473: Head to the Chaotic Immortal Realm!

The wooden door slowly creaked open, stirring up dust that had settled for twenty years.

The moment Su Ming stepped out of the secret room, the condensed aura around him caused the very air to stagnate slightly.

However, before he could adjust to the light outside, several anxious gazes were fixed squarely upon him.

"Are you all waiting for me?"

Su Ming's brow furrowed slightly; his intuition told him the atmosphere was somewhat off.

Zi You stepped forward quickly, her usually calm face now clouded with worry.

Without even taking the time to observe Su Ming's progress in his cultivation, she spoke urgently.

"You're finally out. Tianji left the Vast Immortal Domain all by herself."

The smile on Su Ming's face instantly froze, and his gaze darkened.

"Left? How? Hasn't the Vast Immortal Domain's regional teleportation Formation been defunct for a long time?"

Beside him, Sword Thirteen, his face full of bitterness, leaned dejectedly against a stone pillar and took over the conversation.

"It is indeed defunct."

"Revered Master personally destroyed all the passages back then to cut off any prying eyes from the outside world."

"But no one expected that Her Highness the Princess would have such a trick up her sleeve."

"Using the Human Emperor's Secret Method, she forcibly reconstructed a one-time teleportation Formation at the edge of the Forbidden Ground."

"By the time Revered Master sensed the spatial fluctuations and rushed over, only a pile of waste depleted of Spiritual Qi remained."

Su Ming's eyes narrowed upon hearing this.

"How long has she been gone?"

"Three years!"

"Three years..."

Su Ming repeated the number, a sense of helplessness in his tone.

In a place like the Chaotic Immortal Domain, where people are devoured whole.

For a woman all alone, three years was enough time for too many things to go wrong.

"Why didn't you wake me?"

Su Ming looked at Zi You.

Zi You sighed.

"Back then, seeing you in seclusion and having set up a Formation, Little Junior Brother, we knew you didn't want to be disturbed, so we simply didn't force you awake."

Su Ming fell silent for a moment, feeling the power within his body.

Twenty years of accumulation had transformed him completely; though still cautious, he knew better than anyone that some things couldn't wait.

"Where is the Chaotic Immortal Domain located? I'm leaving now."

He didn't waste any words, not even asking about the danger, and looked directly at Sword Thirteen.

That crazy woman, Xuanyuan Tianji, probably didn't want them to risk their lives or go to their deaths with her.

That's why she chose to shoulder everything alone.

But she forgot that they had never abandoned anyone along the way; no matter how dangerous it was, Su Ming was not afraid.

"Don't worry, I know."

Sword Thirteen stood up straight, a sharp glint appearing in his eyes.

"Revered Master already expected you would go. He said the waters in the Chaotic Immortal Domain are too deep; you can't do it alone.

"This time, I will go with you."

He pulled a Jade Slip engraved with a complex star map from his robes, his fingertips pressing slightly.

Su Ming glanced at the simulator panel; the cold countdown was still ticking, and there was still a significant amount of time before the cooldown ended.

There was no more time to waste.

That crazy woman Xuanyuan Tianji had already been missing for three years.

In a place like the Chaotic Immortal Domain, every second of delay meant more danger for her.

"Let's go."

Su Ming withdrew his gaze, his tone brook no argument.

With a casual wave, the gate to the Void Realm opened silently beside him, and he gestured for Sword Thirteen to enter.

Sword Thirteen was stunned for half a second but acted decisively, leaping inside.

To him, the experience of being packed into a portable space like cargo was quite novel.

"Great Void Dragon Travel!"

Su Ming exerted force through his feet, and the Void Realm before him was as fragile as rice paper, instantly torn open.

His figure turned into a streak of light, plunging directly into the violent Chaos Void.

This journey was a long and tedious crossing.

The Chaos air currents swept past like sharp blades, only to be forcibly shattered by the condensed power of Law surrounding Su Ming.

For two whole years, he hardly rested, relying on sheer ruthlessness to carve a path through the Void Realm.

When the sensation beneath his feet became solid again and the surrounding chaotic and violent aura rushed toward him.

Su Ming knew he had arrived at the Chaotic Immortal Domain.

He looked up to see the sky displaying a sickly, dim hue.

A faint scent of blood permeated the air.

Su Ming instinctively summoned the simulator panel.

【Simulation Cooldown: Three months!】

Seeing this number, his nerves, which had been taut for two years, finally relaxed slightly.

Three months wasn't long.

"Finally here. The smell of this place is truly unpleasant."

After being released, Sword Thirteen looked around at the desolate landscape, his brow furrowing into a knot.

Su Ming brushed the dust off his sleeves, his eyes returning to their usual calm.

"Don't be in a hurry to find her yet."

He interrupted Sword Thirteen as he was about to release his Divine Sense; in a place like this, rashly using Divine Sense to search was no different from running naked in the street.

"In this place, having no rules is the greatest rule."

"Our fresh faces are too conspicuous. Let's find a place to stay first and get the lay of the land."

Su Ming had calculated everything clearly.

In three months, once the simulator's cooldown was over, he could use the simulation to predict Xuanyuan Tianji's exact location and situation.

Until then, any blind action would just be handing themselves over to the enemy.

"I'll follow your lead."

"So, where do we go now?"

Sword Thirteen scanned the surroundings warily.

Su Ming looked toward the dilapidated city looming on the distant horizon, a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth.

"Let's go check out that city ahead first!"

...The moment they stepped into the city, a thick stench of blood hit them.

The houses on both sides of the street were in ruins, with bright red bloodstains clinging to the broken walls.

The two walked through the deathly silent alleys; aside from their heavy footsteps, no sound could be heard.

Su Ming frowned slightly; the Death Qi here was so thick it was almost palpable, as if the entire city had been soaked in corpse water.

"Not a single soul?"

Su Ming lowered his voice, his gaze sweeping over the tightly shut doors.

Sword Thirteen crouched down, his fingertip brushing across a smear of dark red on the edge of a stone slab.

The blood wasn't completely dry yet, feeling viscous and smelling metallic on his finger.

"Strange. Based on these bloodstains, a battle should have taken place here not long ago."

Before he could finish, the ground of the entire city began to tremble without warning.

Buzz!

Four thick beams of red light shot into the sky from the four corners of the city—north, south, east, and west.

A blood-colored light screen spread rapidly, like a giant bowl being overturned, sealing off the area for several miles around.

"Hahahaha!"

"To think there are still fish that escaped the net coming right to my door; it saves me the trouble of searching the mountains again."

Along with the laughter, a figure slowly emerged from the end of the street.

Following closely, on the rooftops and at the alley entrances, over a dozen figures with cold auras flickered into view.

Every gaze directed at Su Ming and Sword Thirteen was like looking at two pieces of meat ready for the slaughter.

"Does your Black Crow City regret what you did back then?"

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