[Large Chapter]Weathered World

What's on the other side of the mountain?

What's on the other side of the sea?

What lies beyond the wall?

Humanity's yearning for the other side is etched in our genes and can never be erased.

It wasn't until Xiao Ran and his Master climbed to the mountaintop, panting heavily as they awaited that longed-for moment, that they realized, beyond the mountains, there were still more mountains.

And beyond that mountain... there are still mountains.

The mountain ranges rise and fall in layers, like a screen in the sky, stretching to the horizon where it is unknown whether they even exist.

Lingzhou Yue tilted her head back and drank, regaining some strength. There was no sunset glow in the sky, but her face was flushed.

"This road is not only rugged, but it also seems to have no end. Should we continue?"

She asked tentatively.

Xiao Ran nodded without hesitation.

What we need is the spirit of "I will go even if there are thousands of people against me".

"Certainly."

Lingzhou Yue smiled sweetly, her Red Clothes stretching across the sky and earth, as if she had slashed open a bloody gash in the world.

[Congratulations, host, you have gained 888 Filial Piety Points!]

This Filial Piety Points is practically free! The path down the mountain was even steeper than the path up, so much so that Xiao Ran could only hold onto his Master's hand to keep his balance.

Hand in hand, we walk forward step by step.

Xiao Ran suddenly stepped on something, his foot slipped, and he landed on his bottom, dragging his Master down the ridge.

Like skiing, the speed increases, but for cultivators, it's not a big problem; it's a lot of fun.

Lingzhou Yue was surprised to find it quite comfortable to ski, so she took out Bamboo Raft and sat Bamboo Raft- legged on it to ski.

It even allows you to have your hands free to drink, which unexpectedly gives you a sense of drifting along, indulging in the degenerate age, and falling rapidly into a state of desolation...

"If I had known it would be this comfortable to skate, I would have left earlier."

Xiao Ran said:

"If you encounter hidden rocks while skiing, you will flip over."

Before the words were even finished, a hard, dark rock appeared on the ridge and smashed the Bamboo Raft to pieces.

Xiao Ran grabbed his Master and rolled down the mountain. Due to the excessive speed and incorrect posture, he suffered multiple fractures.

Why not change the position? Hold your Master in your arms like a spring roll and roll off the cliff in the most classic pose from martial arts novels.

Fifteen minutes later.

The two rolled unharmed to the foot of the mountain.

A rut was rolled out in the white sand at the foot of the mountain.

Lingzhou Yue's sword aura rippled slightly, contained but not unleashed. Her flushed, slightly drunken face held a hint of reproach as she spoke:

"Are you trying to avoid getting hurt, or are you deliberately looking for an opportunity to hug me?"

Xiao Ran said earnestly, "Being injured is not important, I mainly want to hug my Master."

"You..."

Lingzhou Yue pinched Xiao Ran's waist hard.

[Congratulations, host, you have gained 888 Filial Piety Points!]

It was a rare opportunity to see my Master's face up close. He was voluptuous and delicate, yet his face was not fat at all. His skin was as white as ice and his bones as white as snow, and he was as pretty as a painting. The sword energy in his eyes was as deep as the shimmering lake water.

Xiao Ran didn't expect that even with a reasonable motive and excuse, he couldn't even trigger his Master's sword energy.

Perhaps, this is the key to wealth!

Lingzhou Yue suddenly sighed, "The view from the top of the mountain is so boring. I've realized that lying at the foot of the mountain is the most comfortable."

Xiao Ran leaned his head to the side, quietly admiring his Master, who was as valiant as a sword, as beautiful as a painting, and as delicate as a wife, in his arms.

"The source of happiness is not where we are, where we are going, or even whether the world is going to end. The only thing that matters is who we are with."

Her shimmering gaze froze instantly, and Lingzhou Yue silently closed her eyes.

I don't know how much time passed.

Lingzhou Yue turned over, her arm seeming to bump into something hard, and she suddenly woke up from her sleep.

"What's this?"

She found a thin, sharp-edged stone slab in the fine sand beneath her arm.

"How can there be such a thin stone slab? It seems that there are Spirit Runes engraved on the surface, but the patterns have been corroded."

"Thin slices?"

Xiao Ran took a look at the stone slab and found that there were indeed traces of Spirit Runes engraved on the surface, extremely fine, as if they were the texture of the stone slab itself.

Although there was no Spiritual Power reaction on the Spirit Runes, based on the density of the local Spirit Runes, it can be inferred that hundreds of thousands of Spirit Runes were engraved on the palm-sized stone piece.

Moreover, it lacks the free-flowing style of Spirit Runes, instead featuring a very standard horizontal and vertical arrangement, unlike something artificially engraved.

This...

Could it be an electronic chip? Xiao Ran observed carefully. Due to the wind and the friction of the sand, the surface had lost its coating color, but still left some scattered traces. The edges were severely damaged, and the Spirit Runes were very dim and indistinct.

It really does look like a chip!

After all, if you carve Spirit Runes patterns on a stone, it simply cannot withstand the high pressure of Spiritual Power.

Xiao Ran got up and looked around at the foot of the mountain. Occasionally, he could find smooth stones or scattered fragments of animal bones in the white sand, but he could hardly find any wood or metal objects.

Why did chips even exist in the first place?

Could it be that his Master was right, and this side of the mountain is his hometown? This reminded Xiao Ran of a movie from his previous life, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," about astronauts traveling through a wormhole to a planet ruled by apes, and finally discovering the Statue of Liberty on a beach...

It's just that we traveled through time.

Xiao Ran suddenly became alert—because he hadn't transmigrated to the True Spirit Continent in spirit form, but rather into physical form!

Could he also be an ancient being? Did Earth experience Spiritual Energy revival after its technological decline?

However, what's incongruous is that the True Spirit Continent and Earth are completely different in size.

Even considering the areas that have already been explored, the area of the True Spirit Continent is more than a hundred times the size of Earth.

Not to mention the boundless wilderness!

With the revival of Spiritual Energy, surely the size of planets wouldn't suddenly increase dramatically?

Xiao Ran felt like he was in a dream, and looking around, he had a sense of unreality.

"Give this to me."

Without waiting for his Master's response, Xiao Ran put the stone into his System Space.

Lingzhou Yue suddenly said with pride:

What will you offer in exchange?

Xiao Ran smiled and said:

"Disciple will accompany Master to climb a few more mountains."

"No, I want you to stay with me and climb to the ends of the earth."

"Good."

After one night.

Or perhaps a day later.

Anyway, the Great Wilderness couldn't distinguish between day and night. Day and night passed without end, and a very long time went by.

Xiao Ran and his Master crossed one mountain peak after another, and suddenly they found that a vast sea had appeared in front of them.

Hai? Lingzhou Yue rubbed her eyes, thinking she had drunk too much.

Xiao Ran looked around; the Spiritual Pressure here was chaotic.

The clouds were low, the wind was strong, and the sea was surging and crashing, instantly raising towering waves hundreds of feet high, destroying everything on the coast. In the distance, it was unclear whether it was waves or clouds, but everything was a vast expanse of white, with extremely low visibility.

Standing on the sandy beach where white sand swirled, Xiao Ran felt a sense of vastness, grandeur, mystery, and the unknown...

Lingzhou Yue tilted her head, seemingly lost in thought, and said:

"The Great Wilderness is bordered by the sea on both sides. Did we land on an island?"

Xiao Ran shook his head.

"Master, look closely. There are still two faint footprints on the beach, washed by the sea and buried by the sand. We've gone around in circles and come back."

Lingzhou Yue was completely baffled; things were beyond her comprehension.

"So... the end of the world is the origin?"

But what she said, by a twist of fate, turned out to be quite philosophical and even aligned with space physics.

After thinking for a moment, Xiao Ran directly shared his astronomical knowledge from his previous life.

"Perhaps the world has no end and no center. If we start from any direction and go all the way to the limit, we will return to the starting point."

Lingzhou Yue frowned slightly, finding it difficult to understand Xiao Ran's concept of a finite but boundless three-dimensional sphere universe.

Just then, Wen Yushu's voice came through the communicator.

"Ling Zhou, you've been hesitating by the sea for an hour now. Why haven't you set off yet? Have you discovered something suspicious?"

Lingzhou Yue looked at Xiao Ran with a blank expression, and when she reached out, she saw that the communication ring was still on her wrist.

Xiao Ran frowned slightly, feeling something was amiss.

His communication ring was still on his wrist. He remembered throwing it away after his Master, so how could it still be on him? Was it an illusion?

Was everything that just happened a hallucination?

What a pity!

Xiao Ran glanced at the system's Filial Piety Points, which had already exceeded 30,000, a significant increase.

At the same time, he found the weathered chip in the System Space...

It's not a hallucination!

"I understand now, the spacetime of the Great Wilderness has been partially distorted."

Xiao Ran remembered that something similar had happened when he went to the Wraith Barrier in Flamefree City last time, but it was nowhere near as bizarre as this one.

Dreamlike and incredibly romantic, with one mountain higher than another and one wave higher than another, it's simply the perfect place for a honeymoon.

"I see."

Lingzhou Yue took a sip of wine and then gave a look of sudden realization.

I didn't understand it at all.

But that doesn't stop her from making random remarks.

"This mission is much more exciting than I expected!"

"Yes, but we're already more than an hour behind the other teams, it's time to set off."

"Let's go."

How do we cross the sea?

"Of course we'll cross the sea by boat. You don't want to surf, do you?"

Xiao Ran thought to himself that he often surfed the waves at the Sword-Wielding Mountain, even soaring into the sky, which was quite exciting.

There are three routes to cross the sea.

Clouds.

Over the sea.

Underwater.

The clouds were low and thick, indicating a storm was imminent, with thunder and lightning expected.

Seawater is corrosive, and given the vast and unknown depths beneath the surface, there's likely to be sea monsters or something similar.

To conserve energy, Xiao Ran followed his Master's advice and flew the Sword Ship over the water.

Unleashing his Yan Armor, which transformed into Sword Ship, Xiao Ran, carrying his Master, plunged headlong into the raging waves.

The further away from the coast, the more magnificent the waves become.

It was as if one mountain after another rose higher in the vast wilderness, and the heavenly wall collapsed and crashed down.

Xiao Ran seemed to have seen a similar scene in "Interstellar".

But the waves before them were even more ferocious than in the movies! The waves were so high they could even crash against the clouds! The Sword Ship was tossed and turned by the giant waves, and it was only by constantly consuming its Spiritual Power that it could barely stabilize itself.

Corrosive seawater and torrential rain fell from the sky, while violent lightning lashed the ship's hull relentlessly.

Faced with this harsh environment, Xiao Ran glanced at the team's positioning.

Although they set off more than an hour earlier, apart from the two from the Wraith Punishment Bureau in the air, the rest of the group didn't seem to have gone far.

"This raging storm... the Apostle probably wants to deplete the intruder's Spiritual Power."

Lingzhou Yue sat cross-legged on the stone table, her voluptuous figure swaying back and forth with the boat.

"Perhaps we should go out to sea and catch some sea monsters to replenish the Sword Ship's Spiritual Power."

Xiao Ran shook his head.

"Whether it's clouds, torrential rain, or seawater, they are all highly corrosive. Catching the sea monster would be a losing proposition. Let's just tough it out."

Lingzhou Yue took a sip of wine and suddenly remembered her old profession: entrapment.

"Then I can tie you up with a rope, hang you on a bamboo pole, and fish for sea monsters while suspended in mid-air."

Master's idea was too bizarre, but it provided Xiao Ran with a way of thinking.

Fishing rods and ropes are unnecessary, but Xiao Ran can put the Sword Ship into stealth mode, with his Master hiding inside the ship, sitting comfortably on the fishing platform, while he Sword Flight below the ship. Perhaps this will really attract the sea monster.

Xiao Ran acted immediately.

He immediately Resonance with the ship, Formless Stealth mode, and Sword Flight, leading the way.

The cold, corrosive rain lashed against his face, Xiao Ran remained unmoved. He felt that this place was vast and unpredictable, truly worthy of being an ancient battlefield.

After flying for hundreds of miles, several giant whale -Wraith Beast gradually caught up with Xiao Ran.

These dark whales swam deep and seemed very cautious, not attacking Xiao Ran easily.

Lingzhou Yue slightly disappointed.

"The Wraith Beast can't replenish the Sword Ship's Spiritual Power."

Xiao Ran saw a glimmer of hope.

"That's something we can give it a try."

A short while later, a towering wave crashed down, and a massive black shadow leaped out of the water—

He swallowed Xiao Ran!

After swallowing Xiao Ran, it plunged into the deep sea and disappeared.

Upon closer inspection, Lingzhou Yue realized it was a Nether Whale at the Spirit Severing Realm.

He didn't offer to help and continued drinking.

For cultivators, the reason why Wraith Beast are not nutritious is that their Wraith Beast cores are corroded and their Wraith Core have not yet solidified. They only have corroded flesh and spirit, which cannot be digested and converted into Spiritual Power.

But Xiao Ran is no longer an ordinary cultivator; he is now considered a half- Humanoid Wraith being.

In the deep sea.

In the huge stomach of the Hades whale.

Xiao Ran sat cross-legged and immediately activated the Netherworld Power of the Great Wraith Wraith Core to backfire on the flesh and blood of the Netherworld Whale.

In less than half an hour, it absorbed a huge Nether Whale into its body from within, transforming it into Nether Power.

Xiao Ran then realized his Master's good intentions.

In a place like the Apostle, activating the Wraith Core cheat is like a fish in water, completely making up for his Cultivation Level.

Having absorbed the Nether Whale, Xiao Ran's Nether Power surged, and he quickly leaped out of the water to catch up with the Sword Ship.

He then used his Netherworld power to control the Sword Ship, propelling it forward at high speed.

Several hours later, they caught up with the other teams' progress in crossing the sea.

However, even in the Illusionary Sea, the number of Wraith Beast at the Spirit Severing Realm is still relatively small, making them difficult to encounter.

The low-level Wraith Beast weren't stupid; they didn't dare to attack Xiao Ran, a Spirit Severing expert.

Until a Beast Tide of piranha-like demonic Piranha leaped out of the towering waves, instantly blotting out the sky and engulfing Xiao Ran.

The countless Piranha that devoured people and spat out bones eventually transformed into Netherworld Power, along with their bones, and entered Xiao Ran's Boundless Qi Sea.

With his skillful use of entrapment tactics, Xiao Ran gained a massive amount of Netherworld Power, and full of vigor, he accelerated his progress.

Suddenly, a pitch-black tentacle emerged from the torrential rain and thunderous clouds.

"What the hell is that?"

Xiao Ran looked up and saw a huge white suction cup swallowing his body.

It instantly pulled him into the clouds.

This is...

The Wraith!

An octopus-shaped Body Integration Realm Wraith at the Fusion Realm! Wraith at the Body Integration Realm ambushed Xiao Ran? Inside the Abyss Giant Ship, Wen Yushu received the automatic alarm from Xiao Ran's armor immediately.

"Junior Nephew Xiao, we've discovered you're completely surrounded by the Wraith Pressure of the Body Integration Realm Soul Realm expert. Are you still alive?"

Xiao Ran was still alive, but he was no match for Wraith, who was at the Body Integration Realm. So he sent out a divine thought through the communication ring.

"Senior Wen, there's no need to worry. When a Wraith creature attacks a human not with intimidation or coercion, but with sneak attacks, it has already lost."

A splash of red appeared in the dark clouds.

Lingzhou Yue stood atop the Wraith, her Red Clothes rustling, her aura of alcohol permeating the heavens and earth.

Tear it apart with both hands in the air.

"Double Moon Tide".

In an instant, the dark energy within the clouds was distorted and its distribution became irregular.

Suddenly, two moons appeared on either side of the Wraith.

Two powerful surges of lunar energy tore at Wraith's body from the left and right.

A mournful, ghostly sound suddenly appeared, growing ever sharper and more frantic, tearing at the listener's scalp.

The withered hands, like tumorous tentacles, multiplied instantly during the prelude to the sonic melody, a dark, overwhelming mass that blotted out the sky, attempting to devour Lingzhou Yue! "Isn't it too late to call for help now?"

Lingzhou Yue pulled hard from a distance, tearing the Netherworld Body in two, turning it into dust.

In an instant, countless white eyeballs fell from the sky into the sea, creating a rain of eyeballs.

Lingzhou Yue reached out through the rain of eyeballs and grabbed the only Wraith Core disguised as an eyeball! She quietly lowered the Wraith Core and looked at Xiao Ran Lingzhou Yue, who was soaked to the bone in the rain.

"You're such a perfect bait, so delicious, even your master wants to devour you."

Chapter 217 The King of Lewd Talk:

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