New Chapter: Without Pause

New Star, Yuan City, a western city, is adjacent to the largest uninhabited area Cloud Mist Plateau. It is already summer here, and it is the time of year when lanternfish migrate.

Outside the city, on the Zhou River, many fish floated to the surface, illuminating the night sky. Three years later, Wang Xuan returned to this city, but he did not find the person he wanted to see.

Three years have passed. I imagine that Lele, the little girl who lost her parents and was tormented by the Five Decays of Heaven and Man Disease, should be getting better now.

Back then, those few Mechanical Taoist with severed arms who piloted ancient warships from deep space explicitly stated that they could help her cure her ailment. Furthermore, after the Supernatural Collapse, the effects of that particular disease on the human body should have decreased.

"Have you left New Star?" Wang Xuan asked calmly. Life is fleeting, and all gatherings and partings are predestined.

That night, he arrived in Su City and checked into a hotel. Standing on the rooftop, overlooking the brightly lit city, he could see his "Health Preservation Hall".

It was a detached building that Qian An had given him, which had been destroyed and rebuilt.

Thinking back on the past, Wang Xuan felt regret. Qian An had been dead for more than three years. In the end, it was too late. He couldn't save the old man. His body was possessed by demons, and his primordial spirit was devoured.

"Old Qian, farewell." Wang Xuan looked towards the direction outside the city, where there was a Daoist temple and various books collected by Old Qian, which he and Chen Yongjie had once read.

Wang Xuan returned to his room; it was late at night. He planned to visit Professor Lin the next day.

As for his small Silver Spaceship, it remained parked in the mountains outside the city, unnoticed and ignored regardless of whether anyone discovered it.

His phone was flooded with messages, which Wang Xuan glanced at but ignored. In the stillness of the night, he calmed himself and began to sense the world beyond the Earth of Fate.

In the Misty Sea composed of Super Material, on that island, Wang Xuan saw one humanoid being after another. With his contact, those people either disappeared or turned into light.

"What exactly is going on?" In the Real World, Wang Xuan could only vaguely perceive some of the scenery. It was too far away. To him, it was like a spiritual journey, a long trip.

There was conflict and fighting on the island, but no malevolence. Some light merged into his primordial spirit, while some light dissipated completely.

In the dead of night, he sat in the hotel, somewhat bewildered. His primordial spirit was on a journey and seemed to have improved, slowly becoming stronger.

However, that "he" was getting further and further away from his physical body, and he never looked back.

"The creatures on the island were not quite what I had imagined. After they disappeared, they did not harbor any resentment." He noticed that when the island became quiet, there were also subtle changes in his Real World, and his mind became clear.

At this moment, his blood flow accelerated, his metabolism became extremely intense, his body expelled a large amount of sticky sweat, and he experienced an unbearable feeling of hunger.

He didn't have many Good Fortune True Crystal left, so he didn't use them easily. Instead, he ordered a large amount of food from the hotel, and soon a food cart was pushed in.

Wang Xuan had never been so hungry. He had a huge appetite and ate continuously throughout the night to replenish his body's needs.

In this era, he was certain that even someone as powerful as him, comparable to an Earth Immortal, was gradually weakening. Compared to when he fought against Qi Tian and Shang Yi, his physical body was no longer at its peak, and in keeping with the times, it was gradually decaying.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have a few gray hairs sprouting at his temples.

But now, he feels that his slightly weakened physical body seems to have improved and is turning for the better.

"Interesting. The changes in the Land of Nothingness have affected the physical body in reality." Much later, he had eaten all the food in the food cart.

He could feel that the energy was being rapidly absorbed and converted into what his body needed.

His hunger subsided, and the changes in his body stopped. He took a second shower, and finally felt clean and refreshed.

When he looked inward again and carefully sensed the world beneath his life earth, he experienced a kind of pain, burning and excruciating. His wandering self left the island and rushed upward, trying to break out of the Misty Sea.

Is there a chance of success this time?

"Is he crazy? Or perhaps I should say, am I crazy?" Even in the Real World, when Wang Xuan tried to comprehend and sense things, his mind was being torn apart. As time went on, he found it increasingly difficult to bear.

His primordial spirit was heading far away. Why was he in such a hurry? If he wasn't careful, he would be burned to ashes in the vast ocean of Red Substance. There, there were all kinds of real energy particles, which were incredibly terrifying, like a barrage of meteorites. His primordial spirit was trying to avoid them and was struggling to ascend.

"Hmm?" He sensed it from the outside world as well. In a hazy, life-or-death moment, he saw the sea level. It was still some distance away, not too far!

However, at this moment, he felt that he was going to die, which affected his real life. He had a feeling that his spirit was being ignited and was about to turn into ashes.

"It's a pity that I didn't bring the Supreme Imperial Dao Spear with me. Otherwise, I wouldn't be in this danger. I'm now penetrating the 'Misty Sea' and getting closer to the true source entirely on my own."

The next moment, in the Real World, he staggered, his head throbbed with pain, and his spirit seemed to be burned away in an instant.

He fell backward onto the snow-white bed, his spirit seemingly bleeding, his vision going black, and deep in his heart he felt a real sense of facing death.

"Butterfly Dream of Zhuang Zhou a butterfly, and the butterfly dreamed of being Zhuang Zhou. It's two sides of the same coin. Am I going to die in the other world? It's dragging down my present self!" His eyes were empty, and he couldn't see anything. This unexpected turn of events was far beyond his expectations.

Fortunately, this wasn't outside, and there was no enemy present. If people had seen him in such a weak and vulnerable state, it would have certainly led to all sorts of unpredictable consequences.

Soon after, everything went black before his eyes. He finally couldn't hold on any longer and completely lost consciousness.

At dawn, Wang Xuan awoke, and this time he did not sleep for a long time.

He quickly tried to sense his other self in another world. That self hadn't died; it had held on and was only a short distance from the surface of the sea.

However, the Misty Sea there was terrifying and incredibly dense. More importantly, one after another, massive Great Star crashed down from the sky, plunging into the red ocean and exploding, unleashing destructive power.

This left him speechless, followed by a sense of dread. Was the surface of the sea truly terrifying? What was happening in that new world, the source of real power?

Lost in thought, he dared not make any rash moves. He hid on a reef in the sea, which temporarily saved him from the terrible situation of being burned to death.

Very close to the sea, seemingly only a few dozen meters away, the islands and reefs form their own Small World, resisting the forces of destruction.

The final stretch will not be easy to overcome; it may well be a test of life and death.

"He wasn't going crazy; he was gathering his strength, waiting for the final opportunity to leap."

Everything was blurry. In the Real World, he could only vaguely see that it was like a thick fog blocking his way, obscuring the New World in the distance.

The reef was quite large, and besides Wang Xuan, there were other creatures on it; he was communicating with someone.

Lost in thought, he did not immediately cross the sea, but lingered on the reef, which was submerged in the sea and bathed in soft light.

In the hotel, Wang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. For the time being, everything was fine. He felt that after things were settled here, it would be better to return to his Old Earth and lie low for a while.

If your spirit rises from the earth and leaps out of the sea, the commotion will likely be significant, and you might even face death. So be careful not to get yourself into trouble and implicate your real self.

Early in the morning, after breakfast, Wang Xuan went to visit Professor Lin. During the three years of his delirium, Professor Lin had visited him in his Old Earth several times, but unfortunately, he had not been able to see him.

Professor Lin has retired and is financially secure, but the cost of a long-distance space voyage to his Old Earth is still too high. He paid for one trip himself, but the others were all done by shamelessly hitching a ride on the spaceships of Zhao Qinghan, Zhou Yun, and others.

"Wang Xuan!" When Professor Lin saw Wang Xuan again, and saw him standing in front of him in person, he was stunned, and then overjoyed.

He was Wang Xuan's mentor and the student he valued most. It was his Pre-Qin Bamboo Slips that unexpectedly opened up the Inner Scenery Realm for Wang Xuan.

Professor Lin looks quite well, and he doesn't look his age at all. After all, he drank from the Earth Immortal Spring, which not only cured his chronic illness but also brought him close to becoming extraordinary.

"I'm relieved to see that you're doing well." After lunch, Wang Xuan politely declined Professor Lin's offer to stay, as he had other matters to attend to, and his main objective was naturally to find the banner of the Dao Control Banner.

He thought for a moment, then dialed Zhao Qinghan's cell phone, but the call didn't go through.

He glanced at the messages on his phone. Clearly, many people knew he had arrived. There were invitations from several heavyweight elders, including Song Yun, as well as messages from young people like Zhou Yun, Li Qingxuan, Qian Rui, and Qian Qian. There was even a polite invitation from the Gray Blood organization, which had once wanted to kill him. They all wanted to see him.

He replied to some people's messages briefly, and then found that even "Little Song" had sent a message. This guy had once hired an assassin to kill Wang Xuan because of Ling Wei.

There were simply too many messages, so Wang Xuan decided to ignore them for the time being.

He didn't linger; he left Su City without seeing a single person and went straight to Kangning City.

This action immediately silenced many people, and some members of the Sun family became extremely nervous, because this was their stronghold.

Is the freak Wang Xuan planning to start another war with them? The Sun family had only recently returned from the depths of space, and now they were suddenly getting a little uneasy!

All parties are observing in silence.

Wang Xuan ignored them and went straight to the headquarters of the New Arts Domain, which was located in this city. In fact, it was somewhat related to the Sun family, mainly because the Sun family and several other financial groups were supporting people in the New Arts Domain.

Furthermore, the Sun family once secretly controlled a great deal of power in the New Arts. Sun Rongting, a core member of the Sun family who was personally killed by Wang Xuan, had combined the New Arts with the Old Arts in his practice.

When Wang Xuan arrived, he almost caused an uproar among the New Arts. They couldn't possibly resist him, and they certainly didn't dare to fight him. They didn't understand why he had come.

"I want to go to Superstar, I need coordinates." Wang Xuan's direct and simple words gradually calmed the restlessness here.

The New Arts, formerly known as the Super Arts, and the so-called "originating place," a planet similar to the secret realm, is called the Superstar.

On that day, Wang Xuan left New Star and, without stopping, his Silver Spaceship plunged into the wormhole, heading towards Superstar.

The people of New Star were astonished. Had he really just left like that? Soon after, those who learned of his whereabouts immediately guessed that everything he had done was for the sake of transcendence and cultivation.

Could there be some secret on Superstar that would make a powerful Earth Immortal go to the trouble of exploring it personally?

Should we kill him?

There were those who hoped Wang Xuan would find a new path and Extend Life of the mythology, and there were also those who were hostile to him and wished for his death.

"Shut up. If you want to die, go smash your head against a rock. Don't cause me any trouble. Can't you see those old guys trying to win him over and meet him? The best thing to do right now is to stay calm and keep things peaceful. Ten years or twenty years will pass, and the extraordinary will naturally disappear without a trace."

Superstar, a half-destroyed life-bearing planet, has trees, but still gives people a sense of desolation. This place is too special, with mountains and seas of corpses underground.

Some of the skeletons are as large as mountains, and some ruins still contain strange laboratory remnants.

Here are dilapidated Underground Palace, where various cold weapons are buried, and in some areas, ancient spaceships and destroyed ancient robots remain.

Based on research by people in the New Arts Domain, as well as the involvement and excavation by conglomerates, some conclusions have been drawn that this is an experimental star left over from ancient times.

Wang Xuan had absolutely no interest in the scientific research achievements, New Arts research, and various laboratories here. If the roads here were feasible, they wouldn't have been abandoned and left desolate.

He held the thumb-length "Imperial Dao Spear" in his palm and laid out the Body Slaying Banner, Iron Stake fragments, and other Good Fortune True Crystal Imperial Dao Spear and these broken artifacts.

He wanted to use this to sense whether there was any interaction between the flags of the Dao Control Banner, and whether any traces could be found.

"Um?"

No Dao Control Banner was revived to respond, but he was not disappointed. On the contrary, he showed a look of surprise. The Silver Beast Skin Book, the fragments of the God Slaying Banner, and the Imperial Dao Spear were all glowing. Soft patterns intertwined to form a mysterious Map of Mountains and Rivers, which gradually became clear and complete.