Chapter 289: The Shattered Immortal Realm (Fourth update, exhausted)

Chapter 289: The Shattered Immortal Realm (Fourth update, exhausted…)

After putting away the cauldron, Wang Lin looked up into the distance. He saw a huge Vortex there, and Cultivators were disappearing one by one into the Vortex.

Wang Lin moved, rushing towards the Vortex. Soon, his entire body vanished within it.

He felt as if he was falling from the sky, and his eyes were filled with dazzling light, but he gritted his teeth and kept his eyes open, witnessing a sight he would never forget in this life.

Beneath his feet were countless crystalline fragments, distributed in a circular pattern, as if a mirror had been shattered on the ground.

This mirror was like the vast Immortal Realm of yesteryear. Now, the Immortal Realm was shattered into countless fragments, and the Immortal Qi within it had completely dissipated, with only some remnants remaining on a few fragments.

Wang Lin's body was rapidly descending, and the fragments were also rapidly expanding. Finally, Wang Lin clearly perceived that he had landed on a fragment at the edge.

The moment he landed, Wang Lin immediately slapped his Storage Pouch, and a bronze bell appeared in his hand. This item was one of the three treasures of the ancient Cultivators from the Ancient God Land that he had refined. It could change size and trap enemies.

After landing, Wang Lin stared blankly at his surroundings, his heart filled with shock.

There was no life here; the ground was covered in withered grass. In the distance stood a tall mountain, but only half of it remained, with a perfectly smooth cut surface, clearly severed by someone with magical power.

At the foot of that mountain were some palaces, but they had all collapsed and become ruins. The other half of the mountain was now smashed onto the palaces, looking from a distance like a large and small linked mountain.

Bottomless pits were visible everywhere on the ground, and in some places, wisps of white Qi were even drifting into the air.

This was a world of deathly silence!

"Is this… the Immortal Realm?" Wang Lin murmured to himself after a moment of silence.

Although he already knew that the Immortal Realm had been destroyed, standing here now, Wang Lin still found it somewhat unbelievable. In ancient times, after reaching Soul Transformation, one could sense the call of the Immortal Realm and enter it to Cultivate. For all Cultivators, the Immortal Realm was a Holy Land!

Sacred and inviolable!

But now, as Wang Lin looked around, he couldn't help but fall silent. After a long while, he took a deep breath, his gaze falling on the distant palace complex. He moved, flying forward.

Although it didn't seem far, during his actual flight, Wang Lin discovered that there was an invisible resistance in the sky, making it difficult to reach a certain speed.

After a long time, Wang Lin finally arrived at the location of the palace complex. Seeing these ruins up close, Wang Lin was deeply shocked.

From these ruins, Wang Lin could imagine how wealthy the Immortal Realm once was. The Materials used to build these palaces were actually Spirit Stones!

Although Wang Lin had seen pavilions made purely of Spirit Stones before, such as the place where Li Muwan resided in the State of Chu, compared to these ruins, the difference was like heaven and earth.

From a distance, Wang Lin couldn't see the end of this palace complex. Although it was now a ruin everywhere, one could imagine how astonishing this place must have been back then.

However, after countless years, these Spirit Stones had all lost their efficacy, and in many places, a mere touch of the foot would cause them to crumble into dust and vanish.

Wang Lin sighed softly, "Is this the Immortal Realm…?" Walking through the ruins, Wang Lin couldn't help but fall silent. There was no Immortal Qi he desired here, only a sense of sorrow.

In the very center of the palace complex, Wang Lin stopped. He stared in horror at the area ahead, where a large section was deeply sunken. Upon closer inspection, it was clear that this was a palm print!

Wang Lin was shaken. The moment he saw this palm print, he immediately thought of the handprint on the Rain Immortal Gate.

The power of a single palm could cause this vast area, spanning countless miles, to immediately collapse. If it were on Vermilion Bird Star, Wang Lin believed he could also achieve it, but one must remember, this was the Immortal Realm!

Everything in the Immortal Realm was countless times harder than in the Cultivation World, and the beings residing here were powerful Cultivators who had reached Soul Transformation and above, absorbing Immortal Qi. Given this, this palm print was rather terrifying.

Wang Lin squatted down at the edge of the palm print, pressing his right hand onto it. Immediately, a deathly Qi spread out from within, flowing instantly into Wang Lin's arm.

Wang Lin's Life and Death Concept immediately circulated. After a long while, he took a deep breath, and the look of horror in his eyes intensified.

He had just discovered that there were still some residual auras within the palm print, so he personally experienced it. But the more he sensed it, the more he understood the opponent's power.

Standing up, Wang Lin's eyes flickered. He raised his right hand and pressed it on the palm print from a distance. After a long while, he shook his head slightly, bypassed the area, and continued walking through the ruins.

After walking through these ruins for several days, Wang Lin saw a broken stone tablet with several large characters carved on it.

"Bestowed upon Immortal Scholar Tianhua by the Fifth Immortal King of Rain…"

The inscription elaborately stated that Immortal Scholar Tianhua had performed a great service, and so the Fifth Immortal King of Rain had used a Divine Ability to create this palace complex as a reward. The palace was built according to a Formation, and Cultivating within it could absorb all the Immortal Qi within a hundred thousand li radius, achieving twice the result with half the effort.

After reading it, Wang Lin's heart was once again shaken. Although he didn't know what status an Immortal Scholar held in the Immortal Realm, it was clearly inferior to an Immortal King. For a mere Immortal Scholar to possess such a vast palace complex, what then would an Immortal King's residence be like…? He was about to leave when his eyes suddenly flashed. He abruptly turned around, staring intently at the stone tablet. He looked closely again; the stone tablet appeared utterly ordinary, with nothing remarkable about it.

However, Wang Lin's gaze swept over each character. Why would that Immortal Scholar Tianhua build his palace here? And this stone tablet, which should be a monument of sorts, meant for outsiders to see, why was it placed here?

This place was deep within the ruins, and the stone tablet here seemed out of place.

Wang Lin frowned. He raised his right hand and pointed into the air. Immediately, a finger Qi shot out, landing on the stone tablet. Instantly, the Rifts on the stone tablet grew larger.

Wang Lin slapped his Storage Pouch, and a Flying Sword appeared. Under the control of his Divine Thought, it swiftly scraped against the stone tablet. Clanging sounds of metal colliding emanated from the stone tablet. Despite the passage of so many years and the damage caused by the aftermath of that palm strike, the stone tablet was still quite hard.

After a long while, the stone tablet was finally flattened by the Flying Sword. Wang Lin looked down at the deeply embedded end of the stone tablet in the ground, his brows furrowed. This object seemed to have nothing unusual about it, yet Wang Lin always felt something was off.

His eyes flickered. He grabbed it with his large hand and pulled hard. Immediately, rumbling sounds echoed as the stone tablet was slowly pulled up under Wang Lin's full strength.

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