Chapter 298 (1/2)
Translator: Radiant Editor: Radiant
As Xue Ying continued to dive deeper…
The pressure from the unseen laws hindered him from moving forward, in spite of him being inside the spatial tunnel reflected in the Mirage.
Xue Ying pondered, At this depth of fifteen thousand kilometers, the unseen laws start influencing the Mirage, as well as the way I pierce the way forward. Even so, a hindrance on that level didn’t mean much to him. After all, even powerful Demigods, such as Chao Qing, could rely on their personal strength to reach Crimson Rock Mountain. Xue Ying was presently protected by the True Meaning of Star, leaving him able to easily withstand the binding force.
He kept moving without the slightest break. His Stellar Fire Cloud Spear passed through the Mirage and into the real world, sending attack after attack towards Lord You Lan as he attempted to flee with his life.
Lord You Lan fell into a state of despair, but he still tried his utmost to parry the incoming attacks.
All of a sudden, he left the void tunnel, entering once more into ordinary space.
He was now in what seemed like a world of magma—this whole space was filled to the brim with molten rock. Front, back, left, right, everywhere Xue Ying looked, there was magma, or at least that was what was reflected inside the Mirage from the real world—just thick, viscous, slow moving molten rock on all sides!
Upon entering the magma, Lord You Lan continued flying at top speed.
Shua!
Suddenly, he left disappeared, leaving the area of influence of Xue Ying’s Mirage.
My Mirage is indeed only effective inside a certain range, but even if he were to teleport, he couldn’t have disappeared so quickly. Inside his heart, Xue Ying understood what had happened. This should be Crimson Rock Mountain.
According to the map, the Crimson Rock Mountain was located right before him!
The unique properties of the Crimson Rock Mountain made it so that all forms of observation, outside of using the naked eye, were ineffective! It had been the same when he tried to find the sack left behind by Ancestor Black Wind, but the sack hadn’t been reflected in the Mirage. It seemed as if all Laws of Profound Mysteries simply lost their power.
Xiu.
Xue Ying immediately moved into the real world and then entered the magma-filled space.
“Mn?” Assisted by his True Meaning of Star, he was able to easily traverse the magma. Xue Ying didn’t react when an unseen feeling of oppression began to exert its influence on him. He had long since acquired detailed information on Crimson Rock Mountain from Ancestor Black Wind and knew this force was simply an effect of the Crimson Rock Mountain. He immediately approached the entrance.
“Whoa.”
As he closed in, he began to see an area of void before him. This dark void space was easily visible to the naked eye and small in size—about one meter in diameter. It was a truly bizarre sight!
At its center, there was an infinitely small point…so small, in fact, that even the most fundamental particle of a body was bigger than it! That single point was so clear and dazzling, and emitted such pressure on the surroundings, that it formed the void space bordering it.
It was no wonder that Ancestor Black Wind had warned that, should it suffer any change, it could easily destroy the entire Xia Clan World.
This is so bizarre.
As light fell on the surface of that centric point inside the void, it seemed to rapidly increase in size! It grew bigger and bigger, as if some enormous world existed right inside that single point in the center. Before long, that seemingly small point…had deluged Xue Ying’s whole field of vision. It was like a symbol of infinity—a mountain so high that its tip was not even visible to the naked eye. The rocks covering it were all colored a fiery-red, and they seemed to contain a boundless mystical strangeness.
Crimson Rock Mountain truly was unfathomably enormous and seemingly endless.
With a blink of his eyes, Xue Ying turned his vision. He no longer dared to stare in the point’s direction. The very next moment, that boundless mountain which had filled his whole field of view had turned once again into a single small point.
“Lord You Lan.” Xue Ying inspected the dark, one-meter-wide area of void, and inside, he saw a tiny person flying at a fast pace toward Crimson Rock Mountain.
This small person was actually only about the size of a single particle! As he neared Crimson Rock Mountain, he became smaller and smaller. Before long, the figure began scaling the mountain.
Following Lord You Lan’s path, Xue Ying’s vision once again reached the direction of Crimson Rock Mountain, which rose to fill his field of vision again—boundless and endless! With the mountain’s increase in size, Lord You Lan had also somehow regained his ordinary shape.
“Truly mysterious,” Xue Ying murmured.
Having climbed Crimson Rock Mountain, Lord You Lan turned around to give the outside a look. He seemed to be speaking, but no sound reached outside.
“He has already ascended the Crimson Rock Mountain?” One of the teams—that of the Meishan Clan Master—arrived quickly after, with the other three following behind. Soon, the huge Battleship D9 pushed apart the magma to join them beside the dark void.
“This Crimson Rock Mountain is the inheritance left behind by a powerful World Deity after his death.” Chen Jiu came over to Xue Ying’s side and laughed. “Our attacks wouldn’t even be able to pass through the void, much less actually reach the Crimson Rock Mountain. Let’s forget about Lord You Lan. He’ll most likely reach the inner parts of the Crimson Rock Mountain and then begin his adventure.”
“Haha, let’s go have a closer look.” Jian Huang, the gold-robed teenager, laughed.
“Right now?” Chen Jiu sent him a glance.
“Of course not! That would be way too rushed. We still need some time to finish preparing,” Jian Huang replied. They had brought along several treasures for this trip, but they were in parts, so they still needed some time to refine them. As for the reason they did so, it was to reduce the transportation fees.
The Temporal Temple truly was self-centered.
The price required to send over a Demigod sitting at the apex, who could match the might of a Deity like Chen Jiu and Jian Huang, was high enough to send even some of the titanic existences of the Deity world and the Dark Abyss into despair. They weren’t even slightly inclined to send two of such Demigods! Fortunately for that level of transaction, the Temporal Temple had been kind enough to allow them to bring over two comrades as well.
As for the Deity grade scrolls and other medicine pills, they were charged for every single item they wanted to bring, down to the smallest.
Smuggling them in?
Under the thorough investigation of the Temporal Temple, not even the items placed inside storage treasures could avoid detection! In this situation, they prefered to bring over raw materials! In the case of Xue Ying’s Hundred Bitter Restoration, it was simply too hard to brew, so the final product had to be sent over instead.
The red-haired Bo Bo at Wu Ma Hai’s side muttered, “We also need to prepare. We must first confirm the price asked by the Temporal Temple for sending us over. It truly is too high.”
This price was calculated through consideration of many aspects.
To send someone into the mortal world was already costly enough! But if one wanted to send someone over to compete for treasures inside the Crimson Rock Mountain…the price would be even higher!
The price would only be paid after various experts of the Temporal Temple agreed upon what would be an accurate assessment of cost!
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The group of people were chatting amongst themselves as they made their way toward the dark void. Moving closer, Xue Ying found that instead of feeling his body shrink, he instead saw the dark void becoming bigger and bigger before him.
“Woah, this is truly mystical.”