Chapter 146

At the boundary of the God-Abandoned Land shrouded in darkness, a figure strolled leisurely like an immortal at play, each step crossing several hundred meters into the distance; the golden light radiating from his body kept the twisted things hiding in the darkness from daring to approach.

Jiang Xuan waved his hand lightly, a streak of white light flashed past, and several miserable screams rang out from the deep darkness in the distance.

An area enclosed by withered, twisted tree branches, dim lights lit around its perimeter casting faint illumination; from within came occasional pained wails, and the people moving about the camp all covered their faces with pitch-black cloth strips.

Two identically dressed guards standing beside the camp suddenly saw, in the distance, a figure emitting a faint golden light slowly walking toward Silver City.

A guard extended a pustule-covered hand and rubbed his eyes; after confirming it truly was a human figure, he immediately sounded a warning toward the camp behind him.

Before long, several black-robed figures appeared inside the fence, pairs of vigilant eyes gleaming from within their pitch-black cloaks.

Those monsters in the darkness usually would not approach the range where light exists, but this humanoid golden light ignored the light's warning — what kind of monster is this?

As the golden light drew nearer, they gripped their weapons tighter and tighter; though fear showed on their faces, none of them had any intention of retreating.

When he stopped at the camp entrance, the golden light gradually dissipated, revealing a transcendent, elegant young gentleman standing in place, dressed in a black formal suit that looked nothing like the attire of people living on this land already abandoned by the gods.

"Hello! May I ask if this is Yue City?" That elegant young gentleman doffed his tall, stiff hat and bowed as he asked.

"It is!" One of the guards replied in a clear, youthful voice, sounding like he had just come of age.

The black-robed figure standing in the middle glared fiercely at that guard; creatures emerging from the darkness should not actively strike up conversation or reply — this is the most basic thing written in Yue City's code.

Seeing the man who appeared to be the leader, Jiang Xuan revealed a kindly smile: "Old sir, there is no need to be wary of me."

The next second Jiang Xuan took a step and appeared in the midst of the crowd: "I heard you have always followed the divine oracle, guarding a place shrouded in gray mist; that place is my main purpose this time!"

The old sir's eyes instantly widened, his body beginning to gradually swell and thicken, but the next second Jiang Xuan's hand lightly patted his body.

A gentle light instantly seeped into the old sir's body, squeezing out a large amount of blood qi.

The expelled blood qi emitted black rays, like evil ghosts crawled out of hell, letting out sharp, piercing shrieks and howls.

Jiang Xuan's bright eyes calmly swept over those black mists; because these Yue City people's bodies were almost all at their limit, unable to withstand the Eight Trigrams Furnace's flames, Jiang Xuan merely waved his hand to open a space door and sent them elsewhere.

When the gentle light dissipated, the swelling and pustules on the old sir's body were already receding; the powerful physique and recovery ability granted by his Sequence let him return to a normal person's speed very quickly.

The surrounding people had just gathered around, and happened to see the Yue City Grand Elder's body actually rapidly recovering!

The raised weapons were stunned into lowering; the gazes directed at Jiang Xuan carried shock and faint expectation.

The Elder waited a long time and discovered he had not died; he slowly opened his eyes, and I discovered the defense squad people all stared at him with faces full of shock, not attacking. Right, the mysterious person who had suddenly appeared and attacked him did not make a move.

His eyes contained disappointment and rage; he raised a large hammer and was about to stride forward to attack.

But the moment he lifted his hand, he suddenly froze: Is this still my own hand?

His originally rotting, pustule-covered hands, though now looking somewhat wrinkled, no longer felt any pain; the bizarre toxins accumulated in his body had all been expelled and completely dissipated.

"Grand Elder! It was this gentleman who made you return to a normal state!" That talkative youth spoke up on his own initiative.

"Return to normal?" The Grand Elder murmured to himself, extended both hands to examine them carefully, pressed his hands on his face and rubbed vigorously, finding no broken places.

Really returned to normal?

Jiang Xuan waved his hand, and the Vajra Exorcism power spread outward, squeezing the tainted blood qi out of the surrounding guards' bodies; however, most of them were only Sequence Nine and Sequence Eight people, their injuries did not recover rapidly, but the pain that had been tormenting them had already vanished completely.

"Old sir! Do you know where the Gray Mist boundary is located?" Jiang Xuan continued to ask.

Although he could see in the darkness and travel a thousand li in a step, that gray-mist-shrouded region seemed to have been placed under a very powerful rule restriction; wandering aimlessly would not find it, so he changed targets to seek these Era guardians of the Gray Mist boundary within Yue City.

"I can guide the way, only need you to also drive out the pollution from the bodies of the other people in our Yue City! Just once is enough!" That youth hurriedly stepped forward.

Ignoring the Grand Elder's gaze, the youth looked at Jiang Xuan with determined eyes; even if he is an Evil God, being able to let those Yue City people suffering torment return to normal is good! Even if only briefly normal, after all some of them are already near death!

Jiang Xuan's face bore a gentle smile; he nodded: "Of course! This is a very fair trade."

As his words fell, the golden light within him suddenly expanded outward, enveloping the entire camp in golden light, even pushing the camp's light-covered position outward by seven or eight meters.

Countless miserable shrieks and piercing cries resounded through the camp; even the sounds emitted by those twisted things pulled back several Yue City people on the verge of death.

Under the golden light's envelopment, the polluted blood qi was repelled outside the golden light; the whole of Yue City seemed to be bathing in warm sunlight.

The youth's gaze was dull; he murmured in a low voice: "Even the legendary Sun would probably be just like this!"

When the golden light receded, Jiang Xuan, bringing the youth, had already disappeared from the spot.

"Are you an angel?" The youth asked cautiously while guiding the way.

"Barely counts! I am the Fool's dependent!" Jiang Xuan did not forget to plant a few more deeply rooted thorns for Klein.

"The Fool?" The youth murmured softly, looked up: "Is this whole world all like us?"

"No! This place is merely the East Continent sealed off by pollution; the North and South Continents are both places where normal humans live! Later the Fool will open the road for you to the East and West Continents. When that time comes you can return to normal lives!"

……

The two chatted idly on and off; before long, an ancient gray mist wall spanning the horizon stood beneath the sky like a giant overlooking heaven and earth, endless gray mist circulating across it from east to west with no visible end, condensed rule power actually splitting this horizon apart.

The Gray Mist Wall has arrived!

"Thank you!"

The youth shook his head slightly, tightened his grip on the lantern in his hand: "Sir, will the respected Fool truly open the boundary?"

Jiang Xuan smiled and nodded: "Of course! The purpose the Fool sent me this time is precisely for this matter!"

"Wonderful! I will tell everyone this news! Together believe in the Fool! Don't know the Fool's title?" The youth's face carried delight and a trace of hope.

If everyone can return to normal, no longer tormented by pollution, what a beautiful life that would be!

"The Fool not belonging to this Era, the mysterious Overlord above the Gray Mist, the Yellow-Black King who wields Luck"

……

Jiang Xuan did not enter this rolling gray mist; he knew that inside was sealed the Source Quality other than the Chaos Sea and Source Castle.

Finding the Gray Mist Wall almost counts as finding the Chaos Sea and the Dark Wolf.

The Source Quality Chaos Sea occupies almost the entire Earth Core of this world, leaving only one interface — the Chernobyl Research Institute — right at the edge area along a stretch of the gray mist.

And the city built by the Dark Wolf spreading wishes is not far in another direction.

Actually Jiang Xuan does not dislike the Dark Wolf; the other party is merely a diligent little wolf spreading his Wish God title; what wrong has he done?

But when the Dark Wolf rushed into the Gray Mist Wall and obtained the Curtain combined with the "Attendant of Mysteries" Characteristic, he already had a death wish.

Daring to take the protagonist's things? If you don't die, who will?

Just then, a Dark Wolf covered in gloomy short fur suddenly appeared at the edge of the Gray Fog. It stood four to five meters tall, possessed eight powerful legs, had a tuft of white hair on its head top that made it look even more noble and distinctive, and a single vertical eye on its forehead. It was patrolling its territory at the edge of the Gray Fog in a leisurely manner.

Jiang Xuan looked at that figure draped in a black cloak, and a dangerous light rose in his eyes.

Originally, Jiang Xuan had not intended to go looking for trouble with the Dark Wolf. His target this time was only to exterminate the Fallen Angel Evil Spirit and find a way to grasp and refine the Chaos Sea.

But the Dark Wolf just had to swagger right into Jiang Xuan's view. Coincidentally, Jiang Xuan was very interested in that curtain which integrated the characteristics of all Rules from Sequence Nine to Sequence One of the Fool pathway!

Jiang Xuan lightly clenched his hand forward, and a patch of space was instantly condensed and imprisoned. This was a variant application of the first layer ability of the Box of the Old Ones — Space Imprisonment!

As the God of Escape, the Dark Wolf sensed something was wrong in the first instant. As a god, its first thought was not to look and see who wanted to act against it, but to directly default to the assumption that it could not beat the opponent. Its body impacted the Spirit World wanting to flee, but the space had already been completely independently condensed; it simply could not open a road leading to the Spirit World.

The Dark Wolf did not hesitate in the slightest. It activated abilities like Flame Jump to sprint outward from the space. Its entire wolf body turned into a residual shadow; its eight legs nearly pedaled smoke!

"Boom!" The Dark Wolf charging in a straight line crashed head-on into the boundary of the fully constructed space barrier. Looking at its shaking head, one could tell it hurt a bit!

The Dark Wolf sensed it might not be able to escape. Only then did it bother to turn its head and look at what person had imprisoned the great Dark Wolf in this patch of space! Its gaze grew increasingly fierce and blood-red, as if accumulating what little fighting spirit it had left.

Jiang Xuan instantly appeared at its side. Glowing with yellow light, his sandbag-sized fist rushed straight at the Dark Wolf's head.

The Dark Wolf naturally was unwilling to give up. Its ferocity stimulated it to release countless skills to block this punch. A large amount of Rule Power surged toward the fist wind.

Rule Power and the Xuanhuang-colored fist wind collided together, directly bearing down on the large amount of Rules to land on the Dark Wolf's forehead.

"Boom!"

This sound was even louder than the collision sound when the Dark Wolf was just focused on escaping earlier.

With one punch down, the Dark Wolf's gaze actually cleared considerably. Its bared fangs immediately retracted.

Looking at that stunned, dazed appearance, Jiang Xuan instead felt a bit reluctant to act. He pointed a finger at the curtain carried on its back.

The Dark Wolf's eyes were full of reluctance. But thinking of that sandbag-sized fist breaking through its layered defenses and blasting onto its body — this was truly someone not to be provoked!

Seeing Jiang Xuan was already getting a bit impatient, the Dark Wolf still reluctantly handed over the curtain.

Obtaining what he wanted, Jiang Xuan released the Space Imprisonment and received the curtain into the Eight Trigrams Furnace. When he had time, he could refine and study the complete "Fool" pathway power within this curtain.

The Dark Wolf sensed the space fluctuations disappear and also instantly vanished from beside Jiang Xuan. Gazing into the distance, its eight legs were running wildly along the edge of the Gray Fog.

Secondary objective completed. Jiang Xuan moved toward the Chaos Sea along another direction. That was his most important objective.

Unexpectedly, after walking for less than ten minutes, an acquaintance stood before Jiang Xuan, as if specially waiting for him, wearing a wickedly charming smile on his face.

"Long time no see! Mister!" Amon reached out and wiped his monocle gold-frame glasses. His face carried doubt and wariness, but he still continued: "Didn't expect to see you here!"

Jiang Xuan's gaze turned cold and stern. He guessed Amon was guided here by Adam, precisely to stop him from going to the Chernobyl Research Institute.

Adam actually is the True Creator. He regards the Chaos Sea as his own possession, only waiting for his Godhood Ritual to complete and break through to True God, then he can grasp the Chaos Sea. Relying on the complete Chaos Sea and the specialness of the "Dreamer", he can become half an Old One.

Even in the future there is a chance to become an Old One, and even further become a Pillar.

So he cannot possibly give up the Chaos Sea, nor allow other existences with hope of grasping the Chaos Sea to approach the Chernobyl Research Institute.

"Last time I was afraid of being discovered by the Goddess of Night and the fight wasn't enjoyable enough! This time I'm prepared!" Amon's body instantly straightened. Threads of different figures appeared around him. The only similarity was that their right eyes all wore a monocle.

The Space Rules in Jiang Xuan's hand trembled, forming a cage that isolated the entire space, like an ancient colosseum spanning the Void. Strange, polluted screams permeated the surroundings.

Just as he extended his hand, Jiang Xuan only felt his consciousness go into a trance, as if he forgot what he needed to do! The rising thought dissipated in an instant. The whole person stood frozen in place like a lamb awaiting slaughter.

Amon wore a smiling expression. He had Stolen Jiang Xuan's attack intention. Charging forward, a thread of Rule Power permeated Jiang Xuan's head. He wanted to Steal the entire skull!

Xuanhuang Power violently circulated, casting Jiang Xuan's entire body in yellow light. Massive gravity expanded outward. The bizarre Rule Power actually collided with the Xuanhuang Mother Qi. The Rule Power did not show any decline here! It even squeezed the Xuanhuang Mother Qi forward along the pathway!

But the Xuanhuang Mother Qi's trembling finally made Jiang Xuan awake for half a second. His divine sense violently poured into the subconscious island. The Pen of Asule condensed into being within the island, emitting elegant, endless Rule Power to resist the Rule Power of the Stealing thought.

(Chapter End)