Chapter 00434: The Void Rift in Silent God Valley
# The Void Rift in Silent God Valley
Chapter 434
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 434: The Void Rift in Silent God Valley
2022-05-06
Chapter 434: The Void Rift in Silent God Valley
Inside the Divine Source Palace, all the cultivators from Silent God Valley began searching every blade of grass and every tree, not even letting a single ant escape notice.
Yet no matter how hard they looked, they could not find the person they suspected—Lan Xiaobu.
At the same time, Lan Xiaobu was gazing at the scene before him with shock.
In front of him lay a crack in the void, stretching nearly a hundred zhang in length.
It was very strange to see such a rift appear in the void; here in front of him, it truly existed.
The crack was very fine—only about two to three millimeters wide, it seemed.
The entire crack was enclosed by a Void Formation array, and a faint spiritual energy of the gods seeped out from it.
This energy passed through the void god array and then gathered upon the Immortal Formation on the Divine Source Palace, finally being transmitted into the building itself.
Lan Xiaobu fixed his eyes on the crack, thinking to himself that this rift might be the portal to the divine realm.
When Kuang Wu sent a message back, he said that it was the Annihilation Realm that served as the passage to the divine realm, which made Lan Xiaobu suspect.
But how had this crack appeared? Why was divine spiritual energy leaking out? No matter how long he thought about it, he could not come up with an answer.
Unable to find a reason, Lan Xiaobu simply began to set up his Spirit Gathering God Array.
At first, he planned to intercept all the Divine Source here to supply his own cultivation.
However, when the arrangement of the formation was nearly complete, Lan Xiaobu abandoned that idea.
He decided to intercept ninety percent and leave one percent to leak out.
If he intercepted all the divine spiritual source, the people in the Divine Source Palace might not remain.
These folks might discover that he had already sealed Silent God Valley.
Once they realized Silent God Valley had been sealed by him, the Immortal Emperors inside would surely go into a frenzy and try to break out, and he did not have time to act against them now.
After the Spirit Gathering God Array was set up, Lan Xiaobu immediately began to operate the Longevity Technique.
From the very moment he entered Silent God Valley, Lan Xiaobu had wanted to cultivate.
Due to insufficient conditions, he hadn’t had the chance to practice until now.
Once the Longevity Technique was activated, the divine source from the crack as if having found an outlet, all surged toward Lan Xiaobu.
Lan Xiaobu was almost in a daze.
He could feel streams of divine energy, so well-defined that they seemed capable of cleansing his sea of consciousness and even his primordial spirit, pouring over his body.
All the impurities in his body were being cleared, and his cultivation level was rapidly rising.
His sea of consciousness expanded wildly, and his meridians broadened and thickened without limit.
In merely a dozen days, Lan Xiaobu broke through the first level of the Immortal Venerable stage and entered the second level.
But that was not the most important part; the key was that as he cultivated, his Immortal Essence rapidly transformed into Divine Essence.
With his Immortal Essence converting to Divine Essence, his power surged continuously.
At this moment, Lan Xiaobu was even more amazed to find that the longer he cultivated, the faster he absorbed divine spiritual energy, and the more and more of that energy he pulled in.
The divine spiritual energy seeping out of the crack had far exceeded what it was when he first arrived.
When he first came here, he had set up the Spirit Gathering God Array simply with the intention of leaking out one-tenth to keep the powerful Immortal Emperors in Silent God Valley at bay.
Now, as the amount of divine spiritual energy he absorbed grew, that one-tenth was approaching the total amount it had been when he first entered.
The cultivators from Silent God Valley in the Divine Source Palace, after several days of searching without finding Lan Xiaobu, could only conclude that perhaps their senses had been off.
After all, none had actually seen Lan Xiaobu enter; the belief that he had come into the Divine Source Palace was only an intuition.
For several days, they had swept every corner of the Divine Source Palace, immersed in thick divine spiritual energy, and none of them had the heart to continue the search for Lan Xiaobu.
As the first person began to cultivate, the others all sat down one after the other to operate their cultivation techniques, absorbing the divine spiritual energy.
Whether or not Lan Xiaobu had arrived, boosting one’s own power was what really mattered.
If it had been at the very beginning, they would have surely noted how terrifyingly weak the divine spiritual energy had become.
But after several days, due to the influence of Lan Xiaobu’s cultivation, the divine spiritual energy permeating the Divine Source Palace had steadily increased, and no one noticed any abnormality.
Even though Shen Yi and the First Supreme Daotai Wang Xuan still harbored doubts, they could only put the matter aside for now and quickly absorb the divine spiritual energy to enhance their abilities.
Wang Xuan wanted to break through to the Divine Being Realm, while Shen Yi needed this pure, rich divine spiritual energy to condense his own foundation, also planning to push into the Divine Being Realm.
One year passed, and Lan Xiaobu broke through the third layer of the Immortal Venerable stage to the fourth layer, truly entering the mid-stage of Immortal Venerable.
Three years later, Lan Xiaobu stepped into the sixth layer of Immortal Venerable; seven years later he reached the seventh layer; and nine years later he broke into the eighth layer.
Then, Lan Xiaobu stopped cultivating as he sensed that the divine spiritual energy seeping out of the void rift was gradually weakening.
Even if he continued to cultivate fiercely, it would be very hard for him to break through to the Immortal Emperor stage in a short time.
He did not worry about the members of Silent God Valley who had been taught a lesson; he decided to first check on what Cai Shang had acquired.
When Fu Hen saw Lan Xiaobu enter, his eyes were full of desperate longing for survival.
But he knew that Lan Xiaobu would not let him go easily, and begging for mercy would prove futile.
“Fu Hen, normally how many years does it take for the Divine Source to open?” Lan Xiaobu asked.
“Ten years,” Fu Hen replied in a tone tinged with despair.
He felt that Lan Xiaobu was about to kill him.
“What exactly is the Annihilation Realm?” Lan Xiaobu asked further.
Fu Hen hesitated before replying, “Some people in Silent God Valley believe that the Annihilation Realm is the passage to the divine realm. However, in truth, the Annihilation Realm is a place of real death; once you go in, you will surely die, because its aura of annihilation is something that even an ordinary Immortal Emperor cannot withstand.”
After speaking, Fu Hen almost pleaded, “Dao-companion, could you allow me to reincarnate?” Lan Xiaobu replied, “Since you’ve been fairly cooperative, I will allow you reincarnation…”
With that, Lan Xiaobu raised his hand and sent a blaze of flame onto Fu Hen’s body.
Reincarnation was possible, but only in his world.
And even whether one would reincarnate as a human or not, and whether one could reincarnate at all, depended on Fu Hen’s luck.
As for memories, once reincarnated, there was no need to retain the old ones.
Fu Hen perished, and naturally his soul token shattered.
However, since everyone in the Divine Source Palace was busy cultivating wildly, no one noticed that Fu Hen’s soul token had broken into pieces.
After eliminating Cai Shang, Lan Xiaobu remained tense and had no time to inspect Cai Shang’s ring.
Later, when he reached the edge of the Divine Source Rift, he finally had time to open the ring.
But by then, Lan Xiaobu naturally would not waste time on merely opening the ring; he devoted almost all his time to increasing his strength.
If it weren’t for the fact that the divine source was about to dry up, Lan Xiaobu would still be cultivating steadily.
Even though Cai Shang had been killed, the suppression on his ring remained very strong.
Fortunately, Lan Xiaobu’s array skills were also formidable and it took him only a short time to wear down the ring’s restriction.
Looking at the boundless, lush world, Lan Xiaobu then realized that Cai Shang’s ring was also a True Spirit World.
This True Spirit World was larger than the one he had given to Yu Ruo, and its rules were more complete.
Lan Xiaobu sighed.
He did not know which realm Cai Shang had refined to create such a True Spirit World; otherwise, where could such a True Spirit World have come from?
Inside the True Spirit World, several enormous palaces had been built.
One of them, the Immortal Source Palace, seemed to have been constructed by imitating the Divine Source Palace of Silent God Valley.
The Immortal Source Palace was divided into four floors.
The lowest floor housed a mountain’s worth of lower-grade immortal spirit veins, seemingly countless.
The second floor contained middle-grade immortal spirit veins—at least a million of them.
The third floor held upper-grade immortal spirit veins, numbering in the tens of thousands.
The top floor contained the supreme-grade immortal spirit veins—no less than seven.
There were no supreme-grade spirit veins with a gold attribute; the others of wood, water, fire, and earth were all present, and there was also one with a thunder attribute.
Below these were heaps upon heaps of immortal spirit herbs and materials for refining artifacts, and the Immortal Crystals stretched in mountain ranges.
Lan Xiaobu sighed again, understanding that these immortal spirit veins were basically plundered from various immortal domains.
In the future, if he had the chance to return to the Thunder Gourd Immortal Domain, he would use these upper-grade immortal spirit veins in his hands to reinforce the Immortal Domain Protective Boundary Formation there, thereby contributing in his own small way to the Thunder Gourd Immortal Domain.
While he was sorting through his belongings, a Jade Talisman caught Lan Xiaobu’s eye.
He picked up the Jade Talisman; on it were two characters: Kuang Wu.
He was not unfamiliar with this Jade Talisman’s design.
Previously, when he had killed Kuang Qi, he had also obtained a Jade Talisman, but that one had “Kuang Qi” written on it.
So how did Kuang Wu’s Jade Talisman end up in Cai Shang’s ring?
Lan Xiaobu immediately began searching for the other items inside Cai Shang’s ring.
Even the jade slips that had been discarded aside were now taken by Lan Xiaobu for examination.
Soon enough, he found one jade slip that recorded an account—it was a record made by Kuang Wu.
“I must have avoided detection by the people of Silent God Valley. Silent God Valley truly is a wonderful place. If I hadn’t come here, I would never have reached my current height. It is only that the Annihilation Realm is too terrifying—its aura of annihilation is something that few Immortal Emperors can resist. Without the shell of the Devil Spirit Tortoise, I fear I would not have been able to survive here either…” the record read.
After this, it continued with details of cultivation experiences in the Annihilation Realm, as well as the progress of cultivation.
“I understand now—indeed, the Annihilation Realm can be a route to the divine realm. Even if one does not possess the shell of the Devil Spirit Tortoise, one must be able to survive in the Annihilation Realm…”
After this section, Lan Xiaobu found no further new records.
It was precisely because of this jade slip that he realized the tortoise shell did not belong to Cai Shang, but rather to Kuang Wu.
It appeared that the Annihilation Realm could indeed lead to the divine realm; the people of Silent God Valley were not yet aware, but the Kuang family certainly knew.
But how did Kuang Qi’s belongings end up in Cai Shang’s ring?
Cai Shang had also entered the Annihilation Realm, and even his corpse bones had been blown away by the aura of annihilation.
Could it be that Cai Shang had usurped Kuang Wu’s body?
Thinking of usurpation, Lan Xiaobu became even more certain.
Kuang Wu had not entered the divine realm, but was instead usurped by Cai Shang.
After entering the Annihilation Realm, because Cai Shang did not have the Devil Spirit Tortoise shell, his flesh was quickly corroded by the aura of annihilation until it turned to withered bones.
Cai Shang’s body collapsed, but his primordial spirit remained.
At that time, he discovered that Kuang Wu had not yet entered the divine realm.
Then, through some unknown method, Cai Shang usurped Kuang Wu’s body.
Although Kuang Wu had sent a message to his family, saying he was heading to the divine realm, he never expected that before reaching the divine realm, he would be usurped by Cai Shang.
If Lan Xiaobu wanted to know whether his speculation was correct, he only had to ask the Kuang family about what Kuang Wu looked like.
The only thing that puzzled Lan Xiaobu was that after Cai Shang usurped Kuang Wu, how did he manage to leave Silent God Valley and show up in the Thunder Gourd Immortal Domain?
(Today’s update ends here, friends.
Good night!)
(The End of this Chapter)