Chapter 00346: Crisis While Crossing the Canyon
# Crisis While Crossing the Canyon
Chapter 346
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 346: Crisis While Crossing the Canyon
May 6, 2022
Zhi Hu only knew to flee desperately.
Since he was fleeing, he naturally ran in a direction where Lan Xiaobu's divine sense couldn't reach him.
After half a day, Zhi Hu stopped, realizing he was trapped in a confinement array.
"This is a ninth-grade immortal array. Do you think you can get out?" Lan Xiaobu's voice echoed.
By now, Zhi Hu understood that his escape route had been controlled by Lan Xiaobu, who had deliberately led him into this killing array.
This person was truly shameless.
Despite being far stronger than him, Lan Xiaobu had still driven him into a ninth-grade killing array.
It was too much.
"Alchemist Lan, there's no enmity between my Zhi family and you. Why must you target us?" Zhi Hu tried to keep his tone calm.
Lan Xiaobu chuckled.
"No enmity? If I were weaker, your family would have already killed me, right? And don’t think I don’t know about your family’s collusion with other immortal domains to kill Liu Ming."
Lan Xiaobu was framing Zhi Hu.
He realized he didn’t have a good excuse to kill Zhi Hu.
Having just discovered Liu Ming's death near the Oblique Void Station, he decided to use that as a pretext.
Ah, old habits die hard—he always needed an excuse to kill someone.
To Lan Xiaobu's surprise, Zhi Hu didn’t refute the accusation.
Instead, he looked shocked and fell silent.
Could his guess be true? Just as Lan Xiaobu was about to press further, he felt a surge of energy from Zhi Hu.
Realizing Zhi Hu was about to self-destruct, Lan Xiaobu saw a burst of blood mist, followed by a streak of light shooting out from it and disappearing into the distance.
Lan Xiaobu's heart sank.
Zhi Hu had used his self-destruction to send a message.
If his earlier guess was correct, the message was likely informing the Zhi family that Lan Xiaobu knew about their involvement.
If the Zhi family had a hand in the assassination of the two Immortal Court Kings and Liu Ming, then Xia Busang, the Immortal Court King of Moon Mirror Immortal Court, would also be implicated.
It was a pity Old Zhao wasn’t here.
If he were, Lan Xiaobu could have directly captured Xia Busang for questioning.
Now, not only could he not deal with Xia Busang, but he also had to leave this place quickly.
If he didn’t, the Immortal Emperors of Moon Mirror Immortal Court would soon arrive.
The fact that they could assassinate Liu Ming and Teng Jilou, two of the strongest in the immortal realm, suggested there were even more powerful figures behind this.
Their motives were unclear, but Lan Xiaobu guessed it had something to do with the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain.
After searching for a few days outside and finding no traces of Liu Ming's death, Lan Xiaobu returned to the Oblique Void Station.
On the vast square outside the station, a massive immortal ship was docked.
As soon as Lan Xiaobu returned, Zhuan Yi and Feng Shuting came forward to express their gratitude.
"Brother Lan," Yu Ruo, who had just finished her seclusion, quickly stood by Lan Xiaobu's side.
Yu Ruo's talent was exceptional.
After a year of seclusion, she had reached the peak of the Core Formation stage.
"Fellow Daoist Lan, the immortal ship is about to depart. Are you boarding now?" Yu Buchen, who had been eager to befriend Lan Xiaobu, approached to greet him.
"Thank you, Steward Yu," Lan Xiaobu expressed his gratitude and then boarded the ship with Yu Ruo.
He didn’t want to get too involved with the Four Emperors' Palace.
Whether it was Emperor Qi or Emperor Xing, their dealings at the Oblique Void Station were likely shady.
Despite knowing Lan Xiaobu wasn’t keen on joining Emperor Xing's faction, Yu Buchen still escorted him onto the ship.
He believed that sooner or later, Lan Xiaobu would join Emperor Xing's palace.
After crossing the Mysterious Profound Void Canyon, survival would be difficult without aligning with one of the Four Emperors' Palaces or the Divine Cloud Immortal Pool.
Being a rogue cultivator in the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain was one thing, but doing so in the southern continent? That was a death sentence.
The immortal ship had three decks.
Lan Xiaobu's ticket was for the middle deck, which, despite being a first-class ticket, only granted him a single room.
The most crowded Lan Xiaobu had seen the Oblique Void Station was during the search for the Oblique Void Mushrooms, when there were three to four thousand people.
Now, as the ship prepared to depart, he realized how many cultivators had been hiding in their rooms—at least five to six thousand people boarded the ship.
The ship remained on the square outside the Oblique Void Station for about half a day before it trembled slightly and then shot into the sky with a burst of air.
Lan Xiaobu scanned the ship with his divine sense.
The outer defensive array was an eighth-grade immortal array, while the internal arrays ranged from sixth to seventh grade.
Lan Xiaobu's room was next to Yu Ruo's.
After setting up defensive arrays in his own room, he planned to do the same for Yu Ruo's.
She would likely spend most of her time cultivating, so he didn’t need to worry too much about her.
To his surprise, as soon as he finished setting up his own array, Yu Ruo appeared outside his door.
"Do you need something?" Lan Xiaobu opened the restriction and asked, puzzled.
Yu Ruo hesitated for a moment before saying, "Brother Lan, may I come in and sit for a while?"
"Of course, come in," Lan Xiaobu allowed her in, activated the room's restrictions, and even poured her a cup of immortal spirit tea.
After thanking him, Yu Ruo sat down and asked, "Brother Lan, can you tell me about your relationship with Liu Li?"
Liu Li? Lan Xiaobu immediately thought of the proud woman from the Mubei Market.
He shook his head.
He had never imagined that one day he would spend years crossing a void canyon for this proud woman.
There wasn’t much to hide, so Lan Xiaobu briefly recounted his past with Liu Li, starting from their time in the Mubei Market.
After finishing, Lan Xiaobu sighed.
"With Liu Li's personality, I doubt she had any friends in the Western Kunlun Sect. Maybe I was her only friend. If it weren’t for her, I might have died long ago."
After hearing this, Yu Ruo suddenly said, "It’s not a maybe. Liu Li truly had no friends. You were her only friend."
"Aren’t you from the Holy Sect’s Washing Maiden Palace?" Lan Xiaobu asked, confused.
He had meant that Liu Li had no friends in this life.
In her past life, she had shared blood with her sisters in the Washing Maiden Palace, allowing them to find each other through blood rituals.
Naturally, they were the best of friends.
Yu Ruo shook her head.
"No, we were just bullied too much in the Washing Maiden Palace, and no one helped us. Our agreement to find each other through blood rituals after reincarnation was just a form of comfort. I never expected to actually reincarnate and be able to perform the blood ritual. In my memories, Liu Li was always silent, doing everything quietly. Even the blood ritual to find each other after reincarnation was Sister Qian's idea, and we all just followed along."
"Can you tell me what the Holy Sect is like?" Lan Xiaobu asked, guessing that the Holy Sect was located in the upper realm.
"Actually, the Holy Sect wasn’t originally called the Holy Sect. It was called the Great Abyss Divine Gate..."
Yu Ruo and Lan Xiaobu chatted for an entire day.
Although many of Yu Ruo's memories were still fragmented, what she did remember provided Lan Xiaobu with a wealth of knowledge.
Just as Lan Xiaobu was about to ask Yu Ruo if she had any questions about her cultivation, the ship suddenly shook violently.
Lan Xiaobu immediately stood up and extended his divine sense.
To his shock, he discovered the ship was caught in a vortex, its immense force threatening to tear the ship apart.
No, it wasn’t just threatening—the ship was already breaking apart.
When his divine sense penetrated the vortex, it was completely shredded, and Lan Xiaobu felt a sharp pain in his sea of consciousness.
He quickly withdrew what remained of his divine sense.
*Crack!* The ship's defensive array shattered completely, and the ship split open.
Lan Xiaobu extended his divine sense again and saw several cultivators being swept away, disappearing into the depths of the void canyon.
"The ship is in trouble. We need to leave. Yu Ruo, open your mind. I’ll send you into my true spirit world. It’s too dangerous for me to carry you here."
As soon as Lan Xiaobu finished speaking, he felt a violent force beneath his feet.
Without hesitation, he grabbed Yu Ruo, and the next moment, they were swept away by the force.
Void blades tore through Lan Xiaobu's body, instantly covering him in blood.
This vortex was undoubtedly a void vortex, as only such a vortex could produce void blades.
Despite his tempered body, Lan Xiaobu was struggling to hold on.
He quickly tried to activate his Undying Technique to stabilize his body, only to find that he couldn’t use it.
From within his embrace, Yu Ruo's trembling voice came, "Brother Lan, I’ve opened my mind. Send me into your true spirit world..."
Lan Xiaobu grunted as another blade tore a foot-long gash across his back, reaching the bone.
He needed to send Yu Ruo into his true spirit world and himself into the Cosmic Dimension Matrix.
The void's killing intent was too strong.
How long could he last without being able to use the Undying Technique?
But soon, Lan Xiaobu was stunned.
He couldn’t extend his divine sense, nor could he enter his true spirit world or the Cosmic Dimension Matrix.
Without divine sense, he couldn’t even retrieve items from his spatial ring.
It was over.
As waves of danger surged toward him, Lan Xiaobu grew increasingly anxious.
"Brother Lan..."
Seeing that Lan Xiaobu was still holding her and hadn’t sent her into the true spirit world, Yu Ruo grew worried.
It wasn’t that she minded being held by Lan Xiaobu, but she could feel the blood covering his body.
The void blades here were too terrifying.
If this continued, both of them would be torn apart.
Lan Xiaobu could no longer pay attention to Yu Ruo's anxiety.
He could only rely on his instincts to shift his position whenever a void blade approached.
But that wasn’t the worst of it.
The worst was that after falling from the ship, his speed kept increasing.
If this continued, he might become the first Immortal King to die from falling.
(That's all for today's update.
Goodnight, friends!)
(End of Chapter)