Chapter 1137 - First Encounter with Garuda


    Mu Chen’s group of four left the Dragon Ind, using the identity as three Golden Dragon Disciples as intimidation, even if everyone knew that there’s a high possibility of them possessing the treasures of the Dragon Ind, no one dared to attack or follow them. As for Xia Yu, he could only watch as Mu Chen’s group left and did not dare to make a move.


    After leaving the Dragon Ind, Mu Chen’s group did not search for other inds. Although they might find treasures in the other inds, their main objective right now was the legendary Heavenly Lake.


    After all, the baptism of the Heavenly Lake was a rare opportunity for people like them that hadn’t stepped into the Earth Sovereign Realm. Even someone of Xiao Xiao and Lin Jing’s status was attracted by it, not to mention Mu Chen.


    After confirming their objective, Mu Chen’s group of four hastened their journey, spending half a day to pass through all the inds at their full speed.


    They appeared on a lone ind and swept their gazes around before they noticed that a hundred miles in radius started to empty out. There weren’t any more rock inds. They had already reached the end of the area.


    “This is close to the depths of the Ancient Haven Pce.” Mu Chen cast his gaze out. The thickness of Spiritual Energy here was unbelievable and as the spiritual mist drifted, even rainbow clouds could be seen on the sky, which could only be formed after Spiritual Energy had condensed to a shocking degree.


    Casting his gaze over, he could vaguely see some tattered pagodas on some summits with the outline of an ancient pce far away with the entire heavens and earth enveloped in a silent and ancient atmosphere.


    “We should reach the Heavenly Lake after the belt of inds.” Mu Chen took out the map and looked at it before speaking to the three girls.


    Xiao Xiao nodded her head then cast a bewitching nce at the silent heavens and earth. Although this ce looked calm without any danger, she felt that something was amiss.


    “You sensed it?” When Mu Chen saw her expression, he smiled.


    “What’s wrong?” Lin Jing asked in puzzlement. She had also sensed it, but she couldn’t source the origin of that danger.


    Nine Nether swept her eyes around and yet, she couldn’t find the source of the problem as well.


    “See those pirs?” Mu Chen pointed his finger towards the fist-sized light pirs that seemed to descend from the sky, looking like rays of light.


    Hearing Mu Chen’s reminder, the threedies then felt a peculiar fluctuationing from those pirs of light.


    Xiao Xiao flicked her finger and Spiritual Energy swept out, sweeping up a rock and aimed it towards a pir. But when the rock came in contact with the pir, it was sliced into two with a mirror-smooth cut, looking as if the pirs were akin to sharp des.


    “Mhm?” The three girls were also startled.


    “There are Spiritual Arrays set up in those clouds. The Spiritual Energy will gather and shoot down, akin to a that envelops the heavens and earth. Those pirs are so sharp that even Ninth Grade Sovereigns would be wounded and lose their limbs from them.” Mu Chen pointed at the floating clouds as he exined.


    When the threedies heard his exnation, their face slightly changed. If they charged through without any defence, then even they would have to pay a price for it.


    “Why is this Ancient Haven Pce filled with dangerous traps?” Nine Nether couldn’t help speaking out.


    “It should be the defensive means in the Ancient haven Pce for the Fiend ns that invaded the Greaw Continent. But they weren’t removed after that.” Mu Chen gently sighed as he saw innumerable skeletons with tattered armours and weapons lying on the ground. Those skeletons were sparkling, emitting a faint lustre, which proved that before their deaths, they should have been powerful experts.


    It looked like the Ancient Haven Pce had lost a great number of powerhouses in the war.


    “But why aren’t there any remains of the Fiend ns?” Mu Chen suddenly thought of something. It seemed that since the beginning, he had never seen a remain of a Fiend n.


    “That’s because the Evil Energy that the Fiend ns cultivated is ipatible with the Great Thousand World. So after their fall, their corpses would be refined by the Spiritual Energy of the heavens and earth as time passes without leaving any corpses.” Lin Jing exined. Not just anyone would know about this, but she’s not the same as them. As the daughter of the Martial Ancestor, she knew more about the Fiend ns.


    “Let us get moving. Although those pirs are troublesome, we just have to be cautious and avoid them.” Mu Chen said towards the threedies before slowly moving out. As he approached the pirs, he avoided them. At the same time, those pirs did not chase after him, since there was evidently a w after the passage of time.


    When the threedies saw how Mu Chen safely traversed, they felt relieved and swiftly followed after him.


    This region had slowed down their speed, but with his reminder, this region, which was initially dangerous, was easily passed through by them.


    After passing through the region of spiritual clouds, Mu Chen’s party of four hastened their speed for nearly half an hour before they started to slow down.


    That’s because they suddenly heard peculiar soundsing from the distance.


    Rustle!


    Those were crisp sounds of water.


    When they heard the sounds, they could clearly feel an attraction force on the Spiritual Energy in their bodies and they started to stir. The feeling was akin to a person that was about to die of thirst finding water...


    The four of them could sense the Spiritual Energy in their bodies stirring up, but they quickly suppressed it, which took a brief moment, before the Spiritual Energy gradually calmed down and shock appeared on their faces.


    It was only the sound of water and it could cause the Spiritual Energy in their bodies to stir, so the origin of that sound definitely had to be their objective, the Heavenly Lake!


    The four’s eyes lit up with excitement on their faces before they quickened their speed and in just ten-odd breaths, they had already passed through a myriad-foot high peak.


    The towering peak disappeared and their vision instantly widened. At the same time, a dazzling lustre blossomed, which caused them to feel a stinging pain in their eyes, even after shrouding their eyes with the protection of Spiritual Energy, causing them to uncontrobly squint their eyes.


    The dazzling lustrested for a brief moment before they gradually got used to it and their vision started to clear up. Immediately, they uncontrobly sucked in cold breaths.


    What appeared before them was a boundless azure ocean with a starry sky as the background. The ocean glittered and sparkled in the darkness, flickering with a lustre, as if the ocean contained stars. asionally when the water rolled, there was a crystallised dust that swept up and every speck of that was refined with Spiritual Energy, turning back into a water state when it fell back into the ocean...


    Because of the dense Spiritual Energy above the ocean, the spiritual mist looked simr to a dragon and phoenix with myriad beasts charging forth. It looked profound, akin to a small realm.


    Furthermore, this ocean was floating in the sky!


    Space had shattered at the edge of the ocean, causing space to fluctuate when the ocean’s waves swept out. Mu Chen’s party could clearly sense that although the ocean was just before their eyes, it was in a different space from them.


    Evidently, the ocean was sealed in a space created by a powerhouse.


    Mu Chen’s party was intimidated by the ocean before them and only gradually recovered a brief momentter. Their faces were filled with a shock, which soon turned into joy. They knew that this ocean that looked like it was floating in the sky but it was in fact sealed in space was the objective that they had been yearning after.


    The Heavenly Lake!


    “Truly the cornerstone of the Ancient Haven Pce’s strengthening base...” Xiao Xiao also couldn’t help eximing in admiration, despite her stunning status. This Heavenly Lake was definitely a great hand and back then, when it was created, the Heavenly Emperor of the Ancient Haven Pce must have done a lot for it. Such a huge resource was not something that those supreme forces in the current Great Thousand World could take out.


    Lin Jing nodded her head in acknowledgement. The foundation of this force that was once the Overlord of the Greaw Continent was truly stunning.


    As they spoke, Mu Chen gradually recovered and retracted his gaze from the Heavenly Lake. Just when he was about to speak, his attention was distracted from a reaction that rose from his heart. He turned his head and looked towards a distant mountain.


    On the mountain stood a ck-clothed, slender-figured man with his hands behind his back. His bearing was akin to the abyss, deep and unfathomable. The myriad-foot high peak beneath his feet should’ve been majestic, but when he stood there, his bearing had suppressed the mountain and all the attention was only focused on him. This person was definitely out of the ordinary!


    Mu Chen shrunk his eyes as an indescribable guard rose in the depths of his heart, tensing his body and entering into a battle state.


    Although he wasn’t familiar with that man, Mu Chen could tell his identity with a nce.


    To be able to cause his body to enter an alert state by reflex, aside from Garuda, who also possessed the Great Sr Undying Body, who else could it be?!


    While Mu Chen was slightly shocked, the man had also sensed something and his abstruse gaze shot over from afar.