Chapter 777
After obtaining the Dragon Token, Ye Chu and Ye Jingyun hid in one location and did not return to Dragon City. Ye Chu and Ye Jingyun took turns channelling power into the Dragon Token.
Each time left both of them exhausted, but the Dragon Token was like a bottomless abyss. No matter how terrifying the spiritual energy Ye Chu surged into it, it could absorb it completely.
After Ye Chu depleted his spiritual energy several times, the Dragon Token finally became dazzlingly golden, unable to grow even a fraction brighter. This caused Ye Chu and Ye Jingyun to exchange a glance, their gazes falling upon the Dragon Token.
The Dragon Token was now suspended in the void, its golden light brilliant. As the golden light flickered, the Dragon Token actually began to crack.
The cracks caused Ye Chu and Ye Jingyun to clench their fists tightly, staring fixedly. The moment the Dragon Token exploded, a golden dragon shot out from within. This golden dragon was over a hundred metres long, incomparably massive, soaring through the void and weaving continuously through the clouds. The dragon’s roar shook heaven and earth, and its brilliant golden light attracted countless people’s gazes.
The golden dragon’s tail swept about. Each sweep was like a thunderclap striking the void, causing the void to explode. It was shockingly powerful.
“Boom…”
After soaring for a while, the dragon suddenly sent its massive head crashing towards a spot on the earth. Where the dragon’s head struck the ground, a massive mountain peak there directly collapsed, transforming from a high mountain into a massive abyss.
The earth began to shake and tremble madly as if in an earthquake. As the earth shook, the ground began to churn, like waves, rolling in wave after wave. It was world-shaking.
The high mountains were directly buried underground as the ground churned, while the deep earth from below was churned up to the surface.
When the dragon’s tail also struck the ground, this wave-like churning became even more terrifying. The earth was directly turned upside down, shaking without cease.
And all the power churning the land emanated from the spot where the dragon had struck, as if it possessed the power of heaven and earth.
“Rumble…”
The earth continuously churned. As mountain after mountain was buried underground, the earth was gradually covered by yellow sand. The yellow sand spread in all directions at the speed of a howling wind. In a short time, wherever Ye Chu looked, there was only yellow sand.
“This…”
Ye Jingyun and Ye Chu stood suspended in the air, gazing at the boundless rolling yellow sand. Their hearts were filled with shock. Who could have imagined that the Dragon Token contained such immense power, capable of overturning the earth?
The yellow sand flew about, and with the howling wind, sandstorms were whipped up. The blowing wind caused Ye Jingyun to use her power to protect her entire body, resisting these sandstorms.
The yellow sand continued to spread in all directions. All the high mountains were levelled to the ground and buried beneath the earth. Everything was covered by the sand filling the sky.
The earth that had just been filled with green mountains and clear waters had become a desert.
“Ye Chu…” Ye Jingyun stood beside Ye Chu and swallowed her saliva. She could not even see the end of the desert. It was at least a hundred li away.
Ye Chu took a deep breath. He had not expected this situation either. Seeing the questioning gaze Ye Jingyun cast towards him, Ye Chu shook his head and said, “I also do not know how it became like this. Perhaps the Dragon Token is the key to unlocking this desert. You have studied ancient texts extensively. Do you know what place this is?”
Ye Jingyun thought for a while before answering, “In ancient texts, the only desert situated amidst green mountains and clear waters is Sand City. But that is merely a city from three thousand years ago. It no longer exists.”
“Sand City?” Ye Chu asked Ye Jingyun.
Ye Jingyun nodded and said, “Sand City is a small desert within the Mortal Realm. It is famous for being surrounded by green mountains and clear waters on all sides, and the most famous thing within it is Sand City itself. Because Sand City once produced a peerless expert. This peerless expert once attempted to charge down the path to Supreme Being, but failed, and then vanished without a trace. Sand City began to decline because of his disappearance. But Sand City’s disappearance was not due to abandonment after decline. Rather, according to legend, in the blink of an eye, everyone in Sand City died. Not a single person was left.”
“Not a single person left in Sand City?” Ye Chu furrowed his brows, thinking, what kind of expert would dare to massacre a city? After all, this was a city that had produced a peerless expert. Even if it had declined, it was still extremely terrifying. Moreover, the world did not know whether that peerless expert had fallen or not.
Apart from peerless experts and Supreme Beings, who would have the courage to commit a city massacre? But would peerless experts and Supreme Beings lower themselves to confront a declining city?
“Could it be baleful aura?” Ye Chu suddenly thought of a possibility. If it was baleful aura, then it could be understood. It would not be strange for nothing to grow where baleful aura passed.
However, if it could annihilate all cultivators in Sand City in a single night, this showed that the baleful aura absolutely possessed world-shaking terror.
“Bai Qingqing told me what level the baleful aura was. If my guess is correct, it is absolutely baleful aura that has mastered the rules.”
Thinking of baleful aura mastering the rules, Ye Chu took a sharp breath of cold air. Such baleful aura would absolutely be world-shaking.
“What are you thinking about?” Ye Jingyun suddenly asked Ye Chu.
“I am thinking, if this place is Sand City, why was it buried underground, and why does it need the Dragon Token to reveal it to the world again? Who exactly used their methods to bury it below?”
Ye Jingyun shook her head and said, “I am not certain whether it is Sand City. However, ancient texts also mention that some people guessed, according to legend, after Sand City was destroyed, that peerless expert returned to his homeland and buried the entire city upon seeing it.”
When Ye Chu heard Ye Jingyun speak like this, it made sense. With a peerless expert’s methods, he could indeed bury this entire continent. But if it was true, then the Dragon Token should have been left behind by him.
The earth was still rumbling, and the wind and sand howled without cease.
“Ye Jingyun, hurry!” Ye Chu suddenly shouted at Ye Jingyun.
“What is it?” Seeing Ye Chu suddenly become urgent, Ye Jingyun could not help but ask curiously.
“We must quickly find the original site where Sand City once stood. It may contain baleful aura. We must find it before others to obtain this thing.”
Ye Chu suddenly thought that many experts had probably already discovered the abnormal changes here and would soon rush over. If they did not obtain the baleful aura early, it would be difficult to obtain it by then.
Ye Jingyun also reacted. She pulled Ye Chu and landed on the yellow sand. Stepping on it, her legs sank in halfway up to her calves.
Ye Chu pulled Ye Jingyun and walked step by step on the yellow sand. Although walking in the yellow sand was difficult, for people whose strength had reached Ye Chu and Ye Jingyun’s level, it could not pose much danger.
“You say whether we go north or west, I… ah…” Ye Jingyun had just finished speaking when she suddenly screamed. Immediately, her entire body suddenly sank into the yellow sand. This caused Ye Chu’s expression to change greatly, and he suddenly reached out to grab Ye Jingyun, catching her clothes.