Huang Yi kept traveling and leveling up, leaving behind whirlwinds of the plague, exterminating countless animals. A day later, his level had reached 37.
However, as he ventured deeper into the desert, he gradually noticed something amiss—the animals became increasingly scarce; at times he could walk a great distance without seeing a single creature. In stark contrast, animal carcasses started to multiply, most reduced to mere skeletons. Flies buzzed around these skeletons that reeked of decay, their flesh wholly consumed, showing tooth marks as if they had been gnawed upon.
The ground was covered with dried, darkened bloodstains, piled with skeletons, creating a desolate scene, as if a catastrophe had just taken place!
Huang Yi slowed his pace, carefully treading over the blood-blackened sands, cautiously making his way northeast while paying attention to anything he encountered along the way. Yet, the further he went, the more gruesome the sights became, with fewer signs of life. Another day later, not a single animal was in sight! The ground was littered with skeletons, the sands stained with blood, glittering coldly under the scorching sun. The entire desert felt lifeless as if it had died, devoid of any vitality.
Huang Yi furrowed his brow—the disaster was so widespread, it didn’t seem like a simple local calamity but as if some earth-shattering event had occurred throughout the desert.
Now, he was unable to continue leveling up, with no animals left to kill, his level came to a complete halt.
After traveling in this manner for two more days, Huang Yi discovered that the sand dunes ahead were filled with dense footprints stretching to the horizon, countless in number. Due to the sheer volume of tracks, even the desert storms couldn’t erase these footprints! The ground was layered with a carpet of shattered bones, looking like a blanket of white sand.
Huang Yi examined the footprints closely. They were different from those of normal creatures, resembling the imprints of skeletal feet. Considering the occasional skeletal corpses he had seen along the way and judging by the shape and depth of these footprints, Huang Yi hazarded a guess that a massive Skeleton Army must have swept through here days ago!
But this was highly unusual; skeletons are undead creatures that usually dwell in dark places. The desert was scorching during the day and only turned frigid at night. It was impossible for skeletons to live here unless someone deliberately gathered an Undead Army for some purpose!
Now that Huang Yi could clearly make out the footprints, it indicated that the Skeleton Army wasn’t far ahead. Fortunately, he had reached the river mentioned by Slark.
However, there was no river in sight, not even the slightest trace that one had ever existed. All that met his gaze was the desolate sandy ground. It seemed the river had dried up over the long course of history and become a thing of the past. After enduring extensive changes—sea turning into mulberry fields—it had disappeared without a trace.
Now, Huang Yi faced a dilemma. To find Slark’s homeland, he needed to continue the search ahead, yet there might be a Skeleton Army lurking. If discovered by them, his odds of survival were slim.
Huang Yi thought about it and decided to use the Eye of Time! With the Eye of Time, he could see far into the past. Even the Hydra Death Scales, after shedding its skin, used the Eye of Time to see which room his master, the Magic God, had been imprisoned in after countless long years had passed. Yet, his Eye of Time still managed to gaze across the vast river of history to see the very cell where his master was held.
Although Huang Yi’s level was much lower than that of Hydra Death Scales, and the Eye of Time was not as powerful, he still wanted to try to see how far back into history he could look. However, he guessed that he could at least see tens of thousands of years into the past.
Using the Eye of Time to see the future was difficult. With Huang Yi’s current level, he could see up to 8 seconds into the future actions of an NPC of the same level, but if the opponent’s level exceeded his own, it was limited to 5 seconds. However, looking into the past was much easier; he could see what an NPC of the same level did 20 days ago. The higher Huang Yi’s level, the stronger the Eye of Time became; the higher the target’s level, the weaker the effect of the Eye of Time.
Yet no matter the changes, the difference between seeing into the past and foreseeing the future was up to hundreds of thousands of times!
Looking into the past also varied with the situation. It was difficult to view an NPC’s past, but tracing the geographical changes of a region was quite easy! Huang Yi assumed the difference between the two was also hundreds of thousands of times. That is, if he could see what an NPC was doing twenty days ago, it meant he could view the geographical features of a region tens of thousands of years ago!
Huang Yi immediately activated the Eye of Time, choosing to observe the geographical transformations of the region before him.
Suddenly, a strange vision filled his eyes. The desert before him seemed to play a movie backward, rapidly rewinding to the distant past. Huang Yi could even choose the speed of reversal. He opted for the fastest, with every second equating to a regression of one thousand years! However, this came at an exorbitant cost, consuming 100 points of energy per second!
After 10 seconds, Huang Yi had exhausted 1000 points of energy, but he had also seen what the region looked like ten thousand years ago!
Ten thousand years earlier, the sand dunes here had a completely different shape and were not as thick, with the altitude at least a few hundred meters lower than now. It was a completely different place compared to the present, with no apparent connection. Yet, Huang Yi could vaguely make out the traces of a river’s existence. Although slight, the erosion patterns of the river, which swept down from due north, were barely discernible!
Huang Yi immediately stopped using the Eye of Time. Such consumption was astonishing—1000 energy points in 10 seconds was a level of wastefulness he had never experienced, not even when he fought Barbarian Man Lie. And now, he had only viewed the region’s landscape from ten thousand years ago. By this calculation, even if he filled his energy to 3000 points, he could only look back at the landscape from 30,000 years ago, which was close to his initial guess. However, as his level increased, he would be able to see even further, an advantage that improved with level advancement.
Huang Yi immediately changed direction and hurriedly headed north, which was also densely marked with the footprints of the Skeleton Army!
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