“Buzz!”
Right at this moment—in the sky above Mt. Fire Cloud, there was a sudden shifting of the wind and clouds. Nine stars suddenly glittered from billions of miles away, illuminating the entire continent. Nine rays of light were shot out from the nine stars, piercing down through the heavens—just like nine rays of divine light which looked down upon everything, descending with imposing aura. It flew into Mt. Fire Cloud with lightning speed and buried into Jiang Yi’s dantian before it vanished.
“Wow!”
The entire continent had this sensation that erupted!
All the Vajra Realm martial experts flew up into the sky while many Soul Travel Realm experts jumped onto roofs, looking towards the direction where Mt. Fire Cloud was. Everyone had this shocked expression after seeing such a Heaven and Earth Anomaly and such a formidable energy shock wave, which had frightened all of them.
Above the Divine Martial Kingdom’s royal capital, Jiang Bieli was standing pridefully in the air with an expression of shock and envy—of course, there was even more doubt. He stared blankly for a moment and murmured with a puzzling thought, “Heaven and Earth Anomaly, acknowledgment of the laws, granting the powers of the stars? Who is the one who broke into the Heaven Monarch Realm? Great Xia Kingdom? Impossible… the Great Xia Kingdom only had that crafty, old Su Pingping who is at the Vajra Realm. He is already more than a hundred years old; it isn’t possible for him to achieve any breakthrough in this lifetime! Who else can it be? Who is it?”
In the palace hall below, a man wearing a dragon robe walked out in big strides. His body released a formless and mysterious aura that was overwhelmed with heaven and earth aura. It was so suppressive that the palace maids and the eunuchs were all prostrating on the ground and didn’t even dare to let out a breath. His eyes had this sharp light as he looked at Jiang Bieli who was standing in mid-air; he then asked, “Bieli, what is the situation?”
“Swish!”
Jiang Bieli flicked his sleeves and returned to the ground, waving his hand to dismiss all the eunuchs and palace maids. He then spoke in a bewildered tone, “Heaven and Earth Anomaly, the Nine Heaven Stars have granted divine power. The heaven and earth spirit energy are resonating intensively, and the laws have been touched. But… I don’t think that it was someone who broke into the Heaven Monarch Realm. Apart from Shui Youlan, no one else could have broken through to the Heaven Monarch Realm in such a short time. Shui Youlan was now on Starfall Island. I do not know of the exact situation.”
“Investigate!”
Xia Tingwei burst out with a roar, “Someone! Send out the message for all the nearby scouts to go investigate. Find out clearly what happened!”
“Understood!”
A black shadow flashed within the palace hall and quickly disappeared. Xia Tingwei then looked at Jiang Bieli and instructed: “Let’s put a pause on that matter first. Before this thing is investigated, this Majesty will not be able to sleep at night. If there truly is another Heaven-Monarch-class martial expert, the influential powers on the entire continent would immediately shift…”
It wasn’t only the Divine Martial Kingdom. There was this aged man who had white hair all the way until his waist that flew up into the sky above the Summer Rain City in the Great Xia Kingdom. He paused for a moment before he flew towards Mt. Fire Cloud. There were several Soul Travel Realm experts, who were in the cities in the nearby vicinity of Mt. Fire Cloud, that was also flocking towards Mt. Fire Cloud.
All the Vajra Realm martial experts from the Heaven Mystics Kingdom, the Saint Spirit Kingdom, the Northern Liang Kingdom, the Northern Mang Kingdom, the Azure Dragon College, the Centaurea College, Zhuge Qingyun from the Mt. Spirit Beast College, the centuries-year-old monk from the Great Zen Monastery, and even Shui Youlan who was on the Starfall Island—all got alarmed.
Normal martial artists would just see a few rays of divine light flashing past them and feel the Heaven and Earth Anomaly. Only those at the Vajra Realm could truly feel the shock wave from the heaven and earth energy; furthermore, it was an extremely intense shock wave.
Of course, Vajra Realm martial experts weren’t gods; hence, the only Vajra Realm martial expert named Su Pingping from the Great Xia Kingdom went rushing towards Mt. Fire Cloud. The other Vajra Realm martial experts didn’t move but sent out their scouts to check on the situation instead. Shui Youlan might have cultivated a mystical art that she could use to congeal her image for more than 50,000 kilometers away, but Mt. Fire Cloud was too far from Starfall Island; hence, it was beyond her abilities.
…
The outside world was in chaos, and there were plenty of people rushing towards Mt. Fire Cloud, but Jiang Yi was oblivious to it. He didn’t even know that a few rays of light had entered his dantian—as all of his concentration was focused on the chanting of the third rank of the Nameless Divine Art, trying to reform the purple mansion in his dantian.
In the blink of an eye, many things had happened.
In fact, it only took a blink of the eye. Jiang Yi’s two purple mansions that varied in sizes had exploded, and the surging energy in the dantian was devastating everything, causing Jiang Yi to nearly made himself explode to death. Once the nine divine lights from the stars entered his dantian, Jiang Yi followed the chanting of the Nameless Divine Art’s third rank and swiftly condensed that surging energy.
The result of the condensation left him speechless and flabbergasted!
The two purple mansions had vanished; all the energy inside also vanished. It was replaced by nine round spheres in the dantian. Pitch black spheres! Every sphere was about the size of a soybean, and in the middle of the nine spheres, this strange void was formed. It was like Jiang Yi’s dantian had turned into a void where the nine stars appeared. However, these nine stars were so tiny and dimmed; hence, Jiang Yi couldn’t even identify it.
“Ah—!”
Once the dantian stopped condensing and after Jiang Yi made sure there wasn’t going to be any more changes, he was awakened by the tearing pain in his soul spirit. His mind frantically immersed into one of the ‘small stars.’ To his surprise, it was actually hollow; and there were several tens of thousands of black essence force!
“Arise!”
He immediately channeled out a few hundred wisps of black essence force. When they emerged from the star, it actually didn’t transmute into blue essence force. Jiang Yi was ecstatic as he quickly channeled all these black essence forces towards his soul spirit.
“Buzz!”
His entire soul spirit had this shiver with a flash of black light, weakening the commotion within his soul spirit.
“Okay!”
Jiang Yi was delighted as he constantly channeled more black essence forces towards his soul spirit. After using more than a few thousand wisps of black essence forces, Jiang Yi’s soul spirit finally settled down; and the two soul essences of the two spirit beasts had been suppressed. They weren’t struggling anymore.
“Hu-Hu…”
Only a short moment had passed, but Jiang Yi felt as though it had been a century. With a new lease of life, Jiang Yi didn’t look pleased and was instead worried. His dantian had transformed, but he didn’t know if it was a good or bad thing. Furthermore, he felt traces of transformation in his soul spirit as well; but he wasn’t sure what exactly transformed.
“Withdraw!”
He swiftly kept the Fire Phoenix into the spirit beast talisman and jumped into the lava like a dragon, allowing the Fire Spirit Pearl to absorb the Earth Fire.
There was a transformation in his body; hence, he had to quickly collect more Earth Fire before he could find a place to hide and do a detailed examination. This Mt. Fire Cloud made him feel unsafe as he almost died in this place.
One and a half hour later, Jiang Yi could sense a large amount of Earth Fire in his Fire Spirit Pearl, which was more than two folds than the previous time. He immediately burst out from the lava, gathering some black essence force and using the Exploding Essence Palm—which hadn’t been used for a long time—to borrow the power of the shock wave and exit the lava pit. He then used the Fire Dragon Sword to thrust into the stone walls, launching himself up to finally grab hold of the rope before exiting the vent of the volcano.
“Swish-swish-swish!”
Once he exited the volcano, he immediately felt something was wrong. There was a sound piercing through the air from the south—which was very soft, but he still caught a glimpse of it. What’s more, he also felt this formidable aura that was approaching in his direction.
“Many experts are approaching? Run…”
He might not know the reason why so many experts were heading here, but Jiang Yi rushed in the opposite direction as soon as he noticed it. When using the black essence force to increase his speed, he felt a completely different feeling; and his speed was actually faster by two folds?
At such timing, he didn’t have any spare time to consider this. He burst down the volcano and immediately searched for a concealed place to summon Big Huang and dig into the underground. After several hundreds of meters into the ground, he used the Exploding Essence palm to shake the tunnel as he continued to run, completely blocking off the tunnel as it collapsed. After several kilometers later, he controlled Big Huang to dig further downwards before turning in the direction towards the Soul Break Valley.
“Swish!”
After Jiang Yi escaped, several Soul Travel Realm experts ascended Mt. Fire Cloud and began to do a detailed observation. Apart from the rope they found, they couldn’t find anything else.
One hour later, the Vajra Realm martial expert, Su Pingping, arrived. His white hair that reached his waist moved without any wind as his turbid eyes made a detailed scan around the surroundings before he yelled out, “There doesn’t seem to be any martial expert’s presence in the nearby vicinity. Who is the one who made contact with the laws of heaven and earth? Everyone, check the entire area and don’t leave out any clues. Find that person even if you have to dig the ground!”
