276: Mysterious Space

"How strong is his Divine Soul... exactly? How many more secrets is he hiding... on him?!"

After the shock, came an even more intense greed!

The more terrifying the potential Yao Delong displayed, the greater the value that could be extracted from him after capturing him!

This caused the killing intent and possessiveness in her heart to burn to the extreme!

"Stop... for me!"

Luo Tianying's demonic light surged in her eyes, and she forcibly increased her speed while enduring the increasingly powerful Divine Soul impact!

The black bone bell emitted a rapid buzzing sound, sharing the pressure for her.

Up ahead, Yao Delong's state had reached the point of extreme deterioration.

Fine blood threads began to ooze from his seven orifices—a sign that his Sea of Consciousness was bearing immense pressure.

Every invisible tide of Divine Soul impact caused his vision to blacken, and his body trembled involuntarily.

The buzzing of the Heart Sword also carried a hint of exhaustion, and the transformation of the yanshen fetus was a drop in the bucket, even becoming intermittent due to the remote interference of the demonic woman.

He was relying entirely on an indomitable will to hold on!

Every step he took felt as if his feet were filled with ten thousand catties of lead! He went from a rapid walk to a stumbling crawl!

"Cannot... stop... stopping... means death..."

Yao Delong's consciousness was somewhat blurred, with only this thought remaining to support him.

Just at the moment he felt he was about to be completely submerged by that terrifying Divine Soul tide and his consciousness was on the verge of collapse—

Hum!

The gray fog permeating ahead seemed... to have thinned?

A strange sense of tranquility, which seemed capable of soothing all agitation of the Soul, faintly wafted over.

Yao Delong suddenly looked up, his bloodshot eyes staring fixedly ahead!

He saw that at the end of the gray fog, a dreamlike space light curtain, emitting a soft silvery-white light, stood quietly there!

The light curtain rippled like water, and inside, faint phantoms of pavilions, towers, and immortal mountains seemed to circulate, emitting an ancient and mysterious aura!

What shocked Yao Delong even more was that as he approached this light curtain, the terrifying Divine Soul attack, which had been like a maggot on a tarsal bone and almost crushed his Divine Soul, actually... disappeared?!

It was as if an invisible boundary had completely cut off the death tide!

"A... path to survival?!"

An indescribable ecstasy instantly washed away all pain and exhaustion!

Yao Delong erupted with his final strength, like a dying beast seeing an oasis, and stumbled, crawling and scrambling, as he threw himself madly toward the silvery-white space light curtain!

"Don't run!"

Behind him came Luo Tianying's stern shout, filled with shock and rage!

She had also seen the strange light curtain and felt the disappearance of the attacks! She absolutely would not allow Yao Delong to escape into it!

Yao Delong did not dare to look back, pouring his last shred of will and strength into his legs. Like a moth flying into a flame, with resolute faith, he slammed heavily into the space light curtain emitting the tranquil silver glow!

Following closely behind, that streak of bloody demonic light also slammed heavily into the light curtain!

Hum—!

There was no earth-shattering collision, only a strange, gentle sensation as if his Soul were wrapped in warm water.

The blinding silver light before his eyes flashed and vanished, and immediately afterward, his field of vision suddenly opened up!

The more dangerous dead-end he had anticipated did not appear.

What met his eyes was a scene of peace and tranquility, like a paradise away from the world!

The sky was a pure azure, with a few wisps of white clouds drifting leisurely.

Beneath his feet was soft soil carrying the fragrance of green grass.

Not far away, a crystal-clear stream flowed gurglingly, the sound of the water like heavenly music.

By the stream, a few unknown ancient trees were lush and green, casting dappled light and shadows through their branches and leaves.

And under the shade of the ancient trees, a small house with a simple and elegant design, built entirely from some kind of warm, jade-like wood, stood quietly there, blending perfectly with the surrounding environment and emitting a dao rhyme of returning to simplicity.

"This... this is..."

Yao Delong's mind was shaken, and he could hardly believe his eyes.

Stepping into this vibrant, peaceful, and tranquil fairyland from the dead, withered, and terrifying dead-end outside, where Divine Soul attacks surged like a tide, the huge contrast left him momentarily dazed.

However, this daze lasted only for an instant!

Behind him, that heart-palpitating demonic might was already approaching!

Luo Tianying's figure, carrying monstrous killing intent and greed, followed closely behind and also crashed into the light curtain head-on!

"Yao Delong! Your death date has ar— Huh?!"

Luo Tianying's stern shout, filled with resentment and killing intent, stopped abruptly the moment she stepped into the light curtain, like a duck whose neck had been grabbed!

The ferocity and triumph on her face instantly froze, replaced by a kind of extreme bewilderment and... terror!

She was horrified to discover that the terrifying Demonic Essence within her, which was as surging as boiling lava and infinitely close to the Soul Transformation Stage, had instantly gone silent the moment she entered this space, as if it were a frozen river!

No matter how she urged her Demonic Technique, that Demonic Essence capable of tearing through space was like a stone sinking into the ocean, with no response at all!

What made her even more terrified, to the point of Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, was that the powerful and condensed Divine Sense in her Sea of Consciousness, which had devoured two Nascent Souls, was now firmly locked by billions of invisible shackles!

Never mind releasing it to investigate, even circulating it within her Sea of Consciousness had become extremely sluggish and heavy!

She, a dignified half-step Soul Transformation Demonic Path expert, was now like a Mortal without the strength to truss a chicken!

Having lost all the power she was proud of!

"My power... my Demonic Essence... Divine Sense... what is going on?!"

For the first time, Luo Tianying's beautiful face revealed uncontrollable panic and disbelief. She subconsciously looked at her own hands, as if seeing them for the first time.

And just at the moment she lost her composure and fell into immense panic—

"Good opportunity!"

Cold light exploded in Yao Delong's eyes! He had also sensed the changes in himself the moment he entered!

His Yuan power was silent, and his Divine Sense was locked!

But unlike Luo Tianying's panic, a surge of ecstasy rose in his heart!

Because his Physical Body, which he had painstakingly tempered, undergone multiple Pill Fire calcinations, and honed and strengthened with the Eight Desolations Prison Suppression Art—that terrifying physique, which far exceeded his peers and was even enough to hard-shake attacks from the Mid Nascent Soul Stage—the massive blood energy contained within it had not disappeared!

That explosive power, lying dormant beneath his tendons, bones, and skin like a coiled dragon, still existed!

Conversely, Luo Tianying, although her Physical Body also far exceeded ordinary Cultivators due to the nourishment of her Realm, had instantly fallen from the clouds without the support of her Demonic Essence!

That formidable demonic body's power was like having its Foundation pulled away, becoming a great deal "flimsier"!

Her current strength and speed were at most equivalent to a Foundation Establishment Stage Body Cultivator!

The situation had instantly reversed!

"Not good!"

Seeing the undisguised fierce light in Yao Delong's eyes, as well as the oppression radiating from him like a humanoid Vicious Beast, alarm bells rang in Luo Tianying's heart!

She had been amazed by the toughness of Yao Delong's Physical Body in the outside world, and now she felt a fatal threat!

Without even thinking, her figure retreated violently!