Chapter 2032: A very different Place!

Then it was Max and the others’ turn.

Damian walked forward first, his expression cold and steady. Revona followed with a faint smile, though her eyes carried the depth of someone stepping toward an old memory. Ervin took a deep breath and entered after her.

Rakan, Rosaline, Aurelian, and the others moved one by one, each carrying their own thoughts and ambitions.

Michael walked past Max and paused for a brief moment. He looked like he wanted to say something, but in the end he just snorted and stepped onto the bridge.

Max ignored him. His gaze stayed fixed on the entrance. Beyond that light waited the strongest young geniuses of five universes. Beyond that light waited danger, trials, ruins, enemies, inheritances, and maybe the path to the Eternal Body. It was a place where many geniuses would rise and many more would end up buried.

Max stepped forward. He didn’t look back. With calm eyes, he walked into the entrance of the Godslayer’s Pilgrimage.

The silver-gold light swallowed his figure. A moment later, the starry void outside the Wall of Eternity settled back into quiet.

On the other side of the entrance, Max found himself standing on pale yellow land. The moment his feet touched the ground, the silver-gold light behind him disappeared, and the strange pressure of the Wall of Eternity vanished as if it had never existed. Max didn’t move right away. He stood where he was and quietly took in his surroundings.

The land beneath him stretched wide and dry, glowing faintly with a dull yellow sheen. It didn’t look like ordinary soil. Every grain of dust seemed to carry a trace of ancient energy, and when the wind swept across the ground, the pale sand moved like thin waves across the surface of a silent sea.

No mountains stood nearby, no forests, no rivers, no buildings. As far as Max could see, the land stretched endlessly in every direction.

The sky above him looked unusually blue. It wasn’t the gentle blue of an ordinary world. It ran too deep, too clean, too vast, as if someone had washed away every trace of impurity from the heavens.

Even stranger, both a sun and a moon hung in that sky at the same time. The sun burned with a soft golden light, while the moon gave off a faint silver glow despite the brightness around it. Their light mixed together without either one drowning out the other, filling the world with a strange balance of warmth and cold.

Max took a slow breath. The natural energy here entered his body almost on its own. His expression shifted slightly.

"What a refreshing feeling," he muttered.

It felt like he’d arrived in an entirely different kind of world. The energy here didn’t match the Divine Realm or the Primordial Ancestral Domain. It felt more ancient, more active, and more natural.

It didn’t feel neatly arranged by formations or controlled by powerful forces. Instead, it felt wild and pure, like energy that had flowed freely since the beginning of time.

His Tier 4 Primordial Bloodline stirred faintly. The five Divine Veins inside his body responded too.

Max stood there for a while, letting his senses spread outward. After looking around for some time, he confirmed one thing.

He was in the middle of nowhere. No obvious road, no city, no camp, and no sign of the other geniuses who’d entered with him. It seemed Arvantos had been right. The Godslayer’s Pilgrimage didn’t send everyone to the same place. Each person had to begin their journey alone, at least for now.

"I need to find civilization first," Max muttered to himself.

Both Freya and Arvantos had warned him about this before he entered. The Godslayer’s Pilgrimage was vast, strange, and filled with places that could kill even geniuses if they wandered blindly.

Finding a civilization, a settlement, or at least a gathering point was the safest first move. There, he could learn about the region, understand the local rules, and gather information about trials, marks, danger zones, and opportunities.

Max looked around again. No obvious landmarks stood out.

After a short moment, he activated his Dimensional Sovereign Body. His perception shifted. The world around him changed. Space no longer felt like just empty distance. It became layered, folded, and filled with faint traces left behind by movement.

The wind, the ground, and even the path of energy through the air grew clearer in his senses. Soon he noticed something.

Footprints. They were faint and almost completely covered by pale dust, but they were there. Someone or something had passed through this area not too long ago. The traces moved in one direction, and although Max couldn’t immediately tell whether they belonged to humans, beasts, or another race, they were still the only clue he had.

He decided to follow them. Max moved forward calmly, his senses spread around him.

But he’d only taken a few steps when the ground ahead trembled. A low growl echoed across the pale yellow land.

Max stopped.

From the dust in front of him, a huge beast slowly walked out and blocked his path. It was a wolf-like creature, though calling it a wolf didn’t really do it justice. Its body was massive, nearly five times bigger than Max, and its fur was dark gray with streaks of crimson running through it like dried blood.

It had six powerful legs, each ending in claws sharp enough to tear through stone. Most terrifying of all, it had six heads, and each head stared at Max with a different expression of hunger, cruelty, madness, and animal instinct.

Its aura surged outward.

Max’s eyes narrowed slightly. "3rd level Divine Lord Realm."

The beast wasn’t some hidden guardian, and it didn’t seem to be a rare creature protecting an inheritance. It was just a random beast he’d run into shortly after entering this place, yet it already carried the strength of the 3rd level Divine Lord Realm.

Max frowned. "Even a random beast here sits at the 3rd level of the Divine Lord Realm. My cultivation really is too low for the Godslayer’s Pilgrimage."

He wasn’t afraid. But he wasn’t careless either. In the Divine Realm, his strength already counted as terrifying for someone at the 1st level of the Law Manifestation Realm.

He could fight across realms, kill enemies above his level, and shock even top experts with his foundation. But the Godslayer’s Pilgrimage clearly worked differently. This was a place where the basic standard of danger sat much higher.