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Chapter 396: Chapter 392: Holy Land
"It is... indeed like this..."
Gu Jinlai felt a wave of suffocation upon seeing this.
Spirit Realm Tide.
A tide that swept across the entire Spirit Realm.
It was like a tsunami coming violently, sweeping away all creator beings transformed into Spirit Realm life and a large number of Three-step Heavenly Monarchs affected, completely burying the Heavenly Master Civilization.
"No wonder when I was looking at the history of the Heavenly Master Civilization I couldn’t make sense of it. The creators seemed to have disappeared abruptly. Holy Land, All Gods Mountain, Netherworld, Sea God Temple—there were no victors... So, they were swept away by the Spirit Realm Tide!?"
Gu Jinlai said.
The Spirit Realm had been segmented into isolated islands by the creators.
Just like Qiantian...
However...
He always felt something was not quite right about the Spirit Realm Tide’s appearance.
Even if the creators "segmented the area into their kingdoms", it shouldn’t have disrupted the balance of the True Spirit Realm, right?
After all, even as powerful as the creators were compared to the whole True Spirit Realm, they were still too insignificant.
Unfortunately, even the Aries Star Lord seemed to think that their partitioning of the land had brought this disaster upon the Spirit Realm.
After a while, Gu Jinlai came back to his senses from these memories belonging to the Aries Star Lord.
Thanks to that peculiar sense of immersion, he felt as though he had experienced the grand history of the Heavenly Master Civilization from a thousand years ago.
It must be said, the creators of that time were truly powerful.
Having transformed into beings of the Spirit Realm, they were much more powerful than the Heavenly Monarchs.
"They definitely jumped levels."
Gu Jinlai sincerely said, "Between creators and Heavenly Monarchs, and Great Sky Lords, there is definitely one, maybe even two realms separating them, giving them such capabilities."
As seen from the battle of the six major Star Lords of the Holy Land against the Demon Lord...
The creators, it seems, could match up to the Demon Lords or Immortal Lord-level beings.
Unfortunately...
Now, he should not lightly use the power of the True Spirit.
"I don’t know where this is, I should go back to Tian Nan first..."
Gu Jinlai said this, pausing in his tone.
He thought of the Artifact Spirit Purple Sun at the Aries Star Palace and the Heavenly Dragon Wood, powerful enough to be considered top among Earthly True Immortals, both located south of Tianhe.
Once he, as a Heavenly Monarch, set foot into Tian Nan, the power of the Aries Star Palace would undoubtedly be able to detect him.
Then...
Gu Jinlai’s expression darkened.
Great Sky Lord strength, having a thousand Qingguang, could only handle the Aries Star Lord.
For safety, he still needed the power to combat Heavenly Dragon Wood.
And Heavenly Dragon Wood...
"Great Divine Ability User."
Gu Jinlai took a deep breath, "No matter what, first I need to get in touch with Tian Nan and have them be on guard."
Gu Jinlai glanced at the cave, got up, and walked out of the cave.
The warm sunlight poured down from the cave, hinting that this might be a valley.
The next second, however, he sensed something, bolted suddenly, and dashed out of the cave like a storm.
Upon exiting the cave, he looked up in horror, gazing into the skies above.
A planet!
A massive planetary phantom...
Seeing the familiar contours of East Continent, South Continent, West Continent, North Continent, and Central State on the planet, Gu Jinlai’s pupils widened.
"Blue Star!"
Blue Star! Blue Star!
Blue Star actually appeared above his head!
Just like the projection of the Immortal World he had seen when he was on Blue Star!
Watching this scene, Gu Jinlai’s shock took a while to subside.
"Not strange! Not strange! I had guessed that the world I crossed into might be the Immortal World I saw on Blue Star... Since this world could be seen from Blue Star, seeing Blue Star from this world isn’t strange at all."
Gu Jinlai kept convincing himself, trying to calm down.
After several minutes, he breathed lightly and once again looked up at the vast shadow covering most of the sky.
To be exact, he looked towards East Continent.
There, he could clearly see those tumultuous mountain ranges of East Continent, the vaguely distinguishable massive rivers, and even...
Large city clusters.
"That’s the capital, that’s Jinmen City, that’s Divine Lake City, oh, that’s Yunhai City of Yellow Dragon Country..."
Gu Jinlai identified those city clusters, his eyes filled with familiarity and fondness.
Though he’d been in this world for over six years now.
But...
He had lived for more than twenty years on Blue Star.
In that world, in Xia Yu City across the river from Yunhai City in Central Earth Country, he was born in 2004, grew from an infant, and went through kindergarten, elementary school, high school, university—each place had traces of his life.
Despite living a spectacular life in this world, what he missed more was the mundane life experiences from his time in Xia Yu City.
Well...
If only he could pass the civil service exam; that would have been a true win.
After a while, Gu Jinlai finally shifted his gaze away from the projection of Blue Star above the sky dome.
"Why have these two worlds suddenly converged?"
Gu Jinlai swiftly searched through the Aries Star Lord’s memory.
Soon, he discovered from the Aries Star Lord’s memories that plans had been conducted in both Netherworld and Gods Mountain to promote the fusion of worlds.
They intended to use this technology to plunder the resources of those worlds, in order to further develop the Heavenly Master Civilization and construct more wonders like Floating Islands, Space Cities, and Star Gates.
But the Aries Star Lord specialized in Artifact Refining, not world exploration.
Surprisingly, he did not know much about this.
Gu Jinlai frowned deeply, realizing after a moment, he could not force an understanding.
Different arts have their experts.
Isn’t it seen that even the Libra Star Lord had to seek help from the Aries Star Lord to forge Divine Weapons?
If it were some creators, they might not even know how to forge Divine Weapons.
Gu Jinlai glanced around, this place...
Wild hills and ridges.
At that moment, he chose a direction based on the growth of the trees, while stimulating the "Mental Realm" for danger perception, and swiftly proceeded.
Having proceeded for a while, he sensed something and slightly diverted his direction.
His True Spirit, compared to before, had undergone countless refinements by the Demon Spirit, including the Spirit Venerable, and now contained a hint of "Primordial Chaos".
As long as he did not actively stimulate the True Spirit Power, there would be almost no spiritual leakage.
Thus, he would naturally not be sensed by other devils or Demon Spirits.
Just like the devils he sensed at the moment...
Even if they were one or two miles apart, as long as he avoided direct confrontation, these devils still would not pursue him relentlessly due to smelling his True Spirit Aura.
Gu Jinlai advanced, dodging several devils from time to time.
Having traveled a hundred miles, the surrounding trees became slightly less dense, but along the way, Gu Jinlai could not help but exclaim, "The number of these devils... is extraordinarily high, perhaps even more so than Mu State before it was reclaimed."
Just then, he seemed to hear some sounds.
He quickened his steps.
Merely ten miles later, a road appeared before him.
At the other end of the road, accompanied by the roars of devils, a ferocious battle between human cultivators and devils was unfolding before him.
Among the fighters, one side consisted of about two hundred humans, while the other had around forty devils.
Although there were fewer devils, their innate strength surpassed that of humans, putting the human side at an absolute disadvantage.
What somewhat surprised Gu Jinlai was that among these humans, the proportion of Demon Martial Artists was significantly higher.
More than two-thirds of them were Demon Martial Artists.
Seeing that these two hundred or so people were in a dire situation, Gu Jinlai, who had been wondering where the Star Gate had thrown him, decided not to waste time and showed himself.
He did not need to use any Great Sun True Demon Body.
Facing the devil team, strongest being only three Great Demons, he charged directly, his explosive power bursting forth as he slammed into the group of devils like a cannonball.
The most threatening Great Demon hadn’t even had the chance to roar before its head was blasted by Gu Jinlai’s Fist Force.
Immediately, he twisted his body and crashed to the right, launching an Upper Demon flying.
With Power bursting, the bones and organs of the Upper Demon were completely shattered.
Even with their tenacious vitality, they were undoubtedly doomed.
Then he suddenly opened his right hand and grasped toward a Great Demon roaring towards him...
The airflow in the void seemed to burst under his grip, and simultaneously, the claws descending upon him from the Great Demon were also crushed.
Effortlessly devastating.
At this moment, Gu Jinlai, who possessed a physique comparable to a Demon King Level and was at the War God level in the Demon God System, faced this ordinary devil team, showcasing an overwhelmingly devastating strength.
In less than a minute after joining the battlefield, he had slaughtered most of the forty or so devils.
The remaining devils, some killed by this human merchant group and a few sensing the dire situation and fled.
As the devils were being slaughtered and driven away, several people emerged from the surviving human merchant group.
A Refining God Immortal, a War General Level Martial Artist, and a Hugging Pill Cultivator.
"I am Zhao Yang from the Yellow Dragon Commerce, these two are our protectors, Tan Yun and Tan Wu; thank you, Lord, for saving our lives,"
The War General Level Martial Artist stepped forward and respectfully performed a ritual.
Gu Jinlai looked at the three individuals, a bit taken aback.
Among the three, was the War General Zhao Yang in charge?
One should know that those who follow the Demon and Demon Martial System have typically no standing in their Qiantian Territory, even seen as heretical existences, universally condemned.
This could be evidenced by the fact that in the entire Qiantian, only the Demon God Sect was a power for Demon Martial Artists.
Yet now, a Demon Martial Artist is leading a team?
After thinking for a moment, he did not beat around the bush but asked directly, "If you truly want to thank me, just answer a few questions for me."
"Please ask, Senior, we will hide nothing and omit nothing,"
Zhao Yang bowed in response.
Facing such a terrifying existence who could effortlessly kill a Great Demon, they dared not show any negligence.
"Where is this place?"
Gu Jinlai asked.
Zhao Yang was startled and quickly responded, "This is Wind and Rain City, next to it is the Skywind Forest."
"I mean, under which power’s rule does this land fall?"
Gu Jinlai continued, then seemed to think of something, "Does this place belong to the Twelve Domains? Or is it outside the Twelve Domains?"
Upon understanding Gu Jinlai’s question, Zhao Yang’s face immediately brightened with a smile, "Does the senior come because of the legend of the Holy Land? If so, let me clarify directly for you — the land you are currently on is the only place of freedom where human civilization still maintains some hope."
Speaking, his expression gradually became solemn: "Also, it is the only Holy Land that remains illuminated under the surrounding darkness."
