Chapter 852: The Number One Under Heaven's Black Lotus

The white captain transformed into a streak of lightning, incredibly swift, and ignoring his injuries, he channeled the lightning ability within his body to flee rapidly.

He sped along like a bolt of lightning, covering a distance of several dozen miles. Only then did the electric light crash and dissipate. The white captain knelt half-way on the ground, his face pale, cold sweat pouring like rain. He gasped for breath, finally unable to suppress a wild laugh of having escaped death. But the laughter aggravated his injuries, causing him to cough violently. Thinking of his killed teammates, his expression turned ugly.

What kind of blade technique was that, exactly?

It left no trace, descended from the sky, and even had the ability to influence emotions.

He had been tainted by the blade Qi, and even now, he still had the urge to laugh and cry uncontrollably.

Such a terrifying blade technique, even in some high-martial worlds, would likely be enough to dominate a region.

Damn Main God, to actually drop them into such a dangerous world without the slightest hint.

The white captain rested for a moment, purging all the inappropriate emotions, before standing up again. He then fired a signal device, attempting to contact his other three teammates, but after waiting and waiting, not a single message came back.

A foreboding premonition grew increasingly intense in his heart.

The mission of the other three teammates was not too difficult to complete; logically, they should have been able to arrive on the eve of the Martial Arts Alliance meeting.

Could it be...

The white captain opened the Main God Panel, thought for a moment, and finally chose to spend Source Power to check on his teammates' status.

Then, his eyes widened, because on the list of teammates, the words "Already Deceased" were marked in red.

In an instant, the white captain felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, drenched in cold sweat.

Had the worst-case scenario finally happened?

The other three teammates had already been killed by someone before the Martial Arts Alliance meeting was held.

And now, he was the only survivor of the entire reincarnator squad.

"No, the mission in this world is too strange and too dangerous; I choose to give up." The white captain was, after all, a decisive person.

Although giving up the mission in this world meant deducting a significant amount of Source Power—almost equal to the total Source Power earned in the previous three worlds—his own life was the most important thing.

After submitting the mission failure and having a massive amount of Source Power deducted, the white captain chose to return to the Main God Space. His figure instantly blurred and vanished.

What a piece of shit world, I'm never coming back.

"Heh, sorry, it seems I failed to stop that person." Badao sheathed his blade. Upon noticing the astonished gazes of Wuchen Gongzi and Shangguan Haitang, he unconsciously puffed out his chest, his tone becoming increasingly nonchalant.

"Heh, it was I who intentionally let that person leave; it has nothing to do with you." Yu Liancheng spoke in the same indifferent tone as Badao, immediately causing Shangguan Haitang to giggle, and even the corners of Liusheng Piaoxu's mouth held a faint smile.

Badao snorted coldly: "Then how do you plan to end this Martial Arts Alliance meeting?"

Yu Liancheng laughed: "What does that have to do with me? I am not the one who convened the Martial Arts Alliance meeting, nor am I the one who killed the soon-to-be Martial Arts Alliance Leader." He even laughed and patted Badao on the shoulder: "This Martial Arts Alliance meeting is a competition of who has the superior martial arts. You look like the final winner now, which means you are the Martial Arts Alliance Leader. You should be the one cleaning up this mess."

Badao's face grew even colder.

Shangguan Haitang closed her Folding Fan: "By the way, we should go find Cheng Shifei. After he was controlled, he has been missing for many days, and the Princess is very worried."

"Leave it to me." Yu Liancheng's divine sense expanded, sweeping across a radius of several dozen miles in an instant. A moment later, with a wave of his sleeve, Cheng Shifei appeared in the guest room, his expression muddled and confused, as if he were a puppet.

Yu Liancheng said: "The Gu insect master is dead, and the Gu Insect used to control people will also die very soon. Once Cheng Shifei wakes up from his sleep, he will return to normal."

At the same time, he flicked his finger, and a stream of light flew into the center of Cheng Shifei's brow. Cheng Shifei immediately slumped to the ground and fell asleep.

Suddenly, Yu Liancheng seemed to sense something, and his brows arched: "I have something to attend to and will leave for now; I leave this place for you all to handle."

His figure turned into a streak of light and vanished before everyone's eyes. In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the place where the white captain had disappeared.

Yu Liancheng gazed toward the distant firmament, as if piercing through countless voids to reach the other shore.

"Shall I go and see what kind of sacred being this so-called Main God is?"

He had indeed intentionally let the white captain leave earlier and had tainted him with a bit of divine sense.

The moment the white captain returned, Yu Liancheng felt it immediately.

That bit of divine sense seemed to be separated from him by an unknown number of worlds, but if he were willing to track it, utilizing the traversal ability of the Stone Gate, it was not impossible to track it down. But if he were to truly do so, he would very likely face one or more great beings, which carried immense risk.

Every disadvantage has its advantage; if he could truly find the Main God Hall, perhaps he could learn more secrets of the heavens and even find clues related to that Stone Gate.

After pondering for another moment, Yu Liancheng hid his physical body within a void and sat cross-legged. His Primordial Spirit became incredibly active, suddenly leaping out of his body and heading toward the firmament. In the blink of an eye, it seemed to have reached the end of the universe. Immediately following this, a Stone Gate opened within his soul, continuously traversing different worlds to trace that faint divine sense.

Constantly transcending, constantly advancing; Great Thousand Worlds, Zhongqian Shijie, and countless small worlds all seemed to flash by. Scene after scene of brilliant sights emerged in his divine sense, only to vanish instantly.

This was a very marvelous experience, giving Yu Liancheng a deeper realization of time and space.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, it seemed he had reached the end of the heavens, the other shore of the starry sky.

This place seemed to be at the very beginning of heaven and earth, vast and boundless, a piece of chaos. The concepts of time and space became blurred, and all brilliant light and color turned into the most primitive black and white.

And in this chaotic space, Yu Liancheng saw a Golden Lotus.

The lotus emitted a sacred and brilliant golden light; it was the size of a speck of dust, yet it seemed capable of bursting through chaos. On every petal of the lotus, it seemed as if Sanskrit chants were ringing out, as if a Fotu Kingdom were gestating within the lotus.

Hum hum!

The lotus emitted a strange fluctuation.

Vaguely, Yu Liancheng seemed to see Lingshanshengjing, magnificent palace buildings, and Bodhisattvas and Lohan filling the sky. A Fotu sat on the lotus throne, holding a grand Dharma assembly within the Dao Field, teaching the Fotu Dharma.

But in the blink of an eye, Spirit Mountain shook, and the radiance dissipated. The magnificent towers collapsed. Grass and trees pierced through the cracks in the bluestone. The original Buddhas and Bodhisattvas were replaced by demons, ghosts, and monsters. And the Fotu who had been on Spirit Mountain was gone, yet someone was still lecturing on scriptures—a middle-aged man in black robes.

The man wore a smile, his black hair draped casually, and his eyes were as deep as the stars, as if they could fathom all the mysteries of the universe and the heavens.

And what he sat upon was not a sacred Golden Lotus, but a Black Lotus cast from black jade, radiating an aura of destruction, as if a single petal could crush a world.

In the blink of an eye, everything vanished like a dream.

In the chaos, a broken Black Lotus floated.

That bit of Yu Liancheng's divine sense was within the floating lotus.

One flower, one world; the Black Lotus did indeed contain the world of the reincarnators.