Celestial Dragon Sword Venerable

"Tianling—"

The moment Ye Tianling moved, the Tianqing Goddess froze, stunned. She instinctively rushed toward him, calling out anxiously.

"Brother Tianling—don’t go!"

Just then, Li Xuyao was also taken aback and cried out.

Only Xue Fanqian remained silent, because he saw the situation clearly.

’Even I haven’t gotten lost again, so how could a powerful being like Ye Tianling be losing his way? That was clearly not the case.’

"Just focus on guarding your minds. You’ll be fine. Don’t try to channel any stronger powers, or you’ll invite an even more terrifying disaster."

Ye Tianling paused for a moment before replying.

Hearing this, the Tianqing Goddess and Li Xuyao breathed a small sigh of relief.

’As long as Ye Tianling hadn’t lost his way, it was all right.’

Their concern had clouded their judgment. When Ye Tianling suddenly rushed forward, acting almost exactly like Li Xushan had, they had instinctively feared the worst.

"Tianling, you must be careful."

The Tianqing Goddess gazed at Ye Tianling, her eyes full of affection.

’This place is treacherous. Every step is a struggle, and lethal danger could strike at any moment. The dangers he would face by going on ahead were impossible to predict.’

"Mm."

Ye Tianling didn’t linger; his figure quickly vanished.

Wings sprouted from his back, but clearly, Tianqing and the others neither saw them nor sensed anything unusual about him.

This fact made Ye Tianling realize just how bizarre this land was.

After rushing into the Void, Ye Tianling quickly entered the fog.

Then, the world before his eyes changed abruptly. He felt as if he had instantly shrunk by a great deal.

The Immortal Palace, which had looked normal from the outside, now seemed so immense it could blot out the sky.

The massive, ancient trees that already towered into the clouds now seemed like pillars holding up the heavens.

’My body has shrunk... This World has shrunk too, but not as drastically as I have.’

Ye Tianling kept his Soul Talent active, and his Nine-Orifice Exquisite Heart was also operating at its absolute limit.

The moment the environment had changed, he had already understood that something was different.

’This place is more like a normal environment. The New World has been constantly expanding, and while my body has kept pace with it, I’m still in an ’expanded’ state compared to a normal World... What kind of World is this place, exactly?’

Ye Tianling’s confusion only deepened.

His various abilities hadn’t changed much.

But as he flew, Ye Tianling gradually noticed that the world around him was rippling like water, sending out clusters of white eddies. At the same time, many other cultivators began to appear one after another.

Not far from Ye Tianling, Xi Junru of the Ten Thousand Dao Soul Clan had also sprouted wings and was flying through the air.

However, after flying for only a moment, as his body continued to shrink, he seemed unable to withstand the changes in the laws of this world. His face twisted in agony.

He was quite close to Ye Tianling, and flying at great speed. Within a few breaths, he had neared Ye Tianling and then shot past him.

Yet, from start to finish, it was as if he hadn’t seen Ye Tianling at all.

WHOOSH—

Xi Junru transformed into a streak of Flowing Light and shot forward. He only stopped shrinking when he was no bigger than an ant.

At that point, his aura and other aspects seemed to have been completely condensed, and his overall strength had actually increased.

But this state lasted for only about three breaths before the iridescent halo on his wings dimmed.

Then, with a soft POP, his body exploded, shattering into a bloody mist.

This cloud of blood mist was no longer crimson, but a cluster of white, fog-like vapor.

This vapor quickly gathered and diffused into the Void.

In the Void, the white fog grew much thicker.

Ye Tianling’s pupils contracted sharply. Only then did he realize that the clusters of fog in the Void were actually the Essence, Qi, and Soul of cultivators!

The sense of crisis in Ye Tianling’s heart reached an absolute peak.

Even Ye Tianling had no way to counter such a bizarre phenomenon.

’He could only hope that Wan Xuegui, Que Xinyan, Que Zhishang, and the Ancient Fairy hadn’t come here. Otherwise, this expedition would likely prove truly fatal.’

With his Soul Talent active, Ye Tianling’s Eye of Celestial Secret scanned the surroundings once more.

All around him, the same scene was playing out again and again.

Ye Tianling watched as Die Qingchen, Die Qingxiao, and the others who had been lucky enough to survive before, all perished one by one, just like Xi Junru.

Within a few breaths, droves of cultivators had fallen, transforming into the white fog that filled the Void.

WHOOSH—

A figure shot past Ye Tianling.

It was Xia Xinning of the Great Xia Royal Family—the very same Princess Xiangning he had once met in Luoyun Town. Now, she too was on the verge of undergoing the Transformation Dao.

Ye Tianling raised a hand slightly, gathering the power of his Celestial Dao Rule Domain and reaching for Xia Xinning.

FWOOSH—

His hand passed through Xia Xinning’s body as if through a waterfall, touching nothing of substance.

CRACKLE—

An inexplicable current of destructive energy appeared. Ye Tianling felt as if his entire body had been struck by lightning, and he retracted his outstretched hand with incredible speed.

His entire arm had been scorched completely black and was now almost numb.

The pain was beyond words.

Ye Tianling unleashed his Samadhi Celestial Fire, and his arm was nearly reduced to dust.

The terrifying Thunder Power tried to spread up his arm, but the Law Energy from his Celestial Dao Rule Domain suffused the area and completely blocked it.

After a long moment, Ye Tianling gathered his Nirvana Power and regenerated his arm. However, his overall Battle Power had been reduced by nearly ten percent.

A ten percent drop in Battle Power was an enormous loss for someone of Ye Tianling’s overall strength.

Not only that, but with the loss of his arm, he had also lost the Dragon Soul Divine Blood it contained.

For Ye Tianling, this was truly a grievous loss.

Ye Tianling’s expression grew even more grave. He watched with his own eyes as Xia Xinning, who had just passed through his hand, met the same fate as Xi Junchang and the others. In a dazed state, she dissolved into a bloody mist, completely undergoing the Transformation Dao.

Of all the prodigies the Great Xia Royal Family had sent, only Xia Xinyan was still alive.

Ye Tianling hadn’t seen Xia Xinyan.

But he had seen many familiar faces die within this fog.

At the moment of their deaths, their faces were all contorted into masks of savage, twisted agony. They had all died horribly.

With a heavy heart, Ye Tianling stopped paying attention to his surroundings. In his current state, he flew on, heading deeper toward the ancient palace.

...

What had seemed like a short distance took Ye Tianling a full two days of flight to cross, and he finally arrived in the mountains.

Not far away, the ancient palace came into view. Ye Tianling saw some blurry, incomplete text written in Dao Marks. It was ancient and mottled.

It looked like an ancient ruin, eroded and weathered by the endless river of time.

The text was written in incomparably pure Primordial Runes, but only one Rune was still complete.

Ye Tianling understood it. The meaning represented by that one Rune was ’Immortal’.

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