In Antarctica, a large base was built around a huge ice crack. From the original most rudimentary temporary base to the large pile of container houses at the back, it now looks like a city, which shows the importance that countries attach to this place.
Nowadays, the entire ice crack is covered with heavy protection. Surrounding the buildings built on it is a huge ice crack abyss that stretches for more than ten kilometers. Scientific research stations and research bases of various countries can be seen. Equipment is extended underneath, and people are constantly going up and down these equipment.
On the ground, snowmobiles were moving with difficulty. At this moment, a blizzard was coming outside. The biting cold wind and snowflakes turned the whole world into white. In addition, it was dark outside, and visibility was reduced to the limit.
There were constant shouts in the snowstorm, and the sounds of machines starting and vehicles entering and exiting were endless.
However, even though the environment is so bad, the plan cannot be interrupted because of such a thing.
A large number of people had already been waiting below, but unlike before, each force went deep into the ice lake below according to their own national scientific research stations and strongholds, and entered by forming teams of different tribes.
Compared with the last hasty and sloppy scene, this one is more precious and much larger in scale.
Adding together the number of people from all the forces that have entered the Mountain and Sea Realm, more than thirty people have entered. This means that almost half of the extraordinary people will enter the Mountain and Sea Realm this time to seize opportunities within the Mountain and Sea Realm and to compete for influence and control within the Mountain and Sea Realm.
The Gate of Gods and Demons instantly spread out a huge circle of light, filling the entire deep ice lake. The light penetrated the ice layer above and spread beyond the ice cracks.
The people waiting in the abyss and staring at the ice lake immediately saw that the fluorescent surface of the prehistoric ice lake gradually emitted wisps of golden light, spreading like water waves.
Afterwards, the world of gods and demons that had haunted countless people and that they were willing to give up everything, even their lives and all other costs, to enter, finally opened to them.
The huge gate of light spread out, stretching far into the distance, with no end in sight.
The extraordinary people who saw this scene for the first time were shocked by the sight of the Gate of Gods and Demons opening, while those who had entered the Gate of Gods and Demons before were seriously preparing for the final work.
They understood better than anyone else that the world below not only possessed everything they wanted, but was also a terrifying giant mouth that swallowed everything. Once they went down, it would not be easy to come back.
"It's time!" Several people in the elevator that was lowered by steel cables deep under the ice jumped down at the same time.
"Go! Go! Go! Everybody move, don't hesitate!" A foreigner in combat uniform frantically urged his men.
"Remember our goal and mission! Everyone must come back alive!"
"Everyone is tied together, remember to be careful when landing!"
As group after group of people jumped down, they sank into the gate of gods and demons that was emitting a halo.
With the howling cold wind and blizzard outside, all the people who planned to enter the Mountain and Sea Realm rushed in.
The third trip into the mountains and seas finally began.
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At this moment, more than 30 years have passed since the establishment of the Dahuan Dynasty. King Xun, who founded the Dahuan Dynasty, is now nearly eighty years old and very old.
Those sorcerers who possess the blood of ancient gods and demons and can perform magical arts may live for more than a hundred years, or even nearly two hundred years. However, the lifespan of most witch priests, even the Xun King, is similar to that of ordinary people.
For those whose blood is thin in their bodies, it is not easy to integrate the blood or prolong their lifespan. The simplest way to integrate the blood of gods and demons is also a life-threatening one.
As for the rest, finding the legendary elixirs, life-extending pills, and magical fruits from sacred trees are all illusory things and are not so easy to obtain.
The deadline has come and the end of life is coming to an end.
The ambitious King Huan annihilated and conquered countless tribes, attacked the Xuanyuan Kingdom in the north, conquered the barbarians in the south, and established the first human dynasty. King Huan, who established his capital in the Central Plains of East China, had to surrender in the face of time. He struggled painfully and powerlessly under his gradually old and decayed body.
The Dahuan Dynasty had also reached a period of transition from the old to the new, and various turbulent situations had emerged within the entire dynasty. Turbulent and chaotic situations emerged in the capital of the Dahuan Dynasty.
Chaos is born and ghosts are rampant.
At this time, strange signs appeared in the sky and strange people also descended into this world.
The distorted and twisted ancient Xun characters are printed on the tall city gate. Compared with the former earthen city Xundu, the current Xundu is all built with solid rocks. It is tall and majestic. The city gate alone is several meters high, and thousands of people go in and out.
After the great war, enfeoffment, migration, and decades of recuperation, the Dahuan Dynasty now has a booming population, developed agriculture, and governs dozens of cities and dozens of vassal states of all sizes.
At the same time, some signs of development that were ahead of the times began to appear in all aspects. For example, the era of directly skipping over bamboo slips entered the era of using paper. Technologies such as water wheels, trade, smelting of bronze and iron, and forging were simply not something a newborn dynasty could possess.
Of course, not many people understood these techniques. Most of them were nobles, shamans, or wizards, or they were in the hands of their retainers and slaves. Most civilians still lived like savages. The civilians of the Huan Dynasty living in the city were relatively civilized, but many of the civilians in the countryside still lived a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood.
The aristocratic class, however, has entered another stage where polarization is extremely serious.
On the one hand, it is because of the existence of monks such as witches and shamans who can achieve things that are unimaginable by human power. On the other hand, it is because of the arrival of aliens that have brought changes to the world.
"Moo!" A yellow cow swung its tail, passed by Fang Xiu and walked towards Xundu.
Fang Zheng straightened his hat, put on a linen shirt and straw sandals, and looked back. He saw people coming and going on the street, driving cattle and sheep into the city for the market.
The situation of most people was not good. Women were half-naked, with the hems of their burlap shirts only reaching their knees, and they were holding their naked children. Farmers were holding sticks or farm tools high, and walking towards the city barefoot in the mud.
Goods and leathers pulled by ox carts were driven into the city by barbarian merchants from the south who had come from afar. Soldiers wearing leather armor and leather hats at the door shouted and cursed loudly, while wizards wearing armor and holding iron swords stood high on the wall and patrolled the city.
Crowds of people and vehicles passed by Fang Xiu. At this moment, Fang Xiu seemed to have traveled through thousands of years and stood under the legendary Xia capital or the Shang and Zhou city.
Along the way, Fang Xiu saw the entire Dahuan Dynasty, the villages in the mountains where people ate raw meat and drank blood, the countryside with large tracts of land, the farmers using various farm tools, the water wheels turning beside the river, the bustling scenes of cars coming and going in the city, and the notices about the calendar and the king's new policies posted in front of the government offices.
I just can't believe what happened to the Dahuan Dynasty in these few decades.
There was even a moment when Fang Xiu felt that this was not a world he created. The ones who truly created this world were every living being within this world. He was just planting a seed, and it was they who made the seed blossom and bear fruit.
Fang Xiu took off his hat and walked towards the city.