143: Tianyuan

Li Xiangyun's eyes flashed with joy; he had only tried it as a shot in the dark and didn't expect to actually succeed.

This was also thanks to his efforts during this period.

As early as when they first met, Li Xiangyun noticed that Cang Lanzi loved to eat.

This could be seen from the fact that he never took Gu Dan (辟 Gu Dan) but insisted on eating meals.

And he precisely used this point, changing his methods to cook various delicacies for Cang Lanzi to eat.

Of course, simple cooking methods wouldn't work, but don't forget he still had the System.

With the System, he could cook various delicacies every day, never repeating, and all of them were things Cang Lanzi had never eaten before.

Under this gastronomic assault, their relationship also evolved from a purely utilitarian one, giving rise to a genuine friendship.

Otherwise, Cang Lanzi wouldn't have told him this information.

After all, according to Cang Lanzi, whether he could survive the pursuit from the abyss was an unknown, and knowing this information would be meaningless.

So, Li Xiangyun quickly thanked him, "Thank you, Senior, Junior will not disappoint you."

Hearing this, Cang Lanzi pondered for a long time, finally sighing, "If you have the ability, you can try to head southwest."

"There is a gift I prepared for you there, but it is also extremely dangerous. A slight carelessness can lead to a life-threatening situation, a true nine deaths and one life!"

"Think it through before deciding whether to go; don't be impulsive."

After speaking, Cang Lanzi's figure disappeared.

Immediately after, Li Xiangyun felt his body falling rapidly, a sense of weightlessness engulfing him.

High in the sky, Cang Lanzi watched Li Xiangyun's figure plummeting into the Heavenly Abyss, muttering, "I wonder if that kid can make it. This time, I've really taken a huge loss."

"I hope he can do it!"

"Now that the Restriction has vanished, the world is about to undergo a great change. I should also make some preparations."

After speaking, Cang Lanzi's figure completely vanished from here... The light from above rapidly shrank, his ears filled with a sharp whistling, as if countless vengeful spirits were tearing at his Divine Soul.

After falling for an unknown duration, the viscous black mist suddenly brought his body to a halt.

Li Xiangyun barely managed to open his eyelids; as far as his eyes could see, there were only twisted scarlet vines, from the tips of which hung putrid corpse sacs. The humanoid outlines curled within the sacs slowly creeping as the vines swayed.

In the distance was a boiling river of blood, with broken weapons and pale skeletons floating in the thick liquid. Occasionally, half a charred arm would reach out from the bloody waves, only to be dragged back into the river by the undertow.

In the sky, a bizarre blood moon hung silently, like a demon's heart gouged out.

Its surface was pockmarked and uneven, crisscrossed by dark red ravines, like solidified Bloodline patterns. From time to time, viscous drops of blood would stream down the moon's surface and fall, stirring up gusts of fishy wind in the blood river.

The eerie light emitted by the blood moon was not purely crimson but mixed with a strange greenish glow.

Wherever the light reached, the bones, vines, and miasma in the Heavenly Abyss were dyed a bizarre purplish-gray, as if imbued with new life, twisting and writhing.

"Is this the Realm of Life and Death?" Li Xiangyun looked at all this with some confusion.

Everything before his eyes, though filled with death and strangeness, also possessed life, unlike his dreams, which were full of mist and devoid of anything.

"Perhaps this is the difference between dreams and reality, right!?" Li Xiangyun thought to himself.

Just then, the distant sound of chains snapping echoed loudly.

Half of a moss-covered bronze ancient coffin broke through the water, gray-purple corpse Qi seeped from the coffin lid's cracks, and the dense runes on the coffin's surface suddenly burst with an eerie glow.

Then the coffin lid violently exploded, and gray-purple corpse Qi surged out like a living thing, carrying a nauseating stench directly towards Li Xiangyun's face.

Before he could hold his breath and concentrate, a black shadow had burst from the coffin and shot into the sky, its accompanying chains clanking as it carved a grotesque arc in the bloody sky.

The corpse was covered in black-green scales, and dried blood clots still adhered to its tattered dark Dao Robe. Most terrifying was the huge gaping hole in its chest.

Where its heart should have been, a mass of intertwined scarlet vines writhed, and a half-shattered Golden Core hung from the tip of a vine!

"What the hell is this thing?" Li Xiangyun was startled and quickly prepared for defense.

Fortunately, the Dao Artifact Cang Lanzi had given him earlier had not been reclaimed, providing him with a handy weapon.

The corpse did not reply. Its hollow eye sockets contained no eyeballs, only two flickering clusters of dark golden ghost fire. It let out inhuman gurgling sounds from its throat, and its skeletal fingers suddenly seized Li Xiangyun's sword-wielding wrist.

"What speed is this?" Li Xiangyun was startled again. A chilling power surged wildly through his Meridians, instantly turning his wrist black, and even the sword in his hand vibrated incessantly.

Even more bizarrely, the vines on the corpse's chest suddenly erupted, coiling around his neck like venomous snakes. The viscous liquid seeping from the vine tendrils dripped onto his robe, sizzling and emitting white smoke.

At this critical moment, Li Xiangyun reacted, twisting his wrist to break free from the control. Then, with a swing of his longsword, the Heavenly Crystal Ice Dust in his hand flashed with a cold light.

As the sword light flashed past, the bizarre corpse before him was cut in half with one strike.

"Hoo~" Li Xiangyun exhaled a turbid breath, and the corpse poison in his body also disappeared immediately after.

He hadn't expected that although the four Dao Intents in his body were mixed together, constantly damaging his body, they were extremely domineering and exclusive. When that corpse poison entered his body, it was instantly violently beaten and absorbed by that power.

After all, it also contained The Dao Intent of Life and Death, so dealing with mere corpse poison was effortless.

The corpse, cut in half, instantly turned into a pile of dry bones the moment it hit the ground, and even the vines on it withered.

Thus, with a crisp sound, the broken Golden Core also fell to the ground.

This immediately attracted Li Xiangyun's attention, and he picked up the Golden Core from the ground.

In just an instant, he felt a majestic power from the Golden Core, different from Spiritual Qi, appearing extremely bizarre.

But he felt a stir within The Dao Intent of Life and Death in his body.

However, Li Xiangyun did not rashly absorb it. After all, his Meridians were still cycling between rupture and healing. Rashly absorbing it at this time would not only fail to improve his Cultivation but also be like adding fuel to the fire.

Therefore, after putting away the Golden Core in his hand, Li Xiangyun left here.

However, the strangeness of this Heavenly Abyss still exceeded his expectations.

The plants, stones, and even the dry bones by the roadside here seemed to possess life under the blood moon's illumination, suddenly jumping out to attack him, making him extremely annoyed.

Fortunately, this place indeed possessed a very rich Life and Death power, making it extremely suitable for Cultivating The Dao Intent of Life and Death, so his trip was not in vain.

But given the current situation, he still needed to find a place to settle down first, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to Cultivate at all...