jdhmnovel Chapter 1221 The Formless Celestial Crystal
Chapter 1221 The Formless Celestial Crystal
Inside the top-floor immortal hall of the Yuanji Immortal Ship, the voice of the Xuanzhen Immortal King carried a barely perceptible urgency. His Yin-Yang Daoist robes billowed without wind, and with each flutter, the immense aura of a third-tier Eternal Immortal King was fully released, resonating with the ancient Daoist patterns on the Yuanji Immortal Ship's hull. In an instant, the entire immortal ship shone with a dark golden light, the radiance like flowing molten gold, illuminating the surrounding chaos. From afar, it resembled a peerless divine sword poised to strike, its sharpness subtly revealed.
Su Mo's gaze swept across the figures of the Immortal Kings who were rushing into the forbidden area, a cold glint flashing in his eyes. In his eyes, these surging figures were no different from prey waiting to be slaughtered. He was just waiting for the right moment to catch them one by one and turn their eternal true spirits into resources for his own advancement.
Then, Su Mo turned his gaze, nodded slightly to Xuanzhen Immortal King, and replied in a deep voice, "Okay."
Before he finished speaking, the Xuanzhen Immortal King's divine sense surged out like a tide, instantly contacting the spirit of the Yuanji Immortal Boat.
The next second...
The Primordial Immortal Ship emitted a resounding hum that shook the universe, a sound like the roar of an ancient celestial dragon, piercing through the chaotic mist and causing ripples in the surrounding space. The ancient Dao patterns on the ship's hull lit up, billions of runes flowing and leaping as if alive, ultimately converging into a dark golden pillar of light tens of millions of feet long. The pillar of light, straight as a sword, pierced directly through the thin layer of mist, erecting a stable passage between the chaos and the forbidden land. Wherever the light reached, the remaining mist dissipated, revealing the distorted spatial and temporal outlines within, like a piece of shattered and barely pieced-backed glass.
"Indeed, the power of the Formless Mist has plummeted, and its suppression of divine sense has weakened to its lowest point." Su Mo felt his divine sense spreading outward as if breaking free of shackles, and couldn't help but nod slightly. At this moment, his divine sense was enough to cover a space of millions of years, which was more than ten million times larger than when he was outside the forbidden area. The folds of spacetime and the patterns of rules around him were clearly discernible.
The only slight regret is that the spatial barrier of this Formless Forbidden Land has not loosened in the slightest despite the weakening of the mist; it remains as solid as eternal immortal metal. As a result, encountering other eternal immortal kings within this vast forbidden land will likely be quite difficult, requiring him to expend considerable effort in his search.
“Fellow Daoist Su Mo, let’s go directly to the depths of the forbidden area.” Immortal King Xuanzhen gazed at the distorted spacetime faintly visible at the end of the pillar of light, his tone resolute. “This outer area can be left to my incompetent juniors.”
The entire Formless Forbidden Land is roughly divided into four layers: the outer perimeter, the middle layer, the inner perimeter, and the core. The deeper one goes into the Formless Forbidden Land, the greater the probability of encountering Formless Celestial Crystals, and the purer their quality. Of course, the hidden dangers also increase exponentially. Especially in the most core area, even though the Formless Mysterious Mist is now almost completely gone, it still poses a considerable threat to a third-tier Eternal Immortal King. A slight mistake could result in the annihilation of one's soul.
As soon as he finished speaking, the Xuanzhen Immortal King waved his hand. A dozen beams of immortal light shot out from the bottom of the Yuanji Immortal Ship and landed steadily on the deck. Each figure was at least a ninth-tier Quasi-Immortal King, and all possessed Eternal Immortal Artifacts. Their combined combat power far surpassed that of the likes of the Wuwang Ancestor. The four at the very front emanated complete Eternal auras, especially the gray-robed elder, whose imposing aura surpassed even that of the Yuanjin Immortal King, a late-stage first-tier Eternal Immortal King. All four were first-tier Eternal Immortal Kings, the pillars of the Xuanzhen Immortal Kingdom.
They bowed respectfully towards the top floor of the celestial palace, their voices in unison: "Your Majesty, we will obey your command!"
They then split into four teams, each led by a first-order Eternal Immortal King, and transformed into four streaks of light, rushing towards the four directions outside the forbidden area, disappearing into the pale purple mist in the blink of an eye.
As Xuanzhen Immortal King watched their figures disappear into the mist, he turned to Su Mo and said, "Fellow Daoist, let's set off. The Heavenly Crystals in the inner region are what we should both be after."
As for the core area of the Formless Forbidden Land, Xuanzhen Immortal King did not want to enter unless absolutely necessary. For a third-order Eternal Immortal King like him, the core area of the Formless Forbidden Land was still a bit too dangerous.
Even with the help of Su Mo, a third-tier Eternal Immortal King, there's still at least a 30% chance they'll perish in that core area.
Su Mo nodded, his gaze fixed on the deeper chaos at the end of the dark golden pillar of light, a hint of anticipation flashing in the depths of his eyes.
Soon, as the Xuanzhen Immortal King's divine sense moved again, the Yuanji Immortal Boat shot off like an arrow, carrying the two into the dark golden pillar of light, speeding towards the depths of the Wuxiang Forbidden Land. A long trail of light was left behind by the stern, lingering in the Wuxiang Mysterious Mist for a long time.
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Chaos knows no years, and ten thousand years passed in the blink of an eye as the Yuanji Immortal Ship sped along. The spacetime outside the ship became increasingly distorted, with fragments of the broken river of time sometimes suspended in the mist, shimmering with shattered light; at other times, eerie black shadows flashed by in the fog, exuding a chilling and malevolent aura, causing even the light shield of the Yuanji Immortal Ship to tremble slightly and ripple.
On this day, the formless mist in front of the Yuanji Immortal Ship suddenly became much denser. The originally pale grayish-purple color re-condensed into a thick purple mist, in which black threads could be vaguely seen, and the corrosive power it emitted was enough to pose a significant threat to a first-order Eternal Immortal King.
"We've reached the middle level of the Forbidden Land of No Form. Han Jue and Huo Ji, you two will explore here!" Inside the Immortal Hall on the top floor of the Yuanji Immortal Ship, the Xuanzhen Immortal King instructed the two people below. They were two old men dressed in brocade robes: the one on the left was tall and thin, wearing a fiery red brocade robe, surrounded by surging heat waves that distorted the air, his eyes sharp as leaping flames; the one on the right was short and stout, wearing an ice-blue brocade robe, his body exuding a chilling aura, the ground beneath his feet already covered with a layer of crystal-clear ice, his gaze as cold as ten-thousand-year-old ice.
The two were far more powerful than Yuan Jin Immortal King by more than a hundred times. It was the unique pressure of a second-order Eternal Immortal King, like two majestic immortal mountains standing in the immortal palace.
"I will obey Your Majesty's decree!"
The two bowed respectfully to the Xuanzhen Immortal King above, their voices booming like bells, carrying the imposing aura of a second-tier Eternal Immortal King, causing the beams and pillars in the hall to hum slightly.
Then, the two figures moved, transforming into two streaks of light, one red and one blue, shooting out of the Yuanji Immortal Ship like two bolts of lightning and plunging straight into the dense, eerie fog ahead. Where the red light passed, the fog sizzled and turned into white smoke as it was scorched by the high temperature; where the blue light swept across, the fog condensed into ice, then shattered into dust. The two streaks of light, one hard and one soft, one hot and one cold, sped rapidly towards the depths of the middle layer, soon disappearing into the purple fog, leaving only two fading energy trails.
The Yuanji Immortal Ship continued to break through the mist, its dark golden light beams growing ever more intense, like a giant axe that split the heavens, constantly dispelling the thick purple mist around it. At the point where the light and mist collided, tiny sparks of energy would occasionally fly out.
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Three hundred thousand years later, when the bow of the ship struck an invisible barrier with a muffled roar, the surrounding formless and eerie mist changed drastically once again—the original purple mist completely settled and turned into a thick black mist, within which churned visible gray malevolent energy, each strand carrying a strange power capable of eroding the soul of an immortal king.
We've arrived at the inner perimeter of the Forbidden Land of No Form.
Even a second-tier Eternal Immortal King would find it extremely difficult to move forward here. The black mist could seep into the body through the pores, and within half a day it would corrode the immortal soul, shake the foundation of the immortal king's Dao, and the slightest carelessness would lead to eternal damnation.
The Dao patterns on the Yuanji Immortal Boat were operating at full capacity. Hundreds of millions of runes intertwined on the outside of the ship to form a thick light shield, which barely kept out the Formless Strange Mist. The surface of the light shield occasionally flashed with a hissing corrosion sound and rippled, showing how dangerous this place was.
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Time flies, and millions of years have passed quietly.
On this day, Su Mo's divine sense suddenly detected an unusual energy fluctuation. His eyes flickered, and his figure instantly disappeared from the Immortal Palace. When he reappeared, he was already standing at the bow of the Yuanji Immortal Ship, reaching out to grab into the black mist ahead.
A streak of purple light shot out from the mist and was firmly grasped in his palm. It was a purple crystal sphere the size of an adult's fist, crystal clear, with mysterious and unfathomable Dao runes floating inside, twinkling like stars, radiating extremely pure spatial and soul primordial power—it was the Formless Heavenly Crystal, and a mid-grade Formless Heavenly Crystal of relatively high quality.
“The inner perimeter is the inner perimeter, far superior to the outer perimeter.”
The Immortal King Yuan Jin entered the Formless Forbidden Land five times, and in total, he only collected this fist-sized Formless Heavenly Crystal, which was the most common low-grade Formless Heavenly Crystal. However, after entering the inner perimeter of the Formless Forbidden Land for only a million years, he had already collected seven Formless Heavenly Crystals, the smallest of which was the size of an egg, and the largest of which was the size of a bowl. All of them were mid-grade Formless Heavenly Crystals.
It's a bit of a shame that so far, he hasn't encountered an Eternal Immortal King, leaving him with nowhere to put his "netting" ambitions.
The next second...
With a soft "plop," Su Mo pointed his fingers like a knife, precisely splitting the crystal sphere in two. The two halves were of equal size, and the runes continued to flow, undamaged by the division. He casually picked up one half and tossed it to the Xuanzhen Immortal King, who emerged from the Immortal Palace, saying in a flat tone, "Here you go."
He won't go back on his word once we've agreed to a 50/50 split.
Xuanzhen Immortal King accepted half of the Formless Heavenly Crystal, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes. This time, joining forces with Su Mo was truly the right choice.
In just a few million years, the harvest was as abundant as what he had gained in tens of millions of years when he was alone.
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Time flies, and another million years have passed.
Su Mo acquired six more Formless Heavenly Crystals, which, together with the seven he had collected before, now amounted to the size of a volleyball.
"It's been almost two and a half million years, and I've finally run into prey."
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