Post-Mythical Era: I don't want to die in the third reincarnation-Chapter 1175 - 1168: Are You Here for Me?
Mo Wuji stopped.
The vague sense of threat finally vanished, indicating that he was now safe.
This further confirmed that his previous perception was not wrong, that old fellow Qi Qitang had long known he was nearby, waiting for him to enter the Eightfold Expanse, certainly with ill intent.
Perhaps after he left, that guy returned.
Fortunately, that guy wasn't clear about his details, otherwise, given the disparity in their strength, he might have been captured, and he surely wouldn't have escaped.
Breathing a sigh of relief, Mo Wuji began to examine the situation before him.
He had always advanced according to his own perception, several decades had passed since he first encountered Qi Qitang.
This place long ceased to give any sense of the sealing in the Eightfold Expanse Canyon.
However, Mo Wuji was certain that the Eightfold Expanse Canyon must be nearby.
If every part of the Eightfold Expanse Canyon were exposed, it wouldn't be something that one of the Five Ancestors and several Realm Lords could seal.
Therefore, in his view, most parts of the Eightfold Expanse Canyon were still in their original state after the vast opening.
These places on the surface appear no different from ordinary voids.
But the Eightfold Expanse Canyon is hidden in a certain place, he needs to tear open the Source Principle realm here, or rather, the vast sealing.
This vast boundary seal existed since the vast opening, and with his current level of understanding of the Source Principle, finding it would certainly be very difficult.
Mo Wuji didn't mind; if it were simple, these seals would have been shattered long ago.
Once these seals were shattered long ago, the myriad nuisances of the Source Principle in the Eightfold Expanse Canyon and various trash principles would have been assimilated into the First Universe.
Then the Eightfold Expanse Canyon would be no different from any ordinary place.
He would just search slowly; he had already been in the First Universe for hundreds of thousands of years and didn't mind a few more years.
Mo Wuji sent a positioning message to Ding Huan and Lan Xiaobu, then started to study all the Source Principles of the void he was in.
This seal-manifested boundary, formed with the vast opening, was the most difficult to break; it was necessary to start from every single Source Principle on the periphery.
...
Lan Xiaobu stopped his seclusion.
Over nearly ten thousand years of seclusion, he had tried every possible means to deplete this vast Primordial Vein River.
Finally inspired by the Cosmic Dimension Model, he constructed a virtual Source Principle Longevity Space using his own Longevity Dao.
And used this to absorb the vast Primordial Energy of the Primordial Vein River.
His method was indeed viable.
The vast Primordial Energy that originally couldn't be absorbed at all, was being absorbed uncontrollably.
His own strength was also increasing madly.
But when this vast Primordial Vein River was about to be fully absorbed, Lan Xiaobu gave it up instead.
He knew that at this rate, even if there were a hundred vast Primordial Vein Rivers, it could not let him step onto the ninth step of the Great Dao.
This was not an issue with his Great Dao.
It was an issue with his Dao Body.
Lan Xiaobu could be sure that those vast powerhouses in the First Universe, when cultivating and absorbing vast Primordial Energy, definitely wouldn't be like him, needing to simulate a virtual Source Principle Longevity Space.
On the surface, he had indeed absorbed endless vast Primordial Energy, thus increasing his strength.
In fact, it did not help him step into the ninth step of the Great Dao at all.
His limitation was within himself.
No matter how powerful his cultivation technique, it could not change his origin.
His Dao Body simply could not withstand the extreme terrifying vast Primordial Energy of the ninth step, otherwise, his physical body would be blasted apart.
His method also had limitations.
He constructed a virtual Source Principle Longevity Space using his own Longevity Dao, which indeed could absorb more vast Primordial Energy.
The premise was that he was in the First Universe.
Once he left the First Universe, he would have to construct a new simulated Longevity Space again.
In other words, his strength was based on the First Universe, once he left the First Universe, though his strength had immensely increased compared to before, it would still decline somewhat.
This approach of enhancing one's strength by borrowing external Universe Source Principles, or the method of simulating a Longevity Space to bluff, was something he was tired of.
Perhaps at certain times, no matter how much effort was made, given insufficient personal conditions, it would all be in vain.
He couldn't continue like this.
Although there was still vast Primordial Energy in the Primordial Vein River, Lan Xiaobu had long lost interest in continuing cultivation.
With his Dao Body, his strength at this level had almost reached its zenith.
Unless he could break through the eighth step of the Great Dao and step into the true ninth-step extreme of the Great Dao.
He couldn't possibly break through the eighth step of the Great Dao in his current direction.
He had to change direction.
Either change his own Dao Body so that it could rival those Dao Spirit Bodies that had accompanied the vast opening,
or change his Great Dao direction so that he didn't need to absorb vast Primordial Energy by simulating a Source Principle Longevity Space.
After leaving a Dao thought imprint in the cultivated vast Primordial Vein River, Lan Xiaobu immediately flew out of the vast Primordial Vein River.
As soon as he exited the vast Primordial Vein River, Lan Xiaobu received messages from Mo Wuji and Ding Huan.
The first message was from Mo Wuji, who informed him that he had headed to Eightfold Expanse and that it might be the key to stepping into the ninth step.
Ding Huan also said he was preparing to head to Eightfold Expanse to meet Mo Wuji.
The second message, Mo Wuji sent his current location.
Having teamed up with Mo Wuji for so many years, journeying through countless places,
he trusts greatly in Mo Wuji's Great Dao intuition.
Not only Mo Wuji, Ding Huan's understanding of the Great Dao, in Lan Xiaobu's opinion, would definitely not be weaker than his and Mo Wuji's.
Since both Ding Huan and Mo Wuji believe that the Baya Land is the key to stepping into the ninth step of the Great Dao, why would he need to continue wasting time elsewhere?
Going to the Baya Land will do.
He hadn't heard of the Baya Land, but since Mo Wuji provided a directional guide, all he needed to do was follow the direction.
...
This was Ding Huan's three hundred and fifth year of frantically traveling, and in his opinion, it would take at most a hundred years to reach the place Mo Wuji described.
No matter what he encountered along the way, Ding Huan did not have the slightest intention of stopping.
Nothing was more important than stepping into the ninth step of the Great Dao.
Not to mention that he originally had a bunch of enemies, and Mo Wuji also told him that even Qi Qitang was looking for him, which made him feel even more of a sense of crisis.
Today, however, Ding Huan stopped.
He sensed a familiar aura of the Great Dao's source principle.
Ding Huan had cultivated in the First Universe for tens of thousands of years and had built his own void Dao network in the First Universe.
Coupled with his own Great Dao characteristic, he was familiar with all the source principles of the First Universe.
Among this, a sudden wisp of the Great Dao's source principle, something he was even more familiar with and had shown off not long ago, was deeply imprinted in his mind.
Thus, at the first moment he sensed this wisp of the Great Dao's source principle, Ding Huan knew it was Si Wu's.
Sensing a wisp of Si Wu's Great Dao's source principle here indicated that Si Wu was nearby.
While realizing this, Ding Huan had already transformed into Shen Dai.
He was most familiar with Shen Dai. Shen Dai was considered a celebrity in the First Universe, and combined with the fact that Shen Dai was not a threat to anyone's strength, he was a safe person.
Putting away the Cosmic Pot, Ding Huan considered whether to go see Si Wu.
Ji Yijian had invited him to cooperate in ambushing Si Wu, probably referring to this place.
If Ji Yijian were fine, he might have pretended to know nothing and simply slipped away.
Now that Ji Yijian was in trouble, the collaboration between him and Ji Yijian was basically nullified.
With that being the case, he might as well go and check how Si Wu was doing.
If he could snatch something, going to hit Si Wu now wouldn't be a bad idea.
Ji Yijian dared to invite him to ambush Si Wu together, which meant that even if he couldn't ambush Si Wu, he could escape.
If he couldn't even escape in front of Si Wu, Ji Yijian would definitely not have invited him to join hands in ambushing Si Wu.
Ji Yijian should cherish his life more than he does, right?
Just do it when you encounter it, what is there to be afraid of?
Thinking of this, Ding Huan summoned a flying shuttle, which was a post-Chaos magical treasure, and slowed down.
He had so many spoils, he couldn't even remember whom this flying shuttle came from.
Ji Yijian might have known Si Wu's seclusion location because of this wisp of the Great Dao aura.
It was normal for Si Wu to suddenly wake up and leak a wisp of his Great Dao aura.
After all, he didn't wake up normally, but after his soul was severely injured.
A day later, Ding Huan stopped in front of a void desert.
In the First Universe, these endless void deserts were everywhere.
Initially, when he entered the void algae, the other side was a void desert.
He stopped because he was considering a question.
All along, he had not regarded Si Wu as formidable, mainly because he had fought Si Wu and destroyed him.
In addition to his own strength continuously skyrocketing, he was more than a hundred times stronger compared to when he fought Si Wu.
Thus, he agreed to Ji Yijian's proposal to ambush Si Wu.
The fact was that the Si Wu who fought him might have been just a soul thought of Si Wu.
It's important to know that the Blood Peak Jian Yuan could very well have been just a few drops of Si Wu's essence blood transformed, with possibly only a wisp of his soul thought in his essence blood. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
Si Wu's few drops of essence blood along with a wisp of soul thought were already so terrifying...
No, it's supposed to be that one of Si Wu's eyes was a Chaos Treasure.
No matter how crippled Si Wu's main body was, it probably wasn't something he could handle now.
After all, the other party was one of the Five Ancestors, and Ji Yijian shouldn't be underestimated.
Ji Yijian might not be fearless of death.
But this guy wanted Si Wu's vast Origin Spirit so madly that he took a life-risking approach to ambush Si Wu.
Ji Yijian was barefoot, he was wearing shoes, why should he be in such a hurry?
Even if he wanted to settle accounts with Si Wu, coming back at the ninth step wouldn't be too late.
Who knows if that wisp of Great Dao's source principle aura was intentionally left by Si Wu to lure his opponents here?
Ding Huan inadvertently shifted the flying treasure off course, planning to avoid this void desert.
Si Wu was definitely in that desert, and since he didn't want to find Si Wu now, he wouldn't enter the desert.
"Are you looking for me?" Ding Huan had just shifted his course a bit and hadn't moved far, when a sudden voice came through.
Ding Huan's back went cold, and he immediately controlled the flying treasure to retreat a bit.
Streams of seemingly tangible and intangible spatial source principle locks swept over, clearly intending to stop Ding Huan from leaving.
Ding Huan made an effort to make his face look pale.
He cautiously controlled the flying treasure to retreat a little further, until he was locked by the space source principle, before cautiously asking, "Junior Shen Dai accidentally disrupted Senior's meditation, please forgive me…."
(Goodnight, fellow Daoist!)
