Looking at the murals on the stone walls, Xiao Chen could naturally tell with his eyesight that the strange beasts that looked like ancient mountains were absolutely ominous existences.
What made him even more terrified was that the human martial artist that had appeared was tens of thousands of feet tall. His strength was absolutely terrifying. This kind of battle physique had already surpassed the scope of his understanding of the Human Race's battle physique.
Even if a martial artist experienced a tribulation of the body, the Sky Towering Battle Physique would increase their battle physique. Even if Xiao Chen increased his battle physique by ten times, it would only be a few thousand feet tall. Combined with his full strength, he might be able to escape from the hands of a supreme king!
However, a battle physique that was tens of thousands of feet tall had definitely broken through the limits of the battle physique realm. It had undergone another transformation, and perhaps it had the battle strength of an emperor realm powerhouse!
Xiao Chen walked forward, moving deeper into the stone path. The murals on both sides of the stone walls didn't just depict a great ominous beast.
On one of the murals, an incomparably huge True Dragon and a Nine Heavens Kunpeng were fighting. The two strange beasts were just too huge. Just a single dragon claw of the True Dragon was bigger than a mountain.
As they fought, the stars fell, the sun and moon pierced through. It could be said to be earth-shattering and heaven-shaking. The entire continent was shattered. The two strange beasts were fighting, even breaking through the spatial barrier, revealing the appearance of a river of stars. After that, the two strange beasts broke through the invisible barrier and fought their way into the endless starry sky.
"Divine Spirit!"
Xiao Chen was horrified. Just looking at the description of the painting made him feel an inexplicable shock. Perhaps the strange beasts in the painting were the legendary first generation of living beings born between heaven and earth. Perhaps they could also be called Divine Beasts.
The Divine Spirits of the Wasteland didn't just refer to Divine Beasts. There were also some Spirit Trees that had taken form, mountain gods that were formed from the energy of the mountains, and gods that were born from the convergence of the five energies. They were all born from the birth of heaven and earth. Naturally, they were incomparably powerful and were called Divine Spirits.
"This is …?" Just as Xiao Chen looked into the depths of the stone path, his pupils shrank.
It was an undamaged human corpse. It could even be said to be lifelike. Due to the presence of divinity, there was no sign of decay on the body. However, there was no sign of life.
When Xiao Chen looked at the clothes, he realized that this corpse had existed for quite a long time. This was because he could not tell which era the beast robe on the corpse's owner was wearing.
Even so, the corpse looked as if it had just passed away. Its face was serene, and there was even a hint of a smile at the corner of its mouth, as if it had been satisfied in its dream.
Then, Xiao Chen looked up and saw that there were also several human corpses lying on the ground.
None of them had the slightest bit of vitality. Furthermore, the beast robes that these cultivators wore were all different. Clearly, they were not cultivators from the same era.
However, Xiao Chen found that these cultivators had one thing in common. All of them had serene expressions, and there was a smile at the corner of their mouths. Clearly, they had been deprived of their lives unknowingly.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Chen could not help but feel a chill run down his spine. The appearance of these people before they died was exactly the same as when he had fallen into the illusion.
Becoming a god!
The temptation of a god could really make people lose their minds!
If he had not resisted the temptation of becoming a god, he might have stayed here forever like these corpses in front of him.
Of course, with the protection of the surrounding divinity, the corpses did not decay. They could be considered a different kind of immortality!
The stone path was very long, extending all the way to the depths of the abyss. It was like an earth dragon. Xiao Chen bypassed these corpses and headed deeper into the abyss. At this moment, he wanted to know the secrets behind this place even more.
These corpses obviously did not succeed in passing the test. The reason why he could wake up from the illusion was that he did not agree to become a god. He always remembered that he was a human.
These failures said so because they could not resist the temptation of the mysterious figure, or the temptation of becoming a god, so they disappeared.
This seemed to be getting more and more interesting. The master of the Spiritual Abode was obviously a human, but he was using the desire to become a god to lure the cultivators in.
According to Xiao Chen's speculation, this mysterious person should have cultivated divine power, but he was an orthodox human. Obviously, there was a secret that he did not know. The fact that the human could cultivate to become a god was absolutely beyond his understanding.
Moreover, looking at the surrounding murals, Xiao Chen also found that although the humans in these murals were different, without exception, they all had very strong bodies that could fight with exotic beasts.
When he entered this mysterious space, his Battle Qi was sealed, and his Spiritual Strength was limited. He could only rely on his Battle Physique.
However, three years ago, the mysterious person said that the test was to promote him to the Nine-story Pavilion Realm. Now that he thought about it, it seemed that the mysterious person deliberately misled him. If he had abandoned the cultivation of his Battle Physique in order to obtain the inheritance and cultivated Battle Qi alone, he would not have been able to enter this place today.
Everything in this space was a test of one's physical body. In the three-year agreement, he only set a promise to cultivate his battle qi to the 9th legendary realm. He didn't mention anything about the cultivation of his physical body. This was definitely a big trap for him!
Along the way, the paintings engraved on the stone walls on both sides reappeared, but this time, they were the experiences of the young child from before. Without exception, the young child who was saved from the jaws of the strange beasts by the human race experts all those years ago began his own path of martial arts.
Similarly, he cultivated his Battle Physique and fought with exotic beasts. At the beginning, his Battle Physique was only about ten feet high. Slowly, he grew stronger and stronger, and his Battle Physique was also constantly increasing.
When his Battle Physique was a hundred feet high, he fought with the exotic beast Four-winged Sky Tiger that was a thousand feet high. When his Battle Physique was a thousand feet high, he fought with the Two-winged Flying Dragon and directly swept the flying dragon to the ground with his tyrannical strength.
When his Battle Physique was three thousand feet high, he fought with a Dark Phoenix in the Netherworld. In the end, he killed the Dark Phoenix that had the bloodline of the Phoenix.
When his Battle Physique was five thousand feet high, he bathed in the blood of a ten thousand feet high flood dragon in the sea. In the end, he skinned the flood dragon and pulled out its tendons. He drank its blood and tempered his Battle Physique with the dragon's blood!
When his Battle Physique was ten thousand feet high, he even appeared one after another great beasts from the Desolate Antiquity Age. These great beasts were extremely terrifying, such as the Nine-headed Nether Snake, the Great Spirit Ghost Chariot, and the Nine-colored Chongming Bird. According to the legends, these were foreign races that could fight with Divine Beasts.
On both sides of the stone walls, there were many scrolls engraved, displaying extremely terrifying scenes. A battle physique that was ten thousand zhang tall, capable of tearing the sky apart, shattering mountains and rivers. In the Desolate Ancient Forest, in the depths of the Insightful Emptiness World, he continuously fought against strange beasts, tempering his martial path.
There were even battles with alien races in between. However, all of them were easily defeated, whether it was the demon race, saint race, or other races.
"He killed the Saint Race Old Ancestor Heavenly Saint at the Huai River Great Lake. 32,000 years have passed since the Desolate Antiquity Age."
Xiao Chen stood in front of a giant engraved scroll, faintly distinguishing the characters carved into the bottom of the scroll. These characters were simply far too ancient.
The Desolate Antiquity Age was the human race's era calendar. But now, humans had already occupied the Desolate Antiquity for an innumerable amount of time. Even if one were to calculate according to the number of eras, it had already been tens of thousands of eras.
An era was 129,600 years. Tens of thousands of eras was an extremely terrifying period of time.
The vicissitudes of time were enough to obliterate everything. Thus, in the Desolate Antiquity Age, apart from the most ancient records of the human race's ancestral court, which continued to use the Desolate Antiquity Age, the vast majority of human military divisions rarely used this method.
The first year of the human era was when the Ancient Desolate Human Emperor established the Human World. In other words, this mysterious person was born hundreds of thousands of years after the Ancient Desolate Human Emperor.
In the first human era, the human race was not so peaceful. Not long after the gods disappeared, great beasts of the Desolate Antiquity Age wreaked havoc across the land. There were endless natural and man-made disasters. The chaos of the human world lasted for dozens of eras before gradually subsiding.
Moreover, the human race's reproduction over these years was not smooth sailing. Although they occupied the entire divine land of the human world, there were still times when they were attacked by hundreds of races. They had no choice but to retreat and live in a desolate region.