Purple Thorn Island

In the control room of the spaceship, Luo Feng and Zhenyan King both looked out through the external view screen. Ahead of their ship, colossal, python-like gales, one after another, roared and enveloped billions of kilometers, resembling countless pythons frolicking and crisscrossing the starry sky.

“This is the legendary Ancestral God Mystery Realm,” Zhenyan King exclaimed.

“Legend has it… the Ancestral God Mystery Realm is one of the most dangerous mystery realms,” Luo Feng also sighed. “It’s comparable in size to a Cosmic Nation, with dangers lurking everywhere. Even Universe Venerables who enter cautiously find it hard to leave alive.”

Cosmic Mystery Realms are categorized into different tiers, with varying spatial extents.

Since the coordinates of the inheritance ground were now known, Luo Feng and Zhenyan King naturally investigated beforehand. Their research left them stunned—this inheritance ground was located within one of the most terrifying cosmic mystery realms in the universe, the ‘Ancestral God Mystery Realm’.

As one of the highest-tier and most perilous mystery realms, ordinary dangers within it could cause Universe Venerables to fall. Some extremely dangerous areas even forced Universe Masters to hold their breath.

Its maximum diameter is 1.6 billion light-years. Traveling at sub-light speed, merely traversing it would take two hundred million years. To thoroughly explore the entire Ancestral God Mystery Realm… it would likely be impossible even if one flew back and forth since the universe’s inception. Moreover, with dangers everywhere, who would dare to fly so recklessly?

Mysterious!

Dangerous!

Impenetrable!

These were the synonyms for the Ancestral God Mystery Realm.

“Legend says the most common phenomenon in the Ancestral God Mystery Realm is the ‘Black Vortex Whirlwind’. If a Universe Venerable gets caught in a small Black Vortex Whirlwind… they might be severely injured. A large Black Vortex Whirlwind is enough to annihilate a Universe Venerable,” Zhenyan King lamented. “Disciple, those distant formations ahead are Black Vortex Whirlwinds.”

“There are even more whirlwinds behind us,” Luo Feng said.

Zhenyan King looked back… In the far distance, an endless Black Vortex Whirlwind, billions of kilometers wide, stretched across the starry sky. If the whirlwinds ahead were like individual pythons, then the terrifying whirlwind behind them was a python magnified billions of times.

“This, this is the outermost Black Vortex Whirlwind. Only the outermost ones are this massive,” Zhenyan King said, shocked.

Luo Feng nodded. “We’ve entered the Ancestral God Mystery Realm. The coordinates are here.”

The spaceship began to slow down, gradually stopping. The hatch opened, and Luo Feng and Zhenyan King flew out side-by-side.

…

In the vast void, only the countless Black Vortex Whirlwinds chasing each other in the distance remained.

Luo Feng and Zhenyan King stood in the void, looking at each other.

“Where is it?” Luo Feng frowned. “The inheritance ground, the coordinates are right here, but we can’t see it.”

“Wait,” Zhenyan King said.

Suddenly, the calm void around them began to distort. Luo Feng and Zhenyan King’s expressions changed slightly, but the distorted space instantly swallowed them like a vortex.

“Spatial Teleportation?”

The thought flashed through Luo Feng and Zhenyan King’s minds simultaneously, and then everything before their eyes became clear.

Luo Feng and Zhenyan King were still standing in a void, but the distant scenery was breathtakingly beautiful. In the far distance, an endless river of vibrant colors surged. This magnificent, colorful river was filled with a mysterious power, drawing one’s gaze irresistibly. Luo Feng and Zhenyan King, both individuals of extremely strong will, immediately noticed this and snapped out of their trance.

“You regained consciousness quite quickly,” a cold voice rang out.

Luo Feng and Zhenyan King both spun their heads to look.

Standing in the void beside them was a rock deity, approximately eight meters tall. He wore purple armor wreathed in flames, his entire body a dark green, appearing at first glance like dark green jade. Luo Feng and Zhenyan King recognized him by his appearance… he was from the ‘Feicang Clan’, a type of rock lifeform in the universe.

His presence, yet seeming non-existent, startled Luo Feng and Zhenyan King.

“It’s a Universe Venerable,” Luo Feng thought to himself. “Only a Universe Venerable can use Teleportation without me noticing in the slightest.”

“His aura is so well-concealed that even I couldn’t detect him,” Zhenyan King also thought, surprised.

“I am an usher of the Ancestral God Sect,” the Feicang Clan Venerable said coldly, looking at Luo Feng and the other. “Humans, present your Beast God Inheritance Tokens. If you don’t have them, trespassing on the sacred grounds of my Ancestral God Sect means death.” As his voice fell, a scorching, terrifying aura descended, making Luo Feng and Zhenyan King feel as if they were plunged into a sea of fire, utterly powerless to resist.

Like a small boat adrift in a vast ocean, that feeling of helplessness made Luo Feng secretly wonder, an usher of the Ancestral God Sect? The official members of the Ancestral God Sect include Ancestral Gods, Beast Gods, Divine Generals, and Divine Envoys. Divine Envoys are clearly the weakest; even inheriting the position of a Divine Envoy only makes one comparable to the weakest Universe Venerable.

Yet, this Feicang Clan being… the mere pressure he exuded made it difficult for both him and his teacher to resist.

“Teacher, could he be a Divine General?” Luo Feng transmitted.

“He should be a Divine General,” Zhenyan King transmitted back. “Otherwise, he wouldn’t be this strong.”

Though surprised, Luo Feng and Zhenyan King both flipped their hands and produced their respective Beast God Inheritance Tokens.

“Beast God Inheritance Tokens are exceedingly rare,” the Feicang Clan Venerable finally revealed a hint of a smile. “Your human race truly lives up to its reputation as one of the six peak races, sending two of your kind with Beast God Inheritance Tokens at once. In that case, you are inheritors… you are qualified to enter. Follow me.”

The Feicang Clan Venerable flew ahead, and Luo Feng and Zhenyan King naturally followed.

“Do you see that?” the Feicang Clan Venerable pointed to the endless, surging, colorful, dreamlike river ahead.

Luo Feng and Zhenyan King both nodded.

“I’ll take you closer for a look,” the Feicang Clan Venerable said. As soon as his voice faded, Luo Feng and Zhenyan King felt a blur before their eyes… they had already Teleported several light-years, arriving near the infinitely vast river.

“This is—” Luo Feng held his breath. This was no river; it was entirely composed of countless auroras, each of five different colors. The endless auroras formed this boundless river… From several light-years away, it still appeared river-shaped, but up close, Luo Feng only felt its boundless immensity.

“Is this the legendary ‘Five-Colored Aurora Lake’ of the Ancestral God Mystery Realm?” Zhenyan King asked, astonished.

“You have some knowledge,” the Feicang Clan Venerable said, looking at Zhenyan King in surprise and praising him with a smile. “Yes, this is the Five-Colored Aurora Lake.”

“Lake?” Luo Feng was puzzled. Up close, it was boundless; from a distance, it was a surging river with no end in sight.

“Of course, it’s a lake,” the Feicang Clan Venerable said. “From your previous position, it looked like a river, but if you were to fly above the entire river and look down… you would find it’s an almost circular, endless lake. This Five-Colored Aurora Lake… has a maximum diameter of 10 light-years, and its power is boundless. Each individual aurora, if its power erupts, is enough to severely injure a Universe Venerable. The entire lake, composed of endless auroras, possesses infinite power! It is one of the most powerful supreme treasures in the vast universe.”

Luo Feng and Zhenyan King were dumbfounded.

Each aurora was that powerful?

“This Five-Colored Aurora Lake is the protective supreme treasure of my Ancestral God Sect!” the Feicang Clan Venerable exclaimed. “With this protective supreme treasure, who can trespass upon my Ancestral God Sect?”

“One of the most powerful supreme treasures in the universe? A protective supreme treasure?” Zhenyan King marveled.

“As expected of the Ancestral God Sect, the universe’s foremost power,” Luo Feng also exclaimed, but in his heart, he thought of the Star Tower.

The Five-Colored Aurora Lake, with its countless auroras visible on the surface, possessed boundless power and served as the protective supreme treasure of the universe’s foremost power. His own Star Tower, with its countless precious sealing stars acting as an ‘axis’, and its heaven-reaching pillars, etc… Moreover, Mountain Guest had also said that the Star Tower was one of the most powerful supreme treasures in the universe.

“I actually get to see the Five-Colored Aurora Lake,” Zhenyan King sighed with emotion. “It’s truly an eye-opener.”

“To witness a supreme treasure of the universe is indeed fortunate,” the Feicang Clan Venerable said with a hint of pride, then continued, “Don’t your four great races have the ‘Star Tower’, one of the most powerful supreme treasures in the universe, on your extraterrestrial battlefield? That is a supreme treasure that countless powerhouses cannot shake or forcibly take away. To this day, countless powerhouses in the universe do not know its true power. In short, it still has no master.”

“The Star Tower is one of the most powerful supreme treasures?” Zhenyan King was greatly surprised.

“It seems you don’t know much after all.”

The Feicang Clan Venerable shook his head and smiled. “The Star Tower is one of the most easily seen, yet most mysterious, supreme treasures in the universe. No one can fathom its true mysteries. No one can take it away. It stands there… for endless eons, and no one has been able to remove it.”

“Enough talk, I’ll take you to Purple Thorn Island,” the Feicang Clan Venerable said, directly Teleporting Luo Feng and the other.

…

The starry sky shifted, and Luo Feng and Zhenyan King’s vision blurred. They had already arrived at the edge of the Five-Colored Aurora Lake, just a few hundred meters away from it—extremely close.

Each aurora, about ten thousand kilometers long, possessed a majestic and irresistible power that startled Luo Feng and Zhenyan King.

“Do you see it? Purple Thorn Island is right there,” the Feicang Clan Venerable pointed towards the depths of the Five-Colored Aurora Lake.

“What, inside the Five-Colored Aurora Lake?” Luo Feng and Zhenyan King looked over in surprise.

Indeed, they could vaguely discern an island, though it appeared very blurry amidst the endless auroras.

“Come in,” the Feicang Clan Venerable flew directly into it.

“Go in? These auroras possess infinite power,” Zhenyan King couldn’t help but say.

“Don’t worry, this is one of the most powerful supreme treasures in the universe. It won’t harm anyone it recognizes. Both of you have Beast God Inheritance Tokens, so you’ll be fine entering,” the Feicang Clan Venerable said. Zhenyan King looked at Luo Feng: “Disciple, I’ll try first.” With that, he took a step to the closest point of the Aurora Lake and reached out to touch an incoming aurora.

Upon contact…

The aurora flowed around Zhenyan King’s arm like water, without any attack.

The Feicang Clan Venerable watched this scene without saying anything. He had seen it many times; the inheritors who came here were all cautious and didn’t easily trust what others said.

“Let’s go in,” Zhenyan King said.

“Yes, Teacher,” Luo Feng said, secretly grateful but not saying much more, as he followed his teacher into the Five-Colored Aurora Lake.

It was like moving through actual lake water. As they flew, the auroras touching their bodies felt incredibly comfortable. As they got closer, Purple Thorn Island appeared larger and larger.

“Purple Thorn Island is where you Beast God inheritors reside, and it’s also the outermost area of the Five-Colored Aurora Lake,” the Feicang Clan Venerable said, having already arrived at Purple Thorn Island.