After flying thousands of miles at low altitude, Zi Chen finally found a building that was not weathered. It was a stone house, not very tall. There was a faint light of energy flowing on the surface of the stone house. This was a seal to prevent the stone house from being weathered.
After getting closer, Zi Chen sensed energy fluctuations and life fluctuations in the stone house.
"There is someone, there is someone." Zi Chen, who had already given up hope, rekindled hope in his heart.
Someone has the resources, and with the resources, the trial road will be much easier. Although I can’t say that I can pass it 100%, at least I will have a little more chance of survival.
Zi Chen landed, and the wild dragon also landed not far away. Zi Chen pushed the door open and was dumbfounded for a moment.
This room is not big. Apart from the stone table and two stone benches, there is only one stone bed. The breath of life is on the stone bed, but it is not a human being. To be precise, it is not a truly complete human being. It is a skeleton with the fire of life.
This is a humanoid skeleton, lying quietly on a stone bed. There are only dry bones left in the skeleton, without a trace of flesh and blood around the body. The source of life is a ball of soul fire that is no larger than a fist in the opponent's skull.
The soul fire burned, emitting weak life fluctuations, and seemed to be sleeping. Just after Zi Chen pushed the door open, the other party seemed to sense something. The soul fire burned more vigorously, and the breath of life also became richer.
Zi Chen was stunned when he walked in and saw this scene. He did not expect to see such a scene.
A spiritual thought spread from the burning soul fire. This spiritual thought was extremely high in nature, but it was extremely weak at the moment. Zi Chen could completely erase it. The spiritual thought swept around Zi Chen's body, and then asked with confusion: "You are the tester."
The pronunciation of the other party is very ancient, but through the fluctuation of spiritual thoughts, Zi Chen can sense the meaning of the other party, so he nodded and said: "Yes, I have just arrived at Yijiu Ancient Road. I have consumed a lot of resources before, and I want to exchange some resources here. .”
After saying that, there was bitterness on Zi Chen's face. The other party looked like this, and it was obvious that they did not have the resources to exchange it for him.
The soul fire in the skull became stronger. He, who was a little confused before, seemed to be completely awake. He was suddenly startled, and then made a voice of exclamation: "Trialist, it is indeed a trialist. I have been waiting for you. Trialist, what did you say just now? You only walked the Nineteen Ancient Road to get here."
Zi Chen nodded and said: "Yes, it is Yijiu Ancient Road, the first trading place, but it seems that I arrived late."
"Yes, you are late. There is no one here anymore. They are all gone. They are all gone." The voice coming from the soul fire also became sad.
"I saw many weathered buildings before. Were people living here originally? But they have all left. Where did they go?" Zi Chen asked.
"This place used to be an extremely prosperous ancient road. Many trialists would arrive here to exchange resources. But then there was a problem with the ancient road. No trialists entered for thousands of years, and it gradually declined. In the end, the people here The resources were no longer enough to sustain everyone, so they all left on the ancient road." Soul Fire transmitted the message.
"What about you? Why don't you leave with them?" Zi Chen was confused.
"I am the guardian of this ancient road. It is my mission to stay here and serve the trialists. If I also leave, this ancient road will be completely abandoned."
The skeleton's answer filled Zi Chen's heart with admiration for him. He became like this because of the exhaustion of spiritual power and loss of life.
"Young man, you are the only trialist who has arrived here in these years, and you are the only trialist who arrived here on 19th. I will give you a choice now, a special choice."
"Special choice." Zi Chen was puzzled.
"Yes, it is a very special choice, and it is also a great opportunity. The ancient road is extremely long and full of dangers. If you come here a little later, I might dissipate naturally. In the following ancient road, there are still many dangers. I can't guarantee whether there are any surviving guardians. If there are not, it means that you have lost resources. Your trial trip on the ancient road will be more dangerous. In this case, it will be good if you can save your life. It is undoubtedly a dream to break through to the human realm."
"Now you have an opportunity in front of you to leap into a dragon, allowing you to break through to the human realm in one fell swoop. As long as you stay and guard here, I can make you break through to the human realm immediately."
"I will stay here forever. Sorry, I can't agree." Faced with this great opportunity, Zi Chen did not hesitate at all and immediately rejected it.
The temptation to break through to the Human Yuan Realm is indeed great, but the price paid is also too high for Zi Chen to bear. Zi Chen can imagine that even if he breaks through to the Human Yuan Realm, he will just wait for death here silently as if he were dealing with it.
"You don't need a lifetime, just a thousand years. If you stay here for a thousand years, I will use the privileges of the guardian of the ancient road to improve your cultivation. During these thousand years, you can fully understand this realm carefully without affecting your ability at all. Potential, after a thousand years, you can choose to leave."
Zi Chen has been practicing for only a hundred years. A thousand years is too far away, and he has been staying here for a thousand years. Zi Chen can afford it, but he is afraid that others can't afford it. Wang Xianer's life and death are unknown, as well as Lin Xue and Su Mengyao. It is very likely that he will come to this trial area, so Zi Chen should rush to Wujiu Ancient Road as soon as possible to wait.
It's great to break through to the Human Yuan realm, but unfortunately, this is not Zi Chen's ultimate pursuit.
Zi Chen did not hesitate and decisively refused the temptation.
A low sigh came from the soul fire: "Well, I won't force you. I don't have any extra resources to give you in exchange. There is only a pot of old wine under the bed. You can just take it."
Zi Chen indeed found a bottle of wine from under the bed. There was still energy fluctuation on it, and it was obviously in a sealed state. Zi Chen thanked him: "Thank you, senior, for the gift. I wonder how I can help senior."
Soul Fire let out a bitter smile, "After staying here for so many years, even I have forgotten the years, tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years. I have long been tired of it. Now that I wait for you to come, I have completed the task. It’s gone, there’s nothing here anymore, and there’s no need for it to exist anymore.”
"You go, after you leave, this area will disappear forever." Soul Fire sighed.
Zi Chen nodded, his eyes filled with admiration, and then he bowed deeply to the Soul Fire, and when he bent down, a ray of light shot out from the Soul Fire and fell on Zi Chen's eyebrows.
Zi Chen didn't notice this scene. After bending down and bowing, Zi Chen took away the pool of wine. Being able to seal it for such a long time, this thing was obviously extraordinary. No matter how bad it was, it was better than Hou'er wine.
"When they left, I once warned them that people can leave, but some things must be left behind. This area will no longer be opened, and it is useless to ask for those things. You go look for them. If you find them, take them all." That’s it.” Just as he was about to close the stone door, Soul Fire transmitted his voice again.
"Thank you, senior, for informing me." Zi Chen thanked him again and then closed the stone door.
After that, Zi Chen walked towards the weathered ruins in the distance. He was afraid that Manlong Mao would be careless and damage things, so Zi Chen signaled Manlong to follow him in the air.
Walking to a ruins, Zi Chen waved his sleeves, and the weathered dust was rolled up. The dust was scattered in all directions. At the bottom of the dust, Zi Chen found something.
It was a jade bottle with a seal. The seal was still in good condition. After Zi Chen picked it up and opened it, he found that there were actually five treasure pills placed in it. The quality was very extraordinary.
Zi Chen was happy when he found the harvest, and then he began to hunt for treasures in the ruins.
During this period, Zi Chen successively discovered pills to restore energy, resources to restore strength, including spirit fruits and essence liquids, and finally Zi Chen discovered special wine.
This drink was of a higher grade than the drink in the tavern at the beginning. Zi Chen took a sip and felt burning in his stomach, like a fire, and a surge of power.
Zi Chen praised the good thing and then began to refine it. After that, his power bottleneck that had not been transformed for a long time was actually loosened a little.
After a while, Zi Chen opened his eyes, and a bright light flashed in his eyes: "The breakthrough to the seventh level of power is just around the corner."
After almost all the ruins were swept away, and his strength was raised to its peak state, Zi Chen set foot on the ancient road to leave. Before leaving, Zi Chen bowed to the stone house from a distance, and then walked away on the dragon.
"I don't know if my ancient clan is still in the world, let this little guy go and find out." Zi Chen left, and a sigh sounded in the stone house, and then the whole area began to tremble.
The area was shaking even more violently, as if the world was moving, and amid the violent shaking, the world was off its ancient path.
This is the oldest ancient road, and the current ancient road forces cannot detect it at all, so even if an ancient road disappears, they will not be able to detect it.
Leaving the Yijiu Ancient Road, Zi Chen set foot on the first ancient road among the Erjiu Ancient Road.
"Peng."
As soon as he arrived here, before Zi Chen could see his surroundings clearly, he was hit by a huge force.
Under this blow, he and the wild dragon instantly flew backwards.
The one who knocked them away was a tall creature, comparable to a mountain peak. When Zi Chen saw the other person, for some reason, the first thing that appeared in his mind was Sophie, the guardian of the ancient road.
This creature is almost as tall as the other creature, just as majestic, and so powerful and terrifying.
Zi Chen got up from the ground, the dragon soul gun appeared in his hand, and not far away, the wild dragon was also ready to fight.
Afterwards, one person and one dragon rushed towards the tall creature, firing powerful attacks continuously.
Zi Chen's attacks were extremely sharp and terrifying, and could leave a deep wound on the tall creature every time, but the opponent was too huge, and the mere injuries did not affect his performance at all.
The confrontation with the tall creature took half an hour. It took half an hour for the two of them to kill each other.
And the consumption of the two of them was also extremely huge.
But before the two of them could breathe a sigh of relief, they felt the earth tremble. Under his gaze, Zi Chen saw a group of moving peaks.