213: Chapter 213 Searching for Ancient Ruins in the Desolate Wasteland, Mysterious Secrets Hidden in the Void Crystal

After Ye Qing re-refined and stabilized the chaos sword within his Immortal Cave, he departed from the Heavenly Sword Sect.

His objective this time was not a task assigned by the Sect, but rather a location he had discovered himself from an ancient manuscript in the Scripture Pavilion—the Wasteland of Extinction.

According to that manuscript, the Wasteland of Extinction was located in the far west of the Canglan Domain and was a forgotten ancient battlefield.

It was shrouded year-round in a grayish-white mist, with thin Spiritual Qi and a harsh environment, rarely visited by any Cultivator.

However, the manuscript also mentioned that deep within the wasteland, one could occasionally find spatial rifts left over from ancient times, and within these rifts, a peculiar Ore known as "Void Crystal" would sometimes be produced.

Void Crystals contained a trace of pure power of the Law of space, which was of great help to Cultivators in the Dao Integration Realm for comprehending the Law of space and stabilizing their own Dao foundation.

More importantly, the energy contained within this Ore was extremely pure and could be directly swallowed and absorbed by his Internal Space, converting into the driving force for the evolution of the space.

Ye Qing was currently in need of this high-Rank energy source.

He flew westward, crossing high mountains and traversing plains; after flying for about seven or eight days, the surrounding scenery gradually became desolate.

The Spiritual Qi in the air became thinner and thinner, replaced by a stifling aura that seemed to carry a trace of dead silence.

On the ground, green vegetation became increasingly scarce, replaced by exposed grayish-brown rocks and cracked earth.

He knew that he was already approaching the edge of the Wasteland of Extinction.

After flying for another half a day, a vast area shrouded in thick grayish-white mist appeared ahead.

That mist seemed to be alive, slowly churning and emitting an oppressive aura.

Ye Qing stopped his flight at the edge of the mist and probed into it with his Divine Sense.

He discovered that this grayish-white mist could not only block his vision but also had a certain suppressive effect on his Divine Sense.

With his Divine Sense strength at the Early-stage Dao Integration Realm, he could only probe a distance of a few dozen miles within the mist.

He did not rashly rush in, but instead carefully investigated the edge of the mist, found a relatively safe path, and then raised a protective halo of light before slowly flying into the thick grayish-white fog.

Inside the mist, there was absolute silence; there were not even the sounds of insects or birds.

On the ground, there were broken rocks and huge craters everywhere, as if they were telling the tale of what a tragic battle had once taken place here.

While carefully avoiding terrain that might hide dangers, he spread his Divine Sense to the limit, searching carefully for any possible spatial rifts and traces of Void Crystals.

After groping through the thick fog for about two days, his Divine Sense finally captured a trace of extremely faint spatial fluctuation at the bottom of a huge deep pit ahead that looked as if it had been struck by a meteorite.

Joy welled up in his heart, and he hurriedly flew toward that deep pit.

The deep pit was about a hundred zhang in diameter and bottomless, its walls smooth as a mirror, as if they were glass that had been melted by some high heat and then cooled.

He landed on the edge of the pit and looked down, where deep at the bottom, he could vaguely see a few strange pieces of Ore, each the size of a fist, completely transparent and crystal-like, yet with starlight seemingly flowing within them, lying quietly there.

"Void Crystals! And looking at their appearance, the quality is not low!"

A flash of joy crossed Ye Qing's eyes, and without hesitation, he leaped and fell toward the bottom of the pit.

Just as he was about to land at the bottom of the pit and reached out to pick up those Void Crystals—a sudden change occurred!

The ground beneath his feet collapsed without any warning!

A huge trap, as if prepared long ago, instantly appeared beneath his feet!

Inside the trap were dense, grayish bone spikes as sharp as blades, and every single bone spike glimmered with a dark green light, evidently coated with a deadly poison!

At the same time, a huge gray figure that seemed to have condensed from mist lunged out from the shadows beside the trap, opening a giant mouth filled with sharp teeth to bite fiercely at Ye Qing's head!

That figure had an aura that was obscure yet powerful; it was actually an Early-stage Dao Integration Realm Yao Beast!

Ye Qing was in mid-air, with a trap full of poisonous spikes beneath his feet and a deadly sneak attack from an Early-stage Dao Integration Realm Yao Beast beside him!

If it were an ordinary Cultivator of the Early-stage Dao Integration Realm, they would likely have fallen into a desperate situation instantly!

But on his face, there was not a trace of panic.

It was as if he had long anticipated an ambush; at the moment the trap appeared, he tapped gently with his foot, and a gentle force of magic power supported his body, causing his downward momentum to come to a sudden halt!

At the same time, he grasped the air with his right hand, and the chaos sword instantly appeared in his hand. Without even looking at the lunging Yao Beast, he backhanded his sword, a simple, sweeping strike!

Chi la!

A beam of Chaos-colored sword aura, condensed to the extreme, swept out like a ribbon of silk!

A flash of human-like horror crossed the eyes of the lunging gray Yao Beast; it wanted to dodge, but the speed of that sword was too fast!

So fast that it couldn't react in time!

Puchi!

A huge head covered in gray fur soared into the sky!

The headless corpse, driven by inertia, continued to charge forward for several zhang before crashing to the ground, twitching a few times before it stopped moving.

An Early-stage Dao Integration Realm Yao Beast, not having lasted even a single round, was beheaded by Ye Qing with one sword strike!

Ye Qing did not even look at the corpse; he landed lightly on the ground, waved his hand to draw the Void Crystals at the bottom of the trap into his hand, and then skillfully put away the Yao Beast's corpse and its Yao core.

"Still want to ambush me? Don't you know that I am the expert at playing ambushes?"

He weighed the Void Crystals in his hand, feeling the trace of pure spatial power contained within them, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

He was not in a rush to leave this deep pit, but instead sat cross-legged on the spot, holding a Void Crystal in his hand, and began to operate the Hunxu Yandao Scripture to absorb the spatial power within it.

Weng—!!!

When that pure spatial power flowed along his arm into his body and was then guided into his Internal Space, the entire space seemed to emit a joyful hum!

He could clearly feel that the boundaries of his Internal Space, nourished by that spatial power, became more stable and even faintly expanded outward by a fraction!

Although it was an extremely tiny fraction, this tangible improvement filled him with motivation.

"It's effective! And the effect is even better than I imagined!"

He opened his eyes and looked at the few Void Crystals in his hand, as if he saw a broad road leading to the Middle Stage of the Dao Integration Realm and even higher Realms.

"Coming to this Wasteland of Extinction was indeed the right choice."