Chapter 772 - 229: Great Gains

The abomination was still absorbing the power of the control core. When Shen Bai’s Void-breaking Red Eye swept over it, the abomination didn’t stir in the slightest.

Just now, the Infinite Divination Skill had mentioned the word "eye." As Shen Bai pondered this, he realized his Level 6 Void-breaking Red Eye must be the key to breaking the stalemate.

After the Void-breaking Red Eye reached Level 6, it gained a Void-breaking Attribute. The so-called "Void-breaking" meant to shatter illusions.

And this abomination before him, as well as the entire Molten Rock Forbidden Land, was defined by illusion.

People were living in a fabrication, yet it felt incredibly real.

Caught between reality and illusion, they couldn’t distinguish truth from lies and succumbed to a so-called madness.

In that case, the Void-breaking Red Eye was the abomination’s natural counter.

At that moment, the scene in Shen Bai’s vision began to change.

Everything became a blur of real and unreal, but within this flux, Shen Bai spotted a flaw.

There was an imperfection at the boundary between the real and the illusory, and this imperfection was the abomination’s Weakness.

Shen Bai raised his hand. Blood Red Sword Qi erupted from Cold Moon as he thrust toward the Weakness his Void-breaking Red Eye had revealed.

The strike seemed ordinary, but it concealed an astonishing and terrifying power.

The abomination, which had been absorbing the control core, finally moved.

Though it lacked human Spirituality, it possessed its own unnatural instincts.

Driven by instinct, the abomination finally began to fight back.

A scorching heat rose from the abomination as it lunged at Shen Bai. The Qi radiating from its body locked onto him, intending to kill him in a single blow.

But Shen Bai’s Blood Red Sword Qi was faster. In the blink of an eye, it had shattered the weakest point between reality and illusion.

The abomination stopped abruptly, and the searing aura all over its body vanished.

At the same time, waves of annihilating force swirled out from the abomination, completely obliterating it.

In less than a breath’s time, the abomination had vanished completely.

Twenty wisps of Evil Qi appeared, which Shen Bai collected.

Added to the sixty-four wisps of Evil Qi he had left, Shen Bai now had a total of eighty-four.

Shen Bai frowned, thinking to himself, ’This is a bit less Evil Qi than I expected.’

Although he had used a clever trick to kill it, the abomination itself had surpassed the Celestial Spirit Realm. It shouldn’t have yielded only twenty wisps of Evil Qi.

As this thought crossed his mind, Red Makeup’s voice suddenly rang out in his head.

"Master, I feel that exhilarating aura again."

It wasn’t just Red Makeup; Amber spoke up as well.

"Master, I feel it too. I really want it."

Hearing the two women’s replies in his mind, Shen Bai asked, "Where is this aura?"

His Void-breaking Red Eye had already scanned the entire City Lord’s Mansion, but he hadn’t found any aura that would excite Red Makeup and Amber.

Since Red Makeup and Amber could both feel it so clearly now, Shen Bai wanted to find out just where this so-called aura was located.

After Shen Bai asked the question, Amber was the first to respond.

"Master, the aura isn’t on the ground. It’s up in the sky, directly above the City Lord’s Mansion."

’Directly above in the sky?’

Shen Bai rubbed his chin. After a moment of thought, he used Divine Thousand Miles and vanished from the underground space.

By the time he emerged from the underground space into the outside world, he could already feel the madness that had gripped all of Molten Rock City.

Everyone had now fully awakened, realizing that everything was a mix of real and unreal, truth and lies.

It was only natural for them to fall into madness under such a tremendous blow.

Shen Bai paid them no mind, instead looking up at the sky.

The sky was a vast expanse of blue, with white clouds drifting across it, giving it a somewhat peaceful feeling.

Shen Bai couldn’t see anything different about the sky, but that didn’t stop him from investigating.

After a moment’s thought, Shen Bai used Divine Thousand Miles again, once more becoming a blur.

This time, his sights were set on the sky above.

The higher he went, the lower the temperature dropped. Even within the Molten Rock Forbidden Land, once Shen Bai reached an extreme altitude, he felt a distinct chill.

By now, the entirety of Molten Rock City looked no bigger than the palm of his hand, and from this high altitude, Shen Bai could see the full vista of the Molten Rock Forbidden Land.

The Molten Rock Forbidden Land was vast, but it had boundaries. At the very edges, it was shrouded in thick banks of fog.

Clearly, there was no way out of this area.

However, none of that was Shen Bai’s primary concern.

He was most concerned with the anomaly in the sky.

The excitement in Amber’s voice grew thicker. "Master, we’re getting close now! Very close!"

Hearing Amber’s words, Shen Bai’s curiosity mounted.

After a few more breaths, Molten Rock City below was merely the size of an ant.

The wind in the upper sky was biting cold; an ordinary person would have died instantly from hypothermia.

Shen Bai was about to fly even higher, but just then, he felt an unusual presence.

He reached out and pressed against the sky above his head.

As he made the motion, Shen Bai felt his palm come up against an invisible barrier that blocked his path.

It was as if a sheet of transparent glass had been installed in the sky.

’So that’s how it is. It’s not just the perimeter that’s enclosed; the sky is too.’

"Master, smash it open!" Amber shouted excitedly.

Shen Bai activated his Infinite Divination Skill to perform a Calculation of Fortune and Misfortune. It revealed that no ill omen would result from breaking the barrier.

He hesitated no longer. A blazing white light flared around his left hand as he punched the barrier in the sky.

BOOM!

A deafening roar suddenly erupted.

As the roar echoed, the transparent, invisible barrier in the sky began to vibrate violently.