âWe need to go!â Haidong Lin grabbed Lu Yun and the two vanished where they stood. An enormous roar split the void the second they left, drowning the spot they were just in.
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Haidong Lin didnât stop for a very, very long time. If thereâd been any light to be found in their surroundings, Lu Yun wouldâve seen that his face was ashen and sweat pouring from his brow. Lu Yunâs own clothes were drenched in sweat too.
âDid, did you take something else as well just now?â Haidong Lin asked in a trembling voice.
Lu Yun opened his hand; his consciousness traced the outline of a black flower glowing with a black hue that bloomed delicately in the dark. Haidong Lin could naturally see it with his mind as wellâhe reflexively raised a thumbs up to the young man.
âWho wouldâve thought that thereâd be treasures in the darkness? What a pity that I havenât determined what it can be used for yet.â Lu Yun put the flower away. âIt was growing on the world fragment and absorbing its energy. But, it seems that someone put it there to purposefully draw attention.â
He paused after that musing, suddenly understanding something.
Haidong Lin heaved an immense sigh. âWe were damned lucky to escape from that creatureâs trap.â
âTrap?â Lu Yunâs eyes widened.
âYes, that was a trap set by a creature of the dark,â Haidong Lin chuckled ruefully. âMany connate treasures can be found in the gloom. These treasures arenât limited by order and cannot be produced by a world of order. Thus, they are highly attractive to us cultivators.
âCountless heavyweights of the secondary worlds enter the darkness in search of these treasures. At the same time, the powerhouses of the darkness arenât idiots. They possess their own orders just like us, so they use these valuables as bait. Whoever comes in search of one will always meet with a grisly end.
âThey sometimes even connect the treasures to the darkness and throw them into the secondary worlds. If someone canât withstand temptation and tries to claim one, theyâll be instantly put under control by the treasure and dragged into the murk.â
ââŠâŠâ Lu Yun stood stock still for a very long moment. âTheyâre⊠fishing?â
âPrecisely correct,â Haidong Lin affirmed with trepidation. âThat world fragment was likely placed there to lure us over. We usually canât resist heading for the light when it appears in the darkness.â
ââŠâŠâ Lu Yun smiled ruefully. âIt looks like we really were lucky.â
âLetâs go. Since we came across a trap, that means weâre not far from a secondary world.â Haidong Lin proceeded ever more cautiously. Theyâd switched back to spoken speech since both denizens of the dark and secondary worlds were present in the premises. The creatures of the darkness didnât dare attack en masse.
After another indeterminate period of time, the shadows receded from their view and a world full of light appeared in front of them.
However, it seemed to be ripped apart by darkness. Light and dark intertwined with each otherâthere were creatures from both sides on the world and they frequently clashed with each other.
âIs this⊠another broken world?â Lu Yun frowned slightly at the scene. When he saw two ghost bats tear at a human corpse, he couldnât help but swat the three-meter-tall bats to death.
âNo, this is a complete world. Almost all of the secondary worlds are like this.â Haidong Lin stretched out his arms and sucked in a deep breath of somewhat turbid air. This was the smell of home. Although his specific home was the World of Sea, any secondary world could be generally considered his home as well.
Lu Yun lifted his head to regard the blue firmament. While it was blue, it was a dusky blue as there was no sun, moon, or stars in this part of the Boundless Planes. A deep void filled the sky and a jagged streak of darkness ripped through it like lightning, threatening to split the world asunder.
The gloom in this secondary world seeped out of the bolt of darkness to further wear away at the world. Endarkened creatures burrowed out of the jagged streak to descend upon the local inhabitants below.
It felt like a bolt of thunder struck Lu Yun when he saw the black lightning.
âWhatâs wrong?â Haidong Lin asked curiously when he saw the young manâs expression.
âIâve seen this kind of lightning before,â Lu Yun murmured after a deep breath.
âThis isnât lightning, itâs the power of the darkness!â Haidong Lin corrected.
âAfter the original Hongmeng perished, its central core became a new Hongmeng. Itâs called the Central Hongmeng.â Lu Yun ignored the man and muttered to himself, âThereâs a second realm called the chaos in the Hongmeng, and it used to be that chaos tribulations wreaked havoc on a regular basis. Chaos tribulations!â
He stared fixedly at the streak of lightning, finally understanding what the chaos tribulations were. The roving bolts werenât lightning and thunder, but the power of darkness!
âIt looks like the Ghost Bat King didnât just want to invade the chaos through the chaos sea, but also infuse the power of the darkness into the chaos sun and moon. When that power reached a certain threshold, the two clashed together and ignited a tide of darknessâthe so-called chaos tribulations!â
His heart still quailed at the thought of the tribulations. If theyâd happened a few more times, the chaos would most likely fall apart. The chaos tribulations werenât just a pure explosion of darkness either, they tapped into the terrible curse that the Curse King had laid using the Fire Virtue Potentate and six supreme gods of the chaos as sacrifices.
âUmâŠâ Haidong Lin clucked his tongue with amazement. âIf the lands of darkness used this method against the secondary worlds, the worlds wouldâve been erased from existence a long time ago.â
Lu Yun flicked a sideways glance at him. âIf all of the secondary worlds are dead, what will the endarkened creatures use to train their own powerhouses? âŠalright, stand guard for me. Iâm going to search for the Imperial Seal.â
âThe Imperial Seal⊠is with the emperor of the Hongmeng!â Excitement flashed through Haidong Linâs face when he mentioned the original emperor. This was someone he venerated and the strongest throughout the Boundless Planes. The emperor was the only one to access eighteen levels of sequence in the primary and secondary worlds.
Lu Yun sat down cross-legged and opened his hands, manifesting an image of the seal over his right hand. It was roughly one third of a meter and a perfect cube. Nine dragons hovered over it, hoisting a pearl over their heads. The characters âAs Mandated By Heavenâ were carved on it, as well as innumerable glyphs that Lu Yun didnât recognize.
Thirty-three images appeared over his headâthe mark that his future self had left when he journeyed through thirty-three loops. They walked out from his head, each holding a seal and melting into the image of the seal in his hand.
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