Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The Immortal Tan had sat on the chair much longer than Jing Jiu. It wasn’t until he was certain that he had collected the same amount of fairy energy as he took from heaven and earth that he left the place after tossing a fairy book to Chaotian. But, he traveled toward a direction opposite of Jing Jiu.
Soon after, Jian Xilai came and sat on the bamboo chair.
The bamboo chair seemed to be the place where the ascendants of Chaotian must come after they ascended.
As Jian Xilai was about to make the fairy book, a dark figure as large as a mountain blocked the distant white fireball.
It was Cao Yuan who had arrived. His Cultivation state was not inferior to the Immortal Tan and Jian Xilai; but it was harder for him to think the matter through than the others.
“Do you wish to sit on it?” asked Jian Xilai.
Cao Yuan shook his head while looking at the bamboo chair.
This dark and cold world had neither heaven or earth nor weight, and he had no need to worry about his golden body crushing the bamboo chair; his body was simply too big to sit in it.
After a long while, the two of them had left the place one after another. They traveled to a direction different from Jing Jiu and the Immortal Tan.
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The dark space in the universe had no heaven or earth, nor did it have an up and down, nor left and right. As such, there were innumerable directions in the universe.
Even if they had all come from the same world, it was difficult for them to travel in the same direction.
Jing Jiu had his own direction.
The universe is endless and vacant. Though it was exceedingly empty, it had a hint of lingering odor.
It was the familiar scent in the Fiend Prison, the scent of the purple flowers. In addition, he had also sensed the scents of the Sword Jail and Shenmo Peak; to put it more precisely, he had smelled the odor of Ada.
Only Cold Cicada and those mosquitoes had this odor.
These scents were extremely faint, like a drop of ink in the sea; but he still sensed them, indicating that the Snow Girl had traveled in this direction.
He lacked the abilities of perception and smelling; so sensing the scents was more like an ability of analyzing the details of things.
He was looking for the Snow Girl. It was because she uttered a faint “Eh” after her ascension. It was apparent that she had encountered something that had even surprised her. Jing Jiu wondered if she had encountered the rumored heavenly demons of the outside world, the powerful foes that had alarmed the Cultivation circle of Chaotian for countless years and prompted the Immortal Taiping to come up with the idea of destroying the world.
Jing Jiu became an unnoticeable dim glow against the dark background, heading toward the deep part of the distant universe.
He had reappeared in person after a long while.
The scents had vanished, replaced by another one.
Against the dark background of the universe there were some intermittent and dim patches, among which a black speck darker than its surroundings was visible.
The sword fire illuminated Jing Jiu’s face, his eyelids glistening slightly.
He could see objects clearly without the aid of light. The reason he lit the sword fire was because he wished to halt more quickly.
The flame turned into a fireball rather than springing upwards.
The black speck grew increasingly bigger, revealing its true appearance, which resembled a black dandelion without a stem.
It reminded him of Ada.
As the distance reduced, the black object grew bigger, occupying most of his sight, looking like a small hill.
Anything will become more dreadful as its mass grows. As a result, the seemingly feeble and black dandelion without stem looked more like a cold and horrifying black monster.
The monster was jet black throughout with thousands of tentacles on its surface.
There was no wind in the universe, and the tentacles were not wriggling, but it could be imagined that they were soft and could move on their own when the being was alive.
The black being with many tentacles must be dead.
Jing Jiu had made sure that the being had no signs of activity and energy; it felt exceedingly cold, and was even colder than the surroundings.
He reached out his hand and touched the strange being. Its tentacles felt a bit bizarre; they felt like a mixture of leather and crystal, kind of disgusting.
What had startled him was that he found the skin of the strange being was a thousand times stronger than the monsters in the Snowy Kingdom as he was to enter its body. He could feel the resistance of the skin when he tried to cut it open with his fingers. If this were the corpse of the heavenly demon of the outside world that had such a powerful defense after its death, how powerful would it be when it was alive? Such a large and powerful body would be able to destroy a sword boat of Green Mountain easily.
A few tentacles left the body of the strange being, drifting away. A large crack was appearing on the surface of the strange being.
Jing Jiu flew into its body. He found that it was half empty inside, resembling a stony cave full of stalactites.
The stalactites should be something similar to the soft tumorous tissues, and the dark gray strings should be tendons capable of transmitting energy.
The scenes inside the strange being were as disgusting as touching its skins.
Though Jing Jiu was certain that the inside structure of the being couldn’t be found in any lifeform in Chaotian, he, for some reason, felt it familiar.
The strange being didn’t have a center for transmitting energy; in other words, it didn’t have a heart like the humans, animals and devils did. Inside the being were a few cocoon-like objects hanging in midair. It was unclear if they were the organs for storage or thinking.
Jing Jiu came before the cocoon-like objects after he traveled quickly around the inside of the being and remembered all the features and locations.
The surface of the cocoons was covered with a layer of frost, indicating that a sort of liquid existed inside the strange being.
He touched a cocoon lightly with his finger and felt a slight vibration; it was unclear what kind of energy remained in it.
The cocoon-like object dissipated soundlessly before it broke up into countless icy crystals and drifted in all directions.
Jing Jiu had believed that this was something created by the Snow Girl. He did so merely to confirm it. He flew out of the body of the strange being and turned around to look at it after he arrived at a spot a few miles away.
The icy crystals had reached the inner wall inside the body of the strange being. The black monster started trembling slightly, thousands of tentacles on the surface of its body swaying side to side slowly.
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Seeing it from a distance, the black monster looked like a black dandelion without stem again; it seemed floating in the wind.
Jing Jiu had a sensation that it felt familiar again.
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The quiet universe didn’t have the scents of the Fiend Prison and Ada anymore.
The Snow Girl became cautious after she had killed the monster; she should have put Cold Cicada away.
Which direction should Jing Jiu travel in now?
If the black dandelion-like monster was the heavenly demon of the outside world imagined by the Cultivation practitioners, there must be many more like it.
He brought his finger to his nose and smelled the gray icy crystal on it before he traveled toward the source of the scent.
He saw a few more monsters that looked like the black dandelion in his journey. He believed that they were actually the so-called heavenly demons of the outside world, which had already turned into icy cold corpses now. He was certain that he didn’t travel in the wrong direction and that the Snow Girl should have traveled this way. As such, he sped up.
After a long while, Jing Jiu suddenly turned around to look at the white fireball as he thought of something.
The white fireball had grown smaller, emitting a tranquil and dim glow in the distant dark space.
It occurred to him that this was the star.
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Jing Jiu wheeled around and resumed flying forward.
A star awaited him up ahead.
The star grew increasingly larger as he drew closer to it; it became another sun.
This sun was a reddish fireball, extraordinarily big, with tongues of flame sticking out from time to time.
The scene had suddenly disappeared before he could enjoy its magnificence.
A huge shadow blocked the fireball.
It was tantamount to the Dead Dog blocking the sun in the sky with his body.
The surface of the shadow had tens of thousands of thin tentacles. Judging from their shape, it was the same kind of monster that he had seen. The shadow was exuding a formidable and cold energy, making one feel like it could swallow everything in the universe.
Jing Jiu believed that he was in a dire situation.
This heavenly demon of the outside world must be a hundred times more powerful that those corpses. Worst of all, the tentacles were swaying around like the weeds under the water. No one would think its tentacles were beautiful because this monster was alive.
A powerful air wave came out from the shadow, spreading to all directions in the universe. It was obvious that it attempted to search for something.
The air wave soon came to the patch of space where Jing Jiu was.
Jing Jiu thought of many things in a short period of time.
This heavenly demon of the outside world must have come here for the sake of those dead subordinates or descendants; so it must be much stronger than them.
The Snow Girl should have left the place not long ago.
According to her temperament, the reason she hadn’t killed this heavenly demon of the outside world was because she was unsure if she could do so.
Where should he escape to then?
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As he was thinking of all this, the air wave of the heavenly demon had already swept the space where he was.
He didn’t have any sensation of fear as he looked at the huge black dandelion one hundred miles away quietly.
As Jing Jiu was traveling in the universe, he encountered some meteors. The more meteors he encountered, the closer he was to the reddish fireball.
At the moment, he had none of breathing, temperature, heartbeat or energy.
A being, no matter how high its lifeform was, had no way to tell him apart from a meteor.
He relied on this ability to have killed so many monsters of the Snowy Kingdom overnight during the Cultivation tournament at the Plum Meeting when he was still in a very low Cultivation state.
As expected, the air wave of the heavenly demon didn’t linger around after it had swept the space where he was before it headed to other places.
It was time for him to leave the place; but he suddenly thought of something.
Though this place was very far away from Chaotian, it was still possible for this heavenly demon of the outside world with a high state to find Chaotian if it followed the tracks left by Jing Jiu.
The white fireball was the closest star.
Pah!!!
Jing Jiu snapped his fingers toward the heavenly demon of the outside world.
No sound broke out in the dark universe.
Yet, a sword fire lit on his fingertip.
The fire was quite noticeable.
It looked like a star.