Chapter 666 - 416: Encountering Vast World Essence Again, The Fifth World Nears Its End (Part 3)

Chapter 666: Chapter 416: Encountering Vast World Essence Again, The Fifth World Nears Its End (Part 3)

The screen clearly displayed a lake surrounded by mountains, its surface shrouded in mist year-round, a deep and mysterious blue, seemingly no different from other alpine lakes in the world.

However, this lake, which appeared utterly ordinary in the eyes of everyone, was the absolute core that the entire base and even the highest levels of Dragon Country closely monitored!

Located less than five kilometers behind the base, it was guarded round-the-clock by the most loyal elite troops, with security measures pushed to the extreme.

No one was allowed within a kilometer radius without the joint approval of the base commander and Head Instructor Hong Fei, violators would be dealt with without mercy!

The reason was simple—

Because this seemingly tranquil lake would emit a dragon’s roar!

The sound was not an illusion, nor could it be made by any known creature. Sometimes it was desolate and distant, as if traversing eternity, while other times it was high-pitched and stirring, exuding an indescribable majesty.

It adhered to no pattern, sometimes resonating once a day, sometimes remaining silent for a month, or even several months before resuming.

Each instance of the dragon’s roar seemed to directly affect the deepest part of one’s soul, causing all who heard it, regardless of cultivation level, to feel a sense of trepidation and insignificance.

To uncover the truth behind this supernatural phenomenon, the high echelons of Dragon Country established a top-secret base here and permanently sealed it off.

Unfortunately, over the years, countless top research teams came with the most advanced instruments, and talented individuals from various schools and philosophies, as well as metaphysical masters, were invited to search for answers from scientific or esoteric angles.

All to no avail.

Scientific instruments detected no abnormal energy fluctuations, and after divination and deduction, the metaphysical experts often returned after suffering backlash, coughing up blood.

The lake resembled a perfect puzzle, locking its secrets firmly within the depths of the mist, refusing to open up to anyone.

In the command room, everyone looked at the eternal mist on the screen with a heavy atmosphere.

Lu Xuan’s visit was precisely for this mysterious lake, for that unfathomable dragon’s roar.

Not only did he not find it troublesome, but he also feared that the world wasn’t "strange" enough.

What Lu Xuan feared most was a world that was mundane and devoid of any events beyond reason.

Because only those "abnormal phenomena" that couldn’t be explained by existing science or metaphysics might contain the deepest secrets of this world and the remnants of things akin to Immortal Artifacts or Immortal Pills.

If he could find and refine them, perhaps he could gain a large number of system points to help him break through his cultivation barriers and transcend this Red Dust world.

Lu Xuan’s mind sank slightly, and a semi-transparent panel that only he could see appeared before him.

Red Dust Immortal System (Fifth Life) 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Host: Lu Xuan

Realm: Embracing Elixir Grandmaster (Mid-stage)

Cultivation Technique: Ten Thousand Valleys Returning Flow Fist (7/9)

Points: 135090

Although this world had strange phenomena, it was the End of Dharma Era, and therefore there were very few opportunities for Lu Xuan to refine large system points.

He had explored many so-called haunted places and unsolved mysteries, but the gains were minimal.

Especially after toiling for more than half a month in Yifeng Province, he collected just over 100,000 system points in total.

Not even enough to advance the Ten Thousand Valleys Returning Flow Fist to the next realm.

Thus, Lu Xuan suspected that even if he scoured all known quirky phenomena, killing and conquering consistently,

until this mortal body aged to death, he might still not gather the massive points needed to break through to the next realm of Embracing Elixir.

In the martial arts circle of Dragon Country, regarding the realm above Embracing Elixir, only eight words were cryptically passed around.

Break through the void, see the god unbroken!

But how exactly to break through? What is the void? How to see the god? How to remain unbroken? There was no record of it in any texts, no detailed description left by any predecessors in any words.

Lu Xuan closed the system panel and cast his gaze back to the cloud-shrouded lake on the three giant display screens.

There, the ultimate mystery that even the combined efforts of Dragon Country couldn’t unravel lay.

Its continuous emissions of sounds akin to a "dragon’s roar" might well conceal the extraordinary source Lu Xuan needed!

Whether he could gather the vast amount of system points to glimpse a hint of the mystery of "breaking through the void, seeing the god unbroken" depended, perhaps, entirely on this.

"Mr. Lu, do you need to rest or acclimate to the environment here?" Deputy Chief Instructor of the Dragon Team, Xiao Tianye, asked respectfully.

"No need, just take me there directly."

"Yes."

Finally, under the personal guidance of the Dragon Team’s Chief Instructor, Hong Fei, Lu Xuan traversed the base’s multiple stringent security lines, consisting of the most elite soldiers, high-tech detection equipment, and even some obscure talisman papers.

Half an hour later, the scene before him suddenly opened up.

A massive lake lay quietly in the embrace of the Kunlun Mountains.

The water was not dead-still, but rippled with vibrant greenness, shimmering waves reflecting a dreamlike luster under the thin daylight.

More peculiar still, the lake’s surface and the surrounding mountainsides were cloaked year-round in thick, milky-white mist, slowly swirling, making the entire lake a fairytale land isolated from the mundane world.

"Mr. Lu, this is it," Hong Fei stopped and said in a deep voice.

The Dragon Team’s Chief Instructor, nearing sixty, dressed in a simple white martial arts outfit, wasn’t particularly burly, yet exuded a sense of stability like a mountain.

His aura was restrained to the extreme, and if not for someone like Lu Xuan at the Embracing Elixir Realm, it would have been hard to perceive the vast and magnificent power within him.