Chapter 294 - 157: "Land!

Chapter 294: Chapter 157: "Land!

The cost was not low.

But he didn’t feel the slightest sting of regret.

He even stood in the center of the camp again, looking out at the surrounding City Wall, and quickly built a total of twenty Max Level Godslaying Cannon Towers on top of it!

After doing all this,

He held his breath and listened patiently. Outside the City Wall, there was only the soughing of the wind. Other than that, it was extremely quiet, with no other sounds.

He looked down at the area he had cordoned off within the camp.

It was full of Ghost Bones and scattered Ghost Stones.

No one had collected them.

They were exposed to the wind and sun, weathered by the elements.

After listening patiently for a while and confirming there were no other sounds, he took Hey Hey and ascended the City Wall.

Standing on the City Wall,

Chen Fan rested his hands on the battlements, looking down into the distance. He let the damp, salty sea breeze wash over him, his body gradually freezing in place, his eyes filled with shock.

He couldn’t calm down for a long time.

After a long while, he finally murmured,

"Just how many people must have died here..."

...

His location was on the edge of the New Continent, on a beach. It wasn’t a sandy beach, but one composed of strangely shaped reefs.

The end of the continent was nowhere in sight.

The landing spot was a plain. There were no mountains or jungles, just an endless Wilderness. The terrain here greatly resembled that of the Jiangbei Wilderness.

Except Jiangbei had a Nameless Mountain.

As far as the eye could see,

The ground was littered with Ghost Bones and Ghost Stones, which occasionally tumbled about in the wind. These were originally Ghost Corpses that had turned into Ghost Bones over time.

Occasionally, the wind would blow away the sand in the Wilderness, revealing the Ghost Bones hidden underneath.

One could only imagine.

It wasn’t just the surface; there were likely even more Ghost Bones and Ghost Stones buried underground.

Beyond that—

His gaze fell upon the Wilderness, on several defense lines that stretched to the horizon. A quick count revealed a total of seven.

Each defense line was less than a hundred meters apart.

They were practically on top of each other.

Of course,

The City Walls on these defense lines had long since collapsed. One could only infer their past glory from the present-day ruins. His gaze settled on hundreds of extremely large Ghost Bones.

The City Wall beneath him was a Level 6 City Wall.

Thirty meters tall.

It was already extremely majestic.

But those massive Ghost Bones, even in death, lay collapsed on the ground at a height of over ten meters. One could only imagine that when they were alive, they must have stood dozens of meters tall.

When Ghost Objects of that height led a horde in an attack,

Setting aside their power,

The psychological shock alone would have given them the upper hand.

"..."

Chen Fan stood on the City Wall with a complex expression, gazing down at the scene before him. He had personally witnessed the final, tragic stand of the ancient Jiangbei Defense Line.

It was something he had seen in the Jade Scroll left behind by the Immortal Celestial Master.

That was the most brutal war he had ever seen.

And the largest-scale Ghost Tide.

It was even larger than the Ghost Tide he had experienced during the rainy season, but even on that battlefield, he had not seen Ghost Objects of such immense size.

It was clear.

The battle that had once taken place here was even more brutal than the one at the ancient Jiangbei Defense Line.

Seven defense lines spanning hundreds of miles.

Using the earth as a canvas and the City Walls as ink, a brutal battlefield hundreds of miles long had been drawn.

How many years had passed?

Three thousand years?

Five thousand years?

No one knew.

The wind and sand had erased all information about this continent, along with all traces of blood.

One could faintly see that along the seven defense lines, every mile or so, there was the ruin of a fortress the size of a hill. They had all been utterly destroyed, and one could only roughly estimate their original size from the rubble.

...

"..."

Chen Fan led Hey Hey out from the City Wall, leaning on his Jade Staff. He headed for the nearest defense line, stepping over countless Ghost Bones to stand on the ruins of its wall.

The city wall was extremely wide.

From the ruins, he could tell that this city wall was a full thirty meters wide.

’Thirty meters wide...’

The Level 6 City Wall behind him was ten meters wide, wide enough for a horse-drawn carriage. He didn’t know what level a thirty-meter-wide city wall was, but he thought it must be a higher level than a Level 6 City Wall.

’Perhaps a Level 8 City Wall, or maybe even a Level 9 City Wall.’

He looked down at the shattered wreckage at his feet. It was the remains of a cannon tower. He couldn’t tell what kind of tower it was, but he could see the faint patterns on its wreckage, which seemed to match the patterns on the City Wall’s ruins.

He walked forward.

He reached the highest point of the first defense line’s ruins.

Standing there,

He looked back at the six other ruined lines.

Within the seven defense lines, a massive number of Ghost Bones and Ghost Stones were scattered on the ground. But beyond the seventh line, the Ghost Bones and Ghost Stones gradually disappeared.

The implication was obvious.

The Ghost Tide had broken through all seven defense lines and swept unimpeded into the continent’s interior to begin its slaughter.

There was no one left to stop the Ghost Tide.

He had a rough idea of the level of these City Walls now.

’Perhaps Level 10.’

’In other words, a Max Level City Wall.’

’That would explain why they built seven defense lines instead of concentrating all their resources on a single, stronger one. The Max Level for a City Wall is probably Level 10.’

’But if even a Level 10 City Wall couldn’t stop the Ghost Tide, then what hope was there to survive?’

’Or perhaps...’

’...the conditions to upgrade beyond a Level 10 City Wall were too demanding. The Architects of this continent were not only unable to raise the City Wall to Level 11, but they couldn’t even figure out the upgrade requirements.’

’It’s also possible that the resources required to upgrade to a Level 11 City Wall were simply too immense.’

’Regardless of the reason,’

’...one thing was certain.’

’These seven defense lines were stronger than the ancient Jiangbei Defense Line. If any one of them had been placed at the site of the ancient Jiangbei Defense Line during the Ancient Era, Jiangbei would never have fallen.’

’But here...’

’...not one of the seven defense lines could hold.’