444: Crossing the Void Sea, first encounter with the Void Beast

Shen Yuanmo took a single step, and the mountains and rivers inverted as the galaxy shifted.

He did not tear through space, nor did he use any teleportation Formation; he simply took a casual step forward.

As his foot landed, the familiar world of the Eastern Region of the Canglan Realm behind him...

...had already turned into a distant and brilliant star chart, hanging quietly against the pitch-black backdrop.

This place was the Extraterrestrial Void.

A sea of void connecting the various major regions of the Canglan Realm, it was a forbidden zone for life in every sense.

Here, there was no up, down, or cardinal directions; no sun, moon, or stars; and not a single trace of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

There was only eternal silence and cold, along with the destructive storms that played out incessantly.

Chila—

A greyish crack opened beside Shen Yuanmo without any warning.

The crack was barely three feet long, but its interior was a mass of Chaos.

It emitted an aura of space-time distortion that would make even a Hedao Realm Cultivator's heart skip a beat.

This was space-time turbulence, one of the most common lethal threats in the Void Sea.

Immediately after, on the other side, streaks of astral wind as black as ink yet carrying specks of crystalline light swept toward him.

That was a Law storm, formed by countless shattered fragments of world Laws colliding and annihilating within the nothingness.

Every wisp of wind contained a terrifying power capable of slicing through a dao body.

If an ordinary Hedao Cultivator were to barge into this place, let alone move forward...

...simply maintaining themselves from being torn to shreds by these omnipresent dangers would exhaust their mental energy.

Shen Yuanmo, however, turned a blind eye to all of this.

He wore the newly forged chaos myriad dao armor; not a single glint of light surfaced on the unadorned black armor's exterior.

As the space-time turbulence sliced toward him, the moment it touched the armor, it disintegrated instantly and returned to nothingness.

The Law storm, powerful enough to blow mountains into dust, scraped against Shen Yuanmo.

It unexpectedly brought only a negligible caress, feeling almost pleasant.

If it were an ordinary rank-seven Dao Artifact, its artifact spirit would have already let out an overwhelmed wail in the face of such dense and violent void erosion.

But this Medium Grade rank-seven Dao Artifact, the chaos myriad dao armor, was originally refined by Shen Yuanmo using Chaos as the foundation and the myriad Daos as the material.

To the chaos myriad dao armor, these chaotic energies in the void were nothing more than some miscellaneous snacks.

There was not the slightest gravity in Shen Yuanmo's eyes.

Within his Sea of Consciousness, Insight into Origin was already operating on its own.

In his vision, those lethal space-time turbulences were no longer chaotic cracks.

Instead, they were lines with fragile structures, barely pieced together from countless space-time rune fragments.

Those Law storms also turned into colorful but unstable energy aggregates.

All of this was like magnificent fireworks playing out on a macroscopic scale—novel, yet completely unthreatening.

Shen Yuanmo even reached out with interest, allowing a Law storm to sweep across his palm as he carefully contemplated the shattered dao rhyme contained within.

What was a death trap for others...

...had become a marvelous place for him to observe the power of the world's Origin up close.

Just as Shen Yuanmo was immersed in this novel observation...

...an unspeakable and terrifying suction force suddenly erupted from the depths of the endless nothingness without warning.

It wasn't the pulling of Spiritual Qi or Laws, but an extremely overbearing devouring power.

The void itself seemed to collapse in this instant, as that devouring power sought to pull everything within range into a deep abyss of destruction.

Shen Yuanmo's gaze narrowed slightly as he looked downward.

In the so-called "below," a massive shadow, even deeper than the darkness, was rapidly expanding.

The outline of that shadow was actually larger than any star he had seen in the Eastern Region, like a moving continent, blotting out the faint starlight cast from the distant Canglan Realm.

At the center of the shadow, a maw beyond description slowly opened.

There were no teeth or tongue in that mouth, only a mass of twisting, swirling, and constantly birthing and dying Chaos.

Like a true black hole, it wanted to swallow this entire void into its belly.

Shen Yuanmo instantly saw through the essence of this colossal creature.

"Void Giant Kun."

An ancient exotic beast born in the extraterrestrial nothingness that fed on space.

The energy fluctuations within its body had long surpassed the scope of an ordinary Hedao Realm.

It stood firmly at the level of Hedao Great Perfection, with even one foot touching the threshold of Half-step Mahayana.

If such an existence were to descend upon the Eastern Region, it would be enough to single-handedly wipe out any force that did not have a Half-step Mahayana-level combatant presiding over it.

Within the Void Giant Kun's maw, Space Laws were extremely distorted and compressed, forming a terrifying cage.

Any matter sucked into it would be instantly crushed to pieces by the disordered spatial power.

Even the powerful dao body of a Hedao Realm Cultivator would not last a single breath.

Facing this lethal situation that would make any Dao Integration Great Expert's soul fly away in terror, Shen Yuanmo's figure remained suspended in place, motionless.

He even had the leisure to offer a critique of the approaching abyssal maw.

"Good size, but unfortunately, the Divine Ability is too crude."

Sound could not travel in the void, but his intent landed clearly within that massive will.

In the next instant, the devouring power surged to its limit.

Shen Yuanmo's figure, along with the void for ten thousand miles around him, was completely enveloped by that maw.

At the very moment he was about to be completely swallowed by the distorted space...

...he slowly raised his right hand.

An ancient longsword, its entire body wreathed in faint currents of Chaos, appeared in his palm out of thin air.

The great evolution immortal slaying sword.

There was no earth-shaking sword might, nor were there any phenomena of Law manifestation.

Shen Yuanmo simply held the sword and casually slashed forward at the colossal creature.

The movement was understated, as if he were merely brushing dust off his sleeve.

A grey Sword Qi, so faint it was almost imperceptible, flashed from the tip of the sword and vanished.

It did not tear space, nor did it trigger any energy fluctuations.

It simply appeared out of thin air and disappeared into thin air.

It ignored the extremely distorted Space Laws in the Kun's mouth, the vast distance between them, and all tangible and intangible obstacles.

It was as if the moment the slash was made, it had already arrived where it was supposed to be.

The Void Giant Kun, which was frantically devouring, suddenly stiffened its mountain-like body.

All movement came to a screeching halt.

In those eyes, which resembled vast, dark lakes, a flash of rage at the prey's disdain had just appeared.

Immediately after, that trace of rage froze.

Subsequently, its Divine Soul and will were instantly extinguished, leaving only a deathly silent turbidity.

A nearly imperceptible grey line quietly emerged, extending from the top of its head all the way to its tail.

There was no blood, no explosion.

This terrifying behemoth, which had rampaged through the Extraterrestrial Void for countless millennia, quietly turned into a cold and massive corpse.

Silently floating in this eternally silent Void Sea.