Fairy, return my flying sword to me

Chapter 202 Promotion!

With the last demon bowing its head, all the disciples breathed a sigh of relief.

The entire Tianyuan Demon Rift is extremely large, and there are always some demons that have escaped, but at least they have done their best to contain these sudden changes in the first instance.

The next thing to consider is how to fill these holes.

Leaping to a stop before the star-like hole, Yu Hu turned back to look at the disciples of the sect one last time.

These disciples had all been through several bloody battles, and were suffering from varying degrees of fatigue and injury, both mentally and physically.

Some of them have even disappeared from memory forever.

Although the total number and strength of the monsters that appeared in this incident were not as great as those in the first monster tide that everyone encountered, it was a race against time to clear them out without any regard for the consequences, and the cost was far greater than that of the first monster tide.

Will these deceased disciples achieve immortality in another form? Or are they simply dead?

Were those messenger disciples he killed in vain, or were they sent to a different, more promising path by him? Perhaps he would soon be able to find out.

Looking at the star-filled hole so close at hand, Yu Hu gritted her teeth slightly and suddenly rushed forward.

……

"What is Master Yuhu doing?" The disciples, who were resting for the time being, looked at the figure hanging in the starry hole in the sky with some doubt in their eyes.

What are you doing standing in that dangerous place after you've killed all the monsters?
"I don't know...maybe they wanted to see how to fill the hole?"

"That's true. After all, once this door is opened, those demons can come whenever they want. One demon eye is enough for us to guard, but now so many demon eyes have suddenly appeared. We're in for a lot of trouble later."

"Hopefully the sect leader and elders can come up with a solution... otherwise, I don't know how I'm going to guard the area for the next month."

"No! Look, what is Master Yuhu trying to do?!" Suddenly, a disciple raised his hand, pointed at the figure in the sky, and shouted.

Everyone looked and saw that Master Yuhu suddenly rushed straight towards the hole as if he had gone mad.

Looking out from the hole, everything was shrouded in a gray haze, and even at the height of the battle, few disciples dared to approach it.

After all, the other side of the hole is an absolute forbidden zone for humanity—the Abyss.

If even a few monsters are so troublesome when they occasionally come over, what good will happen if a human accidentally falls to the other side?
Therefore, there has never been any record of the Tianyuan side in the cultivation world.

But now?

Suddenly someone loses their mind and rushes headlong into that kind of place like a madman.

More importantly... there seems to be more than one figure.

Holy crap! There's another one!

"Who is this hero?"

The Zhengyang Sect disciples, who were sitting on the ground recuperating, were dumbfounded, feeling as if they couldn't see enough of the sights.

Yun Feiyang, who was walking among his disciples checking on their injuries, heard the shouts and instinctively looked up immediately.

Upon seeing it, he was terrified.

Who else could be the other figure flying towards the Star Cave alongside Master Yuhu? Who else could it be but that audacious and fearless fellow in the forest?

It's unclear whether this guy wanted to drag Master Yuhu back or simply wanted to sneak into the hole to watch the fun.

But judging from his flying speed, which is even faster than that of Master Yuhu, it's possible that his desire to crawl into the hole is even more urgent than that of Master Yuhu.

Perhaps this plan had been swirling in that guy's head for who knows how long, and he finally got the chance...

The incident happened so suddenly that Yun Feiyang was powerless to interrupt. He could only stare blankly as the two started moving one after the other, but almost simultaneously crashed into the boundary that was tinged with a faint gray.

……

The moment you cross the boundary is like passing through a thin film of water.

There was only a tiny bit of resistance, and before one could even use their true energy to break free, they had already passed through.

Then it fell into a state where it lost the spatial meaning of up, down, left, right, front, and back.

The senses became blurred regarding the passage of time, and in the forest, one could only feel that some kind of pure, natural rule was distorting both one's body and spirit to varying degrees.

The method of the God's Lock was already in operation naturally without Lin Jian even needing to think about it. As the two chains pierced down, Lin Jian regained some of his senses.

They also "saw" the Jade Lake Immortal floating beside them.

Jade Lake Immortal also saw the forest floating beside him.

It's difficult to make a sound here, or rather, one simply doesn't know how to control the body to make any noise; this very concept seems to have been lost in this void.

Only the expression on that face was hard to keep up with; looking at Lin Jian's expression was like seeing a ghost.

"I came here because I don't want to live anymore, what the hell are you doing here too?"

Master Yuhu thought to himself, "I've never seen anything like this before."

I rushed into this hole because I was determined to die, what the hell are you doing following me in?
Rescue me and take me back?

Thinking about the scene he saw before his last breath as he entered the Star Cave, he felt very complicated.

This kid seems to have followed me in after he noticed my sudden movement. If he didn't want to rescue me, what was he planning to do?
Well... since this kid was the first to discover my arrangements and suspect me, it's quite reasonable for him to have such keen insight.

But isn't your kindness misplaced?

Who am I?

An executioner whose hands are stained with the blood of his fellow disciples!

The mastermind behind this Tianyuan anomaly!
I feel like I've committed a heinous crime and don't want to live anymore, and you still come here trying to save me?
Upon thinking of this, Master Yuhu suddenly felt that he should die even more.

I'm not only going to die myself, but I'm also taking someone else with me.

However, communication and movement were difficult in this place, and even if he wanted to say or do something, he found that he could only think about it in his head.

Lin Jian saw the other person's eyes...

Those eyes seemed to hold a story.

The other person seemed to have a lot to say to me, but I couldn't understand them at all.

I came here to see what kind of scenery this area has to offer...

His attention was scattered in the woods.

As his will solidified, he actually saw scenery other than himself and Jade Lake Immortal—

Star.

One star after another.

Countless stars seemed to form a giant sphere, enveloping something within it. However, at this moment, some stars within the celestial grid enveloping the object appeared dim and faded, perhaps due to some kind of trauma.

Naturally, the dim stars could no longer bear the heavy responsibility of serving as nodes in the entire grid, and the starlight extending from other stars gradually shrank as they dimmed.

Even the traces of light that were once left behind gradually disappeared after the spiritual energy channels connected by other stars were no longer available.

Is this the Zhou Tian Star Array?
A sense of enlightenment arose in Lin Jian's heart.

Only from this completely detached perspective can one see the full picture of this great formation.

The formation was not stationary, but rather rotated slowly at a certain rate.

The starlight falls on my eyes in the forest, reflecting the wisdom of countless wise predecessors from long ago.

As it rotated beyond the concept of time, Lin Jian saw clearly how many dim stars there were, and also the spiritual energy channels connecting these stars...

Was he observing?

Master Yuhu felt a sense of doubt.

He couldn't move or speak in this place; apart from the kid right in front of him, everything outside his sight was nothingness.

There is no black, no white, just pure nothingness.

In this situation, the young man next door seems to be observing something with great interest?
Is this reasonable?

Is this right?
And it's already quite unreasonable that you can maintain your individuality here, isn't it?

Even if his senses were dull, he could still feel the distortion of his entire body, including his spirit, caused by the rules of this space as soon as he entered.

This is the collision of the laws of different worlds at the intersection, and also the transformation of oneself by the laws of another world that is gradually approaching.

He can remain untainted because he possesses the cultivation level of the Golden Core stage.

After swallowing a golden elixir, I realized that my fate was not determined by fate.

What is the Golden Elixir?

That is the Golden Core Dao, which refines oneself to perfection and preserves an invincible golden essence!

He could sense that in this environment, only those with at least the Golden Core stage cultivation could guarantee they wouldn't turn into some kind of crazy, chaotic monster due to the influence of the environment.

But what about this kid?
Is he at the Foundation Establishment stage? Is he at the Foundation Establishment stage?
Why is he alright too?
They can even see further than I can!

Yu Hu's body twitched twice in the void, as if trying to get closer to the forest to see what he saw in his eyes.

Curiosity is an inherent flaw that is hard for every human being to erase, and he really wanted to know what he had seen in this desolate forest.

Unfortunately, the look that had been directed at the dog was now directed at the blind man.

He focused all his attention on the distant star map and forest, completely ignoring the expression on Jade Lake Real Person's face, who was right next to him.

He simply watched the star chart rotate, operating according to its own unique laws.

Without any external force, the star chart operated autonomously in the void for an unknown period of time. It was evident that without interference from external forces, this star chart would continue to operate forever.

As one directly observes the operation of the entire magic array, the spiritual energy routes flowing among the stars gradually seem to break free from the limitations of the stars themselves and operate independently in the forest's eyes.

In a blank mind, the entire spiritual energy circuit began to be deduced spontaneously.

This speed even increased, eventually leaving only a rapidly flowing streak of light that, amidst its seemingly chaotic movement, invisibly left behind an almost spherical trajectory...

'Something feels off.'

'Did he come to rescue me?'

He spends far more time looking into the distance than looking at me…

'And how could his aura have changed so drastically?'

Here's something really scary: Yu Hu thinks this kid is breaking through to a higher realm.

Yes! In this desolate wasteland.

In this unknown and dangerous place where he's about to meet his grandmother, this kid is planning to break through!

The subtle movement of his aura gradually becoming unified and no longer leaking out was exactly the same as the movement he made when he broke through to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment!
The vortex of true energy spun faster and faster, and gradually, at the very center of the storm, a point of crystalline golden true energy slowly emerged.

As the vortex of true energy continued to accelerate, the crystalline true energy at the very center of the storm seemed to multiply exponentially...

Foundation Establishment Level 4: True Qi circulates in a self-contained cycle, maintaining a state of cultivation at all times. At the same time, the spiritual core is stabilized, and one takes a half-step towards the threshold of Core Formation.

Excluding external injuries, cultivators who have reached this level can ensure that their cultivation level will not decline even if they do not cultivate for ten days or half a month.

More importantly, the body has maintained an extremely strong inertia due to long-term practice of the techniques, which allows the internal energy to continuously cultivate itself.

This process takes an extremely long time, and it is also due to the power of a certain habit.

Although Lin Jian was very self-disciplined, his short nine-year cultivation career was not long in terms of cultivation itself, and it did not support him to complete such a leap.

But how powerful is the Zhou Tian Star Array?
Its magic array does not require any external objects to maintain it, yet it has been running autonomously for such a long time, relying on this self-circulating power.

Subconsciously absorbing the cyclical experience within, Lin Jian unconsciously applied it to himself.

If it weren't for this realm between two worlds that transcends space, the core of the Zhou Tian Star Array wouldn't be so clearly displayed before people.

However, without a sufficient understanding of the basic principles of the formation, even if one sees this scene, it is difficult to connect it with oneself.

Not to mention, without a will that can encompass the stars, how can one have a commanding view of the whole situation?

Never before had Lin Jian felt so grateful to Lord Chunxue for laying the foundation of spiritual awareness for him.

All these coincidences combined to create a peerless genius (from the Lower Nine Realms) who reached the fourth level of Foundation Establishment before the age of twenty.

Unfortunately, the time available for practicing martial arts in the forest was ultimately too short.

The body's accumulated Tai Bai Xuan Gang is insufficient to support the formation of enough true Qi crystals.

At this stage, ordinary true qi can no longer support the breakthrough to a higher realm.

Only by condensing a few strands of Taibai Xuan Gang each day can one support the complete crystallization of the true qi in the body's dantian, which can then be condensed into a pill.

From the fourth level of Foundation Establishment to the Golden Core stage, Lin Jian's next task is to condense as much Xuan Gang as possible to support the crystallization of True Qi.

But in any case, the fourth level of Foundation Establishment is still the fourth level!

After entering this Heavenly Abyss Demon Rift, the forest level has already increased by two.

A meteoric rise from the second to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment is an unimaginable speed increase, no matter where you look.

As the commotion within his body subsided slightly, a noticeable suction force emanated from one side of his body.

Just like last time, the closer they got to the Tianyuan side, the more directional the suction force became, dragging the two of them into the desolate Tianyuan wasteland!
(End of this chapter)