Chapter 933 - 753: The Mysterious Figure

"Wuuu!"

A vast mass of pure black Yin Wind rushed straight at him, exuding bone-piercing cold and sky-high killing intent.

Like an ocean of ink filling the entire space, ready to completely drown everything it touched.

And in front of that ocean, there was a lone figure faintly emitting a black glow.

Compared to the vast Yin Wind, his size was almost negligible.

Fragile like an ant facing a tsunami.

The ocean of Yin Wind engulfed the figure in the blink of an eye.

"Wuuu!"

"Wuuu!"

"Fuck!"

Lou Yi couldn’t help but curse.

This Void Yin Wind was a Golden Core level Magic, silent and traceless, often only detectable when it was right in front of you.

The reason it was making such a huge racket now was simply because the quantity was too massive—hundreds, thousands of times the usual.

And it covered the sky and earth; there was absolutely no way to dodge it, he could only grit his teeth and take it head on.

"Wind Stabilization."

The Wind Stabilization Talent, as long as the damage didn’t exceed its limit, could absorb 99.99% of all wind-type damage inflicted on his body.

"Tenacity."

The Talent of Tenacity activated, able to absorb 90% of any damage.

In other words, only one ten-thousandth of the Void Yin Wind’s damage would ultimately land on him.

"Glazed Armor."

Lou Yi activated his Companion Martial Technique, and his whole body was encased in a layer of translucent black glazed armor, not a single gap exposed.

His current Gang Qi, purely in terms of intensity regardless of its mysterious qualities, probably wasn’t weaker than the Profound Light of the True Martial Realm.

The Glazed Armor’s sheer strength alone was on par with a Defensive Treasure Artifact.

With three layers of protection stacked, Lou Yi’s defensive power reached a new height.

Not to mention that even without any talents or Martial Arts, his bare physical body alone was already no weaker than an ordinary Mid-grade Treasure Artifact.

However, the sheer volume of Yin Wind was too great, practically endless.

Even letting only one ten-thousandth pass through was enough to instantly dissolve a Third Realm cultivator.

Thus, all of Lou Yi’s layered methods could only ensure that he wouldn’t be helplessly drowned by the ocean of Yin Wind.

Coming out completely unscathed was impossible.

Wave after wave of Yin Wind slammed into him, grinding away the Glazed Armor, carving all sorts of cracks and wounds across the surface of his flesh.

Lou Yi had no choice but to deploy his Regeneration Talent and the Attribute Panel’s healing function to keep his body from collapsing entirely.

And like that, half an hour crawled by.

The ocean of Yin Wind finally swept past this stretch of space, leaving behind only a small amount of Yin Wind swirling in the void.

"Huu..."

Lou Yi let out a long breath—he’d finally endured it.

The Attribute Panel had also lost several hundred points of Energy.

He glanced at his body: its surface was tattered and ragged, riddled with holes, wounds, and bloodstains, with even his bones exposed, covered in scratches.

"Regeneration."

Using the Regeneration Talent, Lou Yi restored his body to a flawless state of Perfection.

Even though he’d survived the calamity, there wasn’t much joy on Lou Yi’s face.

"Void Yin Wind is just the most common disaster—there are plenty that are far trickier."

"Dodging it this time doesn’t mean I’ll dodge it the next."

But there was no helping it; he had to find a way back as quickly as possible.

There was still a whole group of people waiting for him in the Vast Sea Realm.

Over the next month or so, Lou Yi repeatedly ran into Void Yin Wind, eerie blood rain, Death Rays, white cold flame, and other spatial calamities.

The most dangerous time, he was struck by the white cold flame—no matter what he did, he couldn’t put it out. From the soles of his feet to his legs to his chest and abdomen, everything was burned into nothingness.

In the end, he was burned down to a single thin layer of scalp, his vitality weakened to the utmost limit.

That time, forced to the brink, he activated a Talent gained from the Celestial Abyss, called "Voidification."

That single remaining layer of scalp suddenly shifted from solid to faint ethereal shadow.

The white cold flame lost its target and went out on its own, allowing Lou Yi to escape with his life.

Voidification: allows the body to undergo a certain degree of conversion from solid to void, thereby reducing damage from all kinds of attacks—physical, mental, Magic-based, etc. The degree of Voidification is inversely related to Qi-Blood; while Voidified, effective attacks cannot be made.

Because Lou Yi had been burned down to only a layer of scalp, his Qi-Blood weakened to an unprecedented degree, which in turn pushed the Voidification Talent’s effect to its maximum.

Of course, even if his main body was burned to death, he wouldn’t truly die.

His consciousness would simply instantly transfer to his clone in the Vast Sea Realm.

But to cultivate that clone back up to the current Realm of his main body, who knew how many resources it would consume.

Unless absolutely forced, Lou Yi had no desire to abandon his main body.

Lou Yi kept doggedly searching through the Dark Space.

On the fiftieth day, the Fixed Star Wheel finally reacted.

The last three still-burning rubies simultaneously projected a beam of light; the beams converged into one, all focused in the same direction.

Flying along that direction, Lou Yi’s speed climbed to a staggering ten thousand times the speed of sound.

In the time of a hundred breaths, he easily covered more than three hundred thousand kilometers.

The red beam from the Fixed Star Wheel struck a certain spot, illuminating that patch of space.

A spatial rift about two feet long and three inches wide was slowly knitting itself closed.

Judging by the look of it, in another hundred breaths it would be completely sealed, as if it had never appeared at all.

A streak of green light flew from Lou Yi’s forehead, transforming in midair into a mini hawk only the size of an apricot, with glossy black feathers and golden eyes like two grains of golden sesame.

With a whooshing sound, it flew straight into that space rift.

The next instant, his brows furrowed.

The mini goshawk flew back out of the space rift again, only now it had shrunk by a whole circle, and its eyes were dull, looking as if it had consumed a huge amount of energy.

"The other end of the rift is still dark space."

"Dark space is boundless and endless; no one knows how vast it truly is."

Lou Yi was helpless, but he also understood that finding the Vast Sea Realm in a single try was nothing but wishful thinking.

Thus another two months passed, and Lou Yi used the Fixed Star Wheel and his Divination Talent to search out six space rifts.

Five of them led to dark space on the other side, and one led to a lifeless small continent, whose area was far smaller than the True Profound Continent.

Half a year flashed by.

On the True Profound Continent, Treasure Vase Seal Master Zhou Xinghai, Bright King Seal Master Master Wukong, Seal of Binding Master and other big shots gathered together, either wearing worried expressions or discussing secret matters with grave faces.

The secret matter was precisely Lou Yi’s whereabouts.

Lou Yi had gone beyond the heavens for half a year now, with no news at all.

They all suspected he had met with misfortune; historically, True Profound had died in much the same way.

Yet everyone was utterly helpless.

Without the strength of the Third Realm, no one had the ability to go beyond the heavens to search for Lou Yi’s whereabouts.

"Amitabha. Patron Lou goes beyond our world to seek the Ancestral Realm; this is truly an act that benefits all living beings.

This old monk believes that surely blessings will befall one such as him." Master Wukong chanted a Buddha’s name, offering his blessing to Lou Yi.

They did not know that on this very day, Lou Yi was facing an unprecedented, immense trial.

In the dark space, a rain of gray lightning began to fall; each strand of gray lightning possessed the destructive power of thunder, and also an extremely strong corrosive force.

Even though Lou Yi unleashed Thunder Protection, tenacity, Regeneration, Glazed Armor and other talents or Martial Arts, he was still struck until smoke billowed from his entire body, with bloody holes and cracks opening all over him, then turning charred black in the next moment.

If it were only like this, Lou Yi could still grit his teeth and endure it, just as he had against the Sea of Yin Wind.

The key was, this rain of lightning was lasting far too long!

It had already fallen for three days and three nights straight, with no sign of stopping.

The Energy in Lou Yi’s Attribute Panel had already been more than half spent.

If this continued, once his Energy ran dry, he would inevitably fall into a desperate situation.

"No, I have to save some Energy for emergencies."

With that thought, Lou Yi stopped using any defenses at all, allowing the gray lightning rain to fall onto his body, blasting his physical form into a thousand mangled wounds.

His bones shattered, his organs dissolved, his hands and feet tore apart and separated...

Lou Yi remained unmoved, bathing in the lightning rain, watching with his own eyes as his body dwindled bit by bit.

Legs, arms, belly, chest and abdomen, bones, neck, all the way up to his head.

In the end, only half an ear remained.

"Voidification."

He activated the Voidification Talent, turning that half ear into something illusory, like a projection.

Bathed in the myriad streaks of lightning rain, the voidified ear was no longer damaged; within it, Lou Yi’s Divine Sense was hidden.

Of course, it was not that it took no damage at all, but rather that the damage was small enough that it could no longer continue to destroy Lou Yi’s flesh.

For the moment he was safe, yet Lou Yi was already thinking ahead.

"Could it be that in the future I’ll have to use this trick every time—first let myself be beaten half to death, Qi-Blood reduced to the extreme, then run the Voidification Talent?"

Although the Voidification Talent could avoid calamity, it also had great limitations, such as having no offensive power while voidified.

Even as half an ear, Lou Yi could still look at the Attribute Panel.

His gaze swept across the various skills and talents on the panel, finally locking onto the Talent of Devouring.

Devouring: As long as it does not exceed the limits of what the flesh can endure, you can devour Energy and certain material objects, and convert a portion of them for your own use...

While voidified, could he still use this talent?

Once the thought arose, Lou Yi immediately activated the Talent of Devouring.

Of the Energy in the gray lightning rain, only a thread could touch Lou Yi’s body, and it was converted at a relatively slow pace into an extremely pure and refined Energy.

Yet this Energy could not be transmitted into Lou Yi’s physical body, and instead was stored in the void.

Lou Yi knew that once he dispelled the Voidification Talent,

this pure Energy would instantly merge into his body, becoming the Qi-Blood he needed.

"Good! In that case, I won’t have to consume the Energy in the Attribute Panel anymore.

I can use Voidification combined with Devouring to replenish my Qi-Blood; my endurance will increase drastically!" Lou Yi was overjoyed.

The Talent of Devouring could not be used directly.

The disasters in dark space carried Energy of very high tiers and were tremendously destructive; one careless move would bring severe backlash.

But things were different while voidified; the density of high-tier Energy he came into contact with was extremely low, allowing him to devour it safely.

It was like a thirsty person catching water from a light rain.

If it were a flood instead, one would not be able to drink at all, and would be drowned in an instant.

The gray lightning rain continued to fall.

Lou Yi remained calm, his voidified ear bathing in the rain of light, patiently waiting.

Another five days passed.

The half ear that was all Lou Yi had left suddenly trembled.

In the void ahead, a gray figure abruptly appeared, its back facing him.

That back was both real and unreal; even while bathing in the all-encompassing lightning rain, it remained completely unscathed.

"Who is this? To have such terrifying strength that the calamities of the void cannot harm him in the slightest!" Lou Yi was deeply shocked.

It seemed to sense Lou Yi’s gaze.

That figure suddenly turned around, looking toward him.

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