455: Plain of Illusions

"You do your thing, just don't forget the important stuff."

Chen Heng emphasized again the matter of subjugating all the surrounding tribes.

"Won't forget, won't forget! I feel incredibly strong right now!"

Bai Jun replied, swinging the heart-questioning sword in his hand.

"Big Brother Chen, punch me, see if you can hit me?"

Bai Jun just remembered that the strongest being he could currently access was Chen Heng.

If it was according to the description in the Thirty-Three Heavens Life Transformation Art, then even Chen Heng would be helpless against him.

"Are you sure?" Chen Heng raised an eyebrow. This kid has been a bit too cocky lately. Is he itching for a beating again?

"..." Hearing these three words, Bai Jun instantly fell silent.

He seemed to have been strolling on the edge of the death line just now.

"How about... a lighter touch?"

But Bai Jun still wanted to test it, to see if it was really the same as described in the Thirty-Three Heavens Life Transformation Art.

'All physical attacks cannot harm a Physical Body transformed by spiritual power.'

"Alright." Chen Heng nodded, clenching his right fist.

"Wait, I regret it!" Bai Jun's scalp tingled when he saw Chen Heng's stance, and he immediately turned to flee.

But how could Chen Heng let go of such an opportunity? A solid punch landed squarely on Bai Jun's chest.

The spiritual power forming Bai Jun's body rapidly compressed under this punch, followed by collapse.

With a loud bang, a large hole appeared in Bai Jun's chest. Chen Heng could even see the three-story building behind through the hole.

"Not dead, are you?" Chen Heng scrutinized the motionless fire figure before him.

"Not dead..." Bai Jun shook his head, his voice sounding somewhat weak.

"Impressive, huh? Normally, this punch would kill even a Demon Emperor outright."

Chen Heng couldn't help but marvel. The Ancestral Master of True Immortal Sect was indeed amazing; this Thirty-Three Heavens Life Transformation Art was quite something.

"But it's not much different from death..."

After speaking, Bai Jun dispersed his Physical Body's spiritual power transformation and lay on the ground, his face pale.

"What's wrong with you?" Chen Heng squatted down and poked Bai Jun.

That's not right. Even if the punch went straight through, it only went through spiritual power. Why is he so weak?

"Big Brother Chen, that punch of yours just now directly dispersed over half of the spiritual power in my body..."

Bai Jun shakily pulled out a handful of blood and qi replenishing pills from his dragon skin pouch and stuffed them into his mouth.

"Since I got the tiangang bead, this is the first time I've felt what it's like to have depleted spiritual power."

"I finally completely understand the meaning of that line in the Thirty-Three Heavens Life Transformation Art."

"Just losing some spiritual power can save your life. This deal is simply too good."

Bai Jun chuckled. Now he was confident that he wouldn't hold Chen Heng back anymore.

"Big Brother Chen, feel free to go find Luo Shuo and the others. I'll take care of things here."

"Moreover, I'm not far from Undergoing Tribulation anymore."

"That fast?" Chen Heng was stunned. Didn't this kid just have a Breakthrough to Soul Transformation a few days ago?

"Yes, ever since I had a Breakthrough to Soul Transformation, the Meridians in my body have been widened by more than double."

"The spiritual power that naturally grows each day has also greatly increased, more than tripling."

"In at most ten days, I can have a Breakthrough to Undergoing Tribulation."

Bai Jun grinned at Chen Heng, his originally pale face now gradually becoming rosy.

"With my current rate of spiritual power growth, as long as I use the Physical Body's spiritual power transformation properly, I can be said to be immortal."

"Good, then I'll leave this to you."

Chen Heng nodded, feeling much more relieved.

He took out the human emperor seal from the dragon skin pouch. The rightmost golden Dragon had already begun to glow faintly.

It seemed Chen Heng's judgment was correct; these Primal Species were indeed one of the five major races.

"I'm going. Be careful on your own."

Chen Heng took one last look at the fully recovered Bai Jun, then activated the engine in his leg and flew towards Luo Shuo's location.

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Currently, the closest to Chen Heng were Hui Che and Luo Shuo. These two seemed to have ended up together.

According to their current positions, Chen Heng was only about 7,900 kilometers away from them.

And according to number eight's calculations, the place where they landed was relatively safe.

Thirteen thousand years ago, that place used to be the territory of Chen Heng's Fellow Countryman.

But after so many years, who knew? However, with their combined strength, self-preservation should be no problem.

Hmm, probably?

...Meanwhile, on the Plains of Delusion, two figures were walking aimlessly forward.

"Ugh..." Luo Shuo, with his head full of yellow hair, had a dull look in his eyes. He had already circled this place nearly thirty times.

No matter how they moved forward, they seemed to always be going in circles in the same spot.

"Monk, aren't you getting tired of this?"

Luo Shuo looked at the calm Hui Che beside him and asked with some confusion.

"It's alright. It was like this when I first learned the Endless Buddha Land," Hui Che thought for a moment before replying.

Since he had come to terms with some things, Hui Che had become much more lively, not as rigid as before.

"Boundless golden light; I could only keep moving forward."

"In the Endless Buddha Land, no matter if you walk forward, left, right, or backward, you can't reach the end."

"Until finally, I attained enlightenment. This is the true meaning of the Endless Buddha Land."

"?" Luo Shuo stared blankly at the raving Hui Che. Could this little monk have gone crazy from walking?

Why was he starting to talk nonsense?

"Sigh, what if the two of us get trapped and die here?"

Luo Shuo sighed. He wasn't afraid of death.

It was just that this way of dying was too frustrating and humiliating.

How would historians write about it? That they, with grand ambitions, went to eliminate the source, then landed and literally walked themselves to death?

This wouldn't be remembered for generations; it would be a pure, eternal laughingstock!

"Patron Luo, there's no need to worry. I've already figured out the pattern here. Just follow me from now on."

Hui Che opened his eyes, and a golden Buddha light flashed through them.