Chapter 529 - 528: 3 have left, the shattered unknown world

The emperors who control an Immortal Realm are not exactly naive.

Take Jin Ritian for instance, he might come across as a forthright person. Still, he has a lot of hidden intentions.

The sudden yelling of Li Jing wasn’t to warn the four about danger but rather to take the kill from them, which the three quickly understood.

But what could they say?

First, they misunderstood.

Secondly, they were too busy running for their lives.

At this moment, Kelan was hiding in his own world, unaware of what was happening outside.

Ignoring what Li Jing did previously...

On both elements, the three couldn’t come forward with any remarks.

Returning to the issue at hand...

Li Jing’s action kind of confused them.

Anyway, it was killed. Does it matter who did it?

Could Li Jing really be trying to show off by doing so?

But he’s not that kind of person!

If he really likes to show off, there wouldn’t be a need for him to hide behind a mask.

Besides them, nobody knew that a certain someone was the lord of Chen Tang City, so who is he trying to impress?

As for Li Jing’s actions...

The three are both speechless and confused but didn’t take this matter too seriously.

They glanced at the now-composed void, confirming the strange bird had been completely eradicated by Li Jing, Zixuan shifts her gaze to the other two.

"What do you think about that bird just now?"

"Besides being pretty strange, nothing particularly stands out."

Jin Ritian exhaled.

"This strange bird was indeed peculiar, its talents are impressive, but it doesn’t seem that powerful. However, its strength surpasses that of the Venerable."

Before his words could settle, Xiang Dong interjected.

"The oddest part is its ability to improve rapidly during combat. If we consider its artificial nature, it’s hard to imagine how such a creature was created."

He then turned to Li Jing.

"What do you think about this bird, Immortal Lord Li?"

"Honestly, apart from its artificial nature, there’s nothing else that stands out."

Li Jing shrugged, and then asked.

"Have similar creatures appeared when the Spatial Anchor was activated before?"

"Never."

Zixuan replied.

"Although many unusual beings have emerged from the anchor point before, none of them were as peculiar as this one. Moreover, the monsters that have appeared in the past were, at most, Venerable and just a bit troublesome due to some innate skills but none surpassed the Venerable."

"Then there’s not much to say."

Li Jing shrugged and said.

"If we want to understand where that thing came from and what it is, we need to investigate behind the anchor point. Guessing blindly here is pointless."

At these words, Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian fall silent for a moment, then the latter speaks up.

"Immortal Lord Li is correct. However, I’m afraid we won’t be able to explore the world behind this anchor point, as in all these years..."

Li Jing cut him off before he could finish.

"So, how come we haven’t seen anything else come through besides the bird?"

His speech interrupted, Jin Ritian hesitates for a moment, uncomfortable.

Xiang Dong carries on the conversation smoothly.

"The arrival of anything from the other side of the Spatial Passage doesn’t necessarily coincide with the opening of the passage. Some creatures actively cross over as soon as the passage opens. As for other items, they appear during the time the passage sustains."

He continued.

"Our ancestors speculated that the Ancient Fairyland at the other end of the Passage might be in extreme Chaos. When the passage opens, a strong attraction may be generated on the other end, pulling in the items scattered in the Ancient Fairyland."

Li Jing accepted this explanation,

"So only this strange bird crossed over at first. It’s unlikely that other creatures would follow, right?"

"Not necessarily."

Jin Ritian responded.

"Each opening of the Spatial Anchor lasts for at least half a month. During this period, creatures may cross over at any time. It’s just more common for more active creatures to cross over at the beginning."

"Is that so?"

Li Jing blinked, subtly casting a glance at Zixuan, as he canceled all the buff on his body and stepped into the space he tore open.

???

Jin Ritian.

???

Xiang Dong.

Li Jing’s sudden appearance was a surprise for them, but his sudden departure left them utterly confused.

Zixuan, however, seemed to have some understanding after being looked at by Li Jing. She took a peek at the Anchor Point in the distance of the void, put away her Taoist Long Whip, and prepared to leave.

At the same time...

Li Jing returns with Blue Phoenix, who had been observing the battle from afar, and turned to her.

"Let’s go."

Upon hearing his words, Zixuan nodded.

???

Jin Ritian.

???

Xiang Dong.

Where is Li Jing going?

Why does Zixuan seem to have some secret agreement with him?

Before the two could figure it out, Li Jing whipped out his flying sword and shot off into the distance with Blue Phoenix, heading straight for the anchor point in the depths of the void.

Jin Ritian and Xiang Dong were left in shock when they realized what happened.

It seems Li Jing wants to go to the other side of the anchor point.

This out of nowhere...

What is he thinking?

For the sake of the Blue Phoenix who misses the Fire Phoenix!?

A woman, yet one who yearns for another woman.

Really?

While still shocked, Shi Zixuan spoke.

"The two of you, we shall meet again. Remember to say goodbye to Karan for me."

Having said this, her figure moved, transforming into a ray of light closely following Li Jing and the Blue Phoenix.

!!!

Jin Ritian.

!!!

Xiang Dong.

!!!

The strong ones outside the void, observant.

The departure of Li Jing and the Blue Phoenix would not greatly bother the crowd.

After all, no one even knew them well.

It’s just that Li Jing’s sudden arrival and various actions made it seem like he was a hidden emperor, giving off a bit of mystery.

When one emperor who controls a realm chooses to enter the spatial passage, one cannot stop the crowd from caring.

The most dramatic reaction came from the experts of the Northern Immortal Domain.

They had no choice.

Their emperor ran off with a sulk, to a place from which return was likely impossible. How could they not turn pale?

In the time it took for everyone to collect themselves, Li Jing, the Blue Phoenix and Shi Zixuan successively darted into the spatial passage, disappearing in the void.

Just then.

Kalan, who had retreated into a solitary world a while ago, returned to the void with caution.

Seeing that everything had finished, and the strange bird had vanished without a trace, he was taken aback.

Upon viewing Jin Ritian and Xiang Dong dumbfoundedly gazing at the spatial passage, Kalan frowned slightly and moved next to them.

"What’s wrong with the two of you?"

Having asked this, he looked around.

"What happened to that strange bird? And where have Immortal Lord Li and Shi Zixuan gone?"

Upon hearing the queries, Xiang Dong absentmindedly turned his head.

He was about to reply when Jin Ritian suddenly sped off.

???

Kalan.

What the hell!

What is Jin Ritian up to?

Why is he heading for the spatial passage?

Xiang Dong was also stunned for a moment; then, as if having realized something, he gritted his teeth, didn’t utter a word and turned into a streak of light chasing after him.

Kalan’s eyes nearly popped out at the sight.

It was one thing for Jin Ritian, that reckless man, to suddenly bolt for the spatial passage, but why did Xiang Dong, who was always calm and composed, also hastily dash towards it?

In his astonishment, Kalan realized that Li Jing and Shi Zixuan may have discovered something and had already entered the spatial passage first.

Upon realizing this, Kalan also wanted to follow them.

However, facing what lay behind him—an entirely unknown spatial passage which had once trapped countless emperors—he wasn’t as brave as Jin Ritian and Xiang Dong who just closed their eyes and charged straight ahead.

He was afraid of death.

Afraid of going and never coming back...

Outside the void behind him.

All the groups present were unexpectedly in chaos.

Emperors’ level people trying to venture deep into the spatial passage was not unheard of.

The spatial passage opens once every hundred thousand years.

One hundred thousand years.

Even for Venerables who possess an eternal lifespan, this period is extremely long. There is always a Venerable or Emperor level person who is unable to endure and wishes to take a gamble—testing whether they can find an exit.

This kind of event,

Cannot be said to occur every time the spatial passage opens.

But some people enter the passage, and even a few group together. This is not rare.

For an emperor who controls one of the realms to enter the spatial passage is not unpreceded.

But never before had three people embarked simultaneously.

The "Four Realms" collectively are under the control of just "four families," and three of them had their masters run off—an unexpected crisis, indeed!

Controlling a realm is not something just anyone can pull off.

Among Emperors, too, there are strong and weak.

If someone incapable ascends the throne, the other three realms will be inevitably put under pressure.

Indeed, each realm has countless Emperor-level entities eyeing the position of ruler.

After all, it is a position that allows control over one’s realm and a wealth of resources.

Who wouldn’t want it, given the chance?

...

On the other side of the spatial passage.

Li Jing and the Blue Phoenix quickly completed the transition.

Looking up,

They found themselves in the sky above a piece of land existing within the void.

The land was not vast.

At one glance, a dim void could be already seen.

Something more unique was,

Not far from the void where nothing should exist, several landmasses identical to the one below were visible to the naked eye.

Looking further up.

It was the sky, separated by the void in the same way as the land, leaving patches of clear blue sky.

Each piece of land had its corresponding sky.

Surveying the surroundings, Blue Phoenix instinctively snuggled against Li Jing, unconsciously grabbing his arm.

"This... seems to be a broken world..."

Li Jing nodded.

Even though he had never seen a broken world.

But the land and sky were separated by the void, clearly indicating that the visible pieces of land and sky were originally one.

Putting that aside.

At this moment, Li Jing could sense the breakdown of the normal spatial rules that used to maintain the intactness of the heavens and earth, they no longer functioned.

The space here had been damaged and no longer had the ability to recover, yet it barely maintained its state after being shattered.

If it weren’t for the remaining effectiveness of the spatial rules, this part of the earth realm might have been swallowed by the void and disappeared.

Then a question arises.

Is this place the broken Ancient Fairyland?

The answer is apparently no.

Apart from Li Jing’s previous speculation, he had used the Eye of True Vision to confirm it beforehand.

The anchor passage was not linked to the Ancient Fairyland, but to the unknown.

Although it seems to be a Broken World, which is hard not to make people speculate, the Eye of True Vision wouldn’t be wrong. This is another place.

An unknown place that hasn’t formed its own heaven and earth.

If it had once formed heaven and earth, there would surely be a name for it.

The space here has collapsed.

But strictly speaking, it has not been destroyed from its roots.

If there was once a self-formed heaven and earth, the feedback from the Eye of True Vision would certainly be a clear destination.

So.

What kind of place is this exactly?

Just as he was contemplating, Shi Zixuan completed her travel and appeared on another piece of land not far away.

Seeing this, Li Jing was briefly stunned, then turned his head and furrowed his brows.

There were no spatial passages behind them.

In other words.

He and Blue Phoenix could not return the way they had come.

Meanwhile.

Shi Zixuan immediately brightened up upon seeing such an unusual Broken World.

Then she saw that Li Jing and Blue Phoenix were in the air above another nearby piece of land. She also realized something was wrong and looked back.

Upon seeing this, her face suddenly turned sullen.

The anchor passage was one-way and had no return, there were many speculations about it among the people in the Immortal Realm.

Most believed that there were countless dangers in the Broken Ancient Fairyland, even the Emperor Level individuals could easily perish there.

Others believed.

There are opportunities in the Ancient Fairyland that could help them break through the Venerable Realm, so the people who went there didn’t plan to return. They chose to break the space and go to the Upper Three Realms.

At this moment, the truth was in front of them.

There might be dangers here, or there might be the key to breaking through the Venerable Realm.

But the real reason no one could return was.

The anchor passage was one-way and had randomness. The return passage simply did not exist.

Without the spatial passage, how could they return after they came?

After cautiously looking around, Shi Zixuan moved her figure and entered the void, which seemed like the Chaotic Border but with no hindrance, and arrived next to Li Jing and Blue Phoenix.

"Immortal Lord Li..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Li Jing interrupted.

"Just call me Li Jing. The constant ’Immortal Lord’ really sounds strange."

Shi Zixuan paused upon hearing this, then nodded and said,

"In that case, Li Jing, you can call me Zixuan."

Before she could finish her sentence, Li Jing shook his head.

"That wouldn’t do, Emperor Shi, I estimate that you are at least a million years old. It wouldn’t be appropriate for a youngster like me to call you by your name directly."

"..."

Shi Zixuan.

Li Jing was...

Was he intentionally trying to annoy her?

Blue Phoenix couldn’t help but giggle when she saw that Li Jing had left Shi Zixuan speechless in just a few words, and the tension from being in this possible Broken Ancient Fairyland immediately dissipated.

How clever was Shi Zixuan?

Seeing Blue Phoenix holding someone’s arm and laughing, she immediately realized that Li Jing was annoying her in order to lighten the latter’s mood.

This...

It was a bit over-the-line!

They were both stunningly beautiful women. Why was Li Jing so blatantly partial to Blue Phoenix and even used her, an emperor-level figure, as the butt of his jokes?

And logically speaking.

In terms of actual age, Blue Phoenix was much older than her.

Shi Zixuan was only a million years old, while Blue Phoenix was tens of millions of years old.

But facing Li Jing, Shi Zixuan didn’t get angry.

Especially since there is no way back now, to return to the Immortal Realm she would have to rely on him.

After giving him a somewhat resentful glance, Shi Zixuan spoke.

"Most likely this is the Broken Ancient Fairyland, and we seem to be in an fringe area. The nearby lands are all pretty small and there’s not much worth mentioning..."

Before she could finish, Li Jing shook his head.

"Don’t jump to conclusions so quickly, it’s still uncertain whether this place is the Ancient Fairyland."

With that, he said dispassionately.

"Since it has come this far, I won’t hide the truth from you. Long before the anchor passage opened, I had seen through special means that the Ascending Path had been tampered with, and it’s not linked to the Broken Ancient Fairyland."

"..."

Shi Zixuan.

She was a wise person.

It was clear to her that Li Jing’s "hindsight" was not a bluff.

Although she didn’t know what his basis was or how he confirmed it beforehand.

But he seemed very confident that this place was not the Ancient Fairyland.

TM...

Shi Zixuan exploded in her mind.

Such an important matter, and Li Jing didn’t even bother to explain it to her in the first place!

If he had explained it, she would certainly not have stepped into this murky water so casually!

She wasn’t a fool.

The tampering with the Ascending Path to the Broken World suggests a conspiracy from behind the scenes.

The aim, for the time being, is unclear.

This plan dates back further than one can imagine, back to when she was not yet Emperor Beiming, and the trap was already set. The Immortal Realm has remained oblivious from its predecessors to the present generation.

This setup.

It’s too big.

It’s hard to imagine what kind of entity lurks behind the scenes.

Emperor Level?

A joke, surely.

Could an Emperor Level entity, who is fundamentally only at the Venerable Realm, have the capacity to set such a vast stage?

Just interfering with the Ascending Path to the Broken World would be beyond the power of an entity at the Emperor Level.

To be honest...

If it weren’t for the hope of returning to Li Jing, and the prospect of reaping "installment" pieces of Original Fortune in the Little Universe, Shi Zixuan would have seriously considered going on a rampage.

What a lousy setup!

Depressed, Shi Zixuan turned her head as she felt a presence.

Li Jing and the Blue Phoenix also noticed and turned to look.

Before them.

Two streaks of light were hurtling towards them through the void from the distance.

Seeing this, Li Jing and the Blue Phoenix’s faces darkened.

The light was mysterious upon arrival.

Were they people who had entered the anchor point passage and got trapped here!?

Seeing the light approaching, Shi Zixuan was stunned, her face showing a disbelief.

"Xiang Dong? Jin Ritian!?"

?

Li Jing slowly raised a question mark.

Blue Phoenix was also taken aback and turned her head in surprise.

The two arrivals had their aura sealed and their abilities were immeasurable, sensed in detail by the two.

But Shi Zixuan was able to recognise them.

Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian, she could not misidentify.

The fact that these two had also come was something that Li Jing and the Blue Phoenix had not anticipated.

While they were still dazed, the two streaks of light arrived.

As the light faded, the figures of Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian were indeed revealed.

Upon seeing the two, Li Jing spoke in a puzzled voice.

"How did you two end up coming here?"

"Ahem."

Jin Ritian coughed, unsure of what to say.

Xiang Dong cleared his throat and said.

"Take a chance, and a bicycle can become a motorcycle. I noticed Shi Zixuan joining up with you, Immortal Lord Li, and I wanted to tag along."

Upon hearing this, a peculiar expression appeared on Li Jing’s face.

No disrespect to him, but Xiang Dong’s words were a bit too optimistic and in sync with the culture of the Blue Star.

This person...

He must have secretly visited the Cangming Entertainment City, exposing himself to Blue Star culture.

If not, how could he come up with terms like bicycle and motorcycle?

These two things were certainly not present in the primitive era before Xiang Dong ascended.

Shi Zixuan naturally would not understand what a bicycle or motorcycle was, nor how one could transform into the other.

After hearing Xiang Dong’s later words though, she grasped his intention.

This made her feel a bit better instantly.

She was clearly set up.

However, Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian stumbled into it because they thought there was a benefit, which in comparison to her, they seemed worse off.

She was really curious.

How they would react when they found out the truth.

Not wanting to spoil the surprise, Shi Zixuan changed the subject.

"Since Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian have also come, we should travel together. Having more people means we can watch out for each other."

She then continued in a charming smile.

"Before we start exploring our surroundings, Li Jing, you should better explain in detail what you know to all of us. It will prevent unexpected incidents during our exploration and prepare us mentally to face whatever comes."

Hearing Shi Zixuan say this, Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian became spirited immediately.

In their eyes.

This place was undoubtedly the Broken Ancient Fairyland.

Li Jing who had ascended not long ago surely wouldn’t know much.

But since he dared to come here, it definitely wasn’t because of an impulsive decision by Blue Phoenix.

Shi Zixuan’s decision to come indicated they had a sense of assurance.

Most likely, the Charming Spirit who personally destroyed the Ancient Fairyland had shared some secrets with Li Jing...

They shouldn’t miss the opportunity to listen to the hidden story, should they?

Before Li Jing could speak, Xiang Dong opened his mouth.

"It’s awkward to talk here. Our stand in the high sky is too conspicuous and may attract unwanted attention. We should find a secluded place first, settle down, and then discuss."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jin Ritian chimed in.

"What Brother Xiang said is right, this place is unlike the normal Earth Realm, we should be more careful."

Seeing the two going back and forth, utterly convinced that this place was the Broken Ancient Fairyland, Shi Zixuan couldn’t help her lips from curving upward.

Seeing her like this, Li Jing, underneath his mask, had an incredulous expression.

She was the one who got tricked by him and couldn’t vent her anger, was her mentality starting to twist now?

Regardless of his internal grumble.

He agreed with Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian’s suggestions.

It was also necessary to explain the situation to the three of them in detail.

Without any hesitation, he grabbed Blue Phoenix and said,

"Let’s go, let’s go down and find a safe place."

...