As Ling Feng and his companions stepped into the curtain of light, they felt as if they were immersed within a sea of clouds, able to see everything below with perfect clarity.
Looking as far as the eye could see, the mountains below stretched endlessly, rising and falling, some majestic and towering, others lush and graceful. Some resembled dragons, others crouched like fierce tigers. The dense Heaven and Earth Qi gathered into a thin mist, swirling around the mountain peaks, creating a sense of immortal energy.
"I wonder what kind of world lies beyond this sea of clouds."
Ling Feng and his companions exchanged glances, each revealing a desire. The Ancient Tower Forest contained the Three Thousand Great Dao, and if one could comprehend even one, it would be a miraculous feat against the heavens.
Thinking of this, they couldn’t help but quicken their pace, disappearing into the depths of the clouds and mist.
Next, Ling Feng felt the scene before him shift. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a dense forest. Everywhere he looked there were towering ancient trees, among which interspersed ancient towers rising into the clouds, magnificently grand.
Around him, Lee Bufan and the others were nowhere to be seen. It seemed the curtain of light was a random transportation mechanism. Each of them had entered this vast Ancient Tower Forest alone, and unless they intentionally searched for each other, it would be difficult to meet again.
Ling Feng shrugged, then turned his gaze towards the exceedingly tall ancient towers.
According to Fang Wentong, what one can gain in the Ancient Tower Forest depends on "destiny." When destiny arrives, everything naturally falls into place.
Ling Feng didn’t intentionally search, just wandered freely. With his level of comprehension, it shouldn’t be too difficult to understand a Tao, should it?
Unfortunately, after walking for more than half a day, Ling Feng inspected all the ancient towers he encountered, from top to bottom. As for the inscriptions on the steles, he couldn’t understand even a single symbol. Even if he forcefully memorized those symbols in his mind, they would quickly fade as if they had never been there.
Ling Feng refused to accept this and gathered the Heavenly Dao Divine Pattern, trying to memorize them, yet before long, the inscriptions would disappear from his memory, as if he had never seen them.
"The Great Tao truly is the Great Tao, beyond ordinary comprehension..."
Ling Feng shook his head with a wry smile. No wonder so few have managed to comprehend the Great Tao in the Ancient Tower Forest over the years. This place doesn’t care if you’re a genius or how high your comprehension is; everything depends on destiny.
"It seems my direction is wrong!"
Ling Feng stopped and changed direction, moving to the left. Even as the sun set, he still found nothing.
He couldn’t find any ancient tower whose inscriptions resonated with him.
Meanwhile, the other three who entered the Ancient Tower Forest with Ling Feng had already found towers that suited them and were sitting before them in meditation. Ling Feng was the only one who hadn’t gained anything.
In fact, it wasn’t that Ling Feng lacked comprehension or destiny; it was because within him flowed the Blood of the Emperor, making him the Heavenly Dao’s Son!
The so-called Three Thousand Great Dao were but small paths before him.
How could the Power of Dao, under his bloodline, resonate with him?
Finally, as night fell and the last rays of the setting sun vanished, Ling Feng reached the core area of the Ancient Tower Forest.
For centuries, he was the only one to ever reach this place.
At the center of the Ancient Tower Forest, Ling Feng saw an extraordinary stele.
This stele was surrounded by four statues of Divine Beasts, seemingly suppressing something.
Ling Feng’s eyelids twitched slightly, and he circled the stele, his eyes burning slightly, even feeling a hot sensation where the Third Vertical Pupil on his forehead would open.
"Strange, what is this place?"
Ling Feng stared incredulously at the stele as if his blood were beginning to boil and a terrifying power was gradually awakening within him.
He didn’t know that after emerging from the Ancient Cave of Time, he obtained a chaos seed, awakening the ability of Chaos Rebirth. However, this power was uncontrollable, and the mysterious master Kong in the cave sealed Ling Feng’s Chaos Bloodline, intending to prevent him from going mad and inadvertently triggering Chaos Rebirth.
But the evil energy emanating from the stele caused the seal within Ling Feng to loosen slightly.
Just as the Vertical Pupil on Ling Feng’s forehead was about to open, the four statues of Divine Beasts simultaneously emitted purple, white, cyan, and gold Divine Light, enveloping the stele.
Only then did Ling Feng feel his whole body lighten and collapsed powerlessly to the ground.
A moment ago, to suppress the ferocity within him, Ling Feng’s nails had dug deep into his palms, and blood dripped "drip, drip" onto the ground.
Quickly, Ling Feng sat cross-legged and continually operated the mental method from the "Supreme Mysterious Heaven Technique." After a long time, he finally suppressed the restless evil energy.
Ling Feng exhaled a long breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked at the stele in surprise, frowning deeply, "What terrifying creature is suppressed within this stele that it could stir the Blood of the Emperor in me, nearly activating the Shura’s Eye?"
With this thought, Ling Feng felt a lingering fear. If the Shura’s Eye had activated, and he went into a frenzy, while in the Ancient Tower Forest with only Lee Bufan and others, a mistake could lead to irreparable consequences.
With a flash of purple light, Ling Feng released the Despicable Donkey. With its vast experiences, it might know something.
Sure enough, as soon as the Despicable Donkey appeared, it exclaimed, "Good heavens, Four Divine Seals, amazing! Amazing! A First Level Divine Beast Seal is enough to suppress a terrifying demon, but a Four Divine Beasts’ Fourth Level Seal? Tsk tsk tsk, it must be a super-super-super-super-super-great terrifying demon! Kid, you’d better leave quickly! It’s dangerous to stay here!"
"What do you mean?" Ling Feng asked, confused, looking at the Despicable Donkey.
"Can you not understand that?" The Despicable Donkey rolled its eyes, then suddenly realized, "No wonder those ascended experts left the Three Thousand Great Dao here. It’s not because they were bored but to assist these Four Divine Beasts in completing the seal and suppressing the evil demons inside!"
Seeing Ling Feng still half-understanding, the Despicable Donkey furrowed its brows, "In other words, the four statues you see aren’t statues but genuine Divine Beasts, sacrificing themselves to suppress the demon inside."
"If this Divine Beast didn’t guess wrongly, it’s definitely a top-level Outer Heaven Demon, at least, at least Ancestor Realm!"
"Is an Ancestor Realm Outer Heaven Demon suppressed beneath this stele?"
Ling Feng gazed at the stele in disbelief. Amid his astonishment, suddenly, a pitch-black vortex seemed to appear on the stele, carrying a terrifying pulling power, threatening to suck him in...