My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 1167 - 843 Taiching Ruins_2

Chapter 1167: Chapter 843 Taiching Ruins_2

This confirmed Wang Zijia’s guess; not only had the entire world died, but even the Great Dao had collapsed, and all spirit mechanisms had vanished!

The dispersion of the extraordinary had turned once-spiritual objects into scrap metal!

A world completely dead and silent!

At this moment, Wang Zijia became the only exception in the stillness of these ruined ruins!

This weighed somewhat heavily on Wang Zijia’s heart.

Mainly, with the current situation, once the power he brought with him through the travel was exhausted, how would he recover?

In this withered world, with no creatures, no spiritual objects, would it even be possible for him to extract value from other items to convert into spiritual power?

But it was merely a heavy feeling.

At worst, he would just bite the bullet and return. After all, his previous trip to the Yaoshan Realm had confirmed that initiating death also allowed for return without affecting his main body’s safety.

And this time traveling through, though it seemed he had just arrived and obtained nothing, having experienced this journey and seen the historical trajectory of the next few decades was already the biggest gain.

Bearing a heavy yet not desperate heart, Wang Zijia kept flying towards Taiching Palace.

Along the way, he would always visit the Sect Ruins of the collapsed Floating Islands he encountered, trying to scavenge some treasures from the trash.

However, it was all in vain!

Apart from scrap metal, even if it was a cultivation methods secret book, with the destruction of the world and the dispersion of Tao and reason, the Dao Technique Inheritance coalesced by runes had become unintelligible books that shattered at a touch.

Instead, it was the pure information carriers of narrative books that, despite the erosion of time, some remained intact and could still be flipped through without damage if protected by spiritual power.

This made Wang Zijia think about how, after the End of Dharma in the Fifth Era, most of the things passed down from ancient times were such legendary stories.

Was it a similar situation?

The only difference was that now, it was the complete silence of the Great Dao, and all spirit mechanisms of inheritance had been wiped clean!

The Fifth Era was merely the End of Dharma, where the collapse of some Tao and reason made it impossible for certain inheritances to be passed on.

...

And so, Wang Zijia stopped and went intermittently, continuing toward Taiching Palace.

Along the way, besides ruins, there were skeletons, or beings devoid of any vitality, moving like machines that crumbled with a mere touch, and nothing more.

Because there were no sun or moon, Wang Zijia had no idea how much time had actually passed.

Roughly a fortnight or so, maybe, before he finally reached the area belonging to the Taiching Palace.

Had he not had ample cultivation, the mere horror of the darkness alone would probably have left him utterly helpless.

...

When Wang Zijia arrived at his destination, what he saw was a terrifying expanse of continental land, scattered across the ground like a gigantic Island.

Yes, scattered!

The Floating Continent clusters of the Taiching Palace used to be the highest and largest in the magnificent heavens.

Now, they all had fallen onto the Divine Land below, causing severe fractures in the land beneath and shattering many of the Floating Islands.

Even the Continent of Taiching had shattered.

Luckily, the original Taiching Continent cluster was protected by a fearsome array, and even though it fell due to the world breaking apart, the spirit mechanisms had a process of dispersal.

Hence, the Floating Islands must have descended slowly and finally crumbled completely when they could no longer bear their own weight, leading to their splitting apart upon falling to the ground.

They lay in a few pieces, all lying silently in their place.

If not for this, the descending of all the Floating Islands from the sky would probably have scattered like asteroids hitting the Earth, forming countless craters!

"Whew..."

Looking at the ruinous expanse of land in front of him resembling an Island, Wang Zijia took a deep breath and floated up.

Inside, he was actually a bit apprehensive.

Flying onto the land, the once terrifying protective array was nowhere to be found, and without any identity verification, Wang Zijia floated up onto it.

Wang Zijia hovered in the air, looking down below. Wherever his gaze traveled, there was nought but desolation and broken ruins.

Let alone the scene of spiritual plants everywhere and faint immortality mist, he did not even see a hint of living vegetation.

Seeing familiar scenes turned into ruins, Wang Zijia’s brow furrowed tightly.

In a moment, he arrived at the area that used to be Immortal Cliff Residence.

Looking down, the land that was once brimming with a hundred springs and a treasure land was gone, only mountains collapsed and debris littered everywhere.

Among them lay scattered and wandering skeletons.

As for who they originally were, Wang Zijia no longer knew.

After all, only the skeletons remained, and even the clothes and magic tools had been transformed into mortal objects as the spirit mechanisms collapsed, and the Dao Charm vanished, finally breaking down completely.

The bustling days were gone, leaving only silence.

Wang Zijia stood dumbfounded for a moment.

He was not a good person; he was more concerned with matters related to himself.

So, the extinction of the entire Divine Land did not impact him as much as the current ruins before him!

Wang Zijia searched through the ruins for a while, located several debris and remnants based on his memory, such as the main vein building complex, the dried-up Heavenly Pond, the collapsed and slanted Main Peak, and so on!

...

’What now? What to do?’

After searching fruitlessly and almost certain that the entire Divine Land had perished, Wang Zijia felt a bit adrift again.

’Should I go to West Qiang to take a look? Or should I return directly?’

’If everything here is like this, does the West Qiang entrance that connects to the Divine Land’s information network still exist? After all, the wonders there are all built on the foundation of extraordinary power!’

’Besides, the Inner Realm originally had parallel World’s Tombs, but they’re all turned into broken fragments.’

’So, is my journey to this future world just a month-long tour of an apocalyptic ruin? Simply to learn about the imminent destruction of the world?’