Hidden Deep Enough

Although the Old Daoist could use special means to see what was happening inside the black mist.

He couldn't probe within Zhang Lin's Qi Armor.

Everything inside the blood qi was a blur; he didn't know what was happening.

This made him somewhat agitated.

Suddenly, the Qi Armor dissipated, and Zhang Lin walked over slowly.

"Are you alright!"

The Old Daoist was a little surprised.

He could sense that Zhang Lin's aura was rather chaotic.

Could he be injured?

"It's not a big problem, I just need to rest a bit!"

Zhang Lin frowned and gave the Old Daoist a strange look.

Then he shook his head again: "By the way, when we arrived at the foot of the mountain, we were restricted. If it weren't for the Black Flame, we wouldn't have been able to get past. Why were those three evil spirits able to come through?"

The Old Daoist thought for a moment and said: "Presumably, the Black Flame is the key. As long as someone passes through ahead, the restriction will disappear!"

After a short rest, Zhang Lin and the Old Daoist continued to climb the stone steps!

Up to the ninety-ninth step, the pressure suddenly increased. Zhang Lin felt that even a cultivator in the first level of the Foundation Establishment Realm would be crushed!

However, he still maintained his state of tempering his physical body and soul.

"Ah!"

The Old Daoist let out a scream and collapsed on the ground.

He was only at the half-step Foundation Establishment realm, so he naturally couldn't withstand the pressure.

Zhang Lin thought for a moment, and a surge of blood qi enveloped the Old Daoist, alleviating the pressure on him.

"Thank you!"

The Old Daoist stood up, gasping for breath.

"Do you have any other defensive methods? I'm afraid that on the next step, or perhaps further up, I won't be able to look after you. You'll be in grave danger then!"

Zhang Lin reminded him.

The path ahead was still an endless flight of stone steps. No one knew how many steps there were. Perhaps he himself wouldn't be able to hold on, and there was no way he could take care of the Old Daoist.

"Don't worry! I was careless and fell into a trap!"

As the Old Daoist spoke, he took out a Daoist robe from his backpack.

Zhang Lin looked at it with amazement.

He had been paying attention to the Old Daoist's backpack for a long time. It seemed like a pocket from Doraemon, containing everything.

However, from the outside, there was no sign of anything unusual!

This was probably what the Old Daoist called a spatial artifact.

The Old Daoist ignored Zhang Lin's gaze and directly put on the robe.

"You don't need to worry about me anymore!"

As Zhang Lin relaxed his defense, he saw the robe suddenly emit a faint glow, actually resisting the oppressive force.

"Holy crap! Do you have any spares!"

Zhang Lin's eyes lit up with desire. It was truly miraculous.

This was probably another artifact.

He couldn't help but sigh at how f*cking powerful the methods of the immortal path were!

"Cough cough... Only one! Just one!"

The Old Daoist was startled by Zhang Lin's gaze.

"Boring! Let's keep moving!"

Zhang Lin was helpless.

Soon, they encountered a problem!

This hundredth step was not so easy to ascend.

Although it looked only a little over a meter high, when you tried to leap up, no matter how much force you exerted, you couldn't make it.

Zhang Lin tried multiple times, all ending in failure.

The Old Daoist also tried various methods, but all were in vain.

"I heard that spaces have specific nodes. Perhaps we need to find that node to get up."

The Old Daoist pondered for a long time and came to a conclusion.

"Then how do we find this node?"

Zhang Lin didn't understand these things much and could only see what the Old Daoist could do.

"This... I don't know either!"

"Fine! Then I really don't know!"

Zhang Lin, not believing it, tried a few more times but still couldn't get up.

In the end, he had to give up and stop wasting effort.

The Old Daoist, meanwhile, sat to the side, rummaging through his backpack.

Then Zhang You placed one hand on the stone wall, slowly spreading his blood qi outwards along the stone steps. It ultimately didn't go up.

"Damn it!"

He punched the stone wall in frustration.

"Huh?"

He sensed a trace of blood qi actually going up!

"Again!"

After several more punches, the feeling from before didn't reappear.

"Something's wrong!"

After punching the wall a few more times, he finally noticed that the fluctuations were all converging in one place.

He quickly focused his gaze there.

Before long, a flash of golden-red light flickered in his eyes!

Then he stood there, lost in thought.

"What's he looking at? Did he find something?"

The Old Daoist looked up in the direction of Zhang You's gaze but saw nothing.

At this moment, the scene in Zhang You's eyes changed.

The entire world he saw was now in black and white. Everything around him was a white, net-like structure. Above, there was a funnel-shaped net, which he guessed was a spatial node.

Fearing this sensation would disappear soon, he quickly dashed over, grabbed the Old Daoist, and rushed towards the funnel-shaped net.

"You... Huh! We're up!"

The Old Daoist was still bewildered. By the time he reacted, they were already on the hundredth step.

Soon, Zhang You's head throbbed, and he let go of the Old Daoist.

The Old Daoist felt a stronger pressure than on the ninety-ninth step, but it was blocked by his Daoist robe!

"Are you alright?"

The Old Daoist tentatively asked, then looked around.

There was nothing in the surroundings, only a one-meter-tall pure black flame in the center ahead.

Soon, color returned to Zhang You's eyes; the world was no longer structured like a net.

He didn't know what had just happened!

Suddenly, a sharp attack pierced through the back of his head.

As if sensing it, he quickly dodged to the side, but it was still a step too late.

He felt a sharp pain in his left shoulder, a deep gash opening up. Blood quickly stained his entire arm red.

"What's the meaning of this?"

Zhang You channeled his blood qi to seal the wound.

He calmly asked the Old Daoist, who was not far away holding a broken spirit sword.

His physical body, even now, was impenetrable to cultivators in the second level of Foundation Establishment, yet he had been injured by a broken sword!

"Just as you see! Why dodge? It would have been so much better to die quietly and obediently! But now look at this!"

The Old Daoist sighed profoundly, a cruel smile appearing on his face as he licked the blood from the broken sword.

"Ai! You finally made your move! I thought you were a very rational person!"

Zhang You suddenly smiled slightly.

In fact, he had sensed the Old Daoist's killing intent more than once before.

Although it was only a fleeting moment, he had still captured it!

This Old Daoist was not honest!

He was far from as simple as he appeared on the surface!

He had also wondered in his heart if he should deal with this old man first!

But in the end, he decided against it. Who knew what hidden methods the other party possessed.

The broken sword in his hand was excellent proof!

Zhang You was now very sure that the reason he could knock the other party out near the vegetable market before was probably because this old guy was faking it!

After that, he inexplicably arrived in this Ghost Domain…

"But if I think about it this way, this old guy is too good at faking it! If it were in the old world, he probably could have won an Oscar award until his hands cramped!"

Zhang You could only sigh that the other party was hiding himself quite well.

Afterward, he read through the Star Absorbing Great Law a few more times and found no problems.

This made him breathe a sigh of relief!

"You don't seem surprised at all!"

The Old Daoist asked casually.

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