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Chapter 533 The Strange Events Finally Appear, the Gray Era Begins

This world is incredibly prosperous, far surpassing the Nine Heavens and the Boundless Heaven. The land beneath our feet is enveloped in an aura of immortality that seems almost tangible. The vegetation is lush, the mountains are magnificent, and the substances that promote longevity are abundant.

But... when Qin Tian looked up, the horizon was empty, and there was no World Tree, which he remembered as supporting the world and nurturing the chaotic stars.

Qin Tian muttered under his breath, "There's no World Tree!"

"This also means... that this is not the core of the alien world."

"It seems that the alien realm also suffered in that great purge!" Qin Tian said calmly.

The Immortal Realm disintegrated into countless fragments of the world, returning to the state before liberation. Naturally, this great realm of the Otherworld could not escape this fate either.

The Immortal Emperor's Breath can destroy entire realms and absorb massive amounts of spiritual energy, making it quite fair.

As Qin Tian walked through this foreign land, the laws governing the world were crystal clear, and the air was filled with the pure spiritual energy of immortal herbs.

"It seems there are no living beings here!" Qin Tian walked for a long time but still couldn't find a single sign of human habitation.

Only occasionally do broken weapons and armor pieces, still gleaming with runes, be unearthed from the earth, proving that a great battle had recently taken place in this land.

But they couldn't find even a single corpse, which gave Qin Tian a bad feeling.

"Is it because this realm is too vast... or has something changed in this realm?!" Qin Tian touched the corner of his eye, and in the next instant, his double pupils opened and closed, revealing the ultimate mystery of time and space, and a layer of light of time was hazy in his pupils.

He looked back and saw endless fire and chaos.

A protracted war once broke out in this world.

The two forces fought a fierce battle with heaven and earth as their battlefield. One was bathed in celestial light, incomparably dazzling and sacred, while the other was surrounded by black, ominous matter, extremely eerie.

That battle was earth-shattering, with countless lives fighting and bleeding. Every now and then, enormous corpses would fall from the sky, crashing into the earth and causing the mountains and rivers to collapse.

"Creatures from the Immortal Realm and beings from other realms!" Qin Tian saw the beings enveloped in immortal light and sensed the power of rules within them that was similar to that of the Immortal Realm, thus recognizing their identities.

"How could beings from the Immortal Realm appear in another realm?" Qin Tian frowned slightly. Ever since the Desolate Emperor single-handedly severed all ages with his sword, traveling through the Boundary Sea had become an extremely difficult task.

Even a Celestial King, without accurate coordinates, would get lost in the Boundary Sea, lost in that chaotic world of time and space.

Qin Tian recalled the Perfect World, and a flash of inspiration struck him: "That's it, the alien realm of the Chaotic Ancient Era was the defeated one."

"But that doesn't mean they are weak."

"If it weren't for the emergence of a King-level expert who became an Emperor out of nowhere during that battle, it would be uncertain who would have won between the Immortal Realm and the Other Realm."

After all, in the context of the Great Reckoning, the alien realm, as a dark fortress and vanguard, has the advantage of home ground and is allied with the Quasi-Immortal Emperor on the other side of the Boundary Sea.

Without the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, there would only be one outcome for the Great Cleansing of Chaos.

That is, the Immortal Realm shattered, its essence was plundered by dark creatures and used to exchange for the Immortal Emperor's scriptures, the Boundary Sea returned to calm, and the next era began.

"Therefore, the Immortal Realm has always been very wary of these dark creatures." Qin Tian's thoughts were surging.

"This batch of beings from the Immortal Realm should be the jailers sent to this realm by the Immortal Realm in the past!" Qin Tian looked at the beings from the Immortal Realm led by True Immortals.

"Responsible for guarding the creatures of other lands and preventing them from turning to darkness again."

Qin Tian sighed, "It's just a pity that the Immortal Emperor's breath came too suddenly."

"It caused the heavens to collapse... The Immortal Realm would have difficulty even protecting itself, let alone bringing back the Immortal Realm creatures from other realms."

"Later, the Desolate Emperor single-handedly severed the ages with his sword, dividing all realms and making it difficult to find his trace. Even if the Immortal Realm were to retake the alien realm, it would be of no use."

Qin Tian watched as this protracted battle raged on, with stars falling from the distant sky and slowly disintegrating in the aftershocks of the fight.

The beings of the Immortal Realm are far more powerful than those of other realms; after all, they were the victors in the ancient chaotic war.

Under the rule of this Immortal Realm True Immortal, no immortals were born in the alien realm.

With a True Immortal one level higher blocking the way, who can break through? Who dares to break through!
As Qin Tian watched the strongest beings from the Immortal Realm effortlessly annihilate the alien creatures one by one, he murmured, "Was the Immortal Realm ultimately victorious?!"

"if it is like this?"

"What about the future hidden in a single leaf?!" Qin Tian hesitated.

He could clearly sense An Lan's aura within the alien passage.

But if the beings of the Immortal Realm are the victors, then where did An Lan come from?

The next moment, his doubts were answered.

Qin Tian's gaze turned serious: "That is..."

In the crowd, a statue was held aloft by a supreme being, whose expression was fanatical and devout, radiating an incomparably brilliant holy light.

The statue depicts a raven descending to earth after a tribulation, and it looks incredibly lifelike, with every feather perfectly clear and radiating a sacred glow.

"The Gray Era has arrived, burying all the heavens and myriad worlds!"

"The past glories are gone, only the grand sacrifice remains forever."

Voices emanated from the statue, rumbling like a golden bell, deafeningly loud. In an instant, the whole world seemed to be on the verge of collapse, a scene of heavenly weeping appeared, a cold wind howled, raising large areas of ash and terrifying dust.

It looks like ashes, or like the fragments of an indescribable creature that has been obliterated!
The next moment, wherever the light passed, a gray substance overflowed. It was this substance that laid the foundation for the alien's victory, turning defeat into triumph.

Those gray substances, like smog, occupied the entire alien land.

Any living being infected by this substance will be plunged into darkness and transformed into a bizarre race of creatures.

This is the most basic capability of cremated remains.

Even if a true immortal from the Immortal Realm activates a method to resist dark matter, it will be useless, because this is not dark matter at all, but an ominous substance that is on par with dark matter.

Aside from their visual effects, gray matter and dark matter are fundamentally different.

“A strange substance unlike dark matter!” Upon seeing this, Qin Tian’s gaze turned serious, as this was exactly as he had deduced.

"The River of Souls, the Burial Pit of the Heavenly Emperor, the Level Four Floating Pagoda, and the Ancient Underworld—these eerie vanguard forces, after years of slumber, have finally awakened!" Qin Tian's mood was slightly heavy. Although these four forces were jokingly referred to in his previous life as a few super soldiers that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had blocked while plugging the spring.

However, these super soldiers, as the vanguard, are by no means weak.

With absolute strength, they forced Ye Fan and Ruthless to seek help from the past multiple times, which led to the death of Emperor Wushi, the death of Emperor Ye Tian, ​​and the death of Emperor Ruthless.

Qin Tian hadn't expected that their presence would appear so quickly throughout the myriad realms.

But upon closer reflection, it makes sense. Before becoming Immortal Kings, Ye Fan and the others must have already begun their battles against the Strange.

Given the unique characteristic of the Desolate Emperor's sword, which can sever all ages, the spacetime of the Boundary Sea is obscured, and the distance between the Boundaries is stretched to infinity.

This makes it difficult for any force to truly occupy the Boundary Sea, and ominous and bizarre phenomena appear early on, making the conquest of the world a normal occurrence.

Otherwise, there would be no way to start a war that swept across the Boundary Sea 700,000 years later.

Perhaps, a considerable portion of the world has already been occupied by the Strange Race, who have built their war fortresses on the ruins.

In the end, that true immortal had his soul taken away, his eyes were empty, and he was like a corpse, becoming one of the weapons of the strange race.

Once again, they became the rulers of a foreign land.

While it may seem that nothing has changed, a complete upheaval has actually taken place.

"This is footage from 50,000 years ago." Qin Tian exhaled a breath of stale air and deliberately cut off the signal.

"In other words, this world has completely become a stronghold for the strange race." Qin Tian's expression was slightly heavy, but a sense of relief appeared in his heart.

Fortunately, he arrived early.

Otherwise, once this group of gray creatures has fully developed and awakens the two immortal kings as in a dream, it will be a great calamity.

The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, which had just begun to show signs of improvement, were about to be knocked to the brink of collapse once again.

"We have to be careful!" Qin Tian exhaled a breath of stale air. Compared to the alien creatures, he was more wary of the shadowy crow statue.

A single statue emitting celestial light is enough to obliterate a true immortal; its power should not be underestimated.

It is at least a being of the level of a Celestial King.

Most likely, they are part of one of the four vanguard forces, supreme beings slumbering in ancient history, who have begun to awaken.

This realm of myriad worlds is not simple either; it existed long before the Corpse Immortal Emperor attained enlightenment.

This realm was once harvested by the strange race, and a grand sacrifice was held.

These four forces were born from that great sacrifice. They were originally cultivators from countless epochs ago, but were later infected by strange substances and turned into tools for exploiting others.

After that grand ceremony ended, these four forces slumbered in the Boundary Sea, waiting for this world to flourish and usher in a new grand ceremony.

During this period, when the Corpse Immortal Emperor attained enlightenment, they dared not appear. Instead, they reported it to their superiors, who then manipulated the Eerie Immortal Emperor to corrupt Emperor Bone Brother in an extremely secretive manner before he attained enlightenment.

Finally, at the crucial moment of Emperor Bone's breakthrough, a drop of primordial matter fell from the sky, corrupting him into the Corpse Immortal Emperor.

As time draws near, the grand sacrifice is about to begin again, and the vanguard of the strange race is starting to revive.

"The idea that they are a bizarre race suggests that the previous era was probably a dark age."

"Is this the so-called Gray Era?!" Qin Tian asked with a slightly heavy tone.

He took a step forward, and the void became his tool, moving with his thoughts.

In an instant, they arrived at the center of the former battlefield.

The former battlefield has now been transformed into a sacred and enormous altar, surrounded by numerous large pits filled with corpses that Qin Tian had never seen before.

Qin Tian's gaze sharpened, and he thought to himself, "As expected, the corpses from the battlefield... are all here."

The strange substance can grant the dead the power to burn again, giving birth to a new soul that returns to the world as a strange being.

Millions of dragon veins surround that sacred altar, each one lifelike, as if they were living beings.

For the immortals of Kunlun, the tens of thousands of dragon veins are nothing in the grand scheme of the immortal universe.

The environment here is so good, and the resources are incredibly abundant. He has encountered no fewer than ten natural terrains along his journey that surpass the level of immortality.

The only noteworthy thing is that these numerous dragon veins are not spewing out life essence, but rather a gray substance that permeates the area around the altar.

The burial pit beneath the altar was submerged in gray matter. Every now and then, a deceased being would be reborn, crawling out of the pit to join the strange race and become one of its warriors.

Besides the statues Qin Tian had seen in the past, the altar also contained the bodies of two immortal kings.

It was none other than An Lan and Yu Tuo. The vast majority of the gray substance expelled by the dragon vein was devoured by the two immortal kings in order to resist the imperial binding mark within their bodies.

The seal left by an emperor can only be broken by the ashes of this supreme being.

"The bodies of two immortal kings have even developed some spiritual consciousness. We must find a way to deal with this!" Qin Tian closed his eyes and scanned the world with his mental power.

“There are spies from the Weird Clan around, so we can’t act rashly.” Qin Tian looked at the statue and the gray substance.

“A strong defense often has very weak points inside.” Qin Tian tried to capture some of the gray substance.

In the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, he once imitated Huang by using dark matter to train his body, which caused some antibodies to be generated in his body, enabling him to resist dark matter.

"It is indeed different from dark matter." Qin Tian tried to inhale some of the gray matter and instantly felt a strange soul power emerge from his body.

He possesses resistance to dark matter, but he also struggles against this gray matter.

"However, it's much better than my first encounter with dark matter." Qin Ruo mused. Although the strange matter is divided into ten categories, it all originates from one person. In the process of increasing resistance to darkness, resistance to other strange matter is also increasing.

It's just that it's not as effective as fighting dark matter.

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