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The Wilderness was where savage beasts roamed about. A savage beast that was several tens to even hundreds of meters tall could not possibly have built a palm-sized brick?

Judging from the marks on the wall, it must have been through a long time. One of them walked up and knocked on the brick wall and found that it was made of a very hard material. Even his fingers were starting to feel pain.

He didn't believe in evil and waved the Demon Fighter Pestle to smash down with all of his strength, but he was sent flying by the powerful rebound force, while the brick only shook off some dust.

"This is definitely not something that a savage beast can create."

Everyone came to the conclusion that in the past, there had been humans living here.

"Could it be the barbarians?"

Lei Ao suddenly remembered that the sickly scholar had once said that the barbarians were intelligent creatures similar to humans.

"It should be. There's no time to think about it."

The sickly scholar began to increase his speed once more after he finished speaking, and everyone followed closely behind.

In the evening, the team stopped again. This time, they were even more agitated.

It was as if they had returned to the ancient times. They came across many dilapidated remnants of their tribes in this wasteland. None of them were inhabited anymore, and not a single one was intact.

The only thing that they had in common was the fact that every ruin of a tribe had traces of a fight. It could be imagined that in the past, there had been a great war that destroyed or forced the tribe to migrate.

What kind of existence was the Wilderness in ancient times? This wasn't just the territory of a savage beast. Furthermore, a savage beast definitely wasn't the owner of this place.

The team stopped in front of a large tribe. This tribe was very complete. Although there were traces of battle, it was not severely damaged.

Just like the other ruins of the tribe, there was no one here. Everyone found a few pieces of stone in front of a relatively intact building.

The stone was thin, made of the same material as the brick of the earthen wall, but engraved with words.

Judging from the marks, they had been carved on a temporary basis with a fingertip.

"F * ck, how did these people engrave those words?"

Even if he did not stop, his mouth would not have been full. Even if he had used all his strength, he still could not have caused a crack in the brick.

Even though it was made of the same material, the people of this tribe were able to carve words on it without borrowing any magical weapons. They could only carve on their fingers. How much power did it take?

Lei Ao looked at the words, he did not know what to read, so he asked: "Which one of you can read these words?"

Everyone shook their heads, and only one true expert revealed a serious expression.

"Yizhen, how is it?" Everyone hurriedly asked.

"A little imprint, but very blurry, I can't remember."

Yi Zhen raised his head and looked into the distance. He pointed to the east and said, "The compass stopped right here. I have a feeling that this is the place we are looking for."

Where was the opportunity to destroy them?

The sickly scholar suddenly said, "There is a barrier a hundred li in that direction, but the strength of the barrier is very weak. It should not be difficult to break through."

A barrier?

Everyone was stunned for a moment. Then, they recalled the enchantment they had seen when they were in the Wilderness. At that time, the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets conjectured that this was a defense that had been set up to prevent them from destroying it.

Now that a barrier had appeared again, could this opportunity be right in front of him?

"It's different from the enchantments on the outside, this enchantment should be a relic from the ancient times." The sickly scholar knew what everyone was thinking and said, "Let's go over and take a look."

In the blink of an eye, the distance of one hundred miles was covered. After passing through the ruins of the tribe, they arrived at a huge altar.

The blood-red altar was shaped like a pyramid, with a total of eight sides. There were stairs in all eight directions, and if one carefully counted them, they would reach the 99th step.

In front of the altar was a huge statue, over three hundred feet tall, but it had collapsed. One could still make out a warrior with a long blade riding a monster.

Unfortunately, no matter if it's warriors or monsters, they're both incomplete. The shape can't be seen and the type of monsters can't be identified.

The only thing that was intact was the blade. When Lei Ao saw the blade, he immediately cried out.

"What's wrong?" Everyone jumped in fright, standing with their backs facing each other as they took out their weapons, nervous expressions on their faces.

"Ah, nothing." Lei Ao quickly turned his head, not allowing the others to question him.

Only Bluesea had a strange expression on her face. Her imprint had also seen a divine weapon similar to this blade.

Blood blade! The longblade carved by this statue was clearly an enlarged version of the blood blade.

When Lei Ao used the power of the Phoenix, he had once wielded a bloody knife to slaughter a savage beast.

Among them, the most surprised was Lei Ao himself. He felt that the blood saber in the small world seemed to be trembling as if it were very excited. Even the purple sun above the small world was emitting a strong purple flame.

This was a purple phoenix that had turned into a sun. Lei Ao clearly remembered this.

The phoenix had been tattooed on his back when he was born. The experience of obtaining the blood blade was also very strange.

To sum it up, Phoenix and Blood Blade had come to him on their own, not because of some so-called fortuitous encounter.

Although he was the master, Lei Ao had never been able to explain the true origins of Phoenix and the blood blade. All he knew was that these two fellows were very strong, very powerful.

Even the giant beasts in the deep valleys were deeply wary of them. To be able to make the usually calm, white-clothed man show an expression of surprise …

One could imagine that the phoenix and the blood blade's age was already unknown. At the very least, they were a product of the same era as the giant bronze door in the deep canyon.

Now, with the statue in front of him, the blood-red altar …

Lei Ao had a hunch that the altar was related to that giant beast. This was because he could already faintly feel that savage and ruthless aura coming from it.

There was a barrier protecting the altar, the one that the sickly scholar had sensed earlier. It emitted a faint light, and under the illumination of the sun, it was impossible to discover it without looking carefully.

The barrier exuded an ancient and majestic aura, but the power within was extremely weak. It was unable to stop everyone from advancing.

As long as they were willing, even the weakest Huang Xin would be able to break this barrier.

"If you want to stop us, it is impossible for you to place such a weak Spirit Formation. This is indeed a remnant from the Ancient Era, but sadly, you cannot understand the nature of this Spirit Formation."

It was a pity that the barrier had existed for so many years, and yet it was still able to be maintained. It meant that it was an extremely profound formation.

If he could learn even the slightest of it secretly, it would be of great benefit to his future cultivation.

It was a pity that the energy of the barrier was almost used up.

Furthermore, the marks left behind when the barrier was laid out were not something they could understand.

As they walked towards the altar, it was as they had imagined. The barrier only produced a weak resistance, allowing the crowd to easily pass through. However, at the same time, everyone's figures also fell to the ground.

It couldn't fly?

Everyone was horrified. This was absolutely not the power of the enchantment, but the altar itself.

An ancient ruin that was passed down from the ancient era was actually able to suppress the movements of others. There was definitely a supreme expert that left a powerful seal on the altar back then.

Moreover, even after endless years, even the realm of connection had weakened. The seal was still strong, and even the sickly scholar, who had a cultivation beyond the Immortal ascension realm, was completely suppressed by it.

Since they couldn't fly, they could only walk, and the staircase to the 99th step wasn't very long. Fortunately, the altar only prevented them from flying, and didn't stop them from reaching the altar.

On the altar, the ground was an octagonal plane. On the ground in eight directions, there were carvings of seven different savage beasts and a human figure. However, each of them was incomplete and indistinguishable.

The picture of the savage beast in the south only had a few long feathers left. Vaguely, one could see that it was a type of bird. With such a long tail, there was only one creature in the world — a phoenix!

These feathers weren't fiery red in color, but purple. If the pattern was complete, then this was a purple phoenix.

Lei Ao immediately thought of the purple phoenix that had accompanied him since birth. Could there be a connection between the two?

What puzzled him was that after ascending the altar, the Phoenix and the blood blade had calmed down and did not emit any more fluctuations.

At the center of the altar, there was a huge character that seemed to be written with blood, emitting a strange, blood-red light.