The Secret of Cultivation at the Void Return Stage

Black clouds blanketed the sky, while mountain ranges stretched across the earth. Enormous volcanoes lay scattered among them, their rolling columns of black smoke like colossal black pillars connecting heaven and earth, towering between the two.

The air was thick with sulfur, and rivers of fiery magma wound across the surface, radiating vast quantities of scorching heat.

In an instant, a streak of lightning suddenly flashed across the horizon. In the moment it lit up the darkness, it leaped over vast mountain ranges and sped wildly toward the depths of the Endless Fire Abyss.

Flying day and night without rest, Zhao Sheng had forcibly compressed a journey of sixteen days into nine. Gui Ruins Market was now close at hand.

But after all these days, Wu Zhiqi, reduced to nothing but a head, had also become barely alive, his divine soul on the verge of falling unconscious.

Had he been outside, Wu Zhiqi, a mighty Body Integration Realm expert, would never have deteriorated to such a state.

Yet under the combined effects of the Burial Immortal Ruins' peculiar laws and harsh environment, a dignified Body Integration Realm expert had fallen into a near-death state in merely ten days.

Only Zhao Sheng was "benevolent and righteous." Had it been another Divine Beast Envoy, they might well have harbored evil intentions.

Half a day later, a bolt of lightning descended onto an open patch of ground beside a magma lake. With a flash, Zhao Sheng's figure appeared.

At that moment, he held Wu Zhiqi's head in one hand and looked ahead. Just in time, he saw a vertical line suddenly split open in the air from heaven to earth. It swiftly widened into a slit of light, peeling apart to either side and forming a gateway.

At the sight, Zhao Sheng strode