Chapter 1089: Tiny Old Man (1/2)

Chapter 1089: Tiny Old Man

The excursion continued. Outside of ruins and metallic corpses, the rest was all yellow sand.

There were no rocky elevations in this world, let alone a scene of verdant hills and green water. Not to mention finding life in such a world, there were no traces of little blades of grass!

It was only silence and nothingness. The only thing that acted as a reminder of their existence was the occasional breeze slowly blowing by accompanied with hot sand. If it wasn’t for this, they would be wondering if they were dead already.

This world was oppressive to a suffocating level. The girls had experienced harsh training before; they had been to even more dangerous locations than this.

For cultivators, crossing a desert was truly too ordinary. But today, they felt quite oppressed. Despite their firm dao hearts, walking through this world of golden sand left them in a weaker state.

In the past, no matter how dangerous their training locations were, there was hope that after leaving, they would come to see the wonderful nine worlds.

However, walking in this golden world left them the feeling that there was no end, only ruins and sand! The initial shock from seeing fallen iron men and ruins was gone after they continued onward since they had grown numb to it.

They traveled quite far and eventually reached a place where there were only shattered ruins in sight.

This particular citadel was the largest that they had seen so far. It spanned boundlessly as far as the eye could see. The sunlight always hit either the scattered parts on the ground or the collapsed walls due to their proliferation.

This metal citadel’s sheer size exceeded everyone’s imaginations. Perhaps even the largest city they had been to was not as big as this citadel.

Li Qiye glanced over this site with no end and murmured: “It should be this place.”

Li Shuangyan asked: “Did we come here to look for something?”

He slowly answered with a focused look: “We are searching for an item in the legends, something that has never been seen before.”

With that, he entered the ruins to search with the girls right behind him.

In fact, Li Qiye didn’t really know what he was looking for because the records about this era had sunken into the river of time. He spent countless moons and flipped over all the ancient sites in the nine heavens to finally understand a little bit about this world.

Traveling in this ruins gave the feeling of walking in a world of metal. Outside of the sand, there were little metallic parts everywhere.

After walking for a long time, they finally came to a place that slightly resembled a palace. Despite its broken state, one could still see how sacred and extravagant it used to be.

“It’s just ahead.” Li Qiye’s heart skipped a beat after seeing a high platform in front of him. This was exactly the same as what the ancient carving he had seen long ago depicted. He rushed forward with haste while the girls kept up.

After rushing up the platform, the first thing he saw was three green leaves.

Having been in this world for so long, this was their first time seeing the greenness of vegetation. This made them feel jubilated, as if they had come across an oasis in the dried desert. It was something that couldn’t be described with words.

The three leaves were growing on top of a withered tree. This tree was supposed to be quite large, but it was destroyed by something and only a three-foot tall body remained. It was not overly thick and its cracked bark looked just like dragon scales. It was an extraordinary sight to behold.

However, such an incredible ancient tree was on the verge of death. The broken tree had withered. Even the three leaves hanging on its body were quite languish, as if they could fade away from existence at any moment.

What was even more shocking to the girls was that there was a person lying under the old tree. It was a tiny old man with a body only around the size of an adolescent boy.

His arms were quite long and seemed out of place compared to the rest of his body. His head was large as well, making people question whether his body could support it. His eyes were big even though they were closed.

His body had dried up with only his skin covering his bones. One couldn’t see any signs of life coming from this old man. Who knows how long he had been dead for?

Li Shuangyan and the others were surprised to see this kind of corpse and exchanged glances with each other.