Chapter 0425: The Enigmatic Garden

Chapter 0425: The Enigmatic Garden

Now everyone knows that Qin Yun possesses the Sky Lion Totem, and only the Bloodline Families and the Totem Pavilion are interested in it because they have the methods to obtain totems.

Previously, Qin Yun's father had warned him to keep his totem hidden. But now, he has been exposed.

The Warrior Kings of the Royal-Level Forces must follow and join in opening the gate to the Ancient Gardens.

The Fire King Sect and other forces despise Qin Yun to the core, but they have no choice but to join in opening the gate.

After leaving the city, everyone followed Fengxiao Mu, flying in a certain direction.

They were heading to a bridge, which was the passage to the Ancient Gardens, located within Jing's Demon Path.

In the middle of the night, they entered the mountain range of Jing's Demon Path and arrived at a place shrouded in dense fog.

It was extremely dark here. Fengxiao Mu threw a few magic talismans into the air, illuminating the bridge.

The bridge was a shattered one, originally meant to connect two high mountains but severed in the middle.

Even though it was only half a bridge, it was still several thousand meters long, entirely black, constructed with many dark bricks, and it didn't look very stable.

The bridge was wide enough for a hundred people to stand side by side, with many intervals in between.

Fengxiao Mu also directed the Warrior Kings to take their positions.

"Qin Yun, once it starts, just keep running forward, and you will reach the Ancient Gardens! Generally, it takes a year to come out, but it depends on the situation inside!" Fengxiao Mu said: "By the way, you need to present your Ancient Gardens Token!"

Meimei Mao and the other two hurriedly took out their tokens, secretly excited. Legend has it that anyone who enters the Ancient Gardens and comes out will become much stronger, gaining many secret inheritances inside.

Qin Yun also took out the Ancient Gardens Token. The Warrior Kings were curious about who had lent him such an important item.

"Alright, you can start jogging forward now. When you see a light barrier ahead, you can speed up and rush through it!"

After saying this, Fengxiao Mu took out four pills and handed them to Qin Yun and the others, saying: "These are Energy Replenishing Pills. If your Energy Pills' energy is depleted, just take one, and you'll recover immediately!"

Lu Wudi asked: "Is this our reward for winning?"

"Exactly! Don't underestimate these pills... they are very expensive and highly useful!" Fengxiao Mu said.

"I have two Energy Pills. Can I recover too?" Qin Yun asked.

"It should work!" Fengxiao Mu wasn't entirely sure.

After Qin Yun and the others were ready, they started running on the bridge.

Fengxiao Mu quickly directed the Warrior Kings to channel all their power into the bridge.

Dozens of Warrior Kings simultaneously poured their strongest power into the bridge.

The bridge suddenly trembled slightly, and the black surface turned white.

In the night, this white-glowing bridge became incredibly beautiful!

Qin Yun and the others saw a white light barrier appear at the broken end of the bridge. They accelerated and rushed through it.

The four of them successively entered the light barrier and disappeared!

...

After Qin Yun entered, there was a burst of light inside, and it turned out to be bright daylight.

He held the Ancient Gardens Pass in his hand, blocking the sudden intense light.

"How is it daytime in here?" he asked.

No one answered—there was no one around.

Qin Yun swiftly scanned his surroundings and found himself in a desert.

"Mei Mei, Xiao Lu, Wu Shuang, where are you?" he panicked and yelled.

He had thought that everyone would be together after entering!

Qin Yun looked at the Ancient Gardens Pass in his hand and murmured, "Is there something wrong with my pass?"

His pass was different—others inherited theirs, but his came from the alchemy scripture.

"What the hell is this place?" He glanced up and saw—ten suns!

Qin Yun rubbed his eyes and looked again, counting them one by one.

"One, two, three... eight, nine, ten! Ten suns? What’s happening?" Qin Yun collapsed onto the scorching sand, only to leap back up.

He also noticed that the ten suns radiated unbearable heat!

Suddenly, the pass in his hand burst into golden light, levitated, and started absorbing the suns’ energy.

Qin Yun stared at the pass, bewildered, unsure of what came next.

He had entered the Ancient Gardens, but the reality inside was nothing like he’d imagined.

He had thought it would be a lush, resource-rich paradise.

Instead, it was a barren desert under ten blazing suns.

The pass siphoned the suns’ energy before gently lowering.

Qin Yun grabbed the pass and felt an odd pull, as if the pass was calling to him.

He spun around, picked a direction, and bolted.

"Mo Mo, do you feel anything in this weird place?" Qin Yun let Mo Mo out. "Can you handle the heat?"

After Mo Mo came out, she perched on Qin Yun’s head, squinting at the ten suns, and frowned. "Legend says there were once ten suns, but one vanished, leaving nine."

"Why’s there an extra one now?"

Qin Yun said, "Am I even in the Nine Wastelands anymore?"

Mo Mo thought for a moment and said, "That bridge was probably a teleportation array—it sent you somewhere else. In any case, this is not the familiar Nine Suns and Nine Wastelands we know."

Qin Yun tried to absorb the Nine Suns' spiritual energy through the Nine Suns Divine Soul but couldn’t even absorb a single sun’s energy.

Now he knew for sure—this wasn’t the Nine Suns Land he remembered.

Mo Mo said, "It’s possible this isn’t the real Ancient Gardens!"

"Did Xiao Lu and Mei Mei go somewhere different from where I am?" Qin Yun quickly stopped and said.

"Brother Yun, where did you get your Ancient Gardens Pass?" Mo Mo asked.

Qin Yun was deep in thought, mulling over this question. The Ancient Gardens Pass he held seemed very old.

Back then, the Immortal Bone Burial Ground hadn’t even appeared, and the Ancient Gardens might not have existed yet.

But if the Ancient Gardens didn’t exist, why would there be a pass for it?

Qin Yun shared his thoughts with Mo Mo.

Mo Mo fluttered onto Qin Yun’s palm and said, "I think there might be multiple Ancient Gardens... and the one you’re in isn’t the one from the Three Desolates!"

Qin Yun gently touched Mo Mo’s face, noticed it was burning hot, and quickly placed her back into the storage space. "Alright, I’ll follow the pass’s lead and see what’s ahead," he said.

His thoughts were a jumbled mess.

"If I can’t absorb the spirit energy here, what happens when I run out? I won’t be able to replenish it." After running for more than an hour, he suddenly thought of this problem and stopped.

An hour later, the sun hadn’t moved an inch, which was really weird.

Qin Yun took out the Nine Sun Spirit Gathering Formation and spread it on the sand.

To his surprise, the Nine Sun Spirit Gathering Formation absorbed a ton of Nine Sun spirit energy, and he could even absorb the energy it converted!

"Weird. I can’t absorb Nine Sun spirit energy through the Spirit Vein, but the formation works!" Qin Yun now felt relieved, put away the Nine Sun Spirit Gathering Formation, and continued to sprint like crazy.

"It must be the effect of the strange patterns!"

He couldn’t make sense of it. Since he was here, he had no choice but to keep exploring.

Guided by the pass, Qin Yun trekked for two days, still stuck in the desert.

He stripped off his shirt—it was scorching hot here, with ten suns blazing in the sky and no relief from the heat.

"Suns that never set?" Qin Yun frowned as he sat in the Nine Sun Spirit Gathering Formation, regaining his strength.

After an hour or so, he’d recovered. He pulled out the pass, sensed that strange, haunting call, and took off running again.

Another day later, he finally reached a place that wasn’t a desert, but it was just as barren, littered with rocks.

The ground ahead was strewn with rocks of all sizes.

Qin Yun picked up a stone and frowned, "This is a meteorite! There’s a ton of them here!"

"Brother Yun, be careful—this place feels off!" Mo Mo warned from inside. "I’ve got a bad feeling about this."

Qin Yun nodded, "I’ll be careful!"

He entered the meteorite field and kept running.

After hours of running, Qin Yun came across a massive crater, as if something had slammed into the ground. It was several kilometers wide and incredibly deep.

He skirted around the crater and kept moving.

To his amazement, there were tons of craters like this along the way.

"Could someone have been fighting here?" Qin Yun thought in surprise, unable to comprehend any connection between the Elixir Scripture and such a creepy place.

It didn't seem like a place related to any garden at all.

Qin Yun felt helpless, he was all alone here, and the place was nothing like what he had pictured. He also wondered if Huo Wushuang and the others were in a similar place.

After running for several days, he was still in the vast land covered with meteorites.

But strangely, the temperature here was slowly dropping!

The further he went, the faster the temperature dropped.

Qin Yun quickly put on his clothes, swearing under his breath.

With ten suns above him, the blazing sun beat down, yet the cold here made him shiver all over.

"This place is seriously messed up!" Qin Yun, who had been hot just moments ago, was now shivering from the cold.

Fortunately, he had the heavenly lion bloodline, or he would have frozen stiff by now.

He also noticed that the ground's stone surfaces were covered with a thin layer of frost.

Suddenly, he entered a freezing cold zone.

As he ran, Qin Yun looked ahead and suddenly saw a large structure, seemingly a palace, covered in ice.

Finally spotting something, he ran over excitedly.

He quickly reached the palace's main gate, which was shattered and in ruins.

In front of the gate lay a tilted stone tablet with the characters "Guanghan" inscribed on it, followed by another character, but the base of the tablet had been shattered along with it.