After arranging everything in the Divine Kingdom, Xu Long bid farewell to the ladies once more and entered the secret chamber. He calmed his mind and quickly entered a state of emptiness and meditation, and his figure reappeared in the Divine Hall.
" Main God, what is the next mission?"
[ The Legend of Mount Shu!]
Xu Long wanted to ask the Main God about the Heavenly Palace again, but just as he was about to speak, an instinctive feeling pulled him back from his impulse.
Xu Long had rarely had such a special mental experience since he began cultivating, but each time his intuition occurred, it would give him an inspiration. At this moment, after a little thought, he suppressed his doubts and followed his inner intuition.
[You have five minutes to prepare. After the countdown ends, you will be randomly transported to a new world!]
The familiar mechanical syllables rang in his ears. Although he had heard them many times, Xu Long couldn't help but feel a tremor in his heart when he heard them again.
This is the prelude to his path to becoming a strongman, a guide for his journey!
Recalling his past experiences, Xu Long prepared himself and unconsciously began to count in his mind.
[World Type: Xianxia]
[Energy Level: Earth Immortal ]
[Story Matching: The Legend of Mount Shu ]
[Danger Level: Extremely High]
[Main Quest: Obtain the World Core hidden within the Haotian Mirror! Completing the quest rewards you with 2000 High-Grade Spirit Stone and teleportation to the Reincarnation Temple.]
[Task Start]
As soon as Xu Long finished speaking, his figure blurred, and the spot where he had been standing was now empty.
A vast power descended, and the spatial barriers surrounding the Divine Hall distorted. In the blink of an eye, Xu Long began to traverse space.
The surrounding space was pitch black, and his figure was moving at an extremely fast speed, even showing signs of becoming slightly blurred as he moved.
As Xu Long traversed the extremely fast-flowing space, his figure was even left in afterimages. However, from an overhead view, it appeared as if he were standing still.
Feeling the spatial tremors around him, Xu Long was still shocked and moved, even though he had traversed space many times before.
He had no interest in space travel before, but when he reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, after experiencing a violent Divine Punishment Lightning Tribulation and making slight contact with the world's primordial power through the tribulation clouds, he gained a deeper understanding of the world's rules.
He put some thought into this spatial traversal, but his usually strong Indestructible Will seemed to have lost its effect at this moment, and he could only barely search within a hundred meters of himself.
In the pitch blackness, flashes of light kept appearing, creating a sense of overwhelming light – these were the lights refracted from fragments of space.
Perhaps at some point in time, in some world, matter was produced and glory was experienced, but it has been silently extinguished over endless years. The withering of the primordial power has caused the world to completely lose its vitality.
As the void eroded day after day, year after year, the spatial barriers shattered, and the endless world broke into countless small fragments, burying countless worlds of fleeting dreams, which then fell lifelessly into the void.
Only the occasional glimmer of light refracted from the drifting fragments of space flashed across the pitch-black void, seemingly telling passing travelers about the glorious past of this world.
A sense of desolation that seemed to stretch back millennia rose in Xu Long's heart. His temperament had long been tempered and hardened, but seeing countless lost civilizations in this vast and boundless space, he still couldn't help but sigh.
Those shimmering fragments are like lost relics, recording countless events and the will of time, now worn away in the void. Only occasional flashes of light appear, but those may be from tens of thousands of years ago.
Xu Long unleashed his will to explore the path ahead. He wouldn't have dared to do this before, but now he wanted to comprehend the rules of the world. With the Main God protecting him, he wouldn't be Xu Long if he didn't take a risk.
Space travel is like walking a tightrope between the stable world and the void. After breaking through the spatial barrier, what lies beyond is endless void. However, there is a buffer zone-like region between the stable world and the void.
This is inside the spatial barrier. Spatial travel occurs inside the spatial barrier, and the shattered world first passes through the spatial barrier before falling into the endless void.
But no one has been able to cross the spatial barrier and enter the void, so no one knows what is in the endless void.
Traveling inside the spatial barrier requires immense energy, as the interior of the barrier is not very stable. Under the erosion of the void and the pressure of the stable world, the interior of the spatial barrier often collapses.
Goodness, I wonder if the Main God bought insurance for this trip. If so... then we could get some compensation!
The Main God is highly skilled and daring, while Xu Long has a big heart; when the two of them are together, there is no space they dare not traverse.
In the extremely fast-flowing space, the surrounding space was constantly being compressed and deformed, and vibrations and energy fluctuations were commonplace. Xu Long felt as if countless eras had passed within it, yet it also felt like only the blink of an eye had passed.
He roused himself, releasing his will to carefully sense the path ahead. A fluctuation of energy and internal tremors were transmitted back by his will. He also noted down the light reflected from the small fragments that passed by.
These are all rare and precious forces of the rules. His probing of his will into the space was nothing short of ignorant recklessness; traversing an unstable space is inherently extremely dangerous. At such high speeds, he could be either absorbed or annihilated.
When Xu Long extended his will forward, a blank information was transmitted back. He didn't pay attention to it at first and continued to explore forward, but it turned out that there was a blank area ahead for quite a while.
Xu Long was immediately taken aback. In this space, one could travel at extremely high speeds, so a blank area was quite normal. But what about a continuous blank area?
Before any doubts could arise, an extremely ominous intuition rose in his heart. Xu Long's premonitions of crisis had always been very accurate, a premonition he had honed through numerous brushes with death.
This sudden intuition came and went quickly; almost instantly, Xu Long felt like he was on a rollercoaster. He dared not extend his will any further and, with a thought, wanted to withdraw it.
boom!
Before Xu Long could withdraw his Indestructible Will, his mind exploded as if a grenade had been thrown at him. Intense pain followed, and a tremor emanating from his very soul made him wish he were dead.
The intense pain in his soul almost made him faint instantly, but the repeated brushes with death instilled a sense of unease in him:
This is definitely not an ordinary accident!
He dared not stop, forcibly enduring the excruciating pain to momentarily regain all his will, and in his mind he finally discovered the source of the agony:
His Saint, Indestructible Will was actually extinguished in part!
This is outrageous! His willpower is so strong it's comparable to that of Saint; in terms of willpower alone, even in the Immortal Realm, there's no match for him.
Even when traversing within an unstable spatial barrier, he was extremely cautious. How could he have been suddenly and completely annihilated by a single force?
This required energy several times stronger than his willpower to accomplish; who else in the world could possess such a powerful will? A flaw in his mind caused him excruciating pain.
Fortunately, he endured the immense pain and forcibly withdrew his will; otherwise, if even more had been annihilated... A sense of lingering fear rose in Xu Long's heart. He couldn't care less that he was currently traversing inside the spatial barrier.
Power of Oblivion surged within him, and his Indestructible Will once again enveloped his entire body. His long-standing sense of crisis told him that what had just happened was merely a small test, and perhaps greater danger lay ahead!
The space oscillates and the energy fluctuates within the barrier. Xu Long, whose speed is extremely fast, has already prepared for the worst and is gathering all his Magic Power to prepare for battle.
He continued his journey through the barrier without stopping, and in the endless darkness ahead, it seemed as if some giant beast was watching him. Since entering the world of cultivation, the greatest sense of crisis had enveloped Xu Long.
Inside the rapidly flowing barrier, Xu Long dared not relax his vigilance for a moment. He had already experienced the means of annihilating will, and now, the further he went, the more serious the danger seemed to become.
Inside the barrier, he dared not extend his will again, as if he were blind, only able to focus on himself, alerting him to everything that happened inside the spatial barrier.
Thump thump thump...
The constant crashing sounds echoed in their ears, the energy fluctuations around them became increasingly obvious, the road ahead seemed to have no end in sight, and the journey they had already traversed seemed to be one from which there was no turning back.
The endless space suddenly became deathly silent, with only constant vibrations and energy fluctuations reminding the travelers that they were traversing through it.
The further they went, the more desolate the road became, and the energy fluctuations around them became increasingly scarce, even the spatial vibrations thinned out.
Only the occasional glimmer of light reflected from fragments of the small world reminded Xu Long that he was still moving forward.
Gradually, the interior of the fortress fell silent. Gradually, even the last glimmer of light disappeared, as if all movement and light had been covered by a sky-covering hand.
An eerie stillness pervaded the interior of the spatial barrier.
Thump... Thump... Thump...
In the extremely quiet environment, Xu Long suddenly heard a faint sound.
Upon closer listening, I realized it was my own heartbeat!
Hearing the pounding of his heart, Xu Long Xu Long felt a chill run down his spine. An unprecedented and extremely Shocker feeling suddenly rose in his heart.
Since reaching the Tribulation Transcendence Stage after experiencing the Divine Punishment Lightning Tribulation, Xu Long had not experienced such extreme Shocker for a long time. With the support of his own strength, he had never felt such excessive fear of powerful forces.
But here, inside this unfamiliar and unstable spatial barrier, facing unknown objects ahead, he couldn't help but feel a strong sense of unease.
As he went further, his heartbeat quickened, and Xu Long palms became slightly damp. He dared not extend his will to see what was ahead, and in the extreme darkness and silence, he could only listen to his own accelerating heartbeat.
Thump... Thump... Thump...
The spatial journey continued. Xu Long listened to his own heartbeat, feeling as if he had traversed an eternity in an extremely tranquil environment. He patiently waited for something, unaware of the dangers ahead.
The slight dampness in my palms was almost enough to make water droplets drip from them. Finally, after an unknown amount of time had passed in complete silence, a ray of light refracted ahead appeared.
A fleeting glimmer of light can bring the most hope in a dark and silent environment; that tiny ray of light seems to have the power to save a person from everything.
Watching the light flash by, getting closer and closer, it seemed as if they had traveled through billions of years to meet by chance at this moment, breaking the long-standing tranquility within the spatial barrier in the dead silence.
The refracted light seemed to arrive just in time!
Thump thump thump!
But when Xu Long saw that fleeting glimmer of light, his heart suddenly pounded at an alarming rate, as if his violently beating heart was about to burst out of his chest and reach his throat.
A flash of light appeared before Xu Long, Xu Long then turned his gaze forward.
Sure enough! Another ray of light was detected!
Xu Long's pores contracted violently, his normally firm skin suddenly shrunk into individual pores, and a fierce look of Shocker flashed in his pupils.
Years of combat experience and a keen sense of crisis told him that danger was imminent!
The crisis doesn't occur in utter silence! It doesn't happen in complete darkness! It doesn't happen during a hopeless journey with no end in sight!
The crisis is at this very moment! Its emergence at this very moment heralds an end to the deadlock, a glimmer of hope!
Without the will to explore what lies ahead, Xu Long had no doubt about the foreshadowing of crisis within himself.
The moment the thought arose, Magic Power condensed in his hands, and without warning, a sword light fiercely swept forward!
In the pitch-black space, even without any reflective objects, the sword light flashed with a dazzling light, tearing through the spatial barrier with boundless courage.
boom!
A tremendous sound echoed within the spatial barrier, and a violent energy shockwave rippled outwards.
A bright flash of light streaked through the spatial barrier, like a dazzling shooting star in the endless darkness.
But in an instant, the meteor was swallowed up by the surrounding darkness like ocean waves, and Xu Long, who was prepared all along, took advantage of that moment to carefully gaze ahead.
Where the meteor had passed, Xu Long could vaguely see the outline of a vast small world, even the outermost part of which appeared enormous.
No matter how the spatial fragments impacted it, no matter how the void eroded it, the small world remained as immovable as a mountain. The various fragments of the outer world that it automatically shed fell into the spatial barrier, and when they passed through the stabilizing world, they would reflect a glimmer of light.
The sword light clashed in an instant, and Xu Long only caught a glimpse, leaving a rough outline in his mind.
At this Space-Time barrier, leaving a conspicuous trail in the pitch-black space. Xu Long withdrew his World-Breaking Blade, but he was not pleased, because he knew that he had just made a probing move from behind.
And now the outermost outline of the small world is almost complete!
boom!
Sure enough! Before the thought could even be conveyed, the space around Xu Long was crushed. A powerful force instantly swept over the area where he was located.
This force was terrifyingly powerful, extending almost arbitrarily within the spatial barrier, its long arcs probing all objects as if completely unconcerned about the danger posed by the barrier itself.