended from the sky, and a middle-aged man dressed in a black robe materialized above the square.

”Retreat.”

With a wave of his large hand and a soft command, the red light immediately receded like a tide back into the Palace.

Seeing this regal middle-aged man and the imposing, unique aura he exuded, Ye Yun was greatly shocked.

This... Isn’t this the Ancestor Dragon?

The wandering souls outside the square, upon seeing the middle-aged man in black, all knelt, prostrating themselves, overcome with awe yet remaining silent.

At this moment, Big Black Horse and the Bloody Overlord Demonic Dragon were also trembling uncontrollably.

The middle-aged man in black before them, even as a mere illusion, exerted an unimaginable pressure on them.

The Ancestor Dragon landed on the square and began to touch each of the Xuan Yin Moon Dragon Clan Members. With each touch, a strange red light would emerge from his hand, which he then cast back into the Palace.

After he did this several times, those Xuan Yin Moon Dragon Clan Members guarding the palace returned to normal.

”We greet Lord Ancestor Dragon!”

Dozens of Xuan Yin Moon Dragon Clan Members, upon seeing the man in black, became agitated and knelt in the square.