"Move out!"
With the divine artifacts prepared, Yi Tianxing gave the order without hesitation.
Whoosh—
White Crow City surged forward, cutting through the air straight toward the forbidden zone. It didn't hesitate at the boundary—it charged directly in.
Immediately, the city was engulfed by spatial and temporal chaos—distorted time and space folded, collapsed, and slashed outward. Dimensional tears took the shape of blades, slicing toward them.
But none of it reached the city.
The Time Pocket Watch and the Spatial Gate released their power, suppressing all distortions around White Crow City. The space nearby remained eerily calm.
"Unbelievable. The Emperor truly lives up to his title—he can traverse even a time-space chaotic zone."
"I wonder if other dangers lie within. Let's hope we reach the Divine-Demonic Well without incident…"
Within the zone, ancient corpses were stacked like mountains. As White Crow City approached, its passage stirred a breeze—and the corpses crumbled into ash, drifting into the air, filling the sky with a gray mist that dimmed vision.
"Your Majesty, this zone is vast. Can we locate the Well of Gods and Demons's exact position? If not, we may be searching blindly for a long while,"said Liu Bowen with concern.
"Even with artifacts suppressing the zone, distorted space could mean an inch equals thousands of miles."
"No. We'll have to rely on luck. The treasures are keeping things under control—we're not in danger,"Yi Tianxing responded calmly.
One way or another, they had to find the well.
The forbidden zone was desolate. Mountains and valleys had long decayed—trees turned to lifeless husks, stripped of all vitality.
There was no sound, no life, no pulse.
And time... felt like it didn't exist.
They had no way of knowing how long they'd been traveling.
"Your Majesty! Look—on that mountain—there's a monument! A stone stele!"cried Cheng Yaojin, standing atop the wall.
All eyes turned.
On a distant peak stood a massive celestial stele, towering like a pillar into the heavens. Despite the temporal and spatial chaos surrounding it, the stele remained completely untouched—as if a force anchored it beyond time.
"Let's go. That stele… it looks exactly like the one from the Martial Ancestor's tomb."
White Crow City approached the mountain.
The stele loomed—so massive it seemed the entire mountain was part of it. Its body pierced the sky like a sword.
"Eternally Suppress the Boundary River!!"(永镇界河)
These four colossal characters were etched into the monument. Each glyph radiated boundless power, so intense it made it difficult to breathe—like mountains pressing down on the soul, like a god-demon suppressing the world.
"It's the Martial Ancestor's Sky-Stepping Monument,"said Yi Tianxing solemnly."Within it lie two supreme sword arts—one of Time, one of Space.This forbidden zone is clearly connected to this stele."
Even a single trace of the sword intent within could alter the laws of heaven and earth around it. Yi Tianxing could feel it: within this monument were two unparalleled sword scriptures.
"These must be part of the Azure Lotus Sword Canon the Martial Ancestor left behind,"murmured Zhuge Liang in awe."If we had time to study it deeply, we might even comprehend those sword arts.The Martial Ancestor never hid his techniques—anyone with fate may inherit them.Such magnanimity… is beyond imagining."
A forbidden-level being from the previous epoch—his legacy was not merely personal; it shaped the fate of the world.
"Look! There are inscriptions on the stele!"said Liu Bowen, pointing.
Lines of ancient text emerged, glowing with faint light.
"Outer-realm fiends invaded, seeking to destroy the world.The Martial Ancestor opened a path between realms, forged the Well of Gods and Demons, and led the Eternal Ark across the Boundary River, marching on the outer void.Countless Eternal Ark masters followed, journeying into the abyss. Pangu charged forth and ignited the Epoch War."
"Three thousand years of expedition—Pangu battled the demon gods in the void, drenched in blood."
"The Three Pure fought outer-realm devils—the Taiji Diagram shattered stars, the Pangu Banner destroyed heaven and earth, the Four Immortal Slaying Swords flashed across the outer void—they fell from exhaustion."
"Three Emperors and Five Sovereigns led humanity into battle, dying gloriously. May all of humanity rise as dragons!"
"Ancestor Dragon…"
Each line fell like thunder.
White Crow City's soldiers were shaken to their core.
"What happened in the last epoch…?"
"Wasn't Pangu supposed to have died creating the world? How did he return?"
"The Three Pure died in outer space…? But they're alive now? Something doesn't add up. There's something we don't know."
"Three Emperors and Five Sovereigns fell in battle—yet we still have them today. Are they the same… or different? Just what happened between the epochs?"
"How many ancient beings fell in that war?If they died… how are they here again?"
Countless questions filled every heart.
Because these weren't just anyone. These were the apex beings of creation itself. Their reappearance was not just strange—it was impossible under the laws of reality.
And yet… they were here.
Yi Tianxing had long prepared for this. What couldn't be understood now… would be revealed in time. At a higher realm of power, truth would naturally unfold.
"Look—at the final inscription!"cried Zhuge Liang.
Two final names glowed at the end:
"Eternal Azure Lotus… Abyssal Demon Mother…"
Only eight characters, and the rest seemed erased—no visible trace remained.
"The Eternal Azure Lotus… and the Abyssal Demon Mother?"Yi Tianxing frowned.These names radiated dread. These were likely unfathomable beings, beyond any resistance—entities of myth and abyss, touching the edge of the unknowable.
He forcibly suppressed the rising unease. Until he reached the required level, he wasn't qualified to even consider these things.
Such was the law of the world.
"If the Martial Ancestor's monument is here,then the Well of Gods and Demons must be nearby,"said Liu Bowen.
"Circle around to the back."
"Go."
Yi Tianxing nodded.
White Crow City began to move again.
The closer they came to the monument, the slower they moved—like crawling at a snail's pace. But from within the city, it felt as though they were moving at astonishing speed.
Time passed—how much, no one knew.
Eventually, they emerged behind the stele.
And there… they saw it.
A vast, awe-inspiring ancient well—like a colossal sinkhole, rimmed with intricate runes that glowed with divine patterns. Within the well, multicolored lights churned, swirling into vortexes, sometimes calm, sometimes turbulent—utterly terrifying.
"The Well of Gods and Demons. We've found it."
All were stunned.
The well clearly linked to somewhere far beyond comprehension. Everyone felt its weight—it was no ordinary relic.
This was the path to another world.
"Wait—what's that next to the well?A statue… a deer?"someone asked.
A stone deer sculpture stood beside the well.
But why?
Why would a deer stand beside the gateway to the Divine-Demonic Well?
And what did it mean?