Pushing Across the World Begins with Drawing the Saber!
Void Chaos Art?
Wasn't this the precious art mentioned by the mysterious man bound by the Chain of Karma?
Back then, Lin Shuguang had still been guessing where the opportunity to obtain this art lay. Who would have thought it was actually here?
He changed his train of thought.
So this person was actually another plot character the mysterious man had conquered.
What a small world.
Only after nearly exhausting all the money on him did Lin Shuguang finally learn the Void Chaos Art to grand completion.
With a thought, he could escape across the world.
That was what the general outline claimed, but after spending money to level it up, Lin Shuguang clearly understood that how far he could flee still depended on his cultivation realm.
"After you return, you must cultivate this art with all your heart. Since it involves laws, it's still rather obscure and difficult for cultivators at your current realm. You needn't worry. Go to the Demonic Moon Sect and retrieve the Three Yang Needle first. Once this matter is settled, if you have any questions about the art, you may come ask this old man. I'll tell you everything I know."
"Wait for my news."
Lin Shuguang left those words behind, and with a thought,
the space before him seemed to ripple. In the next moment, his entire body vanished from where he stood.
With a "whoosh," he appeared in the break room where he had been staying.
It was his first time using the art, so he was still somewhat unaccustomed to it. The instant he landed, his entire body shuddered, and then a delighted smile spread across his face. "Now that I've mastered this art, I'm like a tiger that's grown wings."
Meanwhile, inside the forging room,
the mysterious man was speechless.
Looking at the empty forging room, this powerhouse who had once shaken the continent fell silent.
"Am I old, or has the era changed? I merely passed on the technique without telling him how to cultivate it, yet he actually understood it at a glance?"
"What a monster... Meeting him must be fate!"
"Hahaha... hahahahaha..."
The entire Saber Prison suddenly began to tremble again.
Far away, Sima Tingwei had just blasted Ji Feng away when he suddenly frowned. "What the hell is Ji Wufeng going crazy about now?"
His figure flashed.
He rushed over.
In the time it took for two breaths, Sima Tingwei descended into the underground eighteenth level of the Saber Prison like a violent gale.
A formation-prison resembling a blazing furnace had trapped a disheveled man. His hands and feet were shackled by mysterious iron chains, and his entire body hung suspended in midair... At that moment, the man was laughing uproariously.
"Ji Wufeng, what the hell are you doing?" Sima Tingwei descended with a thunderous boom, like a giant sword crashing into a mountain peak. Lightning Rays churned all around him as he pressed down toward Ji Wufeng inside the cage.
Yet Ji Wufeng's laughter continued without pause.
He showed no intention of taking Sima Tingwei seriously.
Sima Tingwei narrowed his eyes slightly... Back then, he had come here carrying His Majesty's will specifically to personally guard and suppress this evil demon.
He couldn't understand why this evil demon, which had not stirred for several hundred years, had suddenly begun causing trouble again and again.
He raised a hand, and thunder surged forth, forming a dome that desperately resisted and suppressed the terrifying aura radiating from Ji Wufeng.
After the time it took for an incense stick to burn,
Ji Wufeng's disturbance finally subsided.
Through the thunder, he slowly raised his head. His hair hung loose, yet the eyes beneath his gray-white brows were not the least bit clouded. He merely looked at Sima Tingwei indifferently. "Back then, this old man made a wager with Gu Taxian that he couldn't defeat Heaven. Several hundred years have passed, and he's still the same person. In my view, he still can't do it."
Gu Taxian... was His Majesty's personal name.
Sima Tingwei wore the same icy expression. Staring at Ji Wufeng, he said flatly, "Behave yourself. I can't kill you, and you can't get out. If you want to live longer, struggle less."
With that, he turned and left.
A brilliant glint burst from Ji Wufeng's eyes... He had no idea what sect that boy came from. But no matter what sect it was, with such talent joining his school, the incense of his lineage definitely wouldn't be extinguished.
Inside the break room on the underground second level,
Lin Shuguang also sensed the disturbance in the Saber Prison. At this moment, many jailers had opened their doors and were standing in the corridor, looking both startled and uncertain.
Lin Shuguang was speechless.
What was that old man going crazy about?
Every time I come looking for you, you make such a huge commotion...
No wonder he had passed on the Void Chaos Art to him.
"The Spatial Altar can hide me, and the Void Chaos Art can carry me far away. If I can combine the two, wouldn't I be invincible?"
With that thought, Lin Shuguang began experimenting.
He first entered the Spatial Altar and then circulated the Void Chaos Art, but for a moment, he felt as though he couldn't exert any strength.
"These two abilities both involve laws... Is it because my realm is too low, or because both laws originate from the Totem Continent, while I'm not from the Totem Continent and therefore can't use them?"
In theory, he had already refined the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman and could escape into it.
The Void Chaos Art was also a precious art he had spent a fortune leveling to grand completion.
Yet the two could not work together.
Lin Shuguang was speechless.
Heaven, something's wrong with you.
Although Lin Shuguang's desire to fuse the two abilities was somewhat fanciful, just as he had thought, using both abilities properly could still make for a devastating trump card.
After one night,
Lin Shuguang left the Black Prison.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, he returned to his residence and ordered a sweet-and-spicy chicken dish, asking the waiter to send it to his room.
"Please enjoy your meal, sir." The waiter smiled and reminded him, "Sir, a group of ruffians from the martial world has come to town these past few days. If you have nothing to do, it's best not to go out. Besides, the sky is frighteningly dark today. It's gloomy despite being daytime. I'm afraid a heavy rain will fall soon."
The door closed.
Lin Shuguang glanced out the window to one side. The wind howled, and the sky was terribly gloomy, as though it were dusk, making him feel an involuntary chill.
Not long afterward,
the window of Lin Shuguang's room seemed to be swept by a gust of wind.
He circulated the Void Chaos Art, and his entire body instantly shifted a thousand meters away.
After several flashes, he vanished from the area under the Black Prison's jurisdiction.
The Demonic Moon Sect had once relied on the old witch's fearsome reputation to devour other weaker forces. Later, it had crippled itself by reporting the old witch and voluntarily surrendering most of the territory it had swallowed, retreating to a corner of the southwest. In secret, however, it controlled the towns in the region.
Hidden in the shadows, Lin Shuguang quickly discovered that the town was full of grown men serving women tea and water. At the entrances of some shops, women even held long whips and publicly berated their husbands.
Once he thought of the Demonic Moon Sect's origins, the cause and effect were not difficult to understand.
Lin Shuguang had no intention of intervening to save them.
Some black-clad women with veiled faces patrolled the streets with various weapons in hand. For them to act so brazenly at the foot of the emperor's throne without being wiped out by the Imperial Court, Lin Shuguang refused to believe they had no backing.
As he continued deeper, he saw men everywhere wearing shabby, unsightly clothes while being held captive by disciples of the Demonic Moon Sect. Anyone who dared struggle or resist was viciously struck with a whip.
The mountains behind the county town had been excavated from within. The corners of buildings protruding from the depths were clearly those of an altar.
"This is the Demonic Moon Sect's true headquarters."
Lin Shuguang found it utterly astonishing.
The Demonic Moon Sect had actually dared to build an altar deep in the mountains and old forests. Were they truly not afraid of being arrested?
It was almost laughable.
Back then, to drive away the old witch, the Demonic Moon Sect had reported her for secretly conducting evil rituals.
Yet now, these people had begun conducting evil rituals themselves.
Lin Shuguang's figure flickered as he rapidly closed in.
The Demonic Moon Sect disciples here were clearly several times stronger than those in the town, but some things were equally obvious.
Perhaps because of the consequences of the evil rituals, the disciples near the altar were noticeably quieter and more wooden, like Walking Corpses.
"Evil rituals can indeed increase their strength, but offering sacrifices to an evil god also allows evil qi to erode their minds. Over time, they'll lose their humanity..." Lin Shuguang hid inside the Spatial Altar.
Whenever someone came, he hid there. Once they left, he would leap out, circulate the Void Chaos Art, and charge inside at top speed.
He flashed into the mountain range.
Surrounding the altar was a massive temple.
Countless rooms were embedded in the mountainside, with carved beams and painted rafters, and all kinds of patterns carved across them.
"Keep going deeper!"
Lin Shuguang's figure exploded forward.
He pushed both the Void Chaos Art and the Spatial Altar to their limits.
A group of people surrounded the passage ahead. Lin Shuguang stood behind a stone statue, his figure perfectly blending into the surrounding darkness. For a while, no one noticed his existence.
"These treasures were personally selected by the Divine Envoy. Be careful and put them in the secret room." A Demonic Moon Sect disciple dressed far more distinctively than the others directed the controlled men.
A group of people carefully lifted the boxes.
The Demonic Moon Sect disciple personally led the way as everyone cautiously carried the boxes inside. No one knew what they contained, but more than a dozen burly men were already struggling, great patches of sweat pouring from their foreheads.
Lin Shuguang followed behind them. Only when he saw a group of Demonic Moon Sect disciples guarding nearby did he stop...
The instant the treasury doors opened, his entire body shot out with a "whoosh," and the Void Chaos Art erupted to its fullest.
"Hm? Did something just flash past?" a Demonic Moon Sect disciple asked suspiciously. She and several companions exchanged glances and searched around, but none of them saw anyone suspicious. The disciple who had spoken wore a face full of confusion. "Could I have just seen things?"
After confirming that no one was there, they urged the group of men to put down the items, then berated them to leave quickly. Only afterward did they lock the treasury doors again.
After a long while,
a figure appeared openly inside the treasury.
It was none other than Lin Shuguang!
He had just risked passing in front of a group of Demonic Moon Sect disciples in the Spirit Transformation Realm. The moment he entered, he had hidden inside the Spatial Altar.
Otherwise, he would surely have been discovered by so many Demonic Moon Sect disciples renowned for their spiritual power.
Turning around, Lin Shuguang began surveying his "territory."
This treasury was even larger than the hall outside. Night pearls were embedded in the walls all around, fully illuminating the entire treasury. The light was not harsh; instead, it was exceptionally soft.
What drew Lin Shuguang's attention even more were the neatly arranged chests. Each one had a steel lock hanging from it.
"Crack!"
Steel locks were nothing to Lin Shuguang.
He reached out, easily crushed one, and opened the chest. Inside, his eyes were filled with Gold Leaves. It was packed to the brim.
"This Demonic Moon Sect actually plundered so much money! I'm rich this time!"
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
A series of steel locks breaking rang out.
Chest after chest was opened.
There were all kinds of jewels and jewelry... Together, they were worth at least several million Gold Leaves.
Needless to say, they were definitely wealth plundered by the Demonic Moon Sect from all over.
"Then I'll gladly accept them."
Lin Shuguang showed no courtesy at all. He moved all the chests into the Spatial Altar. Fortunately, the Spatial Altar was huge, and storing these chests was no problem.
In any case, Lin Shuguang felt no psychological burden whatsoever.
After throwing more than a dozen chests filled with treasures into the Spatial Altar, he found that other chests still remained in the room. Patiently, Lin Shuguang continued opening them.
They were actually chest after chest of pills.
Having just arrived, Lin Shuguang naturally couldn't recognize all these pills. He took one out and held it in his palm. Only after sensing it did he understand. "So this increases qi and blood... What about this one..."
He swallowed one.
Lin Shuguang glanced at the Attribute Panel.
Spirit increased by 1 point.
That single point left Lin Shuguang deeply disappointed. He stuffed the pill into his mouth, gulped it down whole, closed the chest, and threw it into the Spatial Altar once more.
He tried several kinds of pills in succession.
Some increased strength by one point, while others increased constitution by one point.
Just after Lin Shuguang swallowed one of the black pills, a line of text appeared on the system panel before him.
Poisoned
Lin Shuguang was speechless.
His qi and blood surged, dispersing the poison. He spat out a mouthful of black, stagnant blood.
"What bad luck."
He stored the chest of assorted poisons as well.
More than twenty chests of pills were swept clean.
Lin Shuguang continued deeper inside.
When he opened the chests before him, he found that they were all weapons, arrows, longbows, and even some armor.
Lin Shuguang stared at them with a strange expression.
"Could the Demonic Moon Sect be planning a rebellion? Their sect master is only in the True Fate Realm, yet they dare oppose the Great Gan Dynasty? Either they're truly insane, or the force behind the Demonic Moon Sect is even stronger... Interesting."
Lin Shuguang showed no restraint.
Whether weapons or pills, he accepted everything that came his way and stored it away.
The entire room was emptied in the blink of an eye.
In the next moment, Lin Shuguang arrived before the entrance to the second room.
A restriction had actually been placed on the doorknob.
If Lin Shuguang accidentally touched it, the expert stationed here would immediately notice.
"To make the Demonic Moon Sect guard this place so carefully, the things inside must be even more precious... The mysterious prisoner in the Black Prison said earlier that the Three Yang Needle and Void Water were both in the second room. There must be a reason for that."
His spiritual power, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, surged like a vast tide. If the owner of the restriction knew about this, he would surely regret not putting more thought into setting it up. Otherwise, how could he have allowed an anomaly like Lin Shuguang to crack it so easily?
The second room was much smaller than the first.
There were some precious Treasure Medicines and several Spiritual Artifacts.
A water vat made of special materials was filled with Void Water. Lin Shuguang emptied it completely on the spot.
He found the Three Yang Needle. The faint aura emanating from it made Lin Shuguang hesitate... The mysterious man's strength was extraordinary, so why would he need such a treasure?
He didn't think much of it and tossed it directly into the Spatial Altar.
"Hmm, what's this?" A container the size of a safe was locked shut. Lin Shuguang tried to tear it open, but he couldn't even break the lock, leaving him bewildered and uncertain.
Not sensing any restriction on it, he drew the Slaughter Blade and slashed apart the golden lock.
The chain snapped at once. He opened the container, only to find a Jade Bone inside, about as long as an index finger...
The instant the container's lid lifted, a terrifying aura suddenly descended.
Lin Shuguang reacted with lightning speed and tossed it straight into the Spatial Altar.
This aura is unbelievably sinister. What the hell is this thing? Whatever—it doesn't matter. I'm taking everything here!
Lin Shuguang looted both treasure vaults until they were swept clean.
He swaggered toward the main entrance.
"Knock, knock."
A commotion came from the treasure vault's main entrance.
The Demonic Moon Sect disciples guarding it looked at one another suspiciously before opening the vault door.
A figure crashed down with overwhelming force.
A domineering Saber Light instantly slashed downward.
"Pfft!"
Several heads flew high into the air.
Amid the scattering blood mist, a figure flashed away in an instant, as elusive as a ghost, leaving everyone completely caught off guard...
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