chsdbacks Chapter 123 Spatial Turbulence
Chapter 123 Spatial Turbulence
Five-colored light streaked across the sky.
For the first few days, everything went smoothly.
Following the ancient route pointed out by Fairy Yaoguang from her memory.
The group crossed the continuous mountain ranges and the vast wilderness.
The terrain below has changed considerably since thousands of years ago.
However, the major mountain and river formations can still be traced.
Fairy Yaoguang stood beside Qin Xiao, her moon-white gown fluttering in the wind, her black hair flowing like a waterfall.
She would sometimes point out directions, and sometimes stare blankly at a certain mountain range.
A sense of reminiscence and sadness welled up in her clear, beautiful eyes.
Luo Qingluan, Yu Qingyi, and the other six women followed behind, each riding their own escape lights, occasionally conversing in hushed tones.
They felt both curiosity and reverence for this ancient fairy.
"The area ahead should be 'Falling Star Plain'."
Noon on the seventh day.
Fairy Yaoguang suddenly spoke, pointing to a vast, flat wasteland below, riddled with potholes of varying sizes. "In ancient times, meteorites often fell here, hence the name Falling Star Plain. The Starfall Mountain Range, where the Xuanji Pavilion's gate is located, lies at the northwestern end of this plain. However..."
She paused, her divine sense sweeping across the wasteland, her eyebrows furrowing slightly: "The flow of spiritual energy here is extremely chaotic, and there seems to be abnormal fluctuations underground."
Qin Xiao also felt something.
As the Nascent Soul spread its divine sense, it indeed detected several distorted spatial fluctuations deep within the wasteland.
It is sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and is extremely unstable.
"Be careful, avoid the area with the strongest fluctuations."
Qin Xiao reminded everyone to adjust the direction of their escape light.
Flying close to the edge of the wasteland.
However, just as everyone was about to fly over the central part of Falling Star Plain, a sudden change occurred!
An invisible spatial suction force suddenly erupted from a seemingly ordinary depression below!
This suction force is not directed at the physical body.
Instead, it is spiritual energy that directly affects the cultivator's entire body!
"not good!"
Qin Xiao's expression changed slightly, and his body shone with a brilliant five-colored spiritual light.
In an instant, it enveloped Fairy Yaoguang beside him and the six women behind him.
However, the spatial suction force was too strange and swift, and it distorted and refracted the moment it came into contact with the Five Elements spiritual light!
"Buzz!"
The space trembled violently, and Qin Xiao felt the scene before him shaking and shattering like waves.
His hand suddenly went empty, and the Fairy Yaoguang, who had been protected by his spiritual power, was forcibly separated by a strange spatial force!
"Fairy Yaoguang!"
Qin Xiao hissed and reached out to grab it, but grasped only empty air.
At the same time, exclamations came from behind Luo Qingluan, Yu Qingyi and others.
After being refracted, the spatial suction force transformed into several invisible vortexes, which swept towards the six women!
"My husband!"
Amidst gasps of alarm, Qin Xiao watched as six beautiful figures were swallowed up by vortexes from different directions and vanished in an instant!
He himself was firmly locked in by the strongest suction force, and the light and shadow in front of him were completely distorted and shattered, plunging him into darkness.
……
After a brief period of weightlessness and dizziness, my feet touched solid ground again.
Qin Xiao suddenly opened his eyes. The five elements of spiritual energy around him were already circulating spontaneously, and the protective spiritual light flickered. He cautiously looked around.
What came into view was a gray, hazy world.
The sky hung low, thick leaden clouds obscured the sun and moon.
Only a pale, grayish light, its origin unknown.
Beneath our feet lies cracked, black earth, from which wisps of gray air occasionally drift out.
In the distance, the outlines of mountains can be vaguely discerned.
But they were all shrouded in a thick, impenetrable gray fog, making them difficult to see clearly.
A deathly silence filled the air.
What alarmed Qin Xiao the most was that the spiritual energy in this place was almost non-existent!
"Where is this?"
Qin Xiao unleashed his full divine sense, but it could only extend to less than a hundred feet before being swallowed up by the omnipresent gray mist.
Even the communication talismans used to communicate with Wuya and others in the palace have completely lost their connection.
This place is completely isolated from the outside world!
"His Majesty……"
A faint call came from beside me.
Qin Xiao suddenly turned his head and saw Fairy Yaoguang sitting a few steps away, her face as pale as paper and her delicate body trembling slightly.
She was trying to circulate her cultivation technique when it caused the surrounding gray energy to become agitated and begin to encroach upon her.
"Don't use your spiritual power!"
Qin Xiao gave a low shout, took a step forward, and the Five Elements spiritual light swept across, dispelling the gray energy surging towards Yao Guang.
He knelt down and placed his hand on Fairy Yaoguang's shoulder: "How are you feeling?"
"Spiritual power cannot be mobilized..."
Fairy Yaoguang gasped for breath, a hint of panic flashing in her beautiful eyes. "The slightest stimulation is like an ice needle piercing the body, causing pain in the meridians and erosion of the soul."
She tried to raise her hand, and only a very faint glimmer of light flashed at her fingertips before quickly fading away.
The backlash caused her to groan, and a trickle of bright red blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.
Qin Xiao frowned, grasped Fairy Yaoguang's wrist, and channeled a wisp of pure and peaceful Five Elements spiritual energy into her.
As the spiritual energy entered her body, a trace of color returned to Fairy Yaoguang's pale face, and her tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly.
"Only His Majesty's five elements of spiritual power seem to be unaffected by this place."
She looked at Qin Xiao with slight surprise.
Qin Xiao nodded slightly.
He had just secretly activated his cultivation technique and discovered that his five elements spiritual power was also suppressed here, its circulation was much sluggish, and its power was greatly reduced.
However, it did not suffer any backlash.
Moreover, there is a spiritual spring within its body.
It seems to be under some kind of restriction and cannot be taken out.
However, it can provide itself with spiritual power.
"This place is strange; let's find out what's going on first."
Qin Xiao helped Fairy Yaoguang up, his gaze sweeping around the surroundings. "Do you know where this is? It might be related to ancient events?"
Despite her discomfort, Fairy Yaoguang carefully sensed the surrounding atmosphere, then looked up at the low-hanging, leaden-gray sky. After a moment of contemplation, her beautiful eyes suddenly narrowed: "This atmosphere is cold and deathly, repelling the power of life. Could it be the 'Mysterious Netherworld'?"
"The Dark Netherworld?"
Ancient legends say that the world is divided into two realms: Yin and Yang. Life flourishes in the Yang realm, while the Yin realm is desolate and silent. The "Mysterious Netherworld" is the chasm between these two realms, also known as the "Domain of Severed Spirits"!
Fairy Yaoguang's voice carried a hint of solemnity: "If this is truly the Xuanming Land, we are in deep trouble. This place is boundless and difficult to navigate, and there are even demonic beasts roaming around. I am currently unable to use my spiritual power, making me no different from a mortal..."
Before the words were finished, a rustling sound suddenly came from the gray fog in the distance!
The sounds were dense and rapid, approaching from afar.
Countless things were crawling in the gray fog!
Qin Xiao's spiritual sense was limited, but his hearing was acute.
They quickly located the source of the sound and protected Fairy Yaoguang behind them.
"They're here."
His gaze was sharp as he looked toward the swirling gray fog to his left.
Suddenly, the gray mist parted, and dozens of strange insects, all gray-black in color, resembling centipedes but with one eye and ferocious mouthparts, darted out!
Each one was as thick as an arm and over ten feet long.
Its single eye gleamed with a ghostly green light, its gaze fixed intently on Qin Xiao and Fairy Yao Guang.
"It's the 'Spirit-Eating Centipede'! A common monster in the Xuanming Land, it feeds on the spiritual energy of living beings, especially cultivators!"
Fairy Yaoguang gasped, instinctively trying to activate her magic weapon, but this aggravated her injuries, causing her to cough up another mouthful of blood.
"Stay put and don't move."
Qin Xiao said in a deep voice, taking a step forward.
With a slight thought, a stream of pure spiritual energy quietly flowed from the "mobile spiritual spring" within his dantian, replenishing his energy reserves.
Although the suppression here is severe, the power of spiritual energy released is reduced to less than one-tenth.
But it should be enough to deal with these demonic insects whose aura is only at the Foundation Establishment level.
Qin Xiao casually unleashed a wisp of spiritual energy, which condensed into sword energy in the air.
However, the sword energy faded rapidly after leaving the body only three zhang away. When it struck the foremost Spirit-Eating Centipede, it only managed to leave a deep gash on its carapace, failing to kill it instantly.
The wounded Spirit Centipede let out a sharp hiss and pounced even more fiercely!
The remaining demonic insects also swarmed forward, forming a dense, gray mass.
"The suppression is incredibly powerful!"
Qin Xiao's eyes sharpened.
Even a casual wave of the hand from a Nascent Soul cultivator is enough to easily kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator in the outside world.
Even Foundation Establishment demonic insects could hardly injure them here.
Seeing the demonic insects approaching, he stopped probing and formed hand seals!