The Profound Lightning Imperial Clan's Scheme!

Thick and viscous.

Cold.

Adhesive.

This is what Shi Jian felt in his soul and body after penetrating the spatial rift.

There was no wind, no sound, and not a trace of light belonging to the mortal world; the sky and the earth merged into one, transforming into boundless ink, clinging tightly to every inch of flesh and Law Power.

Shi Jian stood atop the black crystal frozen soil, his white robe emitting a faint glow, which stood out starkly against the pure darkness.

The void around him was distorting, and the surrounding darkness seemed to possess a bloodthirsty vitality, eagerly tearing at the edges of his protective spiritual energy.

They attempted to completely assimilate this wisp of life from the outside world into nothingness.

Shi Jian attempted to extend his Divine Sense.

However, the divine sense of the Spirit Transformation, which was originally powerful enough to sweep across tens of millions of miles in the outside world, seemed to crash into an extremely viscous quicksand swamp Fang Yi left the body.

Divine consciousness was rapidly pulled, eroded, and devoured.

No matter how much he activated his magic Law Power, the limits of his Divine Sense were firmly suppressed within a mere hundred miles around him.

Further ahead lies an indescribable chaos and nothingness.

"Deprive people of their senses, assimilate everything..."

Shi Jian muttered to himself, but the sound was swallowed up by the surrounding darkness the moment it came out, and could not travel more than ten steps away.

He stood still, not blindly fleeing, but slowly closing his eyes.

Within the body, the three Dao of Divine Firmament Dao Platform sat firmly in the Dantian, while the three streams of thunder energy— Purple Firmament, Purple Pivot, and True Yang— surged alternately deep within the meridians.

The Daoist principles blended and transformed, effectively resisting the Dao of Darkness erosion from the outer perimeter through the hidden passage.

A long silence followed.

Shi Jian's eye twitched slightly.

This feeling of being completely isolated from heaven and earth, this suffocating atmosphere of a single Principle forming a self-contained cage, and a kind of suppression that exists in the the Unseen.

It's all too familiar.

Shi Jian also once stood in this kind of realm, which resembled a cage.

"Boundless Lake... Profound Spirit Continent..."

Shi Jian suddenly opened his eyes, a flash of purple-gold lightning piercing through the heavy deathly aura before him, and he began to think.

Back then, in that Boundless Lake nestled in a corner of the Beast Realm, the Profound Spirit Continent was isolated from the world for ten thousand years. Mortal cultivators never knew the vastness of the world until their deaths, believing that one realm was one universe.

The root cause is that the previous Dao Venerable [Spaceless] who led the Space Dao branch perished, and his Dao fruit position did not dissipate, evolving into a natural boundary barrier that completely separated the entire continent from the rules of the Nine Realms!

To be precise, that realm was only constructed by half the power of Dao Venerable; and after its construction, that being perished directly, never truly assuming the full authority of the fruition position.

Later, it wasn't until Shi Jian broke through the barrier and the Spaceless Dao Fruit appeared in the world that the Profound Spirit Continent returned to the territory of the Beast Realm.

Right now, this broken world, which the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan calls the "Lightless Dead Realm," is practically an enlarged version of the Profound Spirit Continent in terms of its Principle and the layout of its world!

"Could this be... not an ordinary realm...?"

Shi Jian's eyes flickered, and various clues in his mind quickly intertwined into a web. "The four positions of the Dao of Darkness: Eternal Darkness, Vague and Ethereal, Lightless, and Darkness Devouring."

"The so-called 'Lightless Dead Realm ' is not fundamentally a fragment of the void, nor a secret realm, but rather the Principle governing the operation of this entire world, which have always been built upon the [Lightless] position!"

"This place was once the place where a Dao Venerable of [the Lightless] attained enlightenment, and even the celestial dynasty he founded."

"After that Dao Venerable passed away, his descendants were incapable, and no one could cultivate the six foundations to inherit the great lineage. This caused the Lightless Dao Fruit' to remain within the realm; the Dao principles overflowed, completely sealing off the entire world and turning it into a Lightless island outside the Nine Realms."

"The Profound Lightning Imperial Clan, through some unknown means, captured this realm. However, because lightning and darkness are inherently incompatible, no one within the royal family can digest the Dao of Darkness Fruit level, and they cannot even forcibly break through this Fruit level barrier..."

With this thought in mind, all of the Profound Lightning Beast Emperor's plans came to light, and in Shi Jian's eyes, everything became reasonable.

The Old Profound Lightning Beast Emperor is nearing the end of his life, Profound Lightning Imperial Clan has no successor.

They urgently need a way to break this deadlock.

The old Beast Emperor opened the mountain gates wide, attracting all the lightning cultivators in the world to this place to serve as whetstones and pioneers, ostensibly to collect Dark Beast Heart Core and reward the lightning fortuitous opportunity;

In reality, it was using the supreme yang lightning of these hundreds of Spirit Transformation Lightning cultivators to continuously bombard and weaken the Lightless Principle that had accumulated in this realm for countless years.

The Profound Lightning Imperial Clan intends to use the hands of countless thunder cultivators across the land to peel away this thick, dark shell and profit from it.

If Profound Lightning is destined to shift, then the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan can scheme against this realm; they might even find the physical body of the Lightless Dao Fruit, study and research it, and ultimately succeed to the position of Lightless Dao Venerable.

"A clever plan. Profound Lightning Dao Venerable is seeking a way out for his clan."

Shi Jian remained expressionless, but a chill ran through him.

What about the great lineage of Dao of Lightning in the Beast Realm, what about the seed of Dao Venerable...?

In the eyes of the emperor who rules a clan, countless geniuses are no different from mere ants and grass, all just firewood to be thrown into the furnace at will.

However, having seen through this, Shi Jian felt completely at ease.

Now that they know each other's trump cards, this so-called trial is no longer a life-or-death struggle like blind men touching an elephant, but a gluttonous feast where everyone has their own ulterior motives.

"Nine Heavens Great Sun Divine Lightning Wood... left behind by the Lightless Dao Venerable..."

With a flick of his Shi Jian, a deep, pure black Nether Lightning silently covered his fingertips.

Life-Extinguishing Nether Lightning!

Thunder arises from the depths of death; murder lurks within the shadows!

This Nether Lightning Daoist artifact, forged by the Ancestor Egu himself, displayed numerous wondrous uses and countless magical techniques at this moment.

The jet-black lightning did not dispel the surrounding darkness; instead, it resonated strangely with the Lightless Dao of nature.

As the black light swirled, Shi Jian's aura was completely concealed, and he melted into the eternal night like a drop of ink falling into a vast ocean.

They completely integrated into this realm and acted in accordance with reason.