Don't be fooled by Lin Tang's cheeky grin; it was impossible for him not to be nervous. Absolutely impossible!
Why? Because this suprely colossal being was far, far too powerful!
Intuition tells He's not so Ghost Immortal, Earth Immortal, or deity… but a bona fide Cultivator! Divinity Transformation Stage? Impossible! Lin Tang guessed. He was already at the Nascent Soul Stage, just one step away from the Divinity Transformation Stage. The Divinity Transformation Stage was naturally stronger than the Nascent Soul Stage, but not to such an absurd degree. After Divinity Transformation cos the Return to Void, and then one can rge with the Dao and ascend. This person must be a Return to Void senior!
Lin Tang sighed inwardly, a deep sense of foreboding washing over him.
His reaction and attitude, however, seed to baffle the giant. This kid isn't afraid of ? He dares to speak to like that?
"HUMPH!"
The giant's gaze darkened. His aura shifted slightly, and an overwhelmingly powerful pressure assailed Lin Tang from all directions.
Faced with the pressure from an Earth Immortal like Xuan Nu, Lin Tang had felt nothing more than a gentle breeze. Yet now, he was slamd to the ground, utterly powerless to resist! Even his national fortune had no effect. The Five-clawed Golden Dragon it manifested wailed in anguish before dissipating into nothingness.
"PFFT—"
Lin Tang spat out a mouthful of vital blood, a manifestation of his fire qi. His Golden Core within his Dantian nearly shattered.
The giant's mouth didn't move, yet his voice, as grand as a great bell, thundered in a way that left Lin Tang dizzy and disoriented. "My Daoist na is Zhen Yan. I ask you, are you the new disciple that Old Man Tianji has taken in the Mortal Realm?"
Old Man Tianji? Is he talking about my master, the Heaven's Secrets Foreteller? Crap, from the looks of it, he must have a grudge against my master! I'm definitely getting dragged into this! Lin Tang cursed his luck internally.
But he remained tough on the outside. Despite his severe injuries, he still managed a faint smile. "Buddy, can you take it down a notch? Who is this Old Man Tianji you're talking about? I don't know him."
"Scoundrel! The Cultivation thod you practice is Old Man Tianji's Supre True Dragon Technique; I can see through it at a glance. Do you really think you can act so recklessly just because this is a law body and not your true self? If I wanted to kill you, your true self would not escape death, even if it were an infinite distance away!" Zhen Yan roared.
"...Since you already know I'm his disciple, why bother asking? Just say what you want!" Lin Tang was exasperated, maintaining his devil-may-care attitude.
He knew that facing a being he was no match for, groveling and showing a servile face was utterly aningless. Besides, he disdained the idea of acting in such a pathetic way just to survive.
He'd rather die standing than live kneeling!
Zhen Yan gave him another look, his voice returning to its forr indifference. "Tell your master's whereabouts. After I capture him and take him back, I might consider sparing your life."
"To hell with that! I don't know where he is, but even if I did, you want to betray my master? Not a chance!" Lin Tang shouted without hesitation.
"You don't know? Then you shall remain suppressed by . If your master truly considers you his disciple, he will surely appear to save you. If he doesn't co within three years, I will have you scattered into dust and ashes," Zhen Yan said, his patience wearing thin.
With a clench of his five fingers, an invisible prison ford.
The world went dark for Lin Tang, and he beca completely unable to perceive the outside world. He was thoroughly imprisoned, with no chance of escape.
Sigh, how did I get so unlucky? I never imagined my master's enemy would be so terrifying! Lin Tang felt utterly helpless. At the sa ti, a sliver of optimism surfaced. Luckily, my true self was swept away to a very distant place by the spatial turbulence. If I were still here, wouldn't I have been completely wiped out? As for Zhen Yan's claim that he could kill my true body regardless of the distance... I'll just take it with a grain of salt. If that bastard could really do it, why didn't he just capture my true body right now?
In a sector of the cosmos, an unknown distance from the Mortal Realm, lay a dense cluster of planets, all dead and silent. Only one planet showed signs of life. This world had oceans and forests, and countless creatures of strange and wonderful design. They ford a complete food chain, governed by the natural law of the survival of the fittest.
There, in the center of a clear, calm lake, a small island had recently appeared. The area around the island was protected by an array of Formations, barring entry to all creatures, whether they flew, walked, or crawled.
"Sigh."
Lin Tang's true body sat in a self-made beach chair with his legs crossed, looking like he was on a leisurely vacation. In reality, his face was fraught with worry. To be honest, the Spiritual Energy on this planet was a bit richer than in his original Mortal Realm, and the maddening elents within it weren't too overwhelming. He could absolutely continue his cultivation here.
But this amount of Spiritual Energy was far from enough for him to achieve a breakthrough anyti soon! Not to ntion the Yin Yang Mirror, a massive drain on his spiritual resources. Ninety-nine percent of the Spiritual Energy that drifted near was devoured by it alone. Besides, even if he could break through, how was he supposed to do it without a partner for Dual Cultivation?
After sensing what had happened to his law body, Lin Tang was even more speechless. What is this? Misfortunes never co singly? A great calamity is raging in the Mortal Realm, and monsters from the Underworld have already invaded. My true body is gone, and my law body has been captured. Who will protect humanity? What will happen to my wife? If I don't show up for a long ti, that heartless Xuan Nu will definitely possess Ning Yuexi! What should I do now? If only I could contact my master, I could ask him about this Zhen Yan character.
Lin Tang's brow was deeply furrowed.
"Husband, co help ! I've hooked a big one! If you don't co soon, it's going to be the one to reel in!"
Just then, Jiang Mulu's playful voice called out from the nearby beach. Her face was red with effort as she clutched a fishing rod, wrestling with so creature in the lake. She yelped as her bare feet dug two long furrows in the sand.
"Coming!"
Lin Tang leaped to her side and helped her pull.
WHOOSH!
The creature flew out of the water, thrashing about on the sand. It then suddenly spewed a spike of ice at the two of them. Had it struck Jiang Mulu, she surely would have died. Its power was quite impressive.
Without so much as a glance, Lin Tang casually flicked the spike away. He then pointed a finger at the creature, and it died instantly.
"Ooh? This is a new species I haven't seen before! To think it's naturally skilled in a little Spell." Jiang Mulu trotted over, pulled out a small notebook, and began sketching the creature. She tapped her pen thoughtfully for a mont before giving it a na: Carp Dragon, because it had the body of a fish but a head that strongly resembled a legendary dragon's. The paper and pen, of course, were from Lin Tang's Storage Ring, not products of this world.
"Husband, you should taste it and see if it's poisonous."
"..." Lin Tang patted Jiang Mulu on the head. "What's the point of recording all the creatures in this world?"
Jiang Mulu shot him a sideways glance. "You can pass the ti by cultivating, but I can't. I have to find sothing to do, right? Besides, you've already discovered savages on this world, haven't you? If we can never go back, I could spend my life organizing this knowledge and teaching it to them. I could civilize them, turn them into intelligent beings like us. That wouldn't be a life wasted."
Civilize the savages? Lin Tang's mouth twitched, unsure how to respond.
The savages of this world stood upright on two legs like humans, had learned to use tools, and were formidable in their large, social groups. They held an overwhelming advantage against most other creatures, placing them near the top of the food chain. A few among them were even naturally capable of using Spells, much like the Carp Dragon Jiang Mulu had just nad.
Lin Tang had checked. Among these spell-casting savages, a select few were capable of cultivation. From this, he inferred there was a high probability of finding individuals with special physiques like Shen Youling or Ning Yuexi among the entire savage population—individuals qualified to engage in Dual Cultivation with him.
But! BUT!
These savages... they're so damn ugly! Ten tis uglier than the caven from our Mortal Realm! I can't accept it. Even if I could forcibly give them plastic surgery, I still couldn't get over the psychological trauma. Self-deception is not the way! Anyway, I will definitely not engage in Dual Cultivation with any of them. Absolutely not! NEVER!!
While Lin Tang was trapped in this world, unable to find a way out, another scene unfolded in a mysterious land filled with a primal, ancient aura.
A massive sphere hovered in space. Its surface was covered with pitch-black holes. If one were to look closely, each hole was what humans would define as a black hole. The smallest of them was larger than an entire solar system! The imnse gravitational pull from so many black holes devoured everything in the vicinity, including light. Yet, strangely, the black holes did not interfere with or affect one another. This sphere was in a constant state of extre distortion. It was a place of utter, complete silence.
Into this eternal, unchanging silence, a rather disheveled figure suddenly flickered into existence in the void, a million kiloters away. He staggered a few tis before finally finding his footing upon a seven-colored cloud! That's right—a cloud, holding its form in the cosmos. It was small, about three feet square, and perpetually shrouded in a mysterious, extraordinary mist.
I never thought the Ancestral Dragon Ruins in the Mortal Realm would be so dangerous. Even though my cultivation was crippled and I was cast down into the mortal world, stripped of everything but my Immortal Bone and no longer an Immortal... I still had my monts of glory. This ti, I almost didn't make it out alive... the man mused silently, stroking his long beard with lingering fear.
He was Lin Tang's master, the Heaven's Secrets Foreteller!
This place, too, was billions of light-years from the Mortal Realm. He appeared to have no cultivation at all, like an ordinary mortal. It was a mystery how he could move through space and survive in its vacuum.
Dangerous as it was, the rewards were pretty good! It's a good thing this is the Mortal Realm, where there aren't many true experts, which allowed to pick up the scraps. If this were the Immortal Realm, a place like this would have been claid by all sorts of Immortals long ago.
The Heaven's Secrets Foreteller opened his palm, and a small, luminous pearl hovered above it. This was Dragon Essence. Extrely precious!
He examined it with a chuckle, and just as he was about to put it away and leave, he suddenly sensed sothing. He pinched his fingers together, performing a quick calculation.
Huh? Oh no! My good-for-nothing disciple is in a trapped dragon's predicant. Has he been captured alive? To think that even after I was exiled to the mortal universe, my enemies still refuse to let go, determined to hunt down to the last... I can't let this happen! Lin Tang is my greatest hope for revenge. I have to save him, even if it costs my life! My dear disciple, just hold on! Wait for to return!
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