Chapter 269 - Vast Expanse (1/2)

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Yan Zaizen remained adrift in the vast nothingness. He wasn't being propelled by any force, neither his own or belonging to this realm. Typically, even in outer space, the body would shift slightly due to faint traces of gravity imposing its rules onto the object. However, Yan Zaizen remained unmoving.

His mind had already regained its stability and calm; his eyes looked like amber-gold lava flowed within. Only by utilizing his False Grand Dao amplification was he capable of sustaining thought, but this left him bewildered. This place seemed to contain nothing. There was nothing for billions of li in distance, and likely nothing further.

”Why does this place exist?” Questioning, Yan Zaizen felt it odd that an inter-heavenly spatial formation would produce a door into a location such as this. He had some guesses, but even then...it didn't explain why this place existed. It contained no heavenly law, no essence, and stifled the mind, cells, and soul. It was as if it contained no force, and that lack of a force was imposing an irrefutable force!

The entire scenario felt contradictory and surreal.

Pinaka was currently unconscious. Shockingly, Pinaka couldn't maintain her consciousness due to this force that was no force. It was as if her mind shut down in protection of itself. Likely, the only reason she lasted initially was due to the Dao Link they established.

”Would a bestowed dao wielder be able to maintain their consciousness?” He wasn't particularly bothered by Pinaka's unconsciousness. Her soulforce was still vibrant and lively, and only her consciousness seemed to have undergone a period of slumber.

”Haaa...enough,” Yan Zaizen shook his head. He decided to reprioritize his focus - figuring out a way back to the 27th Heaven. Somehow, the inter-heavenly spatial formation tunneled from the 27th Heaven to the 7th Heaven, and he had to figure out how.

Standing upright, or at least what he thought was upright, spread out his arms. From his hands, strings of black heavenly might suffused with dark-grey wind surged outwards. They lashed here and there, penetrated through one area and another, and continued to travel for many li. These strings remained connected to his hand, feeding him information through them.

After several hours, his eyes brightened with exceptional brilliance. ”So my original guess was correct. If the Border Expanse is sea, then the realms are the islands or continents. The heavens function on the same logic. This area is the thirty-three heavens Border Expanse, the area that segregates them. Despite this, it seems like the heavens are more so sub-realms, hidden within this Border Expanse...so is it different?” However, the moment his thoughts truly reached this point, he subconsciously shivered.

He recalled the hairy mouth-balls.

His pupils turned sky-blue, while his irises remained amber-gold lava flowing within, and his eyes became exceptionally beautiful. By channeling the characteristics of his soul regalia infused into his brain, he looked about with a new set of eyes. However, what startled him even further was what he found…

Nothing.

The solemness in his eyes intensified.

”Escaping isn't an issue, this entire area is connected to the 7th Heaven. A single spatial vortex connector would easily allow me to re-enter the 7th Heaven, but...where's the 27th Heaven?”

BOOM!!!

A loud explosion occurred nearby. It was ear-splitting and even caused Yan Zaizen's ears, which were refined using the Immortal Herculean Method, to bleed immediately! His head felt as if it was being pounded. ”What the?!” Yan Zaizen was truly startled. Luckily, his healing factor restored the damage instantly.

A man-sized hole formulated nearby. This hole was black. It was too noticeable because this place had no color. It had no distinctions and seemed as if it didn't even exist. Nothingness wasn't defined by the color black, but by nothingness. This black hole looked as if it was a stain on a white dress, completely noticeable!

From this man-sized hole, a grey-robed figure appeared. Within the eyes of this figure was startling silver light. However, this dense silver light was restricted into his irises like flowing lava. When Yan Zaizen saw those eyes, his heart trembled. Those eyes were the eyes of a Grand False Dao Wielder!

”Who are you?!” Yan Zaizen directly asked.

However, the masked man didn't respond. Instead, he proceeded to summon a sword. There was a longsword in his right hand. This longsword gave off an aura of utter chaotic, its color being indeterminate. It was pure white, but it seemed as if it was only that because the myriad colors of the world were intermingled endlessly. It gave one a sensation of vertigo, as if they had stepped into the world of chaotic spiraling colors.

This blade was one meter long. Its edges were exceptionally sharp and terrifying. As it just stayed there in the vast nothingness, it seems as if nothingness was being cut!