NOVPUBWatching the two being annihilated in the void, Xu Zimei finally turned around and placed his hands on the Void Tree.
The most valuable parts of the Void Tree were naturally the Void Leaves and the Void Wood.
He didn’t study these much and simply uprooted them and planted them in his own True Fate World.
These Void Trees held no allure for Xu Zimei, although the number of people in Void Valley was substantial, due to its vastness, it was hard to encounter others.
The closer to the Way of No Return, the more barren it became.
Xu Zimei hurried on his way for over a month and finally, at noon one day, he arrived at the boundary of the Way of No Return.
Directly ahead was a horizontal mountain range.
From different angles, ridges turn into peaks with varying heights far and near.
The mountain range stretched on like a great wall, dividing Void Valley in two.
This place was scarcely populated, with nothing in sight but the continuous mountains.
Xu Zimei found that he could still barely fly within Void Valley, but the closer he got to the Way of No Return, the harder it was to fly.
The rules of the void up above were in complete chaos, the surface of space so fragile it seemed like a sheer paper, ready to tear apart at the slightest poke.
When he stood atop the mountain range, he saw that on the other side, within the border of the Way of No Return,
there was no concept of space, with countless streams of spatial ruin flowing.
Space, once shattered, couldn’t be restored, and the turbulent flows howled past like knives, stirring chaos in that realm.
Xu Zimei discovered that on the other side of the mountain range, there was an invisible barrier preventing him from directly entering the territory of the Way of No Return.
So, he decided to look for the valley Leader Pi had once visited.
He followed the edge of the mountain range, heading towards its other end.
Along the way, he saw several valleys and came across five or six Void Trees.
Eventually, Xu Zimei found a valley that closely resembled the one Leader Pi had described.
Inside the valley, things were very strange.
There were plants growing inside, which was incredibly unthinkable in Void Valley.
Several poplar and willow trees thrived within the valley, and around its mountainsides, lush shrubs and plants stuck out their heads.
To the east of the valley, a river cascaded down like a waterfall from above.
The river’s water was clear to the bottom, running down from above the valley and into a deep, bottomless pit beneath the valley floor.
The river continuously flowed into this pit, the source unknown.
Xu Zimei slowly entered the valley.
He came to the river’s edge and looked down, unexpectedly smelling a strong fragrance of wine.
An extremely rich aroma of wine.
Xu Zimei faced the waterfall, put his hand into it, and then smelled the liquid on his hand to find that it was all wine.
The waterfall before him was entirely made from condensed wine.
According to Leader Pi, it was here that he had picked up the Golden Monkey Statue.
Before Xu Zimei could delve deeper into his thoughts, he suddenly heard a series of loud roars in the distance.
The noise was chaotic, accompanied by thunderous reverberations.
"The Void Turbulence is coming, everyone run!"
"Quickly leave Void Valley, a great cleansing is upon us."
...…
Panicked voices arrived, and Xu Zimei looked up to see the distant sky as if it was about to split open.
Cracks appeared in the sky, multiplying and growing rapidly.
The entire sky seemed as if it were about to collapse, and even the ground began to shake.
From a distance, one could see figures fleeing.
In the sky above, countless currents of space turbulence howled past; wherever they went, not a single plant or tree could thrive.
As this turbulence approached from afar, getting closer bit by bit, it seemed as though it was going to give the whole world a thorough sweep.
When this turbulence reached the valley’s edge, Xu Zimei’s gaze was calm as he slowly took out a bead from the True Fate space.
One of the Five Spirit Beads, the Wind Extinguishing Bead.
He had obtained two Spirit Beads in the past, one for drowning, one for extinguishing wind.
These so-called Five Spirit Beads all have significant origins.
Though it’s said that only after all five Spirit Beads are assembled can their most powerful forces be unleashed, even an individual bead is not so simple nowadays.
This Wind Extinguishing Bead governs all winds under heaven, and some even call it the Wind-Calming Divine Bead.
Xu Zimei infused the Creation Force into the Wind Extinguishing Bead little by little, and the entire bead began to emit a faint cyan halo.
He slowly tossed the Wind Extinguishing Bead upward, and as the whole bead circled overhead, a curtain of light shone down from it.
Enveloping Xu Zimei within.
And when the space turbulence howled past, all the plants in the valley were uprooted and shredded within it.
Only Xu Zimei stood motionless in place, as the Spiritual Pearl above his head emitted a dazzling brilliance, slowly spinning.
The space turbulence was rapid, sweeping through the valley in the blink of an eye before swiftly departing.
After the space turbulence had howled past, Xu Zimei found the entire valley, save for the waterfall that smelled of Monkey Wine, had been reduced to ash and smoke.
Before, Xu Zimei had not examined it closely, but now, with the lush vegetation gone, an ancient door miraculously appeared on the bare mountain face.
A door flashing black and gold, extremely ancient.
In Xu Zimei’s perception, the door seemed to have been sealed.
Unfortunately, to the left of the door, it appeared that a part of the seal had been broken, creating a moderate-sized gap.
"Could this be the entrance to the path of no return?" Xu Zimei guessed.
He turned to look back at the flowing waterfall, which seemed to be that Monkey Wine.
At this moment, he was more convinced than ever that if the Void Spirit Monkey truly existed, then it must be on the path of no return.
He looked at the Wind Extinguishing Bead overhead and pondered for a moment.
He knew that the space turbulence inside the path of no return was much stronger than those just now, not even on the same level.
If he had the complete set of Five Spirit Beads, Xu Zimei wouldn’t be worried.
But with just this single Wind Extinguishing Bead, he was uncertain if it could hold up.
After some thought, he still stepped into the gap of the ancient doorway.
Officially entering the Path of No Return.
...…
Bone-chilling Mad Wind sliced through like a knife as it blew over him.
This desolate land was shrouded in a white mist, limiting his vision to merely ten meters ahead at most.
Xu Zimei gazed blankly at this land and space, suddenly finding himself lost.
The pressure was stabilized by the Wind Extinguishing Bead over his head, which also began to spin much faster.
Xu Zimei noticed that the Creation Force within his body was depleting rapidly, and this space had no Spiritual Energy replenishment to offer.
"They say Void Valley is the forsaken land of the Yuan Central Continent, but perhaps this path of no return is the true core," Xu Zimei remarked.
Just as he was wandering aimlessly, lost, Xu Zimei suddenly felt a reaction from the Golden Monkey Statue.
