The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 1269

Chapter 1269: Chapter 1266 Wrong Path Chapter 1269: Chapter 1266 Wrong Path Shen Luo's mind was churning as he put away the Divine Craftsman Cannon, his interest in Yan Technique growing stronger. He continued to flip through the young man's journal.

To his surprise, the latter half of the journal did not relate to the insights of cultivation, but rather detailed the young man's past.

It turned out that his real name was Yuan Wenli, a citizen of the Langxia Kingdom.

According to the contents of the journal, although Langxia Kingdom was a realm of mortals, it had become skilled in mechanisms and Yan Technique because of its proximity to Tianji City. It was especially adept at creating sandboats and sand carts that traveled the desert, and had once been wealthy and prosperous. That year, it had frequent exchanges with the Western Regions and even the Great Tang.

However, over a hundred years ago, a sudden disaster wiped the once-thriving small country completely off the map.

The cities' architecture remained, but all of its citizens were slaughtered overnight. The only survivor was Yuan Wenli, who had already become a disciple of Tianji City.

Because of this, Tianji City had even dispatched its elders to investigate Langxia Kingdom and its surroundings for many years, but they were unable to find the perpetrator.

Eventually, Tianji City gave up the investigation due to the lack of clues.

As the last subject of the entire nation, all Yuan Wenli's relatives and friends had perished in that calamity, making him an orphan of an entire country.

Although the Sect had abandoned the investigation, he had not.

In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred years had passed, and he had still been tirelessly searching for the real murderer, to no avail.

He had recorded all this in his journal for fear that with the passage of time, his hatred would fade, and he would gradually forget the past. His words still brimmed with a deep-seated hatred for the culprit.

Unfortunately, he was dead.

Shen Luo closed the journal, letting out a sigh.

“Life extinguishes like a flame. All past memories and dust only leave a wisp of green smoke, which will eventually dissipate without a trace. All I can do is add a grave for you, and may you find ultimate bliss in your next life,” he said.

After speaking, he quickly dug a hole next to the entrance of the passageway, took out one of his robes, wrapped Yuan Wenli's corpse body in it, and buried it in the pit, granting him a peaceful rest.

After a brief moment of mourning, Shen Luo activated the Soft Smoke Luo Brocade Clothing again, re-adhered the Invisibility Talisman, and concealed his figure as he hurried in the direction the Yin Beasts had gone before.

The closer he went in that direction, the clearer his perception of the mana imprint became, which greatly encouraged Shen Luo.

However, having traveled for half an hour, the road ahead abruptly came to an end, leading to a sheer drop.

“This can't be right. Surely those two Yin Beasts wouldn't drag Yuan Wenli into this dead end. Their Spiritual Wisdom isn't high; they must have been guided here.” Shen Luo stopped in front of the stone wall that blocked the entire passageway, his eyebrows knitting into knots.

With this thought, Shen Luo released his Divine Sense to probe the surroundings.

The Yin Qi was even denser here, and his Divine Sense could only spread out to a distance of a couple of miles, finding no issues–it truly was a dead end.

“It seems I really took the wrong path,” he muttered to himself, turning to walk back.

“Master, wait a moment. There are yin attribute materials nearby that are greatly beneficial to me. I can sense their presence,” the Ghost General's figure emerged, a black light flashing over the Qiankun Bag as he sniffed fiercely in the air, looking towards a section of the stone wall.

“Yin attribute materials? In this direction?” Shen Luo was taken aback, then he activated the Voidization Divine Power and the earth-traveling ability of the Soft Smoke Luo Brocade Clothing, merging into the stone wall and quickly moving forward.

The Ghost General also transformed into a soul body, closely following beside Shen Luo.

The two traversed inside the stone wall for quite a while, and suddenly there was a void; they crossed out from within the wall.

Shen Luo felt the temperature around him drop abruptly, a chilling coldness assaulted him from all sides.

His vision was pitch black, and he could only vaguely discern there was a path under his feet.

Just as Shen Luo was about to activate his Divine Sense and Spirit Eye Divine Ability to check his surroundings, a sharp gust attacked from the side.

His figure swayed, and he immediately swept to the side with unmatched speed, evading the strike. Although he had avoided the sharp wind, a peculiar vibration still struck his body.

Shen Luo's entire body trembled, and his mind went cloudy as if someone had hit him head-on with a stick.

“Not good, it's an audio wave attack,” he was familiar with this kind of attack, as both the Ghost General and Bashe were adept at it.

The Ghost General beside him roared angrily and pounced forward. A series of thumping sounds followed as it clashed with the assailant.

Shen Luo took the opportunity to escape the range of the audio wave attack. His Divine Sense spread out, and he finally ascertained the situation around him: he was in a huge underground void.

The void was filled with yin attribute trees and Spirit Grass, forming a large grove. Many of the Spiritual Materials emitted strong waves of Yin Qi, appearing to be of not low grades.

In the central part of the ground in the void, there were charm patterns forming a huge array, and within that array was a white stone-built altar.

In the very center of the altar stood a black Stone Stele, merely three feet tall, with a surface devoid of any charm patterns or inscriptions, smoothly polished like a mirror.

Numerous Yin Beasts crowded around the array and the Stone Stele. Most of them were half-human, half-bat creatures, all of significant strength. There were more than a dozen Mahayana stage Yin Beasts, seemingly guarding the Stele and the array.

The one currently attacking him was a late Mahayana stage half-bat Yin Beast, but the Ghost General was also strong. Plus, with the Black Ghost Saber Magic Treasure that Shen Luo had previously given to him, he not only fended off the attack of the half-bat Yin Beast, but he seemed to be gaining the upper hand.

Shen Luo's brows furrowed, but after glancing at the Soft Smoke Luo Brocade Clothing on his body, his eyebrows relaxed, and he formed a hand seal with one hand.

“Whoosh”

Large swathes of blue mist spread from the Soft Smoke Luo Brocade Clothing, swiftly forming a blue cloud about a dozen feet in size, enveloping his body within it.

Enshrouded in the blue cloud, Shen Luo uttered a low shout and lunged towards the array and the Stone Stele.

“Squeak, squeak…” Seeing this, the half-bat Yin Beasts' eyes flashed fiercely as they all flapped their wings and swooped in.

Waves of semi-transparent sound waves swept through the area, converging into a vast tidal surge of audio waves, all of which slammed against the blue cloud.

The void around the cloud emitted piercing shrieks and dense trembling ripples, but the blue cloud merely buzzed, showing no other change, and continued to fly rapidly towards its target, catching the half-bat Yin Beasts by surprise.

The auditory attacks of these Yin Beasts were generally weak, but when combined, they were formidable enough that even a True Immortal stage being would not dare to directly confront them.

However, what these half-bat Yin Beasts didn't know was that the Soft Smoke Luo Brocade Clothing Shen Luo wore had the ability to dodge and shift other attacks. It could also become ethereal, and while it might not evade attacks as fierce as the Divine Craftsman Cannon, it was perfectly suited for countering lower-intensity, wide-range attacks like audio waves.