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316: A jinx that destroys everything”Human Race from the outside world... one who bears the Mandate of Thunder... finally... I have waited for you...”

A voice, old and weary yet carrying a sense of relief, did not travel through the air but resonated directly within the depths of Lin Jingyu’s mind and the Origin of his Divine Soul, as clear as a whisper.

Lin Jingyu felt a chill in his heart; the Spiritual Qi within his body accelerated on its own, and his vigilance rose to the extreme.

He could sense that this phantom was not a remnant soul or evil thought, but an extremely pure and powerful Primordial Spirit imprint.

He cupped his hands and performed the greeting of a peer in the cultivation world: ”Junior Lin Jingyu has entered this place by mistake and disturbed Senior’s rest. I do not know who Senior is...”

”I am the guardian of this mountain, as well as an ancient imprint of this world that is about to dissipate. You may call me ’Ancestor Ape’.”

The phantom, or rather the will of Ancestor Ape, replied slowly. Each word seemed to carry the weight of eternal time, causing Lin Jingyu’s Divine Soul to tremble slightly.

”My Lifespan dried up long ago; my Physical Body should have perished a thousand years ago, and my Law returned to the heavens and earth.

Now, I have forcibly retained this strand of undying will until today, resisting total dissipation, solely to await an opportunity, a variable...

A person like you, who bears extraordinary Luck and can trigger the Mandate of Thunder, to pass on... a warning concerning the ultimate survival of the billions of living beings in this world.”

Lin Jingyu’s pupils suddenly contracted, his expression becoming as grim as iron. He realized that he might be about to touch upon a secret far beyond his imagination.

He asked in a deep voice: ”Please speak, Senior. I do not know what instructions you have for this Junior now that I have arrived.”

He had a faint premonition in his heart that he was about to learn something extraordinary.

Ancestor Ape’s phantom became flickering and unstable, as if it would dissipate at any moment. Its tone carried an unprecedented gravity, even mixed with a trace of fear that even an existence like it could not fully conceal:

”The tribulation was destined long ago; that ’Disaster Star’ that destroys everything has begun to awaken, and the ancient prophecy is turning into reality step by step.

The shadow of extinction... has long since silently enveloped this world... What you have seen, the abnormal changes in the Profound Ice Secret Realm, the violent Spiritual Qi, and the rampaging ice fiend... are merely... the prelude to that final destruction...”

”Disaster Star? What kind of Disaster Star? What exactly is it? And where is it?”

Lin Jingyu asked urgently, his heart beating faster uncontrollably.

In his mind, the chilling rumors of the Qinglan Sect regarding the ”fate of those who reach the top of the Immortal Ladder” flashed by instantly.

Perhaps the two had some direct connection.

”I cannot see it clearly, nor can I describe its full form...”

Ancestor Ape’s voice grew weaker and intermittent.

”It is not a creature born of this world; it is an intruder from beyond the heavens, from outside the Law, carrying... the ultimate Dao of extinction... It was sealed hundreds of thousands of years ago.

But it is also constantly absorbing energy to recover... Once it absorbs enough power.

Everything will be annihilated.

This Secret Realm was originally built by ancient mighty figures to Seal it.

If it is allowed to... absorb enough power, not only will this Secret Realm be destroyed, but the entire cultivation world will face a catastrophic disaster.”

Using its last bit of strength, the fluctuations of its will rose and fell violently, like a candle in the wind: ”Find... you must find... the ’Primordial Fire’. It is the first ray of light born... when the Secret Realm was established.

It possesses the power of the Origin Law... that can restrain it...”

The voice stopped abruptly.

Ancestor Ape’s phantom flickered violently a few times, emitting a faint sound like shattering glass, and finally, with a ”pop,” like a bubble, it completely dissipated into the cold air, leaving no trace behind.

At the same time, in the center of the ice lake below, the massive, mountain-like corpse of the Mountain Giant Ape, as if losing the last trace of its will holding it together, began to bloom with a soft and pure milky white light from within.

The light grew brighter and brighter, and the massive corpse transformed into countless firefly-like points of light, like a galaxy flowing in reverse, fluttering and rising magnificently and tragically.

Eventually, it silently merged into the frozen lake beneath his feet, merged into the surrounding ice walls, and returned to this heaven and earth, completing its final mission.

In the center of the lake, where the giant ape’s corpse had disappeared, the lake water rippled slightly. A strange bone fragment, about the size of a palm, neither gold nor jade, with a texture as warm and smooth as top-quality mutton-fat white jade, and emitting a faint, soft white light throughout its body slowly floated to the surface.

As if guided by some invisible force, it drifted lightly and precisely in front of Lin Jingyu, hovering silently.

Lin Jingyu reached out, and the bone fragment landed in his palm. It felt warm and cool to the touch, and an indescribable aura of ancient vicissitudes traveled from his fingertips.

He separated a strand of Divine Sense and carefully probed into the bone fragment.

In an instant, what he ”saw” was neither text nor ordinary images, but strange patterns and symbols, extremely ancient, twisted, and filled with the charm of the Dao, which had been branded directly onto the Origin of the bone fragment in an incomprehensible way.

Inside, there was countless information about this Secret Realm.

And a complete map of the entire Secret Realm.

It was countless times more detailed than what the Fei Family had given him.

Moreover, Lin Jingyu also felt a sense of attention coming from the Secret Realm itself.

Within the Secret Realm, he was like a child of Luck.

Whatever he did, he would achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Everything was for the sake of his future ability to destroy or reseal that ”Disaster Star”.

He stood on the spot, holding the warm and mysterious bone fragment in his hand, but in his mind, it was as if thunder had exploded, churning with monstrous waves.

Because this Secret Realm had already existed in the ancient era; at that time, the Secret Realm was filled with beautiful scenery and lush vegetation everywhere.

It was because of that ”It” sealed deep underground, whose power leaked out, that caused the entire Secret Realm to turn into a block of solid ice.

Such strength could simply be described as terrifying.

Even the Nascent Soul True Monarchs of the outside world, who rarely show their faces, would find it difficult to possess such means.

With such a heavy burden pressing down on him, a mere Qi Refining Cultivator, one had to say it felt a bit like a mayfly shaking a tree.

This trip to the Profound Ice Secret Realm, and this sudden, mountain-heavy mystery of the ”Disaster Star”!

He wondered if it had anything to do with Fei Yangyang’s disappearance.

Regardless, whether it was searching for the Primordial Fire or searching for Fei Yangyang, he could not afford to not be on high alert.

This place was dangerous; the slightest carelessness could lead to eternal damnation.

However, with the map and the help of the Secret Realm’s Luck, he believed he would be able to find both things very soon.

The cold air was still bone-chilling, but Lin Jingyu felt a deeper chill quietly rise from his spine, spreading to his limbs and bones.

He took a deep breath of the freezing cold air, forcing his violently fluctuating emotions to calm down.

At the moment, the information was still fragmented, and making rash guesses would only disrupt his own footing.

He carefully tucked the mysterious bone fragment into the safest position in his Storage Pouch, took one last deep look at the center of the ice lake where the giant ape had dissipated and returned to calm, then resolutely turned around and walked along the path he had come, heading outside the holy mountain.

It was just that his footsteps seemed to carry a bit more of an indescribable heaviness than when he had come.