Ji Qianrou's appearance and her deliberate attempt to stop Ye Xinghan were indeed an unexpected surprise for Yun Che.
Ji Qianrou's words and actions all exuded a demonic aura, and his arrogance was not only written on his face, but was also deeply imprinted in his bones - this was the impression Ji Qianrou left on Yun Che.
Yesterday, Yun Che took the initiative to talk to Ji Qianrou and cured him of the toad poison that had been entangled in him for many years. This was not only to thank him for his help in the competition, but also to make him owe him a favor... Because for such an extremely conceited person, if he owed a favor, he had to pay it back no matter what.
He didn't expect that he would receive feedback from Ji Qianrou so soon.
However, he absolutely did not think that Ji Qianrou would kill Ye Xinghan. How long she could hold him back was unknown, so Yun Che did not relax at all. He ran at full speed while holding Feng Xue'er in his arms, shedding sweat along the way.
Time passed quickly. In this desolate, empty, mysterious and strange world, even the flow of time was somewhat vague. When Yun Che began to feel exhausted, he could no longer be sure that he had been running for too long this time. Maybe three or four hours, maybe seven or eight hours. His speed began to slow down, and he finally stopped shaking, then sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.
In his previous life in Cangyun Continent, he had been on the run for years and months, but it was the first time in two lives that he had felt such heavy psychological pressure and a sense of crisis. Because this place was too empty, he had no place to use all his concealment, camouflage, and anti-tracking abilities. Otherwise, if this place was a mountain or a jungle, even if he was holding Feng Xue'er in his arms, he would not have been able to shake Ye Xinghan off without much effort. Back then, eight elders from Burning Heaven Sect, whose strength and speed were better than his, jointly chased him, but he was fooled by them all.
“Brother Yun… you’re sweating a lot…” Feng Xue’er said with hazy eyes.
Yun Che wiped his forehead with his hand and smiled, “For a man, sweating a little bit is nothing. I can only blame myself for not having enough strength. I ran out of strength so quickly.”
“That’s not the case…Brother Yun is amazing…more amazing than anyone else…” Feng Xue’er said softly, “Are we…safe now?”
“I don’t know, it should be safe now.” Yun Che said comfortingly.
"Look ahead!" Jasmine suddenly spoke.
Yun Che’s mind focused, he quickly raised his head, and then froze there.
In front of him, the empty wasteland disappeared. Instead, a deep green wall stood tall, sinking straight into the gray sky above. It also extended far to the left and right, and it was unknown where it extended to. With Yun Che's eyesight, he could not see the edge of the wall at all, whether it was the top or the left and right.
Directly in front of Yun Che, there was an open stone door on the dark blue wall. The stone door was a hundred feet high and a hundred feet wide. In other places, there were stone windows several feet long and wide scattered all over. They were all gray and hazy, and it was impossible to see anything inside.
This is……
Yun Che raised his head, his mind in a trance for a long time. Such a huge building, where even the edges could not be seen, should have been clearly spotted from a hundred miles away. Moreover, this place was empty, let alone such a huge building, even if it was a hundred times smaller, it would definitely be particularly eye-catching and could be seen at a glance.
But he ran all the way here, but he didn't notice its existence at all. In front of his sight, there was always a wasteland!
This huge building seemed to have appeared out of thin air!
“This looks like a huge ancient castle!” Jasmine said cautiously, “Its aura is extremely ancient, and it should be an ancient building. Maybe it existed simultaneously with this ancient profound ark, rather than being created later.”
“Why didn’t I see it before?” Yun Che asked in surprise: “Jasmine, when did you discover it?”
"Just now." Jasmine replied.
“Just now?” Yun Che looked surprised.
“You don’t have to be surprised,” Jasmine said calmly, “Although this ancient castle is extremely old, the power of the profound formation on its surface has not dissipated completely. The entire castle is shrouded in a huge ancient protective profound formation. This ancient profound formation can not only protect the castle from the influence of natural forces, but also has a very strong concealment ability! Although this castle is extremely huge, if you don’t get within a hundred feet of it, you will not be able to discover its existence. Moreover…”
Jasmine's voice hesitated for a moment, and then continued: "There seems to be a spatial force in this ancient profound formation. If I'm not mistaken, this ancient castle may be able to move on its own!"
A castle that moves on its own?
This sounds a bit too far-fetched.
“Xue’er, is there any record of this ancient castle in your sect’s records about the Primordial Profound Ark?” Yun Che asked Feng Xue’er.
Feng Xue'er shook her head gently: "I have never heard father and the others mention it, so it shouldn't be true."
The entire castle was dark blue, with a simple and quaint architectural style, faintly exuding a vast and heavy atmosphere. Yun Che watched for a long time, and after his physical strength recovered, he asked, "Jasmine, how big is this castle?"
“You’d better not try to go around it.” Jasmine said slowly, “It’s huge, far beyond your imagination. Even I can’t sense where its edge is. It’s impossible for you to go around it before this world closes.”
“So big!!” Yun Che was shocked.
“Don’t you want to go in and take a look?” Jasmine said calmly, “This is an ancient building in the Ancient Mysterious Ark. Even I have become interested in it. The ancient treasure that those guys have been trying to find for all these years may be inside.”
Yun Che stood up, and after confirming that there was no abnormal aura behind him, he half-raised his head and slowly walked forward.
Soon, he had stepped in front of the gate of the ancient castle. At this time, Yun Che was only a few steps away from the gate. The gate was a hundred feet long and wide, and it was completely open, but Yun Che could only see a gray haze, and could not see anything inside. He stopped, held his breath, and after concentrating on detecting the atmosphere inside for a while, he finally walked in.
It was like entering from one world into another. The light, smell, atmosphere, and even the acuity of vision and hearing had all changed dramatically. In front of me was a huge, yet extremely spacious hall. Stone pillars stood tall, and the stone bricks underfoot, the surrounding walls, the top, and the rows of stone pillars were all the same blue-black color, exuding an extremely ancient flavor and breath.
Yun Che turned around and looked at the entrance he had just passed through. All he saw was a gray haze, and he couldn't see any scene outside. He thought for a moment and quickly stepped back.
The world around him switched again, and Yun Che had returned to the wasteland in front of the ancient castle. The conspicuous footprints under his feet that he had deliberately left behind proved that this was the place where he had stood before.
After confirming that he had entered and came out without any obstruction, Yun Che felt relieved and entered the ancient castle again.
The hall was exceptionally large, much larger than the ranking match arena where Yun Che was yesterday. Yun Che glanced around and walked slowly forward. The sound of his feet landing on the ground and the sound of his deliberately held breath were exceptionally clear in the extremely empty hall.
What on earth is this place?
Yun Che walked for a long time before he finally saw the edge of the hall. On the surrounding walls, there was a stone door every twenty feet or so. Some of the stone doors were open, and some were closed. Behind the open stone doors were passages leading to unknown places. At the end of the hall was a tall round stone platform, which was about ten feet high and a hundred feet wide.
On the right side of the platform is a very high stone staircase leading to the second floor of the castle.
“Jasmine, did you find anything?” Yun Che stopped and asked.
"I don't know the rest, but what I can be sure of is that there is no breath of any living creature here, nor any breath of any living creature other than you. This should be an ancient place that has long been completely forgotten! Go and have a look, maybe you will find something strange. If you can find a rare treasure left over from the ancient times, even if it is of the lowest quality, it will be a great reward."
Yun Che nodded, and after hesitating for a while, he walked towards the wide stone staircase and walked up along it. He didn't know how many floors this ancient castle had, but even Jasmine couldn't find out how high it was, so he couldn't make any guesses. He estimated that even if he found out that it had thousands or even tens of thousands of floors, Yun Che wouldn't be surprised.
Yun Che walked up the stone stairs slowly, and at the same time, he looked down, observing the vast hall on the first floor from top to bottom. When his sight landed on the circular platform, his eyes suddenly fixed, and his steps stopped.
Because at that moment just now, he vaguely felt a flash of red light passing through his eyes.
This space was extremely quiet, and the color was dark blue, so even though the red light was extremely weak, it was still very eye-catching and unusual. Yun Che didn't even think twice, hugged Feng Xue'er tightly, jumped down from the stone stairs, and landed steadily on the high platform, his eyes locked on the location where the red light appeared.
"What did you find?"
“…I’m not sure yet.”
Yun Che walked forward and slowly reached the end of the platform. At this moment, that very faint red light flashed across his eyes again. He quickly stopped and fixed his gaze firmly on the gap between the two dark blue stones on the platform.
Yun Che squatted down and looked closer. As expected, between the two bluestones that he had locked onto, in that narrow gap that was difficult to discern with the naked eye, a very faint red light shone out faintly, appearing and disappearing from time to time.
There's something under here!
This is the ancient ruins that Jasmine mentioned. It must be extremely old, but the things below are still flashing with power. It is conceivable that they must be extraordinary treasures.
But if it was a powerful and rare treasure, the Sky Poison Pearl should have sensed it. Why was there no movement at all?
Yun Che stretched out his palm and fiercely smashed it towards the gap. Immediately, with a "bang", his palm was bounced back, and he felt a dull pain from his flesh to his bones, but the two dark blue stones were intact, without even the slightest change.
“You want to smash it? With your strength, that is absolutely impossible! Xia Yuanba is a mid-stage Overlord, and he couldn’t even crush an ordinary stone outside. The wall stones in this ancient castle are much stronger than the stones outside. Even if you bombard it with all your strength for decades, you can’t cause any damage.” Jasmine said mercilessly.
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