Swallowing the Stars: Starting with a Meteor Tear

Chapter 146 The Sixth Level of the Absolute Prison

Inside the Time-Space Prison, Zhou Yang and his group moved forward rapidly.

The Dream King and the Bewitching Heart King have been roaming this spatial prison for thousands of years and are extremely familiar with the environment of the outer area.

In a place where the power of spacetime was relatively peaceful and stable, the Dream King directly used teleportation to quickly transport Zhou Yang and the Bewitching King.

Only when they reached places where the balance of spacetime was extremely fragile and the changes were quite unpredictable did the three slow down, exploring and carefully flying forward.

Traveling with them, Zhou Yang's speed in venturing into the Time-Space Prison increased considerably.

Even so, it took them nearly twenty years to finally reach the sixth level of the Prison from the outermost perimeter.

The main problem is that the distribution of the "safe paths" in this spatial prison is chaotic and frequently changes, causing them to take many detours.

The Time-Space Prison is divided into nine regions. The closer you go to the center, the more chaotic the spacetime forces become, and the more dangerous the resulting forbidden zones become.

The eighth region is a forbidden zone where even a cosmic sage risks perishing if trapped within it.

Therefore, most of the immortal kings from various races who roamed within the scope of this spatial prison were concentrated in the 5th to 7th level areas.

In recent years, Zhou Yang and his group have encountered other immortal powerhouses much more frequently.

Along the way, they also experienced more than a dozen battles, large and small.

However, after Zhou Yang killed several peak-level Immortal Kings in succession, demonstrating combat power comparable to a peak-level Immortal King, the rest of the journey was quite peaceful.

Sometimes, when they encounter powerful individuals from other races, they tacitly avoid each other, and battles rarely break out.

After all, unless there is a huge difference in strength or a deep-seated hatred, no one is willing to truly fight to the death in this dangerous Time Prison.

If you accidentally fall into a time-space turbulence, it would be a huge loss.

"King of Reincarnation, most of the people active in this sixth area are at the peak of the King level or above, and they are basically led by King-level experts at their limit. We need to be careful."

While flying at high speed, King Yu Meng sent a telepathic reminder.

"clear."

Zhou Yang nodded. "King Yumeng, how far are we from that cave?"

"Hold on."

Yu Mengwang separated a wisp of his consciousness and immersed it in the cave token in his hand to sense it silently. Soon, a smile appeared in his eyes.

"The feeling is very strong; it shouldn't be far. If all goes well, we might be able to get there within a month!"

"A month? That's quite close. Hopefully, we'll have a good harvest!"

Zhou Yang and his companions continued their journey by taking advantage of various safe locations.

In the dark starry sky tens of thousands of miles away from their route, a wisp of almost transparent, blurry mist slowly twisted and drifted.

A faint fluctuation emanated from the fog:

"Master, we have discovered the whereabouts of the Human King of Reincarnation!"

"Find the teleportation token of the Sky Chaser King's servant from King Shi Gui? Understood, Master, I'll take care of it right away."

"It should be around here!"

In a 'safe zone' spanning tens of millions of kilometers, Queen Yu Meng silently sensed the cave's token, and soon joy appeared in her eyes.

"Over here!"

She used her spatial powers to teleport Zhou Yang and the Bewitching King directly to a certain 'border' of this safe zone.

It's as if a hazy 'membrane' shrouds this boundary.

Inside this 'membrane', the power of spacetime is calm and gentle, and there are even floating meteorite continents on them, where lush plants and flowers grow and bloom.

Outside of the 'barrier', however, lies a completely different scene!

Endless chaotic and violent spacetime forces filled the entire space, with massive spatial and temporal turbulence flowing and colliding wildly, exploding into bursts of dazzling light!

Space is collapsing and shattering, forming black holes and cracks that seem to be swallowing everything.

Time itself was distorted, and strange scenes appeared from time to time: powerful beings comprehending the law, armies clashing in battle, and the birth and death of worlds.

These bizarre scenes are hard to tell whether they are real imprints from millions of years ago or projections from a distant future.

"Here? Could it be that the ruins of this indigenous cave dwelling were actually created within a time-space turbulence?"

Zhou Yang couldn't help but feel puzzled.

"Yes and no!"

King Yumeng responded with a smile.

"To be precise, their cave dwellings are all attached to a 'safe node' where the spacetime power is exceptionally stable. Like parasites, they use special methods to extract the relatively mild spacetime power within this node to resist the violent spacetime turbulence from the outside, thus creating a safe cave dwelling on the 'outer wall' of this safe node where they can hide and cultivate."

"I see." Zhou Yang nodded. "It seems these natives are quite skilled in the art of time and space."

The spacetime turbulence within the sixth level of the Prison of Absolute Despair is so great that even a Universe Venerable would be affected if he entered.

Zhou Yang couldn't help but admire the indigenous people's ability to carve out a safe haven for ordinary cultivators in such a dangerous environment.

"Those natives lived in this secret realm for billions of years, so naturally they had a very deep understanding of this spatial prison."

The King of Dreams smiled.

"Alright, I'm about to open the cave. Be careful."

"Although the relics of this cave dwelling have been lost to us, we cannot rule out the possibility that there are still remnants of the original inhabitants inside."

"clear."

Zhou Yang nodded, and streams of world power flowed into the Nine-Tailed Divine Armor with its strange, dazzling patterns.

This was a top-tier, immortal-level battle armor that he purchased for nearly 30 billion Hunyuan before entering the Time-Space Prison. Once fully activated, it could reduce all material and soul attacks received by more than 40%.

Meanwhile, silver meteors circled around him, ready for battle at any moment.

The Queen of Bewitching Hearts made an extremely wise choice; she gently twisted her slender serpentine body and hid directly behind Zhou Yang.

"Lord of Reincarnation, please take good care of me~~~"

The seven-colored armor on Yu Meng Wang's body shimmered with divine light, enveloping her entire body.

"Get ready, I'm opening the door!"

She reminded him again, then gently pressed the diamond-shaped crystal tablet onto the 'membrane' where chaos and peace met, while a surge of immortal divine power slowly flowed into it.

As the immortal divine power was injected, a dark red halo slowly flowed out from the crystal tablet.

"Hiss, hiss~~~"

The transparent 'membrane' that blocked the endless turbulent flow of spacetime began to melt as soon as it came into contact with the dark red halo!

However, the imagined scene of the barrier shattering and violent spatial turbulence surging in did not occur.

A circular opening about three zhang high appeared on the transparent 'membrane'. The opening resembled a ripple of water, making it impossible for them to see what was inside.

"Hold on!"

King Yu Meng first released a silver-white mechanical puppet, and after controlling the puppet to explore the cave entrance, he nodded and said:

"No signs of life detected, let's go in!"

"Walk!"

Zhou Yang and the other person nodded.

The three of them moved at the same time and instantly disappeared into the deep cave entrance.

Without the special energy support from the rhombus-shaped crystal, the nearly three-meter-high special portal gradually shrank until it disappeared.

(End of this chapter)