The Earth Fiend Asura suddenly leaped with Lin Tian toward the soon-to-be-opened Void Passage, the entire process swift as lightning. For the Asura, the two-zhang distance (roughly 6 meters) was trivial, considering its massive size. However, just as Lin Tian was sinking into despair, the appearance of the Void Passage seemed to trigger some latent force within him. Suddenly, the Spirit Martial Sutra inside Lin Tian's body vibrated, and thousands of ancient characters and images surged forth, like a whirlwind, wrapping tightly around his body.
These characters and images quickly combined into a talisman, three feet wide and over ten feet long, forming an invisible protective shield that enveloped Lin Tian. When the Earth Fiend Asura's massive hand made contact with Lin Tian's body, it was met with intense, searing pain, as if it had touched something lethal. Its giant palm emitted smoke upon contact, quickly corroding and being completely devoured, vanishing into nothing.
A deep fear filled its heart as it couldn't understand why it would encounter such an inexplicable attack while passing through the Void Passage. It would never know that the original seal of the Void Passage had been placed by powerful humans from ancient times, and that the Spirit Martial Sutra itself was the supreme secret technique used to seal the passage. The power of that seal had been passed down through generations and had not faded. With the opening of the Void Passage, the original power of the Spirit Martial Sutra awakened and manifested as a talisman, suppressing the Earth Fiend Asura's power completely.
The Void Realm, despite its name, was not silent or empty. It was a mysterious domain filled with countless spatial turbulences, alien powers, passages, and chaotic source energy. It was teeming with endless danger and uncertainty. Each passage was a gateway to death, and one could easily get lost in the endless void. Particularly, the passage to the Outer Demon Realm was under constant suppression by seals and mysterious forces, making it extremely difficult to traverse.
However, in this void space, the Spirit Martial Sutra suddenly manifested its innate strength, resisting the forces of the Void Seal. Though the seal came from the Ten Thousand Demon Seal, which had accumulated over countless years and developed an almost autonomous consciousness, the Spirit Martial Sutra still attempted to break the seal, using its own power, which was of the same origin, to find a way out.
As the Spirit Martial Sutra struggled in the intense battle with the Void and the Ten Thousand Demon Seal, a powerful presence noticed this disturbance. A huge yet incredibly subtle divine consciousness suddenly broke free from the seal. Its overwhelming power quickly pierced through the rift in the Void Passage and silently descended upon some part of the human realm. This change alerted the Demon God Kamo in the Outer Demon Realm, who immediately sensed the soul flame of one of his Earth Fiend Asuras extinguishing. This unusual phenomenon not only puzzled Kamo, but also led him to trace the lost soul's aura.
Meanwhile, the turbulence in the Void prompted the full recovery of the Spirit Martial Sutra. Guided by its immense energy, it finally found a spatial exit and tightly enveloped the unconscious Lin Tian, carrying him toward that exit.
The temporal and spatial energies of the Void Realm flooded the space, surging like an ocean. Under their influence, Lin Tian's body underwent unprecedented refinement, reaching a terrifying level of strength and purity. His body gradually expelled all impurities, and his internal power became extraordinarily condensed, almost flawless. Even cultivators nurtured with the Five-Colored Lotus Seed might not achieve this level of bodily perfection.
However, Lin Tian's memory remained stuck at the moment he entered the Void Realm. He could not comprehend the changes in his body, and he was unaware of the revival of the Spirit Martial Sutra. Had it not been for the protection of the Spirit Martial Sutra, he would have already been dissolved into particles by the immense forces of the Void Realm and ceased to exist.
After some time, Lin Tian finally awoke in a dense, primal forest. His entire body was in excruciating pain, and he could barely move. He had crashed onto a massive tree branch, surrounded by an ancient forest full of life. The trees were so tall that they seemed to pierce the clouds, with trunks as wide as a zhang. However, this place was not the Outer Demon Realm as he had expected. The atmosphere around him clearly belonged to the human realm, with blue skies and a gentle breeze exuding a familiar warmth.
Lin Tian strained to sense his physical condition and discovered that he was severely injured, with at least a dozen fractures. The worst injuries were two completely shattered bones, and his skin was covered in wounds, with blood staining his entire body. He knew these injuries had come from the impact of his fall from the Void Realm. Despite his severe wounds, the medicinal properties of the Spirit Martial Sutra and the residual effects of the Five-Colored Lotus Seed were slowly healing his body. Without these, he would have never been able to survive in this primal forest.
Confused, Lin Tian wondered how he had gone from being brought into the Void Realm by the Earth Fiend Asura to suddenly appearing in a forest of the human realm. His consciousness was still hazy, and he knew nothing of what had occurred, but as his injuries slowly healed, he began to feel a new and unprecedented power within him, as if he now held the key to change his fate.