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Chapter 955 - 775: Time Capsule, A Letter Left by an Elder Brother?!

Chapter 955: Chapter 775: Time Capsule, A Letter Left by an Elder Brother?!

"It’s just that due to the world’s fragmentation, cultivation has also declined rapidly, having experienced a quick Dharma End, leading almost to the severance of the cultivation inheritance."

"Thirty years ago, when we first arrived, the people of the entire world, in an effort to combat the demon disaster of temporal sins, embarked on a rather peculiar path of heterodox Dao that integrates spirits into their bodies."

"Although this path is somewhat questionable, it has some merits, so we decided to tidy up the world while studying it."

"Who would have thought, thirty years have passed, and it has turned into the current situation."

"..."

As they chatted casually, they traveled quickly.

However, the destination seemed quite far from the canyon. After traversing an entire continent and crossing a sea, when they arrived on another landmass, Wang Zijia finally understood why it was called a broken world.

In the sky, countless abyss-like huge cracks were visible everywhere.

The land below was ravaged by various storms and occasionally, incredibly vast earth fissure canyons could be seen.

Remarkably, under such circumstances, this continent was not barren.

On the contrary, like wounds swarming with maggots, it was overrun with all kinds of bizarrely shaped mutant plants, among which were various demons mixed in.

Among them were even creatures of the void that, after being ravaged by void energy for a long time, had acquired the ability to survive in the void.

Here, to some extent, this place bordered the chaotic void outside.

The completely irrational demonic creatures were not afraid of Wang Zijia and his group at all. As soon as they sensed their presence, they charged toward them frantically, attempting to devour them.

Fortunately, it was evident that the seven people had been clearing this area for a long time, as there were no powerful void monsters left, so the ones they encountered along the way were easily dealt with by Zhang Junyong and the others.

As Wang Zijia moved forward, his expression grew more somber and asked, "Is this region gradually disintegrating and merging into the void?"

Zhang Junyong nodded and said, "The whole world was originally only about one-tenth collapsed, but that collapse completely broke the world’s balance."

"Unable to repair itself, it was gradually eroded by the void. After countless years, only that continent we came from remains intact. It’s an irreversible situation now, and the only solution is to move the people away."

"That’s also why we are so welcomed and almost revered as saints."

"Because their world is almost finished. Their cultivation system hasn’t produced any powerhouses capable of traversing the void, so they see us as their final saviors."

In other words, the world originally suffered great damage, has been decaying over the years, and is now on the verge of collapse.

At this moment, the actions of Zhang Junyong and his group suddenly slowed down as if they had arrived at their destination!

Wang Zijia followed their gaze and, right below, amidst the strange plants that filled the ravaged land of the earth fissure abyss, he saw a white jade-like group of broken buildings.

The overall style looked somewhat similar to the Dao Court’s Immortal Palace in the Core Area of Taiching, but it didn’t have that ethereal aura. Still, one could immediately identify the same stylistic elements.

The building complex was extensive. Zhang Junyong led Wang Zijia and the others down slightly and flew about two or three zhang high above the ruins.

Overall, it didn’t much resemble an ancient city or a sect, but rather like the clan land of an ancient cultivating family.

The closer they got to the center, the more they saw white jade squares. On the squares, there once stood towering white jade sculptures, but now all were broken, without a single one intact.

It seemed this place might once have had some peculiar belief, or was it simply from the period of the Fourth Epoch when the Divine Robes were not banned?

...

Among the ruins, on the jade stone, faint traces of fragmented text could be seen.

Most of the remnants used the characters of today’s Shen Hong, but in places that seemed to be used for sacrificial rituals, it was clear that Chinese characters were visible.

This was also why Zhang Junyong and his group speculated that the ruins dated back to the Fourth Epoch.

...

When Wang Zijia and his group reached the Core Area, they finally stopped at a place resembling the main ancestral hall of a family.

It was a very large courtyard, with jade-tiled courtyards, a high-tier structure.

The main gate was quite magnificent, with two jade dragons entwined around it like living creatures. Such a decoration on an ancestral hall left Wang Zijia somewhat dumbstruck.

Dragons were not common in ancestral hall decorations.

Inside the main gate was a vast courtyard, or perhaps better described as a square.

In the center of the square stood a huge broken sculpture, now only two jade feet remained erect, the upper half nowhere in sight.

From the remaining traces, it seemed that many members of the clan once frequently held ancestral ceremonies here.

Clearly, it was the main hall of the family!

Below the square lay the majestic structure of the ancestral hall.

Perhaps out of respect and reverence, the group landed in the courtyard’s square and walked towards the interior of the hall instead of flying directly in.

"Some ’Long Family Ancestral Hall’... hmm? Zhang Family Ancestral Hall?" Wang Zijia looked up at the plaque above the hall’s entrance as he read the words aloud.

Zhang Junyong, who was leading Wang Zijia and the others towards the hall, suddenly stopped in unison with the others.

"What did you say, Fellow Daoist Wang?" Someone immediately turned their head to ask, abruptly.

Wang Zijia pointed to the partially missing plaque above the hall and said, "If I’m not mistaken, it was originally inscribed ’Zhang Family Ancestral Hall."

"Really?" Zhang Junyong asked excitedly.

It wasn’t because he shared the Zhang surname; in fact, all seven people wore expressions of surprise. Even Qin Xianyu looked astonished at the