Chapter 259: Unknown Black Shadow

Xuanweizi was clearly intent on a mutual destruction.

When he spoke these words, Heaven and Earth began to tremble, everything dimmed, and the originally clear scene was suddenly shrouded in a gray mist, becoming murky and incomparably deathly silent.

Even though this was Li Heng's Divine Kingdom.

Li Heng raised his eyebrows slightly, but his expression did not fluctuate much.

This was already within his expectations.

And his Divine Kingdom was not completely independent of Heaven and Earth; it was still a small space within Heaven and Earth, and naturally, it could not avoid being eroded by this so-called World Truth.

Seeing the strange phenomenon arise, Xuanweizi laughed wildly.

"If you want this Daoist to die, then you shall be buried with me! In the face of this True Reality power, under the force of this Calamity, no matter how strong you are or what your background is, you are as insignificant as an ant!"

Boom!

A huge sound rang out; space was shaking, Heaven and Earth were shaking, and the Heaven and Earth Principles were trembling. Within that gray mist, a huge black shadow slowly emerged.

"What powerful strength, what high-level Great Dao."

Xuanweizi looked at the black shadow with obsession, murmuring. Then his body deformed and twisted continuously, soon turning into a pile of writhing, whispering lumps of flesh.

Seeing this, Gao Jue and Ding Yi were incomparably terrified, not daring to look at that black shadow at all. What exactly did His Majesty do while they were asleep? Is this the Weird power and Terror existence they were meant to pursue? For a moment, they felt some regret.

"Finally here, let me take a look at your true face."

Li Heng spoke softly.

That Demon God had already walked to the pile of flesh Xuanweizi had turned into, spewing out monstrous Demon Flame to incinerate this pile of constantly writhing, Pollution-emitting flesh; it seemed that even this most fierce, evil, and wicked Demon God did not want to touch this kind of power, this kind of thing.

He ignored the notification in his mind that thirty thousand Source Power had been received.

Li Heng focused his gaze on this huge black shadow hidden in the gray mist, whose face could not yet be seen, and he could hear endless Weird whispers in his ears.

These whispers seemed like noise, yet also seemed to be truly conveying something, crazy and Weird, to the point of being indescribable. If not for his Great Sun Supreme Essence suppressing himself, he would likely have fallen into madness the moment he heard such things.

Truly a big trouble.

Li Heng sighed softly in his heart.

With the Great Sun Supreme Essence suppressing him, all evil should be unable to invade. Yet, facing this huge black shadow, it could only alleviate a portion of the influence. Even as his gaze lengthened, the essence of the Great Sun began to be faintly shaken.

It really is power from outside the World.

A Calamity from the Unknown.

His thoughts stirred, and he withdrew the Great Sun essence's protection over himself. His Great Sun Dharma Image was not yet high or strong enough to completely Transcend this Heaven and Earth, so it was not strange that it could be shaken.

He would wait until he combined all versions of the Great Sun to strengthen it later.

Li Heng did not believe it could still be shaken then!

Now, facing this Weird, huge black shadow, the indescribable nature of the so-called World Truth, he felt he should use a cheat. His thoughts stirred, and Source Power burned rapidly.

His own status began to rise infinitely.

Li Heng felt his vision begin to rise continuously, from within Heaven and Earth to above Heaven and Earth, from above Heaven and Earth to the vast Void, finally as if he were situated at an infinitely high place.

He looked at this huge black shadow from a higher-dimensional perspective.

Then he fell silent.

He did not know how to describe this huge black shadow, because this thing had already departed from the category that language could describe, even if he were to coin a new term right now, it would not work.

"So... this is the Unknown..."

Li Heng sighed softly in his heart.

At this moment, the gray mist began to gradually fade.

Li Heng knew this was not a good phenomenon.

The black shadow was gradually manifesting into the Present World.

Although this mist was also extremely Weird and not something from this Heaven and Earth, it currently acted as a curtain, concealing the black shadow's true form and preventing it from being exposed to this Heaven and Earth.

If the form of this black shadow were truly exposed to this Heaven and Earth.

Heaven and Earth would simply be unable to bear it and would only collapse. Even if it did not collapse, it would undergo irreversible alienation on a material level, making it no longer suitable for the human race to survive.

Perhaps the word "suitable" was a bit of an understatement.

One could imagine it this way.

A person from a particle Physical Universe is composed entirely of atoms, electrons, molecules, and quarks. Then, if this person runs to a world where particles do not exist, what would happen?

The result is self-evident.

Truly troublesome, Li Heng sighed.

Where did this Xuanweizi get such a secret technique?

To be able to summon such Terror that exists within the Unknown.

Yes, Li Heng could only use the word "Terror" to temporarily describe it.

He could not even say whether this thing counted as a living being, or even if it counted as a thing. After all, his Source Power was limited; even if he raised his status and elevated his perspective, the things he could see were limited.

Sensing that as his status rose, his own Source Power was dropping rapidly, he had seen enough now; looking further would not reveal anything, as this thing was not something that a weak living being could understand.

Li Heng felt he should resolve it as soon as possible.

He visualized a trace of artistic conception in his heart, and Source Power dropped rapidly.

He raised his hand.

He waved toward the Terror black shadow, performing an erasing motion. The place where the black shadow resided immediately returned to chaos, re-enacting Earthly Fire Wind and Water.

Soon, Li Heng's expression became somewhat grave.

This was not because his method had no effect on the black shadow, but because the way the black shadow exited was unexpected.

He had used the artistic conception of the end of Heaven and Earth, returning to chaos, and re-enacting Earthly Fire Wind and Water; even if it were only one-billionth of a trace, the status was still infinitely high.

However, the black shadow was not destroyed by the terrifying power of returning to chaos as he had imagined, but instead, its form gradually faded, finally hiding away completely and turning into Emptiness.

Seeing this scene, he could not help but ponder in his heart.

Was this ultimately destroyed, or was it banished?

No matter how he looked at it, he felt that the position had returned to chaos, causing the world's space-time to cease to exist, leaving no place to bear this black shadow, forcing it to return to the Unknown within the mist curtain.

Moreover, there was no notification in his mind that Source Power had been credited.

His scalp immediately went numb.

The problem was huge now.

Although he could fully recreate the scene of Heaven and Earth returning to chaos if he had enough Source Power—rather than having not even one ten-billionth of the power now—it was even possible he could use even more powerful means.

But if using means of this level could not completely deal with this thing, one could imagine how terrifying the Disaster behind it must be; no wonder Heaven and Earth did not have a shred of power to resist.

The will of Heaven from before said, Void Is All Dark.

Originally, he had felt it was a bit exaggerated.

Now it seemed there was truly a reason for it.

Could it be that all worlds had already met their end?

Was only this Heaven and Earth left?

Such a thought suddenly popped into his mind.

But soon, he shook his head, casting these distracting thoughts to the back of his mind. Since his strength was insufficient now, thinking about these things was merely worrying needlessly and increasing his anxiety; it would be better to strive to become stronger.

Even if all worlds were destroyed.

As long as he had enough Source Power, he was confident he could turn the tables.

Not to mention the Ancient Immortal God who ran away, as mentioned by that Heaven earlier. If they, the ants within this Heaven and Earth, were still alive, those Ancient Immortal Gods outside of Heaven and Earth, those even more powerful beings, surely could not have died earlier than them, right?

Li Heng felt this was possible, but the probability was very small.

At this moment, he looked at his Source Power and could not help but shake his head.

In such a short time, less than a minute, he had already burned fifty thousand points of Source Power; if he hadn't killed the mutated Xuanweizi and obtained thirty thousand Source Power, it would have been equivalent to emptying half his fortune.

But now, he only had eighty thousand Source Power left.

His gaze was distant.

He looked at Gao Jue and Ding Yi, whom he still had restrained in place, his expression turning cold. Since he had consumed an extra twenty thousand points of Source Power because of this so-called Underworld Great Ming, he would use these two to make up for it.

The state of Gao Jue and Ding Yi was not very good at this moment.

Although they had not sought death just now like Xuanweizi by staring directly at that giant black shadow, they had still been somewhat affected by Pollution, with crazy whispers appearing in their minds, and small protrusions growing uncontrollably all over their bodies.

It was just like tentacles.

If they had not been restrained, this mutation might still have been suppressed. But now, restrained in place by Li Heng, they could not use their own power at all and could only watch in terror as this Pollution spread.

They even felt.

They were starting to become unlike themselves.

Before Li Heng even made a move, Gao Jue shouted out loud.

"Kill me, hurry up and kill me!"

He would rather die than become someone who was not himself!

Meanwhile, Ding Yi, whose cultivation was weaker, had already undergone large-scale mutation; bone spurs grew all over his body, his body curled up continuously, and the flesh on his surface squirmed crazily.

That Demon God arrived before the two.

Executing Li Heng's order, it spewed out heaven-topping Demon Flame.

As Gao Jue wished, the two were thoroughly burned to ashes.

A sensation of Source Power being credited appeared in Li Heng's mind.

Source Power plus thirty thousand, bringing the total amount of Source Power to one hundred and ten thousand.

He let out a sigh of relief, his mind stirred, causing the Demon God to dissipate and transform back into Magic Qi, letting it return to the character "Demon," and then he performed repairs on the surrounding Godly Kingdom Barrier.

He felt somewhat fortunate that he had reinforced the barrier.

Otherwise, with the descent of the black shadow just now, if the barrier had not been solid, causing the Pollution to leak out, the entire Sanshan Gathering would have been finished, and everyone would have been polluted and mutated.

Everything was calm, and after checking for any omissions.

Li Heng began to think about his plan.

Currently, he had souls, and although it was still not quite enough, that Underworld Great Ming seemed to have many souls as well; at worst, he would just go over and snatch them.

Now, he lacked a place where he could open up an Underworld.

Or rather, he lacked a prototype for an Underworld.

However, as he thought about it carefully, he found that the best choice was still the ocean of Yin Qi he had discovered beneath various cities and places where humans gathered; that place was the most suitable for opening an Underworld.

It was just that he did not know which ocean of Yin Qi would be better to choose.

The site selection for the Underworld could not be done casually.

This concerned a grand plan.

It was also the place for Life and Death Reincarnation in the future.

Suddenly, his brows furrowed.

With a thought, he caused his Earth Dharma Image to appear.

At the same time, he also caused his Divine Path clone—that phantom image containing the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the Underworld—to manifest. Subsequently, he discovered that both the Earth Dharma Image and the phantom image containing the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the Underworld seemed to be vibrating faintly, as if they had sensed something.

He followed the sensation and looked in a certain direction.

He was lost in thought.

What was in that direction?

But it seemed the distance was not too far either.

At this time, within the Ancient Path connected to Fengdu City.

That strange woman was running wildly for her life, and the three men were not seen by her side. As she ran, she looked back, her expression panicked and distraught, stumbling and nearly falling several times.

It was as if some Terror monster was chasing her from behind.