In the south of the Beast Region, above a certain mountain range, the sound of wind suddenly rang out. Immediately afterward, four figures flashed out from the Void Realm, and then landed atop a towering giant tree.
"Is this the place?" Zi Yan, who had landed on the giant tree together with Xiao Se, swept her gaze around and then muttered somewhat complainingly.
Because she discovered that this place was a basin as large as a thousand miles, except that this basin was completely filled with eerie skeletons. Looking from afar, it was a sea of pale white bones, blindingly dazzling and giving people a creeping, hair-raising sensation.
"Humph, these surroundings are all pale white bones, so disgusting, where is anything delicious..." Raising her head to look at the gloomy skeletons in front of her, Zi Yan softly muttered with feigned dissatisfaction.
Today, Zi Yan had already obtained the Void Ancient Dragon Legacy under the help of Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun, and her strength had also reached the level of a Six-Star Dou Zun. With the growth of her strength and age, she had already learned how to be shy, how to blush, and how to act coquettishly...
Whenever Zi Yan thought of the scene when she was ambushed at night, kissed, and fondled by Xiao Se in the Sea King Pavilion back then, her pure heart would beat violently. In her heart, Xiao Se's title of a good person during the Jia Nan Academy period had now turned into a big hooligan, a big bad guy, and a big pervert...
"Here, I knew you were gluttonous, take it."
Hearing Zi Yan's dissatisfied muttering, Xiao Se shook his head helplessly and tossed a few small jade bottles to Zi Yan. After catching them and taking a look, joy finally crept up her brows.
Pouring the pills inside into her mouth like beans, Zi Yan chewed smackingly for a long time before she chuckled and said, "The space ahead seems to have been sealed for a very long time, it should be an Ancient Ruins, right? Big bad guy, how did you know about this place? And the Nine Serene Yellow Springs as well, I find that you know so, so many things."
Xiao Se was long used to Zi Yan's form of address. It was impossible for him to tell Zi Yan that he was a Transmigrator and knew the answer from the original work, so he perfunctorily replied, "Don't forget, my SoulRealm has already stepped into the Emperor Realm. Looking across the entire continent, the only few people whose spirit power can match mine are a few individuals including your father. When my SoulRealm just broke through to the Emperor Realm, Xian'er and Qing Lin were still training in the Beast Region. To confirm whether they were safe, I once explored the entire Beast Region from top to bottom."
Hearing these words, Zi Yan, who was chewing happily on the side, suddenly came to a realization: "No wonder... Wait, that's not right, the last time you came to Ancient Dragon Island, I happened to be taking a bath. Didn't you see it as well? Wuwu, return my innocence."
The mountain range where Xiao Se and the four arrived was called the Skeleton Mountain Range, and moreover, this mountain range had quite a considerable reputation within the Beast Region.
This was because it possessed a terrifying ocean of skeletons, with countless Demonic Beast bones discarded here. As time passed, these bones would gradually volatilize some peculiar beast Qi contained within the skeleton remains. This kind of energy was of no use to humans, but to Demonic Beasts, it was quite a good tonic. Therefore, this caused the Skeleton Mountain Range to become a gathering place loved by many Demonic Beasts.
Judging by the time in the original work, the space Seal of this Ancient Ruins would take at least seven or eight years to dissipate. However, Xiao Se's current strength was a Dou Sheng, and his spirit power had even reached the Emperor Realm. Therefore, the Seal of this Ancient Ruins could no longer block the footsteps of Xiao Se's advancement.
Smiling casually, Xiao Se slowly arrived at the center of this mountain range, because he could sense that the space there had a somewhat distorted arc. Clearly, that was where the spatial barrier set by the owner of the ruins was located.
Gently steadying his posture, Xiao Se raised his palm, and then, his finger containing vast energy abruptly slashed across the Void Realm in front of him.
Immediately, the space in front of Xiao Se collapsed inch by inch, and a pitch-black spatial crack slowly emerged from the Void Realm...
As the spatial crack emerged, a terrifying energy fluctuation permeated out from within. This fluctuation was exceptionally violent, just like a volcano suppressed beneath the earth's crust, having a feeling of frantic eruption.
"Boom!"
Inside the spatial crack, the extremely terrifying Seal energy suddenly swept outward like a hurricane.
However, when these energy storms expanded to a certain range, they abruptly stopped with a wave of Xiao Se's sleeve, and were then quietly and completely annihilated by Xiao Se.
Having resolved the counterattack of the space Seal, Xiao Se's hand Seals changed once more. Immediately, that pitch-black spatial crack was slowly opened like a tightly closed door, revealing the pitch-black passageway behind it.
"The passage entering the ruins has been opened. Long Kui, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, let's go inside."
Xiao Se did not hesitate. With a wave of his palm, Zi Yan and Qing Lin, whose strengths had not yet reached the Dou Sheng level, were pulled into his embrace. Immediately afterward, Long Kui also followed closely. The figures of the four transformed into a streak of rainbow light, flashing toward inside that spatial door.
As the four completely entered, the spatial door suddenly trembled and then slowly dissipated into nothingness...
Within the ruins space, Xiao Se upheld the noble quality that even a mosquito's legs are meat.
From ordinary medicinal herbs down to Dou Sheng skeletons, Heaven Rank Dou Skills, and the dragon phoenix origin fruit.
Wherever he passed, not a single feather of a wild goose was left behind.
Anything with the slightest bit of usefulness was collected by Xiao Se into the System space. After all, in the future, he wanted to transform the Douluo Space into an existence surpassing the Ancient World of the Ancient Clan, and the resources required for that were countless.
As soon as they emerged from the ruins space, Zi Yan impatiently pulled on Xiao Se's arm and acted coquettishly, saying, "Big bad guy, when do you plan to give the dragon phoenix origin fruit to me?"
Xiao Se smiled and said, "Rest assured, it will be yours sooner or later, but it won't do right now. With your current strength, you cannot withstand the violent energy inside. When we return to Ancient Dragon Island, I will hand it over to your father and let him help you refine it. For now, take this to pad your stomach first."
While speaking, Xiao Se took out a jade bottle from his storage ring and threw it to Zi Yan.
Zi Yan opened it, sniffed it, and then poured it all into her mouth in one go. Only then was she completely satisfied, chewing as she asked, "Big bad guy, where are we going now?"
Xiao Se said, "Let's return to Ancient Dragon Island first. Just in time, Qing Lin has absorbed so many Nine Serene Earth Nether Pythons and can go there into closed-door cultivation to Breakthrough to Dou Sheng."
Zi Yan nodded, and then, led by Xiao Se, she returned to Ancient Dragon Island together with Long Kui and Qing Lin.
Upon reaching Ancient Dragon Island, Xiao Se handed the dragon phoenix origin fruit into Zhu Kun's hands. Zhu Kun was undoubtedly extremely happy and soon impatiently took Zi Yan to go into closed-door cultivation to complete her Bloodline evolution.
Xiao Se did not become idle because of this. Instead, with the help of the Dou Sheng Elders of the Void Ancient Dragon Clan, he successfully subdued the Nine Profound Golden Lightning in the Void Lightning Pool. Utilizing the energy within it, he refined the Grade 9 Profound PillLightning Tribulation Pill. Under the effects of the Lightning Tribulation Pill and the essence blood of the Yellow Spring Demon Saint, he not only cultivated the final layer of the Fire Gods Wrath secret method, but his cultivation also successfully broke through to the Five-Star Dou ShengPeak, soaring by a full two stars and more.