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Chapter 472: Descent into the Abyss
Chapter 472: Descent into the Abyss (End of Chapter)
"Where am I?"
The figure in the beast robe was perplexed. He recalled infiltrating the cultivation area of Yun Zhenzi's cave abode, but now...
He found himself in a vast expanse of space, surrounded by endless heavens.
The first thought that came to the beast-robed figure was that he had fallen into some sort of illusory grand formation.
However, he quickly dismissed the idea. Even the most powerful illusion formations were still just illusions. They might deceive ordinary Jade Immortals, but not someone like him. The temporal and spatial fluctuations around him felt too real.
The beast-robed figure realized that this was no illusion but a genuine spacetime.
"A derived spacetime, created by a top-tier Jade Immortal," the beast-robed figure finally understood.
Top-tier Jade Immortals who comprehended the mysteries of spacetime would inadvertently affect the area where they secluded themselves for long periods, creating phenomena similar to spacetime labyrinths. This was known as a derived spacetime.
However, in the beast-robed figure's understanding, even the personal disciples of the Ancestor of the Immortal Path, after secluding themselves for extended periods, would only create derived spacetimes spanning a few thousand miles at most. This endless expanse before him was far beyond anything he could imagine, which was why he hadn't immediately thought of a derived spacetime.
"What kind of being could create a derived spacetime on such a massive scale?" The beast-robed figure's heart trembled. Although there were no set rules regarding the size of a derived spacetime, it was undoubtedly linked to the source Jade Immortal's comprehension of spacetime mysteries.
Normally, the more vast and complex the derived spacetime, the more profound the source Jade Immortal's understanding of spacetime profundities. And the being who had created this spacetime before him... the beast-robed figure dared not even guess.
Rumble...
Before the beast-robed figure could take any action, the spacetime around him began to ripple, and he felt like a lone boat in a vast ocean, sinking into the depths in an instant.
"How many is that now?"
In the center of the cultivation area, Lin Yuan opened his eyes, and all the treasures he had obtained from the beast-robed figure appeared before him.
Ever since he had revealed his capabilities as a top-tier Alchemist Master ten years ago, mysterious Jade Immortals would occasionally sneak into his cave abode, attempting to strike him down and claim his vast wealth.
However, these intruders often couldn't even withstand the spacetime labyrinth that Lin Yuan inadvertently created while comprehending spacetime rules, and they would perish without a trace.
Lin Yuan had thus inadvertently made a fortune. These mysterious Jade Immortals who could infiltrate the killing formations of the immortal city were undoubtedly powerful, with actual combat strength far surpassing that of Yun Zhenzi and his ilk.
Such beings naturally possessed tremendous wealth, and each one of them could be worth a significant number of pills to Lin Yuan.
"This is indeed more efficient than pill refining," Lin Yuan thought to himself. However, he also understood that pill refining provided a stable and long-term source of income.
As for these mysterious Jade Immortals who kept intruding into his cave abode? In the short term, they might come one after another, but if this situation persisted, Lin Yuan knew that something was amiss.
Other Jade Immortals with designs on him would eventually realize that something was wrong. Even if news of their deaths didn't spread, the fact that Lin Yuan was alive and well proved that he had unimaginable trump cards up his sleeve.
"Let's see what treasures I've obtained this time."
Lin Yuan split a thread of his consciousness and began to inventory the items he had acquired from the beast-robed figure.
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In the Flying Immortal Hall, the hall master's eyes flickered as he glanced toward the Grade A cave abode region, specifically toward Lin Yuan's abode.
"Another Jade Immortal has sneaked into Master Yun Zhenzi's cave abode?" The hall master of the Flying Immortal Hall was already accustomed to this.
The Flying Immortal Hall was an important institution in the Cangwu Immortal City, and they had absolute control over all the grand formations and killing formations in the cave abode region.
Due to their collaboration with Lin Yuan, the hall master had specifically focused the grand formations in the region on Lin Yuan's cave abode.
Many of the Jade Immortals who sneaked into Lin Yuan's abode believed they were being stealthy, but a significant portion of them were detected by the hall master in advance.
The first time the hall master discovered a mysterious Jade Immortal infiltrating Lin Yuan's abode, he was extremely nervous. He immediately activated all the grand formations in the region to seal off spacetime and rushed to the outside of Lin Yuan's abode to test if Lin Yuan was still there.
However, he saw Lin Yuan walking out of his abode, unscathed and unconcerned, claiming that no Jade Immortal had infiltrated his abode.
The hall master initially thought that Lin Yuan might be under some kind of coercion, but after repeated communications and even bringing Lin Yuan out of the cave abode region, Lin Yuan's story remained the same.
In the end, the hall master could only retreat, wondering if there was a problem with the grand formations of the immortal city. Perhaps no Jade Immortal had truly infiltrated Lin Yuan's abode.
But soon after, there was a second time, and a third...
The hall master was anxious during the first few incidents, worried about Lin Yuan's safety. However, each time, they found nothing, and Lin Yuan was always fine, having never faced any danger.
As the number of incidents grew, the hall master began to suspect something else was going on.
"I never expected that Master Yun Zhenzi is also a deep and unfathomable one," the vice hall master beside him said.
If it had only happened once or twice, it might have been a problem with the grand formations. But after so many times, even the vice hall master had an inkling of what was happening.
If the grand formations hadn't malfunctioned, then it meant that these Jade Immortals truly had ill intentions when they sneaked into Lin Yuan's abode.
And yet, Lin Yuan always emerged unscathed. Although they didn't know the specifics of what happened, they could deduce the process from the results and the beginning.
All the mysterious Jade Immortals who had infiltrated Lin Yuan's abode had met their end at his hands.
After all, from the first incident to the present, the grand formations of the immortal city had only detected the spatial fluctuations of their infiltration and never any signs of their escape.
"So many Jade Immortals, all perishing within Master Yun Zhenzi's cave abode," the hall master mused. "This Master Yun Zhenzi is indeed unfathomable."
Normally, battles between top-tier Jade Immortals would cause devastating aftershocks, if not outright destruction.
However, Lin Yuan's abode had never shown any signs of such battles. All the Jade Immortals who infiltrated his abode disappeared without a trace, as if they had never existed.
This sent a chill down the hall master's spine, and he found it hard to reconcile these events with the gentle and amiable Lin Yuan he knew.
"So, what do we do now?"
The vice hall master asked in a low voice.
"What is there to do?" The hall master glanced at him. "Master Yun Zhenzi is our honored guest in Cangwu Immortal City."
Although Lin Yuan had revealed his profound strength, he had never taken any actions detrimental to the city.
As for the Jade Immortals who had died at Lin Yuan's hands, they had brought it upon themselves by intruding into the cave abode region. Even if Lin Yuan hadn't killed them, the city would have pursued and eliminated them.
Therefore, the hall master had no intention of interfering or investigating further.
A typical Jade Immortal's net worth would be around a million top-grade fairy crystals. Seventy to eighty million was indeed a massive fortune.
After all, most Jade Immortals would invest their resources into improving their physical bodies and souls. Any leftover treasures and fairy artifacts would make seventy to eighty million crystals a considerable fortune.
"Hmm?"
Lin Yuan's gaze swept over the various spoils once more, landing on a dagger. This dagger was pitch-black, and its power was completely restrained to the point that even Lin Yuan couldn't detect any energy fluctuations from it.
To ensure the complete annihilation of intruders, Lin Yuan would usually suppress them instantly and then use the memory-polluting techniques of the abyssal demons to erase most of their survival methods.
He did this to prevent these Jade Immortals from resurrecting elsewhere and spreading news of what had transpired in his cave abode.
Over the past five to six hundred years, Lin Yuan had secretly slain numerous demons, and he had come to understand their memory-polluting techniques quite well.
Even if there were Jade Immortals who could block this memory pollution, they would be like Yun Zhenzi, using methods to isolate cause and effect. Their resurrection would take an unimaginable amount of time.
By then, Lin Yuan estimated that he would have already finished his journey through the myriad worlds and returned to the main universe.
"This dagger..."
Before killing the beast-robed figure, Lin Yuan had also browsed through its memories and learned that this dagger had been obtained by the figure at great risk. It had killed the offspring of the City Lord of Beihan Immortal City to acquire it.
According to the beast-robed figure's memories, this dagger was exceptionally sharp and could cut through anything.
Thus, after obtaining the dagger, the beast-robed figure believed that its strength had increased significantly.
However, during its infiltration of Lin Yuan's cave abode, it never even got a chance to see Lin Yuan before perishing under the oppressive might of the vast spacetime.
It never had the opportunity to use the dagger.
"Sharp?"
Lin Yuan held the dagger and lightly slashed it across his left forearm.
Instantly, a wound appeared, and then it quickly healed.
"Truly sharp!"
Lin Yuan's expression was slightly astonished. Although the strength of his current solar Nascent Soul was not as robust as his true body's, it still surpassed the Jade Immortal level. After all, the size of his internal world was right there for all to see.
The vast internal world constantly nurtured his physical body and soul with an endless supply of world energy, something that no genius treasure could match.
Even so, this dagger had easily cut through his flesh.
"A twelfth-grade weapon?" Lin Yuan examined the black dagger repeatedly but still felt uncertain.
The dagger gave Lin Yuan a feeling that it wasn't as simple as a twelfth-grade weapon. Even if it were, without infusing any power and relying solely on the weapon's sharpness, it shouldn't have been able to slice through his skin and flesh so effortlessly.
At Lin Yuan's level, the so-called twelfth-grade weapons were mostly dependent on the user.
In the hands of the strongest, a twelfth-grade weapon could indeed break through anything, but in the hands of an ordinary Jade Immortal, it might not be that impressive.
"Interesting."
Lin Yuan divided a strand of his mental consciousness and began to study the black dagger. With its sharpness, if used properly, it could become a great asset to him.
Time passed.
A hundred years flashed by in an instant.
"Spacetime Seventh Level?"
Lin Yuan frowned in deep thought. After a hundred years of constant contemplation and with the help of many fairy sources, Lin Yuan felt that he was extremely close to understanding the Spacetime Seventh Level.
He was just one step away.
Additionally, his understanding of the other pillar-level fusion laws had also improved significantly, with several of them reaching the peak of the Seventh Level.
"No rush, let's take it slow."
Lin Yuan calmed his thoughts and slowed down his contemplation of the spacetime fusion law.
"However, during this hundred years..."
Lin Yuan slightly raised his head, his mind flashing through the many significant events that had occurred during this period.
Although Lin Yuan devoted most of his mental energy to his secluded cultivation and enlightenment, he would also pay attention to the major events happening in the fairy world during his free time.
And in the past hundred years, the Thirty-Three Immortal Domains had been in a state of unrest, with countless demons descending from the Demon Abyss and innumerable fairies perishing at their hands.
The war between the fairies and demons had been raging for decades.
Compared to past fairy-demon wars, the cruelty of this one was indescribable. In the past, fairy cities were impregnable, no matter how many demons assaulted them.
But in this fairy-demon war, just a few decades had seen three fairy cities fall, and countless fairies had been devoured by the demons.
"Why hasn't the Ancestor of the Immortal Path taken action?"
Lin Yuan's brows furrowed as he gazed once more at the irregular crack in the sky.
With his current spacetime perception, he could clearly sense the vast aura fluctuations coming from the Ancestor of the Immortal Path.
"Is it because they are in seclusion?"
Lin Yuan speculated, but he couldn't help but feel puzzled. For the Ancestor of the Immortal Path, the numerous fairies in the fairy world were the foundation of the immortal cultivation system. If they weren't truly unable to leave, they shouldn't have allowed things to come to this point.
"But it has nothing to do with me."
After some thought, Lin Yuan called for Yun Zhenzi and instructed, "I'm going into seclusion soon. Unless something earth-shattering happens, do not disturb me."
Lin Yuan felt that he was extremely close to understanding the Spacetime Seventh Level, and he intended to focus all his mental energy on comprehending the spacetime law. He would also be using up the fairy sources he had accumulated over the past hundred years during this period.
To quickly understand the Spacetime Seventh Level, Lin Yuan even temporarily slowed down the expansion of his martial arts eleventh-grade chapter.
Unless something affected him directly, he wouldn't bother with external matters.
"Yes," Yun Zhenzi replied respectfully.
Cangwu Immortal City.
In the most central hall.
All the top figures of the fairy city were gathered here.
The atmosphere in the hall was heavy, and the top-tier Jade Immortals remained silent.
"Alright, there's no need to despair. It's just a large group of demons gathering near our Cangwu Immortal City, and we can definitely withstand them."
The city lord of the fairy city slowly spoke.
Not long ago, Cangwu Immortal City had received intelligence that around seventy percent of the demons in the Xuantian Immortal Domain were slowly gathering and moving towards the area where Cangwu Immortal City was located.
This was not a good sign, as it was highly possible that these demons had set their sights on Cangwu Immortal City.
If that were the case, the fairy city would soon face an unprecedented battle.
If it were the fairy-demon wars of the past, the top figures of the fairy city wouldn't be so grave. But in this fairy-demon war, just a few decades had seen three fairy cities fall into the hands of the demons.
Would Cangwu Immortal City become the fourth to fall?
(End of Chapter)
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