Chapter 3902 - Heavenly Punishment Protection Seed
Tianming saw the entrance clearly. He flew above some distance and looked down, seeing a black-mirrorlike surface beneath him that emanated a black-gold mist.
"A divine channel?" It did look incredibly similar to the divine channel that appeared in the Middlekin Star Ruin. This was the entrance to the Ancestral World. Unlike the Middlekin Star Ruin's divine channel, no middlekin stars came out of this one. It also looked to be a thousand times the size of the former, looking almost comparable in size and brilliance to maniverse-class worlds.
"I don't think this counts as a divine channel. Instead, it's just an odd entrance of some kind! It's said that there's some dense flameyellow void essence down there. It's a source of energy that's comparable to nova source from maniverse-class worlds. Cultivating will yield better results down there. However, I heard that flameyellow void essence is rather volatile, so tears in space might occur near the bottom. If you're not powerful enough, you'll die!" Qin Feng looked at Qingyu and Moran. "Those two are clearly underleveled for this place. If you don't heed my warning and go down there regardless, you won't like the consequences."
"Your worry is unnecessary," Qingyu said, looking at the black mirror. She wanted to be there to pick Lingfeng up herself, and she was confident that this wasn't beyond her.
"Fine! Then, wait for the heavenly punishment protection seed. When the energy from the Heavenly Dao Arena forcefully enters the Ancestral World and stabilizes it, it'll be much safer for us to enter!" Qin Feng said.
"So are the people at the ruins' entrance also waiting for the heavenly punishment protection seed?" Tianming asked. There were tens of thousands of people silently waiting up ahead. It seemed like these top geniuses had been analyzing the ruins for quite some time now.
"That's right. These are maniverse-class geniuses under five hundred years of age. There's no way that they would be willing to miss out on something this good."
Tianming got a rough idea of the situation. It had been some time since the Ancient Flameyellow Ruins were discovered. The reason they decided to deploy the Heavenly Dao Arena there was that the Ancestral World's territory wasn't there for the many factions to freely fight over. Instead, the elites of the Eightpart Pantheons used the Heavenly Dao's power to forge a safe environment for their young geniuses to train in.
The preparations were well underway, and soon, they would be able to flood into the region of the Ancestral World. A huge Heavenly Dao arena would cover a large region near the entrance and plant a heavenly punishment protection seed in the young geniuses, which would serve as a kind of binding contract. As long as they were within the region of the Heavenly Dao Arena, none of them would be allowed to lay hands on others, lest they be punished by the Heavenly Dao.
"Back then, the heavenly punishment protection seed was only applied to members of the Eightpart Pantheons. But in the past million years, smaller factions and clans in the Upper Star Ruin have gained some rights and were lucky enough to obtain the privilege as well. But unlike the Eightpart Pantheons, whose members all have those seeds, it's a matter of luck for us. So, we won't know if you have a seed until later. If you don't get it, I would advise against going in. No matter who you end up offending, it'd be all too easy for their seniors to go in and kill you," Qin Feng warned.
Tianming nodded, though there was still something he was unclear on. "When does the heavenly punishment protection seed stop working?"
"There are two kinds of possible scenarios. First, it'll lose effect when the event ends, in other words, when the Ancient Flameyellow Ruins is no longer a popular destination after everything has been uncovered about it. The second scenario would be when we leave the delineated area of the Heavenly Dao Arena."
"So, once the event ends or if anyone strays outside the designated area, seniors will be free to kill juniors and take their spoils from the Ancient Flameyellow Ruins?"