Infinite transcendence began with Covering the Sky.

Chapter 296 The Calamity of Man in the Dark
The seven golden cities lie across the universe, their entire bodies seemingly crafted from gold and stone, radiating countless celestial rays and draped with streaks of silver.

Qi Zhe, clad in armor and wielding a stone staff, stood proudly in the starry sky, while the stone horse beneath him traversed the starry expanse, circling the great city before departing.

Nothing under this starry sky could stop Qi Zhe. Many alien geniuses who were sitting cross-legged in the void outside the city did not stop him, simply because Qi Zhe could not be stopped.

But just then, a loud shout suddenly rang out from the starry sky: "Are you leaving? Then why not fight me!"

This person appeared out of nowhere, suddenly speaking and arriving in front of Qi Zhe, his eyes filled with fierceness and boundless fighting spirit.

He was incredibly powerful; his body shimmered with celestial light, almost causing the Great Dao itself to resonate with him. His towering figure seemed indestructible, enduring through countless eons.

"boom!!"

But the only response he received was a palm strike. Qi Zhe flipped his palm and struck out, splitting the sky. With just one strike, the opponent was sent flying straight towards the ancient city, his entire body cracking.

The seven golden cities trembled as a result, the endless Milky Way ceased to flow, and celestial light flickered continuously before slowly recovering after a long time.

"Cough cough!" The man looked astonished, his face full of disbelief, watching Qi Zhe leave, his face full of desolation.

"We all lost, including me."

Many people looked at him and were overwhelmed with mixed feelings, because this was not the first time such a scene had occurred, and they had just arrived and had not seen him before.

Many people who came here for the first time had challenged Qi Zhe on the ancient star before, but many of them could not even withstand a single blow and were simply no match for him.

This is just another repetition.

"He embarked on the later part of the ancient mythical path, and his next reappearance may be before the final imperial pass. It's uncertain whether he will even be able to reappear."

"Beyond this city, there is no more land of life or trial grounds. The desolate universe is filled with corpses, and even a Great Sage would find it difficult to cross!"

Many of the prodigies lingering outside the Seven Golden Cities suddenly realized that few could reach the end of the road after crossing the Seven Golden Cities.

This is because this road was never prepared for trials. The latter part of the ancient road was where the ancient Heavenly Court suppressed rebellions, and there were even forbidden zones moved by the Emperor.

To this end, the Emperor built giant cities along the way and selected powerful cultivators from all races to become divine generals, stationed along this road.

The mythical battlefield left over from the mythological era is located there, and its deepest part even contains the relics of the emperor's attempt to become an immortal, a place where immortals were once seen.

After each cataclysm, not a single intact star remained there, only boundless void and enormous skeletons.

Many people watched Qi Zhe enter the place, seeing him ride the stone horse into the darkness and disappear into a place where there wasn't even a glimmer of starlight.

Darkness, boundless darkness, the most difficult test of the Mythical Ancient Road was right in front of Qi Zhe. Looking around, the entire starry sky seemed to be dead.

Life has vanished here, more silent than the desolate frontier of the universe, and an incredibly terrifying aura pervades the place, making even saints tremble with fear if they ventured even slightly deeper.

The stone horse trembled beneath Qi Zhe, its face contorting in a violent change. It raised its head and stammered at Qi Zhe, "This place is so eerie, perhaps..."

It started to back down, feeling it shouldn't have intruded, and couldn't help but try to carry Qi Zhe away, causing Qi Zhe to frown.

"It's truly bizarre. In the desolate wilderness of the deep universe, perhaps even the Great Dao has been obliterated."

Qi Zhe stopped the stone horse's movements, his eyes scanning the dark starry sky like two divine lamps, his heart filled with shock.

He felt that a fierce battle must have taken place here, perhaps the very place where the former Emperor, attempting to ascend to immortality, was attacked by a coalition of Emperors. As far as the eye could see, there wasn't a single star, not even a single object that could emit light; even light couldn't spread very far within this place.

At this moment, he truly felt the meaning of the two supreme beings fighting in the depths of the universe, even obliterating the Great Dao, perhaps just as tragic as what he was seeing before him.

Fortunately, Qi Zhe was still able to discover some clues. There were coordinates left in the void, guiding the lost to the other side.

Qi Zhe reached out and parted the void, discovering a wrecked warship drifting within, its bow always pointing in one direction.

"Let's go, keep going forward." Qi Zhe waved from his horse, directing the stone horse to follow the direction the bow of the boat was pointing, gradually disappearing into the darkness.

This universe is vast and almost endless. As Qi Zhe walks through it, he constantly discovers skeletons along his path.

Some of these remains have turned to white bones, with all flesh and blood gone. These corpses have been there for at least tens or hundreds of thousands of years, and would have been extinct if not for the presence of sages.

Some are very fresh, having died only 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, while others died just decades ago, their bodies still remarkably lifelike.

"They were all people who ventured into this field in the past, and the least of them had the cultivation of a Saint King. How could they have died on the way?" Qi Zhe asked, somewhat puzzled.

It's hard to say whether this path is correct, because the deaths of these people were all bizarre, as if they committed suicide, their bodies lying in the starry sky with no one to collect them.

In less than three months, Qi Zhe got the answer: ahead of this road lay an ancient corpse, as magnificent as a galaxy.

It has long since turned into a skeleton, dead for countless years, but its skeleton remains intact. A single finger bone is enough to crush a star field and shatter the stars.

This was the largest skeleton Qi Zhe had ever seen, resembling a supreme being skinned alive and lying here, exuding an eternal imperial might.

Qi Zhe managed to block the overwhelming imperial might with the help of the Longevity Temple, his expression showing a hint of astonishment as he remained silent in the universe.

Qi Zhe then exclaimed in surprise, "Are these the remains of an emperor? But how could an emperor die here? He might not have even attained enlightenment yet!"

He could feel the overwhelming imperial might, but as a prodigy who emerged from the Big Dipper, he felt that this person should not have attained enlightenment yet, otherwise he would not have died here.

Qi Zhe measured the skeleton repeatedly, and after scanning the entire skeleton from the infinite heights of space, he discovered that the person was human.

He was a male of the Human race, whose skull was pierced at the top, and he died countless years ago at the hands of a true supreme being.

Now, traces of his Dao remain in his remains. After careful examination, Qi Zhe discovered that he possessed a trace of divine beings, somewhat similar to a divine body.

"A divine body from countless ages ago? It was a supreme being of the divine race." Qi Zhe suddenly realized that the battlefield of mythology was littered with the corpses of ancient ancestors of various races.

Not only are the bodies of the Holy Ancestor buried there, but all beings in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths who have already attained or are about to attain the Dao have fought there, and all those who died were supreme beings.

This person must have been an ancient ancestor of the gods, or perhaps he was still a human at that time, not yet independent from the human race.

But Qi Zhe was also somewhat surprised. The mythical battlefield was extremely different, with the most powerful laws in the world intertwined. This was clearly not that battlefield.

Such a peerless figure lies dead here, perhaps he was ambushed and killed on his way back to his hometown, and died just before he was about to attain enlightenment.

"This might be a calamity for humanity."

I'm done finishing, so tired!
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(End of this chapter)