Chapter 489 - 12: Success

Chapter 489: Chapter 12: Success

「One month later, above a Nameless Valley outside Dawan Village.」

Suddenly,

the once-calm void began to tremble violently!

Layers upon layers of ripples spread out rapidly like waves,

and then,

SWOOSH!

A figure shot out from the rippling void like an arrow loosed from a bow, as if leaping from water, and instantly came into clear view!

This figure,

was none other than Shen Changchuan!

As he emerged from the spatial ripples, a flicker of excitement shone in his eyes.

Shen Changchuan stabilized himself and scanned his surroundings,

immediately confirming,

that this was not where he had been standing before, but another place entirely!

He turned his head,

and looked back the way he came.

His cultivation at the Soul Emergence Seventh Layer Late Stage had long since brought about a world-altering change to his Eye Power.

Floating high in the air, he recognized at a glance the spot where he had been just a moment before he escaped through space.

That spot,

was at least ten li away from this Nameless Valley!

And to cross that distance of ten li,

Shen Changchuan had taken but an instant!

"I did it!"

Gazing at the spot where he had previously stood, an irrepressible joy flickered in Shen Changchuan’s eyes.

Without a doubt,

this ability to cross ten li in an instant was the power of the Void Escape Gu!

After years of planning,

he had finally succeeded in refining the Void Escape Gu!

This ability to shuttle through the void

was the result of his very first attempt at using the Void Escape Gu!

’Whew! With this thing, as long as a Divine Travel Realm expert doesn’t intervene, basically no one can stop me from escaping!’

’In a way, I’m practically invincible!’

Shen Changchuan’s face was flushed with excitement.

He took a few deep breaths, slightly calming his agitated Heart Spirit.

Then,

he raised his palm and looked at its center.

In the center of his palm, extremely profound silver lines flowed.

These lines moved like living things, seemingly intertwined with the Power of Space. A single glance was enough to make one feel as if space itself was turning upside down, their vision mercilessly devoured!

These silver lines were the phenomenon produced after Shen Changchuan successfully refined the Void Escape Gu and placed it in his Palm Heart Acupoint!

It was by relying on the power of the Void Escape Gu in his palm

that Shen Changchuan was able to shuttle through the void in an instant, teleporting from ten li away into this valley!

’No wonder that back then, after Shadow refined the Void Escape Gu, almost no one could capture him.’

’With the power of the Void Escape Gu, one can cross ten li of empty space in a flash. As long as you have enough Magical Power, you can even activate it multiple times for repeated teleports.’

’You have to understand, for a distance of ten li, even a Soul Emergence Ninth Layer Cultivator flying at full speed with a Tier Two Body Technique would need at least seven or eight breaths of time.’

’In comparison, the Void Escape Gu is countless times faster!’

’And during this process, ordinary Middle to Low Tier Arrays that don’t involve the Power of Space can’t block the Gu’s traversal ability at all.’

’No wonder that guy could live so freely in a place like the Nanyue Territory, which is overrun with Demon Cultivators!’

Having personally experienced the almost unbelievable power of the Void Escape Gu,

Shen Changchuan finally understood how Shadow, back when he was at the Soul Emergence Sixth Layer, had repeatedly escaped capture.

To be able to grasp a portion of the Power of Space while still in the Soul Emergence Realm,

was, to other Cultivators of the same Realm,

undoubtedly a Dimensional Strike!

’But as strong as the Void Escape Gu is, it seems to have quite a few flaws.’

’For example, its control over the Power of Space is too crude. In a heated battle, I’m afraid it might actually become a liability...’

Amidst his joy,

this thought couldn’t help but surface in Shen Changchuan’s mind.

His initial excitement and elation gradually began to fade.

Although he had only used it once,

he quickly discovered the problems with it.

The Void Escape Gu was powerful, to be sure,

but it had considerable flaws.

For example,

the Power of Space contained within the Void Escape Gu was too immense.

Power of this level was something that, by rights, only a legendary Profound Pill Realm Zhenren should be able to master.

Therefore,

Shen Changchuan, who was merely at the Soul Emergence Seventh Layer, was completely unable to control this power!

The result was that

when using the Void Escape Gu to Escape Space, he couldn’t precisely control its direction, distance, and so on.

As he pondered,

Shen Changchuan once again activated the Void Escape Gu within his Palm Heart Acupoint.

SWOOSH!

His figure flashed once more,

and in the next instant, as if he had traversed a vacuum, he appeared over a dozen li away.

He carefully savored the feeling of having just escaped through space.

Shen Changchuan’s expression was pensive.

He didn’t stop.

He used the Void Escape Gu to travel again.

For a time,

Shen Changchuan’s figure flickered back and forth continuously above the desolate, uninhabited valley.

After traversing space more than ten times in a row,

his breathing became slightly labored.

Only then did Shen Changchuan temporarily stop.

"Hah, just as I thought..."

He opened his hand,

feeling the Power of Space in his palm, and murmured to himself.

The fundamental nature of this Power of Space is simply too high-level.

The Flying Heaven-Splitting Spirit Ant only gains the authority to control a sliver of the Power of Space through its bloodline.

But Shen Changchuan did not have that.

The result was that this Power of Space was almost completely uncontrollable!

He could feel it.

He was just using brute force to wield this power,

like a child swinging a great iron sledgehammer.

He could only unleash its power in a simple and crude manner, with no real control whatsoever!

And if he couldn’t finely control the distance,

then it probably wouldn’t be of much use in a battle between Soul Emergence Late Stage Cultivators!

After all, when experts clash, victory and defeat are decided by a hair’s breadth.

A power that couldn’t be fully controlled left far too big of an opening!

’And that’s not all... if this Power of Space is almost uncontrollable, then wouldn’t the techniques I envisioned, like Spatial Slash and Dimension Slash, be nothing but a fantasy?’

Shen Changchuan’s heart couldn’t help but sink.

The path he had initially envisioned seemed far from simple!

After a long moment of silence,

suddenly,

Shen Changchuan splayed his five fingers, held his hand out before him, and closed his eyes.

The silver lines in his palm began to glow with a silver light as a profound and terrifying power seemed to gather.

Then,

VMMMM!

Suddenly,

the void before him surged visibly, as if an invisible, intangible shockwave had been stirred up in space.

It slammed violently into a mountain thousands of zhang away.

BOOM!!!

In front of his palm,

the towering mountain suddenly collapsed and shattered from the waist up!

The ground shook violently as boulders rained down from above! ℴ

The mountain’s waist and everything above it

had vanished without a trace!

Seeing this,

Shen Changchuan finally let out a slight sigh of relief.

’Good. Even though I can’t control it finely, at least I can unleash an attack containing the Power of Space with enough brute force to get the job done.’

’...It doesn’t matter. As long as I have the foundation for the Dimension Slash and Spatial Slash I envisioned, that’s enough.’

’The rest is just a matter of grinding it out, step by step.’

’There’s always a way forward!’

’I’ll find a way!’

A sense of ease settled over Shen Changchuan.

In any case,

the power of that strike was truly immense.

It was an attack that contained the Power of Space. In terms of sheer might, it was probably even stronger than the Divine Seed he had condensed himself!

Without a doubt,

Shen Changchuan had gained another killing move!