Chapter 863

"There are more and more ghosts in the Nether Abyss!"

This was Luo Chen's first discovery after leaving the Blessed Land of the Alchemy Saint.

He thought that after being swept by Sovereign Sovereign Qixia, the powerful ghosts in the abyss were either injured, dead, or hidden, and there were not so many.

But the actual situation was not like this!

A large number of low-grade ghosts were wandering everywhere, passing by Luo Chen, who had concealed his aura, from time to time.

There were even ghost kings comparable to the Core Formation stage appearing frequently.

Luo Chen only saw these new ghosts a few times before he understood their origins.

"Human race!"

"From the Mingyuan Sect!"

Yes, that Soul Transformation battle that spread in the Sacred Land of Mingyuan affected all the Mingyuan sect members.

Many cultivators were swept by the aftermath of the experts in a daze, and directly turned into ashes.

But because the attack methods of Sovereign Sovereign Qixia and others were not mainly aimed at them, many people's souls were luckily preserved.

Now two years have passed, those dazed souls have gradually awakened, thus becoming a part of the endless ghosts of the Nether Abyss.

"I wonder if any of the Nascent Soul experts of the Mingyuan Sect have preserved their souls?"

Luo Chen was more curious about this point.

There are three different thresholds for cultivators to transform into ghost cultivators, which is related to the cultivator's realm before death.

One is the Core Formation stage; at this time, the cultivator can release spiritual sense. Once they fall, after passing the initial dazed stage, they will gradually recover their memories before death. For example, Pang Pang Renxiong of the Yuding Sword Sect back then, he was such an example.

If it is below the Core Formation stage, it is very difficult to transform into a normal ghost cultivator.

They cannot maintain their own memories and consciousness, mostly being stupid and chaotic.

Like Bai Bai Meiling, if she hadn't met Luo Chen, she might not have been able to embark on the normal path of ghost cultivation in her life.

The second threshold is the Nascent Soul stage.

At this time, the cultivator's primordial spirit can reside in the Nascent Soul, and even if the physical body collapses, the soul has a place to reside.

Relatively speaking, their transformation into ghost cultivators is much simpler, without having to go through the initial dazed stage, and they can fully maintain their sanity.

Even, they have the ability to seize normal living people and embark on the path of cultivation again.

The former Han Zhan was the best example.

Luo Chen was not sure if there were any ghosts transformed from the souls of Mingyuan Nascent Soul experts in the Nether Abyss today, but he thought that even if there were, there wouldn't be many.

With Sovereign Sovereign Qixia's ruthless methods, any Nascent Soul expert who dared to provoke her would inevitably die and have their souls scattered.

As for the third threshold?

Luo Chen was not very clear either, just seeing some descriptions in ancient books.

Some powerful existences, even if they die, their souls can last forever.

At this time, they have two choices.

One is to switch to ghost cultivation, and the other is to keep a little spiritual consciousness and fall into reincarnation, borrowing a womb to be born.

Especially the latter, once successful, they will have past wisdom, and after awakening, relying on the experience and knowledge of the previous life, the cultivation speed is extremely fast.

With these thoughts, Luo Chen moved forward all the way.

After leaving the Blessed Land of the Alchemy Saint very far away, he stopped and stared at the sky with a pair of golden pupils.

"Time to go up and see!"

Without hesitation, he rushed to the water surface like an arrow leaving the string.

There was golden flame suppressing the abyss, making all existences unable to go out.

This was also one of the main reasons why Luo Chen was trapped earlier.

However, this time!

Chi!

A strand of the same golden flame emerged from Luo Chen's body, and after circling, wrapped Luo Chen's whole body.

Then... Swish!

Jumping like a fish into the blue sky, reappearing in the world.

Luo Chen looked down at the bottom, and couldn't help but gasp.

As far as the eye could see, for thousands, or even ten thousand miles, there were countless golden flames burning slowly.

Gulp.

Luo Chen swallowed his saliva, and a sense of disbelief arose in his heart.

"How profound is Sovereign Sovereign Qixia's magic power, to be able to catalyze the Nirvana Sacred Fire to such a vast range, suppressing the Nether Abyss with the power of one person!"

He thought that if he achieved the Soul Transformation realm in the future and catalyzed the Ku Rong Divine Fire, it would cover ten thousand miles at most.

Let alone this magnificent scene that couldn't be seen to the end.

As for now?

Luo Chen tried his best, even if he risked the collapse of his Nascent Soul, he estimated that the Ku Rong Divine Fire would only cover a few hundred miles.

Shaking his head, Luo Chen stopped thinking about others and flew quickly in a chosen direction.

At the gap in the water surface where he rushed out.

A group of ghosts gradually gathered, and after some hesitation and curiosity, a Core Formation ghost king finally couldn't help it.

Seeing it swimming up quietly, when it reached the gap, it jumped with all its might.

Then came the screams that made all the ghosts under the water tremble from their souls.

Golden flames permeated, and the gap closed.

The so-called Core Formation ghost king had already turned into a wisp of green smoke, dissipating in the void.

Two days later.

Luo Chen stopped in mid-air with an incredibly ugly face.

He didn't dare to move, as if he had been cast with a immobilization spell, standing quietly in mid-air.

And at his left hand, bare and exposed, there was a thin red line.

As for the white sleeves like frost and snow, they had already disappeared.

You know, this Dao robe was the Frost Clothes of Falling Snow bestowed by the Mingyuan Sect.

Although it was only for alchemists to wear, to prevent fire poison from invading during long-term alchemy, its own grade was not low at all, reaching the level of a true artifact!

But without encountering any enemies, the sleeves were gone.

Not only that, even Luo Chen's incredibly powerful arm had just been cut off at the root.

If Luo Chen hadn't reacted fast enough, stopped his forward momentum, and used magic power to roll back his severed arm, it wouldn't have been as simple as just broken sleeves and broken hands.

Source power circulated, the red line disappeared, and his left hand recovered as before.

And Luo Chen's gaze was fixed on the void, where a few black lines were looming, as if a giant beast had opened its big mouth, waiting for the prey to throw itself into the net.

"Space crack!"

Luo Chen gritted his teeth, and these four words spat out like soybeans.

He was no stranger to this peculiar phenomenon.

When Sovereign Sovereign Qixia hit Mount Mount Yanfu with one strike, the terrifying power had shaken the void, revealing wisps of space cracks.

But he didn't expect that even after the war ended, space cracks still existed here.

And the number was quite large, and it was not very stable, appearing and disappearing from time to time, making it impossible to guard against.

Was it left by Sovereign Sovereign Qixia?

Or was it caused by the intense battle between Soul Transformation experts that the world couldn't bear?

Luo Chen didn't know.

He only knew that the road above the abyss was not easy to walk.

It might even be more dangerous than below the abyss.

"And!"

Luo Chen frowned and looked at the high sky.

Dark clouds gathered there, and thunder and lightning flashed from time to time.

"Why don't the thunder clouds dissipate for a long time?"

This time, he saw some clues.

Luo Chen muttered: "Array?"

It was not just an array, but an out-of-control array! Luo Chen remembered one thing.

Ye Ye Lingtian once said that the sect-protecting array of the Mingyuan Sect incorporated the means of past ancestors.

Among them was a supernatural power of the expert Bai Ye, called the Nine Heavens Pu Yuan Great Thunder Technique.

Lei Lei Daozi relied on the accumulation of this technique to once break through to Sovereign Sovereign Qixia.

Now that the Mingyuan Sect had been destroyed, the sect-protecting array should have dissipated with it.

But from Luo Chen's array knowledge, this array was not based on people when it was established, but on the land.

The Nether Abyss was still there, so the array foundation hadn't collapsed.

It was just that without human control, this remaining array lost control and was drawing the power of thunder and lightning between heaven and earth without restraint.

"Another Nine Mountains of Accumulated Thunder!"

Luo Chen sighed, and seeing that the space cracks had dissipated a lot, he continued to fly.

It was just that compared to before, the speed was much, much slower.

Even compared to the speed of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it was not much better.

He really didn't dare to touch the space cracks again.

If he didn't react in time, it wouldn't be as simple as a broken hand.

If his whole body was rolled in, even if he had self-healing ability comparable to a wild beast, he would probably be strangled into powder in an instant and could never recover as before.

Under such circumstances, powerful spiritual sense was useless.

Space cracks are not living things, have no aura to speak of, have no soul fluctuations, and don't even have a physical body like mountains, rocks, soil, and wood.

What can a person perceive in the void?

Fortunately, Luo Chen had a pair of red eyes and golden pupils!

As long as he stared carefully enough, there was no great danger.

And in the process of observing the appearance of space cracks day after day, Luo Chen gradually noticed some clues.

"If you compare this world to a big house, space cracks are caused by the instability of walls, roofs, foundations, and tiles."

"Their appearance is actually not without signs."

"Often before they form, extremely weak spatial fluctuations appear, and then cause a chain reaction, thus taking shape."

After discovering this point, Luo Chen was inexplicably happy!

Because a powerful enemy who had once made him helpless was extremely proficient in this kind of escape technique.

Borrowing the power of space, coming and going without a trace, impossible to figure out, difficult to find.

As long as they met that one, all enemies could only be beaten passively, but that one's attack methods were simple and unadorned, yet carried irresistible power.

"If I am familiar with this kind of spatial fluctuation, will I not be so passive next time I meet Qing Shuang?"

The relationship between Mount Cangwu Mountain and Luo Chen today had eased a lot, and it was not so irreconcilable.

Between him and Qing Shuang, there was no deep hatred.

But Luo Chen really didn't like the feeling of being powerless and completely suppressed by others.

Sovereign Sovereign Qixia was too far away from him, and there was no room to even treat her as an imaginary enemy.

But Qing Shuang was at the same Nascent Soul realm as him.

Luo Chen felt that even if he met any expert at the same level, he would have the strength to fight, but in front of Qing Shuang, even if he blew up his Nascent Soul, he might not be able to keep the other party.

How could he be willing?

When another space crack formed, Luo Chen stopped.

It was the same vigilance, but with a few more observations.

Even when his eyes felt dry, he took the initiative to drop two drops of Jade Emperor Clear Pupil Liquid into them.

"People walk in heaven and earth, fish swim in water."

"Fish don't know it, and people are used to it."

"But water movement has waves, and human movement should also have a sense of spatial change."

"It's just because we are too weak to understand the true meaning of spatial laws, so we can't feel that kind of spatial change."

"Everyone is like this, and I am like this. But observing it at this moment, this kind of change seems to have some connection with the seven basic prohibitions of the array—empty prohibition."

The seven basic prohibitions of the array—mountain, water, wind, cloud, darkness, brightness, and empty.

Mountain and water prohibitions are physical, making them the easiest to learn.

Wind and cloud prohibitions are unpredictable, but they can be felt and observed, so they are not too difficult.

Darkness and brightness prohibitions are more in the realm of the soul, and Luo Chen was best at darkness prohibition in his early years.

Only the space prohibition is the most difficult, and it is difficult for ordinary people to learn.

Luo Chen only had some insights after he achieved the fourth-tier array master and created the "Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Great Teleportation Array".

Now using the space prohibition as a stepping stone to understand the birth, appearance, existence, and final dissipation of these space cracks seems to have found a way.

Just when Luo Chen was focusing on his research.

Suddenly!

White light flashed.

"Not good!"

Luo Chen left a strand of split soul to pay attention to the outside world, and naturally noticed something wrong.

A thunderbolt fell from the nine heavens!

If it were normal times, he could easily dodge it.

But at this moment, the surroundings were full of newly born space cracks, how could he rush around.

Only by taking it head-on!

Luo Chen's expression was as usual, and he cast a magic spell toward the sky.

Blazing Heaven Seven-Fold Ring!

Streaks of fire rings suddenly appeared, but dissipated instantly under the thunder strike.

Luo Chen was not surprised, the upper limit of this defensive magic spell was just like this.

If he wanted to resist this thunderbolt drawn by the Nine Heavens Pu Yuan Great Thunder Technique, he would have to use more strength.

Fire Phoenix Prairie Fire!

A phoenix phantom rose from behind him and collided with the thunderbolt.

All this sounds complicated, but it actually happened in a flash.

After two moves in succession, the thunderbolt slowly dissipated.

The deafening thunder sound only exploded in his ears at this time.

Luo Chen trembled all over, and wisps of electric light were still flashing on him.

Obviously, the thunderbolt falling from the sky was not so easy to take.

This was still under the condition of no human control.

It is hard to imagine what kind of lethality it would have if someone tried to break into the sect-protecting array when the Mingyuan Sect was at its peak, and a Soul Transformation expert personally stimulated the supernatural powers inside.

I'm afraid it would be very difficult for Sovereign Sovereign Qixia to cross the Nether Abyss under that pressure, right?

Magic power circulated, and frost and snow permeated from the Frost Clothes of Falling Snow on his body, forcing out the remaining thunder and lightning power.

Just when Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief, his pupils shrank instantly.

Because of the commotion just now, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth became more chaotic.

The batch of space cracks that had just been born seemed to be affected, and under the chain reaction, they grew inch by inch at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Especially a crack above, which was already seven or eight feet long, spreading toward Luo Chen.

Without hesitation, Luo Chen's body fell.

With the momentum of a thousand jun, he fell below the sea surface.

Splash!

Between the waves, Luo Chen's figure disappeared from this world.

The surrounding space cracks were spread like spider webs, and even after Luo Chen left, they did not dissipate for a long time.

Such a scene, even if a Nascent Soul cultivator saw it, would avoid it for fear of being too late.

The Nether Abyss of the past could still be called a forbidden land, but the Nether Abyss of today, after the Soul Transformation battle, had become a dead land!

A dead land where living things are hard to survive!

And all this, Luo Chen had no time to observe.

Because at this moment, he was holding his breath and looking into the dark depths.

A pair of eyes as big as lanterns, glowing with blood-red light, were staring at him! (End of chapter)