Misty Rain of the Old Times

In this vast and mysterious underground world, Chen Xuan and his companions traversed tens of thousands of miles in a straight line and actually saw a wall that was over two hundred feet high, or to be precise, an absurdly large and magnificent city!
The city wall was not formed naturally, but was a creation of civilization, revealing a profound sense of history.

The ancient city walls bear many signs of repair, having endured countless battles. They appear to have been drenched in blood time and again, their blackened surfaces faintly inlaid with grim remains of bones, scales, claws, and sharp teeth, along with some broken weapons. Their menacing aura is chilling and sends shivers down one's spine.

The city wall is over two hundred feet high, towering into the clouds, like a towering mountain, extending far to the left and right on the horizon.

On those mottled, ancient city walls, there are city gates that look like gaping abysses, and humanoid creatures can be seen entering and exiting them!

Chen Xuan and his group were thirty or forty miles away from the city wall. At such a distance, even a young girl who had been practicing martial arts for more than half a year could see the figures of humanoid creatures coming and going, which shows how tall they must be.

Based on visual estimation, those tall humanoid creatures were over ten zhang tall, meaning they were giants at least thirty meters tall!

If they can be called human.

But judging from the creation of the giant city and the clothing they wear, they are definitely intelligent humanoid civilizations.

The city walls were rough and wild, and the giants were dressed in primitive and savage clothing, as if one had suddenly arrived in an ancient and barbaric world of giants.

Given Chen Xuan's cultivation level, seeing such a scene was not unbelievable, but it was still quite surprising.

Before this, he thought this place was just a place where plants and animals had become incredibly large, but he never imagined that civilization would also exist there.

So you still lack experience.

"Master, is that real? How can there be such a tall person? Are we hallucinating? We didn't eat any poisonous mushrooms, or have we really shrunk without realizing it?" Du Juan struggled to look away and asked a series of questions, her face full of disbelief. This scene had truly overturned her understanding.

Even she, with her innate cultivation, began to doubt whether she was hallucinating, which shows how subversive this scene was.

Looking in that direction with great interest, Chen Xuan answered with certainty, "Sister Juan, Roujia, you didn't see it wrong, it's all real. It seems we've encountered an unimaginable otherworldly civilization."

Since he said so, it must be true. But Dujuan and the little girl looked at each other, still finding it incredibly absurd and dreamlike.

Staring in disbelief in that direction, the little girl murmured, "This is too outrageous! Those people are like small mountains, so scary! What do they eat to grow so big?"

Little did I know that everything in this place would become incredibly huge, and it seemed quite normal for such giants to exist.
Muttering to himself, Chen Xuan pondered, "With physiques like theirs, their sheer physical strength is terrifying. Just how much force must their punches and kicks possess? Few below the Innate Realm could threaten them. If they were to cultivate martial arts skills as well, tsk tsk, it's simply unimaginable."

Hearing this, Du Juan nodded slightly. Looking at those enormous bodies from afar, even a single one of them, with her innate cultivation, made her feel a strong sense of oppression. She definitely couldn't withstand a single punch from them. Of course, she wouldn't be foolish enough to confront them head-on. If it were just a matter of sheer size, she had a hundred ways to easily kill these giants!

She looked away and asked, "Sir, what do we do next?"

After thinking for a moment, Chen Xuan smiled and said, "Since we've run into them, let's go take a look. It would be great if we could talk to them; perhaps we could find out what kind of place this is from them."

With Chen Xuan's cultivation level, he didn't care about the difference in size and didn't feel any sense of crisis at the moment. However, he didn't rule out the possibility that those giants possessed extraordinary abilities, so he still had the necessary vigilance and awe.

If he wanted to, he could use a special external training technique to raise his body to a height of five or six zhang for a short time, but that would be the limit. He really couldn't reach a height of more than ten zhang, and he couldn't even maintain a height of five or six zhang. Once his true essence was exhausted, he would have to return to his normal size.

"Are we really going to go and make contact with those giants? Won't they just swat us like mosquitoes?" the little girl asked nervously.

The azalea dagger has been acquired, and Chen Xuan said he would go over to check it out; necessary precautions should still be taken.

Leading them towards the giant city, Chen Xuan said, "Everything here has become incredibly huge. I hadn't thought that much about it before. There are probably giants like this in the dense forest we've passed through. They must be natives of this special environment. Since there are cities where people live, there must also be villages and tribes. Roujia, don't worry. With me here, if there's any danger, I can still manage to get you out of there."

With just a few words of technique, they were already close to the massive city wall, making them feel even smaller. The grandeur and magnificence were beyond words.

Instead of rushing into the city and making contact with the giants, Chen Xuan and his companions concealed themselves and observed them up close. In a place where everything had become incredibly huge, their size made them easy to hide. Chen Xuan was also unsure whether his Grandmaster's Will could influence the giants' senses, so they used the environment to conceal themselves and did not recklessly use martial arts techniques to test the giants.

Giants were active on the main road a few hundred meters away from where they were hiding. The difference in size made the oppressive feeling of the giants even stronger, and the ground trembled slightly with every step they took.

From what they could see so far, Chen Xuan and his companions had spotted dozens of giants. The shortest of them was no less than ten zhang tall, and the tallest was nearly fifteen zhang tall, which was quite outrageous. In such a large city, there must be even taller ones.

To put it bluntly, with such a physique, their muscle and bone density and body structure, their strength alone is terrifying. Putting aside their physique, it would take an average person many years of martial arts training to match their physique.

The giants are not covered in cloth or other textiles. Their clothing is wild, consisting almost entirely of animal hides and armor made from the scales of some unknown creatures. Metal artifacts are also extremely rare. Their weapons are mostly made of some kind of hard stone, or weapons made from the bones and teeth of other creatures. All of them are exaggeratedly huge, emphasizing violence and savagery, and showcasing the aesthetics of violence to the fullest extent.

'I haven't seen any crops or plants around the giant city yet. Do the giants live by hunting?' Chen Xuan wondered to himself as he observed the giants.

Even though they knew the sound wouldn't travel, Du Juan and the others didn't speak, slowing their breathing, afraid of alerting the giant and being targeted.

The giants on the road were mostly armed with spears and clubs, and some even had ridiculously exaggerated longbows. Dozens of them walked toward the city gate, seemingly having just returned from a hunt in the wild, and the smell of blood could be smelled from afar.

Their prey, some of which were even more enormous than the giants themselves, ranging from tens to hundreds of feet in size, resembling small mountains, were enormous creatures that Chen Xuan and his companions had never seen before. They were already dead, and it was unimaginable how they hunted them. The prey had horrific wounds on their bodies, although about a dozen giants also bore injuries.

They didn't see them using vehicles or similar artifacts to transport their prey. It was unclear whether they didn't know how to build them or if their team of giants simply didn't have them. The prey was carried entirely by the giants' brute force, some of it being dragged along. Chen Xuan even saw several giants carrying six-legged creatures on their shoulders.

Furthermore, these giants did not bring any livestock or animal helpers like hunting dogs. Perhaps they did not know how to tame them, or perhaps this group of giants simply did not have any. Everything was unknown to Chen Xuan and his companions.

Looking towards the city gate, there is a moat more than a thousand meters wide outside the city, which is incredibly deep. There are huge creatures swimming in the water, which are definitely not to be trifled with.

A wooden drawbridge spanned the moat, with huge ropes connecting it to the city walls. It was designed to be pulled up to prevent dangerous creatures from using the drawbridge to attack the city.

Outside the city wall was an open space filled with enormous, sharp, barricade-like objects, some with dried, black bloodstains on their tips. There was more than one city gate: an outer wooden gate raised by a winch, and an inner stone gate, about ten feet thick, which could be pushed open from either side to enter the city.

Through the city gate, you can see the huge buildings inside the city, made of earth and stone, simple and unadorned, with a wild and bold style. It seems that as long as it can be lived in, that's enough. The giants don't seem to care about aesthetics or comfort.

For the time being, Chen Xuan and his group did not see any writing or anything like that. There was a totem above the city gate, which looked like a burning fireball or the sun. They did not know what it represented.

In the city, I saw giants, both old and young, all of them incredibly tall. Even the children were four or five zhang tall, and some female giants were holding babies who were one or two zhang tall. To put it bluntly, if a nursing female giant were to milk once, it would probably be enough for an ordinary person to take a bath...

Everything that Chen Xuan saw and heard amazed him.

Observing Giant City, the terrified Du Juan and her companions remained silent, awaiting Chen Xuan's next move.

At this moment, Chen Xuan was also hesitant. It wasn't a safety issue, as he was confident in that regard, but rather how to contact these giants and whether he could communicate with them was still an unknown.

How should one greet an unknown civilization in a polite manner? Without knowing the customs of the giants, what if some seemingly normal actions are actually taboo?

Curiosity aside, Chen Xuan didn't want to get into a conflict with the giants unless absolutely necessary.

After some consideration, Chen Xuan felt that it was better to be straightforward and open; hesitation would only make things worse.

There was no point in hesitating. Having made up his mind, Chen Xuan said, "Let's go. Let's make contact with these giants and hopefully have a friendly start."

"Master, are we really going to come into contact with these giants?" the little girl asked hesitantly, excited yet apprehensive. She had truly learned a lot from following her master, but she was also worried about the dangers. It wasn't that she doubted her master's strength, but the difference in size made her feel completely unsafe.

While remaining secretly on guard, Chen Xuan led the way towards the main road, saying in a relaxed tone, "Giants do communicate, but we can't understand them yet. Their language seems quite simple; with more contact, it shouldn't be difficult to learn. This is already a relatively complete civilization, just somewhat primitive and barbaric. Since it's an intelligent civilization, it's better to be able to communicate than wild beasts who don't even have the opportunity to communicate. Sister Juan, relax; you might cause unnecessary misunderstandings if you act like this."

At this moment, Du Juan's eyes kept scanning the giants' vital points, habitually considering where to strike quickly to kill them. This wouldn't do, so Chen Xuan gave her a special reminder.

Upon hearing this, Du Juan smiled sheepishly, shedding her murderous glare, but her guard remained high.

As they spoke, they arrived at the bumpy road, which was surprisingly compacted by their footsteps. The bumps and potholes were not even a problem for the giants.

The group of giants, who seemed to have just returned from a hunt, had already gone several hundred meters ahead and were about to cross the suspension bridge. Chen Xuan called out loudly to their backs, "Brothers up ahead, could you please stop and disturb us for a moment?"

Not knowing the giants' ages, the experience of judging the ages of ordinary people is not suitable for them. With their physique, the friendly address of "Brother Chen Xuan" is truly fitting.

The surroundings were open, and his voice was quite loud, with the addition of some sonic techniques, so his words naturally reached the ears of the giants in front of him.

They certainly couldn't understand what Chen Xuan was saying. Upon hearing the voice, they all turned around and scanned the area, becoming wary and alert, adopting a reactive posture.

However, after quickly scanning their surroundings, they looked at each other, puzzled, and began to chatter amongst themselves, though it was unclear what they were saying.

"Master, they can't understand what you're saying at all," the little girl blinked, curiously looking at the giants with a slightly frightened expression.

Chen Xuan laughed and cried at the same time, "They really couldn't understand. The key point is that they completely ignored us. With our physique, we're not even as tall as their ankles. They really didn't take us seriously and subconsciously overlooked us."

“That’s right, we’re too small, like ants to them, they wouldn’t even notice us,” the little girl nodded in agreement.

Amidst Du Juan's slight amusement, Chen Xuan waved again towards the giants, saying, "Brothers, look over here!"

To attract their attention, Chen Xuan even picked up a piece of soil, shook it into powder, and threw it into the air.

In this way, the giants finally noticed the three of them on the road. They looked at them in utter astonishment, staring wide-eyed as if they had seen a ghost. Some even rubbed their eyes to make sure they were seeing things.

"Hey guys, how are you? Can you understand me? I'm new here, could I take up a little of your time?" Chen Xuan greeted them with a smile and a wave after they noticed him.

Immediately afterward, the giants looked at each other, and after confirming that they hadn't seen wrong, they started yelling and screaming, making noises that sounded like muffled thunder. Even the giants on the distant city walls were startled and stretched out their bodies to look in this direction.

Then the giants that Chen Xuan greeted charged straight at them, the ground trembling and rumbling with each step. They even abandoned their prey, as if afraid that if they were too slow, Chen Xuan and his companions would escape.

Soon Chen Xuan and his group were surrounded by a group of giants as big as small mountains. Some of them couldn't squeeze in and almost started fighting.

The giant in the inner circle crouched down, staring at Chen Xuan and his companions with wide eyes. It babbled in a language that Chen Xuan and his companions couldn't understand, pointing and gesturing with great curiosity, as if it had encountered something interesting.

Faced with these giants watching, the little girl hid behind Chen Xuan with a frightened expression.

Chen Xuan was both amused and exasperated; he had actually been surrounded by onlookers. These giants probably had the mentality of watching a monkey.

Silently, he used his true essence to create an invisible barrier around him, thus preventing the giants from spitting out their saliva. Good heavens, it was like rain; if he hadn't created this barrier, everyone would have been soaked to the bone.
These giants probably haven't seen normal people before. Regardless of whether they understand or not, Chen Xuan gestured and laughed, "Everyone, please don't be like this. Can we take a moment to talk? Hey, brother, why are you resorting to violence? That's not allowed!"

As Chen Xuan was speaking, a giant extended a pillar-like finger as if to poke them.

That won't do. Not only is it impolite, but Chen Xuan himself isn't their toy. Besides, Du Juan Su Roujia isn't allowed to be touched, not even by giants.

After all, they were barbaric giants who couldn't communicate, so they didn't take their rude behavior to heart and maintained their leisurely smiles.

Then the giant, whose fingers were about ten feet away from Chen Xuan and the others, was blocked by an invisible barrier of true essence, unable to get any closer. This only made the giant more curious, and he tried to break through the invisible barrier with all his might, actually competing with it... (End of this chapter)