Chapter 140: First Arrival on the Origin Planet

Ye Feng and the others felt a dizzy sensation in their minds. When they stood firmly again, they were stunned by what they saw.

Before them lay an endless desert. What was even more astonishing was that this seemingly boundless desert displayed a spectrum of colors—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet. These different colors combined in various ways, as if the entire desert were a blank sheet of paper, with the sand beneath their feet colored by someone’s brush.

Ye Feng crouched down and grabbed a handful of sand from the ground. It was indeed sand, but for some reason, it differed from what they knew on Earth. The colors of this sand weren’t dyed by anything; they were its natural colors.

Kong Xu and the other early arrivals were standing not far from Ye Feng and the others, about ten meters away. They were still in shock.

“What a beautiful desert, but it feels somewhat eerie!” Wu Dao looked around. All he could see was sand as far as the eye could reach, making it impossible to distinguish east from west, north from south. The star that resembled the sun hung high above their heads, emitting intense white light. Ye Feng looked up and found that this star was surprisingly large—from afar, it appeared even bigger than Wu Dao’s bald head, which was less than five meters away.

“I’m puzzled. Why would a teleportation portal be in such a desolate place? And it’s clear there’s no sign of anyone around for now.” Ye Feng was dazed for a moment before regaining his senses. He felt something was unusual.

“According to the ancient texts we’ve studied, the teleportation portal on the Origin Planet should be in a small town with many inhabitants. The only explanation is that something must have happened over these few hundred years, causing this place to be abandoned,” Wu Dao said, frowning slightly. He was also troubled. He had hoped to find a populated area to get familiar with local customs, currency, and meet genuine cultivators who grew up on this planet, to understand the differences between them and himself and his peers. But everything before them came too suddenly.

“Wu Dao, what’s going on?” Kong Xu suddenly turned around and shouted at him. “Weren’t the records in your Shaolin archives stating that this should be a small town? There’s no mention of this desert at all! Could we have come to the wrong planet?”

“I don’t know. Let’s look for a city; it’s possible the towns here were buried by sandstorms…” This was the only explanation Wu Dao could think of at the moment. He took out a handwritten manuscript from his ring. “After exiting the teleportation array, head north… about forty thousand kilometers away, there’s a city called Ironblood City. Usually, to get there, we need to ride giant egrets—massive birds that can carry five people. They’re usually at the Ningdan stage, and it takes around ten hours in Earth time to reach there.”
“But we can’t find such birds as transportation now, and we don’t even know which direction is north. The teleportation array is right in the middle of the desert. We’re standing in a circle around it—how can we determine north?” a blond young man shouted at Wu Dao.
“How about we go back! Or head to another planet from here!” suggested the blue-haired European beauty.
“That’s impossible. This is a one-way reception teleportation array, meant only for receiving, not for transmitting. All one-way reception arrays share one common feature: they lack slots for spirit crystals, as they’re only used for reception and don’t require energy consumption.” Wu Dao’s reply made everyone even more anxious.
“Everyone, calm down. There’s no need to panic. After all, we’re all at the Yuan Ying stage. Without water or food, we can still live to three thousand years. In this desert, we just need to be careful of the deadly creatures here and avoid being attacked so we can survive until we leave this desert. We’re all from Earth; we’re not enemies—we’re friends. Besides, we’re not familiar with this environment yet. If anyone tries to go it alone, they might not survive. From what I know, in such harsh environments, there are many highly aggressive and powerful species as predators.” Ye Feng knew that some people felt this way because they thought Wu Dao had deceived them. They thought this place would be a beautiful world, but instead, it was nothing but sand and dust.
“The spiritual energy here has a strong fire attribute and is extremely unstable—it can’t be used for cultivation at all! We must leave here as soon as possible. Without replenishing our spiritual energy, our strength will be greatly reduced. Moreover, staying in such an environment for too long will shorten our lifespan.” The dark-haired, dark-eyed Indian warrior sat up from the ground. The first thing he did when he arrived here was sit down and try to absorb spiritual energy.

Upon hearing this, everyone also tried to activate their cultivation techniques to test it, and all came to the same conclusion. Ye Feng looked at the others with some confusion—his cultivation technique had not encountered any obstruction at all; on the contrary, due to the abundant spiritual energy here, it was several times faster than on Earth. He did not mention this and instead turned to Pei Hong beside him.

“He’s right. The spiritual energy here indeed cannot be absorbed. Moreover, in such an environment filled with fire-type spiritual energy, except for those with fire attributes, others who stay here for a long time risk being invaded by fire toxins,” Pei Hong nodded. “That would indeed significantly shorten one’s lifespan.”

“Everyone, stay calm first. Let’s think of a plan before taking action. Although we can’t stay here for too long, a day or two shouldn’t cause too much trouble. Acting impulsively without reason will only make us stay longer and bring greater problems,” Ye Feng said again to reassure those whose emotions were fluctuating severely.

“Master, are there no cities in any direction other than the north?” Ye Feng stepped closer to Wudao and asked in a low voice.

“To the east is the Forbidden Sea, an ocean that covers half of the entire planet, home to numerous marine magical beasts. No one lives there. The conflict between magical beasts and humans on this planet has never ceased. Magical beasts hate humans, while humans hunt them to obtain the materials they need.” Wudao frowned. “There’s no description of the other two directions, so I don’t know what’s there. The ancient texts only say to go to Ironblood City, where there are abundant resources that we can use to get what we need. Of course, those who wish to settle down can do so as well. But the spiritual energy level of Origin Planet is only equivalent to that of a second-class planet. Not many people can reach the Yuan Ying stage in such a place. If we want to make progress, it’s best to go to a planet with spiritual energy at the level of a fourth- or fifth-class planet, where we can advance quickly.”

“How many classes of planets are there in total?” Ye Feng suddenly asked this question.

“There are five grades in total. Grade one refers to planets with almost no spiritual energy, such as Earth today. It is said that Earth was once a grade one planet. Grade two means that the spiritual energy in the air is sufficient to reach the Yuan Ying stage through cultivation. The spiritual energy on grade three planets can help one break through the Yuan Ying stage… As for grade five planets, it is said that those with extraordinary talent can cultivate to ascend to the celestial realm without any external aids, relying solely on the spiritual energy in the air.” Wu Dao shared all the information he knew with Ye Feng without holding back, as this kind of knowledge wasn’t particularly important—anyone on a cultivation planet could recite it by heart.

After speaking, Wu Dao wanted to add something but hesitated.

“Sorry for interrupting you. So, we can only head north? Going in other directions might expose us to unknown dangers?” Ye Feng reached this conclusion based on Wu Dao’s description.

“That’s what I think too. Otherwise, we could just choose any direction to leave.” Wu Dao nodded. “What worries me is that other directions might be even more dangerous than this area.”

“I see. So, for now, we just need to find north and keep going in that direction for over 40,000 kilometers?” Ye Feng felt helpless. He knew he could only look for something in the Void Domain that could guide him. “Let me check if that senior left anything for me to use to identify directions in such places!”

“What’s that?” Suddenly, someone in the crowd pointed at a funnel-shaped, multicolored pillar slowly moving toward them.

“That’s a sandstorm!” Ye Feng immediately realized it. Although the colorful appearance was misleading, its shape was almost identical to the sandstorms he had seen in the Refining Domain, only much larger.