Star Trace Gate

Chapter 668: Ancestral Land, Clouds Moving in Four Directions

A ray of warm sunlight fell on his face, and Ren Ye woke up from his fainting, slowly opening his heavy eyes.

When he raised his eyes, he saw the scorching sun hidden in the white clouds in the blue sky, and the light shining through slightly stung his eyes. A few birds flapped their wings and flew by, chirping loudly.

He was a little dazed for a moment, his mind was confused: "Didn't I fall into the bottom of the pond with that fat guy? Then how come there is blue sky and white clouds and scorching sun here? Did I die and become an immortal right here?!"

Ren didn't know where he was and was a little panicked. He instinctively tried to use his hands to support himself and sit up, but with just the slightest movement, his whole body was filled with severe pain as if it was about to break apart.

This feeling is like being thrown into a juicer and stirred madly, as if every bone and flesh in the body is being torn and shattered...

"Uh……!"

Ren Ye groaned in pain, lying on the grass without daring to move, and tried to activate the star power again. A weak sense of consciousness flowed into his abdomen, and Ren Ye saw that his star core was dim and dull, just like a shriveled and rotten walnut, without a trace of magical brilliance.

After a series of bloody battles, suppressing Ding Hun, slaughtering Chaopin, and sublimating the purple energy to the utmost, the little bad king was really squeezed out of his energy. Now, except for his brain, no part of his body was willing to listen to his command.

He could only lie quietly on the ground, trying to relax and recover for a while.

Just like that, half an hour later, when Ren was about to stand up again, he heard a groaning sound coming from the side: "It hurts... it hurts, this precious body of mine... feels like it has been toyed with by a city of people in just one hour... It's broken, and nothing works as I command."

"You...you are not dead yet?" Ren Ye asked politely.

“Bah, bah, bah, I am blessed with a lot of luck. I will be a genius who will seize the throne of a god in the future. How could I die in such a small scene?!” Taoist Chu was lying on the ground, as if he couldn’t even breathe, but he was still unwilling to give up pretending: “Wait… wait a quarter of an hour, I will be alive.”

Ren also listened to his answer, and was very curious: "Where are we now? Logically, the daytime treasure hunt is over, but we have not been teleported back to the bunker, and we haven't heard any prompts from the heavens. This... this is too abnormal. What's going on?"

Master Chu blinked his eyes and said, "Look at the sky."

Ren was also stunned when he heard this: "What's wrong with the sky?"

"What I mean is...you go ask God, I want to know too." Master Chu replied in a nonsensical way.

"Don't play dumb with me, you have the token to open this place, how could you not know where this place is?!" Ren Ye said urgently, "Stop talking nonsense, tell me quickly."

"Let me ask you, before you enter a secret realm, besides the reminder from Heaven, can you know anything else?" Master Chu explained patiently, "You travel through secret realms just like me digging graves and searching for the ruins of ancient sects. We don't know what is hidden in this mysterious place, so we can only rely on experience and intuition to explore... I only have the tokens of this place and how to use them, and I don't know anything else."

Ren also knew very well that Master Chu was a skilled colleague who was very good at cheating and deceiving people, so he could not believe a single word that bastard said.

He thought for a moment, and without further questioning or doubting, he simply replied, "Well, this is where love is. Once we recover a little, I'll try to gather our luck, and we'll open the door through the guide... and return the same way."

"I'm afraid this won't work..." Master Chu shook his head slightly and said, "We can't open the door."

"Why?" Ren Ye asked.

Master Chu raised his arm with great effort, and threw the broken wood in his other hand at Ren Ye's face: "After the token in my hand opened the door here, it shattered in the golden light... It can't be used anymore. I'm afraid we will be trapped here."

When Ren Ye heard this, his face turned extremely ugly. He immediately raised his hand to grab the broken piece of wood and looked at it carefully in front of his eyes.

That's right, after these broken pieces of wood were pieced together, they were indeed the token of the ancestral order that opened the door to this place. But at this moment, it had completely collapsed, dimmed, and had no magical fluctuations.

Ren Ye murmured with despair in his eyes: "How dare you come in when you are facing an unknown place and you don't even know if you can get out?"

"My ambition is to find those rare treasures that have been buried in the dust, fallen into darkness, and hidden in the world, and make them bloom again in the world. These are the treasures of the entire Order camp! They should not decay and rot with those who have died. This is a kind of squandering, a kind of selfishness, a waste!"

"But when people see me digging graves, excavating sect caves, and digging up ancient sect ruins, they only know to scold me for being lacking in virtue and not being kind... But who can understand my great ambitions and the dangers?! I don't care whether I can get out or not, I only care... whether there is a pearl covered in dust here."

His tone was full of ups and downs and emotions. At first glance, he really sounded like a great explorer searching for treasure for the Order camp.

“What you said makes me want to cry…” Ren Ye replied indifferently and said no more.

"Brother Renhuang, since we have come here, don't worry anymore." Master Chu comforted and guided: "Don't worry, I have dug up the ancient ruins and the astonishing tombs. There are at least 800 of them. I am quite experienced in this area. Generally, mysterious places like this will not have only one exit. This is the bottom of the pond, but you and I can see the scorching sun, blue sky and white clouds when we look up... Everything around us is full of vitality, which is very strange. I conclude that there must be a place deep here that is connected to the outside world, which can send fresh air and sweet springs to secretly irrigate this place to maintain the balance of all things."

“Yes, yes, yes…” Ren also nodded in agreement.

"After that, you just need to follow me closely, listen to my instructions and arrangements, and then help me at the critical moment, then you and I will be able to escape." Master Chu said tactfully and slickly: "Hehe, who knows...you and I can get a good opportunity here."

"Okay, I'll listen to your instructions." Ren Ye replied with gritted teeth.

"Ok!"

Master Chu was very satisfied with Ren Ye's reaction. He raised his arm to test it slightly, then he endured the severe pain all over his body and sat up. He took out a bottle of pills from his consciousness space and said, "Brother Ren Huang, I will give you two Yuan-replenishing Pills later. After we recover a little, we will explore deeper together... With you and me working together, even if there are some ghosts in this place, there is nothing to worry about."

As he spoke, he turned his head and looked around, and saw a scene of birds singing, flowers blooming, and a stream flowing. Towering old trees, with lush branches and leaves, stretched out in the wind, with rare birds perched on them, chirping pleasantly from time to time; the half-foot-high grass on the ground was surrounded by various beautiful flowers, all of which were stained with dew and exuded a strong fragrance.

This doesn't look like a dark cave at the bottom of a pool, it's clearly a paradise.

The breeze blows on the ancient trees, grass and flowers bloom everywhere, and the flowing water is as clear as spring water, showing the vitality.

Master Chu sat on the ground, pulling out the cork from the bottle while staring at an ancient tree with a golden trunk and golden branches and leaves, muttering, "Damn... is that the Divine Thunderwood?! I haven't seen this thing in many years..."

"brush!"

Just as he was drooling and muttering softly, he didn't notice that Ren Ye stood up unsteadily from behind him, slowly raised his arms, and hugged his neck.

"Gudong!"

Chu Daoye was caught off guard and fell backwards due to being strangled by the arms. He wanted to get up urgently and shouted loudly: "What are you doing...?!"

"Snapped!"

After Ren Ye strangled him to the ground, he endured the severe pain and wrapped his thighs around his neck. Then he used all his limbs and used a ground lock fighting technique to strangle him fiercely.

Master Chu rolled his eyes instantly, kicked his legs non-stop, and said with a purple face: "Human...Human Emperor Brother, you...you have lost your mind!"

Ren Ye locked him up and said word by word: "You bastard!!! Are you taking me for a fool?! I've seen it a long time ago... that you're interested in me..."

"What interest can a Taoist have in you? You...you're not a skilled young lady."

"Bullshit! The more I think about it, the more something seems wrong. You went to Wanxiang Gate to cheat for a pass, and you could have slipped away, but when you succeeded, you went out of your way to cheat us of 1.2 million star sources. If you were an ordinary master, it would be fine, but any item you take out is a treasure of great value. You are so rich and so slippery, how could you be greedy for 1.2 million?!" Ren Ye gritted his teeth and said, "Also, the way to open this strange place is to use purple energy. You don't have this luck, but I do!"

"Combining these two suspicions, I have... reason to believe that you deliberately deceived us at Wanxiang Sect... You just wanted to attract our attention, and then when you were being chased, you deliberately showed weakness and smoothly gave us the pass for free, so as to lead me into the secret realm of Gutan Sect. In this way, after you find this world at the bottom of the pond, you can find a way for me to lend you the purple energy."

"This is a trap, a trap you set for me. I thought I made a profit by getting the pass, but in fact, I was tricked by you." Ren Ye strangled him and yelled, "Tell me, what exactly did you want me to do by letting you come in? What is here?! If you dare to lie to me again, I will beat you with a stick and make sure you quit the fraud industry."

"Brother Ren Huang, calm down first, let me go...let me go, and let's talk."

"Calm down, your grandma A-cup is fucking a plane!" Ren Ye used force again and yelled hysterically: "Are you going to tell me or not?! I'll give you one last chance..."

Master Chu’s star core was exhausted, and he could no longer use his magical powers. He was strangled to the point of foam coming out of the corners of his mouth, and his whole body twitched as he said, “…You are not a good person either. You just agreed with me verbally, but you have been secretly accumulating strength… just to launch a sneak attack on Master Dao… You are indeed my Master Dao’s nemesis…!”

"Okay, let's not talk about it. I'm going to strangle you to death first, and then I'll find a way out." Ren Ye became furious. Not only did he strangle him with his limbs, he also opened his bloody mouth and bit his shoulder hard.

"Ow!"

Taoist Master Chu howled like a pig being slaughtered, and said, "... Stop biting, stop biting... OK, OK, I do want to lead you into the secret realm of Gutan Sect and explore this place with me, but I didn't harm you. In the battle, I also fought three super-class warriors and stood by you!"

"I admit that I have a little selfish motive, but that is also for the sake of making a fortune together. After all, you can also get the opportunities in this place, right?"

Ren Ye listened to his words, opened his mouth, and asked in a cold voice: "Where exactly is this place?"

"It is the ancestral land of Gutan Sect. Legend has it that it is the place where the ancestor of the sect was buried, but I really don't know the details, because I cheated him out of the token... The other party is a businessman with supernatural powers. I secretly gave him Soul Drunkenness Liquid, but I didn't get any more secret information out of him." Master Chu was really submissive, because he felt that Ren really wanted to strangle him to death: "However, there should be a treasure hidden here, which was left by the founder of Gutan Sect. But after his death, the subsequent masters of the sect were not qualified to use this thing, so they left it in this ancestral land."

"I have secretly investigated many past events of the Gutan Sect and discovered that when the migration site was about to collapse, a group of Gutan Sect masters returned to the old site of the sect, wanting to open this ancestral land and forcibly take out the treasure, but for some reason they failed and everyone died. Afterwards, the entire migration site collapsed... and this place was completely buried."