Chapter 25: A Different Place (2/2)

Nie Tian, dizzy and racked with pain all over, was lying with his back on the altar and limbs spread wide.

Gazing at the overcast sky with his wide eyes, he gradually came to his senses. “What the hell is this place?”

A few seconds ago, he was in his room. He only remembered that the animal bone had transformed into a flame vortex and then gulped him down.

Then, he was here.

Despite lying on the altar, he could immediately detect that the gravity here was even stronger than the tenfold gravity field generated by the Mystic Amber Shield!

He lay there, his back tightly pressed against the cold, hard stone slab. Finally, he rose up to a sitting position, an effort which required all the strength he could muster.

“The amount of spiritual energy here is ten times thicker than Cloudsoaring Mountain!”

In the middle of breathing, he felt the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth in the air trickling down into the spiritual sea of his dantian.

Elated, he looked around curiously.

Almost immediately, he caught the sight of the eight huge, hill-like dragon heads surrounding him. “Dragon heads! There are eight huge dragon heads there!”

The eight dragon heads were bereft of any flesh or blood, leaving them as nothing but bare, bleached bones.

The dragon’s eyeballs had long since ceased to exist. All of the empty sockets were facing him as if they were quietly analyzing him, which made his blood run cold.

He quickly shifted his view to the distance and realized that the eight huge dragon skeletons stretched a thousand meters away.

Further in the distance, numerous mountain peaks sat under the murky-gray sky, each of them as tall as Cloudsoaring Peak.

After carefully studying them, he was completely overwhelmed by astonishment to find that the objects, that had at first resembled mountain peaks, were in fact huge arms!

The huge arms were dark-yellow. Some had fists tightly clenched, as if they were unleashing endless fury; some fingers were widely opened as if to clasp the sky; some palms were imprinted with what seemed like the supreme theory of Heaven and Earth.

In the distance, those huge arms looked like giant mountain peaks towering up into the sky.

The other side of the arms were like the roots of towering old trees, buried deep into the earth.

It was as if the real bodies of the huge arm’s owners were within the earth, attempting to rid themselves of the burial and fly up into the sky!

Just the arms exposed outside were as enormous as mountains, Nie Tian could not imagine how colossal the bodies were of the owners were who were buried under the earth!

“One, two, three… thirty-two!” He counted and found that there were at least 32 huge arms visible.

That meant that there were at least 16 colossal creatures buried deep in the earth!

“Eight huge dragons and also at least sixteen terrifyingly colossal creatures,” he thought. “What is this place? Am I dreaming?” Then, he bit his tongue suddenly and felt an excruciating pain.

“I’m not dreaming? This is different from my previous experience, so it must not be a dream!”

He still remembered that after he battled Nie Hong, he had a high fever for quite a long time and frequently fell into different dreams.

The unknown world he saw in his dream was somewhat similar to the sight in front of him.

However, he always knew that all those dreams were simply dreams, not realities.

But this time, he was not in a dream but rather a real world, which was completely unknown to him.

WHOOSH!

The animal bone that brought him into this place was lying at his side, flickering with plumes of flame.

He subconsciously looked at it.

For an unknown reason, he felt an infinite sadness from within those flames.

The glowing flames seemed to be recounting something…

“Dragon?” Prompted by his memory, he recalled that his inner awareness had seen this strange world in the drop of blood condensed from the animal bone when he was in Mine #73.

That world bristled with countless raging flames that converged into a colossal dragon of flame.

On their way back to Black Cloud City, the animal bone had transformed into a dragon-shaped flame when he threw it at the two men dressed in blue.

After carefully thinking for awhile, he came to realize that the animal bone was from a great fire dragon.

At the side of the altar, there were eight great dragons with only skeletons left. He speculated that they used to be fire dragons as well, belonging to the same species as the one from which the animal bone was taken.

“I should go around and have a look,” he thought to himself. “This world must be bigger than what I have seen. There might be more secrets in this place beyond my view.”

As he attempted to stand up, he found that the gravity of the earth had pinned him down to the ground.

He couldn’t even rise to his feet!

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