161: Chapter 161 Blood Moon and Red Soil!

The tearing pain vanished.

Su Changge's consciousness was dragged from the boundless darkness by a force and shoved into a physical shell.

He opened his eyes.

His vision was no longer filled with eternal nothingness.

The sky was a dark purple, a color that caused instinctive discomfort.

At the highest point of the firmament hung a massive moon, occupying nearly half the sky. Its surface was covered in ravines and craters, emitting a dark red glow that looked like congealed blood.

The blood-colored moonlight spilled down, dyeing the entire land in an ominous hue.

Su Changge sat up from the ground and looked down beneath him.

Dark red earth.

The soil was deep in color, as if soaked in fresh blood for countless years, having completely permeated to the deepest depths.

He grabbed a handful of soil; it felt hard and cold, mixed with black, charred particles.

Looking as far as the eye could see, this red land was barren, without a single sign of life.

Only some bizarrely shaped black rocks stood solitary across the wilderness.

"Cough... cough cough..."

As soon as Su Changge took a breath, he began to cough violently.

The air was thick with an indescribable scent. Sulfur, rust, and rot were mixed together, filled with violence, chaos, and intense corrosiveness.

Taking a single breath brought a burning sting to his throat and lungs.

He immediately held his breath and tried to circulate the Spiritual Qi within his body.

As he operated his Cultivation Technique according to the methods of the Xuantian Canon, his expression became even uglier.

The Spiritual Qi in this world was thin to an appalling degree. Even worse, the meager Spiritual Qi he managed to inhale felt like strong liquor laced with deadly poison.

The moment they entered his Meridians, they began to rampage, attempting to contaminate his originally pure Spiritual Qi.

Su Changge hastily stopped his Cultivation Technique, not daring to absorb even a fraction more.

"Exactly what kind of place is this?"

He muttered to himself, a strong sense of unease rising in his heart.

Everything here was fundamentally different from the cultivation world he knew.

He checked his body.

His cultivation level hadn't changed, still at the Qi Refining First Layer. However, during that painful spatial transit and body reconstruction, his Physical Body seemed to have been strengthened.

His bones and muscles had become tougher, and his vitality was significantly more vigorous than before. At the very least, without using Spiritual Qi, he felt he could kill a bull with a single punch.

"System?"

"Are you still there?"

Su Changge called out in his mind.

This time, he finally received a response.

A cold, mechanical voice rang out in his head.

[Ding!]

[System rebooting... 10%... 50%... 100%!]

[System reboot complete!]

[Analyzing current world coordinates...]

[Parsing current world Law...]

[Scanning current world energy System...]

The series of prompts allowed Su Changge to breathe a small sigh of relief.

As long as the System was still there, he still had his final trump card.

A few seconds later, the System's final analysis results popped up.

[Analysis complete.]

[Warning: The Host is currently located in a 'High-Risk Exile Land'.]

[Warning: The energy System here has a fundamental conflict with the Host's original world. The Spiritual Qi contains high-intensity corrosive toxins; direct absorption is not recommended.]

[Warning: Detected that biological entities in this location are generally extremely aggressive and xenophobic. Host, please proceed with caution to ensure your own safety.]

Three consecutive blood-red warnings sent Su Changge's heart, which had just settled, right back into his throat.

High-Risk Exile Land?

Just from the name, it didn't sound like a good place.

It seemed the "Extraterritorial Heavenly Demons" mentioned in the Xuantian Old Ancestor's memories likely referred to creatures from this kind of place.

Had he... been teleported directly into the enemy's home base?

Just as Su Changge's scalp was tingling with apprehension, a new prompt suddenly popped up on the System interface.

A prompt that lifted his spirits.

[Detected that the Host's emotion points reserves have been restored.]

[Detected a massive increase in emotion points due to unknown reasons.]

[Current total emotion points: 9,860,000 points.]

Looking at that long string of numbers, Su Changge was stunned.

Nine million eight hundred and sixty thousand?

He remembered clearly that before the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm collapsed, his emotion points had been nearly exhausted to maintain various special effects.

Where did this huge sum of money come from?

He quickly figured it out.

The Fallen Immortal Secret Realm collapsed, and he had "perished."

The Cultivators of Cangxuan, whether they revered or hated him, must have experienced a storm in their hearts that reached an unprecedented peak after witnessing that world-destroying scene with their own eyes.

Especially at the end, when he was "guided" away by that cross-realm crack.

In their eyes, that scene had likely been filled in with countless versions of a story.

"Did he achieve Ascension?"

"Was he taken away by an Upper Realm Immortal Venerable?"

"As expected of the Senior, even his exit was so earth-shattering!"

Su Changge could almost imagine those people's expressions of utter shock.

And what they contributed was precisely this life-saving sum of emotion points.

But now was not the time for celebration.

Su Changge stood up and looked around.

This wilderness stretched endlessly, with no sign of buildings or living beings.

Under the blood-colored moonlight, those black rocks cast long shadows, looking like lurking monsters.

He had to find a safe place as soon as possible and figure out the rules of this world.

In the Xuantian Old Ancestor's memories, descriptions of the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demons were extremely limited.

During that extra-dimensional invasion, the Heavenly Demons poured out from cracks, slaughtering wantonly in the Cangxuan Dao Domain before finally being repelled.

But regarding the world of the Heavenly Demons, their way of survival, and their energy Systems, the memories were almost a complete blank.

This meant he was truly in the dark right now.

Su Changge took a deep breath—even though it made his lungs sting again—and began to contemplate his next move.