Chapter 527 - Eleven Years (2/2)
Xue Ying suddenly woke up, and immediately sensed the acute pain coursing through his body. Seeing this, Jing Qiu retrieved her palm and hurriedly asked, “What happened to you?”
“Ah.” Xue Ying raised his hands to grab his head as the pain passed through it. At the same time, blood started dripping out from his nose.
His avatar was not the only one to receive the backlash either. His white-robed true body back in the Xia Clan world’s Crimson Rock Mountain felt some pain pass through his head and had a similar nosebleed. However, the treasure spirit of the Crimson Rock Mountain had also awoken him at about the same time Jing Qiu did.
“After I discovered the great destruction aspect of this array, I kept on pondering and gaining new insights. However, without me even realizing it, my True Deity Heart was hurt by the terrifying killing intent of the array, and the damage reflected on my body.” Xue Ying shook his head. “In fact, this avatar was not the only one to get hurt. Even my true body back in the Xia Clan world received the same injury. That killing intent was simply too terrifying. Merely studying the array was enough to cause me this much damage.”
Jing Qiu was astonished. “By damaging your True Deity Heart, it also damaged your body? And it even injured the true body back in the material world? Powerful existences might be able to use karma to kill an enemy that is very far away, but this array could actually damage your true body without using any trace of karma?”
“Indeed, it did not use karma. My avatar and my true body were both comprehending the array, and that’s why both were injured. This array is just too strong. It doesn’t feel any shred weaker than the operating laws of the entire material realm.” Xue Ying shook his head. “I can’t continue studying it. My comprehension of the aspect of destruction contained by this array has reached a limit. Trying to go any further would just get me killed.”
“I can still keep going,” Jing Qiu said. “Likely because I’m not focused on the aspect of destruction. I am prepared to leave behind a World Deity avatar here to continue studying the array.”
“Alright, let’s quickly set off for Lake Heart Island, then,” Xue Ying replied.
Before leaving, Xue Ying turned towards Emperor Heavencloud’s corpse which was still sitting there, cross-legged. With a wave of his hand, a large amount of soil and rocks emerged and moved around according to an invisible force. He first moved the corpse to the side, then covered him under the soil and rocks, forming a grave.
“Emperor Heavencloud, return to safety under the ground,” Xue Ying lightly muttered.
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Xue Ying left the meteorite alongside his wife. He used his luminous sun force to scout a path ahead through the endless flow of water before moving out at high speed.
The enormous silvery-white sphere of water had a diameter of more than 9.45 trillion kilometers, an entirely enormous size.
While inside the flowing water, experts could not tear through space, so they had to resort to flying continuously. Back on the road, the two experienced many more dangers. They even encountered a school of violet sword fish and some other unique lifeforms living in the flowing water. These lifeforms had existed ever since the Lake Heart Island ruins first emerged. Xue Ying and Jing Qiu had suffered the pursuit of some of these lifeforms, forcing them to leave behind Deity avatars to confuse the enemies.
They even encountered the undercurrent a few more times.
As they became more experienced, they could determine from afar whether the undercurrent would arrive soon through the current flow of the water. They could even begin to estimate whether terrifying lifeforms were approaching them.
They had traveled for a total of eleven years!
Indeed, it took eleven years of traveling through the enormous silvery-white sphere of water, crossing through the various obstacles found in the flow of water, before the two finally approached the central island.
Hong~
Upon crossing an invisible boundary that was able to block even the flowing water, the black-robed teenager and the white-robed girl with silver hair were both startled by the sight of the huge island ahead of them. Other than its ability to block all water from nearing it, the island stood out because of its pure silver color and endless frost covering its surface. The cold icy aura it exuded left Xue Ying and Jing Qiu both trembling uncontrollably. The size of Lake Heart Island proper was naturally nowhere near that of the silvery-white sphere of water, but it was still reported to cover an area of more than half a trillion kilometers.
“Jing Qiu, this is truly not easy, but we finally arrived at this piece of Lake Heart Island.” Xue Ying shook his head, “I thought I would have lost my life on the road here through the water flow level.”
Jing Qiu also nodded. The road here was truly arduous.
“Fortunately, we’re arrived at a good time. The Lake Heart Island is currently frozen, making it much much safer,” Jing Qiu said. “We must make use of this opportunity and hurry over to find my father! Of course, we’ll also have to find the true god weapon. By the way, we won’t be able to take the same path which my father and the rest previously followed. Old Mother Withered Tree, the Nine Yang Palace Head and the rest are likely keeping watch over that road, and we must try our best to avoid them.”
“I’ll leave everything for you to decide,” Xue Ying replied.
“I hope we’ll be able to save my father before Lake Heart Island warms up,” Jing Qiu said. The temperature on Lake Heart Island was always changing. It would first get colder and colder down to a limit, before starting to get warmer and warmer up to a different limit!
It could exhibit both extreme cold and extreme heat.
The cultivators who visited the ruins of Lake Heart Island, even if they were powerful existences, would usually refrain from entering during the periods of extreme heat. During such times, the danger level of the island would rapidly surge.