Chapter 148 : Chapter 148

Chapter 148: An Unknown Terror Descends!

【You took Xuanyuan Tianji farther and farther away from the Ice Palace, only stopping a month later.】

【During that month of flight, you discovered that the Arctic Icefield was a continent of nothing but extreme cold, with scarcely any human presence.】

【Aside from the Ice Palace, you only saw two or three other scattered factions similar to it.】

【Compared to the Eastern Dao Divine Continent, the cultivation sects here were far too few.】

【But that was something you could understand. After all, the environment here was harsh and cultivation resources were scarce, so naturally very few people were willing to cultivate here.】

【At this point, seeing that no Eerie Immortals had caught up to you, you casually found a cave to serve as a temporary foothold.】

【After taking the Nine Nether Ice Soul Flower earlier, you had been attacked by the Ice Palace Master before you could fully refine its energy. Now that you had escaped the Ice Palace, you chose to prioritize refining the remaining energy within your body.】

【Xuanyuan Tianji also began cultivating in seclusion inside the cave, while only Long Xinyue went out from time to time to scout the surroundings.】

【After half a year of secluded cultivation in the cave, you finally absorbed all of the Nine Nether Ice Soul Flower’s energy completely.】

【You could clearly feel that your cultivation had advanced somewhat, but you were still some distance away from the middle stage of the Mahayana Realm.】

【On the very day you emerged from seclusion, you suddenly felt a pang of dread in your heart.】

【Almost instinctively, you released your divine sense to probe the surroundings. Even after discovering that there was no one nearby, that sense of foreboding still remained.】

【Without a word, you immediately woke Xuanyuan Tianji from her seclusion and told her that danger was coming.】

【Abruptly roused from cultivation, Xuanyuan Tianji looked at you with a face full of grievance, but you paid it no mind and dragged her away at once.】

【After using the Great Void Technique and fleeing for three straight days, you discovered that the sense of dread in your heart had not only failed to disappear, but had instead grown heavier and heavier.】

【Yet along the way, you had not discovered any danger at all. In fact, you had not even seen a single person. You were utterly baffled as to where this sense of foreboding was coming from.】

【Xuanyuan Tianji beside you was also looking at you with a puzzled expression.】

【“What exactly happened? Why are you in such a panic?”】

【For a moment, you did not know how to explain it to Xuanyuan Tianji.】

【In the end, with a helpless sigh, you told Xuanyuan Tianji that because you had cultivated the Heavenly Secrets Technique, you would feel this kind of dread whenever you encountered an especially dangerous situation.】

【“Danger?”】

【Hearing that, Xuanyuan Tianji looked around with a grave expression.】

【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that she had not sensed any danger at all along the way and asked whether you might have sensed it wrongly.】

【You told Xuanyuan Tianji with absolute certainty that your intuition could not be wrong.】

【One month later.】

【You had even fled with Xuanyuan Tianji onto a small island in the Endless Sea, yet the sense of dread you felt still had not disappeared and had only become stronger and stronger.】

【“That feeling still hasn’t gone away?”】

【You looked at the Endless Sea with a solemn expression and nodded heavily.】

【“It’ll be within the next few days!”】

【You told Xuanyuan Tianji that you could feel something major was about to happen within the next few days.】

【The reason you were no longer continuing to flee was because you had realized that no matter where you ran, that sense of crisis would not disappear.】

【At first, you had naively assumed that the people from the Ice Palace were coming to hunt you down, so you fled desperately. But only after reaching the Endless Sea did you realize that this sense of crisis had never come from the Ice Palace.】

【Xuanyuan Tianji looked at you seriously and spoke.】

【“You’ve probably been marked by some unknown powerful existence. If something like that has locked onto you, then no matter where you run, it will still be able to find you.”】

【“Yes, but I can’t figure out what kind of existence could possibly have set its sights on me.”】

【You could not make sense of it. Ever since arriving in the Canglan Realm, you had not come into contact with any truly terrifying existence. At most, there had only been the two Eerie Immortals who had just entered the Immortal Realm.】

【Existences at that level, by all logic, should not have been capable of giving you such an overwhelming sense of crisis.】

【Three days later!】

【Violent tremors began shaking the sky above the Endless Sea.】

【You and Xuanyuan Tianji were immediately drawn to the disturbance.】

【“It’s here!”】

【Looking at Xuanyuan Tianji beside you, you revealed a bitter smile at once.】

【Three days earlier, you had told Xuanyuan Tianji to take Long Xinyue and leave, but Xuanyuan Tianji had refused.】

【Her reason for refusing was that if she had been targeted by an existence like this, then even if she fled now, she would still be found later.】

【At her current realm, she had no way of dealing with such a terrifying existence.】

【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that unless you could find the realm-boundary grand array of the Canglan Realm and leave it, then she might be able to seek help through connections from her past.】

【CRACK——】

【You saw a crack begin to split open in the sky above the Endless Sea, and immediately afterward, a spatial rift appeared before your eyes.】

【The moment the spatial rift appeared, a vast amount of spiritual qi was sucked into the black hole within it.】

【Then, you witnessed a scene you would never forget for the rest of your life.】

【A gigantic eye suddenly appeared inside the black hole, then slowly emerged from it.】

【Soon after, you realized that this enormous eye was only one part of the creature’s body. Behind the eye was a gigantic mass of flesh, covered in countless writhing tentacles.】

【Even more bizarrely, that mass of flesh was covered in red fur.】

【“I’ve finally found you. So you’re the Child of Destiny of the Great Thousand World?”】

【“A True Dragon Treasure Body!”】

【“The True Eye!”】

【“Your constitution truly is extraordinary. No wonder you were chosen by It.”】

【You struggled to raise your head and look at the monster above the Endless Sea. It merely spoke a few words, yet they already made you feel an endless pressure.】

【Enduring that pressure by force, you raised your head, wanting to see the monster above you clearly. Even though your body had already begun to crack apart, you still refused to yield.】

【But what shocked you even more was that this monster could actually perceive your True Eye.】

【If someone else could sense your True Dragon Treasure Body, you would not have found it strange. But to see through the True Eye—this was the first monster so far that had been able to do so.】

【“Oh?”】

【“To think you can still stand beneath one-thousandth of my pressure. I have to admit, you do have something special.”】

【“Then what will you do next?”】

【The next second, you instantly felt the pressure weighing on your body increase by more than tenfold.】

【In an instant, both you and Xuanyuan Tianji were crushed to the ground, while Long Xinyue died on the spot.】

【At that moment, the giant-eyed monster seemed to notice Xuanyuan Tianji by your side, and a trace of shock appeared in its enormous gaze.】

【“The Human Emperor Bloodline?”】

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