Chapter 833: Passage

Over a hundred zhang above the altar, a light arc over thirty zhang long appeared. (Web)

This light arc was misty white, and at its widest point, it was four or five zhang wide, shaped like a crescent moon. It was actually a rare, massive spatial rift. It was just that the rift had been covered by some restriction, and with so many Nascent Soul cultivators with great divine abilities here, no one had noticed such a terrifying existence above.

Could this be the so-called entrance to the Spirit-Sprouting Garden?

Looking at the visible spatial distortion and deformation, even a person with divine abilities like Wei Wei Wuya had no courage to break into this rift. After all, the cutting force of this spatial power was not something that cultivators of this realm could resist. No wonder even Wei Wei Wuya couldn't help but be furious!

"The Spirit-Sprouting Garden was originally an existence between the Spirit Realm and our Human Realm. To enter this space, one naturally must rely on the spatial rifts here. As long as it is distorted and moved, the entrance to the Spirit-Sprouting Garden can be opened directly. Don't worry, I naturally won't let you all break in hard like this. There is another way to send you all in temporarily. However, it requires taking a certain risk. Whether you can break through, I only have sixty or seventy percent certainty. These few Core Formation stage ones should not go. Their cultivation is insufficient, and going is just sending them to their deaths." The scholar scanned the crowd and said indifferently.

"Sixty or seventy percent certainty? Why did you never mention this matter before coming here?" The Ghost Spirit Sect Master's expression was somewhat unkind.

"What difference does it make whether I said it or not? Not to mention sixty or seventy percent hope, even if there were only two or three percent chance, you all certainly wouldn't give up." The scholar sneered and said.

The Ghost Spirit Sect Master looked at the scholar, cold light flickering in his eyes, and suddenly raised his hand, holding a blood-red token.

"What are you doing?" Seeing this token, the scholar's expression changed drastically, and he retreated in panic, shouting loudly.

But the Ghost Spirit Sect Master didn't say a word, shaking the token in his hand lightly. The blood light on the token surged, and the scholar, who was flying backward, suddenly let out a miserable scream and fell from the low air to the ground. At the same time, strange blood-red runes appeared on his skin, flowing incessantly, as if embedded inside and outside his body, truly strange to the extreme.

"Soul-Startling Curse?" Wang Wang Tiangu was greatly startled upon seeing this scene. He couldn't help but reveal a look of awe.

Wei Wei Wuya's expression shifted upon hearing this.

"This is the Soul-Startling Curse, one of the secret curses of the Ghost Spirit Sect? I heard this secret technique is three parts more vicious than ordinary Spirit-Restricting Arts. Any cultivator cursed by this, their soul will dissipate at the mere thought of the person who cast the curse." Wei Wei Wuya stared at the scholar rolling on the ground, asking without a trace of emotion.

"Hehe! Brother Wei is indeed knowledgeable. What I am using is indeed this curse. This essence soul is merely a strand of divided soul from the manifestation of the former Master Cangkun Shangren; he really thought he was the invincible Master Cangkun Shangren of the past and dared to be so ignorant of what is good for him. This Sect Master naturally had to give him a slight punishment." The Ghost Spirit Sect Master turned his gaze and replied with a smile.

Wei Wei Wuya nodded and said nothing more. To them, no matter how great the background of a strand of essence soul was, they wouldn't allow the other party to be so arrogant.

And the scholar seemed to be suffering great torment, his body trembling every time the blood-red runes flashed. He rolled and convulsed on the ground, clutching his head with both hands, his face full of unbearable pain.

The torment lasted for the time it takes to eat a meal, and even the ghost body transformed by his essence soul began to gradually blur and become unstable.

Seeing this, the Ghost Spirit Sect Master waved the token and stopped the secret technique nonchalantly.

"You should know some lessons now. Even if your memories are the same as the former Master Cangkun Shangren, you are only a remnant soul now. Do not do anything stupid again. Otherwise, next time, it will not be such a light punishment. The Spirit-Sprouting Garden must be entered by this Sect, but I also do not want to be led by the nose. However, rest assured. As long as you honestly lead the way, this Sect Master will never break his promise." The Ghost Spirit Sect Master said, both kind and stern.

"Understood, I will open the entrance now." After getting up, green light flashed on the scholar's body, and his body instantly solidified again, but his expression was calm to the extreme.

Seeing the scholar's expression, the Ghost Spirit Sect Master was somewhat surprised. His pupils shrank, and he was about to say something, but the scholar's body flashed with green light, and he floated up, flying slowly toward the rift in the sky.

The Ghost Spirit Sect Master swallowed the words that had reached his throat. Compared to punishing the other party, the matter of opening the entrance to the Spirit-Sprouting Garden was more important.

Wei Wei Wuya and the others watched the scholar's actions coldly. They didn't know what method he had to allow them to pass through such a terrifying rift.

The scholar flew until he was twenty zhang away from the spatial rift, then stopped.

After looking up at the giant rift above his head for a while, a strange expression appeared on his face, and he suddenly opened his mouth. A ball of green light sprayed out, and inside the green light was a pitch-black round bead the size of a thumb, spinning incessantly in front of him.

The scholar who spat out this bead turned deathly pale, and his spirit was also withered, as if most of his soul power had been drained by this bead.

"Go!"

Despite this, the scholar still pointed at the round bead with difficulty, spitting out the word lightly.

Spiritual light flashed on the ink-colored round bead, and it shot into the sky.

Seeing this scene, the Ghost Spirit Sect Master and the others revealed looks of surprise. What effect could such a bead have?

Just as the Ghost Spirit Sect group was suspicious in their hearts, the round bead was affected by the suction force in the spatial rift just a few feet away.

With a flash of white light, the space nearby twisted, and the bead vanished in an instant.

For a time, the spatial rift remained as usual. Nothing unusual happened.

But at this moment, the scholar, who had been close to the spatial rift, turned gloomy, his body flashed, and he fell straight down, distancing himself from the rift in the blink of an eye.

Wei Wei Wuya and the others were stunned for a moment, and before they could understand his intention, a muffled rumbling sound suddenly came from the spatial rift.

Then, in the center of the misty white, a green light flashed, and then the green light expanded rapidly, transforming into a massive ink-green light cluster a zhang large in the blink of an eye, its light blinding. Sharp cries followed incessantly.

"Next, it depends on your divine abilities. As long as you inject spiritual power into that green light with all your might, you can thoroughly open the passage to the Spirit-Sprouting Garden." At this moment, the scholar fell onto the altar and said woodenly.

Wei Wei Wuya and Wang Wang Tiangu saw this strange scene and couldn't help but glance at each other, revealing looks of suspicion.

"Let's try it. See if it's really effective?" The Ghost Spirit Sect Master was decisive, pondered for a moment, and said so.

Wei Wei Wuya's brows furrowed. But after glancing at the ink-green light cluster, he didn't say anything to oppose it. Wang Wang Tiangu naturally had no intention of opposing it.

Immediately, the three separated and stood, forming hand seals simultaneously, and then raised their hands, spraying three light pillars of different colors, striking directly at the ink-green light cluster in the spatial rift. The depth of the three people's cultivation was clear at a glance.

The green spiritual pillar sprayed from Wei Wei Wuya's hand was as thick as a bowl, while the spiritual power pillars of the Ghost Spirit Sect Master and Wang Wang Tiangu were a circle smaller, about the same size.

And the ink-green light cluster, which received the continuous injection of the immense spiritual power from the three spiritual pillars, let out sharp cries that rose sharply, and its body began to expand outward inch by inch.

A moment later, in the center of the green light, a pitch-black hole gradually formed. At first, it was only a foot large, deep and unfathomable, unknown where it led.

Seeing this, the Ghost Spirit Sect group was overjoyed. The appearance of this strange phenomenon meant that the scholar hadn't deceived them.

Immediately, the three of them had their spiritual power flowing, and the light pillars in their hands became a few parts thicker, and the ink-green light in the rift became even denser.

After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the black hole in the center had expanded to three feet large. It seemed barely enough for one person to fly into. But the scholar watched from the side and suddenly said calmly:

"Although it can be entered now, the entrance to the Spirit-Sprouting Garden is not stable. I don't have a second World-Breaking Bead to open the passage. If you don't want to be unable to return after entering, it would be best to continue injecting spiritual power to thoroughly stabilize the spatial passage."

Hearing this, Wei Wei Wuya and the others were startled in their hearts. But after looking at the black passage that was still shaking, they really didn't dare to withdraw the spiritual power in their hands, so they had to continue mobilizing their magic power and persist.

But clearly, the spiritual power required to stabilize this black passage and open it was even greater, and after a while, the black passage still didn't show any signs of stabilizing.

This made the Ghost Spirit Sect Master feel somewhat suspicious in his heart. But he ordered the three Core Formation disciples not politely:

"You three come over and help too. Although your cultivation is lower, it's still better than having no one!"

"Yes, Sect Master!"

The three disciples didn't dare to be negligent and also condensed their spiritual power into several spiritual pillars, shooting toward the sky.

And the scholar stood in place, watching all this, his face expressionless.

Time passed bit by bit. When Wei Wei Wuya and the others had injected nearly half of their spiritual power into the rift, the black passage finally stabilized and no longer had any shaking.

Feeling relieved in their hearts, these people finally stopped the light pillars in their hands with peace of mind.

"Does this passage really lead to the Spirit-Sprouting Garden?" The Ghost Spirit Sect Master asked with narrowed eyes as soon as he withdrew his magic power.

The scholar didn't intend to answer, but Wei Wei Wuya opened his mouth and replied:

"It shouldn't be false. I have already sensed that at the other end of this passage, there is a very vast place." Wei Wei Wuya licked his lips, his expression somewhat moved.

The spiritual sense of the others wasn't enough to transmit their spiritual sense out of the passage, but hearing this, they were all overjoyed.

"Since Brother Wei has said so, it seems it is truly the case. However, for the sake of caution, it would be better to test it first." Wang Wang Tiangu suppressed the strange excitement in his heart, shook his sleeve, and a ball of black mist flew out from his sleeve, inside which a small ghost was hidden, flying directly toward the passage.

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