429: Exit the customs and explore the Wanzhong Pass

Stepping out slowly from the temporary Immortal Cave, Dilamon was seen standing respectfully to one side of the entrance, his gaze lowered, his posture extremely humble.

When Xiao Zhuo had just entered seclusion to break through his Physical Body Realm, the mere overflow of energy fluctuations had already made this Quasi-Saint, who had one foot in the Middle Stage Realm, feel a tremor in his heart.

Xiao Zhuo glanced at him, a smile playing on his lips: "Dilamon, you're also about to Breakthrough, aren't you? Have you prepared the origin supreme treasure needed to condense your second Dao Fruit?"

"Replying to Revered Master, not yet." Dilamon's heart stirred slightly, and a hint of anticipation showed in his tone.

"Your second Grand Dao should be the Dao of Darkness?"

"Precisely, Revered Master." Dilamon lowered his head and replied, "The origin supreme treasure of Darkness is extremely rare. Previously, I was trapped in the Dark Realm, and there were no conditions to refine a dark-elemental supreme treasure in the Void Holy Realm..."

Xiao Zhuo nodded slightly: "No matter. You have been diligent and responsible all these years. I will find this supreme treasure for you."

Dilamon's face immediately lit up with joy, and he quickly said: "Thank you, Revered Master! Dilamon will wholeheartedly pledge his loyalty to you, and will never disappoint Revered Master's expectations, no matter what is commanded!"

"Good." Xiao Zhuo smiled, and with a flip of his hand, a chaos crystal core, shimmering with a chaotic halo, floated into the air. "Your foundation is already close to the Early Stage Peak. Refining this chaos crystal core should be enough for Perfection. When the time is ripe, I will naturally retrieve the dark-elemental supreme treasure for you."

"Yes, Revered Master!" Beneath the gray hood, the old face could not hide its excitement.

Xiao Zhuo said no more.

Now, only he and Dilamon remained, both of Quasi-Saint cultivation. Even if the situation in the Immortal-Demon Realm was treacherous and unfathomable, they could both venture there.

"Let's go, let's take a look at Wan Chong Pass."

Before his words fell, a dark rift quietly tore open space.

Xiao Zhuo stepped in first, with Dilamon following closely behind.

Wan Chong Pass is a crucial barrier between the Eastern Continent and Xuan Continent. Once the Immortal-Demon war breaks out and the Immortal Realm's large barrier/boundary opens, this place becomes a strategic point that the Demon Realm army must contend for to invade the Four Great Continents.

Not only that, Wan Chong Pass is also one of the nine array eyes of the "Nine Luminaries Heaven-Guarding Grand Array" which covers the entire Four Great Continents.

The Immortal-Demon Realm has experienced countless great wars, and the Nine Luminaries Heaven-Guarding Grand Array has repeatedly defended the Immortal Realm against Demon army invasions. In the past hundred million years, this array has only been breached twice—and both times, Saint-level existences made a move.

Now that Saints are in seclusion, as long as the array eye is not broken, it is almost impossible for the Demon Realm to truly step into the Four Great Continents.

Before them was an endless emerald plain, with tens of thousands of mountain Peaks suspended above, arranged in an abstruse formation, receiving the vast starlight descending from the Nine Heavens, condensing into layers upon layers of indestructible star-light walls.

This light wall not only enveloped the myriad mountains but also extended into a magnificent barrier/boundary that spanned the entire Four Great Continents.

Two figures silently emerged from a tiny, imperceptible crack at the edge of the light wall.

"To construct such a grand array with tens of thousands of natural floating mountains as its foundation... truly the work of heaven and earth." Xiao Zhuo looked at the tens of thousands of mountain Peaks, where figures flickered, indicating that each one was heavily garrisoned.

He withdrew his gaze and turned to look towards Xuan Continent, beyond the Nine Luminaries Heaven-Guarding Grand Array.

He saw a vast expanse of dark, oppressive Demon army camps stretching to the horizon, with countless ferocious Demon Realm warships suspended in the sky above, Evil Qi filling the fields, and demonic might obscuring the sky.

His Divine Sense swept across, and Xiao Zhuo also detected a few familiar auras.

"Oh?" Just as his Divine Sense swept past the central army, his brow suddenly furrowed.

On a pure gold warship, stood a figure in a gold-threaded blue dress—it was Yue Li. At this time, she had already entered the Initial Stage Quasi-Saint, and what she had condensed was not the Grand Dao of Water, but the Grand Dao of Tai Yin.

Dense Yin Qi enveloped her like clouds and mist. If Xiao Zhuo's Divine Sense had not reached the Peak of the Middle Stage Quasi-Saint, he probably would have found it difficult to penetrate this layer of concealment.

Yue Li on the warship's deck seemed to sense something, suddenly turned around, and her sharp gaze shot directly towards the Nine Luminaries Heaven-Guarding Grand Array.

However, Xiao Zhuo had already set up a time-space distortion barrier in front of him, which would deflect and block both Divine Sense and sight.

She gazed for a moment, but ultimately found nothing.

"My nominal Revered Master... is not here?" Xiao Zhuo's Divine Sense swept across the Demon army camp, but he did not catch any trace of Hao Duo.

Even if the opponent was a Peak Quasi-Saint, an existence on the same level as Emperor Hao Tian, he shouldn't be completely untraceable.

There was only one possibility: Hao Duo was not here at all.

Not even a Three Corpses Clone was left behind.

"Launching a major attack on the Immortal Realm, yet the commander-in-chief is absent... Revered Master, what exactly are you plotting?" Xiao Zhuo murmured softly, a deep look flashing in his eyes.

It was late at night, and the two armies were not engaged in battle.

Since Hao Duo was not here, Xiao Zhuo did not intend to reveal himself rashly.

He had come here to test Hao Duo's true strength. With his current cultivation, even if he only sent out an Incarnation with only ten percent of his strength, further enhanced by the Time-Space Dao Fruit, it should be enough to force out some of the opponent's methods.

But since the target was not present, there was no need to waste time here.

Shaking his head, Xiao Zhuo tore open another dark rift behind him.

He planned to go to Yanzhou (Flame Continent)—the situation there was chaotic now, making it an excellent place to harvest Attribute Points.

Since he didn't know Hao Duo's true intentions, he didn't want to act against the Corpse Clan for the time being.

However, just as he turned to leave—

"Crack!!!"

A deafening roar that shook heaven and earth suddenly erupted!

Even Xiao Zhuo's heart skipped a beat at that moment.

His Divine Sense instantly spread for tens of thousands of miles, yet he saw no abnormality.

Immediately after, a faint sensation came from the north—an extremely dense spatial fluctuation was surging and spreading from the direction of North Kuru Continent!

"This fluctuation..." He frowned deeply, sensing carefully, "Is it the entrance to a long-sealed world... that has opened?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Zhuo stepped into the rift, carrying Dilamon and Transmigrating through the Void Realm.

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North Kuru Continent.

The snow-capped mountain range, stretching for unknown tens of thousands of miles, resembled a crouching, sleeping ice Dragon, and at the Dragon's head, two ten-thousand-zhang ice Peaks stood straight into the sky, like Dragon horns reaching into the clouds.

At this moment, between these two "Dragon horns," a dark purple spatial passage suddenly appeared.

Immortal Qi surged within the passage, carrying with it a hint of an ineffable... sacred aura.

Xiao Zhuo had just stepped out of the rift when he saw the massive passage less than a hundred miles from him, and his eyes immediately flashed with brilliance.

The moment he appeared, several extremely powerful auras happened to merge into the depths of the passage—

Quasi-Saints! And all of them were top-tier existences among Quasi-Saints!

As his Divine Sense touched the Immortal Qi overflowing from the passage, Xiao Zhuo's heart suddenly shook.

Within this Immortal Qi, there was actually a trace of Saint Dao Law integrated!

There was only one possibility: beyond the passage, something closely related to a Saint was hidden—perhaps a Saint's Physical Body, or... a saint position!

While Xiao Zhuo was still hesitating, he suddenly felt waves of spatial fluctuations.

Almost in an instant, over a dozen rifts opened within a thousand-mile radius.

He quickly concealed his aura.

As soon as Xiao Zhuo had set up a time-space barrier/boundary to seal his own existence, he saw people emerge from those dozen rifts one after another.

These people included Immortals and Demons, Human Race and other races.

But they all had one common characteristic—they were all powerhouses above the Quasi-Saint Realm.

Xiao Zhuo didn't recognize any of these people.

But the temperament of each one was tinged with an ancient aura, clearly indicating that they were all very ancient existences.