After returning from the Kunlun Profound World, Li Qingshan found a secluded valley in the Human World to take temporary refuge.
The news that the main body of the demon had been banished to a place of absolute isolation weighed on my heart like a heavy boulder.
Although the Cause and Effect of the search were resolved and the whereabouts were known, the ending, which was "unsearchable and unknowable," ultimately carried a deep sense of regret.
The Kirin Immortal Medicine Seed and the humanoid remains of the Immortal Medicine are likely to be lost forever.
Besides cultivating his magical power and refining his physical body, he spent his days quietly comprehending the unique and profound laws contained within this world.
At the same time, my mind is constantly introspective, feeling the increasingly clear, irresistible pull of return emanating from the mysterious Stone Gate within my body, like a countdown to destiny.
Time flies, like sand slipping through your fingers; several months have passed in the blink of an eye.
The vegetation outside the valley has withered and flourished several times, and the wars and turmoil in the Human World seem to have temporarily failed to reach this remote corner of the land.
There are only about six months left before the Stone Gate opens.
Li Qingshan's state of mind has gradually shifted from initial resentment and regret to peace.
He had almost stopped thinking about his banished demonic body. He was just waiting for the time to come so that he could follow the guidance of the Stone Gate, leave this world that was intertwined with his demonic power, rebirth, and regret, and return to the familiar Shrouding the Heavens World ".
However, the strangeness of fate often lies in its unpredictability.
Just when he relaxed his guard and almost completely gave up hope, a strange change occurred at the most unlikely moment!
On this day, the afterglow of the setting sun bathed the valley in a warm gold. Li Qingshan was sitting on a smooth blue stone, his eyes closed, meditating and his mind sinking into the darkness.
Suddenly, the mysterious Stone Gate within his body, which had been dormant for months and seemed to have been waiting along with him, trembled once again without warning!
This tremor was far clearer and stronger than any before. It was not a cold transmission of information, but a resonance originating from the very depths of the rules, carrying a sense of urgency and guidance!
What shocked him even more, almost making him jump out of his Entering Stillness, was...
The faint, almost nonexistent, connection that had been weakened by the banishment of the demonic body to an absolutely isolated dimension.
At this moment, it was as if Mars had been thrown into boiling oil, or as if a dormant volcano had suddenly erupted, becoming incredibly clear and incredibly active!
The sensation was no longer a vague and elusive directional guide, but had coalesced into a clear and exceptionally strong "line"!
A real Cause and Effect line that ignores spatial distance, penetrates endless nothingness, and even blatantly pierces the so-called "absolute isolation" dimensional barrier, directly connecting him to the body of the Primordial Great Demon!
"How is this possible?"
Li Qingshan suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze flashing with a piercing light that seemed to penetrate the Void, his face filled with disbelief and shock.
Xuan Zhan's definitive "eternal banishment" and "unknowable" seal, a seal laid down by the combined power of several Lesser Heaven Rank and Heaven Rank beings, is an absolute seal that even the peak Lesser Heaven Rank cannot locate.
Faced with this Cause and Effect connection, so clear it's like looking at the lines on your palm, it all seems like an absurd joke!
Is it the power of the Stone Gate?
How could it possibly ignore such a level of isolation?
What is the origin of this Stone Gate?
There was no time for him to ponder the terrifying implications behind it.
The connection of Cause and Effect and effect was like the brightest lighthouse in the darkest of mazes, or the only piece of driftwood for a drowning person, pointing him in the only direction in the endless Void.
Opportunities are fleeting, and perhaps the power of the Stone Gate is not limitless. It's uncertain how long this sensing will last!
Without the slightest hesitation, a long-lost burning fighting spirit and determination suddenly rose in Li Qingshan's chest.
He stood up, his aura instantly soaring to its peak, spatial law runes appearing and flowing around him, emitting a deep hum.
His gaze was like lightning, locking onto the direction of the void from which the senses came. He clenched his right fist, and the powerful blood energy and magic power within his body erupted. With a simple punch, he threw it forward without any fancy moves!
"Boom!!!"
With a single punch, the space above the valley shattered instantly, like glass struck by a heavy hammer, letting out a mournful cry of despair.
Behind it lay an Void void of bizarre, chaotic light and colors, so chaotic it was dizzying!
It was a passage filled with destructive energy storms, distorted fragments of time, and all sorts of unknown strangeness and danger, leading to an absolutely desolate domain that even God Emperor level expert dared not easily set foot in.
Li Qingshan took a deep breath, adjusting himself to his optimal state, and protective divine light covered his entire body like a tangible armor.
The next moment, he took a step forward, his figure transforming into a streak of light, and without hesitation plunged into that absolutely dangerous domain capable of devouring all life and order. His figure was instantly swallowed up by the raging Void turbulence.
In the Void, there is no distinction between up and down, left and right, no definite concept of time, only Eternal chaos, desolation, and omnipresent destructive energy.
This place seems to be the other side of the world, where the laws of nature become twisted and violent.
With the unwavering thread of Cause and Effect connection provided by the Stone Gate as his sole guide, Li Qingshan, like a lone boat adrift on a raging sea, moved forward with difficulty and determination.
The raging spatial storm, like billions of invisible blades, swept in from all directions, cutting through his protective divine light and producing a teeth-grinding scraping sound.
He would occasionally unleash the Five-Colored Divine Light, with red, yellow, blue, black, and white rays of light sweeping out in a fan shape, disintegrating and annihilating large swathes of energy storms;
At times, the phantom of the Heaven -Heaven-Overturning Seal would appear above his head. The ancient seal exuded a profound Daoist aura that suppressed all heavens and stabilized the universe, forcibly shaking off and crushing the occasional fragments of spacetime that were powerful enough to freeze one's soul.
The Eight-Nine Profound Art were pushed to their limit, causing his physical body to glow and his blood and qi to surge and roar within him like dragons, forcefully resisting the erosion and assimilation of those invisible and intangible laws that directly pointed to the origin of the Great Dao.
This was an extremely long and arduous journey.
I don't know how long I drifted in the Void; it felt like only a fleeting moment, yet also like countless reincarnations had passed.
If it weren't for the unwavering Cause and Effect connection transmitted through the Stone Gate, and his own indestructible Dao heart and formidable strength, he would probably have long since lost his way in this absolute nothingness and chaos, ultimately exhausting himself and being assimilated and annihilated.
Finally, after countless hardships and traversing an endless void, at the end of that boundless chaos and darkness, he "saw" his destination through the pull of the Cause and Effect threads!
It was an enormous, unimaginably massive cocoon of light, entirely composed of countless chains of divine laws of different attributes and colors, radiating overwhelming power!
Some of these divine chains are as fiery as the core of a star, flowing with runes like lava;
Some are as cold as an ancient abyss, radiating a chill that freezes the soul;
Some are as imposing as Primordial Divine Mountain, containing the immense power to support all things;
Some are as sharp as Heaven-Opening, exuding a fierce aura that cuts through everything;
Furthermore, there were some eerie auras of laws that Li Qingshan had never seen before, exuding decay, decay, depravity, chaos, and other characteristics, which even made him feel a faint sense of unease.
They represent the Dao and Dharma of the many powerful figures who participated in the sealing back then. They are not completely harmonious with each other, but under a certain higher level of balance and restraint, they are intertwined, suppressed and canceled out each other.
Together, they form the core of this seal, which is extremely complex and so solid as to inspire despair.
The cocoon of light floated silently in absolute nothingness, as if it had existed there since the beginning of time, isolated from the Heaven-Opening, impervious to all laws, and eternally unmoved.
If the Cause and Effect threads provided by the Stone Gate had not pierced the cocoon of light with needle-like precision, pointing directly to its core, Li Qingshan would not have been able to detect its existence with his divine sense even if he happened to pass by or even just walked past it.
It's even more impossible to be certain that what's sealed inside is the very core of the Yuanshi Demon Body he's been searching for!
Found it!
After overcoming countless hardships, we finally found it!
However, after the immense joy came a harsher reality: how to get in?
This composite seal, which combines the power of multiple top experts, is far more robust than imagined.
Without hesitation, Li Qingshan immediately began to try it.
He first activated the Five-Colored Divine Light, and five dazzling Divine Rainbow swept across the surface of the light cocoon like Heavenly Blade, attempting to brush off and disintegrate some of the divine chains of laws.
However, the divine light could only cause a few of the divine chains that were touched to sway slightly, and the light dimmed briefly. But the next moment, the divine chains of other attributes around them immediately surged with powerful energy support, instantly restoring them to their original state.
Even the force of the recoil caused the Five-Colored Divine Light to sway. This seal is a perfect whole; moving one part affects the whole. Unless an attack far surpasses the power of the seal, it is difficult to achieve any effect.
Unconvinced, he once again channeled his magical power, causing the phantom of the Heaven -Heaven-Overturning Seal above his head to rapidly expand, transforming into a truly massive divine seal, as large as a mountain. Carrying terrifying power to suppress the eight wastelands and six directions and overturn the universe and star sea, it slammed down fiercely towards a corner of the cocoon of light!
"Thump!!!"
A deafening roar exploded in the Void, the spot where the cocoon of light was struck caved in violently, and countless runes on its surface shattered instantly, flashing wildly.
However, it lasted for less than a breath before an endless stream of power seemed to surge out from within the cocoon of light. More, thicker, and shimmering chains of divine law, like living things, spread wildly from other parts of the cocoon.
It quickly filled the damaged area and used even greater force to violently shake back the illusory image of the Heaven-Overturning Seal!
Li Qingshan felt an overwhelming force surge through him, his blood and qi churned, and a metallic taste even rose in his throat.
Forcing our way in won't work!
The strength of this seal and its self-repairing ability are simply insane!
Li Qingshan quickly calmed down, realizing that acting recklessly would only be a waste of energy.
He sat cross-legged before the cocoon of light, closed his eyes, and completely calmed his mind.
Divine senses, like the most precise carving knife and probe, carefully and gradually penetrated the incredibly complex composite structure of the cocoon of light, following the unique Cause and Effect line provided by the Stone Gate.
This is an extremely dangerous and mentally taxing process. He needs to understand and analyze dozens of completely different, mutually restraining, and even conflicting peak laws at the same time.
And from this, identify the key points that maintain their balance and those fleeting weaknesses.
Time seemed to lose its meaning in this Void.
Li Qingshan was completely absorbed in analyzing the vast, star-like seal structure.
He sometimes frowned, utterly perplexed by certain strange laws;
At times, as if struck by a sudden realization, his fingertips would unconsciously trace mysterious trajectories in the Void.
Its own affinity and insight into the origin of the rules, and the subtle resonance between itself and the demonic body that is inseparable from the same source.
He was like a locksmith whose skills had reached their peak, patiently and persistently searching for the most subtle and crucial flaw in a lock system composed of countless giant locks with different structures yet interlocking.
A month, two months, time slipped away quietly in solitude and focused concentration.
Li Qingshan's face alternated between pale and flushed, and the intense consumption of his spiritual energy even caused slight fluctuations in his aura.
But he never gave up; instead, the light in his eyes grew brighter and brighter, and his understanding of the seal structure deepened.
Three whole months have passed!
On this day, Li Qingshan, who had kept his eyes closed for three months, suddenly opened them!
The weariness in his eyes was no longer there, but a dazzling light that saw through everything and understood the essence of things!
His hands moved like butterflies flitting among flowers, or like the manifestation of the Great Dao, dancing rapidly with an incomparably mysterious rhythm. From between his ten fingers flew out profound incantations that embodied three months of his hard work and contained specific laws and rhythms, as well as the will to break through them.
These techniques were not forceful attacks, but rather like tailor-made keys, precisely and silently embedding themselves into and pointing at several seemingly inconspicuous, dull-colored nodes on the surface of the cocoon of light, which were actually the most crucial and fragile points maintaining the balance of dozens of different laws!
"Buzz,!!!"
The enormous cocoon of light suddenly emitted the most violent buzzing and trembling since the Heaven-Opening!
Countless chains of divine laws flashed, twisted, and clashed at an unprecedented frequency, instantly shattering the originally stable and balanced structure with this precise interference.
Inside the cocoon of light, it was as if billions of thunderbolts were exploding simultaneously, and various colors of light were flashing, with chaotic energy clashing fiercely within!
Immediately following, near the top of the cocoon of light, several divine chains with diametrically opposed attributes and inherently mutually restrictive were found: a blazing, sun-like Order Divine Chains and a cold, deathly chain of the underworld.
Due to the interference of Li Qingshan's magic technique, the balance of power was completely broken, resulting in an extremely brief but real power conflict and repulsion!
A tiny, extremely unstable gap, barely wide enough for one person to pass through, flashed into existence amidst the chaotic clash of energy!
Now!
Li Qingshan, who had been waiting for this moment, moved instantly!
He transformed into a chaotic stream of light, faster than lightning and more subtle than a wisp of smoke, concealing his aura to the extreme. Following the precise guidance of the Cause and Effect line, at the critical moment...
Like a skilled butcher carving up an ox, they narrowly and unharmedly passed through the fleeting, perilous crevice, truly entering the sealed inner space that countless powerful individuals considered an absolute forbidden zone!
The view before them suddenly opened up, completely different from the raging Void outside.
Inside the seal, there was not the dark prison or bloody battlefield one might imagine, but a strange, chaotic Void forcibly condensed and solidified by supreme magical power.
There are no directions here, no past or present; only a hazy, primordial atmosphere, as if the world had never been separated, slowly flowing through.
At the very center of this chaotic Void, there was a massive body, indescribably enormous, radiating a terrifying demonic power and an aura of eternal immortality that sent shivers down one's spine.
It was being silently suspended there, pierced, bound, and locked by countless smaller yet more condensed chains of divine law penetrating from the outside, as if dealing with the most dangerous prisoner, from every key point.
It was the main body of the Primordial Great Demon!
Although it had lost its hideous head and the four limbs that supported the heavens and the earth, its remaining remains still resembled a sleeping ancient demon god, exuding a heavy sense of oppression that could shatter the minds of ordinary God Emperor.
His skin was naturally engraved with countless intricate, eerie, dark red magic patterns that seemed to point directly to the source of destruction and battle. Those magic patterns seemed to be slowly writhing, drawing energy from the Void.
What is particularly striking is that the dark red hair covering the torso, which seems to possess life, is now moving slowly without wind, emitting an extremely ominous and eerie aura, as if connected to some kind of curse and calamity.
Damn it, the Red Hair Enters the Body! This is terrible!