The Mother Queens’ Observation

“This human race is still very weak,” the Mother Queen sent her thoughts. “And I have already dispatched the entire First Frontier Army. Within the First Army, there are quite a few ‘first-generation children.’ We can see and feel everything they experience, allowing us to observe this suddenly arrived human more closely.”

“Sister has acted correctly.”

“Let us observe this human carefully.”

The three Mother Queens who held true dominion over the Broken Horn World, beings who were the progenitors of an entire world, naturally far surpassed Ji Ning’s level. Yet they were worried about the human race that Ji Ning represented, and thus did not dare to be the slightest bit careless.

In the ancient times, these three Mother Queens had hatched a brood of children.

Their children then hatched more children…

Generation after generation…

The source of all the citizens of the Broken Horn World was these three Mother Queens! The children directly hatched and nurtured by the Mother Queens were known as the ‘first generation,’ and they also possessed the greatest potential. Those hatched by the first generation were the second generation, whose overall potential was slightly inferior. The children of the second generation were the third generation, and so on.

Of the nine Elders in the Hall of Elders, eight were from the first generation, and one was from the third generation.

Everything experienced by the first generation could be completely known by the Mother Queens who had birthed them.

This was a world filled with the fragrance of flowers and the songs of birds.

Perhaps there truly was a certain fate at work in the universe. At the very moment Ji Ning was facing a crisis, Yu Wei finally began her Tribulation that very day.

“Disciple, you were extremely powerful in your past life, and you have also become my disciple in this life… the power of your Heavenly Tribulation will be incomparably terrifying. Today, you will undergo the Tribulation. There is nothing else I can do to help you; I can only act as your护法 [protector]. Overcoming the Tribulation is entirely up to you.” Lu Dongbin, who carried an immortal sword on his back, looked at the black-robed Yu Wei before him.

“Disciple understands,” Yu Wei said respectfully.

“Go ahead.” Lu Dongbin gave a slight nod.

Yu Wei immediately flew to the peak of a distant mountain, while Lu Dongbin watched from a mountain peak on one side. This minor world was completely under Lu Dongbin’s control; it was his secret sanctum. He had even set up layer upon layer of formations, so that even a True God or Daofather would have to expend considerable effort to directly force their way in.

The Wind Tribulation, Fire Tribulation, Thunder Tribulation, and Heartfiend Tribulation were the four great Tribulations of the Heavenly Tribulation.

Yu Wei’s strength was indeed very great. She was already immensely powerful in her past life, and in this life, she had received guidance from Patriarch Lu. She had long since reached an extremely high level of attainment. The Wind Tribulation and Fire Tribulation, these two Tribulations, were passed through steadily and calmly.

“Not good.” From afar, Lu Dongbin watched with slightly furrowed brows. “Although she has passed the Wind and Fire Tribulations, their power was clearly far greater than what most of my other disciples encountered during their Tribulations. It even approached the power of the Wind and Fire Tribulations I faced when I underwent my own Tribulation.”

Lu Dongbin had originally been the Lord of the East [Donghua Dijun]. After his reincarnation as Patriarch Lu, how could his Tribulation have been simple?

Although he was a Ki Refiner, the Thunder Tribulation he faced during his Heavenly Tribulation was the inconceivable ‘Nine-Nine Thunder Tribulation’! However, Lu Dongbin had the foundation of his past life the soul of the Lord of the East was no joke. Coupled with his formidable master one of the most supreme existences in the Three Realms he had managed to endure that Nine-Nine Thunder Tribulation as a Ki Refiner. Now, his power had reached the very apex of the Pure Yang True Immortal realm, and he was acknowledged as the most promising cultivator in the Three Realms to become a Daofather. In fact, one of his feet had already stepped onto the threshold of Daofatherhood.

“Based on the power of the Wind and Fire Tribulations, I’m afraid my disciple’s Thunder Tribulation will be more than just a Six-Nine Thunder Tribulation.” Lu Dongbin frowned. “Her fortune in her past life was ordinary, and she only became my disciple in this one. Normally, most Ki-Refining disciples of a Daofather would face a Six-Nine Thunder Tribulation at most. Why is her Heavenly Tribulation so terrifying? What is the basis?”

Lu Dongbin had always felt that there was something his disciple was hiding. He had even gone to Judge Cui to borrow the Book of Life and Death and examine Yu Wei’s past life, but he had found nothing.

It was just a faint, instinctive feeling that something was wrong.

The power of the descending Heavenly Tribulation was determined by the firmaments themselves; naturally, there was a reason for it.

“There is still half an hour until the Thunder Tribulation arrives.” Lu Dongbin put aside his thoughts and silently watched.

Within the Realm of Annihilation outside the Ancient Ruins World, Ji Ning was flying swiftly, continuously increasing the distance between himself and that distant landmass. He felt that something was wrong from the sudden attack that had just occurred, especially when the other party claimed to be from the Broken Horn World and said that this was their void territory.

Ji Ning understood that these beings came from the Ancient Ruins World, and that he had clearly been discovered.

Flee!

Flee with all possible speed!

The Ancient Ruins World was a place that even True Gods and Daofathers did not dare to casually intrude upon. Ji Ning naturally did not wish to have any contact with it.

“WUMMMM~~”

Suddenly, from within the pitch-black void, layers of light began to appear. It was golden light. The nearly ten thousand encampments within the third void circle of the ‘Realm of Annihilation’ acted as nearly ten thousand nodes! Each node was a key point of this grand formation. In an instant, a colossal light barrier spanning tens of millions of li was formed.

“Th-this…” Ji Ning stared blankly at the sight before him.

Candlelight ignited in his eyes as he activated his Candle Dragon Eye, looking in every direction. No matter which way he looked front and back, left and right, up and down everywhere was that endless golden light. If he looked carefully, he could see countless flowing patterns on the golden barrier. Those nodal points were especially dazzling, their golden light the most brilliant.

“A grand sealing formation covering tens of millions of li?” Ji Ning muttered to himself. “This is insane. The entire Anchan Commandery is only a few million li in size.” An area of tens of millions of li was comparable to a hundred ordinary commanderies in the Grand Xia world.

A grand formation of such scale was indeed terrifying.

“It seems that the power of this Broken Horn World is far beyond what I can resist. What should I do? What should I do?” Various thoughts surged in Ji Ning’s mind. While he was shocked by such a grand formation, he had seen similar things before. For instance, in the Tristar Crescent Great World, Patriarch Subhuti had secretly set up many grand formations. Some of those formations could cover an entire continent of the Tristar Crescent Great World, which was nearly a third of the landmass of the Grand Xia world. That was far larger than this sealing formation.

There was also the Heavenly Court!

The formations of the Heavenly Court covered the entire domain where the Heavenly Court was located.

There were many formations in the Three Realms that covered an extremely wide area, far larger than this one! However, such supreme grand formations were generally only possible for beings at the Daofather level! Even if a Pure Yang True Immortal set one up, they would have to be extremely skilled in formations, or be a top-tier existence among Pure Yang True Immortals like Lu Dongbin.

Furthermore, this void grand formation spanning tens of millions of li was merely a defensive formation of this ‘Broken Horn World.’ It was likely not even a full display of the Broken Horn World’s power.

But even what it had shown was enough to make Ji Ning feel uneasy.

Being able to set up such a void grand formation was not something a little fellow like him, who hadn’t even passed his Heavenly Tribulation, could withstand.

“And isn’t the Heavenly Dao absent here? So how can formations still work?” Ji Ning wondered in confusion. “It seems I know far, far too little about the Ancient Ruins World.”

Ji Ning truly knew very little.

Among the Ten Heavenly Daos, Chaos was supreme. Life and Destruction were paired, and Yin and Yang were paired, both being second only to ‘Chaos.’ Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, the Five Elements, were the foundation of the entire Three Realms, but they were of an even lower tier. Ji Ning had a very deep understanding of the ‘Dao of Dripping Water,’ which allowed him to vaguely sense the ‘Heavenly Dao of Water.’ But here in the Realm of Annihilation, he could not sense the Heavenly Dao of Water… and so he assumed that the Heavenly Dao did not exist here!

In reality, even in the Realm of Annihilation of the Ancient Ruins World, only the other nine Heavenly Daos were absent. The Heavenly Dao of Chaos still existed. In any place born from the Primordial Chaos, the Heavenly Dao of Chaos was present.

“Regardless, I have to try.”

“Swoosh.”

Although Ji Ning felt it was unlikely he could break through such a large and terrifying formation, his instinct to survive made him unwilling to give up. He did not want to be captured by the Broken Horn World.

The nearest point of the light barrier was only a few million li away. Ji Ning was incredibly fast, utilizing the Ninefold Wind Evasion. Over long distances, once he built up inertia, the consumption of divine power was minimal. It wasn’t like the Starseizing Hand, a divine ability that consumed a huge amount of divine power.

“I’m here.” Ji Ning looked at the endless light barrier a few tens of thousands of li away. An arrow appeared in his hand as he drew his bow, pulling it to a full crescent. His divine power circulated, executing the technique according to the ‘Houyi Archery’ method.

“Go.”

Light gathered on the bow body, rapidly converging on the bowstring before fully coalescing onto the arrow.

At the same time, the power of his heartforce, which had nearly reached the limit of ‘Heart of Ice,’ was also completely instilled into the arrow.

“BOOM~~~”

A dazzling streak of fiery red light instantly shot across the void.

As the arrow flew, its light grew brighter and brighter, its power increasing until it transformed into a massive, fiery meteor. In the Houyi Archery art, if the distance was sufficient, the arrow’s power would continue to increase after being fired, reaching a peak. In the Three Realms, this increase would be even more exaggerated because it would continuously absorb the power of Heaven and Earth during flight! Now, unable to absorb the power of Heaven and Earth, the increase in power was not too extreme.

Nevertheless, the power of this arrow had already surpassed Ji Ning’s close-combat ability.

RUMBLE~~~

The fiery meteor crashed into the light barrier. The barrier merely rippled, then calmed down again, while the arrow Ji Ning had fired was sent flying back from the recoil.

“As expected, it failed.” Ji Ning was not at all surprised. If such a terrifying sealing formation capable of covering tens of millions of li was actually pierced by a single arrow of his, that would be what surprised him. Still… it was truly unwilling!

“What should I do?”

“The void for thousands of li is completely sealed; I have nowhere to escape.” Ji Ning’s heart grew anxious. “The Shaoyin clan was ruthless enough to send me here.”

The Realm of Annihilation of the Ancient Ruins World was indeed a famous death-world. Even Heavenly Gods and True Immortals who entered rarely escaped, let alone Ji Ning.

As for the even more dangerous ‘Ancient Ruins World’ itself, the Shaoyin clan naturally wanted to send Ji Ning to a more dangerous place. Unfortunately, even the先天 spirit-treasure ‘World-Sealing Tower’ could only tear open the void to send someone to the Realm of Annihilation. It was unable to send them into the Ancient Ruins World itself.

“Oh?” Ji Ning suddenly turned his head.

He saw a colossal ship, tens of thousands of li long, appearing in the distant void. It was like a continent floating in space! Previously invisible, it now manifested out of thin air. The ship’s hatch opened, and a flood of towering, black-robed warriors with blood-red curved horns and golden eyes flew out. There were countless soldiers, and each one’s aura was shockingly powerful.

“The army of the Broken Horn World from that Ancient Ruins… has finally come.” Ji Ning’s pupils contracted.