Chapter 77: The Mystery of Life and Death, the Secret of Yun Lan!

In a vast world, a silver light flashed, and on a stone platform somewhere carved with strange runes, two figures suddenly appeared, completely out of place in this world.

"Is this the inside of the Life and Death Gate? Such dense Heaven and Earth energy!" Having just entered this realm, Xiao Yan took a deep breath of the dense Heaven and Earth energy that had almost condensed into mist, and a sense of shock could not help but rise in his heart. One must know, the Heaven and Earth energy here was almost comparable to what he had felt in the Ancient World of the Ancient Clan back in the day!

And it was not just the Heaven and Earth energy; in the dark, Xiao Yan always felt that a substance that made his soul feel refreshed permeated this world. Could this be—Spirit Qi!

Xiao Yan looked around; behind him was a mass of chaotic mist, while before him lay an endless expanse of mountains and rivers! Good heavens! What kind of place is this Life and Death Gate!

Xiao Yan suddenly recalled information he had seen somewhere before, saying that this Life and Death Gate was a peerless holy object once owned by a peak powerhouse of the Great Thousand World! If that were the case, then what he saw before him was not strange. One must know that even a Heavenly Sovereign would covet a peerless holy object, and the strongest of the Dou Qi Continent, the Dou Di, was only equivalent to an Earthly Sovereign!

But then a new problem arose: how could such a supreme treasure fall into the hands of the Misty Cloud Sect? Could someone like Yun Potian, who might not even be able to break through to a Dou Zun, gain the recognition of such a treasure? And leave behind an entrance that could be entered generation after generation? What a joke!

"Ugh!" Suddenly, Nalan Yanran, who was following behind Xiao Yan, let out a moan, her body hunching over slightly.

"Yanran! What's wrong?" Xiao Yan turned his head, pulled Nalan Yanran over to lean against him, and asked with some concern.

"Xiao Yan, don't you feel a bit uncomfortable? It's as if some heavy object is pressing down on my body." Nalan Yanran leaned against Xiao Yan, feeling a bit shy, and after taking a few deep breaths, she finally seemed to adapt to the current situation and said to Xiao Yan.

"A heavy object?" Xiao Yan carefully sensed it and found no peculiar feeling: "No?"

"Really?" Nalan Yanran said with some surprise. Although this pressure was not enough to crush her, it was still very obvious.

Xiao Yan thought for a moment. If this place was truly inside a peerless holy object of the Great Thousand World, could the pressure Nalan Yanran felt come from different world rules? But if so, why was he fine? Xiao Yan thought about the differences in his own body and quickly locked onto the target—Heavenly Flame! Or perhaps the Burning Mantra!

Thinking of this, Xiao Yan attempted to cover the two of them with the Heavenly Flame to form a fire shield.

Sure enough, after the cyan-red fire shield formed, the abnormality on Nalan Yanran's body vanished instantly.

"This, Xiao Yan, what kind of flame is this!" Nalan Yanran looked at Xiao Yan in surprise. How could she, a future sect leader, be helpless in her own sect's secret realm, yet Xiao Yan could solve it? Then, thinking about how Xiao Yan could sense that there was something he needed here from so far away—

Could it be that Xiao Yan had obtained the inheritance of some ancestor of the Misty Cloud Sect left outside? Or perhaps————

Countless possibilities flashed through Nalan Yanran's mind, and her gaze toward Xiao Yan gradually became strange.

"What kind of messy things are you thinking about!" Detecting the change in Nalan Yanran's gaze, Xiao Yan scolded her directly.

"Ugh, why are you shouting." Nalan Yanran said with some dissatisfaction: "I'm just wondering if you obtained the inheritance of some ancestor of our Misty Cloud Sect; otherwise, why would you have a way when I don't!"

"I should be the one asking you that! How did your Misty Cloud Sect's founding ancestor establish a connection with this place! With just that little bit of cultivation?" A strong sense of conspiracy gave Xiao Yan an instinctive feeling of unease. He scanned his surroundings vigilantly, his tone also a bit sharp.

"You!" Once Xiao Yan said this, Nalan Yanran's temper was ignited, and she felt even more aggrieved. I just risked danger to come in with you, and you treat me like this? She immediately retorted sharply: "What do you mean 'that little bit of cultivation'? Our Misty Cloud Sect's ancestor, Yun Potian, was a dignified Dou Zun! You have no right to criticize him!"

"I." At this moment, Xiao Yan also realized that his tone just now was indeed inappropriate. His expression softened, and he said: "Sorry, Yanran, my tone was indeed a bit sharp just now. I apologize to you. It's just that this place is truly too strange."

"Hmph!" Hearing Xiao Yan's apology, Nalan Yanran's emotions calmed down slightly. She huffed, her lingering anger not yet gone, and then said: "So what exactly is the anomaly that makes you so uneasy?"

"Hmm—" Xiao Yan stared straight at Nalan Yanran for a long while, until Nalan Yanran felt a bit unnerved, before he said quietly: "Dou Di, you should know about them, right."

"Dou Di? What Dou Di? What?! Dou Di! What does this have to do with a Dou Di!" Nalan Yanran didn't understand what Xiao Yan was saying at first, but when she reacted, she jumped up on the spot like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"You should know that starting from the Dou Zong level, a cultivator begins to master a certain degree of spatial power. And as cultivation increases, the degree of control will gradually deepen," Xiao Yan explained further.

"Mm." Nalan Yanran nodded.

"If a Dou Zong can only walk through the void, a Dou Zun can tear through space, and a Dou Sheng can go a step further and open up an independent space, then a Dou Di can open up a world!" Xiao Yan took a deep breath, scanned his surroundings, and said: "Just like this place!"

"Hah!" Nalan Yanran gasped, her voice trembling as she said: "You mean, this is a world opened up by a Dou Di powerhouse! How is that possible! Could you be mistaken? After all, you haven't seen a world opened up by a Dou Di!"

"No!" Xiao Yan retorted firmly, looking at Nalan Yanran with those deep black eyes, and said the words that made Nalan Yanran tremble all over: "I have seen one! A world opened up by a Dou Di!"

Nalan Yanran froze, her breathing even stopping for a moment; intense information was colliding crazily in her mind.

At this moment, she suddenly understood Xiao Yan's question from earlier. Yes, how did Yun Potian establish a connection with this place! With just his Dou Zun cultivation?

"Then, what do we do now? Go back?" Nalan Yanran didn't even care to ask where Xiao Yan had seen a world opened up by a Dou Di. She looked at the stone platform under her feet, her voice trembling as she spoke.

When they came in, Yun Yun had told them that the way to return was to inject Dou Qi into the stone platform under their feet.

*Hoo! * Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yan calmed down slightly, then answered firmly: "No! I am going to keep going inside!"

If Xiao Yan had come for the Heavenly Flame at the very beginning, that was no longer the case now.

In the depths of this space, there was something attracting him—not a Heavenly Flame, but something else!