A headache was a headache, but he still had to keep looking.
Following the clues he had found, Fan Lang drove the Demon Spirit Skeleton Car all the way to the cosmic boundary of the Human Dao Plane, passing through it and reaching beyond the universe.
Outside lay boundless Exotic Matter—neither water, nor fire, nor ice, nor earth—something that could not be understood by ordinary logic.
Contact with Exotic Matter brought repulsion. Without absolute strength, one simply could not survive in such a harsh environment.
Fan Lang's clues ended here. Where he should search next was unknown.
The Human Dao Plane's Crystal Core Fragment was not necessarily still within the Human Dao Plane. It could have ended up anywhere outside the universe, perhaps lost amid the vast Exotic Matter.
Fan Lang began a new round of searching for a needle in a haystack, driving through the Exotic Matter and carefully probing and sensing every area he passed.
Because of Exotic Matter's peculiar nature, his detection range was greatly reduced, further increasing the difficulty of the search.
After searching like this for a while, Fan Lang reached one conclusion: using this method was far too inefficient. The chances of finding it were minuscule. He had to think of another way.
To improve efficiency, he first had to overcome the problem of Exotic Matter.
As long as he could unravel the mysteries of Exotic Matter, everything else would be easy.
Fan Lang searched while collecting and analyzing the composition of Exotic Matter.
He discovered that Exotic Matter's structure was dynamic, constantly changing without any fixed form. The various laws of the universe could not be applied to it at all.
No wonder the universe had passed through so many eras without gaining control over Exotic Matter. This stuff was truly bizarre.
Fan