With that, a terrifying battle came to an end.
News of the whole battle spread around like wildfires.
Jiang Ming of the Human Race slaughtered two Cosmic experts, went up against Long Jinggang and emerged undefeated.
The battle between them was mind blowing and the both of them even evoked Supreme treasures at the end.
How incredible it was.
Alas, the Supreme treasures! These were the supreme weapons that could suppress the fate of a whole race. Just having one of these weapons would’ve allowed the race to be ranked in the forefront of all races in the universe.
Generally speaking, it was impossible for non-Supreme Experts to possess such a treasure. Even the Supreme Experts did not necessarily have one in their hands.
It didn’t matter if it was the Human Race, Demon Clan, Star Beast, Botanical Race, Machine Race, Zergs, Pantheons, Angels, Divine Beings and the likes. All of them leapt into action upon hearing the news.
Especially when they found out Jiang Ming and Long Jingang had entered the Specter Secret Realm, even more Cosmic experts rushed over.
All of them had a thought that they might get a chance to obtain a Supreme treasure in addition to the sky-defying great encounter in the Specter Secret Realm.
Even some of the Supreme Experts sprang into action upon hearing such news, let alone the Cosmic experts.
With a flash of light, Jiang Ming directly entered the Specter Secret Realm. He passed through a layer of membrane, as if he had traveled into another world.
Jiang Ming found himself appearing right beside a lake. Surrounding him was a lush forest that was filled with constant howling of beasts, cries of the insects and the fragrance of the flowers.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
That huge palm that appeared in the end made him feel very helpless. If he was pitted against a Demi-sage, he could still trade a few blows. However, when facing a Supreme Expert, escape was the only option.
By merely using one hand, a Supreme Expert was able to cover the entire sky and even confine time and space. This scene really showed Jiang Ming how terrifying the Supreme Experts were.
‘”That Supreme Expert definitely didn’t try to catch me with all his might. He didn’t even evoke divine weapons. If he really did that, I’m afraid I would’ve never been able to escape like this!’ Jiang Ming sighed.
He was still too weak after all.
‘Although I was able to overturn the Heaven Court back in Ye Qingxian’s world, I still had to run off in a dire state; even coming into this universe, the result is still not satisfactory.’
Jiang Ming couldn’t help but shake his head thinking of this.
Although he had always seemed negligent, he was very competitive at heart.
‘Just you wait!’
Jiang Ming suppressed the many distracting thoughts in his mind as he began to assess the situation of this Specter Secret Realm.
Before coming in, he had already learned more or less about the Specter Secret Realm through Zhao Changkong. Zhao Changkong was after all a Cosmic expert and even came into this place once before. He knew quite a lot about the place here.
According to Zhao Changkong, the Specter Secret Realm was like a superposition of many small chiliocosm. Each of the domains existed independently but there were channels connecting to them.
Through these channels, a person would be able to go to other places.
If anyone wanted to leave Specter Secret Realm, the person would only have to fly thousands of miles above the sky in a bee line to exit.
However, the higher the person reached, the greater the pressure the person would have to face and the slower their speed would become.
Even with the strength of a Cosmic expert, it would take the person a few breaths to escape the place.
Merely a few breaths of time? Well, this was already considered a very long time to experts of such level.
Jiang Ming looked up into the sky. He turned around and grabbed towards the lake. A waterline fell into his hands yet he didn’t grab onto it.
This line of water transformed into streams of air before merging into the void.
Looking at a tree right beside him, Jiang Ming reached out and plucked a single leaf. However, the leaf suddenly vanished into thin air in the blink of an eye.
When he looked back at the place he plucked the leaf, the leaf had reappeared again.
‘It’s as what I’ve expected! Other than the treasures, nothing can be removed into the outside world. Once a native object is destroyed, it would still be restored into its original state in a blink of an eye.’
As such a thought ran through Jiang Ming’s mind, he pushed forward with his palm, resulting in all the trees within a hundred meters radius to be shattered.
‘The suppressive force here is also very high. With that blow just now, a whole planet would’ve been destroyed, yet it only damages objects within a fixed radius.’
As he compared the degree of destruction between the inside and the outside world, he discovered that the deep pits and damaged trees were recovering rapidly into their original state.
‘Interesting! That’s right! There are also beasts without any wisdom. I’ll be able to get my hands on some good treasures if I hunt them down. This is akin to playing games and hoping for treasures to drop.’
Jiang Ming smiled.
He radiated his consciousness into all directions to have a sense of the surroundings. He realized that the coverage area was not large, spanning only a thousand miles.
His Consciousness’s strength was akin to that of the Demi-sage’s pinnacle.
Right this very moment, the lake suddenly erupted and out came a long and skinny neck. There was a huge mouth revealing two rows of deep-cold teeth as it launched forward to engulf him.
It appeared all of a sudden and quickly attacked Jiang Ming.
What followed was that the temperature of the surrounding space suddenly fell, creating a phenomenon as though the place was frozen solid. Even Jiang Ming’s body became slightly stiff. The lake water however, didn’t show any signs of freezing at all.
It was rather mysterious.
Jiang Ming raised his hand, formed a palm and slashed down the beast’s head along its neck, cutting its body in half. The beast died tragically on the spot and the blood splatter disappeared almost instantly.
Its corpse disappeared soon after as well.
What’s left were the ripples on the lake with a bracelet floating on the water’s surface.
‘A treasure dropped?’
Jiang Ming raised his hands and grabbed on to the bracelet to take a closer look. He didn’t notice any traces of refinement nor were there imprints of it being used before. It was as if the item formed naturally from heaven and earth.
‘Weird!’ Jiang Ming’s eye brow furrowed.
As he poured his energy into the object, the item was refined in an instant.
This item was akin to a Great Overarching Dao vessel where there were a million cubic kilometers of space inside. It wasn’t large, but the bracelet also had its own gravitational special ability.
Once evoked, a gravitational field would be formed.
‘This is not bad!’ Jiang Ming put the bracelet away.
‘Trees, dirt, lake waters, beasts and items born of nature! From the ‘Status’ of Long Jinggang, this place is connected to the origin of the universe. Is this bracelet really conceived by the universe itself? Are all of these around here conceived from the origin of the universe?’
Jiang Ming couldn’t help but wonder.
‘The power of the universe’s origin. Origins!’
He pursed his lips, as his eyes were filled with excitement.
As he squats down, he pressed his palms onto the ground. A strand of root suddenly emerged from his palms, plunging into the soil.
It was the root of the Chaotic World Tree.
This strand of root was radiating with a gluttonous devouring power almost instantly. As waves and waves of energy were absorbed by the root, the soil beneath his hand was disappearing rapidly.
At the same time, Jiang Ming could feel malicious intent from all directions. The air became thicker and thicker and the pressure he felt became even stronger. There was even a repulsive force acting on him.
There was no other damage to him besides those.
‘I absorbed the power of the origin. The natural order of the universe naturally went into defensive mode? However, the origin of the universe is meaningless and can only respond passively based on natural order?’
As these thoughts ran through Jiang Ming’s mind, he could hear the sudden increase in the roars of the beasts as they were gathering towards him from all directions.
Waves after waves were formed by the lake beside him as marine beasts leapt out of the waters one after another. They were all charging directly at Jiang Ming with some spewing ice arrows, some spurting poisons and many other forms of attacks.
An illusory long river of history appeared under Jiang Ming. The Past body, the Present body and the Future body materialized at the same time. As they blocked off the attacks, these three clones began their hunt.
Jiang Ming remained rooted on the ground with his palm against the ground, absorbing the energy.
He segregated a part of his consciousness into his inner world and discovered that the Chaotic World Tree which was already very mighty was emitting waves and waves of luminance. Its branches were swaying and its leaves rattling.
Atop the Chaotic World Tree, there were already 2,997 leaves formed and there were only three leaves left from reaching three thousand leaves.
In order for the tree to grow, Jiang Ming spent quite a lot of resources over the past years. The Saints would’ve gone crazy if they knew how much resources he poured in.
What left Jiang Ming feeling helpless was that the further the tree grew, the slower the leaves were formed.
Even till this day, there were still three leaves that hadn’t grown out yet.
However, Jiang Ming had a feeling that once all 3,000 leaves were all grown out, the Chaos World Tree would inevitably undergo great changes, resulting in a qualitative transformation for sure.
He even had a hunch that his own soul’s metamorphosis would depend on this World Tree.
“The world’s origin is growing stronger as it absorbs the power from the outside world. These energy absorbed are almost completely taken in. The 2,798th leave is being conceived.”
Jiang Ming let out a breath filled with turbidity, revealing a joyous look on his face.
He was also more certain that the soil, trees, lake water and the likes outside were definitely conjured by the power of the origin of the great universe.
Right this very moment, the Present body threw over a piece of crystal.
The beasts in the distance were already rushing over like tidal waves.
