All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 1017 - 273 Silver Mountain Core (4600)

Chapter 1017: Chapter 273 Silver Mountain Core (4600)

The Taixu Divine Power activates.

The gloomy and pitch-black barren wilderness suddenly transformed into a landscape of undulating mountains and a snowfield covered in white frost. In the bright sunlight, an abandoned floating fortress in the sky was slowly moving, while in the forests among the mountains, blue phosphorescent mists, almost substantive and of high-density Spiritual Fiend, pervaded the area.

The barrier between worlds was breached, directly descending a region from one world into another, intertwining and merging the two worlds.

Such divine power caused the Spiritual Fiend between heaven and earth to boil in an instant, transforming into waves of icy blue Yuan Qi, spreading in all directions like a tidal wave.

"Set off!"

After a brief silence, the various groups stayed in Chonggang Town—comprising hundreds of teams from different academies and corporations—surged like the Great River, resembling schools of fish rushing toward various directions along the waves of Yuan Qi.

Inside Chonggang Town, the announcement of the Four Cities Competition Committee kept repeating: [Remember, friendship first, competition second]

[All teams, the ranking will be determined by the number of Void Nodes activated. All gains acquired within the Ancient Immortal Ruins, including Power of Great Void, Spiritual Fiend essence, Heaven and Earth True Gang, and other strategic resources belong to the individual. If assistance is needed, contact the committee via the Spirit Ruins Jade Pendant to exit the competition]

[The competition will not be timed. The first scoring occurs when all teams activate three thousand Void Nodes, and the second scoring at twelve thousand nodes...]

Few people listened to the committee’s repeated announcements; the majority surged out as soon as the barrier lifted.

The Ancient Immortal Ruins were perilous and mysterious. This time, they had descended into a region within the interior of the [Autumn Frost Sky Window]—a snowfield mountain range enveloped by icy mountains and forests, named [Silver Mountain Core]. This was an entirely unfamiliar core area of the ruins, often frequented with Dao Courtyard era puppetry and post-era Spiritual Fiend Exotic Beasts.

Under normal circumstances, teams would be extremely cautious in exploring such ruins. However, given the current atmosphere, with ’Power of Great Void’ and other resources previously sealed in strict secrecy—difficult even for large families to obtain frequently—these dangers had long been cast aside.

Everyone rushed forward, fearing to lag behind, as falling back meant falling behind endlessly.

But An Jing didn’t need to rush and naturally wasn’t in such a hurry.

He stood on the city wall of Chonggang Town, watching the sky as groups of people summoned flying shuttles and various flying escape artifacts, pouring outwards like a blanket covering the sky. He slightly shook his head: "At least try to look up."

Just as expected, an anomaly appeared in the heavens the moment the teams surged out.

With the ’abandoned floating fortress’ in the sky suddenly lighting up with Spiritual Light and Formation Patterns, the icy blue mist rapidly condensed. Amidst the minus forty degrees Celsius, with winds growing colder, countless ice crystal spears formed and then rained down like water on the foremost teams of the competition.

Caught off guard, the leading teams immediately used Art of Magic to defend. These ice crystal spears were not very powerful, only Foundation Establishment level, easily blocked by various means. However, the ice spear shower was endless and unimaginably vast, quickly breaching the defenses of some squads. Several were injured, pierced by spears and forced to retreat awkwardly.

And only then did a neutral voice with authentic Dao Courtyard inflection resonate across the heavens and earth.

[Central Core Area prohibits speeding flight]

"The central area’s Dao Courtyard Great Formation is still operational!"

"How come there was no intelligence on this before!"

Shouts of anger and surprise arose one after another. Clearly, due to their misconception of the Ancient Immortal Ruins’ outskirts, most people hadn’t imagined that the Dao Courtyard Great Formation and its associated rules could still be enforced here.

At the beginning, blood was spilled, with some even gravely injured, necessitating the use of a Jade Pendant, to be teleported back to the Tianyuan Realm by Great Void Techniques, forced to abandon the competition.

Suddenly, all the boisterous, reckless teams had to obediently land and slow down—although they suffered due to a lack of intelligence, they learned from the hardship of seeing others’ mistakes, at least for now.

Only then did people realize that the ’mountains’ in the snowfield were not natural mountains. They were massive, jagged, sharp-edged, and their peculiar shapes and inclined angles completely defied the natural laws of mountain formation. Moreover, their arrangement was so orderly, plainly unnatural, rising and falling, responding to each other, resembling a super giant Array Plate spread across the ground, magnified by a thousand or ten thousand times scale.

Those genuine academy and corporate teams didn’t rush to depart; they were patient in their observations and preparations, even bringing out equipment to document the form and layout of these ’mountains’.

Clearly, they not only had prior intelligence but also extra tasks at hand.

After the forward teams retreated, the automatic defense system did not pursue. In Chonggang Town, a True Person stationed there couldn’t help but sigh: "Indeed, it’s still up to the young. For us True Persons who already have heavenly imprints and are aligned with the Great Void, it probably wouldn’t be a warning but direct frost tribulation thunder striking down."

An Jing heard these words.

And behind him, Zhang Zhuo and Xu Yue were casting Art of Magic, releasing drones to slowly ascend and observe the situation, while Nian Quan’s eyes flickered. His Spiritual Pupil was Water Element, perfectly suited to the current environment, allowing him to discern many details: "Look, this snowfield and forest all comprise ’Evil Creatures’ that grew afterward. The true form of those mountains... is beyond imagination!"