The Consciousness Network in the Shadow Dimension

"Is this what they call the Shadow Dimension?"

Walking through the passage, Su Xiangxue looked at everything before her and asked softly.

Before them appeared a world entirely constructed of shadows.

They entered from a valley in the Material Plane of a fringe world. Now, after entering the Shadow Dimension, the terrain here is exactly the same as the valley they entered from, but everything has become a shadow.

Mountains are shadows, water is shadows, trees are shadows, and even the birds perched on branches and the small animals running on the ground have become some kind of creature made of shadows.

"I didn't expect Xuxiang time in places like this."

Jiang Lan looked at the completely Dark Shadows ground beneath her feet and sighed, "A girl like you, aren't you afraid?"

"You inherited it."

Bai Qiuran said to her, "Aren't you afraid of snakes, scorpions, Poisonous Insects that normal girls are afraid of? You even like playing with them."

"It seems so."

Jiang Lan thought for a moment.

"Now that you mention it, Xuxiang truly is my daughter."

The couple were talking and hadn't paid much attention to their surroundings when Su Xiangxue looked up at the sky and suddenly called out, "Qiuran, Jiang Lan, look at the sky!"

Bai Qiuran and Jiang Lan raised their heads and looked up at the sky upon hearing this.

What is that?

Jiang Lan was quite shocked when she saw what was in the sky.

In the sky of the Shadow Dimension, there was a colorful realm. Through the vision of the Immortals of the Return Ruins Realm, Jiang Lan saw through this sky and saw that beyond the Shadow Dimension of this world, there were countless colorful Network Pathway connecting this Shadow Dimension with the Shadow Dimension of other worlds.

That's the Consciousness Domain.

Bai Qiuran gazed at the colorful Network Pathway in the sky and said softly, "Hidden in the shadow of Consciousness, so that's what it means... Did that kid Shuhua hide here by leaking his Consciousness Domain into this dimension?"

Logically speaking, within the dimension of shadow, there should only be shadows. Each independent world is an independent Shadow Dimension, independent of each other and without any connection.

Once you leave the Shadow Dimension, you will return to the all-encompassing Void.

Thus, even if the Immortal Emperor Shuhua mastered the method to enter the Shadow Dimension, he would have no way to leave the current Shadow Dimension and could only hide in the shadow of a specific world.

Because once he goes out, he will be facing the crisscrossing Consciousness Domain in the Void, and countless Consciousness Demons.

However, within this Void, there exists a special thing called the Consciousness Domain. This thing, which can connect worlds, was studied and analyzed by many experts in the Immortal Realm. They eventually discovered that it was something that was similar to but not quite the Great Dao of Heavenly Dao, a very special domain field.

Leaving aside the details for now, the key point is that, as a domain, and as a "bridge" for Consciousness Demons to Mobile between worlds, the Consciousness Domain also has a "shadow."

Although the shadow was extremely thin and difficult to detect, the Immortal Emperor Shuhua put his ingenious ideas to use. He opened up a dimensional channel between the Consciousness Domain and the Shadow Dimension, introducing the domain field of Consciousness Domain into the Shadow Dimension, and using these Consciousness Domain to cover the shadow of the original Consciousness Domain in the Void.

In this way, he obtained a bridge that allowed him to jump between Shadow Dimension without having to enter the Void.

The Consciousness Domain in the Void is the bridge for Consciousness Demon. The Network Pathway of Consciousness Domain introduced by the Immortal Emperor Shuhua in the Shadow Dimension is the back side of the Consciousness Domain in the Void. Consciousness Demons walk across the bridge to come and go, while the Immortal Emperor Shuhua walks under the bridge, directly reaching the Shadow Dimension of other worlds from the shadow world.

"This eldest grand -Disciple's Grand-disciple has some ideas."

Bai Qiuran gazed at the Network Pathway of shadow Consciousness Domain in the sky, marveling at its magnificence, and then said, "It seems we've found the right place. The Immortal Emperor Shuhua... or rather, the God of Runes who left that box, should be somewhere within that Network Pathway of shadow Consciousness Domain in the sky."

Without delay, Bai Qiuran immediately summoned his Flying Sword and, carrying Jiang Lan and Su Xiangxue, flew together towards the Consciousness Domain in the sky.

They followed the Consciousness Domain that covered this Shadow Dimension, along the Network Pathway, towards the area with the most and densest network of Network Pathway, where the Immortal Emperor Shuhua was most likely located.

After Bai Qiuran and the others left this Shadow Dimension, a long time passed, and a rift silently tore open again from the place where they had entered.

From the other side of the rift, countless fleshy tentacles stretched in, slightly prying open the rift. Then, a large eyeball appeared behind it, silently watching this shadowy world.

One of its tentacles stretched into the Shadow Dimension, its tip twisting into a pair of nostrils. It took a few sniffs, seemingly confirming the scent of the place, before the tentacle suddenly broke off from its main body, rolled on the spot, and transformed into a fleshy ball suspended in mid-air, growing countless tentacles. Then, it floated away in the direction of the sky.

The Clear Autumn Waters transformed into a stream of light, carrying Bai Qiuran and her group through the Consciousness Network.

Occasionally, strangely shaped shadows could be seen drifting Consciousness Network in their vicinity; these were the shadows of Consciousness Demon moving about in the Void and within the Consciousness Domain.

Occasionally, smaller shadows will be swallowed up by other shadows, and then those shadows that have swallowed their kind will grow larger.

As Bai Qiuran and his group advanced, the number of Consciousness Network became increasingly dense, like the core of a spider web, with the webs becoming more and more densely distributed the closer they got to the center.

Finally, after advancing for an unknown amount of time, Bai Qiuran and his group found the core of this Shadow Consciousness Network.

It was a Shadow Dimension completely covered by a colorful Consciousness Domain, and the world in which this Shadow Dimension existed must have been incredibly vast. Therefore, the core looked like a shining pearl in the shadow world.

"Finally found it."

Bai Qiu and Tu Shuran breathed a sigh of relief, then intensified their True Essence, Clear Autumn Waters accelerated towards the pearl-like core dimension.

However, in the next moment, several beams of blazing white light suddenly appeared out of thin air and shot towards Bai Qiuran and the others.

"What the hell?!"

Jiang Lan, who was standing in front of Bai Qiuran, was petite, so Bai Qiuran's arm reached over her head and directly knocked away the beams of white light.

The white light tumbled and rolled, falling outside the Consciousness Network and entering the Void beyond the Shadow Dimension. Several broken beams of light fell to the ground, transforming into several chilling immortal swords.