"Ancient Battlefield!"
Five days later, Su Yu directly transmitted from Turtle Island to the northern major city of Tianhuo City in the Southern Domain of the Fallen Star Islands via the Void God Network.
The Southern Domain is known locally as the Southern Island.
Tianhuo City is located at the northernmost tip of the Southern Domain, near the Ancient Battlefield. Occasionally, meteors fly out from the Ancient Battlefield bringing with them heavenly fire, hence the name Tianhuo City.
Due to the influence of the Ancient Battlefield, the climate within a radius of hundreds of thousands of kilometers is abnormal, arid, and occasionally experiences heavenly fire, allowing only certain fire-attributed spirit plants to survive.
Su Yu stood above Tianhuo City gazing into the distance, an endless expanse of crimson and desolation, filled with boiling flames and groups of fire-type spirit monsters.
He didn’t come here to complete divine tasks, but merely to level up.
He currently possessed 25.2 billion spiritual energy experience, enough to continuously refine two Immortal Bones, but his cultivation level was only 3200, far from sufficient.
Unlike cultivation points which have slay experience and spiritual energy experience that can be rapidly gained through external forces, cultivation acquisition is relatively singular, either by killing bosses or obtaining the Power of Law or other special opportunities.
The Power of Law is out of the question, it’s not reliable at all, so he can only rely on farming bosses to slowly accumulate.
The data he exchanged for three thousand merits indicated that although this Ancient Battlefield is dangerous, it also presents great opportunities and rewards. The spirit monsters here are extremely high-level, and there are many bosses over level 100. As long as one possesses sufficient strength, it’s easy to accumulate enough cultivation.
After spending half a day in Tianhuo City carefully researching the situation of the Ancient Battlefield, Su Yu spent 200 gold buying some items.
Aside from the pills, the main item was a teleportation talisman specifically for the Ancient Battlefield.
The Ancient Battlefield was once an Immortal battlefield, and it still retains the Power of Law from the immortals, so normal Teleportation Talismans are unusable there.
After making his preparations, he left Tianhuo City heading north.
The sky was crimson, with countless massive rifts stretching across the void. Some contained intensely hot lava, and occasionally lava bubbles would burst, sending streams of lava flying out as fire meteors plummeting downward.
Other space rifts lead to endless seawater, pouring from the high-altitude rifts, crashing down from ten thousand feet high, shattering into countless fragments.
The combination of seawater and high temperature formed steam covering a radius of several thousand kilometers.
These space rifts are remnants from the immortal wars of the Ancient Era, with the power of the immortals persisting for countless millennia.
According to records, there seem to be other worlds beyond these space rifts.
Experts have ventured into these rifts to explore, discovering complete and secret worlds with well-defined laws beyond these rifts.
Some rifts lead to an infinite sea of lava, where Earth Immortal powerhouses have explored for ages without finding boundaries.
Some rifts lead to dangerous worlds filled with monsters, yet also home to precious Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
Some rifts conceal worlds inhabited by strange races, some weak and some extremely dangerous.
Every year, adventurers venturing behind these space rifts face uncertainties, with some returning empty-handed, some perishing inside, yet others lucky enough to gain immense benefits and rise to prominence.
Su Yu recalled the records he purchased mentioning several instances of super lucky individuals who, once ordinary cultivators, found defying fortunes in the Ancient Battlefield and ascended to greatness, with some even appearing on the supreme and prodigy rankings, becoming elite superstars of human civilization.
This kind of fate-altering opportunity further excited everyone, prompting many players to venture in every year.
But as the space rifts on the periphery of the Ancient Battlefield were gradually explored one by one, those deeper within became increasingly dangerous, reducing exploration opportunities; now all remaining unexplored rifts are deep within the Ancient Battlefield, difficult even for average players to reach, let alone explore.
Fortunately, Su Yu didn’t come this time to explore the Ancient Battlefield, just to level up.
He casually found a sparsely populated area, summoned Ao Run to guard him, and launched the Purple and Cyan Twin Swords towards the fire spirits playing in a nearby lava lake.
A large lake of flames gathered there, filled with fire spirits and lava spirit monsters, mostly at level eighty to ninety, with four mini-bosses in a lake less than one hundred thousand acres, indicating a high boss density.
Sword Qi with an output of twenty-four thousand swept like lightning, shattering ordinary small monsters into pieces, transforming them into clusters of flame dissipating into the lake.
The bosses were only in their nineties, with health of seven to eight hundred thousand, able to withstand a little longer.
But not much longer, shattered into fragments like minions in less than ten seconds.
The loot was mostly some fire-type materials, which Su Yu casually swept up and stored away.
Ao Run didn’t attack, she belonged to water, looking out of place in this fire-rich element area, lazily coiled at his waist with little strength.
Not relying on her to assist in battle, Su Yu brought her out solely for tanking in case of encountering a major boss.
This area had many such small lakes of fire, visible everywhere; in less than a minute he cleared out the spirit monsters in one lake before moving on to the next.
Every lake always has some BOSSes. The small lake BOSSes are not even at level one hundred, while those in larger flaming lakes exceed one hundred, but none are his match.
No special tactics needed; just two flying swords easily dispatch them all. Sweeping through them effortlessly, clearing them without much effort.
He swept and cleared straight through, from east to west in one go, crazily brushing over hundreds of thousands of kilometers in four or five days. Though he did not accumulate much slaughter experience, he easily gained over a thousand Dao points.
The reason for just over a thousand Dao points was mainly due to the BOSS levels not being high enough. Outside the battlefield, they are small BOSSes, mostly below level one hundred. His Qi Refining Heart Skill is at level eighty, and defeating small BOSSes below level hundred grants only a few Dao points.
If the BOSS density wasn’t sufficient, he wouldn’t have even gathered over a thousand Dao points.
Next, Su Yu swept back and forth near Heavenly Fire City for half a month, accumulating around three thousand Dao points in one go. Feeling like there’s nothing left to challenge, he changed positions, brushing along the edge of the Ancient Battlefield toward the east, occasionally entering the battlefield and coming back out.
He didn’t dare stay long; it was too dangerous inside.
While the environment doesn’t differ much, filled with spatial rifts and harsh conditions everywhere, outside the Ancient Battlefield it’s just harsh environment, but inside, it’s not merely harsh environment, but the world laws themselves are harsh.
The internal Ancient Battlefield, influenced by the Immortal’s lingering Dao Laws, had its fundamental world laws distorted.
Time and space chaotic, earth, fire, wind, and water emerge, foundational laws distorted affecting the basic rules of the other side, causing the spirit monsters spawned within to be distorted as well.
Most spirit monsters are distorted in appearance and abilities, difficult to deal with but strong enough to defeat.
Yet, there is a very rare few born through distorted rules, capable of mastering distorted Power of Law from birth, which is quite abnormal.