Chapter 307: Pre-Qin Bronze Inscriptions Appear
The moment Ye Fan plunged into the void, he heard Ji Haoyue’s shout. His heart tightened—the Divine King Physique was indeed sharp, having sensed a trace of anomaly.
Separated by such a distance, he hadn’t deliberately suppressed his Sacred Body, yet the other party had picked up on a subtle disturbance. But none of that mattered now; he had crossed the void and entered eternal darkness.
“Freeze!”
From among the distant mountain ridges, an aged voice suddenly rang out. The space trembled with a hum, and the Dark Jade Platform Ye Fan and the others had left behind failed to self-destruct—everything was locked in place.
Xia Jiuyou, clad in white robes, stepped on nine dragon auras and was the first to charge onto the Dark Jade Platform, vanishing in an instant. Two gray-robed elders followed closely behind.
The Divine King Physique Ji Haoyue, dignified and imposing, rushed onto the platform alongside the ultimate array formation site.
The big black dog said, “Alright, we’re absolutely safe now!”
With a flash of light, they disappeared from the spot.
In the darkness, Ye Fan asked, “Are you sure we’re safe? This should be the last array pattern. If we still can’t shake them off, the consequences will be dire.”
“Relax. Once we leave, the array will close and re-evolve. Only we can cross the void through it; that place will become a death zone.”
And indeed, that was what happened. After they departed, the spot shimmered with light, the array patterns shifted, and everything changed completely.
Between heaven and earth, yin winds howled, sword aura blazed like rainbows—it became a lethal killing ground! Unfortunately, they could no longer witness it firsthand.
The ultimate array pattern sent them hurtling fifty thousand li through the void in one go, completely leaving Chaotic Cloud Province behind and depositing them in a vast desert.
“Where is this?”
The golden desert stretched tens of thousands of li without a trace of human life. Ye Fan, Tu Fei, and the big black dog flew for half a day without finding their way out.
Finally, the big black dog inscribed array patterns and crossed the void again, but they still couldn’t escape this boundless, endless desert.
“What the hell? We shook off those people, but where in the blazes have we ended up?”
Though the big black dog had crossed the void while inscribing array patterns, it had never personally been here before.
In their first dozen or so transfers, they had covered sixty thousand li in total, and the last leap alone spanned fifty thousand li—over a hundred thousand li of travel, and they had no idea where they were.
“Let me think…” Tu Fei pondered briefly, then his face changed color. “Ten thousand li from Chaotic Cloud Province… this should be the infamous—Divine Desert!”
“What kind of place is that?!” Ye Fan sensed something was off.
“A cursed place. Many cultivators who enter get lost in it and never leave for their entire lives,” Tu Fei said.
“No way…” Ye Fan frowned. This was hardly good news.
Tu Fei’s expression grew heavy. “According to ancient records, some people might walk out in half a month, while others wander until their lifespans run dry and still can’t escape. This Divine Desert is unnaturally sinister.”
Black Emperor’s face twisted like he’d bitten into bitter herbs, his mouth twitching as he cursed, “Damn it, of all places, it’s here. This place trapped me for over a hundred years back then. I #@%￥#%…”
“How did you get trapped here for over a hundred years?” Ye Fan asked in shock.
The big black dog’s face was sour and dark. “In years past, while searching for that Ruthless Person’s Dao field, I stumbled into the Divine Desert and nearly suffocated from boredom for over a century!”
One could cross the void from outside to enter, but trying to leave by crossing the void was largely useless—that was the sinister nature of the Divine Desert.
Ye Fan realized the gravity of the situation. This Divine Desert was no ordinary place; it had trapped even the big black dog in its prime for over a hundred years.
“Maybe we’ll get lucky and walk out in ten days or so,” Tu Fei offered an optimistic guess.
“Let’s hope so,” Ye Fan nodded.
And so they pressed on through the Divine Desert, wandering lost for several days straight with no way out.
By the sixth day, Ye Fan and the others grew uneasy. There was still no sign of escape.
The desert stretched endlessly. At noon, it blazed like a furnace; late at night, it was bone-chillingly cold—the temperature contrast was extreme.
On the seventh day, at high noon, the sun was scorching. Ye Fan gazed into the distance and suddenly felt a jolt. “There’s a building!”
In the golden desert under the blazing sun, at the far end, a low structure flickered in and out of view.
In this desolate, cultivator-trapping wasteland, spotting a building naturally startled them, and they flew over quickly.
It turned out to be a Daoist temple—not grand, quite small, even less spacious than a poor family’s stone hut.
Though ancient, it was still intact, half-buried by golden sand. The part above ground was less than a person’s height.
Ye Fan swept his sleeve, sending golden grains flying, revealing the full form of the small, ancient temple.
It was built from the most common rocks in the Northern Domain, polished and stacked together. Even after so many years, the stone temple still stood without collapsing.
“Why would there be a stone temple like this?” Tu Fei asked in surprise.
Ye Fan stepped forward and walked straight into the ancient temple, which had no door. He looked around, and his expression froze.
On the wall, he saw a familiar script—characters from the other end of the starry sky!
These were Pre-Qin Chinese bronze inscriptions!
The ancient Pre-Qin characters were different from the script of this world. Ye Fan recognized them at once, his heart surging with overwhelming shock, pounding violently.
“Pre-Qin bronze inscriptions…” He was utterly astounded.
Since arriving in this world, Ye Fan had learned much, trying to connect this world to the other end of the stars, but he had found no clues in any ancient texts.
Never did he expect to see Pre-Qin ancient characters here today. The shock in his heart was beyond words.
“During the Pre-Qin period, someone had already come from the other end of the stars to this world!” Ye Fan made this judgment.
His heart was filled with immense excitement. The two worlds were not isolated; ancient people had come before. Perhaps he could use this to find a way back.
“What are you muttering about? What kind of damn script is this? I don’t recognize a single one!” The big black dog looked puzzled.
“Let me see what it says…” Ye Fan, with overwhelming excitement, carefully examined these ancient bronze inscriptions.