High Martial Arts Era 405

Chapter 405: Void Corridor! The Truth

2024-09-12

Chapter 405: Void Corridor! The Truth

Hearing Gu You’s warning, Li Yuan instinctively wanted to return to the Divine Palace, increasing his chances of survival.

Space crack? Space, as the foundation of all things, is extremely stable. Even at the peak of the Void God Realm, even in life-or-death battles, it would only create ripples in space at most.

True Gods, at their full strength, could only create cracks in space. Under the self-healing power of Heaven and Earth, these cracks would quickly recover.

Therefore, encountering a space crack meant extreme danger.

“I can’t move, it’s too late.” Li Yuan immediately realized it was too late. Invisible spatial restraint power had completely sealed off this void around him.

Even the internal space of the Star Cloud Extreme Space Shuttle was completely suppressed.

“Is this the work of the Abyssal Demon Blood Cave?”

“Or did the mastermind behind it take action? Could the mastermind be a True God-level powerhouse?” Numerous thoughts flashed through Li Yuan’s mind.

If it was just a Void God-level being, even if they could directly kill Li Yuan, they wouldn’t have to create a space crack, preventing Li Yuan from even hiding in the Divine Palace within the ship.

“Such power.”

“If they wanted to kill me, it would be easy, no need to create a space crack. There must be a reason.” Li Yuan had an endless desire in his heart: “I have to survive, I have to!!”

He had entered the Burial of Immortal Ancient Domain, descended upon this mysterious Awakening Star Continent, and there were still many things he hadn’t accomplished.

…

In an instant, Li Yuan only felt the Star Cloud Extreme Space Shuttle tremble slightly before stabilizing. Li Yuan, with his understanding of the mysteries of space, could sense that he had been transferred to a different space.

At this moment, the space inside the Star Cloud Extreme Space Shuttle was no longer suppressed. However, Li Yuan wasn’t in a hurry to enter the Divine Palace.

“Is it a cave?” Li Yuan’s divine sense spread out, penetrating the ship. He could perceive that the outside seemed empty, likely a vast space, and his divine sense quickly reached its limit.

“This is the intersection of several passages. It should be a teleportation array.” Gu You transmitted her voice.

Teleportation array? Li Yuan was secretly shocked.

In the Divine Realm, different star domains were separated by extremely vast distances. Even Gods would find it unrealistic to travel across the boundless void. Thus, they needed teleportation arrays.

Wormholes and stargates in the starry sky were essentially similar to teleportation arrays. However, these two were naturally formed by the operation of Heaven and Earth.

Teleportation arrays were man-made structures.

Teleportation arrays involved the profound application of spatial laws, usually only achievable by Gods… like the Starry Sky Divine Court, spread throughout the Divine Realm. Each Starry Sky Ancient City was essentially a stable and massive “Starry Sky Teleportation Array,” allowing the strong of the Starry Sky Divine Court to quickly reach every corner of the Divine Realm’s starry sky.

There was a teleportation array here?

Could it be that the mastermind behind the Abyssal Demon Blood Cave was a God?

“Sister, is it safe?” Li Yuan transmitted his voice.

“It should be safe.” Gu You transmitted her voice: “I’ve sensed all directions, and haven’t detected any danger. You can try driving the ship.”

Whoosh!

A map quickly transmitted into Li Yuan’s mind. It was the terrain map that Gu You had explored… Currently, the area where the Star Cloud Extreme Space Shuttle was located was similar to the center of a giant spherical hall with a diameter of about ten kilometers.

This was also why Li Yuan couldn’t detect the boundaries immediately.

Because the entire hall was simply too large.

The eight walls of the hall seemed to be engraved with countless secret inscriptions, intertwined, with mysterious fluctuations.

“No wonder Sister Gu You said it was possibly a teleportation array.” Li Yuan thought: “It’s indeed similar to the information given by Senior Qiu.”

In all directions of the spherical hall, there were passages, a total of sixty-four. Each passage was over a hundred meters tall and wide, extending in different directions… even with Gu You controlling the Divine Palace, she couldn’t reach the ends of the passages.

“There’s nothing unusual about this hall.”

“Whoosh!”

Li Yuan moved his mind and immediately drove the Star Cloud Extreme Space Shuttle towards one of the passages.

As soon as they reached the edge of the passage.

“Swoosh!” The entire ship encountered an invisible barrier and could no longer rush through. If they exerted any force, even the ship would tremble slightly.

“Brother Xu, what should we do?” Jiang Xuan couldn’t help but ask.

“Lord Xu Yuan.” Xu Guo and the several guards were also quite nervous.

They didn’t have Li Yuan’s sharp perception, but the sudden change had also made them aware of the trouble.

“Here’s a map, take a good look.” Li Yuan’s gaze swept over. Six invisible soul fluctuations had flown out, drilling into Jiang Xuan, Xu Guo, and the others’ minds.

These soul fluctuations contained map information.

“Such a large hall.”

“Where is this?” Xu Guo and the guards were astonished.

“The intelligence within the royal family didn’t mention any such place in the Abyssal Demon Blood Cave.” Jiang Xuan was also shocked.

“The ship can’t fly into the passage.” Li Yuan said calmly: “If we don’t want to be trapped to death here, we have to try getting off the ship.”

Whoosh!

The cabin door opened. Li Yuan moved and flew out of the ship. The outside was pitch black, without a single ray of light.

However, for those at the Heavenly Flight Realm and the Semi-God Realm, their divine sense was more reliable than their eyes.

“Boom!” The surface of the Star Cloud Extreme Space Shuttle suddenly burst with light, emitting a brilliant glow, enough for Li Yuan and the others to see the distant scenery.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Jiang Xuan and Xu Guo followed behind, all looking at the passage数十米 away.

“The ship can’t enter this passage?” Xu Guo was puzzled: “There don’t seem to be any corpses here. Are we the first batch of trial participants to arrive?”

Everyone looked at Li Yuan.

“I need you to try.” Li Yuan said in a low voice: “Someone has to fly into the passage first.”

Xu Guo, Jiang Xuan, and the others looked at each other.

“I’ll go.” Xu Guo said, without hesitation, he turned into a streak of light and rushed into the dark passage.

Without any obstacles.

But as soon as he stepped into the range of the passage.

“Slap~ slap~ slap~ slap~ slap~” It was like triggering a hidden mechanism, the entire passage suddenly burst into light. The surface of the passage, as if cast in metal, immediately revealed layers of light.

As bright as day.

“Your Highness, Lord Xu Yuan, I received guidance.” Xu Guo was shocked: “A voice told me to keep walking forward along the passage, that’s the only way to survive… otherwise, we’ll die.”

Hearing this, everyone was startled.

Li Yuan was very calm, he directly said: “Xu Guo, try to see if you can fly back.”

“Yes.” Xu Guo moved, trying to exit the passage, but when he was about to fly out, he was met with an invisible barrier, forcing him to stop.

“I can’t fly out.” Xu Guo couldn’t help but say.

“You, try to see if you can continue entering this passage.” Li Yuan suddenly pointed at a guard.

“Yes.” The guard immediately flew out, but before he got close to the passage, he was met with an invisible barrier, preventing him from moving forward.

At this point, everyone understood that each passage should only allow one person to enter.

And the reason why the Star Cloud Extreme Space Shuttle couldn’t enter was probably because it detected more than one person inside.

“Jiang Xuan, what do you think?” Li Yuan looked at the girl beside him.

“We can only force our way through, Brother Xu.” Jiang Xuan gritted her teeth: “I once heard that the Abyssal Demon Blood Cave didn’t have so many ferocious beasts at the beginning. It was a different kind of trial. It was only later that a major upheaval occurred… maybe what we’re facing now is the true face of the Abyssal Demon Blood Cave.”

“Hmm.” Li Yuan pondered.

“Then let’s go.” Li Yuan moved his mind. The Star Cloud Extreme Space Shuttle beside him quickly shrunk, and was quickly stored in Li Yuan’s storage artifact.

“Xu Guo, these passages should all be the same. Just follow the guidance and keep going.” Li Yuan said.

“Good.” Xu Guo nodded, then looked at Jiang Xuan: “Your Highness, please be careful, stay safe.”

“I will.” Jiang Xuan nodded heavily, then couldn’t help but say: “Uncle Guo, be careful too, you must survive.”

“Haha.”

“The Blood Demons couldn’t kill me, how could I, Xu Guo, not survive? I have to go back and brag to others.” Xu Guo laughed.

Then, Xu Guo turned into a streak of light and disappeared at the end of the passage.

In reality, everyone in their hearts felt a little worried.

If this was truly the original face of the Abyssal Demon Blood Cave, and there was no intelligence leakage for so long, it was already a testament to its problems.

It was safe now, but that didn’t mean it would remain safe.

…

“Brother Xu.”

“Once we separate here, we don’t know if we’ll see each other again.” Jiang Xuan looked at Li Yuan, bowed slightly: “If we can all survive… I hope Brother Xu can come to the King’s Capital of the Abyssal Demon Realm. I will personally thank Brother Xu again.”

“Good.” Li Yuan nodded.

Time passed, Jiang Xuan and the several guards under her command each chose a passage and entered.

The process was the same as Xu Guo’s. Once they stepped in, they would receive guidance, unable to retreat, and no one else could enter the same passage.

Finally, in this giant spherical hall, only Li Yuan remained.

“Sister, which passage should I take?” Li Yuan transmitted his voice. Although he knew a lot of information, he had less actual experience.

“Don’t take any passage, wait!” Gu You transmitted her voice.

Li Yuan was slightly stunned, wait? But he still obediently obeyed and patiently waited in the void.

Time passed.

This wait was a quarter of an hour.

Suddenly, the passages that the several guards had entered, the originally bright passages, dimmed one after another, becoming the same as the other passages.

Only Jiang Xuan and Xu Guo’s passages remained lit.

“This?” Li Yuan’s heart was filled with vigilance.

“If I’m not mistaken, these guards should all be dead.” Gu You transmitted her voice.

“Sister, why didn’t you tell me at the beginning?” Li Yuan couldn’t help but ask.

“I was just guessing.” Gu You transmitted her voice: “To verify if these passages are safe, or if there are any life-threatening dangers, someone has to try… these people are paving the way for you.”

“I know your personality.”

“Therefore, I took the liberty of not telling you.” Gu You said: “Now keep waiting, and see if Jiang Xuan and Xu Guo will die.”

Obviously, Gu You had already treated Jiang Xuan and the others as pawns in the face of danger.

Time passed, Li Yuan stood quietly in the void.

A quarter of an hour, two quarters of an hour, an hour… Suddenly, the passage that Xu Guo had entered also dimmed.

Was Xu Guo dead? Li Yuan sighed inwardly.

This was the danger of venturing into life and death. If you were not careful, you would fall.

“Their choice of passages was random, no discernible pattern.” Gu You transmitted her voice: “The Heavenly Flight Realm will die, the Semi-God Realm will die… Xu Guo’s strength was much stronger than Jiang Xuan’s, but Jiang Xuan survived to the end.”

“Then we can infer that there are dangers within these passages, but the difficulty faced by the trial participants is probably different, perhaps based on their realm, perhaps based on their age… In short, your chances of survival should be high.” Gu You said.

Li Yuan nodded slightly, having to admire Gu You’s judgment.

Two more hours passed.

The passage where Jiang Xuan was, remained lit!

“Start entering.” Gu You transmitted her voice: “Before entering, you can try entering the Divine Palace to see if you can enter while hiding inside.”

“Good.”

Whoosh!

Li Yuan moved his mind and entered the Divine Palace. Then, the Divine Palace, like dust, slowly flew towards one of the passages… at a very slow speed.

Swoosh~ As soon as the Divine Palace approached, it was met with an invisible force that prevented it from entering.

“It doesn’t work?” Li Yuan shook his head, moved his mind and left the Divine Palace.

Then, Li Yuan tried to enter the passage using the Star Cloud Extreme Space Shuttle, and found that it still couldn’t enter.

“I can’t hide inside a ship or a dimensional artifact?” Li Yuan pondered, directly flew into the passage.

As soon as he stepped in.

Whoa~ The entire passage suddenly lit up. Then, an invisible fluctuation entered Li Yuan’s mind: “Trial participant, go straight, pass the obstacles at the fastest speed. During the process, you are not allowed to hide in ship-type artifacts, you are not allowed to use law artifacts, you are not allowed to use puppets, you can only rely on your own strength… Those who fail will die! Those who time out will die! Those who violate the rules will die!”

Simple information.

Very brutal.

“Even law artifacts are not allowed? Timing out means death, but it doesn’t say how long.” Li Yuan was shocked.

With the examples of Xu Guo and the several guards, Li Yuan dared not be careless.

Boom! Li Yuan turned into a streak of light and flew at full speed towards the depths of the passage.

The passage was winding and twisting, stretching for countless kilometers.

Along the way, Li Yuan also tried to destroy the walls, but he discovered that even with his own strength, unleashing the Dark Star God Spear, he couldn’t leave a single mark on the walls of the passage… this place must have been left behind by a super strong being.

In the depths of the passage, a large amount of silver liquid emerged from both sides of the passage, and then these silver liquids condensed into humanoid figures.

All of them wielded battle blades, wearing battle armor on their faces, looking like soldiers.

In an instant.

The passage was filled with densely packed silver-clad warriors, over a hundred of them, each exuding a terrifying aura.

Boom!

Li Yuan’s surface was glowing with earthy yellow light, quickly approaching. From a distance, he could see the silver-clad warriors on the ground of the passage.

At this moment.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! The over a hundred silver figures, standing silently, suddenly shot up, covering the sky and ground as they charged towards Li Yuan.

All exuding a terrifying aura.

“All 35th level? They’re not life forms, but more like liquid robots.” Li Yuan thought: “No wonder those Heavenly Flight guards all died… Jiang Xuan, she probably fought desperately to survive.”

Along the way, Li Yuan had already discovered that Jiang Xuan’s strength was actually quite good. Her law comprehension had reached the sixth level, perfect. Coupled with her semi-god-level weapons and armor, her overall strength was stronger than Duanmu Hong.

However, facing a hundred warriors at the peak of the Heavenly Flight Realm, even if she could survive, she would surely have to expend a considerable amount of time.

“Die!”

Li Yuan moved his mind, his body instantly grew to ten meters tall. Then, the vast and boundless Heaven and Earth River Domain descended, and the nine yellow dragons roared and charged forward.

One face-off!

Rumble! Rumble! Boom! In this narrow passage, it was as if a violent torrent was raging. Over a hundred silver-clad warriors were instantly crushed and killed by the nine yellow dragons, turning into countless silver fragments, falling to the ground.

Li Yuan had already disappeared at the end of the passage.

The numerous silver fragments then turned back into silver liquid, merging into the ground of the passage.

“It seems.”

“As Sister Gu You predicted, the difficulty of these passages should be related to the trial participant’s life level.” Li Yuan thought, his confidence in surviving instantly increased.

…This passage seemed to be endless.

Li Yuan flew for thousands of kilometers in one breath. Along the way, he encountered several more obstacles from silver-clad warriors and gold-clad warriors.

The difficulty was increasing, but it was nothing to Li Yuan. He swept through them all.

Suddenly.

“Buzz~” Several gusts of yin wind appeared in the passage. Wind is invisible, even with Li Yuan’s level of perception of space, he couldn’t detect it. It instantly cut into his body.

“Hmm?” Li Yuan felt his body tremble.

This yin wind, under Li Yuan’s maintenance of the All-Things Divine Body, couldn’t break through the defense of the Nine Dragon Mystic Armor.

However, the yin wind’s physical attack was only superficial. Along with the trembling of his body, another soul fluctuation had quietly invaded Li Yuan’s spiritual world, attempting to shake his soul.

“Whoosh!”

In Li Yuan’s spiritual world, there was a huge azure lotus platform.

As soon as this soul fluctuation descended, the platform suddenly bloomed layer by layer. The lotus leaves intertwined, like giant scythes, instantly severing this soul attack.

The Void God Realm soul artifact – Thousand Heart Lotus Platform!

Li Yuan rarely used this soul artifact. It was passive defense. After all, with Li Yuan’s strong soul will, few enemies could shake it.

But once he used it, it proved how dangerous the situation was!

“What kind of soul attack is this?” Li Yuan was shocked, becoming even more vigilant: “Where does this passage lead to?”

Up to now, everything was a mystery. Li Yuan knew nothing.

Suddenly.

“Brother, it seems like we’re almost at the end.” Gu You’s voice suddenly rang out: “But there seems to be an invisible force blocking the way, I can’t probe it. You must be careful.”

“Understood.” Li Yuan nodded.

Just over ten seconds later, Li Yuan saw a light curtain at the end of the passage. He could faintly see another hall outside. Without hesitation, Li Yuan plunged into it.

All the scenery appeared before him.

It was an extremely vast hall. Besides the passage Li Yuan came from, there was another passage at the other end of the hall.

“Hmm?” Li Yuan’s pupils suddenly constricted as he saw six skeletal corpses on the ground a few hundred meters away.

Six corpses, some bones were only left as ashes, some had relatively complete bones.

It was obvious that they had died at different times.

Five of the corpses only had a layer of armor, no weapons or artifacts… Only the most central corpse, sitting cross-legged with relatively complete bones, had armor, weapons, and so on.

“It seems!”

“The treasures left behind by the previous five corpses have all been taken away.” Li Yuan thought: “Those who can pass through the previous passages, among the Heavenly Flight Realm, their strength is probably extremely powerful.”

“It’s just a pity that they all died here.”

This scene made Li Yuan even more vigilant.

Whoosh! Li Yuan walked straight towards the corpses.

With a thought, the many artifacts left behind by the last corpse were all collected by Li Yuan.

But like the predecessors, Li Yuan didn’t touch his inner armor, leaving him with a final sense of dignity.

“Are there any treasures?” Li Yuan quickly checked: “There are quite a few treasures.”

Li Yuan discovered a bunch of semi-god-level weapons and armor, over a hundred pieces.

There were also other artifacts, such as formations, pills, and so on.

“Under normal circumstances, one person wouldn’t leave behind so many treasures. They would definitely take them to exchange for other treasures.”

“It seems like he collected some of the previous people’s treasures.” Li Yuan thought: “It’s just a pity that he still died here in the end.”

“Some of the treasures have already rotted. It seems to have been a long time.”

Weapons are not indestructible.

Even divine artifacts will gradually decay over a long period of time… The storage artifacts are not a place where time stops, everything inside will slowly decay as well.

Of course, the degree of decay of the treasures left behind by the deceased wasn’t too high, indicating that not too much time had passed.

“They should have died five thousand to ten thousand years ago.” Gu You transmitted her voice, making a judgment.

Li Yuan nodded slightly. These weapons and artifacts, if he could survive to get out, could also be sold again, although the price would be much lower than normal artifacts.

He collected them all.

“Why did they die here?”

“Before they died, they didn’t seem to encounter any danger. It was as if they died willingly.” Li Yuan scanned his gaze over the surroundings. The entire hall was empty.

There was only a giant mural in the distance, with a metal round platform beneath it, integrated with the entire hall.

Then there was the passage at the other end of the hall, but Li Yuan didn’t dare to rush in.

He couldn’t figure out the cause of death of the previous six people, so he couldn’t rush in.

Suddenly.

“Whoosh!” A large amount of light shot down from the top of the hall, rapidly converging into a humanoid figure, eventually condensing into the form of a black-robed old man.

“Hmm?” Li Yuan looked vigilantly, directly using his Divine Palace to probe.

[Target life level is 0]

It was a illusion.

“Trial participant, it’s a pity you’re late.” The black-robed old man’s aura was ethereal, his figure slightly illusory. He walked step by step towards Li Yuan, a hint of regret in his voice: “If you had come a few ten thousand years earlier, the many treasures left behind by the master would probably have belonged to you.”

Li Yuan’s heart trembled.

Late?

Master?

“May I ask, senior, where exactly is this place?” Li Yuan couldn’t help but ask: “How can I get out?”

“This is a ‘heritage place’ left behind by my master, intending to take in a disciple with extraordinary talent, to inherit his mantle.” The black-robed old man said: “That was more than thirty thousand years ago.”

“The master was a being beyond the True God Realm, but he also had great enemies, and was also ostracized by the Starry Sky Ancient City. Therefore, he didn’t publicize this matter, only leaving behind ten heritage places, intending to take in ten disciples. This is one of them.” The black-robed old man said.

Li Yuan had basically understood the situation, and was quite shocked in his heart.

This place, was it a heritage place of a God?

“The ten heritage places are independent of each other. I don’t know about the other nine heritage places, but this one, it’s been over ten thousand years since someone succeeded here.” The black-robed old man looked at Li Yuan, sighing: “Your strength is the strongest I’ve seen among the Heavenly Flight Realm, and you’re so young. If the master was still alive, he would definitely have chosen you as his disciple… It’s just a pity! You’re too late.”

“The treasures are all gone.”

(End of Chapter)

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