The black water flowed without any breath, silent like a stagnant pool.

Yet this water was moving, the flowing black water revealed a dead silence that was truly breathtaking.

But what was even more astonishing was the presence of a Withered Bone Warship, a vessel embedded and cast with human skulls.

This ship remained quietly before Zhou Yan, resembling a demonic ship bound for true hell, with no return once boarded.

However, Zhou Yan did not hesitate, and as the ship approached, he stepped onto it.

Zhou Yan had seen many warships, even ones as cold and silent as this ancient vessel, but he remained unafraid.

Once he boarded the ancient ship, it started moving again.

Silently and swiftly, each passage conveyed a sense of ancient rhythm, coupled with an indescribable chilly aura that was unfathomable.

Nevertheless, Zhou Yan did not focus too much on the surroundings, instead channeling his attention entirely onto the warship itself.

On the warship, besides the skulls, were some ancient engraved runes, all Emperor Patterns.

These runes, back on Sword Burial Ancestor Star, Zhou Yan frequently encountered them, yet at the time he never thought of them as Emperor Patterns, resembling the initial encounter with his father's engravings, treating them as simple heritage carvings without any contemplation.

But in reality, they were Emperor Patterns.

In life, often inadvertently, genuinely important things appear. If ignored, they are missed.

Gazing at these engravings and strange marks, Zhou Yan discovered a path, a route from the deck leading into the ship's interior.

Upon discovering this path, Zhou Yan did not hesitate, directly stepping towards that route guided by the rune patterns.

After stepping onto this path, Zhou Yan noticed subtle changes in the ship; the bones remained bones, the skulls remained skulls, but a mast appeared at the ship's bow.

On the mast hung a lamp, a lamp burning the oil of a cultivator.

Not only burning the oil, but also burning Divine Power, rendering this lantern nearly inextinguishable.

Burning soul power with human oil and Divine Power, the lamp's purpose was already self-evident.

Yet Zhou Yan merely glanced at the change and diverted his attention.

Following the route indicated by Emperor Pattern marks, he walked along a road leading to the ship's cabin.

Very quickly he entered the cabin.

The cabin was silent, with nothing inside, yet the aura of a cultivator lingered, fresh, suggesting a cultivator recently appeared here.

And now vanished, either met misfortune or departed.

Which scenario, for now, was hard to ascertain.

Zhou Yan's gaze roamed the massive cabin walls, in the dim light still capturing vibrant murals on the surrounding walls.

Within the images, a brutal war was etched, several figures of yellow-robed women vividly painted, akin to Immortal Ascensions, releasing potent attacks; one was knocked back, chest pierced, emanating a crimson blood haze.

While others scattered, blood-stained.

The sky was somewhat dark, with flashes of Heavenly Tribulation, concealed.

Amid clouds, countless cultivators seemed to be observing.

Beneath the clouds, battling the women was a man wrapped in black armor, yet revealing no features, save for his robust and imposing constitution indicating male gender, all other aspects defying judgment.

This one individual caused immense harm to nearly ten yellow-robed women, placing them at a disadvantage.

Viewing the mural, Zhou Yan sensed himself entering this painted world.

However, with resolute determination, upon sensing discrepancy, his eyes flickered, naturally extricating him from this state.

At this moment, Zhou Yan was shocked to realize he unknowingly stood in the cabin for nearly an hour.

In such a brief moment, the time difference was significant, highlighting the mural's peculiarity.

Zhou Yan immediately inferred, previous cultivators here likely entered the mural.

Armed with initial experience, Zhou Yan examined the ancient mural again, now with a spectator's perspective, revealing a battle scene.

The mural's engraved runes manifested the battle's resolve and majesty, with Zhou Yan using Divine Power and Time Trace Method to derive roughly thirty percent of the battle's truth.

Nonetheless, the result belonged to a unique era.

An era of heroes, a time of ambitious rivalry.

That was truly the Tai Chu era, the dawn of cultivator civilization.

An age of even greater brilliance, where the Cultivation Path developed into diverse competing schools, each cultivating various abilities and traditions to near perfection.

During this perfection, lived Ten Thousand Immortals and Ten Thousand Buddhas, even creating independent worlds corresponding to Immortals and Buddhas, establishing Ascension rules, allowing those beyond soul body cultivation to ascend upon Enlightenment.

When ordinary cultivators focused on constitution, when genius cultivators were constrained by various realm bottlenecks, Immortal Path and Buddha Path pioneered a distinct heritage in resolve and will, crossing all realms to enter the Immortal Realm.

This realm could even suppress the Emperor Blood 99th Transformation Supreme.

How unfair was that?

If ordinary cultivators did not cultivate the path, was there no way forward?

Not exactly.

Ordinary cultivators, after Ninety-nine Transformations of Emperor Blood, could achieve immortality, while for the Immortal Buddha, they merely qualified as ants.

Thus, fairness was irrelevant, inequity meaningless, as paths differed.

The Supreme Realm of Emperor Blood Nine Transformations was arduous, yet refining essence to qi, refining qi to divinity transformation, refining god and returning void, refining void and merging dao also proved challenging.

Zhou Yan glimpsed battles between cultivators and cultivators, witnessing fierce clashes of two paths through the mural.

First mural.

Second mural.

By the third and fourth murals, the battles faded, leaving a vast darkness, all space shattered, reduced to ruins.

Everything destructible was destroyed.

Everything destructible was nearly obliterated.

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