Heaven and Earth Underwent a Sudden Change, a Great Fortuitous Opportunity!
Eight years ago, when he was seriously injured and fled to this place, the entire Lightless Dead Realm was still like a frozen, dark prison.
The void was filled with thick, heavy Dao of Darkness Principle, which suppressed even the most powerful Spirit Transformation cultivators, confining their Divine Sense to a small space and making it difficult for them to move.
However, at this moment, the instant Shi Jian released his divine sense, his sea of consciousness broke through the void without any hindrance and continued to extend outward.
Ten miles, a hundred miles, a thousand miles, ten thousand miles!
His divine sense swept across the land like a raging torrent, and in the blink of an eye, he had taken in the entire landscape of tens of thousands of miles around.
Not only did the suppression of Divine Sense greatly diminish, but the Lightless Dao aura that lingered in this world also became extremely thin.
It resembled a dried-up riverbed, its source drained, exuding an indescribable sense of Decay and decay.
Shi Jian took a step forward, his body silently disintegrating into a wisp of lightning, instantly piercing through the towering rock layer and standing atop the vast sky.
Looking into the distance, even with Shi Jian's ruthless nature honed by countless battles, his brows furrowed deeply.
The sky cracked.
Above the sky, the once eternally covering thick black curtain has long since been shattered.
Hundreds of millions of terrifying void rifts, stretching across hundreds of thousands of miles, crisscrossed the sky like a shattered glass dome.
Vast swaths of chaotic storms from beyond the heavens poured in from all directions.
The earth cracked, and large areas of the black crystal rock layer weathered and collapsed, revealing the churning, dead earth veins beneath the surface; even at the very edge of the distant boundary, concentric circles of void black holes appeared visible to the naked eye, constantly collapsing inward.
The entire ruined realm is heading towards irreversible and complete annihilation.
"I see..."
Shi Jian, clad in a white robe that billowed wildly in the raging void, gazed at the unfathomable depths of the void. "The Lightless Dao Fruit is the backbone and mainstay of this great world."
"The Profound Lightning Imperial Clan, through my hands and the hands of all the thunder cultivators in the world, forcibly removed the vessel of their fruition, which is tantamount to draining the lifeblood of this world."
Without the anchor and suppression of the Great Dao Fruit, this desolate Lightless Dead Realm, isolated outside the boundary for hundreds of thousands of years, has lost its foundation for existence and has completely entered the state of Return to the Ruins.
This world is dying.
In a few decades, or even a hundred years, as the void rift continues to spread, the entire Lightless Dead Realm will be completely torn apart and pulverized by the raging void currents, turning into dust and sand in the chaotic void.
Thinking of this, Shi Jian stopped and transformed into an extremely restrained purple-gold wisp of light, skimming low over the collapsed ground.
After traveling only tens of thousands of miles, the scene below became increasingly shocking.
The once austere and frigid Black Crystal Plain has now been almost entirely transformed into massive, scorched, and dilapidated sinkholes.
Everywhere there was Violent Thunder, leaving scorch marks as it tore through the void, leaving the entire land riddled with holes.
In some places, the scorching and domineering fire and thunder Sha Qi remains, transforming into a thunder and fire abyss that has been burning for years; in other places, the pure and strict Daoist sword thunder has leveled Shan Yue thousands of feet high, and the remaining sword intent still hisses and vibrates in the void.
Within the ruins of a deep, chasm, Shi Jian pressed down the escape light.
Scattered haphazardly at the bottom of the valley were dozens of broken skeletons, their bones crystal clear, still faintly emitting Dao light and immortal Immortal Foundation fluctuations—clearly the remains of Nascent Soul Cultivator from the Nine Realms.
Around these skeletons, there were piles of thousands upon thousands of enormous, hill-like corpses of Night Beast.
Thick, foul-smelling black blood soaked the entire canyon, and corpses piled up like mountains, already rotting and emitting a nauseating aura of death.
Shi Jian flicked his finger and picked up a broken jade pendant from beside a set of broken bones.
The jade pendant is dark blue, with a Dao sword wrapped in lightning carved on the front and the words "Tai Xu" engraved on the back.
In the Human Realm, an inner sect elder of the Supreme Void Lightning Sect.
This proud Human Race, who stood proudly before the Ten-Thousand-Ren Divine Hall Blades and wielded two Immortal Foundation, ultimately failed to escape this quagmire of flesh and blood.
Along with dozens of Nascent Soul sword cultivators under his command, they were surrounded and slaughtered by the boundless tide of Night Beast, leaving no trace of their bodies.
All I saw along the way was this horrific apocalyptic scene.
The roc feathers of the Heaven Realm Frenzied Thunder Dao lineage were torn apart on the cliff; the dragon scales of the Sea Race of the Vast Realm were buried in the swamp; and the severed limbs of the various royal families of the Beast Realm were everywhere in this world.
Of the more than one thousand people who entered the realm that year, including the elites of the Nine Realms Dao of Lightning and hundreds of Spirit Transformation experts, it is estimated that at least seventy to eighty percent have been lost in the eight years of frenzied slaughter that have left no daylight!
In contrast, the natives of this Death Realm met an even more tragic end.
The Nether Abyss Emperor Ming Jue was severely injured by the Profound Lightning Dao Venerable across realms, and the Night Beast Emperor had long since died in the Holy Abyss. Without a leader, the billions of Night Beast poured out in despair and madness, fighting to the death with the cultivators from outside the realm.
After so many battles, less than one in ten high-level Night Beast remain.
Hundreds of magnificent black cities that once ruled over millions of miles have been reduced to rubble and ruins.
As the Principle of heaven and earth rapidly collapsed, countless low-level Night Beast, unable even to maintain their flesh and blood forms, turned into black smoke and dissipated in large swaths under the erosion of the void turbulence.
Both sides suffer heavy losses, resulting in a complete defeat.
Only the remaining deadly Dao of Lightning and lingering spiritual energy, scattered across the sky, have strangely evolved into miniature thunderous spiritual lands and fortuitous opportunity creation on this shattered land.
"What a hellish arena!"
Shi Jian casually crushed the Taixu Jade Pendant, a slow smile curving his lips.
For ordinary cultivators, this place is the Nine Netherworld Hell, a place of eternal damnation.
But for Shi Jian...
This is a treasure trove bestowed by heaven, a place devoid of order and rules, overflowing with unclaimed rare treasures—a truly great fortuitous opportunity!
The Nether Abyss Emperor was half-dead, the Night Beast at the Spirit Transformation stage were almost entirely wiped out, and the remaining Spirit Transformation cultivators from beyond the boundary were all in danger, heavily injured and lying in hiding.
In the brief period before its demise, the entire realm's defenses completely collapsed. The ancient royal cities and underground palaces that had been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years, and the secret treasure troves that had accumulated over countless years, were all now wide open!
What decree from the Profound Lightning Dao Venerable, what ten-year trial to slay beasts and exchange for treasure...?
Those rigid rules are nothing more than scraps of bone thrown by those in power to ants to fight over.
This is the perfect opportunity to kill, plunder, and take advantage of the chaos!
"Since this world is destined to Return to the Ruins, the millennia-old legacy buried deep underground, rather than turning to dust along with the world, shall be entirely absorbed into my possession!"
A fierce glint flashed in Shi Jian's eyes, and he no longer concealed his aura.
Boom!
Four Dao of Divine Firmament Dao Platform suddenly materialized behind him, and the supremely powerful and yang Divine Firmament Righteous Lightning, like the extreme yang of the nine heavens piercing through the long night, tore apart the gloomy and deathly aura that surrounded him for thousands of miles.
Although the Lightning Bear Dharma Form had not fully manifested, a violent pressure surpassing that of ordinary Late Spirit Transformation had already transformed into countless layers of thunderous torrents, sweeping across the heavens and earth!
Shi Jian stomped his foot heavily, and the void shattered.
The entire bear, like a peerless, deadly blade unsheathed, carrying towering lightning, roared straight toward the ruins of the nearest Night Beast City as perceived by divine sense!