The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

The treasure hunt ended without any major incident.

Lei Zhan and his servants, along with many disciples of the Great Mo Academy, quietly returned to the Great Mo Academy only after the Treasure Competition ended.

At the end of the treasure-hunting event, I naturally witnessed the scene of Dragon God Daoist and Snow Dragon Daoist vying for the Universe Flowing Cloud Palace.

We also saw the scene at the end, where countless world gods and chaotic immortals frantically fought for the Heaven-Stealing Life-and-Death Pill.

Da Mo Yuan, Shui Lian Ju.

A magnificent palace floats on the water surface, which spans over a hundred miles.

Lei Zhan sat cross-legged inside the palace, contemplating a wooden carving with endless mysteries.

This wood carving was a treasure that Lei Zhan bought at the final treasure-hunting event.

This wooden carving contains a legacy of alchemy, which took nearly 50,000 cubic meters of chaotic spiritual liquid to create.

"This Flying Goose Dao Lord should be a Dao Lord who has reached the edge of the Dao Integration stage. With the help of the 'Nine Chapters of Flying Goose,' my cultivation of the Nine Origins Void will be much easier."

Lei Zhan held a palm-sized wooden carving in his hand. The carving depicted a handsome man wearing a Taoist robe.

Whenever Lei Zhan's gaze falls upon this wood carving, a wealth of information is conveyed from it.

"I will first cultivate within this Chenguang Treasure Palace for some years, and then leave the Great Mo Domain to venture into the endless territories." Lei Zhan thought to himself, "With this eternal magic treasure, I can easily maintain a time acceleration of ten thousand times."

As for my path of spacetime, I currently only have the Shattering Star Style and Annihilation Style; I haven't yet reached the strongest level..."

It is extremely difficult to comprehend multiple of the strongest paths.

And the ultimate path, which is even more powerful than the strongest paths... is even more difficult to comprehend.

……

Inside a spacetime teleportation array far outside the Great Mo Eternal Realm.

A man dressed in a golden Taoist robe, with scales on his forehead and an extraordinary air about him, had a somewhat gloomy expression. He was gazing into the distance toward the Great Mo Eternal Realm, lost in thought.

"Elder brother," Tianlong Daojun asked in confusion, "Could it be that you are still thinking about that disciple of Da Mo?"

"That little guy is very cautious. Even when he came out of the third floor of Wanbao Palace, he was with many disciples of Da Mo Academy."

Dragon God Daoist shook his head and said, "However, what I am thinking about is the Snow Dragon Daoist."

As for Da Mo's disciple, since he was able to produce nearly 130,000 cubic meters of Chaos Spirit Liquid, he must be deeply favored by Da Mo. There's no need for him to make an enemy of Da Mo Daojun for no reason.

The Great Daoist Master is renowned for his skill in divination. If something closely related to it were to happen, he could easily deduce some information.

Although Dao Lord Da Mo was also a third-step Dao Lord, his strength was far greater than his. For such a trivial matter, it was not worth offending such a powerful Dao Lord of life and death.

However, this time, Xuelong Daojun caused him a great loss. Given his temperament, he was naturally unwilling to swallow this insult easily.

“Daoist Xuelong…” Daoist Tianlong frowned. “Daoist Xuelong is currently on the mission of escorting treasures for the Dao Alliance, so it’s not appropriate for us to take action against him.”

“It is indeed inconvenient for us to take action, but…” A mysterious look appeared on the Dragon God Dao Lord’s extremely gloomy face, “At that time, among the other five major forces in the Endless Territory, there were always enemies who were not afraid of the Dao Alliance.”

"Hmm? Elder brother means..." Heavenly Dragon Dao Lord suddenly realized, but even he was very happy to see Snow Dragon Dao Lord suffer a loss without having to take any action.

……

Day by day, year by year.

Time passed slowly.

Lei Zhan walked out of Shui Lian Ju alone and headed towards the courtyard where Daoist Da Mo lived in the distance. This time, he was also leaving the Da Mo Domain.

As for the three servants, Su Qi, Wu Ming, and Yi Feng, they all stayed obediently inside the cave treasures they had built.

"Are you leaving the Great Mo Domain?" Daoist Da Mo asked, looking at Lei Zhan who had come to say goodbye.

"Yes." Lei Zhan nodded. "I have troubled Daoist Lord these days. I will remember your help."

Now, more than a hundred years have passed since the end of the treasure-hunting competition. During his more than two hundred years residing in the Great Mo Academy, the Great Mo Daojun has provided Lei Zhan with considerable assistance.

"These are all minor matters." Daoist Da Mo shook his head slightly. "You will eventually become a Daoist Master, and you will indeed need to venture into some territories. However, although you are strong, you must remember to be cautious."

“Yes.” Lei Zhan nodded. “I understand.”

There are naturally some terrible dangers in the endless chaos, and Lei Zhan is not so arrogant as to think that he can roam freely in the chaos with his strength. When he should be careful, he will not be arrogant.

"Go. Go." Daoist Da Mo waved his hand and said, "I hope that when we meet again, you will have become a Daoist of Life and Death."

Lei Zhan smiled and then left.

Watching Lei Zhan's departing figure, Daoist Da Mo seemed to be deep in thought.

"This fortification... has been with me for over two hundred years, yet it still remains somewhat difficult for me to understand."

"Truly a person of great fortune. The opportunities that Lei Zhan has encountered are probably far more numerous than those in the Myriad Gods Palace. The path of cultivation is fraught with danger; I wonder how far Lei Zhan will ultimately go..."

……

The spacetime teleportation array of the Great Mo Eternal Realm.

A black flying boat glided through the gray chaos and landed in front of this space-time teleportation array.

Wow~~~
The enormous black flying boat vanished instantly, and in the blink of an eye, two figures of cultivators appeared.

One of the cultivators was dressed in a black robe and appeared to be a handsome young man. The other was dressed in dark blue armor, tall and robust, exuding an astonishing aura of malevolence.

"Master, where do we go next?" Su Qi, the World God, asked Lei Zhan.

He had asked several times along the way, but even after arriving at the time-space teleportation array, he still didn't know his next destination.

"Let's go to the Cloud Tower Domain first." Lei Zhan looked around, where cultivators were coming and going around the space-time teleportation array.

Some had just arrived at this time-space teleportation array, while others had left the Great Mo Eternal Realm and were preparing to travel to other areas.
"Cloud Tower Domain?" World God Su Qi was taken aback, then obediently followed Lei Zhan and stepped into the teleportation array.

With Lei Zhan's wealth, he still has nearly 10,000 to 20,000 cubic meters of Chaos Spirit Liquid. Needless to say, he directly activated a separate spacetime teleportation.

Even though the Azure Sky Domain is very far from the Great Mo Domain, and the space-time teleportation alone requires nearly two thousand bottles of Chaos Spirit Liquid, it is still just a drop in the ocean.

"Buzz~~~~" Time distorted, and the entire spacetime teleportation array shone brightly, tearing through spacetime and sending the lives within the array directly to another distant spacetime.

Once everything calmed down, the space-time teleportation array was completely empty.

Wow~~~
Just then, a cultivator wearing a golden Taoist robe and with scales on his face suddenly appeared out of thin air.

Beside him stood a white-robed man with dragon horns on his head.

"Where were those two cultivators teleported to by the spacetime teleportation array?" The golden-robed cultivator looked at the ancestral gods and immortals who were responsible for maintaining the spacetime teleportation array.

The casual glance he gave these cultivators seemed to contain boundless majesty.

These cultivators, whose cultivation was merely at the level of Ancestral Gods and Ancestral Immortals, suddenly felt as if they were facing an incomparably terrifying and astonishing existence.

"Go, go to the Cloud Tower Domain." The leading Ancestral God replied stammeringly, his eyes somewhat vacant.

"Yunlou Domain? That's the territory of Daoist Yunlou." The golden-robed cultivator muttered to himself, "The Chaos Spirit Liquid that can directly produce spacetime teleportation arrays, and comes from Da Mo Academy, must be a disciple of Da Mo Academy. But what would a disciple of Da Mo be doing in Yunlou Domain? There are no special relics in Yunlou Domain."

"Brother, that Snow Dragon Daoist has fled towards the Cloud Tower Domain..." the white-robed man with dragon horns on his head reminded him.

"Snow Dragon Daoist... he has hardly any opportunity to interact with the disciples of this Great Mo." The golden-robed cultivator shook his head, too lazy to even think about it.

Given his status, it's impossible for him to pay attention to a cultivator at the World Realm level, especially since the cultivator isn't his disciple.

suddenly.

"Hmm?" The Dragon God Daoist frowned, and with a flick of his sleeve, a cultivator appeared beside him.

The cultivator exuded the aura of the World Realm, and was also dressed in a golden Daoist robe, looking quite elegant, with scales on his cheeks as well.

His appearance was very similar to that of the Dragon God Daoist before them, and could even be said to be of the same lineage.

"Yinlong? Why did you suddenly bring out this disciple, Elder Brother?" Tianlong Daojun looked at the young man who appeared in front of him, puzzled.

"Yinlong, just now you said that the cultivator who was teleported earlier was the World God you met in the Myriad Gods Palace who was very likely to walk the strongest path?" Dragon God Dao Lord looked at World God Yinlong with a solemn expression.

His disciple, Yinlong, the World God, bore a striking resemblance to himself in his youth. Therefore, the Dragon God Daoist was quite fond of this disciple.

Not only did he bring it with him during the treasure-hunting competition, but now that he is about to leave the Great Mo Domain, he also has it following him closely.

"Reporting to Master, this disciple can confirm it." World God Yinlong nodded and said, "This disciple has a deep impression of World Gods whose strength is comparable to that of a Dao Lord. Just now, when Master noticed him, this disciple observed the outside world through the cave treasure and was also very certain that they were the same person!"

"The same person..." Dragon God Daoist pondered. "Inside the Chongyuan Hall, he took away three treasures. Yinlong can confirm that among them are the Sky-Piercing One Heart Boat capable of unleashing a hundred times the speed of light, and the mid-grade eternal magic treasure, the Myriad Gods Armor..."

"To be able to kill nearly a hundred World Realm cultivators, he must possess quite a few treasures. Perhaps the one competing with me for the Chenguang Treasure Palace at the Treasure Tournament is also this World God..."

The Dragon God Dao Lord hesitated greatly. The Myriad Gods Palace was a Dao Lord's relic that Dao Lords feared, but he knew a little about the treasures that existed in some famous places within it.

His disciple, Yinlong, the World God, had his secret instructions given to him when he ventured into the Myriad Gods Palace.

After all, he coveted many treasures in the Palace of Ten Thousand Gods. For example, the Sky-Piercing One Heart Boat could instantly burst forth at a hundred times the speed of light; it was an incomparably precious flying boat magic treasure.

Whether it's fleeing for your life or traveling, even if you want to buy from the Dao Alliance, the price is simply astronomical!
Even if it appears, it will be bought by other Dao Lords who have been watching it closely, and there is no way it will be available to him, the Dragon God Dao Lord.

And then there's that Pantheon Armor. Armor and magical treasures are already incredibly precious, and even he doesn't own a mid-grade eternal armor.

Even the Eternal Low-Grade Armor I'm wearing now is a treasure I obtained at great cost back then.

It should be noted that although the Dragon God Dao Lord is a third-step Dao Lord, his actual strength is quite ordinary.

Normally, he wouldn't want to offend the powerful Daoist Da Mo for no reason. But...

"These treasures are all very precious, even those fourth-step Dao Lords on the verge of Dao Integration are extremely envious. It's just that the Myriad Gods Palace is too dangerous, making the Dao Lords dare not trespass without permission." The Dragon God Dao Lord's expression was uncertain as he considered the gains and losses.

"But the treasure is now right before my eyes. If I can get my hands on it... with the Sky-Piercing One Heart Boat, even if Dao Lord Da Mo comes in person, he won't be able to catch up with me."

A spaceship capable of instantly reaching a speed a hundred times faster than light is extremely rare.

It's important to understand that those Dao Lords on the verge of achieving Dao Integration generally have a speed of around five times the speed of light. Those who can reach ten times the speed of light are extremely rare.

As for a hundredfold increase, that's a speed that only incredibly powerful Dao Lords could possibly achieve.

Even in the entire endless territory, there are very few Dao Lords of Life and Death who can achieve this speed.

"Elder brother?" Tianlong Daojun looked at Longshen Daojun and slowly understood the cause and effect. "That is just a World God. Although he has walked the strongest path, he is at most comparable to an ordinary second-step Daojun. I estimate that even I can directly suppress him. Would Damo Daojun feel at ease entrusting these treasures to this World God?"

In the endless realms, even bound by a life-bound oath, it's not uncommon for masters and disciples to turn against each other for an incomparably precious treasure. Not to mention this treasure that even a Four-Step Dao Lord would covet.

"If one walks the path of the strongest, it is easy to break through and become a Dao Lord of Life and Death. Since Da Mo is willing to release him, he will not go too far."

Dragon God Daoist shook his head and said, "We can give it a try. Even if this disciple of Da Mo hands over the treasure, at least to appease him, we'll let him keep one item..."

As he spoke, Dragon God Daoist looked at Heavenly Dragon Daoist and said, "Are you willing to make a move? If we get the treasure, as usual, we'll split it in half."

This "half for each person" doesn't just include treasures.

The risks involved, as well as the pursuit and killing by Da Mo Dao Jun in his anger, are naturally shared equally by each party.

"Half for each of us?" Tianlong Daojun paused for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

Although it sounds slow, the communication is actually completed in an instant.

Even when preparing to fight, both Dragon God Dao Lord and Heavenly Dragon Dao Lord subconsciously shielded themselves from the Yinlong World God and the countless cultivators around them.

Everything was agreed upon quietly.

"Then we won't go to the Azure Sky Domain." Dragon God Daoist glanced at the dazed Ancestral God. "Open the spacetime teleportation array and teleport us to the Cloud Tower Domain!"

“Cloud Tower Domain? Yes!” Although the Ancestral God was frightened by the Dragon God Dao Lord’s gaze, he had no power to resist a Three-Step Dao Lord.

Without even realizing it, the ancestral god skillfully activated the space-time teleportation array, followed by a "buzzing" sound.

Time and space are distorted.

The entire formation once again shone brightly, and the torn space-time instantly sent the lives within the formation directly to another distant space-time.

...(End of chapter)