Longevity: Start by practicing the ruthless way

"There is indeed such a rumor, but no one can tell whether it is true or not." Murong Zhixiu looked solemn and said that this was a very evil place. Many cultivators would eventually get lost here when they set foot in this desert and would never be able to get out of it in their lifetime.

"So weird?" Gu Chi frowned. This was not good news.

Murong Zhixiu nodded and said, "The Meteorite Desert is a world unto itself, governed by its own set of laws. However, these laws are incomplete and chaotic. If you're lucky, you might be able to leave in a year or two. On the other hand, if you're unlucky, you might not be able to leave until your lifespan runs out. I was once trapped here for over a hundred years!"

"What?!" Gu Chi was shocked.

"In the past, while trying to hunt down someone, I accidentally entered the Meteorite Desert and was trapped there for over a hundred years before I found a chance to escape. Those hundred years almost drove me crazy." Murong Zhixiu mentioned this past event.

You can only enter but not exit, even crossing the void is useless. This is the horror of the Meteorite Desert.

"We can't be trapped here for more than a hundred years, right?" Gu Chi felt very uneasy.

Lao Hei was relatively optimistic and said, "Maybe we'll be lucky enough to get out in a dozen days."

"I hope so." Gu Chi nodded.

In this way, they continued to move forward in the endless desert, going around in circles for several days and unable to find a way out.

At noon, the yellow sand was as hot as red iron, just like being in a blazing furnace. Late at night, the wind was biting and the temperature difference between day and night was huge. After several days, Gu Chi's face had become haggard.

On the ninth day, the sun was still scorching overhead. Gu Chi suddenly pointed ahead and exclaimed, "There's a building over there!"

Just ahead, at the end of the horizon, the shadowy outlines of buildings can be vaguely seen.

In this deserted desert where even cultivators could be trapped to death, seeing buildings even shocked Murong Zhixiu, and he flew over quickly.

When they came closer, they found that it was a palace temple, very small, not even as big as a poor family's stone house.

It seems to have a long history, but it is still well preserved.

"How could there be such a palace and temple in the Meteorite Desert?" Murong Zhixiu was quite surprised.

Gu Chi stepped into the palace temple without a door and looked around, but the next moment, the expression on her face froze instantly.

She saw a familiar font on a wall, the small seal script from the Qin Dynasty!

The characters from the Qin Dynasty of China appeared in this world, which caused a huge wave of shock to surge in Gu Chi's heart, and his heart was beating violently.

"What's going on? Could it be that someone came to this world during the Qin Dynasty?!" Gu Chi made such a guess in his mind. Otherwise, how to explain why the small seal script from the Qin Dynasty appeared in this world?

She was extremely excited, thinking that there might be some connection between the two worlds!

"Sister Qianhe, what's wrong with you? Do you recognize the words on it?" Murong Zhixiu looked doubtful and noticed the change in Gu Chi's expression.

Gu Chi did not answer. He was so excited that he could not calm down for a long time. He looked carefully at the ancient words on the mottled wall and tried to identify them carefully.

There are a total of 215 ancient characters, and each one is written with powerful strokes, as if it has life.

She could only recognize more than sixty characters in total, and could not recognize the remaining one hundred and forty-six characters.

The more than sixty ancient characters she recognized were also inferred by her based on the connection between the previous and next contexts using the nine easiest ancient characters to recognize.

She had not studied small seal characters seriously before, so being able to recognize this much was already her limit.

"The Great Qin Qi Refiner..." Gu Chi was shocked. This was indeed the inscription left by an ancient person from the Qin Dynasty in this world.

Although she could not recognize many of the characters, she still had a preliminary understanding that the person who carved the words was a Qigong practitioner during the Qin Dynasty. At that time, the Qin Dynasty had not yet unified the six kingdoms.

As for this person's identity, Gu Chi couldn't guess it yet, and couldn't think of any famous Qigong practitioners in the early Qin Dynasty.

"Qi-refining masters..." Gu Chi believed that the so-called Qi-refining masters should have the same meaning as cultivators. They are all practitioners who can seize the fortune of heaven and earth and refine it for their own use.

There were only more than sixty ancient characters that could be recognized on the mottled wall, but they were not connected. She looked at them carefully for a long time and pondered them over and over again, but in the end she only vaguely understood part of them.

This Qi-refining master from the Qin Dynasty did not come to this world by himself across the heavens and universe. The inscriptions on the wall may have a reason for it, but Gu Chi could not recognize it.

"Is this some extraordinary secret technique?" Murong Zhixiu asked impatiently.

"No!" Gu Chi directly rejected it.

"Sister Qianhe, don't keep it to yourself. We discovered this together. Read it to me quickly. What is written on it?" Murong Zhixiu urged, and Lao Hei also cast a curious look.

Gu Chi did not respond, but asked, "Are there other worlds outside this world?"

"Of course there is. Otherwise, how could there be the concept of the myriad heavens and worlds? Isn't there a higher realm above our own? Doesn't your Luoshu seem to be a classic from an ancient sect in that higher realm?"

Murong Zhixiu said without hesitation, then stared at Gu Chi with suspicion and said, "Why are you asking this? Is this the text from another world?"

"What exactly does this strange text record? Tell me quickly." Murong Zhixiu urged.

Lao Hei also looked over, wanting to know what the words on the wall said.

"The things written on it are incredible. The person who carved it claims to be from another world."

"What?!" Murong Zhixiu screamed in surprise, "From another world? Could it be from the upper realm?!"

Murong Zhixiu paced back and forth excitedly, his eyes flickering as he pressed on, "Tell me more about it. Translate all the text above for me."

"He probably isn't from the upper realm. The person who carved the words claimed to be a Qigong practitioner from the Great Qin. Are there such things as Qigong practitioners in the upper realm?"

"Daqin... Qigong practitioners? I've certainly never heard of these words." Murong Zhixiu pondered carefully, saying, "If they didn't come from the upper realms, could they have come from other heavens? Crossing the endless universe, even a master-level powerhouse wouldn't be able to do that, right?"

Gu Chi said: "He didn't come here by himself. It seems that he accidentally came to this world along an ancient road."

Murong Zhixiu's eyes flashed with two sharp rays of light as he said, "Where did this guy go last? We must catch him and get the clues about the ancient road from him!"