Chapter 2679 - Xiaodao"s Conclusion
Although Xiaodao didn"t know Qingyu, since he had gone in, Tianming and Wudi decided to wait a bit longer. However, they didn"t antic.i.p.ate that in less than a quarter of an hour, there were three rapid pulls on the interdimensional line. Xiaodao wanted to return!
"Pull!" Without another word, Tianming and Wudi quickly reeled in the line as though they were reeling in a fish, bringing Xiaodao out of that mystical s.p.a.ce. The door rippled and Xiaodao was pulled out by the two of them shortly after.
Tianming"s heart was filled with antic.i.p.ation, so when Xiaodao emerged, he stared wide-eyed. However, Xiaodao returned empty-handed and didn"t bring Qingyu back with him. Though Tianming was disappointed, he knew it was normal. Bringing someone out within a quarter of an hour would have been abnormal.
"f.u.c.k that eerie place!" Xiaodao hurriedly patted his clothes, fearing he might have brought something back with him.
"Brother Lin, how was it?" Wudi was so anxious that he looked like a red-haired gorilla and nearly pounced on Xiaodao.
"Well, it"s like this...." Xiaodao coughed, looking a bit embarra.s.sed, and raised the dart in his hand. "This thing really works. It took me to a specific location within the Xenoworld. But as I was about to reach the destination, a white mist barrier appeared in front of me. The mist was like an ocean of force blocking my way. I tried going in, but the harder I pushed forward, the greater the resistance became. So I reached a conclusion."
"What"s the conclusion? Hurry up!" Wudi shouted.
"Brother, if you interrupt, I can’t finish." Xiaodao rolled his eyes.
"Quick, quick! The conclusion!" Wudi urged.
"The conclusion is that, for guests from the astralscape, the stronger our power is, the harder it becomes to enter. I was blocked on the outside and couldn"t reach the coordinates!" Xiaodao earnestly stated.
"I see.” It was like the Ca.n.a.l of the Dead, which samsarans couldn’t cross. It was probably a kind of protective or screening formation. Of course, the only famous formation in the Xenoworld was the Perpetual Wondersky Formation, so the white mist barrier probably wasn’t a formation.
Both the Ancestral World and Xenoworld were very mysterious.
"You can"t get through it? Then, let me try," Wudi said.
"G.o.dfather, I think I should go first. In terms of cultivation level, I"m not much different from you, but I’m much stronger," Tianming bluntly said.
Wudi shot him a glare and found that Tianming was quite determined. He could only shake his head and say, "Fine. I"ll give you, the second-best genius of the Infinitum Mundus, a chance to perform."
Tianming chuckled.
Xiaodao had just loosened the interdimensional line and asked, "Good disciple, are you sure you want to go? I feel that it"s not a safe place. Even if you really can pa.s.s through, it"s likely to be dangerous inside. Shall I send someone else in?" There were many powerful individuals on the Sun, now, so they had plenty of choices.
"No, let me go. Firstly, I"m familiar with my sister, and secondly, I trust myself more," Tianming replied.
"Let him go. I don"t trust others either," Wudi said. In his view, Tianming’s life was tough.
"Okay! Stay safe, and pull the line at any time. I"ll pull you out as quickly as possible," Xiaodao said.
"Got it." Tianming nodded and received the dart from Xiaodao, then waited for Xiaodao to wrap the interdimensional line around his ankle.
"All set!" With the interdimensional line, he still had a sense of security. After all, the other end of the interdimensional line was held by his two most respected elders and they would never abandon him.
He remembered that the last time he entered the Xenoworld, it was guided by Feiling"s rope. At that time, she was in the midst of her first Perpetual Nirvana, repeatedly shattering. It was Tianming"s life that allowed her to repeatedly reform. That xenomemory rope had witnessed their love, so Tianming had kept it.
"Wait for my good news!"
Tianming exchanged glances with them, took a deep breath, and, without looking back, charged towards the door. It felt like he was plunging into a cotton field with a cool and surreal sensation. He kept sinking deeper, becoming weightless as if he was entering a swamp.
Suddenly, his body felt free. Tianming looked around and the strange and fantastical world had reappeared. Everything was constantly changing. Fire that flowed like water, headless elephants endlessly murmuring, stones chasing each other, and suns constantly dissolving into air!
In the sky, there was even a wooden face that had flowers growing out of its eyes. In each of the flowers were faces, and within each face were even more flowers. This continuous cycle seemed infinite. Staring at it for a few moments would make anyone"s soul dizzy.
As Tianming’s physical body entered this realm of the caelum, everything felt extremely strange. The most obvious thing was that there was no nova or primeval source there. Thus, when he entered, the power in his body was dissipating, much like being in the astralscape without an astrals.h.i.+p.
Everything in this Xenoworld seemed to be telling him: "This place is not suitable for prolonged stays."
However, due to his previous harrowing experience, Tianming remained calm and immediately focused his attention on the dart in his hand. As expected, the coordinate marker on the dart began moving. Without any action on his part, the dart carried him through the Xenoworld.
It was like it was taking him back home!
Movement was a strange concept in the Xenoworld. Tianming felt that neither he nor the interdimensional line on his foot had moved; instead, the feeling of rapid movement and crossing distances was because the entire Xenoworld was in motion. It might sound ridiculous, but that was how it felt to him.
Some recording formations work this way. I"ll always be in the center of the image. The audience outside can see me moving because the background around me is changing. It"s the same principle here—I’m not the one moving, but the entire world, he thought.
Because of that, the interdimensional line wasn"t constantly extending as he moved. After all, it had a limited length.
Just like that, Tianming felt like he had covered quite a distance. He shouldn"t be near Di Yi anymore. "Hmm?" Soon, he saw the white misty barrier Xiaodao had mentioned.