Otherworldly Desert Dust

Pine woods and bamboo forests, lush and verdant, with the occasional lake interspersed among the hilly basins, reflecting a corner of the clouded sky, deep and beautiful.

Between the two stretches of Song Mountain, there once lay a town, which had now vanished, replaced by a gray fortress.

This fortress resembled a colossal ancient coliseum, as if preparing to welcome challenges from the abyss of Hell.

Flanking the fortress were thin barriers of the Silver Dome, enveloping the bustling city behind it.

In this era, even if a dreadful mutation occurred in a place, people would not readily abandon their homes, for at such an unstable stage, where could one go without being a wanderer? Better to unite and face the challenge, to change it...

Moreover, in the hearts of the people of Lun Mountain City, this was seen as a racial battle, a war between humans and the Alien Insects, if the fortress collapsed, Lun Mountain City would cease to exist, and with no Lun Mountain City, there would be no peace left in their homeland; the people had witnessed the reproduction speed of the Alien Insects!

Space Wander had been activated.

The Divine Realm of Nuwa had finally left Red Port...

But the Dark Domain was vast and dim, the departure of the Divine Realm of Nuwa was like a starship drifting in an infinite sea, taking an immensely long time to reach a new continent.

In this phase of the voyage, people would face their most terrifying survival challenge.

Endless streams of Alien Insects lined up at the other end of the white Wormhole, no longer as docile as before, sending merely scouts to explore the human homeland, it seemed like they were emerging in full force, determined to slaughter every living being in the humans' homeland.

The Divine Realm of Nuwa had no way back.

Once struck by the Red Tide back to Red Port, it would mean a death without a burial ground, including the embodiment of the Divine Realm of Nuwa being torn apart by the furious high-dimensional insects.

The dense killing aura, cold as the ice breath of the Nine Nether, yet with the fury of a seabed volcano about to erupt its magma, all these aggressive energies displayed in the small white Wormhole, causing the other half of Lun Mountain City's skies and woods to shift in bizarre colors, like layers of ice and fire overlapping in Purgatory, from which countless terrifying roars emanated!

People did not understand why such a small hole could make that area seem like a gigantic and terrifying Purgatory world. Those Spirit Awakeners who had walked in the Otherworldly Dust for many years had never seen such a sight; they stood in the fortress, their legs trembling involuntarily, their expressions shifting from confidence to unease and tension, not knowing what they were about to confront.

All fear stems from the unknown; all fear also stems from insufficient firepower.

Yet they were both ignorant and critically underpowered regarding the other end of the white Wormhole!

"What on earth happened that we have to flee in such panic?" asked Wang Yan, the commander in charge of defending the fortress, bewildered.

Initially, when the Divine Realm of Nuwa left Red Port, the situation had seemed calm.

Moreover, when the people in the homeland saw that the Divine Realm of Nuwa was moving again, they celebrated, for the time stranded had been too long, spreading a profound sense of monotony and insecurity. In such an endless and eerie place, not many could truly feel at peace living there for a lifetime.

With each surge of the turbulent Red Tide, people couldn't help but cheer; the further they moved from the port of Red Port, the more they felt a sense of freedom and relief...

But this adventurous spirit didn't last long, the Divine Realm of Nuwa seemed to have been targeted by countless horrifying eyes of the Dark Domain, malignant resentments surged into the homeland like sea mist, everyone could feel that malice and anger.

It was as if docking at a mysterious island, taking away the sacred relics of the island's natives; thereafter, everyone on board the ship started having nightmares, began acting strangely, as if collectively cursed.

Atop the fortress, Wu Hen stood on a watchtower.

In fact, he didn't know what had happened.

Everything happened so suddenly.

That day after deconstructing human destiny with Li Feng, he had stayed in Lun Mountain City.

As for how Li Feng obtained the Yuan You Mine, or how he thwarted the high-dimensional insects' plan to implant fear genes, Wu Hen was completely in the dark.

Those who were led away were completely cut off from the world.

Whether they were alive or dead, Wu Hen had no way of knowing.

Although the Death Omen Law could observe life and death, Wu Hen needed new contact with them as a condition.

After all, the Divine Realm of Nuwa had begun its escape.

And entered Space Wander in the Dark Domain.

Whether Time Travel had been activated Wu Hen did not know, as people inside the Divine Realm of Nuwa could not perceive the changing of external time, since different speeds of time flow require a reference.

"The Alien Insects are extremely angry,"

"It's as if they have been mocked."

Wu Hen muttered to himself, he could only speculate through the current situation.

Speculating that Chief Li was not so benign from the start, when he had the Divine Realm of Nuwa create forty percent of the human bodies in reality, he also kept a wary eye.

Wu Hen wasn't sure what kind of caution he had exercised, but he vaguely remembered that during the tropical pipe period, Chief Li looked like a cold-blooded animal, his face icy and his pupils like stony jade... as if for survival, all the morals and civility a human should have were annihilated, leaving only cruelty and cunning!

"Cai Ting, I don't quite understand, wasn't it agreed that we would hand over the Yuan You Mine to us, and then slowly transfer it to Nuwa God End before escaping?" Master Cai Huang came up and asked.

Before escaping, Wu Hen took both Cai Ni and Cai Huang with him.

It wasn't that he had developed feelings for these two members of his reconstituted plastic family, but that they could be of great help on the road ahead.

"The situation has changed now, and I'm not exactly sure of the details," Wu Hen said.

"The total amount of Yuan You Mine is not enough, it's impossible to complete the Dark Domain voyage, even if it's just a few steps away from the outside world, you'll eventually be slapped back to Red Port by the Red Tide, such escape is too reckless, too risky, and too insane!" Cai Huang said somewhat discontentedly.

He had thought that Wu Hen had some foolproof plan, but, unexpectedly, it turned out to be such a step-by-step approach.

Having boarded the thief's ship, Cai Huang now found it difficult to disembark.

Moreover, Cai Huang guessed what was behind Red Port, and now as the white wormhole churned like purgatory, with the army of Alien Insects assembling on the other end, he naturally understood that high-dimensional insects were issuing a kill order!

"It's strange to say, our total amount of Yuan You has been increasing, maybe the navigators have found a new Yuan You Mine... If this growth trend continues, even if high-dimensional insects intercept us in the Dark Domain, they will be thrown off by the Time Travel ability of Nuwa God End," Shen Wenhai explained.

"Even those who are disconnected, the Yuan You they acquire also belongs to Nuwa God End?" Wu Hen asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Naturally, as long as they are our descendants, even if they completely leave our homeland and survive in other Divine Realms, every time they acquire Yuan You, it completes a nourishment for Nuwa God End," Shen Wenhai said.

"Is this offering similar to our praying to the gods? Placing the tribute on the table, it's a ritual above space, and after completing the ritual, the tribute doesn't disappear, people can take it back and continue to consume it," Wu Hen said.

In ancient and modern times, tributes to the deities are also placed on the table.
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People believe that gods can sense this offering, and the more people who offer, the higher that deity's status in Heaven.

The way the citizens of Nuwa God End collect Yuan You is also similar to this kind of offering.

Acquiring Yuan You is akin to completing an offering ritual, with Nuwa God End as the deity, having already received the nourishing power from the human world... Also, after the offering is completed, the Yuan You, as a tribute, can still be consumed by humans.

"Yes, your understanding is correct, in ancient times, chicken, duck, fish, and meat offered as tributes are placed on the dining table, waiting for the deities to consume, and after the deities have eaten, people take it back for their own consumption," Shen Wenhai said.

"Then I understand," Wu Hen nodded, his face revealing a astonishment shocked by the truth.

"Understand what?" Shen Wenhai asked, puzzled.

Cai Huang also looked puzzled, not understanding what they were discussing.

Having been brought to Nuwa God End by Wu Hen, Cai Huang felt not only had he boarded a thief's ship, but he might also become a laborer, with a not-so-bright future.

"Those taken away by the Longevity Sect, if they come into contact with Yuan You, can also provide us with total Yuan You energy," Wu Hen said.

"Ah??" Shen Wenhai had not considered this aspect.

In his view, to expect those traitors to obtain Yuan You for Nuwa God End was less likely than hoping for the missing navigators to find an incredible Yuan You Mine.

"How could they possibly do that, knowing that most of those who fled are refusing to interact with the otherworldly? They would only reap the benefits..." Shen Wenhai said.

Wu Hen shook his head, unsure how to answer that.

Now he only knew that the human elites attacking the Longevity Sect had all returned to Nuwa God End, and the vast majority were deployed in Lun Mountain City, poised to withstand the raging pursuit of high-dimensional insects.

And those attacking the Longevity Sect, continuously acquiring Yuan You Mine for Nuwa God End, were probably the forty percent of humans who had been led away...

This left Wu Hen puzzled.

Could it be that those forty percent were all heroes with steadfast minds, prepared to sacrifice themselves for all humanity?

It didn't seem likely.

How did Li Feng manage to do it??

What exactly was the seed he planted in those who fled to the Longevity Sect?

Clearly, they had already abandoned their original beliefs to become citizens of the Longevity Sect; if the high-dimensional insects were smart enough, even if they used them for genetic implant experiments, they would likely not reveal their true intentions too soon.

How did Li Feng make those forty percent defectors into the core force attacking the Longevity Sect??

"Could it be during the time their bodies were fabricated..."

Suddenly, Wu Hen felt cold all over and didn't want to speculate further.