NOVPUB"Heretics and deviants!"
The young Dharma Transmitter looked at the sinister smile on the other’s face and couldn’t help but scold, both shocked and fearful and angry.
However, his actions betrayed his true inner thoughts.
A black mysterious light circulated, enveloping his body.
Space seemed to be ripped apart as the young man slowly sank into the void, his figure gradually dimming.
"I can feel the fear in your heart."
"Why run? What are you so afraid of?"
The Mystical Sky Sect King watched the young man before him and whispered.
"Confront your inner self..."
"Let you..."
"Return to your true self..."
The words of the Mystical Sky Sect King seemed to contain a strange power.
As he chanted softly, a transparent dividing line suddenly appeared between him and the young Dharma Transmitter.
On both sides of the dividing line, it was like the worlds inside and outside a mirror, corresponding to each other, perfectly identical.
The figures of the Mystical Sky Sect King and the young Dharma Transmitter instantly overlapped.
At that moment, the same black mysterious light that the young Dharma Transmitter had cast also appeared beside the Mystical Sky Sect King!
It was as if he truly was the young man’s mirror image!
Even, as the young man saw this and his expression became even more terrified, an identical look appeared on the Sect King’s face!
The dividing line between them brightened a few degrees.
A moment later, the area between them was cut away, and the Mystical Sky Sect King and the young Dharma Transmitter were much closer to each other.
"You forced my hand!" the young man’s heart surged with indescribable trepidation, and he gritted his teeth, speaking hatefully.
Afterward, a gold thread emerged from between his eyebrows.
This thread seemed to have its unique power.
And couldn’t be replicated by the Mystical Sky Sect King.
The formed Mirror World did not show the image of the gold thread, thereby creating a slight disharmony.
A slight tremor, and the Mirror World was on the brink of collapse.
Even the figure of the Mystical Sky Sect King became somewhat blurred.
"You and I are one."
"Do you truly despise yourself so much that you need to use such treasures?"
"Why go to such lengths?"
...
At the critical moment, the murmur of the Mystical Sky Sect King once more resounded in the young man’s ears.
The young man’s expression went from fierce to somewhat confused and finally calmed down.
And that gold thread also retracted back into his brow.
Their distance narrowed again.
"To exist for so long, with a future bleak. I can feel the wandering and reluctance in your heart..."
"After reclaiming your true self, you will awaken the hidden, supreme potential within. The Great Dao is within reach..."
With the ceaseless whispering of the Mystical Sky Sect King,
The young man was getting closer and closer to him.
FInally, only a dividing line separated them.
They looked into each other’s eyes, their expressions identical.
No more fear or confusion, only the joy of enlightenment remained.
The dividing line erupted with intense light.
The next moment, it vanished without a trace.
The Mirror World, too, came into being in reality!
The figures of the young man and the Mystical Sky Sect King were completely superimposed.
Only the young Dharma Transmitter remained in the scene!
After the fusion was complete, the young Dharma Transmitter stood still in the air, eyes closed.
Seemingly digesting the vast information within his spirit consciousness.
"Celestial Dharma Bearer? Alliance of Thousands of Immortals?"
Not long after, he suddenly opened his eyes, his expression somewhat puzzled.
"Unexpectedly, even in this era, they still guard against our Mystic Sky Sect."
"Mystic Annihilating Secret Technique..."
The "young Dharma Transmitter" snorted coldly, "Who gave them the confidence? Thousands of years have passed, yet the content of the secret technique remains unchanged."
"It’s rather belittling of them to underestimate us."
As the young man spoke, there was a subtle change in the aura about him.
"This should be enough to deceive them, as long as I do not employ the sect’s secret techniques."
The young man nodded in satisfaction.
Then a trace of confusion reappeared on his face.
"Not randomly discovered, but guided here..."
"Gathering troops under the banner of our Mystic Sky Sect, even knowing my location..."
"Directly diverting the calamity after being exposed."
"Misthaven Cooperative Union, Crimson Compassionate Immortal?"
Quickly piecing the truth together with the information he had,
The schemed young man did not get angry but reflected seriously on the reports of the Faceless Mystic Sky God Statue.
He pinched his fingers slightly and then his face showed shock, "I can’t sense its location?"
"But it’s indeed the Mystic Sky God Statue."
The doubt in the young man’s eyes deepened.
"Could it be the work of a brother within the sect?"
"This style of action does indeed seem like something our Mystic Sky Sect would do."
One face after another flashed through the young man’s spirit consciousness.
"Knowing the secret is out and the matter is beyond repair, so you tried to use me to quell the issue?"
"It seems this brother must have also recently awakened."
The youth did not find it strange that the other party had chosen not to meet.
When the Immortal Dao Ten Clans took advantage of the critical moment of the King of Mystic Sky’s seclusion, they launched a sudden attack.
They managed to break through the Mystic Sky Sect.
The timing of their choice was an extreme coincidence.
They even knew all about the distribution of the sect’s defensive forces and the loopholes in the Protection Matrix, clear and unmistakable.
The defensive system was as good as non-existent.
Caught off guard, the Mystic Sky Sect suffered a tremendous defeat.
The casualties were heavy.
The whereabouts of the King of Mystic Sky and the treasured Mystic Sky Treasure Mirror became unknown, and many Law Kings either perished or were wounded.
Clearly, the defeat was so thorough that there must have been traitors within the sect.
And possibly, not just one.
Therefore, all the surviving Law Kings were extremely cautious.
They trusted no one but the King of Mystic Sky, including the youth himself.
"Before the King went missing, he used a Secret Technique to send out a message, instructing us to go into hibernation and preserve our lives."
"To wait for his summoning."
"Alas, so many years have passed, and still, there is no news."
Still, the youth harbored not the slightest doubt about whether the King of Mystic Sky was still alive in this world.
After the battle between the Mystic Sky Sect and Tiandu, although the King of Mystic Sky had been severely injured.
He had also forcibly stolen some Immortal Spirit Energy from the opponent, hopeful of achieving the True Immortal Physic.
The King’s seclusion was precisely for this reason.
"As long as I can reshape my Immortal body in the Lower Realm, I can lead my brothers out of this [Sea of the Abyssal Stars]."
The youth still faintly remembered the King’s bold and grandiloquent words before his seclusion.
That was the reason why, even after all these years, he had not chosen to betray the sect.
For him, a few thousand years were merely like a slightly longer sleep.
But if he were to remain trapped here for the endless years to come, that would be the true despair.
Therefore, he found it incomprehensible why some would choose to betray the sect back then.
Over the years, the only plausible explanation he could come up with was that the Immortal Dao Ten Clans might also have promised a way to escape the [Sea of the Abyssal Stars].
And perhaps their plan was even more reliable than the King of Mystic Sky’s.
The youth did not believe this at first.
But after receiving the Dharma Transmitter’s complete memories, he began to waver in his judgement.
He learned that when the Great Calamity of Incompatible Cultivation descended, some high-ranking cultivators of the Immortal Dao Ten Clans mysteriously disappeared together.
They even took a considerable part of the resources from the Xuanhuang World.
These people had since then never appeared in the Xuanhuang World again.
"If this is true, I’m afraid those traitors are already living freely."
A hint of murderous intent flickered in the youth’s eyes.
"Without the Power of the True Immortal, escaping the Abyss Star Ocean must have demanded a terrible price. It should be impossible to replicate."
"Therefore, my only hope of escape still lies with the King of Mystic Sky."
The youth was not worried about the possibility that the King of Mystic Sky might have already fled on his own.
The King of Mystic Sky practiced the way of [Integrity], never making promises lightly.
Once promised, he must fulfill it. Otherwise, it would mean destroying his own cultivation path, and even achieving True Immortality, there would be a risk of falling back to mortality.
As long as he was alive, he would surely reconvene the Law Kings and fulfill the promise of the past.
Otherwise, the King of Mystic Sky would not have been able to effortlessly earn the allegiance of twelve top-notch cultivators just with his persuasive words.
"If we find that Faceless Xuantian Statue, perhaps we can pinpoint the King’s location."
Such a thought suddenly flashed through the youth’s mind.
The Mystic Sky God Statue was not crafted in the likeness of the King of Mystic Sky himself.
It was modeled after a True Immortal that the King had encountered in the Space Tunnel during his ascension.
According to the King, the aura of that True Immortal was as vast as mountains and seas.
He, who had just ascended, felt as insignificant as an ant by comparison.
At that time, he had just broken through the void to enter the Space Tunnel.
Before he could escape to the longed-for Immortal World, a terrible rumbling sound came from afar.
The King of Mystic Sky then saw a scene he would never forget.
From a distance to near, the Space Tunnel began to break in succession.
Countless figures desperately tried to flee, only to be sucked into the terrible black Ruins.
Innumerable bodies fell from the cracks of the Space Tunnel.
A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions must have occurred in the Immortal World!
The King of Mystic Sky turned and ran, not forgetting to plunder the bodies of the Immortals he encountered along the way.
Yet, the collapse speed of the Space Tunnel was evidently beyond his imagination.
He was about to fall into the dark Abyss like the other Ascenders.
A figure flashed by his side, casually pulling him along.
He was rescued from the disintegrating Space Tunnel.
After the King of Mystic Sky collected his nerves, he then realized and thanked the figure for saving his life.
That figure was clearly a highly cultivated being among the Immortals.
The King of Mystic Sky could not even discern the face of his savior.
"Hurry up and flee, any slower and it will be too late."
The Faceless True Immortal shook his head, leaving those words before disappearing.
King of Mystic Sky was left utterly bewildered.
It was only much later that the King understood what the Faceless True Immortal meant by "escape."
The Space Tunnel had collapsed, the path to Immortality severed.
Leaving only the so-called Immortal Ruins.
And the influence of the Immortal Ruins on the Lower Realm was only just beginning to manifest.
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