"What does that mean?"
"What is this 'Forsworn Antiquity' written on the stone stele?"
Kevin Qin and the others looked confused; Yvette Ye also frowned deeply.
Their faces grew even paler.
No one had noticed the change behind them just now!
Just moments ago, they'd been walking across a gray-white grassland, but now, the grass was gone—only this canyon appeared out of nowhere before their eyes!
The massive stone stele atop the canyon seemed to pierce the heavens, towering between earth and sky, giving off an overwhelming sense of oppression.
Those two blood-red characters, though unchanged, struck everyone with a feeling of indescribable ancientness.
It was as if those characters had traveled through untold ages to reach today, trying to tell some story—or maybe just to prove they'd once existed.
But those two words hit Evan Lin hard, shaking him to his core.
On the Immortal Martial Continent, countless millennia ago, there was an Immortal Venerable known as Forsworn Antiquity.
All races on the Immortal Martial Continent revered him as Forsworn Antiquity Immortal Venerable.
He was called Forsworn Antiquity because, according to legend, this Immortal Venerable was different from other tribulation-peak immortals.
Most Immortal Venerables had some origin or background.
Even Evan Lin, who mysteriously entered the Immortal Martial Continent from Earth, could be traced back after he became the Nine Mysteries Immortal Lord—his original sect was the Glazed Glass Palace atop Glazed Glass Mountain.
As for the title 'Nine Mysteries Immortal Lord,' it only became famous across the continent as Evan grew stronger, step by step.
But the records about Forsworn Antiquity Immortal Venerable on the Immortal Martial Continent were much more vague.
He was someone whose origins and fate were a complete mystery.
Rumor had it, Forsworn Antiquity was a super freak who rose out of nowhere—before he became an Immortal Venerable, nobody had ever heard his name.
But he just appeared so suddenly, and from the day he showed up, he became the strongest on the Immortal Martial Continent.
Legend has it that on the day Forsworn Antiquity appeared, all races looked up—the sky over the entire Immortal Martial Continent turned crimson, blazing flames stretched from one horizon to the other, and spiritual qi boiled everywhere!
Forsworn Antiquity Immortal Venerable stepped out from a million fireclouds, announcing his dao-title to the whole continent with a single sentence.
That same day, it’s said that some peerless experts couldn’t stand Forsworn Antiquity’s arrogant attitude and immediately challenged him.
According to records, over a hundred tribulation-stage powerhouses from the Immortal Martial Continent went to face him, including many old monsters who hadn’t shown themselves for centuries.
But among those hundred-plus tribulation-stage experts, not a single one returned.
From then on, the name Forsworn Antiquity Immortal Venerable struck fear into all races.
One man alone, fighting more than a hundred tribulation masters!
That kind of heaven-defying combat power wiped out half the era’s strongest cultivators in one go, and just by himself, he lowered the continent’s overall fighting strength by a huge margin.
Many big sects back then collapsed and vanished, because all their tribulation-stage experts went out and never came back.
On the Immortal Martial Continent, spiritual qi between heaven and earth was limited.
In ancient times, people could still ascend and become immortals; tribulation-stage experts were everywhere, Immortal Venerables were like a tide, all eyeing the Gate of Immortality.
But later, each era saw fewer tribulation-stage experts—starting with over a thousand per era, then only hundreds, and by Evan Lin’s era, just a dozen or so.
Immortal Venerable was a dao-title only for tribulation-peak cultivators—just a step away from the Gate of Immortality!
Back then, Evan Lin as the Nine Mysteries Immortal Lord drew all races to worship him, because he was the last Immortal Venerable of that era!
Compared to ancient times, the Immortal Martial Continent was already in its age of dwindling qi, and after tens of thousands of years without a single Immortal Venerable, Evan Lin was the last one!
That’s what made Evan Lin, the Nine Mysteries Immortal Lord, so unforgettable.
It wasn’t just his power, but the fact that after the Gate of Immortality had been closed for tens of thousands of years, everyone’s records about immortals were blurry. Most people thought the gate was just a myth, and immortals were nothing but lies left by the ancients—yet Evan Lin forced open the Gate!
He found a path where there was none.
That time, when the Gate of Immortality opened wide, it gave hope to every cultivator on the continent, opening the way for future generations to chase the path of immortality again!
Sadly, Evan Lin never got to see what those guys on the Immortal Martial Continent ended up like afterwards.
Maybe it was because he’d finally opened the Gate of Immortality, was about to become an immortal, and then something went wrong at the last moment—that would’ve crushed anyone’s confidence.
Thinking back on that day now, Evan Lin still felt puzzled.
If it was just opening the Gate and getting ambushed by the Left-Hand Dragon that sent him back to Earth, then what returned was clearly his soul.
But what about the body of Lin Jiuxuan—the true tribulation-peak body that broke open the Gate? Did the Left-Hand Dragon obliterate it completely, or is that body the one he has now?
Was it just because of the Left-Hand Dragon that both his soul and body returned to Earth together?
Or maybe...
Maybe the body of the Nine Mysteries Immortal Lord, Lin Jiuxuan, is still hidden somewhere unknown?
Evan Lin’s mind raced with possibilities.
But there was no one to give him an answer.
Just seeing those two words—Forsworn Antiquity—was enough to drag Evan Lin into a flood of memories.
And now, this massive stone stele standing before him—could it actually be Forsworn Antiquity Immortal Venerable’s tombstone?
Forsworn Antiquity Immortal Venerable was a powerhouse who ruled over all races for years, but according to the continent’s records, after his battle with the hundred-plus tribulation experts, he never acted again, and no further news was heard of him.
No one knew if Forsworn Antiquity broke through the Gate and became an immortal, or if he died right then and there. No one even knew what he really looked like!
But now, his name had appeared here.
Evan Lin felt a strange sense of awe, as if he were staring straight into the endless river of time itself.
If Forsworn Antiquity Immortal Venerable really was buried here...
Who could have killed him?
Who in the world could possibly take down a legend like Forsworn Antiquity Immortal Venerable?