Chapter 68: Mysterious Land

After receiving the reminder from the Chaos City Lord, Zhou Yu, after separating from the other kings, did not rush to leave the Dark Continent, but began to explore this previously hidden space.

This space has a maximum diameter of ten billion kilometers—not small, but not huge either; with a large-range detector, one could scan it entirely in a short time.

However, some places cannot be detected by detectors, requiring a meticulous, inch-by-inch search.

Conducting an inch-by-inch search within a space ten billion kilometers in diameter would require far more effort.

"At times like this, one has to rely on luck—coincidentally, my luck should be pretty good right now."

Zhou Yu was then inside a spaceship, relying on his intuition to direct it to various locations for exploration.

Zhou Yu chose to believe in the power of the "Child of Fortune."

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Yu had already stayed in this space for nearly a month.

Zhou Yu devoted only a small part of his mind to external exploration, while the majority was focused on comprehending the spatial laws.

Based on the spatial laws, he has even created an ultimate secret technique.

He has naturally mastered the three main directions of spatial law; now his task is to combine those three directions into one.

However, this step is indeed difficult—ten to a hundred times harder than merely comprehending the three directions of spatial law.

"However, having created the ultimate secret technique and attained a high understanding of spatial law, the hope of breaking through is still not small—once I break through." Zhou Yu's eyes showed anticipation.

By mastering both temporal and spatial laws simultaneously, he signifies that he possesses the qualifications to become the lord of the universe.

And just as Zhou Yu was deeply immersed in his contemplation, suddenly—

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A tremor suddenly came from afar.

"Master, there is a super-large volcano erupting nineteen thousand kilometers ahead." The assistant intelligence also reported the situation at this time.

"A volcanic eruption? Let's go take a look." Zhou Yu didn't think much and directly gave the order.

Whoosh!

The F-class spaceship Zhou Yu was riding instantly arrived at the volcano's eruption site; the erupting volcano was indeed huge, with its crater alone exceeding a hundred li, endless magma spewing forth, the sight tremendously spectacular.

However, Zhou Yu did not linger to admire it; instead, he directly ordered the spaceship to fly along the crater into its interior.

"After searching for a month with nothing found, this sudden encounter with a magma eruption might not be a coincidence," Zhou Yu thought.

Like the Dark Continent, a light-year-scale landmass, its internal structure is very stable; even if magma exists deep down, eruptions are extremely rare.

This rare situation encountered by Zhou Yu compelled him to think further.

The magma ocean below was immeasurably vast; as the spaceship descended, it passed millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions of kilometers, yet still saw no end.

"Wrong." Zhou Yu finally sensed something amiss; if it were truly a magma sea over a billion kilometers deep, it could not produce merely a hundred-li eruption vent when erupting.

Whoosh!

Zhou Yu exited the spaceship; the surroundings were a sea of fiery red, and he carefully sensed his surroundings.

Swish!

Zhou Yu made a teleport, instantly appearing in another patch of magma.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Zhou Yu performed consecutive teleports, yet the surroundings remained a magma sea.

"My several teleports afterward each moved me to the farthest spatial fluctuation I sensed; in theory, teleport distance could reach a light-year, yet I kept staying within this magma sea." Zhou Yu naturally realized the problem.

How could the Dark Continent possibly have a magma sea of this scale?

It must be that his spatial perception is being interfered with!

"Not only space, but time is also changing."

Zhou Yu quickly realized the problem.

Through a clone of the Seven Star Vine, he quickly discovered that the time flow rate here had increased considerably, roughly two times.

"This place is indeed not simple." Zhou Yu felt not alarm but delight.

He wasn't afraid of being trapped; worst case, he could ask his teacher, the Chaos City Lord, to come fetch him.

Even if he died unexpectedly, he could be revived.

Having no worries, yet discovering such a mysterious place, Zhou Yu was naturally delighted.

"Still have to rely on luck." Zhou Yu chose a direction and flew straight toward it.

Flying within the magma, Zhou Yu found the time flow speed increasing—two times, three times, four times.

Zhou Yu kept advancing toward the direction where the time flow was accelerating.

After an unknown period, the time flow speed around him had reached 321 times, and Zhou Yu also contacted the bottom of the magma.

"There's an opening."

Zhou Yu quickly discovered an opening about a hundred li in diameter; its surface bore some kind of force that blocked magma from flowing in.

Zhou Yu cautiously probed it, found the force weak, and then forcibly passed through, entering the opening.

This is an extremely vast underground space, within which 256 stone stelae, each about three thousand kilometers tall, stand upright, each inscribed with numerous law secret patterns.

At this moment, these law secret patterns are constantly shifting under some force, and countless shifting patterns continually combine into various secret arts, exquisitely mysterious and marvelous.

At this moment, beneath one of the stelae, a woman with wings growing from her back stands here, gazing at the continually changing patterns.

Behind her is an old man fully blackened, his face full of wrinkles, possessing three eyes.

"Wuhuo, think again—do you have any other information about that invincible powerhouse?" the woman asked at this time.

"Master, I've told you everything I know; I truly don't know anything else," the old man behind hastily replied.

Upon hearing this, the woman couldn't help but frown.

However, just as she was about to say something, she suddenly looked toward a certain direction.

"Who is it? Come out!" the woman shouted coldly.

Before she finished speaking, Zhou Yu's figure emerged from a passage leading here.

"Zhou Yu?" the woman's expression changed, and her heart gave a jolt.

"Huh?"

Zhou Yu also saw the two people in this underground space; he hadn't expected that someone had arrived here before him.

He even less expected that this person was Yu Zhen Wang.

A hundred years ago in the Dark Continent, it was Yu Zhen Wang who asked him for help, giving him the chance to slay three demon clan King-limit powerhouses.

"Domain King, I didn't expect to see you here." Yu Zhen Wang's face quickly broke into a smile as she flew over at high speed.

At this point, as long as one isn't cut off from the virtual universe, which human immortal doesn't know that Zhou Yu has officially been conferred the title of Domain King?

Zhou Yu merely smiled at the words and said nothing more.

He glanced at the old man behind Yu Zhen Wang and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this person should be the missing Dark Radiance Clan King Immortal, 'Wu Huo'!"

At first sight, Zhou Yu knew the old man was a Dark Radiance Clan immortal, and from his aura he seemed to be a King Immortal.

Earlier, in the great city where the Dark Radiance Clan resided, the Immortals of the Grand Alliance had already investigated thoroughly: the clan's strongest was a King Immortal named 'Wu Huo', though he had mysteriously gone missing.

Now seeing this Dark Radiance Clan King Immortal, Zhou Yu naturally realized at once that this must be the missing 'Wu Huo'; otherwise, what are the odds of such a coincidence—just now another Dark Radiance Clan King Immortal happens to appear?

"Yes, his name is Wu Huo." Yu Zhen Wang explained:

"I've been in the Dark Continent all along; hearing that the remnants of the Dark Radiance Clan's civilization had resurfaced, I rushed over to check, never expecting to run into Wu Huo. He isn't my match, but he lured me here hoping to trap me with this place's environment. Although his scheme succeeded, I also enslaved him."

Hearing this, Zhou Yu nodded; it was a reasonable explanation.

However, he suspected that Yu Zhen Wang wasn't telling the whole truth.

"This Yu Zhen Wang is guarding against me." Zhou Yu understood: although they were both human immortals, if he chose to retire from the outer battlefield, acting against Yu Zhen Wang would incur no blame.

"Could the sudden emergence of the Dark Radiance Clan's remnants be related to Yu Zhen Wang?" Zhou Yu suddenly recalled that the last time Yu Zhen Wang was pursued by three King-limit experts, it was because she had enslaved a Dark Radiance Clan life.

At that moment, Yu Zhen Wang also said, "This place is not simple; since the Domain King you have also come here, how about we join forces?"

"Sure." Zhou Yu nodded, saying, "Your strength may be lacking, but I imagine your servant ought to know quite a bit, right?"

"Wu Huo, tell us everything you know." Yu Zhen Wang then ordered.

(End of Chapter)