To comprehend all laws and attain immortality

Gu Fan turned around and realized that only a few miles behind him was a hazy gray fog.

What sent chills down his spine was not the fog itself, but the cold light shimmering within it—the radiance emanating from countless spatial crevices.

Countless spatial rifts, like open lips, gnawed at the sky and the earth, slowly advancing forward, perhaps reaching his feet in just a few hours.

"This realm is disappearing!" Gu Fan's heart trembled.

He didn't know what would have happened if he had arrived any later from the sea of ​​clouds.

Completely sealed off by the sea of ​​clouds?

Or perhaps it was teleported into a spatial rift?

But he knew that his primary goal was to leave this place, to leave this realm that was about to be swallowed up.

Gu Fan turned around and exchanged a glance with Su Nanzhi, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes.

Without saying much, the two simultaneously channeled their magic power, attempting to flee into the distance.

As for the target, it goes without saying that it is the ancient tree of Daoyuan standing in the distance.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Gu Fan circulated his magic power, he felt a sharp pain in his meridians and convulsed as he fell to the ground.

Su Nanzhi fared slightly better than him, managing to leap three feet before crashing to the ground.

Gu Fan forced himself to get up despite the pain and quickly checked his body with his spiritual sense.

"There's no no-fly zone here; it's my magic that's malfunctioning!"

Thinking this, Gu Fan carefully channeled a wisp of magic power, enduring the pain in his meridians, and condensed a spiritual fire at his fingertips.

But instead of rising, the spiritual fire flowed down her fingers like water, dripping onto the ground and disappearing in no time.

This scene shocked Gu Fan even more.

Just then, Su Nanzhi also got up, her hair disheveled and her body covered in dust. Panting, she reminded him, "Fellow Daoist, don't waste your energy. The Yin and Yang here have been reversed!"

"Yin and Yang reversed?"

Su Nanzhi nodded: "I am a follower of the Taiji lineage, and I am most sensitive to the power of Yin and Yang. When I used my magic power just now, I sensed that the Yin and Yang of this world had been reversed. This applies not only to the laws of this world, but also to you and me."

"The Daoist teachings say: 'The interplay of Yin and Yang is called the Dao; that which continues it is goodness; that which completes it is nature.' Yin and Yang have no fixed form; they can be reversed or followed, moved or still. This third test is probably about the method of reversing Yin and Yang."

Upon hearing this, Gu Fan once again painfully redirected his magical power, watching the spiritual fire flow and tilt like water, and suddenly realized, "Not only has Yin and Yang been reversed, but even the five elements' generating and restraining relationships have been turned upside down!"

The spiritual fire that could incinerate everything invisibly no longer had the power to burn.

Looking up and around, one sees the wasteland covered with ravines as if carved by a knife and axe, while many floating islands are scattered in the air.

These floating islands range in size from a dozen feet in diameter to less than three feet in diameter.

The heavy, heavy earth was now floating in the air, further confirming Gu Fan's judgment.

"Does Fellow Daoist have a way to reverse this?" Gu Fan asked.

When it comes to the method of reversing Yin and Yang, Su Nanzhi is the real expert.

If one could obtain the secret method, perhaps one could glean from it a way to restore the generating and restraining relationships of the Five Elements.

Su Nanzhi shook her head regretfully: "With my cultivation level, it is already a great fortune that I can comprehend the principles of Yin and Yang's birth and death. I have no idea how to approach the principle of Yin and Yang's reversal. I consider myself to have some talent, but in my opinion, even the Chu Kingdom may not be able to find many Golden Core cultivators who can comprehend it."

Gu Fan nodded slightly upon hearing this, but he did not despair.

Since the Spirit Valley has the method of guiding and comprehending harmony through Yin and Yang spirits, and the Cloud Sea Maze can comprehend the way of birth and death by experiencing the flow of Yin and Yang spirits, then there must also be a way to break through the third level!

The only thing that worried him was that, due to the influence of the rules of the Heavenly Realm, the nature of his magical power conflicted with his cultivation technique. Once he used it, his meridians would ache terribly, and if he forced himself into a battle, his meridians might even break.

Unless the rules can be reversed, he and Su Nanzhi are no different from ordinary people.

In a realm about to be swallowed up, with no power to protect himself, a gloomy feeling settled over Gu Fan's heart.

The hazy fog kept approaching, as if urging the two to set off quickly.

"Let's get out of here first, no matter what!" Gu Fan suggested.

Su Nanzhi nodded.

Unable to use their magic, the two had no choice but to continue on foot.

Fortunately, the physical bodies of Golden Core cultivators far surpass those of ordinary people, allowing them to move at extremely high speeds, thus avoiding being swallowed by the gray mist.

In order to find a possible way to break the deadlock, Gu Fan quietly activated the Myriad Manifestations Eye.

To his surprise, this sight shocked him even more, and he quickly reached out and grabbed Su Nanzhi.

Su Nanzhi was caught off guard and pulled back, losing her balance and falling backward.

Gu Fan reached out and supported her waist.

"Fellow Daoist?" Su Nanzhi asked with surprise and doubt.

Gu Fan pulled Su Nanzhi up without explanation, bent down to pick up a stone, weighed it in his palm, and threw it in the direction Su Nanzhi had just walked.

The next instant, the stone was shattered by a strange force!

This scene sent chills down Su Nanzhi's spine.

If Gu Fan hadn't stopped her, she would have ended up like that stone!

"Although there is no gray fog here, there are spatial rifts that are hidden. Fellow Daoist, please stay close to me," Gu Fan said solemnly.

He had previously used his All-Seeing Eye to investigate and immediately discovered that spatial rifts were scattered across the wasteland.

These spatial rifts are hidden in the void and are difficult to see with the naked eye. Without special eye techniques or secret methods, one could lose their life at any time.

Upon hearing this, Su Nanzhi nodded repeatedly, took one of Gu Fan's sleeves, and followed closely behind him.

Gu Fan led Su Nanzhi forward, occasionally navigating around bends and avoiding spatial rifts.

As Su Nanzhi watched Gu Fan's retreating figure, a sense of peace welled up within her.

The gray fog didn't engulf them quickly, and even as Gu Fan and Su Nanzhi walked, they gradually moved away from it.

Gu Fan also discovered that as he got further away from the gray fog, the void gaps in the wasteland became increasingly scarce.

The two walked forward for half a day.

Along the way, they frequently saw a clump of indistinct, mangled flesh, and both of them felt a sense of shared sorrow at the loss of their comrade.

Each clump of minced flesh represents a Golden Core cultivator revered by countless lower-level cultivators in the outside world, yet they died here like an ant, unknown to anyone.

Beneath the spatial rift, even faces were indistinguishable, and most of the body, as well as magical artifacts and other objects, were swallowed up and disappeared into the void.

The oppressive atmosphere left the two speechless.

Gu Fan held onto Su Nanzhi's sleeve and walked quickly, but his mind was preoccupied with the matter of the Dao Source Ancient Tree.

"Senior, what do you think of the Dao Source Ancient Tree?" Gu Fan asked telepathically.

Affected by the laws of the realm, Chang Yuan's slumber was interrupted, and he was forcibly awakened not long afterward.

Chang Yuan was awakened, feeling unwell from the reversed laws, and angrily said, "How else can it be seen? Of course it's fake! Even if this place is the ruins of immortals, it's impossible for an ancient tree of the Dao source to exist here!"

Gu Fan nodded, agreeing with this statement.

The Dao Source Ancient Tree can be called the number one divine object in the entire universe, so how could it appear in the Liangyi Hall?

However, after Chang Yuan woke up, he became even more certain that the Liangyi Palace must have been left behind by an immortal.

In its words: "To permanently alter the laws of a realm, one must at least reach the Mahayana realm; and to refine so many minor realms within a single Yin-Yang Palace, only an immortal could do it!"

Only the realm of immortals can expand and repair the heavens.

This is why cultivators in the Qionghua Realm feel despair over the decline of spiritual energy.

Gu Fan and Su Nanzhi traveled non-stop for two days, but still couldn't see the boundary of the wasteland.

Even the distance of the Daoyuan Ancient Tree in the field of vision seemed to remain unchanged.

On the third day, Gu Fan suddenly saw a dark shadow. Upon closer inspection, the shadow turned out to be a stone tablet!

The two men perked up and immediately ran toward the stone tablet.

Even before getting close, one could see that the stone tablet was densely covered with Taoist inscriptions.