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Chapter 914: Crossing the Perils, Secrets of Space
Chapter 914: Crossing the Perils, Secrets of Space
"There are more and more ghosts in the Youming Deep Abyss!"
This was the first discovery Luo Chen made after leaving the Dan Sheng Paradise.
He had thought that after Qixia Yuanjun's sweep, the powerful ghosts in the abyss would be either injured, dead, or in hiding, and there wouldn't be so many of them.
But the reality was far from it!
Countless low-level ghosts were wandering around, occasionally brushing past Luo Chen, who had concealed his aura.
There were even ghost kings comparable to the Jin Dan stage appearing frequently.
After seeing these new ghosts a few times, Luo Chen understood their origins.
"Humans!"
"From the Mingyuan Sect!"
Yes, the Huashen battle that spread across the Mingyuan Sanctuary had affected all members of the Mingyuan Sect.
Many cultivators, in their dazed and confused state, were swept up by the aftermath, and some of their souls were miraculously preserved.
Now, two years later, those confused souls gradually awakened and became part of the endless ghosts in the Youming Deep Abyss.
"I wonder if any of the Yuan Ying Realmen from the Mingyuan Sect managed to preserve their souls?"
Luo Chen was even more curious about this.
There were three different thresholds for cultivators to transform into ghost cultivators, and this was related to their cultivation level before death.
One threshold was the Jin Dan stage. At this stage, cultivators could project their spiritual consciousness outward, and after their demise, they would gradually recover their memories from their past life once they passed the initial dazed stage. For example, Pang Renxiong from the Yu Ding Sword Sect was such a case.
If one was below the Jin Dan stage, it would be difficult to transform into a normal ghost cultivator.
They couldn't maintain their memories and consciousness, and most of them were foolish and chaotic.
Take Bai Meiling, for instance. If she hadn't met Luo Chen, she might never have been able to embark on the path of a normal ghost cultivator.
The second threshold was the Yuan Ying stage.
At this stage, cultivators' souls could reside within their Yuan Ying, and even if their physical bodies collapsed, their souls would have a place to dwell.
Relatively speaking, their transformation into ghost cultivators was much simpler, and they didn't need to go through the initial bewildered stage, fully retaining their consciousness.
Moreover, they even had the ability to seize the bodies of living people and start cultivating anew.
Han Zhan was the best example of this.
Luo Chen wasn't sure if there were any ghost cultivators in the Youming Deep Abyss who were transformed from the souls of Yuan Ying Realmen from the Mingyuan Sect, but even if there were, there wouldn't be many.
With Qixia Yuanjun's ruthless methods, any Yuan Ying cultivator who dared to provoke her would surely meet their end, their souls scattered.
As for the third threshold? Luo Chen wasn't entirely clear about it, only having read some vague descriptions in ancient books.
Some powerful beings, even after their physical bodies perished and their cultivation paths were severed, could still preserve their souls indefinitely.
At this point, they had two choices.
One was to cultivate the ghost path, and the other was to retain a sliver of spiritual consciousness, fall back into the cycle of reincarnation, and be reborn in a new body.
Especially for the latter, if successful, they would retain their past wisdom, and after awakening, they could cultivate at an incredibly rapid pace, relying on their experiences and insights from their previous life.
With these thoughts in mind, Luo Chen continued on his journey.
After traveling far from the Dan Sheng Paradise, he stopped and gazed upward with his golden eyes.
"It's time to take a look up there!"
Without hesitation, he shot up like an arrow released from a bowstring.
Golden flames suppressed the abyss, preventing any existence from leaving.
This was also one of the main reasons Luo Chen had been trapped before.
However, this time!
Hss!
A strand of golden flame emerged from Luo Chen's body, swirling around him before enveloping his entire body.
Then... Swish!
He leaped into the sky, reappearing in the mortal realm.
Luo Chen looked down, and in an instant, he couldn't help but gasp in astonishment.
As far as the eye could see, for thousands, even tens of thousands of miles, countless golden flames were slowly burning.
Luo Chen swallowed, feeling a sense of disbelief.
"How profound is Qixia Yuanjun's Fa Li to be able to unleash the Nirvana Sacred Fire across such a vast area, suppressing the Youming Deep Abyss with her power alone!"
He thought that even if he reached the Huashen stage in the future, the maximum range he could cover with the Ku Rong Shen Huo would only be a few thousand miles.
Not to mention this awe-inspiring sight that seemed to have no end.
As for now?
Luo Chen exerted all his strength, and even if he pushed his Yuan Ying to the brink of collapse, the Ku Rong Shen Huo would probably only cover a few hundred miles.
Shaking his head, Luo Chen stopped thinking about others and quickly flew in a specific direction.
At the gap in the water's surface where he had emerged.
A group of ghosts gradually gathered, and out of curiosity, a Jin Dan-level ghost king couldn't resist any longer.
It quietly moved upstream, and upon reaching the gap, it leaped with all its might.
Then, a scream that shook the souls of all the ghosts below the water echoed.
The golden flames dissipated, and the gap closed.
The so-called Jin Dan Ghost King had already turned into a wisp of smoke, vanishing into nothingness.
...
Two days later.
Luo Chen's face was filled with dread as he hovered in mid-air, frozen in place as if bound by a body-restraint technique. He stood silently, not daring to move.
His left arm was exposed, with a fine red line running across it.
As for the white sleeves that were once as snowy as frost, they had disappeared without a trace.
It was known that this Daoist robe was the Xuanyuan Sect's reward to him, the Xue Shuang Yi.
Although it was only meant for pill cultivators to wear during long periods of pill refinement to protect against fire toxins, it was not inferior to a True Treasure.
However, without encountering any enemies, the sleeve had vanished.
Not only that, even Luo Chen's powerful arm had just been severed at the root.
If not for Luo Chen's quick reaction, stopping his forward momentum and using his Fa Li to retrieve the severed arm, it might not have been as simple as a severed sleeve and hand.
With the flow of Yuan Li, the red line disappeared, and his left arm was restored to its original state.
Luo Chen's gaze fixed on the void, where several black lines appeared and disappeared, like a giant beast opening its mouth, waiting for prey to fall into its trap.
"Spatial fissure!" Luo Chen gritted his teeth, his mouth sputtering out these four words like beans.
This peculiar phenomenon was not unfamiliar to him.
When Qixia Yuanjun struck down Mount Yanfu, the terrifying power had once shaken the void, revealing faint spatial fissures.
However, he hadn't expected that even after the battle's end, spatial fissures would still exist here.
Moreover, there were quite a few of them, and they were unstable, appearing and disappearing at times, making them hard to guard against.
Were these left by Qixia Yuanjun? Or was it due to the intense battle between the Hua Shen Great Powers that caused this? Luo Chen wasn't sure.
He only knew that the path above the deep abyss was not easy to traverse.
It might even be more dangerous than the bottom of the abyss.
"And!" Luo Chen furrowed his brows, looking up at the sky.
There, dark clouds gathered, and from time to time, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled.
"Why won't the thunderclouds disperse?"
This time, he seemed to have figured out something.
Luo Chen muttered, "Formation?"
It wasn't just a formation, but a formation that had gone out of control!
Luo Chen remembered something.
Ye Lingtian had once said that the Xuanyuan Sect's protective grand formation incorporated the methods of past ancestors.
Among them was a technique of a Great Power named Bai Ye, known as the Nine Heavens Universal Thunder Technique.
Lei Daozi had even used this technique to accumulate power and once surpassed Qixia Yuanjun.
Now that the Xuanyuan Sect had been destroyed, the protective grand formation should have vanished as well.
But in Luo Chen's understanding of formations, this formation was not designed with humans in mind but was based on the land.
As long as the deep abyss remained, the foundation of the formation wouldn't collapse.
Without human control, the remnants of the formation had lost its restraint, uncontrollably drawing on the power of thunder in the heavens and earth.
"Another accumulation of thunder in the nine mountains!" Luo Chen exclaimed, seeing that many spatial fissures had dissipated, and only then did he continue his flight.
However, compared to before, his speed was much slower.
Even compared to the speed of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it wasn't much better.
He dared not touch the spatial fissures again.
If he reacted too slowly, it wouldn't be as simple as losing a hand.
If his entire body were to be sucked in, even with his self-healing ability comparable to a wild beast, he might be shredded into dust in an instant, never to recover.
In this situation, even powerful divine sense was useless.
Spatial fissures were not living beings; they had no aura, no soul fluctuations, and not even a physical form like rocks and soil.
In mid-air, what could one sense? Fortunately, Luo Chen had a pair of red eyes with golden pupils! As long as he stared carefully, there wasn't much danger.
And as he observed the appearance of spatial fissures day after day, Luo Chen gradually noticed something.
"If this space is like a house, the spatial fissures are like unstable walls, roofs, and foundations."
"Their appearance is not without warning."
"Often, before they form, there will be extremely weak spatial fluctuations, which then trigger a chain reaction and form."
After discovering this, Luo Chen was inexplicably delighted!
There was once a powerful enemy that left him helpless, who was extremely proficient in this spatial escape technique.
By borrowing the power of space, he could appear and disappear unpredictably, making it difficult to fathom and find.
Whenever encountering that person, all enemies could only passively endure attacks, but that person's attack methods were simple yet carried an irresistible power.
"If I become familiar with these spatial fluctuations, will I be less passive when I encounter Qing Shuang again?"
The relationship between Cangwu Mountain and Luo Chen had improved significantly, and it was not as irreconcilable as before.
There was no deep-seated grudge between Qing Shuang and him.
However, Luo Chen disliked the feeling of helplessness and being completely suppressed by others.
Qixia Yuanjun was too far away, and he didn't even have a hypothetical enemy to practice against.
But Qing Shuang was at least on the same Yuan Ying realm as him.
Luo Chen felt that even if he encountered any cultivator of the same level, he would have the strength to fight, but in front of Qing Shuang, even if he self-destructed his Yuan Ying, he might not be able to stop her.
How could he be content with that?
As another spatial rift formed, Luo Chen paused, his eyes filled with vigilance, but also with a hint of observation.
He even felt his eyes drying up, so he voluntarily dripped two drops of Jade Emperor's Clear Eye Fluid into them.
"A person walks on the earth, and a fish swims in the water."
"A fish swims freely in the water, and a person should sense the changes in space."
"It's just that we are too weak to comprehend the true essence of spatial laws, so we can't perceive those spatial fluctuations."
"Everyone is like this, and so am I. But at this moment, observing these changes, it seems to be somewhat related to the Space Prohibition among the seven basic prohibitions of Formation Techniques."
The seven basic prohibitions of Formation Techniques: Mountain, Water, Wind, Cloud, Darkness, and Space.
The Mountain Prohibition is the easiest to grasp as a physical entity.
The Wind Prohibition is unpredictable, but at least it can be observed, so it's not too difficult.
The Darkness Prohibition is more related to the soul, and Luo Chen's early specialty was the Darkness Prohibition.
The Space Prohibition is the most difficult, and ordinary people find it hard to learn.
It was only after Luo Chen later achieved the fourth-level Formation Master and created the "Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Great Shift Formation" that he gained some insights.
Now, using the Space Prohibition as a starting point, he tried to understand the birth, appearance, existence, and eventual demise of these spatial rifts, and it seemed that he had found a way.
Just as Luo Chen was engrossed in his research...
Suddenly!
A flash of white light!
"Not good!"
Luo Chen had left a part of his soul to keep an eye on the outside world, so he naturally sensed something amiss.
A thunderbolt descended from the nine heavens!
Normally, he could easily dodge it with his flying abilities.
But at this moment, the surrounding area was filled with newly formed spatial rifts, and he couldn't afford to rush recklessly.
He had no choice but to take it head-on! Luo Chen's face remained calm as he cast a spell towards the sky.
Seven Rings of the Fiery Heaven! Rings of fire appeared one after another, only to dissipate instantly under the impact of the thunderbolt.
Luo Chen was not surprised, as this defensive spell had reached its limit.
To withstand this thunderbolt summoned by the Nine Heavens Universal Thunder Technique, he needed to exert more strength.
Fire Phoenix Scorches the Land!
A phoenix shadow rose from behind him, colliding with the thunderbolt.
Although this series of events seemed complex, it all happened in the blink of an eye.
After two consecutive moves, the thunderbolt gradually dissipated.
The deafening thunderclap finally exploded in his ears.
Luo Chen shuddered, and strands of lightning continued to flash on his body.
Clearly, this falling thunderbolt was not easy to handle.
And this was without anyone controlling it.
It was hard to imagine the destructive power if someone tried to forcefully break through the protective formation of the Abyss Sect during its heyday, and a Hua Shen Master personally activated the formation.
Even Qixia Yuanjun might have difficulty withstanding that pressure while crossing the Youming Abyss.
As he channeled his Fa Li, the Frosty Snow Robe on his body released a frosty mist, forcing out the remaining thunderous power.
Just as Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief, his pupils suddenly constricted.
Due to the commotion, the surrounding spiritual energy became even more chaotic.
The newly formed spatial rifts seemed to be affected, and in a chain reaction, they grew visibly inch by inch.
Especially above, there was a rift that was already seven or eight zhang long, extending towards Luo Chen.
Without a second thought, Luo Chen's body plummeted.
With the force of a thousand pounds, he plunged into the sea.
Plop! Amidst the surging waves, Luo Chen's figure disappeared from this realm.
The surrounding spatial rifts spread like a spider web, and even after Luo Chen left, they lingered for a long time.
Such a scene would make even a Yuan Ying cultivator want to avoid it.
The Youming Abyss used to be a forbidden land, but after the Hua Shen War, it had become a deadly place where few could survive!
And Luo Chen had no time to observe any further.
At this moment, he was holding his breath, gazing into the dark depths.
A pair of eyes, as large as lanterns, glowed with blood-red light, staring at him intently!
(End of Chapter)
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