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Chapter 241: Finding a Fork in the Road
The beautiful woman's flying knife flew around in front of Ansai, shattering a space portal. The next moment, the scene in front of him suddenly changed, and he was already on the top of the mountain, seeing only darkness and the abyss.

Ansai broke the blockade with a spear, but encountered Ning Chengfeng's illusion.

His mind was in a trance, and he returned to the day when he successfully sensed the Qi, but suddenly a knife came out of the void and stabbed at his head.

Ansai was startled, remembering that he was still in the battle. Just as he was about to swing his spear, a white light came and pulled him back to his childhood. Oujia's Way of Time was successful.

He forced himself to calm his mind, transformed himself into an earth dragon, and used his soul sword to cut a deep wound on the dragon's back.

Before he could catch his breath, the illusion changed again. Ansai returned to the moment when he was promoted to a True Lord. He was full of energy and vigor, but unexpectedly, a flying knife from an earthly immortal hit his dantian, destroying his Taoist foundation and turning him into a weak mortal.

He was filled with reluctance and thrust out his strongest spear, but he could no longer distinguish between reality and the past.

"Time" twisted, and a black light wrapped around his legs. Ansai was startled and "remembered" that he was just a "Nascent Soul True Person who had just sacrificed to the Yang God."

The mana and aura dropped, and that spear really only had the power of a peak Nascent Soul.

Ning Chengfeng's soul sword pierced his chest, and the illusion changed again. Ansai began to experience all kinds of torture in hell that made ghosts wish they were dead, but he felt better than before.

The black spear pierced Ning Chengfeng's arm, but fortunately Ou Jia rescued him in time.

The Foodie activated "Void", and the blue knife penetrated into the enemy's consciousness, but was blocked by a yellow bell.

"Chengfeng, does your flying knife have a spirit?"

"Have."

"This method suits my taste very well. You let the weapon spirit perform continuously, and when the soul power is exhausted, it will come back to replenish. I will provide it with a transfer space, so that everyone can save energy."

"How does it work?"

“You’ll know it just by looking at it.”

A high-speed rotating "magic cube" appears in the air, composed of hundreds of planes in different directions, and each plane corresponds to a space.

Ning Chengfeng understood instantly and gave orders immediately.

The blue knife shot out and immediately turned into a mustard seed, hiding in a certain plane of the "Magic Cube". As it rotated, it rushed out from another space and activated the "Void".

Ning Chengfeng and Ou Jiateng attacked with all their might.

Ansai's spear shot into the "magic cube" and was instantly moved away, while the monster continued to spin.

The bandit leader became more and more frightened as he fought. He looked at his two men and couldn't help but feel a ghost fire flashing in his eyes. Was this a life-and-death fight? Qu Yan had already been killed, and they were still fighting peacefully.

"Eli, Juan, what's going on? Kill him now."

"Boss, I might have been tricked. I can't bring myself to do anything cruel."

"Me too."

Ansai felt aggrieved. If he continued fighting, once the other side separated one of their men to attack his companions, he would be left alone.

He sighed, transformed into an earth dragon again, cleared a path with a stream of meteorites, and rushed towards the old black couple.

Qing Li had foresight and quickly sacrificed a True Lord-level talisman to block the fatal blow; Ansai swept away two of his men and disappeared into the sky in a few flashes.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, meditated and adjusted their breathing, then set out again. After more than fifty days, they arrived at the location marked on the star map.

"Chengfeng, where are the forks in the road and the gray fog?" Lao Hei muttered.

"The wormhole may have deviated with a branch path."

"Where did it go?"

"how could I know?"

“You can ask about spiritual energy.” The digital person on the bracelet suggested.

Ning Chengfeng sat cross-legged and tried to communicate. It took him several hours to connect with the thin spiritual energy.

He asked softly, "Excuse me, have you seen a fork in the road nearby?"

"No." A faint divine thought came.

"The cave entrance is very large and is covered by thick gray fog. Have you ever seen gray fog?"

"I saw mists of various colors floating by. There was also gray, but it was very light and floated away quickly."

"That's not what I'm looking for. How long have you been here?"

“I came here six years ago.”

"No wonder. The fork in the road may have drifted before you arrived."

Qing Li and Lao Hei deduced based on the law of destiny, while Ou Jia studied cause and effect, and used location, environment, fork in the road, and gray fog as causes, following the clues to find the unknown result.

But there were too many causal lines entangled and flying in the air, making it difficult for her to track them.

The field fell into dead silence, Ning Chengfeng was at a loss, "Even if it was deviated, it shouldn't have moved too far. Is there only a stupid way to find the invisible black hole?"

He was just worrying about the outcome when Qing Ling suddenly opened her eyes and said excitedly, "I may know where the fork in the road is."

"Great, what did you find?" Lao Hei asked excitedly.

"My 'knowledge of the sky' is relatively weak, but my 'knowledge of destiny' has improved. I vaguely sense that what I'm looking for is in the east, slightly to the south."

"How far is it from here?" Olga showed joy.

"I'm sorry, I can't figure it out."

"It doesn't matter, it's already amazing."

The four men set out and searched carefully, but found nothing after running 500 kilometers.

"This is a waste of soul power. We need to divide the work and cooperate. Qing Ling, Ou Jia, you two will be responsible for searching the near end and far end of the right side respectively; Lao Hei, you and I will be responsible for the left side."

With this change, the efficiency was indeed improved and the speed of advancement increased, but after flying 2,600 kilometers, there was still no news of the fork in the road.

Seeing Ning Chengfeng and Ou Jia secretly looking at each other, the straightforward Lao Hei immediately shouted:

"Chengfeng, seeing your dodging gaze, I know you are doubting my wife. She must be right. I have the same feeling and the direction is correct."

Ning Chengfeng was ruthlessly exposed and was extremely embarrassed.

"Isn't your main skill destiny traveling? It's also related to destiny. You can also try it." Lao Hei continued to chatter.

"Hey, my technique focuses on time travel, and fate is only involved in passing. It may be possible to predict good and bad fortune, but it is impossible to find the direction." Ning Chengfeng said embarrassedly. "Then don't question it."

The four of them flew for more than a thousand kilometers, and suddenly Olga shouted, "There is a thick gray fog!"

The three of them hurriedly released their spirits to the right front. Lao Hei and Qing Ling found nothing, but Ning Chengfeng said in surprise, "It's that kind of fog."

A few hours later, they arrived at the area filled with gray fog, and Ning Chengfeng was the first to go in.

The fog blocked the soul and made perception difficult, but with the guidance of Qing Li and Lao Hei, they headed towards the target with the strongest perception.

Finally, a dark cave entrance came into view. Ning Chengfeng looked at the familiar fork in the road and measured the diameter of the hole. It was indeed three kilometers.

"You two have done a great job. I didn't expect the fork cave to float so far."

"Let's go in and see the wormhole?" Lao Hei was very excited.

"No rush. The most urgent thing is to find special substances nearby." Ou Jia remained calm.

"Searching in the starry sky is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Should we split up into two groups and search separately?"

"Without the support of the True Lord, if we separate and encounter danger, it will be difficult to deal with it." Ning Chengfeng disagreed.

"Well, I'll send you images of exotic matter, dark matter, and neutron star ultra-radiation dust, as well as their possible hiding places. Everyone, pay attention."

They flew out of the fog and looked at the vast universe. They couldn't help but feel powerless. "How can we find it?"

"Don't be discouraged. There must be a reason why the fork in the road was opened here." Ou Jia comforted his teammates.

"Alas, this is only the first fork in the road. How long will it take us to get to that point?"

"No choice, just come one by one."

"Don't think about the second one yet, it will only make people discouraged."

The four of them calmed down and analyzed the situation carefully.

"The exit of the fork in the road is more than 4,000 kilometers away from the southeast. Why don't we just go back to the original location and use that as the starting point to search in other directions?"

"Maybe it works."

"Not necessarily. If Chengfeng had drifted over here when he first discovered the fork in the road, he would have gone in the opposite direction."

Ning Chengfeng decided to use the old method and ask whenever he encountered a problem.

He connected with the spiritual energy and asked, "Hello! Have you always been here, or did you come from far away?"

“I’ve been here for more than four years.”

"From which direction?"

"West side."

"When you came here, did you see the three substances?" Ning Chengfeng transmitted the image over.

"I haven't seen it, but I've heard from other spirits that they've encountered a closed space with a colorless outer wall and very dark inside. Once you enter, you can't stop."

"That is the dark matter space." Ning Chengfeng was overjoyed.

"I was scared, so I took the initiative to avoid it."

"Do you remember where it is?"

"It happened many years ago, so far away from here that I can't remember it clearly."

"Alas," Ning Chengfeng said helplessly, turning to tell his teammates: "I communicated with the spirit energy and got a useful clue. There was a dark river in the nearby area."

"Great, those three things usually don't get crowded together. When our ancestors activated the wormhole, they probably used dark matter particles." Oujia was ecstatic.

"I remember that when I was in the wormhole, I had a sense of déjà vu. It might be because of the residual dark matter."

"Then it is confirmed."

"The spirit also said that the dark river is not in the west."

"If we give up the large area in the west, we can first fly to the northwest for a while, and then draw a big circle with here as the center, from north to south, and then to southwest." Ning Chengfeng proposed the "telepathic" plan.

"The key is how far to the northwest? The radius of the great circle is crucial."

"Ten thousand kilometers? Twenty-five thousand kilometers?"

"It's hard to judge, but I'll tentatively set it at 15,000 kilometers. I'll walk along the way, asking for spiritual energy along the way, and try to avoid taking detours."

"it's the only way."

The group set off again, adjusting their direction as they went.

More than half a year later, they encountered a group of robbers, which was composed of four powerful men.

After holding back for a long time, Lao Hei took the initiative to provoke a dispute, and soon he dealt a heavy blow to the enemy. After the gang robbed the gang, he began to interrogate: "You choose whether to live or die."

"To live!" the bandit leader responded quickly.

"That depends on whether you are valuable. I ask questions and you answer them to my satisfaction."

"Please speak, hero."

"Have you seen meteorite streams, black holes or dark matter spaces within 10,000 kilometers?" Lao Hei was still cautious and did not mention the dark river directly.

"We encountered a meteor shower, but nothing else."

"It seems that you are worthless. Let me ask one last question."

"You...you, please speak." The bandit leader's voice trembled.

"Have you ever seen any unusual celestial phenomena?"

"Yes, yes, yes, we have seen it before." A smart person nearby spoke up quickly.

"Tell me."

"In, ..., between a newborn star and a blue planet, there is the 'Devil's Cloud'."

(End of this chapter)