Chapter 1575: Accidentally Breaking the Cycle of Reincarnation

Crude stone tools and terrifying gears relentlessly rotated, day after day, year after year, from ancient times to the present, continuously refining special substances from countless remains.

A great sin was hidden within the dilapidated halls deep within this cycle of reincarnation!

Its era was untraceable; perhaps billions of years had passed, or even tens of eons. It had existed since antiquity and persisted, and even more terrifying, it was still operating.

Since the dawn of creation, countless realms had been repeatedly annihilated, yet this place remained untouched!

Chu Feng felt a chill in his heart. This sinful endeavor was truly horrifying. How many primate bodies had been stolen from the Grand Universe throughout history, from ancient times to the present?

When people died, they were supposed to vanish like extinguished lamps. Yet, their lingering spiritual essence and the special substances embedded in the foundations of powerful cultivators were artificially extracted, refined here, and transformed into a secret liquid!

This was not only disrespectful to the deceased but also an attempt to defy the laws of heaven. The ambition of the hidden entities was appalling; merely contemplating their schemes sent shivers down one's spine!

A harvesting ground for spiritual essence, a melting pot for the bodies of ancient powerhouses!

It was a peculiar place, profoundly disturbing.

Crude stone tools, giant gears, translucent vessels, and various creatures being thrown in from a distant abyss created a truly chilling scene.

Chu Feng felt cold air seep into his very bones. He watched for a long time before finally stepping forward.

The dilapidated ancient hall was vast and deep, seemingly without end. For eons, almost no one had entered it, and all the stone mechanisms operated on their own.

In the empty hall, only his footsteps echoed, starkly out of place in this deathly silent land of sin, making it feel even more desolate and grim.

Within this ancient and massive structure, nine sets of interconnected stone tools performed nine rounds of refinement, producing a secret liquid that was eventually transported through a pipe to a small pool.

The pool was small, only one square meter.

It was hard to imagine that after millions of years and countless ages of accumulation, such a small amount of secret liquid had been refined!

But that was indeed the case; the nine refinements involved repeatedly removing impurities and preserving only the essence. Each stage yielded a minuscule amount from a massive volume, a process of extreme rigor.

Even from a distance, Chu Feng felt an intense craving from his body, like a parched desert yearning for water or hoping for a heavenly downpour.

Did his body truly need that special secret liquid?

This made him feel repulsed. He knew that the secret liquid, extracted over billions of years, originated from corpses across various realms—it was refined from piles of the dead!

Yet, Chu Feng found himself unable to control his body, which trembled with a primal instinct that truly yearned for it.

In an instant, he realized that this extraordinary secret liquid seemed capable of alleviating the "fatigue period" he experienced due to evolution, compensating for the wear and tear accumulated from years of continuous evolution.

On the path of pollen evolution, the most significant challenge for powerhouses was the "fatigue period." Once a certain limit was reached, without undergoing the baptism of time and continuous refinement over years, the path would inevitably become increasingly arduous, eventually proving impassable!

Clearly, Chu Feng had already reached his limit at this stage. While at Zhou Xi's home, he had used their ancient hall to glimpse his "future." If he forcibly continued to evolve, his flesh would rot, he would become a skeleton, self-deteriorate, and die a miserable death!

Furthermore, the Zhou family had predicted a relatively precise fatigue period for him, requiring five thousand to nearly ten thousand years to "cool down," as he had progressed at an astonishing pace along this path, evolving too rapidly!

In the realm of evolution, his speed was truly astonishing, even terrifying.

Now, he had to stop and forcibly halt his evolutionary progress.

However, ten thousand years was too long; he lived for the moment and truly had no time to wait. This contradiction made him feel helpless, desperate, and urgent.

Now, he had unexpectedly spotted a turning point!

"Is this prepared for me?" he wondered.

He whispered, gazing at the secret liquid in the pool, enveloped by a layer of mist. His body yearned intensely, wanting to lean in.

But he ultimately suppressed this primal urge and remained still.

"One should suppress the most primal instincts and not be dominated by the body."

Most crucially, he feared that the secret liquid might contain hidden dangers or uncontrollable elements.

Where in the world could such a convenient way to harvest and obtain something so precious exist without consequence?

It was illogical to expect liberation on the path of evolution without paying a price!

"That way is..."

Suddenly, Chu Feng was startled, noticing something like a small mountain further in the distance.

Was it a special building?

On closer inspection, it resembled a beehive, densely riddled with holes all over the small mountain.

Over countless ages, the one-meter-square pool had long since filled with the secret liquid, and the rising mist slowly spread towards the small mountain.

The terrain there was unusual, densely packed with nests, and surprisingly, many creatures resided within each of the holes!

Perhaps, they were all corpses!

The so-called beehive was more like a morgue!

Only a small amount of the secret liquid turned into gas, drifting out of the pool and into the resting place of the corpses, nourishing various seemingly deceased creatures.

"No, they're not dead—they're still alive!"

Chu Feng gasped, those pupae had not yet decayed; there were still lingering traces of vital energy!

These creatures were all of significant origin: shriveled Golden Crows, enormous Vermilion Apes, humanoid three-eyed beings, and many human evolvers.

Evidently, they had all been extraordinary beings and powerhouses in their time. From their lingering aura and the special energy fields they retained, one could sense that these creatures were once a group of proud, confident, and incredibly resilient monsters.

Now, their common trait was that they were all shriveled, skin and bone, with their hair, wings, and fur almost entirely gone—a consequence of the erosion of time.

"Hiss!"

Chu Feng gasped, "Could these be the exceptional individuals from various eras, slumbering in the King's Hall on the Path of Reincarnation?"

They were all undefeated titans of their respective eras, capable of sweeping through a generation, dominating their peers during their prime, and reigning supreme throughout an entire age.

"For example, Luo Qiudao and Qi Yuntian from the Scarlet Rainbow Realm, those once-famed titans, have already departed the King's Hall to hunt me down in the outside world—and yet, there's another group here!"

Chu Feng's eyes widened. These were all formidable enemies, and to find such a large contingent in this particular place was astonishing.

These were no ordinary beings, but rather exceptional figures preserved from past eras, chosen by the Path of Reincarnation, put into slumber, nourished by the secret liquid, and had their bodies refined, all so that they could one day break through their limits.

The Reincarnation Tomb Keepers and the entities behind them seemed to be cultivating a select group. In the initial stages, they provided the best nourishment, but later, a brutal culling would occur, with the hope that one or two beings surpassing even Immortal Kings would emerge!

Chu Feng grew excited, wanting to eliminate all these adversaries here beforehand!

These individuals hailed not from a single location, but from across the Grand Universe, chosen from various renowned great cosmoses through the most rigorous and discerning selection processes over vast ancient history.

Chu Feng held back from acting immediately. If he mishandled the situation and awakened all the creatures in the beehive, he would likely be overwhelmed. A concentrated assault by geniuses from all eras would surely leave him in a dire state.

Furthermore, it was highly probable that many of them possessed cultivation levels even higher than his own.

Although these individuals appeared ancient and skeletal now, their spiritual essence was undying, their true bodies undamaged. They had endured various trials, and if necessary, they could undoubtedly revive swiftly and regain their youth.

After all, those scheming deep within the Path of Reincarnation desired a group of vibrant, breakthrough-achieving individuals, not a collection of frail old men.

This place must possess a method to restore their youth.

Their current aged appearance might merely be superficial, a temporary erosion by time, as their true souls had always been in slumber, likely "frozen."

Through careful investigation, Chu Feng frowned, noticing that large sections of the beehive were empty, devoid of the slumbering beings. Had they all departed to hunt him down?

The entire world conspiring to kill Chu Feng—what an elaborate scheme!

The thought that these were the strongest individuals from every era was truly terrifying and awe-inspiring.

Confronting and contending with the most exceptionally talented powerhouses from every historical period filled Chu Feng with both fury and exhilaration. Even if they all came together to kill him, what of it? He intended to eliminate them all!

"My idea is good, and confidence is important, but a real confrontation would be utterly chilling; this seems like an unwinnable battle," Chu Feng thought, his mind perfectly clear.

How could one person single-handedly contend against all the strongest individuals from every period in history?

"Should I find a way to eliminate these individuals who haven't yet emerged from their nests beforehand?!" Chu Feng's eyes gleamed with a cold light, as he was destined to be their enemy in the future.

He did not rush to take any action. As he observed, he noticed subtle sounds occasionally emanating from the one-meter-square pool.

Was there another hidden current?

He was surprised; it seemed there was something beneath the pool.

Was there another dimension, or did the secret liquid flow to other places?

Unable to resist, he stood at a distance and used his abilities, attempting to excavate the pool remotely.

"Hmm?!"

Beneath the pool, roots of some mysterious plant were drawing in the secret liquid. Its main body was unknown, but its root system astonishingly extended into this supreme treasure pool.

Chu Feng was startled. He steadily retreated, then cautiously and carefully began to excavate those astonishing roots from a distance.

Suddenly, a faint vibration resonated, and terrifying beams of light erupted from the pool, as if the cosmic star sea had burst its banks. It was horrifying, seemingly capable of submerging a grand world and reversing the flow of the Path of Reincarnation itself!

Chu Feng was horrified; such a fluctuation was simply unresolvable. It could destroy heaven and earth, making any creature appear as insignificant as an ant or as faint as a speck of dust before it.

Fortunately, he had been prepared. He hadn't touched it directly with his true body, but had stood back at a distance, already placing the stone jar in front of him as a shield.

As expected, even the stone jar reacted, emitting a faint, shimmering glow. This was rare; any external force or artifact capable of affecting it was undoubtedly extraordinary and defied all norms.

The erupting beams of light were blocked, dazzling and radiant, remarkably colorful and sacred.

Chu Feng gazed intently. The so-called light beams were not actual light but rather talismans, arranged in intricate groups outside the pool, like pages from a heavenly scripture!

"A stone zither?"

He was greatly startled, realizing the source of the phenomenon.

At the bottom of the pool, beneath the mysterious roots, lay an ancient zither, completely petrified; even its strings appeared to be made of stone. It was utterly bizarre.

It was this zither that was emitting the vibrato!

Just now, it seemed to have been accidentally strummed by Chu Feng, causing talismans to pour forth like a breached star sea, triggering astonishing changes.

"What is its origin, and how could it be buried in this supreme ancient pool?!"

Chu Feng was genuinely shocked.

At that moment, the astounding transformation continued.

Chu Feng was unharmed, yet the faint vibrato from the ancient zither at the bottom of the pool was astonishingly affecting the entire ancient land, as if it would sever the Path of Reincarnation itself.

A surging tide seemed poised to annihilate the Grand Universe!

The void disintegrated, and chaos surged, as if ushering in the creation of heaven and earth!

Dazzling rays of light burst forth, and the stone zither's faintest tremor could unleash a torrent of power, directly impacting the beehive-like morgue on the nearby small mountain.

Or more accurately, the slumbering grounds of the most powerful beings from all eras were directly affected.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

At the nests, one hole after another exploded, disintegrating in an instant. Some creatures were awakened, only to immediately explode, their forms and spirits utterly annihilated.

Chu Feng was astonished. What ancient artifact had he unearthed?

Had he inadvertently triggered something that would shatter the cycle of reincarnation, overturn heaven and earth, and profoundly affect the Grand Universe?!

He had originally come here to raid the scavengers' lair and uncover the secrets hidden deep within the cycle of reincarnation, a perfectly valid objective. However, he had never anticipated such a monumental and tumultuous beginning to his endeavors!