Predicament I

"Alright, enough chit-chat. Let's confirm the location of the Interaction Zone we just detected. We'll go back after dark. We're running low on food." Laf's smile faded.

The Moon God remained silent, simply waiting quietly.

The cold wind howled outside, Heavenly Light gradually began to dim as time went by.

The dark clouds began to gather again, blocking out the originally bright light.

The light is very strange.

It will occasionally produce beams of light like pillars, which will descend from the sky and fall to the ground.

These are the truly deadly lights.

However, if you only look carefully from the side, you won't be affected too much.

Dark clouds obscured the Heavenly Light.

In the ruins of the town, the lava flowing from the cracks in the ground glowed red once more.

These faint red lights became the only illumination for this land at night.

"That's enough. Let's go."

Laf straightened his long silver-black coat and stepped out of the attic.

His leather boots made a clear, crisp sound as they stepped on the crunchy ground. It was striking and jarring.

"Let's go, let's go~~~ There's more delicious food~~" Jade Pavilion happily followed them out.

Heart Fusion took out a cigarette, put it in her mouth, rubbed her fingers together to create a small flame, and lit the cigarette.

Even though it was just a cigarette rolled by the roughest hands, he treated it as if it were the most exquisite delicacy.

He took a deep, blissful breath and looked toward the last Moon God.

"Old Yue, let's go."

The Moon God silently stood up and walked out from beside him.

At first, he might not have known what the other party meant, but after spending so much time together, he had long understood that Heart Fusion was Laf had arranged to keep an eye on him.

They were watching him closely, not allowing him to run away, and seemingly trying to extract information from him.

They have been wandering in this area for a long time.

It seems to be searching for something.

The Moon God already had a guess in her heart.

He felt that although Laf didn't say it, he was very likely looking for the Interaction Zone from which he came.

The four of them walked out of the rest area. Their pace was neither fast nor slow, as if they were taking a leisurely stroll.

Laf, who was walking at the front, would occasionally wave his hand and throw some stones to lure away the wandering Evil Spirit Car.

Avoiding unnecessary consumption has always been their guiding principle.

Because the Heart Burning Furnace also requires energy.

This time they seemed to be lucky; they didn't get very far.

Suddenly, Jade Pavilion paused, his gaze turning to the distant right side where a burial mound-like building ruin stood.

It was the ruins left after a stone restaurant collapsed.

But at this moment, a faint red light began to appear in the Jade Pavilion's full chest.

"There seems to be something there," she thought as she strode closer.

He grabbed a corner of the rubble and suddenly lifted it upwards.

Boom! Large chunks of rock were blown away by the immense force.

A hidden metal door was revealed below.

"An entrance to Interaction Zone!? Not bad luck." Jade Pavilion exclaimed, his eyes wide.

"Are you going in?" she asked the three of them as she turned around.

"I'll leave it to you. Judging from the entrance, it'll probably just be a small place," Heart Fusion said, showing little interest.

"I'll go with you," the Moon God said first.

This was the first time he had encountered them finding the Interaction Zone since joining the group.

He wanted to see how the Heartless Troupe handled the Interaction Zone they encountered.

"Alright, let's do it together and finish this quickly." Jade Pavilion licked his lips.

She placed her hand on the surface of the hidden door.

Boom!!

The hidden door was crushed and blasted open by a tremendous force, revealing a dark and deep hole below.

The moment the cave entrance appeared, a tremendous force of attraction rapidly spread outwards.

Jade Pavilion, already quite experienced, got up and stepped back to avoid the pulling force.

"First, use the external environment to destroy the inner loop Sky Curtain of this Interaction Zone. Then, when it's in chaos inside, we can go in and reap the rewards," Jade Pavilion instructed the Moon God.

"If we go this far, what if we encounter serious trouble inside?" the Moon God asked in a deep voice.

"A strong problem? Even if it's strong, can it be stronger than us?" Jade Pavilion laughed. "Like you, without the furnace, you can't even beat me, let alone Heart Fusion and Boss Laf."

She seemed to have never encountered such an exception before.

***Nighttime.

White Scale walked cautiously across a desolate patch of black earth.

A long snake tail grew out from under her skirt, with flames burning at the end, hanging in front of her for illumination.

'Boss, are you still there?' She would ask every so often.

'I'm still here, but the distance is increasing, and I'm gradually losing the ability to project my main consciousness here.' Zhang Rongfang sensed that the area outside the Sky Curtain was completely different from the Interaction Zone.

The communication of consciousness between different parts of the body is extremely taxing.

Perhaps this is the normal reaction.

As seen in the Interaction Zone, there is no loss of energy even at great distances, which is somewhat abnormal.

'Then I won't go any further?' White Scale paused, a little flustered in his heart.

"Continue. Unless you encounter a truly insurmountable danger, gather more intelligence and then report back to me," Zhang Rongfang ordered.

'But I...' White Scale looked up and around. It was all dark, and it felt as if she was the only one alive in the whole world.

Apart from the sound of the wind, there were no other sounds.

"Stop talking nonsense and continue," Zhang Rongfang urged.

White Scale dared not delay and could only keep moving further away, his figure gradually disappearing at the end of the dark Ping Yuan.

Contact with Zhang Rongfang gradually broke down due to the increasing distance.

"Is it completely impossible to contact them?"

At this moment, Zhang Rongfang's physical body, which was suspended in the Sky Curtain, withdrew his consciousness and frowned.

Although from White Scale's perspective, he briefly saw the scene outside the Sky Curtain.

But that's far from enough.

The purpose of the All- Blood Descendant is to combat the sinking of the Sky Curtain.

If the Heavenly Light continues to intensify, then this struggle will never end.

Therefore, he had to figure out what was happening outside the Sky Curtain and whether there were other solutions.

'I hope White Scale won't let me down.' Zhang Rongfang stared at the Sky Curtain.

He suddenly turned around and flew towards the headquarters of the Human Immortal Temple.

There is no other way but to wait now. Rather than waiting here in vain, it is better to return and continue the practice.

In addition, the Attribute Points accumulated before should be used to further improve them.

He had to be prepared to, if forced, forcibly destroy the Sky Curtain and violently break out of the Interaction Zone.

His wings flapped, and the bloodshot light in his eyes flashed intermittently.

Before long, the blood shadow shot straight back from the sky above the Wish Woman Canyon and flew back to the cave.

Zhang Rongfang landed, retracted his wings and merged them into himself, then took a step forward.

His body began to change rapidly, and in just a few seconds, he transformed into the appearance of his disciple, Chang Yuqing.

Ever since he learned that Chang Yuqing was cultivating the Five Hearts Qi Gathering Art faster than him, Zhang Rongfang would transform into Chang Yuqing's body during his own cultivation to try and practice the technique.

Sitting cross-legged, Zhang Rongfang closed his eyes and began to meditate.

At the same time, the four hundred attribute points he had accumulated were naturally added to his Life Attribute.

His life force surged past 3,000 points, and at the same time, the crimson aura emanating from Zhang Rongfang's entire body grew increasingly intense.

More importantly, entirely new Trait Talent are slowly emerging again.

There are four abilities in total.

'Super Flight', 'Radiation Resistance', 'Vacuum Survival', 'Fire Resistance'.

These four abilities are clearly less useful than before.

Perhaps Zhang Rongfang's own strength has now reached a huge bottleneck, and individual Trait Talent no longer have much impact on him.

The newly acquired abilities and talents largely overlap with those of the Ultimate Organism form.

'It seems that staying here will gradually limit my development.'

Having lost the need for strength, Zhang Rongfang estimated that this was the reason why his current Trait Talent overlapped.

His talent will evolve based on what he desires.

He is now the strongest in the world; no one in this entire Interaction Zone is his match.

His only hope now is to break through the Sky Curtain and explore the outside world.

Therefore, the newly acquired talent is mainly focused on survival ability.

After identifying the four talents, no new bloodline combinations were activated this time, which left Zhang Rongfang slightly disappointed.

But he suppressed his temper and focused his consciousness on the Five Energies Merge to Origin, continuing his cultivation.

***Unknown Interaction Zone.

A huge spiral hole was forcibly torn open in the dark Sky Curtain.

The Moon God and the Jade Pavilion floated on the outer layer, and could clearly see the interior of the cave, which was rapidly turning charred and black.

Once the protective Sky Curtain was destroyed, the entire Interaction Zone was plunged into utter devastation.

"Let's go." Jade Pavilion's body flashed with flames, transforming into a furnace.

She spread her wings and opened her right hand, from which countless red lights converged, transforming into a dazzling sphere of light, like the sun.

"Go."

She flicked it lightly.

Suddenly, the red orb shot out and flew into the Sky Curtain Cave.

In the blink of an eye, the red orb of light pierced through the Sky Curtain and suddenly stopped.

From it, dense clusters of fine red filaments quickly sprouted.

These fine threads shot out like raindrops, falling from the sky and landing on the ground below.

All the filaments flew halfway and then continued to split, increasing in number several times over.

The resulting red filaments split Further Progress.

This process repeats itself, layer upon layer, increasing with each iteration.

It only took a few minutes.

The normally normal Interaction Zone within the Sky Curtain was stained a pale red by the thin red threads.

"What is this?" The Moon God looked at the exaggerated speed of the splitting and felt a vague unease in her heart.

"It's Gathering Threads. It can quickly collect the brain matter from all living beings in the Interaction Zone, and at the same time, it can melt down the Spirit Thread to turn them into materials for us to recycle," Jade Pavilion replied.

Whoosh! Suddenly, a beam of Blue Light shot into the sky from the Interaction Zone, revealing a strong man enveloped in blue flames.

He angrily gripped his triangular spear, his body gleaming brightly, and swung it with all his might at the broken opening in the Sky Curtain.

"Kill!!"

The gun in the man's hand flew out and transformed into a blue phantom of a lion with a snake's tail, roaring as it flew towards the Jade Pavilion and Moon God.

But as soon as the phantom lion burst out of the Sky Curtain entrance, before it could even get close to the two, it automatically disintegrated and turned into a primitive, ordinary spear.

The divine power and Spirit Thread that had previously gathered on the gun body instantly collapsed.

"Fool!" Jade Pavilion laughed loudly.

With a gentle touch, the spearhead was struck squarely.

The spear shattered into countless metal fragments, which scattered and disappeared.

"Garbage still living in delusion and a greenhouse."

She casually tossed out two more balls of red flame.

The flames flew into the Sky Curtain and transformed into two giant firebirds in the blink of an eye.

The firebird swooped down on the man, instantly engulfing him and burning him to ashes.

Then, the two firebirds exploded with a roar, turning into countless meteor showers that scattered to the ground.

At least half of the entire Interaction Zone was enveloped by these rains of fire.

Even though the Moon God was merely hovering in the air, she could see the ordinary people on the Interaction Zone being set ablaze by heavenly fire, their bodies burning, collapsing to the ground in agony.

Countless cities were engulfed in flames.

The forest was ablaze, flames shooting into the sky.

Rivers were baked and boiled, deserts produced melting crystals, and even the oceans began to float with countless inextinguishable flames.

Jade Pavilion laughed loudly and kept throwing out balls of fire, causing them to explode and turn into a rain of fire that scattered and fell.

Her originally lovely appearance now appeared unusually ferocious and vicious.