Chapter 2086 - 1949: The Ancient Road to Earth
Chapter 1949
The starry sky trembles!
The Ten Great Saint Masters are annihilated, and the Quasi-Emperor appears to attack and kill.
This series of events spread across the entire Xing Kong Gu Road like a whirlwind, with a wide range and huge impact, and shocked everyone.
Many ancient Star Domains received the news, shocked beyond measure.
Those were ten Saint Masters! And they were slain just like that.
Especially after hearing that Ye Fan had not yet become a Saint, everyone was stunned.
A cultivator at the Lord Realm Peak, annihilating ten Saint Masters in a single battle, such achievements seemed unreal to them, like a fairy tale.
Even a young Great Emperor would be no more than this.
To annihilate ten Saints in a single battle, and then retreat unharmed from the hands of a Quasi-Emperor, it was simply a miracle.
The truth of the matter could not be concealed.
Trialists from various Star Domains transmitted the news back through various channels, causing a huge stir.
"The Gu Family has gone too far."
"Isn’t this blatant robbery?"
People condemned the Gu Family’s ruthless actions, showing no sympathy for their annihilation, instead rejoicing in their misfortune.
"Serves them right!"
"This is retribution!"
"Heaven has opened its eyes."
For a while, the voices of condemnation left the Gu Family flustered, and their reputation suffered greatly.
"The Di Family of Jiang Sheng Star is no good either."
Consequently, the Di Family also became the target of everyone’s contempt.
Trying to catch a fox and only getting in trouble, the Di Family Ancestor not only failed to obtain the Immortal Elixir and Emperor Weapon embryo, but was severely hit by the three Old Bastards.
The Gu Family and Di Family’s reputations were ruined throughout the starry sky, and many families who were originally on good terms with them distanced themselves due to public pressure.
This storm was not limited to cultivators; even ordinary people knew about it and scorned the two families.
This time, the Gu Family and Di Family suffered heavy losses, and many important trades had to be stopped, and they couldn’t even recruit miners.
The family heads of the Gu and Di Families fretted like ants on a hot stove, restless and pulling out handfuls of their hair.
However, it was to no avail, as many people no longer trusted them and severed all ties.
"We are completely isolated now, and if this continues, the clan will perish!"
The two family heads, even though they were in different worlds, simultaneously let out such helpless sighs.
Several days later, people gradually calmed down.
Only then did they realize that with the collapse of the space channel, the coordinates would inevitably change, and Ye Fan might have difficulty reaching his original goal.
When traversing the void, the most feared thing is the collapse of the space channel; if it happens at the collapse site, it almost means certain death.
Even if one narrowly avoids the collapse area, the chaos of time and space will inevitably impact the original coordinates, which is nearly fatal for those traversing the void.
"Where will he end up this time? Is he still on the Xing Kong Gu Road?" People raised these questions.
Because Ye Fan had once left the Xing Kong Gu Road, people had to wonder if this time he might leave it again.
...
In the space channel, colorful rays drifted about, extremely beautiful.
Yet these seemingly gorgeous rays were deadly light that could sever Holy Artifacts.
Ye Fan’s body was as solid as steel, tearing apart the rays with his bare hands, leading the Bai Yan wolf and others forward.
"Old Bai, where did you set the coordinates? No discrepancies, right?"
While making his way forward through obstacles, Ye Fan took a moment to ask Bai Yan wolf.
"Talking about coordinates is meaningless now. When the space channel collapsed, the coordinates already changed, so I don’t know where it leads now," said Bai Yan wolf dejectedly.
Great! This guy wasn’t reliable before, and now it’s even worse.
If the exit of the space channel turns out to be the Cosmic Edge Wilderness, that joke would be too big, they might never return.
Helplessly, it’s too late to blame it now; they can only take it one step at a time.
Time seemed chaotic in the space channel; at times, Ye Fan felt time stood still, and other times it sped by.
Fortunately, some parts of the space channel were transparent, allowing a view of the outside, so it wasn’t too lonely.
Ye Fan observed that outside the channel, stretches of starfields flashed by, left behind them.
They seemed to pierce through the universe, arriving at a very distant place.
After what felt like ages, Ye Fan shattered a patch of radiant light and finally saw the end of the channel.
"Boom!"
The Chaos Dragon Spear shattered the Domain Gate, Ye Fan led Bai Yan wolf and others through the gate, landing on a desolate Ancient Star.
"Buzz!"
Ye Fan spread out his divine consciousness, quickly scanning the surface of this Ancient Star, hoping to make a discovery.
Although the coordinates have changed, since the final exit of the space channel is here, it indicates that this Ancient Star might have once been visited by humans.
No discoveries were made; the entire Ancient Star is extremely desolate, with no water, no air, only endless mountain ranges and vast deserts.
"Well, we’re lost. This is a completely unfamiliar Star Domain," Bai Yan wolf spread its paws and said helplessly.
"Where were the original coordinates set?" the Golden Divine Dragon asked.
"Does it matter? The original coordinates have long been deviated." Bai Yan wolf replied dispiritedly, with drooping ears and a forlorn look.
"Of course it matters!"
The Golden Divine Dragon said, "Even though the coordinates have deviated, they won’t be too far off. If we search carefully, we might find some clues."
"Right! How didn’t I think of that?" Bai Yan wolf slapped its head, its eyes emitting two silver beams, and started calculating meticulously.
It etched a large Star Map on the ground and then compared it with the stars in the sky.
After half a day, it finally shouted excitedly, its eyes glowing, saying, "Awoo... I’m really a genius, the error is no more than ten thousand miles."
"Talk properly." Ye Fan slapped its big head and asked, "What have you discovered?"
Bai Yan wolf excitedly howled for a while before saying, "Through my decryption of the Star Map, we should have arrived at a node on an Ancient Road."
"Which Ancient Road?" the Peacock asked.
"It’s a node from the Star Map route that Ye gave me," Bai Yan wolf said smugly.
"What?"
Ye Fan was shocked; by a fluke, he had arrived on the road home, leaving him with a sense of disbelief.
"Old Bai, honestly tell me, did you do something to the coordinates during the setting?" Ye Fan asked seriously.
He couldn’t believe that without any coordinates, they had coincidentally arrived on the Ancient Road back to Earth.
"My original coordinates were the broken ones you gave me, and although I repaired them, the space channel collapsed, leading to the coordinate deviation, which brought us to this node on the Ancient Road." Bai Yan wolf dared not hide anything, thus spoke truthfully.
"You..." Ye Fan was speechless. He was not yet a Saint; going back now would be impossible to enter Earth, which seemed senseless.
But as things stand, blaming it wouldn’t help.
"Ye Fan, I’m sorry! I didn’t intend for this; I just wanted to go home with you, to see what your hometown is like." Bai Yan wolf came over apologetically, scratching its head while admitting its mistake to Ye Fan.
It was the first time it addressed Ye Fan by his full name, instead of calling him Ye.
"Never mind, you meant well."
Ye Fan didn’t blame it; in fact, he also wished to return home soon.
Ultimately, under Bai Yan wolf’s guidance, they crossed the void again, traveling ten thousand miles to arrive at the center of a vast desert.
"Is this your idea of correct coordinates?"
Looking at the endless yellow sand before him, Ye Fan was speechless.
"Are you practicing or something?"
The Peacock, with a cold expression, said, as its whole body’s joints cracked, showing traits of violence.
"How could I dare!" Bai Yan wolf complained, saying, "It should be right here; maybe it’s buried under the sands due to the passage of time?"
Ye Fan said nothing, directly using terrifying divine consciousness to probe underground.
With his current Divine Soul Power, while covering the entire planet is feasible, some omissions are inevitable as distance increases.
At the moment, he only covered an area of a thousand miles, fully able to probe a hundred miles deep underground.
Very quickly, Ye Fan’s body shook upon discovering a building beneath the desert, its design possessing an ancient Chinese flair.
"Hope of going home..."
Ye Fan murmured, forcefully restraining the excitement in his heart, as he waved his hand and began to dig through the sand.
"Master, let me do it!" The Peacock stepped forward, preparing to complete the excavation for Ye Fan.
"Be careful, don’t damage any buildings below," Ye Fan, sounding like an old woman, reiterated anxiously.
"I’ll be careful." The Peacock gathered Bai Yan wolf and the Golden Divine Dragon, and together with Ye Fan, began clearing the sand and gravel.
Thus, three Lord Realm Peak strong people and one Saint Lord Level strong person were reduced to digging laborers.
An hour later, the outer sand was piled into a mountain, and a vast building appeared before them.
Seeing this familiar yet foreign architecture, Ye Fan had an impulse to cry.
He had been away from home for so long, so very long!
This was Earth’s Xing Kong Gu Road, as the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi on Earth gradually dried up, it became unsuitable for cultivators to live. The strong cultivators left through this Ancient Road, while those unable to tread the Ancient Road could only slowly grow old and die.
Eventually, Earth’s Xing Kong Gu Road was completely abandoned.
"I want to become strong, I want to go home!"
Ye Fan clenched his hands tightly, his eyes shooting out rays of longing. Never had he been so eager to become strong as he was now.
Finally, relying on its unparalleled nose, Bai Yan wolf found the Transmission Altar.
The altar was intact, with no damage, though it appeared somewhat dilapidated due to energy depletion. Once enough energy is replenished, it can be used normally.
On the altar, Ye Fan found a skeleton, which had died of old age here due to insufficient energy to activate the altar.
The road home officially starts...
PS: In reality, it’s New Year’s, in the book Ye Fan is returning to Earth, does everyone want to see how Ye Fan shows off? Riding a dragon and circling the Earth...