PNB Chapter 1885 These Madmen!
Chapter 1885 These Madmen!
Ye Yan was filled with doubt and unease.
Where did the Star Token send him?
It's definitely not the Spirit Realm, nor is it the Chaotic Void Sea.
Is it another ancient site? Or a forgotten, isolated fragment of space?
He tried to sense the connection between the soul tablets of Mingchuan and Wanchuanzong.
Here, the sensation becomes extremely weak and ethereal, as if separated by an endless distance and layers of barriers. One can only vaguely perceive the general direction of the spiritual realm, but cannot establish a clear connection.
Conventional communication talismans had no effect here, as if the spatial rules here were different from those of the outside world.
"We must first figure out where we are and find a way out." Ye Yan suppressed his unease and forced himself to think calmly.
Fortunately, his injuries did not worsen due to the teleportation. On the contrary, because he was no longer in the harsh environment of the Chaotic Sky Sea, the remaining medicinal properties of the old man's ointment seemed to be more effective, and his injuries were slowly healing themselves.
My spiritual power has recovered to about 35%, which is not enough to deal with powerful enemies, but it is enough to maintain basic exploration and vigilance.
He stood up and carefully walked toward the nearest dark purple crystal pillar.
The pillar was about the thickness of two people's arms, and more than ten feet tall, with a cool and smooth surface.
Ye Yan tentatively infused a wisp of spiritual energy into it.
The slowly flowing mist inside the crystal pillar accelerated slightly, and a very faint purple halo appeared on the surface of the pillar. A chaotic but not violent energy returned, carrying a sense of desolation and silence.
"These crystals... seem to be slowly absorbing, storing, and converting some kind of energy?"
Ye Yan seemed to be deep in thought.
He looked up at the floating silver specks in the sky, then at the majestic crystal pyramid in the distance.
This place exudes an eeriness and antiquity, and it is definitely not a natural formation.
He recalled listening to the Venerable One's words.
"Could this be... also an ancient observation post? Or... the former residence or sealed site of some gatekeeper?"
Ye Yan's heartbeat quickened slightly.
If that's the case, this place might hold crucial information about the Eye of Return to the Void, the Anchor Point, or even how to fight against the Silent Zen Temple!
However, it may also conceal unknown and enormous dangers.
He must be careful.
Ye Yan did not venture too far in rashly, but instead carefully explored the edge of the crystal forest first.
This space does not seem to be very large, only about tens of miles in circumference, with a deep blue spatial barrier at the boundary that is as smooth as a mirror and impenetrable.
The only unique structure is the crystal pyramid in the center.
During his exploration, he found no trace of any living creatures, nor any fluctuations of traps or restrictions.
The entire space was eerily silent, with only the faint sounds of his footsteps and breathing echoing through it.
Finally, his gaze fell upon the pyramid once more.
If we want to leave this place and find out the truth, we probably have to go inside and investigate.
Ye Yan took a deep breath, gripped the Star Token tightly, and walked step by step toward the Crystal Pyramid.
The closer you get, the more you can feel the grandeur and imposing presence of that building.
The tower is made up of countless huge crystals of different colors, which are perfectly stacked together. The surface is covered with more complex and mysterious natural patterns, which vaguely form incomplete star maps, cloud patterns and... more abstract symbols that are difficult to understand.
Beneath the base of the tower, there is an arched entrance about three zhang high and two zhang wide.
The entrance is deep and dark, as if it can swallow up all light.
Standing before the entrance, an even colder and more ancient aura, as if from the end of time and space, rushed towards me.
Ye Yan could feel that the Star Token in his arms was slightly warm at this moment, as if it had resonated with the pyramid in some way.
"Since we're here, let's make the best of it."
Without further hesitation, Ye Yan grasped the token in his hand and stepped into the dark entrance.
The moment I stepped inside, the scene before me changed abruptly!
The light from the entrance behind them vanished instantly, as if completely shut out, leaving only the pale blue light emanating from the tower's interior, seemingly originating from within a crystal.
The interior of the tower is much larger than it appears from the outside, as if it were a world unto itself.
The first thing that catches the eye is an extremely spacious hall.
The hall floor was paved with smooth black crystal, as smooth as a mirror, reflecting the countless pale blue light bands hanging from the dome above.
In the center of the hall stood twelve enormous crystal pillars of different colors, arranged in a ring. The pillars were also covered with intricate patterns, similar to those seen outside the tower, but more complete and clear.
At the top of each crystal pillar floats a fist-sized, slowly rotating ball of energy, resembling a miniature nebula, emitting fluctuations of varying strength and properties.
At the center, surrounded by twelve crystal pillars, is a circular platform with a diameter of about ten zhang (approximately 33 meters).
The platform is three feet above the ground, and its surface is engraved with an extremely large and precise three-dimensional magic array composed of countless fine lines and runes!
The core of the magic circle is not a physical object, but a strange mist that constantly changes shape, presents a chaotic color, and seems to contain all colors yet also has no color at all.
The light mist slowly rotated, emitting a terrifying Daoist aura that made Ye Yan's soul tremble, as if he were facing the origin and end of the universe, a vastness and nothingness intertwined!
Just looking at it from afar made him feel as small as dust, as if his soul was about to be sucked into that chaotic light mist!
"This...this is the core of the ancient observatory?"
Ye Yan forced himself to calm down, looked away, and dared not look directly at the chaotic light mist.
His gaze fell on the walls around the hall.
The walls are not solid, but are made up of countless tiny, honeycomb-like hexagonal crystal mirrors.
Each crystal mirror reflects a dynamic, bizarre, and wondrous scene...
The brilliance and desolation of stars' birth and annihilation, the passage of time from barbarism to prosperity and then to ruin, and the indescribable terrifying creatures roaming in the void...
Even more... countless twisted, tormented, and insane souls struggle and sink into a dark vortex that seems to devour everything!
That dark vortex was so similar to the Eye of Return to Nothingness described by the Earth Listening Venerable!
Ye Yan's heart began to pound violently.
He walked up to a crystal mirror and carefully examined one of the images:
It seemed to be a prosperous world of cultivation, when suddenly a huge crack appeared in the sky, and thick, dark golden Buddhist energy poured down like a torrential rain.
Wherever it passed, life was ravaged, mountains and rivers crumbled, and eventually the entire world was enveloped and devoured by that dark golden Buddha light, transforming into a dark golden egg that floated in the void and pulsated continuously...
"Is this the scene of the Silent Zen Temple devouring other worlds?" Ye Yan's voice was dry.
He then looked at another mirror.
In the mirror, countless ascetics chanted scriptures around a huge dark gold altar. In the center of the altar, an unstable star gate was taking shape, and what emanated from the gate was the heart-palpitating aura of the Void!
Around the altar, the corpses of countless cultivators and living beings were piled up, their essence, blood, and souls turning into nourishment and being continuously injected into the star gate...
"These lunatics! They're actually trying to open a passage to the Ruins of Return!"