I became an immortal in the mountains

Chapter 792 Source
The pursuit lasted for more than half a month.

These several Heavenly Demons at the Heavenly Transformation level dared not linger for a moment under the threat of Gu Yuanqing's aura, and no matter what methods they used, they could not escape Gu Yuanqing's pursuit.

These demons also scattered and fled, but it was still useless. Gu Yuanqing only needed to send out a clone to follow them separately.

Ordinary cultivators might worry that their clones might wander too far and get lost in the void, never to return, but Gu Yuanqing, with the Heavenly Fishing Technique as his trump card, has no such concerns.

These demons, after going around in circles, had somehow reunited, which gave Gu Yuanqing a glimmer of hope.

But after another half month, these demons, perhaps having exhausted their power, stopped advancing no matter how much Gu Yuanqing's aura pressed down on them.

Gu Yuanqing frowned slightly, thinking to himself, "Could it be that they realized they couldn't escape and had seen through my strategy, so they simply gave up?"

The next second, he saw the resentment and malevolent energy that had gathered on these demons dissipate.

Gu Yuanqing leaped forward, his divine sense sweeping across the area, and he felt that the power of these heavenly demons was rapidly dissipating, even their primordial demonic thoughts were dissipating as well.

The Celestial Realm suddenly expanded, and with a thought, the space within a hundred miles suddenly solidified, suppressing all these primordial demonic thoughts and preventing them from continuing to dissipate. He raised his hand and grabbed them, imprisoning them in his grasp. Then he rapidly shook the space, but he did not find anything amiss in the space.

No wonder even the Void Immortals couldn't find the lair of these Heavenly Demons; they must have tried similar methods, but all to no avail.

When these demons had no way to escape, they actually exhausted all their power.

He didn't know if these demons could be considered dead, but there was no doubt that his plan had failed.

He remained silent for a moment, then activated his Heavenly Eye of Void to scan his surroundings.

These demons have been on the run for so long, and their sudden choice to dissipate their power here might have a reason.

At this moment, he was unwilling to let go of any clues.

Or perhaps...

Suddenly, the main body of Beiquan Cave Heaven used the Heavenly Fishing Technique to send a storage bag to the clone's hand.

With the infusion of vital energy, the clone's power rapidly increased.

Gu Yuanqing slapped his Qiankun bag, and an array plate engraved with countless mysterious runes flew out.

This array plate is a treasure of Qingping Dao Palace, originating from the Zhou Tian Huan Yu Da Yan Zhen Jing (Great Evolution True Scripture of the Universe), and is engraved with the Zhou Tian Da Yan Array.

Qingping Dao Palace is renowned in the spirit world for slaying celestial demons, and this formation, after continuous modifications, also has the effect of tracking down celestial demons.

Gu Yuanqing formed hand seals, his ten fingers dancing like phantoms, and one after another, pure spiritual incantations containing his own Dao imprints were cast into the array plate.

In this outer void, where there is no spiritual energy of heaven and earth to draw upon, he relied on his own vast and nearly inexhaustible primordial energy as support!

"Om-!"

The array plate trembled slightly, and the runes engraved on it lit up one by one, emitting a hazy, clear glow.

Countless tiny runes flowed from the array plate, combining and connecting on their own in the void, quickly forming a three-dimensional array phantom covering an area of ​​hundreds of feet.

At the center of the formation, clear light flowed.

Gu Yuanqing activated his divine sense, first injecting the remaining demonic energy in the area into the core of the formation.

However, the array's clear light only rippled slightly before returning to its original state, and the original demonic thoughts completely dissipated within the array.

Gu Yuanqing's expression remained unchanged; he had anticipated this.

The level of the demons here is too low, and the demonic thoughts that had previously dissipated may have completely vanished and never returned to their lair. The original demonic thoughts here are all that they possess, so it is naturally difficult to guide them.

With a flick of his wrist, three jade bottles, sealed by a restriction, floated in the air.

Inside the bottle are the original demonic thoughts of the Shadowless Demon, the Blood Sea Demon Lord, and the Nine-Headed Demon Owl, sealed respectively.

None of these three have perished; as long as they are nearby, there is hope of finding traces of the demon.

He first broke the seal on the Shadow Demon of No Form, and then poured some of its original demonic essence into the formation.

The array's light fluctuated again, attempting to capture its characteristics and deduce its origin, but after a moment, the light still dissipated. The original demonic thoughts were obliterated within the array, but they still failed to form a guiding force.

Clearly, there is no Shadow Demon in this void region, or its lair is too far away, exceeding the current limit of the array's sensing capabilities.

Without hesitation, he threw in another wisp of the Blood Sea Demon Lord's original demonic thought.

The result remained the same; the formation did not react at all.

Gu Yuanqing frowned almost imperceptibly, having already given up much hope, but still poured the Nine-Headed Demon Owl's original demonic essence into it.

Within the Zhou Tian Da Yan Formation, runes flowed, and the Nine-Headed Demon Owl's original demonic thoughts struggled within it. The pure light within these formations poured out like mercury, constantly invading its demonic thoughts.

Suddenly, something unexpected happened!
"Chirp—!"

The clear light in the center of the formation suddenly burst out with a blinding light and let out a sharp, malevolent screech similar to that of a nine-headed demon owl!

The flowing light quickly twisted and condensed, taking the original demonic thought of the Nine-Headed Demon Owl as its foundation, and transformed into a smaller version of the Nine-Headed Demon Owl phantom within the formation!
The light and shadow were incredibly lifelike, with eighteen eyes gleaming with an eerie light. After appearing, almost without hesitation, the nine heads simultaneously turned towards a specific direction in the void.

Then, with another hiss, the entire light and shadow shot off like an arrow, hurtling towards that direction and leaving a clear trail of spiritual light in the dark void!

"found it!"

A glint of light flashed in Gu Yuanqing's eyes, and a look of unexpected joy finally appeared on his face.

With a wave of his hand, the array plate of the Zhou Tian Da Yan Array fell into his hand.

He poured his true essence into the array to maintain its operation, following the trajectory of the spiritual light.

He sped through the desolate void beyond the realm for seven days, traversing a distance of nearly a hundred million miles. During this time, he even stopped several times to re-inject the sealed wisp of the Nine-Headed Demon Owl's original demonic thought into the array plate, replenishing its consumption during this long pursuit and ensuring that the guiding direction remained accurate.

Suddenly, the ethereal owl that had been flying steadily ahead abruptly stopped without warning, hovering in the void and no longer moving forward an inch. All nine heads showed a blank expression.

Gu Yuanqing stopped abruptly, his gaze instantly sharpening like a sword.

"Did it sense it? It's quite alert."

He immediately understood.

This was not due to the magic array failing, but rather because the Nine-Headed Demon Owl, far away and unknown, sensed that its own demonic energy was being continuously tracked and exploited. It severed its connection with external demonic energy, causing the magic array, which relied on demonic energy, to lose its anchor. It tried to activate the array again, pouring in vast amounts of primordial energy, causing the array plate to shine brightly. However, the nine-headed demon owl's image spun around like a headless fly, unable to point in any direction.

Gu Yuanqing frowned slightly, knowing that it was useless. He dispelled the magic array and resealed the remaining trace of the original demonic thought into the jade bottle.

"The fact that it can be sensed and isolated means that we are not far from its lair. Otherwise, the power of the Zhou Tian Da Yan Formation would be unable to cross such a vast distance of space to pinpoint its exact location," he calmly assessed.

Then, following the flight direction indicated by the previous light and shadow, they continued forward.

At the same time, starlight shimmered in his eyes, his Void-Piercing Heavenly Eye was activated to its limit, and his vast divine sense spread out in all directions like the most intricate net, carefully searching for any unusual signs in the void.

He was searching for small worlds that might be hidden in the void.

A complete world, as long as its boundary remains intact and it is hidden in the void, is like a drop of water merging into a vast ocean, extremely difficult to discover.

However, Gu Yuanqing was proficient in the Dao of Space. He had a far more acute perception of the rhythm of space than ordinary cultivators. If a world existed, its spatial rhythm would always be slightly different. Moreover, a world capable of nurturing a Heavenly Demon at the level of Chaotic Undying should not be too weak, and its spatial rhythm should be even more obvious.

He searched patiently in this direction for over a month, his divine sense sweeping over the seemingly empty darkness again and again, but still found nothing.

“No…” Gu Yuanqing stopped again, his brows furrowing slightly.

"Its lair is even further away, and the Zhou Tian Da Yan Formation might not be able to detect it. There must be some place I've overlooked, or... the location is off?"

He decisively turned back to the approximate area where the light and shadow had initially stopped, and expanded the search area from there.

To ensure absolute success and speed up the search, he communicated with his true self, who was far away in Beiquan Cave Heaven, and once again borrowed immense power!

In an instant, two clones identical to him, with the same aura reaching the level of the Chaotic Undying, stepped out from his body!
The three Gu Yuanqings stood in the void in a triangular formation, their clear light from their Heavenly Eyes reflecting each other. Their divine senses were like three giant nets covering the heavens and earth, beginning a meticulous, net-like search of the void spanning hundreds of millions of miles!

Time passed slowly, but the void remained silent.

More than ten days passed, and just as one of the clones searched for a space that seemed no different from the surrounding area, his divine sense finally detected an extremely faint abnormal fluctuation that was almost integrated with the background of the void!

It was neither a surge of energy nor a trace of matter, but a fold of space, a texture of a boundary, which was indescribably different from pure nothingness!

Like undercurrents hidden beneath a calm lake, he would have been completely unaware of them had he not condensed spatial Dao imprints and become extremely familiar with spatial power.

"it's here!"

The three clones simultaneously focused their gazes, instantly turning their heads to converge on the direction from which the fluctuation originated.

All divine sense and pupil techniques are focused on this point.

Finally found!

The three clones moved forward simultaneously, and then the figure beside them quickly merged into the middle clone. The three merged into one, and in terms of pure power, it had already surpassed the extreme of ordinary Chaotic Undying.

This clone was also wearing the Taixu Ruyi Dharma Robe.

The Heavenly Demon's Nest must be extremely dangerous, and it's even possible that there are Heavenly Demons at the level of Void Immortals. Even Gu Yuanqing has to be extremely careful.

If there truly is a world here, and this world happens to be the lair of the Heavenly Demon, then when he arrived here, the Heavenly Demon might have already discovered his arrival.

Moreover, since the Nine-Headed Demon Owl had concealed its original demonic thoughts, it meant that it had also sensed that someone was tracking its location, which had already alerted the enemy.

Gu Yuanqing enveloped himself with the Heavenly World, and the Taixu Ruyi Dharma Robe also shimmered with light as it rapidly approached. His divine sense, like mercury spilling onto the ground, plunged into the depths of the void, heading towards the source of this wisp of spatial fluctuation.

Then a glint flashed in his eyes.

"This is... a slightly unstable spatial rift, but its spatial fluctuations are concealed by the power of some kind of magic array, as if the rift has been hidden in a dimensional space, making it less conspicuous and preventing the source of this world from flowing out. However, this magic array seems to be slightly broken, otherwise even I would probably not be able to detect it!"

Gu Yuanqing continued to probe the flaws in the magic array with his divine sense, and sure enough, he sensed a world hidden within it!
The familiar aura of the world, the power of the Great Dao, and a trace of spiritual energy confirmed his judgment.

He stood outside the spatial rift for a long time, using his divine sense to explore the world behind it.

Preliminary assessment suggests that the spatial rift is located within a canyon.

The canyon was filled with miasma and teeming with poisonous insects, but the demons that should have been there were nowhere to be seen.

Gu Yuanqing stood there for a long time, his probing divine sense intertwining in the valley and condensing into a wisp of divine soul. Then, several command tokens scattered in the void. Next, the main body used the Heavenly Fishing Technique, using the wisp of divine soul that had just been condensed as a coordinate, to send this clone directly into this world.

As soon as my feet touched the ground, a foul stench, a mixture of decay and a sweet, pungent smell, hit me.

He was in a huge, bottomless canyon.

On both sides are steep, knife-cut rock walls, an ominous dark purple color, covered with countless holes, from which writhing shadows can be vaguely seen.

The valley floor was dimly lit and filled with colorful, poisonous miasma.

Even more striking are the poisonous insects that live in the canyon.

There is a giant scorpion shaped like a millstone, with its carapace gleaming with a metallic sheen;
The flying centipede has thin wings on its ribs, a ferocious mouth, and a foul stench when it flies.
Even more lurking in the poisonous swamp are toads, their bodies emerald green, their aura already approaching the Void Heaven level!

Gu Yuanqing did not rush to act, but instead subtly moved his divine sense to instantly sense the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth in this world.

This realm is extremely stable. Although it is slightly inferior to the Spirit Realm, it is by no means comparable to ordinary minor worlds and is sufficient to withstand clashes of power at the Chaos Realm level.

From this perspective, this world may be capable of supporting the birth of cultivators at the Void Immortal level!

At this moment, he was surrounded by spatial power, completely isolating his figure and aura.

He stood there, but the vicious poisonous insects in the valley didn't even notice him crawling past him within a foot.

Looking down at the ground, one can sense an ancient magic array deep within this place. It is this array that firmly seals the spatial rift here, but it seems that no one has come here for a long time, which has weakened the power of this array.

After a while, he looked up at the dim sky, took a step, and was already standing on the top of the towering canyon.

Upon arriving outside, the Heavenly Eye of Void quickly locked onto a spot in the distant sky.

In the void, a colossal shadow was slowly moving about!

Its appearance was ferocious, its demonic aura was sinister, and its body exuded the pressure of the Chaotic Undying level, brazenly proclaiming its existence!
Demon!

Gu Yuanqing recognized it at a glance, and a smile appeared on his lips.

"Finally...we've found the source!"

(End of this chapter)