Traveling to the Divine Wilderness
Traveling to the Divine Wilderness
Yi Yun did not tell Jiang Xiaorou about the mortality rates in the Divine Wilderness campground, but Jiang Xiaorou had found out everything about the Divine Wilderness campgrounds.
A 15% mortality rate and a 5% disability rate was too disturbing.
"I'll be fine," said Yi Yun seriously.
Jiang Xiaorou's lips quivered when she heard Yi Yun's words. She wanted to say something but she chose not to in the end.
Finally, she just gave Yi Yun a gentle hug. She knew that Yi Yun had the life he wanted. She had no way of changing his mind on what he had decided on.
A wild horse was destined to belong to the prairie…
Jiang Xiaorou gave everything that Yi Yun could bring with him. She sewed a bag that suited Yi Yun, with a "Rou" embroidered on it. There were well wishes the people of the vast wilderness believed in sewn on the back. She also sewed the protective talisman Su Jie had given to Yi Yun within, hoping it would keep Yi Yun safe…
With that, Yi Yun embarked on his journey…
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The third day, at the appointed time around dawn. Yi Yun carried a bag made of beast hide that was half the size of a human. He had been waiting in the Dragon Vanguard's square for a long time.
Not long after, Song Zijun's figure appeared in Yi Yun's vision.
The exchanged knowing nods with each other, but there was not much to be said, as they both looked in the direction of the Divine Wilderness.
The two upright figures were like two straight javelins.
When the first golden ray of the Sun appeared, an emerald green speckle appeared on the distant horizon. Its figure grew and soon, it covered the sky.
Yi Yun looked up and secretly clicked his tongue. It was an airship. He had previously seen Lin Xintong in one back in the Cloud Wilderness.
It was a military airship, much bigger than the one Lin Xintong was on, but it was less sophisticated.
Airships were the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom's air transports that were worthy of praise. Especially the airships that could cross the divine wilderness, they were also called divine ships. They were made by several of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom's refinement masters. The metals used were all engraved with runes and arrays. They had strong defenses and many offensive measures. They could overcome the flying desolate beasts in the Divine Wilderness.
The famous divine naval fleet of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom was composed of divine ships. It was a national symbol of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom's strength.
The divine ship slowly lowered its altitude. Round droplets of water under its cold metallic belly flashed with the early morning sunlight while a few mysterious ancient runes inscribed on it shrouded the airship in a sacred halo.
Yi Yun was pumped when he saw such a mighty airship. This was the first time he was flying on such a huge flying treasure.
He squeezed the certificate of proof needed for entering the Divine Wilderness.
Buzz—
The airship roared as it suspended itself a hundred meters above the ground after stopping its descent.
A thick, black metal chain the size of a water bucket fell from the airship's belly, crashing into the ground in front of Yi Yun and Song Zijun, which stirred up a dust storm.
A thin, bald middle-aged man stood there with his hands crossed within his sleeves when a cabin door opened in the flying boat's body. Commanding from above, he looked down at Yi Yun and Song Zijun.
"Are you the Divine Wilderness campground students that the Divine Capital Dragon Vanguard have chosen? Show me your proof!" The man said authoritatively, sending the voice into Yi Yun's ears as if he was beside Yi Yun.
Yi Yun and Song Zijun answered and threw the certificate of proof upwards.
After examining the certificate, the middle-aged man nodded, "Alright, get up here using the chain."
Yi Yun and Song Zijun immediately began climbing up the chains, but they realized the metal chains slid within their hands. It seemed like it was covered in layers of China wood oil.
It was likely a small test.
But this test was nothing to Yi Yun and Song Zijun. With their flexibility, they climbed up the chain agilely like monkeys.
Yi Yun was especially outstanding. He climbed up it as if he was walking on flat ground. It made the middle-aged man take a few more glances at him.
Upon entering the airship, the leader brought them to the northeastern corner of the airship. After explaining some of the rules to be observed in the airship, he left, giving Yi Yun a chance to take a look around carefully.
Within the airship, there were more than twenty people seated. It came to him that these were participants from neighboring cities. There were many people just around the Divine Capital.
These people were all gallant and manly.
Some of them did not stop cultivating even while on the airship. They sat down meditating while others exhaled heavily as they punched out. None of them looked relaxed.
This made Yi Yun realize that the people chosen to enter the Divine Wilderness campground were not ordinary people!
Yi Yun did not say much to anyone. He sat down on his spot and began regulating his breathing.
Soon, the divine boat flew out of the Divine Capital's influence. Along the way, there were about a dozen people who boarded the divine boat in the neighboring cities of the Divine Capital. After flying to more than ten cities in a row, more than 100 people had boarded.
Following that, there was no one else. The divine boat flew higher and higher into the clouds, and with the array activated, it whistled through the air as it left behind a thunderous roar.
Yi Yun could not help but open his eyes and look out the window.
The Tai Ah Divine Kingdom's scenery was a spectacle!
For a person like Yi Yun, who came from a small tribal clan, it was a form of training and accumulation of experience to enjoy the panoramic view of the mountains and rivers.
Outside the airship, Yi Yun soon saw a huge roaring river. This river was several hundred kilometers wide and there were dark shadows within the river when suddenly a shadow billowed out the waters. It was a giant beast many times the size of a whale. It leaped out from the water and grabbed a giant bird in the sky before diving back into the water.
Yi Yun could not help but be shocked. He had never seen such a murderous water beast.
He also saw flocks of strange birds that blotted out the sky in an endless desert. Their wings spanned several thousand feet and their flaps caused the airship to experience turbulence.
Also in the vast ocean, there were many tiny islands appearing out of the water for air that spat out rainbows. They were actually colossal giant tortoises.
Many wonderful beasts amazed Yi Yun as it was an eye-opening experience.
The Tai Ah Divine Kingdom was extremely vast, but after flying for a few days, the airship charged into a towering giant fortress.
The fortress had a magnificent array within it with countless numbers of crystals that radiated brilliant energy into the sky.
These were the super-long-distance arrays.
As the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom was too big, and the Divine Wilderness was too far away, just flying in the airships would take an extremely long time. Hence, they had to rely on ancient arrays to travel.
Yi Yun had kept count and they had entered three of those magnificent fortress arrays. They had teleported three times, covering an unknown distance that spanned tens of millions of kilometers.
Finally, they reached a barren wasteland near the Divine Wilderness.
The Lian tribal clan was originally in the Cloud Wilderness, which was beside the Jing state. But the Divine Wilderness was at the other end of the Divine Kingdom. Traveling from the Jing state to the Divine Wilderness covered a large area of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom!
It was a really long journey.
The setting sun was blood-red as its glow spilled on the airship.
At the top of the airship, there were a few potholes, which had arrays embedded within the extraordinary metal to protect the divine boat. On their journey, they had been attacked twice by desolate beasts. And they left some traces on the metal.
"Divine Wilderness! We've reached the Divine Wilderness!" shouted someone inside the divine boat. Everyone rushed to the hall and looked out.
Yi Yun raised his eyebrows as he looked through the airship's glass window. He found that the fog had lifted quite a distance away.
It seemed like there was an air of desolate wilderness that came surging over.
Roar!
A roar shook the world.
Below them, there was dust all over. There were many large behemoths running on the dust plains. Their hooves rumbled on the ground like thunder.
A black jungle spanned across the distant horizon. Each towering tree was like a beam rising into the blue sky.
There were sharp cries in the sky from the numerous flying beasts swooping around with their razor sharp claws that resembled blades. A beast that looked like a lion had been grabbed from the chaotic dust storm as its blood smeared the sky.
Even further away, there was a mountain that towered into the clouds. There was a bright light circulating around it like a heavenly realm. But this divine realm would shoot out black web-like silk capturing monsters that passed it…
Some of the mountain peaks were also bare and lifeless. A huge lion that produced thundering snores as it lied prone on a mountain, completely covering it.
When the airship reached this area, it began to fly more cautiously. It flew to an even higher altitude.
Below the airship was endless mountain stretches.
Occasionally, a large black swamp or sweltering desert could be seen.
There were mountain piles of white skeletons in those places.
"This is the Divine Wilderness…" Yi Yun took a deep breath for the Divine Wilderness was too mighty and dreadful.
"Look, isn't that a Crackling Fire Beast?!" Someone suddenly said as Yi Yun looked down. He saw in the wilderness plains below the flying boat were small mountains of bones. Within these bones, there was something flowing like lava. It was apparently a Crackling Fire Beast.
But now, the Crackling Fire Beast had been killed. Its innards were exposed and a colorful huge bird was sitting on it, devouring its flesh.
Yi Yun's eyes twitched. He knew that the Cloud Wilderness also had Crackling Fire Beasts, and it was a well-known beast in the Cloud Wilderness. But in the Divine Wilderness, it had become the prey of the colorful huge bird.
There was danger at every turn in the Divine Wilderness. It was daunting and compared to the Cloud Wilderness, it was at a totally different level.
The Cloud Wilderness was a barren land with little Heaven Earth Yuan Qi. Hence, it could not give birth to treasures or strong desolate beasts.
There was a lack of types like grand behemoths that were primordial strain.
The Cloud Wilderness's strongest desolate beasts would enter desolate wastelands to the north of the Desolate Human Valley. The desolate wastelands were two completely different places from the Cloud Wilderness.
But the Divine Wilderness was different. It had countless numbers of grand behemoths within it.
Normal people could survive, with great difficulty, in the Cloud Wilderness, but in the Divine Wilderness, there were no normal people. Very few people trod these lands. There were legends of mysterious tribes within that had special blood heritage and they were mysterious and powerful!