Chapter 429: Action

Chapter 429: Chapter 323: Action

Han Yuan worked to calm himself, then quickly headed toward the mountaintop.

He didn’t encounter any danger along the way, but he did see many signs of battle, as well as numerous corpses.

It was clear that someone had already cleared the dangers on this path for him.

After about an hour, Han Yuan finally reached the summit.

It was a strange land, its surface pitch-black, barren, and deathly still, without a single weed.

And in the center of the clearing on the summit stood an ancient and mysterious great bronze gate.

The frame of the bronze gate was interwoven with countless dense and complex metallic patterns, seeming to connect to the void.

And within the bronze gate surged a splendid, divine light.

The moment Han Yuan saw this ancient bronze gate, numerous images flashed through his mind.

He seemed to see himself stepping through the bronze gate, climbing step by step to the pinnacle of the other shore, receiving the worship of all living beings, and becoming an eternal, undying existence.

“This gate… it’s truly strange,” Han Yuan muttered.

He currently had little desire for immortality or eternal life.

After all, he was still very young and had plenty of time left.

But even so, he couldn’t help but feel an impulse rising within him, a desire to step through that bronze gate and become an undying Immortal.

For someone who already possessed an exceptionally strong obsession with eternal life, this desire would naturally grow even more frenzied.

‘No wonder no one could resist the urge to enter the Immortal Sect back then.’

Han Yuan suppressed the impulse to become an Immortal. After confirming he was unaffected, he strode through the ancient bronze gate.

HUMMM…

Han Yuan felt the world spin around him.

When his vision cleared, he found himself in a deep, pitch-black void.

The void was filled with silvery starlight, seeming to exist somewhere between illusion and reality.

When Han Yuan saw this silvery starlight, he trembled all over.

He felt as if the silvery points of light were countless malicious eyes, each with its own consciousness.

Evil, cold, bizarre…

It wasn’t just the starry sky. When Han Yuan looked down, he saw that the illusory ground was also twinkling with dense, silvery points of light, as if they were staring at him.

‘What in the world is this…’

Han Yuan felt his scalp tingle.

He forced himself to endure the discomfort and walked step by step into the depths of the illusory, starry void.

Soon, he saw a plant that was difficult to describe.

It was a Starry Tree, surging with countless points of starlight, its trunk spiraling upward.

This Starry Tree had no leaves, only dense branches that spread out like a spiderweb.

The moment Han Yuan saw this Starry Tree, it was as if countless faint, strange whispers sounded in his ears, like innumerable Silver Needles piercing his head.

“AHHHH!!!”

Han Yuan couldn’t help but let out a pained scream.

He could only force himself to look away from the Starry Tree, but the whispering in his head remained.

It was just that his head didn’t hurt as much.

“This is the Source Seed?” Han Yuan muttered to himself, his eyes closed.

He had to remember that this was just a memory fragment.

If he had truly encountered this in reality, his Divine Soul might have been severely damaged just now.

Of course, given the stability of his Divine Soul, a single glance wouldn’t have been enough to shatter it completely.

Han Yuan averted his gaze, looking elsewhere.

Soon, he saw many people near the illusory starry sky, constantly approaching the Starry Tree.

In the process, many of them began to lose their hair and skin. Hideous and evil tumors grew on their bodies, and they quickly mutated into monsters.

Source Evil Seed!

Han Yuan witnessed the entire process of these figures being infected by the Starry Tree and transforming into Source Evil Seeds.

He then saw some figures who seemed to have resisted the Starry Tree’s corrupting mutation. They sat cross-legged on the ground, sealing themselves away.

Han Yuan’s gaze swept around, finally landing on a massive Exotic Beast whose body surged with Red Flame.

It was a Red Tiger as massive as a mountain, with a pair of long wings on his back. His eyes were like red suns, and his body radiated an indescribably scorching, destructive aura.

“Fat Thief?!”

Han Yuan’s eyes widened in an instant.

He had seen the Orange Cat’s enlarged form before, and although its aura and physique were far inferior to this flying Red Tiger, their fundamental auras were identical.

Having spent so much time with the Fat Thief, Han Yuan was certain he wasn’t mistaken.

‘I never knew the Fat Thief was so powerful… But it looks like he’s been corrupted, too.’

Han Yuan saw the flames surrounding the Red Tiger’s body constantly extinguishing, while a dark purple aura rose from it. One by one, strange, dark purple branches began to grow from within his body.

He let out continuous roars, trying to activate the volcanic power erupting within his body.

But in the end, it was to no avail.

The dark purple branches grew out from his body, and then seemed to try and envelop him.

Finally, the Red Tiger roared at the sky. An illusory flicker of fire suddenly flew out from his body and escaped the illusory, starry void.

‘That flicker of fire… it later became the Fat Thief?!’

Han Yuan understood in an instant.

But in the next moment, everything here began to shatter and break apart.

Because the Fat Thief’s memory of the Immortal Sect ended here.

SWOOSH~

Han Yuan opened his eyes again to find he had returned to the Taoist Palace.

And at that moment, the Primordial Spirit Talisman in his hand had completely burned to ash.