The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 684

Chapter 684: Chapter 680: Shattered Mirror Chapter 684: Chapter 680: Shattered Mirror After Shen Luo returned to his residence, he took out a set of formation flags and set up a prohibition around the room. Soon, a white light curtain illuminated inside the room, isolating it from the outside.

Having done this, he flipped his hand and conjured a stream of water that enveloped his body. Then, he took out the remaining Dual-element True Water from earlier and smeared four or five drops on himself.

Next, Shen Luo activated the Nameless Cultivation Technique, absorbing the Water Spirit Qi within it.

Though he was currently in the Western Regions, amid the vast expanse of yellow sand where Water Spirit Qi was scarce, he did not slack off in his cultivation.

The only regrettable thing was that ever since he entered the Nascent Soul Stage, the effect of the Dual-element True Water on his cultivation had diminished greatly.

As he cultivated, time flowed on. Night quickly fell, shrouding Red Valley City in its embrace.

The bustling and lively Red Valley City soon quietened down. Lights across the city were extinguished one after another, plunging the vast city into peaceful darkness. Only in the Royal Palace of the Black Chicken Kingdom and the Sacred Lotus Temple did lights remain lit.

Shen Luo sat cross-legged on the floor, cultivating quietly.

It was at this moment that a black light suddenly lit up in between his eyebrows, and an anxious voice rang out in his mind from the Ghost General, “Master, the situation has changed, I've been trapped by someone!”

Upon hearing this, Shen Luo was startled and immediately stopped his cultivation.

“What happened? Did you leave underground? Who trapped you?” he stood up and walked outside, communicating and sharing thoughts with the Ghost General.

“No, I'm still underground. Just now, when that Boss Hua left, I didn't feel at ease, so I quietly lurked underground as I followed him. Suddenly, I was trapped by an unknown force halfway and now I can't move! Fortunately, I'm not wounded,” the Ghost General explained urgently.

Shen Luo's face darkened. Could Boss Hua truly be planning to escape? Were all the reactions he showed in daylight when facing Chan'er just an act?

He gently opened the door, lightly stepped on the ground, and his whole being transformed into a shadow that silently left the posthouse, shooting off into the distance.

Since he had a mental connection with the Ghost General, Shen Luo could confirm the latter's location through careful sensing.

Shen Luo didn't want to expose his trail, so he didn't use Escape Light. He only used the Slanting Moon Steps to travel.

Luckily, the place where the Ghost General was wasn't too far away. In less than a Half a Moment, he arrived in the vicinity.

This place was a secluded section within the city, seemingly a residential area for the impoverished commoners.

Shen Luo didn't rashly approach. He stopped a distance away from there, concealed his aura, and slowly approached.

The one that trapped the Ghost General was definitely no weak force, and he dared not be careless.

But much to his surprise, even as he arrived at where the Ghost General was, he didn't discover any other monks. He used a Concealment Gu to probe around, so there shouldn't be any mistakes.

“There are no other monks on the surface here. You don't seem to have been ambushed,” Shen Luo communicated telepathically with the Ghost General.

“But I still can't move,” the Ghost General responded.

Frowning, Shen Luo extended his Divine Sense underground to probe. Just as expected, he quickly perceived the location of the Ghost General.

Ghostly light glowed around him just a couple of yards in range and seemed to originate from underground.

This ghostly light didn't seem that unusual, but it was the nemesis of ghostly qi. The moment the Ghost General was enveloped by it, he became utterly powerless, as if he was a bug caught in a spider's web.

“What is this ghostly light? And where is it coming from?” Shen Luo wondered in surprise as he hit the ground with one hand.

Blue light flashed in the soil around the Ghost General, transforming into a large blue hand made out of streaks of blue water, which gripped the Ghost General's body.

The grayish-white light could easily bind the Ghost General, yet it didn't affect the blue sailor much. With a forceful pull of his large hand, the Ghost General was easily torn away from the grayish-white light.

“Thank you, Master, for saving me.” The Ghost General immediately regained movement once he left the grayish-white illumination, emerging from the underground to show gratitude to Shen Luo.

Shen Luo waved his hand, his Divine Sense following the grayish-white glow, spreading deep underground.

He was extremely curious about this grayish-white light, which could easily suppress a Ghost General at the Soul Condensation Stage.

Twenty feet!

Thirty feet!

Forty feet!

Shen Luo's Divine Sense soon extended over sixty feet underground, yet he could only sense the gray-white light without finding its source.

The underground comprises various rocks and minerals, with mixed Qi and elemental forces, greatly impeding the investigation with divine sense. Even for a Nascent Soul Stage expert like him, the divine sense could only go sixty feet under the ground and could not penetrate further.

He frowned, considering letting his spirit leave the body to enter the underground for deeper exploration. However, his spirit, like the Ghost General, was a Soul Body and would probably be immediately enchanted upon contact with the grayish-white light. There would be no one to save him then, and he didn't possess any tools like the Escape Earth Talisman that could burrow into the ground.

“Right, how could I forget Mao Chun.” Shen Luo, while troubled, suddenly remembered his spiritual pet Mao Chun he hadn't summoned in a while. Mao Chun could burrow underground.

He first set up a prohibition around him, then immediately applied the Spiritual Communication Technique to summon Mao Chun.

“Daoist Shen Luo, what do you need?” Mao Chun hadn't managed to break through the bottleneck of the Peak of Grain Avoidance yet. In contrast with his previous arrogance, he now regarded Shen Luo, who had already attained the Nascent Soul Stage, with considerable respect.

“I need to go below sixty feet underground. Do you have a way to take me down there?” Shen Luo asked.

“Below sixty feet? Shouldn't be a problem. As you know, I don't have God's powers like the Escape Earth Talisman to view soil as nonexistent. I merely have a body structure more adapted to burrowing and digging, which might pose a danger if you come with me.” Mao Chun said after some hesitation.

“No problem, I'll ensure my safety,” Shen Luo wasn't concerned.

“Alright then.” Mao Chun nodded, his long body twisted, and burrowed into the earth outside the grayish-white light area, quickly digging a black hole as thick as a water bucket.

Mao Chun's tail wrapped around Shen Luo's body, pulling him gently towards the underground.

Shen Luo applied the Water Repelling Technique to protect his whole body, keeping the sporadically falling dirt out.

Seeing this, the Ghost General immediately followed.

Mao Chun's burrowing ability was exceptional, and he soon descended over twenty feet.

Shen Luo extended his Divine Sense, probing towards the source of the grayish-white light in the side, and still couldn't find the end.

However, by this point, the grayish-white light had condensed significantly, indicating they were nearing the end.

Mao Chun continued to burrow, soon descending another dozen feet.

Shen Luo was constantly scanning the grayish-white light with his Divine Sense and finally found its source. The source was somewhat surprising: it was nothing more than a dilapidated grayish-white mirror.

The grayish-white light beams emitted from the surface of the mirror, spreading towards the soil above and gradually expanded, finally forming the grayish-white light pillar.

Only half of the mirror's surface remained, filled with cracks and covered in dirt, indicating that it had been buried underground for countless years.