Chapter 1046 - 1146: Picturesque Mountains and Rivers

Ye Tianfan wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that the red and blue of the Treasure Lotus had gradually begun to intertwine.

However, the newly added sandy yellow color was still distinctly separate from these two colors.

But Ye Tianfan didn't mind, since there should be another Treasure Lotus, and it would surely be in the next scene.

Ye Tianfan was somewhat looking forward to seeing what would happen after the four Treasure Lotuses fused together.

Ye Tianfan knew that the cave was the entrance to the next scene, so he summoned the Xuanhuang Tower and rushed directly into the cave!

Then, Ye Tianfan felt everything go dark before finding himself in a void, seemingly without light, where everything was non-existent. Ye Tianfan floated in this void as if he were in the cosmos, unable to feel the presence of space, or even the passage of time.

Ye Tianfan drifted like this for an unknown duration until, suddenly, he felt a change in gravity and fell from his floating state.

Just as Ye Tianfan was about to fly up, he suddenly felt himself hit something solid!

Then Ye Tianfan quickly stood up and surveyed his surroundings, realizing he had somehow transitioned from the void to a picturesque place, standing atop a mountain peak.

Standing on the peak, Ye Tianfan looked around and noticed towering mountains and constant streams below, resembling a scene from a painting.

After all, this was scenery Ye Tianfan had never seen in either of the two worlds he had experienced. There was a perfect idiom to describe it: "As picturesque as a painting."

Moreover, he couldn't find any trace of the void he had been in before.

It was as if Ye Tianfan had stepped into another world in a flash.

And this place seemed similar to the third scene, the desert scene, just that the desert scene was an endless expanse of sand, while here were boundless mountains, rivers, and lakes.

Well, it seems I'll have to find the exit in this place just like in the desert scene, Ye Tianfan thought helplessly. However, this place is much better than the desert because, although similarly monotonous with its mountains, it's beautiful like a painting.

So, searching for the exit here wouldn't be as boring as it was in the desert scene.

Even though this scene is as beautiful as a painting, lingering too long can still lead to fatigue, so Ye Tianfan intended to find the exit before the scenery tired him out. Although he didn't know where the exit was, he deduced from the desert scene that any special place in this scene might lead to the next scene or even might be the exit. Considering the four elements of earth, wind, water, and fire, the previous desert scene should be the wind scene, and the picturesque landscape here should be the final earth scene.

Ye Tianfan believed that once he passed the final scene, he would either leave the ruins or enter the final land, as there must be a treasure guarded by the four scenes, something beyond just these four Treasure Lotuses.

It's even possible it could surpass the fusion of the four Treasure Lotuses, considering each Lotus had significant effects, even though Ye Tianfan only knew the function of the first Lotus; the effects of the other two Lotuses were unknown. However, those that could fuse with the first Lotus must be at a supreme level similar to it, though Ye Tianfan wasn't clear on their specific conditions yet.

This time, Ye Tianfan didn't even need to fly into the sky to view the surroundings because he vaguely realized that the mountain peak he currently stood upon was the highest around. With a slight glance, he could see everything around him!

Ye Tianfan roughly surveyed and found nothing special in the surroundings, which didn't surprise him, for if such a special place could be easily found, the guarded scene would be set up for nothing!

Perhaps this scene, like the wind scene, was also a test of his endurance or something else!

However, Ye Tianfan was still uncertain whether the previous segmented scenes were truly testing his endurance. The oasis that appeared out of nowhere wasn't a direct manifestation but seemed to have been there all along, only for Ye Tianfan to stumble upon it coincidentally!

So now, Ye Tianfan was unsure whether he was genuinely being tested for endurance. If not, all of this speculation would amount to nothing, and he would have taken unnecessary detours, possibly taking more ahead!

Yet, Ye Tianfan didn't dare deny whether this was a test of endurance, considering many places in the ruins tested people. Passing these tests could yield the powers granted by the ruins, failing which might lead to expulsion or, worse, death by the ruins.

Moreover, seeing the four towering ridges, climbing them one by one would take more than a day per mountain, not to mention the relentless rivers at their base!

Thinking about this, Ye Tianfan decided to summon the Fire Lotus Sword and soar upon it into the distance, reasoning that if the wind scene tested endurance, then the earth scene would not test the same again, as tests wouldn't be repeated.

Also, this scene didn't seem to test endurance, considering such a vast expanse of peaks; it would take tens or hundreds of years for a test like this to complete. Given Ye Tianfan's current strength, climbing a single peak would take about a day, and with countless peaks, along with the time needed to descend and cross rivers, reaching another peak would be impossible without two to three days!

Judging by the distance Ye Tianfan flew over in a single minute here, if he had traversed by foot, it would have taken over two years, meaning the distance flown in one minute saved him over two years!

That's why Ye Tianfan decided to abandon climbing these peaks by hand and opted to fly directly!