Chapter 774
I Can See Through Everything – Chapter 774
Chapter 774: Void Transference, Return, and a Guilty Conscience
“Ah Qing, next I’ll send you outside. The distance should be about half a minor immortal domain.
That way, even if a powerhouse is lying in ambush out there, as long as their attainments in the way of space are beneath mine, they won’t be able to detect the exact landing point.
Once you arrive outside, immediately activate the Void Flying Boat and leave.
You have the Void Flying Boat. Once you slip into the void, even Dao-Integration realm experts will find it hard to lock onto your trail. It will be almost absolutely safe.”
Outside the Immortal Palace, Old Canglong reminded Lu Qing carefully.
“Thank you for your trouble, Senior.” Lu Qing bowed and expressed his gratitude.
At the same time, he couldn’t help but feel that Old Canglong had truly thought of everything.
“Alright, let’s begin.”
Old Canglong formed a hand seal, and the power of space began to surge.
“Three seniors, this junior will take his leave. Until we meet again.” Lu Qing bowed.
“Grandpa Canglong, Uncle Bull, Sister Ming Feng, goodbye! Xiao Li will miss you!” Xiao Li waved as well.
“Mm. Remember to come back and visit more.” Black Savage Bull called out loudly.
As for Ming Feng, the chill in her clear eyes softened, and she gave a gentle nod.
A vast power of space enveloped Lu Qing and Xiao Li. A vortex appeared and swallowed them whole.
Seeing their figures vanish, the three of them fell silent for a time.
Only after a long while did Black Savage Bull sigh. “Ah Qing and Xiao Li still left… I really can’t bear it.”
Old Canglong and Ming Feng remained silent.
While Lu Qing and Xiao Li had been here, most of their time had been spent in closed-door cultivation.
Yet even so, they had brought a trace of liveliness to the Immortal Palace that had been cold and quiet for hundreds of thousands of years.
Now that the two of them were gone, no one knew when they would return again, and an unexpected sense of loss rose within them.
“But speaking of it, I didn’t expect Ah Qing to give us such a huge surprise before leaving,” Black Savage Bull suddenly said again. “The eight trial passages our master left behind—he cleared all of them.”
“Indeed. I thought we’d already seen Ah Qing’s limit. Who would’ve guessed that the talent he’d shown before was truly only the tip of the iceberg.” Thinking of that, Old Canglong and Ming Feng still felt shaken.
During the month they waited for Xiao Li to finish her seclusion, Lu Qing had gone to challenge the other six trial passages.
Then, without exception, he cleared every single one in an extremely short time.
When they saw it, the shock in their hearts was beyond words.
“Ah Qing’s future achievements will be limitless. I think he’ll definitely reach our master’s level someday,” Black Savage Bull sighed.
This time, even Ming Feng—who revered their master the most—rarely offered any rebuttal.
Lu Qing’s performance over this period had simply been too outrageous.
Even their master, back when he was at the Nascent Soul Realm, had never possessed such terrifying talent.
“It’s just a pity our Immortal Palace is too poor,” Old Canglong said at last, helpless. “Otherwise, Ah Qing wouldn’t need to risk going out to seek cultivation resources on his own.”
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While Old Canglong and the others sighed within the Immortal Palace, somewhere in the starry sky nearly half a minor immortal domain away from the Sea of Annihilation, a spatial vortex suddenly appeared.
Lu Qing, holding Xiao Li, flew out of it.
He surveyed his surroundings. His powerful primordial spirit rapidly analyzed and calculated. In only a single breath, by comparing the star signs, he determined his approximate location.
“It really did span nearly half a minor immortal domain. Senior Canglong’s attainments in the way of space are truly unfathomable.”
Lu Qing marveled inwardly. Dao-Integration realm experts were indeed terrifying.
Although he had now comprehended the Laws of Space and could also use the Technique of Spatial Transference, his application of the Laws of Space was still far too immature compared to Old Canglong’s.
Without hesitation, Lu Qing immediately produced the Void Flying Boat and brought Xiao Li aboard.
Then he activated the boat and plunged straight into the boundless void, heading toward his home world.
This time, as he piloted the Void Flying Boat, Lu Qing felt the difference again.
Now restored to the might of a supreme-grade spiritual artifact, the Void Flying Boat easily tore through layers of spatial barriers and slipped into an extremely deep stratum of the void.
At such depth, even Dao-Integration realm experts could not trace the Void Flying Boat’s whereabouts.
That was why Old Canglong had said earlier that once Lu Qing drove the Void Flying Boat into the void, he would be almost absolutely safe.
A supreme-grade spiritual artifact with the potential to become a dao artifact was simply too astonishing when it came to traversing the void.
Even Dao-Integration realm experts could not enter this level of the void, let alone track the Void Flying Boat’s movements.
Feeling the layered void being torn apart outside, Lu Qing’s thoughts stirred.
After splitting off a sliver of focus to control the boat’s direction, he sat down cross-legged and tried to sense the changes in the void outside with his mind.
For Lu Qing, who had cultivated the Art of Soul Division, this was not difficult.
Soon, as his mind touched the boundless void beyond the boat…
Boom!
He felt an endless void intent surge forth, flooding his entire consciousness.
Almost instinctively, Lu Qing entered his ability’s cultivation state and fell into enlightenment.
Seeing Lu Qing cultivate, Xiao Li lay obediently beside him and did not disturb him.
No one knew how much time passed before the Void Flying Boat suddenly shook, jolting Lu Qing out of his state of comprehension.
He sensed that the Void Flying Boat was leaving the deep void and continuously moving toward the surface layer of the real world.
“Are we about to reach my home world?”
Lu Qing had long memorized the starry coordinate of his home world.
Before he began cultivating, the sliver of focus he had split off had been guiding the boat toward his home world.
Now it seemed they were close.
“Xiao Li, how long was I cultivating?” Lu Qing asked.
“Not long at all—still not even half a quarter-hour,” Xiao Li replied.
“Not even half a quarter-hour.” Lu Qing understood.
Ever since he began comprehending laws, he had gained a much deeper understanding of the way of space.
In particular, he had comprehended the Technique of Spatial Transference—an advanced dao technique that even seasoned Nascent Soul Realm experts must master—quite profoundly.
The Technique of Spatial Transference was, in truth, easy to learn but hard to perfect.
It was easy because once a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator stepped into the fifth tribulation and could begin comprehending laws, as long as they had some understanding of the Laws of Space, they could almost always use the Technique of Spatial Transference.
It was hard because the distance of Spatial Transference depended on the depth of void one could enter.
Put simply: the deeper the void one could reach, the farther the final displacement.
The void stratum the Void Flying Boat entered was one even Dao-Integration realm mighty ones could scarcely reach, so the distance it traversed was correspondingly vast.
Even though Lu Qing’s home world was separated from the Sea of Annihilation by several minor immortal domains, it still took less than half a quarter-hour to return, almost arriving already.
“The time was short, but this round of comprehension brought considerable gains.” Lu Qing felt quite satisfied.
That brief comprehension deep within the void had raised his understanding of the Laws of Space to a higher level.
Given time, his attainments in the way of space might even catch up to his other great daos.
The Void Flying Boat was incredibly fast. In the blink of an eye, it tore through the final layer of space and returned to the real world.
Lu Qing immediately sensed an extremely familiar fluctuation arise within his mind.
It was the fluctuation of his home world.
He brought Xiao Li out of the Void Flying Boat.
After looking around, sure enough, they had returned to the home world—and they were precisely in the depths of the Hundred Thousand Mountains, at the very spot where the Void Flying Boat had taken him away back then.
“Ah Qing, we’re really back!” Xiao Li cried happily as she looked around.
“Yes. We’re finally back.” Lu Qing also felt a bit emotional.
When the Void Flying Boat had suddenly dragged him into the Gui Xu Secret Realm, it had been extremely dangerous.
After all, at that time his cultivation was only at the Nascent Soul First Tribulation—far inferior to the elite experts of the major factions.
Fortunately, relying on the mysteries of his ability and his own caution, he had ultimately survived.
Not only that, he had even entered Daoist Guixu’s lineage and obtained the many inheritances he left behind.
He had even reached the sixth tribulation of the Nascent Soul Realm.
It truly could be called misfortune turned into blessing.
“Let’s go home. We’ve been away for over twenty years. I don’t know if Master and Xiao Yan have been worried sick.”
Back then, the Void Flying Boat’s abnormal change had been too sudden. Lu Qing hadn’t even had time to send word to Master and Xiao Yan.
Being gone for over twenty years—on top of his original seclusion—was no short span.
If Master and Xiao Yan knew he was no longer in the home world, who knew how anxious they would be.
Holding Xiao Li, Lu Qing’s mind stirred. A wisp of spatial fluctuation spread out.
The next instant, his figure vanished from where he stood. When he appeared again, he was already inside the village.
“Hm?”
The old doctor, who had been cultivating in the small courtyard halfway up the mountain, sensed something. His figure shot out like an arrow.
But as soon as he reached the courtyard, his body stiffened. Staring at the figure beneath the peach tree, his eyes widened slightly.
“Ah Qing… you’re back?”
“Yes, Master. So you truly noticed that this disciple wasn’t in the home world.”
Hearing that, Lu Qing immediately understood.
“You still have the nerve to say that,” the old doctor said, somewhat exasperated. “All these years, without a word—where exactly did you go? Do you know how Xiao Yan nearly worried herself to death because she couldn’t find you?”
“Something happened,” Lu Qing scratched his head. “To be honest with you, Master, these years Xiao Li and I were in the Gui Xu Secret Realm.”
“The Gui Xu Secret Realm! Isn’t that…?”
The old doctor was startled. He recalled what Lu Qing had told him in the past.
“Yes, it’s the Gui Xu Secret Realm I once mentioned to you. That secret realm is strange and can’t be entered or exited freely. This disciple only recently found an opportunity to leave and return.”
Lu Qing briefly explained how the Void Flying Boat had suddenly become restless, how it had taken him and Xiao Li from the home world into the Gui Xu Secret Realm, how he had entered the Guixu Immortal Palace, and finally how he had managed to leave.
“So that’s how it was. I never expected such twists back then,” the old doctor said in sudden realization. “No wonder I sensed that vast fluctuation from beyond the heavens strengthening abruptly. So that was when the Gui Xu Secret Realm opened. It seems you and Xiao Li were taken away by the Void Flying Boat at that time.”
“Correct. That’s when we were taken,” Lu Qing said. “Master, in that secret realm, your disciple struggled to survive. In the end, I took Daoist Guixu as my master. Elder, you… you’re not angry, are you?” Lu Qing asked, somewhat uneasy.
“What nonsense are you talking?” the old doctor said, irritated. “On the path of cultivation, the capable come first. Daoist Guixu is a Daoist of Transcendence. For you to enter his lineage is a heaven-sent opportunity. I’m happy for you too late—how could I be angry?”
Hearing that, Lu Qing finally smiled. “I knew Master wouldn’t be angry. Master, in the Gui Xu Secret Realm, this disciple obtained quite a few fortuitous encounters. There were even some extremely profound sword dao inheritances. When there’s time, I’ll show them all to you.”
“Talk about that later,” the old doctor said. “You should go see Xiao Yan first. You vanished without warning—she’s been worried sick.”
“Right—Master, is Xiao Yan angry?” Lu Qing asked cautiously.
When he returned last time, he had promised Xiao Yan that if he ever left the home world again, he would take her with him.
But he had disappeared from the home world for more than twenty years. Even if it had been beyond his control, Lu Qing still felt inexplicably guilty.
“Angry or not, I can’t say for sure,” the old doctor replied. “Back then, you were in seclusion for years without coming out, and your messages had no reply. We worried you’d made a mistake in cultivation, so we went to check the Jade Transformation Chamber.
“In the end, we found that neither you nor Xiao Li were there, and even your puppet avatar said you’d already left seclusion and taken Xiao Li with you.
“We couldn’t reach you no matter what, and only then did we realize you and Xiao Li were no longer in this world.
“At first, Xiao Yan sulked and was quite angry, but afterward she started worrying again. She even wanted to take Wuxing and Xiaobai and go into the starry sky to search for you.
“I stopped her, and only then did she give up for the time being.
“In any case, hurry back and coax her. Don’t let her dao heart develop problems again.”
The old doctor explained what had happened over the years in simple terms.
“Then I’ll go home right now.”
Hearing that, Lu Qing finally felt a little more at ease.
The reason he had come to the halfway-up-the-mountain courtyard first was to feel things out from Master.
Now, from the sound of it, Xiao Yan didn’t seem all that angry. Lu Qing relaxed somewhat.
With his current cultivation, he could naturally sense Xiao Yan’s aura at home.
At once, with a thought, he vanished from the courtyard with Xiao Li.
Watching that, the old doctor’s gaze sharpened.
Lu Qing’s move was effortless, as light as drifting clouds. The old doctor couldn’t sense at all how he had left.
Thinking back to how Lu Qing had also appeared suddenly in the courtyard earlier—while the formations outside showed not the slightest ripple, as if he had simply appeared out of thin air—the old doctor understood.
His disciple had likely obtained some immense fortuitous encounter in the Gui Xu Secret Realm, and his strength had advanced to an unimaginable level.
At the Lu household, Xiao Yan was cultivating at home with an icy expression.
Yet for some reason, she felt restless today, unable to settle her mind.
Neither her cold-aspected cultivation method nor her life-bound spirit flame—Coldflame Icefire—could calm her heart.
Just as she began to wonder if she had cultivated for too long and should go out for a walk…
She suddenly sensed two auras appear outside the room.
And those two auras were incomparably familiar to her.
Xiao Yan’s body trembled. She abruptly smashed through the door and rushed outside.
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