The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

The endless void outside Guiyi City.

Several figures stood in the void above Guiyi City. Leading them were a young man in black robes and a one-horned man in blue robes.

Behind them, each was followed by a follower.

"Brother Qiyang, let's go too."

Lei Zhan watched as Nuwa, Feng Tong Ancestor, and the others gradually disappeared in their flying boat before turning his gaze away.

"Brother Guiyi, you're not taking Guiyi City with you?" A hint of surprise appeared in Emperor Qiyang's eyes.

“Let’s stay in this Blazing Sun Domain. We’ll come back eventually anyway,” Lei Zhan said with a shake of his head and a smile.

The Blazing Sun Domain is one of the eight major source domains and is a top-tier treasure land. Naturally, the presence of Guiyi City here also plays a significant role.

The Dharma Body that Lei Zhan left in Guiyi City also possessed 80% of his own strength. With the Dharma Body in Guiyi City, safety was naturally assured.

As for taking Guiyi City with him to explore the world...

With Canglan Star, that's enough for Lei Zhan.

After all, the power of Canglan Star is still faintly above that of Guiyi City. A crisis that even Canglan Star cannot solve will not be of much use to Guiyi City either.

"Hmm." Emperor Qiyang nodded slightly. "In that case, let's leave as well."

"Alright." Lei Zhan waved his hand, and a dimensional flying boat appeared instantly.

"A Realm Flying Ship?" Emperor Qiyang glanced at the Realm Flying Ship in front of him, but smiled slightly. "Let's ride on my warship instead."

"The journey is long and there are many dangerous places along the way. Although the Realm Flying Ship is fast, it is not as fast as my Quyang Warship."

"Huh? Quyang... warship?" Lei Zhan was taken aback.

“Yes.” Emperor Qiyang smiled. “When I asked Guiyi if you had a domain-boundary flying boat, it was only because I was worried that it would take you too long to return. As for going to those two ruins, it would be faster to travel there using my warship.”

Emperor Qiyang waved his hand.

"Rumble~~~"

Suddenly, a dark warship, its entire body protected by black fiery stones, tore through the void and appeared out of thin air outside Guiyi City.

This is a powerful warship similar to the 'Magic Elephant Stone Wall', and its aura is on the same level as that of the fortified Canglan Star and Guiyi City.

Similarly, it is one of the most powerful Sith treasures possessed by Emperor Qiyang.

"It really is a war machine comparable to Canglan Star?" Lei Zhan looked at the behemoth in front of him and his eyes lit up. "However, this warship is much more powerful than the interdimensional flying boat."

Ordinary rulers and emperors do not have domain-crossing ships and can only drift slowly in the endless darkness. It would take millions of Chaos Eras for them to cross from one domain to another.

However, the interdimensional flying boats can shorten this long period of time by billions of times. After all, interdimensional flying boats can easily traverse one interdimensional realm after another.

But the warship before them was even more terrifying and powerful. And this warship was originally designed as a weapon of war.

"If it weren't for this warship, and if I hadn't heard from you, I wouldn't have been able to reach this Blazing Sun Domain in just a few million years," Emperor Qiyang said with a smile.

"Using it to travel through time and space, and travel in the eight major source domains, even if you encounter some dangerous places, you can crush them directly, which will naturally make you much faster."

"Good. With Brother Qiyang's warship, our journey will be much easier." Lei Zhan smiled.

Although the Canglan Star and Guiyi City in his hands could easily tear through the space-time of the eight major source domains to travel, the consumption of each use was too great, making them less useful than the domain spaceship.

But a realm-bound flying ship, which rulers and lords of other universes dream of and yearn for, is nothing more than a small sampan in front of this warship.

"Let's go. Even if we take this Quyang warship, it will still take tens of millions of years to reach the nearest Supreme Ruins." Emperor Qiyang said with a smile, and then led the Lord of Qushan into the warship.

"Changli." Lei Zhan turned to look at the golden-robed emperor following behind him. "Let's go too."

"Yes." Changli Sovereign, the strongest among the followers, immediately nodded respectfully and then followed Lei Zhan into the black warship.

……

"Whoa Whoah"

The Blazing Sun Domain was like a convergence of countless flames, with its numerous stars resembling giant fireballs, dazzlingly bright.

A massive black warship easily crushed these fiery stars, traversing countless spaces, leaving behind enormous ripples in its wake.

On the deck of the massive warship, Lei Zhan and the Divine Emperor Qi Yang sat facing each other. In front of them were some food and drink.

"Return to One." Emperor Qiyang smiled and looked at Lei Zhan, asking curiously, "Since you are about to leave the Blazing Sun Domain, have you ever honed your skills and ventured within it?"

"Explore?" Lei Zhan revealed a wry smile. "Indeed, there are still many places in the entire Blazing Sun Domain that I haven't explored or honed my skills in."

"Oh? So, you mean, brother, you haven't met the Sith Lord yet?"

"The Sith Lord?" Lei Zhan's heart skipped a beat. "Indeed, I have never seen him before."

"I've heard that my cultivator civilization imprisoned six Sith Lords, and among the Sith Lords who were imprisoned and tortured, one is in the Blazing Sun Domain. Could it be..."

“Yes. Our route out of the Blazing Sun Domain is very close to the ‘Earthfire Continent’ where the Sith Lord was imprisoned and tortured,” said the Divine Emperor Qiyang mysteriously. “Would you like to go and see that Sith Lord? You’ll be amazed when you see him.”

"Surprised?" Lei Zhan smiled slightly. "Then let's go take a look. I've never actually seen the Sith Lord before!"

"I've heard that these Sith Lords have been imprisoned and tortured for countless years, yet they haven't been killed by the Supremes. They must be hiding many secrets."

Lei Zhan slowly sipped a glass of fine wine, but his eyes were fixed on Emperor Qiyang.

"Hmm?" Emperor Qiyang looked at Lei Zhan with some surprise and suspicion. "Do you know the secret behind this?"

"Hidden details?" Lei smiled slightly. "I suppose I know a little about it."

Lei Zhan's knowledge was rather one-sided, and knowing some information is one thing, but actually seeing a powerful being on the same level as the Supreme is quite another.

As they talked, with the terrifying speed of the Quyang warship, a vast continent appeared in the void ahead in just one day.

The mainland is vast, and you can't see the other side at a glance.

The warship 'Quyang' flew into the sky above this vast continent, and under the control of Emperor Qiyang, the warship continued to approach the place of confinement.

"Boom boom boom!!!"

Although the distance was far, Lei Zhan could already faintly hear rumbling sounds, and at the same time, he could see a faint glimmer of fire in the far distance.

As the warships flew closer at high speed, the sliver of fire grew increasingly bright and expansive.

This wisp of fire actually spread over a range of billions of miles, like a divine punishment, frantically suppressing the blurry figure at the very center of the fire.

The blurry figure sat cross-legged, its entire body radiating pressure as it resisted the endless flames.

"This is..." Lei Zhan's expression changed slightly. The more he looked into the endless field of fire, the greater the pressure became. At the core, there were constant explosions, and fireballs exploded on the blurry figure time and time again.

Moreover, the oppressive aura emanating from that blurry figure shocked Lei Zhan.

"This aura fluctuation... is indeed on the same level as the Supreme One." Lei Zhan secretly confirmed in his heart.

However, compared to when he received the Supreme Being's inheritance and sensed the aura of a Supreme Being's divine consciousness, the Sith Lord before him was a living, complete Supreme Being.

"It seems that Brother Guiyi does indeed know some hidden information." Emperor Qiyang had been keeping a close eye on Lei Zhan, and naturally noticed the knowing look in Lei Zhan's eyes.

"I've only heard that the Sith Lord is roughly equal in strength to the eight Domain Lords of the Origin Domain, but I've also vaguely heard some other news."

Lei Zhan said, "Now that I see it, the pressure it exerts on me is even stronger than what Brother Qi Yang gave me back then."

“Indeed, these Sith Lords are in fact supreme beings. However, they are all supreme beings of the Sith civilization.” Compared to some sovereign emperors and lords of other universes, Emperor Qiyang clearly knew more.

"Hmm." Lei Zhan nodded slightly. "Let's get a little closer."

Since we're coming, we should naturally get up close and see things more clearly.

"Get closer?" Emperor Qiyang reminded, "Alright, but the limit is ten million miles away from where the Sith Lord is. If we get any closer, it will be troublesome if the Sith Lord goes berserk."

“Ten thousand miles is enough,” Lei Zhan said with a smile.

As they spoke, the 'Quyang' warship approached at high speed. Looking out from afar, within the billions of miles covered by the firelight domain, there were other cultivators, some sitting cross-legged, others in wooden houses or small buildings.

They were all scattered around the 'Sith Lord', with the closest being tens of millions of miles away.

“They’re all rulers and emperors, and a very small number of Dao Lords. There are quite a lot of people.” Lei Zhan laughed. “I’m afraid most of the cultivators in the entire Blazing Sun Domain have come here.”

"The Earthfire Continent is quite famous, and many cultivators come here. Moreover, I have heard that the imprisoned Sith Lord... occasionally gives guidance to cultivators."

Emperor Qiyang laughed and said, "Although I am not the supreme being of our universe, my realm of Dao is still there, so I can still guide us sovereign emperors without any problem."

"Many practitioners have received guidance, which has helped them to perfect their path."

“Guiding cultivators…” Lei Zhan gazed at the blurry figure sitting cross-legged in the distance, “I can feel the torment this Venerable Lord has suffered since being imprisoned. Occasionally exchanging ideas with cultivators and guiding their practice, isn’t that a brief respite for him?”

Upon seeing this Sith supreme being named Doboo, Lei Zhan felt a strange sense of unease.

"Unfortunately... even the most powerful beings at the Supreme level have Dao hearts at the Perfection level."

Emperor Qiyang shook his head and sighed, "This Sith Lord was the first to be captured. But even now, so much time has passed since the ancient war, and this Sith Lord is still resisting. Not even one of the other Sith Lords who were imprisoned and tortured has survived."

"In the future, the Sith will make a comeback. The cultivator civilization will clash with the Sith here, but the difference in strength between the two sides will be like heaven and earth." Lei Zhan's heart sank.

He naturally understood the purpose of the Supreme Beings in imprisoning these Sith Lords, and he also understood the gravity of the situation.

"If it weren't for my ultimate path that allows us to merge with the Dao and achieve eternity... or even truly control this chaotic universe, our fate would probably be tens of millions of times worse than that of the Supreme Being."

"The Dao heart is perfected... and the Dao is eternally united."

Lei Zhan stood on the deck of the warship, his gaze deep and unfathomable, yet for the first time, he felt immense pressure.

Fortunately, it's not too late.

...(End of chapter)