Chapter 00418: The Secret Within the Secret Realm
# The Secret Within the Secret Realm
Chapter 418
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 418 – The Secret Within the Secret Realm
2022-05-06
Chapter 418 – The Secret Within the Secret Realm
“I don’t know, but that person saw you change form with his own eyes – not even a single trace of disguise. Apart from the Heavenly Gang Transformation Divine Technique, there is simply no other method,” Jin Li answered.
Lan Xiaobu frowned slightly.
He knew that if Jin Li could use the Heavenly Gang Transformation and even reveal it to others, then who could it be? Moreover, the other party must have done something to convince Jin Li; otherwise, why would Jin Li believe such words?
“Now, describe the other party’s appearance,” Lan Xiaobu said.
Jin Li did not act immediately.
Instead, he replied, “I hope you can let me off this time. I have nothing against the Five Universe King. I only believed what someone else said.”
Lan Xiaobu chuckled, “Since that’s the case, then you should just die.”
With that, the aura of his long halberd erupted, instantly wrapping around Jin Li’s head.
Jin Li had kindly aided the Yongmao Immortal Domain, yet this fellow – the immortal king of the Yongmao Immortal Domain – not only felt no gratitude but was scheming in every possible way to kill him.
Lan Xiaobu was not one to repay kindness with mercy.
Jin Li believed Lan Xiaobu was merely threatening him with death again – that as long as he kept his mouth shut, he wouldn’t be killed.
Had he complied, maybe his life would have really ended.
But when that feeling of death began to tear apart his life force, Jin Li suddenly realized that the other party truly intended to kill him.
In a rush, he cried out, “I can draw…”
It was too late.
Just as the word “draw” left his lips, his head was torn apart into a cloud of bloody mist by the Seven-Tone Halberd.
Before his primordial spirit even had a chance to emerge, the momentum of the Seven-Tone Halberd swept over him again, leaving him no chance to speak further.
Jin Li’s soul and body were completely destroyed.
With a single hand gesture, Lan Xiaobu retrieved Jin Li’s ring.
Could an immortal king dare to threaten him? Did he think Lan Xiaobu would spare him out of mercy? Lan Xiaobu simply thought, you are overestimating things.
While killing Jin Li, Lan Xiaobu was also wondering who leaked the news that Jin Li could use the Heavenly Gang Transformation.
According to Jin Li’s earlier words, this person must have seen him in his transformed state.
He had transformed in the Moxuan Immortal Domain; yet when he changed form in Moxuan Immortal Domain, not even several Immortal Domain kings were aware – ordinary folks certainly did not know.
For this person to have a lengthy conversation with Jin Li, and from the tone in his voice it seemed that the other party could not overpower Jin Li, it was obvious that the other party’s cultivation was about the same as Jin Li’s.
Apart from his transformation in the Moxuan Immortal Domain, his most recent transformation was when he was hunting Kuang Qi.
But since Kuang Qi was killed by him, there was no chance for that matter to be leaked.
Going further back, it was when he first entered the Green Square Immortal Domain and transformed into…
It was Qiao Aomu.
This person must be Qiao Aomu, Lan Xiaobu was almost certain at that moment.
When Qiao Aomu first entered the Green Square Immortal Domain, he transformed into Qiao Aomu.
His guess had been that Qiao Aomu would come, and then he would come to settle accounts with him.
In fact, Qiao Aomu never came looking for him later.
Within the Green Square Immortal Domain, perhaps the only one who knew Qiao Aomu was Qiao Aomu himself, right? Then again, there was also the Qian Qiong he had killed.
The Soul Refining Yang Cauldron was on Qian Qiong; whether Qiao Aomu was killed by Qian Qiong or willingly handed over the Soul Refining Yang Cauldron to him…
Let’s make an assumption: Qiao Aomu handed it over willingly.
In that case, Qiao Aomu wasn’t killed; he also came into the Green Square Immortal Domain, and upon discovering that someone was entering the city in his name, he would investigate who that person was.
It would be easy for him to trace it back to Lan Xiaobu.
What Lan Xiaobu did not expect was that his guess turned out correct, though the process was completely different.
Qiao Aomu was able to deduce that Jin Li could use the Heavenly Gang Transformation because on his first two entries into the Green Square Immortal City he was wanted.
On the third entry, he transformed into an ordinary cultivator.
Qiao Aomu wanted to check what had gone wrong during his first two entries that caused him to be wanted, and so he spent a vast amount of Immortal Crystal on investigation imaging.
In the end, he couldn’t find what was wrong with himself but instead discovered another version of himself entering the Green Square Immortal City.
Later, with Shen Sen launching a large-scale hunt for Lan Xiaobu, he naturally discovered who was behind Jin Li’s transformation.
After guessing Qiao Aomu, Lan Xiaobu had resolved that once this secret realm ended, he would definitely use the Void Stone to investigate every cultivator who entered the Chaotic Secret Realm.
Knowing Qiao Aomu’s cunning, he would definitely have found a way to enter the secret realm.
The flame of the star before him seemed to know that someone outside was investigating it, and instead grew fiercer with each passing moment.
Lan Xiaobu suddenly remembered the Flaming Mountain in Journey to the West.
In front of him now wasn’t exactly a Flaming Mountain, but rather a Flame Star.
In Journey to the West, the monkey learned something like the Earthly Fiend Transformation, whereas his Second Brother learned the Heavenly Gang Transformation.
But the transformed appearance that Second Brother produced was often mismatched, far inferior to that of the Monkey.
Lan Xiaobu smiled, but then he quickly felt that something was off.
The Heavenly Gang Transformation wasn’t supposed to be inferior to the Earthly Fiend Transformation.
He had studied both divine techniques, and clearly the Heavenly Gang Transformation left the Earthly Fiend Transformation far behind.
If that were so, why was Second Brother not as impressive as First Brother?
It was obvious that Second Brother was hiding his true strength – he was scheming.
But this had nothing to do with him.
Lan Xiaobu shook his head and decided to enter the Flame Star to have a look.
The moment he stepped into the Flame Star, he paused again.
Thinking of the Flaming Mountain and the Heavenly Gang Transformation, he suddenly recalled that this secret realm belonged to the Heavenly Gang Great Emperor.
The secret realm of the Heavenly Gang Great Emperor was actually a starry sky.
Over these past few years, he had visited hundreds of star planets.
True life planets were few – only around seven or eight – and the distribution of these seven or eight planets seemed very particular…
With that in mind, Lan Xiaobu immediately took out his crystal ball and mapped out every star planet he had visited, marking the life planets clearly.
Soon the distribution on the crystal ball became clear.
The abandoned star planets were scattered chaotically, while the eight life planets stood out, forming a formation base.
Lan Xiaobu was a Ninth-Level Immortal Formation Emperor and had been researching formation arrays for many years; this formation base clearly showed an inclination towards a Small Heavenly Gang Array.
It was not yet the Small Heavenly Gang Array because that array base was composed of nine star planets.
Judging by the distribution, the Flame Star in front of him was to serve as the ninth array base of the Small Heavenly Gang Array.
After years of searching, Lan Xiaobu had finally found some patterns, which filled him with overwhelming joy.
Without hesitation, he rushed into the Flame Star.
Lan Xiaobu wasn’t sure if the Flame Star could be counted as a life planet, but he was clear on one thing: within this secret realm, whether a star planet was life-bearing or not, there was value.
Life planets could yield the finest Immortal Spirit Grass, and non-life planets often held treasure artifacts – even top-grade materials for refining tools.
In terms of value, they could even surpass the Immortal Spirit Grass obtained from life planets.
As soon as he entered the Flame Star, the scorching flames swept over him.
His body was instantly covered by the Primal Eternal Flame, and atop that was an extra layer of Footbone Flame.
Worried for his safety, Lan Xiaobu once again summoned the Soul Refining Yin Cauldron and Yang Cauldron to shield himself against any potential danger.
Because time was extremely tight, he had not yet refined the Exquisite Pagoda nor merged the Yin Cauldron and Yang Cauldron into one.
Otherwise, he would have felt much safer here.
This time, Lan Xiaobu did not search on the surface of the star.
Previously, over hundreds of star planets, he had searched their surfaces—all to no avail.
With tens of thousands of star planets, even searching the surface couldn’t cover them all in a mere ten years.
To search deep within each star planet—that would be a fool’s errand.
The flames on the surface of the Flame Star were clearly erupting from deep within.
The deeper Lan Xiaobu went, the more he felt the terrifying heat.
A month later, Lan Xiaobu halted his progress.
He found himself not at the deepest part of the Flame Star, but in an internal area.
He stopped because before him was a huge space whose bottom was an endless sea of flame.
With his divine sense suppressed in this area, all he could assume was that the sea of flame spanned thousands of miles.
Turbulent flames rolled in the sea of flame, and at its edge, countless hundred-million-year-old Flame Crystals coalesced.
These hundred-million-year-old Flame Crystals were among the top-grade materials for refining tools in the Immortal Realm – Ninth-Level Immortal materials that were practically priceless.
But Lan Xiaobu had no time or interest in collecting these Flame Crystals.
Instead, he was seeking to determine whether there might be a Heavenly Gang Formation Disk in this area.
Above the sea of flame were some inverted flame icicles, resembling ice stalactites—varying in thickness and length.
The entire space wall was formed by the condensation of hundred-million-year-old Flame Crystals; it wasn’t something that could be torn apart by treasures or mortal strength.
He had been lucky enough to break into this pocket of space; otherwise, no one would have been able to enter here.
Moreover, in this place his divine sense was limited to a range of only a few miles.
For ordinary cultivators, their divine sense might not even expand at all in such a setting.
Lan Xiaobu’s gaze fell upon the opposite side of the flame sea.
To get across, there was only one option—to traverse above this flame sea.
He had come in search of a Heavenly Gang Formation Disk, and even if he searched every other part of this place to no avail, he would surely wonder if the formation disk might be hidden somewhere amidst this flame sea.
He had to press on!
Before venturing forward, Lan Xiaobu thought he should do something—is it better to refine the Exquisite Pagoda or merge the Yin Cauldron and Yang Cauldron?
In the end, Lan Xiaobu decided to merge the Yin Cauldron and Yang Cauldron.
Combining the Soul Refining Yin Cauldron with the Yang Cauldron resulted in a Primordial treasure.
No matter how formidable the Exquisite Pagoda was, it certainly could not reach the level of a Primordial treasure.
He placed the Soul Refining Yin Cauldron and Yang Cauldron that were attached to his body before him, and with his divine sense, began to permeate them.
At that moment, he had no idea how to fuse the Yin Cauldron and Yang Cauldron—they were not his specialty in refining artifacts—so he could only try.
Endless chains of restriction arrays appeared within his divine sense.
Before Lan Xiaobu could even begin to communicate with them, he felt waves of pain lancing through his Sea of Consciousness.
Panicking, he tried to retract his divine sense.
But in the next moment, his Sea of Consciousness seemed to form a bridge, linking together the restrictive energies of the Soul Refining Yin Cauldron and Yang Cauldron.
All manner of Dao resonance energies surged back and forth.
In just a few breaths, Lan Xiaobu felt that his Sea of Consciousness was on the verge of collapse.
Not only that, he felt as if his whole head was about to burst apart.
In sheer terror, Lan Xiaobu quickly tried to retract his divine sense.
The danger was so dire that he would rather not have the two cauldrons at all.
(Today’s update ends here, friends.
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(The chapter ends.)