Ten Directions Chaos

At that moment, a jade-green venomous snake was coiled near Chen Beiwu's collarbone.

The snake was about three feet long, its entire body covered in fine scales that gleamed emerald green, as if cast from jade.

Its head was flat and triangular, and its eyes were like crystalline amber. As its forked tongue flicked in and out, wisps of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy gathered around it.

[Species]: Jade-Scale Snake (common name: Three-Step Drop)

[Attributes]: Wood, Poison

[Bloodline]: Low-Grade First Tier (Variant Beast)

[Dao Practice]: Over ten years

[Innate Talent]: Jade-Scale Illusory Poison (Its fangs contain deadly poison that can erode the Magic Power of cultivators below Late Qi Refining, causing fatal hallucinations.)

Recognizing the snake, Chen Beiwu held his breath and slowed his heartbeat as much as possible. Then he gathered a wisp of almost imperceptible Magic Power at his fingertip.

Sensing the fluctuation of Spirit Power, the jade-green snake's slit pupils narrowed. Its body instinctively tightened, and it raised its head, slowly turning toward Chen Beiwu's fingertip.

This was the Jade-Scale Snake's warning movement when it sensed danger, the prelude to an attack it could launch at any moment.

Feeling the cold touch against his skin, Chen Beiwu grew calmer still and lightly flicked his fingertip.

"Bang!"

A patch of grass in the distance collapsed with a crash, and the Jade-Scale Snake's attention swiftly shifted to where the Spiritual Energy had grown turbulent.

Now!

Seizing his chance, Chen Beiwu instantly linked the Magic Power in his body to the Protective Talisman he carried. With his right hand empowered by Magic Power, he swiftly and precisely grabbed the Jade-Scale Snake by the seven inches behind its head.

"Crack!"

Lifting the stinking, stiff snake's body, Chen Beiwu quickly rose to his feet.

Strange. Hadn't rare beasts like the Jade-Scale Snake already gone extinct?

Chen Beiwu carefully surveyed his surroundings. Ancient trees stood tangled together around him, their trunks so thick that ten people could barely encircle them. They were all thousand-year-old trees recorded in books, and the air was filled with the fragrance of unknown wildflowers.

Could I have transmigrated again?

Chen Beiwu stared blankly at the scene before him, carefully feeling the cool touch against his fingertip.

"Roar!"

Just then, a beast's roar rang out from the distant mountains. It was so loud that dew on the treetops shook loose and pattered down.

This is bad. A resonant spiritual roar! Chen Beiwu's expression changed, and he immediately tried to flee.

Ordinary Second-Tier Spirit Beasts couldn't unleash a resonant spiritual roar. Generally, only a Lesser Demon with more than fifty years of Dao Practice could produce one.

Though Lesser Demons in the Primordial Era were mere ants among demons, unworthy of mention in biographies and not even fit to be minor characters, in the real world, by realm, a Second-Realm Lesser Demon was equivalent to a Foundation Establishment Rogue cultivator. It was far beyond what a mere Qi Refining mortal cultivator like Chen Beiwu could withstand.

"Buzz!"

As if responding to his thoughts, a flood of obscure information suddenly surged into Chen Beiwu's mind.

[Divine Ability]: Ten Directions Chaos. Using the Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion Divine Ability as a guide, one can borrow the power of a Chaos Land that has just awakened to freely travel through the Ten Directions Chaos Gates, and leave special spatial anchor points between Heaven and Earth.

"Roar!"

Hearing the beast's roar draw rapidly nearer, Chen Beiwu immediately pressed his right hand against his heart. Using the Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion Divine Ability, he mobilized the power of the Chaos Land and deliberately drew on the Ten Directions Chaos Gates.

The next instant, brilliant golden light enveloped Chen Beiwu's entire body. Then it tore open the Void, and he vanished completely from that world, leaving not the slightest trace of his presence.

Not long after Chen Beiwu left, lightning exploded, and a giant beast appeared with a crash. It had a head like a lion and a tiger, stood two zhang tall at the shoulder, and was covered in deep-purple scales.

Its eyes were like copper bells, and a spiraling horn grew from its forehead. Silver-white lightning patterns wound around the tip, unleashing raging bolts of lightning.

Some bolts struck the ground, burning scorched-black pits into it. Others struck its exposed fangs, forming layer upon layer of purple-gold bone spikes that radiated a ferocious aura.

This beast was the king of this mountain range, the Azure Thunder Tiger, a Second-Tier Spirit Beast with an astonishing 288 years of Dao Practice.

The Azure Thunder Tiger sniffed lightly, then looked toward the flattened weeds on the ground, its slit pupils showing confusion.

When the dazzling golden light faded, Chen Beiwu found himself back in the Cultivation Room at home.

The cold Jade-Scale Snake dangling from his right hand seemed to remind him that everything that had happened earlier was no illusion.

With the help of the Ten Directions Chaos Gates, he really had traveled to a mysterious world and killed a Jade-Scale Snake.

Phew, stay calm! Chen Beiwu exhaled a breath of stale air, forcing down the shock and delight in his heart.

He liked reading miscellaneous books such as One Hundred Thousand Strange Beasts. Otherwise, he wouldn't have recognized the Jade-Scale Snake so quickly.

The Jade-Scale Snake was a Variant Beast from the Medieval Era, with extremely strict habitat requirements. It usually appeared only in places rich in Spiritual Energy and dense with spirit herbs. It couldn't be raised artificially and was a rare snake that had gone extinct long ago in the Immortal Alliance Era, existing only in books.

Its blood could improve a cultivator's Companion Beast's ability to sense Spiritual Energy, while its skin and scales could be used in medicine.

But the most precious part was its gallbladder. It could serve as an upper-grade substitute for Spirit Stones, helping cultivators increase their Qi Refining speed. Its value was immeasurable.

Based on this information and the unimaginably high purity of the Spiritual Energy in the other world, Chen Beiwu could roughly confirm one thing.

The other side of the Ten Directions Chaos Gates might be a new world the Immortal Alliance had never discovered. It might also be a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land within Immortal Alliance territory that had yet to emerge, rich in cultivation resources.

To travel through time and space at will beneath the Immortal Alliance's Formation Arts, it seems I still underestimated the power of Nine-Breath Chaos! As Chen Beiwu marveled, he continued to speculate.

The Seven-Colored Encounter triggered by his Divine Ability earlier might have been fulfilled by tonight's Ten Directions Chaos Gates.

If so, the power of his Seven-Colored Fortune was probably far beyond his imagination.

The next morning, Chen Beiwu left for class as usual under Iron Egg's watchful gaze.

From the outside, no one could tell that Chen Beiwu had stayed up all night.

"This is strange. Why did you get here so early today? Don't you usually show up at the last minute?" Xu Lingling asked in surprise.

Chen Beiwu glanced at her, too lazy to respond, and went on sorting through the information in his mind. It was a habit from his previous life as a small-town exam grinder.

Although he had only traveled there once, after exploring and reviewing what had happened the previous night, he had roughly pieced together some details about the Ten Directions Chaos Gates.

First, time in the other world seemed to pass at roughly the same rate as in the Immortal Alliance. If he spent one minute there, about one minute would also pass in the Immortal Alliance.

Second, activating the Ten Directions Chaos Gates required a one- to two-breath buildup. If he was disturbed while activating them, the teleportation would also be interrupted.

Therefore, before each trip, he should find a safe place or complete the buildup in advance, so he could teleport instantly when the critical moment came.

Third, the Spiritual Energy in the other world was ten times denser than in a Middle-Grade First Tier Cultivation Room, almost equivalent to a Second-Tier Low-Grade Spirit Vein, and entirely sufficient for his cultivation needs.

But there was one point he needed to pay special attention to: the more abundant the Spiritual Energy in a place, the more likely powerful demon beasts were to appear.

If he wanted to explore the other world, he had to make thorough preparations. Otherwise, he might die there and become food for demon beasts.