Zhou Zheng couldn't describe the "star" in front of him.

It is dull, monotonous and extremely peaceful.

It is not a planet like Blue Star, nor is it a natural celestial body in the physics description of Blue Star as Zhou Zheng understands.

It is more like a collection of vast pieces of land, arranged into a nearly spherical polyhedron; it is more like a cemetery, the final destination of each plane and small world in this world.

"Zhou," Ao Ying whispered, "there should have been a large number of living beings in this world. I noticed that there are many traces of living beings left in the avenue here, and there are also many traces related to my dragon clan."

Zhou Zheng said: "Yingying, please feel a little tired. Carefully search for the remaining traces of the great road here."

"Yeah," Ao Ying nodded lightly.

Baihua said: "I don't have enough Taoism now, so I can't help you much, so just stay with Yingying. The emperor can just go and do business."

Zhou Zheng smiled and said: "I'm guarding you and you won't go anywhere... I've already asked the paper Taoist people to explore everywhere."

After saying that, Zhou Zheng found a relatively peaceful place in the darkness.

On a flat land, hundreds of square spirit stones were thrown down to cast the formation base, forming a closed spirit gathering formation for the three of them to practice. Several large shielding formations were also arranged around the perimeter to prevent anything from happening here.

Danger.

Looking in from outside the formation, this place is dark and lightless, no different from other areas.

Looking out from inside the formation, the sky and the earth seemed to have more colors. Fairy Baihua took out a square tower from her sleeve, while Ao Ying offered sacrifices to the ancestral dragon and the dragon ball.

Zhou Zheng couldn't care less about practicing martial arts with them, so he used several paper Taoists to explore the world inside and outside at the same time.

The old gentleman must have a deep meaning in sending him here.

The outer world is made up of thousands of pieces of land in total, and the outer world is wrapped with the extremely sophisticated method of Qiankun, which shrinks these lands a hundred times.

But even so, it would take an hour or two for a paper Taoist to cross a piece of land.

What's even more terrible is that the inner world is not just one layer. There are nine layers in total from the outside to the inside.

Zhou Zheng had to release two more paper figures and use his magical power to search the sky and observe the earth to record all the "information" everywhere, and then slowly sort it out in his heart.

Gradually, the whole picture of this world appeared in Zhou Zheng's heart.

Zhou Zheng also gave it a name - Jiuyuan Guiji Realm. The inner layer is also made up of pieces of land, and the gaps between the land and the land are the passages up and down.

At first, Zhou Zheng didn't know the significance of the existence of these gaps until he entered the innermost world made up of nine continents. When the paper Taoist looked back, those gaps revealed the accretion of black holes in the distance.

The faint halo of the disk.

Like some extremely dark stars.

The creatures who arranged all this, the creatures that once existed in this world, seem to have a yearning for the starry sky.

Zhou Zheng reorganized the paper Taoists into teams and investigated together from all levels.

He found traces of cities one after another on the outermost layer.

Yes, there are only traces left. In those areas where buildings once existed, only the remains of broken walls remain unclear.

Time has no other meaning here, its only function is to erase these traces.

Zhou Zheng used the paper Taoist to search among the ruins of these cities. He wanted to find evidence of the existence of living beings, but in the end he only found some metal-like fragments.

How did the creatures here finally disappear?

How did the world end up like this?

Why did Laojun send himself here in the eighth trial?

Zhou Zheng searched and kept searching.

Zhou Zheng soon discovered that the deeper the ruins were, the more traces they preserved and the more information they contained.

He soon focused most of his attention on exploring the ninth level.

After a few days like this, Zhou Zheng found a hidden temple ruins, and found the remaining spiritual energy in the temple that he had felt before.

It was an irregular pool with complex stripes on the bottom. These stripes extended outward and finally spread to the surrounding land.

Zhou Zheng looked astonished.

This is a great gathering of spirits.

All the heaven and earth were piled here and made into nine layers, gradually absorbing the last vitality of these heavens and earth, turning all the vitality into spiritual power, and gathering it in this pool.

"Was all this done before the death of all living beings, or after the death of all living beings?"

Zhou Zheng murmured to himself.

He was a little concerned about this and decided to explore in this direction.

Zhou Zheng could feel that the world was coming to an end step by step.

Back in the day, there was still a powerful ruler, and this ruler arranged the Jiuyuan Guiji Realm.

"The Romance of Fairy Wood"

The ninth-floor temple is completely preserved but empty, with no obvious intelligence points left anywhere.

After searching like this for several days, he finally found something.

——Zhou Zheng didn't even feel the obvious passage of time, but if calculated according to Blue Star's time flow rate, he did spend a few days.

It was a hidden temple under a cliff on a piece of land on the seventh level.

If you search normally, it is difficult to find the existence of this temple; but Zhou Zheng made some inferences based on the layout of the ninth-level spiritual pool, and found this temple that delivers spiritual power to the next level.

There are several murals in this temple that are so incomplete that the lines are almost unrecognizable. Zhou Zheng made constant calculations and successfully restored the contents of the murals.

He didn't know how to describe it for a moment, and he felt inexplicable sadness in his heart;

He soon realized that he seemed to have found the answers to some of the mysteries in his three realms.

"well--"

In the great formation of the surface world, Zhou Zheng let out a long sigh and opened his eyes almost simultaneously with Ao Ying and Baihua Fairy.

Ao Ying pursed her lips slightly, and two tears fell from the corners of her eyes.

Although Baihua Fairy didn't know what happened specifically, she took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and gave it to Ao Ying.

Zhou Zheng whispered: "Yingying, what did you see in the Dao Mark?"

"There used to be a dragon clan here," Ao Ying whispered. "The dragon clan is originally a chaotic creature, and the ancestral dragon is also considered an innate god and demon. However, he did not fight against the evolution of heaven and earth, but played some role in it, so there are

Many worlds are continued by dragon blood... I don't know how to describe what happened here, I feel disgusting."

Zhou Zheng asked: "How long will this world exist?"

"Only one-third of the current lifespan of our three realms," Ao Ying paused in her voice and sighed, "The strong men in this realm have gone crazy and so have the ones from my dragon clan."

"Why?" Baihua asked softly.

Ao Ying slowly began to tell:

"Since the birth of living beings in this world, the practice of cultivation has continued to rise, and an obsession has been planted in the hearts of all living beings - ascension."

"They continue to improve their life levels, which are somewhat similar to the ancient times of our Three Realms. However, the ancient wars they broke out were not intense enough, and a large number of extraordinary beings survived, which has become a fatal hidden danger."

"In the early days of ancient times in this world, the way of heaven, which had been brewing for a long time, tried to take over this world, but was directly destroyed by a group of extraordinary life forms."

"They set the rules of this world and created a new way of heaven, which directly began to affect the sea of ​​rules."

"But the act of intervening in the Sea of ​​Dao soon had backlash. The combination and arrangement of the Dao was the final order that was born after endless years of brewing in the Sea of ​​Chaos and countless trials and errors. One move affects the whole body."

"They messed up quickly, and the new way of heaven collapsed completely. This group of extraordinary beings created new ways of heaven several times, but in the end they failed to establish a truly selfless and desireless way of heaven. The world was completely dominated by living beings.

"

Zhou Zheng sighed: "There must be a balance between the way of heaven and the way of humanity. If either side is too strong, disaster will occur. But compared with the way of heaven losing its limits, the disaster of losing the limits of humanity is more terrifying. Human nature is greedy and has no limit."

"Well," Ao Ying whispered, "the extraordinary beings discovered early on that their endless lives require endless spiritual power to maintain. Eternity is a relative concept, but transcending this world is not easy."

"A worse situation will follow. Although the extraordinary beings know that if they do not stop plundering spiritual power, they will accelerate the demise of this world and make this prosperous age of living beings rapidly weaken, but there has been competition between them. Who can

They don’t dare to become weaker than other extraordinary beings.”

"So this becomes a vicious cycle. Extraordinary beings continue to plunder spiritual power. There is less and less spiritual power flowing in the entire world. Their competition becomes more and more fierce, and then they have to absorb spiritual power even more crazily."

"Although the world is vast, it has quickly become smaller due to the disorderly expansion of extraordinary beings."

"They broke out into a war. The continuous war shattered most of the world and consumed an incalculable amount of spiritual energy. By the time the final winner emerged, the world was in chaos and most of its life was extinct."

"This winner created this weird world beneath our feet."

Zhou Zheng sighed: "Let me tell you later, this winner has become the only true god in this world, and when he looks at this ruined world, he has made up his mind - he wants to transcend and leave here."

The corners of Fairy Baihua's eyebrows twitched slightly: "Then, where are the remaining creatures?"

"Let's call the final winner of this world the Dark God. This is more appropriate."

Zhou Zheng said slowly:

"The Dark God gathered all the creatures in these heavens and earth and established temples in various places. At the beginning, these heavens and earth were normal and scattered throughout the universe. But as the Dark God continued to extract the power of this world, the creatures

They are gradually running out of room to survive.”
To be continued...