Chapter 1436: The Secrets of the True Earth Domain (Part One)

In a mountain stream, Li Yan laid out a formation with a grim expression. Once again, at the cost of his divine sense, he pulled the gray-haired old man into the “Earthen Patch.” …

A short while later, Li Yan’s expression outside stiffened. Inside the “Earthen Patch,” the gray-haired old man, held in the palm of his phantom, suddenly showed a look of agony.

In the next moment, an aura of death emanated from his body, and without another sound, he perished.

Startled, Li Yan quickly examined the black-robed old man again. After inspecting his internal condition, he found that the man’s soul had already flown and scattered. He was deader than dead.

However, he had already obtained a great deal of information from the gray-haired old man. It was just that he had touched upon a restricted area in the man’s memory, causing his sudden death.

This old man was a deacon of a nearby sect, with a cultivation at the Late-stage Nascent Soul.

This piece of information had sent a jolt of alarm through Li Yan. Today, he had truly come face to face with the terror of a Late-stage Nascent Soul Soul Cultivator.

In the outside world, a cultivator of this level could no longer cause him any harm. But this Soul Cultivator’s attack—if he hadn’t reacted quickly, it was uncertain who would have been the victor.

The gray-haired old man’s sect, after receiving a message a few days ago, had not only sent him out to set up an ambush but had also dispatched three Spirit Transformation elders.

This made Li Yan’s heart pound with fear. A Soul Cultivator’s detection methods didn’t use divine sense at all, but rather magical treasures, formations, or secret arts to search for soul power fluctuations in the surroundings, thereby finding nearby living beings.

If his own soul power hadn’t been stronger than the Golden Core cultivators he had encountered a few days ago, he might have already been discovered.

For this reason, Li Yan had specifically searched for the black-robed old man’s related cultivation methods. But to his frustration, in the man’s memory, he only found some basic soul cultivation methods.

In fact, these cultivation methods were already quite precious to cultivators in the outside world. Soul cultivation methods were always extremely rare and were almost never seen in markets.

This was also true for Li Yan. He had come from an unorthodox background. His soul cultivation techniques were all things that he, Zhao Min, and the others had slowly figured out bit by bit in the underground passages of the “Hellsoul Clan.”

In fact, as long as Li Yan learned these basic cultivation methods, he would be handsomely rewarded. His strength would immediately increase, and his soul power attacks and defenses would have a proper foundation.

However, Li Yan wanted to obtain some cultivation methods for detecting soul power fluctuations, so that he would know how to deal with the situation here.

But just as he was probing a certain area of the other’s memory, a long saber suddenly appeared there and slashed fiercely at his divine sense.

If it weren’t for Li Yan’s absolute suppressive ability in the “Earthen Patch,” his divine sense would have almost been hit by that saber. Li Yan instinctively counterattacked, directly shattering the long saber.

He realized that it must be a restricted area where the other party had sealed important memories, in order to prevent others from soul-searching.

Li Yan had long anticipated this kind of thing. Many cultivators would do this, but it could still be broken.

With Li Yan’s ability in the “Earthen Patch,” which had a powerful suppressive effect on others, even Chongyangzi’s divine sense could be modified by him without any flaws being detected.

What’s more, the gray-haired old man was just a Nascent Soul-level cultivator. Although his soul was powerful, his divine sense was still within the range of a normal Nascent Soul-level cultivator.

But at the instant Li Yan had shattered the long saber, the black-robed old man’s soul had suddenly collapsed on its own. This had caught Li Yan, who was in the middle of soul-searching, off guard.

He hadn’t expected the soul cultivator’s methods to be so domineering, but he soon understood.

Soul cultivators had linked their Sea of Consciousness with their souls. This was a ruthless method of preferring death rather than letting others know their secrets.

And the basic soul cultivation methods Li Yan had obtained were probably not the cultivation methods the black-robed old man had cultivated, but just some other information he knew.

Just like some of the most common introductory cultivation methods that existed in the Malevolent Spirit Sect, some were obtained by robbing others, and some were created by their own disciples.

These cultivation methods, after Li Yan had looked at them, were already optional for a cultivator of his level and would not be carefully sealed.

‘What a pity. There are still some things I haven’t investigated. In the future, when I encounter this kind of memory seal area, I should leave it for last. That way I can get more information…’

Li Yan thought to himself. He had been careful enough. He had avoided these areas before, but just now, after finding some soul cultivation methods, he couldn’t help but tamper with this place.

Now, it was not easy to capture a valuable person to soul-search.

This time, Li Yan had finally obtained more detailed information about the “True Earth Domain,” and had also confirmed that he was indeed being hunted.

Li Yan quickly sorted through the information he had obtained. Although he had not been able to completely search all of the soul cultivator’s memories, he had still obtained a lot of shocking news.

And this news, in Li Yan’s view, could be considered a “heaven-shattering secret.” For the cultivators here, however, it was not much of a secret.

But while it left Li Yan endlessly shocked, he was also filled with worry.

This place was indeed a place called “True Earth Domain.” And it was still part of the Immortal Spirit Realm, and even part of the “Heavenly Demon Prairie.”

In the gray-haired old man’s memory, this place was considered a secret realm of the “Heavenly Demon Prairie,” but it should have been formed after the fall of an ancient heavenly beast. This demonic beast was a kind of heavenly beast called the “Dream Return Ant.”

This heavenly beast may have been a terrifying existence at the Body Integration, or even higher realm, before its death. But it had fallen for some unknown reason. Its body had not decayed, but had turned into a world.

Perhaps it was because of this heavenly beast’s own cultivation method, or its innate divine ability. After it fell, the five-element rules in its body were not the same as the outside world, and there had been a certain mutation.

The transformation between the five elements was not smooth and unified, but there were some barriers between them. This had caused the heavenly dao rules here to be somewhat unorthodox.

However, for the cultivators here, the impact was not too great. They all only cultivated their main spirit root and used the arts they had learned. Ninety percent of them were of a single attribute, and there were no problems.

But the mutation of the rules of heaven and earth still brought about a biggest problem, that is, the strongest cultivator here could only cultivate to the Body Integration Realm.

And the place where one could break through to the Body Integration Realm was only one place in the “True Earth Domain.” According to the speculation of the cultivators here, this was very likely related to the “Dream Return Ant” heavenly beast itself.

When this heavenly beast fell, it should have been at the Body Integration Realm, or a Tribulation Transcendence existence. This also limited the strength of the rules of the secret realm formed by its body.

At the same time, another piece of news that surprised Li Yan the most was that once you entered, even a Body Integration stage cultivator would not be able to get out later.

Li Yan, who had received this news, was stunned for more than ten breaths.

The entrance and exit of the “True Earth Domain” were not fixed, so the specific number could not be counted.

This passage would usually be hidden somewhere underground in the “Heavenly Demon Prairie,” and would occasionally appear once every few decades or hundreds of years.

The location where it appeared would not necessarily be in the depths of the “Heavenly Demon Prairie,” but could also be somewhere in the outer perimeter. And as for what the conditions for its appearance were, no one had yet figured out the pattern.

But as soon as it appeared, it would create an illusion of a world, placing that space in a restriction. Those who fell in would actually have a chance to break out at that time.

For example, he could shatter the void and enter the chaotic flow space, from where he could leave. There was also relying on his formidable strength, when he felt something was wrong, to forcibly break out of this restricted land.

Unfortunately, no one in the Immortal Spirit Realm knew about these situations, because those with weak strength would be sucked in here and would never be able to get out again.

And those with formidable strength, after discovering that they were entangled by a strange restriction, would basically use their divine abilities to break free and escape. When they went to look for it later, that restriction had already disappeared.

Of course, it was not that there were no powerful cultivators or demonic beasts here who, after their relatives or clan members, or disciples had disappeared for no reason, had finally, after a long investigation, also found the entrance to the “True Earth Domain.”

But even if they finally wanted to enter here, and even gave up resisting, wanting to rely on their defensive protection to enter and check, they had all failed.

This long-fallen “Dream Return Ant,” when it died, its Sea of Consciousness should have been severely damaged.

This had caused the final rules formed in this place to have their divine sense power almost dried up, unable to form corresponding heavenly dao rules, and had almost formed an absolute suppression on divine sense here.

Even a Body Integration cultivator here could only release his divine sense for a distance of less than five inches at most.

And the traction channel formed by a wisp of divine sense that the “True Earth Domain” emitted to the outside world probably only retained a strength at about the Void Refining Realm.

This traction entrance channel, the closer it was to the cultivator’s main body, the more it would be affected by the rules of the main body.

Those powerful cultivators who surpassed the Spirit Transformation realm could not be teleported in. Their physical bodies and consciousness were too powerful. Their flesh and blood, and bones had long since surpassed the ordinary and entered the sacred.

The entrance restriction of the “Dream Return Ant” simply could not withstand the impact of that powerful rule, and it would collapse and dissipate on its own just as the teleportation was beginning.

This was also a self-protection of the rules of a world, just like the lower realm repelling the entry of upper realm cultivators.

It was just that the repulsive force of this small world was not strong, and it could not forcibly repel cultivators above the Body Integration Realm. But it could interrupt its own teleportation power.

Once the teleportation traction channel collapsed, this small world transformed from the “Dream Return Ant,” if it wanted to create a teleportation channel in the “Heavenly Demon Prairie” again, would need hundreds of years, or even thousands of years.

Under the continuous operation of the internal five-element rules, this teleportation channel could slowly recover, and finally could communicate with the external five elements again and re-create an entrance.

In this way, if the entrance traction channel was intact, it would appear at any time in a few decades or hundreds of years.

Once it was damaged, it might only appear once every few hundred or even thousands of years.

This made it as difficult as climbing to the sky for some cultivators in the outside world, even if they were determined to find it. As time went by, they would eventually lose their patience.

It was just that these situations, only the cultivators who had entered the “Dream Return Ant” would slowly come to know the whole process. But it was useless for them to know, as they could not send this news out at all.

So, these things would not appear and be recorded in some classics in the outside world.

After Li Yan had soul-searched and obtained this news, he was silent for a long, long time. The thing he was most unwilling to see had happened.

He had only come out to help Donglin Tingyue once, and he had chosen to be in the outer perimeter of the “Heavenly Demon Prairie,” but he had been drawn into a secret realm just like that.

In the gray-haired old man’s memory, of all the cultivators who had entered here, none had ever been able to leave.

Even the strongest Body Integration Realm cultivators here had tried every means to leave here and break through to a higher realm.

In the end, without exception, not a single one had succeeded.

This news made Li Yan’s heart instantly sink to the bottom. He had an impulse to almost hit his head against a wall.

He had unintentionally come to the Immortal Spirit Realm, which was already depressing enough. Many things he had not yet had the time to explain in detail to Gong Chenying and Zhao Min.

His disappearance, although there were the two demons, and the “Heart-Entangling Twin Gu” in Zhao Min’s heart, but if they couldn’t find him for a long time, they would definitely become suspicious.

If he had perished in a black hole in the chaotic flow space, or in a spatial crack, those places might not be able to transmit any aura. Death would be death, and it would not trigger a change in the blood contract and other rules.

He had actually been making all kinds of preparations, even thinking of cultivating while slowly crossing the “Heavenly Demon Prairie” bit by bit.

Even if his strength was not enough, he would go as far as he could!

Then he would stop in a certain area until his cultivation had improved again, and then continue to move forward.

He believed that there would be a day when he could successfully cross it. This was actually a stupid method, but at least it would allow him to get closer and closer to his goal.

But now, he had actually been swept into this ghostly place. This was a ghostly place that even a Body Integration Realm expert could not get out of.

If it could give you hope, that would be fine. If Body Integration Realm was not enough, then cultivate to Tribulation Transcendence and forcibly break the restriction here. Although that would be who knows when, at least there was still hope.

But in the gray-haired old man’s memory, it said that no one here could break through to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm. This was undoubtedly a heavy blow to Li Yan!

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