Zhang Yan looked around and found that he was standing on a slope. The sky was dark and the land was endless.
At this moment, his feet were on the ground, but it gave him a strange feeling as if he was in the Primordial Sea of the Void.
He tried to circulate his Fa Li so that he could fly, but he found that he could not. However, he could sense that there were no restrictions. There could only be two reasons. One was that the order of heaven and earth here was different from the outside world. Just like the Karma system, the person who entered here had to adapt to the changes here.
The other reason was that this place only existed in the past and the future. He had only entered this place with his Divine Will, but there were other mysteries here that made it difficult for him to distinguish between reality and illusion.
He pondered for a while and felt that the first possibility was not too high. When he went to that place, even if he did not need to constantly maintain his body, the consumption of Fa Li would be slightly different from before. Since he had not felt any difference until now, it could only be the second possibility.
If that was the case, it was simple.
He looked up and focused his consciousness. After a while, he suddenly disappeared, and when he reappeared, he was already in the sky. He looked down and looked down at the pure white land beneath his feet.
In this place, there was no need to travel like before. Instead, it was like moving through the Void. Wherever his Divine Will reached, his body would be able to travel instantly.
After understanding this, he tried to teleport in a certain direction, but not long after, he realized that no matter where he went, he could only see a boundless world. There were no living beings here, and everything was the same. He could not feel the passage of time. People with unstable minds could not stay here for long, and there was no point in staying here.
However, he did not think so. Even if the tortoise shell did not belong to the Great Underworld Patriarch, it must be related. Otherwise, outsiders would not have been able to enter this place. There must be something here, but he could not find it.
He kept thinking, and before long, he thought of a possibility.
There was no restriction on his Divine Will here. With a thought, he could go anywhere. Logically speaking, as long as he wanted to, he could get close to the item. However, he could not do it. The most likely possibility was that the item was right beside him, like the "So Close, Yet Worlds Apart". No matter where he went, it was useless.
This was not an obstacle set up by the outside world, but a barrier in his heart.
If he insisted on searching for the item, he might never find it. Because the existence of this thought had already isolated the item he was searching for.
Only by killing this restriction could he see the truth.
Moreover, it wasn't difficult for him to accomplish this. He immediately closed his eyes and concentrated his consciousness. After a short moment, when he opened his eyes once more, the scene before him was greatly different from before. Beneath his feet was a ruined land that was suffused with dark energy, and the mist was like an ocean that suffused the surroundings. This place was filled with indistinct enormous skeletons, and the land in the water could be seen everywhere, drifting and covering every corner of the land.
Zhang Yan's eyes flickered. This must be the true location of the seal. He strode forward and scanned the surroundings. From the skeletons here, he could tell that the strength of these monsters varied. Even though many of them had turned into skeletons, they still maintained their ferocious appearance as if they had suddenly died in an instant.
Just these monsters alone were not enough for someone to specially set up a restriction. Even if there were hundreds of millions of them, it would not make him take a second look. So there should have been some big monsters here.
He probed deeper and deeper, passing through the sea of skeletons. Soon, he seemed to sense something. His body stopped and he looked towards a certain place.
As the water mist slowly dispersed, a huge figure appeared between heaven and earth. It looked like a big whale. Two thick and short arms were firmly attached to Lu Yan. Its claws and fingers had sunk deep into Lu Yan's body. It was roaring at the sky. Its head was like a rhinoceros. Its nose was like a cone. There were four long horns, one big and three small, on its mouth. Its body was covered with smooth scales and there was a row of hard thorns on its back.
Although this monster looked indomitable at the moment, only half of its body was exposed to the outside world. The other half was submerged in the water, so one could see how huge it was.
Zhang Yan walked closer and carefully looked at it. If it was a monster that walked the path of strength, when it reached the level of mortal molting, its essence would be exhausted and it would die. Most of the time, its body would be an empty shell. However, if they were destroyed by humans, some demons with profound cultivation would return to heaven and earth. What was different was that demons who cultivated in the way of Qi had long abandoned their physical bodies and only had dharma bodies left in the world. Therefore, no matter how they were defeated and killed, there would not be a remnant of their body left.
He had both strength and could see at a glance that the monster in front of him did not walk the path of strength, but the most orthodox path of qi. What he saw now was actually just a shadow of the past.
Of course, this was only so for him. If a lower cultivator stood here, the shadow of the past would be no different to the real thing in their eyes. They could touch it, feel it, and even divide it up and take it with them. But once it was exposed to the eyes of a powerful person, it would only be a fleeting shadow.
At this moment, he could feel that there was something left in the shadow of the past. It was very likely that it was done by the person who sealed it. So he walked forward and pressed his hand on the monster's forehead.
Boom!
He immediately found that he seemed to have become a small beast, a fish, and a whale. He was swimming freely in the ocean, and he could feel the joy in the depths of his heart. He immediately understood that this should be a part of the monster's consciousness in the past.
If his cultivation was slightly lower, he might be taken over by this consciousness and replaced by the monster. This did not mean that the monster had been resurrected, but that its original self had been erased and suppressed, and it thought that it was that monster.
But with his cultivation, it was enough for him to bear it.
He continued reading. From the moment the demon was born to being subdued, to stepping onto the path of cultivation, experiencing various tribulations and obstacles, and finally being defeated and killed. All of this flashed before his eyes, and during this period, he even caught a glimpse of numerous ferocious and colossal demons that he'd never heard of or seen before.
This demon was called 'Huan', and it was later called 'Cang Gao'. It wasn't simple at all. Even though it was a Variant demon, it was able to sever its past and future in the end. It didn't walk on the path of enlightenment, and instead, it tried to break through to the True Yang Realm. For the sake of finding a fortuitous encounter, it traveled through countless worlds before finally arriving at the Remnant Heavens and perishing here.
At this point, Zhang Yancai retracted his consciousness. Cang Gao's various enlightenment experiences were extremely precious. Although everyone's path was different, others' paths could also be used as a reference. Cang Gao's talent was extraordinary, and his Qi Dao cultivation was even higher than Zhang Yancai's. Just the enlightenment he gained from severing his future self was enough for Zhang Yancai to come here.
But there were also many important key processes that were lost, as if they were isolated by an inexplicable consciousness. So the experiences he saw were actually incomplete and incoherent. For example, who was Cang Gao's master? From start to finish, he did not see his exact appearance. Also, where was the key to the True Yang Realm, and who killed it? Why was there a shadow of the past left in this sealed land? These were all unanswered.
He thought about it and felt that the level involved was too high, and he was still unable to fully understand it. Since that was the case, there was no need to force it.
After this round of observation, "Cang Gao"'s body had already completely disappeared, and this forbidden area was still far from the end. He guessed that there were still other secrets hidden here, so with a sway of his body, he continued to go deeper.
And at this moment, outside the cave, two figures appeared. One of them was the female Taoist who was once imprisoned under the Green Jade Palace Cloud Continent. The other looked like a dwarf, but his expression and posture contained a sense of majesty, such that no one would underestimate him because of his appearance.
The female Taoist stared at the entrance of the cave. After looking for a long while, she said hatefully, "The person who killed my son is inside. I can't wait any longer. Is Zhenren Deng willing to help me go in and kill this person?"
The dwarf cultivator frowned, saying unhappily, "Zhenren Tang, this is different from what we discussed before."
Based on their plan, they were going to use a special method to plant a mark on Zhang Yan's clone. Once the clone returned and merged with the main body, they would be able to plant the mark on Zhang Yan's body, unable to get rid of it. That way, no matter where he went, they would be able to find his whereabouts, and it would be easy to do anything else. But if they went up now, there would be no benefits, and they would even spoil their original plan.
The female Taoist's expression slowly rose up, "That Zhang Yan …"
The dwarf's expression changed, immediately interrupting her, saying solemnly, "Taoist, be careful with your words. With this person's cultivation, if we mention his name here, he might sense it."
The female Taoist shut her mouth resentfully, but the killing intent in her eyes did not diminish. She said irritably, "The hatred of my son is absolutely irreconcilable. How can I endure it?"
The dwarf cultivator reminded her, "Zhenren Tang, I think it's better not to do that. This is only his clone. Even if we destroy it, the damage to him will be extremely limited. Moreover, it will alarm this person, and it won't do me any good in coming down here."
The female Taoist did not listen to him at all. Rays of black light rose up from her body, and a crazed expression appeared on her face.
The dwarf cultivator sensed that her emotions were fluctuating violently, as if she could explode at any time. He felt that something was wrong, so he continued to remind her, "Zhenren Tang, this is Ye Haitian, the land of the Dragon Mansion. We paid a huge price to come here, and we promised not to do anything out of line. If you go up to take revenge now, I'm afraid it will be hard to explain."
The female Taoist sneered and said disdainfully, "So what? We're also here with our clones. At most, we'll kill that Taoist Zhang and leave. We won't come to Ye Haitian in the future. What can the Dragon Mansion do to me? If you have the guts, you can chase me all the way to Green Jade Palace. "
With that, she did not care whether the dwarf cultivator agreed or not. With a ray of black light, she rushed down.
Seeing this, the dwarf cultivator cursed in his heart. As long as the female Taoist appeared, all the previous arrangements would be meaningless. At this moment, it seemed that he had no choice but to make a move. After thinking for a while, he could only chase after her.
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… (To be continued.)
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