88: Immortal Kun Heritage

The collective breakthrough at the Divine Milk Spring transformed the entire team, raising their morale to an all-time high. Lin Xuan led this elite force, whose strength had surged, deeper into the Divine Wilderness Realm.

Now, when they encountered those elusive remnant souls and fierce beasts, they basically swept through them, not even needing Lin Xuan to act as the disciples could easily handle them.

The deeper they went, the stronger the sense of spatial fragmentation became. They often saw huge fragments of land suspended in the void, with ruins of magnificent palaces and traces of fierce battles remaining on them, telling of the tragic ancient divine war.

Occasionally, they could also pick up some broken artifacts emitting faint divine fluctuations; although their spirituality was greatly diminished, the materials themselves were still precious.

One day, they ventured into an extremely strange area. There was no land here, only countless broken landmasses of varying sizes, slowly rotating and floating in the endless void.

The void was filled with an empty, ancient, and slightly dangerous aura, and from time to time, silent spatial cracks, like black lightning, streaked across, devouring everything.

"Stay close! The space here is extremely unstable!" Lin Xuan reminded in a deep voice, his Law-Breaking Chaos Eyes operating at full power, carefully avoiding the hidden spatial traps.

The team cautiously leaped and moved between the broken landmasses.

Suddenly, Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace, who was the Immortal Kun transformed into a blue-robed youth and had been quietly following Lin Xuan, abruptly stopped. An unprecedented gleam burst forth from his ancient eyes, which usually held a hint of laziness, staring fixedly in a certain direction deep in the void.

"What's wrong, Brother Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace?" Lin Xuan noticed his abnormality.

"There..." Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace's voice carried a hint of imperceptible excitement and tremor, "There is an extremely, extremely ancient summons—a resonance from deep within my bloodline..."

He raised his hand and pointed into the depths of the void, where it was a chaotic expanse and nothing could be seen.

"Summons?" Lin Xuan frowned. His Law-Breaking Chaos Eyes couldn't penetrate that area either; it seemed to be obscured by some more powerful force.

"I feel there's something extremely important to me there," Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace's eyes were firm. "I must go!"

Lin Xuan looked at his unprecedentedly solemn expression and nodded: "I'll go with you. Everyone else, form a defensive array and stay alert!"

"Master, be careful!" Yun Qingyao cautioned.

Lin Xuan and Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace transformed into two streaks of light, cautiously flying towards that chaotic void.

The closer they got, the more intense the empty, ancient aura became. Suddenly, the void ahead rippled like water, and a colossal, almost imperceptible transparent barrier blocked their path.

Beyond the barrier, a darker, more desolate area was faintly visible, as if even time and space had frozen.

"This is it," Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace extended his hand, touching the transparent barrier. Countless profound silver runes immediately rippled across the barrier, and a massive repulsive force surged, pushing him back a step.

"Such a powerful spatial restriction!" Lin Xuan was secretly startled; the level of this restriction was extremely high, far beyond his previous understanding.

Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace, however, was not disheartened. He closed his eyes, and a faint blue glow began to emanate from his body. A vast, ancient aura, originating from the same source as this void, slowly awakened.

His body began to become somewhat ethereal, as if he was about to merge with this space.

He extended his hand again, and this time, the transparent barrier did not repel him. Instead, as if welcoming its master's return, gentle ripples appeared, slowly 'absorbing' him inside.

"Brother Lin, wait for me here!" Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace's voice came from behind the barrier.

Lin Xuan could only wait outside, secretly on guard.

Time passed bit by bit. There was no movement inside; it was eerily silent.

Just as Lin Xuan was getting a bit worried and preparing to forcibly break the restriction to go in and check...

Buzz!

The entire void suddenly shook! An indescribable, terrifying pressure, surpassing that of an Immortal Monarch and even making Lin Xuan feel insignificant, erupted from behind the barrier, like an ancient behemoth awakening from eons of slumber!

Crack! Crack!

The incredibly sturdy transparent barrier actually became riddled with cracks like fragile glass, and then shattered with a roar!

Dazzling blue divine light erupted from the broken barrier, illuminating this dim void as if it were daytime!

Within the divine light, Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace's figure slowly emerged.

But his appearance had completely changed!

He was no longer the seemingly twenty-something lazy youth, but a majestic man over a zhang tall, clad in a deep blue starry imperial robe and wearing a void crown!

His face was still handsome, but filled with endless majesty and a sense of antiquity. When his eyes opened and closed, it was as if billions of stars were born and died, and the universe's void flowed!

The aura emanating from him was as vast as an abyss, unfathomable!

Immortal Monarch pinnacle! No! He had even stepped half a foot into a higher realm! He was not far from his full power during his prime!

"Brother Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace, you..." Lin Xuan was both surprised and delighted.

Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace slowly opened his eyes, the ancientness and majesty in them gradually receding, revealing a gentle smile. He cupped his hands in greeting to Lin Xuan: "Thank you, Brother Lin, for protecting me. I have not failed in my mission; I have found a portion of my lost origin here and obtained a fragmented inheritance from an ancient Void Kunpeng elder."

"Void Kunpeng?" Lin Xuan was stunned; the name itself sounded terrifying.

"Yes," Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace nodded, a trace of recollection and respect flashing in his eyes. "That elder should have been a titan of the ancient Divine Realm, wielding the laws of the void and having traveled extremely far on the path of time and space.

Unfortunately, he still perished here. I only obtained fragments of his memory and an imprint of his inheritance, but it has already benefited me immensely."

He gently waved his hand, and the surrounding space rippled like docile flowing water. "Now, the chaotic space of this Divine Wilderness Realm is as open as my own backyard to me."

Lin Xuan was genuinely happy for him: "Congratulations, Brother Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace, on your great increase in strength!"

Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace smiled, his gaze sweeping over the Star Palace disciples on alert in the distance, lingering slightly on Yun Qingyao. "It seems that during my seclusion, Brother Lin and the young friends have also gained much.

This is excellent; perhaps the path ahead will be easier."

The two returned to the team. The disciples felt the unfathomable and heart-palpitating majestic aura emanating from Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace, feeling both awe and excitement.

With Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace, an ancient Immortal Kun who had recovered most of his strength and was proficient in the Dao of Space, the team's progress immediately accelerated significantly.

He could often predict spatial rifts and dangerous areas in advance, and even temporarily open stable spatial passages to bypass many troubles.

During this time, they also encountered several waves of teams from other factions, including a loose cultivator alliance from the Immortal Realm, scattered evil cultivators under Xuan Gu, and even a small squad of Asuras who tried to ambush them.

But in front of the Star Palace team, whose strength had surged, these enemies were no match and were easily defeated or driven away.

A few days later, in the ruins of a massive, crystal-like dazzling shattered palace complex, they discovered a peculiar ice secret realm. The entrance to the secret realm exuded extreme cold, freezing even space itself.

The Moon Soul Saint Body within Yun Qingyao immediately produced a strong resonance.

"Master, I feel something inside calling me," Yun Qingyao's clear, cold eyes looked at the secret realm entrance, revealing a rare hint of longing.

Lin Xuan looked at Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace.

Bi Xiao, Elder of the Void Palace investigated and said: "This is the remnant of an ancient powerful cultivator's cave who practiced the extreme cold Dao. The restrictions are still present, but there are no fatal dangers, mostly trials. For her, it is indeed a fortuitous encounter."

"Go, Qing Yao. We will protect you here," Lin Xuan nodded.

Yun Qingyao took a deep breath and, alone, resolutely stepped into the ice secret realm.

The secret realm entrance slowly closed, and from outside, they could only feel the increasingly terrifying extreme cold emanating from within.

This time, the waiting period was even longer.

A full three days passed.

Just as everyone was getting a bit worried...

Boom!

The entrance to the ice secret realm suddenly exploded! An endless cold wave rushed out like a tsunami, freezing everything in its path! Even the void condensed into ice crystals!

In the center of the cold wave, Yun Qingyao's figure slowly emerged.

She was still in a moon-white immortal dress, but her face seemed even colder and more beautiful, her skin crystal clear, as if carved from ten thousand years of ice.

The aura swirling around her was no longer simple moonlight, but an extreme cold that seemed capable of freezing time and space, and sealing souls!

Her aura had clearly soared from her previous mid-stage Heaven Immortal cultivation, breaking through the late-stage bottleneck and stabilizing completely, even more refined and powerful than an average late-stage Heaven Immortal!

Late-stage Heaven Immortal! And definitely not an ordinary late-stage Heaven Immortal!

In her hand, she also held a slender longsword, entirely translucent like an ice crystal, with countless snowflakes seemingly flowing within its blade. The longsword hummed softly, exuding heart-palpitating fluctuations of ice laws, clearly a divine sword of extremely high grade!

"Master, your disciple has not failed in her mission," Yun Qingyao walked up to Lin Xuan, bowed, her voice still clear and cold, but with an added powerful confidence stemming from her strength.

"In this secret realm, I encountered the remnant consciousness of the ancient Guanghan Immortal Mansion, inherited a portion of the 'Guanghan Ice Soul Divine Chapter' inheritance, and obtained this Ice Soul Divine Light Sword."

"Good! Good! Good!" Lin Xuan said 'good' three times, feeling incredibly delighted. His eldest disciple's strength had greatly increased, bringing honor to him as her master.

The other disciples also came forward to congratulate her, all happy for their Senior Sister.

Yun Qingyao's breakthrough seemed to usher in a series of fortuitous encounters. In the subsequent journey, other disciples also gained something.

Leng Yuechan, in an ancient sword mound where sword qi soared to the heavens, sat in meditation for two days. With her own Nirvana Sword Intent, she resonated with a dormant ancient broken sword within the mound.

Ultimately, that broken sword transformed into a streak of light and merged into the pseudo-Immortal Slaying Sword Sheath she had been nurturing, completing most of the sheath and greatly increasing its power.

As a result, her Sword Dao cultivation became even more refined. Although she did not break through again, her combat power far surpassed that of an ordinary mid-stage Heaven Immortal.

Chu Xinghe accidentally entered a node of an ancient remnant array. With his abnormal talent in array formations, he turned the tables, stole a trace of control over the remnant array, and refined it into his own array disk, greatly increasing his array Dao cultivation.

Other disciples also had their own encounters, either obtaining spiritual herbs, acquiring incomplete techniques, or improving their state of mind through trials.

The strength of the entire team, like a snowball, grew stronger and stronger.

Lin Xuan looked at all this, his heart filled with heroic spirit.

The Divine Wilderness Realm was indeed a place where danger and opportunity coexisted!