Li Mu raised his hand and injected a shot of wood qi of the Eastern Wood Emperor into Camilla’s left arm, which had been gravely bitten by a Wolf Beast. While he was treating her, he also thought of some other information reported by the military.
Unlike that of the cultivators, the superpower holder’s energy source and system were more of a gift. For example, the prophets had a kind of foresight, which was even more brilliant than some cultivators’ divine deduction. They could often gain insight into the future before anyone else. It was highly eccentric.
But that foresight was something they born with. It couldn’t be produced by cultivating nor could it be enhanced.
So, this kind of gift had its own pros and cons.
Camilla felt there was a stream of cool air surging in her wound.
In the twinkling of an eye, her arm, on which a large chunk of the muscles had been ripped off and the white bones beneath were revealed, quickly healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Her jade-like skin began to grow again, leaving not even a trace of the wound.
A look of disbelief appeared in the eyes of the members of the Black Steel Organization.
“How could this be so amazing?”
“Could you tell me more details? Where is the danger brewing?” After a brief deliberation, Li Mu agreed to the other party’s request and asked again.
“Ah? Oh.” The blonde holding the two-handed sword stared at Li Mu in a daze. She was a little absent-minded and didn’t come to her senses until she heard Li Mu’s words. Her face turned slightly pink, and she hurriedly turned her head away as if covering up her emotion, then she said, “Bettina, can you concentrate and try to sense it once more?”
Bettina appeared to be only 16 or 17 years old. She was wearing a denim suit, with freckles on her face. She was quite unsophisticated, just like a high school girl, but her pupils had no focus— she was born as blind. Hearing Camilla’s words, she closed her eyes and seemed to be perceiving something carefully.
Soon, her face showed a kind of fear that could not be concealed. She began to tremble as she answered, “East. It’s in the east…”
She could only sense the rough direction of the danger.
“The east? Let’s go.”
Li Mu cast the Broadsword-commanding Skill. His flying broadsword expanded against the wind until it was the size of a spaceship. It carried the nine German people up to the sky and flew eastward.
“Oh, sh*t…”
“Jesus!”
“We’re flying?”
“Is this the skill of the eastern immortal?”
Apparently, the members of the Black Steel Organization were stunned.
In the west, there were also superpower holders that mastered the Phoenix Wings and Wind Wings, who could carry people to the sky as well. But they had no means to bring nine people to the air all at once as Li Mu did. Besides, Li Mu’s speed in the air could rival a rocket. This kind of magical power was just like the power of the deities in the legend.
Standing on the back of the broadsword, Camilla quietly tilted her head again to look at Li Mu who was standing next to her.
This young man, who obviously had the features of a handsome man in the east, had brought her too many shocks. He was really like the gods in European mythology. He seemed omnipotent. She really could not believe that there could be such a person in the world.
“Could he be the deity from the east?”
“Ahead. Right ahead of us…” Bettina’s eyes were tightly closed, and a look of terror was on her face. It was as though she had seen something utterly terrifying.
“Relax. No need to be uptight.” Li Mu put a hand on Betty’s shoulder, and a stream of spiritual force washed over her, calming her down.
After advancing for hundreds of thousands of miles, the enormous flying broadsword suddenly came to a halt.
Everyone looked up at the sky in front of them.
A huge vortex with a diameter of hundreds of meters was floating on the vault of heaven.
The space around it was distorted. Rays of light seemed to be dragged into the vortex and swirl counterclockwise. A majestic and overwhelming suction force was flooding out of the sinister vortex. The vapors and the clouds within a radius of tens of thousands of meters were all sucked in and disappeared in the center of the vortex.
Bettina raised her finger to point at the vortex and mumbled, “Darkness. Death…”
Even with the help of Li Mu’s spiritual force, she was almost worn out. Her spiritual world was on the verge of collapsing. Her face showed blue blood vessels. The blue veins stood out on her arms, and blood beads were spurting from her temples.
“Stop!” Camilla shouted in a haste.
Li Mu agreed, “Okay, we’re near enough.”
“Is this vortex the source of disaster?” Camilla looked at Li Mu and said, “Your honor, on the other end of the vortex…”
Li Mu cut her off, “It will be out soon.”
Just as his voice faded—
In the huge vortex, a huge beast claw suddenly stretched out.
It was an enormous claw of some unknown huge beast. It was dozens of meters long and covered with black feathers as straight as needles. The claw had six fingers and its black nails were as sharp as long knives. Black flames swirled around the part where the vortex was revealed, as though those were the death flames from hell.
The claw alone was horrifying enough. A frightening aura that was beyond description began to spread.
The members of the Black Steel Organization were suddenly engulfed by a sense of fear and despair that they had never experienced before. Looking at the giant claw burning with black light, they only wanted to kneel down and pray for mercy.
“Your honor?”
Camilla turned to look at Li Mu.
At this time, only the deity from the east could stop the horrible black beast from climbing out of the whirlpool.
But she didn’t know that she would be stunned by what she saw.
At some point, a thin crack appeared between Li Mu’s eyebrows, and a vertical eye showed up. Inside the eye was a dark abyss, and there were wisps of starlight whirling as if in the depths of a lonely and dark sky some distant starlight were twinkling. It was strange and mysterious to the extreme.
At that moment, Camilla’s heart and soul seemed to be taken away by the vertical eye.
“Let’s wait a little longer,” Li Mu said.
He had found something interesting.
Several angry roars came out of the space-time vortex, causing the world to shake.
In an instant, numerous creatures within hundreds of miles were shocked to death. Li Mu cast his Broadsword Intent Zone and easily shielded the members of the Black Steel Organization. This level of sound attack was probably equivalent to that of a demon in the Great Sage Realm on the Divine Land. For Li Mu, it was nothing to worry about at all.
It also allowed Li Mu to conclude that this black beast that attempted to get through the space-time vortex perhaps had not reached the Worm Realm, and it was just a monster in the Sage Realm.
However, it was not easy to get through this space-time vortex.
As one more huge black claw stretched out from the vortex, a gigantic beast looking like a black bear climbed out of the vortex. As it opened its mouth and roared. Suddenly, in this world, jets of thunderbolts were generated from the sky and gathered into a sea of thunder and lightning, which then floated toward the space-time vortex.
It was the Heavenly Tribulation.
Rumble!
The thunder and lightning descended like a violent storm and hit the black bear-like monster.
Bolts of heavenly lightning were bombarding nonstop.
In the end, the giant black bear-like monster was directly struck into a pile of coke by the heavenly thunder and lightning and fell from the sky. Its carbonized body dropped to the ground and turned into a black mountain range. It released a scorching hot air, in which there was a trace of the power of thunder and lightning flowing.
The members of the Black Steel Organization only felt as if they were watching the legendary battle between the gods and Titan. Such a scene was far beyond their imagination.
In their view, it was fortunate that the huge black beast was struck to death by the thunderbolt. Otherwise, it would really get out of the vortex alive and go from this world to Earth, it would be an unimaginable calamity.
However, Li Mu saw more from it.
“This space-time vortex seems to be some kind of natural space-time crack that is the same as the Path that I took to come back from the Divine Land. Yet, like my assumption, it turns out that the alien creatures will be stopped by the Divine Tribulation once they enter the worlds related to Earth. A demon in the Great Sage Realm can already trigger such a staggering Divine Tribulation. What kind of horrible tribulation will descend when the stronger ones try to cross this space-time crack? It’s hard to imagine.”
Li Mu felt lucky that he did not bring Hua Xiangrong, Qing Feng, and Ming Yue back.
Otherwise, the consequences would be inconceivable.
The issue now he needed to worry about was whether this space-time vortex would gradually disappear or expand.
Was the black bear demon just an individual case that accidentally found the space-time crack and so tried to invade, or was it the cannon fodder to explore the road for the massive invasion of the worlds connected to Earth that might be launched at any second?
And what kind of world on the other end of the space-time vortex was?
Li Mu slowly descended and let the members of the Black Steel Organization gently land on the ground. Then, he rode the broadsword and steadily approached the black vortex. He mobilized his Third Eye and observed it carefully, trying to find some clues.
“Your honor, be careful!”
The members of the Black Steel Organization couldn’t help but caution him loudly.
Though they were standing on the ground dozens of miles away from the vortex, they all felt that they were about to be sucked into the vortex. So, they could imagine what kind of attraction Li Mu was facing at a place less than a thousand meters away from it. They were afraid that Li Mu would be sucked into the vortex if he was a little careless.
Li Mu waved his hand, indicating that he was fine.
To him, this level of attraction was completely bearable.
The Third Eye was unable to see the world behind the space-time crack.
He had an impulse to jump into it and see what there was.
But in the end, he managed to stifle it.
After all, behind the vortex was an unknown world. No one knew whether there would be a Divine Tribulation waiting for him or not if he passed through, and there might be other dangers… Li Mu had worked so hard to return to Earth. He did not want to put his efforts in vain. Besides, the responsibility upon him was actually quite heavy at present.
“You can leave now. I want to stay here and observe for a while.”
Li Mu returned to the ground.
The members of the Black Steel Organization looked at each other in dismay. At last, they accepted Li Mu’s advice.
The charred carcasses left behind by the bear-like monster after his death as well as its omnipresent suction force were still in this area. It made them feel extremely uncomfortable, because it was hard for them to endure this type of pressure.
In the end, the nine of them took off.
Alone, Li Mu sat on a stone peak about 1,000 meters away from the space-time vortex, observing, comprehending, and cultivating.
Time flew by.
Another month passed.
To Li Mu’s surprise, there was still no sign of closing in this Qinling Heaven.
In Li Mu’s body, the aura was flowing, and that wisp of Primordial Qi was getting more and more solid and powerful.
“It’s time to try breaking through to the Void-breaking Realm.”
Li Mu was weighing the idea in his head.
However, in the two months of practicing inside the Qinling Heaven, he discovered a very strange phenomenon—
After returning to Earth, the natural qi in his body was suppressed by the laws of heaven and earth there. After several battles and flights on the broadsword, he had consumed a lot of his natural qi. It seemed that he had almost depleted it. But the moment he returned to the places with rich Spiritual Qi like the Qinling Heaven, things took an upturn. Unexpectedly, he had an eruption of Spiritual Qi, which burgeoned faster than it did when he had cultivated in an environment full of Spiritual Qi on end.
If he was still on the Divine Land, Li Mu believed it would be possible for him to break through to the Void-breaking Realm so soon.
This discovery made Li Mu a little hesitant again.
Would the effect be better if he waited until the Qinling Heaven closed and returned to the earth and tried to make the breakthrough after a period of cultivation suppression?
After all, regardless of which realm one aimed to break through, sufficient accumulation of strength could only do him good.
The more strength he accumulated before his breakthrough, the greater his gains would be afterward.
This was exactly like the saying “rising abruptly based on its accumulated strength”.
Li Mu was still hesitating.
In the blink of an eye, another month had passed.
Over the past month, the space-time vortex in the sky had altered.
Its diameter doubled, which was now more than 200 meters.
Li Mu’s worry was confirmed.
This spatial vortex was “growing”.
What was more terrible was that many unnerving roars had come out of the vortex. And the sound pressure was far more daunting than that of the dead giant black bear. According to Li Mu’s estimation, the sound waves were issued by beasts at least in the Void-breaking Realm.
Even so, it was clear that for fear of the Divine Tribulation, the terrifying existences on the other end did not choose to enter this place through the space-time vortex.
This answered Li Mu’s previous question.
The dead black bear-like monster was indeed just cannon fodder to explore the way.
Some more terrifying existences were hiding behind the space-time vortex. In fact, that could even be a powerful force that was constantly prepared to invade.
A storm was brewing.
Li Mu felt bouts of headache.
The martial forces in outer space had regarded Earth as the Sinned Star, and all the creatures on the earth as evil sinners who must be killed if being spotted. Once the creatures in the world behind the space vortex forced their way into the Qinling Heaven and used it as a stepping stone to get to Earth, the consequences would be disastrous.
Once the vortex grew to a certain size, the tribulation force would dissipate. It was very likely that all of this would happen.
During the rest of his stay, Li Mu placed a sealing tactical deployment around the space-time vortex, trying to slow its “growth”.
In fact, he also knew that it was just a temporary solution, which could not really solve the problem.
When it came to the fifth month, a heavy fog began to suffuse the Qinling Heaven.
Every place where there were Earth people, the endless white spacial fog would magically appear and shroud them. When they came out of the fog, they found that they had left the Qinling Heaven and returned to Earth.
That happened to Li Mu as well.
A ball of white mist emerged from the stone peak and surrounded Li Mu.
After the mist dissipated, Li Mu reappeared outside the military camp at the source of the Jialing River of Qinling.
And many people in the Wulin had returned to the normal world before Li Mu did.
The heavy fog that had been enveloping the source of the Jialing River was also slowly dissolving.
The Qinling Heaven closed just like this.
“Have they all got out?” Li Mu felt a little relieved when he saw Xiao Dong, Lu Xun, and their team, as well as Lu Haoran and the other martial arts seniors.
But soon, a piece of news came.
It said that more than 100 cultivators who had entered the Qinling Heaven had not made it out of the fog.
“They were murdered.”
A young man, who was the last to emerge from the fog and managed to escape the horror by luck, reported to the military in grief and anger.
