Chapter 576 - Seclusion (2/2)

‘It’s starting to rain?’ Xue Ying looked towards the sky with a tinge of shock. Indeed, the rain had just begun to fall, and the raindrops even seemed to be rapidly increasing in size.

“Eh?” Xue Ying’s complexion slightly changed as he looked towards the black armor covering his body. The rain fell gently, easily running through the layer of luminous sun force surrounding Xue Ying’s body! It must be stated that in this kind of dangerous place, any expert would send some energy out to surround their body and protect them. However, these raindrops easily bypassed Xue Ying’s luminous sun force to drip directly onto his black armor. The surface of his armor was making ‘chi chi chi’ noises, and it was showing signs of damage. “The black armor is being damaged?”

Xue Ying immediately thought of the bones he had formerly discovered. The bones were indestructible, the surface showed many damaged pieces which formed the gravel. “Could this rainwater be the reason for the bones decomposing?”

“Hong, hong~” The rain was getting stronger and stronger. Despite only a breath’s worth of time having passed since it had begun to fall, the rain already gave the feeling that the world was toppling over. Puddles were accumulating in the gravel which swiftly grew at a rate visible to the naked eye.

“Chi chi chi.” The black armor covering Xue Ying’s body also began to suffer even more damage. Fortunately, it was extremely hard and stable, so it could hold on for quite some time. Furthermore, Xue Ying was constantly sending out more energy to restore it.

‘I’ve got to find somewhere to hide, and quickly.’

Xue Ying no longer flew, and immediately dove downwards.

He dove past the already layer of water which was already a few meters deep, then into the incomparably concentrated layer of gravel, then continued boring downwards for another sixty thousand kilometers before finally arriving at the thick, dark red membrane.

This was the deepest he could go, and the rainwater could not permeate all the way down here there.

“Break for me.”

Xue Ying fully used his spear technique, furiously thrusting in.

At the same time, his entire body simultaneously dove inwards. Once he reached a hundred meters deep, he dove directly into the deepest part of the membrane. He felt the pressure of the surrounding dark red membrane, but his strength was sufficient to resist it. There, he continued to furiously thrust his spear, only to realize that it was much harder to go any deeper from here. After a furious assault that lasted quite some time, he was twenty or so meters deeper than before. He was unable to continue any deeper. After all, the lower he went, the tougher it became.

‘This is good enough.’ Xue Ying flipped his hand, taking out the Eden treasure left behind by the Howling Devil Cult Leader after his death. The Eden treasure immediately changed to take on an appearance that was similar to the material making up the thick dark red membrane.

“Sou.”

Xue Ying disappeared without a trace, leaving behind only the extremely small disguised Eden treasure. The surrounding membrane then immediately closed up, wrapping all around it.

‘Eden treasures are very proficient in isolating what’s inside from probing techniques. It has already isolated an area of ten million kilometers. For someone to find me here, they would have to penetrate the whole interior of the membrane, which is no easy matter.’ Xue Ying was rather confident since even he only managed to go this deep by choosing one area and furiously striking it.

Blasting a hole that was both deep and a full ten kilometers in range into this thick dark red membrane would be harder than making a crack smaller by a thousand or ten thousand times.

And even if someone were to blast a hole that was ten meters wide in one single strike, how long would it even take to conduct a carpet-style search over a ten million kilometers wide area?

On top of that, Xue Ying would never dimwittedly place his Eden treasure, so he left it at the very center of a vague area of the primordial chaos. The distance from the core of the isolated area was a full three million kilometers. Unfortunately for them, the sovereigns of the Dark Abyss had no way of knowing this.

…

Countless creatures lived in the inner world of the Cultivation Eden, all of them having their faith placed in the Howling Devil Cult Leader.

“Spirit artifact, from this day on, the Howling Devil’s faith shall be severed from this inner world.” Unhappy with this situation, Xue Ying at once gave the command. He had no time to do such things himself.

“Yes, master,” the spirit artifact replied.

Xue Ying at once looked for a random field of grass, and then completely isolated it and the surrounding million kilometers, thus turning it into his person cultivation ground.

‘It should not be so easy for the true god paragons to find me, but I have no way of knowing for sure. After all, their techniques are impossible for me to predict.’ Xue Ying sat down cross-legged on the vast field. ‘Let’s see, then if I’ll become a stage four World Deity first, or if they can find me before that!’

If he was found first, he could only accept his fate.

Back in the Crimson Rock Mountain world of the Xia Clan world.

Jing Qiu and Xue Ying were sitting together inside a restaurant, chatting idly.

“Xue Ying, there are more and more Abyss Sovereigns making their way to the Three Chieftains Sacred Mountain.” Jing Qiu always seemed aware of all such external pieces of information, primarily because her father, Monarch Mo Xue, would receive information from all sorts of places. It was clear that the situation within the Three Chieftains Sacred Mountain was becoming tenser! The sovereigns of the Dark Abyss converging here were rapidly increasing in number, and everyone was starting to guess on just how long it would be before Dong Bo was captured or killed.

“Don’t worry about them.” Xue Ying grasped his wine cup, softly lifting it up to his mouth to take a sip, then got up. “Let’s go.”

“We’re leaving?” Jing Qiu was stunned.

Both of them were still in the material world. Where could they even go?

“I’ve already readied everything to seal myself off. I won’t exit seclusion before I become a stage four World Deity,” Xue Ying said. “Should the avatar over in the Three Chieftains Sacred Mountain be captured, I can only blame my luck for being bad.”

He had already done everything he could in his situation.

And now… he could only rely on chance!

Furthermore, this experience allowed Xue Ying understand one thing—if one lacked the necessary strength, adventuring was truly too tiresome. Even a stage four World Deity could suppress him in terms of their World Energy! And his realm wasn’t even comparable to theirs! In truth, back at Lake Heart Island, he had already begun feeling somewhat weary, and he began to think of the fact that not every step he took was as beautiful as it should. However, he truly was unable to relax and cultivate leisurely until he became a stage four World Deity, and only then go out to save Eternal Wind. He had been too afraid that his senior brother Eternal Wind would not be able to keep holding on, which led to him rushing over to the Dark Abyss.

‘I’ve already done everything I could.’

‘I won’t ever do this sort of strenuous trips again in the future. Before all else, I’ll cultivate my way to becoming a stage four World Deity, calm and content.’ Xue Ying’s thoughts were clear—for the following years, he would enter proper seclusion. By the time he came out again, he would not be so easy to bully.