Chapter 158: The Hunt Begins!
You found several more avatars of law power at the mid-stage Void Return level, but none of them spoke.
Unable to find any leads, you had no choice but to set the matter aside for now and focus on studying the power of law.
A year later, the heaven-and-earth law power you commanded had increased to ninety-one, making you the number one Spirit Transformation cultivator in nearly ten thousand years!
“The hunt begins!”
Just as you finished your cultivation, you heard a voice resound through the entire Law Secret Realm. This voice not only spread far and wide, but was also extremely powerful!
Even your soul was somewhat disturbed, and it took a moment before you returned to normal.
Immediately after, you saw beams of radiant light shooting into the sky! Many of them appeared directly near you.
Within those beams, you sensed a trace of a familiar aura.
The beams dissipated before long, as if they had exhausted their power.
You knew that something you were unaware of had happened in this Secret Realm, and it was very likely extremely dangerous!
After thinking for a moment, you decided to continue deeper into the core region. Though the law avatars inside would be stronger, compared to the unknown danger, it was still safer for you in there.
You encountered a law avatar whose strength rivaled the late-stage Void Return realm, and battled it. After a hundred moves, you fell into disadvantage and temporarily retreated.
Three days later, you challenged this late-stage Void Return law avatar again. Drawing on your previous experience, this time you fought for a hundred and fifty moves before losing once more.
Though you still could not win, you could clearly feel your own strength rising, which made you very happy.
Every few days, you would come to challenge it, continuously accumulating experience.
The thrill of improving your cultivation made you temporarily forget the dangers of the outside world, and you fought it tirelessly.
A year later, you unleashed everything you had and finally defeated the late-stage Void Return law avatar before you. You comprehended another law power.
Just as you were cultivating in place to recover, you sensed a man in blue robes covered in blood, rushing toward you at full speed!
“An early-stage Void Return cultivator, how could he be in such a sorry state?” Your brow furrowed slightly. To push an early-stage Void Return cultivator to such desperation, just what level of cultivation did the other party have?
You concealed your form and chose to observe in secret.
With a thud, the fleeing Void Return cultivator actually plummeted straight from the sky to the ground!
“Run, weren’t you quite good at running?”
“Don’t kill me, don’t kill me! I’m a direct descendant of the Bai family!”
“As long as you spare my life, I will surely present a generous gift upon my return!” Bai San, knowing escape was hopeless, quickly knelt and begged for mercy.
“You look quite delicious. You must taste very fragrant when eaten!” A figure slowly emerged, appearing before Bai San.
When you saw who had come, you were startled. “The Wilderness Clan, why are they here?”
The one before your eyes was precisely someone who claimed to be of the Wilderness Clan, with a pair of horns on his head and an appearance closely resembling a human.
“AH!!!” Bai San let out a miserable scream as his head was directly bitten off by the Wilderness Clansman in one bite!
You lurked in the shadows, not lending a hand, only observing silently.
After the Wilderness Clansman finished enjoying Bai San, he extended his tongue and licked the residual blood on his lips, then spoke to the empty surroundings. “Come out, I’ve found you!”
You pursed your lips, not making any rash moves, your aura growing even more concealed.
“Well? Was it tasty?” A woman in palace attire suddenly appeared, smiling as she looked at the Wilderness Clansman before her.
“You must be even more delicious!” The Wilderness Clansman extended his tongue and licked the corner of his mouth, his eyes filled with burning desire as he looked at the woman.
The woman in palace attire chuckled lightly and did not answer. Instead, she instructed, “Hurry up, all of you. You must eliminate everyone here!”
“Leave no survivors!!!”
“I know, aren’t you nagging too much?” The Wilderness Clansman waved his hand impatiently, clearly unwilling to listen to her preaching.
“Heh, savage!” The woman in palace attire watched the Wilderness Clansman’s departing back, muttered a complaint, and then her figure vanished.
There was no one around, but you did not appear immediately, continuing to hide yourself away.
A moment later, the woman in palace attire and the Wilderness Clansman returned to this place once more, surveying the surroundings.
“Making a fuss over nothing. You really are as cowardly as rats, just as always!” the Wilderness Clansman complained.
“If you hadn’t insisted on calling me out, would I be so cautious?” The woman in palace attire frowned slightly, somewhat dissatisfied with the Wilderness Clansman before her.
“Isn’t she just a princess? What’s so special about her? Can’t even take a single bite!”
“You!”
The two parted on bad terms. You took all of this in, and for the sake of safety, you still did not appear.
“So this woman is Princess Anle of the Purple Firmament Immortal Dynasty? She’s actually so close to the Wilderness Clan!” you pondered silently.
Based on the relationship between the two, and what you had seen over these years, you had reason to suspect that the Purple Firmament Immortal Dynasty had already turned to the side of the Wilderness Clan!
“Then what is the Wilderness Clan’s purpose in infiltrating the Secret Realm and hunting the prodigies?”
“To strangle the future of the Heaven Mystery Continent’s native forces?”
A week later, your divine sense slowly spread out, and you found no one else. Then your figure slowly emerged, not pausing for even a moment as you continued deeper!
“The Purple Firmament Immortal Dynasty’s princess is colluding with the Wilderness Clan, hunting prodigy disciples everywhere. It seems this place will soon be unsafe!”
To survive, you knew you had to improve your strength and break through your cultivation as quickly as possible!
The enemy’s situation was unclear, and the unknown was all the more dangerous! A sense of crisis spread from your heart, forcing you to constantly improve your strength!
Another year passed, and you comprehended another law power. The law power you commanded had reached an astonishing ninety-three!
But you felt this was not yet your limit. You felt your strength could still continue to rise.
If you were going to do it, you had to do it to the best. You suppressed your cultivation, which was on the verge of breaking through at any moment, and continued to battle the law powers, comprehending new ones.
“Run! Keep going deeper!” A voice came through. As the Wilderness Clan’s hunting grew faster and faster, most of the cultivators in the entire Secret Realm were forced into the core region, pushed ever deeper.
And your path of cultivation was disturbed by this as well. Every few months, you would encounter a batch of fleeing cultivators.
You hadn’t wanted to meddle in others’ affairs, but then you saw someone you hadn’t expected: Xiao Fan!
“Junior Brother Xiao Fan, run! Don’t worry about us!”
“That’s right, Junior Brother. We have marks on us, we can’t escape. You go quickly!”
“Junior Brother, go! I’ll hold them off!”
As you watched this deeply moving scene, you could not help but think, “Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters sacrificing themselves to the heavens — that brat Xiao Fan is about to unleash his latent power, isn’t he?”