Chapter 161 : Chapter 161

Chapter 161: A New Crisis—Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable Breaks the Seal!

【You told Zhuge Qing that the Heavenly Dao’s true body was located within a special space, and that the only way to enter that space was through the depths of the Endless Sea.】

【You told Zhuge Qing that, according to your deductions, the space barrier in the depths of the Endless Sea was relatively weak, making it the best place for you to enter the Heavenly Dao’s space.】

【After hearing this, Zhuge Qing revealed a look of joy. Finding the location of the Heavenly Dao’s true body was his ultimate goal, and now it was finally close to being realized.】

【At Zhuge Qing’s urging, you immediately set out and flew toward the Endless Sea.】

【One week later!】

【You left the bounds of the Central Continent and entered the Endless Sea.】

【After entering the Endless Sea, you used the Great Void Technique to carry Zhuge Qing deeper and deeper inside. Within this Endless Sea, even Zhuge Qing had to rely on your Great Void Technique in order to advance.】

【Once you entered the Endless Sea, you completely lost your sense of direction. You could only rely on your instinct for the Spatial Laws to judge whether you had arrived at the right place.】

【And so, you continued shuttling across the Endless Sea until three months had passed.】

【Three months later, you finally sensed the location. You knew this was the place.】

【You began trying to use the Great Void Technique to open a gateway leading to the Heavenly Dao’s space.】

【However, you discovered that the Great Void Technique could only be used within the same space. It was utterly incapable of allowing travel back and forth between different spaces.】

【You had not expected the Great Void Technique to possess such a weakness.】

【After you told Zhuge Qing what you had sensed, his expression immediately dimmed.】

【“Let’s go back and ask Zi You!”】

【Hearing this, you decisively brought Zhuge Qing away from that place.】

【Within the Endless Sea, even as a Mahayana cultivator, you could not remain for too long. The chaotic Astral Winds here still posed a certain threat to you.】

【The twenty-fourth year!】

【You and Zhuge Qing returned to Youzhou.】

【After returning to the Sword Pavilion, you discovered that it had already been reduced to ruins, as if a fierce battle had taken place there.】

【At the sight of this, you felt a bad premonition rise in your heart, and you began trying to contact your External Incarnation.】

【Very soon, your consciousness descended upon your External Incarnation.】

【You discovered that your External Incarnation was currently at Tianqi Academy in Qingzhou, and that the others from the Sword Pavilion were also gathered there.】

【Seeing this, you brought Zhuge Qing with you and swiftly used the Great Void Technique to head for Qingzhou.】

【One week later!】

【You and Zhuge Qing arrived at Tianqi Academy.】

【Through your External Incarnation, you had already learned what had happened beforehand.】

【Half a year earlier, the Spiritual Qi in the Blood Demon Secret Realm had completely dried up, and Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable had shattered the stele and broken out of the seal.】

【At the time, everyone had been fighting the people of the Four Great Aristocratic Families, only to be ambushed by Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Xuanyuan Tianji intervened and stopped him.】

【Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable had only just broken free from the seal, and his cultivation had yet to recover. Relying on the strength of his fleshly body alone, it was difficult for him to defeat Xuanyuan Tianji.】

【In the end, Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable left Youzhou together with the Four Great Aristocratic Families and returned with them to the Central Continent.】

【And before this battle, the Four Great Aristocratic Families had already launched two rounds of attacks against the people of the Sword Pavilion.】

【You learned that during the first wave of attacks, because Zi You and Jiang Yang had not returned from Xuanzhou, Xuanyuan Tianji had single-handedly slain the Mahayana experts of the Xiao and Hun Families.】

【You had not expected Xuanyuan Tianji’s cultivation speed to be so astonishing. In just twenty short years, she had actually broken through to the Mahayana Realm.】

【This time, Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable’s breaking of the seal was also due to your negligence.】

【You had been too focused on cultivating the Heavenly Secrets Art and searching for the Heavenly Dao’s whereabouts. During your period of cultivation, no one had been able to contact you at all, and naturally, the matter of Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable had been forgotten as well.】

【After seeing your arrival, Zi You spoke.】

【“Little Junior Brother, Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable has broken free of the seal!”】

【You told Zi You that you were already aware of the matter.】

【You told everyone that the most important issue right now was that Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable would need at most two years to recover his cultivation to the Tribulation Stage. Once that happened, all of your plans would collapse at the final step.】

【After hearing this news, everyone naturally understood how grave the situation was.】

【Although the various Holy Lands currently had Tribulation Realm mighty experts, they were almost entirely unable to leave their Holy Lands. And now there was a Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable who could freely leave his, which made him far too dangerous to them.】

【Suddenly, you thought of something.】

【You asked Xuanyuan Tianji whether there was any way to help someone reconstruct a fleshly body.】

【Immediately afterward, you told everyone about Wuji Heavenly Venerable.】

【When Zhuge Qing heard that Wuji Heavenly Venerable was still alive, he looked at you with a face full of disbelief.】

【“Wuji Heavenly Venerable is actually still alive?”】

【You nodded and told Zhuge Qing about your encounter with Wuji Heavenly Venerable inside the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm.】

【After hearing this, Xuanyuan Tianji told you that there was indeed a method, but under the current circumstances, it was impossible to carry out.】

【“At present, the only way is to seize another body and be reborn. But after body seizure, if one wishes to recover one’s cultivation, one can only break through all over again, and that process would be extremely long.”】

【In the next instant, Wuji Heavenly Venerable’s voice rang out in your mind.】

【“Young friend! Forget about body seizure.”】

【“I am someone who should have died long ago. If I do not revive, I can still burn away what remains of myself and do a few final things for the Human Race.”】

【After hearing Wuji Heavenly Venerable’s words, you let out a long sigh in your heart.】

【You truly did not wish for Wuji Heavenly Venerable to burn his soul to help you all.】

【You told everyone that if you wanted to defeat Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable now, your only chance was for either Zi You or Zhuge Qing to break through to the Tribulation Stage.】

【“Break through to the Tribulation Stage?”】

【“Little Junior Brother, with the current intensity of the Lightning Tribulation in the Canglan Realm, the probability of the Human Race successfully undergoing tribulation is far too low.”】

【Zi You looked at you with dim eyes and spoke helplessly.】

【Naturally, you understood this situation.】

【You turned your gaze toward Zhuge Qing and told everyone that you had now found the location of the Heavenly Dao’s space. As long as you could enter that space and resolve the problem of the Heavenly Dao, you might then be able to successfully undergo tribulation.】

【Immediately afterward, you told Zi You that you were unable to use the Great Void Technique to enter the Heavenly Dao’s space, and you asked whether she had any way to get inside.】

【Hearing this, Zi You gave a bitter smile.】

【“There’s no way. The Great Void Technique cannot shuttle back and forth between different spaces.”】

【After hearing the answer Zi You gave, you were immediately disappointed. You had not expected that your guess was right and that there truly was no way.】

【Suddenly, Fang Jingchun spoke up.】

【“How about we go seize a Holy Land? If we can get our hands on some precious soul-nourishing spiritual herbs, we might have hope of breaking through to the Tribulation Stage!”】

【When you heard this, your eyes immediately lit up, as if you had thought of something.】

【“Purple Firmament Immortal Ganoderma!”】

【You suddenly remembered that Bai He in Xuanzhou had a stalk of Purple Firmament Immortal Ganoderma. Combined with the remaining five spiritual herbs you had obtained from Bai Zhan, there was a strong chance it could allow Zi You to successfully undergo tribulation.】