Yun Ling had difficulty breathing as he desperately gasped for air. He was in pain. His chest was hurting every time he took a breath. Did he have a punctured lung? This wasn’t the first time he had experienced getting his lung punctured but that didn’t mean it didn’t hurt. He might have experienced it before but he wasn’t used to such pain yet. What was more was that his entire body was sore. He felt like someone had just rammed his body to a very hard surface roughly.

Oh right. The stray debris from an asteroid did ram to his body very hard to the point that it even destroyed his armor.

Yun Ling opened his eyes with difficulty. He was almost blinded by the sunlight making him quickly narrow his eyes.

No, it wasn't sunlight. It was the pillar of light from the treasure, however, its light was much dimmer now when compared to before.

After he had recovered from the blinding light, he narrowed his eyes as he slowly looked at his surroundings.

There was huge, blazing fire everywhere burning anything and everything it comes into contact with. Even the ground had melted from the extreme heat of these flames. It was like he was in hell, the place that adults use to scare misbehaving kids into behaving properly. He could even see the silhouettes of people running around and writhing in agony in these flames. There were also badly burnt corpses slowly melting from the flame. He could also faintly hear the sounds of people screaming from the distance but he wasn’t too sure. The sound of the burning fire was too strong as it dominated the other sounds in his surroundings.

The only area which was strangely unharmed by the fire was the place where he laid on. The fire didn’t go past five meters around him. The fire also wasn’t emitting any smoke.

Suddenly, the skies went dark, as though, the sun had suddenly disappeared. Yun Ling looked at the sky as his eyes widened in disbelief. There was a huge palm covering the sky as it slowly descended to the ground. It was the most enormous thing Yun Ling had ever seen in his life. With its size, it was like the palm had become another sky.

The Thousand Mountain Valley might be a large territory for Yun Ling but when compared to that palm... the Thousand Mountain Valley looked tiny in comparison.

What kind of being was the owner of that palm? Just its palm alone was enough to cover the sky in total darkness. How huge was that being?

Was it another god? But why did it feel so different from the god that he had been with before? Yun Ling had no doubt that even the god that they had awakened wasn't a match for the owner of this palm.

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The speed of the huge palm’s descent increased, making the darkness disappear as the huge palm was set ablaze. A hot gale blew down from the sky, extinguishing some of the fire out while the others danced wildly in the air.

“Young Master! You’re alive!”

Yun Ling looked to the side and saw a majestic white wolf running towards him.

It was Snow Fang.

He could also faintly see a woman's figure at a distance, following after Snow Fang.

Snow Fang skillfully avoided the flame as he ran towards Yun Ling at a constant speed. In just a few seconds, he reached his side right away.

Yun Ling endured the pain from his chest as he tried to speak out. It was too painful however so he settled on speaking to the wolf through his divine sense, “Snow Fang, what the hell is that?”

He asked, referring to the huge palm in the sky. That thing gave him an oppressive feeling as though it was unstoppable. No force in the world could’ve gone against that huge thing. All that they could do was wait for their death as the huge palm came crashing down from the sky.

However, it wasn’t Snow Fang who answered. Instead of the wolf, he heard an incredibly ancient voice answer him.

“That, child, is none other than a god,” a voice so ancient answered him. With just the voice alone, Yun Ling could tell that the owner of this voice had been through several eras and had gone through a lot in the world. Yun Ling felt that there was nothing that this voice didn’t know.

It was that boy from before. The god's teacher! The creator of the cultivation system!

“That is… a god?" Yun Ling’s eyes constricted considerably. That thing was far superior to the Immortal Willow Tree that he had seen back in the Thousand Mountain Valley. Not just the Immortal Willow Tree, it was far superior to the god that had been with them just a few moments ago.

"Is that a real god? Why do they feel so different from the god before?' Yun Ling thought to himself.

"It's not just a god"—the ancient voice added—"It is an Ancient God. A god that surpassed many gods in existence."

"Ancient God..."

Yun Ling had heard of the Ancient Gods from the god before. They were supposedly stronger than gods and could even wipe out an army of gods all on their own.

The ancient voice let out a sigh as it said, “If nothing is done soon, this world will be destroyed by the hands of this god, killing every lifeform in it. How unfortunate. Since time immemorial, the gods, Ancient Gods, and the Primordial Gods had destroyed countless worlds for their own selfish desires. This world will not be any different.”

After he spoke those words, the boy came into his view.

Yun Ling looked at him weakly and asked, "Didn't you awaken and undid the seal of the other gods? Where are they?"

"They are fighting. Fighting the other gods that the Ancient God had brought with him. But even with their combined might, they are no match for the Ancient God."

"Then what about you? Aren't you the creator of the cultivation system? You should be far stronger than the other gods, right? Can't you do anything about it?"

The boy let out a sigh.

"Unfortunately, I cannot cultivate. More specifically, I can no longer cultivate," the boy said. "That's why there's nothing I can do anymore to stop the Ancient God."