Chapter 990 - 444: Hidden Dragon Enters the Abyss
Only by becoming strong enough might she, some day in the future, truly stand by his side!
Instead of just watching powerlessly and from afar like today!
This belief, like a seed, takes root and sprouts in her heart, carrying the determination to press forward despite the countless foes!
On the distant edge of the Celestial Fall Battlefield.
Yu Kong remains immersed in the previous shock, unable to extricate himself.
"The senior’s aura has vanished?"
He suddenly lifts his head, sensing the void of the Cosmos.
The "Gui Xu" aura, which previously stabilized this shattered Star Domain like a sea-calming pin, has utterly disappeared as if it never existed.
It isn’t dispersal nor transfer, but a complete withdrawal?
Like a hidden dragon descending into the abyss!
"Has he left temporarily? Or" Yu Kong speculates in his heart, feeling a little disappointed, but more in awe!
How could the senior’s movements be something he could fathom?
The senior’s realm is an existence he can only look up to!
"The senior must have more important matters to attend to!"
Yu Kong comforts himself, while at the same time, his eyes sparkle with ever fiercer brilliance!
"To follow in the footsteps of the senior! This belief must not waver!"
He knows that trying to follow such an existence is by no means an easy task.
His current cultivation, in the eyes of the senior, probably wouldn’t even count as dust.
"I must quickly improve my strength!"
"Though this Celestial Fall Battlefield is dangerous, it also contains countless opportunities!"
Yu Kong’s eyes blaze with a hint of madness!
He is determined to seize a future here!
Only by becoming stronger can he qualify to search for the senior’s traces; only then can he qualify to stand behind the senior!
He hesitates no longer, adjusts his direction, heading toward the deeper parts of the Celestial Fall Battlefield—a region even more chaotic, more dangerous, yet potentially concealing greater opportunities.
Resolutely, he flies forth!
Meanwhile, in another place, far more distant, older, even surpassing the Southern Celestial Star Universe Dimension, lies an unknown land.
A dark realm beyond words.
No stars, no light, only endless stickiness, darkness seemingly alive!
In this darkness’s deepest reaches, uncountable indescribable gigantic shadows linger.
These shadows exude a scent of decay, chaos, madness, distortion.
As if they are the embodiment of all negative concepts of the Cosmos!
At the moment Xu Ran completely obliterates the remnant will of the "Source of Filth."
In a corner of this dark realm.
A colossal shadow, composed of countless twisted, wailing limbs and faces, suddenly quivers!
One of its parts, a "face" emitting gray light, abruptly hollows out!
As if erased out of thin air!
"Hm?"
An ancient, hoarse whisper, seemingly from below the Nine Netherworld, slowly emerges within this dark realm.
This voice carries no emotion, yet implicitly holds an icy malice that makes all heavens and worlds tremble!
"The ’derivative’ I left ’outside’ has been completely extinct?"
"Interesting."
"How many eons has it been since meeting a presence that could utterly ’annihilate’ my powers."
"That force is ’Gui Xu’?"
"Hahaha, the Gatekeeper of Reincarnation, perhaps?"
"Looks like some ’seeds’ ’over there’ have started to sprout."
The enormous shadow slowly writhes, countless faces of agony giving out silent screams.
"Find him."
"Corrupt him."
"Or..."
"Devour him..."
"New ’nourishment’ has appeared."
A cold and malevolent will, spreading like ripples, unfolds throughout this dark realm.
A larger storm spanning countless ages and entangling the Cosmic Origin’s order is silently brewing.
And at this moment Xu Ran seems to sense this but remains unconcerned.
He has already stepped into that deep passage.
Regardless of how many thorns there are ahead, or how many strong foes.
He cleaves them with a single sword!
Below Gui Xu, all beings are equal!
His path, his way, destined to tread upon endless bones toward the final extinction!
And the Kao Mountain Sect, his once beginning, now is just a fleeting station on his long journey.
All he leaves behind is "wait for me."
And the everlasting watchful light in Xu Qinghan’s eyes.
The wind continues to blow.
The story has just truly begun!
Xu Ran steps into not an ordinary cave mansion.
It’s a downward-stretching, deep Earth Vein passage. Upon entry, all external noise is utterly isolated, leaving only a deathly silence and a dense, timeless, ancient atmosphere.
This aura isn’t Spiritual Qi nor Demonic Qi, and it isn’t any form of energy Xu Ran knows.
It resembles more an accumulation of time, traces left after aeons have flowed through.
The stone walls on both sides of the passage are not naturally formed but rather carved out by some tremendous force.
Covered with mottled etchings, seeming like some ancient runes but also like unconscious claw marks.
Looking closer, those etchings slowly wriggle and change, as if holding life!
Xu Ran shows no expression, walking downward step by step.
His footsteps, in this absolute silence, are unusually clear, carrying a strange rhythm, gradually harmonizing with some pulsation deep within the Earth Vein.
The deeper he goes, the richer the ancient, timeless aura becomes.
Meanwhile, an indescribable pressure, almost tangible, presses from all directions.
This pressure isn’t aimed at the physical body but directly targets the Divine Soul!