A spatial barrier gradually materialized in the void above the nine heavens. Under the intrusion of a powerful will, the rules governing the world's operation inevitably stagnated, and the solid yet invisible spatial barrier around it slowly twisted and shattered completely after a breath.
The shattered spatial barrier formed a rotating vortex, into which countless spatial fragments fell and disappeared without a trace, while the dark entrance emitted a sinister light.
Xu Long took a deep look at the world below the void, then turned around and plunged into the swirling vortex.
As a figure disappeared into the center of the vortex, the light in the void dimmed, the spinning black vortex stopped, and the spatial barriers that had been cracking open to both sides were forcibly stitched together by a force, as if a zipper had been pulled up.
A few breaths later, the World's Origin Will descended upon this place, and at this moment, the operation of heaven and earth returned to nature, the energy fluctuations around had returned to normal, and the deep void was completely dark, as if nothing had ever happened.
Teleportation complete! The summoner has returned to the Reincarnation Temple; mission rewards are now being calculated!
[Main Quest: 1. Defeat Holy Auntie, Hu Meier, and Hu Chuer! Quest complete, reward 1000 High-Grade Spirit Stone!]
[Side Quest: Defeat three foxes to obtain a weapon chest!]
[Seize a fragment of a small world: Gain 200 authority points!]
[Maintaining the Heavenly Book World: Gained 1000 Authority Points!]
[A total of 1000 High-Grade Spirit Stone, 1200 authority points, and one weapon chest were obtained. Mission completion rating: SS!]
Xu Long heard the ethereal voice of the Main God.
The rewards from this trip to the Secrets of the Heavenly Book world have been tallied. The number of Spirit Stone is five times that of the last time, and the number of authority points has also increased significantly. What Xu Long is even more excited about is that the Reincarnation Temple has actually rewarded him with a weapon treasure chest.
Spirit Stone stones are no longer a scarce resource for Xu Long, but Lao Yinbi is particularly envious of the Divine Hall's treasure chests, since he obtained his World-Breaking Blade from one of them.
The World-Breaking Blade is incredibly powerful. It has accompanied Xu Long through countless life-and-death situations and made great contributions to him. The extent to which Xu Long relies on the World-Breaking Blade shows just how powerful this Divine Hall weapon is.
The main quest was to kill the three foxes, but the three foxes were also high-level demons, especially Hu Mei'er and Holy Auntie, who had both achieved the cultivation level of Earth Immortal with the help of the Heavenly Book.
Defeating them also counts as a side quest. Wow, this Main God is quite principled. He doesn't say anything wrong. Although the quest is dangerous, he gives a lot of rewards. Moreover, the weapons in the treasure chests are weapons that can grow with their masters.
Could it be that the Divine Hall produced too many weapons and they're not selling well? Exporting them is difficult, so they're turning to domestic sales? Are they just shoving a couple in themselves to make Divine Hall accounts look better and meet the Divine Hall's KPIs for the month?
Xu Long muttered to himself, "If the Main God heard this, he might be so angry that he would grab Xu Long by the collar and shake him violently back and forth, and then cremate Xu Long in the Divine Hall furnace on the spot, scattering his ashes everywhere!"
Xu Long was surrounded by complete darkness, the space around him flowed at an extremely fast speed, and loud noises rang in his ears from time to time. There were no sun, moon, stars, time, or geography; he simply traversed through space.
He felt as if he had lived through countless epochs in the mysterious space, yet it also felt like only a blink of an eye, until a sliver of light gradually appeared on the pitch-black road ahead, and the noise in his ears diminished by more than half.
The further they went, the more humid the air became, and a salty hurricane raged around the spatial barrier, accompanied by the deafening roar of water pressure.
Xu Long fast-forwarded to the point of light. He was still inside the space, but he took a step forward into the void and glanced back at the deep space, which was pitch black.
Then, with one step, a vast expanse of blue appeared!
Return to the Great Wilderness Main World!
A strong wind swept across the sea, splitting the vast expanse in two as if cleaved by a knife. The waves, rolling back in both directions, unfolded like a scroll painting, only to slowly close again due to inertia after the wind had passed.
Between the sky and the water, waves surged endlessly, and a strong wind transformed into a ball of light that roamed the four seas. Countless seabirds gave way, soaring and tumbling in the tides, their cries growing louder and louder.
All living beings felt a powerful spiritual pressure descend upon the Great Wilderness Main World in an instant. Countless powerful beings turned their heads, trying to predict which unparalleled expert would appear this time.
Passing through the towering waves, one can witness the sunrise and sunset. The further the light and shadow extend, the denser the spiritual energy becomes, and the more pronounced the aura of powerful individuals becomes.
"My husband is back! My husband is back!"
"Ah! My husband is back? Quick, the strong winds at sea are from your spiritual pressure!"
"..."
Amidst the sounds of warbling women in the Yanhuang Divine Kingdom of Oceania, several ladies sensed a strong, surging wind in the world, and the increasingly familiar spiritual pressure told them that their husbands had returned.
The strong winds on the sea gradually dissipated, and light and shadow took a step out of the void, and then one step in the Yanhuang Divine Kingdom.
The spiritual energy fluctuations in the Divine Kingdom are more pronounced than in other places, a characteristic of its rich spiritual energy. After the Main God transplanted the spiritual veins, the Divine Kingdom is no less than some small blessed lands.
Xu Long had been away in the Heavenly Book World for many years, and only a week had passed since he returned to the Great Wilderness Main World after completing his mission. The ladies who came to greet him had not changed their makeup.
But Xu Long knew that he had already experienced several life-or-death battles in another world. Returning to the Great Wilderness Main World would bring him peace of mind, and this tranquility would allow him to forget the mental stress he had experienced outside.
"My lord, you've been away for a whole week this time. You should rest well in the Divine Kingdom."
"Yes, yes, my husband, you don't know, but some new cultivators have emerged in the Divine Kingdom, and among them are quite outstanding."
"..."
After Xu Long returned to the Divine Kingdom, several ladies immediately surrounded him, telling him about some of the minor changes in the Divine Kingdom. As he listened to the ladies talking, he pondered.
Normally, no matter how long a mission takes, it's always one hour in the Great Wilderness Main World.
This time it lasted for a whole week. I don't know if it's because the world level of The Secrets of the Heavenly Book is too high, or if there's a problem on the side of the Main God.
However, he also knew that the ladies were subtly inquiring about his experiences in the other world, so Xu Long naturally told them to relax.
Tell them that their men will use their immense power to achieve victory after victory in all the realms!
A few days after returning to the Main World, Xu Long discovered that life in the Divine Kingdom was even more exhausting than the life-or-death battles against demons in the other world!
In just a few days, her face has become thinner and more pointed, her eye bags have become more prominent, and she looks weak and listless all over!
Watching his satisfied wife gradually leave, Xu Long regained some energy and began to rest.
When Xu Long killed the Holy Auntie at Mount Yunmeng, he sensed many strange things. How could that old fox have the audacity to go to Mount Yunmeng? Yuan Gong's cultivation was no joke; how did she know about Yuan Gong's departure?
After obtaining the Heavenly Book, how could she resist significantly increasing her cultivation level instead of gathering people everywhere and using her Earth Immortal cultivation to devour them, turning Mount Yunmeng into a ghost realm?
If it were driven by selfish desires, that could be explained, but why did it ultimately transform into a wisp of corpse energy, revealing its madness?
Although he was blessed by the Heavenly Book during the great battle, he was not surprised by the various strange phenomena that appeared, including the old fox reversing the rules. However, what impressed him the most was the corpse aura on the old fox's body!
Yes, that thick smell of death!
Demons and monsters often cultivate in a rather crude manner, so it's normal for their Magic Power to be mixed and disordered. However, the evil substance called corpse energy is extremely rare because of its characteristics; it's not an energy that ordinary beings can control and use for their own purposes.
Life and death often coexist, while vital energy is gentle and easy to control, with fewer impurities. The spiritual energy of the world can give birth to all things and nurture living beings, but its quantity is scarce. It is born in blessed lands and grottoes, and this is one kind of vital energy.
Conversely, there is death energy, which is mostly the product of desires and the foul energy produced by heaven and earth. Among them, dead things all have evil energy, and when they accumulate too much, they will become confused and spiritual, and become evil beings.
The energy contained within is complex and varied, yet it is abundant in the world, often more common than vital energy or spiritual energy. It is generally more prevalent in unorthodox cultivation practices than in the realm of ghosts.
According to the information obtained through soul searching, this dense aura of corpses was created by the old fox through his awakened secret technique, by torturing and killing a large number of people. Such methods are against the natural order and are despised by the righteous path.
But for demons, it seems to be no big deal!
As Xu Long read this, he couldn't help but recall the tragic scenes he had witnessed in Mount Yunmeng. The old fox held the Heavenly Book but failed to control her true nature; perhaps she had no true nature at all.
Hmm? No true self?
Xu Long muttered to himself, suddenly recalling the old fox's appearance when he turned evil, and remembering that he had once toiled in that field, a chill ran down his spine.
Good heavens, how could anyone do that?
After a moment's thought, a long silver hair appeared in her hand with a flick of her wrist. The old fox was completely destroyed by Xu Long's Divine Punishment Lightning Tribulation after turning into corpse energy, but the wisp of her natal silver hair turned into spiritual energy and fell to the heavens and earth.
One of the silver hairs was tainted with the old fox's Earth Immortal True Spirit. After all, he was once a great cultivator at the Immortal Realm, who had successfully transformed his soul into True Spirit. After being struck by the Lightning Tribulation, a trace of his powerful True Spirit remained.
The young man at the time naturally knew that this wisp of silver hair had turned into a stream of light, and instinctively wanted to escape from Mount Yunmeng. He deliberately let the stream of light cross the iron chain bridge of Mount Yunmeng, but under the young man's gaze, Dansheng to finish her off at the other end of the iron chain bridge.
This steel fork strike not only ended the old fox's last remaining fragment of True Spirit, but also ended the cowardice hidden deep in the heart of a young man!
The young man certainly has the potential to be a know-it-all; he's quite good at showing off!
This is the natural selection after a great cultivator dies. While alive, they absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to nourish themselves, and after death, they return the spiritual energy of their body to heaven and earth.
Staring intently at the long silver hair in his hand, Xu Long unleashed his powerful will. Xu Long's Indestructible Will had always been his strong reliance, providing him with a sense of security in many premonitions of crisis.
A divine light flashed in his eyes, Indestructible Will instantly invaded the silver hair. Xu Long dared not be careless when entering the old fox's remaining True Spirit world; he poured his entire will into it.
This ensured the safety of his soul. As for whether the old fox's True Spirit could be preserved in the end, he didn't need to worry about that; she was a demon who was already dead.
To Xu Long's surprise, after the powerful Indestructible Will invaded the silver hair, he found it to be somewhat empty, which made him feel as if he had hit a cotton ball.
He poured in his immense will once more, completely disregarding the old fox's broken True Spirit. The immense will entering the silver hair indeed had an effect.
Within its empty, broken will, some things from the past were found, but these memories were rather vague and fragmented, and there were still no clues about the corpse energy.
Xu Long was not discouraged. He tried to read through the old fox's experiences after escaping the fragments of the parchment world, and because of the influx of immense will, the silver coin in his hand began to burn automatically.
This is because the remaining True Spirit attached to the silver hair is too fragile, and Xu Long is now pouring his powerful will into it, causing the pressure to become increasingly severe.
Xu Long quickly flipped through the clues left by the old fox after he escaped, while the silver coin in his hand was almost completely burned out. Because of the doubts in his heart, the atmosphere suddenly became somewhat tense.
The aura of death has not been found yet!
Seeing the silver hair in his hand about to go out, Xu Long suddenly skipped the previous part, his Indestructible Will reaching behind the old fox's remaining memories.
In the last half of the old fox's memory, before Xu Long's Indestructible Will could investigate, a strange aura suddenly descended, and in the old fox's last memory, a skull burning with gray flames appeared!
Xu Long's heart skipped a beat upon seeing this. Before he could react, the gray flames burning from the giant skull incinerated all of the old fox's memories.
Then he turned his head, his empty eye sockets staring straight at Xu Long's invisible will, and a Shocker smile suddenly appeared on his face!
Xu Long felt a sense of foreboding when he saw the gray skull turn its head. In the last part of his memory, Xu Long had thought the skull was an inanimate object, but he never expected it to be able to turn its head. Could this be another extremely subtle remnant of True Spirit?
Then, seeing the old fox's memories rapidly dissipate under the gray flames, he was even more horrified. But what surprised him most was how the skull knew his will had descended.
Furthermore, it should be known that Xu Long's Indestructible Will is comparable to that of Saint. Under the infusion of such a powerful will, even forcibly invading the old fox's memories would be irresistible. How could this skull see his formless and intangible will!
The gray skull quickly turned to ashes under the raging flames. Xu Long withdrew his will, and at this moment, the silver hairpin in his hand had completely extinguished, turning into a thin line of dust.
One wave subsided only for another to rise. Before his doubts could subside, the skull that appeared in the old fox's memory last left him completely bewildered.
In the end, he did not find the specific origin of the corpse energy in the old fox's memories.
Huh? Wait, corpse energy?
Corpse aura!
Xu Long suddenly remembered the distinctive features of the gray skull!
Isn't this a characteristic of corpse energy?