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Chapter 120: Jiang Fushan, unable to leave the Southern Regions

Twilight descended over the Desert of Death.

The people of Spine Mountain had already gathered around a bonfire.

Even Old Li, who had been searching for gaps in the formation, had returned to the main group.

After all, the demonic dragon guarding the place was dead!

There was no sign of the life-threatening Heavenly Thunder descending anytime soon.

With plenty of time to find a way out through the formation's cracks, everyone relaxed considerably.

Jiang Yifeng was generous, instructing his father Jiang Fushan to distribute dozens of pounds of dragon meat for everyone to roast and eat.

He himself held a few hundred pounds of roasted dragon meat, gnawing on it voraciously.

As the dragon meat went down, Jiang Yifeng clearly felt his earlier exhaustion quickly replenished.

Moreover, through the devouring power of his Taotie Divine Body, he felt his Martial Dao cultivation improve after digesting all the dragon meat.This was no surprise to Jiang Yifeng.

After all, he had fought so hard to kill the demonic dragon, partly to satisfy his appetite.

But more importantly, he wanted to use the Taotie Divine Body to enhance his Martial Dao cultivation by eating dragon meat.

Three months passed in the blink of an eye.

During this time, Jiang Yifeng hadn't moved an inch, eating continuously for three whole months.

A demonic dragon several thousand feet long was finally reduced to just one dragon leg by him.

Of course, his gains from eating this way were immense.

His Martial Dao cultivation had directly advanced from the fifth level of Semi-Saint to the eighth level of Semi-Saint.

Such a speed of improvement was simply unimaginable.

It far surpassed the rate of Martial Dao advancement in any of his previous simulations by hundreds of times.

However, after reaching the eighth level of Semi-Saint, the effect of eating dragon meat on his cultivation had significantly slowed.

Jiang Yifeng thought this was normal.

After all, the demonic dragon's cultivation was at the ninth level of Tribulation Crossing.

His current Martial Dao level, the eighth level of Semi-Saint, corresponded to the eighth layer of Tribulation Crossing in the Immortal Dao.

He was only one minor realm away from the demonic dragon.

At this level, it was reasonable that eating more dragon meat wouldn't result in rapid improvement.

Since he could no longer improve quickly, Jiang Yifeng decided not to eat the remaining dragon leg.

No matter how delicious the food, eating it continuously for several months would make anyone sick of it.

Besides, Jiang Yifeng thought the dragon meat's taste was just average.

At that moment, Jiang Yifeng noticed the dragon egg in his storage ring.

He licked his lips, thinking it was time for a change of flavor.

Half an hour later, the fragrant steamed dragon egg was ready.

After savoring it carefully, Jiang Yifeng gave an honest evaluation.

The dragon egg tasted better than the demonic dragon meat.

No wonder it had a higher-grade Dragon Clan bloodline.

After finishing the dragon egg, Jiang Yifeng's strength did not improve as he had expected.

However, shortly after, he seemed to feel his blood momentarily turn golden.

Jiang Yifeng was taken aback.

Could his bloodline be changing?

Was he being assimilated by the Dragon Clan bloodline, turning into a dragon-man?

Thinking of this, Jiang Yifeng quickly examined himself.

But after a thorough check, he found everything normal.

His blood was still bright red.

The earlier sensation seemed like an illusion.

This made Jiang Yifeng breathe a sigh of relief.

Although he thought being assimilated by the Dragon Clan bloodline might enhance his strength, he still wanted to remain human.

After finishing the dragon egg, Jiang Yifeng brushed off the sand on his body, looked at the people waiting for him in the distance, and smiled.

"Sorry to keep you all waiting!"

In fact, the formation gap in the Desert of Death had been found by Old Li and others two months ago.

But because Jiang Yifeng was busy eating dragon meat to enhance his strength, no one had left.

After all, if Jiang Yifeng didn't leave, Jiang Fushan naturally wouldn't either.

And the two of them were the strongest among the group.

No one knew what dangers awaited after leaving the Southern Regions.

Everyone knew that following the strong was the best choice.

So, it wasn't that others didn't want to leave; they were just considering their own safety.

Without saying much, Jiang Yifeng called out to everyone and headed towards the formation crack at the bottom of the Desert of Death.

Soon, everyone entered the crack one after another, leaving the Southern Regions.

After everyone had left, Jiang Yifeng and his father Jiang Fushan stepped towards the formation crack together.

But the next scene left Jiang Yifeng horrified.

He saw his father Jiang Fushan's figure gradually blur and seem to dissipate as he approached the sealing formation.

Jiang Fushan also looked puzzled as he observed his own transformation.

But soon, his ears twitched as if he heard something.

His puzzled expression gradually faded, replaced by understanding.

Finally, before completely disappearing, Jiang Fushan smiled at Jiang Yifeng and said,

"Feng'er, keep going!"

With that, Jiang Fushan's figure completely blurred and vanished.

At this moment, Jiang Yifeng was in a daze.

Seeing his father suddenly disappear, Jiang Yifeng felt a surge of sorrow, his eyes moistening.

But he knew he was just in a simulation.

He kept reminding himself of this.

After taking a deep breath, Jiang Yifeng forced himself to calm down.

He began to ponder what was happening.

Why did this happen?

Wasn't his father supposed to attract the attention of Immortal Realm experts only when he was about to ascend?

Jiang Yifeng couldn't understand why this was happening.

Suddenly, he muttered, "No, something's wrong!"

He realized that there was no giant hand or foot covering the sky this time.

So, his father's disappearance shouldn't be due to an expert's intervention.

But what was the reason?

Why did his father dissipate just as he was about to leave the Southern Regions?

Was there some other force preventing his father from leaving?

Jiang Yifeng couldn't think of an answer. He felt there must be a lot of information he hadn't yet uncovered.

He kept this matter in mind and stopped thinking about it.

Finally, he stepped into the formation crack.

As the saying goes, misfortunes never come singly.

Just as Jiang Yifeng stepped into the formation crack and entered the Dragon Tomb, he sensed something was wrong and exclaimed,

"WTF, a void storm!"

Although Jiang Yifeng had never seen a void storm, he had read about it in the Immortal Dao inheritance.

He believed what he saw was indeed a void storm.

So, Jiang Yifeng turned and ran, trying to escape back to the Southern Regions through the formation crack.

Unfortunately, it was too late!

When he crossed through the formation crack, he had already entered the void storm.

At this moment, he was being swept away by the storm, unable to move freely.

He could only drift in the storm until death or until the void storm dissipated on its own.

After struggling for a while, Jiang Yifeng let out a bitter laugh.

It seemed this simulation was about to end again.

However, Jiang Yifeng didn't give up completely. He began to use the void storm to temper his body.

He thought that even if the simulation was about to end, any improvement was still an improvement.

At this moment, he also pondered the cause of the Dragon Tomb's collapse and the resulting void storm.

This time, there was no expert intervention, no one ascending, yet the Dragon Tomb still collapsed.

Suddenly, Jiang Yifeng seemed to realize something.

Chapter C121: Talent 'Eye of the Heavens' triggered

He felt that all of this might be related to the Demonic Dragon and that dragon egg.

Perhaps if the Demonic Dragon died and the dragon egg was gone, the Dragon Tomb space would collapse.

Jiang Yifeng believed that his hypothesis had at least a ninety percent chance of being correct.

This time, it was Jiang Yifeng himself who killed the Demonic Dragon and ate the dragon egg.

In the previous simulation, the dragon egg was devoured by the Demonic Dragon, but in the end, the Demonic Dragon was captured by a powerful being from the Immortal Realm, seemingly extracting something from it.

It was highly likely that it had already died.

In both simulations, the conditions of the Demonic Dragon's death and the dragon egg being gone were met.

So, the Dragon Tomb space collapsed, causing a void storm.

However, in previous simulations where he had visited the Dragon Tomb, the Demonic Dragon was fine, the dragon egg was safe, and the Dragon Tomb space did not collapse.

Therefore, Jiang Yifeng was almost certain that the collapse of the Dragon Tomb space was related to the Demonic Dragon and the dragon egg.After figuring it out, even though his body was still being attacked by the void storm, Jiang Yifeng's mood eased a bit.

He felt that although this simulation was about to end, it had paved a way for the future.

He already knew the reason for the collapse of the Dragon Tomb space.

In the next simulation, he wouldn't make the same mistake again.

Afterward, Jiang Yifeng stopped thinking about it and focused entirely on resisting the void storm.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

Jiang Yifeng was on the brink of death.

He knew he didn't have much time left.

So, he steeled his heart and used the Taotie Divine Body to swallow a large amount of the void storm.

In an instant, Jiang Yifeng's body was torn apart.

But he didn't die immediately; his Nascent Soul escaped from his body.

At the same time, Jiang Yifeng triggered his Random Enlightenment talent.

He seemed to sense the fury of the wind and grasped a sliver of the Law of Wind.

But this enlightenment came too late.

Soon, Jiang Yifeng's Nascent Soul was also shredded by the void storm.

At the moment of his death, a giant eye appeared out of nowhere in the chaos, overlooking everyone.

The appearance of this giant eye caused the strong beings in the Nine Mystic Realm, the Immortal Realm, and even many distant realms to be on high alert.

Everyone was extremely vigilant.

At this moment, Jiang Yifeng's consciousness appeared above the giant eye.

He understood that he was already dead.

This must be the one-time talent "Eye of the Heavens" triggered by the simulator!

He knew he only had three days.

So, he didn't hesitate and began to try to control the Eye of the Heavens.

Soon, he discovered that he couldn't move the giant eye, but he could control its perspective.

However, Jiang Yifeng felt that this was enough.

He began to use the Eye of the Heavens to observe the entire world, wanting to see the world's true face.

He also wanted to know the situation in the Immortal Realm, the Nine Mystic Realm, and the Southern Regions.

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Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

[Ding, deep simulation ended!]

[You died at the age of 63.]

[This simulation has ended!]

[You can exchange for two rewards from this simulation: Pill Dao Saint Hand (Talent), Divine Dao Cultivation, Ninth-Grade Formation Master, Demonic Dragon Meat (1000 kilograms), True Meaning of the Killing Dao (Great Accomplishment), Law of Wind (Beginner).]

[Pill Dao Saint Hand (Talent)]: Price 1000 origin values.

[Divine Dao Cultivation]: Price 20,000 origin values; Note: Includes Immortal Dao Cultivation (Tribulation Crossing Realm First Level) and Martial Dao Cultivation (Half-Saint Realm Eighth Level).

[Ninth-Grade Formation Master]: Price 100,000 origin values.

[Demonic Dragon Meat (1000 kilograms)]: Price 10,000,000 origin values. (Note: Demonic Dragon Meat with a trace of True Dragon bloodline.)

[True Meaning of the Killing Dao (Great Accomplishment)]: Price 1,000,000 origin values.

[Law of Wind (Beginner)]: Price 100,000 origin values.

Jiang Yifeng's consciousness returned to reality.

He didn't have time to look at the simulation rewards.

At this moment, his mind was still filled with the scenes he saw with the Eye of the Heavens in the last three days.

During those three days, Jiang Yifeng saw the entire Nine Mystic Realm.

Just as Bai Moyu had said before, it was shattered.

Now, outside the Southern Regions, there was still war everywhere.

The cultivators of the Nine Mystic Realm had not given up.

They were still fighting against the people of the Immortal Realm in various places.

Jiang Yifeng also learned that outside the Dragon Tomb was indeed the Northern Regions, but it was already a desolate wasteland.

In those three days, Jiang Yifeng didn't see any human figures there.

In the Western Regions past the Forest of Ten Thousand Swords, Jiang Yifeng saw that some people from the Nine Mystic Realm were still struggling to hold on, fighting fiercely with the people of the Immortal Realm.

Lastly, in the Eastern Regions past the Valley of Flames.

It couldn't really be called the Eastern Regions; it was more like the Great Wilderness.

Jiang Yifeng confirmed that Bai Moyu was right, the Eastern Regions no longer existed.

It had been severed and moved to the south of the Southern Regions.

However, perhaps because the Eastern Regions had been severed, Jiang Yifeng saw that the Great Wilderness outside the Valley of Flames was relatively safer.

Although there were battles there too, they were much more subdued.

Besides the situation around the Southern Regions, during those days, Jiang Yifeng also used the Eye of the Heavens to see many farther places.

What he saw was beyond his imagination.

He didn't know what kind of world this was.

It was filled with bloodshed, violence, and war everywhere.

And the culprits behind all this were from the Immortal Realm.

The Immortal Realm was not only invading the Nine Mystic Realm, but its people were also invading other realms simultaneously.

The strength of the Immortal Realm was even greater than Jiang Yifeng had originally imagined.

But how strong it was, Jiang Yifeng still wasn't sure.

After all, the Eye of the Heavens didn't give him the ability to discern strength, and his original Eye of Insight had its limits.

He couldn't see through powerful beings, not even those like Shen Wutian, who was a half-step powerful being.

Of course, seeing question marks was proof of great strength.

But the Eye of the Heavens only allowed him to see for three days.

To avoid wasting time, Jiang Yifeng didn't check each individual's strength.

After recalling the information he gathered with the Eye of the Heavens, Jiang Yifeng couldn't understand why the Immortal Realm was doing this.

They weren't just invading the Nine Mystic Realm; they were invading many other realms as well.

However, Jiang Yifeng thought this might be a good thing for him.

After all, the Nine Mystic Realm wasn't fighting alone.

If there was a chance to unite the other worlds invaded by the Immortal Realm, it would undoubtedly form a powerful force.

At this moment, Jiang Yifeng remembered what Bai Moyu had said, that the powerful beings of the Nine Mystic Realm had all betrayed them.

In the end, he shook his head and mocked himself.

"If our own people can betray us, what good is it to unite with outsiders?"

Jiang Yifeng stopped thinking about it. He felt that strength was the key.

Improving his own strength was the true path.

So, he turned his attention to the simulation rewards.

Since this was a deep simulation, Jiang Yifeng already mastered the Ninth-Grade Formation Master, True Meaning of the Killing Dao (Great Accomplishment), and Law of Wind (Beginner), so he didn't need to exchange for them.

The only things left were talents, cultivation, and Demonic Dragon Meat.

Actually, Jiang Yifeng had anticipated that Demonic Dragon Meat would appear in the rewards.

He had deliberately not eaten it all in the simulation to see how many origin values it would require for exchange.

If it wasn't too expensive, he would choose the Demonic Dragon Meat.

After all, this stuff could be used not only by himself but also by others.

And it could be reused in future simulations.

Unfortunately, it was too expensive.

In the end, Jiang Yifeng made his choice.

"I choose Pill Dao Saint Hand (Talent) and Divine Dao Cultivation."