Transmigrating Into a Fantasy World: Signing in During Pregnancy, Reaching the Summit with My Childhood Sweetheart

Nangong Xuan gripped the now-different token, waves of shock surging in his heart.

Star Outpost? Night Watchmen? world key? the dark side? (Undoubtedly referring to the miasma pollution.) Eye of Ten Thousand Miasmas?

These fragments of information once again pieced together a grander yet more terrifying ancient picture! It seemed the Star Palace’s actions were merely continuing a much older mission to combat ”the dark side”? And they seemed to have failed?

This ”world key” fragment appeared to be part of a crucial item?

He didn’t dare stay long, gripped the token tightly, and quickly floated upward.

On the lake surface, the group was waiting anxiously. Seeing Nangong Xuan break through the water, although his face was pale and his aura unstable, he was largely unharmed, allowing them to breathe a sigh of relief.

”Senior Brother, how is it?” Su Muxue hurried forward.

Nangong Xuan briefly recounted what he saw at the bottom of the lake and the information he obtained, displaying the activated ”world key fragment.”

After hearing his narrative, everyone fell into silence, their hearts heavy and shocked. It turned out that what they were facing was a war that had lasted for tens of thousands of years against a terrifying existence called ”the dark side”! And they, by a twist of fate, had taken up this heavy torch.

Elder Xing Teng stroked the token excitedly, tears streaming down his face: ”The ancestors’ records were fragmented and vague... so this is the truth! The ’world key’... ancient clan songs mention it as the key token to open the ’Stellar Vault Bridge’ and purify the ’Heart of Darkness’! I didn’t expect... I didn’t expect one of the fragments to have been submerged at the bottom of Silent Star Lake all along!”

He looked at Nangong Xuan and the other two, his eyes filled with unprecedented hope and determination: ”Three Venerables! This must be the guidance of the stars! The world key fragment has seen the light of day at this moment; the journey to the sacred stele must have deep meaning! We will surely follow you to the death and help the Venerables complete the mission!”

Nangong Xuan nodded heavily, gripped the token tightly, feeling the faint but firm Stellar Power within it, and looked toward the Black Stone Forest in the northwest.

”There’s no time to lose, let’s go!”

With the Crystal Cluster Remnants acting as ”living maps,” the team shuttled through the maze-like Black Stone Forest, successfully avoiding many known danger zones and Dark Flame City patrols.

Two days later, they had penetrated deep into the heart of the Black Stone Forest.

The surrounding environment became increasingly harsh, and a grayish-black mist, like a sandstorm, began to permeate the air—precisely the ”bone-eroding black wind” Elder Xing Teng had mentioned!

This black wind was incredibly strange; not only could it dissolve spiritual energy barriers, but it could also directly erode a Cultivator’s Golden Core and Divine Soul, possessing terrifying power. The team’s progress had to slow down.

Even with the crude cloaks made from special wind-avoiding fungi provided by the Remnants, everyone still felt their spiritual energy being rapidly consumed and their Divine Souls stinging.

As the team trudged forward, a young Remnant scouting ahead suddenly came running back on all fours, his face full of terror:

”El... Elder! It’s bad! Ahead... ahead in the black wind... there are... many shadows! They look like... like...”

Before he could finish his sentence, a tooth-grinding sound of bones grinding together, ”ka-ka,” came from the dense black wind ahead.

Following that, skeletons draped in tattered black robes, their bones showing an ominous dark purple hue and their eye sockets burning with ghostly green evil fire, emerged from the black wind. Holding broken weapons like an army crawling out of Hell, they swayed as they blocked the path!

On their bones, the flame totems of Dark Flame City were faintly visible!

And the aura emitted by these skeletons was far colder and more powerful than the polluted Star Remains encountered on the ancient path! Some skeletons even had faint Golden Core-level energy fluctuations lingering on their frames!

Dark Flame City had actually refined the bones of the fallen into Undead Demon Soldier under their control! And they had deployed them into this bone-eroding black wind as a barrier to block the road!

With undead blocking the way in front, unpredictable pursuers behind, and the all-eroding bone-eroding black wind all around.