283: Chapter 281 What exactly is outside?

"How is that impossible?! What on earth is that thing outside?!"

"Ouch! Fifth Senior Sister, you're hurting me!"

Chu Weiwei clutched her aching arm from the fall. Her originally dazed eyes finally regained clarity under the violent tremors and impacts.

She turned to look at Su Lin, only to see him covered in sweat, biting the tip of his tongue. He was using that piercing pain and the taste of blood to forcibly suppress the Joy Union Lure's medicinal power, which was erupting like a volcano inside him.

"Revered Master!" Chu Weiwei finally realized she had almost caused a major disaster. Especially now, with a great enemy before them, she would be beyond redemption if her selfish desires caused Revered Master's spiritual power to collapse.

"Stop talking! Activate the Formation! Stabilize the hull!"

Su Lin squeezed these words through his teeth. His eyes were bloodshot, but his gaze was exceptionally clear and cold.

He forcibly mobilized the Star God Nascent Soul that had just finished its transformation within his Purple Mansion. Using the vast starlight of the Myriad Heavens Star Chart, he hard-pressed the chaotic pink medicinal power, wrapping and freezing it at the edge of his Qi Sea.

"Qiuyue, report the battle damage!" Su Lin sent his voice directly into the control room through the transmission Formation.

"Ma... Revered Master! The Dragon Cry Ice Soul Armor on the outer layer of the flying boat... has shattered!"

"What?!"

This time, even the habitually expressionless Mu Qingxue had her pupils contract violently.

That was an absolute defense she had plated onto the Primordial Dragon Bone hull using her Middle Stage Mahayana Law of Extreme Cold, fused with Senior Sister Hanyuan's Imperial Dao Dragon Qi!

Forget ordinary spatial turbulence; even five Mahayana Stage Cultivators working together would find it a pipe dream to shatter it in a short time!

"How could it shatter so quickly?!"

Mu Qingxue's voice held an incomprehensible shock. "Even with a full-strength strike from the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, I would have sensed a collision of Laws. But just now... there was no Law warning at all!"

"There was... no collision..." Gu Qiuyue's voice carried a deep fear, as if she were seeing something that overturned her understanding of reality. "Revered Master, the outer shell wasn't smashed; it was melted! Or rather, it was erased!"

"For a split second just now, I saw all the spatial coordinates on the star chart disappear!

It was as if we fell into a blind spot that doesn't exist at all, and then the outer defense was like snow meeting a scorching sun..."

"Where is First Senior Sister?!" Luo Ximei asked urgently. Cold Moon was responsible for guarding the first line of defense outside.

"I... am not dead yet."

An extremely weak voice cut in from another channel of the transmission array.

It was Cold Moon.

"First Senior Sister! How are you?!"

"Don't come out..."

Cold Moon's breathing was heavy, like a bellows, as she spoke intermittently.

"The thing outside... it has no spiritual power... no Devilish Qi..."

"My nine protective golden dragons... the moment they touched it... they were eaten."

"If Second Junior Sister hadn't been below, pushing the power wheels with all her might to force the boat to shift a hundred zhang with pure physical strength, I would be gone by now."

A deathly silence filled the hall.

Imperial Dao Dragon Qi eaten out of thin air?

Not even a scrap left?

What kind of monster was this?!

"Old Man!!!" Su Hongling's voice came from the power cabin.

Imperial Dao Dragon Qi eaten out of thin air?

Not even a scrap left?

What kind of monster was this?!

"Old Man!!!"

Su Hongling's hoarse roar came from the power cabin, accompanied by the deafening sound of twisting steel.

"I can't push it anymore!!!

It's like these damn wheels are covered in glue! The Law of Gravity is completely useless here!

My strength feels like it's hitting cotton! What the hell is this thing!!!"

Su Hongling, a Mahayana Stage Body Cultivator at the peak of strength who could shatter stars with a single punch, was actually saying her strength felt like hitting cotton?

Su Lin took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the last trace of surging lust in his body.

The trouble they faced this time was likely greater than any before.

"Qingxue, Ximei, Weiwei, follow me to the deck."

With a wave of his hand, Su Lin pulled on a spare black robe and strode out of the bedchamber.

"Revered Master, your body..."

Chu Weiwei looked at Su Lin's somewhat unsteady steps with a face full of guilt.

"I won't die. But if we don't figure out what's outside, we're all going to meet our end here today."

...

A moment later.

Su Lin led his three disciples through layers of damaged Formation barriers to the front deck of the star sea wave breaker.

The flying boat hadn't fallen into some blind spot as Gu Qiuyue had said; it was still suspended in the Void Realm.

However, this part of the Void Realm was too quiet.

There were no meteor collisions, no sounds of spatial cracks tearing, and even the starlight usually visible everywhere in the Void Realm was obscured by an absolute darkness.

Cold Moon was collapsed by a broken mast at the bow. Her originally magnificent purple-gold phoenix robe was now dusty and gray.

Her beautiful face was devoid of color. She panted heavily, staring fixedly at the endless darkness ahead.

"Revered Master... look..." Cold Moon painfully raised her hand, pointing straight ahead of the flying boat.

Su Lin followed the direction of her finger, and his pupils suddenly contracted to the size of needlepoints.

Behind him, Luo Ximei, Mu Qingxue, and Chu Weiwei couldn't help but gasp. An unprecedented look of horror and trembling appeared on all three of their faces.

"What... what is that..." Chu Weiwei's voice was shaking.

The darkness was writhing.

They had originally thought it was a patch of starlight-less void, but looking closely, that void was covered in deep, crisscrossing ridges, like the rough skin of some ancient creature.

Just then, that darkness slowly cracked open a slit.

Accompanied by a dull thunder that seemed to come from the primordial era, it was the sound of some creature breathing.

The slit opened wider and wider, finally revealing an eye.

Just the pupil alone was a hundred times larger than the entire star sea wave breaker!

The eye was a murky dark yellow. The tiny flying boat was reflected in the pupil. There was no hatred, no killing intent—only a primal indifference, like a higher-dimensional being looking at a mayfly.

"My god..." Luo Ximei's platinum-colored mystic eye throbbed with intense pain. She clutched her eye and stepped back. "This isn't the Heavenly Dao... it's a living thing! How can there be such a massive living thing in the Void Realm?!"

World-Devouring Kun.

Su Lin's voice was dry as he spoke the name, which only existed in ancient records, word by word.

"Revered Master, you know this thing?!"

Mu Qingxue gripped the Ice Sword in her hand. Even as a Mahayana Stage Cultivator, she felt a deep sense of powerlessness at this moment.

It was too big.

So big that all Laws and all spiritual power attacks were like a grain of dust before it.

"Legend says that before the heavens and earth were opened, when Chaos was first divided, the Void Realm birthed some primitive giant beasts that fed on world remnants and spatial storms.

They do not cultivate Laws or understand Divine Abilities, because their Physical Bodies, massive to the extreme, are themselves existences that transcend the Laws."

Su Lin looked at that giant yellow eye and the slimy gray-white substance surrounding the boat, letting out a bitter laugh.

"It didn't attack us. We just had terrible luck... and happened to fly right into its mouth while it was feeding."

"What?!"

The three female disciples all changed color simultaneously.

"We're in its mouth?!" Chu Weiwei screamed. She suddenly crouched down and pulled a silver needle for testing poison from her storage ring, stabbing it into the layer of gray-white mucus on the deck.

The silver needle didn't even have time to turn black before it dissolved into a wisp of green smoke.

"This isn't assimilation by spatial turbulence... it's stomach acid! It's the incredibly terrifying digestive enzymes of this ancient giant beast!"

Chu Weiwei looked up, her face pale. "It's digesting our defense Formations!"

This also explained why Cold Moon's Imperial Dao Dragon Qi had vanished and Mu Qingxue's ice layer had melted.

It wasn't a suppression of Laws at all, but the purest form of biological digestion!

"Old Man!!!"

With a loud bang, the hatch door on the flying boat's deck was kicked flying by a massive force.

Su Hongling was covered in that gray-white mucus, looking like a bloody person who had crawled out of a swamp as she rushed up in a rage.

"The wheels below are completely jammed by this disgusting slime! My power hitting it is like hitting a sponge tens of thousands of zhang thick—all the force is absorbed!"

Su Hongling slammed her great sword, no edge, onto the deck. The blade was also covered in mucus, making a sizzling corrosive sound.

She followed everyone's gaze and looked up, freezing instantly when she saw the yellow eyeball as massive as a star.

"Holy... crap..."

This fearless Mahayana Stage Body Cultivator swallowed hard. "Old Man... this thing's hide... I might... really not be able to cut through it."

"Of course you can't." Su Lin took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.

"The inner lining of a World-Devouring Kun's mouth is soft and filled with this force-absorbing mucus. Physical attacks are completely ineffective against it.

Forget you—even a true Immortal with an Immortal Artifact would be like someone using a toothpick to prick an elephant; they wouldn't even break the skin."

"Gurgle..."

Just then, the surrounding space suddenly contracted violently.

A violent hurricane poured in from the rear of the flying boat!

"It's inhaling! It's going to close its mouth!" Gu Qiuyue's voice came through the transmission array in despair. "Revered Master, the gravitational field is increasing exponentially. The boat is being dragged deep into its throat!"

Even without Gu Qiuyue's reminder, everyone on the deck could already feel that irresistible pulling force.

The flying boat let out an overburdened creak as the massive hull began to slide toward the endless dark abyss.

Once they entered the World-Devouring Kun's stomach, the pure chaotic digestive fluids there would definitely turn them and the ship into a pool of bloody water within three breaths!

"Revered Master, let's fight it to the end!"

A look of resolve flashed in Luo Ximei's eyes. The Thousand-Handed Demon God Manifestation appeared behind her again, but before such a giant beast, that demon god phantom was laughably tiny.

"Use poison! I'll pour out all the poison!" Chu Weiwei's eyes were also red with desperation as she pulled out all her bottles and jars.

"Don't panic!"

Su Lin shouted. His eyes were fixed on the giant eyelid that was slowly closing, and he felt the void hurricane rushing in madly around them.

"Going head-to-head with it inside its belly is a death sentence."

"Since it's a living thing, a beast, it must have biological weaknesses!"

Su Lin turned sharply to look at his disciples, who were already prepared to risk their lives, and issued orders at high speed:

"Hong Ling! Your strength can't break its skin, but what if you hit its most sensitive nerves?!"

Su Hongling was stunned, then her eyes lit up. "Old Man, tell me where to hit!"

"The upper palate! The deepest part of the throat. Use all your power, but don't cut!"

Su Lin then turned to Chu Weiwei and Luo Ximei. "Weiwei, take out the foulest, most pungent poisons you have—the ones that cause the most violent physiological reactions!

Not the kind that kills instantly, but the kind that makes one so nauseous they'd vomit up their own gall!"

Chu Weiwei was initially dazed, but her instincts as the Medicine Immortal allowed her to instantly grasp Revered Master's intention.

"An emetic?! Revered Master, you're going to..."

"Exactly!" A hint of madness flashed in Su Lin's eyes. "This monster can digest Laws, but I don't believe it can treat the most disgusting biochemical weapons as a meal!"

"Ximei!"

"Disciple is here!"

"Use your Demonic Fire. Don't burn its flesh; burn Weiwei's poisons!

Amplify the volatility of the poisons ten thousand times. Let that stench instantly fill its entire mouth!"

Su Lin swept his sleeve, and the Myriad Heavens Star Chart at his brow flew out, suspended in mid-air.

"I will use the power of the Star Chart and the world core to forcibly tear open a spatial crack as our escape route the moment it opens its mouth!"

"We are going to make this primordial giant beast..."

Su Lin gritted his teeth, looking at the approaching abyssal maw.

"...so disgusted that it vomits us out!!!"

The disciples instantly understood Su Lin's crazy plan!

If they couldn't win by force, they'd make it gag!

"Let's do it! This old lady will be a vomit inducer today!"

Su Hongling laughed wildly. She ripped off her cumbersome outer robe, the golden battle markings on her body burning to the limit.

She didn't take her sword. Instead, she curled her whole body into a ball like a red cannonball ready to fire. Her legs were braced firmly against the deck as she stared at a massive piece of hanging flesh visible in the endless darkness ahead.

"Third Senior Sister, hurry up! I can't hold it back much longer!"

Luo Ximei's hands ignited with black and white demonic flames, her platinum right eye full of madness.

"Coming, coming!"

Chu Weiwei directly smashed all the hundreds of bottles in her storage ring.

Inside were the bile of a Corpse Kun that had rotted for ten thousand years, the foulest snow toad glands from the extreme cold plains, and even fermented toxic liquids she had collected at Jile Pavilion mixed with the filth of countless evil cultivators.

These things mixed together to form a mass of eerie purple-green viscous liquid that gave off a stench powerful enough to cause immediate brain death in a Mahayana Stage Cultivator.

"Fifth Senior Sister, burn it!!!" Chu Weiwei screamed while holding her nose.