Chapter 1656: Coexistence of Reality and the Void
Whoosh!
Mu Lingxi flew out of the dark and landed beside Zhang Ruochen like a breeze.
Zhang Ruochen stared at Lan Sibai and said, “Are you really Shang Ziyan’s cousin?”
Lan Sibai seemed to see a chance to survive and said, “It’s true. You’re very close to my cousin, aren’t you?”
Lan Sibai thought this way because the blue-caped person in front of him had a Merits Godly Stamp.
“Indeed.” Zhang Ruochen smiled.
Lan Sibai felt relieved. He ingratiated himself to Zhang Ruochen and said, “It was all a misunderstanding… It was all my fault… Please, for the sake of my cousin, spare my life…”
Bang!
Zhang Ruochen pierced through Lan Sibai’s head with his sword.
Lan Sibai had no idea why Zhang Ruochen had killed him, even at the point of death. He fell onto the ground, bleeding from his face.
Zhang Ruochen collected all their storage containers. They were indeed the top-tier talents of a large field as they had much more wealth than ordinary half-step saint kings.
There were more than twenty ten-thousand patterns saint weapons, lots of saint stones and dozens of bottles holding divine medicinal pills. Other than those, there were also a great many divine medicinal pills and saint fruits that were ten thousand years old. They were so rare that Zhang Ruochen speculated they’d picked them up from the God-Naming Platform.
While Zhang Ruochen was counting the valuables, Mu Lingxi was destroying the corpses.
These monks all had great status, and it would be a shock, as they’d died during God-Naming Platform Conference. They couldn’t leave any traces for Truth Godly Palace to tracked back to them.
Squeak!
A strange sound came out of the dark as if a ferocious beast was grinding its teeth.
However, there was no way a ferocious beast was living in this forbidden area. Could it be an ancient hostile ghost?
Zhang Ruochen was shocked. He immediately put all the valuables on the ground back into his space ring and showed up beside Mu Lingxi, performing spatial move.
Mu Lingxi also heard that voice. Her face paled, and she held her Phoenix Flume in her hand tight, ready for a fight.
“The creatures in the forbidden area are drawn to the fighting noise,” said Zhang Ruochen.
Mu Lingxi said, “What should we do now? Should we run away or fight them?”
Zhang Ruochen was actually worried about Xiang Chunan. Although he had thousand-mile vision, he was very reckless, and it was likely that he couldn’t make it out of this forbidden area alive, so Zhang Ruochen wouldn’t just leave without him.
Zhang Ruochen wanted to send Mu Lingxi out first before he went to look for Xiang Chunan, but he knew that Mu Lingxi wouldn’t do it and that she would be upset if he forced her to leave.
Zhang Ruochen said cautiously, “Don’t attack before we know our enemies.”
Squeak!
The strange sound in the dark became darker and darker.
Horrifying Yin Qi spread everywhere, and balls of blue flames gleamed. They were actually fiery eyes.
Unfortunately, Zhang Ruochen was only able to see clearly things that were less than one hundred feet away from him, so he couldn’t see what the people with the eyes looked like.
Zhang Ruochen grabbed Mu Lingxi’s wrist and followed the footprints of Xiang Chunan and the great beings from Heaven Field, and there were two blue fiery eyes in front of them.
Zhang Ruochen wanted to see what they looked like, so he didn’t perform spatial move.
He got closer and closer, three hundred feet, two hundred feet, one hundred and fifteen feet, one hundred and forty feet…
Zhang Ruochen stared forward when he was a hundred feet away, and suddenly, the blue fiery eyes disappeared, which horrified him.
“Where are they?”
Mu Lingxi clenched her teeth as her Phoenix Flume gleamed with cold blue light.
“There’re not space ripples, which means they didn’t practice space power… No…” Zhang Ruochen’s heart skipped a beat as he felt he was in grave danger, and he wielded his long sword.
Sizzle!
A spear that looked like a saint bone long spear showed up in front of him and Mu Lingxi, giving out great Yin Qi, and it was less than three inches away from Zhang Ruochen’s heart.
Fortunately, Zhang Ruochen wielded his sword earlier to hit the saint bone long spear away, otherwise, the spear would’ve pierced through his heart.
Just as Zhang Ruochen was about to perform spatial move to escape this place, another saint bone long spear was wielded against him, less than three inches away from Zhang Ruochen’s head.
Bang!
Zhang Ruochen wielded his sword again, knocking away the long spear, which vanished shortly after.
Mu Lingxi located their bodies based on the angles of the way they wielded their spears, and then, she wielded her Phoenix Flume and released Extreme Yin Pluto Ice Power dozens of times.
However, all the attacks fell to the ground.
“It doesn’t sound like they went invisible. I reckon they don’t even have real bodies or souls, otherwise, they would’ve been frozen by Extreme Yin Pluto Ice Power,” said Mu Lingxi.
“Not quite,” said Zhang Ruochen.
A lot of stepping sounds followed Zhang Ruochen and Mu Lingxi, and dozens of pairs of fiery eyes were swiftly moving, approaching them both.
“Let’s go.”
Zhang Ruochen performed spatial move and disappeared with Mu Lingxi.
Every time he moved, he teleported both of them hundreds of feet away, but even so, there were still a couple of pairs of blue eyes following them and getting closer.
Mu Lingxi took out four Heavenly Sword Runes and pinched them between her fingers. She then wielded them. The runes exploded, turning into four tremendously powerful white heavenly swords, hitting toward the four pairs of blue fiery eyes.
As the swords were about to hit them, the eyes suddenly disappeared while the four heavenly swords vanished in the dark. After a while, the four pairs of blue fiery eyes showed up again, a hundred feet away from the two of them.
Mu Lingxi finally got to see what they really looked like, which horrified her.
It was her father and Shi Qianjuan, the hierarch of the demonic sect, and she also knew the other two, both of whom were great beings feared and awed by her.
However, all four of them had decomposed, showing the bones on their faces, looking gloomy.
Zhang Ruochen also turned around, and he saw Chi Yao, Flame God from Merits Godly Palace, Emperor Qing, and Emperor Ming.
All of them also looked like mummies.
“No. This isn’t what they actually look like, but the Yin Qi coming out of their bodies has affected my saint soul, trying to trigger the fear inside me.”
Zhang Ruochen had a strong will. Perhaps he felt scared at some point in his life, but he had grown to be tough and solid. Even if the four of them actually arrived, he wouldn’t waver.
“Let’s see how you handle this move.”
Zhang Ruochen suddenly stopped walking, mobilized the time power, and stepped back, performing Sword Technique of Time.
Suddenly, time was paused.
‘Chi Yao’, ‘Flame God’, ‘Emperor Qing’, and ‘Emperor Ming’ all froze. Zhang Ruochen pierced through Chi Yao’s forehead and cracked her entire body.
Bang!
The blue fiery eyes were put out, leaving only a human corpse with a broken head, lying on the ground, still.
Blue Yin Qi spread out of the head of the human corpse, making sizzling noises on the black mud.
Zhang Ruochen then performed Sword Technique of Time three times, killing ‘Flame God’, ‘Emperor Qing’, and ‘Emperor Ming.’ Three more human corpses lay on the ground.
The four human beings must’ve been incredible beings when they were still alive, however, given how rotten their bodies were, they must’ve been dead for tens of thousands of years, if not more than a hundred thousand years.
The blue Yin Qi from the corpses was so horrifying that even Zhang Ruochen didn’t dare touch it, so he kept running forward with Mu Lingxi.
After running for a long time, they lost those blue fiery eyes.
Zhang Ruochen almost exhausted his saint Qi after performing spatial moves many times, sweating.
And then, Mu Lingxi became the one leading the way to Xiang Chunan and the others while Zhang Ruochen took a saint pill and performed his techniques to recover his saint Qi.
After Zhang Ruochen recovered sixty percent of his saint Qi, Mu Lingxi suddenly stopped walking and said, “They’re gone!”
Zhang Ruochen asked, “What’s gone?”
“The footprints!”
Zhang Ruochen looked to the ground.
Indeed, the footprints of both Xiang Chunan and the great beings from Heaven Field had vanished as if an invisible door had swallowed them both.
Mu Lingxi walked forward, yet she was stopped by Zhang Ruochen. “Don’t do it.”
“Why not?” Mu Lingxi was confused.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t explain to her. Instead, he looked around and found it to be the remains of palaces. However, it’d been tens of millions of years, and all he could find were some broken walls, most of which had sunk into the ground as if they would soon be gone forever.
Mu Lingxi also noticed that. She got more confused and said, “This forbidden area must’ve been prosperous. Why is it now engulfed in darkness? If the palaces were still here, they might look as splendid as some godly palaces.”
Zhang Ruochen seemed to have figured out something. He pointed at the front and said, “Perhaps that’s the answer.”
“The front?” said Mu Lingxi.
Zhang Ruochen grabbed Mu Lingxi’s wrist and stepped forward.
The gleaming light in the next second was so bright that they couldn’t open their eyes. When they opened their eyes again, Mu Lingxi was amazed as a world full of light showed up in front of her.
In front of her were palaces gleaming with godly light. They were all spectacular, tens of thousands of feet tall as if there were true Gods living inside.
“The palaces that were in ruins showed up again. Is this an illusion?” Mu Lingxi couldn’t help touching the purple golden door in front of her.
She felt the real texture.
“It’s real.”
Mu Lingxi felt that her mind was being blown away. She took a step back, however, it seemed that she crossed the boundary again, dropping back to the immensely dark world with nothing but ruins in front of her.
“How did this happen? Which one is the real world? Which one is an illusion?” Mu Lingxi whispered to herself.
Zhang Ruochen also took a step back, thinking, and said, “This must be a place where the reality and the void coexist. If I’m correct, a God who practiced the Way of Truth fought a God that practiced the Way of Void. I can’t imagine how horrific the war was. Perhaps some other Gods who practiced other kinds of power joined the fight as well, like fear power and ancient Yin power. The remaining power might have been left by the ancient War of Gods.”
Mu Lingxi asked, “Then are the splendid palaces we just saw real or not?”
“This is the remaining place of the battle of Gods. There’s no way we can understand anything with our cultivation, but I reckon they should be real… and a part of the void at the same time.”