Chapter 143 : Chapter 143

Chapter 143: The Strange Southern Wilderness Divine Continent, and the Black Mist on the Outskirts of the Black Abyss!

【Ninth year!】

【Once again, you flew alone above the Endless Sea.】

【After your previous experiences, you no longer used the Great Void Technique without restraint. As a result, your speed of travel dropped drastically.】

【One year later!】

【Tenth year!】

【You left the Endless Sea without any real danger and successfully entered the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent.】

【Although this time it had taken you more than a year to reach the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent, the dangers you encountered on the Endless Sea had been greatly reduced.】

【Whenever you encountered powerful demon beasts, you would decisively use the Great Void Technique to escape and avoid becoming entangled with them for too long.】

【After entering the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent, you discovered that this place was completely different from both the Eastern Dao Divine Continent and the Dongming Sea.】

【If the Eastern Dao Divine Continent was a land ruled by the human race, and the Dongming Sea was a land ruled by the demon race, then the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent was something else entirely.】

【You discovered that the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent was filled everywhere with swamps and all kinds of strange plants.】

【Looking at the vast and boundless Southern Wilderness Divine Continent before you, you found yourself at a loss for what to do for a moment.】

【Through the Heavenly Secrets Technique, you could only roughly deduce that the Black Abyss was somewhere within the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent. As for its exact location, you were completely unable to calculate it.】

【The reason you could not deduce it was not because your Heavenly Secrets Technique was insufficiently cultivated, but because the Black Abyss had been placed under a taboo. Anyone who tried to deduce it would suffer an extremely severe backlash.】

【Helpless, you chose to first search the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent for a city inhabited by human cultivators.】

【One month later!】

【Standing by a lakeside, you let out a helpless sigh.】

【You had searched the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent for a full month, only to discover that you simply could not find any trace of the human race at all.】

【Most of the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent was shrouded in poisonous miasma, and within it grew many mutated plants. You discovered that these plants not only absorbed the spiritual qi from your body, but also fed on your blood essence.】

【Unwilling to give up, you decided to continue exploring for a while longer. In the end, if you still could not find the Black Abyss, you would take the risk and make a forced deduction.】

【As you continued moving toward the central region of the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent, you discovered that the surrounding lakes were becoming fewer and fewer, while the swamps were becoming more and more numerous.】

【Gradually, you found that every path ahead had been swallowed by swamp, and some of those swamps even contained putrid water bubbling on the surface.】

【You paid no attention to any of it and continued flying deeper in.】

【Half a month later.】

【You discovered that the situation ahead had become completely impossible to see clearly, as your line of sight was blocked by dense miasma.】

【Sensing the changes in your surroundings, you had a premonition that the Black Abyss was no longer far away.】

【Ignoring the obstruction of the miasma, you continued forward.】

【Three days later!】

【You suddenly discovered that your meridians had become somewhat clogged, and your spiritual qi could no longer circulate properly throughout your body.】

【Only at that moment did you realize the seriousness of the problem.】

【You knew that your True Dragon Treasure Body was hundreds of times stronger than the constitution of an ordinary person, and your meridians were even more so.】

【But even so, your meridians were still being eroded at this very moment.】

【Seeing this, you decided not to keep flying and prepared to use the Great Void Technique to continue on your way.】

【But to your surprise, the Great Void Technique could not be used within this miasma.】

【Left with no choice, you could only land on the swamp and continue on foot.】

【Because you discovered that there was no miasma present on the ground.】

【BZZZT!】

【Not long after landing, you heard a piercing sound come from beneath you, followed by a sharp pain in the soles of your feet.】

【You lowered your head and saw that bubbles were constantly rising from the swamp beneath your feet. After those bubbles burst, they released a highly corrosive toxic fluid.】

【You discovered that after the toxic fluid touched the soles of your feet, it rapidly began dissolving your fleshly body. Fortunately, your True Dragon Treasure Body possessed extremely strong recovery, so you did not suffer overly serious corrosive damage.】

【At this moment, your face turned somewhat pale.】

【You had not expected the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent to be this dangerous. Why did no one know about this?】

【Whether in the Qin Kingdom of the Eastern Dao Divine Continent or from Bai Zhan in the Dongming Sea, no one had mentioned the dangers of the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent.】

【What you could be certain of was that someone like Bai Zhan definitely had not deliberately concealed the truth. Rather, he had simply never come to the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent and knew nothing at all about the situation here.】

【At that moment, you suddenly thought of another possibility. During your deductions, it might not necessarily have been the Black Abyss that had been tampered with. It was very possible that the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent itself had been tampered with so that no one would set foot in it.】

【And since the Black Abyss just happened to be inside the Southern Wilderness Divine Continent, your attempt to deduce the Black Abyss had also been affected by that taboo.】

【At present, walking through the swamp meant your fleshly body would be eroded by toxic fluid, while flying in the air meant your meridians would be eroded by miasma. For a moment, you found yourself in a true dilemma.】

【“Should I go back? Or keep going?”】

【Feeling the stinging pain continuously coming from the soles of your feet, you knew you did not have much time to think.】

【“I’ve already come this far! Even if I have to die, I’m going to see what exactly the Black Abyss is!”】

【Thinking of your Child of Destiny talent, and the fact that you could receive the protection of the Heavenly Dao at a critical moment, you stopped hesitating and directly flew back into the air to continue onward.】

【Seven days later!】

【After flying desperately, you finally saw something different.】

【You discovered that the miasma ahead had completely vanished. What appeared before your eyes was a region of grayish-black mist.】

【At this point, your meridians had already been badly eroded. Every time you used spiritual qi, you could feel a stinging pain coming from them.】

【But right now, you had no time to worry about your meridians. That could wait until after you returned.】

【Looking at the grayish-black mist before you, your brows knit tightly together.】

【You discovered that this mass of grayish-black mist looked strangely familiar, as though you had seen it somewhere before.】

【“Where exactly have I seen this before...”】

【“This feeling is so familiar...”】

【After a long while, your eyes suddenly widened as you stared at the grayish-black mist in front of you, and a few words escaped your lips.】

【“The Desolate Dead Zone!!!”】

【You suddenly remembered. The scene here looked extremely similar to the black mist region on the outskirts of the Desolate Dead Zone—so similar that they could almost be said to be exactly the same.】

【At this point, you began to feel conflicted inside.】

【You were afraid that the situation inside the Black Abyss might be just like the Desolate Dead Zone, where the flow of time was terrifyingly distorted.】

【After a long while, you fixed a determined gaze on the grayish-black mist before you, as though you had finally made up your mind.】

【Then, without the slightest hesitation, you plunged into the grayish-black mist.】

【The moment you entered the grayish-black mist, you suddenly froze.】

【“This is?”】

【Within the grayish-black mist, you sensed a faint trace of the Power of Destruction.】

【Immediately after, you felt that faint Power of Destruction begin eroding your body the moment it came into contact with you.】

【Although the erosion was very weak, you still noticed it.】

【For a moment, your heart was filled with wild joy.】

【“There’s no need to enter the Black Abyss anymore!”】

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