Immortal Reincarnation Tribulation

Chapter 20 Earth-Shattering Changes

"Boss, this child looks to be only four or five years old. We've never done this kind of business before, and it's breaking the rules of the trade."

"Boss, let's put the rules aside for now. The important thing is that we haven't even met the buyer yet, and this girl's background is unknown. There might be some problems involved, and we have to be careful."

On a secluded path, a group of seven or eight burly men walked and talked incessantly.

Two of them were pushing a cart, on which, besides unidentified items wrapped in sacks, lay a little girl of about four or five years old, who appeared to be unconscious.

The remaining people were talking to a burly, bearded man in the middle who was clearly of higher status than the others. Everyone here looked preoccupied.

"Alright, I know what you're saying. Right now, the Fire Feather Kingdom and the Fence Kingdom are about to go to war. There's chaos and everyone is on edge. It's not easy for us to do business. Although this deal has some risks, the buyer is offering a lot of money, enough for us to live comfortably for the rest of our lives. After we finish this job, we'll retire from this line of work." The bearded man pondered for a long time before saying this.

"Brother, we'll all listen to you. We're tired of living like this, risking our lives."

"Yes, brother, after we get the money, we'll find a secluded place, each of us will bring back two women, and start making babies!"

"Haha... Liu Zi is right, let's do it!"

"Yeah! We brothers will see who has the most kids!"

"Ha ha……"

The group of brothers immediately shook off their gloomy expressions and burst into laughter.

"Hey? Brother, there's someone up ahead." A burly man with a cloth band around his head and scars on his face suddenly spoke up, attracting the attention of the others.

"Brothers, be careful."

Du Fan had been traveling for several days and still hadn't seen a single person, but he was certain that he was heading south.

The braised beef and steamed buns he bought in Licheng were long gone, forcing him to continue subsisting on plant roots and stems. He could endure that, but what he couldn't bear was walking for days without seeing a single person. He considered himself somewhat withdrawn, both on Earth and in this strange world, someone who could enjoy solitude. But this aimless wandering now filled him with a sense of powerlessness, unsure how long or how much longer it would take to reach his destination.

Suddenly, he saw seven or eight burly young men ahead. Du Fan felt as if he had returned to the human world and hurriedly took a few steps.

"Brothers, is the way to Xinghuo Town to go straight ahead?" Du Fanchong asked politely.

"Yes, that's right. But now that the two countries are about to go to war, and Xinghuo Town is a strategic location, what are you going there for, young man?" A burly man replied casually, his eyes showing caution.

"A war? I need to go there to see two friends. I wonder how long it will take to get there?" Du Fan was surprised, but he still asked the question that concerned him most at the moment.

"With your speed, young man, you can reach there in three days at most."

"Thank you, brother. I'm in a hurry to get on my way, so I'll take my leave now!" Du Fan clasped his hands in thanks and turned to leave. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the little girl on the truck. He paused slightly, his heart skipped a beat, but he pretended to be calm and turned to leave.

However, these people had all lived a life of constant danger for many years, and they instantly noticed the subtle changes in Du Fan's expression, their eyes flashing with a fierce light.

"This man cannot be spared, kill him!" The bearded man gave the order, and three of them instantly drew weapons from their robes and charged towards Du Fan.

Du Fan's expression changed drastically, but just then, a deafening roar echoed in the sky, the earth trembled violently, and billowing clouds of yellow dust rose up. Du Fan and the seven or eight burly men were all unable to maintain their footing and fell to the ground, rolling far away in different directions.

The truck shattered instantly, and the sacks on it fell to the ground. The sacks came undone, and a large amount of gold and silver rolled out. The unconscious little girl, after landing, was suddenly pulled by the trembling earth and slid rapidly in the direction where Du Fan had rolled out.

Du Fan suddenly felt a darkness before his eyes. When he could see clearly again, the little girl on the bus was shooting towards him in an instant. Lying on the ground, Du Fan subconsciously reached out and pulled her into his arms. With the girl's momentum, Du Fan and the girl in his arms rolled backward more than ten feet in an instant. The ground shook, and he was unable to get up.

Lying on his back on the trembling earth, Du Fan would never forget this scene for the rest of his life.

High in the sky, spanning thousands of miles, dark gray clouds rolled in, their roars echoing across the heavens and earth, shaking all directions. Soon, as the gray clouds churned, they began to slowly gather towards their center. As they solidified, their color gradually changed from gray to black, obscuring half the sky and cutting off the sun, plunging the world below into darkness and coldness, as if the end of the world was imminent. Accompanied by thunder, a vortex suddenly appeared at the center of the black clouds, within which lightning crackled and danced.

At first glance, it appeared to be only the size of a house, but within a few breaths, the vortex had grown to a colossal size spanning thousands of miles, spinning rapidly. This caused the black clouds within a radius of tens of thousands of miles to instantly rush towards the central vortex. As the vortex spun, the roar of heaven and earth gradually solidified. Such a rapid rotation was enough to make anyone who looked at it dizzy.

Du Fan felt as if the air around him was being pulled by a super vortex at an infinite height, making it difficult to breathe.

After a long time, when the giant vortex stopped spinning, a transparent space spanning thousands of miles appeared out of thin air deep in the sky. Beyond this transparent space, there was only endless darkness.

This vast, transparent space, stretching for thousands of miles, was like a giant hole in the sky; the heavens had leaked out...

Du Fan was breathing heavily, staring blankly at everything happening in the sky, his eyes filled with disbelief, his mind completely blank.

The seven or eight burly men scattered elsewhere were in the same state, their eyes blank and their hearts filled with shock. The earth had returned to calm, but they had long forgotten to get up.

After a long while, in the vast, transparent void high in the sky, a black dot suddenly appeared. In just a breath, the black dot streaked across the transparent void and plummeted towards the earth, as if something from outer space had fallen to earth.

A few breaths later, this black dot could no longer be called a black dot. As it continued to fall, it rapidly grew larger in the eyes of those on the ground. When it was still tens of thousands of feet above the ground, it had become a colossal object tens of thousands of feet in size.

The object was entirely black, its appearance obscured. As it plummeted downwards, it unleashed a deafening roar. Wherever it passed, space distorted and the void shattered, as if the world itself could not bear its weight.

In no time, this enormous creature was less than a thousand feet above Du Fan's head. In Du Fan's eyes, it was like a dark cloud crashing down on the earth, leaving him with no will to resist. Even the fear in his heart turned into shock.

Just as his thoughts were stuck and he was at a loss for what to do, he suddenly felt the air around him tighten, his vision went black, and he and the girl in his arms disappeared from the spot.

When Du Fan's vision returned, he found himself nowhere else. Before he could even be surprised, he heard a deafening roar that shook the heavens and the earth, sweeping across all directions. Then, his feet shook violently, and endless yellow sand rolled in, causing him to fall again as soon as he stood up.

Just then, a gentle force suddenly appeared around Du Fan's body, supporting him and preventing him from falling. At the same time, a cyan sphere of light formed a dozen feet around him, enveloping him within it. When the howling, surging yellow sand rushed in, it instantly swallowed everything within a hundred miles of the cyan sphere, except for Du Fan and the girl in his arms, who remained unharmed and motionless within the cyan sphere.

Du Fan stood there motionless, the girl in his arms still unconscious.

Time passed slowly, and half an hour later, the rumbling from the depths of the earth gradually subsided, and the massive sand and dust that had been thrown up gradually settled back into the earth.

Another quarter of an hour passed, and the place returned to complete calm, with only the transparent hole in the sky still remaining.

As Du Fan's mind gradually cleared, he stared in awe at the newly appeared, dark mountain range in the distance. This mountain range stretched for hundreds of miles and rose tens of thousands of feet high, towering majestically. Even standing there silently, it exuded an aura of dominance over heaven and earth. However, the path, the trees on both sides, the stream in the distance, and the hills in the distance had all completely disappeared from this world.

"Are you alright?" A very magnetic male voice suddenly rang out behind Du Fan, and at the same time, the cyan light sphere that had been covering him vanished.

Du Fan was startled and turned around abruptly, where he saw a very unusual face.