A gust of wind blew within the bewildering world.
Jiang Wang sensed a slightly complicated impurity in the wind that didn't belong to the wind itself. It was extremely subtle, and if he hadn't been observing everything with his greatest vigilance, he probably wouldn't have sensed it.
Perhaps they couldn't be called "impurities" because they didn't have a physical form.
He pondered for a long time before he was able to roughly identify them. They were something on the emotional level. He used his Soul Concealment Serpent to come into contact with them and was finally able to confirm that they were indeed related to the cultivators who had died in battle.
They weren't complete souls or remnant spirits. They were similar to a kind of obsession. They were sentiments that refused to give up in a place like the bewildering world.
He finally connected the dots. Today was the fourth of the fourth month, the day of the annual Sea Sacrifice.
The cultivators of the nearby islands were offering sacrifices to the sea, using a devout ceremony to welcome the return of the heroic spirits.
Dying in the bewildering world meant losing one's soul.
It wasn't the physical body that was destroyed, but only the soul was left. If the physical body died, the soul would also be lost.
It was easy to get lost while the physical body was still there, let alone when only the soul was left and had lost the guidance of the Starlight Sacred Tower.
Some people lost both their bodies and souls, while some sentiments were trapped in the bewildering world and had no one to rely on. It was similar to observing a bit of a true spirit drifting in the Forest Ocean Origin Realm, but it wasn't exactly the same.
These sentiments were even weaker than a true spirit and had no possibility of being reconstructed. (In fact, Jiang Wang knew that a bit of a true spirit was no longer possible to be reconstructed. It was just that observation had shattered his understanding.)
However, people believed that if they were summoned back to the human territory, there would be a chance for the brave souls that originated from these sentiments to enter the cycle of reincarnation.
If they couldn't endure until the Sea Sacrifice returned, they would vanish into thin air. Everything would be lost. That was why there were such gentle winds in the bewildering world today.
They couldn't take anything away, nor could they change the bewildering world. It was just that homesick people would eventually return home.
Jiang Wang tried to relax his control over his body, but his body didn't fall straight down. Instead, it rose for a long time and moved to the left for a while before it began to fall.
Of course, this so-called up, down, left, and right was only a reference to his standing posture.
There was no pattern to this movement trajectory. It was just following the chaotic rules of the Bewildering World.
He controlled his body and flew forward. Every bit of distance was not easy. He was trying his best to get used to the Bewildering World. That way, he would be able to fully display his combat strength in the Bewildering World. His true strength was not as good as Granny Bi Zhu's, and if he was suppressed because he could not adapt to the Bewildering World, it would be tantamount to seeking death.
Fortunately, this process was not very difficult. His control of Dao Energy had already reached a very subtle level. This was the result of his "confrontation" with the Sage earlier. This allowed him to quickly adapt to the uniqueness of the Bewildering World. The Dao Energy in his body could react to the changes in the outside world at any time, allowing him to walk as if he was walking on flat ground.
At this time, he already knew what the black spots he saw when he first entered the bewildering world were. Most of them were boulders. Different shapes and orientations. Due to the fact that they were also in a state of disarray, it was also impossible to use these boulders to determine the direction.
Fortunately, there was a guide. Jiang Wang sighed with emotion more than once during the short time he spent exploring the Bewildering World.
Some of the boulders were even hundreds of feet in diameter. In Jiang Wang's eyes, they were completely like small islands. However, they were not so-called "floating islands", and there were no humans living on them.
This meant that the composition of the "floating islands" was not simple. It was definitely not just an island floating in the air. There must be some necessary conditions that needed to be met.
Otherwise, there should be more than one floating island in the Dingwei Region.
Jiang Wang went up to those boulders to observe. The quality of the boulders was very ordinary, and they were not the kind of floating stones he saw in the Xuankong Temple. They could float in the air only because of the uniqueness of the Bewildering World … This made him give up the idea of collecting some stones and taking them away.
Most of the boulders were bare, and there were basically no living things on them. There were no trees, soil, or the like, only some moss occasionally.
There were no traces of human life.
That was also true. In this Bewildering World, except for the army in formation, all the people who fought in the Bewildering World were cultivators of the Outer Building and above. They were either fighting or resting on the floating islands. There was no need for them to live in these places.
The route Jiang Wang chose now was according to the plan made by the guide. It circled around the only human floating island in the Dingwei Region in a large area.
This route could be seen as a ball, with the floating island at the center of the ball. Jiang Wang's route was drawing the surface of the ball.
The reason for this choice was that he put himself in Granny Bizhu's shoes. It was easy for him to come to a conclusion — the sooner he killed Jiang Wang, the better.
He hoped to get rid of Granny Bizhu as soon as possible, but when Granny Bizhu also had the same hope, he needed some patience.
Looking for a needle in a haystack was obviously not a good choice. For Granny Bizhu, who had the advantage in strength, it was easier to "catch" Jiang Wang by staying near the floating island.
This was because Jiang Wang had to go to the floating island to "resupply".
This kind of "resupply" was not only about resources, magic weapons, Dao Yuan Stones, medicine, and the like, but also about the most important "mutation" problem.
A long time ago, cultivators discovered that if they stayed in the Bewildering World for a long time, their bodies would be unconsciously "changed" by the Bewildering World. It was not as strange as having a few extra heads and hands. This kind of "change" was extremely subtle, so much so that it was impossible to notice.
This was because the interaction between life and the environment was done subtly at all times.
It was just that people who stayed in the Bewildering World for too long would more or less have some kind of reaction when they returned to human territory. They were no longer so adapted to the human world!
Those who were less affected would only need to recuperate for a while. Those who were more affected would even have permanent changes!
Their combat strength would decline, they would lose the ability to control their Dao Yuan, they would not be able to sense their Origin Power, and even breathing would be painful …
This kind of change was called "mutation".
Divine Advent Realm cultivators would not experience "mutation" because they had a golden body and jade marrow that could easily seal their own changes.
However, it was impossible for all the warriors in the Bewildering World to be Divine Advent Realm cultivators.
The solution to "mutation" was also very simple. Every once in a while, before the body mutated, they would return to the floating island to rest for a night. If they could focus on recuperating with the environment, this time could be shortened.
To a certain extent, the floating island was equivalent to a small enclave of the human race. Returning to the floating island was like returning to human territory.
It was precisely because of this significance that the floating island became the island of life for the human race in the Bewildering World. The number of floating islands could also represent the strength of a certain area.
Jiang Wang chose to go around the floating island for two reasons. First, he wanted to avoid a direct confrontation with Granny Bizhu before he completely adapted to the Bewildering World. Second, he wanted to test Granny Bizhu's decisiveness.
Granny Bizhu wanted to get rid of Jiang Wang as soon as possible. Of course, she also knew that Jiang Wang was in a hurry to complete his cleansing so that he could return to the Tianya Terrace and take Zhu Biqiong away.
Then the question in front of her was: Was Jiang Wang's priority to kill her? Jiang Wang had brought so many resources with him. Could he complete his cleansing before the mutation happened? Was it possible that he did not need to go to the floating island at all and could leave directly after completing his goal?
No matter how intelligent Granny Bizhu was, these questions were inevitable. These conflicts would definitely arise.
Her greed for Jiang Wang was too obvious. There was no way she would let Jiang Wang go in the Bewildering World. As long as he grasped this point, he could make a relatively accurate judgment.
Jiang Wang could even determine the approximate range of Granny Bizhu's squatting. She would not be too close to the floating island, because if she was too close, Jiang Wang would very likely escape directly into the floating island during the battle. Human cultivators were not allowed to kill each other on the floating island.
However, she would not be too far away from the floating island. If she was too far away, it would be easy to overlook.
Therefore, she should be making a small circle within the big circle that Jiang Wang was going around.
She did not necessarily need to make a detour. She just needed to set up "eyes" at the boundary of this small circle.
However, during the first few days of squatting, she would definitely not encounter Jiang Wang.
After that, she would be in a dilemma. Should she continue to squat and wait for Jiang Wang, or should she take the initiative to attack?
If she took the initiative to attack, it was very likely that she would miss Jiang Wang going to the floating island to resupply. However, if she continued to squat and wait, Jiang Wang might have successfully cleansed his sin and left.
This kind of entanglement would definitely torture that old woman all the time. The longer it took, the more difficult it would be for her to advance or retreat.
The opportunity that Jiang Wang was waiting for would come at that time.
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