Translator: CinderTL
As Song Wen pondered, his escape speed remained slow, yet he steadily closed the distance to the resentful spirits ahead.
The resentful spirits had been aimlessly wandering until Song Wen approached within ten thousand li. At that moment, the late-stage seventh-tier resentful spirit among them sensed his presence, let out a ghastly shriek, and charged toward Song Wen's position.
The remaining sixth-tier resentful spirits followed closely behind, but the gap between them rapidly widened.
Suddenly, Shadow Void's voice echoed in Song Wen's mind:
"Master, there's a Sixth-Tier Void Beast approaching from the southwest, about ten thousand li away. It likely detected the weaker resentful spirits and is moving to prey on them. It's heading in our direction."
Song Wen's expression turned grave.
While these resentful spirits and void fiends posed no real threat to him, their sheer density was alarming.
More importantly, this was still only the outer fringes of the Primordial Qi Death Zone.
The Nether Fox's eyes lit up.
"Perfect timing! I'm starving."
In the end, neither the resentful spirits nor the void fiend caused Song Wen any trouble.
Song Wen didn't even need to lift a finger. Shadow Void effortlessly dealt with them using a single tentacle, swallowing the resentful spirits into the Sea of Consciousness Black Hole.
The Sixth-Tier Void Beast finally granted the Nether Fox its wish.
Perhaps due to the presence of the Seventh-Tier Resentful Spirit nearby, the subsequent journey, though deeper into the Primordial Qi Death Zone, became surprisingly calm. They encountered only a few low-level resentful spirits.
It wasn't until they had ventured hundreds of thousands of miles into the Death Zone that Song Wen encountered two more Seventh-Tier Void Demons.
After being severely wounded by the Shadow Void, these two void demons were also captured by Song Wen and stored in his Spirit Beast Pouch.
As they continued their advance, high-level resentful spirits and void fiends appeared with increasing frequency. They encountered sixth-tier or seventh-tier creatures roughly every two to three hundred thousand miles.
Finally, after traveling nearly three million miles, Song Wen suddenly stopped.
The undulating terrain below had vanished, replaced by an endless expanse of sea.
"We've finally reached the Endless Sea," Song Wen murmured to himself. "According to Qing Lian, the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss lies about five hundred thousand miles further west. However, after countless years of change, the Bone-Corroding Butterfly clan has fallen from its former glory as a powerful clan led by a Ninth-Tier Demon Venerable to its current state, with only thirty-five sixth-tier demonic beasts guarding their territory. Their settlement must have shifted over time. If I start from the Bone-Corroding Butterfly's current location and travel five hundred thousand miles into the Endless Sea, I likely won't find the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss. I'll need to search in both the left and right directions."
Suddenly, Shadow Void's voice rang out, tinged with urgency.
"Master, an eighth-tier void demon is approaching from twenty thousand miles to the southwest. Its strength surpasses even mine, and it's a high-rank void beast."
Song Wen's eyes narrowed sharply.
An eighth-tier void demon, and a high-rank one at that.
This would be a formidable opponent.
He now had two options:
First, engage the eighth-tier void demon in battle.
The Void Demon Clan excelled in divine sense attacks but possessed weak physical bodies and feared thunder magic. Song Wen was immune to divine sense attacks and, with Shadow Void's eighth-tier assistance, stood a reasonable chance in combat.
If defeated, he could seize an opportunity to escape, retreating far from the Primordial Qi Death Zone. After some time, he could attempt to breach the zone again on a more auspicious day.
Second, exploit the void demon's distance to flee immediately, evading confrontation and temporarily avoiding its full might.
Song Wen's gaze flickered to the blood-red crystal clutched in his hand. Without hesitation, he made his decision.
He recalled the Nether Fox into his Spirit Beast Pouch.
Simultaneously, a pair of black wings sprouted from his back, transforming his body into a bolt of lightning that tore through the dense, curtain-like Primordial Qi. He hurtled toward the deep sea, his figure a blur against the oppressive darkness.
Song Wen held nothing back, channeling all his energy into his escape technique, but his speed still paled in comparison to the eighth-tier void demon pursuing him.
As the demon relentlessly closed the distance, Shadow Void warned Song Wen that it had narrowed the gap to a mere hundred miles. Yet Song Wen responded with a question of his own:
"Shadow Void, are there any large reefs below us?"
By this point, Song Wen had already ventured nearly six hundred thousand miles into the sea region, far exceeding Qing Lian's estimate of five hundred thousand miles from the coast. If the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss lay nearby, he should have already passed directly over it.
"Reporting, Master," Shadow Void replied, "I have been monitoring the sea surface as instructed, but I have detected no reefs. However, there are two seventh-tier resentful spirits lurking on the seabed. They have sensed your presence and are now surging upward."
Before Shadow Void could finish speaking, a piercing, ear-splitting shriek erupted from behind them.
Screech—
The shriek struck Song Wen's sea of consciousness like a thunderclap.
His sea of consciousness trembled violently, followed by a searing pain.
The pain merely darkened his expression; it caused no real damage and didn't even slow his escape speed.
He immediately changed course, veering sharply to the right—toward the north.
Within his sea of consciousness, Gu Que felt the piercing shriek that carried a violent divine sense impact. The sound persisted relentlessly, crashing against his sea of consciousness like a raging storm.
Yet above the sea of consciousness, the black hole emitted an eerie suction force, devouring the divine sense impact from the shriek whole.
Gu Que had witnessed countless times before how the black hole devoured various Demon Souls.
Yet now, his heart still trembled with shock.
It was a shock that shattered his very understanding of reality!
The shriek was a divine sense attack from an eighth-tier void demon. How could Ji Yin, a cultivator at the body integration stage, remain completely unscathed?
Just moments ago, the shadow void had claimed that the two resentful spirits at the seabed, caught within the sound wave's range, had already been annihilated, their souls and spirits utterly destroyed.
Who exactly was Ji Yin?
What was the true nature of this black hole?
How could it devour divine souls while simultaneously resisting divine sense attacks?
The more Gu Que pondered, the more his remaining arrogance—the last vestige of his identity as a cultivator from the immortal realm at the Tribulation Crossing Stage—dissipated into nothingness.
The eighth-tier void demon had a hairless, bovine body lacking hooves, with nine constantly writhing tentacles sprouting from its abdomen.
Seeing that its shriek had no effect on the blood food before it, the demon ceased its howling.
A long, barbed tongue shot from its mouth, coiling through the pitch-black Primordial Qi.
As the Primordial Qi churned, an invisible force seized the remnant souls of the two resentful spirits at the seabed, pulling them into the void fiend's maw.
Its nine tentacles writhed as the demon rapidly closed the distance to Song Wen.
When they were mere inches apart, one tentacle lashed out like a whip, sweeping horizontally toward Song Wen.
(End of the Chapter)
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